Hi ya'all!!!
Well.... this will...HOPEFULLY be a short fic, I need
it to be, or else, no time for homework!!! Ain't
that right, Boss?
Boss: Right... aren't you forget something?
Chibi-chan: oh!!! you're right!
Disclaimers: yup yup... all of you can agree with me,
I do not own Sailor Moon, unless I'm Naoko-sama!!!!
hehehe.... can I be Naoko for one day??? ONEGAI?!
Boss: I meant... get on with the story... ^^;;
Chibi-chan: I KNEW that...
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Jingle Bells, Usagi Sells, Mamoru a Diamond Ring!
Prologue
Chibi-Anon (chibianon_ymous@hotmail.com)
December 11, 2000
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Usagi Tsukino, 20 years old, no boyfriend, and
miserable. Her golden odangos drooped down, she
dragged her feet. Her bright blue eyes had dulled to
faded blue. In the distance she could see Naru
running towards her, hand waving. Making her best
effort, Usagi half-smiled and picked herself up.
"Usagi!!! Usagi-chan!!!!!! I have great news!!!!"
Usagi's smile grew wider; maybe things weren't so bad
after all.
"Hai, Naru-chan? Nani?"
"Okaa-san and I are going to go to Kanagawa to visit
my relatives!!!" Usagi stopped smiling, now the only
friend that she had would be going away too. "What's
wrong Usagi?" She turned away from Naru. "Usagi-
chan... I'm sorry.... I know I promised I'd stay, but
I haven't seen my relatives in SO long... please...
understand... you still have your family!!" Now Naru
felt guilty. Usagi knew that she couldn't do this to
her friend, so looked Naru back in the eye.
"Nothing's wrong with you going Naru-chan! It's
great that you can see your relatives again! I'm
very happy for you!" Naru still didn't seem to
believe her so she flashed one of her smiles at her,
and changed the subject. "What about OSA*P? Who
will run it while you're away?" Naru grinned.
"That's the beauty of it...." She paused for affect.
"YOU!!!" She pointed at Usagi. Usagi stood there,
baffled, HER?! HER?! Running a store?! She stared
at Naru in disbelief.
"Iie... you can't be serious? Your mother TRUSTS me
to .... RUN the store?" Naru nodded, she didn't
explain that it took her several days to win her
mother over to the idea.
"Arigatou... tell your mother for me... I have to go
now..." Usagi ran off towards home, excited that she
would be able to work at her friend's store, but
still sad that her friend would be going away. When
she got home she slammed the door.
"Usagi!!!"
"Hai...."
"I thought I told you NOT to slam the door, dear...."
"Gomen nasai... I was just really excited." She put
her coat away.
"About what dear?" Usagi blushed, and fidgeted under
her mother's glare. Meanwhile, Shingo came down the
stairs, followed by her father.
"Well... Usagi-baka, what is it?" She stuck her
tongue out at her younger brother, not even he could
stop her from being as happy as she was about this
job.
"Yes, my chibi-hime tell us..." her father smiled at
her.
"I....got a job...for winter break" They all hugged
her and patted her on the back.
"That's great Usagi-chan!!! Where?!"
"OSA*P..."
"Isn't that Naru's family business?"
"Hai..."
"That's wonderful that they're letting you work
there, if I may ask, why?" Usagi blushed brighter.
"They're going away for a few weeks, so they asked me
to run it while they're gone." *yawn* "Now if you
excuse me, I need to go back to bed...." It was
dusk, but who could blame her, after all this
excitement?
When Usagi woke up the next morning, she felt alive
and refreshed. She had to meet Naru and discuss how
she was supposed to handle things at the store.
"What if it had all been a dream? But if it was,
Naru wouldn't be going away... so either way, dream
or not, I'd be very happy!" She got dressed and
rushed downstairs to eat Sunday morning breakfast.
"Hello everyone!!!!"
"Hey Usagi-baka!"
"Good morning dear! Well...Good Afternoon..." Usagi
saw her father nod from behind the newspaper,
acknowledgement that he had heard her.
"I'll be leaving soon... I have to meet Naru and her
mother to discuss my job..."
