Usagi was a "normal teenage girl" for about five seconds after she woke up the next day. She woke up early again, because she actually liked having time to eat breakfast. She stood up and stretched and was greeted by her pet talking cat. Yep, normal day over.
"You are up early again." Luna grumbled.
"Yep." Usagi wasn't going to let Luna's bad mood ruin her good one.
"Usagi don't you think it's a little too soon to be with Seiya. You and Mamo just had a big fight and there is still a chance you could be back together. " Usagi had opened her mouth to reply but Luna continued. "Plus you are Sailor Moon and there's an enemy on its way here, you should be focused on your duty to the planet Earth and not on boyfriends, parties, and shopping." Luna said the last words like they tasted bad.
"But you think I should use my efforts to patch things up with Mamo?"
"That is for Chibbiusa. You need to still think of her as being possible, but only if you're with Mamo."
"You don't think I do? You think I just forgot her? Your think I'm just like 'Oh well Mamo's dumped me and Chibbiusa is gone, Oh look a shiny party'? You don't know me at all Luna, if that's what you think. I'm only going on because Earth needs me, but let me ask you this. What is the purpose of me saving Humanity if I can't enjoy being human? You are trying to remind me of my responsibilities to fight, but Queen Serenity died to give her daughter and the scouts a chance to live without only fighting."
"Yes and it saddens me that her wish didn't come true, but she couldn't have foreseen the enemies that you would have to face. That is why fate has made you and the scouts be reborn here at this time, to save humanity. You are Sailor Moon, you are not destined to be like every human you save."
"No! I'm Usagi and I'm going to school." Usagi stormed out of the room and then outside where she ran into Seiya.
"Great, you want to argue with me too?" She remembered that he had wanted to have a talk with her, but right now was not the best time. But if he wanted a fight, she was ready for one.
He looked a little shocked at her appearance. "Actually, I was just going to walk with you to school. Unless you want to be alone."
She didn't want to be alone, and she didn't want to fight, she wanted to cry. She tried to hold back the tears, and just started walking which Seiya must have took as an invitation to join her because he began walking with her. He placed a hand on her shoulder, and that was it for her resolve. She cried, she wasn't even sure why she was crying, but she was crying. Seiya pulled her into his arms.
"What's wrong?" Seiya asked gently.
After a minute of crying, she replied. "I had a fight with Luna. She thinks I'm worrying about dating, parties, and shopping, but not saving the world. She also thinks I'm giving up on Mamo and Chibbiusa."
"Hey, it's ok. I don't know what Luna was thinking, but she's probably just worried. She doesn't want you to let your guard down, especially if…" Seiya didn't continue.
"If?"
"If you could die from fighting this enemy." Seiya all but whispered.
Usagi didn't know what to say. She knew Seiya wanted to talk about it, but she didn't want to focus on that fact.
"Seiya that is just a fact of who I am. A fact that I had to come to terms with, and even though it's always a possibility that I might die from using the Crystal, I don't focus on it. In the end, I will always choose saving the world over my own life."
"But why didn't you tell me? We have been spending a lot of time together, and you could have told me. You weren't even going to tell us yesterday until Setsuma said you should." Seiya had stopped walking and so had Usagi.
"Of course I wasn't going to tell you! I don't want people focusing on that. People treat you differently if you're going to die. If people start treating me differently, then I will forever be reminded that I might die. And I said might, because I don't know. I want to be a normal girl occasionally, I want to eat sweets, go shopping, and date who ever I want. But I can't be normal ever if all of the people I care about are acting straingely because I might die in the next battle. The Inner Scouts were the only ones that knew, and they just leave it be, and everyone else, while upset, seamed to understand that it just comes with being Sailor Moon and Princess Serenity. Only someone of the Moon Kingdom can correctly operate this Crystal, and that is only me." Usagi was shouting and breathing heavy, luckily no one was around.
"You are Usagi, not Princess Serenity. And I'm sorry if I can't be like the others and just be OK with the fact that you might die soon." Seiya was quiet and sad sounding. Usagi thought it was funny that he was using the same argument that she had just used on Luna.
"Why?" Usagi had calmed down, and was speaking in a normal, maybe a little horse, voice. "Why can't you just accept the fact that it might be my destiny to die saving the world?"
"Because I believe we have a destiny together." Seiya's eyes were locked on Usagi's and the look in them was intense.
"Usagi!" A familiar voice called out from further down the street. Usagi turned and saw Motoki.
"Motoki-oniisan! What are you doing here?" Usagi was still dazed by what Seiya had just said and hadn't realized they were near the arcade. She looked up and saw the building. "Never mind." She noticed he was staring behind her, she looked and saw Seiya was just standing there. "Oh Motoki this is…" he interrupted her.
"Seiya Kou, part of the Three Lights?" Motoki sounded excited. Usagi glanced back at Seiya and he raised his eyebrow.
"Yes. Seiya this is Motoki-oniisan. A friend of mine." Usagi said awkwardly. He was obviously a fan. Seiya walked over and shook his hand and it looked as if Motoki was going to die. She then had a brilliant plan. "Motoki-oniisan, Seiya and I and a few friends will be modeling some of Naru's mother's jewelry, and we are a guy short. Do you want to come along? We are meeting up tomorrow to get clothes for it, and the even is next Saturday night."
"Gee Usagi I don't know. You know I normally work Saturdays. Sorry."
"Did I mention that Yaten and Taiki will be there too?"
"Fr..From the Three Lights? All of them will be there. Your whole band will be there?" The last part he directed to Seiya.
"Yep we are all going to be escorts for the lovely models." Seiya said, following Usagi's lead.
"Then I will find someone to cover my shifts, and I'll see you guys tomorrow." He ran off, Usagi guessed to find someone to cover his shifts. They walked the rest of the way to school in silence. Usagi, for one, was too nervous to bring up what they had been talking about.
During lunch, Usagi got another day alone with Naru. She told Naru everything that had happened. Leaving out the fact that she might be dying in the next battle, which was actually kind of hard to do.
"Oh my goodness, Usagi! It sounds like Seiya has some major feelings for you. What are you going to do?" Naru asked as she clung to her half eaten shrimp, Umino's specialty, with her chop sticks.
"I don't know." Usagi whined.
"Well if I was you, I would just try out being more with him and see where it goes. We are in high school, dating doesn't mean marriage."
"But what about Mamo?"
"Well when he come back, and sees you with another guy you will have your answer about whether he still loves you." Naru said simply.
"How do you mean?"
"If he fights for you, then he loves you. If he doesn't care, then he doesn't love you."
"I guess so. Yes, I will give this thing with Seiya a chance."
"Good. So has he asked you out?"
"Well, no. Not really. I don't know."
"Usagi, you don't know much for someone who is so lucky with men." Naru and Usagi laughed the rest of the day about Usagi's "man luck". Usagi decided she would wait until he officially asks her out then she would say yes, and until then she would act ask normally as she could.
