He didn't want anything she had to offer

Title: Sins of the Past
Theme: Utopia (#89) - theme taken from 101_Kisses themes list
Genre: General/Drama
Rating: PG

"Kiyoshi."

He looked up at the blonde with disinterest. "Serenity."

"Usagi," she corrected him with a smile.

He grunted in response, wondering if she'd always been so annoyingly naïve.

She shifted, clearly uncomfortable with the silence. Kiyoshi didn't mind. He liked the lack of noise, of filler that didn't matter.

"You look like you're thinking about something."

Apparently, she was astute as well.

Kiyoshi resigned himself. "I'm thinking of the Moon Kingdom." A streak of spite flashed through him. "I'm wondering if you'll run your, _utopia_, the way your mother did."

The way he said it, the tone, the implication, the ambiguity was not lost on Usagi.

She lost her softness. "And how did my mother run the Moon Kingdom?"

Kiyoshi reveled in the opportunity to goad and mock her. He evaded her question by asking another. "What happens at this point with the other planets? There's no life as far as we can tell. Do they matter anymore? Does the moon?"

Usagi frowned. "Of course they do-"

"And if there is life," he interrupted, "are they subject to you as well?"

Usagi bristled with understanding. "No one was subject-"

Kiyoshi snorted. Usagi wondered if the man ever smiled or experienced joy anymore. "_We_ were, princess. Just because you didn't see it doesn't make it a lie." He looked at her with contempt. "You watched us from your ivory tower. You knew Metallia was spreading. You-"

Usagi was the one to interrupt then. "We weren't to interfere!"

"You didn't want to interfere!" Kiyoshi roared. He turned to her then, eyes raging. The green flashed silver briefly. She took a step back before straightening herself and meeting his accusing glare.

It wasn't their place! She wouldn't let him disparage her mother like that. They were supposed to be the guides, not the leaders. Why couldn't he understand the difference?

"Don't blame your betrayal on me, Kiyoshi! Whatever you did, you did yourself!"

'At least she's grown a backbone,' he thought bitterly. He took a deep breath to calm himself. She was still _his_ princess.

"What we did, we did because we had no other choice. We tried to work with her. What were we to do? You left us to fend for ourselves. You watched us from your bubble, pretending to care. Endymion lost his planet!"

"And I lost mine!" Usagi cried.

He measured her for a long moment, looking at her coolly. "It doesn't matter, though, does it?" He said it almost dismissively.

He stood and looked down on her. "I exist to serve Endymion and the planet. _My_ planet," he stressed. When Usagi moved to protest, he continued, "My allegiance is to Endymion and this planet."

The meaning struck Usagi.

"Don't interfere with either."

end

A/N: The thing with these themes is kind of weird. Bear with me. A couple months ago, I looked these up, looking for a little something to prompt me & whatnot. I found this list at the LJ community 101_kisses.

However, instead of writing romantic things, I started writing non-romantic fics. And now that I've started the chart (though barely, I'll admit), I'm determined to finish it - w/o having romance be the dominant theme. I am also taking some extreme, EX-TREME liberties with some of these themes - they're applicable in my world, may not be in yours.

Hence the title: .twisted.

The only 'rule' I'm really following is that the pieces have to include one of the shitennou.

I may come back to this theme list & write some fluff - though I'm more inclined to come back to it & write some smutty PWP's, but we'll see.

Attempt at angst & drama first - then the fun stuff!

So, although the list is from 101_kisses, this is in no way written for the challenge.