"All right dear, don't forget to dress warmly! It's
supposed to be extremely cold outside..."
"Hai okaa-san!" Usagi shovelled her food into her
mouth, and ran to put on her jacket, her boots and
her gloves.
When she reached outside a gust of cold air blasted
her. She shivered, and went on walking to Naru's
house. She kept her face to the ground so that the
wind would not freeze her face. She knew the way to
Naru's place by heart, now the only problem was if
she bumped into anybody....
*CRASH*
"Hey watch where you're going jerk!!!" Usagi rubbed
her sore behind and got up to face the man.
"I think YOU'RE the one who should watch where
they're going.... odango atama..." She fumed at
this, who was this guy anyways?!
"Hey! My name is Usagi Tsukino you...you...."
"Mamoru Chiba....Odango Atama....and don't you forget
it." Steam literally came out of Usagi's ears.
"Okay, fine... My name is Usagi Tsukino, not Odango
Atama, Mamoru-baka!" She looked at him closely to
glare at him. He had coal black hair that was swept
to one side, making him look roguish, his ocean deep
blue eyes played havoc on her imagination. She shook
her head, Mamoru, thinking something was wrong,
looked at her.
"Are you okay.... Odango....Usagi..." She shook her
head.
"YES... PERFECTLY FINE...ARIGATOU..." Usagi stomped
off, leaving a very confused and disoriented Mamoru
Chiba behind.
"What a strange girl..." He walked away, shaking his
head.
Meanwhile, Usagi mumbled to herself, "What a jerk!
Who does he think he is anyway?"
"Usagi!!! Usagi-chan!!!!" It was Naru, she was
calling from OSA*P.
"Konnichiwa Naru-chan!"
"My mother is waiting for you inside! Come in! It's
freezing!" Naru shivered. Usagi walked into the
store with her.
"You'll never guess what happened to me when I was
walking here!" Usagi told Naru about her little run
in with the Jerk-baka, Mamoru Chiba.
"Usagi... he sounds kind of dreamy..." She gaped at
Naru, was she crazy?
"NANI?! You've got to be kidding me! He's an A
CLASS JERK!!!!! The next time I see Mamoru-baka it
will be too soon!" Naru knew not to press the
subject any longer, so led Usagi into the back room.
"Konnichiwa Usagi.... I'm glad that you're willing
to take on this job, it's such a relief knowing the
shop will be in safe hands while we're away."
"I'm amazed that you actually trust me..."
Usagi smiled at Naru's mother, she certainly made it
seem easy to run the store so effortlessly. But now
that ALL the responsibilties were being explained,
she finally realised how much work had been put into
such a place.
"Arigatou.... I will run this place as best I
can..." Mrs. Osaka smiled at her.
"I know dear... well, you'd better get some sleep,
you've got a long day tomorrow, and so do we." She
handed a copy of the keys to Usagi.
"Open the store at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, all right
Usagi?" She nodded. "Well, good luck, and see you
in a week." Usagi made off for home, glad to know
that she had something to keep her mind off of things
and to just do something.
At exactly 8:00 a.m. the next day Usagi opened the
shop. She was psyched out and ready to be the model
salesclerk. As time passed by she grew tense,
"What if they don't like me? What if I mess up on a
sale? What if someone comes in and steals
something....What if..." And on and on she went
about what might go wrong. Eventually, she grew
bored and grabbed a piece of paper and pen playing
tic-tac by herself. A sad sight indeed.
After about 4 hours of waiting, it was finally time
to take her half hour lunch break. Luckily, the
Crown Game Centre was open and she knew for a fact
that Motoki would be working there today.
Usagi picked up her coat and closed the shop for the
half hour, turning over the 'Be back in half an hour
sign...lunch break'. She ran across the street to
the arcade.
Unbeknownst to her however, a young man had just made
it to OSA*P and was close to knocking himself out for
being so slow in arriving to the store.
"ARGH!!! LUNCH BREAK?! Who in there right minds
goes at a lunch break at lunch time!" (^^;; I
dunno... people who want to have their lunch?) He
stormed over to the Crown Game Centre.
