I am an avid Supporter of Yamashita Tomohisa aka YamaPi! Because he just rocks my socks! Anyways you would have to listen to the songs on his new solo album to understand the inspiration that formed this chapter. ^_^ Sorry it's taken so long to add this new chapter, so many things have happened, I just hope you all enjoy it!
As for the songs, you'd have to listen to them in the following order. After the Rain, Loveless, Moonlight, Run From You, Me, DanceJam and finally Crush on you. Remember the artist is my favorite Japanese Actor/Singer/Dancer Yamashita Tomohisa!
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"What's wrong with her?" Rei asked leaning over to whisper to Minako who seemed as confused the Usagi's dazed expression as Rei. Ever since early in the morning when they came to get Usagi they noticed she seemed to be up on some cloud and was having difficulty climbing down. They had picked her up early, around the time Motoki had to go to work, where he also proceeded to tell them something was off about Usagi. Motoki suggested shock but by the sudden flustered and angered faces Usagi made every so often, Rei doubted it had anything with ChibiUsa's death.
"Maybe she has indigestion." Minako's response earned her a slap on the back of the head. She winced in pain and gave Rei a dirty look, grumbling to herself as she gently rubbed her now sore head. Why was Rei so damn violent? It was like every word that left her mouth had Rei assaulting her in many ways, at some point she would end up with some kind of head or bodily trauma. Makoto walked into the Arcade just as Minako scooted further away from the violent priestess.
Makoto entered, followed by Ami whose face was hidden behind the tower of book she carried in. Makoto had a silly grin on her face, as if saying she was enjoying watching Ami struggle and possibly bulling her about how many book one small blue haired girl could carry, although they knew she was a scout, which meant she was strong but still you couldn't deny Makoto her rights to bully. When Ami reached their table she dropped the books which gave out a loud thud, echoing throughout the somewhat empty Arcade but still earning looks from the people around them, all except for Usagi who was still sailing around on her random cloud…which wasn't cloud nine…it was definitely like cloud twenty or higher.
Minako stared at the books; she expected to see a bunch of medical books but found random geographical and archeological books. Along with a magazine that highlighted some news about…well the group NewS, something about a DVD of their winter concert coming out which had Minako reaching out just to read the juicy gossip. Rei rolled her eyes and turned to Ami.
"What Ami, did you check out the whole Library? Geesh, why do you need a book on underground cities?" She opened the book and blinked several times appalled. "What the hell is Agartha!?" she exclaimed as Ami snatched the book from her. Makoto sat with the same confused expression as Rei.
"As if people didn't already have problems with Pangea, now there's Agartha…" she mumbled setting her one book down on the table, she turned to Usagi and cocked her head to the side watching her a moment then turned to Rei who put her hands up.
"Don't look at me, I don't know a thing!" Makoto shook her head a bit, they were still pretty worried about Usagi but she seemed to be getting better slowly. Ami finally sat down, dropping a folder in front of Usagi which had her snapping out her daze and looking down. She cocked her head to the side and read the words "Monthly Statement" confused she looked up to Ami.
"What's this?" Her voice had Minako peeking out from above the magazine, the other girls just turned to Usagi who seemed confused with the vanilla folder. Ami opened a book and spoke turning to Usagi a little worried with what she was about to say, choosing her words carefully.
"It's your Company's statement." She said slowly, watched Usagi's already confused stare, get worse. "About two years ago you inherited all of your late uncle's assets and riches…which is why you can afford like everything…" Usagi blinked and opened the folder. When she did everything fell into place with her. She remembered everything about what happened to her uncle, to the inheritance of his grand International Engineering company that rivaled Sony in lead innovating electronics. She remembered switching Majors from Design to Business almost immediately...she had been pretty dedicated and actually liked the work.
"I remember" She said softly, looking through the papers as she had done many times before and instantly had a horrified somewhat angered face. "WHY HAVE SALES DROPPED!! I leave for like three months and these Idiots can't do anything!" She barked jumping off her seat, she reached for the phone in her pocket and dialed a number that was etched into the memory she had just regained. "Alejandro! It's Tsukino-San, yes I'm okay! Come pick me up this instant, I'm at the Crown Arcade in mid Juubian district and make it fast! Also pick up an attire on your way down. I have heads to chew off!" she said before hanging up.
The girls sat astonished, they had forgotten how harsh of a business woman Usagi had become. Ever since she took over the company it was like she was born to lead. She had raised Sales by twenty percent in the first year and by sixty the second. She had turned T&M Electronics into the second leading electronics manufacturing company in Japan in just two short years, and business critics said she could turn T&M into a multimillion corporation and international company in just ten. It had been a side of Usagi that had shocked the girls and Mamoru half to death.
When it came to business she didn't play games, she was smart and fast, Strict and cunning. She could see through the lies and drove a hard bargain. When she began, the employees of T&M didn't think she was capable of anything, within six months she earned their respect and loyalty, within the year they depended on her for everything. When they heard about the accident and the amnesia they had become outraged and worried. Without Usagi it was like they couldn't function, Ami had taken over trying to work through the problems Usagi's accident caused, but she had to give Usagi credit. She worked too hard for that company that even Ami couldn't keep up with her. Which was why she brought the files to Usagi, the company had started declining and they needed their leader back.
