From last chapter:
"Usagi, I..." (That was Mamoru for those who don't know)
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"You what?" Usagi asked Mamoru.
"I...I...Ugh! I can't...I don't know!" Mamoru spoke frustratedly as he held his head, wavering back and forth between weather or not he should tell Usagi he loves her just yet with her parentss' deaths and everything going on.
"Mamoru, what's wrong, your starting to scare me..." Usagi spoke softly as she took a step from Mamoru.
"Usagi, I...I love you" He spoke softly to her as he let his arms fall to his side and looked at Usagi.
He paused to give the words a moment to sink into Usagi's head. Usagi stood there, eyes wide with shock and hands at her side, "What?".
"I said I love you. I don't know if I should have done that and told you just yet because of everything going on lately, but...I needed to let you know. I know you love me, I heard you in the hospital earlier tonight." Mamoru spoke. Usagi fixed her eyes on the ground. Mamoru stepped up to Usagi and closed the space between them. Usagi gasped and shifted her tear-filled eyes from the ground to Mamoru's face. A small smile was placed on his lips and his eyes became soft. Both of their hearts began beating as fast as the speed of light as Mamoru slowly wrapped his arms around Usagi and pulled her closer to him. Mamoru bent his head down to Usagi's. Usagi could feel his warm breath caress her cheek, her lips. Mamoru heasitated and looked deeply into Usagi's bright blue eyes before he kissed her left eyelid, then a tear on her cheek and then he brushed his lips over Usagi's before locking them together. Both shivered as their lips touched and a wave of warmth passed through them. They stayed that way for a moment, each enjoying eachother's presence and enjoying the kiss.
Needing to breathe they reluctantly pulled away from eachother. Mamoru smiled down at Usagi, that was both of their first kisses. Usagi smiled back and rested her head against Mamoru's chest. Mamoru embraced her for a moment before glanceing at the clock and realizing what time it was, it was twelve o'clock a.m.
"We'd better get to sleep Usagi...it is very late" Mamoru spoke. Usagi nodded but didn't move.
A sudden violent pounding on the door of the apartment caused the happy two to come back from melting in eachother's embrace. "Mamoru...?" Usagi whispered as Mamoru gently pushed Usagi behind him. "Stay here..." Mamoru spoke before he turned and slowly approached the door. Muffled yells sounded on the other side of the door. What they were saying was drown by the violent hammering on the door. Suddenly the banging stopped and Mamoru turned and glanced at Usagi, she was pale in the face and shakeing with fear.
Mamoru turned back to look at the door as a female voice spoke, "Come on bub! Open the door! We know you have Usagi, Your friend Motoki told us. Wait till I get my hands on yo-RAYE! Enough already!" Another female voice cut the other off warningly.
The second voice spoke again, "Please, can you let us in? We really want to see- RAYE-CHAN! MAKOTO-CHAN!" Usagi burst as she raced to Mamoru's side and quickly unlocked and opened the door. There, Usagi's four friends, Raye, Makoto, Ami and Minako stood along with Artemis and Luna. Raye looked about ready to kill somebody and was red in the face but the other expressions on her friendss' faces were of pure concern.
Makoto, Raye and the girls all hugged Usagi and were saying things like, "I'm So Sorry about your family Bunny!" and "Oh, Bunny, I'm so sorry!".
Once they let go Raye spoke, "You're comeing b ack to my temple Usagi-chan. I don't trust that guy...". "Oh, come ON Raye-chan, I don't think Chiba is like that." Minako spoke as she put an arm around Usagi's shoulders.
"Oh? And how would YOU know, huh? You don't even know the guy!" Raye shot back. "Yes, but neither do you. And if Usagi trusts him, why shouldn't we?" Minako returned. Raye huffed, folded her arms and muffled something that sounded like, "Fine...". Makoto turned to Usagi and her expression became grave, "Usagi, we need to talk to you. Alone.". "Um, okay." Usagi replied as she followed the other girls and Luna and Artemis into the kitchen.
