I am so sorry everyone! bows I told some of you that it would be a few days and it turned into weeks and i do apologise. My teachers are piling on work at the moment because they want to get everything done before the end of year 12 and school year in October. And exams are in November. grr...anyways, I have posted TWO chapters for you to make up for it and I hope that it makes the wait worthwhile!

See you next chapter!

Chikyuuhime :)

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon- Naoko Takeuchi does.

Usagi made her way to the Hikawa Shrine very quickly and ran up the long staircase to the actual temple grounds. She nearly ran into Rei's grandfather along the way and narrowly dodged Yuuichiro as well.

"Dude…she's like…fast…" Yuuichiro exclaimed in awe.

Grandpa sweat dropped.

Meanwhile, Usagi ran into Rei's bedroom and seated herself on the floor and placed a cheesy grin on her face. She looked around but could not see Rei or the other girls anywhere.

With Usagi looking around like a lost puppy, Rei and the others stood in the cupboard- with Rei's eyes narrowing into tiny little slits of anger. Makoto was cross with Minako, who was currently stepping on her foot. Minako was trying to stand on tiptoe to see out of the slats in the cupboard door whilst unconsciously stepping on Makoto's foot and Ami was shaking her head with worry for Usagi.

Rei nudged Makoto and Makoto flung her head around to face her- while giving Ami a mouthful of her hair. Rei nodded and Makoto whispered,

"Huh? What did you want Rei?"

"Oh for the love of manga!" Rei whisper-yelled, "We're going to execute Operation KUFBSL which, to anyone who needs to know, is Operation Kill Usagi For Being So Late!"

Makoto assumed a blank look on her face which, fortunately, Rei could not see in the dark, but she processed the idea and nodded, which unfortunately, Rei could not see either.

"Oh for crying out loud Makoto! Are you with me or not?" Rei whispered

"YES!" Makoto whispered fuirously back to Rei

Rei sighed and slapped a hand to her forehead.

"Chimps! I am working with chimps!" she muttered.

She then silently opened the door and led Makoto out into the open. They eyed their oblivious target, who was munching on a chocolate bar she found on Rei's bed.

'Ooh! My secret stash! I'll get her for that later!' Rei thought.

The two Senshi then edged towards Usagi and Rei muttered,

"Ready?"

Makoto nodded and both girls launched themselves onto their friend. Usagi squealed with shock and both girls let her go and sat down.

"Okay, okay! We're off you now!" Makoto yelled as Usagi jumped around, screaming.

Usagi stopped screaming and sat down rather abruptly.

"What was that for?"

Rei smirked and Makoto looked like she had just been caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

"You were late, AGAIN, so we decided to deal with you for once!" Rei yelled

"Oh Rei, you're so mean!" Usagi said before starting to wail.

Rei sighed and leaned back against her bed whilst Makoto tried to comfort the crying girl. She eventually calmed her down with the promise of a double chocolate brownie ice cream sundae from the arcade but, with the memory of Mamoru's torture over her grades, she began to cry again.

"Usa? What's wrong girl?" Minako asked while venturing out of the cupboard.

"M…M…Mamoru i…is…also…m…mean!" Usagi cried

"You oddball! He's always mean to you!" Rei yelled

"But…th…this time h…he w…was really m…mean! H…he k…kicked me out of the ar…arcade!"

Everyone eyed her strangely.

"Are you serious?" Makoto asked

"Y…YES!" Usagi yelled, wailing quite loudly.

Ami, Minako and Makoto all gasped in shock. Rei just stared at her dumbly. Usagi continued to wail as the first three girls tried to calm her down again. Rei suddenly came back to life and quickly grabbed a chocolate bar from her stash. For all the mean things that Rei did, she was actually pretty decent to Usagi sometimes.

"Hey, Usa, do you want another chocolate?" She asked

Usagi nodded and accepted the candy refreshment gratefully before opening the wrapper and chowing down.

The girls talked and comforted Usagi for an entire hour until they went their separate ways- the meeting forgotten- and Rei went to call Mamoru.

Meanwhile, Mamoru had left the arcade after Motoki's futile efforts to get more chatting out of him. He was sitting at his kitchen table, feeling guilty and eating a sandwich when the phone rang. He slowly stood up and walked over to the annoying piece of technology and picked it up.

"Hello?" he asked cautiously

"CHIBA MAMORU! HOW COULD YOU?" came Rei's voice

"Err…hey Rei…you could start a conversation with a simple 'hello' you know."

"Well then, hello! How are you? I hope you're writhing with guilt and I hope you rot in hell!"

Mamoru pulled the receiver away from his ear and eyed it strangely before replying,

"If this has something to do with what happened to Usagi, then please hang up now because I don't want to talk about it."

Rei, however, was fuming.

"Oooh! We're going to talk alright! You're going to tell me exactly what the HECK got into your head when you two were fighting like dragons two days ago!"

Mamoru did not want to hear anymore, so he simply put the phone back on the hook- effectively hanging up on the still-yelling Rei. She stopped when she heard the dial tone and asked,

"Uhh…Mamoru? Are you there? I haven't finished with you yet! You can't hurt my best friend like that!"

And with that, she slammed the phone down and stomped off to sulk and read manga before consulting the sacred fire on how to deal with Mamoru.

Back in Mamoru's apartment though, Mamoru had forgotten his sandwich and walked out of his apartment, into the cold winter air. For the second time that day, he was going to the park. His favourite place.

The Rose Gardens.

Okay, next chapter will be a bit more intense, so I hope its okay! And please review if you read!