Hey there everyone! My name is Caroline and this is my story! I don't Sailor Moon, Naoko does. This is one of my first fics so don't be TOO harsh! Ja ne!
"Sailor… Moon?" The five people stared at the young woman. Perplexed by her beauty and angered at her shield of ice.
She LOOKED like the other senshi- the same Fuku, different colours of course: Her sailor collar was a light gray, her bow at her breast and the small of her back was a darker shade of gray. Her skirt was silver- it glimmered in the half moon behind her -Her boots were pure white with silver crescent moons adorning the point. Her tiara was platinum with a set diamond, and the jewels on her unique hairstyle (Buns on top of her head, with pigtails coming down from them) were diamonds as well. So say the least she looked like some one had opened a 'Sailor Senshi Barbie Doll'.
"That's Right," She said curtly, inching her nose up and making her look egotistic.
"Who are you?" Sailor Mercury asked.
"None-" She snipped, sharply, "-Of your business." She looked each and every one of the Sailor Senshi in the eyes. "You have proven very little help to me," Her voice was like a hot knife through butter, "And YOU, Tuxedo Kamen," She said indicating his hungry looking eyes, "Had better keep your hands away from me." And with that she was gone in a flash of silver sparkles.
Tuxedo Kamen blushed a considerable shade of red as the four scouts giggled at him. "I was NOT looking!"
"No… you were thinking of touching," Sailor Mars said laughing. The girls agreed with her and they laughed until he was ready to bury himself in the ground.
"Some day I'll get you back, Mars," He snipped. Rei continued to laugh.
"I'm SURE," She laughed teasingly.
"Now you guys…" Mercury said cutting through the snippy remarks, "We have to learn more about this 'Sailor Moon'."
"Not tonight, Merc. I'm dead tired," Venus said rubbing her face.
"You're right, after all- there is school tomorrow!" Mercury replied happily.
"Only YOU could be excited about that," Jupiter groaned considerably.
"I have a physics test tomorrow! How am I to face it without getting enough sleep!" Kamen whined. Mars, Jupiter, and Venus groaned at him.
"Only YOU!" The three of them said, "And possibly Ami."
"Hey!" She said in protest. Kamen joined her.
"Let's go get some sleep," Mars said. Her four companions nodded.
"Right," They said, then split up to go their separate ways. Each one wondering who and what this sailor moon person was.
** Mamoru woke up with the sun, as he always did. His dreams of the new Sailor Senshi made him groan. She was such a troubling person… and so beautiful…
"So!" Mamoru said out loud to the sky, "So what if she's beautiful! She was a first class snot!" He retorted to the silence. True she WAS beautiful, and Mamoru WAS of college age… Mamoru shook his head. It didn't matter. The Stupid Sailor Moon was no one!
But… but that girl had more power in one finger then all the Senshi put together could have. And that power is what scared him the most.
** On the other side of town a beautiful young woman was sleeping. She was slowly being driven insane from her dreams…
"Sailor Moon?" A deep and rich voice said to her. Sailor Moon found herself in a field, it was a misty night… and she could see the full moon above her.
"Sailor Moon." The voice said again, she turned to see a man dressed navy blue and silver armor. He had coal black hair, and tantalizing blue eyes.
"Sailor Moon," He said again, this time more gently. He reached out for her hand and took it swiftly in his, then pulled her close.
"My, Dear Sailor Moon," He whispered into her ear, "You must find the Silver Imperium Crystal, then all your questions will be answered."
"Prince!" She said as the dream began to fade. Darkness surrounded her.
*GASP!* She bolted upright in bed, sweat soaking her pillows. She groaned and rolled over. Was she doomed to relive this dream every night? Until she found the Crystal?
** Mamoru walked out of his apartment and into the morning sun. His class didn't start for another good hour so he decided to walk to the college campus. He was going to pass through Juuban district, maybe he'd see Ami and he could talk to her about Sailor Moon… whoever she was, and whatever she wanted.
"Oh! Mamoru!" A familiar voice said from behind him. He turned to find Ami and Makoto walking up to him
"Makoto! Ami!" He said happily. Makoto still looked tired. "Still tired, Mako?" He asked his friend. She nodded and let her head hang.
"Oh, Dear!" A voice said from behind them. "I'm so LATE! On my first day of school! I was supposed to be there a half an hour early! Oh I'm LATE!" The three watched with wide eyes a slender, blue-eyed, blonde haired girl came running down the block at break neck speed.
The three watched her with curious eyes, and Mamoru hadn't noticed exactly how far into the path of the young woman he was- BAM. Now he did.
The two went sprawling onto the pavement. The blonde moaned and Mamoru held a hand to his head. He looked at the girl with angry eyes, even as she was pouring out apologies like a faucet.
"Watch it, Odango Atama!" He yelled, noticing that her hair was done in two 'odangos' with two beautiful golden pigtails. He was vaguely reminded of Sailor Moon. The girl let her mouth hang open a second in protest as he insulted her hair.
"Oooooooo!" The girl was fuming now. Her eyes turned to slits and she yelled at him, "You are so mean! It wasn't even worth my while to run into you, and you deserved it!" She yelled, getting up and 'accidentally' hitting his head
with her book bag.
"Odango Atama!" He yelled at this unknown girl.
"Jerk!" She snipped back walking past him and onto the school.
"That was a little rude, don't you think, Mamoru?" Ami asked her friend.
"No," he said curtly, still angry with the 'Odango Atama'.
"Extra! Extra! Read all about it!" a paper boy said from the corner, "A new Sailor Senshi added!" he called, "'Sailor Moon'!"
Ami, Makoto, and Mamoru exchanged glances. "Should you or should I?" Mamoru asked them.
"Your turn," Ami said. Darien walked up to the newsboy. He paid for a paper then went back to his friends.
"Let's see… 'New Sailor Senshi was spotted last night when a youma attacked the Juuban district park… blah, blah, blah… She calls herself Sailor Moon." Mamoru looked up from the paper to see his friend's eyes.
