Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Breaking Free ❯ Mistakes: Part 2 ( Chapter 7 )

Breaking Free

Chapter 7: Mistakes: Part II

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Usagi stands in the door way with her arms crossed across her chest and watches her Aunt burrow further into her blankets with a pillow over her head. Usagi lets out a soft sigh and shakes her head. `Every time that unnamed letter comes into the mail she goes into one of these moods. Who in the hell is writing to her?' She wonders while watching the small pile of blankets shudder with Hotaru's movement.

 

“Leave me alone!” She exclaims her voice muffled by the multitude of blankets covering her.

 

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A shoe this time goes whizzing past Usagi's head and hits the wall beside her with a dull thud before falling to the floor. Plushies, shoes and a wallet litter the floor in front of Usagi and she lets out a sigh when she sees that Hotaru only has one shoe left to throw at her.

 

“You're running out of Ammo there, Hotaru,” Usagi states with a chuckle before Hotaru throws the blankets off her and glares at her niece with a venomous look.

 

“Then I'll just have to start throwing my lamps!” She exclaims.

 

Usagi sweat drops and rubs the side of her head before shaking it. She'd been hit there enough times over the past two weeks that she was sure if she was hit anymore that she would get brain damage for sure.

 

“Fine, whatever you want, Taru. I'll come back when supper is ready and get you and you are going to eat something other wise I'll have Haruka help me force you to eat!” She exclaims before letting out another sigh when she notices that Hotaru went back under the blankets and laid there unmoving.

 

She shoves off the door frame and puts her hands into her jeans pockets before leaving the Hotaru's room.

 

SLAM

 

She whirls around and notices that the entire pile of stuff that Hotaru had thrown at her was gone and the door shut.

 

`Wow, that was really fast,' she thinks while paling at the thought of her Aunt being faster then her then she shakes the thought out of her head before continuing on to her room when the door bell to mansion rings.

 

She lets out a sigh and decides to let the maids answer it and if it was for her they'd come and get her before going into her room to finish up her weekend homework.

 

Just before closing the door to her room a maid comes to up to her and tells her that she has a guest that would like to speak to her. Usagi raises a blonde eyebrow then nods her head before following the maid to the tea room while wondering just who exactly could be here that wants to see her, but she puts it out of her mind and continues to follow the maid to the room. The door was slightly ajar which enables her to catch a glimpse of bright pink hair pulled high up into a bun. She frowns and rubs the back of her head. Her visit couldn't have come at a worse time. Plastering on a smile, she entered and greeted her guest with a false sense of cheer.

 

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Hotaru lets out a sigh and snuggles into her blankets more after Usagi had left. She had wanted to be left alone with her thoughts, but her niece seemed hell bent on bugging her about what was wrong. Her pale violet eyes narrowed at the ceiling. How was she suppose to explain to her niece that she had gotten a letter from someone that seemed to want nothing more then break her heart again and again. She knew what Usa would say and that was to just cut the person off and never speak to them again, but she just couldn't do that. She loved the person with every ounce of her soul and she knew that her sometimes uncaring niece just wouldn't understand that.

 

She lets out a sigh before snuggling back into her blankets while trying to the will the dull ache that was in her heart away.

 

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Usagi sits in one of the chairs and stares down into her tea cup while trying to think of what to say to her guest that sat across from her, but for the life of her, she just couldn't think of anything to say to the pink haired girl sitting in front of her.

 

“So, how are you, Usagi? How's school going for you? Still got girls chasing after you?” A mischievous look crosses the face of the girl sitting in front of her which was only enhanced by the twinkle that appeared in her garnet eyes.

 

Usagi sighs and pushes her bangs out of her eyes before looking over to her guest.

 

“Oh you know, same ole, same ole. Not much I can do about that,” she states before taking a drink of her now, cold tea.

 

“So in other words. You're still being mobbed like a rock star then?” the girl adds which makes Usagi frowns at the words then shakes her head.

 

“What are you doing here, Yomiko?” Usagi asks while leaning her head to the side. “It's obviously not to ask me about how school is going or if the girls are still chasing me around like a pack of rabid dogs. So why exactly are you here?”

 

Yomiko lowers her tea cup down to the saucer and places it onto the table in front of them before letting out a sigh. “I was actually hoping to see, Hotaru. It's been so long since I've seen her,” she responds quietly with her eyes down cast.

 

“I honestly don't think she wants to see you,” Usagi states before putting her cup down on the table as well.

 

The pink haired girl looks up at Usagi before looking back down at her hands then nods her head before looking over towards the door and lets out a soft sigh.

