Back in Time. A Love Story.
By oranjitenshi
Chapter 7 Closure
Disclaimer: I do not own sailor moon.
A/N: Hi minna! I can't believe this is the final chapter of my first story on fanfiction, I want to thank all of those who have read the story so far and have patient with through it all. I hadn't posted in such a long time because I had a mayor writer's block with this story, every time I sat to write some of it my mind went blank, I did the best I could taking that into consideration. Well I'll stop my rambling now... hope you enjoy the last chapter and remember review what you think about it.
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Usagi wasn't sure what to think. She had just relived the most important moments of her past life and now she didn't know how to react. It is true that she had wanted to know the whole story of her past, but the only thing that was going through her head was what Mamoru would think when he came back.
When they had decided to take their memories back from the machine her mother had created, she wasn't all that sure that Mamoru really wanted to know what had taken place so many years ago, actually she didn't even know if he remembered anything concrete from that time. At the end of it all, she was really nervous.
To help her mind to sort things out, she went to the palace gardens. She walked through many types of flowers and trees that she had never seen before but knew their names. After a few minutes of spacing she sat on a bench and waited for the others to return.
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Back in the chamber, one by one the girls started to wake. Queen Serenity was still there waiting until everyone had returned.
"Are you girls alright?" asked the queen.
"I think so, are you guys ok?" said Minako looking disoriented.
"I'm ok" said Ami.
"I'll be ok when my head stops pounding" answered Rei.
"I think I'll live" said Makoto.
"Hey, where did Usagi go?" asked Minako.
"She woke up a few minutes ago and went outside to clear her head" answered the queen.
"Is it safe for her to be outside alone?" asked Ami.
"There is not danger; no one has knowledge of the kingdom being rebuild" answered Queen Serenity. "I think you girls should go to your rooms and rest, Endymion has not awaken yet and I think he and Serenity have some things to sort out"
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Mamoru felt very light, the dream had ended and know he had a lot of thing going through his head; now some of his reaction, specially does he had around Usagi when they had first met, made sense. He teased her in the past just like in the present just to make up an image.
When he opened his eyes, all the girls had already left and only the queen and Luna remained. The cat was the first to notice that he was awake.
"Mamoru, how are you feeling?"
"Dizzy and with a headache. Where are Usagi and the girls?"
"The girls are in their rooms resting, Usagi is in the gardens thinking" said Luna
"I'm going to talk to her"
"Prince, remember that in a few hours you have to return to Earth, you have to be back before dawn" said Queen Serenity.
"I'll make sure that we come back on time your majesty, don't worry"
And with that Mamoru exited the room, going strait towards the royal gardens.
Queen Serenity looked at the young man that had just left; it was still incredible to her how he and her daughter had developed a love that strong. She remembered that the moment she saw them together playing in the halls, she knew that something important was going to happen in the future of those two. But she didn't imagine at the time the extend of that thought.
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Usagi had sat on the bench for a while now; she started to think that nobody was going to come out of the castle when she heard footsteps coming through the trail. She didn't need to turn around to see who it was. Their link had become very sensitive since she had awakened. She had also felt the moment he had opened his eyes, so now she knew that it was him that was standing behind her.
Mamoru didn't know where to start, there were a lot of thing that he had wanted to say to her but all of them were stuck in his throat. He was standing right behind the bench where she sat; she looked wonderful there sitting there surrounded by flowers. Everything was just starting to clear out, the moment she spoke.
"Is amazing how things tend to repeat themselves"
"What do you mean?"
"Like when we first met in this time, you were mean to me as Usagi but a dashing hero to sailor moon as Tuxedo Kamen"
"Yes… You know I'm sorry about the way I treated you as Mamoru at first. I just didn't know how to act around you"
"Yes I know, it's kind of funny that you did the same thing twice. But the generals were really mean"
"We were children and stupid, it was just that"
"I don't know how the girls will react to them knowing that their first loves were the generals that fought us when Beryl returned"
"It might take them some time to assimilate that, but I know they will get over everything"
"Yes you are right, besides the generals that we fought in this lifetime are just a small part of the true generals that protected us in the past. But I still believe that is not fair to them"
"It might not be fair, but not many things in life are. We just have to be grateful that we were offered a second chance" he said as he brought his hands to rest on her shoulders.