"Great, now the whole city knows about it! I really don't want them to know that we can't get along with the new Sailor Senshi," Makoto said, looking ready to pound something.
"Calm down, Mako," Ami said sensibly.
"She's right, Mako," Mamoru agreed, "You need to calm down."
"C'mon, Ami, Let's go. School starts any minute." Makoto grumbled and the two walked away tossing a wave to Darien and saying good-bye.
** "Miss Tsukino, Right?" A man with a shinny bald, head said to Usagi as She walked into the office. It hadn't helped at ALL that she was late nor did it help that she HAD to run into that JERK on her way here. To say the least she was QUITE ornery and was ready to beat anyone who challenged her to a bloody pulp. Usagi looked up at the man.
"Yes." She said quietly.
"It doesn't look good when one is late on their first day of school," he had said to her, with an 'I'm going to launch into a long lecture on why not to be late' edge to his voice. Usagi mentally rolled her starry blue eyes.
"Yes I know, Mr. Tekada."
"Then," The principal said to her, raising an eyebrow, "You won't be late again will you?" Usagi blushed and looked toward the ground.
"I'll try not, Sir," She said quietly.
"Do or Do not. There is no try," He said, slightly steamed that she had only said 'Tried' and not promised like all normal kids. But he had gotten the strangest feeling that this one, this Tsukino Usagi, was NOT a normal kid.
"Yes, sir," Usagi said, trying her best NOT to slam her hands on his desk and yell angrily at him about how hard her day and night had been.
"Here's your home room teacher and your locker number and combination. Hurry up so you're not late for class," He said. Usagi blushed with both embarrassment and anger. It was said that this young woman could hold a temper when pushed to it. She nodded once and took the slip of paper handed to her.
"Thank you, Mr. Tekada," She said walking swiftly out of the room. She growled as soon as she was out of his sight. She walked through the mass of kids earning some very interesting looks from the males of the bunch. She hissed at them and they backed off.
Usagi hadn't wanted to change schools, but it was vital in her role as Sailor Moon, So she had begged her mother and they talked it out. Now she was staying with Aunt Ikuko and Uncle Kenji. She grumbled as she passed the 'Bitches R Us' Group of the school and tossed them a look that could kill, she KNEW she'd been automatically added to their 'Hit list'. Frankly: She couldn't care less.
After the jocks, the popular idiots, the druggies, white people who acted like they were black, the nerds, the Trekkies and the just plain freaks (AN: HEY! That's MY group!) Usagi finally came to her locker and homeroom.
"That had to be the most interesting trip through the halls of this lifetime," she muttered under her breath and going to her locker. She shook her head and rolled her eyes. This was going to be an interesting school year.
Usagi tried at her locker, it wouldn't budge… she mumbled a few 'choice' words and banged her fist on its bland metal doors. Usagi grumbled and tried again and again.
"That's it!" She yelled at the top of her lungs, "Screw the damn locker!"
"Having some trouble there?" A voice asked her. Usagi turned around to face a tall girl with beautiful green eyes and mahogany colored hair. She was a very domineering figure and Usagi turned her chin up a little ways to stare in to the smiling face.
"Hey," She said, "I'm Makoto." Makoto took a small step back and held out her hand.
"Hello, I'm Usagi," Usagi said, taking her hand.
"Hey, Aren't you that girl that ran into Mamoru this morning?" She asked. Usagi blushed. He was in HER path, what else was she to do. Besides, he was such a jerk about it.
"Uh, Yeah I guess…" Usagi blushed a little. She smiled as Makoto turned the lock on her locker and began to open it. She made pleasant conversation.
"Yeah, I have NEVER seen him so steamed. You made that the highlight of my day," Makoto said laughing. Usagi giggled a little.
"I don't know him so…"
"Oh He is this cocky cool, calm, collective son of a bitch. He's really quite funny to see when he's mad," Makoto said laughingly.
"Who?" Came a gentle voice from behind the two girls. Usagi and Makoto turned around to see a small blue haired blue-eyed girl smiling at the duo.
"Hey, Ami," Makoto said, "This is Usagi," She motioned to Usagi. Ami smiled.
"Hello, Usagi, I'm Ami," Ami said. Usagi smiled back. **Click** Usagi snapped around to find that Makoto had opened her locker. Usagi's eyes brightened.
"Thank you, Makoto!" Usagi said happily throwing some nameless, faceless items into the locker.
The three girls continued talking as a rather short boy with coke-bottle glasses and ruffled brown hair peered around the corner at the group. Two of the prettiest girls in the school were talking with this 'New Student' -this goddess. Umino blushed as he called her that, but pretty was pretty. And this girl certainly surpassed pretty.
"UMINOOOOOOOOH!" A kind of loud and slightly annoying voice said from behind him. He turned to face a red headed girl a little smaller then he was. He blushed.
"Uhhh, Hey, Naru," He said. Naru smiled and turned to see what he was staring at.
"Oh that must be our new student," Naru said walking away from Umino to go and talk to the new girl.
"Hello, Naru!" Ami said brightly, "This is Usagi."
Usagi smiled, "Hello, Naru."
"Hey, Naru," Makoto said smiling.
"Hello, You must be out new student!" A cheery voice said from behind the girls, "I'm your teacher Miss Haruna."
"Hello, Miss Haruna," Usagi said smiling.
"Well, You girls! Come on, Class is going to start any minute!" Miss Haruna said walking into the room. Usagi stared after her. She shrugged her shoulders and walked into the classroom with her new found friends.
** Chiba Mamoru was finally let out of his class. It was four o'clock and he knew that the girls would be over at the arcade. Deciding to head over there and see Motoki and the girls, he tossed his books into the pouch on his bike (Motorcycle) and stared off, carefully avoiding the beginnings of rush hour traffic.
In a few minutes he was there and flashed a dazzling smile to a group of girls staring at him with starry eyes from the corner. They sighed as he walked past them to his friends and barely heard them whisper, "It's the only reason we come here! To see TWO way cute boys at once!"
