Usagi Tsukino was everything a guy could hope for, but somehow she went unnoticed by everyone in her college. She only had a handful of friends…and doubts. Minako Aino, Rei Hino, Makoto Kino, Ami Mizuno, and Naru Osaka were the only ones she could trust in her whole school. Naru and Minako were the only popular people she knew, and, although they were some of her best friends, they never told any popular people about her.

She had never been kissed, and no one had ever had a crush on her—except the campus dork, Gurio Umino. Tsuki College was what she thought her dream school would be, but no one cared about her dreams.

In her other schools, she was always thought an outcast and a freak. Her hair, done up in identical ponytail-buns, made her more of an outcast than popular, but she determinedly would never take them down, unless she was asleep. She was thought a freak because of the faint gold crescent moon on her forehead.

Minako, Rei, Naru, Makoto, and Ami were her first best friends. She had only had one semi-friend before that…when she was still in an orphanage. One boy stood out to her when she was there, and one day she got a rose on her way back from preschool. She somehow snuck into his room at night, and found him crying. Her heart touched, she gave him her prized possession, her blood red rose, and he thanked her, smiling through the blanket of tears. She never found out his name.

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"Usagi!" Naru cried, holding her arms out. It was the first day of their sophomore year at Tsuki.

"Konnichiwa, Naru!" Usagi ran up to her friend and hugged her. "Let's go to our house!" She squealed excitedly—Usagi and her best friends had bought a beautiful house on the outskirts of campus. It cost 3 million dollars, but Naru's mother was extremely rich and 3 million dollars was like $100 instead. The house was huge, more like a mansion than a house, but Naru's mother insisted on comfort. Each room was like a dorm in itself, and Usagi couldn't wait to live there.

"Shouldn't we wait for the other girls?" Naru giggled.

"Oh, okay." Usagi pouted and sat on the rock fence surrounding the building the girls had planned to meet at.

"Naru-san, have you seen Motoki?" A guy said coldly, walking up to Naru.

"Iie, gomen." Naru said.

"Arigato." The guy said just as coldly, turning around. His eyes swept over Usagi for a moment and Usagi felt the blood rush to her cheeks. "Nice odangos." He said sarcastically, leaving.

"WHAT DID HE JUST SAY?!?!" Usagi yelled.

"I believe he said 'Nice odangos.'" Ami Mizuno said, walking up. Usagi was surprised to see that the soft-spoken genius had gotten blue highlights in her cropped black hair.

"Ami-chan! Oh, your hair is so awesome!" Usagi said, jumping up and enveloping the petite girl in a hug.

"Arigato, Usagi-chan. Are the others here yet?" Ami said, getting a calculus book out of her blue messenger bag.

"Iie, we're still waiting." Naru said, taking a seat beside Usagi.

"Okay." Ami said. "I'll just read a little—"

"No, I don't think so, Ami-chan!" A playful beauty with a silk red bow in her hair swept her arm out and snatched the book from Ami.

"Minako-chan!" Usagi and Naru cried, hugging the girl. She hugged back and laughed.

"No need to push, there's enough hugs for everyone!" She giggled.

"Minako-chan, I'm glad you're here." Ami said, hugging Minako lightly.

"Hey, don't we count?" Makoto and Rei said, dropping their small duffel bags (AN: all of the girls had dumped off all their belongings in their mansion that summer).

"Yay! Everyone's here!!!!!!!!!" Usagi cried and hugged both the girls. "Let's go!!!"

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Mamoru watched the energetic girl and her friends from behind some trees. 'She seems so familiar…' He thought to himself. He knew his friends would come and look for him soon; that was the bad part of being popular, everyone knew when you were missing.

His mind slipped back to his earlier, bleaker childhood and a tear crept down his face. His parents had died in a horrible car crash, and he was the only one left. His guardians refused to take him in, believing he was somehow responsible for his parents' death, and made their names be wiped away from his record. He was left with no family and no one to love him, and to make it worse 'they' (he never learned who they were) placed him in an orphanage. He made a friend(AN: no, not Fiore—he's not in this fic), but then he got sick and the people in the orphanage took him away. He was left, alone…with no one to love him. As the dark tears streamed down his face after Thomas was taken away, a small, golden angel creeped into his room with a red rose. She gave it to him, and that was the first ray of hope he ever had.

He had made it this far because of one little angel. And he never learned her name.

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