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: 7/9
Status: Completed
Year Completed: 2003
Comments: Hi everyone! I've been spending all day working on getting a Message Board up for the Archives, training up people and doing other odds and ends. 13 hours straight on the computer! Falls over But since I don't know if I can come on tomorrow, I've decided to give you two Chapters tonight. I hope you like. I love the feedback. Keep it up and feed the Author, we live for feedback you know. It makes us feel all warm and wanted. LOL.
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CHRISTMAS WISH-LIST
By Princess Destiny
Chapter Seven
Usagi felt like a bug under a microscope.
She took a half-step back from the handsome upper-classman in an unconsciously-defensive movement. "I don't know what you're talking about." she said hesitantly, eyes caught up in his penetrating gaze.
Mamoru snorted in derision. "Oh come on, Odango! I have you. I know your secret and you're going to admit it if it takes me the rest of your life." he said ruthlessly.
"What are you two talking about!" Rei demanded, popping up from behind Usagi and glaring accusingly at her former crush. After Mamoru's stunt with Usagi's broach, he was the last person on earth she wanted to date.
Her purple eyes went from Usagi's frozen profile, to Mamoru's hard blue eyes. The two had been talking in low voices for a minute or so and the Senshi and Motoki had been watching them with avid interest. It had been glaringly obvious that Usagi was under some sort of mental attack, from her body-language and there was no way Rei and the other girls were putting up with it!
"You leave Usagi alone!" Makoto growled, getting up form her seat and stalking over to Mamoru. She stood next to Usagi and crossed her arms, fully-prepared to do damage to the gorgeous man if he didn't lay off her friend.
"You heard them." Ami said quietly, moving to beside Makoto. Her blue eyes narrowed on him.
"Whoa! Time-out. What's going on here?" Motoki demanded.
Usagi felt embarrassed as Motoki moved along the counter to stare at the four girls facing off with Mamoru, his eyes huge with astonishment. "Guys." she said weakly, scratching at the back of her head.
"Give it back. Now." Ami went on, fingers tapping against her thigh impatiently. No one quite knew what to expect from quiet Ami, but even Mamoru had the sense to take her seriously.
"Give what back?" Motoki asked, not understanding the tense atmosphere. What was going on here? What did Mamoru have to give back to Usagi?
"Mamoru took Usagi's broach and we want it back," Rei said angrily, holding out a hand imperiously under Mamoru's nose.
Mamoru eyed her with faint amusement, then looked at the silent blonde in front of him. Usagi had said nothing since her friends had interrupted their conversation. Her face was pale and bemused and he had the feeling she was not quite sure how all this mess had happened-or how to get her broach back.
"I say we frisk him." Ami said, glaring balefully.
Everyone turned to stare at her, mouths gaping. Quiet little Ami wanted to frisk Mamoru?
His mouth closed with a snap and Mamoru threw Ami a taunting look from under his lashes. "You want to try it, Ami?" he drawled.
"Did she just say what I thought she said?" Motoki said with disbelief. "Mamoru, just give Usagi's broach back. Why the hell did you take it in the first place?"
"To prove a point, of course," Mamoru said coolly, leaning back lazily in his chair. He flicked the dark hair from his eyes and gave the impression of being in complete control of the situation. "I had to make sure of something and I did. But it wouldn't do for anyone else to know." he said pointedly to the girls.
They understood his hinting perfectly and glared angrily back. Was he really threatening to tell everyone that Usagi was Sailor Moon.
Makoto's fists clenched and she had to fight back the urge to slug Mamoru's smirking face.
Motoki, of course, looked even more confused. "What does Usagi's broach have to do with the price of eggs?" he said in exasperation.
"I'll tell you one day." the dark-haired man promised, throwing a side-long look at the shocked Senshi. He had them all now. They couldn't say a thing, or risk all their secrets being exposed.
"No!" The four girls shouted, looking aghast.
People around the Arcade began to stare at the six gathered at the counter, wondering what all the shouting was about. When they saw Usagi and Mamoru so close together, they figured it was the usual fight between the two and went back to what they were doing.
"Don't you dare." Rei hissed, purple eyes seething.
