Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Touch ❯ Touch 3 ( Chapter 3 )

MarshAngel

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rated R-NC17
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This is an alternate reality/first season story. There is NO Mamoru (Darien), NO Tuxedo Kamen, NO Rini and NO outer scouts. Usagi is known to be the Princess, they've defeated Beryl and they have no real memories of the past. Usagi and friends are around sixteen. Further explanations? Email.
This fanfic is tentatively rated R and if so requested I will change the rating to NC-17 but I don't think its too explicit so I'll leave it at R for now.

Touch
Chapter 3

Usagi walked into the class almost ten minutes late. She didn't rush and she didn't make any excuses, she simply arrived.

"Ms. Tsukino you're late, again."

"So it seems," she replied nonchalantly with a slight chill to her tone. The classroom was silent with tension in the air.

"I guess I'll see you in detention," he stated tersely.

"Actually I have another appointment," she countered weighting her words. "I believe you know all about it."

He said nothing further but she could see the muscles in his neck and jaw move, tensing in anger. Why should he be angry she wondered? He was the one who believed himself the object of her effusive and erotic affections, he should be overjoyed with his power trip. She, on the other hand had every reason to be angry.

She walked to her seat aware that eyes followed her. Everyone seemed to be aware of the negative tension in the air. She sat down and Makoto leaned forward to whisper in her air.

"What the hell was that about?"

Usagi shrugged.

Mr. Mitchell stopped her, as she was about to leave class.

"You were very rude this morning," he snapped.

She said nothing.

"I suggest you arrive on time to my class regardless of your personal problems or I will make sure you're suspended."

"Well since my personal problems seem to be entirely associated with you then I'm sure you can understand if I'm less than excited to wake up each morning to see you."

He was shocked she could see. She couldn't believe she'd actually said that and he looked as though her were about to suffer apoplexy. Not too long ago, such a thing would ever have even occurred to her.

"I hope you work out all your issues with Dr. Kurokomo because with that attitude I can assure you you'll never amount to anything."

"My issues?" she questioned with annoyance?

She pulled out the paper Dr. Kurokomo had given her and all but threw it at him. "Maybe they're not my issues at all!"

She walked out of the room leaving behind a copy of the essay she'd written. He looked it over in puzzlement. There wasn't anything in the least bit erotic about it. It was an essay on why detention was pointless.

"How did you get that essay?" Usagi demanded rudely when she walked into the good doctor's office after school.

He was leaning against the front of his desk in a casual position as though he'd been waiting for her to arrive. He merely smiled and looked her body up and down and ignored her question.

"How are you Usagi? Did you sleep well?"

Usagi turned a shade of white comparable to the walls of the office.

"What do you mean?"

"You were late to class again this morning and according to Mr. Mitchell you were very rude. Sometimes people get cranky when they don't sleep well," he informed as if it were the most intelligent thing he'd ever said. "So did you sleep well?"

"I guess so," Usagi replied. "Why?"

"Any interesting dreams?"

Usagi paled once more and then flushed a brilliant shade of red. It was as if he knew.

"Why do you ask?" she managed to sputter.

He shrugged casually. "It seemed the thing to do. Dreams are often our subconscious' way of working out many of our issues."

"I don't have any issues to work through."

He raised an eyebrow. "We all have issues although some of us would prefer not admit to them."

"How did you get the essay?" She asked again.

"You're not going to let that go are you?"

"No."

"It's not important."

"Of course its important. That essay is why I'm here."

"No. You're here because I asked you to be here. You didn't have to come if you didn't want to. You can leave whenever you like."

"Not until I know about the essay."

"Well I guess we'll be here a while." He smiled serenely.

Usagi stared at him incredulously. "You don't act like a psychologist," she accused.

"I don't recall claiming to be one." Usagi stared as him stunned.

"What do you mean?"

"I didn't tell you I was a psychologist."

"But Mr. Mitchell said…."

"Mr. Mitchell wouldn't know his head from his ass if I kicked him in it."

"Who are you?"

He stepped closer to her until he was a mere inch or two from her. The incredible closeness made her heart beat fast and she suddenly felt faint. She wanted to step back possibly all the way out the door but she was like a deer caught in headlights, frozen to the floor.

"I know who I am. The question is who are you?"

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?"

To her surprise he touched her cheek gently and tilted her head up. He kissed her hard and passionately thrusting his tongue into her mouth. He pulled her against him caressing her ass and letting her feel the growing evidence of his arousal.

