Gundam Wing Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Sanctuary : Haven ❯ Prologue ( Prologue )

Sanctuary : Haven

Index:
Koibito = Lover
Onegai = Please
Anata = Darling
Aishiteru = I love you
Itsumademo = Forever

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They weren't holding each other in desperation, they weren't kissing and whispering sweet nothings, they weren't professing endless love for each other nor were they in the middle of heated passion.

She could swear it they weren't.

But every once in a while his lips would meet hers in an welcomed kiss, gentle tender words came out of their mouths, hands roamed freely on the two naked bodies without protest from either of them and they held each other so close that a hair couldn't fit between the two of them.

" Anata." She breathed out in a caressing gasp as his hand slid upon her inner thigh and up.

" Koibito." He murmured against her lips as he kissed her softly, his finger sliding into her carefully.

She gasped faintly and she arched up to him as he stroked her from the inside. She withered under him and moaned into his neck. He gently bit at her earlobe and worked his way down slowly.

She moaned against him once more and moved her hips in rhythm to his seeking fingers.

" Onegai," she whispered pleadingly, " onegai anata."

He withdrew his fingers and slowly drew his form above her. Kissing her softly he positioned himself.

" Aishiteru koibito," the words blanketing her in a warmth like no other, " aishiteru."

" Aishiteru anata," she whispered back, " itsumademo."

And he entered her, body, mind and soul.

" Itsumademo."

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Usagi Tsukino opened her eyes to the morning light and blinked at the flare. Yawning she stood up and grabbed her change of clothes before going to shower. Rubbing her eyes tiredly she turned the knob to where she wanted it and stepped in.

Coming out of her room, showered and changed into a peach t-shirt and a pair of blue bellbottom jeans she made her way to the breakfast table.

" Ohayo Dor-chan." She said in greeting to the other occupant.

Dorothy Catalonia looked up at her in amusement, she never quite got used to the nickname. " Good morning Usagi."

Usagi sat herself down at the table and grabbed a piece of toast from Dorothy's plate. Taking a bite she made a face.

" Plain toast again?" she said.

" I haven't had a chance to butter then yet." Dorothy replied as she opened the fridge door and took out the butter.

" Get the cottage cheese while you're there." Usagi told her.

Dorothy grabbed that too and walked back to the table. She set the two things down and taking her own piece of toast, started to butter it. Usagi grabbed a knife and started to spread cottage cheese on two pieces of toast. As soon as she was done she stood up, grabbed one piece of the toast she had just made and went over to the door. Putting on her running shoes, taking her white windbreaker off the hanger she slung her backpack over one shoulder.

" Gotta get to school now. Ja ne!" That said, Usagi opened the door and walked out.

Taking a bite of her buttered toast Dorothy looked up as she heard a door open and saw the last member of their group and housemate.

Hiiro Yui looked at her and gave a grunted 'ohayo', barely distinguishable as he poured himself a cup of coffee.

" Usagi gone?" he remarked more than asked, but she nodded in affirmation anyways.

It still amazed her to no end that Hiiro Yui and her, Dorothy Catalonia, could be housemates. If someone had told her that they would end up living in the same house, willingly, a year ago she would have laughed herself silly and reported the person to a mental asylum.

She watched him sit right where Usagi had just sat and picked up the toast she had left on the plate. He took a sip of coffee and bit into the bread.

She had long since suspected there was something between Hiiro and Usagi, and when what little of his belongings that he brought disappeared into Usagi's room, it just proved her suspicions right. She would have never thought a relationship between those two possible, but she guessed what they said was true. Opposites attracted.

She bit into her own piece and thought back to how they had ended up as they were now.

It all started when Dorothy found an unconscious girl on her backyard. There had been no injuries on her or any clues to how she had gotten there. The girl had on a blue plated skirt and a white shirt with a red bow in front, the broach she had pinned on it was a little childish but beautiful. Her hair was put up in the most unique and strange way Dorothy had ever seen in her 17 years of life. It was pinned up in two buns on top of her hair and long streamers flowed out all the way to her shin, almost the ankles. She looked as about 15 years of age.

