The Return Of Tenshi
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Ch19
"What do mean that odango's memories were erased?" Seiya shouted, staring ath te white cat in disbelief.
"Is that even possible?" Yaten asked, glancing at Taiki, who shrugged his shoulders.
"Who cares, odango just got her memories erased," eiya shouted at the white haired senshi.
Taiki sighed deeply and just leaned back on the seat he was sitting. "Stay calm, Seiya. If you start to lose your head, then we'll never get anything done," he said.
"How the hell can you stay calm at a time like this?" Seiya yelled, pointing at his brother. "And you…" he pointed at Artemis, "how can you let this happen? You were suppose to watch over her."
"She went to that guy with her own free will and ordered us to stay with Shingo," Artemis said, "What else could we do when she commanded us?"
"Oh, I don't know…maybe, DISREGARD IT!" the raven haired singer shouted.
"She is my princess, there's no way I'll disobey her order like that," Artemis argued.
As the two continued to argue, Yaten and Taiki just stared at each and sighed. "Artemis, you said that Usagi-chan had lost her memories before but Luna restored them back, right?" Taiki said.
Artemis nodded his head. "Yes, it was after the battle with Queen Beryl. Luna brought her memories back with the mind meld."
"And you guys think it'll work if you do it again?" Yaten asked.
"But Shingo-kun said that it'll be close to impossible," Artemis said, looking down, "The man who Usagi went with is the leader of her family and ordered her memories to be erased. After all these years of being separated, there's just no way Akito would ever allow her to get away long enough to perform the mind meld."
"First things first, we're going to have to find where Usagi-chan is kept before we can do anything. Try to look around and see if you can find the blueprints of the place, where she is, and if there's ever a time when they're not together," Taiki said, "And during the time they're separated, we'll strike."
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The sunlight came in from the window and landed on Usagi's face, forcing her to wake up. She opened her eyes and slowly lifted her head up. Her dull blue eyes observed her room and began to wonder what happened. "This…is my room," she whispered softly. Her mind then came to the tall man with tears coming down his cheeks. "Who was he? He looked familiar."
As she pondered about it, she heard the door slide open and looked up. Standing in the doorway was Akito, who was looking quite pleased. "Akito…san," Usagi whispered.
Akito walked over to the futon and sat down beside her. "How are you feeling, Usa-chan?" he asked, kissing her forehead. He glanced at her face and frowned when he saw the troubled and tired look on her face. "What's wrong," he asked, "You know you can tell me anything."
"Last night, there was a man sitting right here…he was crying," Usagi whispered, "I don't know why, but when I saw his tears, it started to hurt over here." She clutched the spot over her heart. Turning to him, Usagi clung to his sleeve and stared up at him with a sad look on her face. "Who was her, Akito-san? Do I know him? Why was he crying when I asked for his name?"
Akito was appeared to be calm, but deep inside he was seething. Even though her memories of others were erased, she's still concerned about them. When he saw that she was about to cry, he wrapped his arms around her and pulled Usagi close to his chest. "Don't worry about it," he whispered into her hair, "He's nobody you should be concerned about. All you ever need is me just as you're the only one I need."
"Why do I feel so empty inside?" she asked softly, "Like there's a lot more to my life."
"You're probably just tired," Akito answered. He lifted her up in a bridal style and carried her out the room. "Come, you must be starving. I'll have the cooks make your favorite."
Usagi nodded silently and just kept clutching onto Akito. She doesn't understand much of her life. She knew that she was a member of the zodiac, not an official member like the cat, but a treasured one nonetheless. The only member she knows is Akito since she was the god's favorite and all the others were blanks, she could see blurry images of them, but that was about it. Her family was also a blank. Who were her parents? Were they still alive or is she an orphan? Did they abandon her, as she had heard stories of the parents of those were cursed do, or was she loved and treasured? Did she have any friends outside of the main house or was Akito her only companion? So many questions, questions she feels that Akito will never answer, no matter how much he cherishes her.
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After breakfast, Usagi asked if she could take a walk through the gardens. Thinking nothing of it, Akito had allowed her only to tell her to come back before lunch and not to leave the area. Usagi nodded her head and walked out to the garden Akito had given to her and allowed her to grow. There had been so many memories where she felt happy and enjoyed spending times there. The garden wasn't too big but it wasn't too small either, with various flowers and trees living there.
Unconsciously, she wandered through the path and stopped in front of a bush. Her eyes widened as she stared at the red roses. Roses were her favorite flowers, especially red ones, so why does she feel like her heart's about to break as she stared at them? She dropped to her knees as she felt tears come to her eyes.
Red roses symbolizes love, but why does the word 'protect'(1) come to mind?
Why does it feel like her heart is not just broken in half but shattered along with her dreams?