Mamoru chuckled to himself as he waved to his friend who was handing a milkshake to a little boy. Motoki waved back.
"Hey, Mamoru!" Motoki said, green eyes flashing as his best friend came up to him.
"Hey, Motoki," Mamoru said, smiling. "So are the girls here?" He asked, Motoki knew that it was the SAME four girls he ALWAYS hung out with.
"Yeah, and they've got this new girl with them. She's a total BABE!" Motoki said, eyes going wide and a smile breaking his face. Mamoru rolled his eyes, only Motoki.
"Get me a cup of coffee, Motoki, I'll be over with them," Mamoru had to see this girl. Motoki may have been a little girl-crazy, but very few girls were dubbed with the Motoki 'Total Babe' stamp of approval. Mamoru would have to see if the girl got the Mamoru 'Total Babe' stamp of approval
"Hi, Girls!" He said as he approached them. The new girl turned around slightly and Mamoru wanted to do two things: Scream or Laugh. He decided to laugh.
"Odango Atama!" He laughed. The girl jumped up from her position on the table.
"What gives you the right to insult my hair, Jerk!?" Usagi yelled at the raven-haired man.
"That fact that you wear it in that RIDICULOUS style, Odango," he laughed, tugging on a pigtail. True he didn't even know this girls real name, but to tell you the truth he didn't care. For some strange reason he just HAD to do something that would make her mad, something that would stay in her mind.
"Ooooooh!" She yelled, "I was having an almost PERFECT day until you ruined it! Just like you ruined MY morning and made me late!" She yelled at him.
"Hey! Who ran into who here?" He asked her, shreds of amusement and laughter still lingering in his voice.
"Ooooooh! I HATE you- Who EVER you are!" She said, not remembering exactly what his name was from this morning.
"You can call me jerk, just like you always do… Odango Atama!" He laughed. Usagi grabbed her glass of water and promptly poured it over his head. She smiled a wicked smile and walked past him tossing a good-bye over her shoulder to the girls.
"Way to go, Mamoru!" Makoto said clapping sarcastically, "And Mamoru takes the prize for best way to make friends with the locals!"
But Mamoru wasn't listening he was watching that girl leave… the sun and breeze caught her hair making it shimmer behind her in wave of gold. *Motoki was right,* Mamoru thought, *She IS very beautiful.* But beautiful or not, she was still an annoying girl who got on his nerves. Who ever she was.
"Mamo-ruuuuuuu!" Minako called in a singsong voice. Mamoru looked from the door into the denim blue of her laughing eyes.
"Huh?" He asked her.
"Mamoru was in La-la land!" Rei giggled. "How was your first trip there?"
"Shut up, Rei," Mamoru said nonchalantly. Rei waved a hand effortlessly in the air.
"Ooooooh Poor Mamoru is weeeeeeeeeeeet," She laughed.
"So, Us- HEY! Where'd she go?" Motoki asked as he came up to the table, he looked around for the beautiful blonde, but she was nowhere in sight.
"Mamoru scared her off," Minako said giggling.
"Mamoru, Why are you all wet?" He asked his raven-haired friend.
"I was assaulted by a glass of water and an Odango Atama," He growled under her breath. Motoki looked at him strangely and then turned to the girls for assistance.
"That girl you think is a babe, Mamoru doesn't know her name so he calls her 'Odango Atama'," Makoto said, smiling at the angry Mamoru.
"You know, Mamoru, you should get to know her. She's very nice," Ami said calmly, looking up from her book and then back into it.
"Like I CARE," Mamoru said sarcastically. Makoto rolled her eyes.
"Well, look who's on PMS," She said, laughing. Mamoru blushed then rolled his eyes.
"Mako, Shut up," He said laughing slightly.
"Well, HMPH! You can just be that way!" She giggled a little turning back to her circle of girl friends. Mamoru turned to Motoki.
"Do you have a towel?" He asked exasperated. Motoki laughed and nodded.
"Yeah, in the back," He said, smiling at his friend.
"Thanks," Mamoru said walking around his friend to the back room, the 'Odangoed' one was lingering in his mind. Why couldn't he get that stupid, stuck-up, little brat out of his mind?
** Usagi flopped on her bed. She sighed, this was soooooo annoying… whoever that jerk was, he had NO right to make fun of her like that. She turned over on her stomach.
"Oh, Endymion," She whispered into the blood red sky, "What am I to do?" She moaned softly then locked her door and got out her locket. Oh, her locket. She had no Idea where she had gotten it. She seemed to remember ALWAYS having it. She sighed again. The sky was darkening and Usagi knew that there would be another attack tonight.
"I don't WANT it to happen… why can't I just be a normal kid? Why must I be Sailor Moon? Why?" She asked the sky sadly. A single tear slid from her eye and glittered before it fell to the fabric beneath her. Usagi brushed a strand of blonde hair out of her face and smiled at the sky. At least it was a pretty sunset.
"Good Night, Endymion," She whispered, then blew a kiss into the air.
** Mamoru was pacing… anytime now. It was one fifty three in the morning and he knew that any time now there would be an attack. BEEP! Right on time. He flipped open his black communicator.
"Yeah?" He asked.
"Attack in the park. Need you!" Minako gasped out as she ran down the street. Mamoru nodded. He pulled out a white transformation rose and turned into the hunky, masked hero: Tuxedo Kamen. Grumbling about youmas and coffee and tests and such he made his way to the balcony. Oh WHY did fate have to make him Tuxedo Kamen?
The trip to the park was not long, but he stopped on a rooftop a block away. There running like the hounds of hell were on her, was Sailor Moon. Tuxedo Kamen smiled deviously.
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon. His eyes watched those powerful and AMAZING long legs of hers. He smiled as her short skirt ridded up a little, then blushed. *Hentai!* he put down himself, *You shouldn't be thinking of such things, not when innocent people need to be saved.*
"Oh, but I DO enjoy them so," He smiled again. Then shook his head and rushed to the park. Tuxedo Kamen took a deep breath, there a cage of vine-like things trapped the girls and a youma that looked like one of those demented talking trees from the 'Wizard of Oz'.
