Author's Greeting: Moshi-moshi! So, I finished up this chapter...chapter two will be following shortly, I promise. For now, I know i have some explaining to do.
Thank you to the people who favorited the story or me, and to Little Miss Cee Cee for this story's first review.
By the way, looking for a beta. I do make mistakes, even though I try my hardest not to.

Disclaimer: (which I forgot to put in the prologue. Please forgive me) I am Lady Katsu-hime. I am not Takeuchi Naoko-sama, who owns Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon and all related arcs/characters/settings/etc. Therefore, any character/plotline reference/etc. that you recognize from previously stated anime is not mine, and I've never claimed it/them to be. However, the character Tsukino Chiyoko-chan and this plotline are mine.

Just So You Know: First off, Chiyoko-chan is my own OC. She was introduced in Eternal Starlight, and continued in My Heart Will Go On. If you'd like to read those, be sure you review. A little background on Chiyoko-chan, first: she's Usagi and Seiya's daughter, come from the Crystal Tokyo era (the 30th century) to visit. She's pretending to be Usagi's cousin from America, using much the same technique as Chibiusa and ChibiChibi did. Usagi knows she's from the future, but nothing else. Chiyoko has a lot of high-tech gear that does some pretty wild stuff. She's dating Yaten-kun, and she is Sailor Eternal Star. She looks extraordinarily like Usagi, except that her hair is jet-black like Seiya's, and she has Seiya's nose. She's very intuitive, and very duty-conscious.
Just in case you didn't realize already, this is in Makoto's POV.

Okay, now the Japanese dictionary part:
Moshi-moshi is a general sort of greeting, used when answering the telephone. I know, FF isn't exactly a telephone line, but I like to greet my fans in this way.
Onegai means please.
Sempai means upperclassman. It's also the name Mako-chan uses for her old boyfriend.
Gomen, Gomen ne, and Gomen nasai all mean I'm sorry.
Juno is the Roman god of thunder. He's called Zeus in Greek mythology.


Chapter One
Makoto's Nightmare

I smell the sea, hear seagulls, feel waves crashing far below. The thunder crashes mightily, and I feel it deep in my bones. So, Juno is warning me, his favorite daughter, of something important. Something I must do. But, just by smelling, hearing, and feeling, I can't tell what it is.

Wait. Maybe I can. I can feel a weight pulling on my right arm, my left hand braced on the edge of a cliff. Can feel the wind swinging the weight around. My brain tells me to release the weight, let go of all remorse, but my heart says no.

My heart says that I used to love her…and reminds me of all the times we'd had together.

My brain intrudes with an all-too-vivid picture of him. The source of our squabbling. It provides an image of my last recollection of him, lying facedown on the cold, wet ground, bleeding profusely. My anger flares.

I hear a whisper, and my anger abruptly whooshes out of me, carried away by the wind. It's her voice…my blonde angel. She is pleading.

"Onegai…" she whimpers tearfully. "Onegai, Mako-chan!"

And suddenly, a thought pops into my head: I am the one with the most control over her existence at this moment. I can choose to release her, and let this fragile soul end its life, or I can use the last of my strength to pull her up, in which case the cliff would probably crumble and we'd both die.

I am the one with the power. I can either save or destroy a life.

My eyes open and I stare sorrowfully into her pleading blue eyes.

"MAKO-CHAN!!!"

I never wanted this…


It's class time…and I've revisited my nightmare…again. It won't stop haunting me, and I know it's because of him: the one I love even more than my old sempai.

Casually, I glance over to look into his deep blue eyes, more intense than Sempai's lighter eyes.

Unfortunately, my quiet study is rudely interrupted by a loud, obnoxious laugh. Irritated, I glare to a person sitting behind him.

It's her. My rival.

I don't know why she thinks she's good enough to have him. She's spacey, athletic, and she doesn't know him even a quarter as well as I do. He's my best friend. To her, he's just a potential boyfriend.

With her temperament, she's much more suited for Seiya-kun. But Seiya-kun has eyes only for our pretty princess, Usagi-chan. Normally, that meant that my rival would have set her sights on Yaten-kun, but he's with Chiyoko-chan, and nothing will break that bond…even Yaten's death didn't break it, because Chiyoko-chan found a way to bring him back after sending Serena-san and her clan home.

"Oh, Taiki-san," she said flirtatiously, leaning towards him, "you say the funniest things! Right, Mako-chan?" She turns to give me a malicious smile, and I scowl at her. To think we were once best friends.