 

“Does she really hate me that much,” Yomiko asks before looking back towards Usagi with her eyes shimmering with tears that rushed to fall.

 

“No, I don't think that she hates you, Yomiko. I think it's more like she can't handle seeing you again because of what happened between the two of you,” Usagi supplies with a shrug of her shoulders.

 

“But, I'm just looking out for her best interests, Usa!” Yomiko exclaims while throwing her hands up into the air.

 

“She doesn't see it that way, Yomi. She sees it more as you throwing her love away,” Usagi states with a shrug of her shoulders. “You know how stubborn she can be.”

 

“Yes, I know how stubborn she can truly be. I just wish that she would see it the way I see it for once then maybe she wouldn't be so bitter towards me and at least reply to the letters that I sent her once in a while,” Yomiko states before leaning back against the chair and places her chin on her folded hands.

 

`Ahh, so that's who writes to Hotaru once a month. I was beginning to wonder if it wasn't her,' Usagi thinks before picking up her tea and drains it with a swallow before placing it back down on the table and looks at Yomiko with a thoughtful expression on her face.

 

“Well maybe instead of just leaving her like you did last time with just a note trying to explain why you left, you should instead sit her stubborn ass down and actually explain it to her. I know that it'll take some doing to get her to actually listen to you, but it couldn't hurt,” Usagi supplies with a shrug of her shoulder before running her fingers through her hair and lets out a frustrated sigh.

 

“Maybe, but it was the easiest way to explain it to her. I'm not very good with confrontations,” Yomiko states while looking towards the door again in order to avoid those crystal blue eyes that seemed to have the ability to look into her soul like always.

 

“And I don't like seeing my Aunt all angsty and moody, Yomi! Either you fix this between the two of you or I'll get Haruka to help me. Understood?” Usagi asks while leaning forward in her chair, her hands clenching the arms so hard that her knuckles are turning white from the effort to control her anger towards the pink haired girl sitting in front of her.

 

Yomiko's head snaps around to stare at Usagi with a hard look in her eyes then her eyes soften when she sees the pleading within the younger girls eyes. She nods her head and lets out a sigh before reaching over to pick her cup up and drains it with a swallow.

 

“Alright, I'll take care of it as soon as I can, but I'm not promising anything, Usa. You're right when you say she's stubborn, but I will try and talk to her the best way I know how,” Yomiko states before looking down at her hands then back up again to smile at then younger girl sitting across from her.

 

“That's all I ask, Yomi. Just for you to try, that's all,” Usagi states with a nod of her head before she gets up from her chair. “I'll see if she'll see you.”

 

Usagi walks over to Yomiko and places a hand on her shoulder to comfort her before walking out of the room to go and get Hotaru for the pink haired girl. While she walks towards the stairs, she can't help, but feel sorry for the two girls and the situation that they are in.

 

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A couple of minutes and shouting match later Usagi and Hotaru walks through the doors to the tea room. When Usagi is about to leave Hotaru grabs her arm and looks up at her with a pleading look on her face and Usagi nods her head before following her Aunt over to where the other pink haired girl sits then takes a seat on the couch.

 

Hotaru sat down on the furthest seat away from the pink haired girl and looks around idly for a moment not knowing exactly what to say. She never dreamed that she would be sitting in the same area as the pink haired girl in front of her.

 

“How have you been Hotaru?” Yomiko asks hoping to strike some kind of conversation with the quiet girl over the side of her.

 

“Fine, and how have you been Yomiko-san?” Hotaru asks which makes the pink haired girls eyes lower when she hears the suffix tacked onto her name.

 

“Can't complain,” the pink haired girl whispers while her eyes stay fixed on her hands that lay within her lap.

The two girls stay quiet for sometime making Usagi shift around in the uncomfortable silence that had fallen in the room. She's about to say something when she sees Yomiko raise her head and stare longingly at Hotaru.

 

“Do you truly hate me that much Taru?” Yomiko asks her voice barely a whisper. Violet eyes looked away suddenly in order not to break down while Hotaru refrains from answering the question. It wasn't that she hated the girl, oh she did at first but not anymore. Still it was hard for her to voice her true emotions, it was hard for her to say what she truly felt about the whole situation.

 

“I see,” Yomiko whispers dejectedly.

 

“I don't hate you..” Hotaru pauses not knowing what else to say to the girl.

 

“I'm sorry but I have some work to do, so please excuse me,” Hotaru states before she gets up, bows politely and before Yomiko can stop her from going, she runs out of the room and up the stairs towards her room.