"Look, Usagi-chan, we know this isn't the best time to tell you this, but we really need Sailor Moon right now." Minako spoke glanceing at Ami.
"There have been many hospitalized people. They were hospitalized because a youma, unseen to them, attacked them. They have either been severely wounded or killed." Ami spoke, glanceing at Luna.
"You see bunny, the youma is not invisible, just moveing to incredibly fast to be seen. Sailor Pluto, is going to meet us at the Centeral Park. She is going to perform Dark Dome Close." Luna spoke.
"But, "Usagi began,"That is her forbidden attack, time can't re-start again after that is performed, can it? I mean, that's why its forbidden isn't it? Because it stops time for good, right?".
"Well, there is a way to start time again but that means the one who stopped it, if they undo the attack, will die." Artemis spoke.
Usagi stirred, "Die? NO! No one is going to die! Not unless it's me! I'll do whatever it takes, whatever I can, to save Pluto! Isn't there another way to see the youma other than stopping time?".
Luna closed her eyes and Usagi got the message. Usagi's eyes became, tear-filled.
"Wh...when is Sailor Moon needed? right now?". All the people in the kitchen nodded, eyes closed. Usagi nodded in reply and exited the kitchen.
"M...Mamo-chan, I have to go, I'll be back as soon as I can, be careful." Usagi spoke as she exited the apartment followed by the other girls and Luna and Artemis. Once the door was closed behind them, Mamoru produced a rose and in the flash of a cape, transformed into Tuxedo Kamen.
The girls and two cats raced into the elevator and as soon as the doors closed and they chose the first floor, they transformed in a brilliant show of colors.
"What about Neptune and Uranus?" Sailor Moon asked.
Luna spoke, "They will be there".
Tuxedo Kamen raced down the fire escape as fast as he could and ran to the black convertable parked in front of the apartment and started it. Not even a second after he had revved up the car; five sailor-suited girls burst from the complex.
"Get in!" Tuxedo Kamen ordered and the girls all jumped in, not bothering to open the doors of the car. Tuxedo Kamen put the gass on the car at full-blast and sped off down the street. The girls all screamed, the highest of them all being Sailor Moon, though Sailor Venus's wasn't far behind on the scale. 'I am beggining to wonder if Tuxedo Kamen is Motoki now...could it be? I wouldn't doubt it...' Sailor Moon thought.
Just outside the gates of the centeral park, Tuxedo Kamen swirved, just as Motoki had done earlier that day, and came to a stop. The girls lept out and raced into the park followed by Tuxedo Kamen, who instantly stopped running and bent down on one knee, clutching his stomach as pain coursed through him.
"But, there is one thing I don't understand. How are we supposed to know where the youma is?" Mars spoke.
his is where it has been for the last hour." Artemis spoke, "If it is still here, the Dark dome Close attack should freeze him and he should be visible for us to destroy.
"But, time is a very complex thing! Won't us attaking something while time is frozen destroy time?" this was Mercury.
Luna frowned, "Truth fully, I don't know...".
Sighlent tears stained Sailor moon's already tear-drenched face as she looked around the park. The dark green, dewy grass and leaves of the trees swayed as a soft breeze flowed through the park. Usagi looked up at the sky, cumulus clouds were visible in the purple-blue sky but did not block the beautiful-white full-moon from sight.
"Sailor Moon, did you hear Pluto?" Sailor Mars's voice broke into Moon's dreaming.
"Huh?" Sailor Moon spoke as she looked at Mars.
"Pluto said we all have to hold the staff as she performs Death Dome Close, otherwise we'd be frozen in time as well." Artemis spoke.
Sailor Moon nodded and placed a hand on the silvery time staff Sailor Pluto held.
As the other senshi began to place their hands on it as well, Sailor Moon made an attempt to talk Pluto out of what she was about to do, "Pluto, you can't risk your life to save us!".
