Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ A new horizon ❯ The past and the future ( Chapter 6 )

AN: Okay sorry for the long wait. I have now finished that chapter and hope you enjoy it. Thanks for all your kind reviews and let me tell you that I will answer any questions you have as good as I can.

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As the sun slowly went down and touched the world in soft golden and red hues, a couple walked happily towards the park, seemingly unaware of their surroundings with exception of each others eyes.

 

It was a strange couple as they looked like the exact opposite. One was a strong men with black hair, dark serious eyes, sharp features and an air of someone who has seen too much in his life.

 

The woman instead was a quirky blonde, with sky-blue, happy and curious eyes, soft features that were brightened by a smile and an air around her from innocence and love.

 

The couple could have not been more opposite but, as some say opposite attracts, and this couple were perfect role models for that.

 

Tsukino Usagi (who wished to have an different last name that starts with Chi and ended with ba) and Chiba Mamoru walked in peaceful silence into the park after an very stressful meeting with the other girls who were named Hino Rei, Kino Makoto and Mizuno Ami as well as Osaka Naru who had invited the girls to visit the jewelry of her mother.

 

Mamoru nervously fidgeted with something wrapped in his coat pocket. Before he had bought a piece of jewelry, a bracelet to be exact, at Osa P., Osakasan's jewelry, and was now thinking it might have not been a very good idea.

 

'I mean hello! You just became Usagi's boyfriend and that only a few hours and now you bought already jewelry for her? Isn't that a bit too early. I mean she's Odango Atama the girl you loved to tease and hate! Now she's your girlfriend! Didn't you hate her wailness and clumsiness? What about her steady input of food? She will eat the hairs of your head. And it's still a few months till your heirloom will come in.'

 

'Till then she will have pulverized all your savings and you still need them for your courses at the university and your investion in the new business that Ryu Takato has opened. You promised to finance it and become so your share at the business. Well his idea Manga and Anime as well as Figurines of Sailor V and the Sailor Senshi to sell is really ingenious and than the computer and console games he makes.'

 

'He will have finally the licenses for the pictures and movies and so on with your money. How can you give it to him if one never full Odango eat everything up? And now you bought already a very *cough maybe not so cough* expensive bracelet for her! And not to mention that you don't even know how to give it to her because you're too nervous.....'

 

Mamoru, sighing, let the rant in his head begin again and again. He really didn't know how to give Usagi the bracelet and if he could even let himself have a girlfriend, be it Usako or otherwise. His Tuxedo Kamen persona was a great obstacle between them and if Usako would hear that HE was Tuxedo Kamen, the most sought after hero and crush of every woman between the age 7 to 99 years old.....

 

He cringed. No he couldn't let Usagi or anyone else know about him being Tuxedo Kamen. Usagi would become Odango on sugar and caffeine. A very not pleasant experience he had once when she had not only a coke but 7 and to that 5 limos he gave her when she dared him that she could drink them all.

 

After that Odango had been so high that she bounced all around the Arcade and Motoki had even his problems to stop her from going crazy with her steady giggling and jumping. No, he really couldn't tell anyone else than Motoki, who had surprised him someday and had found out through bloody bandages, stitches and bruises just what his best friend has been up to, the last year.

 

While Mamoru was caught in his inner dilemma, Usagi had amused herself with his inner dialog. It was very comical to see how Mamoru tried to fight against their soul bond with every thing he could find. He really shouldn't worry about her eating habits. She had changed, and while her friends and Mamoru had only seen a few things there was so much more.

 

She herself had really puzzled over the fact if she would transform now in Sailor Cosmos or in Sailor Moon in the next fight. Wouldn't the senshi and Tuxedo Kamensama be surprised if she looked suddenly more mature and more powerful than ever before? Or would Pluto already have made a plan on how she still used the same outfit as before?

 

A grin was fleetingly seen at Usage's face as she thought about her episode with Chibi- Usa and her transformation in Neo-Queen Serenity. She didn't believe she could handle to play that part with her daughter again.

 

And what was with Uranus, Neptune and Saturn? Should she again let them die to see that she was the messiah and ultimately saviour of all that is?

 

'No I couldn't survive all these worthless deaths again. This time many things will change. Not only will my future daughter never face the wise man and transform into Black Lady, there will be no deaths of Uranus and Neptune as well as Saturn. This time I will change everything I never changed before in fear they could start to hate me if they knew who, what and how powerful I really am.'

