Unlucky for Love (Part 2)
After the accidental death of the teenager, Makoto spent a few hours in the police station and was let out without any charges. In a way pleased but on the other hand, he would have lived if it wasn't for her. She returned to her apartment and stared at her plants by the windowsill being down.
She wonders why they were scared of her, she was being really friendly towards him but then figured out the obvious. The height difference making her pretty much a teenager in an adult's body but then wonders if that is the case that there has to be someone who understands.
"You're going to beat me up... No woman dresses up like you... You're one of those delinquents... No..."
This was in her head so much... One of those delinquents was repeated over and over again and then it hit her. It was her reputation. If they saw her an aggressive woman who beat men up, no wonder why he was scared of her but people often get the wrong side of the story. Makoto loves protecting people, she has protected Usagi from the first time that they met and Ami if a student wanted to cheat and she didn't let them.
She started to question "No woman dresses up like you...", it was the bomber jacket yet she felt like it was the right clothes to wear since she would have been cold with her white top and brown skirt. Even then she remembers that same line when she did wear the white top and the brown skirt. She scratched her head thinking how can she be more feminine than she already is?
Makoto froze with her large eyes wide open and realised something. She wasn't Japanese despite the name. It was starting to make sense. A lot of sense. Maybe they were scared of her because she was a foreigner and she didn't know. Her height would be considered normal in Western and European countries, not a giant. Her clothes would have made sense with the bomber jacket having that American image while her natural clothes wouldn't look too out of place in Spain or Italy. Her behaviour as a woman again wouldn't be out of place outside of Japan. The obvious as in her hair colour, again would be anyone outside of Asian countries and why her first comment was that they thought that she dyed her hair. Then again, it wouldn't explain why Usagi and Minako are blonde, Ami is blue that is not a natural hair colour and they get a free pass while Makoto got a comment out of it.
Another thing that she didn't realise was that she writes her name as Makoto Kino even in Japanese. The other girls however write their names as Tsukino Usagi, Mizuno Ami, Hino Rei and Aino Minako, however the latter also writes as Minako Aino in English. She was often told off for writing it the wrong way and why her scores were affected in class. While she does write it as Kino Makoto, she was never happy that she had to do it in the first place even if it would have made more sense especially if it was split as Ki no Makoto. Yet she wasn't called a foreigner and she would have been the first to know.
She went to bed thinking how to deal with the next day. The next day arrived and she got out of bed but since it was a sunny day, she wore her white top and brown skirt and left the apartment.
Desperately she was walking around the area looking for any male attention however it happened to be a day where it was mostly over 35s as it was full of salary men, female office workers and elderly people walking around. She had spent half an hour looking for company, any man would do providing that he was decent looking and honest with themselves.
Then she heard a cry for "Help!" and run down towards the edge of the park. A teenage boy got stuck in a tree that was near a telegraph pole, he was too far up to jump knowing that he would have died from the fall. Makoto's large emerald eyes were gleaming, she saw that ruffled blond hair, those jeans and a white T-shirt. He looked handsome and she wants him. She ran up towards the tree and started climbing, quickly she grabbed the nearest yet strongest tree branch and got up with her green heels just about balancing on the wood, she then grabbed the branch above and jumped up. Despite that Makoto wasn't the most athletic of the group, she had no problem getting up.
Makoto was at the same level as the boy who was scared as he looked towards the ground blinking every few moments knowing how will he get down from here.
She shouted as she reached her arm out, "I'm here, grab my hand!"
Very quickly the teenager shook his head and looking at the response, Makoto lowered her eyes thinking "Not again!" as he was terrified.
Makoto softly smiled, "I won't hurt you."
"No... I don't want to be saved by you", spat out the boy as he was both annoyed and scared.
"You think I'm some juvenile delinquent but I'm not...", stuttered the brunette but then perked up, "I think you're pretty good looking."
This cheered up the young man as he softy smiled, she called him good looking and that meant something as no one called him that before. He managed to grab Makoto's hand with a firm grip but then something happened... Due to Makoto's strength, the tree was starting to fall towards the direction of telegraph pole and she felt some static electricity going into her as her hair was slightly frizzy however she wanted to feel his blond hair, she slightly blushed it when all of a sudden, he was getting an electric shock and as the two reached the telegraph pole and towards the wires, he was getting electrocuted.
Straight away Makoto frowned, she didn't want this to happen, she wanted to save him and not kill him. As the electricity intensified, without a choice Makoto had to let him go and jumped off to the ground. Like before, he was going to die and there was nothing that she could do to keep him alive. There was no Sailor Moon to heal him after all however an elderly couple saw what happened and dashed off to get an ambulance.
When the paramedics came out, it was deduced that he was killed by an electrical shock from the wires of the telegraph pole, not from Makoto.
Makoto cried as she saw the cooked body, "I think that I'm cursed... Maybe I wasn't meant to have love..."
She took a statement that he got stuck in a tree when the tree collapsed onto the telegraph pole, as there was no fire brigade she wanted to save his life and not kill him. They believed her as cases like this have happened in the past yet she was miserable knowing that it was her fault but even if she didn't come to save him, there was a chance that he would have died anyway.
Looking at the distance, the young man with the ruffled black hair was there and like before he watched the entire event. He made a depressed noise knowing that Makoto wanted love but never got it with not just a broken heart but with another person dying at her facility. He sniffed and walked away upset by what happened.