Kamen tossed a rose at it. The blood red rose shaved one of its branches and a purple/green color oozed from the cut. Kamen could only guess that it was some sorry excuse for blood. He threw another rose at it, only leading to the thing becoming more agitated and chasing after Kamen.
"Uh-oh," Kamen whispered under his breath.
"… ACTION!" Out of nowhere a silver disk came and chopped the youma into a dust. "Moon Dusted," came a smug voice. Kamen looked to where the disk had come from. Sailor Moon was standing on a branch on the other side of the tree Kamen was on.
She jumped down from the branch and landed on her feet, then went to Kamen's knocked out senshi to see if they were all right. They were. Moon turned around to find her looking into Kamen's chest. She blushed a deep red as She took a step back, in turn finding her tripping over Mars' foot. Kamen instinctively reached out and grabbed her waist to keep her from falling.
"Um," He said assessing their current position. He could feel her slim waist fitting easily into his arms. Moon felt a warm blush creep upon her cheeks. Hadn't she said only yesterday how he should keep his hands to himself? And here she was ENJOYING his touch?
"Um," She replied, swallowing hard. She stared up into deep blue eyes that were looking into hers. Moon blushed a deeper red, then Mars and the others suddenly began to stir. Moon pushed herself from Kamen's arms and rushed away.
"Sailor Moon!" He called after her. But she was gone… into the night.
** Usagi pushed herself against a brick wall and took in a deep breath. Her heart pounded in her chest, partially from running, but mostly from Tuxedo Kamen. No person had ever been able to make her feel like that before. She was lost in deep thought then her ears perked up at the sound of some one approaching.
"Oda- OOMPH!?" Usagi had just punched a certain 'jerk' in the stomach.
"Oh my god!" Usagi jumped back.
"Oooh, MAN! You sure do pack a punch for being so small Odango," He groaned holding his stomach. Usagi held a hand to her lips.
"I'm sorry! I thought you were going to attack me," She blushed.
"Which leads to the question: Why are you out here?" he asked, pushing some raven hair from his face.
"I couldn't sleep," Usagi said indignantly.
"Really?" Mamoru groaned again, how hard HAD she hit him?
"Well what about you?" Usagi asked. Mamoru shrugged.
"Couldn't Sleep. Listen, Odango Atama-"
"Do you WANT another punch?"
"Whatever, Listen, these streets at night are NO place for a girl such as yourself. C'mon, I'll walk you home," Mamoru said. Usagi crossed her arms over her chest.
"No," She said calmly, "I can take care of myself!"
"Oh come ON!" Mamoru said, exasperated.
"I CAN!" She said walking off down the street, "Jerk!" She called over her shoulder. For the first time Mamoru chased after her. For every one of her strides he took two. Soon he caught up with her and grabbed her upper arms. He forced her to turn around.
"Listen, as much as you aggravate me," He said, "I DON'T want you walking these streets alone! Now Come ON. I'm not leaving you until you are in your room, safe and sound."
Usagi stared up at him. She blushed a little red and turned to look down at the ground. "I'm sorry…umm…"
"Mamoru," Mamoru said calmly walking by her side as they started off toward her house. "And you are?"
"Odango Atama," Usagi refused to let him know her name, for fear he might make some comment about that too.
"Ah, I see," Mamoru said, smirking. Usagi blushed.
"So, Odango," Mamoru began, Usagi forced herself not to yell at him, after all: She provoked it. "Why couldn't you sleep?"
"Huh? Oh, I was having nightmares. You?" Usagi asked him.
"I was just studying," he said *and having sweet daydreams about a certain bishoujo senshi…*. Mamoru looked down on the small odangoed one and wished he could know her real name. The moonlight caught her hair making it turn silver in the night's light. He held in a gasp at her beauty. She looked like a goddess sent from the moon, and she also looked so familiar…
"So, Odango…" Mamoru asked her.
"What?" Usagi asked grumpily as she turned her head up to look him in the eyes.
"I was just wondering where you came from. I mean, I've never seen you around Tokyo before. But it is a big city and all… just curious?" He asked her, ignoring her tone of voice.
"I'm from Hiroshima," She said calmly, pushing a pigtail over her shoulder.
"Oh. So what are you doing here?"
"I um, came here to live with my aunt and uncle. My parents are back home." Usagi suddenly panicked, What if he asked her WHY she came down here?
"Oh really?" Mamoru asked, "Why?"
"I umm, just decided to come here," Usagi said nervously, shrugging.
"Oh." Mamoru said calmly.
"Yeah well, ya know…" Usagi blushed. There was an awkward silence.
"So, umm…" Mamoru said, trying to think of a topic to talk about.
"What brought you out of your studies?" Usagi asked quickly.
"Huh? Oh I just needed to get out, too many equations," Mamoru said laughingly. Usagi smiled gently.
"I guess I can understand."
"So umm, how do you like Tokyo?" He asked her.
"Oh? I like it a lot. It's really an interesting city, much more then Hiroshima anyway," Usagi said waving a hand in the air aimlessly. "I um, oh look, here's Aunt Ikuko's house…" Usagi said looking up at the two story white building. Mamoru nodded.
"Um, okay. Well, at least I can sleep better knowing that you're okay."
"Like you'd care," Usagi said. She gasped, lack of sleep had to be getting to her. Here this perfectly HANDSOME guy -true he was a total JERK- had walked her home and cared about HER safety and now she was INSULTING him? Usagi should DEFINITELY get some more sleep. Mamoru's eyes turned to slits.
"You're right, Odango. I DON'T care," he hissed out, angrily. Usagi felt her insides go tense at his words, but she pushed back her emotions and stared him angrily in the eyes.
"Good, at least I've got one less person in MY life to worry about!" Usagi yelled at him.
