Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ The Child ❯ Four Bored Visitors ( Chapter 4 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

The Child
By: Ree-B
Rating: PG, cause of the kiss at the beginning
AN: Yes, I know. I am still here. I just couldn't bear giving up on a story, no matter how
sucky it was turning out. So just try and bear with this next chapter.

Disclaimer: Guess what everyone! I own Sailormoon! I do! *crickets chirping* I do, really!
*complete silence*. Okay, fine! I don't own Sailormoon, so just let me bask in my sorrow.
*pout*

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Chapter 4: Four bored visitors

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He knew what he had to do. He stood. Prowling over to the bed. Her fear grew. The shocked
expression had not yet left his face. Had she disappointed him. She had hurt him. She
lowered her eyes, but as he stepped up to her he raised her to her feet. His slender forefinger
raised her chin from the floor. She looked deep into his eyes. She could read nothing.

"Mamoru?" she croaked out around the large lump in her throat.

At the sound of her voice, he was reeled into heaven. That same voice he had heard in his mind
the day before. The sweetened sound fought to bring him to his knees. Instead he did the only
thing he could think to do. He had wanted to do it for a long time. So he reached down to
her...

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...and for a brief moment their lips touched. He brushed them lightly across her petal lips.
Her heart soared and a wide grin spread across her features. He approved of her! He was not
mad! Her lids fluttered shut. Mamoru could not think of a moment he was waiting for more than
this first intimate moment with his Usako. For how long had he wished she were only older? For
how long had he felt ashamed of his love for the small child? No longer. No longer would he be
ashamed. He was now free to express his true feelings for this girl, no woman, in front of him.
He swept his arms around her back. Bringing his face down to her neck, he reveled in the feel
of her in his arms.

Unfortunately, a quick rap on the door signaled Nanny Beth's entrance.

"Get up you two, you have visitors..." She had come in and started picking up random untidy
items before she realized the position the two full-grown adults were in. She stopped mid rant
to gaze at the couple in shock. How had this slipped past her? She prided herself on knowing
everything that was going on in the castle! "... I'm so sorry, Mam...I mean, Your Majesty! I
didn't realize you had brought in a Lady visitor last night. May I ask where the little Usagi
is? The visitors have asked to see her as well." Beth kept her head down in submission, a pose
she rarely took considering her close relationship with Mamoru since his childhood.

Usagi let off a small giggle, burying her face in Mamoru's chest. Mamoru, too, let a grin
spread across his chiseled features.

"Do you not recognize me, Nanny Beth?" The silvery chimes of her voice rang like bells. Mamoru
could not help but love the sound of it.

Beth stared, dumbfounded for a moment, before realization dawned.

"USAGI?!?!?! How can that possibly be you?" She bellowed, shocked to the core.

"Well, I guess you can say that...the fates are not cruel enough to keep me from my true form...
and a little help from people in *HIGH* places" She said this with a giggle but still kept an
air of mystery about her. Mamoru stared at Beth. She seemed to be thinking a mile a minute.
Her face was screwed up in a horrible, shock-filled expression as though she were still debating
if she thought her eyes and mind were in a plot against her.

"Nanny Beth?" He questioned her with no response. " Nanny! Are you okay? Please say
something?"

"Does this mean we will need to order you a new wardrobe, Usagi?"

Okay, so it wasn't what he exactly thought she might say after such inner turmoil wrought on her
face, but at least this was a sign that she accepted it as a truth already. It took about 2.5
seconds for Mamoru and Usagi to burst out laughing at Beth's remark. Beth could not help but
let a small smirk creep to her lips.

"I shall find a suitable garment for today, Usagi. And then you will both get dressed and meet
with your visitors. And no lollygagging! They have already waited quite awhile." At that she
left the couple in search of a gown that might fit Usagi.



Meanwhile downstairs...

The four figures sat restlessly upon various couches and chairs. They didn't say anything. At
first they had talked idly as they awaited their hosts. But after the first hour, they had each
decided that their nerves had been worn too raw for pointless conversation. So they left each
other to their own thoughts. It had seemed like they were waiting for hours. The brunette
couldn't take it anymore...

"For Goddess's sake, Mina! STOP DRUMMING YOUR FINGERS ON THE TABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!" At her loud
outbreak, the blond immediately pulled her hand from the table, down into her lap. "And stop
your pacing, Rei. You're making me dizzy.!"

"Then you can stop your foot tapping. Because THAT is driving ME up the walls." The raven-
haired beauty stuck out her tongue indignantly.

"You are ALL acting in a childish manner." The ever-sensible Ami pointed out to the two whom
were STILL engrossed in a tongue war. The blue-haired genius stepped between the two in an
attempt to calm them into submission. But it only forced them to circle her in an attempt to
glare at the other. Fairly soon, the until recently composed women broke out into an all out
tongue war. Any onlookers would first laugh at the scene before them, then ask themselves what
four beautiful women were doing yelling in the foyer of the Palace. Many servants shook their
heads in passing, choosing to ignore the fight rather than remedy it. Another approaching
beauty chose another tactic.

