A/N: ^^ A-a-and, let's see if I can make something of 'Coffee Prince' and Sailor Moon characters. This'll be something of a meshing of plots and my own ideas O.o so you know how that will go. ^^
DISCLAIMER: Coffee Prince is a Korean (? Yeah, I think so ^^) teleserye I watched on a CD in the Philippines, and it only covered episodes 1-13, so all the plot I'm doing is coming from there. ^^ Sailor Moon, as you all know, belongs to awesome Naoko Takeuchi! .
Coffee Prince's Desired Sweetener
"Reward for the idiot who saved a not-very-convincing purse-snatcher, reward!"
A whistle cut through the jaunty bustle of Fujimura High, and many heads turned to look at the grinning face of Makoto Kino.
Tall and dark, the upperclassman was an odd character, a girl who got herself in fights for no tell-tale reason observed by the outside onlookers, but could cook like she was the skillet herself.
For that she had a certain group of friends, and most of them were oddballs themselves.
What caught Fujimura students' eyes, though, was the rogue grin the tall girl wore.
Dressed in a scruffy black leather jacket and jeans that waved off the obvious school-code, Makoto Kino hardly ever sported a grin, nor the trademark ponytail she'd chopped off start freshman year.
That grin was something to be wary of on this brilliant spring morning, and Fujimura students scrambled to get out of the unconcerned girl's way.
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"Mako-chan! Over here, did you bake any more cookies last night?"
Hearing the bright chirp of a voice just as a cherry blossom hit the tip of her nose, Makoto smiled. Trust her Princess to ask of her cooking since last night.
Well, a lot could happen in the span of eight hours, she mused, ending from a ten-o'clock late study hall session to morning class.
Like nabbing a reward for catching a purse-snatcher who was her sister's idiot boyfriend, to the shocking proposition of becoming a 'male-who's-SUPPOSED-to-be-female-but-IS-female' stand-in 'girlfriend.'
She was so confused.
*sigh*
No need to confuse her twinkle-eyes princess, either.
Grabbing the blonde's cheek in a playful tug, Makoto lugged the drooling Usagi Tsukino to homeroom.
There was a certain priestess she'd needed to talk to there, and judging by Usagi's perfect on-time score since the raven-haired girl's transfer, she'd want to talk to her, too.
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"Honestly, Thunder, can't we leave you alone for eight hours without you getting into any. . . mischief?"
Homeroom bell rung, hardly silencing the rowdy class, and Makoto grinned even wider as she hip-checked Usagi nearer to the miko.
"Waaah, Rei-chan, Mako-chan pushed me!"
"Deal with it, meatball-head."
The curt reply of an in-love miko and blushing princess.
Oh, how cheekily cute.
Nodding over to Minako Aino, girl-pop star and blondie-cute, Makoto slumped in her chair and neatly scribbled out a note, crumpling it up around a safety pin she always kept tucked in her sleeve and tossing it casually to Rei.
No need for the nosy homeroom teacher to intercept a light crumb flying on the winds due to insubstantial weight.
*Well, should I take the job? I DO need the money, and with Miki getting into 'hormonal-craze' age, it'd be good. So?*
Peering out of the corner of her eyes as the eye-rolling girl read it, Makoto groaned and resisted the urge to plop her head down. Even if she'd went and made new best friends with Rei, hitting it off instantly due to the love of meditation and training, didn't mean she wouldn't spill it to Minako and Usagi.
Being her friends ever since she'd transfered to Fujimura High herself, Usagi and Minako were the most supportive people she knew. It didn't matter that she was the Senshi of Jupiter and Lightning herself, the god who wielded Thunder's roar like a lion would.
They treated her like a sister, and she would do anything to prevent seeing them cry or ever be hurt. Back in her old schools, she'd gotten into fights to defend herself from idiot bullies, and had the rage of multiple put-downs from lunk-head boyfriends to support her.