 

*Sigh* A quick side glance showed that Mamoru was still debating at just what he should do now.

 

'He really is too cute when he thinks about all this. Maybe that's what I should change too. I will no longer let Mamoru hide behind his thoughts. He always thought there were a barrier between us, that I could only read his thoughts when he allowed me, but that's not true. He can read my thoughts as easily as I read his. There is nothing that holds us apart but he is so afraid to open himself......'

 

'I will just tell him everything I know about our soul bond. P uh, I didn't think it would feel so good to let go of the secrets I have hold so strong to me. Then I will have to change also my relationships with the senshi. I love them too as my friends and sisters but they have no right to meddle in my love life or the relationships I have.'

 

' They will have to accept that i may have been clumsy, sweet and innocent but that's no longer me. I am Serenity II., heir of the moon kingdom and silver millennium as well as the ginzuishou. Sailor Warrior of the Cosmos and all that exists as well as the soul harbringer of life. My life is my own and while my duties are sometimes too much even for me, they are still mine and I do follow them with relish.'

 

' I love to see new souls and stars born and to help other solar systems or planets to find their way into peace and freedom. They can still be my senshi, warriors to fight against evil, my guardians and princesses to their home planets. But they can't become manager to my life and bully everyone in that role and make them do what they want for me. Life doesn't work that way and it is time they worry about their own life's instead of mine.'

 

Nodding to herself Usagi stopped Mamoru and looked him into his eyes. He was still undecided what to do and Usagi was ready to help him in the way he needed: absolute truth about their bond and their secret identities as well as some of the changes she had made throughout the night. She still couldn't tell him everything as the story of Sailor Cosmos would bring poor Mamochan into a coma but she could help him understand her better.

 

“Mamochan please look at me.“ , asked Usagi softly and brought their both hands together, palm to palm.

 

“Mamochan you should know that there is more between us than just a fluke or the few past hours or even the last year when we first met, at least in this life.... No, please don't interrupt me. I need to say that in one rush or I will either forget it or have lost my courage to tell you this.“

 

Mamoru who had been on the verge to say something nodded and made a mental list as to what he wanted answers when Usako was finally finished with talking. Even when this looked like a serious talk and not one like the one about milkshakes and video games yesterday in the arcade.

 

“Mamochan first I want to tell you about the bond we have and why we are so in love with each other when we just started dating but still feeling as if we have known us forever. All begins thousand years ago when a wonderful princess was born. She was the princess of the moon and they called her Serenity.

 

The moon had been an wonderful kingdom. With seas, flowers and an wonderful pa last. The mother of the princess, the queen was an wielder of unlimited power. She wielded it with help of an Chrystal. The ginzuishou.'

 

Mamoru was nearly bursting out with questions about the moon princess and the ginzuishou and especially what he had to do with them but an serious and cold glare of his Usako left him silenced. It looked like his little Odango had more fire in spirit in her then he believed and he pondered it when Usagi told him more.

 

'The ginzuishou was so powerful that many thought with his power they could reign over the universe and many tried to steal it. But the queen always handled them with a gentle but strong hand and let them see their faults as well as their errors.

 

'But while the queen ruled over the ginzuishou and the moon kingdom she never ruled over the solar system. No, she had alliances with the other planets. Especially with their neighbor planet Earth. As her daughter, princess Serenity was born she made a contract with one of the earth kingdoms.

 

When they would cease their endless wars and finally unite most of their countries and kingdoms, she would give the hand of her daughter to one of the princes. Many kingdoms accepted her offering and began to work on peace on their planet.

 

One king stood out of everyone else. King Endymion IV. Was a man who helped the others to make peace and even began to trade with the moon kingdom. So the queen and the king betrothed Serenity and the king's son Endymion V.. The kingdoms were both joyful that this binding would bring both their kingdoms finally a warrant for more peaceful times and freedom.

 

But as the betrothal of the earth prince and the moon princess was made known, a hateful power began to awake. Oh it had been already some time on the earth but only now it could feel the beginning of a time where hate, jealousness and greed would begin to bubble up.

 

Many earth citizen did not agree with this treaty and wanted the ginzuishou in the hands of an earth leader who knew what to do with it. But they waited just for that leader and a time where they could finally do what they wanted.