In the Game Centre, Motoki was talking to Usagi about
her luck in having been allowed to work at OSA*P.
"That's wonderful Usagi!!! I'm proud of you imouto-
chan, you're really getting yourself somewhere, what
I don't understand is why you didn't go to
University, your marks were very high." Usagi shook
her head and smiled at him.
"Toki-onii-san, you know that I couldn't go to
University, it's just not... my thing..." Usagi
doubted herself, and by doubting herself she grew
scared.
"Well, you go and think about it then... OH! That
reminds me! You will be going to my graduation,
right?" Motoki was at Med-school at the moment, and
after all his hard work he was finally going to
graduate and perhaps be a doctor at Tokyo Hospital.
"I wouldn't miss it for the world onii-san! And I'll
know who to ask for if I ever need help!" Motoki
blushed, it was nice to here such compliments, even
if it was from one of his closest friends.
"Miss what Odango? The usual, onegai?" It couldn't
be! Usagi turned around to face, you guessed it,
Mamoru Chiba, First Class Conceited Jerk... FCCJ for
short.
"What are you doing here?! And I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU
MY NAME WAS USAGI!" Everyone covered their ears from
the commotion.
"Quiet down Odango Atama... You may scare Motoki's
customers away." She glared at him. Motoki looked
back between them and said,
"Gee... I guess you two have met .... what a
coincidence."
"Yeah...we've met, although I can't say it was on the
best of terms." Motoki laughed.
"You can't really mean that Usagi.... I mean... I
wouldn't be friends with a jerk..." Her eyes nearly
popped out of head. FRIENDS?!
"ONII-SAN, YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS?! HE'S YOUR FRIEND?!
BUT MAMORU-BAKA IS .... IS A FCCJ!!!" Mamoru stared
at her.
"What am I Odango? I didn't quiet understand..."
Mamoru said, with a grin on his face.
"You wouldn't of course. FCCJ means FIRST CLASS
CONCEITED JERK...FYI!" She humphed, boy was this guy
getting on her nerves!
"For Your Information...ODANGO... I meant the part of
my being Motoki's friend... in fact he might consider
me his BEST friend... as for me being a jerk.... it's
just as likely as you NOT being an Odango Atama."
Motoki looked at his friend.
"Now Mamoru... don't be so harsh with Usagi. She's a
very nice young woman. Besides, it's Christmas
vacation, you should try to get into the Christmas
spirit more." They heard Mamoru mumble a faint, 'bah
humbug'.
"UGH! Why are you so down about Christmas?! It's a
time for giving, and family!" Coming out of Usagi,
this was saying much, for usually it was SHE who
would be down around the holidays. Mamoru sat there,
silent, not saying anything... his eyes had gone
dark. Usagi knew that she should have kept her mouth
shut, something was wrong.
"....whatever Odango...." He tried to ignore her,
but it was apparent that something in her words had
hurt him. "Well Motoki, looks like OSA*P should be
opening soon.... maybe I'll go back and check....
see ya around...." Usagi couldn't help but here
this. Should she tell Mamoru-baka that she was
running the store for the week?
"....Chiba-san.... ummmm....."
Mamoru grumbled, "What Odango?"
"...well....I'm running..." Motoki knew that she had
trouble saying, so decided to say it for her.
"She's running OSA*P for the week Mamoru-san..."
Mamoru spit out the coffee from his mouth.
"NANI?!"
Usagi smiled. Perfect.
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I SERIOUSLY hope that it won't take me long to
complete this... HOPEFULLY before CHRISTMAS!
ACK!
*giggle*
Arigatou: Thank you
Ja ne: Bye
chibi-hime: little princess
Nani?!: What?!
onii-san: older brother
imouto-chan: younger sister
baka: dumb, stupid...
iie: no
hai: yes
-chan: when you talk to a friend ....
okaa-san: mother
Konnichiwa: Hello (I think it also meant Good Afternoon...but ^^;;)
I'm going to have FUN with this.
Well.... this will...HOPEFULLY be a short fic, I need
it to be, or else, no time for homework!!! Ain't
that right, Boss?
Boss: Right... aren't you forget something?
