I do not own Dragonball Z or Dragonball GT. I also do not own Sailor Moon.
Usagi = Serena
Ami = Amy
Rei = Raye
Makoto = Lita
Minako = Mina
Haruka = Amara
Michiru = Michelle
"talking"
A Galaxy of Difference : A Story of Love
Mallory Tsukino finally returned home after being away for five years. She left for two reasons, but the main reason was that Mallory had to find out how different she would be without her identical twin sister, Serena. There was one person that knew she was coming back, and that one person met her at the airport.
"Haruka!" Mallory excitedly said.
"Hey girlie!" Haruka said as they hugged.
"Are you sure that it's ok that I live with you?"
"Yep it is," Haruka said as she let go of Mallory, "and so are Michelle and Hotaru."
"I bet she's grown."
"Yeah, she has."
"Can you believe that she's six now?" Mallory asked as they walked to baggage claim.
They got the luggage and then went to Haruka's car. They put everything in the trunk, which were four big suitcases with wheels and two big duffle bags.
"Haruka?"
"What?"
"Don't you owe me a car?" Mallory asked.
"Nope."
"What?" Mallory said. "How can you not owe me a car? I mean I beat you in that stupid race and broke my car. You remember I cried."
"You did cry. Believe me...it wasn't a pretty sight." Mallory was going to slap Haruka, but knew then that it would lead to a fist fight, so she let it slide. Sensing the mood change, Haruka said, "You look really different."
"Yeah, well I had to." Mallory was glad that she could always rely on Haruka, "Especially after I got kicked out."
"Yeah."
It was a four hour drive back to Haruka's house, which was more like a mansion to Mallory, so she laid her head on Haruka's shoulder. After a couple of minutes, in the black Porsche convertible and with the wind in their hair, Mallory closed her eyes for a couple of minutes; however, in reality she fell asleep.
"Hey Mal were home." Haruka stated as she gently shook her awake.
"Ok."
As Mallory, also known as Mal, got out of the car, she was tackled by Michelle. "Michelle, leave her alone for a little bit." Haruka said.
"Its ok, Haruka." Mallory said.
Michelle hugged her again and then looked at her for a few moments before saying, "I can't believe you cut off your hair!"
"It's just layered and cut to my shoulders. The meatballs and floor length hair made me look too much like Serena."
"At least your eyes are the same color still."
"Not really. I have green contacts to wear."
"Why? Your blue eyes are so pretty." Michelle said.
"Because I got tired of blue." In reality, Mallory was sick of looking like her sister.
"Oh." Michelle said.
"Actually I got tired of being called a dumb blonde." Mallory said as she was able to completely lie to Michelle.
"Yep…I understand." Haruka said.
"Haruka, how can you understand?" Mallory asked. This was confusing to her because Haruka had the blonde hair and not the blue eyes.
"You know."
"Shut up Haruka. You don't know what you talking about." Mallory said as she grabbed some of the bags.
Michelle showed Mallory up to her room, which was huge. It had a king size bed, two walk-in closets, two dressers, and a vanity. Mallory was just in shock. This room was bigger than any other room she ever had.
"We'll leave you to get settled in." Michelle said.
"Alright." Mallory said as they left.
It took Mallory three hours to unpack everything. She couldn't believe that here she was living with Haruka and Michelle. So Mallory went downstairs to get something to eat, but only to find them on the couch cuddling.
"Michelle is there any good food?" Mallory asked. She knew better then to ask Haruka.
"There should be animal crackers….if Hotaru didn't eat them all."
"Ok."
Mallory went to the kitchen and went through the cabinets looking for the animal crackers. She found them in the pantry and then went back to the living room.
"When are you going to tell everyone else that your back?" Michelle asked.
"I dunno. I mean I don't wanna be bombarded with questions and I definitely don't want to see Serena cry."
"Yeah, good point." Haruka said.
Mallory sat down in the recliner and started eating her crackers. She honestly was happy that it was quiet, because she didn't really know what to say.
"You do know that Serena and Darien broke up, right?" Michelle asked.
"Nope, but I guess that was a given. I mean I didn't think that she would be with him much longer because before I left, he was avoiding her."
"Yeah he was doing that." Michelle sighed, "Well I think that he's happier with Lita."
"Really? I just can't picture him and Lita together." Mallory said not wanting to picture her with him.
"I think it's a little weird, but then again, Mina knew." Michelle said.
"Well, duh, Mina knew. She makes it her business to know." Mallory said.
"Especially since you can't do anything without the Goddess of Love knowing about it. It sucks."
"Yeah, I guess..." Mallory trailed off. She sat there for a couple of minutes, Mallory said, "Can one of you give me a ride into town?"
"Why?" Haruka asked, which annoyed her because that meant cuddling with her love was over.
"Because Haruka I wanna go."
"Fine. I have to go shopping anyway. Maybe Michelle will want to go with me."
Michelle sweetly smiled, "Of course I want to go. Otherwise Haruka will get the wrong thing."
The three of them laughed before getting up to leave the house. It was a nice drive into town filled with laughter. Haruka dropped Mallory off at the parlor.
"Mallory are you going in?"
Mallory turned around to realize that they were still at the curb. "I guess." Mallory said as she got out of the car.
