Chapter 24: (12 Months)
The sun poked through the blinds of the bedroom window, sneaking stray strands of light inside, lighting the room up. Usagi smiled slightly as she felt one of the strands hit her eyes. Her yawn woke her husband beside her, who wrapped his arms around her waist tightly and pressed his mouth against her ear.
"Happy Birthday" he whispers as he presses another kiss to her cheek. She grins, flipping over on top of him to straddle him.
"Thanks" she grins as she kisses him softly. "But I think someone, who is still asleep, needs to be the star today" she reminds him, causing him to sigh dramatically.
"I know, I know. I guess I'll celebrate tonight with you then" he says, covering his face with his hands. Usagi smiles as she leaps off of his body, standing up to stretch. Mamoru followed suit, only to cause distractions to his wife. "Come on" he says as he watches her hesitate. "Let's go wake Chibi-Usa up" he sighs. She nods, walking out of their bedroom and across the hallway to the only other room on the top floor.
The door was open to her surprise. She remembered closing it the night before when she went to change her daughter's diaper. She thought nothing of it, too exited to see her one-year-old daughter.
She walked in, and in the crib, she found nothing.
All but a mass of air on the comforter.
And a piece of paper.
She picked it up, her fingers trembling as she read it, and tears streaking down her cheeks.
"Usako" Mamoru breathed, breaking through her concentration on forming a plan. "Where's our daughter?" he asks her cautiously, watching her turn around.
"Gone" she whispers as she grips the paper tighter. Mamoru looks at it carefully, attempting to read it upside down. "Someone came in last night after I let the sliding door open because it was hot. Someone broke in and kidnapped her and took her away and now they want me" she whispers, handing him the note. Her breathing was rapidly increasing, sweat forming on her forehead and tears running down her cheeks.
It felt like fate, didn't want her to be happy anymore. It was like fate was saying that she had everything she wanted and wanted it to end.
It looked like Mamoru felt the same way as her.
"We've got to get her back" he says, his face full of determination. Then, something in his eyes snapped like a fragile piece of rope. He took the note and walked off.
"Mamo-Chan?" She calls after him as he down the stairs and towards her study. she walks into her study to find her husband flicking through her handwritten lyric book. "Why are you going through my book?" she asks confused, until he rips out the page with the name on it she was not expecting.
Seiya Kou.
"It was Seiya. Minako told me he was jealous of me because I had you. He has apparently loved you since you were kids, and he was hoping you felt the same way when you two met up. He's the only explanation" Mamoru growls, his voice full of anger as he stares at both the note and the page.
She looks at it as well, and it was like his suspicions were confirmed.
It was the exact same handwriting on the card as the page.
"But he was my friend" she whispers. "Why would he do this to us? To me?" her voice was barely audible as she spoke.
"I don't know. But we'll meet him at the place and at the time, but in the meanwhile, we'll wait." He sighs, his voice filled with hatred. "And I'll call the police. Call your parents and the girls and boys about it"
Usagi looked at his face as his arm wrapped around her waist, pulling her closer to him as he dialled the local police. After a few moments, Mamoru put the phone down to her ear, Usagi speaking into it.
"Hello?" She asks the person behind the receiver.
"Hello Miss. Are you Usagi Tsukino?" The officer asks her.
"Yes, But I changed my last name after I married my husband. I'm a Chiba now" she states nervously.
"Oh Yes. Right sorry. Can you confirm that your daughter has been taken?" He asks her.
"Yes. She's not anywhere in the house"
"What happened?" he asks her. Usagi takes in a deep breath, and begins countering the details to them, and after several moments, she hands the phone back to her husband. She walks off towards their bathroom, leaving him alone in the study that they stood in.
She stepped under the running water in the shower, letting her tears leave her as she stood there. A few moments later, Mamoru stepped inside the bathroom, stripped naked. As she stood there crying, she felt her husband step inside with her, his chest pressed against her back as he hugged her. she turned around to face him, tears streaking down her eyes as she looked into his. His own eyes copied her, before he kissed her swiftly.
A few hours later, the police arrived back at their house, and noticed the amount of cars that were there. Inside, Ikuko was comforting her daughter, with Minako and the rest of the girls around her. The same scene was across the room, and Kenji was standing around Mamoru with the boys. Usagi kept staring into her husband's eyes, both of them staring into each other's to talk to each other.
The front door opened quietly, and Minako went to check who it was, and returned with two police officers. "We need to go. All the locals are arriving on scene now and we need to escort you there" the officer says. Usagi looks back at Mamoru, who nods.
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Usagi stood out in the open field, watching a new car pull up in front of her. Her husband, sat inside the car behind her, trying to be out of view from the mysterious person.
The car slowed to a stop, and the front door opened, revealing the man her husband expected.
Seiya Kou.
Usagi guessed her husband would be furious that he had done this to them.
And then he revealed their daughter.
The cry of her daughter ran across the field, and then, Usagi locked eyes with her. her crying seized, and her smile increased. "Mama" Chibi-usa calls out in her voice, causing her mother to cry of relief.
She was alright.
Usagi ran towards them, and immediately took her daughter out of his arms. "Oh baby" she cooed in her cry. Chibi-Usa's arms wrapped her neck. Usagi looked up at Seiya, who was smiling slightly at the reunion. "You're safe now" she whispers into her daughter's ear. "But I need to run to your father in a moment. Can you hold on tight for me?" she asks her daughter in a whisper.
"Ok Mama" she says as she looks into her mothers' eyes. Usagi presses her foot into the grass below her, turning around to sprint. She hears Seiya coming up behind her and increases her speed.
The car door opens, and she passes her daughter to her husband, and attempts to climb in the car.
She fails, and her arms were dragged back by Seiya.
"Hands up" The police come out of the trees, spooking Seiya.
And the next thing she knew.
It was all black.