Hiya, my first SM fic (yay me) which will probably turn out awful but there you go. Notice this very closely follows the storyline in the first episode but it will probably morph into something completely different in the next few chapters so no complaining about ripping stuff off please. Sailor Moon c. Naoko Takeuchi and Toei Animation 1992 so nyah!

Chapter One

Koneko Tsukino turned over and went back to her dream. The alarm clock had rung three times already and was losing the will to live. Its hands ticked round to eight o' clock.

"KONEKO! Get up! It's past eight!" screamed her mother from downstairs. "You can't have any breakfast if you won't get out of bed! And I know for a fact you've been late five times in the last two weeks!"

"It's not fair...why does school start so early?" Koneko muttered, flinging off her duvet, which was covered in moons and cats. "Ten past eight?! Oh no! I'm going to be late!"

She hastily pulled on her school uniform, grabbed a slice of bread and flew out of the door and down the street for about ten metres before stopping to catch her breath.

"Geez...such a pretty girl shouldn't have to go through this every morning...Grrr!"

She spotted a few preschoolers a short distance away fighting over some kind of animal, which was squealing in distress.

"Hey!" yelled Koneko, and rushed over to where they were sitting. Two small boys and a girl sprinted off, sniggering. A large black rabbit with a plaster on its forehead sat staring at her with large, unblinking eyes. She was quite unnerved by its gaze but decided she should probably help the poor thing out. She picked it up, and to her surprise it made no attempt to resist.

"Those stupid kids. Did they stick this on you? Here, let me take it off." She peeled the plaster away and gasped. There was a strange mark on the rabbit's forehead, like a crescent moon pointing upwards. A bald patch?

The rabbit bucked and jumped out of her arms, leaving several long red scratches on her and tearing part of her uniform with its claws. It ran off and hid under a nearby car. She could see its big eyes glowing.

"You ungrateful animal! I help you out and this is how you repay me?! Hmph!" Koneko stormed off to school.


"KONEKO TSUKINO!"

Miss Natsuna Midoriki's shout rang out through the whole school, or maybe all of Tokyo.

"THAT IS THE THIRD TIME THIS WEEK! You're in detention! Come back after school or you are in big trouble, young lady! Go outside and stand in the corridor. Now!"

Koneko slumped against the wall.

"Aw man...does she have to be so harsh? I'm really hungry..."

A girl with long blue hair hurried past, pushing her glasses up her nose.

"Hey...you were late to class too?" Koneko asked.

"Yes, I overslept because I stayed up too late studying. I've never been late before...I hope I won't get into too much trouble..." explained the girl, wringing her hands."Oh, by the way, I'm Mizu. Amano Mizu. Pleased to meet you."

"Amano Mizu? THE Amano Mizu? Top exam scorer for the country? IQ of 250? Wow! I didn't know you came to this school! I'm honoured to meet somebody so smart. Oh, by the way, I'm Tsukino Koneko."

Just then Ms Midoriki came out of the classroom to give Koneko yet another talking-to.

"Oh, good morning Miss Amano. I warn you not to make friends with this girl. She's a terrible influence."

Mizu nodded shyly and scuttled off to her class. Ms Midoriki opened the classroom door and Koneko trailed in.


At break time everyone was comparing at their test results. Koneko was sitting under a tree moping about her terrible test score after having been given another lecture ("This is a very good school, Miss Tsukino, and you are bringing disgrace to its name!"). Just then, Koneko's friends turned up to see her.

"Morning, Koneko-chan," said Nori Osaka cheerfully. Even though Nori was a boy, he was Koneko's best friend.
"I heard you were upset about your test score," said her other friend, a nerdy girl named Yuriko Umino. "Don't worry. I didn't get 100 because I didn't try hard at all."

She held up her paper. "99" was scrawled in the top right corner with Ms Midoriki's trademark red felt pen. Koneko wailed.

"Oh! Sorry, Koneko! I didn't mean to hurt your feelings!"
"Umino, you idiot!"
"Sorry! Sorry!"


Koneko trudged home carrying her heavy bag on her back. She could see Mizu a short distance away catching the bus and waved, but Mizu seemed not to notice. She took out the piece of paper from her bag.

"20 percent...that's even worse than last time! Mum's going to kill me...Right! I'm getting rid of this test!" She screwed it into a ball and threw it as hard as she could.

"Hey! You! Dumpling Head! Don't litter!"

An annoyed-looking guy in his late teens appeared from round the corner with the scrunched-up test in his hand. Koneko's cheeks burned. She hated people making fun of her appearance. Her great-grandmother Usagi who she had only met once wore her hair like Koneko did, in the odango style with a bun on each side of her head. Koneko looked quite similar to Usagi except her hair was dark, not fair, and her eyes were green instead of blue. Cat's eyes.

"Don't call me names!" Koneko retorted, snatching back the paper and sticking out her tongue. "That's no way to speak to a lady. Hmph." She ran off before he could say anything else.

When she arrived home she was sent straight to her room in disgrace without a snack after a heated debate about test scores. Koneko lost.

"It isn't fair!! Why is everyone so mean to me? I'm going to sleep!" She lay down on her bed. She had always had an unnatural ability to sleep anywhere and any time. She was just drifting off when she heard a dull thump. She sat up cautiously. The big black rabbit from earlier was sitting on the floor staring at her.

"Hello, Koneko."


a/n: An interesting start, ne? I hope you like how I swapped round Luna and Usagi as the rabbit and the cat. Well, I hope you like it, full stop. Thinking up new characters is always very fun!