Sailor Moon (TWISHB)

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon... If I did, I wouldn't be posting my work up on fanfiction for free.

Hey guys! This is my first chapter in my Sailor Moon: The Way it Should Have Been series. Basically the idea of this was to rewrite Sailor Moon (yes I know, a daunting task), but to make it more reader friendly, if you will. In other words, I'm adding stuff in there that wasn't there originally (mostly a more involved Mamoru/Usagi relationship) because that's how I want it :P! And of course I'm cutting out all of the pointless fillers, because those were really annoying. Yeah... so this is the first chapter. Read, enjoy, and review!


Chapter 1: Usagi's Transformation

"Usagi!" the girl's mother had been calling her down for half an hour already. It was past eight and Ikuko knew that there was no way her daughter was going to make it to school on time. She sat down at the kitchen table with a sigh, 'If only Usagi could learn to be more responsible,' she thought.

"mmmm... yes... did you say chocolate?" Tsukino Usagi rolled around on her double bed dreaming about... well, food of course! As she continued to trash about she became entangled in her sheets and found herself falling. "ooowwww," whined the fourteen year old, rubbing her sore bum as she got up from the floor. She quickly threw her blanket back on her bed, and scrambled to find her school uniform in her closet. Finally finding the notorious costume, and getting dressed, Usagi glanced in the mirror to make sure that she was fit to go out in public. She didn't really care that much about her appearance, there were more important things in life... like food, but it did help to make sure that she hadn't put her skirt on backwards. Looking in the mirror Usagi saw a small, slim girl, with knee length golden hair, held in a most unusual style. Ever since she was little Usagi had always styled her hair the same way: two small buns on either side of her head which transitioned into two hanging pig tails that dangled down to almost the floor. As she was glancing in the mirror, Usagi also happened to notice the digital clock on her bedside table; it read 8:20, in flashing red lights. 'Oh no!' she thought, 'I am going to be so late!' Ever since she could remember, Usagi had hated the flashing red of her alarm clock; it always seemed to remind her of something that she was late for. 'Couldn't it tell me that I'm on time for once!' she thought as she ran down the stairs.

For the kitchen Ikuko could finally hear her daughter's footsteps – more like thumps – as she hurried down the stairs. "Mom!" screamed the klutzy teen as she almost fell near the bottom of the stairs, "Why didn't you wake me up earlier!"

Ikuko sighed, "I did honey, about an hour ago." Usagi bolted past her mother, giving her a light kiss on the cheek, picking up her bag and putting her shoes on. She was about to leave when her mother called her "Usagi, don't forget your lunch."

"Thanks mom," she said as she flew past her, grabbing her lunch and bolting out the door.

Usagi was running at full speed as she left her house, but she soon began to slow down, knowing that there was no way she would be able to make it in time. As she walked past a parking lot she noticed a group of children amid the stationary vehicles. They were huddled in a circle and it appeared as if there was something in the middle. I looked like... a cat? As she began to pay more attention she noticed that the children were throwing stones and odd bits garbage at the poor animal, and she decided to teach them a lesson. 'If there's one thing I hate more than anything, its people being mean to animals,' she though as she made her way towards the group of boys. As a matter of fact Usagi really hated when people were mean to anyone. She didn't see the point in making someone else feel bad so that you could feel good. There were other ways of feeling better about yourself... like food.

"Heh, you're such a weird cat," sneered one of the boys.

"Hey," called Usagi as she neared the group, "leave that cat alone." "Oh man, we'd better get going, someone is coming." With that the boys ran off leaving the cat in the middle of the parking lot. 'Oh you poor thing,' though Usagi as she neared the little black cat. "Did those mean boys hurt you?" she asked in a soft voice. "Hey," she said looking more closely at the animal, "What's this on your forehead?" Usagi had not noticed as she was coming up to the cat, but on her forehead were two band aids taped down in a small X. "Did those kids put this on you?" she asked the cat as she reached down to pull them off, surprisingly the cat stayed very still. The moment Usagi had removed the band aids though, the cat leapt into the air with a startling yowl. Sufficiently shocking Usagi, she jumped up onto a nearby wall and sauntered off.

