Ami waited outside the Home Economics classroom for Lita, Mina, Raye, and Serena to come out. She was the only one who wasn't taking this class. Instead, she had a free period. During her free, she wandered around campus, checking it out and she had a pretty good idea of the whole layout of the school.

She leaned against the wall and checked her watch. Class was due out any minute. Ami sighed and started thinking about how boring her day had been so far. Physics wasn't too bad. They were covering some stuff that she had only had a chance to barely look at, so she was interested. But Calculus was awful. She had already taken that class, so she spent the entire class period doing homework from future sections of the book. The other thing about her two morning classes was that she was the only girl in both. It seemed that girls weren't as ambitious in Toyama as they were in Tokyo. If Rowen hadn't been with her to answer her questions about the school and to keep her company, she probably would have shot herself.

Thinking about Rowen make her smile and brought a slight tinge of pink to her face. Their class schedules were the exact same, except that when she had her morning free period he had PE. She really liked him. Out all the people in her Calculus class, he seemed to be the smartest and he wasn't afraid to ask Ami for help.

The Calculus class was learning a concept that nobody understood except for Ami, who had already taken the class. She remembered the two boys talking behind her about how they didn't get it. She turned around and offered to help them, but they scorned her and said that they don't take help from a girl. Ami turned back around, hurt at what they said, until Rowen nudged her and said, "Hey, what do they know? They're ignorant, sexist pigs. But, hey, since you're not helping them, how about helping me?" Ami just smiled at him and settled down to help him. With maybe 5 minutes of explaining, Rowen understood it perfectly while the two guys behind her were still having trouble.

Ami shook her head to clear her thoughts when the door in front of her opened and students started filing out. Ami stood against the doorway to find her four friends packing up their stuff. Serena was the first one to spot Ami in the doorway and called her over.

"Hey Ami!" Serena said, "What brings you here?"

"I had a free and I was going to wait for you guys to get out so we could all go to lunch. I found this really great spot that's not too far from here. I already have my stuff there, so let's hurry."

Together, they all walked to this picnic table that was underneath a large oak tree. Lita, Mina, Raye, and Serena automatically thought of home.

"This looks exactly like the place we used to have scout meetings at back at home," Mina said nostalgically.

"Yeah, remember I used to cook for our scout meetings and we would spread out all the food. Hey, do you guys remember the time when Luna fell into the soy sauce? I have never seen her so mad!" Lita said.

"Yeah, well you didn't have to give her a bath after. I did," Serena said.

They all sat down and Raye turned to Lita and said, "Hey, speaking of food, do you have that special lunch that you packed for our first day of school, Lita?"

"Hmm? Oh, yeah." Digging into her school bag, she pulled out a huge bag of food. She set out all the food and the girls started digging in.

"So," Serena said, chewing on a bite of a rice cake, "How has everyone's morning gone so far?" Lita, Mina, and Raye all gave signs of appraisal that indicated that their mornings had been ok, but Ami said, "It was boring."

"Boring?" Lita asked.

"How?" Mina exclaimed.

"Why?" Raye asked, concerned.

"Well, physics wasn't that bad. They're studying something that I never really went into a lot of depth on, but my Calculus class is filled with a bunch of morons."

"You mean except for that guy. You know, the guy with the same color hair as yours," Serena said.

"Yes, except for Rowen, the entire class is made up of idiots. They don't like the fact that there's a girl in their class."

"Wait, you mean you're the only girl in your calculus class?" Raye exclaimed.

"And my physics class. The only thing that makes it bearable is the fact that Rowen's in both of my classes. Thank God for small favors."

"Aw, come on Ami, you know you like him," Lita said.

"I never said I didn't. You know, it's weird that we ran into them twice yesterday. By the peddler's shop and then before that when the droid attacked."

"What droid? You didn't tell me about any droid." The Sailor Scouts looked down to find Luna and Artemis by the edge of the table.

"That's because you and Artemis were asleep, you silly cat. What are you doing here?" Serena asked with an accusing tone of voice.

"We came to see how your first day of school was going. Nothing life-threatening, I hope," Artemis said.

"No, it's pretty good. Ami's stuck in these boring classes though," Mina said.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Remember, though, it's only for a year," Luna said, reassuringly.

"Yeah, I know, only a year. And still, I have yet to see my other classes. It ought to be interesting. Well, let's hope anyway."

Serena got up and said, "I'll be right back. I'm going to go get something to drink. Come on, Luna, I'll tell you about the attack." She picked up Luna and placed her on her shoulder. It was a bit of a search to find the soda machine, but it gave her time to tell Luna about the droid attack.

"That's weird, Serena, it's like they knew you were here."

"Yeah, and that's the disturbing thing. How did they know we were here?"

"I don't know Serena." Serena found the soda machine and stood there, looking at her options.

Ryo came up to her and said, "Hey Serena." Serena turned around and greeted him back.

"Oh, hey Ryo." They had only known each other for about three hours, but already, they were becoming fast friends. They had a lot they could both relate to, one of them being the fact that they were both dating older people who were in college. Ryo was about to say something when he spotted Luna.

"Serena, why is there a cat on your shoulder?"

"Oh, you mean Luna? She's my cat. She obviously followed me to school. This whole place is new to her and she probably wanted to know that there was someone she knew in this strange place. Yeah, she followed me along with Mina's cat Artemis. Say hi." Serena held out Luna for Ryo to pet and Ryo gave Luna a good-natured scratch behind the ears.

"She's cute. But, I'm used to dealing with bigger cats."

"Do you have cat?"

"Yeah, but it's not actually a cat."

"Well, what is it then?"

"It's a large white tiger."

Serena laughed, thinking he was joking, but when she saw no humor on his face, she said, "You aren't joking, are you?"

"No, I'm not. I'll take you to meet him, someday. His name's White Blaze."

"Hmm, how appropriate. Hey, do you wanna come eat with my friends and me? We're right...over...there." Serena turned around and saw that Ryo's friends had found her friends and had crowded around the picnic table.

"I guess I'm eating with you, then," Ryo said. Serena took a good look at the group of eight at her table.

"Hey, Ryo, did you notice a lot of similarities between our groups of friends? I mean, you have your two blue-haired geniuses, your two purple-eyed people who practice meditation, two people who deal a lot with food, whether eating it or making it, and two people who are nice to everyone around them. Now that I think about it, I see 4 potential couples sitting right over there. Do you think..."

"That we should..." Ryo broke in.

"Play matchmaker?" they both said at the same time.

"I mean, why not? Why begrudge our friends happiness?" Serena said.

"I don't see any reason why not," Ryo said mischievously. Smiling at each other, they made their way back to their table, very happy at their idea.

Serena and Ryo sat down and suddenly Rowen noticed both of the cats.

"What's with the cats?" he asked. Serena lifted Luna off of her shoulder and put her down on the table.

"Well, they're our cats. The black one is Luna and the white one is Artemis."

"Hmm," Rowen said, "That's strange."

"What's strange?" Raye said.

"Well, their names both have something to do with the moon and they both have crescent moon marks on their foreheads. It's weird." The girls looked at each other in panic. Rowen was getting really close with the crescent moon mark remark.

"Uhh, my little brother, um, shaved crescent moon marks on to their foreheads right before I left. Kind of a sick going away present," Serena said hurriedly.

The other girls each gave small sighs in relief that Serena had come up with a sufficient cover story for marks that they couldn't explain to these guys. With that situation taken care of, the Sailor Scouts and the Ronin Warriors settled into lunch.