"MARS CELESTIAL FIRE SURROUND!"
Rings of fire hurled themselves towards a droid with many heads and blue scaly skin. The droid dodged them easily and fired a light purple ball of energy. 17-year old Raye, otherwise known as Sailor Mars, groaned in annoyance as she ducked the attack.

"We've tried everything and still, we can't beat this droid!" Sailor Mars yelled, extremely frustrated with the situation at hand.
The leader, Sailor Moon, looked at Raye and said, "We have to keep trying. There's no knowing what this thing can do if we don't destroy it."

Raye glanced at Serena, or Sailor Moon, in surprise. Over the last year, she had been taking her responsibility as leader of the Sailor Scouts more seriously, but Raye still wasn't used to the change in her yet.

"The thing that puzzles me is that why are they after us here?" a confused girl in blue, more commonly known by her friends as Ami, or Sailor Mercury to very few, asked to the group.

The 5 girls were in the city of Toyama for a national exchange program for their junior year and they were coming in on the 2nd week of school. Their hometown of Tokyo only across the country and they insisted on living in Toyama at a house that all of their relatives pitched in for. They had arrived on Saturday and set up their house.

Now it was Sunday and they were taking a look around the city, trying to get familiar with the surroundings. The last thing that they were expecting was to be attacked by a droid when the Negaverse didn't even know that they were in Toyama. It was like they had a tracking device that sought out the Sailor Scouts.

"Hey guys," a girl in orange said, "What about we combine our powers. We haven't tried that yet."

"Hey, that's a good idea, Venus," a girl in green and pink said to Sailor Venus, or Mina.

Mina smiled at Sailor Jupiter, aka Lita and said, "I thought so too."

"That just might work," Ami said, calculating out the statistics on her mini-computer, "According to my calculations, it has an 85% chance of working. Those odds are good enough for me."

"Me too," Raye said.

"Ditto," said Serena.

Raye took in a deep breath and yelled out, "MARS CELESTIAL FIRE SURROUND."

"JUPITER THUNDERCLAP ZAP," yelled Lita.

"VENUS LOVE CHAIN ENCIRCLE," Mina shouted.

"SHINE AQUA ILLUSION," Ami called out. The combined attacks hit the droid dead on, wounding it mortally.

"MOON SCEPTER ELIMINATION!" Serena used the power of her scepter to deliver the killing blow to the droid.

The 5 girls all slumped in exhaustion, but turned around when they heard people behind them. They turned around to find 5 guys around their age, a little older maybe, looking at them with amazement and wonder, but no fear, like most people held when around a droid. The girls wondered at that. It was like the guys were used to seeing stuff like this.

"Excuse me, can we help you with something?" Raye asked the group of unfazed, yet confused, guys gently.

One of the guys stepped forward a couple of steps and asked, "Who are you?"

The one who had spoken had shoulder-length black hair and dark blue eyes. The look on his face, if anything, was accusing and defensive, as if he had seen hard times and lived to tell about them.

Raye smiled at them, spread her arms out wide, and said, "We are the Sailor Scouts, champions of justice, righters of wrongs and defenders of the innocent."

The rest of the girls shook their heads. Raye had always been one to make everything overly dramatic. Especially instances like this.

Serena put her hands on Raye's arms and said, "Sailor Mars, I think it's time we were going," while leading her away.

The rest of the girls followed and Raye said, "Goodbye, it was nice meeting you." The Scouts ducked behind an abandoned alley and detransformed.

"Raye, do you always have to be so dramatic?" Lita asked as they walked out of the alley after transforming.

"Yes, as a matter of fact, I do," Raye said indignantly.

"But why at the moments when you shouldn't be melodramatic?" Mina said.

"This was a good moment to do it. Those guys wanted an explanation and I gave them one. So I over-acted. It didn't do any harm," Raye said. She adjusted the purse strap on her shoulder and walked forward. Serena surveyed her surroundings and her eyes lit up when she saw a peddlers shop ahead.

"Look, you guys, jewelry!" Serena sprinted ahead and the other girls gave exasperated sighs and followed. When they got to the peddlers stand a few seconds later, their attentions immediately fixed on the display of watches, rings, bracelets, and other fine pieces of jewelry.

Mina and Serena settled down to look at the rings, Lita went to help Raye look for a bracelet, and Ami searched for a new watch. Little did they know, they were being watched...

***
The five Ronin Warriors walked down the streets of Toyama. But of course, no one knew that they were the Ronin Warriors. No one knew the Ronin Warriors even existed.

Wherever they walked, people moved out of their way to let them pass. It wasn't that they wore mean and domineering looks on their faces. Actually, they looked quite happy. But the way that they carried themselves basically said that these were people not to be messed with. People moved around them as they passed, making the Ronin Warriors' way down the streets easy-going as they talked to each other.

Eventually, the happy looks faded into bored looks as they found nothing to do.

Ryo, the unofficial leader of the group, let out a deep sigh and said, "You guys, there's nothing to do."

One of the guys standing next to him turned to him, his blue hair falling in his face, and said, "I bet we'll find something interesting sooner or later. I'm just happy that we have school tomorrow to get rid of the boredom."