Dorothy had quickly brought her inside and checked for any injuries or sickness like fevers or the such. Finding the girl in perfect health she was baffled at how she had gotten in her backyard. A few moments later the girl had opened her eyes and she had seen the most beautiful blue in her eyes and the depth they held were astounding.

Blinking the girl had looked around her and seemed confused about her surroundings. She had asked Dorothy something in a foreign language, which she identified as Japanese. Dorothy knew several different languages due to her high class up bringing for the times politicians came from other countries. But Japanese she hadn't been required to learn a lot of, so she only got small tidbits of what she was saying.

She found out the girl's name was Usagi and, Dorothy was relieved, that she knew some English. They had a few communication problems and Dorothy had racked her brain to see if she knew anyone that spoke or was Japanese. And found that Hiiro Yui fit the bill.

Dorothy kept track of the gundam pilots and their locations, if just so she could avoid them; it was hard to do let me tell you this. They were always traveling from one place to another but Dorothy kept up. She had never thought she'd use that information to seek one of them out, especially pilot 01, but she did anyways.

Contacting 01 and telling him that she was currently living in England, she was told that he would be there tomorrow. There had been no really encouraging or dealing need to make him come after she had explained the situation clearly. Neither of them wanted to send another innocent into the cruel harsh world out there alone and confused.

When he had arrived, even though he didn't talk a lot Usagi had been so happy to see another that spoke her language. After some questions from Hiiro and answers from Usagi: they found out that she lived in Tokyo, Japan and was 17 years old just like them. Usagi had no recollection of how she had ended up in Dorothy's backyard, and did not really wish to leave. She had told them that she wanted some time out of the life she lead in Japan, which they found out some later time that she was the famous heroine Sailormoon.

She had also told them why she might have appeared here where she was. Her boyfriend, and destined husband had explained to her that he thought they should take a break from their relationship and see other people, just to be sure if they were really meant for each other. She had wished upon the Ginzuishou to take her to a place where she could be free and not deal with the duties of the life she had.

After that they had found out that she knew nothing of the wars that had been happening over the past three years and so Dorothy took it upon herself to tell her. She also explained her own role in them, and was certain that Usagi would hate her afterwards. But to her surprise Usagi had not hated her or gotten angry, confused, or uncomfortable. She had given Dorothy a hug and said that everyone should be given a second chance.

They had looked up to see Hiiro staring at them unblinkingly and deep in thought. Dorothy had not told Usagi that Hiiro was one of the gundam pilots but Usagi seemed to understand that Hiiro had been involved in the war somehow and he would tell her his story in his own time. The few weeks after that were spent in teaching Dorothy, Japanese and Usagi, English.

After a month or so Dorothy had noticed that Hiiro had told Usagi his tale from one sunrise to the next, because no unexpected tension appeared anymore. And after that she had started to notice some things.

Usagi would sometimes blush when Hiiro made a comment, Hiiro did not tense up to accidental touches from Usagi, and he started to sit next to Usagi on the couch instead of by himself in the one-seat. Then a small while later his things started disappearing from his room into Usagi's. Sometime following that Usagi came to the breakfast table one morning in nothing more than one of Hiiro's white button up shirts that barely went to her mid-thigh and Hiiro walked out of her bedroom in only his boxers.

But then Usagi told them something that shocked Dorothy almost to the core. Usagi was a Winner. She was two months older then Quatre and was the last one to be 'born' before him. She had gone into hiding, among several of her other sisters, a year after Quatre had been chosen to be a gundam pilot. She hadn't seen her brother in more then 10 years now.

She had refused the invitations to family reunions after the wars (though she didn't know it was after the wars, she had just known it was after a long time with no contact with most of her family), saying that she would have felt weird. Most of her sisters had kept in touch with each other but not her, not really. She didn't know them anymore - well, except for one. One sisters had found her three years ago, by pure coincidence.

