The Odango and The Baka- Chapter 19
Lady Probably PG or PG-13
AN: I am sooo sorry that I haven't updated in so long. School was hellacious this quarter and I had no time to work on the chapter. I am on spring break now so I will try and get a few chapters written or at least one long one. Thanks again for your continued interest in my story.
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon is not mine. Darn.
Last Time:
Eventually they had to pack up because she needed to be home by dinner. They
walked slowly, hands entwined, simply savoring the feel of each other. When they reached Usagi's block they paused.
"You probably shouldn't walk me to the door because my father has his gun back and I don't really want you to get shot." She grinned up at him, trying not to feel sad about saying goodnight.
Mamoru didn't respond but simply bent down and brought her into a breathtaking kiss that expressed what neither could say.
"Goodnight Usako."
"Goodnight Mamo-chan."
He watched her as she walked up to her front door and paused to look back. He blew her a kiss and didn't notice the face peering out the curtains of the kitchen.
Usagi entered her house in a daze. Intent on getting to her room she nearly tripped over her mother who was standing in the hallway looking a little shell shocked herself.
"Usagi." Usagi jumped as her mother startled her from her romantic reverie.
"Oh. Hi mom."
"Did I just see you kissing your tutor?" Usagi turned an incredibly bright shade of red at her mother's question.
"Umm…yes?" She looked down at her feet and waited for the explosion.
"Just wanted to make sure that I wasn't seeing things." With that her mother turned and went back into the kitchen, knowing her daughter would follow shortly.
"Mom?"
"Yes Usagi?"
"Aren't you angry?"
"Do I have reason to be?"
"Depends on what would make you angry."
"Have you been studying every afternoon when you go to his apartment?"
"Yes."
"Have you completed all of your assignments on time?"
"Yes."
"Have you done anything more than kissed him?"
"No."
"Do you plan to?"
"If I feel ready."
"How will you know if you are ready?"
"When I feel mature enough and I am confident in our feelings for each other."
"Then no, Usagi, I have nothing to be angry about." Usagi simply stared at her mother and waited for the rest of her decision. "You sound like a mature young woman who understands the implication of becoming emotionally and physically involved with a man. I am actually a little surprised by your maturity but I am very pleased. As long as you are able to maintain your school and you DO NOT let your father know, I do not have a problem with this relationship."
"Thank you for trusting me Mom. I won't let you down." Usagi gave her mother a squeezing hug to show her appreciation.
"You better not or you will be grounded for the rest of your life. Now help me finish dinner. Your father and Shingo did a lot of work outside today and are starving." Usagi simply looked at her mother with a new appreciation and got to work.
Earlier that Day:
"I cannot believe that they slept together naked!" Rei was unfortunately still fixated on her friend's odd behavior.
"You really need to get over this Rei. Luna can't know about this. She would separate them and that could be even more disastrous. You know that."
"Yes I know it but I don't have to like it." She huffed and dared any of them to contradict her.
"I know that this is strange to most of you but I think that this is destiny declaring itself." Minako looked inordinately pleased with herself and Rei looked ready to strangle her. "I am just saying that we should butt out of it. We know and trust Usagi not to do anything that isn't right for her. Give her a little more credit Rei."
The other girls nodded in agreement with Minako. Rei stared at them mutinously.
"I still think that we need to keep an eye on them to prevent any hanky panky."
"Rei, you need to leave them alone. They are in love and obviously there is a greater force at work here." This time it was Ami who came to Usagi's defense. "I have run the scans and I think that we need to let them develop their relationship with a minimum of interference. If we try and hinder it in anyway, it is quite likely that the energy they are emitting will turn against us." The other girls looked a little worried about this possibility.
"Ok. Obviously we need to come to a group agreement about what we are going to do about this situation." Makoto looked each girl in the eye and waited.
"I will agree not to tell Luna or Artemis about the events of last night if we can get Usagi to agree to one of us being at the tutoring sessions." Rei looked immovable on this but she didn't count on the Minako and her romantic side.
"Ok. I agree as long as I am the one that chaperones them."
"No way Minako. You will let them get away with anything."
"Rei?"
"Yes?"
"Do you want the world to be taken over by the Negaverse because you can't get it through your head that these two NEED to be together in order to fight?"
"What on earth are you talking about?"
"Haven't you figured it out yet?"
"No. Why don't you enlighten us?"
"It is very likely that the energy sources that we are detecting are simply something about their reincarnated forms that allows them to remember who they were and the love that they shared. By restoring this memory they can properly fight the enemy. Without this memory they will fail."
"Isn't that a little bit dire?"
"No. I think that they need to be together or we all die."
"If Ami can corroborate any of this I will agree to them being together with no chaperone, but only if. All agreed?" Rei looked at her fellow scouts and waited.
"Agreed," chimed three voices.
"I will start trying to confirm Minako's theory but I have to agree that it sounds plausible. Scarily so." Makoto nodded in agreement.
"Let's get to work."
Monday Early
"Hi guys! What did you do the rest of the weekend? I didn't hear from you on Sunday so Mamoru and I went for a picnic in the park. It was really nice but then he made me do all my homework." Usagi pouted but her expression soon turned back to the joyous smile she had been wearing since Friday.
"We were working at the temple. Minako and Ami wanted to make sure that the energy we had recorded from you and Mamoru really was benign and not evil. Luckily for you, Ami has a really good recorder and picked up nothing bad. This also means that I will not be imposing a chaperone on you two." Rei looked slightly disappointed.
"Why would we need a chaperone?" Usagi did not look pleased with this idea.
"Did you really think that we were going to let you be alone with a man who we only recently figured out was Tuxedo Kamen?"
