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: 4/9
Status: Completed
Year Completed: 2003

Comments: Hi everyone! Okay here is Chapter Five and I'm really happy to see how much you're all enjoying this Fanfic. It's really lovely to get some Reviews letting me know what you liked, or what I can improve on. :) The Sequel will most likely be started over the Easter period, and although it will be way out of Season, I need to write it while I'm on a roll. I'll be posting up my Fanfic 'Twists Of Fate' up here after this one is finished, and of course, any new Chapters of 'My Daughter, The Senshi'. There's also a PGSM Fanfic I'm working on that's a quite large Oneshot about Kunzite and Mercury.

Original Notes: First of all, I've changed the rating from PG 13+ to M 15+ due to a steamy scene in Chapter Six. Secondly, the Fanfic is now Nine Chapters long.

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CHRISTMAS WISH-LIST

By Princess Destiny


Chapter Four


His words dangled between them for a long moment and then Usagi pulled back slowly, feeling the strangest reluctance. "I'm not Sailor Moon." she said, turning her face away. God, how much she'd wanted him to kiss her then!

Mamoru looked down into her averted face and gave and knowing smile. She'd wanted him to kiss her as much as he had wanted to. Which was frankly amazing! This was Usagi, his enemy...but somehow, that word didn't mean as much any more. He and Usagi were now something much more than they had been half an hour before. He just wasn't sure what.

"I'll tell you what, Usagi," he drawled.

"Yes?" she said, looking back at him. Their faces were still so close and she was still being held tightly within his arms. If she leant up on her heels slightly, they'd be kissing.

"I'll kiss Sailor Moon," Mamoru said simply, blue eyes gleaming at her with mischief. "At the next battle."

He was going to kiss her at the next battle? Wait...what did he mean? "You shouldn't go near a battle, Mamoru!" she blazed. He could get hurt! She frowned. "And why would I care if you kiss her?"

"Oh, you care" Mamoru said, flashing her that knowing look again.

"I really don't." Usagi gritted through her teeth, glaring at him.

"Let me go you jerk." she added as an after-thought, unwilling to stay that close to him any longer. On one hand, it was exciting that Mamoru would want to kiss her because he knew she was Sailor Moon. But on the other hand, she wasn't willing to be taunted that way! How dare he think he can tempt her to kiss him at the next battle?

"She won't kiss you," she said calmly, stepping back in his embrace to force his arms from around her, when it seemed as if he was not going to let her go. Why would be want to kiss her anyway? They were enemies!

"Oh, I think you will." he said in his maddeningly-frustrating way. Mamoru grinned down at her annoyed face. She was blushing. Yes, the next battle would be significant to them both. Things would change.

His grin widened when he recalled her words of a moment before. "Why, Odango," he said, eyes mocking. "I didn't know you cared."

"Care? I don't care about you!" Usagi yelled at him, anger and nervousness chasing their way through her. She wouldn't let Mamoru near her next battle. In fact, he'd be lucky if she'd go near him with a ten-foot pole now that she knew they were attracted to each other!

Mamoru was an annoying jerk and...and...he knew her secret! Damn. What was she supposed to do now? He was taking her broach with him.

"Sure you do." he said almost-gently, reaching out to brush a stray hair behind her ear. She blushed again and he smirked in satisfaction. Wait till Usagi got a load of his secret identity. She already had a 'thing' for Tuxedo Kamen and coupled with her attraction to him as Mamoru, she wouldn't stand a chance next battle! "You told me not to go near the battle."

"You'll get in the way, no doubt!" Usagi shot back, blue eyes filled with annoyance.

"I won't get in your way." he said smoothly, watching her carefully for a response.

"Of course you'll get in my-their way. Let the Senshi do their job!" Usagi spat, whirling away from him.

She walked away, mind going a mile a minute. What was she supposed to do now? Mamoru had her broach. What if there really was a battle? She'd have to get it back somehow-

Mamoru strode swiftly after the fleeing blonde, taken by an impulse he couldn't explain. He reached out and caught a hold of her right shoulder, spinning her around to face him. "Odango?" he said, looking into her startled eyes as she stood before him.

He moved closer, invading her personal space. To his delight, she looked uneasy and began to blush again, not meeting his eyes.

He put a finger under her chin and tilted her face up to his.

Usagi squirmed uncomfortably, wondering what he wanted. She'd almost escaped, but then he'd caught up to her and she found herself pressed chest to chest again! As she looked at his warm gaze, she found her heart beating faster. "Yes? I have things to do you know!" she grumbled, reluctantly keeping her eyes locked with his.

Mamoru opened his mouth to say something, then changed his mind and smiled at her instead. He had intended to do many things when he'd spun her around.

Kiss her anyway.

Give a witty quip about her being Sailor Moon.

Tell her that he intended to change their relationship after the battle.

But he didn't. Instead, he reached up and stroked a finger along her check, then cupped her jaw and smoothed his thumb over her bottom lip. Her lips parted under his ministrations and he again felt an overwhelming need to kiss her.

