Pick Me Up Again?

Serena Tsukino was suffering from a broken heart. Just as she begins to pick up the pieces, her world comes crashing down as she witnesses the brutal murder of her family. With nowhere to turn, she runs into the arms of longtime childhood tormenter turned friend, Darien Shields. Will Darien help mend the heart of a damaged young girl?

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Be nice to me this is my first fanfic ^^ I am really excited to be writing this and I am not one of those authors that will give up partway through their story! My plan is to have a good portion of this done before I even post the first chapter. So lucky for you, you can expect some frequent updates! And yes I am aware that I am mixing up the story. My story is very loosely based on Sailor Moon, I mostly just took the characters names and personalities. I promise you will like it! And reviews will make me happy! Even the bad ones!

DISCLAIMER: It's pretty obvious, I do not own the characters. Or anything about Sailor moon. The characters you have never heard of are mine, I don't care if anyone wants to use them. I am just purely writing this for fun!

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Chapter One: The Hearbreak

15 year old Serena Tsukino was every girls envy and every mans dream. She had it all, riches, great friends, the perfect boyfriend, and she was breathtakingly beautiful. For someone so young, she already seemed have her life perfectly put together.

"MOOOOOMMMMM!!!! Have you seen my uniform?" Serenas frantic cry hurled down the stairs and her mother called back "Check the laundry room silly!"

Once again Serena was late for school. Hey, I never said she was perfect!

Serena dashed from her room down the stairs, her long golden hair trailing behind her in her trademark hairdo. Two odango's perched on top of her head with long ponytails reaching to the backs of her knees. On most girls, her look would look completely ludicrous, but on her it was perfect. Serena adopted the do' when she was just a little girl and tried to do her own hair for the first time, the pigtails that she attempted ended up looking like two large tangled masses on top of her head that resembled meatballs. After some adaption the look she sports today has become her trademark.

Tearing through a jumble of clothes, Serena digs out her school uniform and gives it a wiff.

"Eh well, it seems relatively clean."

She dashes back up to her room and throws on her uniform in haste, after a quick check in the mirror she deems herself ready to go. Zooming down the stairs, she grabs her bag and bolts towards the door.

"Aren't you forgeting something Serena!"

Serena turns around and sees her mother holding up a carefully wrapped lunch.

"Thank you Mom! I don't know what I would do without you!"

Making a mad dash for the door, Serena flings it open and runs strait into a hard muscular chest.

"Oh! Hey Seiya what are you doing here?" Serena exclaims while reaching on her tiptoes to plant a soft kiss on her boyfriends cheek.

"Well I figured you would be running late and I thought I would pick you up and give you a ride on my way to school."

"Oh THANK YOU! You are a lifesaver! I am so glad I have a sweet boyfriend who will drive me to school!"

Seiya grinned sheepishly and took Serenas hand and led her to the shiny black mercedes.

"I can't wait till I can get my license and drive myself to school." Serena mumbled with a pout.

"Well I for one do not mind picking you up, it gives me an excuse to see you before school starts." Seiya croons into her ear as he opens the passenger door. Serena still can't believe that she managed to snag such a great boyfriend. After all she was only a freshman and she's dating the hottest senior in school. They met on her first day at inglemoor High School, Serena was having a klutz attack when she tumbled straight into the popular senior. After many apologies, and to Serena's surprise, Seiya asked her out. From then on the couple had been inseperable.

Seiya walked around to the other side of the car and climbed in. Placing a kiss on Serenas cheek, he starts the car and peels out of Serena's long twisting driveway. The short drive to the local high school was silent, except for the radio blasting Serenas favorite music of course. During the ride Serenas eyes raked over Seiya. She couldn't help but sigh at his perfectly sculpted features. The high nose, pointed angular chin, jet black hair swept into a long ponytail, and deep dark eyes. He made Serena melt.

"What? Is there something on my face?" Seiya questioned when he caught Serena staring at him. Blushing profusely, Serena bit her lip and giggled "No, just looking at you thats all." Seiya gave her a small smile and returned his gaze to the road in front of him. They pulled into the parking lot and Seiya got out of the car and walked around to open the door for Serena. He took her hand in his and they walked into the school together, emanating a sense of power and beauty. They were the ultimate couple, dominating the school from every spectrum. As they entered the front doors they both hear a loud screech coming from down the hall "SERENA TSUKINO GET YOUR TINY BUTT OVER HERE NOW!"

