I Hate You
By: SailorKittyMoon
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor moon
Chapter 1
Summary: Usagi has just arrived from Japan and is on her first day at school. She befriends the girls and is finally beginning to enjoy herself. But I guess some things aren't meant to last, meet Raye's boyfriend, Darien and its hate at first sight between him and Usagi!
Usagi tried to ignore all the heated glares she was receiving from everyone in the corridors. It wasn't really her fault she kept on bumping into people, she did try to avoid it but clumsiness came naturally with her as did the unnatural urge to punch the face of anyone who shoved her around on purpose.
"Watch it, weirdo!" she heard a deep voice rumble from above her.
She gulped, gathered herself together then decided to look up, "Umm … I'm really sorry, I wasn't really looking where I was going," she said apologetically, 'Great, it's only my first day and I've already acquired a nickname.'
"Not surprised," he muttered under his breath.
Usagi glared at him, 'What a creep,' she thought as she took in his appearance. He was a tall guy, with midnight blue orbs for eyes and dark, lush ebony hair; dressed in beige combats and a tight, white fitness top which did nothing to avoid the display of possibly hours of training in the gym. Sure, he was cute, but he seriously lacked in the manners department.
Just then a raven haired girl appeared from behind him, "Sorry," she said, "my boyfriend has a weird habit of being rude to anyone he doesn't know." She gave him an accusing look. "Even to old people," she added with another teasing glance.
He grinned at her lazily before slipping an arm around her waist, "Hello to you too, babe."
"The perfect picture of innocence, I don't think so."
"Come on, babe. It was a time of desperateness, but I thought we were well past that episode, its history!" he said giving his girlfriend a lazy smirk.
"Smart-ass!"
Usagi grinned stupidly by their side, what else she could do anyhow. Not knowing either of them she couldn't exactly butt in and say what she really wanted to say like, 'It was not so pleasant meeting you, now if you'll excuse me, I'll be on my way.'
"Sorry about this, I'm Raye by the way. You new here?"
"Yeah, I'm Usagi."
"Well, nice to meet you, this is my boyfriend Darien."
Usagi sighed, noticing a not-so-subtle possessive hint in Raye's voice.
'Wish I could say the same about the jerk, but unfortunately I can't,' Usagi thought as she smiled at Raye.
"So which class you in?"
"Err … I'm not really sure to tell you the truth. I was looking for reception to be honest."
"Here, why don't I show you?" she looked at her watch, "Well, then again I can't. Sorry, I'm late for practice. Darien, sweetheart could you please take her?"
All this time Darien had been trying to wait patiently for his girlfriend to finish talking with this … 'girl' so that they could get a move on. But no, the damned girl had to be so polite! Although he did like that bit about her, he was still getting frustrated.
"Why me, ask one of your other friends, I'm outta here!"
He was about to make a run for it when out of nowhere Raye turned glassy eyes on him, and then looked way. "Sweetheart, why me?" he repeated in a feeble attempt to gain his girlfriend's sympathy, "I'm gonna get late as well you know."
"So you're more bothered about getting late than for doing what your girlfriend wants you to do?"
"Why do you always have to do this?" he gave a huff, and then turned towards Usagi, "Come on," he muttered.
"Aww, thanks love, I promise I'll pay you back for it!" she said hurriedly.
"You better do how about we start with the payment right now?" he murmured suggestively moving closer to her lips.
Raye gave him a quick kiss, "I'm late right now, but next time no excuses. 'K?"
"Yeah, whatever," he muttered.
By now, Usagi was drowning herself in self-pity, just her luck; she gets stuck with the biggest jerk known to humanity.
Darien headed towards the left corridor, Usagi right behind.
"Could you slow down please? I know you've got long legs and everything but, I'm not like you so I'm getting kinda tired."
"I haven't got time for this. Just keep running and try to keep up".
Once again Usagi glared at him, 'I hate you!'
"Yeah, it was wicked wasn't it? Especially when he got kicked in the face and all that blood came out!"
"Yeah man, and then he just pounced, like a cheetah, man!"
Usagi shifted on to her other foot. She had been standing here for the last 10 minutes listening to these saddos talking about wrestling. Apparently Darien had 'run' into one of his friends, namely Andrew.
'Why am I waiting here anyway?' she asked herself.
'Duh! You don't know where else to go,' she answered her own query.
She suddenly gave a frustrated sigh. 'Oh I give up, I hate this school, I hate the people here and I most definitely hate Darien.'