Chibi-chan: oh!!! you're right!
Disclaimers: yup yup... all of you can agree with me,
I do not own Sailor Moon, unless I'm Naoko-sama!!!!
hehehe.... can I be Naoko for one day??? ONEGAI?!
Boss: I meant... get on with the story... ^^;;
Chibi-chan: I KNEW that...
*~~~~~~*~~~~~~*~~~~~~*~~~~~~*~~~~~~*~~~~~~*~~~~~~*
Jingle Bells, Usagi Sells, Mamoru a Diamond Ring!
Prologue
Chibi-Anon (chibianon_ymous@hotmail.com)
December 11, 2000
*~~~~~~*~~~~~~*~~~~~~*~~~~~~*~~~~~~*~~~~~~*~~~~~~*
Usagi Tsukino, 20 years old, no boyfriend, and
miserable. Her golden odangos drooped down, she
dragged her feet. Her bright blue eyes had dulled to
faded blue. In the distance she could see Naru
running towards her, hand waving. Making her best
effort, Usagi half-smiled and picked herself up.
"Usagi!!! Usagi-chan!!!!!! I have great news!!!!"
Usagi's smile grew wider; maybe things weren't so bad
after all.
"Hai, Naru-chan? Nani?"
"Okaa-san and I are going to go to Kanagawa to visit
my relatives!!!" Usagi stopped smiling, now the only
friend that she had would be going away too. "What's
wrong Usagi?" She turned away from Naru. "Usagi-
chan... I'm sorry.... I know I promised I'd stay, but
I haven't seen my relatives in SO long... please...
understand... you still have your family!!" Now Naru
felt guilty. Usagi knew that she couldn't do this to
her friend, so looked Naru back in the eye.
"Nothing's wrong with you going Naru-chan! It's
great that you can see your relatives again! I'm
very happy for you!" Naru still didn't seem to
believe her so she flashed one of her smiles at her,
and changed the subject. "What about OSA*P? Who
will run it while you're away?" Naru grinned.
"That's the beauty of it...." She paused for affect.
"YOU!!!" She pointed at Usagi. Usagi stood there,
baffled, HER?! HER?! Running a store?! She stared
at Naru in disbelief.
"Iie... you can't be serious? Your mother TRUSTS me
to .... RUN the store?" Naru nodded, she didn't
explain that it took her several days to win her
mother over to the idea.
"Arigatou... tell your mother for me... I have to go
now..." Usagi ran off towards home, excited that she
would be able to work at her friend's store, but
still sad that her friend would be going away. When
she got home she slammed the door.
"Usagi!!!"
"Hai...."
"I thought I told you NOT to slam the door, dear...."
"Gomen nasai... I was just really excited." She put
her coat away.
"About what dear?" Usagi blushed, and fidgeted under
her mother's glare. Meanwhile, Shingo came down the
stairs, followed by her father.
"Well... Usagi-baka, what is it?" She stuck her
tongue out at her younger brother, not even he could
stop her from being as happy as she was about this
job.
"Yes, my chibi-hime tell us..." her father smiled at
her.
"I....got a job...for winter break" They all hugged
her and patted her on the back.
"That's great Usagi-chan!!! Where?!"
"OSA*P..."
"Isn't that Naru's family business?"
"Hai..."
"That's wonderful that they're letting you work
there, if I may ask, why?" Usagi blushed brighter.
"They're going away for a few weeks, so they asked me
to run it while they're gone." *yawn* "Now if you
excuse me, I need to go back to bed...." It was
dusk, but who could blame her, after all this
excitement?
When Usagi woke up the next morning, she felt alive
and refreshed. She had to meet Naru and discuss how
she was supposed to handle things at the store.
"What if it had all been a dream? But if it was,
Naru wouldn't be going away... so either way, dream
or not, I'd be very happy!" She got dressed and
rushed downstairs to eat Sunday morning breakfast.
"Hello everyone!!!!"
"Hey Usagi-baka!"
"Good morning dear! Well...Good Afternoon..." Usagi
saw her father nod from behind the newspaper,
acknowledgement that he had heard her.