Well, here she'd get into fights to protect her friends, and she'd be hung if she ever let any youma hurt her friends. Ever since becoming the Senshi of Thunder and Lightning, Makoto Kino had sported the best high she'd ever been on since sky-diving that one time with her parents.
Ever since she'd been little, she knew something inside her was destined to be a fighter, and her parents had supported her in all ways they could without breaking her love and spirit of fighting. Now, as a senshi, she was suited to the task.
Yet something inside her had recently shifted, and instinct told her a new form was about to come into her life, and someone strong, someone she could depend on when she was down- and Rei Hino came.
Raised to be independent, Rei had somehow understood Makoto, and they'd become the best at having each other's backs during battle, and someone they could talk to when times came down rough and Minako and Usagi weren't suited to the experience.
She knew now that Rei already knew what she was talking about, she was psychic, but- and then she saw the corner of the miko's lips twitch.
Oh, no.
Even though Rei was the perfect person to talk to and let out all frustrations when things were going rough, she was also the most annoying person when she caught onto something she could tease the taller brunette with.
That twitch was the tell-tale sign she was going to pick on her, oh no, she knew there was a chance Rei would tease her-
AACK!
And then Usagi was reaching around, grabbing the note and then slipping it to Minako, who calmly read it with an interested grin on her lips.
She shouldn't be worried, since Minako was a pretty responsible person when serious things came up, but she knew the Senshi of Love was another version of almost-as-wild Usagi, and she wouldn't let a good piece of juicy news slip from her grasp.
Makoto gaped when Minako's usually-smiling face flushed red and the tips of her ears tinged with the brightest of red. MINAKO was fazed by what was written on there? What the heck?
Something had to be suggestive on there, WHAT did Rei write?
Glancing over at the girl in question, Makoto groaned when she saw the twinkly-squint 'oops' on her face. Ami quickly slipped the note back to Makoto over her shoulder, and her own face heated when she read the response.
*Well, Thunder, nights are longer when we're lonely, and the money wouldn't hurt.*
Makoto about screamed when she glared over at the grinning miko. She'd obviously known Usagi was going to pick off the note and had written something spicy for the blonde to hear. Sighing heavily, she slumped back in her chair and stuck out her tongue at her friends.
The way they were staring at her, all levels of curious and knowing expressions on their faces, Makoto knew she was going to be pounced on at lunch.
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"Okay, Mako-chan, SPILL! Minako-chan told me what you've been doing, and-"
"Whoa, Usagi-chan, what? Did I miss something on the note?"
Makoto was right: she was grabbed and lugged to the school roof when the clock's hands ticked lunch, and now she sat like a lectured kid in the middle of her friends.
She instinctively reached for the back of her head where her ponytail was, then remembered she'd cut it off a couple of years ago due to the dying of her hair and the inconsistency which she thought it would make, not to mention the hassle.
Boy, she missed it now.
"Well, um, y'see..."
"*sigh* Thunder here found a job. Now she wants to know if she should take it or leave it. I was just teasing her about her employer, if she took it and such."
Makoto grinned nervously at the two scrutinizing pairs of eyes.
Usagi was naturally curious, but MInako-chan was like her kid sister. A bit nosy and annoying, teasing her to no end, but she made sure Makoto wasn't ever in trouble or need.
"Is that right, Makoto?"
She winced, hastily taking out her bento and baiting Usagi away with it.
Now only Minako to handle.
A very worried-looking Minako, and that was bad.
She had the same look her mom used to have whenever Makoto had done something bad and she was about to be questioned about it.
Thoroughly.
Steeling herself, she nodded.
It was about time she told what was up with her life. . .
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A/N: Tan-tan-ta-taaaan! ^^ ((PS: I then started thinking, Ami - as Minako here- was someone who I wanted Makoto to be paired with. I originally had Minako as Ami, and if you can tell Minako is acting like Ami, then kudos for you. I just thought the pairing would work better, and I DO want to explore the dominating side of Ami later. ^^))