*How did you guys like my last part? I hope it's okay. Well, here is part three and like I mentioned earlier, I really do appreciate feedback and reviews so PLEASE leave them. Thanks. ^_^*

Part 3: Usagi's Explanation!

"Usagi, you're late!!" Rei shouted with her hands on her hips.

"Rei-chan, why are you always so mean," Usagi whined.

"Because you're an immature, selfish, irresponsible, brat, that went shopping, instead of coming here for important Sailor business," Rei said pointing at her bags.

"I am not," Usagi retorted, getting into Rei's face.

"Whoa, calm down you two," Haruka said separating them.

"Usako, why are you so late and..." Mamoru started.

"...why on Earth would you go shopping when we have important stuff to discuss," Luna finished with a sweatdrop.

"Well, Mamo-chan, I promised Naru that I'd go shopping with her after school," Usagi said, hugging Mamoru's arm. "When Ami-chan and Mako-chan told me about meeting here, I forgot about my promise to Naru."

"That's no excuse," Rei argued. "You should've told her you had something else more important to do!"

"It wasn't that simple." Usagi said with no feeling.

"Yeah right," Rei scoffed, crossing her arms.

"I don't like to break promises to my friends, especially Naru-chan," Usagi said quietly.

Usagi stood their for a moment trying not to cry.

"Naru-chan is my best friend and I've been friends with her since before I met any of you!" Usagi said in an angered tone. "I also feel as if I owe her," she said lowering her voice again.

Rei didn't say anything.

"Why is that," Minako, Artemis, and Ami asked together.

"Well, before Luna found me and I became Sailor Moon, we used to be the best of friends, told each other everything, hanged out more, everything I do with you guys...but since then, we've slightly drifted apart, because of 'sailor business' and I can never give a legitimate reason why and I hate it. Every time I end up lying to her," Usagi said with tears forming in her eyes once again.

"It's okay, Usagi-chan," Luna told her.

Everyone apologized, including Rei.

"Arigatou minna," Usagi said. "I truly am sorry that I'm late, though."

Mamoru took out a handkerchief and wiped the tears away from her face.

"That's okay," he told her. "We should've known something was up."

"What have you guys discussed," Usagi asked.

"The attacks, what else," Rei remarked smartly.

"Rei-chan!" Usagi yelled.

"Gomen, gomen," Rei said.

*Note: Gomen means, "Sorry."*

Ami ignored Rei and Usagi's bickering and spoke up.

"Well, I've been taking notes on my computer."

Ami took out her pocket sized computer to show them the information that she had.

"It seems that all these attacks are at random."

"They can't be at random," Setsuna said. "There has to be some type of a reason for these attacks; some kind of a connection."

"They're just...attacking," Haruka said with a frown.

"What do they have in common?" Usagi asked.

"Well, in your absence, I looked it over and all of the people attacked had very high energy readings," Ami explained.

"Told ya it was the Negaverse again," Makoto said. "They always attacked whenever they needed human energy."

"I don't know, but maybe you are right, Mako-chan," Ami said. "It's like we're fighting against one of Beryll's minions or even worse, Metallia...but both were defeated thanks to Sailor Moon."

"I couldn't have done it without you guys," Usagi said. "You were right by my side and gave me the strength to carry on!"

*Bad joke, I know. (-_-)*

"Thanks," Minako, Rei, Ami, and Makoto said.

"But how come we never see who the attacker is," Chibi-Usa asked.

"That is a good question," Ami said.

"It is strange, every time we get there, the person's body has become possessed already and we have to weaken them while Sailor Moon heals them," Hotaru said.

"How many people have been attacked, Ami," Luna asked.

"Um...exactly 10 within the past 9 days," Ami told them.

"That's a lot," Artemis frowned.

"Well, what should we do?" Hotaru asked.

"What can we do," Minako said.

"Yeah, they just seem to attack and by the time we get there, they're gone and have all the energy they need," Makoto said.