And that sister had came for a visit one day unannounced. Usagi hadn't told them what her sister's name was because she wasn't sure if her sister would have liked it. But when Dorothy opened the door she would have never thought it possible that Haruka Ten'ou was her relative. Haruka was a famous racecar driver and pianist, and had fairly demanded that she see Usagi.

Usagi had run out from her room and threw herself at Haruka. After Haruka explained that she was only here for a short while, she was due for a race, Usagi introduced her to Dorothy and Hiiro.

They had meet her approval but she had given Hiiro such an intense stare and he had seem to earned her respect when he had not backed down. Dorothy hadn't backed down either.

Leaving just as soon as she arrived, like a passing wind, Haruka said she would keep in touch. She had pulled Usagi aside for a private chat before she left but there seemed to be no conflict between the two girls. And she had kept in touch, there was at least a call or letter of some kind from Haruka once a week, no matter where her career had taken her.

Dorothy guessed that Usagi told Haruka her relationship with Hiiro somewhere because Haruka had phoned one day and demanded to talk to Hiiro. Dorothy had been out at the time but had gotten back to see Hiiro get off the vid-phone with Haruka. When asked what it had been about Hiiro had just said " Usagi."

She shook her head free of the thoughts and looked across the table to see Hiiro had finished his slice of bread and coffee. He got up to leave but before he went out the door she remembered something and shouted after him, " I have a show today, so tell Usagi not to expect me back anytime before 5!"

She got a grunt reply saying he heard and the door shut behind him. She shook her head in mild exasperation and rolled her eyes to high heaven begging for patience. Getting up from her chair she cleared the table, gathered the dishes and placing them in the sink, then found an apron before she set about washing them. Which after she would get ready for her show this afternoon.

You see she had been just mostly window shopping and going in the stores to buy an occasional trinket she liked once in a while when a woman walked past, did a double take and retraced her steps to the bakery window of the food shop she had been in and introduced herself to her.

Her name had been Michelle Cara, a model agent looking for new models. They had a long talk in the near by café as the woman tried to convince Dorothy she had modeling potential. She had took Michelle's card and told her she would think about it, and after checking out that if Michelle was or was not a real agent and then much prompting from Usagi (and glares from Hiiro to get the hell out of the house so he and Usagi could have some time together, alone) she called Michelle out and went for a interview and try out.

A week later she had her picture on the front page of a magazines, not a really popular one mind you but it had been a start, and things had worked on from there. Now she was recognized in public once in a while and one or two girls often came for an autograph, but she had not been mobbed yet, thank god for that. One thing that seemed to puzzle and confuse her agent was that Dorothy was dominant in having her model career stay within the boundaries of England. She did the occasional commercial or photo-shoot for large make up companies and such but she would not, could not, flat out refused -and threatened to sue- doing anything that would make its way off the Earth and if her face was aired or plastered in an billboard or TV in the colonies.

This of course, frustrated Michelle to no end but Dorothy was too good to give up and it was not like she really needed the job. She had enough money to support herself -and a family of 30- off of without ever having to work in her life. Her modeling career was more of a hobby and a favor to Michelle than anything else, and the agent knew to quit when she was ahead.

Speaking of jobs, Dorothy couldn't help the smirk that stretched its way on to her face. Usagi had been extremely stubborn from the start, as soon as she recovered, that she would not be a dead weight on them, living off their money, and had found herself a job at one of the local diners as a waitress. It was a relatively safe neighborhood but call it paranoia left over from the wars, Dorothy could not bring herself to stop worrying about her new found friend's safety, and so, had ordered every night that Usagi had work for Hiiro to go and pick her up after her shift.

Everything had gone well but after a while whenever Hiiro went to pick Usagi up after shifts he often walked in on scenes of boys giving Usagi their unwanted attentions. Once time a boy was caught trying to kiss Usagi with her protesting against him, Hiiro of course knocked him out, but deciding the job was too dangerous for the little girl, Dorothy had wanted her to quit. But the little bunny was stubborn and refused, saying, where else would she find a job?

