Hey everyone!

My other story, 'The Terran Senshi' is on a permanent hiatus as i am not sure whether to continue with it or not. Anyways, this story is Usa/Mamo based and I hope u like it! And, Mamoru is not studying to be a doctor in this story- he is working in a financial business.

I'd also like to thank my editor, Kiweee, for helping me with this story- u rock!

Now for the legal stuff:

Disclaimer: Sadly, Sailor Moon does not belong to me...Naoko Takeuchi has all the rights to it.

It was a freezing winter's day. Usagi, your average Japanese girl living in Tokyo, came trooping into the Crown Arcade. Her school case was dangling from her hand and she looked terrible. She was covered in road grime- courtesy of a truck driving past her at an inhumane speed for icy roads; her hair was drenched from the icy rain falling everywhere and her knees were scraped from when she had fallen down whilst she chased the truck which had sloshed her with grime from the road. Motoki, the Arcade's proprietor looked up at the girl he thought of as a little sister from the bench he was dutifully cleaning.

"Whoa…Usa, what happened?" he asked in shock.

Usagi looked at Motoki, pulled out one of the stools at the counter and sat down.

"First of all, I get a D minus on a test and then, after school, a truck drives past at a really dumb speed and sloshes me withroadgrimeand then I ran after the truck and fell over on a patch of ice and hurt my knees and then it starts to rain! I feel like a drowned rat and I feel terrible and I'm hurting and I hate school and it can't possibly get any worse!" She yelled.

Motoki looked concerned and said,

"Well, to help make your day better, I shall contribute a free milkshake and a triple chocolate fudge sundae!"

Usagi grinned, but her moment of bliss upon hearing that was short lived when the Arcade's bell above the front door rang…and Mamoru, the arcade's resident stuffed shirt, walked in. It was exactly 3:30pm- the time he always entered the Arcade.

"It just got worse." Usagi muttered as she covered her face with her hands- dreading what he would criticize her about that particular day.

As Mamoru walked in, he looked around. He had had an absolutely awful day. First, some idiot in his business' second office in Osaka had made a massive mistake in the shareholder's trade stakes that morning and had caused a great calamity across the Japanese Stock Exchange, then, his boss had had a heart attack in his office and Mamoru had been the only one in the office on lunch break and had taken him into the hospital for treatment and then, he had arrived back inside the office to a phone call from the police station to let him know that he had just been robbed! And, for the past three weeks, he had constantly hurt Usagi's feelings with his cutting comments about her failing grades. He winced at the thought of his last comment- which had resulted in her slapping him across the face with her school shoe and then running outside, crying.

He then continued to look around the arcade at the happy people laughing and talking- and felt like he wanted to yell at them for being happy until he spotted Motoki and one certain, dirt-and-rain covered, blonde-hairedgirl. His deep scowl broke into a wide grin at the sight of the mud, rain and sleet covering Usagi. He had wondered what must have gotten inside the arcade to make the floor so dirty and now he knew. He wandered over to the bar stools and took the stool beside Usagi and looked at her. She looked so sad and annoyed so, to break the tense silence, he decided to tease her to get her mad. She was so cute when she was mad!

"Odango Atama! What's wrong? Fail another test today?" he asked.

Usagi just stared at him with anger filling her heartuntil she decided to reply,

"Ooohhhhh...YOOOUUUU! STUPID BAKA! WHY MUST YOU CALL ME THAT AWFUL NAME?" she yelled, crumpling up her failed test and tossing it at his glossy hair, making all of the other customers in the arcade turn around and stare at the two sparring partners.

Usagi looked back at them with a glare and they all turned back to their own business.

"Is this what you do every day? Come up with new ways by which to taunt me?" she asked as she sat down andproceeded to sip the free milkshake and eat the free sundae- both of which had just been set down in front of her.

Mamoru then placed his hand down on the cold, marble bench top and sighed. It always, ALWAYS, came down to this. He would call her a name, she would get mad, the whole thing would happen again and then it would end with something hard being thrown at his head. He wanted to tell her how he reallyfelt about her, but he couldn't.

"I probably never will."He thought.

He stood up and began to leave, even though he had not had his ritualistic afternoon caffeine hit of very, very strong black coffee. He was just about to walk out the door when he turned around and, without knowing what exactly came over him at the time,said,

"Odango? When you get home tonight, remember to study. I hate having to sit next to a failure like you every afternoon and bicker with you like this. It's getting on my nerves! All you ever do is read manga and eat!I just wish that, for one day, our lives wouldn't come down to this. You are lazy and a slob and you need to learn to grow up. I'm tired of being hit, slapped or having something thrown at me. When you leave here this afternoon, don't come back until you have grown up."

And, with that, he turned and walked out the door.

Usagi watched as he left and stared after him in shock. Motoki also looked stunned. Usagi was oblivious to the tears which now rolled freely down her cheeks. Mamoru always insulted her but he had never gone that far before. She stood up, picked up her school case, forgot about her sundae and milkshake and ran out the door.

Motoki watched as she left and then his thoughts returned to a certain, black-haired young man. He had never known Mamoru to be so cruel to anyone- especially Usagi.

"I'm going to have a littletalk with him tomorrow..." he thought as he returned to cleaning his beloved arcade.

AN: What do u think? Please review! And please, if u have any ideas for future chapters, submit them in ur reviews!