Say What?
June 11, 2008
Sum: Usagi went away to South America for a semester abroad, and she comes back with a lot of changes.
AN: In this story her parents live in North America… and please give it a chance, it's not quite as cliché as those Serena we hate you, leave, stories where she's needed and comes back.
Chapter One
"I can't believe you're really leaving me." A blond haired beauty told the other blond in a British accent in a strange swell of clipped and held notes and vowels.
"Hey, Minako, back off, she's not your girlfriend." A guy with the roguishly handsome features only a mixed breed could have, his heritage came from partially Japan and partially south and south-eastern Europe. Yet he didn't know who his parents were or where they came from. Usagi only knew because his features couldn't be distinctly Asian alone. She too was a child from parents who were partially Japanese, yet if looked incredibly hard, you could see slight Asian features and only the last name still held any true calling. Yet her parents were mean and decided to call her Tsukino Usagi in true Japanese way and send her to live with her extended family since she was fourteen.
"I'm sorry." She told her boyfriend of four and a half years. It was spring semester in a week and she was looking forward to it despite knowing she would be sad and missing her friends here. "But I promised Naru long ago, that we'd go study abroad for spring semester Junior year since we were fourteen. It's now time."
She stood up on her tip-toes and kissed Mamoru deeply before she turned and hugged all of her friends. They took pictures of her and all of her stuff and with Naru as well. Naru was saying her own goodbyes and then came over as her family left. Usagi hugged her family as well before they had to go back to work and Mamoru pulled her into a bone crushing hug before kissing her goodbye again.
"I expect a letter from you every week." He told her and the girls all nodded.
"I'll try. I'm not sure how good the postal service is over there."
"The phone service is really bad and except at resorts the internet is not a likely bet either." Naru told them. They had picked a small town area because they wanted to learn the language and still be close to the bigger city to see the real life in the metropolitan area and experience the culture of both.
Mamoru stole one last kiss. "Be good, and don't find a hot boyfriend while you're away." He told her sternly.
"Don't drink too much." Makoto winked and hugged Usagi goodbye again and hugged Naru as well. "Watch out for each other. And the same goes for you, be careful." She told Naru with a pat on the back that Naru swore would leave a bruise.
They got one last picture of all of them, smiling happily with the two travel girls in the center.
"Please come back in one piece and make sure you come back when you are supposed to, and not any later because some one told you there is this great new thing you need to try and end up killing yourself doing it."
"Yes Rei, jeez you take out all the fun in studying abroad." Usagi teased.
"We should get going." Naru gently reminded her best friend. There was one more round of hugs before the red-head and the blond girls headed to security and headed out of sight.
Naru and Usagi smiled at each other as they fastened their seatbelt and watched the world they knew disappear as soon they would land in an area they knew next to nothing about. It was a mixture of excitement and trepidation.