Well, this is the third time I've written out this story. Ugh...I just
don't know why, but my computer somehow ate the other 2 copies. I now
have this fic saved on 2 disks AND my hard drive! :p So there!! I hope
that you ppl find it worth reading after all the effort I put into it.
^_~ I've been wanting to write a fic concerning Chibiusa and her romance
with Elios for a long time, and was greatly inspired by the lovely and
talented Alica Blade and her "Newborn Wings" fic. ^_^
E-MAIL --- angels_melody19@hotmail.com

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First Love
PG
1/?
Japanese TRANSLATIONS in END NOTES
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Chibiusa walked down the street on her way to Juben Jr. High. It was
8:20am and, unlike her mother, Chibiusa was never late, if not quite
a bit early. She swung her bookbag and hummed to herself, it was 3
weeks until the big senior carnival and Chibiusa was going to sing
that year. This was a big honour because hundreads of students tried
out but only one got to do it. (Jr. Highs in Japan are grs. 7-9 so
Chibiusa is technically a senior.) Suddenly she blinked and stopped.
Had the sun darkened for a spilt second? Had the wind just picked up?
Chibiusa looked around the park. A mother was pushing a stoller. Two
high school boys were playing frisbee. She shook her head and kept
walking. Meanwhile, a figure silently watched in the shadows.

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Chibiusa hurried up the steps and down the hall into classroom 1-B.
She smoothed out the wrinkles in her skirt and, hanging her bookbag on the
hook on the side of her desk, crossed her legs and doodled as she waited for
class to start. She had art, first slot, and was excited because she was
working on a water color of a pegsus that she had seen in a dream a few weeks
ago. Chibiusa really liked her uniform. The Juben Jr. High uniforms had
changed since Usgai had attended, and were now navy pleated skirts, white
blouses, navy sweater-vests, white socks and navy slippers or white soled
tenis shoes. Chibiusa had shortened her skirt into a stylish mini, about
3-4 inches above her knees, and wore 'super loose socks'. (AN: Super Loos
Socks are really popular among Japanese Jr. and Sr. high school girls. They're
really long, almost like leg warmers, and are held up on the leg, in baggy
folds, with a special type of 'glue'.)

The teacher walked in then and class started. A few minutes later the
door opened and closed softly and Chibiusa looked up to see a strange boy speaking
with the teacher. A few minutes later, at the teacher's prompt, he introduced himself.

"Hello," the boy said in a serious voice, "My name is Elios.
I'm 16, blood type A."

Chibiusa assessed him. He was about 5'10", which made him about
7 inches taller then her petite frame of 5'3". He looked scrawny, but
she could see that he had muscles, even if they weren't extreamly well
defined. He had piercingly deep blue eyes and extremely pale bond hair,
which revealed a tiny, almost unoticable, scar when he blew his breath
out before he introduced himself. When the teacher nodded at him, he took
his books and sat down in a seat in the row across from Chibiusa, and 2
seats down. Chibiusa found his eyes made her uncomfortable and diliberatly
ignored him.

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Two hours later the bell for lunch break rang. Chibisua hurried outside
with her friends Nami and Momo and sat down beside a tree to eat. Nami turned
to her left to watch a group of boys from their class playing soccer.

"Ne*, Momo-chan, Takeshi's playing pretty good today, don't ya think?"
She said with a knowing wink.

Momo glanced at the field, then at Nami. "Hai*, Nami-chan, but I wouldn't
get all excited over just one." She paused and used her chopsticks to pick up a
piece of tempura. She popped it in her mouth, swallowed, then turned back to
Nami and added, " Besides, he's so full of hot air that he'd float away if his
bubble headed friends weren't there to hold him down!"

The girls laughed, then seemed to notice that Chibiusa wasn't paying
attention. Chibiusa watched Takeshi, trying to get the ball away from another
boy, thoughtfully. Takeshi was tall and good looking, but he also had a dangerous
side. He got angry easily, and his charm didn't fool Chibiusa like it did most girls.

Momo poked her shoulder then. "Ne, Chibiusa-chan*, whatcha thinkin' about?"

Embaressed to be caught staring Chibiusa seached the school yard frantically
for something to distract her friends with. She spotted Elios walking toward the
woods by himself, and breathed a silent sigh of reilef. Nodding her head at him she
said,

"What do you think of the new guy?"

Momo all but swoned, "He's soooo handsome!!"

"He's not bad girl, but not as good as Takeshi." Nami allowed, good natruedly.

