Chapter 1
The sun rose over Tokyo and brought the morning where a very familiar shriek could be heard, breaking the serene sound of the tweeting birds.
"AHHHH, I'M LATE! I'M LEAVING!"
After frantically putting on the sailor styled uniform and long blonde hair hastily put up into her trademark 'odangos', Usagi could be seen leaving a trail of steam behind her as she desperately made her way to school. Panting furiously, she noticed a tall, slender girl rushing past her; dark hair bundled up atop of her head in a ponytail, clearly following Usagi's trait of being late in the morning. But Usagi had no time to dwell on the feeling of familiarity as she so badly wanted to avoid detention again.
Later on, in the day, Usagi was observing the examination results tables only to find her name on the bottom of the list yet again, unlike her fellow polar opposite student named Ami Mizuno. Usagi stood with her close friend Naru Osaka of whom the latter was trying hard to comfort her forlorn friend. Usagi watched the blue haired genius out of the corner of her eye enviously, wishing desperately that she had found the will to study harder as her mother's inevitable wrath played heavily on her mind.
After school was out, Usagi walked home with Naru, a slump featuring heavily in her back while her feet dragged along the floor. She was staring gloomily at her recent test paper which presented an angry red '30' on the front.
"Oh, I wish I had studied more. Darn it! I'll get rid of it!" And in a fit of frustration, Usagi crumpled up the test sheet into a tight ball and lobbed it over her shoulder without realising that she had thrown the rest of her luck for the day away with the now balled-up paper.
A deep, irritated voice rang out behind the girls, "That hurt, odango atama." A tall, ebony haired, taut jawed young man stood rubbing his head clutching the offending piece of paper to his chest. He wore a deep green jacket over a black top, tucked neatly into his pale trousers, which overall gave the impression of a sophisticated, well educated, smart young man. Usagi wasn't able to judge how much she'd hurt his feelings as his eyes were covered by dark lens shades which accentuated his sharp cheekbones which only added to his charm to those who knew him. To her horror and embarrassment, the young man before her uncrumpled the test paper and looked at her result with a look of disbelief crossing his handsome features. "Thirty points?! Study harder, odango atama."
Usagi quickly leapt forward and promptly snatched the test paper out of his hands. "Well, excuse you!" She childishly stuck her tongue out at him and turned around with such force that her long pigtails smacked him around the face and she charged off with Naru in tow. "It's none of his business!" she snarled. All apologies and guilt was quickly driven out of her with his sharp rudeness and judgement.
The handsome, young man stood shocked for a second as he watched her stalk off before making a snide remark. "What a silly girl." He took off his dark shades and unbeknownst to him, he couldn't suppress the smile that overtook his face.
"Hey, wasn't that guy sort of cool looking?" Naru cheerfully commented to Usagi.
Usagi frowned and looked down at the ground as she walked. "How can you say that?! He was so obnoxious!"
"Oh, you say that now. You never know. It might have been a fated encounter." Naru smirked.
"Gag! Stop it! I have my own dream!" Usagi exclaimed.
"Dream?" Naru looked questionably at her friend.
"That's right! That I'll find a cool boyfriend who'll protect me no matter what! That's my dream!" Usagi gazed up at the sky where she could faintly see the moon and her cerulean blue eyes shone with hope.
