This is just one that I have to work on lmao. I have this other one about a young girl running from the mob so that should be pretty good. I have another one with a engaged girl loosing her memory and marrying a prince, lol dont ask but thats in the works. And I have a bunch of old stories that I must rewrite and work on.
Okay here you go, chap 5, I had to do this before I become so wrapped up in college that I forget that I'm still working on this thing lol. Okay I think I'm stumped I didn't want to put this out there, but now I have a block on this story and probably wont do another chapter for another month. Now I'ma put this out here and I really need to know if u like it. I have chap 6 already its just that I'm not satisfied with it so I dont know if it will be put up.
Disclaimers: I do not own Sailor Moon, so dont sue me.
The Midnight Run
Chapter Five
The sun filtered through the trees, shadows of leaves splaying across their picnic blanket. Usagi had packed a delightful treat for her and Naru, picking out both of their favorite foods. Usagi had caught a slight cold from last night, her emotional turmoil not helping her physical state. It was chilly out and here they were in the middle of winter picnicking in the park something only Usagi and Naru could manage to do together. Usagi wore a pink sweater that hugged her in all the right places accentuating her curves right along with her light blue jeans. Her high healed pink knee boots were hidden under her jeans, Naru wore a matching outfit; it was their day out their time together without the Senshi. Naru could tell that more went on than Usagi was telling; she waited for her to come clean while she ate her sandwich.
"I hate him Naru, the brute left me in my room last night, he told me he didn't love me." Usagi said hyper than her serene appearance, eating more of her apple pie. Naru sympathized with her friend, being in Usagi's position wasn't easy, for goodness sake she was a Princess after all, but her friend first. Auburn hair was pulled up into a neat genie ponytail as Naru smoothed her hair over some more thinking on a solution.
"Now we match Usagi, see, our hair looks cute. I'm surprised u ditched your Odangos." Naru said starting with simple conversation wanting to lead it a way from Usagi's problems.
"I know what you're trying to do and it won't work Naru, it won't work. You're all I have, the girls don't know who I am only you Naru and I need you to understand." She said, her pie left unfinished, fork clattering on her plate, her long blonde hair slicked back into a matching genie ponytail like Naru's.
"I could just kick him up his ass, I mean we've waited thousands of years and now we're given a second chance and his loyalty to me stops him from being with me." Usagi huffed, and then giggled, Naru followed, their small laughter drifting through the park. Usagi smiled, her features lighting up wondering when it would be her chance to kick destiny up the ass too, right along with fate.
"Usagi you're being too hard on him, he doesn't know. But when you think about it, it's kind of funny. He'll come around just give him time." She said devouring her grapes laughing at her friend trying to match her speed.
"Maybe your right, when I'm Queen you can have whatever you want." Usagi said smiling towards her friend, her hair swishing with the small breeze, leaves blowing past Naru.
"You'll be too busy for little old me. You would have a world to rule, maybe even a galaxy." Naru replied her voice slightly shaking; her eyes concentrating on the thick dark blue blanket beneath them, her finger fiddling with a piece of lint. She had wanted to tell her friend the truth, tell her friend how she had been feeling since the Senshi had come along. She never had the courage or the nerve to break it to her that eventually she would be replaced, just like her one true love had assumed. In her case she felt right, it would only be a matter of time before Usagi's job became even harder and that would cancel out all of their time completely.
"Never." Usagi's reply clipped the air, sucking the playful banter that they once carried out. The thought of not having Naru around for her seemed to suck the happiness out of becoming Queen, it seemed to suck her false childhood away. Loosing Naru meant loosing a part of herself that she wanted to keep and feel as if it was real. She needed to know that she did exist that her life just wasn't some fairytale.
"Never! You hear me? Naru, never." She repeated this time on the verge of crying, blue eyes blinking back what she seemed to fight the most lately, her emotions and tears. Remembering her child hood with Naru, their first day of school, the day they threw worms on Shingo still stood fresh in her mind.
Mamoru had been watching them, Usagi seeming even more beautiful, as if she was a pop star, her mystery inching him closer to her. Just last night he sat in her room telling her that he didn't love her and that he didn't need her, and here he was wishing he could hold her and replace her shattered features. He felt helpless like he had when he was younger, like when he would dream of a Princess, like he had felt after she removed her warmth from him. She deserved to learn why other than he belonging to another. He was going to take her some where that he hadn't been in years, somewhere that she needed to see.
"Never what?" He asked hearing part of their conversation deciding this was his entrance back into her world. Usagi's world tilted once she felt him step back onto her plane, walk back into their dimension. Her serious talk with Naru fell off of her tongue as her mind absorbed his being standing next to her. She wondered how much of the conversation had he heard.
"Not only are you a brute but you eavesdrop too." She commented easily going back to the way things were before the subway ride, before he had kissed her, before she had fallen in love. Something was wrong, this wasn't the Usagi he knew or had known, she seemed different at times as if she could read through him.
"Hi Mamoru, bye Mamoru." Naru greeted, getting up to leave, Usagi watched her retreating form scolding the auburn haired girl in her mind.