"This sucks," Usagi said with a frown.

"And to make things worse, once it is taken away, it isn't returned," Mamoru said. "Their energy has to return on its own."

"At least not all of it is taken, or else it'd kill them," Setsuna pointed out.

"Thank goodness for that," Usagi agreed.

"It's like they're storing it for something," Ami said.

"We can't run around like we're doing," Rei said. "We have other things to do!"

"Rei, what a thing to say," Luna scolded.

"She is right, you know," Artemis said. "Do you think this is too much for them, Luna? I mean, they do have important things to worry about in their lives, like school."

"No way," Makoto said with a thumbs-up. "We fight to the end!"

"Yeah," Minako agreed. "I'm Sailor Venus, once known as the beautiful heroine, Sailor V! "

"And I'm Sailor Jupiter!"

"And together we refuse to sit around and let anyone get hurt by mega dweebs that look like Umino from the Negaverse!" Makoto and Minako said together, posing, which caused everyone to sweatdrop.

"Save all that energy for when we fight against our next enemy," Luna said with a sweatdrop.

"I say we just stay alert and keep in close contact," Michiru suggested.

"That's a good idea and I'll gladly keep in contact with you," Haruka said, smiling over at Michiru.

Michiru smiled back and giggled a bit.

"What about you guys," Usagi asked Michiru, Haruka, and Setsuna. "We have communicators and Hotaru can stay over my house with Chibi-Usa-chan."

"Don't worry, odango," Haruka said. "We'll know."

Usagi only shrugged.

"Okay you guys, meeting is adjourned...for now." Rei said.

Everyone said their good-byes and left Rei's, accept for Minako and Artemis. They decided to hang around a bit longer. Usagi walked in the opposite direction from her home, while Chibi-Usa, along with Hotaru and Luna, rode home with Mamoru. Mamoru offered her a ride, but Usagi said that she'll just walk. Makoto noticed Usagi and ran up to her.

"Where are you going, Mako-chan," Usagi asked when she saw her running up behind her.

Makoto laughed.

"I was about to ask you the same question. This isn't the way to your house."

"Well, where are ya going," Usagi asked again.

"Well, I'm going over to Jen's," Makoto responded.

"Really? I'm going over to Naru's for the night."

"Cool, let's just hope no attacks occur tonight. A break sure would be nice." Makoto said putting her hands behind her head as she walked.

"You said it."

"Hey, think Jen and I could hang with you and Naru?"

"Yeah, that would be real fun! All of us always have fun together in school. I'll go and call her!"

Usagi ran to a nearby phone booth, inserted her phone card, and dialed Naru's phone number. Naru's mother answered it.

"Hello," Naru's mother answered.

"Moshi-moshi, Osaka-san," Usagi greeted.

"Why hello, Usagi," she answered. "Naru-chan told me about your coming over."

"Yeah," Usagi said. "May I please speak with Naru-chan?"

"Sure thing," Mrs. Osaka told her.

She called to Naru who picked up the phone.

"Hi Usagi, what's up," Naru asked.

"How would you like to have some extra fun."

"Extra fun? How?" Naru asked, not quite following.

"Let's make a party out of it!"

"How?"

"Instead of it being just the two of us, how about making it the four of us."

"Um...okay," Naru said slowly. "Do you mean, you want to bring two other people along?"

"Yeah!"

"Sure, but who?"

"Mako-chan and Jen-chan."

"Sure," Naru said.

"It's probably a good idea, since Jen is only going to be here for a short while," Usagi said.

"Okay," Naru said.

"Okay, we'll be over soon," Usagi said.

She then hanged up.

"I'm guessing she doesn't mind," Makoto laughed.

"You guessed right," Usagi smiled.

"I guess it's going to be a sleep over, I should call Jen then," Makoto said, "and pick up some snacks from home. I always cook tons on Saturday night for Sunday, but since I knew we were going to be off this Saturday, I cooked tons Thursday."

