Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ A new horizon ❯ The ring ( Chapter 5 )

 

 

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Sorry for the delay in the update but I have been in the hospital and am still ill and need to

rest. I am already writing for the new chapter that will include the walk of Usagi and the girl's

night. So it will be longer and a little bit more to write for me.

Anyway have with this chapter

 

 

 

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Frowning Usagi looked at the blue sky. The sun was still shining in her natural way and no signs

of Metallia or anything else from the dark kingdom was seen.

 

'Whatever you thought Setsuna-san I hope you know your metier. And Kamisama I hope you will guide

me through this. Because I am afraid and scared to death. May the power of Selene watch over me

and let me see the path ahead.'

 

 

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The sun was shining. Playing children and women with their children were outside to enjoy the sun and the tranquility of the afternoon. Usagi wasn't concerned over this but very very grateful and elated that she could scenes like this again. It had been a very long time for her to see earth like this.

 

In future there had been Chrystal Tokio and her grand-grand-grand-something -children who ruled over it.

She had seen how Chibi-Usa ascended the throne and married Helios. She had seen how people again again tried to kill her descendents and their familys in greed for the ginzuishou and their power. Scenes like this had become rare in future and even with her protecting hand over her homeplanet it hadn't made a difference when she saw how the killing never stopped.

 

Every tear she shed for the death of her loved ones had been paid with millions over millions more pain, emotionally and physically too. Until one day Pluto, well one of her reincarnations anyway, told her that the universe would become more and more painful to her until she until she would find the key to all. She thought killing Chaos and with that the universe she knew would bring her peace but it wasn't so.

 

She searched then in her other lifes for an explanation, a solution or maybe the key but she never found it. Her only hope was that now that she found herself at the beginning tht she could change her destiny and everything that had to do with it.

 

Maybe she could talk with Setsunasan some other time to clear everything out and maybe find and explanation for everything. Usagi didn't think that Queen Selene knew anything of the trials she had been through or about anything that had to do with her destiny.

 

Usagi sighed inwardly. She really really hoped she would find answers for her questions, and soon, or this reality and universe were doomed before it had even begun to exist. 'Or maybe I should just hope that the kamis will be easier on me this time....... as if! They just love to see me struggle through this. I am sure of it! But Kami hasn't seen anything yet. This time I will be married with Mamochan before he travels to America.

With that I will be able to protect his star-seed even without being near him and it will make Chaos furious....'

 

Suddenly the the reflection of the sun in a car-window let Usagi become aware again with her surrounding. Okay this time she had been pondering more than a few seconds so it was time to observe her peaceful and undemanding sorrounding again.

 

Behind her and still in a daze were her friend and lover. ' Well he is a will-be-lover or an was-and-will-be-lover? Doesn't matter as long he is mine with soul, body, spirit and everything else he has.' They just couldn't snap out of the stupor their once-clumsy-and-clueless-friend had send upon them.

 

And how could they when the transformation had been happened in one day? Or better in one night?

 

'How could have have Odango Atama have changed in one night? Yesterday she was still the little clumsy and stupid schoolgirl and now she is the most wonderful woman I have ever met in my life and can't think living without her. I never believed in karma, destiny, kismet or fate but now I think that is exactly what had been hapening to me.'

 

Mamoru looked at the child-woman before him and tried again to reach her with their bond.

 

~Usako......What is going through your mind? One minute your sad then your angry and then...~

 

'.... needy, full with lust, love and the urge to jump me? Well I hope you really felt two out of these four things because they have alread an interesting effect on my body. Hell what are you thinking Chiba! This girl is just fifteen years old or so....... okay I don't know her age but she is younger than you. Legally you could even marry her with permission of her parents but is she emotionally mature enough for this step? Hell am I??'

 

Usagi was very very amused about Mamoru's inner conflict and musings. He didn't need to know that she not only could, read, hear and analyze his mind every second she wanted but also control him if ever the need to do so would arrise.

