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"AIIIEEEE!" shrieked a blonde tornado as she whizzed down the stairs into her kitchen, all the while screaming to her cat back in her room. "LUNA, WHY DIDN'T YOU WAKE ME UP?" The girl looked to be around fifteen years old, wearing a sailor suited uniform for her middle school. Two buns adorned the top of her head on either side, with long streams of blonde hair falling from them reaching her knees.
Just another normal day in the Tsukino household.
The cat, Luna, only sighed knowing no answer could reach her frantic charge. She had already been flung into the wall only moments beforehand and did not wish to repeat the experience twice in under five minutes.
The blonde dashed into the kitchen, aiming to just grab her lunch and a piece of toast before fleeing to the children's prison- otherwise known as school. Her blue-haired mother calmly handed her a pink lunchbox before turning back to the counter to fix her younger child's noon-time meal.
"Try not to get detention, Usagi," she warned the blonde while still fixing her son's lunch.
The blonde, now known as Usagi, paused and winced at the doorway before hurrying onwards on her mad dash to school. She tried not to get detention! It wasn't her fault she had to save the world from bloodthirsty youma every night and still be expected to maintain a C average in school. She even had more responsibility than the rest of the Senshi, being the Moon Princess and the leader. Usagi's thoughts were put on hold as she crashed into a familiar chest at a street corner.
"We have to stop meeting like this, Odango Atama," teased the man standing over her. He was significantly taller than the blonde at his feet. His silky black hair waved slightly as he bent over to help Usagi to her feet. "Sorry, Usako. I just couldn't help remembering the days when we first met and I teased you relentlessly," he added on to his earlier statement into her ear.
"That's alright, Mamoru-baka." Usagi grinned up at him, also reverting back to old times. Him being her boyfriend and soulmate, otherwise known as Chiba Mamoru. Being held in her beloved's arms caused Usagi to totally forget about school and the reason she was running so fast in the first place.
Apparently, Mamoru forgot too because he leaned down to give his girlfriend a soul-searing kiss. It took a few moments for him to remember until he hastily pulled away and gave his Usa a short shove towards her school. "You've got class, Usako!"
Usagi still was not comprehending what her boyfriend was saying. Her eyes were still glazed over and her only thought was of why her Mamo-chan's warmth disappeared. Then his words suddenly registered with her brain and she shot off, leaving a trail of smoke behind her and a man whose heart told him he should have just shut the hell up.
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Tsukino Ikuko sighed as she stared out her kitchen window. The morning dishes were all washed and her house was scrubbed clean- except for her daughter's bedroom. But it wasn't her job to clean Usagi's mess or she'd never learn responsibility.
Sometimes Ikuko wondered if her daughter would ever grow up. Her grades were poor, her manners inadequate, and she seemed to be slipping from the family more and more. It was all one huge mystery that she didn't think she'd ever figure out.
But for now, she was bored and dwelling on Usa's problems was as good a way to pass time as any.
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"Late again, Tsukino!" shouted a very angry Haruna-sensei at the cowering girl. "And what is your excuse this time? Your cat didn't wake you up?" mocked the teacher as her student nodded dumbly and made her way to her seat.
Usagi sighed. It wasn't her fault she was late! It was Luna's fault for not waking her up! And her Mamo-chan didn't make her any earlier, kissing her like he did...not that she minded that much while she was actually mouth-to- mouth with him, but now she was paying the consequences.
"Daydreaming?" asked the even angrier-than-before voice of her teacher, Haruna-sensei. "Usagi...can't you even get through 5 minutes without tuning me out? Detention! And no excuses!" Usagi moaned and banged her head against the top of her desk.
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Later on in the afternoon, just as Usagi was getting out of detention, her communicator went off. 'Never a day when there isn't a youma to destroy,' she thought to herself while answering it to see Mar's face.
"Get your ass over to the mall parking lot NOW, you Odango Atama!" shouted the fiery Senshi before closing the connection to continue fighting.
'Well, duty calls...' thought the odangoed one to herself as she held up her broach. "Moon Crystal Power!" she shouted aloud and amid a dazzling array of lights and ribbons, she had transformed herself into the legendary Senshi of Love and Justice: Sailor Moon. Not wasting a second, she rushed to the battle.
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"Ugh, that was a nasty battle," remarked Sailor Moon as she surveyed her injured leg.
"Stop whining, Baka! Mercury said you'll heal fine, and I definitely don't want to hear your complaints!" bawled Sailor Mars, whirling on her leader. "You could've been killed if Tuxedo Kamen hadn't shown up when he had! What were you thinking, are you stupid or something?" she ranted, pointing out Moon's various faults.
"Leave her alone!" defended her boyfriend. Her Tuxedo Kamen-sama. Her Endy. Her Mamo-chan.
Mars held up her hands in frustration and growled at her leader. "The next time you decide to jump in the line of fire, don't expect any help from me."
"But it was an accident!" Moon protested. She looked to the other Senshi for help, but they sided with Mars. Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury looked away from the pleading eyes of their princess.