Chibiusa watched as Takeshi's struggle for the ball grew more demanding,
then suddenly he got control of the ball and kicked it hard. It sailed in a
perfect arc across the field, in a graceful line toward Elios's head.

She gasped, "Elios! Abunai!!*"

Elios turned at the sound of her voice. He saw a black and white ball coming
down in a direct line with his head. Without blinking an eye he headed the ball.
Then he stepped back, waited for it to come down again, bounced it on his knee twice
and sent it back to the soccer field with a fierce kick.

"Sugoi....*" Nami breathed.

"Right on Elios!" Momo cheered, waving.

Elios didn't wave back, instead he disappeared into the woods. That girl
who had yelled at him.....he had seen her on his walk to school that morning. She
had been singing to herself. She seemed so cheerful and carefree and yet, now,
when a harmless rubber ball was in danger of 'hurting' him she got all excited??
She confused him....yet as he thought about her....something nagged at the back of
his mind.....something important.....

Chibiusa watched as Elios disappeared into the forest.

He seemed so cold.....

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Chibiusa couldn't sleep. It had been 2 weeks since Elios had started
attending her school now and hse couldn't get him off her mind. He seemed lonely,
always off by himself. She shifted in her bed and snuggled into her pillow sighing
deeply, it was getting really late and she was exausted. She kept seeing Elios's
face in her mind's eye. Or, more specifically, his eyes. His deep, cobalt blue,
eyes. They were drawing her into their depths...... It was 1:13am when she finally
fell into a fitful sleep.

-----------dream----------

Falling.........into a darkness deep and unending.....inky blackness.....sucking
her down.....down..... Chibiusa reached up to try and grab something, anything, to keep
for falling farther, and glanced down at herself.

She was wearing a long, almost sheer, dress. It was silvery white and seemed
to have been woven from the stars themselves. There was a row of gold circles along
the low cut top and a line of pearls along the 'princess waistline', just under her
breasts. At the back was a long transparent bow but , other then that, there were no
other decorations. In her hair were two peal encrusted pins.

Falling......down.....a scream tore from her throat, and she squeezed her tear
filled eyes shut in terror. Suddenly, she landed on something. Opening her eyes,
Chibiusa found herself on the back of a beautiful white horse, soaring through the air.

Wait....soaring? The horse had wings!! She gasped in shock and the creature
turned it's head to look at her. It's snowy white mane blew in the breeze and a
magnificant golden horn glinted on it's forehead. It blinked at her. Strangely,
even with the strong wind, from the pumping wings, blowing past her, Chibiusa didn't
feel fear of falling off in the slightest.

She thought silently, wondering why a creature from her art work
was rescuing her in her dreams.

They glided down to land beside a sparkling blue lake. The pegasus knelt
it's front legs so that she could dismount. She did,and then backed up a few steps
to study the creature in front of her. Moonlight poured down on them both, bathing
them in it's gentle light, and making the pegaus's coat shimmer with a silver sheen.



Chibiusa stumbled back. Had the Pegasus just spoken to her? More importantly,
had it not spoken aloud, but in her mind??? She gasped, staring at the winged horse
with wide eyes.

The pegasus took a step toward her and tossed it's head, distressed.

came the ajitated voice.

Chibiusa pressed her hands to her ears. This was scaring her...a
talking horse? A loud noise was droning in her ears. As conciousness faded
and she fell backwards into a faint, the pegasus's last words echoed in her mind,



-----------dream----------

*Beep!* *Beep!* *Beep!*

Chibiusa stumbled out of bed and across the room to her alarm clock.
She wacked it with enough force to have destroyed a lesser item, but apparently
the alarm companies had thought of that, so it continued to awake her at 7am every
morning.

She showered, blow dried her hair , and put it up in the traditional family
odago style, before putting on a little make-up and then her school uniform. She
hurried down the stairs and called to her 'parents' as she stepped out of her house
slippers and into her white tenis shoes,

"Ittekimasu!* Ikuko-mama, Kenji-papa!"

Ikuko appeared in the doorway to the kitchen holding a box, wrapped in a pink
cloth with a knot at the top, which she held out to her 'daughter'.

"Ittarashii!* Don't forget you lunch, Chibiusa-chan." She said smiling. Chibiusa
grabbed it,kissed her cheek, and then, calling out a thank-you, tore out the front door
and around the corner......

"Ki o tsukeru, Usagi no baka!" She hollered, skidding to a stop as she nearly
colided with her future mother, as she rounded the gate.

Usagi smiled at her daughter, stepped aside and gave her her clear passage.
Watching Chibiusa run for school, actually nearly late for once, made her smile.
Her daughter was a lot like herself, whether she would admit it or not.