Whoever you think you are Serenity, don't ever forget you're mine. You belong to me now and forever.

She knew he hadn't said the words out loud but she was also sure she'd heard them. It was Him! Her eyes flew open as his kiss eased and suddenly he wasn't there. Her eyes searched the room but she was alone in the office.

She was in shock.

She now knew the identity of her stalker, the man who'd caressed her in her dreams. She easily matched his blue eyes with the icy ones that had peered back at her for a mere second in the middle of the night. She knew no more of him now than she did before but he apparently knew a lot about her. Only one thing was sure; he wasn't Dr Kurokomo.

Usagi walked up the final flight of steps to Rei's temple home. She swore if she hadn't been in some semblance of shape the steps would have killed her a long time ago. It was a warm day so when she reached the top of the steps she found all the girls sitting outside beneath one of the numerous trees on the grounds.

She didn't really want to talk to them but she supposed she owed them some sort of an explanation. What she really wanted to do was… well she really didn't know but it wasn't this.

"Hi," she said casually as she plopped down beside them.

They all stared at her expectantly.

"What?" She questioned feeling uncomfortable beneath their expectant stares.

"We're waiting!" Rei snapped.

"For what?"

"An explanation," Mina replied.

Usagi shrugged casually. "I couldn't turn on my communicator, I was in a meeting with the school psychologist."

"What!" The four girls screeched and once.

"Why did you have to go see the psychologist?" Ami questioned.

Usagi sighed. She hated having to explain this.

"Mr. Mitchell seems to think I wrote him an erotic letter and thanks to what he thinks is previous erratic behavior and a less than stellar school record he took it upon himself to sign me up for some help. I don't see why he couldn't just be flattered."

Wide eyes stared at her unbelieving. "You wrote your teacher an erotic letter Meatball Head?" Rei shrieked.

"No meatballs," Usagi said pointing to her ball-free pony tailed head. "And I would like to think you'd know me a little better than that. Why does everyone just assume that he's right? Does it ever occur to you to ask me if I did it?" She snapped angrily

"Well did you?" Makoto asked.

Usagi rolled her eyes in annoyance.

"Of course not. Believe it or not, I don't make it common practice to write letters to my professors begging them to fuck me every which way possible!"

She was aware that eyes were staring at her in shock. She closed her eyes and breathed deeply trying to calm herself. "And stop giving each other looks like 'poor Usagi's losing her mind.' I'm perfectly sane just more than a little frustrated."

"So what exactly did you tell this psychologist?" Rei asked.

"Doctor patient confidentiality."

"Usagi! I hope you didn't tell him anything about us."

"Good god! Will you stop assuming that I'm the dumbest person on this planet? I'm not that stupid and believe it or not there's much more to my life than being a Sailor Senshi. Did it occur to you that none of that even came up in conversation?"

"Usagi there is no need to get angry," Ami tried to calm her.

"Why shouldn't I be angry Ami?" Usagi vented.

"Everyday something strange happens to me that makes me question my own sanity. Did you know I almost began to believe I'd actually written that letter; that all the strange things that have happened over the few days have actually all been in my head? Right now I'm still not sure.

"How can I be sure of anything in a world where everyday I wake up to face the possibility that I might die or one of my friends might die and all for what?

"I'm going home. I'll talk to you guys later. Maybe tomorrow I'll be more suitable for company."

She got up and stalked off in a hurry leaving behind her concerned and confused friends. They weren't the only confused ones.

If Dr. Kurokomo, she had no other name to call him, had been the one following her causing all the strange events, touching her, then he was a very powerful man? Was he even human? Was he good, evil, indifferent? Not good, she remind herself, definitely not good, but evil? She wasn't sure about that either.

He had never said a word to her that made any sense. He called her by a name she hadn't had for well over a millennia and he had manipulated the events in her life as if her were trying to push her over the edge of sanity. She was so confused. She'd almost made it to the bottom of the steps before she realized someone was tumbling fast after her.

She looked up to see Rei rushing down the steps at a ridiculous pace to catch up with her. She sighed and stopped to allow her to catch up.

"You know, you walk like you're trying to break the sound barrier on foot!" Rei yelled.

"What are you doing Rei?"

"I'm not letting you leave here until you explain what it is going on with you."

"It's nothing."

"Stop lying. What has been happening to you?"

Usagi paused wondering just how much to tell Rei. Wearily she decided on everything but not before securing her promise to keep it all to herself.

"I've been having these dreams," she began...