 

Over seventeen years would pass before they could finalize their plans. Because one earth woman fell in love with the betrothed earth prince. He always deterred her advances with the excuse that he was betrothed to the moon princess. That made her jealous and hateful. She began to hate the princess and the moon kingdom.

 

Because of that hate she found a creature that was not from this world or even that galaxy. But driven b jealousy and greed the woman agreed to become a vessel and servant to the creature and became for that power and the ability to bring people on her side.

 

She really didn't need that ability because many had already protested against the treaty, now that the bonding was near. But what no one outside the royal family knew was, that the treaty would be already in power while the citizen still raged and ranted.

 

Serenity and Endymion had met when Serenity became fourteen, and while this is a time for earthlings still to find themselves, lunarian were already outgrown and had reached maturity. Naturally in war times the lunarians could let their children hold in the state of a child, but those were only done in times of great misery and need.

 

Serenity and Endymion fell in love with each other and were on the seventeenth birthday of princess Serenity bonded. This bond did not only bind their kingdoms and future but also their hearts, souls and destinies. No matter when or where, in which form they would meet, they would still recognize themselves. May it be in another life or anywhere else.

 

But the earthlings that protested against this had an evil plan. Because the official bonding should be on Serenity's eighteenth birthday they planned to attack the moon kingdom then and finally kill any habitant of the moon. If they had to they would also kill prince Endymion. The woman had through the creature the power to re awake him to one of her servants and with that to become her lover and husband.

 

On Serenity's eighteenth birthday they attacked as was their plan. But the woman didn't counted on Endymions love for Serenity and killed him accidentally. Full of grief over her lost love the princess killed herself to find peace in the afterlife with her love or to be reincarnated with him.

 

As the queen saw what happened to her daughter and her husband she called out to the ginzuishou in her grief. The moon had been overcome with shadow warriors, youmas were they called, out of the negaverse.

 

So the queen decided to give the protectors, her advisers and the young couple, her beloved daughter and her husband, another chance at a life as well as seal the negagverse and the evil creature who was guiding the young woman who was totally ruled by jealousness and greed.

 

But that had a terrible price. The queen also died, but she was damned to wait for the day when her daughter would come back and finally wield the treasure of the moon, her legacy, the ginzuishou.“

 

Usagi fought with the tears. To bring up all memories, the happy and the sad, had been hard for her. She still longed for the time when she hadn't been afraid that the thunder was the first strike against the moon. That her friends and subjects hadn't been murdered.

 

She looked at an anxious Mamochan who tried his best not to panic at the sight of her tears or her tale. He was confused but also determined to know where she knew from the moon princess and the ginzuishou.

 

She breathed deep in and began to explain to him just why she told him that.

 

“I told you this because it is the reason why we have this bond and the love we feel for each other. In fact I am Serenity II., heir of the moon kingdom and you are Endymion V. Prince of a earth kingdom and my husband thousand years ago.

 

But again we are not because our souls have not been awakened to these parts our personas. I know you are Tuxedo Kamen Mamochan..... and I am Sailor Moon”

 

Mamoru stared at Usagi with wide eyes. Frantically he thought if he could tell her otherwise but as he saw the tear stained but determined eyes he knew that he had no chance to persuade her. And she was Sailor Moon? His little Usako? Maybe he had underestimated her acting talent But when she told the truth then he had once been a prince. A prince that had been married or/and bonded with the moon princess.

 

Shell shocked he looked at Usagi who nodded slightly.

 

~Usako... is this bond also responsible that we can communicate like this~

 

~Yes Mamochan, we can communicate because of the bond like this and more. We can read each others thoughts and while I know that you don't like anyone to know ALL your thoughts you have to understand that this is normal for bonded couples. The lunarians and earthlings found it practical to read each other thoughts because no one should have secrets hidden from his husband/wife.~

 

~I understand.... But does that mean you can read ALL my thoughts. I mean even those that are ääh, well from more private nature or like surprises for the other partner?~

 

~Yes Mamochan all thoughts. But you can decide if you want to hear them or not. For example you could read now everything in my mind about my thoughts of you, the moon kingdom or Serenity. You just have to choose them.~

 

~Ah, yes I can see them. But I think at the moment I would like to know more about this bond and just why we suddenly found out now that we are soulmates and bonded.~

 

“That Mamochan has to do with me. I know you have noticed some changes in me but there are more than just being a little less clumsy or stupid. It has to do with everything I was and have become. I'm now not only less clumsy but also more agile, intelligent, strong and fast then before to name a few.

