Black Roses
Summary: SM: AU Mamoru is a space pirate who has been capture and taken to be held on the Moon Kingdom. Serenity is the Princess of the Moon Kingdom and can't help but visit the prisoners because her best friend is there. What happens when Mamoru kidnaps her?
Authors Note: Sorry about the delay. Thanks so much for all the reviews! I am very glad that you guys like this story! Here is a longer chapter for you and I hope that you like it! Thanks a bunch.
Just a quick note, I changed the ages of Mamoru because I was like: wow he's really too old for Usagi. Originally he was six years older then him, but now he's going to be I think about four years older then him! Alright, thanks for understanding!
Disclaimer: I do not own anything.
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Part 7
The idea of her best friend Minako and her new lover Mamoru together, was just not appealing to Usagi. She would rather die in a hole then have to imagine that. Whenever Mamoru was around, she usually ignored his whimpers of her to talk to him and only talked to him when it was actually needed. Mamoru sat down besides her at the bed and wrapped an arm loosely around her waist. "Usagi, please talk to me."
"I don't… I don't think that you deserve to be talked too."
"I don't understand why you are so worked up about this Usagi, I don't love her anymore. She was just a phase in my life and it was nothing, it meant nothing… Usagi you know I care for you more then anything…"
Usagi shrugged and brushed a stray piece of hair out of her face. She did not want to have this conversation now. "Stop it Mamoru. You also broke off a wedding to me! Isn't that weird how all of a sudden you are in love with me once again instead of Minako but you broke our engagement because of Minako?!"
"Usako, please, it was so long ago, why do you care suddenly about it now?"
"Because I finally figured out why you broke off the engagement… whatever Mamoru, I don't really care anymore, just – just get out of my sight." She snapped bitterly and he stood up from his spot next to her and walked towards the door, his ebony bangs slightly covering his glazed over eyes.
Mamoru bit his lip. "I will not lose you Usako, even if you don't wish to be with me."
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Unknown Earth Lake, two thousand miles from Mamoru and Usagi's location.
Minako stomped her foot and growled, she hated when she couldn't find her best friend. She knew that Usagi was with Mamoru and she hated that. She couldn't believe that Usagi would be with Mamoru of all people! They had probably fallen in love – gag her now – and were running away to be together. She swore to God that Usagi knew of Mamoru and hers past. It would serve Mamoru right if Usagi knew what had happened when she had left her side for a long period of time. "This is hopeless!" She groaned and turned towards her three companions. "I don't know where they could be!"
"Minako-chan, we've only been searching for a week, it's not like they could get that far from us. Anyways if we all spilt up, we can cover ground more." Setsuna said thoughtfully and Minako groaned again.
"But what if we happen to all get lost?"
"What has happened to you Minako, you are becoming a coward." Haruka snapped and Minako glared at her.
"I am not! She is my best friend and I am not going to let Mamoru Chiba get away with this. If you wish, we will go our separate ways, we will contact each other if we find anything alright?" Minako questioned and the other three nodded. "I'll go north, Setsuna you go east, Haruka go south, and Michiru, why don't you go west? Alright?"
"Gotcha." The three said in unison.
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North of camp-site – forty miles away.
Minako struggled to gain her thoughts; she was so lost in the thoughts of what was happening with Usagi and Mamoru, that she almost lost her way. She would not let Mamoru and Usagi be together for it ticked her off to no end. She didn't want to be evil or anything, but Mamoru and she had history, even if she had destroyed that history. She rolled her eyes and cut through a thick forest with a blade that she had brought along. She adjusted the back-pack on her right shoulder to her left and then sat down under the shade of a tree. She didn't want to be a bitch, but she just wanted to make sure that nobody was with Mamoru, they had had history, but she was not sure if she did love him or not still? She was confused and lost in her thoughts. All she knew was that she wanted to get her best friend back before Mamoru might break her heart.
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Usagi and Mamoru's location – one thousand nine hundred and eighty miles away from Minako.
Usagi stood in the doorway to the house that they had rented out and smiled sadly. She thought over what she would say to him, all her thoughts coming together at once. "Mamoru… Mamo-chan I am so sorry, I do not know what came over me… but after hearing that you were in love with my best friend, I just snapped, I don't know. Please forgive." She would say, but nothing came out of her mouth as she stood there watching him. She swallowed nervously and shifted her weight from one of her feet to the other.
Mamoru looked up from his work. "Usako…" He greeted her with a nod and she walked over to him, sitting down across from him.
"I'm sorry Mamoru. I don't know what came over me, forgive me Mamo-chan?" She questioned and he nodded slightly before reaching forward and taking her hands in his. He leaned farther forward and kissed her temple before pulling away, still holding her hands in his.
"It's alright Usagi, maybe I shouldn't have told you…"
"No, you should have, I would have wanted to know then not to have known. It's better this way Mamo-chan." She admitted and he smiled, tracing a finger over her knuckles.
"Tell me Usako, why were you so mad at me after I told you about my past?"
She gulped and looked down at the table in front of her. "Because Mamoru, we have met before this… before all of this, we met and I fell in love with you and I know that you will never understand but I was heart-broken after my mother told me that the engagement was broken off." She said softly and he gripped her hands tighter.
"We have met before?"
"You don't remember?" She asked and he shook his head. "That's typical I guess."
"You will tell me?"
"I don't think that I have a choice Mamo-chan."
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Flashback – eight years ago.
Princess Serenity or Usagi was eleven years old and was attending her first ball.
She smiled brightly as she watched her care-taker Luna run around frantic to collect all of Usagi's things. She sat patiently on a chair at the end of her bed and in front of a mirror and played with the ends of her dress. It was a beautiful dress, something she would have never worn if she was just going out to play in the gardens. She actually loved dressing up, but told no-one of her secret passion. Luna applied some light lip-gloss to Usagi's lips and then smiled brightly.
