Realizations Chapter 1: Arguments Suck

"Meatball-Head!"

"Baka!"

"Klutz"

"Arrogant jerk!"

'Not again, I leave her alone for 1 minute to go to the bathroom and they get into this. Why can't they just get along?' thought Mina, a golden- blonde haired girl with a fit figure and a sigh trying to escape her mouth as she tried to part the staring crowd that was gathering around the fight.

She finally managed her way to the front of the crowd and glanced at the fighting pair and let the sigh out.

She looked in on the fight going on between her best friend, Serena Tsukino, and Serena's worst nightmare of a person, Darien Shields. The two were now literally at each others throats, calling each other names and trying to figure out who would be the winner of today's argument, which right now looked like it would take awhile to figure out.

Ever since Mina had moved to Tokyo and started hanging around with Serena, she could remember those two had always been arguing or fighting over the smallest things. Somehow one of them would do something to annoy the other and a verbal word storm would break free from its cage.

Of course Mina knew they didn't hate each other even though they said it all the time. No, they were lying to the public and themselves so that they didn't have to admit that they had feelings for each other.

For as long as Mina could remember, she had been able to see people's feelings or aura's. From a very early age she had taken up the roll as Cupid and tried to get people together who were too stubborn to admit it and do it themselves.

Mina had always had this gift, a very magical and powerful gift. She had used it to help save the planet many times from the forces of evil that threaten to take over the world. The planet Venus provided her with the magic and also gave her the ability to transform into her other half Sailor Venus.

Mina is part of an elite group of super-heroines that are sworn to protect the Earth. This group of super-heroines are called the Sailor Scouts. There are currently 5 members who represent 5 different planets and each have their own unique abilities. Her team's leader, Sailor Moon, is the strongest of them all. She represents the Moon and has the ability to destroy much more powerful monsters then the other scouts. Sailor Mars protects the planet Mars. Her special ability is fire. Next comes Sailor Mercury who represents the planet Mercury and specializes in water. Mercury is the best partner for the last Sailor Scout (other then Venus) Sailor Jupiter. Sailor Jupiter represents the planet Jupiter is has the ability to control electricity. Shaking her head out of her memories, Mina tried to capture what Serena was mumbling under her breath when a poke on her side interrupted he thoughts.

She turned to find Lita, a tall girl about 17 with dark auburn hair and emerald green eyes.

"What happened this time?" questioned Lita while quickly glancing at the pair causing another scene in the arcade.

"Well from what I could make out from all the yelling Serena accidentally bumped Darien while she was walking by and Darien spilt his coffee all over his new shirt. Darien called Serena a klutz and Serena retaliated" said Mina.

" Well its not a surprise, she's always been klutzy".

Both girls turned to see their other friend, Rei Hino, a fiery young priestess that was about 17 with long ebony hair and dark violet eyes.

She smirked at her own remark and strolled up to the 2 girls.

"Hey maybe Serena really accidentally bump into him and Darien's over reacting" Lita remarked, jumping to the defense of her friend.

"Well maybe my idea's right, she's always dropping things or braking things, its not like this day should be any different.." replied Rei while smiling at how Serena was getting all frustrated at Darien's last comment.

"Well I think you should.....o... hi Amy!" exclaimed Lita who was waving at her blue-haired best friend that had just walked in the front door of the Crown arcade.

"Hi you guys, sorry I'm late but I had to study for the upcoming test in English." Amy said while keeping her face down, trying to hide from the embarrassment of actually being late.

"Why were you studying?! The test isn't even for another month and besides you have the best grades in the whole school!" Lita said while wondering how Amy could even think of doing homework on a Saturday.

"Yes that may be true Lita but practice makes perfect" remarked Amy while holding her finger in a pointing manner.

'Or in your case practice makes no homework and extra credit for having brains beyond your years' thought Rei who was on the verge of failing English herself.

Just as Mina was about to say that she herself had studied for that test there was a loud snap and then an awed silence filled the small but homely room that was the Crown arcade. All four girls turned to find Serena standing as still as a statue with her mouth wide open in shock and surprise while Darien was leaning on the counter with a hand to his cheek.

The silence was so eerie that no-one dared to move. It looked as though no one ever might until Serena started to sputter out apologies to Darien.

"Oh my gosh! Darien... I... I didn't...I never thought....I'm sorry!" and with that she ran out of the arcade, tears streaking off her face.

'Great' thought Lita 'he had to make her cry'.

She turned around to see the other girls staring at Darien who had a stunned look on his face. Everyone was still in shock from what they had just witnessed. Normally Serena was a happy, bubbly child who had never even raised a finger at anyone, but when she slapped Darien everyone had noticed.

Darien himself was just starting to come back to Earth when he realized everyone was starring at him. He put a 5 dollar bill on the counter and left the arcade at a quick walk. The little bell on the door jangled as Darien walked out.

People started to move back to their seats, while others stood and talked about what had just happened. As for the girls, they ran out the door, searching for Serena with no idea where she had gone.

Hours went by with them looking but still no-one could find her so Amy finally called it quits and told them that Serena would come back when she was ready. Everyone agreed and left to go home, little did they know that Serena was just a block away.

She had ran away from the arcade, the looks, and Darien as fast as she could. She had kept running until she collapsed at the park, where she was currently sitting, under a huge willow tree watching the reflections of the setting sun on the pond.

She still couldn't believe that she had slapped Darien. Sure he had called her a disgrace to Tokyo and said she should just leave, but that didn't mean she had to hurt him back. But unable to stop herself, she slapped him and when she realized what she did, she had ran out not really knowing where she was going until she collapsed and saw the willow tree that was her quiet place.

The park had always been Serena's favorite thinking place. Whenever she needed to be alone she would come here and sit under the big tree while watching the ducks swim in the pond. She liked it because no-one else came over or bugged her and she had the peace and quiet to think.

Serena kept starring at the pond until the sunset, then she sat back, leaning on the tree while watching the stars begin to peep out from the clouds.

She must have been in a semi-wake state because she started to talk and not realized it.

"Why did I do that? Why did I have to do that? Darien didn't deserve that slap, I did. I'm the one who always acts like an immature baby all the time and doesn't know the meaning of the word 'lose'. Now he probably will never talk to me again. From now on whenever he sees me he'll probably turn around or ignore me. I never really noticed that I looked forward to our arguments, but now that I realized that we may never have them again, I really miss them. Why did it have to be me that had to have that stupid crush on him? Am I being cursed for something I did? Did I do something so terrible that they made me have a crush on Darien just so we could fight and maybe never talk again? That's torture, its inhumane...it's not fair!" Serena remarked while tears flooded her eyes and rolled down her soft skin onto her blue and white school uniform.

She brought her legs up to her chin and rested it on her knees. She started to cry into the lonely night, when hearing a noise she turned to her side and looked up into the face of Darien!