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Last time I checked, I don't own anything. Nope. Sadly. Sorry.

Author's Note:

I apologise for the long hitaus having been away from writing this summer. I had finished the Spring 2018 semester art classes with finals, thankfully, passing my art studio classes. Plus I was struck with a little bit of writer's block, working on a Usagi cosplay I'll be wearing when I attend Anime Expo 2018 in L.A. In July coming up soon. (Not to mention recently, I sadly had gotten into an accident, where I unfornately had fallen hard and injured my right ankle badly with some tear muscle-tissue pulling in the ankle with a bone issue to the bottom heel bone of the foot. I'm currently held up in an ankle-foot cast, have to try my best to keep off my leg for it to naturally heel until I can see the doctors for treatment.) So, with my summer plans being held up on the couch or in my bed with my lap table and laptop, I shall be back to writing regularly again this summer holidays, until Fall Semester returns later for my schedule.

Okay, just to be clear and get this out of the way, this series of drabbles/one-shot short little stories are for the MamoUsa Week on Tumblr. So no, I'm not technically starting to write a whole new series of drabbles for my drabble series 'The Drabble Chornicles of Odango Atama and Mamoru Baka' , or updating other stories, due to the fact with this MamoUsa Week challenge on Tumblr, the majority of the days are written out on which days to write/complete/post/link your writing up for the week long challenge. So consider this series of a week of individual one-shot short stories together, all very different to an extent, while some may have connections to other stories in this series. I will be finding time to update other stories ASAP! (Sorry if any readers reading this are disappointed!)

Also, there might be a few little "motivations" or "reasons" I'm writing these challenges. First, because it's actually my birthday today on this lovely June 24th; so Happy Birthday to me! Second, this is a belated birthday gift for my dear Beta-Reader/Friend/Fellow Author/Fellow Moonie Queen Risa for her belated birthday that passed a couple of days/to a week ago. Happy Belated Birthday Queen Risa and Surprise! (She had gifted me today with a wonderful beginning first drabble to a not-series she wrote for the first day of MamoUsa Week. Her series is called, 'First and Last': the drabble shot she wrote me as a fan fiction gift of sorts is called 'In My Head', highly recommend that you go visit her author page to find and read that if you love a Dark! Yummy Evil! Prince Endymion! I know I do, hehehe!)

Third, the challenge of this month's MamoUsa Week looked like too much fun to pass up!

I apologise now if my spellcheckers/grammar checkers on my writing program didn't catch if any spelling/grammar errors now; writing/posting these challenges without a editor/beta-reader seemed tricky the same day we post them. So forgive me. Forgive, enjoy reading these little drabble/shorts, etc.

I'm not sorry if this was a little Out Of Character with Alternate Universe and Cuteness Overload of Fluffy-ness!

The 24th of June of MamoUsa Week is FREE DAY!

Usagi the Ruffles Rescuer

"Usako, how are you doing in there? Are you alright?" Mamoru's voice asked in concern, as he knocked on his bathroom door with one hand, a pink fuzzy-bunny themed bath towel robe with a hoodie in the other hand.

"Nani?! Oh! Hai! I'm doing okay!" a voice squeaked from the other side of the bathroom, followed by the crashing of what sounded like things falling and his girl friend's voice screaming 'Ahhh!' , causing Mamoru's inner-worry of Tuxedo Kamen's protective sense to kick into gear.

"Are you alright Usako?! Did you fall?!" he called out, as he flung the door open looking around in the bathroom that was fogged up by steam, the sounds of the water of the shower running.

"No, no! I'm alright, just almost tripped on your what's it called a loo-u-fa. That weird sponge thing on the brush stick that was hanging on the container were you keep your scented rose and minted body liquid soaps, conditioner and shampoo fell and knocked it all off. I accidentally backed into it when I was trying to scrub off the dirt on my elbows. Gomen Mamo-Chan! I'm fine! Really!" Usagi's voice in her usual quick-bunny-speed explaining yelled from inside the closed shower stall.

