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The school bell rang and everyone was in their seats already, even Minako. The teacher started attendance and got to the C's when the building started to shake and a white hurricane entered the room. "Miss Tsukino, you're late again." The teacher commented. "I will see you after school in detention." Seiya laughed at her. "Mr. Kou? Do you want detention too?" The teacher asked.

"No Sir." Seiya replied sitting up straight.

"Well then keep your mouth shut." The teacher turned around to face the blackboard. A paper wad came flying from the back of the room and his Usagi in the head. She bent down and picked it up. It was a note from Makoto.

        Hey Usagi,

        Where were you yesterday?

        I saved you some cake.

        Come over to my house when you

        Get out of detention.

        Makoto

Usagi scribbled something back, made sure the teacher wasn't looking and turned around and launched the wadded paper at Makoto.

Makoto unwrinkled the paper and read the response. (In horrible handwriting.)

        I was at the airport.

        Mamoru has gone to America again.

        I will come over as soon as I get out of my hell of detention.

        Usagi.

"WHAT!!!!" Makoto screamed in the middle of class.

"Miss Kino, I will see you after school for detention also." The teacher told Makoto who just slid down in her seat. Seiya wondered what Usagi had written in her note to make Makoto respond that way.

The bell rang and they all met out in the hall. Makoto being the loudest of all of them. "I can't believe he left again!" She shouted in disbelief.

"Shhh, Makoto, are you trying to get us in trouble?" Usagi put her finger to her lips.

"Mamoru has gone back to America?" Ami asked catching only part of the conversation.

Everyone (Makoto, Ami, Minako, Seiya, Yaten and Taiki) gathered around Usagi. "Yeah, he left yesterday, that's why I couldn't go on the picnic with you guys." She was smiling.

"Why didn't you tell us sooner?" Minako asked still in shock.

Usagi still smiling. "I didn't know myself until yesterday, how could I have told you sooner?" She shot Minako a dumb look at this last part.

"That's one hell of a boyfriend that you've got there!" Yaten smirked. Seiya gave him a hard nudge to the side to let him know that was inappropriate.

Usagi's face fell. "Yeah, I guess." Everyone around them scurried around in preparation for their next class.

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The days go by and things pretty much went back to the way they were when the Lights were on Earth the last time. Seiya has been keeping to himself. Although he knows now Usagi's true feelings he is still depressed because he thinks that she won't do anything about them. Taiki and Yaten have no idea why he is becoming so depressed. Mamoru is in America and therefore not there to beat on him for flirting with his girlfriend. Only Kakyuu knows why, and it's killing her. She can't stand to see him torture himself like this.

"Seiya." She approaches him as he is sitting on a lawn chair on the balcony. He has his feet propped up against the railing gently rocking himself back and forth while staring off at the city around him. "You do understand why you can't say anything to her about this right?"

"Yes, I understand." He doesn't take his gaze from the concrete jungle below. "I don't understand. If she doesn't love him why is she still with him?" He turns to look at Kakyuu.

She can tell by the look on his face that he has been toiling over this question for a long time. "I don't know either." Kakyuu for once doesn't know what to say to make him feel better so instead she just wraps her arms around him in a warm embrace. "I'm sorry."

Seiya doesn't say anything and still sits there with his arms folded in front of him and Kakyuu's arms wrapped around him. She feels a tear fall on her hand and looks up at his face. Silent tears are streaming down his face. "I'm sorry." She says again. "Maybe it would have been better that you didn't know." She takes her arms back from around him and walks so that she is standing behind him. She can't look at his face while he is crying.

"Maybe." Is all that he responds.

Kakyuu makes her way back into the apartment. Yaten and Taiki walk in the door from their outing. "Where is Seiya?" Taiki asks.

"Yeah, he was supposed to meet us at the studio, what a dumb ass! He's becoming so forgetful lately." Yaten snaps.

"He's on the balcony sleeping." Kakyuu answers, she figured that this way they would leave him alone for the time being. (It would also explain his puffy eyes.)

"Well he'd better get up and in here. We're supposed to go to the movies with the girls tonight." Yaten begins to walk to the bathroom.

"Didn't Usagi call here?" Taiki asks Kakyuu while they watch Yaten primp himself in the mirror. "We ran into the girls on the way back from the studio. Since he wasn't with us Usagi said that she would call and invite him." He explained while grimacing at Yaten plucking his nose hairs.

"Yaten. What are you doing?" Kakyuu asks.

"Do you think I've lost something?" Yaten stops primping and turns to look at them. "Do you think that girls just aren't attracted to me anymore?" He strikes some sort of super model pose.

Taiki and Kakyuu start dying of laughter, which is very unusual for both of them. Yaten is still standing in the bathroom making muscle man poses in the mirror when the phone rings. "Hello." Kakyuu can barely get out through the laughter. "Oh, Usagi, how are you today?". "Seiya sure, hold on a second while I go and get him.". "What? No, he isn't busy just hold on a second." By now she has made her way to the door to the balcony.

Seiya was still sitting in the same position as she had left him. If anything would cheer him up it would be Usagi. Kakyuu dangled the phone infront of his face. "I believe this is your 'Odango'." She says teasingly.

