A soft grey light danced along his apartment wall in the early morning hours.

Mamoru slept fitfully, lost in his dream. The mist like vista enveloped his senses baring him from fully seeing his Princess as she called down to him.

Sweat beaded along his brow as he awoke gasping for air. Hands cradling his head as he writhed in the sheets.

" Why do I keep dreaming of her?" The only answer he received was in the slam of a neighbors door. Mamoru glanced at his alarm and decided to get up for the day ahead of him.

***

Usagi awoke with a start when she heard her bedroom door slam open. Shingo stood there smirking at his older sister.

"Usagi! Do you know what time it is?!"

Usagi looked at her clock and saw she was already fifteen minutes late for school. The scream that rang out next shook the house as she raced around her room throwing on her school uniform.

"How could mom not have … wait a minute!

If I am late then what are you doing here?" She shouted at her sibling who was at the moment braced against the wall laughing and slapping his leg.

"You should have seen your face." He was holding his middle as tears crept down his face.

"Usagi! What is all the screeching about. You made your Father drop his coffee." Ikuko said appearing behind her son. "Did Shingo tell you school was canceled today due to the snow?"

Usagi perked up and ran to the window. Outside was a blanket of white on every surface, making the world seem as if it were asleep.

"Oh it's so beautiful." Usagi sighed. Then she turned with a wicked look on her face.

"Late for school huh?" Shingo stood up quickly and backed out behind his mother.

"It was just a joke nee-chan!"

Usagi dived for him as her turned to run , just missing the tackle.

"You Baka! Wait until we get outside." Usagi shouted raising her fist.

***

As Mamoru stepped out of his building he finally noticed it was snowing heavily.

'Huh I guess I am really out of it today.' He thought as he walked to the fruit parlor, a café near the arcade were his friend Motoki worked.

A walk in the cold didn't do much for Mamoru's mood improving.

Still he decided to go through the park on his way, pondering how his life had become this strange thing most people couldn't even imagine.

Trudging along with his hands buried deep in his pockets he never knew what hit him until he was picking his face up out of the snow. A high pitched giggle alerted him to her location and he instantly retaliated.

"Poor Mamoru Baka! Did you fall down again?" Usagi yelled, peeking out from behind a tree. She ducked his hastily made snow ball laughing.

"Oi, Odango Atma, you are one to talk." He growled back, but Usagi could see the small grin on his face.

'I wonder if he has ever had a snowball fight before?' She thought watching him make another missile. Her eyes widened as the snow hit her full in the face. Mamoru laughed as Usagi sputtered.

"Hey Odango, white is a good color for you!" He shouted walking away once more.

Usagi, now with a wet face, ran quietly up behind Mamoru and shoved her hands up the back of his shirt.

"Ahh! Usagi, your hands are freezing." He shouted, spinning around. She just grinned impishly up at him and ran off in the direction of the arcade.

Motoki was up at the fruit parlor helping his sister while on lunch break. He had just started wiping down a table when he looked up to see Usagi rush in with such exuberance she almost made him drop his rag.

'What's made her so happy I wonder.' He thought. Not a minute later Mamoru walked in and sat at the counter with a bewildered look on his face. Motoki just smiled and looked over to where Usagi was sitting peering at Mamoru from across the room.

He walked over to his friend and sat down beside him.

"Hey Chiba-san, how are you today?" Motoki patted him on the shoulder.

"Motoki, I know that tone." Mamoru said picking up the coffee Unazaki placed before him. Motoki grinned at him and leaned in.

"You know Usagi came in a few moments ago. She looks very happy today don't you think?" Mamoru stiffened when he heard her name.

"Motoki when are you going to get over this fantasy of me and Odango getting together?"

"I just think since you like her and she likes you…"

"I don't want to hear this now Motoki." Mamoru said putting down his cup. He turned to his friend. "I just came to get warmed up after being frozen by that Odango out in the park. If she studied half as much as she played she'd be smarter that Muzino-san."

Motoki looked taken aback. "You were out in the park with Usagi?"

Mamoru sighed. "And you say your not interested." Motoki said with a grin.

Mamoru got up and walked over to a booth to get away from his meddlesome friend almost wishing he hadn't left his apartment. But then he would have missed what happened in the park.

Usagi was definitely a kid in his eyes, but sometimes she did things that pulled at his heart. It made him long for something he couldn't place.

He just liked to think it was a missed childhood, but sometimes he couldn't fool himself.

Usagi watched as Mamoru left a bemused Motoki sitting at the counter for a booth near the back of the room. She was still staring at him when Makoto sat down in front of her.

"Usagi-Chan, can you believe this weather? I am so glad we got out of that test today." she said, refocusing the blonds attention. Usagi smiled brightly at her.

"You know we will just have to make it up later." Ami said having overheard them as she sat down.

"Oh Ami, why must you dim my carefree spirit." Usagi wailed playfully. The girls laughed at her pained expression.

Mamoru looked over at the booth they were sitting in, watching Usagi make her friends laugh. He smiled and took out the news paper he had bought on his way over.

Motoki just watched them for a moment. Turning to his sister he sighed.

"Those two would do so well together I don't understand all this fighting stuff they do."

Unazaki looked up at him and cast serious eyes over the two booths.

"Maybe they are afraid to confess their feelings because they don't want to get hurt. Onii-chan I think you should let them figure this out on their own." Motoki smiled at his sister in farewell and went back to the arcade.

A/N: Well there you have it. I now have hit a bit of writers block. I was hoping the story would progress further but now I can not seem to find the inspiration to add any more. Hopefully in the near future I will be able to finish it as planed. Until then enjoy, and have a nice day!