'The turncoat.' She thought sticking her tongue out at Naru's back.
"I saw that Usagi, you guys need to talk." Naru said knowing her friend like the back of her hand, giggling as she heard Usagi giggle in return. Her demeanor quickly returned to ice once it was only him in her presence. He wanted her right there, in the park, to feel her inside and out, her lips pouting at him taking his mind off of the task at hand. Her moan floating through his mind. He had to persuade her somehow to get her to understand, to get her to come with him. His eyes glanced over her, her ring-less finger sending him to speak.
"Where's the promise ring?" He asked her not sure why but he needed to know why she would take it off.
"I flushed it, no not really I thought about flushing it but it looks antique so I thought of pawning it I could get a pretty penny for it." She said not caring about his face growing darker, or the fact that she had lied, it served him right far as she cared.
"You wouldn't." He said keeping his demeanor calm, knowing that he had hurt her and he was here to make amends and give her insight to who he was.
"It's home on my dresser, you broke your promise so it was no point in wearing the darn thing." She said a light smile coming to her features as she watched Naru in the distance blowing kissing and making faces. Naru was right she couldn't hold the fact that they were both fucked up in the head against him. The ring was in her pocket, she brought it with her to keep out of Luna's reach.
"I would like to show you something." He said, reaching for her hand so she could stand facing him, she was reluctant, a minute passed silence pausing her in place, his hand still extended, she accepted. Standing in front of him slightly taller to him, he liked her in heals. He breathed in her essence, feeling complete even though he knew he couldn't keep her. It was a dangerous game he kept playing with himself, tasting her then sending her on her way, eventually he would dip in the pool and it would be over for them. Stopping himself before he dug a deeper whole that he was standing in, his thoughts raced desperately needing to change his line of thought.
"It would mean a lot to me if I could explain to you why I am the way I am. Come with me to meet my Aunt Bernice." He said his hold on her hand never faltering as he gazed into eyes which poured into him. She chanced it, maybe this would save them, and maybe he would come to terms with them. Her head nodded what would be a yes, her genie ponytail swishing behind her.
"But Naru, I would be such a bad friend if I left her to this." She said looking down at their picnic. He followed her gaze; she was right but from the sound of their conversation earlier Naru wouldn't have minded.
"Oh Naru you wouldn't mind if I stole her for the rest of the day?" He asked putting ease to Usagi's worries; he tugged on her hand leading her away as Naru smiled at them walking back to their picnic to clean up the remains.
"I'll call you Naru, I promise and you won't be able to avoid the conversation." Usagi said allowing Mamoru to lead her across the park to where she didn't know. Her instincts told her to trust him, to try to understand him and she was.
The walk was quiet as they enjoyed each others company. She looked slightly older in her attire and he didn't mind as he held her hand pulling her closer to him. He hoped that he was doing the right thing, showing her his past so she could understand why they couldn't have a future. Traffic passed, people passed as they walked in their own world the silence between them growing. Usagi huffed pissed that he would snatch her from a delightful picnic to walk around Tokyo without conversation.
"What was that conversation with Naru about?" He asked breaking the ice, Usagi's hand tensed up wondering why he wanted to know, her hips switching bringing the young couple stares. Mamoru was well dressed that day deciding on impressing her he left his green jacket home and wore a black blazer instead. He wore a black and beige stripped button up shirt underneath, light denim jeans complementing his shirt, and a pair of all black Nike boots. He spent half an hour fixing his hair just right making sure his face would be shaved to her liking.
"She thinks like you, that I won't have time for her anymore." She answered stopping them in the middle of the sidewalk, people bustling around them. Her eyes scanned his features her breath catching in her throat, Mamoru had looked delicious. He had caught the look in her eyes and took two steps back releasing her hand, she pouted.
"I thought you had something you wanted to show me." She stated, reaching for his hand again.
'She's young Mamoru remember she doesn't know any better.' He told himself leading her towards his home. Nervousness kicked in, would she understand plagued him. The house was rather large, in a nice part of Tokyo; they had caught the bus the rest of the way. The front yard holding a small pond that Usagi gushed over, he pointed out a couple of the gold fish he had named. She was at a lost for words, wondering why would he bring her to his house out of all places and what did he have to show her. This was the last thing that she had expected and Mamoru knew. He led her up the drive way stopping at the glass garage door.
"That's my car right there but Aunt Bernice won't let me drive it she claims that she's teaching me a lesson, and the lesson I don't know." He said slightly laughing, Usagi gulped, staring in wonder at the black sports car in front of her. Knowing the type was pointless she just knew that it had cost a pretty penny for one of those.
"Wow." She managed to get out as she was being led once again towards the entrance, double white doors giving off the look of a mini mansion. He opened the door his hand still holding onto her smaller one, her lashes fluttered as her eyes roamed the foyer, peering into the lavish hallway.
'HE'S FUCKING RICH!' Her thought's bellowed at her, the sight of the way he was living really sending her to shock. She wondered how come Mamoru never told anyone about his financial background. Then it hit her, the truth that she had been avoiding after their first kiss.