"Well good, then you can have more time for your frivolous activities!" Mamoru yelled back. The two glared at each other before Usagi walked up her walkway and into her house.
"Sailor… Moon?" The five people stared at the young woman. Perplexed by her beauty and angered at her shield of ice.
She LOOKED like the other senshi- the same Fuku, different colours of course: Her sailor collar was a light gray, her bow at her breast and the small of her back was a darker shade of gray. Her skirt was silver- it glimmered in the half moon behind her -Her boots were pure white with silver crescent moons adorning the point. Her tiara was platinum with a set diamond, and the jewels on her unique hairstyle (Buns on top of her head, with pigtails coming down from them) were diamonds as well. So say the least she looked like some one had opened a 'Sailor Senshi Barbie Doll'.
"That's Right," She said curtly, inching her nose up and making her look egotistic.
"Who are you?" Sailor Mercury asked.
"None-" She snipped, sharply, "-Of your business." She looked each and every one of the Sailor Senshi in the eyes. "You have proven very little help to me," Her voice was like a hot knife through butter, "And YOU, Tuxedo Kamen," She said indicating his hungry looking eyes, "Had better keep your hands away from me." And with that she was gone in a flash of silver sparkles.
Tuxedo Kamen blushed a considerable shade of red as the four scouts giggled at him. "I was NOT looking!"
"No… you were thinking of touching," Sailor Mars said laughing. The girls agreed with her and they laughed until he was ready to bury himself in the ground.
"Some day I'll get you back, Mars," He snipped. Rei continued to laugh.
"I'm SURE," She laughed teasingly.
"Now you guys…" Mercury said cutting through the snippy remarks, "We have to learn more about this 'Sailor Moon'."
"Not tonight, Merc. I'm dead tired," Venus said rubbing her face.
"You're right, after all- there is school tomorrow!" Mercury replied happily.
"Only YOU could be excited about that," Jupiter groaned considerably.
"I have a physics test tomorrow! How am I to face it without getting enough sleep!" Kamen whined. Mars, Jupiter, and Venus groaned at him.
"Only YOU!" The three of them said, "And possibly Ami."
"Hey!" She said in protest. Kamen joined her.
"Let's go get some sleep," Mars said. Her four companions nodded.
"Right," They said, then split up to go their separate ways. Each one wondering who and what this sailor moon person was.
** Mamoru woke up with the sun, as he always did. His dreams of the new Sailor Senshi made him groan. She was such a troubling person… and so beautiful…
"So!" Mamoru said out loud to the sky, "So what if she's beautiful! She was a first class snot!" He retorted to the silence. True she WAS beautiful, and Mamoru WAS of college age… Mamoru shook his head. It didn't matter. The Stupid Sailor Moon was no one!
But… but that girl had more power in one finger then all the Senshi put together could have. And that power is what scared him the most.
** On the other side of town a beautiful young woman was sleeping. She was slowly being driven insane from her dreams…
"Sailor Moon?" A deep and rich voice said to her. Sailor Moon found herself in a field, it was a misty night… and she could see the full moon above her.
"Sailor Moon." The voice said again, she turned to see a man dressed navy blue and silver armor. He had coal black hair, and tantalizing blue eyes.
"Sailor Moon," He said again, this time more gently. He reached out for her hand and took it swiftly in his, then pulled her close.
"My, Dear Sailor Moon," He whispered into her ear, "You must find the Silver Imperium Crystal, then all your questions will be answered."
"Prince!" She said as the dream began to fade. Darkness surrounded her.
*GASP!* She bolted upright in bed, sweat soaking her pillows. She groaned and rolled over. Was she doomed to relive this dream every night? Until she found the Crystal?
** Mamoru walked out of his apartment and into the morning sun. His class didn't start for another good hour so he decided to walk to the college campus. He was going to pass through Juuban district, maybe he'd see Ami and he could talk to her about Sailor Moon… whoever she was, and whatever she wanted.
"Oh! Mamoru!" A familiar voice said from behind him. He turned to find Ami and Makoto walking up to him
"Makoto! Ami!" He said happily. Makoto still looked tired. "Still tired, Mako?" He asked his friend. She nodded and let her head hang.
"Oh, Dear!" A voice said from behind them. "I'm so LATE! On my first day of school! I was supposed to be there a half an hour early! Oh I'm LATE!" The three watched with wide eyes a slender, blue-eyed, blonde haired girl came running down the block at break neck speed.
The three watched her with curious eyes, and Mamoru hadn't noticed exactly how far into the path of the young woman he was- BAM. Now he did.
The two went sprawling onto the pavement. The blonde moaned and Mamoru held a hand to his head. He looked at the girl with angry eyes, even as she was pouring out apologies like a faucet.
"Watch it, Odango Atama!" He yelled, noticing that her hair was done in two 'odangos' with two beautiful golden pigtails. He was vaguely reminded of Sailor Moon. The girl let her mouth hang open a second in protest as he insulted her hair.
"Oooooooo!" The girl was fuming now. Her eyes turned to slits and she yelled at him, "You are so mean! It wasn't even worth my while to run into you, and you deserved it!" She yelled, getting up and 'accidentally' hitting his head
with her book bag.
"Odango Atama!" He yelled at this unknown girl.
"Jerk!" She snipped back walking past him and onto the school.
"That was a little rude, don't you think, Mamoru?" Ami asked her friend.
"No," he said curtly, still angry with the 'Odango Atama'.
"Extra! Extra! Read all about it!" a paper boy said from the corner, "A new Sailor Senshi added!" he called, "'Sailor Moon'!"
Ami, Makoto, and Mamoru exchanged glances. "Should you or should I?" Mamoru asked them.
"Your turn," Ami said. Darien walked up to the newsboy. He paid for a paper then went back to his friends.
"Let's see… 'New Sailor Senshi was spotted last night when a youma attacked the Juuban district park… blah, blah, blah… She calls herself Sailor Moon." Mamoru looked up from the paper to see his friend's eyes.