"Thank you for proving me right." Mamoru said silkily, getting slowly to his feet. He made sure that his body brushed up full against Usagi and he stared down into her blue eyes, so close to his, for a long moment.
"Usagi," he said softly, reaching up to brush the blond bangs from her eyes with an almost-tender gesture. "We'll have another conversation later, hmm?" his word finished on a rather possessive note.
Usagi flushed from the warm look in his eyes, the possessive tone in his voice and also, the way he had touched her as if he would have kissed her if there had been no one else around. In front of her friends, no less! Did he consider Sailor Moon his?
Her whole body flushed at the thought and she could only give him a wide-eyed, stunned look as his eyes locked on hers knowingly. Damn it! Mamoru was as aware of what affect he had on her now, as she was of the affect she had on him.
Mamoru chuckled at the expression on her pretty face and then he was moving past her, brushing momentarily against a furious Ami, before turning to leave.
But before he had fully turned, he made sure to give the other three Senshi a rather sardonic look. He was sure that they were aware he was 'hunting' their Leader, metaphorically-speaking.
"Wait!" Usagi gasped, realizing he was going to leave without giving back her broach. Didn't he realize how much danger she had been in going to battle un-transformed?
"Yes?" Mamoru inquired, turning his head slightly to look at her over his shoulder.
"Can I pleasehave my broach back?" the blonde said in a small voice, blue eyes clouding.
Mamoru hesitated for a long moment, then his eyes became a hard blue. He wasn't immune to Usagi's charms now that he acknowledged their attraction, but he had sworn to them both that she could not have the broach back until she admitted she was Sailor Moon...and he got his kiss.
"Sorry, no." he said, shaking his head. He sauntered away, deliberately turning his back to the furious Senshi. They couldn't do him bodily harm with so many witness', right? He sure hoped not.
Usagi bit her lip, tempted to burst into tears. Why was he doing this to her? No...she shook her head, refusing to cry. Anger filled her and she welcomed it. Fine, if Mamoru wanted to play it that way, then she would find anther way to get it back. He couldn't have the broach on him all the time, so she'd just wait for an opportunity.
Maybe sneak into his apartment in the middle of the night?
She blinked and then smiled as Mamoru disappeared out the sliding doors. "You think you've won, Chiba? Well, you've never had to mess with the Senshi before!" she whispered under her breath militantly.
"Ooh, scary face." Makoto said, glancing at Usagi's expression.
"We have a plan?" Rei said eagerly, leaning over Usagi's shoulder to peer into her face.
"What plan?" Motoki said, still clueless.
Usagi grinned evilly. "We have a plan." she agreed.
Ami slapped her hands together and smiled in satisfaction. "Good girl," she said, patting Usagi on the shoulder. "Now, lets go to the Temple and you can tell us all about it."
"That's not a plan!" Ami screeched at Usagi in disbelief.
Once the blonde had told them that she wanted to sneak into Mamoru's apartment in the middle of the night, the girls had all gaped at her in disbelief.
Well, Makoto whooped in delight first, then gaped when she saw that it was expected of her.
"You are not going to sneak around a man's apartment in the dead of night! No normal girl does that!" Rei agreed, glaring at her Leader. So much for a brilliant plan. She should have known better. It was Usagi they were talking about, after all.
"What's wrong with that plan?" Usagi demanded, hands on hips.
"You have to ask, you idiot?" Rei said disbelievingly. "Mamoru is a virtual stranger to us all and several years older. He also has a big 'thing' for Sailor Moon and who knows what sort of perverted thoughts he's got in mind for you?"
"You wanted to date that pervert not that long ago." Usagi shot back, frowning. She moved uneasily on her cushion and then grabbed her tea from the table, taking a gulp. It went down the wrong way and she spluttered.
Makoto leaned over from her side of the table and patted Usagi on the back until she could breath again. "You okay, Usagi?" she asked in concern, green eyes sympathetic. It wasn't that the girls thought Usagi's plan to get the broach back was bad, but that Chiba Mamoru was an unknown element.
