Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Alone ❯ Chapter Ten: Chibi-Usa's Disappearance ( Chapter 10 )

Alone
Chapter Ten: Chibi-Usa's Disappearance

By Selenity Jade
Rated: PG13

 

Disclaimer: I have hospital bills up my ass. I only wish I could make money off of this. Sadly, that's not the case. So obviously I don't own it.

 

Pairing: Usagi/Mamoru

 

AN: Updated 03/23/08

 

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Mamoru stared over empty Crystal Tokyo. It was disconcerting to see such a futuristic place so deserted. Shouldn't it be full of life, people, and children? It was beautiful, and uninhabited. Cold, lifeless.

 

He had seen the crystal coffin that held the future version of Usagi. Neo-Queen Serenity looked like she was sleeping, but it was a sleep of death. She didn't move, didn't bat an eyelash, nothing. She looked... almost dead.

 

He had looked at her distantly. It bothered him seeing her like that, but she wasn't truly his Usako, and with the pain and anger of having his own love taken from him, seeing another version of her at death's door didn't seem as painful as it should have. She looked like Usako, but she didn't feel like her to him.

 

From the first moment he laid eyes on her, he had felt her. It was almost impossible to explain. Maybe it was some leftover phenomenon from when he had been Endymion, since he remembered feeling Serenity the same way.

 

It was almost a little tickle in his mind and his heart. He always knew when she was near and he could sense her distress or pain if it was strong enough. It was the same in both lifetimes. When he first met Usagi, just as the crumpled up test paper hit his head, it was like a soft click resonated in his heart.

 

And everything fell into place.

 

He had been awful to her. She scared him. Her openness, her love for everything, her complete trust in everything and everyone, and the way her eyes seemed to bore into his soul terrified him.

 

So he resorted to being a complete jackass instead of fleeing in terror like a little boy. It had seemed like a good idea at the time...

 

Unfortunately, they kept running into each other, so often in fact that it became difficult to keep the facade up. And when he began to notice the missing time in his days, which he later found out was because he was transforming into Tuxedo Kamen, he became even worse. He was frustrated and angry that he couldn't remember how he had gotten home or where he went yesterday, or why he had a bruise on his arm, and he found it remarkably easy to take it out on the blonde, childish girl.

 

Just riling her up made the anger dissipate and he couldn't stop. She made it better, even before he knew her and came to love her again.

 

And now... she was gone.

 

She wasn't here to make the agony in his heart lessen. And he wasn't sure he'd be able to get her back, to let her heal his heart more. He had hurt her so much before this, he wasn't even sure he deserved to get her back.

 

He was losing hope.

 

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Usagi opened her eyes slowly, the hazy shadows of the room she was in all blurring together. She was tired, so tired... She didn't even know why she kept fighting to stay awake anymore.

 

Why did she fight the blissful nothingness of sleep...?

 

And finally, she gave in, and closed her deep blue eyes again, giving into slumber.

 

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Diamond watched her from the shadows. He hadn't moved from the soft chair in nearly two days. Only at Sapphire's insistence did he eat and only when his brother brought it to him. He purposely ignored his brother's warnings and his pleading about letting Sailor Moon go.

 

He couldn't do that. Not after he had just gotten her. He knew it was a dangerous obsession. He had stared for hours at the holographic image of Neo-Queen Serenity and he didn't care that it was bordering on madness anymore. He had to have her. She was beautiful. She was pure...

 

She was the exact opposite of him. She was from the White Moon, while he was from the Dark Moon. She was pure while he was corrupt. She desired peace. He wanted revenge.

 

She was everything he wanted to be and couldn't. Not if his people were going to live. He should have been able to grow up on a planet with flowers and plants and with sunlight. He should have been happy.

 

He should have had the life that she had led, but he hadn't. It was people like her who banned his entire race to Nemesis. But a part of his heart yearned to return, to work out something, to be what she was.

 

He wondered if he had lived on the Earth instead of on Nemesis, if he would have been the one to capture her heart. Endymion did not deserve her. He cherished her, he desired her, and he would kill for her.

 

He wanted her too much.

 

And he didn't give a damn.

 

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The King of the Earth walked up behind Tuxedo Kamen as he sat on the railing of the balcony that overlooked the city. He was concerned for his past self. Even now, only hundreds of years of learning patience and how to deal with crisis kept him calm. His wife was counting on him to help everyone, to save everyone, even her. And yet, he knew if it came down to a choice between her and the rest of the Earth, Serenity would want him to choose the people.

 

She'd die to protect everyone. And she'd do it with a smile on her face.

 

And his daughter, their only child... was missing.

 

"Tuxedo Kamen," King Endymion began, alerting the younger man that he was there. "Chibi-Usa is missing. I can't find her anywhere."

 

Endymion wished he didn't have to impart more bad news on the man, but he needed his help. He couldn't save his daughter as a hologram. He couldn't...save anyone this way. When Tuxedo Kamen glanced at him in growing horror, he wished he had been strong enough to protect everyone...

 

His daughter should have been safe in the palace gardens! The barrier the Senshi erected should have protected her! Had someone lured her outside the protections?

 

"I need your help to find her."

 

Tuxedo Kamen looked torn and Endymion couldn't blame him. Torn between wanting to save the woman he loved and the child he hadn't had yet, but loved just the same.

 

Finally, the warrior straightened, the despair disappearing from his gaze. This was the man who had lived through being the only survivor of a car crash that took his parents away. This was the man who was used to being abandoned and unwanted by everyone. This was the man who pushed all the pain and anguish aside to think, to act, to live.

 

"I can't save Usako right now. We don't know how to reach her. I can search for Chibi-Usa though. Do you have any idea where she could have gone?"

 

The King shook his head. "No, I only found Puu here..." He held up the large floating kitty head. "Perhaps you could follow it. It is attuned to my daughter, it should seek her out. If she is able to be found..."

 

Tuxedo Kamen nodded, and took the ball. He started into the palace.

 

"Tuxedo Kamen, please... Protect and save my daughter."

 

Mamoru glanced behind him and nodded in understanding at the King. "With my life."

 

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AN: Yes, it's short, but that's a good ending spot.

 

Lovies!