State of Mind
by Amethyst
tuxedoame007@yahoo.com
	Hey hey hey minna! Ready for another alternate reality fic?!? This one 

takes place AFTER the first season, but Usagi doesn't remember a *Thing*, 

only that she is Sailormoon and she *must* fight. This fic will probably end up 

being PG-13 for a fair amount of angst. Usagi's in college and is 18. The title is taken from a song by K's Choice, it's called "Virgin State of Mind." I took out the virgin, afraid that you guys wouild think it was a hentai fic. Ewww, I 

*don't* do that!!! Anyways, download the MP3 or something, guys, it's a really good song.  Anyways, enjoy and EMAIL ME!!! I LIVE FOR FEEDBACK!!! (That and guy-watching ;D) 

	
Thanks to Alicia Blade, Lady Starra, and Andrea Hui for posting this,
 you guys are GREAT!!!!!!
	Disclaimer: I, Amethyst, do not own Sailormoon, or anyone in it. I *do* 

own the concept, (even though I'm sure it's not that original) and I own these 

shoes I'm wearing. 

Names-

Tsukino Usagi (Rabbit of the Moon)- Serena/Sailor Moon Furuhata Motoki- AndrewNaru- MollyUmino- Melvin

************************************************************************	Tsukino Usagi huffed, sticking her lower pink lip out so that it 

sparkled slightly in the dim light. Her bangs flew upwards as the hot breath touched it, and Usagi rolled her eyes upwards as the cerculean blue orbs glared at the boxes decorating the small apartment. 

	"ARGH!!!!" She finally shreaked angrily, and the 18 year old freshman in college at Azabu Technical University in Tokyo, Japan, found herself fighting 

the temptation to throw one of the textbooks she'd just bought against the wall. She looked around the untouched apartment again. 

	It was her first week at Azabu, even thiugh classes didn't start for three more. Usagi was going to stay in a dorm but they didn't have the room- 
it was sharing a room with four other people or renting this apartment from her old friend Motoki, who ran the Crown Arcade Centre that Usagi visited 

daily as a child- and continued to do so. Usagi had agreed, the rent was low. 

One of Motoki's friends who had just returned from Harvard to do some 

post-degree work for his neurology degree would be sharing the 2-bedroom apartment with her. Motoki had winked when she'd asked him what the roommate would be like, and said,
 
	"You'll like him, Usagi-chan!" 

	Usagi smiled. Now that she was free, everything would be fine. She'd left her painful past behind her. Her memories of her parent's deaths, her younger brother's abandonment, her relationship and breakup with Kou Seiya. That meant that she had a clean slate. Everything would change. Everything 

would be free.
 	A black cat with a golden cresent moon on it's forehead leapt onto Usagi's shoulder and purred.	Well, one thing would remain the same.

	For years, the pretty soldier Sailormoon had fought alone in Tokyo 
against crime and demons that popped up and attempted to claim the city. It 

had been a long and lonely fight. Her cat, Luna, was, in the end, her only 

friend. Luna often spoke of a battle with a evil Queen named Beryl, and other 

Senshi helping her. 

	Usagi's crystal pink locket with a golden star on top of it glistened 

with unknown energy. 

	Luna had thought that once Usagi had recieved the Silver Crystal again,
 
she would remember everything. But still, the past, her friend's identities, they still remained shadowed in mystery. Sometimes Usagi saw a flash of red, a cry of pain, short ebony hair that looked so soft and was just crying to be touched....	Usagi shook her head, her silver-blonde hair glistening in the setting 

sun's dying rays. She looked at the balcony, and smiled at Luna.
 
	"I wonder when my room mate is getting here, Luna." her voice, which used to be so childish and happy, had become deeper, more mature, and with underlying notes of pain added into the mix.  Luna frowned as much as the cat 
*could* frown. Poor Usagi, she'd gone through so much pain, for so long, and 

maybe now, she'd finally have a chance.... at a happy life. Luna purred and 

nodded.

	"Usagi-chan, you should finish unpacking, tomorrow you told me you had wanted to go see Motoki." The blond boy, once the object of Usagi-chan's 

affections, quickly became like an older brother to Usagi, taking her in after her parents death and her little brother left. He and Reika, his now-wife, 

were Usagi's only friends. Naru and Umino had been put off by Usagi's 

distant ways, and how she was always busy. For Usagi, fighting youma and 
crime had been a way of life for awhile. Luna purred again, and licked Usagi's cheek, kissing her in a motherly way. This broke the blode out of her reverie. 	"Luna, it's finally time. I can finally start over, Luna!" She grinned happily, and Luna smiled back, looking almost.... human.

	It was at this point that the sound of a key in the locked apartment door was heard, interrupting the moment.

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Okay, minna, that's all for the prolouge. I'll try to get pt.1 up ASAP but exams are coming next week and... ergh..... my grades and life depends on them. Ja ne! (I hope I did the HTML work on this right for ASMR.) EMAIL MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!Amethyst @>~~~~~~Mare Serenitatis- http://blckmoonchik.tripod.com