Well, ok I used to be a lazy cow in Japan; I couldn't get up early in the morning, I haven't changed. I used to be really clumsy; can anyone notice any difference? No! So why the hell come to America? Nothings changed. I'm still the person I used to be.'
"Trust me; it'll be a great improvement for you. You can make new friends and you can improve your habits."
That was what her mom had said to her when they were coming here. Why couldn't she just let her be? Usagi loved her friends in Japan, her school, even her teachers, her home and most of all her own country. She missed everything about it: the food, the language, the people, and the places she could go to, everything!
Just then she felt her eyes sting. She knew that if she didn't get out of here soon she'd end up crying right in front of these guys. And right now, she wasn't in any mood of giving Darien a chance to tease her more. He'd teased her about her hair, her eyes, her height, her fitness and anything he didn't like. She seriously did hate him and she was eager to get as far away from him as possible. The office would help right now. Her feelings of sympathy for herself had died away as soon as she remembered the jerk standing in front of her. She stuck up her middle finger behind his back and then decided to find her own way around.
Finally, she'd found it and all on her own. Of course it had taken a bit of time but she'd been able to retrace her path after she'd remembered walking past a certain classroom more than 10 times. She'd also found out what class she was in now. Thankfully it wasn't far from the office so she didn't have to get lost more than once.
As she reached the door to the class, she slowly slid the handle round. She could hear lots of chatter coming from the inside, which included an oddly familiar voice.
As she stepped in, the room went deathly silent. Usagi slightly tripped on a wayward pencil as she made her way to the teacher's desk. She reddened slightly but continued forward nonetheless. She handed her new form tutor the note, which she had been told to give to him.
He quickly scanned the note then turned back to Usagi; he studied her for a while before turning back to the class.
"Class, we have a new member joining our class today. Her name's Usagi Tsukino and she's from Japan. I'm Mr Ted by the way. Now can I have a volunteer please to help her find her way around school?"
A small hand slowly rose up into the air.
"Thank you Amy. I'm sure you'll be of great help to Miss Tsukino. Now class settle down and I'll take the register. Usagi, could you please go and sit on the table that's on Amy's right. Ok, Brian?"
"Present."
"Kim?"
"Present."
"Bruce?"
"Here!"
The registration continued, and Usagi decided to make small talk with Amy. They started by asking a few questions about each other. Amy was a top grade student at the school, and she lived with her mom who was a nurse. Usagi explained how she came about to live in America and about her family. They had a laugh over her brother, Shingo, and Amy started telling her a bit about every person in the class.
"Amy?"
"Present."
"Darien?"
"Hey, Sir!"
Usagi paled. Oh no, she thought, not him! Please God let it be someone else. Please! She slowly turned around in her chair to look towards the back of the class. She groaned inwardly, why me!
"He's cute, isn't he?" Amy asked Usagi.
"What? Who? Where?"
"Darien, I mean."
"Yeah, whatever."
"You don't like him?"
"Why would I?"
"Well, two reasons actually. Firstly he's really nice-looking, although he's going out with Raye, and secondly you've been staring at him for the last 5 minutes, so I assumed you might be interested."
"Well you assumed wrong, Miss Brain-box. 'Cause from my point of view, he doesn't deserve anyone, especially someone like Raye, although she does seem to lack in the taste department. I mean look at him, anyone would think he's the high school jerk," she paused dramatically, "Which he probably is!"
"Well, he's not the 'high school jerk' as you would put it, in fact he's the 'high school heart throb' and he's only flirting with those girls for fun."
"Wouldn't Raye mind?"
"No, not really. She knows it means nothing. Besides she trusts him a lot, anyhow."
"How'd you know that?"
"Well, she is one of my best friends".
"Raye's your friend!"
"Yeah."
Usagi blushed a deep crimson. Oh oh!
"Umm … I didn't really mean what I said before. I mean I don't think she's got bad taste, if you like guys like … 'him'. Honestly!"
Amy gave a silent laugh. "Don't worry, your secret's safe with me."
Usagi gave a thankful smile.
"Thanks!"
"So do you wanna go and meet the gang at break?"
"I'm not really sure. I mean it's kind of embarrassing. What if they don't like me?"
"I'm sure they will. And we're not really a big group. Just the four of us, there's me, Mina, Raye and Lita."
"That sounds really nice. Are you sure they wouldn't mind?"
"I'm positive! Now come on; the first bell's about to go."