She brought her hands to her face and began to cry.
Why does she feel so alone?
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Yuki and Kyo were walking back home after school by themselves since Tohru had work. It was no surprised that Usagi never showed up, but what really shocked them was that Taiki, Seiya, and Yaten had also never showed up and any memory of their and Usagi's arrivals were wiped from their schoolmates' minds. At first they thought that it was Hatori, but that idea was destroyed since the doctor stayed at Shigure's all night, only to arrive back to the main house early morning. So what caused the memory lost joined the rest of the mysterious along with the zodiacs.
They entered the house to see three sets of shoes they had never seen, meaning that they had guests. Hurrying through, they saw that the three singers were sitting in the dining room with Shingo and papers were scattered all over the table. ChibiChibi was sitting on Seiya's shoulders, staring at the papers in his hands.
"What the hell is going on here?" Kyo shouted, staring at the singers.
"We're trying to come up with a plan on how to get close to Usagi-chan while she's in the main house," Taiki said. He picked up a piece of paper and stared at it. Showing it to the others, he said, "This appears to be the bedroom of Akito-san."
Shinog took the paper and stared at it. "Onee-chan's room isn't too far away from his since Akito-san doesn't like her being too far away."
Yuki took the paper and gasped. "This is the blueprint for the main house." He stared at the singers in suspicion. "How did you get it?" he demanded to know.
"Internet," Yaten replied sarcastically.
Kyo rolled his eyes and said, "I highly doubt you can get something that confidential form the internet unless you hacked into a…" He stared at the group in front of him as he saw them look at each other sheepishly. "Don't tell me you guys actually hacked. As much as that's amazing, it's illegal."
"How do we tell them that we weren't the ones hacking, but Luna and Artemis?" those four wondered quietly.
"Well as long as they don't arrested, I guess it's all right," Shigure said, taking the paper from Yuki, "But I am curious as to why you have the blueprints of the main house?"
"We just wanted to know where onee-chan will be placed so we could sneak in to see her," Shingo said, "I don't care what Akito-san said, even if he erased her memories, she's still my onee-chan. He has no right to tear us apart like that! We're all we have of each other."
"I swear the Sohma family sure is a strange one. Despite your traditions of tearing families apart to abandoning your own children, the entire family should just be arrested for mental disturbances of the children," Yaten said, shrugging his shoulders, "I mean, all this because of a stupid curse."
The three cursed men all froze and stared at Yaten in shock. "What did you say?" Kyo said.
Shingo stared at them and asked, "How did you know about the cruse?"
"Those two were doing a little research and told us," Seiya said. Those two meaning Luna and Artemis. "Of course, nothing is strange to us considering everything we had seen. Not to mention, we saw odango with wings before."
"Onee-chan's curse is having wings," Shingo said.
"You mean, it's not because of her heritage?" Seiya asked, "From what I heard, her ancestors had wings as well." He hummed slightly and said, "Maybe it's because of her ancestors that she's been born with them as a curse."
Taiki looked up to see the three still staring at them in mistrust. "Don't worry, we won't tell anyone about your secret. Every family has a secret they can't tell, so do we. All we want is information that can help us get to Usagi-chan."
"Why are you trying so hard to help Sagi?" Kyo asked, "It's one thing if you're friends but it's another thing when you're risking your own life."
Taiki's purple eyes stared at Kyo as he smiled gently. "If Usagi-chan is willing to sacrifice her own safety and life for her friends, then why can't we do the same?" he asked. Reaching into his pocket, he fingered his henshin pen. "She has done so much for us all ready, we owe her our lives." With a strong sense of sincerity in his eyes, Kyo found himself speechless.
"She has already suffered through so much," Seiya said, "I want nothing more htan her to live the rest of her life happy. Her memories are what makes her who she is just as our memories help shape our lives and personality. If her memories are wiped out, then you can't imagine the damage it has done to her soul." His blue eyes glared at them.
Shigure kept quiet and couldn't help but fell that they're right. Everyone who has their memories erased only had small pieces wiped out, but Usagi had everything, here family, her friends, her whole life was taken away form her. What will this new usagi be like? Will she be just like before? Or will she be a shadow of what she once was?
(1) Mamoru's name actually means protect and since he uses red roses as his calling card, I figured that when Usagi sees the roses, she'll think of the meaning of his name rather than what the rose actually symbolizes.
AN: Chapter 19 is complete. /Jumps for joy/ I had written down this chapter but was never able to find time to type it up. I hope you all like this chapter and I want to thank everyone for their patience.
Next chapter, we'll see if Luna's Mind Meld works or not and whether or not Usagi'll get her memories back. I would tell you, but that just spoils the fun in guessing. Send your reviews on if you think Usagi will get her memories or not.