Ten Years - One-shot - Naru x Nephrite

Naru stood in the graveyard, flowers in hand besides a small stone, balanced against the outer wall. The wind blowing through her now hip length red hair.

It had been ten years. Ten years since she had lost him since he had tragically died.

She was happy, she was in love again, spending the last nine years with her now husband, Umino. She still met with her best friend, Usagi, often, meeting with her and Mamoru regularly for double dates, looking forward to her future child being friends with their Usagi's own child, Chibiusa.

She smiled, absently brushing her hand over her now swollen belly. She had spent many years coming to this graveyard. Many of them with regrets that there wasn't anything for her to visit. She had bought him a headstone five years ago, and made sure to bring him flowers as often as she could.

'Nephrite.' She placed the flowers by his stone, lingering a hand to the carved name upon it. She often wondered if things would have been different if he had lived. If they had gone for that chocolate parfait. Would she have married him, perhaps it would have been his child she carried now.

She often felt guilty for these thoughts, she loved Umino but he wasn't her first love. No, there would always be a place in her heart for Nephrite, her love for him had never wavered. She liked to think he would be happy for her, often thinking about him from afar.

Umino could never understand if he knew. But it didn't stop her, she felt close to him this way, smiling again at the headstone. 'Goodbye Nephrite, I'll see you soon.'