Rowen ran his hand through his blue hair, trying in vain to push away the stubborn lock of hair that always fell in his forehead. As soon as he moved it away, it fell in front of his forehead again. Rowen decided to give up and let it stay there.

"We better find something interesting soon or I'll kill someone," Kento said, munching on a bag of chips. They suddenly noticed that the streets around them were empty and they heard fighting a couple of blocks away. Rushing towards the scene, they turned a corner to find five girls in Sailor outfits and short skirts fighting what looked like a monster.

The guys were wondering what good 5 mortal girls could do to a monster like that, but when the one in the red skirt cried out, "MARS CELESTIAL FIRE SURROUND," and shot rings of fire towards the monster, the guys knew that these girls were for real.

The monster, however, dodged the rings easily.

"We tried everything and still, we can't beat this droid!" the girl in the red said.

A girl in red, white and blue said, "We have to keep trying. There's no knowing what this thing can do if we don't destroy it."

"The thing that puzzles me is that why are they after us here?" a girl in blue said.

"Hey guys, what about we combine our powers. We haven't tried that yet," a girl in orange said.

"Hey, that's a good idea, Venus," a girl in green said.

"I thought so too," the orange girl said back.

"That just might work," the blue girl said while typing something into what looked like a little computer. "According to my calculations, it has an 85% chance of working. Those odds are good enough for me."

"Me too," the girl in red said.

"Ditto," the red, white, and blue girl said.

The one in red took in a deep breath and called out, "MARS CELESTIAL FIRE SURROUND!"

"JUPITER THUNDERCLAP ZAP!" the one in green yelled.

"VENUS LOVE CHAIN ENCIRCLE!" the orange one bellowed.

"SHINE AQUA ILLUSION!" the blue one cried out.

The 4 attacks combined and hit the monster hard. The thing grunted and fell back, holding its stomach in pain.

The girl in red, white and blue pulled a scepter from out of nowhere and called out, "MOON SCEPTER ELIMINATION!" and light flew out of the scepter's tip and killed the monster. The girls slumped their shoulders and sighed in relief, but tensed up again when they heard the guys move behind them.

They whipped around and the Ronin Warriors found themselves staring at the most beautiful girls they had ever seen.

The one in the red said, "Excuse me, can we help you with something?"

Ryo stepped forward and said, "Who are you?" getting nods from the other guys behind him.

The red one spread her arms out wide and said, "We are the Sailor Scouts, champions of justice, righters of wrongs, and defenders of the innocent."

The other girls shook their heads at the dramatic introduction and the girl in the red, white and blue said, "Sailor Mars, I think it's time we were going." Grabbing her arms, the girl in red, white and blue grabbed Sailor Mars by the arms and led her away with the others following.

"Goodbye, it was nice meeting you," Sailor Mars said as she was led away.

When they were out of sight, the Ronin Warriors looked at each other with shock registered on their faces.

"Those were the Sailor Scouts?" Sage asked breathless. All five of them had heard of the legendary Sailor Scouts who fought evil in Tokyo and had always admired them.

"Wow, they are beautiful girls in person," Cye said.

"They're ok," Ryo said.

Rowen looked at Ryo and deadpanned, "That's because you're going out with Mia." Ryo shrugged and smiled. Rowen had a point. To him, no one was more beautiful then his girlfriend, Mia Koji.

He turned around and started walking the way they came, towards the more crowded streets and his friends followed. They turned a few corners and stopped when they saw another group of 5 beautiful girls looking a peddler's stand.

One of the girls was holding up a bracelet, her deep violet eyes shining and the sunlight gleaming off her purple-streaked black hair. Another was a girl with her blonde hair in two ponytails, streaming from buns on the top of her head looking at rings with another blonde girl who could have been her twin except for the hair, which was pulled back halfway and held by a red bow. One had blue hair that came halfway down to her neck and she was closely inspecting a wristwatch. The other one was tall with auburn-brown hair in a ponytail, teasing the girl with the black hair about the bracelet she was holding. The girl with black hair elbowed her jokingly and laughed.

"Serena, why are you looking at those rings when you already have one from Darien?" the girl with the blue hair called.

Serena lifted her head and said, "I'm just looking, Ami. I'm not going to replace the one that Darien gave me." The dreamy look in Serena's eyes told the guys that this "Darien" character was at least her boyfriend.

The other blonde girl poked Serena, saying, "Hey Serena, Earth to Serena. Come in."

Serena looked at her and said, "What Mina?"

"Nothing, just wanted to get you out of your daydream. Where were you, the Moon?" Mina asked Serena.

"Yeah, I was," Serena said seriously.

"Figures," Mina said. Serena only gave Mina a look.

"Hey Raye, whatcha looking at?" Serena asked one of the other two girls.

"I'm trying to decide which bracelet would go better with my outfit," the girl with the black hair said, indicating towards her outfit, which consisted of a red tank top and black mini-skirt. She held up the two bracelets for Serena to see and the girl with the brown hair said, "I think neither."