'Well that was rude,' thought Usagi, 'I even stopped to helped her, even though I'm...' "OH NO, I'M LATE FOR SCHOOL!" With the sudden revelation, Usagi spun in the opposite direction and ran full speed towards the dreaded institution.


'No fair,' thought Usagi as she stood outside the classroom, 'I'm always late for class. Why is today the one day that Haruna-sensei decides to make me wait outside." Usagi sat outside pouting when her stomach gave a loud growl. 'Right,' she remembered, 'I didn't even eat breakfast thing morning.' Thinking back to her stomach, Usagi realized that now was the perfect time to eat her lunch. She pulled out the bento that her mom had specially made for her and began to gobble down the food. Just as she was in the middle of her rice massacre, Haruna-sensei walked into the hall holding a piece of paper in her hand. The paper had once been white but was now covered in so much red that it was completely unrecognisable. In the middle of the now red paper could clearly be seen a large 30.

"It's because of stuff like this that you do so bad on your tests!" She yelled, referring to Usagi's eating binge. She threw the paper at the preoccupied girl and slammed the door of the classroom shut.


"Hey, Usagi, how did the test go?" The lunch bell had rung and Umino and Naru were coming out of the class room. Usagi was still dazed over her test mark, not only that but she also had no lunch to eat!

"Oh my God Usagi, I can't believe you! How can you, a girl, have eaten your lunch so early!" Usagi only continued to pout at her best friend Naru.

"I didn't really study for this one," complained Umino as he held up his test which sported a 95.

"You really are an obnoxious guy," complained Naru as she glared at Umino, "I can't believe I got beat by you." Naru glanced back at her test which she had received an 85 on.

'Wow,' thought Usagi looking over at Naru's test, 'Naru is so pretty and smart, I wish I could have gotten a higher mark. My mom is going to kill me!'

"Hey guys," called Maki as she came over to the group, "Did you hear that another jewellery store in the city got hit? It's been happening so often lately." Usagi thought about the remark and then about Naru, and remembered that her mother owned a Jewellery story.

'It must be scary for her,' though Usagi, 'having a jewellery store, what with all of the recent burglaries.'

"But 'Sailor V' got the criminals!" Umino interrupted the conversation.

"What's that?" asked Usagi as she heard mention of her favourite superhero, the crime fighting sailor of justice.

"She's famous, actually they say she's an officer for the police's special investigations headquarters." Usagi already knew all about the famous sailor suit wearing crime fighter. Every day after school she would go to the Crown arcade and play the Sailor V video game for hours on end. She could almost finish the entire game! But the last boss always gave her trouble.

"Hey Naru-chan," questioned Maki, "You live in a jewellery store don't you?"

"Yeah, I do," answered Naru, "Acctually, since yesterday there has been a huge sale; there's even some stuff there that we can afford! Did you guys want to stop by after school?"

There was no need for the question because the answer was unanimous: "YES!"


"The one in the middle is called the pigeon's blood ruby, and it's worth ten million yen," Naru informed the girls as they were standing outside the shop. Usagi and Maki had their noses pressed up to the glass and were practically drooling at all of the beautiful jewellery. "The one next to it is a yellow diamond. Unfortunately these can't be discounted." The store windows were plastered with signs reading '50 off' or 'Sale!' and the store was filled with women crowding around the displays, grabbing this and that, all before it was sold out.

"Ah, Naru-chan, welcome home," Naru's mom waved at the group of girls as they walked into the store, "You came with your friends?" Naru's mother was running around the store trying to help all of the customers at once. "Come in, Come in, and look at merchandise!" she ushered then through the door, "Naru-chan's friends get a special deal." The girls walked into the store dazzled by the jewels.

"Up until now, we've never had a sale," commented Naru, "I guess my mom has finally opened her eyes to the world of business."