 

~Mamochan please just calm down okay? I love you and it is normal for a girl to show it somehow her boyfriend that she loves him. I won't hide it from you that yes, I ould like to make love to you. But that doesn't mean you have to feel pressured into something. You are my soulmate and whatever is good for you is good for me. As slow or as fast as you wish this realtionship to develop it will happen. And someday we will make love. But you are also right that neither you nor me are ready to go this far yet.~

 

'And for entirely different reasons. You are still a little bit insecure with all this because it happened so fast and especially with me because I have changed so much. You just need to adjust first and then we will se how it will go from then on. I am still insecure about where I stand and what is going on here. Am I even allowed to seduce you before Metallia..... or even before Chaos for that matter. You never let me get farther with you than kisses and touching. And then we made love after Sailor Chaos was defeated. You don't even know how angry I was at you. If we had slept with each other earlier nothing of that would have happened. And then after Chaos you decide I am mature enough. It had hurt to hear you say that Mamochan.

 

But I guess I can't hold this over you this time cause it hasn't even happened here..... Well, doesn't matter now anyway. My Mamochan is confused and the others are suspicious about me. Especially Amichan and Reichan. Ah and there is Osa P. Maybe I can get Mamochan to buy me something nice? And I think it's time for my innocent part to take over again so Tsukino Usagi let your innocence and cuteness shine bright for these fools we call friends.'

 

"Mamochan!!! Look there is Osa P. the Jewelry from Naru's hahaue. It's perfect, ne? Naru's hahaue is soooooo nice because she always makes me special prices and often tells me that I have a good eye for the expensive things"

 

Mamoru started to groan as he heard that. He had thought he would just walk with her in the Jewelry, look a little bit and they would go through the park, alone, and talk some more beforte he would bring her home and then start his hopefully silent night without youmas and super-heroines to rescue.

 

But he saw that was just his imagination from an wonderful afternoon. His girlfriend, since circa thirty minutes, had other plans for him. She would beg him to buy her something like all the girls who were everyday around him , too. She would just use him like Yue. Yue who had left him after he told her that he couldn't buy her anything and that everything he owned was just the necessary standard his status as owner of an whole imperium he had to have. Anything else had to be allowed by his caretaker who managed also his money.

 

Yue had told him then he were a snob and that she wouldn't go out with him anymore. She had broken his heart in seconds and now, when he thought he found a girl who saw for who he was and what he had.....

Well he had fooled himself again...

 

~No Mamochan don't even think that I would use you for your money. No, I am just here because i would like to show something normal. Something I have done nearly all my life. Going into the shop of Naru's hahaue and look at the jewelry and then dream that they would be ours and we are princesses who would wear them just for their princes. Who would, of course swep us off our feet and marry us. This has nothing to do with your money or anything else.

 

I love you. And nothing, not even if you were poor, would change that. So don't even think about Yuesan. You never loved her and she never loved you. And even when she hurt you, it was your luck she did and left. Because when not you would have never met me, your soulmate, and you would have made more painful experiences than you would like to know. So stop thinking I would use you. This is for fun nothing else so relax.~

 

Mamoru was astonished as he looked at the young women at his side. She had known what was troubling him and had reacted accordingly. All his insecurities had been laid to rest with her declaration and explanation. He was at ease now and could look forward to go with his girlfriend, no, his soulmate into the jewelry and maybe buy her even something just because he wanted to.

 

Rei wasn't so comfortable as she looked on the pair in front of her. She had seen severly flashes of something onto their faces before they relaxed again. Also interesting were the gaps or scars in Usagi's ki.

Something Rei had never learned before was to interpret them and now she was cursing herself for not blackmailing her grandfather into teaching her this technic.

 

She was just too curious what the things she saw in Usagi's ki could mean. Oh she could interpret many things, she wasn't a beginner in these things. But there were other things she didn't understand when she had interpreted them correctly. Agelessness, royalty, pain so great it could destroy anyone, joy that was so great you could cry, love so deep you couldn't fathom the end, loneliness so strong as if no soul had ever reached out to her and then something or someone else who was mixed within her ki. Just a small deep blue that was interwined i her deep pink ki.

 

' Well if I could be sure I would say it is Mamoru's ki that is intermingled with her own. But that would mean they had to be soulmates and I can't imagine how two so different people could be in soul one??? That's just impossible. Still i curse my jii-san that he hasn't given me lesson's in reading someones ki correctly. As if I am still a little girl who doesn't know what she does. I know I can hurt someone if I can't control my gift. And I know that I could even kill someone but I have already mastered my gift so good, especially now that I am Sailor Mars, that I could handle it.'

 

But sulking wouldn't bring Rei any farther with her observations. She had to either confront Usagi tomorrow in their senshi-meeting or she had to wait until an youma would appear. She hoped it would be the former because she didn't want to fight with Usagichan after she was hurt or anyboby else.