They had had a small disagreement on the matter, both pleading the other to see their point of view, until just one day out of the blue Hiiro bluntly announced he had been hired as the bartender at the diner and now would the two of them shut the hell up? They had, of course, stared at him with dumbstruck faces until one of them stammered a thanks.

To Usagi's surprise and Dorothy's relief, their concerns were set to rest and buried deep under when they found that Hiiro had most of the same shifts as Usagi (most probably due to Hiiro threatening the manager). Maybe it was then, with all the men in the shop bluntly stating about Usagi's beauty that Hiiro had first begun to notice his attraction to the lively girl that was his housemate.

She set the dishes back in their place in the cupboard and was walking across the living room to her quarters to change when she saw something that made her stop dead. On the coffee table in front of the TV, laid the stack of today's mail, but one letter sticking out with a white envelope struck a fear into her heart. For there in computer printed letters was written: To Usagi Winner.

No letters ever came for Usagi Winner, just Usagi Tsukino, for nobody knew except for her, Hiiro, Haruka and Usagi herself that she was a Winner. All letters from her friends, family and even Haruka, her own sister came addressed to Usagi Tsukino, to their bunny of the moon. No mail came for Usagi Winner, for Usagi Winner did not live in between these walls, only Usagi Tsukino.

With dread creeping up her heart and lodge deep in her throat, she made her way to the coffee table and swiped the letter up. Without a second thought she grabbed the small pocketknife that was used to open letters and slashed it open. Pulling the letter out of its case she quickly scanned it with wild eyes. And when the door slammed shut behind her as two people came in to the house, she jumped.

" Ohayo Dor-chan," Usagi said chirpily, " I forgot my Physics book."

Hiiro grunted and pocketed his car keys, telling of that he had drove by Usagi on her way running back to their house. Looking up he saw Dorothy's ashen face, telling him of trouble.

" Dor-chan? What's wrong?" There was a trace of fear in Usagi's voice, she had noticed too.

Dorothy extended the arm out that held the letter, offering it to them instead of a vocal explanation. Usagi walked up and took the letter from her friend' s hand and made her way to the couch. Hiiro followed her and sat behind her in the big three-seat sofa and wrapped his arms around her waist, turning to the side slightly so her head was pressed up comfortably up against his chest and settled his chin on her shoulder to read the letter with her as Dorothy stared at them with glimmering eyes.

" To Usagi Winner…" he read and his voice trailed off.

To Usagi Winner,
You are invited to: the Winner's family reunion.
It will be held at: 1354 Mayfield Ave., Colony L1
Date: October 5, 199 AC
Time: 9:00 pm

P.S. You better show up Sister! We haven't seen you in so long, if you don't come to us, we'll come to you! Oh, and bring your friends! We'd like to meet them, and we know you have some!
Lilth, Sister 26.

Hiiro tightened his hold around Usagi's waist as she stared blankly at the paper. Her hands shook ever so slightly as she slowly set it down face up on the coffee table.

" What are you going to do Usa-chan?" Dorothy whispered.

They looked up to see Dorothy's trembling form standing there in the middle for the carpet, exactly where she had been when they walked into the room a few minutes ago. Usagi patted the spot next to her on the couch and Dorothy made her way on shaky legs. As soon as she reached the sofa she fell in a boneless sit onto the couch. She pulled her legs up onto the leather couch and tucked them in a v next to her. Usagi reached up slowly and pulled her head onto her lap gently, and that way they stayed for a while, Hiiro sitting behind Usagi with his arms tight around the girls waist, the girl gently stroking Dorothy's hair in a soothing manner and Dorothy with her head on Usagi's lap shaking ever so softly and all three of them staring at the letter with unreadable faces.

Dorothy blinked as she saw something colorful on the floor in front of her and picked up the postcard from the floor. She stared blankly at the picture of an amusement park at sunset. Usagi plucked it from her limp grasp and turned it around to read the message.

