Title: Christmas Wish-List
Author: Princess Destiny
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Rating: M 15+
Summary: 'One Hour Challenge' #122, 124, 303 and 329: Response Fanfic. Usagi asks Mamoru what he would wish for, if he could have anything in world for Christmas-and he blurts out "Sailor Moon"! Who'd have known such an innocent question could start a chain reaction?
Couple: Usagi And Mamoru
Chapters: 2/9
Status: Completed
Year Completed: 2003

Comments: Hi everyone! I decided to post Chapter Two before someone strangled me for doing cliff-hangers. As you'll soon learn, I've been aptly name 'The Queen Of Cliff-hangers' and am notorious for them. LOL. I hope that you enjoy this Fanfic even though it's out of Season. Another two Chapters will come out over the next few days.

Thank you: To Aserene who pointed out that my Title inside the Fanfic said 'My Daughter, The Senshi'. I used that Fanfic page as a template and have now changed the name to 'Christmas Wish-List'. LOL.

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This Fanfic is a result of a Fanfiction One Hour Challenge. You pick a Challenge, which comes in the form of either a 'Scene' or 'Sentence' and then you have an hour to write a Fanfic around that Challenge. I created this List and site Challenges back in 2001 when I was bored and it became a big hit.

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CHRISTMAS WISH-LIST

By Princess Destiny


Chapter Two


Ami, Rei and Makoto gave strangled gasps, eyeing the blonde like she was a lunatic. What the hell was Usagi doing!

An eyebrow rose coolly as Mamoru met Usagi's blue eyes and he gave an unpleasant smile. "Sure you do." he said with studied disinterest.

"You know them, Usagi?" Motoki said with astonishment, wiping his hands down the front of his apron.

"I sure do! In fact-" she paused dramatically. "I know Sailor Moon personally."

"Usaaaaaagi!" Rei growled in fury, jumping up from her chair.

She was ready to throttle the blonde, but then she paused and looked around at all the people watching their little conversation. Damn! She was going to kill Usagi! But she couldn't have witnesses.

Her hands clenched and un-clenched at her sides as she stood there, eyes burning holes into the blonde.

"What? I'm just telling the truth!" The blonde protested, backing away slightly from the angry girl.

"Okay! That's it, no Christmas present for you," Makoto announced, crossing her arms and glaring at Usagi.

"What!" Usagi exclaimed in outrage, glaring back at Makoto. No Christmas present? "Why!

"Oh good lord. She's a banshee in disguise!" Mamoru sighed, rolling his eyes. With the rate that Odango wailed in his daily life, he'd be the only person in the world who went totally deaf at twenty due to excessive Odango-ness!

"Bad Usagi," Ami said, frowning in disapproval. She turned in her seat and picked up her drink, ignoring the blonde.

"No presents from you either?" Usagi's bottom lip trembled. Her crusade to further-embarrass her arch-enemy and to better herself in everyone's eyes had turned into a disaster!

"Where did you meet Sailor Moon?" Mamoru said suddenly, looking superior. He sank back in his seat, crossed his long legs at the ankles and regarded her with amusement. He'd just caught her out in her lie! How was the Odango Atama going to get out of this one?

Lie! Lie damn it!

Usagi looked around in a hunted manner and shifted from foot to foot as she thought rapidly. If she said the OSAP where she'd first appeared as Sailor Moon, the rumor might reach Naru, who knoew she hadn't been there! And if she mentioned something she shouldn't, her Senshi would murder her mercilessly!

"S-she-er...save me. Yeah, in...umm...the park. Yeah that's it!" Usagi stuttered through her sentence, looking as nervous as she felt.

"In the park?" he gave her a skeptical look that said 'try again'. "Which park? What time of day? What day? What month? Describe her clothing!" Mamoru shot out rapidly, trying to throw her off.

Usagi's blue eyes widened in horror at all the questions. How could she lie that accurately! She felt a wail rising, but fought it down, chin raise proudly.

"That's easy," she said defiantly, recalling a fight where there had been people around in the park. She could have easily been one of them! So it was only a little white lie.