 

I also have no sugar addiction anymore Mamochan so you can put the idea away that I would beg you to buy me all the time food. The other changes are harder to explain but I beg you to be patient with me and hear me out.” With that Usagi began to breath deep in and launched her explanation.

 

“The reason for my sudden developement is that I may be still Tsukino Usagi but at the same time I'm not. I am much older than the true Usagi who would be at the moment just fifteen years old. I am in fact even older than time itself. As I can not tell you everything that happened to me I will just give you a short version as to why I have become someone with knowledge of an older self. Bear in mind that I can't tell you everything because that would not only disrupt the timespace continuum but also would bring an negative turn to our future.

 

I know I told you just that bonding partner shouldn't have secrets from each others but because I am different it has also have to be different between us. I'm sorry really......” Usagi was aware that she was rambling and not really explaining just why she has changed but the fear that Mamoru could reject her after he heard just who and what she was, hold her back.

 

~Usako I can feel your fear and it's more upsetting than anything you could say so just please tell me and don't try to hide anything that is allowed for me to know. If I know that you will always tell the truth and everything you can tell me, then I will be more open about this thing and can trust you more. Okay?~

 

“Yes Mamochan, sorry. I just......” *sigh*

“Mamoru just this morning I found myself suddenly in Tsukino Usagi's body totally confused as to how and why I was again fifteen years old and in my old room. Then as I meditated I became aware that my mother Queen Serenity and Setsuna, a trusted friend of mine, have left a message for me. That I now have the chance to corrigize everything that has been gone wrong for so long.

 

They knew that I would have sooner or later choosing my last avaiable choce. After I heard the message I let Usagi's and mine spirits merge so that I would have any memories of her fresh in my mind and still my normal memories and powers in me. So you could say that I am both Tsukino Usagi and a more mature woman than you have ever met.”

 

Mamoru looked at the young woman before him confused. It wasn't as If he doubted her. No it was just so that he couldn't bring his mind mind to accept that this wonderful, tiny and very very young was also a being that was older than time itself.

 

“Usagichan, not that I am doubting you, but you see you don't look like an well, very old being that is so old that even time would be dust and you still fresh as the spring if you understand what I mean.”

 

Mamoru still looked sceptical at his little Usako but through their bond he could only feel and see that she was saying the truth. As he slowly but surely demanded the knowledge just who she was and what her name had been before Tsukino Usagi through their bond, he could see that she left something out. Something important.

 

Usagi slowly began to smirk. Mamoru was still not that experienced with the bond that he had to focus inward to search and find knowledge he wanted to have and that was not flowing his way. She had still something to do before the bond between them would be totally open and free between them but that could not happen now.

 

As far as she remembers it had the incident in the tower with Zoisite that had been the first instance that their had been fully open. Still.... Mamoru would have soon access to the information he searched. Her late birthname and just who and what she has been then.

 

Without another pause she send the information, with a few exclosures down the link. She heard a gasp and saw that Mamoru now gaped at her with awe in his eyes and even a little bit of fear.

 

“ Mamochan before you start to ran and think that I am here to kill the whole earth population I want you to remember that I have watched over earth long enough and that I am in no way an danger for it.”

 

Usagi inspected again Mamoru's eyes and the bond. It seemed that after the initial panic that all his thoughts of danger from her has been layed to rest but the mindblowing awe was stil there. As well as his feelings of unworthiness of this woman and the sheer happiness that someone like her could co0me to love him.

 

“I know. Iknow Usako but....you are.....well....” Mamoru tried to concentrate again on the facts but it was hard.

To know that she has been living for so long, so many life's with him....HIM always on her side, so much love and then sorrow.......

 

He had seen only shadows of life's but that had been enough. For her to remember all life's so completely as if it were still she who lived them through....

 

Even in his mind Mamoru was still overwhelmed what this woman had been going through without once breaking down and ending her life as so much others would have done. Her love to him and her friends, even if he still didn't know some of the faces he had seen but would soon some to know it seems, had been the only constant.

 

He had seen himself pushing her away for some stupid nightmare, had seen himself as he hurt her more than anyone by cheating and so many other things he had done to hurt her.....

 

But through all this she had believed him and still believed that he was the only one for her. He didn't know if he should cry or not.

