*Hotaru's Midnight Romance*
Title - *Hotaru's Midnight Romance*
Rating - PG13 (but anyone that's mature can read it!)
Author - ~*~Silent Angel~*~
Sailor Moon © Naoko Takeuchi / Kodansha Toei Animation. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Brief Description - The Outer Senshi (all but Hotaru) are going away for good. Hotaru is hurt emotionally and runs away hurt. Under the moonlight, she finds true love with a boy named Mokuren (Magnolia in Japanese) ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Michiru-Mama!! I'm so happy that you came to visit me! Where are Setsuna-Mama and Haruka-Papa?", Hotaru bounced up and down happily. She was now 16 years old, and still loved her fellow Outer Senshi as if they were her parents.
"I'm happy to see you too, Hotaru! Now that I am in college, I might not be able to come by so often. Neither will Haruka or Setsuna. Haruka also has college, and Setsuna is working night shifts and half of the day at a fasion studio." Michiru sighed sadly.
Then she brightened. "Ya know, ChibiUsa, Mamoru, Usagi, and all of the others are here to keep you company."
Hotaru stared coldly at the floor. The Outer Senshi were her only true friends besides ChibiUsa. They were the ones that had raised her while her father had been very sick after the explosion at Muegen School. Her heart was prepared for the release of her sister like friends. The only problem was, her heart might collapse without the strength of her beloved ones.
"Oh Hotaru.... don't be so sad. We'll always come and visit you when we have a chance. You don't have to let us out of your heart. I promise, you'll always be in ours:-)" Michiru reached over to grab Hotaru's hand just as Hotaru's tears started to flood.
Hotaru screamed, "Without yall here, I can NEVER go on!!" She ran out the door just as Michiru sat on the couch, frozen in a combination of stopped time and shock.
Oh Hotaru....... I hope that you will learn..... someday...... Michiru sighed as tears crashed through the barriers of her glassy eyes.
"Ohhhhh!!!!! I'll never need yall again! I'll go on my own from now on. Yall don't even care!!", Hotaru murmered almost silently in her anger.
Hotaru's weak legs ran so fast, even a world champion race horse could never keep up with her. Then suddenly, she crashed into someone who was also tracking the sidewalk.
Just as Hotaru was falling to the hard cement, a warm hand grabbed her and pulled her to his arms.
"I'm so sorry...... I didn't mean to cross your path and knock into you, mistress." Hotaru's head shot up in fury with pupils full of dark rage.
"Who in the hell do you think you are anyways??" Hotaru screamed, not noticing the appologies and an angelic face.
The 19 year old boy released her and bowed in a polite Japanese manner and appologized again, "I'm sorry, but I couldn't help seeing your eyes full of pain. I want to help you, dear girl."
Hotaru stepped back and blushed. She had never seen someone so wonderful, so kind, and ohhhhhh so HOT in her whole life. Everyone had always feared her and had never excepted her to join the rest of the world's activities.
A surge of energy rushed over her body as she gripped the boy's hand and stared with light shining in her eyes at his turquoise eyes.
"My name is Mokuren." said the boy, and to him she replied, "I'm Tomoe Hotaru." Hotaru never knew the feeling of true love before. Her eyes glittered like Alexandrite stones in the starlight.
Hotaru reached over and held Mokuren's face gently in her hands. She then reached over and placed a loving kiss of true love on his lips of passion.
"Ohhhhhhh!!! I've never felt that way before....... this feeling.......... it's too good for words..........", Hotaru grimaced as she held on tight for a kiss that lasted so much longer than the first had been.
Suddenly, Hotaru fell weakly to her knees, but Mokuren gripped her waist before she could fall all of the way. Hotaru drifted to sleep in the boy's arms, listening to the rythm of his beating heart.
In the sunlight of the morning, Hotaru woke up, seeing herself at her home, in her rocking chair. She felt comfortable, and then looked up with flushed cheeks. She expected to see the glow of her purple star-like lamps above, but only saw the warm face of her Mokuren. She sat up startled, then remembered her midnight.
"You found out where I lived?", Hotaru asked curiously. "But how, Mokuren??".
"A woman came searching for you. She said her name was Michiru. Anyways, she was startled to see you in my arms while I was carrying you to a mansion, hoping that someone there would have room to take you in for the night. She slapped me pretty hard, and then appologized, knowing about what had happened. She knew that you'd be happy resting in my arms and then waking up to a new friend. Hotaru, I love you so much. I know that you are what I was born for. You are my destiny."
Hotaru sat up and layed comfotably by his chest. She had found her true love. Even though she'd miss the Outer Senshi so badly and that they would probably not be there to hold her heart up, she had found the one to keep her heart beating.
.:~*Crystal Key Take Me Home*~:.