"Juuban Park. Around lunch time. Saturday. Last month. She wears a blue skirt, a white body-suite, a red choker around her neck, white gloves with red ribbing, red boots with yellow crescent moons on them, two red bows, crescent moon earrings, a golden tiara with a red stone in the center and red jewels on her-" the blonde broke off abruptly, eyes going wide. She'd been about to say odango's!

She shot Mamoru a dirty look, then cleared her throat and went on. "-hair"

Mamoru shot her a triumphant look. "Nothing a fanwouldn't know, right Odango?" he settled back lazily in his chair. "You forgot something." he drawled.

"What?" Usagi thought over her uniform from foot to head and came up with one conclusion. The broach! The one thing that could identify her where her glamour would not cover.

She quickly spun away from his eyes, heading back to the table as if the conversation was over.

But she hadn't gone quick enough.

Mamoru's blue eyes fell to Usagi's chest automatically, suiting action to his words, because he had vaguely remembered that she wore one all the time.

"Her...broach." he said slowly, eyes catching a hold of the golden broach on her chest a moment before she spun away. Mamoru had a photographic memory. Sometimes it was a pain, because he remembered stuff he'd seen on the news in horrific detail and sometimes it was a gift.

Right then...he wasn't sure which it was.

A vision of a golden broach swum before his eyes and his breath caught as he recalled every detail of Usagi's broach. Golden and pink with little circles of color surrounding a crescent moon.

His eyes widened further as it hit him. No god damned way!

"What was that Mamoru?" Motoki said, leaning closer to his friend, eyes perplexed. "What did Usagi miss?"

"Yeah, what did she miss!" Rei, Ami and Makoto demanded, staring at Mamoru's shocked expression with wary eyes. He'd gone form smug to stunned in seconds-and that made them very nervous.

There was no damn way Usagi was Sailor Moon! No damn way!

He glared at the blonde balefully and got slowly to his feet.

Usagi swallowed as she heard a stood scraping on the floor behind her and she felt Mamoru's stare into her back as she sat at the table.

Her heart began to beat faster and she automatically looked around as a shadow fell over her. Mamoru was standing there, looking down at her with a shocked, disbelieving expression.

Oh no! He knew!

He must have seen her broach before she could turn away and made the connection!

"Stand up," Mamoru ordered curtly, watching her expression intently. The look she gave him then confirmed his thoughts. Usagi looked hunted and afraid. She'd realized that he knew her secret.

She got unsteadily to her feet, to the astonishment of Motoki and the girls, who had expected her to shout at him for ordering her around. Usagi looked up at Mamoru timidly, hoping that she wasn't right. "What?" she said, as if she didn't know what he was doing. He can't have figured it out! He couldn't know she was Sailor Moon just from a conversation! It wasn't possible!

So she stood there, enduring his scrutiny and gradually regaining her confidence. He didn't know, he just suspected. She breathed a sigh of relief, then stiffened as his eyes met hers again, filled with fury. Oh no.

It was her. She was Sailor Moon. He was sure of it;
but he just had to make sure. Sailor Moon's broach was gold. If Usagi's plastic, he'd know it was a cheap knock-off that fans could buy at a toy store.

"You-she...you're-" Mamoru bit out, looming over her slighter form. His fists clenched at his sides for a moment as he studied her every feature from head to toe again, then his eyes focused on her chest.

Usagi eyed him warily, wondering if he'd figured it out. That damn broach had done this! Where the hell had Mamoru seen it so much that he knew it was Sailor Moon's? She thought back rapidly over her battles and couldn't recall seeing him. "What?" she said, edging back into the table.

"Come here." Mamoru said, reaching out and grabbing her arm. He hauled her up close to him and bent over to study the broach on her chest. He frowned and tapped it lightly with one finger, eyes widening when it pinged slightly with a metallic ring. It wasn't plastic. In fact, it looked like gold. And no fifteen year old had a solid gold broach as large as her fist!

"What are you doing you baka!" Usagi yelled, trying to pull away.

