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Usagi and Mamoru sat across from each other in what was somewhat of a breakfast room in the palace attached to the kitchen. Both looked entirely uncomfortable with the situation. Usagi looked over to the clock and saw that she had less than an hour before she needed to be home.
"So..." she began, trying to get the conversation over with.
"So..." Mamoru mirrored. "What do you want to start with? Why you lied to me? Or what exactly just happened."
"Well... you know what happened, Mamoru-san," Usagi replied, reaching out to touch his hand, only to have him pull away. "The Ginzuishou appeared, and we got our memories of the Silver Millennium back. And I told you, I only lied to protect you."
"I can protect myself," Mamoru stated angrily. "I'm Tuxedo-freaking-Kamen, for Pete's sake!" Mamoru instantly realized his mistake.
"You're Tuxedo Kamen?" Usagi asked, growing angry as well. Then, she let out a small laugh. "And you thought you had the right to get angry at me?" she snapped before standing up and heading home.
Usagi sat in her room, going through the list of resumes from Africa that Venus had approved. Venus had been extremely critical and cut it down to one job per career for each country or fewer, but that was still a lot of work to go through, considering how many countries there were on the continent. Not to mention the trouble they were having to go through once some of the resumes had to be sorted into Sudan and South Sudan.
She had let out an audible sigh of relief when she finally got to Uganda, signaling that she only had a few more to go. She read over the resumes with great criticism, trying to distract herself from the tears rolling down her eyes. A knock on her door almost caused her to jump out of her skin. "Usagi?" her mother's voice asked through the door. "Are you okay?"
"I-I'm fine," Usagi lied, scrambling to hide the evidence. Ikuko, of course, being a concerned parent, opened the door to see Usagi fumbling around with files and resumes. As she got up to put some of the stuff away, she tripped over her own two feet and fell to the ground. Ikuko was at her aid in an instant, hugging her sobbing daughter, though she couldn't help but notice what some of the files said.
"Usagi, what's wrong?" Ikuko asked.
"I'm sorry, Mama," Usagi cried. "I'm so, so sorry."
Minutes later, Usagi found herself sitting in the living room in a chair, curled up in a ball, her parents and brother on the couch across from her. "There's something I need to tell you," Usagi whispered, her voice now much calmer with the tears gone.
"We figured out that much," Shingo said in a dull tone, clearly not wanting to be there.
"Shingo, be nice to your sister," Kenji ordered diplomatically.
"I know I should have told you this a long time ago, but I couldn't. In fact, they'll probably freak out that I'm telling you even now," Usagi began.
"Who's 'they', Usagi?" Ikuko asked. "Are you in trouble? Are you in a gang or something?"
"No, no," Usagi quickly refuted. "But... I do have a secret, something you can't tell anyone once I tell you." She waited for three nods before continuing. "I am Sailor Moon, the Moon Princess." She put a hand on her brooch and whispered the infamous words that would transform her into the sailor-suited soldier of love and justice. Upon her parents' and brother's mouths dropping, she gave a weak, "Ta da..."
After a rather uncomfortable pause, she went on to say, "If you have been watching the news, you'd have seen me with that glowing crystal in the park. That's the Ginzuishou, a crystal that, when used properly, will heal the world from evil."
And leave it to Kenji to immediately say... "What you kissing that man?"
"Papa, it was Mamoru-san, and... it's complicated," Usagi tried to explain. "You see, I knew him in my past life, and we were engaged, and when the Ginzuishou showed up, we both got our memories back, and it was just a bit overwhelming, and... and... and... I don't know what to do anymore."
"Oh, Usa, honey," Ikuko cooed, getting up to hug her daughter. "It'll all be okay; I promise."
"How do you know?" Usagi asked.
"Because I'm a mother," Ikuko told her. "Now, you know your father, brother and I are going to want to speak with your... ahem, friends, and Mamoru-san about all this, right?"
"I understand," Usagi replied. "Mako-chan and Minako-chan are living at the palace, so we could go now if you guys want to."
"Well, how are we gonna get in without all the press noticing?"Shingo asked.
"Oh, so that's how," Shingo muttered as they climbed up the ladder of one of the secret tunnels leading in and out of the palace. They wound up in the library, where the Book of Mercury was now missing, courtesy of Usagi needing to read it.
"Blueprints," Usagi called. "Find Mako-chan and Minako-chan."
"Sailor Jupiter located: training room. Sailor Venus located: Sailor Venus's bedroom," an animatronic voice called from nowhere.
Usagi bit her lip in thought. "Blueprints, locate Mamoru-san."
"Prince Endymion not located," the electronic voice reported back to her after a moment. "Did you mean Prince Endymion's guards? General Kunzite located: Sailor Venus's bedroom."
Usagi's eyes suddenly went wide, and her jaw dropped. "Uh... stay here," she told her family. "Feel free to look around the library."
