Here Comes The Rain (SM)

Sequel to "Rainy days symbolizes what?"

By : Holy Reimaund HCK

Chapter 2

Disclaimer : here I go again. Anyway so far so good cause no one have come up and sued me.

I'm glad though. anyway just so you know (and so Naoko Takeuchi-sensei won't

file a case against me) Sailor Moon is not mine, it is owned by Naoko-sensei,

Kodansha and Toie. Though the story plot and words here is mine and that is all I

owned (I don't even owned a beautiful mansion in Grosse Pointe or in Beverly

Hills, as if anyone cares) and yadda yadda yadda. Does anyone really want me to

continue? Okay… blah blah…. Okay, just kidding… now here's the four words

everyone loves….

On with the story…

-Recap-

Rain Dela Luna is pleased with herself. Her new office is beautiful. Her life is perfect. And all of her plans are slowly and one by one coming true. This is a good start…

Rain Dela Luna smiled, something she had missed doing. She never smiled for almost a decade now. She stalked slowly from her office chair she vacated to the glass window upon left-most part of her office/lounge. Her eyes, dark and empty shade of blue, glazed over the sight outside the window. Sighing, she pressed cold hand to a colder window glass.

It is raining once again…

But Rain and Storms doesn't bother her as much as it had bothered her years before. She had come into conclusion that rain was designed not to give her pain but it is most likely her confidante. Confidante that she never had before. Well she always have her best friend of course. Besides that, she had no one. Friends, family, love, it's all a mirage. She wants to laugh out loud. Did she actually have been that fool? That ditz, airhead and idiot to believe in the existence of such things? Indeed it is very funny. And with that said she finally knows the answer to what rainy days symbolizes.

She sighed instead. She cleared her mind and walk up to her table to start her work. She needed to be productive. She can't let 'it' overcome. Not now, not ever. Besides, how will her plan come into reality if she chicken out now.

KNOCK KNOCK

She gaze at her door where the sound emitted from. She sighed and told whomever the person at the door to come in. At least she'll have another distraction. She can put her mind to work and away personal issues she's dealing with. She smiled, a smile that didn't even reach the eyes, to the person who just came in.

The tall, skinny, brunette came up to her and smiled. She knew that the girl knows her too well. Why wouldn't she, she's the only confidante and friend she have. For the past years this girl had served as the pillar of her existence. Without her, she may have been lost forever. And she also happens to be her boss.

"Reminiscing? Really Rain-chan, I told you to not mix personal life and business together" commented at her friend. She came up to sit at the chair in front of her desk. She smirked. Damn the girl, she knew her too well. She may even know her more than she knows herself.

"No Na-chan, just thinking that I finally know what rainy days symbolizes…" she tilted her head and eyed her companion. She knows her too well too because as she expected, the furrowed and perfectly arched eyebrow made itself known. She chuckled.

"Really Na-chan, why I always wanted to know what rain means in my life. I racked my brain for the past decade only to find out its right before my eyes and I was so foolish to not see it." If it is impossible, Na-chan's eyebrow became even more arched than it already is. "Rain-chan why do you always have to talk in riddles? You know I hate riddles!" Na-chan moaned at her friend. She eyed her friend with an admiration gleaming in her eyes. Five years ago she almost…

She couldn't even finish the thought. She had surpassed a very painful ordeal that any girl her age then had the same ordeal would have already given up on life then and there. But this girl is different. She had not only survived but also made herself a name in the business world. If you ask her that's quite respectable for in spite of what her friend had gone through, her spirit and will to live and make herself better didn't left her soul. She didn't sulk around feeling sorry for herself, she didn't commit suicide as most weakling do. She proved herself she can be stronger than anyone would know and she succeeded in doing so.

"Look who's reminiscing now Mrs. Ryoji" Rain said startling her friend, chuckling at her friend's startled face. Naru eyed her friend as she chuckles. She's doing that and maybe she'll soon learn how to laugh, really laugh, and smile, really smile, once again. Yes she did prove her strong personality but it also have a price for after it, her warm smile and hearty laugh had died.

"Usa-chan, I'm not even married to him yet!" Naru whined and shake her head, only to shake it more violently as she realized what she called her. She turned her head to look at her friend and seeing her bleak expression, she knew she hit a sore spot. A sore spot even through years of proving she's strong. As ironic as it might seem but Naru somehow likes seeing her side of this. Because this side of her friend showed that she still have the human side of herself and did not completely died after she became what she is now.

"Rain-chan, I'm sorry. I forgot I…" Naru started. Only to have her say…

"What do you want to talk about Ms. Osaka? Must be important since you came all the way from 68 floor to my office her. Is it about the release of Three Lights' new CD? Don't worry about it. I made sure that everything will go smoothly. I even check the posters and layout of their CD covers. Everything is perfectly fine."

So that's the way it goes now. No more personal life talk they always shared since they were kids. No more secret sharing and feelings being expressed. Now when they talk, only her personal life or their business is the topic. No longer will she be human enough again to talk about how she feels or is she ok. Gone is the friend she knows.

