Back in Time. A Love Story.
By oranjitenshi
Chapter 2 The morning after, explanations.
Disclaimer: Once again I express my sadness at not being the one that owns the Sailor Moon characters…(sighs)… it's Naoko who had the brilliant idea I just borrow her characters.
A/N: in this chapter the italics are used to refer the person on the other side of the phone when Usagi is making some calls.
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The sun came and with it the sound of a city coming to life. It was Saturday; so many children were either playing outside or sleeping in.
Surprisingly a blond girl had awoken up early, much earlier than she was used to. In her hands were three objects: a rose, an envelope and a chain. She was looking out the window contemplating what to do next with the information she had.
Usagi went down stairs to find her mother making breakfast.
"Morning mom"
"Usagi! Your awake, is there something wrong?"
"No, there is nothing wrong, I just have to do something very important this morning"
"Oh… ok well your eating your breakfast first right?"
"Yeah, I have to make a couple of calls before I go out, so I might as well eat breakfast too"
With that she picked up the phone in the living room and dialed Rei's phone number.
"Moshi-moshi this is Rei who's speaking'"
"Hi Rei-chan, it's me Usagi"
"Oh, hi Usagi-chan. You're awake at this hour on a Saturday, what you need to say must be very important ne?"
"I can hear the laughter in your voice Rei-chan so cut it out, and yeah it's very important. Look I need you to contact the rest of the girls and Artemis for an emergency meeting, I have to tell all of you something"
"Is it about another enemy?"
"No, for the firs time. I can't tell you what until I get there. Tell them to meet at the temple at half past eleven. I'll get there with Mamo-chan, this is something all of us need to hear"
"Alright you call Mamoru-san while I call the girls. See you later"
"See you later. Bye!"
"Bye"
Then Usagi turned off the phone and then on again to call her darling prince.
"Moshi-moshi"
"Morning Mamo-chan"
"Usako, good morning. How did you sleep?"
"I slept well, but I think you already knew that"
"Oh really, why would say that meatball head?" He said in a teasing manner.
"Because I found this beautiful rose next to me when I woke up and it was either you or a secret admirer that may want to give you a run for you money"
"And what do you think?"
"Well I think a handsome hero came to my room last night and left it there for me to know that he had been here when I woke up"
"Mmm… you get very close to reality, you are getting good at this"
After that comment Mamoru could hear Usagi giggling on the phone.
"That's because I know you to well Mamo-chan. By the way, I called you to thank you for the rose and to tell you that we are going to have an emergency meeting at the temple"
"You are very welcome and about this meeting, is Luna having some feeling or something?"
"No, I'm the one calling the meting"
"Why? Is there something wrong? Are you alright?"
"Mamo-chan calm down, I'm alright, everything is fine, but I need to tell you and the girls some things. Would you come and pick me up? The meeting will start at eleven thirty"
"Sure I'll pick you up at eleven, is that alright?"
"Yeah, that will be fine"
"Usagi, breakfast is ready!" Came Ikuko's voice from the kitchen.
"I have to go, mom's calling me. Talk to you later"
"Bye Usako, see you later"
"Bye"
Usagi hanged up the phone and walked to the kitchen to star breakfast. Afterwards, she was getting ready to go to the meeting with the girls. She didn't know hoe they would react to what her mother had told her.
Remembering the words the queen had said gave her new determination of what she needed to do.
She looked at the clock and saw it was almost time for Mamoru to get there, so she grabbed her coat and went down stairs o wait for him to arrive.
"Your going out?" Asked Ikuko who was sitting in the living room.
"Yes, I'm going to Rei's, she's having a reunion for the rest of the girls and me"
"Ok, I suppose that if you haven't left is because Mamoru-kun is picking you up?"
"Yeah he's picking me up as we haven't seen each other very much because of his… um…trip. His going to take me there"
"Well have a nice time. I f you and Mamoru-kun make other plans don't forget to call and try to not arrive so late ok?"
"Alright mom, I'll be home before eleven if Mamo-chan and I make some plans. Where's dad?"
"He went out with Sammy, they won't be back until lunch"
On that moment the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it, bye mom, see you later"
"Bye Usagi, take care"
As Usagi opened the door she saw her handsome prince standing there and some of the memories of the past few months returned giving her a sense of illness knowing he hadn't been on a trip as she had told her mother, he had been dead.
"Hi Usako, you alright?" Concern written all over his face.
"Hi Mamo-chan. Yeah I'm fine. Let's go"
They started walking to the car when Mamoru noticed the necklace she was wearing and it somehow was very familiar.
"That's a pretty necklace, is it new?"
"Actually no, but it also has to do with what I have to tell you"
That's when he noticed the coat of arms of the Silver Millennium, alas the Moon Kingdom, on it.
"That's the oat of arms of the Moon Family isn't it?"