Usagi stared at him mutely as his finger moved over her cheek gently, then he had cupped her jaw and moved his thumb over her lips. He looked as if...

Was he going to kiss her after all?

And how did that make her feel? Scared, excited, apprehensive, nervous...wanting. "No," she said, not sure what she was saying no to exactly. No to kissing her. No to changing their relationship from fighting to loving. No to...what? It was all going to fast. Way too fast. She needed to think!

"No?" Mamoru said thoughtfully, eyes on her bottom lip. So tempting. And she was Sailor Moon, he was sure of it. And Sailor Moon...he had a great attraction for. This new element was distracting, exciting, nerve-wracking. He knew that she knew that he wanted to kiss her. But was he going to listen?

He met her eyes again and saw the nervous excitement in the blue depths. Stuff it! No, he wasn't going to listen to her!

His head dipped and his lips parted in anticipation of claiming hers-

"Usagi! Where is she?" Rei's voice broke into their mood like a bucket of ice-water.

Mamoru swiftly raised his head, lips having come within millimeters from hers before the interuption. "Damn." he swore, eyes narrowing.

Usagi breathed a sigh of relief and slumped as his hand withdrew from her chin. Rei had saved her! She didn't know what would have happened if Mamoru had kissed her. And she didn't want to think about it.

"My Computer said that she's around here," Ami's voice said, coming closer. "In that alley!"

"Lets go! He better not have hurt her if he knows what's good for him." Makoto said angrily, tones threatening.

Mamoru felt murderous for a moment, briefly wondering if he could transform into Tuxedo Kamen and carry Usagi off to have his wicked way with her.

He groaned and ran a hand over his face. He was turning into some corny regency rake! Have his wicked way with her! Good god!

His eyes went to the opening of alley as he heard hurried foot-steps, then they went to Usagi, who looked comically-relieved. "Do you have a homing device on you?" Mamoru murmured in both amusement and annoyance, eyes raking her over from head to foot.

Usagi blushed to the roots of her hair under that stare. "They meant my beeper," she said quickly. She shifted from foot to foot, spinning towards the alley entrance to see Makoto, Ami and Rei storming into it.

Mamoru moved close behind the blonde and bent down till his lips brushed the curve of her ear. "Beeper, huh?" he said derisively. "Your Senshi just saved you, my sweet. And I fully intend to claim that kiss from you next battle."

Usagi's head spun around, cheeks flushing hectically, both from his proximity and his words. Her stomach had dropped when his warm breath had wafted over her ear and then it had dropped again when his lips had touched her. God!

She didn't see him and turned around fully to try and find out where he was. Mamoru was walking lazily out the other end of the alley that opened onto the next block.

"Usagi, are you okay?" Rei said from behind, voice concerned.

Usagi gave Mamoru's back one last look before spinning to face her friends, her heart still thundering in her ears. "I'm fine," she said, voice funny-sounding. She cleared her throat and repeated herself.

"Did he hurt you?" Makoto demanded, looking the blonde over for injury. Then her angry green gaze went over Usagi's shoulder. Mamoru was just disappearing around the corner. "Get back here you jerk!" she shouted, shaking a fist at the empty alleyway.

"What happened!" Ami breathed. "Did he know? Did you say anything? What did he say?"

"He knows." Usagi said simply, wincing as the three Senshi's eyes widened in horror. "But I denied it. He couldn't prove it."

"Thank god for that!" Rei snapped, crossing her arms. "How could you have been so stupid, Odango Atama? Could you have been more obvious?"

"I was not obvious!" Usagi growled, anger filling her. "He just put two and two together."

"Guys, please," Ami put her hand to her head, sure a headache was coming on. "So, he knows for sure or he just strongly suspects?"

The blonde looked down at her feet, hesitant as to what to say. Finally, she opted for the truth. They were going to find out next battle anyway when Mamoru turned up. Hopefully, he wouldn't be so stupid as to interfere with the Senshi and Tuxedo Kamen.

Tuxedo Kamen!

Usagi's eyes widened. She hadn't even given him much thought while talking to Mamoru. The guy she'd had a crush on for months had barely entered her mind while she was being held in Mamoru's arms. His lips almost touching hers. She blushed.

Rei's purple eyes widened as she saw the blush on Usagi's cheeks. Could Mamoru have caused that? "What's going on?" she said suspiciously.

"Nothing. Nothing!" Usagi said hastily, backing away with hands up. "Mamoru is determined that I'm Sailor Moon. He kept calling me that while we were talking." she said to Ami. "In fact, he tried to prove it several times, but I covered for it all."

"And?" The three said, knowing something else was coming. Usagi's face had become rather pale as she recalled something and that made them nervous.

"And...he found a full-proof way to prove I am Sailor Moon," Usagi said in a small voice. Her hand went to her chest in a helpless way and saw the exact moment they the Senshi realized that her broach was gone. "He took my broach."

"What!" The three girls screamed at her in shock.

"We have to get it back!" Rei shouted, looking around wildly.