"Great, now the whole city knows about it! I really don't want them to know that we can't get along with the new Sailor Senshi," Makoto said, looking ready to pound something.
"Calm down, Mako," Ami said sensibly.
"She's right, Mako," Mamoru agreed, "You need to calm down."
"C'mon, Ami, Let's go. School starts any minute." Makoto grumbled and the two walked away tossing a wave to Darien and saying good-bye.
** "Miss Tsukino, Right?" A man with a shinny bald, head said to Usagi as She walked into the office. It hadn't helped at ALL that she was late nor did it help that she HAD to run into that JERK on her way here. To say the least she was QUITE ornery and was ready to beat anyone who challenged her to a bloody pulp. Usagi looked up at the man.
"Yes." She said quietly.
"It doesn't look good when one is late on their first day of school," he had said to her, with an 'I'm going to launch into a long lecture on why not to be late' edge to his voice. Usagi mentally rolled her starry blue eyes.
"Yes I know, Mr. Tekada."
"Then," The principal said to her, raising an eyebrow, "You won't be late again will you?" Usagi blushed and looked toward the ground.
"I'll try not, Sir," She said quietly.
"Do or Do not. There is no try," He said, slightly steamed that she had only said 'Tried' and not promised like all normal kids. But he had gotten the strangest feeling that this one, this Tsukino Usagi, was NOT a normal kid.
"Yes, sir," Usagi said, trying her best NOT to slam her hands on his desk and yell angrily at him about how hard her day and night had been.
"Here's your home room teacher and your locker number and combination. Hurry up so you're not late for class," He said. Usagi blushed with both embarrassment and anger. It was said that this young woman could hold a temper when pushed to it. She nodded once and took the slip of paper handed to her.
"Thank you, Mr. Tekada," She said walking swiftly out of the room. She growled as soon as she was out of his sight. She walked through the mass of kids earning some very interesting looks from the males of the bunch. She hissed at them and they backed off.
Usagi hadn't wanted to change schools, but it was vital in her role as Sailor Moon, So she had begged her mother and they talked it out. Now she was staying with Aunt Ikuko and Uncle Kenji. She grumbled as she passed the 'Bitches R Us' Group of the school and tossed them a look that could kill, she KNEW she'd been automatically added to their 'Hit list'. Frankly: She couldn't care less.
After the jocks, the popular idiots, the druggies, white people who acted like they were black, the nerds, the Trekkies and the just plain freaks (AN: HEY! That's MY group!) Usagi finally came to her locker and homeroom.
"That had to be the most interesting trip through the halls of this lifetime," she muttered under her breath and going to her locker. She shook her head and rolled her eyes. This was going to be an interesting school year.
Usagi tried at her locker, it wouldn't budge… she mumbled a few 'choice' words and banged her fist on its bland metal doors. Usagi grumbled and tried again and again.
"That's it!" She yelled at the top of her lungs, "Screw the damn locker!"
"Having some trouble there?" A voice asked her. Usagi turned around to face a tall girl with beautiful green eyes and mahogany colored hair. She was a very domineering figure and Usagi turned her chin up a little ways to stare in to the smiling face.
"Hey," She said, "I'm Makoto." Makoto took a small step back and held out her hand.
"Hello, I'm Usagi," Usagi said, taking her hand.
"Hey, Aren't you that girl that ran into Mamoru this morning?" She asked. Usagi blushed. He was in HER path, what else was she to do. Besides, he was such a jerk about it.
"Uh, Yeah I guess…" Usagi blushed a little. She smiled as Makoto turned the lock on her locker and began to open it. She made pleasant conversation.
"Yeah, I have NEVER seen him so steamed. You made that the highlight of my day," Makoto said laughing. Usagi giggled a little.
"I don't know him so…"
"Oh He is this cocky cool, calm, collective son of a bitch. He's really quite funny to see when he's mad," Makoto said laughingly.
"Who?" Came a gentle voice from behind the two girls. Usagi and Makoto turned around to see a small blue haired blue-eyed girl smiling at the duo.
"Hey, Ami," Makoto said, "This is Usagi," She motioned to Usagi. Ami smiled.
"Hello, Usagi, I'm Ami," Ami said. Usagi smiled back. **Click** Usagi snapped around to find that Makoto had opened her locker. Usagi's eyes brightened.
"Thank you, Makoto!" Usagi said happily throwing some nameless, faceless items into the locker.
The three girls continued talking as a rather short boy with coke-bottle glasses and ruffled brown hair peered around the corner at the group. Two of the prettiest girls in the school were talking with this 'New Student' -this goddess. Umino blushed as he called her that, but pretty was pretty. And this girl certainly surpassed pretty.
"UMINOOOOOOOOH!" A kind of loud and slightly annoying voice said from behind him. He turned to face a red headed girl a little smaller then he was. He blushed.
"Uhhh, Hey, Naru," He said. Naru smiled and turned to see what he was staring at.
"Oh that must be our new student," Naru said walking away from Umino to go and talk to the new girl.
"Hello, Naru!" Ami said brightly, "This is Usagi."
Usagi smiled, "Hello, Naru."
"Hey, Naru," Makoto said smiling.
"Hello, You must be out new student!" A cheery voice said from behind the girls, "I'm your teacher Miss Haruna."
"Hello, Miss Haruna," Usagi said smiling.
"Well, You girls! Come on, Class is going to start any minute!" Miss Haruna said walking into the room. Usagi stared after her. She shrugged her shoulders and walked into the classroom with her new found friends.
** Chiba Mamoru was finally let out of his class. It was four o'clock and he knew that the girls would be over at the arcade. Deciding to head over there and see Motoki and the girls, he tossed his books into the pouch on his bike (Motorcycle) and stared off, carefully avoiding the beginnings of rush hour traffic.
In a few minutes he was there and flashed a dazzling smile to a group of girls staring at him with starry eyes from the corner. They sighed as he walked past them to his friends and barely heard them whisper, "It's the only reason we come here! To see TWO way cute boys at once!"