"Princess, you of all people should know what it is like to have to risk your own life to save others. You must understand." Pluto spoke as the last of the senshi placed their hand on the time staff. Sailor Moon lowered her head in defeat and nodded. Before pluto began the attack, Tuxedo Kamen, unknown to the others, placed a hand on the time staff as well.
"DARK DOME CLOSE!" Pluto shouted. A quick bolt of lightning darted across the sky and a strong whined whiped at them as everything around them froze. A sound of shattering glass rang in their ears as the winds died. Everyone let go of the timestaff and looked around.
"Over there!" Jupiter spoke pointing toward a bench near them. The monster was black and looked like a crow only much, much, MUCH larger. It was in mid-air above the bench as if in mid-flight. Its eyes where a deathly white and its beak as white as paper as well.
"Moon Scepter Elimination!" Moon shouted as she threw her tiara at the monster. The monster fadded away in a flash.
"I am going to start time again. Goodbye to you all, Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter...Sailor Neptune, Sailor Uranus, Sailor Saturn...Endymion...and Princess...You are all truly wonderful..." With thatSailor Pluto smiled sadly asa amall tear strolled downher elegant-dark skin as she closed her eyes and raised her staff.
"ESOLC EMOD KRAD!" Pluto spoke.
As she did so, Sailor Moon screamed, "NOOOO!". 'Yes, Pluto. I understand. That is why am am going to do THIS!' Sailor Moon thought as she wrenched the staff fromPluto's grip. Ligtning flashed and wind blew her hair violently. Everything slowed down, Sailor Moon's eyes widdened as visioned of her life, past and present, flashed before her eyes: Meeting Endymion for the first time, Endymion holding her hand as Beryl swept him into a wind tunnel, her friend Naru, Meeting Luna, Her first transformation, Tuxedo Kamen, Meeting the other sailor senshi, Luna falling in love with a human named Kakeru, her family, finding out her family was killed in a car crash, finding her home emptied, running to the park and getting beat and bruised and soaked to the bone by the pounding rain...and Mamoru finding her and giveing her a home, showing her he cared, Motoki calling her and telling her Mamoru had been attacked, Seeing Mamoru wounded, Mamoru comeing home and telling her he loved her...Mamoru kissing her...Mamoru. A shell of stone covered Usagi and then shattered, Usagi gasped as it felt like the wind was blown out of her. The slow motion began to fade and the sounds of the night were comeing to Sailor Moon's ears.
"I really don't mind dieing..." Sailor Moon began, "I just wish...that I could die...in...Mamoru's arms...". Tears flowed down Sailor Moon's face and she closed hereyesas the slow motion stopped and she fell from mid-air to the ground, expecting to feel the cold, hard ground help her death along. But she didn't feel anything cold or hard, she felt two strong, warm, and gentle arms wrap around her, one around her waist and back and another beneath her head and shoulders.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
I am SOOOOOOOOO sorry I took so long to update. I promise that once I finish uploading this that I will start working on chapter 8. Also, I want to thank you all for reveiwing, I really apreciate it, thank you so much! I don't know if Pluto did or did not perform the Deatrh Dome Close in the anime or manga even though it is forbidden so i kind of made up what would happen if it was performed and what would happen if it was undone. I hope you liked this chapter! I signed up for too. Turns out I signed up ages ago with the same username as on here(Silver Carnation, the space between the words is important to find me) I don't have my story posted yet but I'll post it soon. M freind encouraged me to post it on their so I think I will. Alot of people on dev. art liked it but I moved to sheezyart (On sheezyart my name is CosmicAngel09). Anyway, next chapter is called: 'Life is Sweet' Will Usagi live? Will Usagi be forced to go live at Rei's temple because of her freind's concern of her being with Mamoru alone?And what is happening to Mamoru? (I know, I torture them all. I'm sorry Usagi and Mamoru, forgive me!)
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