Usagi had been going to the Peacecraft Academy for just over a year now. This was the beginning of her second year at the school. As she started her junior year of high school, she couldn't help but think about her friends. She remembered how each one of them had passed away during the war. Not all of them died directly because of the war, but they all died because of its existence.

The wars had destroyed the life provided by the other planets. The Outer Senshi had told her what had happened before they had found her. All of the other senshi had been together, and they were searching for her when the problems started. The life force that the planets supplied to the Inner Senshi came to a sudden and abrupt stop. When it stopped, the Inner Senshi could no longer survive on the earth. It was what had powered them to become Sailor Senshi, so that was the first thing that stopped. Soon, they could no longer breath the oxygen, so they were going to return to their homes. However, that planned backfired when the planets own life force was stopped.

It all happened when one of the missiles sent out during a battle by the moon destroyed the spot where the palace used to reside on the moon. The control room there was still running the life support magic that was needed in order to support life on the other planets.

She was, however, extremely happy to still have the company of the Outer Senshi. This was their third life together, and she wanted to have many more. Yes, she is immortal, but in a different way. She does die, and she is reborn, along with her senshi. But now, the Inner Senshi would be gone for good, for their very soul had been sucked out of them. Mamoru, on the other hand, was gone for different reasons. It wasn't that he had already died in this life, but that he wasn't born. He had told her at the end of his last life that he wouldn't be reborn with her.

She remembered his response to the word when she had asked him why. He had said, "I'm am fully human, and I was never meant to be reborn. Your mother's magic sent me to give you another chance at happiness, but it can't happen again. My soul must come to a rest. I'm sorry, Serenity, but my time is now up." At those words, he had slipped from her grasp in this life. He was gone forever.

Now, here she was, lying in her bed, at her dorm, in the palace of the Sanq Kingdom unable to sleep. She remembered what Michiru told her she did when she was unable to sleep. Usagi smiled to herself. That sounded like the best idea she had ever heard of right then.

She got out of bed and slipped on the dress that she had worn earlier. Sneaking out of her bedroom window, she made her way across the courtyard of the school, and came to the high brick wall that fenced the school in. She looked up to the top and realized it was probably fifteen feet high.

She looked around, and saw a tall tree standing near the wall, and she realized that she could use it to climb up to the top. After a long struggle up the tree and to the wall, she realized that she had finally made it to her destination. Now, unlike Michiru, she didn't play the violin, so instead, she had brought her flute to play. Sitting in the shade of the tree with the perfect view of the stars and moon, high above anyone else, she started to play her song. She had written it in memory of the four friends that she had lost before they even had a chance to reunite.

As she played the song, she remembered where she had been during all of this. They had put her into hiding. Technically, she was still in hiding until they caught whoever it was that wanted to destroy her. Unknown to them, they had already been taken care of, but she didn't care. She didn't want to come out of hiding, because that would mean taking her place as Relena Peacecraft's little sister, and that did not sound like any fun. She would be expected to play the part of a lady, and listen to politicians ramble on and on about some boring thing going on in the world.

She did miss her brother and sister quiet a lot and every now and then, they would allow her a meeting with them, but outside of apparent friendship, she wasn't allowed to see them. There could be no connection made between them, or, as the guards had put it, 'all would be lost!'

Haruka, who's actually a male in this lifetime, was among her guardians, and she was very thankful for that. It was so much like being put under lock and key that she often felt like she was in a 'not so gilded cage.'

She stopped playing to shift positions, and when she heard clapping below, it startled her, and her hand slipped. She fell off of the wall. Without a sound, she braced for impact on the ground, but instead, two arms caught her. When she looked up, she realized that the person who caught her was too busy glaring at someone else to even notice her. She followed his gaze and realized that it was none other than her fellow student, Duo Maxwell. Then she came to the realization of who was still holding her, and she blushed.

She remembered all of the times that Michiru and Hotaru had given her 'knowing looks' as they called it about him. They knew that she liked him, and did everything in their power to get them to meet, but Usagi avoided all of their matchmaking efforts.

Haruka had been sort of on her side. She knew that Usagi didn't want to get caught in the match making schemes, so she told her about every single one, so that Usagi wouldn't end up with someone. Haruka was just too overprotective sometimes, and Hotaru loved to point it out.

In this life, Haruka was two years older than Michiru, and three years older than herself and Hotaru. Hotaru was still weak and frail, but was much stronger than she had been in her first real life on earth.

When the boy placed her right side up on her feet, she flashed him one of her hundred watt smiles and said, "Thanks for catching me. My name's Usagi Tsukino, what's yours?" she asked as she put her hand out to shake his.

He took her hand and said nothing ""

Duo came up and said, "I'm Duo Maxwell, and these are Wufei Chang, Hiiro Yui, Trowa Barton and Quatre Winner." He pointed to each person as he said his name. "It's nice to meet your Usagi-san!"

"The pleasure's mine," Usagi replied, smiling at the boy. He reminded her so much of Minako that it was almost a little bit scary. He even looked like her, well; he had the same facial features and eye color. His eyes were exactly the same as hers come to think of it.