 

“Yui. I..... don't know what I should call you now. You had so many names and so many life's but....I know it's still you. May your name now be Tsukino Usagi or Chikyuu Yui it does not matter to me. You are still the woman I have started fallen for and now I can really appreciate what you are and mean to me. I also understand now better that you can not tell some things to me and will respect everything you tell me as absolute secret matter. That I promise you as future king and husband on your forevermore. May the final judgement damn me to the deepest hell if my vow becomes not true.”

Surprised at himself with these formal words he looked in the wide and surprised eyes of his fianceé. Endymion understood. Before there had been something between himself and the memory of his past life and the knowledge of the old him. Now that he had seen what Usagi had been through he was ready for the disturbing and dramatic memory of his past life and with that he had finally a part of himself back.

 

Usagi, or Yui she had been before, lokked at her fianceé with new eyes. He had finally his memories back and had vowed to hold everything secret between them with the vow of finality that could only be dismissed by her when the time came that she didn't need to hide herself from her friends anymore. But that, she knew, was still far in the future if ever.

 

At least she needn't worry anymore about anything that will happen now.

 

~I'm so happy for you Mamochan. Now you know about everything that happened in the Silver Millenium and why Beryl and Metallia is after us.~

 

Smiling took Mamoru Usagi in his arms. ~Yes I know Serenity. I know now that the negaverse is after us because of our love and the two chrystals that we have in us. But our love will conquer these stupid demons. Now worries there, darling.~

 

Usagi laughed as Mamoru twirled her suddenly around and laughed as well.

 

“Well Usako I believe we should leave now and bring youn home. The sun is already going down and I'm sure your mother is already worried about you. We will speak tomorrow. Do you know my mobile number? I could take you tomorrow to school if you want to.”

 

Nodding to herself Usagi answered positive and absently to him. She shuddered suddenly and knew that tonight was not only the girl's night with her mother but that today would also be her first fight. She could feel it already, the adrenaline and the changing wind of an coming conflict. Shuddering she got closer to Mamoru who thought it cute that she used the “cold excuse” to cuddle to him.

 

The rest of the way to Usagi's home was spent in silence and arm in arm, each other trying to be as near as possible to each without looking too desperate. At the housedoor ( Usagi's Otousan was god be praised not home but her Okaachan was secretly looking through the kitchen window what a fine man was bringing her daughter home.) the turtledoves shared a short sweet kiss before Mamoru was going home.

 

Flushing still with the feeling of her lovers lips on hers, Usagi opened the door and was dazed going to the stairs, to bring her bookbag and schoolthings into her room. But her plans were delayed when her mother called her to the kitchen.

 

“Usagichan could you please explain me who this handsome man were who brought you home? I thought your friends were going to be with you?”

 

Chargrined because Usagi did not want her mother to know just exactly who Mamochan was and the feeling to share her little boyfriend secret with her, Usagi said nothing. But after the long stare of her mother-

 

(...that every mother could do. You know the one that says that she has a right to know and makes you guiltier and guiltier the longer you have it on you. Usagi herself had brought her daughter to tell her everything about her date with Helios with that stare so she knows that you couldn't do any thing against it.)

 

- she finally broke down and decided to tell her everything (normal and totally teenage like) to satisfy her curiosity and bring one topic of their night to the front.

 

“Mama! Well tht super handsome and absolute yummy man is my boyfriend Chiba Mamoru. Oh Kaachan, you wouldn't believe just how cute he is and just how wonderful and he can kiss and he is so mature and cute and sooooooo cool and....”

 

Chuckling at the exuberant answer of her daughter who was still rambling just how cute and handsome, cool smart and son on her boyfriend was Ikuko decided to interrupt her daughter and to delay any more praises and description of the young man until her husband has come home, eaten and then gone to the cinema with her youngest.

 

“ Alright Usagichan, I do understand that your boyfriend is the best man in the world and no I do not want any objections to this Usagi. We will better wait until your father and your brother are out the house, ne? Then we can talk about your handsome, tall, black and mysterious stranger yes?!”

 

Usagi decided to make wide innocent eyes as if she was afraid of what her father said. To tell the truth it was important to her that her father stood behind her but at the same time he wasn't that frightening and he wouldn't do anything to her. Mamochan was a whoöe different matter.

 

Bouncing up the stairs Usagi opened her bookbag and took her homework out. She was bored to near stupidity but someone who knew everything that there is to know couldn't be excited to do such work. Nearly yawning after she had finished all assignments she heard the door to her room open and Shingo looking inside.

