AN: This story is completely AU. No magic, no powers, no Japan. This story is based off the movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. I loved to read fanficiton, and I have attempted to write a couple myself, but I'm not perfected. I do try as hard as I can to write a good story, so please no flames. Constructive criticism is more than welcome.

Disclaimer: I do not own Salior Moon or any of its characters. I only own myself and my daughter.. that's about it. And, of course, the characters I create. So no suing. I don't have any money anyways.

Also, here's some basic information about each character.
Serena Tsukino: 22 years old. Located in New York. Lives with Mina. No "meatballs". Her hair is blonde, mid-back length, with layered bangs around her nose && chin. Writer for Fashion, New York's top fashion magazine. Wants to write about Sports, but is told she can't until she proves herself.
Darien Shields: 24 years old. Located in New York. Lives with Andrew. Editor for S&G(Sports && Girls), New York's top sports magazine.
Mina Aino: 22 years old. Located in New York. Lives with Serena. Writer for Fashion.
Andrew Tomlinson: 24 years old. Located in New York. Lives with Darien. Editor for S&G.

These will be the main characters in this story. The other girls will fall into play here and there. New characters will be introduced. Anything else you might need to know will eventually be explained.

How To
By: xBRiTTANYNiCOLE
AKA Requienne

Summary: Serena is an editor for the magazine Fashion who is tackled with the task of becoming the How To girl. Darien is also an editor for the magazine S&G who, foolishly enough, takes on a bet. Unknown to them, their lives are about to intertwined in more ways than they would ever imagine.

KEY:
"TALKING."
'THINKING.'
EMPHASIS.
MEMORY/FLASHBACK

Darien Shields walked into the building where his office was located. Women all around nearly stopped in their tracks to stare at the muscley piece of a God that had just walked in their eyesight. Many sighed a dreamy sigh, while others proceeded to giggle with stars in their eyes. Darien just grinned his shiny, perfect smile and continued walking. Ahh, how he LOVED the ladies..

Walking into the elevator, he noticed one very attractive lady with an unimaginable amount of cleavage. Not that he minded; he was quiet enjoying himself. He smiled at the woman who giggled and waved while leaning toward him just enough that Darien thought her boobs might actually fall out of the shirt. The elevator chimed, letting him know it was his floor, and he turned and walked off.

Andrew, Darien's good friend and roommate, was waiting outside Darien's office. "Get her number?" Darien laughed. "Nope. Just a nice view of her rack. Who needs her number then?" He said with a grin as he unlocked his office doors and proceeded to walk in. "So, what are you waiting here for?"

Andrew shrugged. "Not much going on in the office today, actually. Everyone is starting over on their articles since the last issue was just printed, so we as editors basically have nothing to do but get paid for sitting around." Darien sat in his big office chair and turned his computer on. "What better job could we have then? We get to see hot chicks from photography shoots and get the latest sports updates. And we virtually do nothing. It's perfect." Andrew was about to respond when 2 women came walking through the door to Darien's office.

"Hello boys." Lita Kino said. "Sitting around like usual?" The girl next to her laughed. Andrew glared, "Shut up, Rei. It's not like you guys do anything around here either." Rei and Lita looked at each other. "Yes we do. We watch over morons like you." Lita said. Rei put her hands on her hips. "And that's not an easy job, might we add. You guys are like a bunch of toddlers; you have the IQ of a rock! And you all start drooling over girls with big tits as if that's all they need."

Now it was Darien and Andrew who looked at each other. "Um well." Darien said, holding back his laugh. "That's the basic need. A somewhat nice face would be appreciated.."

Rei groaned. "My God! You are such a pompous jerk! You know, I bet you couldn't even get one of those girls to go out with you! You're never going to get married or even have a serious relationship acting like that.. you can't even get someone to fall in love with you."

Darien quirked an eyebrow. "Is that a challenge? I've had plenty of dates and relationships, thank you. I could get any girl I wanted to do whatever I wanted. With a snap of my fingers I can have any girl head over heels for me!"