She froze when Mamoru's blue eyes rose, the expression in their depths realization and shock. Hell! He knew for certain! He knew she was Sailor Moon.

Usagi's heart sped up again and she started to panic.

"We need to talk," Mamoru gritted through his teeth, straightening. He turned and began to yank the blonde behind him, her feet trying to dig into the smooth surface of the tiles.

She was going to explain how the hell she was Sailor Moon if he had to shake it out of her! His dreams were crumbling around him. His worst enemy was the girl he'd been falling hard for. Was there no justice in the world?

"Hey!" Rei leapt to her feet, eyes panicked.

"Where are you going?" Ami demanded, jumping up also.

Makoto was seconds behind her and the girls all started after the two.

"Where are you taking me, jerk?" Usagi shouted in blind panic, knowing that was going to grill her for information. He'd want to know how and why.

She tried to wrench her arm from his tight hold, but he wouldn't budge. "Let me go." she yelled, eyes going to Motoki frantically.

"What are you doing, Mamoru?" Motoki exclaimed in concern, noting his friend's bruising hold on the younger girl's arm. Mamoru looked like he was at the end of his tether and about to explode violently. What the hell was going on?

The girls reached them as they reached the door and Mamoru spun around, giving the three of them a death-glare. "This doesn't concern you." he spat harshly.

"Like hell!" Makoto hissed back. "Where are you taking her?"

"Mamoru?" Motoki said in confusion, eyes going from Rei, Makoto and Ami, to Mamoru and Usagi. The girls all looked frankly-freaked!

"Usagi is going to help me get a Christmas present." Mamoru said sikily, eyes hard as he looked at the Senshi, then at Usagi's panicked eyes. Yes, they were all too panicky for him to be wrong. He was damn sure that Rei, Ami and Makoto were Senshi as well. It added up.

"Oh no, you-" Rei began heatedly.

Mamoru cut her off with an icy look. "Do you really want to talk about this here?" he murmured to them warningly. They had to know by now that Mamoru had figured out their blonde friend was the Leader of the Senshi-and that meant that he'd figured out that theywere Senshi too.

Rei faltered and Makoto and Ami looked at Usagi for guidance.

She had no choice. There was no way she could let Mamoru make a scene and let the whole world know their secret. "I'll...help him with his present." Usagi said faintly, forcing a smile for Motoki's sake.

Everyone else in the arcade watched with astonishment. Mamoru had gone nuts!

Mamoru nodded curtly and turned again to walk out of the sliding doors, Usagi in tow.

"Oh shit!" Makoto breathed.


Mamoru dragged a struggling girl down the sidewalk, people staring at them strangely. He stopped abruptly and turned to the blonde, who looked like she'd rather be anywhere but with him.

The feeling was mutual as far as he was concerned!

He'd pretty much confirmed that his worst enemy was Sailor Moon, the girl he had growing feelings for. It was incomprehensible how a klutzy, lazy girl like that had become Sailor Moon-and he wanted to know why.

"Okay, we can do this the hard way or the easy way," he said quietly, looking down into her expressive eyes. Right now, her panic was giving way to anger, which was fine with him. He was angry with her too! "Either you walk with me willingly or I toss you over my shoulder and we go that way."

Usagi eyed him with horror, taking a step back. But she couldn't get far with his fingers wrapped around her arm. "I'll scream." she threatened, opening her mouth to do just that.

"You scream and I'll tell the world that you're Sailor Moon." he threatened back, not really meaning it. If the world found out she was Sailor Moon, then she'd have reporters on her heels at every turn and that meant that at some time of another, he might be caught transforming into Tuxedo Kamen.

For the sake of the Princess, the Rainbow Crystals and to prevent the Dark Kingdom from hunting him, he couldn't allow that to happen.

Usagi's horror deepened, then she glared at him balefully. "You jerk," she muttered. She yanked her arm from his hold swiftly and straightened her shoulders for the long interrogation ahead. "Fine, lead the way." she continued, crossing her arms.