"You know, you never could beat Rei in a tongue war, Mako-chan. Now I on the other hand can win
hands down." At the presence of the new women, all of the ladies stopped their fighting and
leapt into her arms, creating one big hug of five women.

"We have been waiting down here for, like... FOREVER, Usa!" cried Minako, the other blond.

"Yeah, so glad you decided to grace us with your presence!" quipped Rei.

"It's good to see you, too, Rei"

After many hugs and greetings amongst the ladies, Mamoru decided he didn't want to be ignored
any longer.

*Ahem*

All eyes turned to him and he faltered under the gaze of these powerful women. Usagi blushed
and came to his side.

"Um, sorry. Mamoru. Let me introduce you to..."

"I remember. Venus, " He shook the blonds hand with a small smile and followed the action with
the remaining women, "Mars... Jupiter... Mercury. Ladies, it is good to see you again. And you
are finally not speaking of mysterious prophecies. You haven't brought another child with you,
right? I think Serenity, " he paused, using her real name, "was more than enough for me to
handle." He glanced down to the frail women held at his side. She beamed up at him.

"No. No more children. Just us."

"Good. Now ladies, would you like to accompany us to breakfast? Serenity, can you lead them
into the dinning hall. I must go tell Melvin that we will be having guests and will need four
rooms prepared. I'm not sure if we have four available close to our bedroom. Would you rather
be together or have one or two of you near us?" Usagi raised her brow at the sudden formality
Mamoru had taken.

"At least one room near ours, as close as possible." Usagi replied for them. "They can take
shifts in that one room. And since when did you start calling me Serenity?" She turned to him.
Her eyes looked deep into his deep blues. "You don't have to be so formal. These ladies
are my best friends. Even they don't call me Serenity."

"Well, I didn't think it would be very appropriate to call you Odango." Mamoru said with a
slight grin as he leaned in closer to her.

"You don't have to call me that. I actually prefer your little nickname for me."

"I thought Odango was my name for you?" His brow crinkled in confusion.

"No. I mean Usako. I like that name." Her lips formed the perfect pout that just made Mamoru
want to give her anything that she wanted. After collecting himself after such blatant pouting
he became confused.

"When did you hear me call you that?" She just wrinkled her nose at him. He was so cute when he
was caught of guard.

"Well, you never said it out loud. But I heard it all the same." She insinuated to her being
able to hear his thoughts. He gave her a small smile.


"Well, Ladies." He motioned for them to seat themselves again. "What brings you here so
informally, without the shroud of mystery that is?" Venus gave a nervous giggle and glanced at
the other girls. She seemed almost embarrassed!

"We, uh, kind of got bored. We knew that Usa was going to change into a, ya know," She
motioned to Usagi's body to push her point across.

"A woman." Mamoru finished for her. He had not been able to get the word off his tongue since
this morning, no matter how he forced himself to realize it. His little Usako that laughed and
played. The little bundle of energy that he had somehow fallen for even though she was just a
child was now about the same age as him. She was an adult, a woman. He watched her now, as she
conversed with her friends. She was no different than the day before. Her nose still wrinkled
when she laughed. Her laugh still sounded like the tinkling of little bells. She still threw
short glances at him with a smirk on her face as if she had a secret she wouldn't tell him. The
only thing different was she now spoke with her mouth instead of her soul. Never mind that she
now had the body of a beautiful woman. But that was just an added bonus. For she was beautiful
on the inside. He knew that about her the moment he had met her as a child. It seemed so long
ago that she had come to live with him.

"Right, so we decided to come down here for a front row seat of all the action." Minako finished
with a flourish.

"What action?"

"Uh, nothing, Mamo-chan. Why don't I show them around while you handle your daily duties."
Purposely placing the nickname to take his mind off the subject, she then directed his attention
to Melvin who was hovering patiently in the doorway. "You can talk to Melvin about the sleeping
arrangements." A brilliant smile was the icing on the cake. Mamoru just smiled and brushed a
kiss across her forehead.

"Alright. I will leave you ladies to your own devices." He turned to tend to his Kingdom's
needs for the day. Usagi just smiled at his retreating back. She was so happy. But she was
jolted out of her reverie by a shrill yell.

"YOU DIDN"T TELL HIM!!!!" Usagi nearly jumped out of her skin.

"I haven't had time! If you haven't noticed, I am just now able to talk to him. You were the
ones that told me not to talk to him unless it was important."

"Well, you should tell him NOW!" Ami knew the logical route would be to tell him as soon as
possible so he could used to the idea.

"I will tell him. Just not yet. I want him to get to know me a little better first. I mean, I
haven't been able to talk to him. EVER! I want him to know some parts of me before he knows the
other parts of me." Makoto placed her hand on the blonde's shoulder.

"You will have to tell him eventually."

"I know." Usagi lowered her head. "It's just going to be so hard to tell him that I have to
destroy the kingdom that he loves so much."


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Oooh! New developments! Next chapter you'll find out her REAL purpose.


~Ree-B
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