 

Yomiko stares at the place that Hotaru used to stand and lowers her head the tears that she had been trying to keep reined in, now flowing down her cheeks. She looks up when she feels a hand on her shoulder and buries her face into Usagi's stomach then allows the sobs to come, thinking that she was glad that Usagi was there so that she could muffle the sobs in the girls shirt.

 

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Hours seemed to pass while Hotaru laid silently in her bed with the lights out. She stares at the ceiling in the waning light and lets out a sigh.

 

`Yomiko,' she thinks mournfully before turning onto her side and closes her eyes while quietly crying to herself.

 

They had been so perfect together, but she knew that something was wrong when Yomiko had asked her to keep their relationship a secret from everyone else. She wasn't sure why, because she was portraying a male to everyone that wasn't within their family and Yomiko was the first person that she had ever told that she was indeed a female too, but it had changed everything between the two of them.

 

Yomiko seemed to grow more and more distant the more time they spent together. She was never sure as to why the other girl was doing such a thing to her, but she didn't question it and was just content in being within her presence, but the strain was getting to be too much for the both of them.

 

Before long, Yomiko stopped coming over and they stopped hanging out together like they used too. The more distant they got, the more desperate Hotaru got to try and keep their relationship together, but no matter what she tried to do, it never seemed to be enough for her love Yomiko.

 

Then one day, she received a letter in the mail from her love and in it stated that Yomiko was actually a lesbian and that their school knew that she was one. She didn't want to risk Hotaru identity because of her and so she was breaking it off with her.

 

Devastated Hotaru had retreated back to her room and hadn't come out until Usagi and Haruka had literally pulled her from her room and forced her to eat. The only saving grace was that Yomiko had broken up with her during the summer holiday so she didn't miss any school because of her self imposed prison.

 

Absently she wondered how long Yomiko would continue to pursue her to try and explain her actions. How long before the girl would finally give up on her and go out with someone else instead of her. On one hand she wished desperately to be reunited with her once again but on the other hand, she didn't want to be the girls last resort or even for it to be the way it was in the end of their relationship. She sighed while she held on tightly to a small bear that her mother had given her when she was a little girl. She was so confused and lost when it came to her feelings towards the pink haired girl. Her eyelids lowered as exhaustion seeped into her body. The arrival of her letters usually left her feeling so drained because it evoked so many conflicting feelings within her. Shifting into a comfortable position, she succumbed to exhaustion allowing her mind to drift into the abyss.

 

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Saturday dawned bright and clear though a bit chilly. Usagi stands beside the window and stretches while yawning. The whole night she had been plagued with dreams about a certain raven haired banshee, enough so that it kept her from getting a decent night's sleep, but she knew that her father wanted her to be up early for their morning work out.

 

She sighed when she remembered that her Aunt Haruka and Michiru had came over after Yomiko had left stating that they wanted to take her out to a party tonight so that she can wind down from the week that she had. Usagi gave each woman a strange look then rolled her eyes and muttered something along the lines that she believed that Haruka still lived there with all the time she's been spending in the mansion. That comment had earned her a smack to her shoulder from her blonde haired Aunt who then rolled her eyes and agreed with her on the statement.

 

She tried to get out of it, but Michiru had come up to her side and smiled at her prettily before saying that it would be great to spend some time with her. Usagi looked at Haruka then narrowed her eyes to slits when she realized the reason that Haruka had brought Michiru with her.

 

After a couple of minutes of poking and prodding her to get her to go, she relented just so that the two older woman would leave her alone. Haruka had grinned before telling her what time to be ready and what to wear since the party had been changed to a masquerade party.

 

Usagi nodded her head before leaving the room and went up to her room to get some much needed sleep after the day she had.

 

She shakes her head and lets out a sigh after returning from her musings then slips on her work out clothes.

 

`The things that I get put through,' she thinks before heading down the stairs to the gym to be put through the wringer by her father once again.

 

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“We're doing what, before the party?” Usagi asks while tugging on her jacket that was currently being altered for the party that night.

 

“We're going to a concert. The party afterwards is more or less to honor Michiru since she'll be the guest of honor and all,” Haruka states while buffing one of her cuff links on her jacket before looking over towards Usagi who's standing on a stool.

 

“I thought you said that this is a masquerade party, Ruka!” Usagi exclaims while waving a hand around which earns her a hard glare from the tailor that is crouching down next to her pant legs.

 

“Well, it is. Now, stop fidgeting so that Ryu can finish up the hemming,” she states with a twinkle in her eyes.

 

Usagi rolls her eyes and stops moving around so that the hemming will be done and over with while she glares at her Aunt in anger, but it only makes Haruka's smile grow bigger at the uncomfortable way that Usagi is standing.