 

Maybe she could even bring her jiisan to teach her the technic of the soul-searching and complete ki-reading. Then no one could hide a secret from her. She would automatically know if something was wrong and what is was. She didn't even register that she would invade the privacy of her friends.

 

Ami and Makoto were occupied to entertain Naru and to reassure her that everything was fine, to see what was going on with their friends. Naru was very perplexed of Usagi's behaviour but as always write it off to stress and as one of her brainless actions and ideas.

 

"Hey Usagi! Okaasan has extra discounts for my friends and now that you've been away so long I'm sure she will make you a special price. You should really take the opportunity and buy something. There was a new shipment of rosequarz and diamonds. She has wonderful amulets and necklaces."

 

An odd gleaming appeared in Naru's eyes as she saw just how tight Usagi hung on Mamoru's arm. She knew that her friend had loved this man for a long long time. She still remembered how Usagichan came to her as a five-year old and told her she had seen the prince from her dreams. The man she would marry someday.

 

Oh Naru had believed her, of course every five year old would do so. But when the name of her prince changed from Endymion to Mamoru she knew something had happened. Usagi had always talked about him, Naru couldn't remember a time when not. But nearly five years ago the name had changed and with that Usagi also.

 

She had been still the cute enthusiastic kid she had always been, but the nights where she would tell Naru about her prince and the stories from their adventures and balls they had been together ended. Somehow Usagi had changed to a quite young woman who would not tell anymore about her romantic sessions with her prince.

 

Naru had thought it had been just a fantasy and now that Usagi had found something real to dream of she wouldn't tell for fear the reality would come crashing down on her. But when Naru saw these two now together........ Maybe Usagi had been right all along. This was her fairytale prince with who she would hopefully live ever happily after.

 

'I thought that Mamoru would be an fantasy too. But he is exactly like she described. Tall, blackhaired, deep blue eyes, and an mysterious and formal air around him. I hope he is the right for you Usagi. It seems that way with the looks you give him..... Hmm maybe I should give him a little hint as to what he has to have better in his mind. Or he has to bear four womens wraths if he uses you!!'

 

"Do you know what Usagi? You still remember the ring you loved so much ne? The one you said would be your betrothal ring!? Well he is still avaiable and Okaasan said she would wait until a man would come into her shop to buy it for you before she will sell it otherwise. She means that the ring has been made for you and because you are like a daughter to her she will save it for you. Isn't that just wonderful?"

 

Usagi, who had been until that moment only slightly interested, perked up. Her face began to glow with an wonderful smile and laughter bubbled up her throat.

 

The ring she had been dreaming of since her childhood would be there until Mamoru decided that they should be wed. That were the best news she had ever heard. Especially since that ring was nearly an museums piece. Even when nobody knew of it.

 

The ring they were talking about looked like an normal whitegold ring with undefinable symbols and moons on it. In fact it were a ring that was over thousand years old. How it had landed in Osa P.'s shop nobody knew but it didn't matter to Usagi.

 

It had been the ring Prince Endymion had given her to their betrothal and she wanted it to be the ring for this occasion again. In nearly every dimension she had been, it had happened otherwise. The ring had been her weddingband and while still beautiful, it hadn't been made for that purpose.

 

Now Usagi had the chance to show Mamoru the ring before they would engage and that would be the perfect moment to tell about her dreams of that ring. Naturally nothing from the wedding and engaging whatsoever. Just that it had been always her wish to become this ring as an sign that her love and she were betrothed.

 

Enthusiastical pulled usagi at Mamoru's arm. She couldn't wait to show him the ring.

 

"Come on, we have to look what else Naru's hahaue has there for us. It has been too long since I was here and looked into it. I just hadn't had the time for that! So that means one thing!"

 

Grinning like a cheshire cat she wirbled around until she faced her friends who had similiar expressions on their faces. Mamoru nearly groaned because that couldn't be a good sign. Neither for him nor for any other man on the world.

 

"SHOPPING TIME!"

 

Laughed and screamed the girls. This time Mamoru groaned loudly. It couldn't be right that these five girls would go with him on a shopping spree in one of the most expensive jewelries in Tokio if not in Japan.

 

He just hoped that Usagi would not only have taste in fine jewelry but also in cheap items. Momentarily was his budget at near the end in this month. And the ring from that Naru had been speaking would be costing a whole lot more if he knew what his Usako would like to have.