As the girls crowded around the packed display cases Naru's mother stood near the back of the store laughing softly to herself. 'Give me more and more of your youthful energy,' she thought, 'I must collect more.'

Usagi kept her distance from the mob of women. She saw many nice things in the store, but she knew that with a thirty on her test, there was no way she was going to be getting any of it. Reluctantly she said goodbye to Naru and walked out of the store. She glared menacingly at her test, and resentfully crumpled it up into a ball in her hand and threw it over her shoulder, hoping that it would somehow disappear out of her life.

"That hurt lump head," said a voice from somewhere behind Usagi, "Are you trying to give me lumps too?" Usagi whipped around to face the voice and was greeted with a handsome face. The man that stood before her was at least six feet tall, with black hair and a gorgeous face. He was Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome himself!

'He may be handsome, but he called me lump head,' though Usagi, 'I don't care how he looks, this guy is a jerk.' "These aren't lumps!" Usagi yelled at the stranger, trying to defend her unique hair style, "They're called ODANGOU1!" As she was fruitlessly trying to defend herself, the man had uncrumpled Usagi's test and was now looking at it with amusement.

"Thirty points? I think you should go study odango atama1," he laughed as he threw the paper back at her and walked away.

"Mind your own freaking business!" yelled Usagi at his turned back. Who was this man, that he could openly mock her? She didn't even know him for peats sake. 'What a jerk,' she thought, 'my day just went from bad to worse.' She turned to walk away, but glanced back one more time at her new nemesis. She noticed that he was dressed in a tuxedo, and currently standing in front of Naru's mom's shop. 'What the heck?' she thought, 'who wears a tuxedo in the middle of the day?' With the conclusion that the stranger she had run into was officially insane and a jerk at that, Usagi began to walk home.

'This may not be a huge jewellery store,' though the tuxedo clad man, 'but maybe it's here, the maboroshi no ginzuishou2'


'I can't go home with this test,' thought Usagi as she walked past the Crown arcade. She noticed the poster for the Sailor V action game calling her through the window. 'It must be nice being Sailor V,' 

she thought, 'she probably doesn't have to study; all she does is get the bad guys.' Usagi tried to resist, she had almost passed the arcade, but the thought of the Sailor V game was too tempting to pass up. 'I think I'll just stop in for a bit,' she though as she passed through the doors and seated herself in front of the well known console.


She had been playing the game for a while, and was again at the final boss, finding him impossible to beat. " Ehhh! He can't be beaten, this stupid little guy!" she thought out loud.

"Hey Usagi-chan, you're still in your uniform," called Motoki, the part-time worker at the arcade. Usagi couldn't help but swoon at the sight of him. He was really kind and not to mention gorgeous! Usagi had been keeping her eye on him for quite some time. Motoki had now moved to stand directly behind her and was yelling out directions as she tried desperately to defeat the boss. "Now! Get'em! Too slow... Finish them off!" Usagi's heart began to beat faster as he stood behind her. She could feel the heat of his body, and it completely threw off her concentration. She was revelling in their closeness when she heard a familiar sound from behind her.

"Nyyaaa" she turned around to face the source of the sound and noticed that it was the little black kitten from this morning.

"Hey there," she said to the cat as it continued to stare up at her.

"This cat has been wandering around here for the past two or three days," commented Motoki. Usagi had always been a dedicated patron of the Crown arcade, but she had never seen the cat before this morning.

"Look," she said pointing down at the cat, "there's a crescent moon bald spot on it's forehead." Usagi noticed now that the cat's eyes had never left her. She contemplated having a staring contest with the curious animal, but it was really starting to creep her out. "I'm going to go home now," she said to Motoki, glancing nervously down at the cat and noticing that it was still staring at her.


"I'm home," Usagi called to her mom as she walked through the door.

"Usagi, you're late," her mom informed her, "I ran into Umino-kun earlier and he told me that he got a 95 on the test." Usagi knew exactly what was coming after this, and she silently cursed Umino for his high test scores and big mouth. "So," began Usagi's mom, "What did you get on yours?" Usagi reluctantly pulled the crumpled sheet of paper from her bag. Looking at it reminded her of the handsome, yet strange man she had seen earlier that day.