"Wow, you're always prepared."

"Yep, well, I'll go call her then," Makoto said going to the pay phone.

Makoto asked her friend if she'd like to hang over at Naru's and she agreed. She was only going to be in town for a short while, she had to go and live with her cousin, who lived in a place called Lost Kage Island.

"She said she could come," Makoto said.

"Great," Usagi said. "Hey, do you have any leftover Lemon Pie at your house?"

"As a matter of fact I do. You gave it to me this morning when I bumped into you. You said you didn't want to eat it now and that you had no will power, so I kept it at home. Your mother made it for you. Boy, it's weird, you remember to bring pie, but you forget your lunch."

Usagi laughed and walked over to Makoto's place to pick up the snacks.
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Jen hanged up the phone.

"Cool, I can't wait to go!" the 14-year-old girl said happily.

Her expression then changed to that of a sad one.

"Jen, watashi no baka! You didn't ask your parents yet!"

*That pretty much means, if I did right, Jen, you fool! Baka means, "fool" but it all depends on how you use it though.*

Jen walked into the room where her parents were sitting, watching the evening news. Her father was smoking a pipe and her mother was cross-stitching.

"Was that Makoto?"

"Yes, mother," Jen responded.

"You two sure are good friends," her father responded. "How long have you known her?"

"Ever since we were kids," Jen said. "We met in our martial arts training class and before I studied Kendo with my cousin, Seiji-niichan."

*Note: Seiji-niichan pretty much means, Big brother Seiji. She sees him as a brotherly figure.*

"We haven't heard from him in a while," her mother responded.

"Well, I just wanted to know if I could stay the night over at Naru's."

"So that's what the call was about," her father smiled.

"I don't see why not," her mother smiled. "After this school term you'll be leaving to go back to Lost Kage Island to finish your police training with your cousin, Jen."

The girl sighed. She had always hated the fact that her and her cousin both had the same name and the fact that she had to go and train to become a police enforcer.

"Must I mother, I don't want to become a police officer," the girl groaned.

"All the females in my family are officials who uphold the law, and with our family name, they are important and high ranking officials who helps to uphold the law," her father scolded. "Do you want to bring shame onto your family's name!"

"No sir," Jen responded sullenly.

"I will not allow you to bring shame to this family's name! You will become a Police official and that's final! You ought to be thrilled that you are given such an opportunity!"

"You don't want to be the oddball of the family, do you, Jen?" her mother asked.

"Maybe I do," Jen muttered under her breath.

"What was that," her mother asked in a stern voice.

"Um, nothing, ma'am," Jen said. "I said no, I don't."

"Good," her father said.

Jen apologized to her parents.

"Gomen nasai," Jen said as she bowed. "Please forgive me for my behavior."

*Note: Gomen nasai means, "I am very sorry." It's like a more polite way of saying sorry."

She then left the room to get her things..

"Don't they know that I want to be a Biologist or a Researcher? Just because of my name, I have to become a cop or something along the lines of one. The only time I do get to look into any of those things is when I do visit my cousin on Lost Kage Island. At least she doesn't criticize me for the way I think. I wish now that I was born here in Tokyo instead of Lost Kage Island, but either way, I'd probably still be stuck in this situation. Oh well. At least when I go back, I'll see my good friend Joya-chan, who's having the same trouble as me with her family. She wants to become a doctor, not a nurse. Too bad this is going to be my last time visiting Tokyo. In just a few more weeks, I'll be on my way back to Kage Island and will be attending Kage Junior High with Joya-chan and to finish my 'police training.'" Jen sighed. "Four more dreadful years to go for my already decided future."

After she finished packing, she hugged her parents good-bye and walked out of the door. She decided to walk to Naru's place since it was such a nice night and to also clear her head.

"What a beautiful moon," Jen said as she started on the path towards Naru's home, which wasn't too far from where she lived.

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