 

And that for an betrothal! He thought it would be understandable for an weddingring to make this much fuss about it. But for an engagement ring he didn't understand it.

 

But maybe this was just another facet of mystery to his Usako, or to women generally. But if he decided to marry Usako, and make no mistake he had already decided that Usako would be the one even when she had to age a little bit more, he would buy her this engagement ring and give her it.

 

But it was still a little early to make such assumptions and plans and so he fought his rising panic that he wopuld have to explain his Usako that he wouldn't buy this ring and that they were both too young for this.

 

Well he wasn't and she wasn't either after law but emotionally it was the opposite. So as he was dragged into the shop he was already seeing his doom right in front of him in the body of his Usako.

 

 

Usagi was laughing internally. Mamoru was panicking that he couldn't buy Usagi the ring and that she would make a scene and he would lose her, Rei was still pondering about ki and soul reading, Ami wished she could study Usagi more, Makoto was already planning on beating Mamoru into a bulb if he wouldn't buy Usagi something nice and Naru was already planning Usagi's wedding.

 

All in all it was an interesting and amusing situation.

 

Osa P. was an wonderful shop. If you came in there were glass vitrines left and right from you full with rings, bracelets, earrings and necklaces. Farther into the shop you could see more expensive items. Items that were so expensive that you should only lend it out.

 

Rubin tiara's, diamond bracelets, sapphire crowns, fans with dozens of emeralds, diamond, sapphires, rubins and jades.

 

Nearly everything you could imagine that had to do with jewels laid there in the vitrins, presented in the right light to let the visitors dream and wonder about them.

 

Naru's hahaue had the sixth sense for these things so it was no wonder why the dark kingdom was often interested in her and her shop. Maybe the nijizuishou would even be here.

 

That thought was not only interesting for the dark kingdom but also for Tuxedo Kamen and the Senshi. So it was no wonder that Mamoru, still dragged from his girlfriend to the ring they had spoken about, and the other Senshi, naturally with exception from Usagi, looked around the shop with new interest.

 

That something could lie here so obvious was an disturbing thought and since Usagi had the Moonwand, it was almost more terrifying to think as to what had happened to the carrier since Usagi hasn't said anything from an other attack.

 

"Here look look! That is the ring I meant is right here. There, the one who shines so without the help of light in an silver and bluish glimmer. The symbols on the ring are unknown but they are sooooooo beautiful. Look, look Mamochan how it shines like it were waiting just for me!"

Mamoru couldn't drag his gaze from the ring away. Something was very familiar with this ring. As if he had known it would like that or that this was the ring who would be the engagement ring for Usagi. He knew this ring. He knew it and knew the feeeling of giddiness and happiness that filled him when thought that he would buy it for his Serenity.

 

Serenity?????? He didn't know any Serenity. He meant Usako. For his Usako he would buy this ring and nobody else. She had dreamed to have it and he would fulfill this dream someday, somehow.

 

'Where the hell did I get the idea to buy it for someone named Serenity? Who should that be?' Sighing he looked again at the ring that really shone seemingly from itself in a silver-bluish light.

 

'What the heck is the material of this ring. I have never heard from anything that had the ability to make such light and to shine from itself. But I always knew that my Usako would love only the extraordinary. Ah, Usako what did you do to me? I feel like I have known you forever, and that nobody will divide us. I love you. Yes I really love you even if I have never known this emotion before and if then never with this intensity.'

 

Mamoru glanced softly down on his girlfriend. She was really an creature for itself . She was beautiful, innocent and shown with an light that came out of her beautiful heart and soul. Without a thought reached Mamoru down with his right hand and stroked softly over her hair.

 

It was silky to the touch and smelled like Sakuras and lilys. Surprised by the touch looked Usagi up and the saw the gentle and soft look in Mamorus eyes.

 

She smiled soflty back. He was just too sweet when he decided to tell his feelings in the public. She took his hand in her own and marveled again at how sheltered she was when he was beside her. His fingers began to glide softly over hand and made circles on her thumb and each other finger. Then he took her hand in his other hand and began to make circles in her palm.

 

Shudders ran through Usagi. She already took short gasps of air and her pupils began to shrink into slits. That such a soft and seemingly innocent action could stroke the passion in her was still a new and surprising revelation to her. And it affected not only herself because she could see that Mamoru's eyes became darker and darker with every laboured breath she took.