Kamen sighed as he bent to scoop up the fragile form of his girlfriend. "C'mon, Usa," he coaxed. "Let's go to my place so I can fix you up." He took his leave, still carrying his girl, and leapt back to his apartment via rooftops until he landed on his balcony.
Gently, he laid Sailor Moon on his bed and detransformed into Chiba Mamoru. "I'm going to get my medical supplies- don't hop anywhere while I'm gone," he teased.
"As if," she mumbled as she detransformed herself back into her civilian form of Tsukino Usagi.
Moments later, her boyfriend returned with a first-aid kit to clean and bandage her wounds. Usagi's leg twitched slightly as Mamoru's hand lay there longer than necessary. Of course he didn't mean anything by it, ne? Her Mamo-chan was a very honorable guy and wouldn't even make-out with her in the park if he sensed someone else coming along.
But then again, they loved each other and if he was finally showing signs of being ready...who was she to stop him? Especially when it was something she wanted, too. And they were alone; something that hadn't happened in a long time due to Chibi-Usa's presence and Mamoru's nightmares warning him to stay away from her.
Her thoughts were cut short when his lips descended upon hers. Instead of his normal sweet and gentle caresses, this kiss was filled with the hunger and desire of his innermost feelings. Usagi's lips responded with equal fervor as she slowly slid her arms around his neck and pulled him closer.
"Mmm...Mamo..." she moaned against his mouth while he answered with a husky call of his own need. "Usako...Aishiteru..."
"Aishiteru, too...Mamo-chan..." she mumbled back, pulling his lips further onto hers.
His tongue slowly outlined the features of her lips before nudging them open and plunging it in to explore the inside of her mouth. Her own tongue, joyous for his invasion, rubbed against his own slick with spittle. Their tongues danced together inside her mouth as Mamoru's arms came up to crush Usagi's body against his own. Both their hands were entangled in the other's hair, holding their heads in place.
Unable to support both their weight with the intensity of their kiss, even whilst sitting on his bed, he leaned his Usako to the mattress and climbed on top of her, effectively pinning her to his bed with his body.
Breaking away just far enough to gulp in much needed air, Usagi shot him a questioning glance. "Mamo-chan?" He had never gone so far as to plaster his body on top of hers- and on a bed no less!
"Hm?" Mamoru smiled down at her. His princess was so beautiful...but he had to squash his feelings of desire before they did something they might regret. "Usako?" But before she could say a word, his lips were already ravishing hers.
'So much for squashing lustful feelings,' taunted his brain while his heart and body urged him onwards. Again, breaking away for air, he let her catch her breath as he trailed hot kisses down her neck, across her shoulder, back again, up her cheeks, past her temple to the center of her forehead, and finally to below her ear where he suckled and bit to mark her as his own.
"Mamo-chan?" Usagi gasped as her boyfriend continued his assault.
"Sh...Usako..." he murmured against her neck as he continued his 'mission.'
"Aishiteru," they both mumbled again at the same time. They looked at each other and giggled before returning once again to their previous activity.
"Usa?" Mamoru lifted his head from her wet neck to gaze down on his beloved.
"Hai, Mamo-chan?"
"I love you...and since you love me back...and because we've proven ourselves and our love through more obstacles than neither of us thought possible..." he trailed off, looking helpless.
Usagi got a sly look on her face. "You want me."
"Huh? Of course I want you. I love you. I've loved and wanted you for two lifetimes, or have you forgotten that?"
"Of course not! I'm just making sure that's where you're headed with this...because if it is, I don't mind. I love you and I'm sure dying for our love, being reincarnated, finding each other again, getting you back from being brainwashed, restoring your memory from amnesia, and struggling through nightmares telling us to stay apart are more effective that any wedding vows. We've lived our wedding vows. We know we have a daughter in the future, for Kami's sake!" Usagi explained. "What I'm trying to say, Mamo-chan...is that I think we're ready for this."
Mamoru looked into her sky-blue eyes and slowly but surely nodded. "You know I could never disappoint you, my princess. My Usako."
Slowly, their emotions got the best of them and they gave in to their love, neither feeling the tiniest regret.
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Ikuko paced the floor or her living room. It was 11:00 at night, and nobody had heard hide nor hair of her daughter since early that afternoon. What had that girl gotten herself into now? Her husband, Kenji, worriedly put a hand on her forearm to stop her nervous pacing.
"Should I call the police?" he asked.
Ikuko shook her head. "It's no use. There's nothing they can do until she's been missing 24 hours...which she hasn't!" She groaned and placed her hands over her face as she wept softly for her daughter. "Oh, Kenji...what if something happened to her? I couldn't bear it if anything did...I may be strict on her, but I am her mother and I do care about her..."
"I know." Her husband gently put his arms around his wife and led her to the couch to rest, comforting his wife the best he could.
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Hours later, the couple in love lay spooned together, nude, reveling in the ecstasy of their intimacy. They lay tangled in Mamoru's bed sheets and in each other. They had never even imagined such a soul-bonding connection could exist...of course they'd heard of it, but experiencing their love unify their souls even more together made it all the more real.