'Why I am I think of him at a time like thing,' she thought, 'I should be more worried about how mom is going the react to my test.' She slowly stretched out her hand and gave the test to her mother. 

She could see as her mother's hand began to shake with rage as she stared at the ominous red "30" written on the page. "

USAGI!! With scores like these don't even bother coming home!"


Usagi had been sitting outside on the front porch for fifteen minutes already. Her mom must have been really angry as she had never left her outside for this long. She could see her brother Shingo coming up the driveway. "What did you do this time, stupid Usage," he commented as he reached her, "Did she lock you out again? I want a smarter older sister." He stuck his tongue out at her and ran back into the house before she could react.

'Grrr, that Shingo makes me so angry,' she thought. At that moment, Usagi's stomach growled and she realized that she hadn't eaten since her early lunch. "MOM!! Let me in, I'm starving!" she cried, banging on the door.

Inside the house Usagi's mom was growing angrier by the minute with all of the noise that her daughter was making. "You'd better let her in," said Shingo, "Or she'll annoy the neighbours."

With that logic in mind, Ikuko finally caved and opened the door, "Alright, come in."


Near the "Jewellery OSA-P" – the jewellery store owned by Naru's mom – a man stood, dressed completely in a black tuxedo; a mask covering his face. He took a step towards the store.


"Selling these energy absorbing jewels was a good idea," cackled Naru's mother, "I've collected a ton of energy." She began to stuff the remaining jewels into her purse, "But it seems that the important one is not here."

Naru silently opened the door. She had heard something moving downstairs and was afraid that there was a burglar. She looked inside and, to her relief, saw her mother. "Mama," she said with a sigh that turned into a gasp as her mother turned around with an evil look. This was no longer Naru's mother, this was a youkai3.


"I'm tired of crying," complained Usagi as she sat on her bed, "Mama didn't have to be so mean." She picked up her math text book and glared at it, willing the homework to do itself. Finally, after no success, she gave up. "Uggh, I don't want to do homework." With a yawn, she lay back down on her bed. "I think I'll take a little nap," she sighed as she closed her eyes.

"piko,piko" Am I dreaming that I'm in a game? "piko, piko" Oh! That's me! I'm Sailor V! Oh no! A giant alligator! Slash Ha! I got him. Look, I rescued Motoki, and that cute kitty too. The kitty with the crescent moon bald spot...

Scratch, scratch "nyaa!" "AHHH!" Usagi awoke from her dream to the sound of meowing and a scratch on her forehead. "Owwwie! What the heck!" Usagi looked down at the black cat that was sitting on her bed, it was the same one she had saved in the parking lot that morning.

"Well excuse me; it's not a bald spot." Usagi stared incredulously at the animal before her. Did this cat just speak? She stared at it. 'It's impossible.' "Ahem," the cat spoke again, "I'm Luna, and I have been searching for you Usagi-chan." Usagi was too shocked for words, she just simply stood there. "You helped me when you took off the bandage," the cat – no, Luna – continued to speak, "With it on I couldn't talk, and my detection ability was weak." When Usagi said nothing to this new information, Luna continued. "The kids here are evil brats. They play the worst pranks. I was lucky to have met you. Before I saw you, I had no idea what to do."

Usagi had finally had enough of this nonsense. "Goodnight," she turned around and flopped back on her bed closing her eyes shut. 'This is a dream, this is a dream,' she repeated as a sort of mantra.

"This is not a dream!" cried Luna, trying to wake the girl from her slumber, but she refused to budge. "Alright, alright, open your eyes," Luna commanded, "I have a present for you."