"I'll be leaving soon... I have to meet Naru and her
mother to discuss my job..."
"All right dear, don't forget to dress warmly! It's
supposed to be extremely cold outside..."
"Hai okaa-san!" Usagi shovelled her food into her
mouth, and ran to put on her jacket, her boots and
her gloves.
When she reached outside a gust of cold air blasted
her. She shivered, and went on walking to Naru's
house. She kept her face to the ground so that the
wind would not freeze her face. She knew the way to
Naru's place by heart, now the only problem was if
she bumped into anybody....
*CRASH*
"Hey watch where you're going jerk!!!" Usagi rubbed
her sore behind and got up to face the man.
"I think YOU'RE the one who should watch where
they're going.... odango atama..." She fumed at
this, who was this guy anyways?!
"Hey! My name is Usagi Tsukino you...you...."
"Mamoru Chiba....Odango Atama....and don't you forget
it." Steam literally came out of Usagi's ears.
"Okay, fine... My name is Usagi Tsukino, not Odango
Atama, Mamoru-baka!" She looked at him closely to
glare at him. He had coal black hair that was swept
to one side, making him look roguish, his ocean deep
blue eyes played havoc on her imagination. She shook
her head, Mamoru, thinking something was wrong,
looked at her.
"Are you okay.... Odango....Usagi..." She shook her
head.
"YES... PERFECTLY FINE...ARIGATOU..." Usagi stomped
off, leaving a very confused and disoriented Mamoru
Chiba behind.
"What a strange girl..." He walked away, shaking his
head.
Meanwhile, Usagi mumbled to herself, "What a jerk!
Who does he think he is anyway?"
"Usagi!!! Usagi-chan!!!!" It was Naru, she was
calling from OSA*P.
"Konnichiwa Naru-chan!"
"My mother is waiting for you inside! Come in! It's
freezing!" Naru shivered. Usagi walked into the
store with her.
"You'll never guess what happened to me when I was
walking here!" Usagi told Naru about her little run
in with the Jerk-baka, Mamoru Chiba.
"Usagi... he sounds kind of dreamy..." She gaped at
Naru, was she crazy?
"NANI?! You've got to be kidding me! He's an A
CLASS JERK!!!!! The next time I see Mamoru-baka it
will be too soon!" Naru knew not to press the
subject any longer, so led Usagi into the back room.
"Konnichiwa Usagi.... I'm glad that you're willing
to take on this job, it's such a relief knowing the
shop will be in safe hands while we're away."
"I'm amazed that you actually trust me..."
Usagi smiled at Naru's mother, she certainly made it
seem easy to run the store so effortlessly. But now
that ALL the responsibilties were being explained,
she finally realised how much work had been put into
such a place.
"Arigatou.... I will run this place as best I
can..." Mrs. Osaka smiled at her.
"I know dear... well, you'd better get some sleep,
you've got a long day tomorrow, and so do we." She
handed a copy of the keys to Usagi.
"Open the store at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, all right
Usagi?" She nodded. "Well, good luck, and see you
in a week." Usagi made off for home, glad to know
that she had something to keep her mind off of things
and to just do something.
At exactly 8:00 a.m. the next day Usagi opened the
shop. She was psyched out and ready to be the model
salesclerk. As time passed by she grew tense,
"What if they don't like me? What if I mess up on a
sale? What if someone comes in and steals
something....What if..." And on and on she went
about what might go wrong. Eventually, she grew
bored and grabbed a piece of paper and pen playing
tic-tac by herself. A sad sight indeed.
After about 4 hours of waiting, it was finally time
to take her half hour lunch break. Luckily, the
Crown Game Centre was open and she knew for a fact
that Motoki would be working there today.
Usagi picked up her coat and closed the shop for the
half hour, turning over the 'Be back in half an hour
sign...lunch break'. She ran across the street to
the arcade.
Unbeknownst to her however, a young man had just made
it to OSA*P and was close to knocking himself out for
being so slow in arriving to the store.
"ARGH!!! LUNCH BREAK?! Who in there right minds
goes at a lunch break at lunch time!" (^^;; I
dunno... people who want to have their lunch?) He
stormed over to the Crown Game Centre.