Usagi was nearing the end of her explanation, leaving out all the more lurid details of her dreams, when suddenly both their communicators began beeping. They answered the call reluctantly.

Usagi sighed, frowned, and reluctantly transformed, only to find Rei staring at her like she'd grown another head.

"What now?" Usagi asked. Nothing could surprise her at this point.

"Luna's theory about your hair worked. Your balls are back."

Usagi glared at Rei for her terrible little pun before turning and heading towards the sight of the youma spotting.

They raced across town with the other senshi meeting them at exactly the same moment at the location of the disturbance, outside an abandoned warehouse in a less than stellar section of town. They thrust themselves into a battle with the beast.

The battle was not going very well. The stupid youma was too fast to catch unawares and they were doing their best just to dodge its attacks. They were in the midst of battling the ugly four-armed fire-throwing monster when she saw him. She was so stunned she froze. What was he doing there? He was dressed all in black as before in yet another casual but exceptionally well tailored black suit. He walked onto the scene as though he didn't realize there was a battle going on

For a moment she forgot she was in the midst of a battle and she merely stared at him, their eyes connecting across the designated battleground as he leaned casually against a lamppost, his arms folded, watching her.

She didn't hear the screams or see the ball of flame heading directly for her. All she saw was a sudden flicker of change in his face before he disappeared right before her eyes. Everything went black and when she could see again she was standing where he had been, away from the battle, and his arms were wrapped tightly around her. She looked towards her friends who were staring open-mouthed.

The tree that had been behind where she'd stood just a second previously was now aflame. He'd saved her life.

With an angry look on his face he directed his arm at the youma and it immediately blew up in flames shrieking painfully as it died.

"You little fool!" he snapped at her. "You always were such a reckless fool."

She tried to push away from him but his arms held her tight to him.

"Who are you?" She asked. He was so confusing.

"I'm insulted you don't remember your lover Princess," he snapped with equal amounts of annoyance and amusement.

She didn't have a chance to respond as her friends rushed over towards them.

"Let her go you evil bastard!" Jupiter demanded angrily.

Usagi was beyond confused. "Will someone please explain to me what the hell is going on!" She demanded.

"Your little friend doesn't seem to be at all grateful that I saved her princess's pretty little ass," he said to her holding her tight against his body.

"You were the one who sent that damn youma and put her in danger," Rei snapped.

Usagi's eyes widened with realization and understanding; so much of it made sense. This was the general they had seen. He knew who she was; had always known, and he'd been toying with her like a cat with a mouse. He'd been the one to write the letter, the one who'd touched her while she slept, the one who'd pretended to be her psychologist. It was no wonder he hadn't been good at his job.

She was going to be sick. It was all some sick game to toy with her mind and when it was all over he'd probably just kill her and her friends.

Stop thinking Serenity. You might hurt yourself.

Usagi's eyes widened in surprise and anger. He'd read her mind, yet another violation.

"Let me go you prick!" She tried to elbow him in the stomach but he was prepared.

"Hmm. That wasn't quite what you said last night."

Mouths opened all around including her own. She stomped on his toe and he winced in pain releasing his hold on her. She turned around and threw a quick punch to his jaw. "You're never touching me again you bastard and if you try I will blow you off this planet."

Her punch had caught him by surprise but had done very little damage. He was now very angry however. The icy anger in his eyes made her take a step back.

Her friends prepared to attack now that she was no longer in his grasp. He felt the anticipation of their attack in the air and took the defensive. He created a shield that trapped them and prevented them from getting any closer.

Faster than Usagi could take another step he grabbed her arm and pulled her back against him.

"Don't make the mistake of thinking you'll ever escape me. You are now and always have been mine and I suggest you don't forget it like you've forgotten everything else."

She felt his hand settle on one breast and he squeezed hard. She winced in slight pain. He loosened his grip and teased her nipple, playing with the hardened nub through her clothes.

She was aroused by his touch and it disgusted her. It was embarrassing to have her friends watch him touch her as though her body were his personal property.

"Who are you?" she asked again.

"Since it seems you won't remember me without some help, allow me to introduce myself. Endymion IV, Prince of Earth at your service. For all your heroic deeds, technically you and your little friends are trespassing on my planet, Princess.

Usagi's eyes opened wide in surprise and confusion.

"For my next trick perhaps I should reintroduce you to yourself because it seems you've forgotten just exactly who you are."

Usagi wore an even more confused look.