If Serena didn't know any better she would have thought it was her mother, but as she whipped her head around she came face to face with none other than her best friend Raye Hino.

"Whoa you run fast, it sounded like you were at the other end of the hall." exclaimed Serena.

"Never you mind, don't you think that you forgot something this morning?"

"Um no...."

"You meatball head you forgot to come to my house this morning! We were supposed to go over plans for the beach trip this weekend with the girls!"

"Oh my gosh Raye I am so sorry! I totally forgot!"

"Yeah well don't forget again, we're meeting after school at the temple, and don't be late!" she shouted over her shoulder as she headed to first period.

"Man my memory is getting the best of me." Serena mumbled under her breath. She parted with Seiya when they reached the intersection between the east and west wing of the school. With a heavy sigh she walked into her least favorite class of the day, algebra. Immediately the jumble of students chatting towards the front of the class parted so that Serena could make her way to her usual spot at the back of the class. Shrugging her bag off her shoulder she looked at the blonde to her right.

"Hey Serena, look at this, just got the new Sailor Moon manga!" Mina, one of her other best friends, knew Serenas weakness for the comic. "OHHH how did you get this? Its not supposed to come out till next week!" Serena practically shouted as she snatched the book out of her friends hand. "Well its the perks of having a dad that owns the company that publishes it." Mina explained as she leaned back with her hands behind her head and giving a small shrug. "Oh this is great! I am going to start reading this right now!" Serena buried her nose into the manga just as class began. "Just don't get caught! Daddy will be mad if he finds out I brought that to school." Serena waved her away and went back to reading the comic about a beautiful soldier that fought for love.

"Now class," Ms. Haruna began sternly "We are going to have a new student teacher in the class for the rest of the school year and I expect you to treat him just as you would treat a regular teacher. Class, give a warm welcome to ."

At the mention of , Serenas head snapped up. You have got to be kidding me, this is my worst nightmare. Why is he coming back to haunt me?

Sure enough, a tall young man entered the room. Broad shoulders and a well built body filled the space at the front of the class. A head full of thick ebony hair flipped up and a small smile played on Darien Shields lips as he gazed around the room with fierce deep blue eyes. His faced stopped at a slowly shrinking Serena and he let out a chuckle of amusement. The strong jaw turned toward Ms. Haruna and said "Hey no need to make me sound so intimidating." But truth betold he was more intimidating than he gave himself credit for. Every girl in the class eyes widened with pleasure at their hot new student teacher.

"Oh he is so dreamy! Look at his gorgeous face!" the new girl Molly, from New York whispered to the girl next to her in a thick accent. The rest of the girls chattered away in hushed tones about the cute new teacher. Apparently math class was going to get a whole lot better.

Serena continued to shrink down slowly in her seat, hoping beyond hope that Darien wouldn't recognize her. Darien Shields was the son of one of her moms very good friends, and she hadn't seen him since he left for college. All for the better too, he was so mean. Serena thought with anguish. All through her childhood Darien relentlessly teased her about her odangos, calling her 'meatballhead', hence forward the name stuck, and a few of her friends and family even picked up the use of the nickname. Among the irritating use of the nickname, he picked on her about just about everything else. When he left for college Serena was glad to be shot of him.

Serena wasn't so lucky, Darien picked her out immediately due to her odangos poking out the top of her head. He smiled and thought that the rest of the year was going to be pretty fun. he hadn't seen the girl in years. And all through his childhood he had a little crush on her, despite the fact that she was five years younger than him. So he teased her to no end because he didn't want anyone to find out about his crush. But seeing his little meatball head again caused a fresh wave of affection to come over him. Careful Darien, you're her teacher now, you could get kicked out of the program, or worse, arrested. He said himself with much force. This is going to be tough.

"Serena are you getting a load of the hunk-o-saurus in front of us? What a babe!" Mina sighed to herself dreamily and leaned forward on her desk so as to give Darien her full attention.

"Mina thats Darien! Don't you remember? He was the jerk who picked on me all the time and gave me that stupid nickname." Serena uttered with impatience. "Oh really? Thats him? Wow someone did some growing up in the last few years." Mina drawled as she eyed Darien with pleasure. Serena shot her friend a dirty look and resumed shrinking in her seat.