Mamoru chuckled to himself as he waved to his friend who was handing a milkshake to a little boy. Motoki waved back.
"Hey, Mamoru!" Motoki said, green eyes flashing as his best friend came up to him.
"Hey, Motoki," Mamoru said, smiling. "So are the girls here?" He asked, Motoki knew that it was the SAME four girls he ALWAYS hung out with.
"Yeah, and they've got this new girl with them. She's a total BABE!" Motoki said, eyes going wide and a smile breaking his face. Mamoru rolled his eyes, only Motoki.
"Get me a cup of coffee, Motoki, I'll be over with them," Mamoru had to see this girl. Motoki may have been a little girl-crazy, but very few girls were dubbed with the Motoki 'Total Babe' stamp of approval. Mamoru would have to see if the girl got the Mamoru 'Total Babe' stamp of approval
"Hi, Girls!" He said as he approached them. The new girl turned around slightly and Mamoru wanted to do two things: Scream or Laugh. He decided to laugh.
"Odango Atama!" He laughed. The girl jumped up from her position on the table.
"What gives you the right to insult my hair, Jerk!?" Usagi yelled at the raven-haired man.
"That fact that you wear it in that RIDICULOUS style, Odango," he laughed, tugging on a pigtail. True he didn't even know this girls real name, but to tell you the truth he didn't care. For some strange reason he just HAD to do something that would make her mad, something that would stay in her mind.
"Ooooooh!" She yelled, "I was having an almost PERFECT day until you ruined it! Just like you ruined MY morning and made me late!" She yelled at him.
"Hey! Who ran into who here?" He asked her, shreds of amusement and laughter still lingering in his voice.
"Ooooooh! I HATE you- Who EVER you are!" She said, not remembering exactly what his name was from this morning.
"You can call me jerk, just like you always do… Odango Atama!" He laughed. Usagi grabbed her glass of water and promptly poured it over his head. She smiled a wicked smile and walked past him tossing a good-bye over her shoulder to the girls.
"Way to go, Mamoru!" Makoto said clapping sarcastically, "And Mamoru takes the prize for best way to make friends with the locals!"
But Mamoru wasn't listening he was watching that girl leave… the sun and breeze caught her hair making it shimmer behind her in wave of gold. *Motoki was right,* Mamoru thought, *She IS very beautiful.* But beautiful or not, she was still an annoying girl who got on his nerves. Who ever she was.
"Mamo-ruuuuuuu!" Minako called in a singsong voice. Mamoru looked from the door into the denim blue of her laughing eyes.
"Huh?" He asked her.
"Mamoru was in La-la land!" Rei giggled. "How was your first trip there?"
"Shut up, Rei," Mamoru said nonchalantly. Rei waved a hand effortlessly in the air.
"Ooooooh Poor Mamoru is weeeeeeeeeeeet," She laughed.
"So, Us- HEY! Where'd she go?" Motoki asked as he came up to the table, he looked around for the beautiful blonde, but she was nowhere in sight.
"Mamoru scared her off," Minako said giggling.
"Mamoru, Why are you all wet?" He asked his raven-haired friend.
"I was assaulted by a glass of water and an Odango Atama," He growled under her breath. Motoki looked at him strangely and then turned to the girls for assistance.
"That girl you think is a babe, Mamoru doesn't know her name so he calls her 'Odango Atama'," Makoto said, smiling at the angry Mamoru.
"You know, Mamoru, you should get to know her. She's very nice," Ami said calmly, looking up from her book and then back into it.
"Like I CARE," Mamoru said sarcastically. Makoto rolled her eyes.
"Well, look who's on PMS," She said, laughing. Mamoru blushed then rolled his eyes.
"Mako, Shut up," He said laughing slightly.
"Well, HMPH! You can just be that way!" She giggled a little turning back to her circle of girl friends. Mamoru turned to Motoki.
"Do you have a towel?" He asked exasperated. Motoki laughed and nodded.
"Yeah, in the back," He said, smiling at his friend.
"Thanks," Mamoru said walking around his friend to the back room, the 'Odangoed' one was lingering in his mind. Why couldn't he get that stupid, stuck-up, little brat out of his mind?
** Usagi flopped on her bed. She sighed, this was soooooo annoying… whoever that jerk was, he had NO right to make fun of her like that. She turned over on her stomach.
"Oh, Endymion," She whispered into the blood red sky, "What am I to do?" She moaned softly then locked her door and got out her locket. Oh, her locket. She had no Idea where she had gotten it. She seemed to remember ALWAYS having it. She sighed again. The sky was darkening and Usagi knew that there would be another attack tonight.
"I don't WANT it to happen… why can't I just be a normal kid? Why must I be Sailor Moon? Why?" She asked the sky sadly. A single tear slid from her eye and glittered before it fell to the fabric beneath her. Usagi brushed a strand of blonde hair out of her face and smiled at the sky. At least it was a pretty sunset.
"Good Night, Endymion," She whispered, then blew a kiss into the air.
** Mamoru was pacing… anytime now. It was one fifty three in the morning and he knew that any time now there would be an attack. BEEP! Right on time. He flipped open his black communicator.
"Yeah?" He asked.
"Attack in the park. Need you!" Minako gasped out as she ran down the street. Mamoru nodded. He pulled out a white transformation rose and turned into the hunky, masked hero: Tuxedo Kamen. Grumbling about youmas and coffee and tests and such he made his way to the balcony. Oh WHY did fate have to make him Tuxedo Kamen?
The trip to the park was not long, but he stopped on a rooftop a block away. There running like the hounds of hell were on her, was Sailor Moon. Tuxedo Kamen smiled deviously.
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon. His eyes watched those powerful and AMAZING long legs of hers. He smiled as her short skirt ridded up a little, then blushed. *Hentai!* he put down himself, *You shouldn't be thinking of such things, not when innocent people need to be saved.*
"Oh, but I DO enjoy them so," He smiled again. Then shook his head and rushed to the park. Tuxedo Kamen took a deep breath, there a cage of vine-like things trapped the girls and a youma that looked like one of those demented talking trees from the 'Wizard of Oz'.