"Once upon a time princess," he began informatively, " a few thousand years ago when you were a spoiled and pampered brat of a princess I came to the moon at the invitation of her royal highness Queen Serenity. I wasn't particularly welcome there; your mother was never one for opinions that differed from her own. She wanted to bring earth under her control and make it into an addition to her perfect, boring, and passionless little world like she had with all the other planets. She hadn't counted on multiple sources of opposition including the most important opposition; mine."

He seemed to direct his words to her as well as her friends as he spoke. "Amazing how she wasn't aware what a naïve but curious little bundle you would turn out to be. Apparently your perfect little world wasn't enough for you. You were looking for some excitement.

"He chuckled a little at a joke only he was aware of. "You were such a foolish young girl," he said harshly. "You of course thought you could tease me with your little girl games and have some fun. You obviously needed to be shown a taste of what only the harsh reality of earth could give you, and so I did, many, many times over and you enjoyed every lesson." He ran his hand up her thigh.

Usagi's face turned fire red with embarrassment.

"Unfortunately, sleeping with the enemy is a treasonous act, Princess. But you didn't seem to mind; you liked being in my bed. I used to mysteriously find you between my sheets although you knew the last place in the solar system you should be was on earth. You betrayed your kingdom for me do you remember that? You betrayed your fiancée, and then you betrayed me."

Usagi paled. The dream she'd had came rushing back to her. It wasn't just a dream, but a memory. And it seemed so many memories came rushing back all at once. They'd shared numerous passionate encounters mostly between the sheets and others like the fight they'd had in her dream. He'd been so angry with her.

It had been an ongoing argument. She hadn't told her mother about them and worst yet she hadn't told her fiancée Mael. Theirs was a betrothal that had been arranged since she was a child and until she'd met Endymion she'd been perfectly accepting of the match.

Maybe she had been a spoilt child and unprepared for the demands Endymion made on their relationship but he had wanted her to stand up before her mother and representatives of the entire solar system and admit that she had committed an act of treason by consorting with the enemy, broken her betrothal contract and put her world and possibly his at risk for a war with her fiancée's planet as well as placing the current and already shaky negotiations between the earth and the moon in jeopardy. And all for what? So the people of Earth could keep their autonomy and freedom to practice their magic?

She hadn't dared to tell him, but she wasn't as convinced as he believed that what he wanted was worth fighting for. She had lived under the rule of Serenity and had been groomed to rule in her mother's footsteps all her life. Was it really all that bad? Was maintaining Earth's individuality among the planets really worth what it was already costing the people of his already war torn world?

He hadn't cared. He had believed that if she had stated her opinion and admitted that she thought the people of earth should be able to live free of interference from her mother that she could have changed her mother's mind. If she'd shown that not everyone agreed, or should have to, with having Queen Serenity as head of every planet in the Solar System, the council would back down on the demand that Earth join the planetary alliance and commit its resources to the defense of the moon kingdom and the solar system and allow Moon Kingdom laws and customs to be instituted on the planet.

When Endymion had refused to join the alliance at the behest of the Queen, all planets and moons had evacuated their trading posts on Earth executing a severe blow to economies all over the planet. The merchants had wanted the same laws on earth as everywhere else in the solar system and they had wanted, what they referred to as 'dark magic' outlawed. They may have been willing to forgo the laws for a while and remain on earth during the negotiations if Endymion would outlaw the use of 'dark magic' but he had refused.

What they had referred to, as 'dark magic', were gifts that had come naturally to his people. How could he outlaw something as fundamental to their existence as water? How could he outlaw it when his own terrifying powers came from the very same source, the earth herself?

What the council wasn't truly aware of, though he thought the queen suspected, was that his parents had made an unholy alliance with a building force on earth, one he couldn't easily break. It was a cult built around an unknown but powerful force that was converting many of his people, convincing them that the moon kingdom would eventually aim to gain control by any means necessary. Already there had been violence against supporters of the moon kingdom, and before the evacuation vandalism and threats against extra-Terran merchants. If he wasn't able to convince them by providing a written pact with the moon kingdom promising no interference from Queen Serenity or from the alliance, the balance of power would shift and he wouldn't be able to convince his people not to take drastic measures.

The ultimate irony was that the very reason Queen Serenity was pushing hard for involvement in earth matters was because of the building dark force that guided the cult. It was her obligation to protect the solar system and all planets therein. Whether or not Earth wanted her interference would all be irrelevant if the cult continued to grow.

Endymion continued to speak and Usagi's mind snapped back to the present.