"Shut up, Lita. I don't need your commentary," Raye said.

"Ok, fine," Lita said as she brushed off an invisible piece of dust off from her shirt. She was wearing a yellow shirt that was cut off so her midriff showed and white Capri pants.
Ami gave the vendor money and slipped a watch onto her wrist. The bluish tint of the metal matched nicely with her outfit. She was wearing a long-sleeved pale blue shirt with sleeves that slightly flared out at the end and the first two buttons of her shirt unbuttoned, showing a white tank top underneath. She was wearing a skirt that went mid-thigh that was a deep shade of blue. Serena hopped over to Ami and inspected the watch.

"Ooh, Ami, that's real pretty."

"Thanks Serena," Ami said. Serena was wearing cutoff jean shorts and a light pink tank top with thick straps. Mina came over and looked at the watch as well.

"Yeah Ami, that is nice." Mina was wearing a mini-skirt as well, except hers was orange and she was wearing a white tee shirt. Lita looked up from dusting off her shirt to find the 5 guys staring at them. She nudged Raye, who turned to look at them as well. The others looked at Raye and Lita and turned to see what they saw and found the 5 guys looking at them.

Lita whispered so the guys couldn't hear, "Those are the guys that saw us in our Sailor outfits."

"We know that!" all the other girls said out loud.

Raye sauntered over to the guys, who all abruptly looked away, and said, "You guys were staring at us, weren't you?" The guys recognized the gentle tone in her voice, but they couldn't place where they'd heard it.

Ryo, the only one who was not affected by the girls, said, "I'm sorry, but my friends and I don't believe we've ever seen you before. We would have seen you at school. You new in town?" By this time, all of the other girls were standing by Raye.

"Yeah, we're new in town," Lita said, not wanting to say more than that to perfect strangers.

"What about you guys?" Lita asked. None of the guys except for Ryo seemed able to answer. Sage was busy staring at Raye, Rowen was occupied with Ami, Kento couldn't peel his eyes away from Lita, and Cye was mesmerized with Mina. Ryo looked at the guys and shook his head.

He looked back at the girls and said, "We were just browsing the streets."

"We were too," Mina said, "But we should probably be going now."

"It was nice meeting you," Ami said softly, glancing at the guys individually. The girls turned and walked away, leaving the guys staring at the spot that they were just at.

Ryo stepped in front of the group and turned around, waving his hands in front of the guys.
"Hello? What's up with you guys? Come back to me, here." The guys snapped back to attention and Sage said, "What did you say?"

"Ugh, never mind. What was up with you guys?"

"Did you see those girls?" Sage asked.

"Yeah, I talked to them. You didn't even mutter a word. I thought you were supposed to be good with girls but when you see one of those girls, you turn into a mute."

"But that girl was beautiful..."

"Which one?" Ryo asked, clearly annoyed.

"The one with the long black hair and the purple eyes and the voice as clear as a bell..." It was clear that Sage was gone on Raye. Ryo snapped his fingers in front of Sage's face and brought Sage back from la-la land.

"Come on you guys, let's go home," Ryo said.

"Yeah, I've still got homework to do before tomorrow," Kento said, walking towards the direction of home, his eyes lingering on the spot where the girls once stood. The guys followed him, shaking their heads at one of the weirdest days ever.

***
The Sailor Scouts arrived at their house and collapsed in the family room.

"What a day," Mina said yawning.

"Yeah, I wasn't expecting that attack today. Now I'm tired and I'll still be tired tomorrow when we start school," Ami said.

"I don't know about you guys, but I'm a little nervous about tomorrow. All those new people and we don't all have the same schedule. Or at least our little genius Ami won't," Lita said, teasing Ami about her intelligence.

"Hey, watch it with the smart jokes," Ami muttered in defense, too tired to put up a real fight.

Although all of them were excited about the next day, they were all extremely nervous about starting a new school where they didn't know anyone. It was the only thing on their minds and the more they thought about it, the more nervous they got.

To get the topic of conversation away from school, Mina said, "Hey, what about those guys that we met today? It was weird that we met them when they saw us as the Sailor Scouts and then when we were normal. It's more then a coincidence that we met more than once, but I don't know why. But one of them was really cute. You know, the one with the auburn hair?"

"Nah," Raye said, "The one with the blonde hair."

"Nope you're wrong. It's the one with the headband," Lita said. The three girls started arguing about it when Ami cleared her voice to get their attentions.

"Excuse me," she said in a quiet voice, "But it's the one with the blue hair." The girls looked at Ami shocked. They didn't think that she was paying attention to the guys at all. They were all stunned for a moment but they soon started up the argument again.

"QUIET!" Serena yelled. All of them shut up quick and turned to look at Serena. "You guys are giving me a headache. This argument is stupid. And besides, none of them were really cute."

"That's because you have Darien!" all of them shouted at Serena.

"So, that shouldn't make any difference." Serena got up and began to walk towards her bedroom.

"I'm tired and I don't care if it's only 5:00 in the afternoon. I'm going to sleep. Have fun arguing." She walked out of the room and left them to their argument.