Once Upon a Moon

Hello Again

He sighed, "Never gonna let me live that down."

"Just be glad I remember."

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They walked into a sitting area in his personal suites and he gestured her to a chair, "Before you say anything," he started, sitting next to her, "I need you to know that Inuyasha already told me quite a bit. He wanted to warn me incase I heard it from someone else by accident."

"How much did he tell you?"

"That you had been Reborn a few different times. Your parents are keeping your status to themselves. Something about a normal life." They chuckled, "We'll see how long that lasts. That you had been Reborn with all of your past and future memories, but some magic kept you from remembering anything other than that last night on the moon."

"To be fair, that was only during my other lives. I always knew something was missing, but nothing ever clicked in our minds. We only got flashes."

"He said our Soulmate bond was severed upon your Rebirth."

She sighed, "Unfortunately. Again, I didn't know. I had nothing to go by." She shrugged, "It had been a thousand years before the Rebirth. Before we became Soldiers. I was born to two great parents with a younger brother and lived a very normal life. I grew up as a stupid kid who just wanted to play and have fun. I didn't take anything seriously and I goofed off a lot. I made friends easily with others like me, fought with my brother regularly and hated studying."

He stared, "You hated studying? You used to like learning new things."

"I was Reborn and raised differently. Not the same personality." They shared a laugh, "Then one day, I was approached by a talking black cat with a crescent moon on her forehead. She informed me that I was the planetary warrior, Sailor Moon, and it was my job to fight the Negaverse. One by one, we found Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus."

"There is no Sailor Moon."

"I guess my mom decided to create one. At first, our job was to find the Princess and protect the Silver Crystal. We didn't know that I was the Princess. It was a shock. To all of us." She sighed, avoiding looking right at him. "I was such a crybaby. I didn't always take my job seriously. I wasn't a fighter. I was always scared and running away from the fights. It always took one of my friends or someone I cared about getting hurt to cause me to really unleash." She started crying again, "I lost track of how many battles we fought. How many times someone new came up and tried to destroy the world. On and on it went. And the whole time, I spent more time freaking out over my relationship with who I thought was my true love."

"Endymion."

"Yeah. Years together. Building Crystal Tokyo and ruling to the best of our abilities." She hesitated, "Um, getting married and having a daughter."

"It's okay." He rubbed his eyes, tired, "Inuyasha warned me about it and it's one of the reasons why I was sparing with Matsuki. I was coming to terms with something that was beyond either of our control. Does it upset me, yes. Am I mad at you? No. I'm pissed off at the idiots who decided to control your destiny just to make you their puppet. So, instead of dwelling on it, we move forward."

"How? I'm trying so hard to keep anyone from knowing who I am. I don't want to go back to the moon to live a sheltered life and not be with my friends."

"Before, I was planning to move up there with you. Now that all of this has happened, I need to stay here on Earth. I've got too many responsibilities." He looked into her eyes, "We start over. Get reacquainted with the new us."

She smiled, "My dad is back on the moon, getting everything rebuilt, and my mom has been turned into a Lunarian Elemental. With their connections and her new status, they're immortal. They will remain King and Queen for eternity."