 

After the morning display he was still unsure how to act to this new, improved version of his sister. Oh Shingo had no problem to arguing with her or even playing pranks on her, but this Usagi seemed more mature. More like an grown up and someone to respect. He has always loved his big sister and had even be quiet when she was once not in her bed at night when she should have been.

 

Oh there had been plenty of times when he had looked in her room and she was not there but after some time she had always come back. Once she did not. That had been when Naru's Okaasan's shop has been broken in. Nothing had been stolen but his Oneechan hadn't been there the night. At the morning he had looked again and she had been there, but she was crying and sobbing into her pillow while her cat had been growling and hissing at her.

 

Now when he looked at her she didn't looked as if something like that could ever happen again but he knew that whatever happened to his Oneesama, he wanted to be involved to protect when she needed it.

 

“Neechan, Okaachan says that dinner is ready and when you have finished your homework you can choose the movies you want to see tonight.” Shuffling from one feet to the other Shingo stared at the cold blue, nearly silver eyes of his neechan. They assessed him, looking at him from the head to the toe. As Usagi was looking happy with the result, she nodded to herself and winked Shingo nearer to her and to close the door behind him.

 

“Shingo I know that my suddenly change in personality is worrying you and our parents but it has been something that would have come sooner or later. I want to share a secret with you that no one else but our family and those who I trust are to know, okay? I will later talk to Okaachan about the thing I will tell you now and at the weekend we all will talk together with Otousan, ne?

 

You know how Touchan can be if something goes not his way or he doesn't believe something. He will need us all to grasp the secret and be okay with it. I don't say that it won't be a shock for you too and that you may not believe me either but I know that you see and feel more things than our parents, don't you Shin-chan?”

 

Shingo stared with shock at his sister. He still remembered that he was called Shinchan when their were younger and were the best friends/siblings one could have. But that time was long ago and now she had a horrible secret?

 

Pondering just what it could be he began slowly to panic.... No she couldn't be? Or could she? That would explain her nightly outgoings and her comical behaviour as well as now mature attitude. God, if she was what he thought she was then she was right that their wasn't going to like it. Oh no he would freak and that would not even be reaction when he found out just who was behind it.

 

Gulping Shingo decided to just ask his sister because he hoped worser than his suspicion culdn't the secret be. How wrong he was would be eplained just in a few minutes.

 

“Neesan, do you mean.....well, do you mean you are pregnant?”

 

Usagi had been prepared for ranting about anything to everything under the moon what the secret could be. She even had been prepared that Shingo wanted to tell their Tousan outright and not wait for anything. But the question her little ,suspicious and entirely too bright for his age, niisan had asked her was just something she hadn't been prepared for.

 

She had seen how pale he had become after he had followed a line in his little head but to say she was surprised by the outcome of his line of thought was an understatement. She choked. Her niisan panicked, thinking she would start to sob or something and began to fidget even more. What at last came out of her throat was the heartiest laugh Usagi ever had.

 

She began laugh so hard that tears were starting to fall and she clutched her stomach in pain. Of all the incredulous thought that her brother can come, he had to come on this.

 

Still laughing in between of little hiccups of trying to breath, Usagi calmed herself and began to explain her niisan that his thoughts were in fact incredulous.

 

“Oh Shinchan, I have never laughed so much before. Thank you for that. Now I want to tell you, no I am not pregnant and no before today I had never even have a short relationship with someone where something like this could have happened. My secret isn't so explainable as a pregnancy or anything else that could ruin a normal teenager Shinchan”

 

Shingo, who had been about to ask if it were drugs or something like that, sanpped his mouth shut. The words “ruin a normal teenager” were hanging in his head and he pondered the meaning of them.

 

“ Usagi what exactly is then your secret especially if it isn't one a 'normal' teenagers could have. Even your different attitude doesn't make you unnormal and whoever said that should come to me and I will kick his ass! I promise, you have nothing to fear from such idiots!” Shingo was serious with his promise to avenge his Oneesama even when she was in the moment rather laughing at him again.

 

“Oh Shinchan never change! I love you too Niisan so don't worry. But you should know that it isn't the idiots that kick me around and hurt me, maybe even with words. No it's rather the exact opposite. Shingo I want you breath deep and then let me tell you my secret and the story that is behind it.”