Haruka waited until she was about half way to the door before calling out, "Have fun!"
Mallory turned around and stopped to say, "Whatever Ruka. I'll call you if I need a ride back."
"Ok. Bye."
Mallory watched them drive away. Then she turned around and stood there in front of the building. She didn't know what to do. After standing there for a couple of minutes, she decided to go in.
"Hey Andrew, do you know where Mina is?" Mallory asked as she sat down at the counter.
"How do you know Mina?" Andrew angrily said.
"You know what?" Mallory asked.
"No." Andrew said.
"You're really hanging out too much with Mina. It hurts that you don't recognize me." Mallory said.
"Ok, bu-"
"I'm Mallory." She said cutting him off.
"No way," Andrew trailed off not being about to believe it.
"Yeah, go on tell me I'm different."
Andrew could not believe that Mallory was back, "But you are."
"So," Mallory asked, "What's new?"
"A lot, let me guess you want chocolate hot fudge sundae?"
"Yep, I do." She could not believe that he remembered what she ordered after so long.
"Well, for starters, I married Mina." Andrew happily said.
"That's great." Mallory paused. "What about Lita and Darien? Michelle told me that they were dating."
"Yeah they are," Andrew said as he handed her the sundae, "whether they want to admit it or not."
"I doubt I would want to admit it. I mea-"
"Does everyone know that you're here?" Andrew asked as he cut her off.
"Nope." Mallory stated before she took a bite of her sundae. "Still as good as I remember it."
"Thanks." Andrew was happy that she enjoyed the sundae. There was so much he wanted to know, but decided on a simple question. "When are you going to tell everyone?"
"Later."
"Oh."
Mallory watched as Andrew went to go help another customer. She enjoyed the quiet, but then again she always enjoyed the parlor. When she was done, she took her bowl to the kitchen and put her money in the register.
"What are you doing?" Andrew asked.
"I guess you don't forget you first favorite job." Mallory said smiling.
Andrew smiled at that. He wished that she would just say she wanted her job back since the high school kids he hired were doing such a horrible job; however, he knew that would not be what she wanted. "Where are you going now?"
"I don't know. I figured I would go by Rei's."
"Alright. Have fun." Andrew said knowing that she would need it.
Mallory left the parlor and walked to the temple. On her way there she remembered about Lita. "I can't see her again. Not now…" Mallory thought knowing that it would be way to hard.
Mallory got the temple she stood at the bottom of the stairs for a few moments. She knew that she would need all the courage she could get. Once she started to climb the steps, it dawned on her half way who else could possibly be here. Mallory kept going even though she was scared out of her mind. As soon as she reached the top, she went in search of Rei.
"Can I help you?" Chad asked when he saw her top the stairs.
"Well, that depends," Mallory took a deep breath before saying, "is Rei home or not? Because if she isn't then I'm screwed."
"She should be in her room with the girls." Chad stated not really caring who he was talking to.
"Thanks." Mallory said as she walked towards Rei's room.
Mallory was scared to death about this. She had expected there to be one or two of them here, but Chad made it sound like all of them were here. Mallory did not want to see everyone so soon. She really didn't want to face Serena since that meant that she would have to tell her the real reason why she was kicked out. The young woman kept walking until she finally reached Rei's door. Mallory was about to knock when Lita opened the door.
"Mallory?" Lita asked as she hugged her. "What are you doing here?" Lita asked as she was hugging her.
"I came back home. I'm staying at Ruka's." Mallory said not knowing what to do.
"Cool." Lita said.
Lita dragged Mallory into the room and everyone just stared. They didn't know what to do or say, since Mallory now looked completely different.
"Lita, you're joking. That's not Mallory." Rei said.
"Yes it is. I saw her at the airport, but I didn't say anything."
"Wait a minute," Mallory was upset because if Lita saw her at the airport then why did the taller girl not say anything, "you were at the airport and saw me, but didn't say anything."
"I was waiting for Darien to get back." Lita said with a smile on her face.
That was the moment when she realized that she had made a huge mistake in coming back home. When she finally got a chance to look around the room, she saw Serena, Ami, Mina, and Rei.
"I can't believe that you guys don't recognize me." Mallory said.
"How could we recognize you, anyway?"
"Yeah, well five years will do that to you Serena." Mallory said as she sat down in between Lita and Rei.
"Then why did you leave? Mom said that you left without warning." Serena worriedly said.
"I know what she said." Mallory said.
"Then why did you leave?" Ami asked.
"Did you not think that it wouldn't hurt us?" Mina asked. Mallory couldn't believe that Mina would be mad at her.
"Do you know how many days were spent crying over you?" Rei asked.
Mallory was on the verge of tears that she was not going to let fall. All she had to do was come up with an explanation, but there was no way to explain anything.
"Don't you have something to say Lita? Everyone else did!" Mallory said because she knew full well that Lita did.
"Why would I?" Lita asked.
"Oh I don't know. I thought that maybe, just maybe, you figured out why I left." Mallory stated.
"Tell us. We deserve to know. Your own sister deserves to know." Rei said.
"Fine…you wanna know." Mallory said.
"Yes…" Rei said and the others nodded their heads.
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