AN: Hi minna! Thanks for the reviews. I love them! And a special thanks to Rita who is going to do pre-readings. And also Teardrop, Ames, Lunarprincess, Kei-chan, Aidenn Legacy, and Crystal Joy who was the only one who had the guts to vote for Utena + Usagi. Thanks to everyone for the encouragements. Just a quick note, if you didn't read the AN in the 1st chapter, the outers are going to be in the story later, and Hotaru is one year older than Usagi. The sailor moon time line is messed up, and this takes place right before the Darkmoon family.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, I'm just borrowing the characters.

"…" talking … thinking

Chapter 3

*In Usagi's Dream*

Where am I? This looks like the Moon Kingdom before it was destroyed. Why am I back home?

"Mother? You can come out now, I know that you're the one who brought me here," Usagi called out, annoyed that no one has showed up to explain her presence here.

"It wasn't your mother who brought you here, little princess. And this is not the real Moon kingdom, it's just a hologram of the kingdom before it was destroyed by Beryl," a male voice said from the dark.

Usagi immediately got into a fighting stance. She wasn't Sailormoon for nothing, you would be surprised how good she is as a fighter. All of the training sessions really paid off. "Show your self you coward. Or are you afraid of a girl. Who are you, and why have you brought me here to Ohtori,"

Instead of answer the series of questions, the mysterious figure waved his hand, and the scenery changed. They were no longer at the Moon Kingdom. Instead, they appeared standing in a fighting arena, a beautiful castle hung upside down from the dark sky. "See that castle, that's where I used to live, but now, it has been turned to this. The reason that you are here is because you also have a past that you don't know about, and to regain your lost memory, you have to go up to that castle."

"And how do you know that I have missing memories? And why do I care about them. I've been given a second chance. This life has nothing to do with my previous life as a moon princess!" Usagi angrily shot back.

"Are you so sure? I thought that you hated destiny for forcing you together with Prince Endymion? Don't you want a chance to break free from your birdcage, and live for yourself?"

"And why may I ask, are you so concerned about my welfare?"

"Because, I care about you, you may not remember me, but I've never forgot anything about you. I don't have enough time left, but beware, there is a new enemy coming after you, and also be careful of the other one. There is a great power sleeping within you. If you need it, call upon it, and you will be able to find that sword which is apart of you. Here take this ring, if you need me, the ring will call me," with a sweep of his white cloak and white rose petals, the mysterious prince disappeared again.

Looking at the ring that appeared on her left ring finger, it is made out of a thin platinum band, with pink diamonds shaped as a rose in the centre, surrounded by leaves made out of emeralds. I don't see what this ring can do, but at least it's pretty. She thought as she slowly begin to wake up.

*end of dream*

Sitting up, she turned towards her alarm clock, "oh, it's only 7:00, wait a minute, why am I here, the last thing that I remember was listening to Miki-kun playing the piano for me," Realization hit her, as well as a blush, when she thought about Miki carrying her in his arms.

"Might as well get up now. I can't afford to be late on the first day of my new school," Usagi yawned going to the bathroom to get ready for the day.

When she finished, she went back to her room to change into her new uniform.

*30 minutes later*

What is taking Usagi-chan so long? How long does it take her to put on her uniform, if she is going to take any longer, we're going to be late Miki thought as he paced in front of Usagi's door.

Finally deciding to take some action. Miki was about to knock on the door, when it opened to revel Usagi in her turquoise uniform, the color of her face as red as the school tie. Miki openly gawked at her. The short skirt which left her long slim, tan legs open to his stare, and the top, which hugged her curves closely.

"There's no way that I'm going outside wearing this! Who in their right mind designed this thing? Don't they realize how short the skirt is? What if there is a really strong wind, or what if we need to bend over, and what about the guys? There's no way I'm going out," Usagi rambled on. This is ridiculous, this thing covers even less than my sailor fuku. At least my fuku has boots and gloves. She stopped in the middle when she saw Miki turned to purple with the flush on his face. Before she can rush to his aide, the door bell rang.

"Excuse me Miki-san, but is there a Tsukino-san here? She has a received a gift from the Student Council president Kiryuu-san," the messenger said, leaving the package, but not before taking a long look at the girl who caught the school playboy's attention.

"A gift from Touga? What can it be?" Usagi mumbled to herself as she opened the beautifully wrapped box. Inside the layers of tissue paper and red rose petals, lay a pure white uniform, quite different from the one that Usagi is currently wear. The jacket is like the one that Touga wears, but instead of the indecent mini skirt, it is replaced with a pair of white shorts which reaches to her mid-thighs.