"We can go after him now." Makoto said, moving around the others and heading Mamoru's way.

"I can track him." Ami said just as urgently, reaching into her subspace pocket.

"No!" Usagi shouted. The three girls paused, looking at her incredulously. "You can't demand that he give back my broach in broad-daylight with Christmas shoppers around." Usagi went on, frustrated and frightened of the situation she was in.

"She's right," Rei said after a moment of glaring at her friend. As much as she hated to admit it, the blonde was right. They couldn't just go after Mamoru and...mug him?

"Why not?" Makoto said belligerently, she punched her fist into the palm of her other hand.

"He'd have no hesitation in saying something," Usagi said bleakly. "He threatened to throw me over his shoulder and carry me to this alley if I didn't go willingly. He also threatened to shout aloud that I was Sailor Moon to the world."

"That bastard!" Rei hissed in loathing. "What did I ever see in him?"

"Good looks." Ami said scathingly, furious at the situation herself.

Usagi bit her lip, wondering what they could do. "If a battle comes up, he said if Sailor Moon wasn't there, then he'd know she was me. He somehow figured out that my broach makes me transform."

"He's smart," Ami said, cooling down. If they thought about this sensibly, then they could come up with a solution.

Suddenly, a beeping noise filled her mind and her eyes widened in complete horror. "Oh god, no!" she whispered, freezing in shock.

Rei, Makoto and Usagi looked at her swiftly, paling as they saw Ami's face. It could only mean one thing.

"There's a Youma," Ami said in hushed tones, reaching into her sub-space pocket for her Mercury computer.

"And we have no Sailor Moon." Usagi went on bleakly, fear filling her. Her blue eyes met that of the other girls', who were as shocked as she was. What were they going to do?

"This isn't happening! This just isn't happening!" Rei shouted, filled with fear. That bastard Mamoru! What were they going to do without Sailor Moon's tiara to dust the Youma?

"Calm down, Mars." Ami said authoritatively, using the girl's Senshi name.

"I'll take it on," Makoto said in determination. "We can't let Usagi fight."

"I have to." Usagi said quietly.

Ami looked at her friend quickly. "Did you have an idea?"

The blonde nodded, wringing her hands together as the only concession to her fear. Her face, she kept determined and brave. She couldn't be weak. Not now! "The Luna Disguise Pen."

Rei sucked in a breath. "Usagi, you can't," she said with concern. Her friend would get hurt! "Youma's aren't a game!"

"You don't think I know that?" Usagi retorted, anger filling her. "It will fool not only the Youma and the Dark Kingdom...but Mamoru also."

"Mamoru!" The three girls exclaimed with mingled anger and astonishment. Why on earth was Usagi talking about fooling him at a time like this?

"Mamoru will be there" Usagi revealed reluctantly. The girls gaped at her and she looked down at the ground, ashamed. "It's my fault that he took the broach. I thought there would be no harm in letting him look. But he somehow figured it out...and the he said if Sailor Moon didn't turn up at the next battle, then I wasn't her and he would give it back."

"That's right!" Makoto said, remembering.

"So, we fool them both and get the Moon Broach back?" Rei nodded, still looking furious. "I'm going to give him a piece of my mind when this battle is over."

"Me too." Makoto said darkly.

"Count me in," Ami added to their surprise. The blue-haired girl gave a vicious look. "How dare he endanger us and this world over a stupid supposition?"

"Where is the Youma?" Usagi said uncomfortably. Mamoru, she didn't want to talk about. She had mixed feelings for the gorgeous upper-classman now.

"Hopefully, Mamoru won't get to the battle," she didn't want him hurt. God, what a thing to think of now! But thinking about him getting injured made her heart beat faster in anxiety. Was she crazy?

"But then he won't know that Sailor Moon was there or not!" Makoto protested.

"The news will take care of that," Ami said, groaning. Her eyes rose to theirs, filled with incredulity. "This Youma is in the Mall-and channel Ten is covering the 'Miss Christmas' pageant! By tonight, all of Tokyo will be watching a replay of the battle."

"You've got to be kidding me," Rei exclaimed in disbelief and horror. "That Mall will be packed!"

"We have to get there now!" Usagi said, reaching into her sub-space pocket for her Luna Pen. "Transform." she urged the others. While they did so, she blocked out the spectacular light-show that heralded their Senshi forms and turned her attention on the Pen.

"Luna Pen, turn me into Sailor Moon...and please make it accurate!" The power consumed her and when she looked down, she was dressed in her familiar fuku.

"It looks real," Mercury said, walking over to inspect it critically. She looked up at the golden tiara curved around Usagi's forehead. "Will that work, do you think?"

Jupiter and Mars held their breath as Usagi reached up and touched her tiara with her gloved hands.

"No," Usagi said in disappointment. "I can't feel any power. I just feel like...Usagi."

"Don't worry, we'll protect you. This is only for show." Mars soothed, resting a hand on Usagi's shoulder and squeezing. "You stay out of it's way and let us do the fighting."

To Be Continued...


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