Chapter I
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I awoke to the sun shining brightly in my face, I wrapped my pillow in a tight embrace praying for it to go away so I could sleep just a little bit longer. I was too focused on trying to go back to sleep that I failed to realize that the bedroom window was at the foot of my bed instead of the usual right side, I rolled over so the sun faced my back instead of my front. In doing so I realized that I absolutely was NOT laying on my chest, but rather two soft mounds around my chest.
I sat up a whole lot quicker than one usually would after waking up, and yanked the covers off and looked down at my shirt. Confirming that yes, I have breasts now and no I definetly did not have them when I went to bed last night. With this newfound fact, I proceeded to do what any male would do in this situation.
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I screamed... well began to scream is more like it as I began to fix my mouth to utter the obligatory 'What the?...' I head a woman call from downstairs, "Usagi! You're going to be late for school again!" I recognized the name, Usagi, and what she just said replayed in my head over and over again like a broken record, 'Usagi! You're going to be late for school again!' For some reason that made feel uncomfortable, then I realized why I recognized the name, and why what that woman said rubbed me the wrong way, this my fine ladies and gents, was when my first full out panic attack happened. I shot out of the bed and ran towards Usagi's vanity and looked, I stared in the mirror but what stared back was not a twenty-five year old male with messy brown hair, a goatee, and a small scar on the bridge of his nose that he got because he thought standing on the handle bars of his bike when he was eight was a genius idea, no what stared back was a young Japanese girl (although she really didn't look Japanese) who looked no younger than fourteen, her large blue eyes looked me up and down, unblinking. Her blond hair tied into an all too familiar odango.
Folks, this was when I had my second full out panic attack and this time I finally did scream, afterwards followed the stream of usual swears and curses towards the cosmic universe or whoever was in charge coming out of my mouth. My first words as a woman, a young girl actually and here I am cursing like a sailor on shore leave in this high pitched feminine voice.
Yes, I realized what I just said, no it was not on purpose.
I am in the body of Usagi Tsukino, meaning I AM Usagi Tsukino.
Meaning I am Sailor Moon.
My dear sweet 'mother' screamed at me to hurry up, and I began to contemplate, I could just sneak out and run away, I thought. But I realize that truly would not do me any favors for a number of reasons; one, I didn't know the area and I could easily get lost and wind up in the company of some unsavory people, and two, a young child just wandering around aimlessly during school hours was bound to get me in a heap of trouble. I then thought that maybe if I climbed back into bed, pray that this would all go away and click my heels three times, maybe when I opened my eyes I'd be in MY bed, back in MY body and back in MY apartment. Sadly, I don't think Usagi's bad was some inter-dimensional doorway to alternate universes.
'Mommy dearest' warned that I better be downstairs and out the door in the next fifteen minutes of ELSE, I didn't want to experience first hand the wrath of a pissed off mom (ESPECIALLY an anime one) I dashed towards Usagi's closet and grabbed her school uniform, some underwear and I tip toed out of 'my' room into the hallway and sped-walked my way to the bathroom, thankfully it was the next door over from mine. I stepped inside and stopped dead in my tracks as the moral implications of what I'm about to do reared its ugly head. I closed my eyes, took a quick shower, brushed my teeth and Usain Bolted back to my room to get dressed. I spent a good ten minutes trying to put my bra on, and once I finally deemed myself worthy for an appearance in the outside world, I flew down the stairs, yelled a quick "Bye!" slipped on my shoes and ran out the door, closing it behind me.
I stood outside, took a deep breath and took my first step as a young girl, "One small step for man, one giant leap for me." I uttered as I made my way to school.
After spending nearly half an hour wandering around like a moron, I swallowed my pride and admitted I was lost, luckily I was able to locate a kindly officer who gave me directions but not before giving me a long, drawn out spiel on tardiness and punctuality. Great, not only am I somehow magically in the body of a woman, it had to be a kid, I apologized and ran off in the direction he pointed to. As I ran I realized a very important fact: Despite being much younger, a great athlete does not Usagi make. Now when I was a kid (the first time) gym class wasn't exactly my cup of tea, but I could hold my own and run a good couple of laps around the track field. Now with Usagi however, it felt as though my heart was going to explode out my chest, 'Maybe I'll die of an heart attack and wake up in my original body again' I grimly considered, these dark thoughts were soon interrupted by me falling flat on my face. I looked back to see what I tripped over, I saw a small black cat laying on the ground and making an absolute fuss.
I soon realized that this wasn't any ordinary black cat, this was Luna. Now my knowledge of Sailor Moon's not all that great, I came home to visit one Thanksgiving and my little sister made me sit down watch the original 90's series with her, in the very first episode Usagi saves that flea bag from a group of little punks. I looked around an nary a punk was seen, I then remembered that I had spent a good half hour roaming around town like an absolute dolt and most likely missed them. I picked her up to see what else did they do to her besides put a band aid on the crescent moon birthmark thingie on her forehead, well whatever it was must have been awful because she looked like hell. Her fur was downright filthy and she smelled bad.