"Thank Kami, I thought you fell or hit your head on the side of the tile walls for a minute there. I'm leaving your bunny-towel-hoodie on the counter next to the sink. I'll try finding you something to wear. Want to explain to me again how it is exactly you showed up at my front door all covered head to toe in your usual after school wear of your leggings and favorite J-Pop band shirt in mud?" Mamoru asked, amusement in his question as he stood back against the counter, waiting for his favorite bunny to explain this Friday's mis-adventure of 'Silly Little Bunny'.

"...Sometimes the art of not being an idiot is extremely challenging for me...I'm such a klutz. I'm a Senior in High School and you'd think I'd stop having these accidents already! Ugh! Fine, now power down that amusing-smile of yours Mamo-Chan and I'll explain," Usagi sighed, as the water slowly began turning off, the shower stall door opening partly, and a familiar hand reached out to him.

"Towel please Mamo, Arigato love," the cleaned up bunny murmured thanks as Mamoru handed her, the adorable pink looking towel, grabbing it, before sliding the glass door closed again.

"No problem Usako. You're not an idiot, nor a klutz...you're just accident-prone. So, how did my favorite Odango end up covered head to toe in mud?" he asked again, as Usagi stepped out of the shower, covered up in the baggy looking towel, that had dropping bunny-fluffy ears on the hood of the robe.

"I was rushing from my house after changing when I got out of school. I managed to avoid Haruna-san giving me detention due to her being too occupied about some hot date she had or another," Usagi began explaining, as she left the bathroom, heading straight bunny-missioning to Mamoru's kitchen, as he went to his bedroom to try to find some clothes for her to wear out of his basket of clean laundry he had taken out of the dryer earlier.

"Alright, so you avoided detention, got home, changed, then tried making the routine mile sprint to here...how did you land in mud?" Mamoru questioned after he returned holding a pair of an old gray faded t-shirt and pair of black gym shorts, finding Usagi, with a over large Japanese Football jersey on underneath the opened bathrobe, sitting on his couch, digging already into a pint of double-mint-chocolate chip ice cream.

"How did you-"

"Oh, I found it in your closet earlier when you were tossing my clothes in the washing machine, I didn't want to walk about in an extra pair of pajamas I always leave in your extra drawer, so grabbed this old football jersey you had. It comes down to my mid-knees with how large it is." Usagi explained, noticing Mamoru's confusion on his face, smiling as he nodded silently, leaving to put the extra clothes away, then returning to her.

"Alright, now that you're technically dressed, continue Usako."

"If you wish Mamo-Chan, I was making great timing until I saw a homeless ruffly-furry looking little dog. He was all alone by the sidewalk next to the Seven-Eleven...looked all sad with those brown eyes of his. He looked hungry, kind of reminded me of Yuuichirou-chan when he was all haggard and hair covering his entire face...before Rei-chan decided to finally clean him up when she finally gave him a chance at being boyfriend-material," Usagi began telling her tale in between a spooned bite of ice cream.

"A brown furry-dirty looking little Scotty-like dog? Motoki's said he's seen him around Crown wandering up and down the shops of Juuban. Sometimes he waits by the entrance doors for the waitresses to once in a while give him scraps of food. Not sure if he has an owner or if he's a stray." Mamoru recalled, Motoki's tales of the infamous adorable looking homeless dog that some of the local regulars at Crown started calling it "Mr. Ruffles".

"Hmm-mmm! That's the one! Mr. Ruffles-kun is what Naru and I call him. Anyhow, yeah. I saw him outside, and the owner of that Seven-Eleven was such a baka, he tried shoo-ing the poor thing away from the sidewalk by the entrance doors. Kept yelling how he was going to call animal control to take care of the 'panhandling little pest', and he kicked him! Called him a 'worthless mutt', and I couldn't let him treat Ruffles so cruely, so I intervened." Usagi explained, as she put the pint of ice cream down on the coffee table.

"And I take it that you decided to stand up to that sour-face rude business owner and gave him the infamous 'Usagi Tsukino takes no rudeness from anyone who's being rude or horrorible. Needing to defend all beings and animals' speech of yelling at him?" Mamoru chuckled as he joined her on the couch, remembering the last time Usagi had decided to give a rude person her personal 'lecturing' verbal-tongue-lashing of loudness...they were still banned from that bowling alley in downtown Tokyo for that incident involving his Bunny and Minako.