"I know and I'm really grateful for all the sacrifice my mother did for all of us. Besides the girls have new loves waiting for them on Earth, fate gave each and everyone one of them a new love to fill their hearts. They just have to find them" she answered as she put one of her hands on his. "By the way, where are the girls? When I got out of the chamber none of you were out yet"
"The girls were already out when I woke up; Queen Serenity told me that they had gone strait to bed once they woke up"
Usagi know wanted to ask the very first thing that had her heart on the edge. But she didn't know how to approach it, but it was something that she needed to know.
"Mamo-chan, do you regret gaining our memories back?"
"What makes you think that I would?"
"I don't know, meaby there was something in there that you wish you hadn't seen or remember… it was a high possibility that each of us would have seen something that we regretted"
At this comment, Mamoru stepped to the front of the bench to look straightly at Usagi, while he cupped her face in his hands.
"Usako… it's true that there were things that I wish would have been different, but I would never trade what happened for nothing."
Crystal clear tears came down from her eyes to land on his hands, she had been so afraid for nothing. She thought that at the moment Mamoru would have seen how she had been in the past he would look at her the same way, but now that he was in front of her she could see that deep ocean blue eyes looking directly at her and nothing inside of them had changed.
"Princess there is nothing that I would change from you; to me you are just perfect the way you are right now"
That was the only thing else she needed to through herself into his arms. They stayed like that for a few minutes even of to them had appeared to be ages. Afterwards they stood from the bench and started to walk back towards the castle to go to their rooms to try to rest for the rest of the few hours that they had before returning to their home.
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Queen Serenity watched the whole development that had been happening between her daughter and the prince. She was so proud of the way her daughter had come through of all those hardships and still managed to be her light and kind self. That was the main quality that attracted everyone to her in the past and even if she did not acknowledge it she still had that essence of that princess inside of her, just that know she had what the queen had wanted in the past… her own personality created by her own mind and not for what was proper to the rest of a court.
After a few moment of remembrance, she and Luna went to look for the girls, her daughter and Mamoru, to say their final goodbye.
"I hope that you can find some answers and some knowledge from all the experiences that you have regained, this is the last time I will be able to see you before the time for the new queen to take over" the queen said with a twinkle in her eyes that made both Mamoru and Usagi blush very deeply. "Know it is time for you to return to your lives, nobody will notice your absence from your home, everything will be just as you left it. I wish all the best for you my children, I hope you can find true happiness and all your dreams become reality"
With that the queen and her kingdom started to fade as what was left of her powers transported them back to the park they had left days ago. After a few moments on which everyone gathered themselves back, the girls said their farewells and started heading home. Usagi turned from the direction the girls were walking to turn her gaze towards her guarding home. The moon was still full and she could see a different light in it, she also could feel the gaze of her mother looking down at her making her believe that everything would be alright. She stopped her musings when she felt two strong arms snake around her waist.
"Come princess is time that I take you home. It is late and there are a lot of things that we have to do tomorrow"
"We do?"
"Yes we do, so come on milady I will lead you to your home"
"Why thank you kind sir I will be flattered to be escorted by you"
"Believe me your highness the pleasure is all mine"
They continued to play being back to the Silver Millennium until they arrived to Usagi's house. There as expected he delivered her with a kiss and a promise to a great surprise the next morning. A lot of things happened after that great adventure of discovery, but that my friends, is an entirely different story.
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A/N: Minna! Finally it is over, I finished the last chapter. I couldn't believe it when I finished. It had been so difficult to write this, I don't know if it had something to do with not wanting it to end or the lack of time to actually wrote, or the huge mind block that I had. I know it is not that long but I knew there was not much left to explain I just had to find a way to rap it up, now I managed to find the way to do it.
I have many projects in mind the biggest one being another sailor moon fic that I'm writing in unity with my dear cousin flowerspring, she is a fanfiction writer also, so know we decided to join forces to come up with a knew story.
Finally I want to thank to everyone that wrote reviews on this story it was one of the things that kept me going and to those of you that read this fic but didn't leave a review. I hope that some of you will continue to read my work.
See you in my next story, janne!.
Oranjitenshi.