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Chibiusa hurried across the school yard, her bookbag slapping against her hip,
and ran up the steps the the front doors. As she reached for the handle and started to
open the door, something stopped the the door's outword passage. A foot. A foot attached
to a rather scary looking Takeshi.

"Excuse me, Takeshi-kun*," She said cooly, "But you're blocking the door, please
move your foot."

"You and I have something to discuss, Tsukino." He said, his voice hard.

"I don't think so, Osoroshii." Chibisua retorted, and attempted to open the
door again.

Takeshi responded by placing his entire body in front if the doors, barring
any entry into the school.

"Fine baka...I'll go around the back." Chibiusa growled and turned to stomp
down the steps. However Takeshi was too quick for her and he grabbed the front of her
sweater and yanked her back around to face him.

"Itai!*" Chibiusa cried at the sudden movement as her body was jerked forward.
Since Takeshi was 5'10" Chbiusa was now on her tiptoes as she wrapped her small hands
around Takeshi's big one and tried to pry his fingers loose.

"Let go Takeshi!"

"Listen here Tsukino, you better quit interfearing where you don't belong!"
Takeshi growled down at her, his face inches from hers.

"Interfearing? Are you talking about yesterday, baka? Did you want Elios
to get hurt? Did you kick that ball at him on purpose--?" Chibiusa began heatedly,
but was cut off when Takeshi shook her and hissed in her ear, his voice dangerously
low,

"Just back off Tsukino, before you get hurt."

The bell rang then and Takeshi released her with a start. Chibiusa hit the
pavement hard, and norrowly missed falling down the steps, like her books. Tears
filled her eyes, and she blinked them back hastily. That boy was only trying to
scare her. She gathered her books and smoothed her clothes before hurrying inside
the school toward her class. Well, he was doing a good job.

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Entering the classroom, she paused, breathing hard. There was silence as
she bent over, with her hands on her knees, panting and trying to catch her breath.
Stupid class just had to be on the 4th floor. She looked up when a pair of polished
black shoes came into her vision. Mr. Kagasawa was glaring at her.

"To what do we owe the pleasure of this disturbance?" he asked dryly.

Flushing in embaressment, Chibiusa clasped her hands in front of her and
bowed low.

"Osoku natte, gomen nasia Kagasawa-sensei. I um....slept in." she lied,
"It won't happen again."

"Of course it won't. Hall. Buckets. Now. I'll speak with you later." was
the curt reply.

Now extremely humiliated in front of her entire class, Chibiusa walked out
to the hallway and picked up the two metal pails filled with water. Struggling to
hold them steady she glared into the classroom at a smirking Takeshi. Her hands
were sweaty and her grip on one handle slipped, causing her to nearly spill, but
she managed not to, knowing that to spill even one drop could mean that either a.)
she would have to repeat the punishment again at a later time or b.) Kagasawa-sensei
would fiind something worse to punish her with.

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Elios watched as the girl was reprimended by the teacher and then sent to
the hall. He could see, through the glass window that led to the hallway, that
the buckets were very heavy for a small girl like her, but she held them bravely,
almost splashing water out once when it looked like her hand lost it's hold, but
recovering quickly.

He didn't know why she had been late, to his knowledge she was always on
time, usually ahead of the teacher. He noticed her glaring at someone through
the window. Elios assumed that it was Kagasawa-sensei, but what he didn't know
was that Takeshi was sitting just out of his view and smirking evily at Chibiusa,
waving patronizingly. He felt angry for what he considered unfair treatment of the
pink haired girl who had never caused any trouble in the short time that he had
known her.

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Mwahaha!! Well it's official now, this is going to be muli-part, but I
don't know if it'll be more then 2 parts yet....hee hee....e-mail me
and let me know if you like it and maybe it'll be longer....

E-MAIL ME !! ^_^ angels_melody19@hotmail.com

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TRANSLATIONS
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Kun - formal ending for boy's names
Chan - informal (cute ending) for girls names
Ne- Hey!
Hai - Yes
Abunai - Danger! Look Out!
Sugoi - Great! Wow!
Ittekimasu - I'm leaving now.
Ittarashii - Please return.
Ki o tsukeru! Usagi no baka! - Look out, Usagi you idiot!
Itai! - Ouch! It hurts!
Osoku natte, gomen nasai Kagasawa-sensei. - I'm sorry I'm late, Mr. (teacher) Kagasawa.
Hitori ni shite yo! - Leave me alone!