'Present,' thought Usagi, 'she said she has a present for me, and it's just a dream right? What could it hurt?' With that thought in mind she cautiously got up and turned towards Luna. There sitting on the bed beside Luna was a beautiful broach studded with crystals and pearls. In the center was a star surrounding a red gem, and the outer rim of the circular accessory was a crescent moon. "Wow, this is beautiful," said Usagi as she reached for the broach. She picked it up and looked it over. 'This is really vivid for a dream,' she thought. "Can I really have this," she asked Luna as she began to pin it to her uniform. 'Of course you can,' she answered the question for herself, 'this is your dream; you can do whatever you want.'

"Usagi-chan, listen to me," Luna tried desperately to get her attention, "strange things have been happening in Tokyo; things that even the police can't handle." Usagi paid no attention to Luna's desperate pleas and continued to admire the broach in the mirror. "You know Usagi-chan, you are the chosen senshi4." "You have an important mission," Luna continued, hoping to knock some sense into the girl, "you have to find your comrades and defeat the enemy!" Usagi was paining absolutely no attention, but Luna continued on to the most important part of Usagi's so called 'mission'. "You must also search for our princess and ..."

"Luna," Usagi shouted out in surprise, "the broach is glowing!" Luna realised now that the only way to get through to the girl was to show her what she was capable of.

"Now," cried Luna, "shout 'moon prism power make up!'"

Usagi could feel the energy surging through her and she let the words flow from her mouth, "MOON PRISM POWER MAKE UP!" Suddenly Usagi was surrounded by a bright light. She felt a familiar feeling sweep over her body, but she could not for the life of her remember where she had felt it before. When the light subsided, Usagi was shocked to see herself transformed.

'What in the world is this?' thought Usagi as she looked in the mirror. She was now dressed in an outfit very similar to her school uniform, but with a much shorter skirt. She also had on gloves, and boots with a crescent moon on them. Around her neck was a red choker, again with a small crescent moon in the middle, and to match her necklace, she had dangling crescent moon earrings. On her forehead was a golden tiara with a red jewel in the middle and she had two, wing shaped berets on either side of her head. Also in her hair were two, what appeared to be, red disks located in each of her buns, which were currently flashing. All of a sudden Usagi's vision went blurry and she saw Naru being attacked. "Help, my mom..." cried out the Molly in Usagi's head. As her vision began to clear, Usagi could hear Luna talking to her.

"Do you believe me yet?" the cat asked her.

"Look, I don't get any of this," Usagi replied, still confused as ever, "but Naru-chan is in trouble!"


"I'm not your mother, little girl," the youkai choked Naru with her decrepit hands, "your mother is tied up in the basement." Naru's face distorted into a look of pain and terror, but she could only manage a soft gurgle, as the monster continued to choke her. From the shadows, a man in a tuxedo watched the scene unfold.

"You ugly witch," cried Usagi as she burst through the door, "get your hands off Naru-chan right now!" The man in the shadows moved back into the darkness as he heard the girl enter.

"And who are you?" asked the youkai mockingly.

"Me?" Usagi asked herself. 'Who am I anyway?' she thought, but in the blink of an eye it came to her. "I am a champion of justice, and a defender against evil," she soliloquized, "I am Sailor Moon." She had no idea where the name had come from; it felt as if she had known it all along.

"Sailor Moon? I've never heard of anything named Sailor Moon," the monster scoffed, "All you slaves—Wake up! You have given your energy to the omnipotent!" With those words, all of the women who had purchased jewellery found themselves under the control of the monster. Influenced by her power they awoke from their sleep and made their way to the jewellery store, intent on killing the meddling girl: Sailor Moon. "Get ready to die," the monster threatened as the flood of women began to surround Usagi.

One of the women pushed forward and attempted to grab the girl, but Usagi jumped out of the way and landed hard on her knees on the other side of the store. "Owww," she cried as she noticed her wounded knee. 'You mean this isn't a dream?' she questioned, already knowing the answer. Usagi sat in 

the corner looking around her in despair, "I don't understand," she muttered, "why does it have to be me?"

"Usagi," cried Luna, at the girl's snivelling, "what are you doing?" "You've got to beat her!" Luna ushered the distraught warrior, "get up and fight!" Usagi stared at Luna as if she'd just told her to give up chocolate all together.