"Mamoru is no fool," Ami murmured, as if reading Makoto's mind. She calmly sipped her tea, a thoughtful look on her face now. Her anger had cooled and she was now thinking rationally of a way to get the broach back from Mamoru. "Does anyone else have any ideas?" she asked the others.
"Nope." Makoto said sheepishly, scratching the back of her head.
"I can't think of a thing." Rei sighed, flopping back onto the floor and staring up at her bedroom ceiling. At least they could guarantee that Grandpa wouldn't be spying on them. He had no qualms about doing so in any other part of the house, but thankfully, he had enough morals not to spy when she was in her room.
Her purple eyes narrowed. Given his shifty nature, she sometimes wondered just how much Grandpa knew about her secret life. He had been attacked for a Rainbow Crystal and been turned into one of the Seven Shadows. Surely, he wondered when the Senshi turned up so swiftly?
"See?" Usagi said in exasperation, frowning even more. Her blue eyes were very troubled and she had a nagging feeling that she was overlooking something important. But what? Something about Mamoru...
Maybe.
She didn't want to think about him and their new relationship, but she had to because she needed her broach back. "No one else can think of an idea either! What if Zoisite comes back with anther Youma?" she said, fingers tightening about her cup.
Ami, Rei and Makoto drew in their breath sharply, giving Usagi a fearful look. The blonde had escaped from the battle by sheer good luck-and Tuxedo Kamen's amazing reflex's of course. But could she be as lucky again?
"I could really kill Mamoru, you guys!" Rei growled furiously, thumping a fist onto the table.
"Ditto." Makoto muttered, considering beating up the man for the broach. "Think he'd press charges?" she wondered aloud, betraying her thoughts.
"You can't beat him up!" Usagi said, shocked. But then she smiled. "I'd like to let you though, Makoto. I'm SO tempted" she admitted, giggling.
A vision of Makoto beating the snot out of Mamoru flashed through her mind and she grinned in amusement.
"Very tempting." Rei and Ami chorused simultaneously, also grinning.
All four sighed, slumping. Mamoru would press charges!
"Hey," Ami said thoughtfully then. "I've been wondering why Mamoru is acting so different towards Usagi. We know he has a big yen for Sailor Moon, but now that he strongly suspects it's Usagi, he went awfully quick from their usual fighting to an almost..." she frowned, trying to think of the word. She clearly remembered his tone of voice when he had said farewell to the blonde in the Arcade an hour and a half before.
"Seductive?" she tried, looking appealingly at Rei.
Usagi flushed bright red, hands flying to her cheeks in acute embarrassment. "What!" she screamed. Ami had noticed that?
Oh god, if only the floor would open up and swallow her! She thought only see had noticed the way he was acting towards her.
Idiot-of course they had noticed! Mamoru had been quite blatant about it.
Rei blinked, then smiled and nodded. "You know, you're right?" she said in astonishment, remembering. She'd been too angry at the time, to think much about it...
"I was too furious at the time, but now that you mention it...he did speak to her as if he wanted to-" Makoto said evilly.
"Makoto!" Usagi howled, clapping her hands over her ears. "You stop that!"
"-kiss you senseless?" The brunette amended mischievously, grinning like a maniac. "He did say that he was going to kiss Sailor Moon at the next battle, remember?"
"He certainly is not viewing Usagi as an enemy any more." Ami agreed, brushing her bangs from her eyes. She tapped the fingers of her other hand on her knee in a pensive manner. "What exactly did he say and do in that alley?" she suddenly demanded, rounding on the blonde.
Usagi's blue eyes went wide at the rather eager looks her three friends gave her. She blushed slowly brighter and averted her eyes. What could she say? "There was nokissing!" she blurted out anxiously, wringing her hands together.
"Oh? And what else did he say exactly?" Rei said with suspicion. Now that the battle was over and they had time to talk, she really wanted to know had been said.
"Umm..." The blonde muttered, thinking hard. She winced as she remembered most of the conversation, but mostly, the way Mamoru had invaded her personal space and had changed their relationship in minutes.
They were very attracted to each other and that was for sure!
She sighed in exasperation, turning her eyes back to meet three eager gazes. "He tried to trick me into saying I was Sailor Moon. But I kept telling him that I knew so much because I knew her."