"Why yes I did...he deserved it. He tried hollering at me to mind my own business and the second he tried kicking at poor helpless Mr. Ruffles, I got into that big bully's face, saying that he needed to learn some manners, shoved the baka into the mud pile near the side of the parking lot where it meets the dirt, weeds, and grass areas. He deserved it, and all the lecturing I gave him for picking on the poor little guy. Ruffles agreed with me, barking his own insults and growls to the creep. But when I was on a roll, Ruffles somehow fell into the large mud pile since we were next to it...and..." Usagi slowly explained her story, stopping mid-explanation as she blushed, then turned her attention with Mamoru, to the sounds of murmuring barking at the edge of the couch.

"And you had to save this little guy here. So you with all of your senshi warrior heroine skills dived into that mud pool of a pit to rescue Mr. Ruffles here from the dreaded evil convenience store manager and mud monsters?" Mamoru grinned, reaching over to pick up the dog that was laying happily and contently on a small green bath towel.

"Mmm-hmm! Sailor Moon even when off duty-not fighting youma or big bad evil-doers, has to defend all living creatures, even the little guys like Ruffles-kun here. Isn't he cute? He's friendly, polite, seems to be house trained despite having no pet tracker ID, collar, or name tags on him. He seemed to like the bath we gave him earlier in your bathtub before I had to take another shower when he started shaking more mud and wet doggy-puppy water on me." Usagi giggled, as her blue eyes looked on at the brown-fuzzy cleaned little Scot-mixed mutt dog now sitting happily in Mamoru's lap, seeming thrilled he was scratching his doggy ears.

"He is pretty cute, I think he's glad you rescued him, bringing him here too. You know Usako, if your parents and Luna can't handle a dog as a new addition to the Tsukino household...My apartment complex and manager does allow pets...he's a dog lover literally..." Mamoru smirked with that knowing look in his deep blue eyes as the bun-pig-tailed blond's face started going from surprise to excitement.

"Really?! We can keep him here?! With you?! Mamo-Chan that's great! You can finally have a roommate now...well, until after I finish with graduating school in the next semester term...and after Papa agrees to Mama and my plans and wishes with wanting to move in with you here...since you did technically propose to me with this lovely pink engagement ring three years ago..." Usagi grinned, motioning to the heart-shaped pink diamond ring on her ring finger.

"Hai, hai. Maybe having Mr. Ruffles here around as a roommate could help me get used to not living alone until we can plan with your Mom to have you move in here...after your Dad accepts it. Perhaps Ruffles here could convince him with his powers of persuasion and cuteness of winning people over." Mamoru suggested thoughtfully, as Mr. Ruffles, bounced from his lap, to Usagi to bestow puppy kisses on her face to her delight.

"You mister are such a cutie pie like Mamo here. We're going to have so much fun with you here, you are going to love being Mamo's new best friend, room mate, and pet. We're going to get you your own doggy bowls, treats, doggy bed, blankets, toys, and a official collar with pet I.D. Tags when Mamo-Chan takes you to the local animal rescue center and vet to make it official." Usagi cooed happily talking to Ruffles, as his tongue drooled, making happy soft barking sounds as if he seemed to agree with what she was saying, while Mamoru watched the two interact lovingly with each other, his girl friend-fiancee and his newly-dubbed dog.

"I think Mr. Ruffles agrees with this all. He's going to enjoy his new life with us as Ruffles Chiba then."

End

Author's Ending Notes:

Tomorrow is HOLIDAYS, we will see how that goes when it's posted up for tomorrow's next chapter update to this short week series individual stories.

Fill free to leave any comments or thoughts in a review if you enjoyed, loved, or liked this beginning to the MamoUsa Week challenge I have written. (Flame 'Reviews' and Howlers-like 'Constructive-Criticism' not needed. Ha.)

Lastly, to my dearest Queen Risa, I hope you enjoyed this Belated Birthday gift.

Until next time. XO