Title: A Personal Vendetta
Author:
bjfactoryTheme:
sm_monthly June's Sailormoon R Day 17: Fist
Genre: Drama/Dark
Version: Anime
Rating: PG
Kino Makoto couldn't remember being this hateful. The bile in her mouth, the shake in her limbs, the dark rage that seeped into her tired body, deeper than the weariness she felt. Beneath the sluggish blood and muscle laid the Need, this burning desire to get vengeance that overrode all logic and calm decisiveness that she had always felt before a battle. This time it wasn't just the duty of keeping the neighborhood safe from possible youma attacks or preventing invasions from the armies of darkness, this was personal. Shinozaki, paler still against the white sheets of the hospital bed, that feeling she had when she told Usagi and Ami a small piece of her past...
Even though Usagi didn't understand then and Ami had no experience to relate, Makoto felt a little better praising a friend she had not spoken to anyone else about. Shinozaki, he had been so important and yet she had never told any of the other girls about him. It was strangely ironic that the girls she trusted her life with and spent so many nights fighting against evil with, knew so little about the important things in her life before them, before she had been a Senshi. She had always imagined, when she had been younger and lonelier, of finding friends like Ami, Rei, Minako and Usagi. Now that she had them, there were a lot of the painful things in the past that she had never remembered to mention. No matter how much she had wanted to share these little secret pains once, when she had suffered them alone years ago, the subject had never came up in this fuller life.
Until now.
With that lioness beast roaring and threatening over Sailormoon, Jupiter felt the soldier in her dissolve into the rage. Felt the thunder burn into her blood, coursing through her flesh and racing for release. She wanted this enemy to dissolve into dust so that it may never threaten a close friend again, or threaten the heart that trembled inside her at the thought of losing another important person. And with her fists clenched tight and the spell at the tip of her tongue, Jupiter unleashed the storm within and savored the roaring screams that followed.
Better than I thought it was turning out to be. Still not really satisified though... sigh.