A/N: This story was actually a dream I had a week ago. Creepy I know! So I decided to write it. Hope you guys like it! ^^
Disclaimer: Don't own Sailor Moon
Chapter 1: Late Again!
Tsukino Usagi cried out in frustration as the last bell for home room chimed. Ever since she got into high school, she's found herself being late more and more. Well, not as much as she use to when she was in junior high. Still if she was going to prove to her friends and everyone else that she could better herself and become a better person, she at least wanted to start with not being late anymore. 'Maybe now mom will finally get me a new alarm clock,' she thought angrily as she turned the corner of the long hallway and found her home room class. She slowly opened the door and stepped inside. Without saying a word, she slowly made her way to her desk, trying to ignore all the eyes that had turned to her when the door opened.
"Nice of you to show up," Usagi's best friend Aino Minako whispered to her as she set her backpack down beside her.
"I keep telling mom to by me a new alarm clock," Usagi whispered back. "Maybe this time she'll..."
"Ms. Tsukino!"
Usagi grit her teeth hard and turned to face her home room teacher's angry face. "Y-yes?" a loud squeak escaped her mouth. A couple of giggles and whispers were heard throughout the room as the tall, lanky teacher approached the nervous blonde teenager.
"Since you can't seem to be here on time this week you will after school and clean up the classroom," her home room teacher replied with a cold glare.
"Ok," Usagi replied, thinking there wasn't that much to clean up anyway since all the students clean up before they go home. She then saw the man get closer to her face, making her sink down in her seat uncomfortably.
"By yourself," he finished. "Your classmates will go home this afternoon without cleaning today. You will do all of it."
"What!" Usagi cried out, jumping back up in her seat. "That will take me all day! That's not fair!"
"Being late and wasting my learning time isn't fair," the man replied as he straitened back up and headed back to the chalk board. "You may have gotten away with it in junior high missy, but here in high school we are strict on our students and teach them the value of time and learn how to be here during certain hours of the day."
Usagi crossed her arms and huffed. 'Big deal,' she thought as she stuck her tongue out at her teacher while his back was turned. 'Not everyone likes getting up at 5 in the morning just to get to school on time at 7. There should be a law that says students should not be up at 5am due to lack of sleep.' she then pulled out her English book and opened it up to at least pretend to look like she was paying attention. 'Or at least start school at 9 or 10.'
The sound of the lunch bell made Usagi beam with delight. After shoving her math book into her bag, she grabbed the lunch her mother had ready for her and joined Minako and their two other friends, Kino Makoto and Mizuno Ami, outside for the 45 minutes they had to themselves.
"Boy Usagi-chan if you keep this up you'll set a school lateness record," Lita teased her friend as she open her lunch box.
"Ha ha," Usagi grumbled with a roll of her eyes. "I told my mom last weekend that I needed a new alarm clock. Guess what she does! She goes to the store and comes home with a new school bag for Shingo and a new tie for dad! No new alarm clock for you Usagi. Sorry." she opens her lunch box and finds a rice omelet with a side of fried chicken and some cookies. "At least she still makes me a good lunch."
"Come on Usagi-chan your mom does her best," Ami said as she took a small bite of her sandwich. "She's not super woman you know. Give her a little credit."
"Still, it would be nice to wake up to something else besides Mr. Chicken clucking at me every 10 minutes," Usagi bit into her omelet and let the taste of rice and egg wander slowly through her mouth and down her throat.
As the lunch bell chimed letting the students know time to head back to class, Usagi closed her lunch box and, with a soft groan, picked herself up off the grass. Lita and Ami followed her actions and gave Usagi lights hugs before heading back to their classrooms.
"Hang in there Usagi-chan," Lita smiled, hoping it made her blonde friend feel a little better. "Just two more weeks and we'll be on spring break. And then you can sleep as much as you want when you want." she paused. "Well, maybe not all day if any youma's show up."
