Aaaaand happy Thursday guys! Only 20 more to go! Also, I all hope you're all strong on your R game because this is set in a specific episode, I'm not making this up. We got a moment of them in the rain and then they dashed off together looking for Chibs. This is me filling in the gaps.
Comforting Kisses
By now, the worry was a living, breathing, biting, acidic thing in her gut. Something primal that she couldn't put her finger on that made her skin flare and her breath come out strangled.
Everything else was starting to fall away.
The bright neon colors the rain reflected off of every surface around her. The splash of her rainboots as they dashed through the streets. The rumble of thunder she was usually afraid of and was now blending out by sheer adrenaline. The flap of Mamoru's umbrella as it fought against the wind in front of her. The warm feelings in her gut that had formed after she'd run into his chest and he had indulged her a second longer only to be crushed when he reminded her of the rejection with a simple step back that left her to get drenched in the rain.
The heartbreak that coiled in her whenever she saw him, a reminder of what she'd lost and would never get back because her Prince did not want her in this life.
It all blended away.
It was something visceral. Something screaming in her blood to find this strange child and protect her.
A child alone and scared in a thunderstorm was one thing. This child, triggered by fear, hunted by the enemy?
She had to find her. If her life depended on it. It was screaming in her veins and she didn't know why.
The way Mamoru ran he must have felt it too.
There was no one Usagi trusted more than him at the moment and it was the strangest sensation.
He had pushed her from his arms to be drenched by the rain and yet, when she'd told him what was wrong, he didn't leave. And after half an hour of panicked searching, when she gripped his hand in anxiety, he was gripping back, knuckles white.
Her throat felt raw from yelling Chibiusa's name. Mamoru had kept more of a level head, informing the policewoman in her little cabin on the side of the street, describing pink hair and little yellow rainboots while Usagi paced the pedestrian bridge overhead for a vantage point.
One hour later and they were no longer running, instead strategically searching every spot in Juuban they could think of that Chibiusa so much as knew, their eyes meeting in panic when she wasn't there.
One and a half hours later and she hadn't even realised he'd never let go of her hand anymore. Had sought it out himself whenever she'd been the one to let go.
She slowed to a stop on the next pedestrian bridge when a sob tore through her throat. It had been almost two hours. What if they'd got her? What if she…
She dimly registered that her legs were wet and realised she'd fallen to her knees into the puddles and the metal of the bridge, and her hair that was already matted against her in wet, pathetic strands was pooling on the wet ground, but she didn't care, she just let the sobs wreck through her.
The thing she noticed first was that the rain stopped hitting her from the front.
His umbrella lay discarded and open beside them and the rain hit him straight on when he lowered himself in front of her.
His knees locked around her and her green raincoat, and his chest smelled of rain and warmth as he crushed her to him. She sobbed with her mouth open and her snot against the pink fabric of his shirt. He tried to shush her, and the world got a little more silent as he shielded her off from the rain and took it all instead.
Thunder rumbled above them. A heartbeat later and the sky was illuminated in a flash of white.
She was calming down to the press of his lips against her temple, her wet hair, her forehead. She wasn't quite sure if he was aware he was doing it, but then he was brushing away the wet, matted hair of her fringe and kissing the damp skin underneath and he must have been.
She curled wet fingers into his damp shirt and held her breath.
"We'll find her. I promise," he croaked with his lips against the shell of her ear and his arms around her in an iron grip.
Then the sky illuminated once more, and it was not the lightning.
Usagi gasped and ripped away from his arms. Chibiusa's spike of energy!
He grabbed her hand and they were flying down the metal stairs and towards it, his umbrella lying upside down and pooling with water, left behind.
Obvious Setting Tag: R. Specifically, Episode 64.