"Serenity, you are beautiful." Luna said truthfully and Usagi smiled. She felt beautiful too. She knew that Luna would not lie to her; she knew that she was really beautiful. She knew that she had never really been beautiful before… but now it was her moment to shine! It was her first ball and she was going to enjoy it.
Usagi gripped her hands together. "Thank you so much Luna, you are a wonderful care-taker and thanks for making me so beautiful."
"Aw Serenity it was no problem, but you are just naturally beautiful. That Prince Endymion is lucky to have you as a fiancé Serenity…"
"I am meeting him tonight, am I not?"
"Yes, you are meeting him actually. I am glad that you are going to meet him finally. You and he will be the best king and queen in the whole galaxy, of all time!" Luna teased and wrapped one of Usagi's curls around her finger before pulling her to her feet and pushing her towards the door. "Quickly, you must go, your mother is waiting for you."
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Middle evening – ballroom of the Moon Kingdom.
Usagi tugged at her dress, it was becoming to get a little bit annoying and she missed her regular everyday clothing. She sighed and worried that her fiancé was actually not going to come. She shrugged it off and sipped from her water glass. Her mother, Queen Serenity, approached her with an arm around a tall boy with ebony locks. She almost choked on the water she had been sipping. She knew at that instant that that was the dream guy for her, he was amazingly handsome and he looked kind as he smiled slightly when he caught her eye. She smiled back as she felt her knees slightly melting underneath her. "Serenity, there you are, I would like you to meet Prince Endymion of Earth."
She held out her hand as Endymion took it and brushed his lips gently against her knuckles. She smiled and then blushed. "Nice to meet you Prince Endymion, it is such a pleasure." She said meekly and he nodded.
"Now why don't you two go outside and talk for awhile? It would be nice for you guys to go and get to know each other." Queen Serenity said and quickly walked away, leaving Prince Endymion and Usagi alone. She gestured for him to follow her as she walked towards the main fountain. They sat in awkward silent for a couple of minutes.
"It is quite nice to meet you Princess Serenity." Prince Endymion said politely and Usagi nodded.
"My names not Serenity…"
"Really? Then what is you name?" He questioned, confused.
"It's Usagi; nobody really calls me Serenity except for my care-taker, the guards and servants, and my mother. All my friends just call me Usagi." She explained and Endymion nodded his head thoughtfully.
He smiled. "Then you can call me Mamoru if I can call you Usagi… the only people who call me Endymion are my parents, guards and servants, and my best friend who is a crazy one." He said and Usagi laughed.
"You are quite different then I actually imagined you to be Endymion – err I mean Mamoru-san."
"Just Mamoru please… Usagi." He said and smiled, "I know that I am different then everybody expects. Everybody expects me to be so up-tight and all just like a stereo-type kind of prince, but I am not, I am pretty adventurous." He said and winked as she blushed.
"That is good, I am also. I think that we will get along very well Mamoru, don't you think?"
"I think that we will Usagi…" Mamoru agreed and took her hand in his.
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Two hours later.
Usagi felt smaller then she had ever. "Do you have to go Mamoru? I mean we have had so much fun and why must you go now? Don't our parents want us to get to know each other better?"
Mamoru nodded. "I have to get back to Earth though Usagi, as much as I would like to stay here and all, I think that it would be best if I got back to Earth because it is my home-planet. I promise that we will see each other again though Usagi, farewell." He said and leaned forward, leaving a chaste kiss on her cheek. He pressed a beautiful flower into her hand and smiled before releasing her hands and walking away. She stared at him as he walked away from her, not knowing that it was the last time she would see him as her fiancé and Prince Endymion.
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One year, four months later.
Usagi was almost thirteen years old and in three more years… she would still be living a life as a princess. It was true that her fiancé had backed out of the wedding and she was no longer getting married to Prince Endymion. He had found another girl to marry or something like that and they had decided that he and Usagi should not get married. She shrugged off the feeling of dread and regret as she threw herself into doing things that absorbed her thoughts so she could not think about him anymore. At night, she would always throw herself against her bed and cry because she knew that she had lost him forever and she knew how much she was in love with him. She also knew that he had broken their promise and it broke her heart.
End of flashback.
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"Usako, why didn't you tell me?" Mamoru questioned angrily and Usagi smiled sadly.
"I didn't want it to break us apart Mamo-chan, I couldn't risk that." Usagi said quietly and then sighed. "Anyways it was a long time ago, it doesn't mean anything now. We were young and we didn't really know what we were doing, whatever it doesn't really matter anymore." Usagi confessed and Mamoru gripped her hands tightly.
"I promise Usako nothing will come between us."
'How can you promise that Mamoru? You don't know anything about my mother, she would go to very great heights to get me back into the Moon Kingdom to marry Prince Kenji… oh gods Mamoru, I only hope that nothing does come between us.' Usagi thought to herself as she smiled sadly at the man in front of her.
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One thousand miles away from Usagi and Mamoru – unknown Earth forest.
In the distance a shadowed figured sighed heavily and fell against the tree trunk of another tree. Her long raven hair fell absently in her face, but she made no move to remove it from her face. She rolled her head back and fourth against the tree bark, not caring if it was poking into the back of her head. She was determined to find the two of them if it was the last thing that she did. "Serenity… Mamoru… I will find you." She whispered in the dark to nobody.
End of Part 7
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Ending Note: So that is the end of Part 7 and I hope that you enjoyed it! For those of you who are reading Lights Out Tonight on Eponine xx's account, it will be updated today sometime or maybe early tomorrow! Thanks for understanding and I hoped you liked this chapter! Next part will be up sooner then later!
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