"Wow Usagi is scary…" Minako whispered earning nods from the girls. Usagi was currently looking through the files growing angrier by the second. She was still watching Usagi from behind the magazine, when her eyes looked down to one of the articles she screamed out in euphoria making everyone else jump in fright and shock. "NO WAY!"
"Minako…." Rei growled turning to her slowly and venomously. Minako whispered a silent apology at her outburst, before hiding behind the magazine some more. The rush of ruffling paper's sounded like thousands of wings flapping rapidly. A Hispanic man, about forty or so entered the Arcade about twenty minutes after Usagi's outburst. He was short and a little round with thick black hair and piercing green eyes, he was handsome quite so that if he'd been twenty years younger and lighter Minako would have just fallen in love all over again. He walked in with a particularly wide smile on his face as he approached the blonde fury.
"Señorita Tsukino!" his feet moved quickly, tears brimmed his eyes the moment Usagi's eyes looked up to him at first with confusion, then with joy followed with anger. "Que bueno que este bien Señorita!" he said as he approached her. The other girls blinked….what the heck language did he just speak!!!!
"Alejandro, como estas?" The girls immediately turned to Usagi flabbergasted….What did she just say?! "Has estado bien?" Why was she speaking whatever language she was speaking so well? "Y mi ropa?" and why was it so fluent?! Why did it seem like she had always spoken that language! Alejandro handed her a bag, Usagi searched through it before looking back at him. "Muy bien, Gracias. Porfavor Esperame en el caro que ya salgo. Me cambio y despues nos vamos, Okay?" Alejandro nodded before walking out of the Arcade. The first to attack her was Minako, who practically jumped out of her seat, this was too much. What else did they not know of Usagi.
"What the heck was that?!" she asked in a somewhat demanding manner. Usagi raised a brow a little confused.
"Eh?"
"NO! Don't you Eh me! What language did you just speak! Why didn't I know you could speak something other than Japanese!!!!!!?" She took hold of Usagi by the shoulders and shook her a little. Rei had to pull Minako off of the poor girl.
"I was speaking Spanish…And I can Speak something other than Spanish and Japanese." Usagi said as she began to walk towards the bathroom. The four girls following her, Motoki however found he had a barrier, since there was just no way no matter how curious he was, that he would walking into a girl's bathroom…he did that once and after that one time he learned his lesson about mysterious places.
Inside the bathroom the interrogation continued, Minako leading it with her hands on her waist and her foot tapping impatiently like a mother. The others just listened curiously. Usagi was safe behind the doors of the stall as she began to change.
"What else! What other language! I want to know!"
"Um…English…A little Italian…I had to Learn Chinese and Korean since we have some business on that side. Why? It can't be that shocking." Usagi said with a scoff but she could already see everyone's shocked expressions. Was she really that aloof that everyone thought she was not capable of even learning another language?
"How come, we never saw you studying?!" Makoto asked, they could see the clothes being flung over the door, rustling could be heard on the other side of the door. They wondered what she would look like, they had never seen Business woman Usagi before.
"I have no idea…." She slipped on a skirt as she spoke. A tight white skirt that stopped just above her knee caps, Usagi took out the white blouse and placed it on, a black waist belt was awaiting to be used somewhere near the bottom of the bag Alejandro had brought in for her. "Oh damn…Someone tell Alejandro that he forgot to give me the shows." She called out. Makoto looked at Minako who raised an eyebrow…did the man even speak or understand Japanese? Because if not, how was that supposed to be communicated?
"Uh…." Rei began but it was as if Usagi could read everyone's mind on the subject.
"Yes…He does and yes he can. He just prefers to speak Spanish." The girls stared at the door a little scared….well Usagi was definitely full of surprises…now it seemed she was telekinetic and could hear others thoughts. Minako stared at the door with that thought in mind.
'Return Motoki to me!' she shouted with her mind. No response came from Usagi, she tried again. 'I'm your best friend and I'm in love with Motoki! So give him back!' silence was all that meet Minako. Sighing she shrugged…it was worth a try no? Rei walked towards the door only to find Alejandro two seconds away from knocking, a box of shoes in his hands.
"For Tsukino-sama." although his accent was rather thick he still managed to make the words sound Japanese. Rei took the box, bowed and closed the the door. She handed the box to Usagi and than silently waited with the others for their Princess to emerge. When the doors to the stall open what they saw was a woman they had never seen before, full of confidence and self assurance.
Usagi stood before them, her meatballs were long gone and somehow all her long hair had been placed into one very elegant bun, small bang strips hung on the side of her face. Her clothes matched well with the black heels that Alejandro handed Rei moments earlier. She walked passed them and looked at herself in the mirror fixing anything that was out of place. She then turned back to the girls and winked.
"I have some butt to kick." She walked out of the bathroom leaving the girls in some kind of small shock because that woman was clearly not Usagi, she was someone else entirely. Minako was the first to come out of her the shock and the first to speak.
