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Remember Me

Part 3

By: Usa (Usako0@aol.com)

Disclaimers in Part 1

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Notes: Here's the next installment! Let me know what you think! ^_^

The Senshi had dropped Mamoru off at Motoki's apartment. He was confused. He knew who he was, who Motoki and his sister were as well as the four Senshi. However, the girl with the beautiful blue eyes was a mystery to him. "Who is she?" he asked himself.

"Mamoru-kun?" Motoki stared at him. The Senshi mentioned that he had selective amnesia. "She's your girlfriend, Tsukino Usagi. You call her Usako."

Mamoru shook his head. "Iie, Motoki, my girlfriend is Ami-chan, you know that."

"Ami-san is Usagi's friend," Motoki replied. He excused himself when the phone rang. "Moshi moshi..."

"Motoki-san, Ami desu."

He sighed. "Konbanwa... It's worse than I thought. I don't know how we're going to get his memories back, Ami-san."

"Neither do I, but we have another problem."

"Usa?"

"Hai, she's sick. And she told her okaasan that she won't eat or drink anything until Mamoru-san remembers her."

Motoki was shocked. "Kami, that could take months! He may not ever remember her!"

"I know..."

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Usagi lay shivering under the blankets. She had a fever, her nose was stuffed, and her throat was on fire. None of that could compare to the pain she felt in her heart. If Mamo-chan couldn't remember her, what was the point of living?

*Stop thinking like that, Usagi! You're being selfish! Think about the future!*

She wondered if there would still be a Crystal Tokyo... or Chibiusa... That thought made the pain in her heart grow more. Usagi felt so weak and so lost...

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"How is Usagi doing, Ikuko-san?"

Ikuko sighed. "Rei, I just don't know! I can't get her to eat anything. She's so depressed... and sick. If Mamoru-san doesn't regain his memories of her, I don't know what she'll do."

"Mama," Shingo said. "Papa's on the phone. He just got your message."

"Domo, Shingo, I'll be right there." She turned to Rei. "Why don't you go on up."

Rei nodded and headed upstairs. She knocked on the door. When Usagi didn't answer, she walked in. It was dark and all the curtains were drawn. Rei knelt next to her friend. Usagi's face was pale and Rei could see the tear tracks on the girl's face. "Usagi..." she whispered, placing a hand on her forehead. She jerked her hand away from the heat. "Kami... Ikuko-san!"

Ikuko rushed into Usagi's room. "Nani? What's wrong?"

"She's burning up!"

Ikuko stood over the bed. "Usagi!" she exclaimed, waking her daughter. "Sweetheart, get up please."

"Mama? Rei-chan?" Usagi moaned. She was so tired and just wanted to go back to sleep.

"Iie, Usagi, come on. We have to get you to the hospital."

"I'm fine right here, Mama... There's no point..."

"Usagi! Don't you dare give up on us, do you hear me!" Ikuko cried

Rei came into view. "Usagi, do this for me... your friends."

Usagi nodded weakly as Rei and Ikuko helped her up. Her limbs weren't working well and her was pounding. "Mama... I'm so tired."

"Everything will be all right, my musume," Ikuko replied, eyeing Rei.

The Miko sighed... *We hope.*

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Mamoru stared at Motoki's grim face as he hung up the phone. "Is something wrong, Motoki?"

"Usagi-chan is very sick," he replied.

"Oh... Will she be all right?"

Motoki shrugged. "I hope so. We need to help you to remember. I think that would be a better cure than any doctor could give her."

"Then tell me a little bit about her. What's she like, how does she act? Maybe it might trigger something in my brain."

Motoki began with how the two met and couldn't stand each other. He then explained (to the best of his knowledge) how they fell in love. "You might want to ask Ami-tachi about that. They're really good friends of Usagi-chan. Perhaps we can go see them later today?"

"Sounds like a good idea. I have a thought that's forming but I think they would be able to answer it better than you could... no offense!"

Motoki laughed. "None taken. What do you say we head over to Crown's for a bite to eat then visit the girls?"

"Great!"

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Usagi lay uncomfortable in the hospital bed. She felt like she was sticking to the sheets. "This is what you get for running around in the cold rain, baka," she muttered to herself. Her throat stung and her chest throbbed as coughs wracked her entire body.

"Usagi-chan?" a hesitant voice said from the door. Usagi looked up to see Ami, Minako, and Makoto enter. She smiled weakly as they came up to her.

"How are you feeling?" Minako asked.

Usagi coughed again. "I've been better..." She paused a moment. "Ano... have any of you talked to Mamo-chan?"

The girls stared at one another for a few minutes. Finally Ami spoke up. "Not personally. He's been staying with Motoki-san. He... he hasn't remembered you yet, Usagi-chan." Ami hung her head. "Gomen nasai! I..."

"Ami-chan, it's not your fault," Usagi said, taking her friends hand. "It's just... I feel so lost without him. I don't know what to do with myself." She yawned then began coughing again. "I feel like crap!"

Makoto smiled. "The doctor mentioned something about coming in here soon with some medicine. Oh, and we heard someone's coming to visit you soon."

"Nani? Who?" There was a knock at the door and Kenji came into the room. "Papa!" Usagi exclaimed. Of course, this sent another coughing fit through.

"Usagi," he replied, kissing his daughter's forehead. He gasped at the heat. Luckily her fever wasn't as high as Ikuko said it had been. "Would you mind if I sit with you for a while?"

"I'd love for you to, Papa!"

Minako announced that they would be leaving. "It's late and we do have school tomorrow."

"That's right, "Ami said. "Usagi-chan I'll be sure to bring your homework."

Usagi waved her hand. "Don't worry about that stuff, Ami-chan. I won't be able to concentrate on it anyway."

"Now, Usa, you know you have to do your homework. Myself or your okaasan will help you with it if you can't concentrate on it." He turned to Ami. "Arigatou, Ami-san."

"It's no problem at all, Tsukino-san," she answered with a bow. "Oyasumi, Usagi-chan!"

"Oyasumi, minna!"

Kenji smiled at Usagi. "You have some very kind friends, darling."

"Don't I know it, Papa!"