Kamen tossed a rose at it. The blood red rose shaved one of its branches and a purple/green color oozed from the cut. Kamen could only guess that it was some sorry excuse for blood. He threw another rose at it, only leading to the thing becoming more agitated and chasing after Kamen.
"Uh-oh," Kamen whispered under his breath.
"… ACTION!" Out of nowhere a silver disk came and chopped the youma into a dust. "Moon Dusted," came a smug voice. Kamen looked to where the disk had come from. Sailor Moon was standing on a branch on the other side of the tree Kamen was on.
She jumped down from the branch and landed on her feet, then went to Kamen's knocked out senshi to see if they were all right. They were. Moon turned around to find her looking into Kamen's chest. She blushed a deep red as She took a step back, in turn finding her tripping over Mars' foot. Kamen instinctively reached out and grabbed her waist to keep her from falling.
"Um," He said assessing their current position. He could feel her slim waist fitting easily into his arms. Moon felt a warm blush creep upon her cheeks. Hadn't she said only yesterday how he should keep his hands to himself? And here she was ENJOYING his touch?
"Um," She replied, swallowing hard. She stared up into deep blue eyes that were looking into hers. Moon blushed a deeper red, then Mars and the others suddenly began to stir. Moon pushed herself from Kamen's arms and rushed away.
"Sailor Moon!" He called after her. But she was gone… into the night.
** Usagi pushed herself against a brick wall and took in a deep breath. Her heart pounded in her chest, partially from running, but mostly from Tuxedo Kamen. No person had ever been able to make her feel like that before. She was lost in deep thought then her ears perked up at the sound of some one approaching.
"Oda- OOMPH!?" Usagi had just punched a certain 'jerk' in the stomach.
"Oh my god!" Usagi jumped back.
"Oooh, MAN! You sure do pack a punch for being so small Odango," He groaned holding his stomach. Usagi held a hand to her lips.
"I'm sorry! I thought you were going to attack me," She blushed.
"Which leads to the question: Why are you out here?" he asked, pushing some raven hair from his face.
"I couldn't sleep," Usagi said indignantly.
"Really?" Mamoru groaned again, how hard HAD she hit him?
"Well what about you?" Usagi asked. Mamoru shrugged.
"Couldn't Sleep. Listen, Odango Atama-"
"Do you WANT another punch?"
"Whatever, Listen, these streets at night are NO place for a girl such as yourself. C'mon, I'll walk you home," Mamoru said. Usagi crossed her arms over her chest.
"No," She said calmly, "I can take care of myself!"
"Oh come ON!" Mamoru said, exasperated.
"I CAN!" She said walking off down the street, "Jerk!" She called over her shoulder. For the first time Mamoru chased after her. For every one of her strides he took two. Soon he caught up with her and grabbed her upper arms. He forced her to turn around.
"Listen, as much as you aggravate me," He said, "I DON'T want you walking these streets alone! Now Come ON. I'm not leaving you until you are in your room, safe and sound."
Usagi stared up at him. She blushed a little red and turned to look down at the ground. "I'm sorry…umm…"
"Mamoru," Mamoru said calmly walking by her side as they started off toward her house. "And you are?"
"Odango Atama," Usagi refused to let him know her name, for fear he might make some comment about that too.
"Ah, I see," Mamoru said, smirking. Usagi blushed.
"So, Odango," Mamoru began, Usagi forced herself not to yell at him, after all: She provoked it. "Why couldn't you sleep?"
"Huh? Oh, I was having nightmares. You?" Usagi asked him.
"I was just studying," he said *and having sweet daydreams about a certain bishoujo senshi…*. Mamoru looked down on the small odangoed one and wished he could know her real name. The moonlight caught her hair making it turn silver in the night's light. He held in a gasp at her beauty. She looked like a goddess sent from the moon, and she also looked so familiar…
"So, Odango…" Mamoru asked her.
"What?" Usagi asked grumpily as she turned her head up to look him in the eyes.
"I was just wondering where you came from. I mean, I've never seen you around Tokyo before. But it is a big city and all… just curious?" He asked her, ignoring her tone of voice.
"I'm from Hiroshima," She said calmly, pushing a pigtail over her shoulder.
"Oh. So what are you doing here?"
"I um, came here to live with my aunt and uncle. My parents are back home." Usagi suddenly panicked, What if he asked her WHY she came down here?
"Oh really?" Mamoru asked, "Why?"
"I umm, just decided to come here," Usagi said nervously, shrugging.
"Oh." Mamoru said calmly.
"Yeah well, ya know…" Usagi blushed. There was an awkward silence.
"So, umm…" Mamoru said, trying to think of a topic to talk about.
"What brought you out of your studies?" Usagi asked quickly.
"Huh? Oh I just needed to get out, too many equations," Mamoru said laughingly. Usagi smiled gently.
"I guess I can understand."
"So umm, how do you like Tokyo?" He asked her.
"Oh? I like it a lot. It's really an interesting city, much more then Hiroshima anyway," Usagi said waving a hand in the air aimlessly. "I um, oh look, here's Aunt Ikuko's house…" Usagi said looking up at the two story white building. Mamoru nodded.
"Um, okay. Well, at least I can sleep better knowing that you're okay."
"Like you'd care," Usagi said. She gasped, lack of sleep had to be getting to her. Here this perfectly HANDSOME guy -true he was a total JERK- had walked her home and cared about HER safety and now she was INSULTING him? Usagi should DEFINITELY get some more sleep. Mamoru's eyes turned to slits.
"You're right, Odango. I DON'T care," he hissed out, angrily. Usagi felt her insides go tense at his words, but she pushed back her emotions and stared him angrily in the eyes.
"Good, at least I've got one less person in MY life to worry about!" Usagi yelled at him.
"Well good, then you can have more time for your frivolous activities!" Mamoru yelled back. The two glared at each other before Usagi walked up her walkway and into her house.