 

"Oh Usagichan it is sooo nice to see you again!" Broke the deep cultivated voice of Naru's hahaue through the veil that had laid upon the couple. Hastily they both hid their hands behind their backs as if you could see on them what they had done just seconds before.

 

"Hai, it is very nice to see you again Osaka-san. I was just again looking at the Tsuki-yo ring. He still glows when I come ne? Naru told me that you just lay it out to be marveled at and that you let only my future fiancee buy it. Is that true?"

 

Usagi tried to control her breath. Her cheeks had to be red by now and she still struggled to hold the passion for her Mamochan at bay. She was starving for Mamochan's attention at that had been just a little part of the foreplay, that she knew.

 

God how she would like to take Mamochan to his appartement and let him ravishing her. Or she ravishing him? It didn't matter as long as that it was soon and built from their love. Nothing else mattered to her. Inwardly sighing she began to pay attention to what Osakasan told Mamochan about the ring.

 

That nobody knew where it came from and that it would be millions over millions worth, if there weren't the believe it were just a fake. That it glowed just for Usagi and that she alone could wear the ring were things that no one could explain but that didn't mattered to Osakasan.

 

She had a story over an artefact of an old vanished culture or so she believed and nothing else mattered. Not to her and not to the visitors.

 

"And you know what Chibasan. I think that Usagi is from a family of nobles and that for her alone was the ring made. And because of that I have decided that Usagi alone is worthy of it and she will wear it. I don't know why she has decided that this is an engagement ring but as long as she is happy with it I don't care for what event she will wear it."

 

Osakasan began clucking over Usagi, what she had done the last months and why she didn't visit especially with her nice yummy boyfriend.

 

Mamoru took the chance and fled back to the other girls who were oooh-ing and aahh-ing over the things Naru showed them.

 

It was scary how the girls fixed him with a deathglare as Naru showed them something Usagi had always wanted but never had the money for it.

 

Cautiously Mamoru stepped forward and looked on the item they were currently expecting. It was an wonderful bracelet full with glittering stones in every colour you could think of. Mamoru winced internally as to how much this bracelet must cost. But what was worse? Not enough money to buy new books and write materials he wanted or the wrath of four girls who were standing before him plus an overdramatically girlfriend?

 

He had already checked that with Usagi he became also all her friends which included the absent Motoki.

And he wouldn't even think of her parents...

 

"And just how much does it cost?" was Mamoru's question.

 

"Just thousand-four-hundred yen. But when you buy this for Usagi I think we could sell it for eight-hundred. You see we are the most exclusive jewelry but we also sell pieces that are available for nearly everyone. So do you buy it for Usagichan or not?"

 

The glares from Rei, Makoto, Ami and Naru were enough to say her an affirmative answer. And eight-hundred yen were an nice price which would ensure that he could still buy anything he wanted. Mamoru let Naru even pack it in giftwrapping.

 

"Hey guys. I was just talking with Osakasan and saw how late it is. I have to be home soon and wanted to walk a little bit with Mamoru so if it is okay with you I would like to go now and that we will us tomorrow?"

Usagi softly asked as she saw that her friends had Mamoru circled.

 

They looked at him as if he were the most wanted criminal or something.

 

The Senshi just looked first at Usagi and then at Mamoru. When they decided that no danger was momentarily outgoing from him they decided to let them go. One after one they embraced Usagi, hugged her and told her if anything goes wrong she should call them.

 

They said goodbye also to Naru and her hahaue and then walked home.

 

Smiling took Usagi Mamoru's hand and pulled him into the direction of the parc. Hastily Mamoru said goodbye and followed Usagi who just waved.

 

"Aren't they a wonderful couple? When I saw them I thought they were an royalcouple or something. They look so good together and Usagi seems to bloom in his presence. I think we have found the buyer for our Tsuki-yo ring ,ne Naruchan!?" asked Osakasan as she saw the couple walking hand in hand away.

 

"Yes, I think he is really the fairytale prince Usagi told me about. But somehow....... I think they both have to go still a long way until they will fulfill the promise of the ring and the lehend behind it. Have you told Chibasan about the legend from the ring?"

 

"You mean about the moonprincess and the earthprince? That they will have to fight against their fears to find the key to happiness? No Naruchan I haven't. And we didn't even told Usagichan because you what Meiosan told us ne? We have to serve the Moon kingdom family but they have to ask to become answers. I just hope Usagichan learns that before she looses all hope........"

 

 

 

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