"Now class, for the rest of the year I will be sitting at my desk evaluating Mr. Shields for his thesis. I trust that you will all treat him with the utmost respect he deserves." Ms. Haruna told the class with fervor.

"Wow even Ms. H has it bad for him." Mina giggled into Serenas ear. "Great, now everybody is going to just love him." Serena grumbled to herself.

"Serena! Mina! Is there something you would like to share with the class?" Ms. Haruna quipped to the two girls. "No Ms. H!" both the girls chimed back in unison. Serena thought she would die of embarrassment. Great, already I get reprimanded in front of Darien.

Ms. H sat down at her desk and pulled out a notebook and started to take notes as Darien began the class. After a quick introduction of himself, informing the students he attends the University of Washington and he is working on his thesis project for his masters degree in education, he began the lesson for the day. Serena decided that since she doesn't pay much attention in math anyways, she would resume reading her new manga. Pulling it out, she placed it on top of her math book, hoping that it would give the illusion that she was reading the textbook. Darien wasn't fooled however, after all, he's known Serena for years. "Excuse me Miss Tsukino? I am afraid that I will have to take that away until the end of the hour." Darien said with a flat tone, as if he had never known her previously.

Serenas face went red at the accusation. With her head down, she slowly shuffled towards the front of the class and handed over the Sailor Moon manga. And whispering quietly enough so only she could hear, Darien said with an evil little smirk, "Still reading these silly things? I thought you would have been over such childish activities."

Somehow Serenas face got even redder than before and her face scrunched up in anger. Without a word she turned on her heel and sauntered back to her desk. Darien couldn't help but notice the new womanly body that she had developed since he last saw her. He took in every curve, and sighed to himself quietly. This was not going to be easy for him. It was bad enough that she was so young, but now he was her teacher too? He would just have to suck it up, no way was the little meatballhead going to get the best of him now. Once Serena reached her seat, Darien resumed the lesson and every girl in the class went back to ogling him from their seats.

"If I am not mistaken, Mr. Shields was totally checking you out!" Mina chirped into Serenas ear once she sat down. "Yeah right Mina! No need to make stupid stuff up, he has got to be at least 20 by now." Serena hissed into her friends ear. "Oh so you wouldn't mind if he was?" Mina grinned evily. "Mina you are sick! Of course I mind, I despise the guy!" Serena growled angrily. "Well obviously he doesn't despise you." Mina muttered with a smile. Serena sat back and thought of Seiya beating the pulp out of Darien and she felt better. Even though she knew her boyfriend could never take on Darien, Seiya just wasn't big or strong enough. But nevertheless it still made her feel better.

Soon enough, the class was over and Serena grabbed her manga off Dariens desk and ran out of the classroom before he could talk to her. The rest of the day went by without so much as a glimpse of her old arch nemesis, so Serena deemed the day to not be too bad. After school, she made her way down to the senior parking lot to get a ride home from Seiya, it had been a long day and she couldn't wait to be in his arms. She spotted the black mercedes across the parking lot and made her way towards the sleek car. Seiya wasn't any where to be found, so she decided to wait until he showed up. Bored, she decided to peer in to the heavily tinted windows of the car just for kicks. As she peered into the back window behind the drivers seat, a set of bare buttcheeks slapped themselves against the window.

"What the heck!!!' Serena fell backwards and felt like she was going to throw up because she was so disgusted. Seiya was not going to be happy that some freaks were getting busy in the back of his car! She marched back up to the car and knocked furiously on the window, "HEY! Open up and get outta there! You sickos!" she screeched. Something inside the car rustled and the door slowly opened. Serenas face went from furious to shocked. Inside the car was Seiya, half naked with the school slut, Beryl, sitting on his lap.

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Okay okay, don't hate me for the tiny cliff hanger! I just thought this was a good place to stop otherwise this chapter would be really loooooonnnnnggg! And if it isn't obvious, I am a total Seiya basher so nobody hate me for that either. Don't forget to review! I would really appreciate constructive criticism, so I know what should be fixed. And if you think it's good then I will be posting more! Well I will post more anyways, but I would prefer people to like my story. Review review review!

Thanks!

-The Conqueror

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