"If my mom has no problem with it than why should you?" The girls gasped at this.
"When did you tell your mother about him?"
"I didn't. She saw him kissing me on Saturday."
"Did she forbid you to see him? Is he still tutoring you?" The girls were frenzied by now and were talking to fast to be understood.
"Nope. As long as I continue to improve in my schoolwork and study habits she was fine with it. I nearly had a heart attack when I saw her in the entry way. But she was okay with it." Usagi shrugged. She knew that her mother was willing to trust her and that meant a lot because she knew she wasn't the most worthy, being such a flighty teenager in the past.
"Well," said Ami, "I think that if her mother trusts her enough to allow her to be alone with Mamoru that we should extend her the same trust." She looked pointedly at Rei as Usagi gave her a vice like hug.
"Thank you Ami. I appreciate your confidence." Rei simply glowered but said nothing to refute Ami's opinion.
Just then the bell rang announcing the beginning of classes for the day. Rei and Minako left for their schools as the others dashed to their rooms.
After School
"Can you believe how attentive Usagi was in class today?" Minako looked at Makoto.
"Was she really that different?"
"Well not compared to last week but I really didn't expect that to continue for very long. It is just so against her character."
"Is it?"
"What do you mean Ami?"
"I think that maybe we are seeing her true personality and it took this energy form to bring it out. That and Mamoru's influence." The others looked at her and all but Rei slowly nodded. "I also think that we do need to talk to Luna soon and see if she remembers anything about Usagi and Mamoru from the Moon Kingdom."
"Good idea. Let's go and find her while Usagi is otherwise occupied." The girls nodded and headed towards the arcade where Luna usually waited for them.
As usual she was waiting outside and perked up when she saw them. "Hello girls. How are you?" Her cultured accent soothed the excited girls and four much more subdued girls entered the arcade."
"Hi girls!"
"Hi Motoki," they chorused.
"You all want your usual?" They all nodded and proceeded to their favorite booth in the back of the arcade.
"So girls, how are Usagi and Mamoru?"
"That's what we wanted to talk to you about. Do you remember anything about their relationship on the moon? They seem to have progressed much faster than a normal relationship and Usagi's mother had no problem with it."
"I am sorry girls but I don't remember very much about the moon. Artemis and I are trying to go through our archives to find anything about the energy that is in both of them. Maybe that will jog our memories." She looked around at the anxious faces surrounding her. "Usagi's mother was probably affected by two things. First, it is quite likely that the energy she is emitting made her mother more willing to accept the relationship and secondly Usagi's behavior in the last week has made her mother realize that she is not quite the same airhead anymore. Neither of these are bad and I agree with her that their relationship should be able to progress." Luna looked at a slightly flushed Rei who looked ready to interject. "I think that they need to come into their love and subsequently their combined powers. That is one thing that I do remember about them. When they fought together they were a formidable pair."
"That is exactly what we decided on Saturday," said Ami. "Rei thought that they needed a chaperone because of what happened on Friday night."
"What happened on Friday night?" Luna looked around, "tell me."
"Well, Rei woke up on Saturday morning and noticed that she couldn't find Usagi. She woke the rest of us up, quite rudely I might add, and we looked around and eventually found her."
"Where?"
"In Mamoru's bed." Minako looked quite pleased as she said this.
"Naked," piped up Rei. She waited for Luna to blow up.
"I was expecting something like that. I remember very vaguely that they were very physical in their relationship on the moon. However, there is a larger age gap now so they will have to be more careful." Rei looked disappointed by her lack of reaction but was beginning to realize that she was alone in her feelings.
"I guess that we just need to make sure that they don't get anyone riled up by their relationship because I am pretty sure that the fate of the world rests on them being together and in love. If they are separated it could be disastrous." Even Rei had to nod agreement to this statement. Too much was at stake for them to risk anything like that.
"Here is your food guys!" Motoki came up bearing a heavy tray laden with burgers and shakes. "Have you guys seen Usagi and Mamoru lately? I haven't seen them since Friday.
"I think that he is tutoring her everyday now." Makoto looked sweetly up at Motoki.
"I'm amazed that they haven't killed each other yet."
"I don't think that is going to be an issue anymore." Minako smirked knowingly and waited for the questions to begin.
Meanwhile…
"How is your English coming along Usako?
"Okay. Can you help me with this question though? I don't understand it." Mamoru came and sat behind the small blonde.
"What don't you get?"
"What are they talking about when they want to know if this is a gerund or a transitive verb? English grammar is so evil!"
"Why don't you take a break and have a snack before we try and tackle this problem?"
"You don't have to ask me twice!" She bolted for the kitchen, pausing only to give Mamoru a coy glance. "Are you coming?"
"I think I'll wait here. Bring me something yummy though." She grinned secretively and nodded her head.
"Be right back." Mamoru reclined back into the couch and waited for his love to return. Her homework was going well but it was a struggle to keep things focused. His memories, although for the most part vague, were very specific about her. Everything about her. He wanted to go back to the same level of intimacy they had been on when they were on the moon but he knew that there would be some serious fallout if someone found out. He started as a small body landed in his lap.
"Hey Usako, Did you bring me something sweet?"
"Yup."
"What?"
"Me." With that, Usagi kissed him and all thoughts of studying and age differences were forgotten. They both knew their limits and would stay within them but it would get harder and harder with each passing day.
That's all for now folks. Coming soon I will probably include a chapter that is slightly steamier but can be skipped for those of you who do not wish to read that type of story. I need to work out the ratings and posting details but I will make sure that the chapter is clearly marked.
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