A/N: Konitchiwa!

This is my first Sailor moon fic, I've posted, so I really hope you all like it.

The story is mostly going to feature Mamoru, Usagi, Motoki, and Makoto. The story is based on the Manga, meaning Mamoru isn't in college yet, he's still in high-school. Usagi and Mamoru don't know each others identities yet.

The characterizations are based on Manga as well, so that's basically it.

Enjoy the story!

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The crown arcade was filled with the usual chatter, laughter and soft pings of arcade games. Motoki had already wiped down all the booths and counter, and was now chatting amicably with 15 year old Makoto Kino.

"Hai! It's so beautiful!" Makoto said, excitedly.

"I'm sure it is," Motoki replied, "What's it called?"

"It's a White nun orchid," Makoto replied. "It's the national flower of-"

However before Makoto could tell Motoki just what nation the flower was from, there was sudden thundering noise coming from the other side of the counter, where only two people could possibly sitting.

"Baka!" Usagi yelled, shaking her fist at him.

"Baka, me?!" Mamoru yelled back, highly affronted, "It's not my fault your grades are so low!"

"Well excuse me! I didn't realize an 85 was low for you!" Usagi shot back. "'Mr. I go to an awesome private school'" she said, in a rather mocking tone.

Mamoru's eyes widened, "are you mocking me?" he asked, incredulously.

"So what if I am?" she said, glaring at him.

"No one mocks me!" he declared.

"Well I think I just did!" Usagi replied.

Mamoru gave the young junior high student a deathly glare. "And I think you're a little out of your mind!" he said.

"I'm out of my mind?!" Usagi let out a screech before yelling out another insult, to which Mamoru responded with a rather snide remark. Their yelling increased, with nearly every eye in the arcade glued to them, as they watched in amusement as the two stood nearly nose to nose in their screeching.

Motoki shook his head. Makoto did the same. "Always the same thing," Motoki said with a deep sigh, as he threw down his rag, getting ready to at least attempt to calm the two down.

"They need to honestly just stop with their denial," Makoto stated, rolling her eyes at the bickering duo.

"What?" Motoki asked, turning to look at the brunette.

Makoto blushed, "uhmm, nothing, I uh…didn't say anything," she said, giving him a rather fake smile.

Motoki gave her a look that plainly said he knew she was lying. He shook his head, "I agree with you, either way" he said.

Makoto stared at him. "You do?" she asked surprised. No one else seemed to agree with her, not even Minako who saw romance everywhere.

Motoki nodded, "these two have been like this since last year, they need to get out of this phase of denial."

"Yeah well it'll take a miracle to do that," Makoto said, taking a sip of her water. "Either that or something that'll get'em grossly jealous so they'll realize the feelings they have for each other."

Motoki's eyes widened, as a sudden idea came to mind. He turned back to Makoto, who was calmly sipping her water.

"Makoto-chan," he said. Makoto glanced up at him.

"You okay?" she asked, perplexed by the strange look on his face.

Motoki nodded, and slowly gave Makoto a lopsided grin, and easily ignored the still growing noise coming from his two friends. "I just got a brilliant idea."

"About?" Makoto prompted.

"How we can get these two to stop being stubborn, and get'em together!" he whispered, rather excitedly. "Of course I'll need your help for it to work."

Makoto stared at him, before grinning, "tell me more," she said, and leaned forward as he hurriedly explained in the briefest of outlines his well formed plan.

"It's a perfectly flawless plan!" he declared, with a rather firm nod.

Makoto laughed. "What?" he asked.

"Well sorry to burst your bubble Motoki-san, but umm, there's a lot of possible flaws in the plan."

"huh? Where?"

"Well it's not exactly guaranteed that they'll rise and take that bait, I mean, maybe Mamoru-san won't care about what anyone thinks about Usagi-chan." Makoto explained.

"That's the beauty of it, it won't be just 'anyone'. It'll be me testing Mamoru, and you testing Usagi-chan."

Makoto contemplated the idea for a moment. "Alright, I'll do it," she said. "But right now I gotta go," she said as she slid off of the stool, and slid her cash across the table to Motoki, he slid it back.

"Don't worry about it," he said, as he threw her glass of water and dirty plate into the sink under the counter. Makoto blushed slightly.

"I'll come by tomorrow, we'll figure out the details then," she said.

Motoki nodded, "just make sure to get here early, before Mamoru-kun comes by." She gave a quick nod, and with a final wave hurried out of the arcade. Motoki watched the pretty brunet leave, before snapping his attention to his two bickering friends.

He took a deep breathe before striding toward them. And smacked the rag he used to clean the counter against the back of Mamoru's head and pulled Usagi's half eaten chocolate cake away from her.

"HEY!" They both cried out in unison, turning to look at Motoki.

"That hurt!" Mamoru said, rubbing his head.

"My cake!" Usagi cried.

"You two need to keep yourselves quiet!" he responded to them both, before sliding the chocolate cake back to Usagi, and gave Mamoru another smack with the rag.

"Ow!" Mamoru cried, giving Motoki a rather dark look.

"I think you're going to need a shower," Motoki calmly stated. "I used this rag to clean up the orange soda some kid spilled before."

"Motoki-kun," Mamoru said, through clenched teeth.

Motoki gave his best friend a rather innocent look. "I just remembered!" he replied defensively.

"Right," Mamoru said, in a tone that clearly indicated he believed nothing that came from his best friends mouth. "you wait, I'll tell Unazuki who ripped that stuffed animal her boyfriend got her," he said threateningly. Motoki paled slightly.

"Let's not do anything hasty, now Mamoru-kun," Motoki said, giving him a complacent smile.

Mamoru gave him a dirty look before getting to his feet, and heading out the door, muttering a number of things that Motoki was sure wasn't suitable for any child to hear.

Usagi had watched the whole exchange, and let out a giggle, as soon as Mamoru had exited. "You, have so much on him."

"Oh, you have no idea, Usagi-chan," he said with a laugh, as he quickly grabbed her clean plate and stuck it in the sink.

"Well I have to go meet the girls, I'll see you Motoki-onii-san!" Usagi said, as she ran out the door.

Motoki gave her a final wave, and turned to wipe down the counter he had before left sparkling clean, until that is Usagi and Mamoru had arrived and wreaked havoc on his clean counter. "Well after tomorrow, I won't have to deal with any of this anymore," he said to himself.

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A/N: Short chapter I know, my first chapters usually are.

I'm already working on the next chapter, so it'll be up really soon!

I'm sorry for any errors, but I don't have beta reader, my usual beta is really busy, so I kinda need to find one, if anyone would like to give me a recommendation or would like to do it, I'd really appreciate it!

One last thing, for this overly long author's note, please leave a review, it can be a flame, just a little thing to know what you thought.

Thanks!!!