"Yes, I didn't think you would recognize it"
"Well I saw it a lot in my dreams before I met you"
"I haven't seen it in a long time, It's really creepy"
"I don't understand, you said it wasn't new"
"It isn't, technically, you'll understand when I explain everything at the temple"
So they got into the car and started the ride to Rei's temple in comfortable silence, each enjoying each other's presence to calm their hearts and souls knowing that their other half sat there next to them, safe.
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When they got to the temple; Ami, Makoto and obviously Rei were there.
"Hello guys" Said the three girls.
"Hello girls" Responded Mamoru.
"Hi minna, where are Minako-chan and Artemis?"
"They haven't arrived yet. I'm going to prepare some food; Ami-chan, Mako-chan would you help me?"
"Yeah, sure" Said both girls.
And they left the room, leaving Usagi and Mamoru alone.
"Do you think they wanted us to have sometime alone?" Asked Usagi with a glint in her eyes.
"I don't know, but perhaps, as they had such a great excuse to leave the room" Said Mamoru with sarcasm on his voice.
Then Usagi let out a heavy sigh.
"Are you really alright?"
"Yeah, is just that what I'm going to tell you is very hard for me to assimilate yet"
"Is it that bad?"
"No, is actually the opposite, but I might as well tell you first. My mother came to see me last night"
"Your mother? You mean… Queen Serenity?"
"Yes, she came to me in my dreams"
"What did she say?"
"She said we should go to the ruins of the Moon Palace when it gets to its fullest next month so she can show us something"
"So that is how you got the necklace?"
"Yes, she left it with a letter explaining everything for Artemis and the girls"
"And what about Luna, does she know something? Where is she?"
"She's not here, she went with mother to help with something, but she didn't tell me what"
"How are you going to tell this to the girls?"
"Just how I told you and wait to see what their reactions are I guess, then I'll give Artemis the letter and show him the emblem on the necklace"
"And didn't Queen Serenity tell you anything about why she wanted us to go there?"
"No she just said that she wanted to show us something, nothing more"
After a few more minutes they heard voices coming to the room.
"It's about time you showed up, even Usagi-chan is already here" Said Rei.
"It's not my fault a certain white cat didn't want to hurry up" Answered Minako.
"Ok girls calm down lets enter the room please" Said Ami entering the room Usagi and Mamoru where sitting in.
"Thank you all for coming on such a short notice, but I need to give you all a message that is very important" Usagi started saying once everyone had sat down.
"What is it Usagi-chan? And where is Luna? I thought she was coming with you"
"Well Artemis what I'm going to tell you will explain Luna's absence"
Then she told every part of her dream, everything her mother had said. After ten minutes of explaining everything, the scouts didn't know what to say, at the beginning they thought it could be a trap, but after Usagi handed the letter and showed the necklace to Artemis it became very clear that it wasn't anything like that, so they were in shock at the moment.
"So I guess we'll have to start preparing for the next full moon, didn't Queen Serenity say anything about how long are we will be gone?" asked Artemis.
"No, she didn't say. But I don't think it will be more than a couple of days"
"But what about our families, won't they notice that we are gone?" asked Ami, talking for the first time since she had entered the room.
"I don't know about that either, she didn't give that much information about all of this, I guess we'll have to wait to ask her when we get there, that is your willing to go"
"You can count me in" Said Minako immediately afterwards.
"Me too" Said Ami, shortly after Minako.
"I'm going too" said Makoto.
"Well Rei, what do you say?" Asked Usagi.
"Of course I'll be going too" She answered.
"Well then it's settled, we'll have another meeting the day before the travel to discuss how we are going to do it. For now I think this meeting id over" said Artemis going out the door.
One bye one the girls started to go out the door, still thinking of what was going to happen in a month's time.
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Later that afternoon Usagi and Mamoru where at his apartment catching up on things that had happened while he was gone until Mamoru received a phone call from Andrew. In the meantime, Usagi walked to the balcony where she watched the sunset. She had a lot of questions and very little answers.
"You should stop worrying so much; trust your mother, she would never put you in danger" said Mamoru standing on the entrance of the balcony.
"I know but it worries me, what if it's got to do with another evil"
"I don't think so, but something I know is you have to relax. Your mother wouldn't want you to be worrying about this or she would have been more direct with things, think of it as something good and not bad" Mamoru told her while warping his arms around her waist from behind.
"I guess you are right Mamo-chan, I should see the good things may come out of this"
"That right Usako; now dinner is ready, lets go eat before it gets cold"
After that day everything seem to pass very slowly. Finally, days became weeks and they formed a month, which lead to the most awaiting travel day.
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A/N: Hello minna! Well, there is chapter 2, I hope you like it. I want to thank everyone who reviewed it really gives me encouragement to continue writing the story.
I have already started chapter 3, but I don't know when I'll have it done, I hope it will be done by Wednesday or before, I'll do the best I can.
See you later, ;)
Oranjitenshi.