"Do you remember Serenity?" he questioned harshly.

"Yes," she whispered painfully.

"Then you'll remember how you refused to stand by my side. When the time came and I needed you to make a decision you chose the coward's way out and took your mother's side. You ran home to your safe little world and back to your useless fiancée and you condemned my world to the likes of Beryl.

"When I couldn't convince my people that the moon would not interfere with their lives they fell easily under the control of Beryl who offered them power and control over their own destiny. As you know she lied."

"My world suffered too," Usagi stated weakly.

"Because of your weakness."

Usagi paled. He blamed her for the end of the Silver Millennium. She felt both guilty and angry, more the latter than the former.

"What did you expect?" She spat angrily, turning forcibly out of his arms and facing him. "That I'd actually marry you and take up your cause? You accuse us Lunarians of idealism but you were always more idealistic than anyone I've known! What you wanted was impossible!

"It didn't matter what we had together I had to put the safety of my people first. It's what I was raised to do. If that meant marrying a man I didn't love then I'd do it so I wouldn't risk war by breaking my betrothal."

"And you didn't think that he would find out all about how well you'd kept to that contract on your wedding night? Did you think you could come back to my bed after you'd spent the night in his?" He fired back. "I don't know if you noticed but there was a war anyway." He replied bitterly.

"Yes there was and whether or not I made a stand with you would have made no difference. Beryl was determined and nothing you could have done was going to stop her. In fact, I have a hard time believing you were so naïve that you actually believed that getting my mother to agree not to interfere would have changed anything. If she'd interfered a little sooner a war may have been avoided and Beryl eliminated before her power had grown."

He sneered at her. "You know something, you're absolutely right I was naïve. I actually believed you were different from your mother; that you were capable of seeing outside your narrow view. Even if there were no Beryl your mother would have made it a point to interfere in the lives of people who had no desire for her to be their queen."

"Did you ever ask them Endymion? Did you ever ask them whether they would accept peace over the constant wars? Did you ask them whether they would have liked the opportunity to eliminate easily cured diseases or revolutionize their lives with new technology?"

He growled at her. She could hardly believe it but he growled at her. "It is very fortunate for you that I am a man in control of my temper or else I'd snap your neck for that little insult. They were my people I knew what they wanted."

"I didn't mean to insult you Endymion," She said placating, as she felt his power surge with his anger. All I'm trying to say is that the Moon Kingdom offered your people a great deal including the opportunity to expand trade between planets and you turned it down.

"And what would they have had to give up in exchange for the wonders of Lunarian technology? You'd have them be brainless sheep who live in awe of the silver crystal and worshipped Queen Serenity as though she were a goddess? We have more spirit than that. But I guess you'd know nothing about that."

Usagi sighed in frustration. "This is all irrelevant! The Moon Kingdom is dust, my mother is dead and so is Beryl. In fact I can't believe you're really upset about that. It's been millennia. I'd hope you were over that by now."

He smiled coldly. "Unlike you, my emotions are real. I can't just shove them aside whenever it suits me."

"So you're still upset about my leaving you for Mael?"

"You would like that wouldn't you? You'd like to think that I was moping over losing you to some pathetic blue-haired wimp, that I got angry every time I thought about you two in bed? I've had millennia trapped in the Dark Kingdom to get over you. The only thing that I can't seem to get over is this."

He grabbed her and pulled her hard to him and pressed his lips to hers violently. She tried to push him away, refusing to subject herself to his touch again, making her feel things she didn't want to. She tried but she couldn't stop the desire that welled up inside her. She returned his kiss with equal ferocity.

His hands traveled the length of her back reaching lower to cup her ass, pressing her closer to his hardness. She moaned softly against his lips as he groped her body through her clothes. She felt his hot breath on her neck. He kissed her lightly and ran his tongue over her skin.

Her temperature seemed to have shot up ten degrees as she ground her hips against his hardness. She would gladly have ripped her clothes off just to be closer to him if she could and it was that realization that sent reality rushing back.

She gave him a hard shove away from her. She turned to glance at her friends who were staring at them in open-mouthed shock. Her entire body flushed red with embarrassment as she realized her friends had been listening this whole time and watching as she had all but made love to the man right in front of them.

"You are as passionate as always Serenity," he stated smiling. I just have one question? Did he make you scream the way I do?" He disappeared before she could respond.

"I'll wait until we're alone Serenity. Then you'll remember what it is like to have me inside you."

Usagi shivered in a mixture of fear, excitement, and anger.