I figured, hey, if I'm gonna be Sailor Moon and there's nothing I can do about it, I might as well have some fun. I picked her up and pulled the two band aids off her forehead, revealing the crescent moon bald spot.
"Hello Luna," I greeted her, "When you come to my house tonight, first thing we're doing is giving you a bath because you smell absolutely terrible. I also would like you to know that I prefer fighting crime wearing something more substantial than a skimpy little outfit that doesn't even come with pockets." I took a quick glance at a nearby clock and frowned, "I have to go now, I don't like school but sadly, I have to get through it."
She looked at me like I had pineapples growing out of my ears before she leaped out of light hold, jumped off my head and landed on a nearby ledge all while maintaining eye contact with me.
I flashed her a small smile, waved and continued on my way.
"Usagi Tsukino-san! You're late once again!" Usagi's teacher growled at me the second I opened the door, I tried to explain but I couldn't she just glared and pointed toward the hallway, I knew what she meant. I've been sent to stand outside in the hall multiple times when I originally went to middle school. I simply sighed and shut the door to stand in the hall, alone with my thoughts.
I set some ground rules, the first one was that I will respect Usagi, meaning no perverted actions. I will bathe myself appropriately and use the bathroom appropriately and that will be it, no more, no less. The second rule was that I was going to find a way to alter my Sailor Moon uniform to be less 'extravagant' and more practical, call me an old fashioned prude but I'd like to not give the monster of the week or the average citizen a little 'show' whenever there's a strong wind. The third rule was to enroll in an self defense class, if I'm gonna fight monsters, I at least want to make it a little easier. The most important rule of them all was for me to find a way back to my original body.
I was at this time that my stomach decided that was enough thinking for today and growled loudly. I proceeded to reach in my to look for my lunch, until I remembered that I never grabbed Usagi's lunch. I was too freaked out about the whole 'Oh my god I've turned into Sailor Moon! Why in the hell have I turned into Sailor Moon?!' to stop and grab it. The sound of the classroom door sliding open broke me out of the little crisis I was having and the teacher glared at me. She handed me a piece of paper, "I'm passing back last week's English exams. Here's yours." She said with all the inflection of a disappointed teacher.
I gulped and took the paper, hands shaking as the teacher slammed the door shut. I couldn't believe what I saw, It was quite possibly one of, if not THE lowest score on an exam yet. I stood there dumbfounded until the bell rang and Usagi's classmates poured out their classes. The first one to greet me was, unfortunately the class know-it-all, I forgot his name but you know the one with those thick nerdy bifocals, "Usagi-san, how did you do on the exam?"
"None of your business!" I said, clutching the test score close to my chest so nobody could see.
"That bad, huh?" he beamed as he adjusted his large, round glasses, "You don't have to be so upset Usagi-san! I didn't get a perfect score this time because I didn't really try," he continued, and flourished his test paper, like a child showing off their kindergarten drawing of a cat to their parents - with a bright red ninety-five written on it.
I simply glared at him, as smart as he was, he wasn't smart enough to notice when someone wanted him to be vaporized on the spot, "I really slacked off on this one. But this test was fine. It was kind of like a video game, I could tutor you if you like?" he offered with a slight blush.
It was EXTREMELY obvious by the blush on his face that he has a crush on Usagi. A crush that was EXTREMELY unwanted. It was also pretty obvious that he really wasn't gifted with a high IQ, he simply just read the text books instead of reading a manga or novel.
"No thank you," I answered flatly.
Thankfully, Usagi's best friend whose name I did remember being either Naru, or Molly, I wasn't entirely sure, but if the nerd calls me Usagi and not Serena then she must be Naru, come to think of it, what japanese person would name their kid Molly? Or Serena? Or any of the other names in the English dub? I get wanting a foreign and unique sounding name but Molly, seriously? I guess the Japanese person who would do that to their child is the same one who eats 'Jelly-Filled Donuts' "Usagi!" Naru began, "You didn't already eat your lunch did ya?"
'Great, I had just forgot about the fact that I was slowly starving to death, and you have to go and remind me.' I ranted in my mind, 'That's it! your name is Molly in my mind now' I smiled to myself deviously.
The nerd however, was not gonna let the topic of exam scores drop that easily and proceeded to badger her about it, "Jeez Umino, stop bein' sucha smarty-pants show off all tha time. Come on Usagi-chan." I just sat there, dumbfounded. I knew the 90's English dub was absolute crap, but this is ridiculous.
We sat on the lawn, with Usagi's two other start of the series friends besides Naru, kind of like how in the first season of The Simpsons Bart had two other friends besides Milhouse. I never really learned their names so in my mind I referred to them as Girl A (the chubby one) and Girl B (the not chubby one). I tried avoiding certain answers that would warrant me responding with their names, I gave simple yes or no answers with a few 'Wows!' thrown in there for good measure. They bought gossip magazines with them and they went through them while they ate, I was able to score a few leftovers by flashing them big sad puppy dog eyes. I scarfed them down while they continued to talk, "Hey, you guys heard about Sailor V, right?" Girl A began
"URK!" I choked, Girl B had to whack me on the back a couple of times, "Sailor who?" I asked between gasps for air.
