Author's Notes: I've written this fan-fic quite a few years ago and decided to revisit it. After reading all of the chapters, I decided to do a re-write. It will still have the same plot with a few major as well as minor changes. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: All standard disclaimer applies.

Chapter One
Devastation

Serena Tsukino walked home after a long and stressful day on campus. With her hectic schedule, she hasn't had a good night's sleep and her chores were beginning to slide. Her apartment, which she normally kept clean started to look like her younger brother, Sammy's room. If it weren't for her part-time job at the newspaper, she'd have all the time to clean up after herself or she could just concede and accept her parents' offer to pay for her apartment.

But she wanted to prove her independence. Her family was wealthy and she could just easily ask her father, Ken Tsukino, but she didn't want to be labelled as one of those rich and spoiled American girls.

Serena sighed as she shifted her backpack that contained her laptop and text books. The straps had already begun to dig into her shoulders and she wished she had called a taxi instead of taking the subway and walking five blocks from the station.

Serena sighed and exclaimed out loud, "Why did Professor Nakashima pick such a day to assign a twelve pager?"

Completely unaware of her surroundings, her thoughts completely engrossed in her impending paper that's due in two days, she bumped into someone. "Sor-" Serena began in English, but quickly switched to Japanese. "Gomen."

"Usako." One word made Serena's heart flutter and realize who she had bumped into. her boyfriend of seven years, Mamoru Chiba.

"Mamo-chan!" Serena exclaimed as she steadied herself to prevent the five library books she carried from crashing down to the ground. "Are we still on for tonight? What time are you picking me up?"

"I'm sorry Usako, but something came up. I'll call you tomorrow?" Mamoru replied. "I have to get going. I'm running late."

"Oh. Okay. Just call me later."

"See you later Usako." Mamoru said as they both parted ways.

Usagi didn't think much of Mamoru's sudden cancellation of their date. She was more relishing in her given nickname from him. When she first arrived in Japan and six months into their relationship, she revealed her middle name, a name that she had been embarrassed of. But Mamoru changed all that. She turned her middle name into a nickname that showed just how much he cared about her and made Serena less uncomfortable being the new girl in Japan.

Mamoru watched as his girlfriend walked away towards her apartment. He didn't really want to cancel out on their date tonight, but it had to be done. For the last few weeks, he grappled with the idea of just telling Serena that they should see other people, but that really wouldn't work. He knew that Serena wouldn't take it at all and insisted that they work harder on their relationship. She would quit her job just so they could spend more time together. He couldn't ask her to do that. In fact, he was quite proud of her for graduating at the top of her class with Ami Mizuno and gaining admission to Stanford University in the United States. But because of him, she settled for Tokyo University. He felt guilty for preventing Serena to follow her dreams.

He had asked her to marry him before he left for the States and she gladly accepted his proposal. However, within those few years he knew that it wasn't fair to Serena to sacrifice her dreams becoming an attorney whilst he pursued his. He believed it wasn't fair to Serena that he had been the only man she's ever been with.

Mamoru shuddered at the idea of another man loving the one good thing in he had in his life, but his mind was made up. He needs to end it and if they were meant to be as the stars have written it, they would find each other again.

Two hours into her paper, Serena heard her stomach grumble. She wished she could stop, but two days to write a twelve page paper on Medieval Laws in two days was one of the harder assignments she's ever had. Even pausing for a moment to get some cheese and crackers in the fridge wasn't even an option. But when her mobile phone rang, she quickly saved her document and searched for her phone.

"Hello?" Serena asked as she picked up her mobile which was buried under a large pile of opened books on her desk.

"Serena?" Lana Thompson, Serena's only American friend in Japan asked.

"Hey, what's up?" Serena asked as she she plopped down on her sofa.

"I'm hungry. Do you want to grab a bite to eat? I can't look at anymore pictures of fossils or I'd gone insane."

"I was going to say no, but my stomach has been whining for the last hour saying, 'Feed me. Feed me.' So why not? Where do you want to go?" Serena asked her friend.

"How about the Crown? Motoki-kun always gives us a free meal if we're coming in after a study-hibernation."

"Lana. My onii-san always gives us a free meal regardless. What I want him to give me is some free housecleaning." Serena replied with a giggle. She knew what her apartment looked like and she knew there was probably an inch of dust right on top of her television. "So, see you there in fifteen minutes."

"Yep." Lana said and the girls said their goodbyes.

Mamoru walked into the Crown Parlour at exactly seven o'clock. He knew that Serena would be walking in to the restaurant for a quick dinner. He chuckled to himself as he remembered Serena eating a whole plate of spicy artichoke dip for an appetizer and continued on to her main course of Buffalo Chicken Wing Salad and a chocolate cheesecake for dessert at the Elephant Bar. He knew his girlfriend well enough that the dinner bell for her rings at seven.

"Mamoru-kun. What brings you here? A date with Serena?" Motoki asked as he greeted his best friend.

Before Mamoru could answer, Motoki led him to the back corner of the restaurant which he claims is the most romantic booth out of all the ones in his establishment.

"See you later Mamoru-kun. I'll let Miyako know that if anyone looks for you, you'd be back here." Motoki said, leaving his best friend and tended to his other customers.

Just a few minutes later, a raven haired girl approached the seating hostess. "Hi. I'm looking for Chiba Mamoru."

"Okay. Okay. You'll be fed in just a few minutes." Serena told her stomach.

"I can hear your stomach grumbling from a mile away."

"Lana. Come on. I'm hungry." Serena said as she and Lana walked to their table.

Serena didn't even make it to their table. There he was, the love of her life, sitting in their booth with another woman, holding her hand. To Serena, it looked like they were on a date, but Mamoru said that he had an appointment. This has to be it. There has to be a logical explanation why she's holding his hand and why he had brought her to the Crown and sat at their booth. But there wasn't a logical explanation when Mamoru kissed the raven haired woman on the lips. The woman giggled and Mamoru leaned in for another kiss.

Serena, paralyzed to the floor couldn't not believe what she was seeing. How could he? How could he just hurt her like that when he promised that he wouldn't? Even if he didn't love her anymore, he owed her that much to break things off with her properly.

"Serena? Serena? You okay?" Lana asked, clearly seeing what was happening before her friend's eyes, but her friend remained motionless.

"Hi Serena. Mamo-" Motoki said as he saw his blonde friend but was immediately cut short the the events that were unfurling in front of them.

Finally snapping out of her shock and confusion, Serena turned to to Motoki and Lana. "I'm really not that hungry anymore. I'll just go back home and finish my paper. I have some cup o' noodles there so I can much if or when I do finally get hungry."

"Wait! Serena that's not a healthy meal. You can wait in my office and I'll have one of the chefs fix you up a plate to take home. Anything you want. Then, we'll walk home together." Motoki said as he lead her towards the office.

"Thanks Motoki-kun. It's really not necessary. I'll be fine." Serena replied.

"Are you sure?" Lana and Motoki asked simultaneously.

"Yes. I'll be fine. I'll see you later." Serena said as she walked out of the restaurant.

Mamoru watched as Serena walked out of the restaurant. It hurt him to see her like that, to see her heart get broken again by him, but he needed to do it. Mamoru buried himself in his cup of coffee as he waited for his date, but when he finally looked up, he found his best friend, burning with anger when Motoki mouthed, "You're dead meat" before he walked back to his office.

Mamoru sighed and thought, "Here comes the aftermath."