"Oh great," Usagi replied with a bit of sarcasm. "It's always a joy when a youma shows up and interrupts my precious vacation time. I might as well right in big letters on my forehead 'I am Sailor Moon'."
"That's mature of you," Ami gave her blonde friend a some-what, petty looking expression. "I think Lita was making a joke Usagi-chan."
"Oh hush," Usagi replied as she and the three girls dumped their trash away. "I still may be little lazy, napping-all-day Tsukino Usagi, but keeping my true identity a secret is something I do very well. If that was a need for high school I think I'd be in the top honors."
"Now if only you could apply that logic to your real school work," Ami shot back, hoping Usagi took that as a small joke. When it came to comebacks, Ami wasn't very good at coming up with many. Still, it caused her friends to raise eyebrows. That told Ami that was pretty clever, whether she meant it in a joking matter or a scolding matter.
"Whatever," Usagi shook it off. "We better head to class now before we're all late and I end up getting double detention."
Lita and Ami waved their goodbyes to Usagi and Minako and headed back to their classrooms. As soon as they were out of sight, Usagi turned her attention to her blonde best friend.
"Go ahead without me Usagi-chan," Minako said as if she could tell Usagi was about to say something about going back to class. "I need to catch another friend before I head back to class. I'll see you."
Usagi gave the taller blonde a small wave as she watched the senshi of love and beauty dash in another direction and spin hard into an opened door. It was kind of like watching a bad ballet show and the performers are too hyper on sugar and can't remember their dance routine. Usagi giggled a little at the thought of Minako being in a ballet show and tripping on everyone and falling into the curtain. 'Oh wait,' she told herself. 'That was me last year in our classes school play of Beauty and the Beast.' Her mind went into a sudden flashback of playing one of the enchanted brooms and tripping over the rug they had on stage, causing the fake chandler the stage hands made to fall on her classmates playing Belle and the Beast.
Her flashback ended by a rustling in a nearby bush. Usagi snapped out of her dream and saw a pair of rabbit ears pop out from behind the bush.
"Hey a rabbit!" Usagi cried out with delight. She took a couple of steps to get a better look, but was suddenly thrown back at the force of the rabbits leap from the rustling leaves and small twigs. "Agh!" she tried to keep her footing steady, but was too late. Usagi went falling backwards and hit the ground hard. "Stupid thing!" she screamed as she shook her fists at the creature who had stopped to take a look at the pigtail girl. "Watch it! I could've died!"
Usagi then felt her jaw drop as she lowered fists. The creature standing before her was no ordinary rabbit. It looked like a real life Bugs Bunny if he had put on wig and dress and got a boob job. Or if he had gone completely human considering this rabbit was way cuter than seeing Bugs dressing like a girl all the time. The creature looked more like any ordinary teenage girl wearing rabbit ears. Well, sort of. Her choice of clothing wasn't exactly what Usagi would have picked out. She looked like her grandmother had given her her hand me down short nightgown dress.
"Um... you must be in the drama club right?" Usagi finally spoke as she picked herself up and brushed her skirt off. "You shouldn't sneak up on people like that. It's rude."
The rabbit girl titled her head to the side as if Usagi was talking to her in another language. She then smiled and grabbed Usagi into a hug. Usagi blinked with confusing and shock. 'This girl must really love to hug a lot,' she thought. 'She is kind of cute too.'
The rabbit girl released Usagi from her hug and then gave her a kiss on the check as if she could read what Usagi had thought. With another smile, the rabbit girl dashed away and disappeared behind the theater building. Usagi stood there stunned, still trying to take in what had just happened now. The sound of the last lunch bell rang, causing Usagi to snap back to reality. She then realized what time it was and screamed.
"No way! I can't even be back in time from lunch?! Ugh!" Usagi grabbed her empty lunch box and made a mad dash for her home room. "Mr. Takanami will never believe me if I tell him I was late because I got spooked and hugged by a rabbit girl who was hiding in the bushes!"
Stay tuned for Chapter 2