"Well, last night there was this robbery at a jewelry store." Girl A began
"I didn't know it was a jewelry store," Naru said, "How scary."
Just then, Umino joined our circle seemingly out of nowhere, I say seemingly because apparently I was the only one who saw his glasses reflecting in the bushes behind Girl A. Like he was waiting for the opportunity to make his appearance, "Don't worry Sailor V showed up and caught the criminals!" He practically leaped out of the bushes, scaring poor Girl A half to death.
I took a small sip of tea Girl B poured for me and said, "How long were you in those bushes Umino?"
The look on his face was priceless as he became a stuttering, blushing mess. He tried to save face by going on a long, nerdy rant about Sailor V and how she fights crime wearing a sailor school uniform and how she's a secret agent for the police. He went on about how it's not just burglars she fights, but strange beings and bringing up the fact that there were a lot of strange things happening around town.
"Really?" Girl A asked, "These are some strange times we live in."
'You have no idea' I thought to myself, I looked over and noticed Girl B was smiling mischievously, "I totally understand where those thieves were coming from. If I were a burglar, I would definitely hit a jewelry store."
"Oh I would too," Girl A agreed, "Jewels are so beautiful."
I mentally groaned, 'these were Usagi's friends before she met the Sailor Scouts? No wonder no one remembers them,'
"Hey Naru-chan," Girl A said, "Your mom owns a jewelry store, right?
Naru's eyes lit up and she nodded, "Yeah, there's a big sale on today too. With prices even we can afford. come on Usagi, I know that will cheer you up"
The three other girls shrieked with excitement, and I'm pretty sure they busted my ear drums, "No way! We have to go after school to see!"
"Wow Naru, your mom sure is working the sales floor today. It's almost like she's, I don't know POSSESSED or a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PERSON," I sarcastically 'whispered' to Naru as we wandered through the shop.
"Yeah, she's never done this before," Naru replied, "It's like she woke up one day business savvy. I wonder what happened."
I actually had to fight myself to keep from blurting the real reason she's acting so different, (i.e. she's not Naru's mother) I also noticed that the fake Naru's mother was carefully watching us, and I use that term very lightly because she was so terrible at it you'd have to be a complete imbecile to not notice her. I walked over to her general direction pretending that I was trying to get the very best view of the jewelry
"Yes girl, buy whatever you want," The fake Naru's mother said, "And I'll take your energy. I need more, and more, and more..."
"Excuse me, you'll take my what?" I asked feigning shocked towards the fake Naru's mother her eyes went wide and she tried to make up an excuse, saying energy is a slang term for money in the Jewelry business. I wasn't buying it and she knew I wasn't buying it, just then Naru came over and asked if I wanted to buy some ruby called pigeon's blood, and that it's worth one billion yen. Realizing I'm not made of money I said my see ya later, gave the fake Naru's mother one heck of a stink face and the I'm watching you pose and walked out, I speed walked my way home trying to come up with a strategy for when I come back later to save everyone when, I crashed into Mamoru
"Hey! watch where you're going lump head," he complained behind his sunglasses, "Are you trying to give me a lump on my head too?"
"Great insult!" I said sarcastically, "I'll have you know these aren't lumps they're buns!" When I bumped into him I also dropped my test, he picked it up and looked at it
"You got a thirty?" he laughed, "You need to study more, Odango Atama," and with that, he rested the exam on my head, right between my buns.
"Okay not that it's truly your business, but it was a surprise test, I usually get eighty percent on tests" I lied, "And my name is Tsukino Usagi, not Odango Atama" I countered. I noticed he was wearing a pair of large, mirror-black sunglasses.
He chuckled. "Chiba Mamoru," he flashed me a slight smirk, "Eighty percent huh?" he asked "You should still study harder," he quipped.
I rolled my eyes and sighed, "Oh thank you sooo much for your insight that I didn't ask you for. Why didn't I think of that? Could it be the fact that studying doesn't mean jack if you don't understand what the textbook says, and the only person that can help me is a nerd with a crush on me." I blinked. "Why am I even telling you this?" I asked myself more than him.
Mamoru shrugged, and chuckled again. "Don't know," he answered. "But how about I help you figure out what areas you screwed up on?" he offered.
I blinked, and mentally went over what he just said. "Alright" I allowed, he smiled and I got a really uneasy feeling in my stomach as I watched him do a quick survey of the jewellery shop, then turn to me and indicated for me to lead the way. I chose a small little soda shop and we went over my test, he actually helped me understand it, plus I got a free soda out of it so that was pretty cool.
'He's pretty cool' I thought, 'Still don't know how Usagi fell... in... love...' The realization hit me like a semi,
Usagi and Mamoru...
Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask...
Their daughter Chibiusa...
I'm currently in Usagi's body so that means...
The implications...
And this, girls and boys back home was when my third full out panic attack happened.
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
I didn't like the direction the original Fic was going so I decided to do a total rewrite. I now have a outline of where I want to take this story that I'm satisfied with and actually want to finish. See you all in the next chapter.