Mamoru studied her face for a moment to see if she was serious, then he nodded in satisfaction, disturbed despite himself. Usagi willingness to follow him confirmed his suspicions. Only Sailor Moon wouldn't have wanted her identity screamed for the world to hear. A normal girl would have just walked off, uncaringly.

"Lets go into that alley," he said, gesturing with his chin.

Usagi trailed after Mamoru, feeling as if she were going to her execution. What was she going to do? Mamoru either suspected strongly or knew for sure that she was Sailor Moon and any questions he asked would be to confirm it. She was such a ditz that she might let her anger get the better of her and blurt something out!

She bit her lip as they stopped a few shops down from their previous position, then casually entered the alley side-by-side.

Mamoru walked several meters into the alley, eyes looking about carefully for anyone who might listen in. Then, satisfied, he turned to the blonde and crossed his arms, leaning back easily into the brick wall behind him.

He watched her for a long moment, struck again by her similar features to Sailor Moon. It must have been a glamour that stopped anyone from realizing it was her, the same way his mask-which really hid nothing-concealed his identity.

"Well?" Usagi said after a long uncomfortable moment. She peeked up at him from under her lashes and noted uneasily that he was looking at her with a calm, reflective look. He'd been so angry before, so why was he now looking so in control?

"Eager little thing, aren't you?" Mamoru murmured, a slight smile curving his lips. Usagi wanted to be anywhere but there and it was as clear as crystal! "Alright Usagi-prove to me that you aren't Sailor Moon." he ordered her.

Usagi blinked rapidly and gaped at him. "Oh come on, Mamoru," she said sarcastically. "You know that it's harder to disprove something than to prove it!"

Mamoru gave her a surprised look. She was right! "So, then?" he said, trying to think of a way to be sure of his claims. If he was wrong, then Usagi would never let him forget it.

Never mind the totally embarrassing way he'd blurted out that he wanted her for Christmas! What had she thought of that? He really wanted to know!

"Alright, then tell me what you thought when I said I wanted Sailor Moon for Christmas." he drawled, regaining control of the situation.

"I thought that you were a hentai!" Usagi said before she thought. She blushed when his eyebrows rose.

"Oh?" he murmured noncommittally.

"Well, what were we supposed to think? You said you wanted her for christmas! As a present! Gift-wrapped." she emphasized the last words, glaring at him. What was she, a toy!

"I don't recall mentioning gift-wrapping. I'd be happy with her just turning up in my-" Mamoru began with a grin.

"Bed!" Usagi jumped in, glare intensifying.

"I'd like to know what you know about that sort of thing." Mamoru said dryly.

"I don't live on the moon you know! I know how babies are made." Usagi felt her cheeks go scarlet and cursed her embarrassment. What a jerk to make her say that!

"I was going to say 'living room,'" he said mildly, enjoying her embarrassment. She'd caused HIM enough earlier! He put a finger to his chin thoughtfully, devilry possessing him. "Of course, if she were to turn up on my bed, I wouldn't object. And gift-wrapping would be nice."

"Pervert!" Usagi screeched, hands flying to her cheeks as she pictured herself draped out over his bed, wearing nothing but a bow around her waist.

She jumped from foot to foot in agitation, alternating between a glare of fury and a hideously embarrassed look in her eyes. "How could you say such a thing! She's only fifteen!"

"Is she?" Mamoru said with deceptive calm. "And how would you know that?"

Usagi gaped at him in shock, knowing she'd put her foot into her mouth again. Baka! Oh, wait! "I know her. I told you that already." she said smugly, starting to calm down.

Okay, now if she was careful about what else she said, she might escape this conversation the victor!

"So you did," Mused Mamoru, internally disappointed. Usagi wasn't as dumb as everyone gave her credit for. And that made him uncomfortable. Thinking that she was stupid. Even her friends didn't credit her with many brain cells.

"Right," he murmured, sighing deeply. Back on track! "So why were you so upset with that anyway?" he went on, giving her a penetrating look.

"You're going way overboard because of a comment."

To Be Continued...


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Chapter Three will be tomorrow, when I'll post another three Chapters at least. :)

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Princess Destiny

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