Mamoru Chiba is waiting at the impeccably clean lobby of some hospital or institution. He's already waiting for half an hour and they haven't let him see her yet. Like he's not use to this slow service the hospital is offering. He's always here once a week and yet he's not yet used to this simple little fact. He'll never get used to it, he guessed, just like how he'll never get used to not having Usagi in his life.

He shook his head. He shouldn't be doing this anymore. He need to move on. Find new love and life. Usagi is not the only girl in the world anyway, there's plenty of women who's willing to be with him if he just say the word. But no matter how much he says it to himself, no matter how much he tried to believe it, in the end he doesn't believe it. Oh yes there's a lot of women out there that can replace Usagi, no doubt about that, but how can someone replace his soulmate? And the fact that he had forsaken her for so long didn't help him any bit. The knowledge that Usagi had been out there in the same rainy nights he spent comfortably in his apartment, that she had been badly tortured before she died…

She died…

That fact alone is enough to make him crumble in agony and guilt. He gave up, giving a frustrated loud moan which earned him dirty glances from the nurses and the nurse's station. He sat at the lounge massaging his forehead. He could be in places now but he chose to be here and sulk. He could have been larger than life. But here he is just a plain old illustrator artist for CD, DVD Cover and Poster designs of one of the countries credible record label.

So this is the way his life will always be. Forever haunted by his faults and no matter how he tried to repent and make up for it, he'll never be forgiven. Life is cruel. Life is indeed very cruel. He look up as a wheelchair carrying the woman she had come here for headed his direction. Finally after forty five minutes of waiting, he can see her again. The only link he had left with Usagi.

Usagi's mother.

He don't know if she really is the last link he have on Usagi considering she have a lot of contribution of bringing pain to her when she is still alive. But even through it, she's still Usagi's mother. And she wouldn't be in the hospital if Usagi had been alright. The knowledge of her daughter raped and murdered had sent her here. In this prison she'll be in for life.

"Ohayo Tsukino-san, remember me? I was here last week. I'm your daughter's boyfriend. Chiba Mamoru." He started for he knows she'll not recognize him again. Seeing her like this is painful. But they both have no confidante left.

"Usagi… where's my daughter? Usagi is that you? Oh why did you leave. Come here baby. Let's play and run… oh please! Oh please!" Ikuko rambled on as she reached out to Mamoru, thinking he was his daughter. Mamoru shook his head as one tear escaped his eyes. She had been like this since five years ago when she found out about what happened to Usagi. Her husband commited suicide, her son had been lost to who knows where, carrying all the money and jewels the family posses, and she's left here. In some mental institution being cured with her mental illness with no success. Only Mamoru now cares for her. But seeing her like this and comparing to how she was before all of this, it is really devastating, and he can't be that strong all the time.

He hugged her to him, pouring all the emotions of agony, guilt and loss. The unfairness of it all is slowly taking its toll on him, making him want to succumb to the pain.

Rei Hino walk mindlessly in the streets of Tokyo. A lot of things is occupying her mind. But only one subject to all that, Usagi. She closed her eyes. Where is here spiritual power when she need it? When she need it to sense if Usagi is still alive or not. She's get dizzy already. She need to go back to shrine to have some rest at least

Today she rounded up once again the streets of Tokyo in vain search of Usagi, taking with her a photograph, she asked everyone she meet if they know where she is. She even visited numerous local police stations, but it was fruitless. And now she gave up for this day, ready to just go back home, soak in a hut tub, sleep and somehow take her mind off Usagi if just for once.

She contacted the others to if they have any progress in their search. But like her, they have no progress at all. 'Oh Kami-sama' she thought 'please give us a sign if we should continue searching for her. Please give us a sign if she is still alive' Rei thought, not minding the countless droplets of rain assaulting her. It had been raining for almost three hours and a half and she had been outside all the time yet her body had not registered it. Only now did she actually notice the rain. Now she'll catch a cold.

She runs as fast as she could back to Hikawa shrine. It should be no problem considering she somewhere near it. But the mist, fog and rain itself is making it impossible for her to make it there in a record of time. She then rounded a corner that will make her be in less than 10 minutes away from the temple, only to have bump her head into someone in her direction.

'Damn, that hurt.' She thought as she scrambled to her feet and wipe away the mud that had gotten into her at the processing of bumping into this 'someone'. She looked up at the one she bumped into, ready to have her word with whomever it is.

'Kami-sama!'

She thought as her mind registered the face of the girl she bump into. The face she last saw five years ago. The face that she and three of her friends have been dying to look for. She spent a day in cold and rain for her and now here she is.

"Usagi-chan!"

hi, I ain't that bad right? Okay, before you go I have to say something to someone

to Aleric-chan

hope some of you questions is answered by this chapter. And I'll try to answer your remaining questions as I upload the following chapter in my story

to Emmastarz-chan

sorry to say that I cannot email you yet(that means for now) cause I have a major problem with my email account. Until I settled it I guess I cannot email anyone. I'm sorry though please continue reading my stories

okay that's it! Wait up for chapter three okay! Until then

signing off… for now

HCK Holy Reimaund