With that, Usagi was off, rushing to the nearest elevator and heading up to Minako's room. She threw the orange door open and ran inside to see Minako and Kunzite lying on the bed. "Oh my God," Usagi breathed in shock. She ran up to Minako and pulled her away from Kunzite, Minako letting out a small yelp and grabbing the blanket to hide her naked body. "What the hell are you doing here?" Usagi snapped, glaring at Kunzite. Sure, Minako may have been Usagi's protector, but she'd be damned if she wasn't going to protect Minako in return.
"No, no, Usagi-chan, you don't understand," Minako tried to explain. "I kind of borrowed Ami-chan's computer and did a scan on him to see if there was any negative energy in him, and the amount was less than that of an average human!" Minako seemed to be giddy about the whole thing.
"You remember your past lives," Usagi realized, releasing Minako.
"Your highness, I am terribly sorry for the way you had to learn about Minako and me, but I assure you, I am not the Kunzite you were fighting. He was just a clone created by that witch, Beryl. I would never betray either of your trusts," Kunzite apologized, looking like he was about to stand up and bow, though thinking better of it.
Usagi sighed, realizing that she could sense very little negative energy from him as well. "My parents are in the library and want to speak with the senshi, and I guess you as well, about all that's going on with me. I'm going to go get Mako-chan; you two get changed and go downstairs."
"Yes, your highness," Minako and Kunzite replied in the manner they had been taught in the Silver Millennium.
After that, Usagi headed down the elevator to the training room, where she saw Makoto standing in front of a pole about six or seven feet high, staring at it.
"Hey, Mako-chan!" Usagi called out.
"Ahh!"
Zap!
Beeeoowwww.
Usagi and Makoto, now standing in darkness, winced slightly. Usagi now understood the purpose of the pole: Makoto had been trying to hit it with lightning, only to have Usagi surprise her and take out the electricity on the floor.
"Good job," Usagi congratulated. "Your powers are really developing quickly. However, my parents and brother are downstairs and want to speak with the senshi about... well... everything."
"Oh, you finally told your parents?" Makoto smiled. "I'm happy for you."
"Yeah, and the Shitennou are alive and good; Beryl cloned them and used the clones for evil," Usagi continued quickly before heading over to the stairs.
"WHAT?" Makoto yelled, chasing after her.
The three senshi and one Shitennou wound up downstairs within minutes, Makoto eying Kunzite warily.
"So what do you three want to know?" Minako asked, her leadership qualities showing off.
"Why is my daughter going around kissing some man who is supposed to be protecting her?" Kenji demanded.
"Well, sir, that would be because they are destined to be together," Minako explained simply. "I assure you that the other senshi and I will not allow them to get past kissing until after they are married."
"M-married?" Kenji demanded. "There is no way my daughter is getting married!"
"There is no way I am getting married to Mamoru-san," Usagi agreed. "He never told me, in all that time, that he was Tuxedo Kamen, and then he had the nerve to get mad at me for not telling him I'm Sailor Moon!"
"Just... tell us what all is going on," Ikuko cut in, trying to keep the area somewhat calm.
Usagi sighed. "Why don't we go somewhere a bit less intimidating?" she suggested.
With that, the group went up to the eleventh floor, where they wound up sitting around on sofas, trying to relax. "The day we got Luna is the day I became Sailor Moon," Usagi explained. "She told me that I was a soldier of love and justice. I was then given my henshin brooch and fought my first youma. Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Venus came along later, but Tuxedo Kamen appeared the night I did-"
"Wait, Luna told you that you're Sailor Moon?" Shingo asked, eyebrows raised.
"Uh..."
"As a matter of fact, I did," Luna said, jumping up onto the coffee table. "And I suggest you pick your jaws of the floor when in the presence of the princess."
"Luna was involved in my past life, too," Usagi explained, picking up Luna and holding her. "She was my mothe- the queen's- adviser. She also was a guardian and friend of mine. I'll spare you the details and say that we all died when I was seventeen."
"A massacre," Shingo picked up on the implication.
"Genocide," Usagi corrected, a sad look in her eyes. "The myth of the Moon Kingdom has a few gaps in it. The reason people believed it to be a myth was because it was a massacre, not genocide that brought down the Silver Millennium. With a massacre, there could still be life, but there is no life on the other planets to this day, so it was written off as a myth. Other than that, it is mostly true.
"You can find out most of what I have done as Sailor Moon through the news," Usagi finished. "Is there anything else you'd like to know?"
"Yeah," a voice from the entryway said, making everyone but Usagi turn around. She knew who it was without looking. "Is there any chance of you explaining why you lied to me?" Slowly, Usagi turned around to see none other than Chiba Mamoru himself.
Oh my! I'm excited! Why, you ask? Well, for starters, this fic only has one or two more chapters to go, and I'm starting at my new school on Monday! Yay! Obviously, I would not normally be this excited, but as I said earlier, I'm moving to a really small town, and all cities in my state get the same amount of money to spend on education. In small towns, there are only so many students and faculty you can spend the money on, so the rest of it goes into making these massive campuses with all this high-tech, state-of-the-art stuff. So yay! Hopefully I haven't bored you with my excited, back-to-school ranting.
P.S. Is anyone here on Polyvore?
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