"Mamo-chan?" Usagi got her boyfriend's attention by snuggling closer to him.
"Yes, my Usako?" he answered, smiling down on her as he sat up.
"I know this is a private question..." she started off whispering.
"After what we've done, I'd hardly call anything else private- or at least nothing we can't share together," Mamoru replied.
Usagi blushed before looking her boyfriend in the eye. Cerulean eyes met sky-blue so intensely she thought maybe they'd begin again what they started hours earlier. Reluctantly, she pulled her gaze away to gather her thoughts.
"Well, you obviously know I'm a virgin...or I was," she corrected herself, shooting Mamoru one of her dazzling smiles.
"Yes, and you're wondering if you were my first?"
"Um, yeah." She looked at her hands, embarrassed, before he tilted her head up once again to meet his eyes.
"I've never even looked at another woman besides you, my Usako. I closed myself off from everyone after my parents died. At least until you came along. No other woman has ever had the luxury to experience what you have, or ever will. Understand me, Usa?" His eyes held the semblance of his truth and love for her.
Tears gathered in Usagi's eyes from her happiness. "Thank you, Mamo- chan..." she stated before she flung herself at him and wrapped her arms around his strong frame.
He said nothing, instead returned her embrace. He looked outside his balcony door over her head and noticed, with growing anxiety, just how dark it was. "Usako? ...Do you know what time it is?"
"Iie," she gasped and whirled around to look at his clock. "2:00 a.m.? I'm so dead when I get home!" she panicked.
Mamoru groaned, wondering if Tsukino Kenji would find out about the sexual escapade he had had with his daughter. And whether he'd let Mamoru die quickly. "Your father's going to kill me."
"Neither of my parents know about you..." Usagi remarked. "You're safe. It's me that's going to die..."
"Either way, I'd still like to escort you home. I'll drop you off a block from your house, ne?" Mamoru suggested.
Usagi giggled. "I am Sailor Moon, Mamo-chan. I can protect myself, you know."
He looked hurt. "I thought I was your protector, Usako. I'm not letting you leave alone, so let's go." He got up out of bed and began to dress himself, his soul-mate following suit. In a matter of minutes, they were in Mamoru's red convertible and speeding towards the Tsukino residence.
Mamoru stopped his car a block from Usa's house, as he had promised. "Whatever happens...it was still worth it, ne?" he asked, searching her eyes.
"Hai!" she responded enthusiastically. She hugged him quickly once more and leaned up to give him a final kiss before bouncing off into the night towards her house.
"Aishiteru, Usako," he told the wind as he watched her scurry back home.
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Cautiously, Usagi opened the front door of her house and peeked into the living room. And gulped. Both her parents were staring at her; her mother was crying. Before she could begin to explain herself, she was caught up in her mother's sobbing embrace.
"Tsukino Usagi! Where in the blazes have you been? We've been worried sick about you; you didn't even call to let us know what's been going on! Have you any idea how hard it is to be a mother- your mother especially? You've been slipping away from this family for too long! Far too long!" Ikuko ended her tirade clutching at her daughter weakly.
Usagi was silent. What exactly could she say? 'Well, Mom...I got injured in an attack fighting a youma because I'm Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen, who just happens to be my boyfriend, brought me back to his apartment to tend to my injuries but we ended up making love instead'? Right.
"No excuse?" asked her father, sternly glaring at his eldest offspring. Usagi merely shook her head, blonde pigtails swaying with the movement. "Bed. NOW. We'll discuss this tomorrow afternoon- you'll come home straight from school," ordered her father prior to marching up the stairs to his and Ikuko's bedroom.
Ikuko stepped back away from her daughter. "Oh, Usagi...what am I going to do with you?" But her daughter had already pushed past her and was jumping up the steps to her bedroom and refuge. 'I just wish to know what you go through,' wished Ikuko to herself.
Up in her room, the girl shut her door and turned to her bed. Her cat was lying in the middle of her bedspread with a harsh look on her face. "Where the hell have you been? Mercury informed me Mamoru had taken you to stitch up your leg...but that was hours ago."
Shaking her head sadly, Usagi got ready for bed without answering Luna's bombardment of questions. "Not now, Luna," she murmured softly. "I already got lectured about how big of a disappointment I am from my mom and dad downstairs. Please don't add to it."
The black kitty leveled her gaze on her young charge but nodded reluctantly. "Alright, Usagi-chan. But we will discuss this later. ...And your parents really were worried about you, you know. Even knowing you'll be Chibi-Usa's mom in the future doesn't make you a mother. Your mother is as much a mystery to you as you are to her. Think about that," Luna offered.
Usagi nodded and gratefully sank down on her bed to ponder Luna's 'words of wisdom.' Even in her tired state of mind she knew in the back of her brain that she didn't know what her mother went through. 'I guess Luna's right. I wish I could understand what my mom goes through for me...' was her last thought as she sank into an uneasy sleep.
Far above, the full moon shone brightly to grant its Princess's request.