Dear Usagi,
I suppose you would have gotten the invitation by the time this postcard reaches you, and I wish I was there to comfort you, but I think Dorothy and Hiiro will take care of that for me. I'm writing to let you know I've received one as well and I bet at the end of your letter one of the sisters had written to tell you to come and with friends. I wish for you to go Usagi. Yes, I wish for you to go.
I will be attending as well and I am bringing the Outers with me, they are my family and I wish for you to be there to complete it. Bring Hiiro and Dorothy along with you; I'm sure you all have things you need to sort out there. I'm bringing my family, so it is only fair you bring yours.
Don't worry Usagi; once we're there, we can all draw strength from each other.
Love, Haruka

" So that's it, I guess we're going." Usagi said after passing the card to Hiiro and Dorothy, there was no uncertainties in her voice when she had said 'we' for she had no doubts that they would go with her, as a matter of fact her doubts were of that even if she had wanted to go alone, she doubted they would have let her. Even though going meant facing a past none of them wanted to.

Usagi would have to face her sisters and answer why she had not come for any previous reunions, Hiiro would have to face the other pilots and Ririna would no doubt be there as well, and Dorothy...Dorothy would have to face Quatre, the man she had stabbed and fallen completely in love with in such a brief encounter. They all knew this for no secrets were held in this house of theirs. Who would take this trip the hardest they didn't know, but they would be there to catch them when they fell. All three of them were strong independent people, but even they had their limits. But you could only find them when you are pushed to the extremes, and all three of them were stretching their limits now, more then ever, for each test grows bolder and each test widens your range, and with each test you are bound to fall.

" Yes," Dorothy whispered, " I guess we are."

Hiiro kissed the side of Usagi's neck before releasing her and standing up, " I'll book the tickets. They'll have to be one of tomorrow's flight to make it there on time."

They knew it was true, for the letter it seemed to have taken a long time to reach them and the date of the reunion was nearly upon them.

The girls were silent as Hiiro walked to his room in which he shared with Usagi and Dorothy let her stroke her cheek one more time in comfort before raising her head from her lap and started to go to her room to change. Usagi sat up straighter and went through the rest of the mail and pulled out her laptop to pay all the bills that came as so not to leave any unfinished business behind, for they did not know how long they would be gone.

There seemed to be a mutual agreement in the air as Dorothy opened the door to make her way to the model show happening across town in an hour. It was understood that business like calling the school, their friends the diner would be taken care of by Usagi and Hiiro would place the tickets and fix the house up for them to leave and when Dorothy came back later, with all her modeling career put on a short hold, then they would all pack.

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Later that night

When the sun had dipped its head down in a bow and the moon took her place in the sky, they finally finished packing the all the other preparations were done, there was nothing else to do but wait. The shuttle was scheduled for 10 am in the morning and the only thing they had to do was grab their own duffle bags and get into the air to drive to the airport, they were traveling light. With that in mind they went to shower and then to bed.

" Hiiro?" she asked sighing, " what do you think will happen?"

" I don't know." He answered truthfully and tucked her head to his neck; looking down at her golden crown she dropped a light kiss on top of the sunshine hair.

She tried to snuggle deeper into his embrace and sighed contentedly next to him, both of them in naked blessedness with her back faced his chest and whenever he spoke she felt the deep voice vibrate off her head, laying curled up together underneath the blanket. Just as they were going to fall asleep a figure opened their door and closed it after walking through.

They looked to see Dorothy in her short sleeves knee length pale yellow nightgown with a rounded collar. She stared at them in the dark for a moment, her blue eyes shining in the dark and Usagi smiled at her, only then did Dorothy approached and crawled into the bed with them, knowing of their state of undress and not caring, she had expected it anyways. She lay tucked up against Usagi so her head was right up against her chest. She listened to the soothing beat of Usagi's heart and the nightmares were driven away.

And so Usagi stroked Dorothy's hair like a mother would a child's and they laid like that, with Usagi hugging Dorothy and Hiiro hugging her. Offering all the comfort and strength they could for each other.

***Owari?***

Hiasobi: This had been sitting on my hardrive for so long I almost forgot about it. I'm mostly probably not going to write more of this, I have school and other fics I need to finish already, but I could be presuaded.
Please review and let me know what I should do. Until next time...Ja!