 

“Don't worry, Usa. It'll be fine and you'll have fun. So all of this standing around looking like a dork will be worth it,” Haruka states before chuckling when Usagi sticks her tongue out at her.

 

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Michiru's violin concert had been surprisingly good, Usagi reflects while walking towards Haruka's car with her Aunt and Michiru. She couldn't remember when she enjoyed a concert so much. It had been a while, but then again the first couple of concerts were fun for her that her father had dragged her too. Though after a while they became monotonous after going to several during the week, to where they became boring to her, but this one was very good and she enjoyed herself immensely. Though it helped that she wasn't with her father and was instead with Ruka instead, who seemed to enjoy it just as much as she did.

“I'm glad that you enjoyed the concert so much,” Michiru states while walking with her arm linked with Haruka's. “Ruka said that you were grumbling about it, but when she looked over she noticed that you were actually enjoying yourself.”

 

“Yeah, well, dad used to drag me to a lot of different concerts when I was younger that it sort of took the fun out of going to them, but I think your's rekindled the love of them for me once again,” Usagi states with her hand rubbing the back of her head while she chuckles in embarrassment.

 

“I'm sure that the girls who were hitting on you helped too,” Ruka states before looking back at Usagi whose face had gone an interesting red.

 

“Err, well, yeah, I suppose so,” Usagi states in a bashful voice before getting into the car before Michiru so that the older girl can sit beside Haruka in the passenger seat.

 

“So are you ready for the party then?” Michiru asks after turning around in her seat to look at Usagi who shrugs her shoulders.

 

“As ready, as I'll ever be, I suppose, Michi. I've never been to one of these parties before. Sure I've been to a formal party, but never a masquerade party.”

 

“Don't worry about it so much. You'll be a hit at the party. Every eligible girl in the room will want to dance with a such a dashing young man,” Michiru states with a twinkle of mirth in her eyes.

 

“Sure, whatever you say, Michi,” Usagi states with a laugh and roll of her eyes.

 

“Oh, don't knock it, Usa. You look great and you know it,” Ruka states while sliding into the drivers seat before they take off towards the party.

 

`Well, maybe, but there's only one girl that I want to notice me,' Usagi thinks before her eyes widen at the thought of that. `Where in the hell did that come from? I must be more tired then I thought. Yeah, that's it. I'm just tired,' she thinks to herself before nodding her head and turns her head to stare out to the window while Haruka maneuvers the car through traffic to get to where the party is being held.

 

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When they arrive at the place, Usagi gets out of the car and raises an eyebrow when she sees a set of steps a couple of yards away from the mansion that they are standing in front of, which goes from the sidewalk up to a large shrine on a the hill. She shrugs her shoulders before following Haruka and Michiru up towards the mansion. She looks around and slumps her shoulders slightly, almost wishing that even the moody and brooding Hotaru was there with her right now, because she wasn't sure that she could get through this thing without making a bolt for it.

 

She lets out a sigh and notices that they are standing in front of a man that is asking for their coats. `Well, I can't back out now,' she thinks to herself before handing her trench coat over to the valet.

 

She enters the ballroom and takes in the large number of people that are standing around the table. When they walk in all eyes turn towards them and she gulps soundlessly before looking around at everyone that is currently staring at them. Even though she is wearing a mask, she feels very exposed right now.

 

She worries her bottom lip and lets out a soft sigh. `I think this was a big mistake,' she thinks before she notices a pink haired girl making her way over towards them. `Yep, huge mistake.'

 

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To Be Continued…

 

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Read and Review Please.

 

Next Chapter: The masquerade party and Usa dances with Yomiko. Rei gets jealous. What?

 

Aleric: You have a great point there, but I think it's just because Usa makes Rei really nervous, so she ends up not acting like herself, but hey your idea could be plausible as well. Heh. Anyways thank you for the review. Keep'em coming.

 

FeralDemonArtemis3.0: I would like to thank you for the very high compliments. I had been hoping that this story would be good like that and to hear that someone thinks like that is a very high compliment for me. As for putting the world of hurt on Mamoru, don't worry that parts coming shortly. Lol. I'm gonna have a ball writing that chapter. Heh. Lol. I can't tell you when Rei/Usa are going to get together. That would defiantly ruin the suspense of the chapters. Heh. But soon, soon I shall get them together and they wont know what hit them. Thank you for the review and keep them coming!

 

Riku: Thank you very much Riku. I enjoy getting your reviews.

 

I'd like to take this time to mention that I am taking requests for what you would like to see happen at the masquerade party. I do realize that this part was not in the original story, but for some reason I thought that this would be rather interesting.