Rei shook her head. "No, I mean actually LOVE you. You've never had a female actually love you with the intention of marriage, have you?"

Darien stared at her. "Who cares? I'm not looking for marriage, so what does it matter if she is?"

Andrew and Lita turned their heads to the person who was talking. If it was Darien, they looked at Darien. If it was Rei, they looked to Rei.

Rei spoke up. "You are a jerk." Before anyone could anything else, Andrew jumped in."Ooookay now. This is all nonsense. It doesn't matter if we have dates or have girls in love with us, okay? So let's just drop it."

"No." Rei shook her head. "I have a challenge for Mr. Shields here." Lita was now very confused. A few moments ago this was all fun and games, now Rei's temper was showing.

Darien was amused. "Do you now?"

"Yeah. I do. I challenge you to make the woman I choose for you to fall in love with you."

Darien shrugged. "Easy enough."

"..By the Winter Ball."

Darien looked at her . "Are you serious? So basically I have to make a woman do what you want based on your rules?"

Rei just looked at him. "Well, according to you, it should be easy enough. Aren't you going to the Fashion magazine party tomorrow night? We were all invited. I'll find you a girl there. And you have to make her fall in love with you by the Winter Ball. And I will be the one deciding if she loves you are not"

Lita spoke up. "Rei, are you crazy? Now you're just going to have him break some poor girl's heart." Rei shrugged. "Oh well. I wanna see if he's capable."

Andrew glanced at Darien. "That's crazy, man.. you aren't really gonna do it, are you?"

Darien glared at Rei nice and hard. "You're on."

Rei smiled with satisfaction before turning around and storming out, Lita at her heels. Andrew took it upon himself to stare Darien down. "Are you stupid? Rei is just an annoying bitch, and you're going to let her to get to that way and take a stupid bet or whatever it was? That's ridiculous. I mean, I know we just date around not rally caring if we hurt someone, but we don't go off and hurt women intentionally. You know that's not cool." Darien closed his eyes and shrugged. "Oh well." Andrew didn't look too happy with the way Darien was acting. "And what happens if the girl she picks is 'the one'?"

Darien opened his eyes and looked at Andrew. "What are you talking about?" Andrew sighed and sat down in the chair located in front of Darien's desk. "We're 24 years old, Darien, and the thought of marriage might seem far away, but we need to start getting serious. I don't want to be 30 before I'm married and have kids." This nearly shocked Darien. He and Andrew were supposed to be bachelors for life, and here Andrew was now, babbling about marriage and kids. "I'm serious, Darien."

"I noticed. But it's not like the one girl Rei chooses for me is going to be the girl I'm spending the rest of my life with.. this is just a simple little bet, dare, challenge, whatever you wanna call it. After this is all over, you can talk to me about your dreams of marriage and having children and whatever. I just don't think that's the life for me though, and I don't really want to talk about it for you considering we'd always said we would be bachelors for life."

Andrew rolled his eyes. "Oh come on, Darien. We were stupid 19 year olds in college trying to get laid by any and every body. It's 5 years later, I've had my fun, now I think I might want to settle down."

Darien stood up out of his chair and walked toward the door. "Well, good for you, but this was MY choice, so do me a favor and don't criticize me for it." He said as he opened the door to walk out. Andrew got up and followed him. "Alright, fine. I won't. Just do me a favor and just think about maybe settling down?" Darien grumbled to himself, knowing Andrew wasn't going to let te topic go until he agreed. So he did. "Fine. I'll THINK about it. Only think. Now leave me alone about it."

Andrew nodded as he and Darien went to the elevator, not knowing that in only 1 day, both of their lives were going to change.

-End

Well.. I know it's short like chapter 1, but here is chapter 2. For some reason I had trouble writing this one. It was kind of like I wasn't really ready to write. But I did it anyways. Hope you enjoyed it!