"Are you insane!" she screeched, "There is no way I can do this!"

As Usagi continued to cry in distress, the red disks in her hair began to flash, and let off a loud noise. Usagi looked on in shock as windows began to break, and more importantly, the youkai began to scream in distress. "Don't cry Sailor Moon," the tuxedo clad man from the shadows came into view in support of the girl, "now's your chance." Usagi turned around at the sound of the voice, but the shrieking of the youkai grabbed her attention.

"Ah," she screamed as she held her head in pain, "those shrieks!"

"What do I do?" asked Usagi, finally realizing that this was her opportunity for action.

"Take your tiara," directed Luna "and throw it saying: 'moon tiara action'." Just as before, Usagi could feel the all too familiar power pulsing through her.

'Why does this seem so right?' she questioned. Pulling of her tiara, she said the words as if she had been saying them her whole life, "MOON TIARA ACTION!"

"AAHHHG" screamed the youkai as the bright stream of light made its way straight towards her. As the light hit her distorted body she began to crumble and turned into a pile of ashes on the floor.

'I can't believe I did that,' thought Usagi as she looked upon the pile of ashes on the floor.

"Well, I didn't find the maboroshi no ginzuishou here but I did enjoy the show," said the masked man as he exited from the shadows, "my name is Tuxedo Kamen5, and I won't forget you... Sailor Moon" With that, the man leapt high into the air and exited though an open window.

'That voice,' thought Usagi watching the stranger as he disappeared, 'where have I heard it before?'

"You did it Usagi!" Luna exclaimed in joy. She had had her doubts about the girl, but this had defiantly proved her worth. "So do you see what's going on?" the cat asked, looking at the scene front of her, "that witch transformed into Naru-chan's mom; the enemy must have a new strategy." Luna looked behind her to see what her new partners view on this development was, but her new partner was staring off into the distance with hearts in her eyes. 'Usagi,' Luna sighed, 'are you really meant to be the leader of the senshi?'

The women in the store, including Naru began to awake from their daze. 'ahh' thought Usagi, 'what a lovely dream, and I met a gorgeous guy!' Luna looked at the stunned women around her and began to shake Usagi.

"Come on Usagi, we're going home."

Meanwhile, in a dimension far away, a man floated in darkness. He had watched the story as it unfolded in a dark globe of swirling energy. "Not a bad showing at all," he commented, "Sailor Moon." "Looks like I must hurry up," he smiled menacingly, "The maboroshi no ginzuishou has become indispensible."


"And then, right when I was about to be attacked, Sailor V's partner saved me!" Naru narrated her story of the night before to her friends in the school yard. "If I hadn't passed out, then I would have seen her face."

Maki sighed looking at Naru with an annoyed expression, "face it Naru-chan, you were dreaming."

Usagi stood behind a wall listening to the conversation as realization began to hit her. She glanced down at her broach, 'it wasn't a dream.'


1 so Odango is a Japanese desert that looks like balls, and Atama means head, so I guess you could say he's calling her ball head, but it sounds so much better when you say meatball head :D

2 the maboroshi no ginzuishou is the silver crystal

3 a youkai is a demon

4 Senshi is Japanese for solider or warrior

5Kamen means mask, so Tuxedo Kamen means Tuxedo Mask (no matter what language you translate his name into, it's still really lame)

If there is anything else that you guys didn't understand, just leave a review and I'll try to answer it in the next chapter. Also, I wanted some input as to how I should continue the story. So far I have been using episode summaries and the manga as a reference, and I think I'm going to do that for the rest of the story, but I was wondering as to how I should approach Mamoru's character. In both the manga and the anime, he isn't really mentioned all too much, but I was thinking since this is a part of the The Way it Should Have Been series, I might as well write about him more in depth (by this I mean veering off from both the anime and manga and creating scenes with just him). In the end, I think I'll probably do that, but if you guys have any opinions, feel free to review.