"To my dear princess, I know that you might not be comfortable wearing the girl's uniform, so I have taken the liberty to make you this new uniform, which I hope to have the honor of seeing you wear. The student council have also granted you special permission to wear it, so do not worry about breaking the rules, Touga. My, Usagi-chan, Touga-san seems very attracted to you, this is the first time that he sent clothes to anyone, " Miki said after he read the note, that was attached to a red rose on the top of the box. As he looked up, all he saw was a blur of gold and turquoise, as Usagi zoomed back into her room to change into her gift from Touga. She sure knows how to track attention, I hope that Nanami isn't going to cause any trouble. But at least, we can finally leave.

"Okay, Miki-kun, I'm ready, now let's go, we're going to be late if you stand there staring," Usagi grabbed Miki's hand and dragged them out the door.

Usagi finally slowed down when they reached the main road, not because she's tired (she's used to dashing to school everyday remember) but because she doesn't know where to go. "Miki-kun, do you know where we go?"

"Wait *gasp* a minute," Miki gasped out, how can she not be out of breath? Fencing practices are not even this hard, note to self: never be dragged out by Usagi-chan . "Let me see your schedule Usagi-chan, hum, it seems that we have the same class."

As Miki looked over her schedule, Usagi noticed that they were attracting all the attention in the school yard. Most of the boys were openly gawking and catcalling at the odango haired girl, but some of the girls are also staring at her with hearts in their eyes. "Don't they know that it's rude to stare at people?" she muttered to herself.

"Tsukino-san!" Usagi turned around to see the pink haired girl she met the day before. She is still wearing her boy's uniform. It is similar to Usagi's, except her jacket is black with a pair of red shorts.

"Konichiwa Tenjou-san," Usagi bowed.

"Please, just call me Utena, I see that I'm not the only one who has a dislike for the female uniform. I'm glad that I'm not the only one now," Utena looked over Usagi's uniform with approval.

"Call me Usagi, all of my friends do. What grade are you in?" Usagi asked, but before she got her answer, a girl's voice cut in.

"Utena, Utena my love, how can you ditch me this morning!" the speaker was the girl that was with Utena yesterday, when she reached the group, she immediately jumped on Utena's back, hugging the poor pink head to death.

"Usagi, Miki, this is my friend Wakaba. Wakaba, these are Usagi and Miki. I'm in grade 10 and so is Wakaba," Utena panted out, struggling to stand under Wakaba's weight. "Wakaba, we better go soon, or else we'll be late."

The two girls walked off, leaving Usagi and Miki to find their own home room in the grade 9 section.

Unknown to the four people, a group of grade 10 girls was carefully listening to every word that they were saying. One of the girls, a girl with dirty blond hair, who is clearly the leader of the group stood up when Usagi and Miki left. "So, she's the one that stole my big brother from me! You're going to pay for that, Tsukino Usagi, no one steals from me, especially my big brother."

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The day passed without much trouble, all of the teachers gave funny looks when Usagi passed, but they know better than to question the orders from the student council president.

At lunch time, Miki and Usagi was walking to the cafeteria when they spotted a group of people gathering around a bulletin board. When they walked closer, they heard one of the guys reading from a note pinned on the board.

"Hey guys, it's someone's love note. And I dream of us dancing under the moon light, Saionji-sempai. What a loser!" The guy who's reading laughed.

Usagi angrily walked up, and pushed the guy away! "Who do you think you are anyways?! You have no right reading a poor girl's private letter!"

"What's going on?" Utena asked Miki as she and Wakaba walked to the crowd.

"Well, someone thought that it's fun reading a girl's love letter that she sent to Saionji, and now, Usagi-chan is trying to keep the guy from reading more," Miki replied.

Out of the corner of her eyes, Utena saw Wakaba paled. The brown haired girl looked at her once, before running away.

From the front, Usagi saw the retreating figures of Wakaba with Utena behind her. She quickly ripped the love letter from the board, before running towards the other two.

When she finally caught up, Wakaba was silently crying, as Utena was trying to comfort her. Quietly, she stood up. When she approached, Utena said to her " I'm going to get that bastard for hurting her."

Usagi nodded, as she followed Utena to the Kendo dojo. Inside, they found Saionji practicing.

"I wasn't my problem, I threw the letter in the trash can, someone must have picked it up," he replied carelessly to Utena's accusations.

"How can you throw a love letter into a public trash can?"

"It's my letter, I'll do anything I want with it," he sneered.

Utena fumed, picking up a bamboo sword. Swing it down hard on Saionji "You're the kendo team captain aren't you, I challenge you to a duel."

He caught the sword just in time, but something else caught his eye, the rose seal on her finger. "I see, you're the new duellist, meet me at the duelling arena in the forest. Don't be late."

Usagi also saw the rose seal on Utena's finger. She has the same seal as the ones that were on my postcard! Does she know who the prince is? I have to go with her to the duel to find out.

"Utena-chan, let me go with you. Even though I don't know Wakaba-san that well, she's still one of my new friends, I can't let her be embarrassed by that jerk like this, and besides, you may need some help." Usagi said.

The pink head nodded, before the two walked out of the dojo, preparing for their first duel. Little did they know, that this duel, and the ones to come, are already planned out.