"Motoki, I have to pick her up." Mamoru said as he limped into the room and turned on the lights.
Mamoru," Motoki began,"you can't strain yourself, you want to heal don't you? I'll pick her u-NO! Don't touch her, I will!" Mamoru said with poison in his ususally calm and smooth voice.
Motoki raised his eyebrows at him in surprise, "Okay, sorry I worry about you. I am only your friend after all. What should I care if you hurt yourself so you can never heal?".
Mamoru limped over to Usagi and knelt down beside her. He checked her pulse, just in case something happened to her in his absence, but her pulse was regular. He put one arm under Usagi's back so her head rested in the crease of his elbow and another arm under her knees. As he lifted her, she shifted to rest on him and nestled into his chest as a soft smile graced her lips. A sudden sharp pain surged through Mamoru's wounds and he nearly dropped Usagi, though obviously not intentionaly. Motoki hurried forward and took Usagi and gently placed her on the couch.
"Mamoru, take a break!" Motoki half-screamed at Mamoru as he placed his hands on Mamoru's shoulders and forced him onto the couch. Mamoru's face was screwed up in pain and his back arched forward as he clutched his torso. The pain felt like a thousand flameing knifes jabbing at him, only ten times worse. He had never experianced pain as intense as this before.
"Something is wrong, it has never lasted this long before..." Mamoru breathed before he took another sharp intake of breath. There was a small wimper from Usagi and Motoki glanced at Usagi and his eyes widdened at the site before him; Usagi was huddled together in a little ball and tears were streaming from her closed eyes.
Usagi whimpered again and her mouth moved slightly as she muttered,"No, not my family, take me instead. Please, I beg of you, don't hurt them!". Motoki exchanged glances with the still in pain Mamoru.
"NOOOOO!" Usagi yelled, from the sound of it, Mamoru and Motoki guessed that someone or something in her dream, or nightmare rather, had killed her family.
"No, not the girls, not Motoki, please, NOOO!" Usagi screamed, the girls, Rei, Ami, Minako and Lita as well as Motoki had apparently been killed too. Usagi started to sob now and the crystal made tears that she shed, began to flow more strongly. A moment passed of her whimpering and Motoki and Mamoru exchanging anxious and worried glances before Usagi screamed shrilly and more horribly causing Mamoru and Motoki to wince.
"No,"usagi bagan as she curled into a even tighter ball, "NO! Not Mamoru! Not Mamoru...he was the only one I had left, even if we fought everyday, even if he hated me...he still...I still...love him.". The pain Mamoru had passed and he leaned against the back of the couch, his chest heaving as he breathed heavily, what he heard Usagi say in her sleep, repeating itself over and over again; 'NO! Not Mamoru! Not Mamoru...he was the only one I had left, even if we fought everyday, even if he hated me...he still...I still...love him.'.
Usagi bolted upright, still crying and looked franticaly around the room before finding Motoki and Mamoru stareing at her in miled shock. It took her a moment for her brain to register who was sitting next to her on the couch, Mamoru.
"Mamoru!" She exclaimed as she flung herself at Mamoru and wrapped her arms around his neck, being careful to not touch his wounds. Mamoru felt her warm breath on his shoulder and her tears wet his skin as she sobbed into his shoulder.
"Mamoru, the shadow killed my family, it forced me to watch as it slowly killed them, Ami, Lita, Rei and Minako too! It...it killed Motoki...and," Usagi paused for a moment as if to think and continued,"And it killed...you! Oh, I thought it killed everyone, I thought it killed you all, I can't take it anymore! First my family gets killed and now this happenns to YOU! Oh, I don't know what to do an aymore, I'm so confused and I don't even know what I am confused about either, its just horrible and hurts so bad!".
Motoki, not wanting to interrupt Usagi, wrote a note for her and quietly left the apartment, and Usagi crying on Mamoru's shoulder. Mamoru felt his heart begin to beat rapidly as he put his arms around Usagi and rubbed her back, attempting and failing to calm Usagi down. Mamoru felt his heart tear in two as Usagi continued to cry.
"I'm sorry Usagi...actually, sorry isn't enough. But I am unbeleivably sorry you have to feel like this! I am terribly sorry you saw us killed, I'm sorry! But, Ami, Rei, Minako, Lita and Motoki, they are all here, they are still here!" Mamoru spoke desperately.
Usagi sniffed and spoke in a small voice, "You forgot you."
Mamoru closed his eyes and put his mouth next to her ear and whispered," And, of course, I'm still here...".
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AUTHOR'S NOTE:
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Hmm, wonder what's written in the note? Well, you'll have to wait till next chapter to find out! Not really a cliffhanger, but I will write a cliffhanger soon, I love writeing cliffhangers. Some of my freinds know that all to well becasuse I've wrote so many, in my story 'Universes Apart'. Well, did you like it? Please reveiw and tell me what you thought.
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