'Mamoru was never your friend, just your tormentor.' She thought, cringing from the reality of the situation, but why now, why the sudden change in him, why let her into his world now. Usagi sighed feeling like it was going to be a long day, and by the looks of it, it would be storming before the day was out. Mamoru caught her shock feeling like an even bigger ass for never opening up to her, when overall she was a nice person.
"I want you to meet my Aunt. She'll like you." He said pulling her into the house, her knee boots clicked on the dark brown mixed with mahogany colored marble floor. Right away she bent to remove them, not wanting to damage such a fine floor but he stopped her, bending down beside her, his hair bouncing over his eyes.
"Don't worry about it." He said pulling her back up with him, face twinkling with a new kindness she hadn't seen him show this life time. She smiled, her heart feeling lighter than before, maybe letting him go didn't have to happen, maybe this life would turn out to be perfect. Usagi lips quirked into one of her infamous smiles, ready to call him on his niceness. It never came instead another voice interrupted the weird moment.
"Mamoru! I can't believe that you are late. You know what we have to do today." A soft voice called reprimanding him, and then she appeared from down the hall. A small plump lady with a round face, long wheat blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail, she paused, a smile reaching her full lips.
"Well how come you didn't tell me that you brought home a guess?" She asked him standing in front of them now; her green eyes glowing with excitement, wondering who the young blonde girl was that accompanied him. Usagi noted their differences, Mamoru's aloof coldness versus his Aunt's warm demeanor, and the fact that they looked nothing alike, nothing at all, and she was American. Usagi became puzzled trying to figure out the clues that Mamoru had presented her with; she had no time to play a guessing game.
"Aunt Bernice meet Usagi, Usagi meet my Aunt Bernice." Mamoru said introducing them to each other. Usagi bowed showing her respect for the woman who was a Mother figure to Mamoru.
"Nice to meet you." Usagi said standing back up staring at Mamoru's only family as far as he had told her.
"And Likewise. Please tell me that you will stay for dinner. I would just love that, Mamoru never brings anyone home." Aunt Bernice started chattering as much as Usagi could her mouth yapping on as Usagi giggled her reply.
"I would love to stay for dinner." She said staring at Mamoru's reaction which was rather calm for his style.
"But first I have to go do that thing." He said not sure if he just wanted to out right tell her about himself, he was never the type to just do that. The type to just open up and confess his past to someone. Aunt Bernice smiled commending his courage at what he was going to face, and how strong he had become even though he seemed so distant sometimes.
The rusty black gates sat there uninviting leaving Usagi speechless as to where they were at. They were at the orphanage, the gloomy building seeming so unfriendly, and then it clicked. It all made sense now, his coldness, his bitterness, his complete way of doing things. Mamoru was adopted. He stared at her, nodding his head in a yes, her hand reached up resting over top his heart. Bernice said nothing, she watched the scene unfolding before her, he didn't need her Usagi could take care of him today. She had more errands to run so she hopped back in the car and waved them a rushed goodbye so they wouldn't catch her tears. She loved Mamoru as if he was her own child, and today was going to be hard for him. She remembered when she had first come across him, how small he had been. But here he was now a man and she had helped him make it to this point.
"Why?" She asked, her one word assaulting him back into reality. He blinked taking comfort in her caress his mind trying to form an answer for her. She wouldn't cry she realized that she was the one who received the better end of the bargain in her new reincarnated life; all of the others had it rough. She cringed wishing that she could erase this time and take it back a millennium it was so many things that she would've done differently. For starters she would've really known that it was love at first site. Mamoru sighed breathing deeply wondering how he could break things to her.
"I lost my parents in a fire when I was five." He said, his eyes clouding over reflecting the murkiness of the sky deciding that being blunt would be the only way. Everything seemed darker now; the shadows seemed to grow around her. She hadn't expected that, she expected anything else but that. She expected to hear something about his parents not wanting him, or his Mother not being able to take care of him, but not this. Either way all of it would've been tragic to hear but these words sliced through her. Her whole life she had been sheltered and the others had suffered.
"I don't remember how I got out but I did, I still have the burn from the fire." He said stepping back from her to pull up his shirt, showing her the scar on his right side. Her hand shot out touching it, tears coming to her eyes spilling over. She stared in a daze transfixed on his old injury. He lifted her chin up with a finger, her tears streaming now as she realized the Princess was all he ever had besides his Aunt Bernice.
"I'm scared to become attached to you Usagi, you do things to me, and you change me." He said forcing himself to stare into her eyes, to face her. She trembled, her body working against her, she took a few steps towards him wrapping herself into him.
"Not now Mamoru, please not now. Let me comfort you." She whispered laying her head on his chest. She was truly a jewel, something that you couldn't let go once you touched her.
"I brought you with me today so you can know me Usagi, so you can understand me better." He muttered into her hair putting his arms around her engulfing himself in the feel of her.
so please let me know what you guys think.