 

Shingo took a deep breath and braced himself for the truth of the secret. Maybe his sister was an asskicking rockergirl that kicked asses daily for fun....

 

“Shingo, my secret is that I am Sailor Moon”

 

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silence

 

Silence descended in the room and only the wide and shocked eyes of Shingo and his gasping breathing as well as the rueful expression on Usagi's face were indicators that something happened.

 

“You are joking” A head shake “You are not joking” A head nod. “I see........... Wow how cool! Can I see it? Can I see transform and how you make the enemies into dust? Can I, can I?”

 

Usagi smiled at her little niisan and shook her head. That was what she needed, her little brother coming with her and looking how she fought against the negaverse. No that was the last thing she needed.

 

“Remember Shinchan, no one is allowed to know about this except those I say you're allowed to speak with or our family. Swear it by your name Tsukino Shingo, swear it!”

 

Gulping at seeing the serious glare on him he swore on his name that he wouldn't tell anyone the secret of Tsukino Usagi with exeption of those who already knew and were trusted friends and family members.

 

Satisfied with the oath of silence from her little brother she opened the door just in time to hear her mother call them down to eat dinner. Both Shingo and Usagi nodded to each other, the shared secret binding the two of them even tighter together as they descended the stairs.

 

“Ah there you are. Now eat up so you become even more stronger and taller then before.” Ikuko smiled at her children and together they were enjoying an quiet dinner. Her husband was not that happy. He had been working on the new story of the steady attacks on the citizen of Tokyo but no one ever saw anything but the Sailor Senshi fighting and then disappearing after killing the monsters.

 

He was very concerned because the newests shots they had become were in puncto faces unusable, as all photos, movies and pictures had been until now, but a team has via photo analytics calculated that the senshi were not older than fifteen years. The same age as his own daughter.

 

His own daughter who was most at the time not home at night in her bed but who knows where. He had not told his wife because he had been concerned what her reaction would be. In fact he did not know what she would say if she would know about his suspicions that Usagi is in fact one of the Sailor Senshi.

 

He had already many hints that Usagi was one of them. Bloody Bandages in her own bathroom one of them as well as the talking cat, Luna, that they housed who would either eat the same as them or fish. That this cat could not in fact eat catfood and despised it and did not an sandbox or something like that.. It was the most unusual cat in the world especially with the golden halfmoon on her forehead.

 

The only other cat he had ever seen that looked like her ( and he meant that understanding that Luna was the cat of Sailor Moon) was the cat of Sailor V. The white cat who had an identical sign on it's forehead. And that Sailor V was real he knew from his college friend Frank Granger. He may be dentist but everything about Sailor V as well as magical was fascinating for him.

 

He had always been a great fan of such and since the eleventh birthday of his daughter Hermione even more so. Why, Kenji didn't know but when Kenji had told Frank that his daughter in the same age was acting suspicious like one of those senshi's Frank had been the one to talk him out of irrational actions and to accept his daughter no matter what.

 

He had made a few hints that his own daughter was special too but how he didn't explained. Frank was proud of his daughter who was one year older than Usagi. At least Kenji now knew that more changes were most likely to come after this mornings explanation of his daughter. Maybe she finally opened up to her parents and told them . He could only hope.

 

After dinner Usagi made sure to choose one of the romantic and with happy ending movie. She choose Ella Enchanted as well as Pokémon The Movie and Pokémon The Power of One. Her favourite Anime beside the normal series and more serious one. Today was just for one and live one last time like Okaachan's little girl. After tonight and the coming out with her secret her life as it was would never b ethe same.

 

“ Hey Okaachan I have already choosen the movies we can look tonight and made already popcorn and nachos. Otouchan and Shinchan are also going soon. Have you something else to do for me?”

 

In the litchen was Ikuko surprised by the attentiveness of her daughter. The new maturity of her were pleasant and she looked forward just who her little hime had caught. Maybe the young man were in fact the right oujisan for her.

 

“No Usagichan there is nothing to do at the moment. Tousan will come soon down with Shingo and then we are finally free from the men this night. Well except of course when we talk of them.”, said Ikuko with a wink and shooed her daughter out of the kitchen.

 

Soon the footsteps of the men of the house were heard on their down to door and then to the movies. After a short kiss for both of the women Kenji was out with his little son and already were the talking about which the best action movie it was that just came out in the cinema.