In the Game Centre, Motoki was talking to Usagi about
her luck in having been allowed to work at OSA*P.
"That's wonderful Usagi!!! I'm proud of you imouto-
chan, you're really getting yourself somewhere, what
I don't understand is why you didn't go to
University, your marks were very high." Usagi shook
her head and smiled at him.
"Toki-onii-san, you know that I couldn't go to
University, it's just not... my thing..." Usagi
doubted herself, and by doubting herself she grew
scared.
"Well, you go and think about it then... OH! That
reminds me! You will be going to my graduation,
right?" Motoki was at Med-school at the moment, and
after all his hard work he was finally going to
graduate and perhaps be a doctor at Tokyo Hospital.
"I wouldn't miss it for the world onii-san! And I'll
know who to ask for if I ever need help!" Motoki
blushed, it was nice to here such compliments, even
if it was from one of his closest friends.
"Miss what Odango? The usual, onegai?" It couldn't
be! Usagi turned around to face, you guessed it,
Mamoru Chiba, First Class Conceited Jerk... FCCJ for
short.
"What are you doing here?! And I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU
MY NAME WAS USAGI!" Everyone covered their ears from
the commotion.
"Quiet down Odango Atama... You may scare Motoki's
customers away." She glared at him. Motoki looked
back between them and said,
"Gee... I guess you two have met .... what a
coincidence."
"Yeah...we've met, although I can't say it was on the
best of terms." Motoki laughed.
"You can't really mean that Usagi.... I mean... I
wouldn't be friends with a jerk..." Her eyes nearly
popped out of head. FRIENDS?!
"ONII-SAN, YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS?! HE'S YOUR FRIEND?!
BUT MAMORU-BAKA IS .... IS A FCCJ!!!" Mamoru stared
at her.
"What am I Odango? I didn't quiet understand..."
Mamoru said, with a grin on his face.
"You wouldn't of course. FCCJ means FIRST CLASS
CONCEITED JERK...FYI!" She humphed, boy was this guy
getting on her nerves!
"For Your Information...ODANGO... I meant the part of
my being Motoki's friend... in fact he might consider
me his BEST friend... as for me being a jerk.... it's
just as likely as you NOT being an Odango Atama."
Motoki looked at his friend.
"Now Mamoru... don't be so harsh with Usagi. She's a
very nice young woman. Besides, it's Christmas
vacation, you should try to get into the Christmas
spirit more." They heard Mamoru mumble a faint, 'bah
humbug'.
"UGH! Why are you so down about Christmas?! It's a
time for giving, and family!" Coming out of Usagi,
this was saying much, for usually it was SHE who
would be down around the holidays. Mamoru sat there,
silent, not saying anything... his eyes had gone
dark. Usagi knew that she should have kept her mouth
shut, something was wrong.
"....whatever Odango...." He tried to ignore her,
but it was apparent that something in her words had
hurt him. "Well Motoki, looks like OSA*P should be
opening soon.... maybe I'll go back and check....
see ya around...." Usagi couldn't help but here
this. Should she tell Mamoru-baka that she was
running the store for the week?
"....Chiba-san.... ummmm....."
Mamoru grumbled, "What Odango?"
"...well....I'm running..." Motoki knew that she had
trouble saying, so decided to say it for her.
"She's running OSA*P for the week Mamoru-san..."
Mamoru spit out the coffee from his mouth.
"NANI?!"
Usagi smiled. Perfect.
*~~~~~~*~~~~~~*~~~~~~*~~~~~~*~~~~~~*~~~~~~*~~~~~~*
I SERIOUSLY hope that it won't take me long to
complete this... HOPEFULLY before CHRISTMAS!
ACK!
*giggle*
Arigatou: Thank you
Ja ne: Bye
chibi-hime: little princess
Nani?!: What?!
onii-san: older brother
imouto-chan: younger sister
baka: dumb, stupid...
iie: no
hai: yes
-chan: when you talk to a friend ....
okaa-san: mother
Konnichiwa: Hello (I think it also meant Good Afternoon...but ^^;;)
I'm going to have FUN with this.