I shake my head firmly. "I don't think it was meant to be funny, Minako-chan." I give Taiki-kun a warm smile, and his blue eyes crinkle as he gives me a crooked smile back, his body language clearly thanking me for saving him from a potentially awkward situation; Taiki-kun is too nice to simply push Minako away, and besides, pushing her away would only make her want him more.

I just can't win.

I want to tell Taiki-kun how I feel about him…but I can't. Ever since Sempai ran away and broke my heart, I've had trouble with feelings. And then, Minako and I tried "experimenting"…and almost everyone found out about that, and for the longest time, I was asked out by lesbians who thought I could be their butch. Sorry, I went bi-curious for maybe half a year and I found out that nothing can compare to being held by a man's strong arms, knowing you'll always be safe from harm.

Besides, though I've always envied Haruka-san's love for Michiru-san, and how they kept it like a well-known secret, but I never want the life that Haruka-san has. She likes playing the butch—she says it's much easier being a male than anyone would think—but that's not for me. Besides, how many cross-dressing females can you find who hold life dreams of owning flower shops and restaurants?

I love to cook, and I love the expressions on people's faces when they taste my food. Especially Taiki-san. He's never failed to be astonished by my skill…but I always tell him that having to fend for yourself since your younger days almost guarantees a need to make edible food.

I also love flowers. Their gentle delicacy amazes me, especially when you find a beautiful flower growing in the ground, picturesque, after a hard frost. Flowers are strong, but they're beautiful as well, and I strive to be like a flower in my senshi work.

BRRRRRRRING! The bell rings angrily. I jump to my feet and gather my stuff, getting ready to rush home and change so I can start cooking or tend to my garden.

"Mako-chan." A soft voice calls, just loud enough for my hyper-tuned ears to recognize. Minako cannot hear; she's too busy fuming at my remark.

I look at my brown-haired angel, and with a fraction of a nod, he indicates that he'll be waiting for my call later. He understands that I don't particularly like walking around in public in my school uniform, even if it does signify that I'm a junior this year. I smile and, as I'm leaving, touch his arm lightly, looking him in the eye, letting him know that I'll call as soon as I water my flowers.

At that point I start running, and I let out a yelp of joy when I reach the outside. Finally, I'm free of the prison for the weekend! I'm so distracted by happiness that I don't notice when I bump into someone…knocking the someone over in the process.

"Ouch, Mako-chan!" a familiar voice shrieks. "Did you have to hit so hard?"

I giggle. "Gomen, Chiyoko-chan," I apologize as I help the petite girl up, her raven-black odango-topped ponytails swirling about her.

"So, what happened with Taiki-san today?" Chiyoko-chan asks in her musical, velvety-rich, middle-toned voice.

I do a double-take. "What? How…?"

Chiyoko-chan giggles. "Only two things could have made you this happy, and I know that both probably happened: one, you finally realized that it's the weekend, or two, something happened between you and Taiki-san. Or…" she said thoughtfully. "Option Three, you fought with Minako-chan…and won."

I nod. "Yes, all three…"

Chiyoko-chan looks at me, her sapphire eyes, so like Usagi-chan's, yet so different, conveying many thoughts and feelings, but the overlaying one is sorrow. She doesn't like seeing Minako and I fight, especially over something as petty as a boy.

I don't like seeing us fight, either. Minako and I used to be best friends, and something more while we "experimented." I'd rather not fight with her over Taiki-san…but she was the one who declared war after she saw how much marked attention Taiki-san was paying to me. I remind Chiyoko-chan of this fact nonverbally, and finally she sighs.

"Do what you wish, Mako-chan," she says with a touch of sadness in her voice. "I don't mean to pry into your affairs."

She walks away, towards Usagi-chan's house—which she is living in, since they're cousins. My smile fades as a wind picks up. I can sense a thunderstorm blowing in from the east. I grimace to myself as I walk home. I probably won't have to water my flowers, but that means that Taiki-san and I will have to stay inside, too, if he decides he wants to see me.

Frowning, I continue to walk at a normal pace as the first drops threaten to fall, even as the people around me erupt into panic and flee towards shelter. I laugh at their foolishness. I am Jupiter, daughter of Juno, and I fear no meager thunderstorm. I am his daughter, and he is the powerful god of thunder.

Unfortunately, I have worse things to fear than thunderstorms.


Author's Sign-off: Stay tuned for the next episode of Drops of Jupiter!