He snaps out of his trance and immediately spins around snatching the phone from her hand. "Oi,."

Kakyuu makes her way back inside with a smile. "Well is he up?" Yaten asks.

Before she can answer him Seiya rushes in the house past him and goes to his room. He comes out in five minutes dressed very neatly, but yet still casual. "Well what are you waiting for? We have to go meet Odango at the movies." He starts for the door and leaves the others behind him with puzzled looks.

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The girls were standing out front of the movie theatre with Yuuchiro. Rei figured that since Yaten already knew she had a boyfriend that there was no need to hide him anymore. "Wow, I'm impressed." Rei comments to Usagi.

"What are you talking about?" Usagi asks turning around from her conversation with Minako.

"That you haven't raided the convenient stand yet!" She sticks her tongue out at the blond.

"No, I can control myself unlike you!" Usagi returns the gesture and the war begins.

To stop the fighting Makoto asks Usagi a question. "So how is Mamoru doing in America?" Usagi immediately stops fighting and turns to face Makoto. Just as she is turning around she spots the Lights coming up behind them.

"Seiya!" She shouts to avoid the question. She can't lie to them. She waves her hand in the air. The group walks up and their hellos are exchanged. "Sorry to ask you to come on such short notice." Usagi apologizes to Seiya.

"It's alright." He gives her his patented sexy smile. She blushes.

Minako began talking to Kakyuu about a shopping trip. "So, did you think about it?" She asks.

"Yeah, I'd love to go with you guys." Kakyuu smiled. "We're going overnight right?"

"Of course. Just to let you know, I have practice at breaking into minibars!" Minako held up a victory sign.

Yaten being nosey butted in. "What are you two talking about?" His eyes narrowed as he examined each of them. "Why do I get the feeling that I'm being left out of something here?"

"Because you are." Kakyuu states plainly. "It's a girl thing." Minako smiled at Kakyuu's comment.

"Kakyuu, Usagi and I are going on a shopping trip. The train ride is long so we're going to have to spend the night." Minako explains.

Yaten just says oh and shrugs his shoulders. Minako goes to finish her conversation with Usagi that she had started earlier. "You know she's kind of cute." Kakyuu comments as she watches Minako walk away. Just at the right moment Minako turns around and give Kakyuu a smile and a wink. Kakyuu just smiled because she could only imagine the face that Yaten was making next to her. She knew that he liked Minako and didn't want to admit it. She also knew that he was hurt that she didn't jump on him whenever she saw him anymore.

Taiki and Makoto returned from buying the tickets and distributed them among their friends. Everyone entered the theatre and took their seats.

Rei- Yuuchiro- Makoto- Yaten- Kakyuu- Minako- Usagi- Seiya- Taiki- Ami

Kakyuu had purposely sat between Yaten and Minako so that Yaten would get jealous. She wanted him to be nicer to Minako and tell her about his feelings for her.

Seiya looks over during the movie and sees Ami and Taiki holding hands and wishes that he could hold Usagi's. Wait. Why can't he? Friends hold hands right. He looks over to grab her hand and notices that she isn't even watching the movie but instead watching Kakyuu and Yaten.

While Minako is totally engrossed in the movie (she had picked the movie) Kakyuu is pretending to stroke Minako's leg in seductive way while looking at Yaten with a smile on her face. Usagi starts laughing at this. Even though the movie theatre is dark she can still see Yaten's anger building. Then Kakyuu leans over to Minako as though she was going to kiss her and Yaten grabs her arm and pulls her back into her seat. Minako has no idea what is going on and continues to stare at the screen.

Usagi can't control her giggling. She doesn't know why Kakyuu was doing that but the reaction that she got from Yaten was hilarious. She looked farther down to see if Makoto had seen the action and caught sight of Yuuchiro and Rei making out instead. Her giddiness faded away when she remembered that she was all alone.

Usagi turned her head back to the side and saw Seiya watching the movie. 'I'm not alone. I always have Seiya there for me. My best friend.' She thought to herself as she reached over and grabbed his hand.

Seiya was startled and looked over at Usagi who shot him smile. 'Was she reading my mind?' He asked himself. He smiled back at her and they continued to watch the movie.

When the movie was over they were all standing in the parking lot getting ready to go home. "I need to talk to you." Yaten motioned to Kakyuu in a slightly annoyed tone.

"Nope, you're going to have to wait 'til tomorrow, she's mine tonight." Minako pulled Kakyuu away before she could answer. Minako had no idea how perfectly she just fit into Kakyuu's plan. Kakyuu smiled as she wrapped her arm around Minako's waist and gave her a hug. Minako hugged her back and they waited for Usagi.

"Thank you for coming to the movies with me tonight." Usagi thanked Seiya.

"It was my pleasure Odango. Hey when you get back from your trip maybe we can get together to do something." He smiled and was interrupted by Yaten.

Yaten was getting more and more pissed as he saw Kakyuu affectionately playing with Minako. He wanted to leave and need to wait for Seiya and Taiki. "Come on let's go." He grumbled.

"Sure, I'll give you a call when we get back." Usagi shot a look at Yaten and then smiled to Seiya before she walked up to meet Minako and Kakyuu. They all said their good byes and headed home.