"So, what exactly made him take your broach? What made him think that that was how you transformed?" Ami asked quietly, watching her friend closely. Usagi wasn't telling them something, but then again, what girl told her friends everything regarding a guy?
Mamoru had claimed his stake on Sailor Moon for the whole Arcade to see and he'd obviously changed his relationship with Usagi to the point where the blonde was utterly bewildered and flustered.
"Oh," Usagi gasped, abruptly remembering what had happened in the alley. "The broach opened!"
"What!" Rei, Makoto and Ami gasped back in shock.
"What do you mean, it opened? I didn't know it could do that?" Ami said urgently, leaning forward. The Moon Broach had opened? Luna never mentioned that it could open, but then again, the cat had mentioned once that her memories of the Moon Kingdom were incomplete. She had no idea where the broach or the wands had come from, but they had been in Luna's sub-space pocket waiting for the day she found the Senshi.
"Mamoru grabbed it off my bow-and that's when he really started to wonder, because there was no pin on the back and it just stuck there with no help. And then when he was holding it, it just opened and there was nothing inside." the blonde paused, remembering. "But it looked like there had been something inside, once"
"Why do you say that?" Rei asked, curious. She turned her cup around and around on the table, wondering if her wand did something too.
"It had this hole in it, about the size of a walnut." Usagi gestured with her hand, showing how large the hole was.
"Interesting," Ami mused, reaching into her sub-space pocket and taking out her Mercury Computer. She felt the others watching her as she typed in 'Moon Broach' and waited for the results. The mini-computer instantly flooded the screen with strange, beautiful symbols. Ami gaped at it. "What on earth?" she said, flabeghasted. It had never done that before!
"What?" Usagi demanded, crawling around the table to look over Ami's shoulder. Rei and Makoto did the same and the four gazed at the mini-computer in stunned amazement.
"I can't read that," Ami said uneasily. "Shouldn't I be able to read something on my own Mercury Computer?" she appealed to the others.
"Yeah." Makoto nodded, eyes going over the symbols over and over. It made absolutely no sense to her.
Rei reached out with her mind, trying to sense something in the symbols, but could come up with nothing. They were a complete mystery.
Usagi was also confused...but no entirely because she could not read the symbols, but because for a moment, the words looked utterly familiar and clear to her. Words jumped out at her, before the symbols became gibberish again.
'Moon Kingdom', 'Serenity' and 'Imperium Silver Crystal'.
Her blue eyes went huge and she felt her mouth falling open in shock. "Guys," she said weakly. "I could understand that for a minute."
Ami's head whipped around. "What did you say?" she demanded, gripping the mini-computer tightly.
Rei and Makoto stared at Usagi mutely, not understanding.
Usagi did not understand herself. She licked her lips and uncertainly relayed what she had seen for a split-second.
"This says something abut the Moon Kingdom?" Ami's blue eyes narrowed in thought. "I wonder if it's referring to the Sea of Serenity?" she mused aloud. "The language must have been used on the moon a long time ago."
"Do you think Luna can read this?" Usagi said softly, still staring fixedly at the beautiful script as if she could will it to make sense to her again. Was she able to read it because it had something to do with her being Sailor Moon?
"We need to get your broach back, before Mamoru really discovers something that will absolutely identify you as being Sailor Moon." Ami said grimly.
"We break in?" Usagi said tentatively, her stomach filling with butterflies. Could she really break into Mamoru's apartment while he was sleeping?
"No. No, too dangerous." Ami shook her head. "We need to go talk to him again and get it back. Then we need to speak with Luna. Something is going on here and we need to find out what." she decisively closed the Mercury Computer and slipped it back into her sub-space pocket.
"He's not going to give it back. Not when he suspects." Usagi murmured, eyes troubled. Mamoru was no fool and he was going to get her to admit she was Sailor Moon, not matter what. But she would try and talk to him again, for her friend's sake...and if that didn't work, she was going back to plan one.
Break and enter!
To Be Continued...
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Chapter Nine, the final one, will be out tomorrow. The Sequel...who knows. I can't write a thing at the moment! I have writer's block:)
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