"Well they do say the clothes makes the woman and clearly those clothes made that woman." Rei gave her a look that clearly said 'shut up' while the other two gave her a look that told her she as clearly talking nonsense once again...no one ever understood her...
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Mamoru watched the scouts as they seemed to be discussing something that was clearly very interesting if not perplexing yet they refused to let him in on the information. Did it have something to do with a new enemy? And if that was the case why wasn't he even involved in the matter....but most importantly where the heck was Usagi? From the moment he had walked into the Arcade he noticed her missing and no matter how many times he tried to ask the girls they were clearly too consumed in whatever it was they were discussing to even notice his presence.
Motoki had said something along the lines of a business woman he'd never thought he'd see but that didn't make much sense...and on that note what business woman were they talking about? Had some business woman come and stolen Usagi away? The doors to the arcade opened and out of some instinct he looked up only to find his mouth falling wide open at the sight of her, although she seemed totally exhausted. Mamoru had to stop himself from attacking Usagi because she looked absolutely beautiful and he well...it kind of you know...honestly you already know and I'm not going to explain what mood he was now in...because well...from the lustful look in the man's eyes anyone knew what mood he was in.
Usagi rubbed her neck and walked right past him, his hand reached out but he had to contain it from grasping onto her hand. If this was the cause of the commotion among the girls he suddenly understood why. He knew Usagi worked in her Uncle's company, he also knew that she was a very good business woman but he had never seen her dressed in her work attire...why was she dressed like that?She plopped down on one of the booths and nearly knocked out right there and then, the girls instantly surrounded her Ami was the first to speak.
"So...what happened?" She asked cautiously. Usagi didn't speak for a good minute, still trying to gather her own thoughts on such an exhausting day. She had worked so much that she ached in places she didn't know she could ache. When she spoke she didn't lift her head from the table she just spoke.
"Well I managed to start fixing some of stock drops, made some deal with Sony and Whirlpool. Apparently there was some confusion that had those deals frozen. Some deals were dropped, and I approved the opening of a department store near here since it's been in the talks for about a year and should have been approved nearly four months ago." Her voice trailed off...god she was tired, beyond that she was just mentally gone she didn't know why she didn't just head home after leaving the office.
She had been welcomed with warm and excited arms in the company and everyone worked like animals that day. But still she knew that although she was tired beyond any reason the girls were waiting for her still in that arcade, she knew because she had not called at all that day. She wondered what she used to free herself of so much stress back then...what was it that helped her relaxed? Her mind began to drift but not before feeling two strong arms pick her up and instantly she felt that relaxation set in...yes this must have been it...this must have been what helped her forget everything. She held on tightly and drifted off into sleep.
Mamoru turned to the girls, holding Usagi gently. "She's tired out of her mind I'm taking her home." he said, the girls nodded and watched as their Prince and Princess walked out together. Rei sighed she knew deep down Usagi would eventually remember them all but it was a wait she didn't like at all and if she who the most patient among them all was becoming impatient she didn't want to know what the other girls were feeling...soon she hoped...that soon things would return to normality.
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"Is this the right thing to do?" the voice asked softly watched the future Neo King and Queen of Tokyo walk to the car, the blonde Queen asleep in the Tall King's arms. A pair of pink eyes turned to the soldier next to her. Her long pink hair held up in her mother's familiar style. She wore jeans and a tight shirt. "Was this not the reason all this happened to begin with Pluto?" she asked, the child was perhaps twelve of thirteen. The senshi of time smiled.
"My Princess...your mother needs to see you...Because I fear if not your mother might not recover." The child looked back to her parents. "Right now she is putting up a front and deceiving the others...but she is terribly torn inside."
"Then the child she lost...." The child asked turning to look at Sailor Pluto who looked down sadly.
"That child...was never meant to come into this world..." Pluto whispered... "As tragic as it sounds...that was the destiny of that child..." The girl watched her parents drive away. She turned to the Senshi of time.
"Why Am I here now then? Won't this mess with the time line as well?"
"No...I believe you will be what helps your parents come together once again...I trust this time my choice is the right one...besides they need your help as a scout." Pluto said gently caressing the girls face. The girl nodded and smiled.
"I hope your right Pluto..." She said, the orbs around them disappeared and alone on the street across the crown arcade stood the child that from that moment onwards would change everything and restore the faith to them all. She sighed and stepped into the arcade. "I got my work cut out for me..." She whispered. The moment she walked in she heard a cup fall to the ground and tears spring from the face of the girl who had looked up to see her, her blue eyes filled with shock...She walked right up to the group of girl who were all currently too stunned to speak, grinning she placed her hands on her hips.
"What? No Hellos? Long time no see?" the girl said. Rei stood up from her seat followed by the other girls. Makoto's hand reached out and touched the girls face, tears streaming down her face as she stared, the others also began to cry...
"ChibiUsa..."
^_~ Cliff-hanger! Yup Yup YUP! Well I hope you like this chapter...next chapter I think i'll focus a little more on Usagi and Mamoru's relationship along with the whole ChibiUsa entrance. Wait for my next chapter because it's bound to be good...._ hopefully...REVIEW PLEASE!!!!!
Sakura.