 

Ikuko and Usagi made themselves at home on the couch before the TV and decided to see first Ella Enchanted one of Ikuko's favourites as well.

 

“ Usagichan can you tell me a bit more about the handsome young mn who brought you home so late? It would interest me where you met him and how long you are already together with him. Or was it just a friend?”

 

Usagi smiled at the open questions her mother asked. It had been always like her to just ask the questions she wanted answers and not to beat around the bush.

 

“His name is Chiba Mamoru and we are together since just today. We already know of each other at least three years but before it had always been more like a kindergarten squabble between us. He liked me but to show it he teased me and I was always hurt by it and tried to tease and argue back.

 

He is in major buisness because he is the heir of the Chiba finances. He also takes courses for medican because he likes to help and heal people and such a skill can always be helpful. He loves coffee as well as green tea is born at the first August. His parents died when he was nine and he still remembers nothing of before the car crash.

 

In fact in the hospital where he was after the horrible accident, was the same where you birthed Shingo and the first time we met each other. Touchan had given me two roses in the hand for you but I gave one to Mamoru and Touchan was really upset that I brought you only one until I told him that I presented it to one of the children here so he would not be alone.

 

The rose I gave him still lives as one of his rosevines you know?”

 

Ikuko smiled at the explanation and story of Usagi. It was as if she herself was fifteen again and had just met Kenji. She had always talked and talked and talked about her sweetheart just like Usagi did now. It was really hereditary that all women of her family could for hours and hours about their men. Soon she could take Usagi with her to the monthly coming together of their family where they all talked about their men and what they had done now to upset, please, hurt or surprise them.

 

“Kaachan.” Ikuko turned to her daughter at the serious tone of her voice.

 

“Kaachan there is something you should know. Something I have to tell you before it is too late.”

 

Now Ikuko was really scared. Her daughter's grave voice and her silver eyes that looked like they would pierce and judge her right now..... Silver eyes? “Usagichan your eyes are silver and...and what is wrong you look like someone could die any moment!”

 

At that Usagi winced but did not back down. “Kaachan you are right someone could die tonight. You always told me just to say the truth and to be responsible enough to shelter the consequences. Well Kaachan, I have to tell you I am Sailor Moon.”

 

Like a repeat of the confrontation earlier that day silence descended over the two women. The ending of the movie scrolled over the TV but none of them gave it any attention.

 

“I...Usagi....that....that is.....I don't know what to say.”

 

Ikuko looked again at her so young daughter who she had thought just began to mature to a young woman. But that was not true. Usagi was already so much more than just a young woman. She had seen people die and had to fight monsters as Sailor Moon.

 

“So you are Sailor Moon. And your friends in school and at the crown center are Sailor Senshi? You are hopefully not fighting alone and.....and Usagi....” Suddenly Ikuko broke out in tears. Her little baby had been already through so much and nobody knew it. Nobody had helped after the first encounter, the first fight that must have been at the Osa P. Jewelry.

 

Usagi took her mother in her arms she knew that any moment and call for help would come in but her mother needed to know that everything was going to be fine and if anything happened that Luna was there to help them.

 

“Kaachan, hear me out. Yes I have been through many things and only later I had help from my friends but I find that now I am accepting my duty to the earth and all that comes with it. Mamoru my boyfriend is Tuxedo Kamen and I know you loved always the gossip side of the newspaper where it stood that Tuxedo Kamen and Sailor Moon were an item. Now it's true.

 

But I wanted my family to know so that if anything happens you would know why it happens and that you could become help through Luna our little cat cause she is the cat of Sailor Moon you know.^.^ ”

 

Both women smiled at each other. One still in tears but now ones filled with happiness and proud of her daughter and the other with love and knowledge just how hard it is to let their daughter go into war with the end unknown.

 

Suddenly Usagi jumped out of the embrace as an all too familiar but very welcome voice echoed through her mind.

 

+Hime?+

 

+Yes?+

 

+We're here hime. All the Outer Senshi are here for your commands Sailor Cosmos, Hime of the Universe+

 

Out of one of Usagi's spacepockets was an beeping heard and Luna was just sprinting down the stairs while Ikuko looked first confused then pale and understanding at Usagi.

 

+Good my senshi. From now on we will show thos negaverse that they have no chance against us if we use our powers. Follow my call, my family and let them feel the anger of the royal family.+

 

+As you wish himesama. May our paths be illuminated by your light.+