She looked at the other boys. Wufei had long black hair tied tightly behind his head in a ponytail, and onyx eyes. It wasn't hard to figure out that he was of Chinese descent. He seemed slightly shorter than the others.

Hiiro had short brown hair that looked like he hadn't combed it in a week. His eyes were as brown as his hair, and from what she could tell, didn't show what he was thinking inside. He struck her as familiar, but she couldn't think of who he reminded her of.

Trowa was definitely the tallest of this group. He had short brown hair with really long bangs that covered his right eye. His eyes were a deep emerald color that were, as she swore later, exactly like their namesake. She told Hotaru once that it was like looking into a treasure cave.

She looked at the last one. He had extremely light blond hair, almost platinum in color, and bright blue eyes. He struck her as familiar, like she knew him, but she couldn't remember from where. His name was Quatre Winner. Than it all came rushing back into her head. She knew immediately that she had to get out of there before he recognized her.

She flashed them all a huge grin and said, "I'm really sorry, gentleman, but I must be going now, and she ran off back towards the dorms.

Duo gave a stunned look to the boys with him and said, "What was that all about?"

Quatre just smiled and said, "See you tomorrow, Serenity."

Usagi climbed back in through her window, the same way that she had gotten out, and shut it quickly.

"So, are you trying to hide from the plague, or was there something else out there that you were running from?"

Usagi spun around to find Hotaru sitting on her bed with a huge grin on her face. "Don't ever scare me like that again, Hotaru-chan."

Hotaru just grinned wider and said, "So, did you enjoy your midnight walk?"

Usagi sighed and sat on her bed. "I would have, if someone hadn't startled me."

"Who?" Hotaru said, still grinning.

Usagi frowned at her and said, "I can tell that you already know. I'm just hoping that I left before he realized it was me. What am I suppose to do now?"

Hotaru gave her friend a comforting hug while saying, "You're suppose to live for the moment, never have any regrets, never run from anything or anyone, and be who you were meant to be. That's what your suppose to do now. Don't worry, Usagi-chan, it will all work out in the end, it always does. I need to be getting back to bed before Haruka and Michiru realize were up this late talking again. Oyasumi nasai, Usagi-chan."

"Oyasumi nasai, Hotaru-chan, and thank you," Usagi said as her friend shut the door.

As soon as Usagi's head hit the pillow, she was fast asleep. That night, she dreamed of rainbows and food

~*~ The Next Day ~*~

Usagi was walking to her second period class, which she didn't have with any of the other girls, while she was thinking when a gust of wind picked up and knocked a piece of paper out of the stack of books in her hands. Her mind was still off in la-la land as she bent over to pick up the piece of paper. Now this may not have been such a good thing, thinking, walking, and bending at the same time, especially not for one blond haired Odango Atama.

Instead of picking up the piece of paper, she stepped on it and slipped landing on her face and kicking the person that was walking behind her. They, in turn, grabbed the person beside them trying to catch themselves, and ended up pulling them down instead. So, what the end results were three people, two boys and a girl, in a large pile so that it appeared they had played 'dog pile on Usagi.' As a matter of fact, that's exactly how she felt.

"Mmmmh hmmhmm" Usagi tried to say.

"What was that?" the boy in the middle asked.

Usagi lifted her head higher and said, "GET OFF OF ME!"

The two on top of her immediately scrambled to get off. When she stood up, she was surprised to see none other than two of the boys that she had met the previous night. One of them was Duo, who had introduced her to each of his friend, and the other one was Trowa.

Usagi stood up and dusted herself off, and was more than surprised when Duo started apologizing, "I'm so sorry," he said, "I wasn't watching where I was going, and I ran into you."

Usagi smiled and said, "It's just as much my fault, I tripped and knocked you down."

The two looked at each other and than cracked up laughing. For, at that moment, they both realized that this happened a lot to the other person. It was like a bond started to form between the two teenagers because of a problem that they both had. Usagi actually already looked at Duo as a brother figure.

When the warning bell rang, Usagi looked up startled, "I have to get to Physics, see ya later!" She called the last part over her shoulder as she raced to class.

"Don't we have Physics next?" Trowa asked more to make Duo realize it than to find out.

Duo grinned and said, "Yep!" and they headed towards their next class. Trowa had the distinct feeling that it was going to be an interesting period.

To be continued

IMPORTANT: Well, I would like to know who you guys think I should pair who up with. I'm sorry, but Haruka/Michiru is the way it's going to be for my story.

Here are the other choices

Usagi/Hiiro

Usagi/Wufei

Usagi/Trowa

Usagi/Quatre

Usagi/Milliardo ~ USAGI AND MILLIARDO ARE NOT BROTHER AND SISTER!

Hotaru/Hiiro

Hotaru/Duo

Hotaru/Wufei

Hotaru/Trowa

Hotaru/Quatre

Relena/Duo

Relena/Wufei

Relena/Trowa

Relena/Quatre

Setsuna/Hiiro

Setsuna/Duo

Setsuna/Wufei

Setsuna/Trowa

Setsuna/Quatre

Minako/Hiiro

Minako/Duo

Minako/Wufei

Minako/Trowa

Minako/Quatre