HelOoOOoOOOoO peepz~ first off, I want to thank a lot of you who reviewed,
it really boosted me to get off my butt and start writing the second
chapter ;)
Anyway, some questions I'm gonna answer:
~I think It will be…u/m but I'm seriously not sure…
~well, I think I write depressing fics because it adds more plot to the story than just two people falling in love, having someone break them apart, the usual yada yada…and anywayz, its just my favorable genre I guess.
~and regarding Shirazuki, you were rite about me rushing, so I'll try to make this chapter longer for yoo, k?
**an hour later** nope…cant make it longer…I think im just descriptively challenged…T_T
~ some of the reasons that I mixed the English names with Japanese weren't because I didn't know all of them, I just had preferences…I don't know, I just think serena sounds a lot prettier than usagi, ya know?
~ oh yeah, thanks for all the suggestions everyone gave me!!!
disclaimer: I don't own sailor moon. Bite me.
^**^
"Serena! Sammy! Dinner time!" Ikuko yelled from the bottom of the stairs, wondering if any of her children had heard her. She went back to the kitchen, finishing up on the tuna casserole and garnishing it with some parsley. After a while, it became apparent that both children had heard, they were just taking their time. One step at a time. Off the stairs. Slooowwwllyyy. (:D)
'oh gosh…' Serena thought to herself.' Mom is going to totally flip out at my new haircut…whispering a silent prayer, she and her brother slowly entered the room. The bright yellow light of the kitchen chandelier greeted them. Sammy, who hadn't said anything about the apparent change in Serena, just decided to leave it. ' Not my problem.' Ikuko took one look at her daughter, and the mug of oolong tea she was holding dropped to the white tiled floor.
"OH MY GOSH!" she rushed to embrace her teenage daughter. Or rather…her teenage daughter's hair. "WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR HAIR?! I MEAN, YOU'VE BEEN GROWING IT OUT SINCE YOU WERE FIVE!!" She was grabbing the strands and sobbing. " It was so BEAUTIFUL, what have you DONE-it looks nice honey." Abruptly the supposedly insane mother let go, and started cleaning up the bits and shards of the green mug of tea she had dropped about a minute earlier. 'Saved.' Thank goodness her mother was so linient…
Serena, Sammy, and their mother were all waiting around the mahogany dining table, obviously waiting for their father to arrive. Smells of rice, soba, teriyaki, and kimchee (I know its Korean, but its SO GOOD!) wafted through the springtime air. Serena was drooling, but still managed to control herself. 'geez dad..where are you? We're starving!' some time later, Kenji walked in through the house and started taking of his hat and putting his worn black briefcase down. Pouring himself some water in a tall glass, he sat down at the table, drinking the contents of the glass while surveying his family.( you KNOW what's going to happen. But I just had to put this…) 'ahh…my darling wife…looking so stunning today…and Sammy…has been doing so well in school lately…save for Serena, who really needs to impr-pppppppppbbbllllllllttttttttt~!! He took one look at his daughter and automatically spit out the water in his mouth. Everyone, of course, had already started eating, and the outburst…or the unwanted spray of water was rather surprising.
"Serena!!! What have you done to your hair!?" Kenji's eyes were so big they looked about ready to pop off, serena thought. 'eeeeew.'
"I got it cut."
"now now, sweetheart…" Ikuko replied. " don't you think you're being a little over reactive about her hair? I think it looks nice." From this remark, both children spit out the soda they had been drinking. 'this,' her brother thought,' from the woman who clutched my sister's hair for a full 2 minutes ranting and raving about it?' Serena must have been thinking along the same lines, because she was barely able to cover up her amusement. After everything was settled and eaten, both kids went back to their room.
Serena closed the door of her room and sat down in her desk, pushing away all the volumes of manga and gum wrappers there were. 'from today on…I'm going to study hard. Too bad Luna isn't here to see this and call Ripley's. I wonder when she'll be back from Mina's house…' so from 9:00 to 3:00 in the morning, only stopping to go to the restroom, textbook after textbook slowly imprinted their information in Serena's tired brain. Physics. Chemistry, algebra, American literature, French II, make it stop…' bags appeared under her eyes, but she kept going…until she fell asleep right on her desk. Around the time Serena was snoring, Luna leaped in the window purposely left open for her. Glancing at the blonde haired teen, Luna spotted the books around her. 'the world must have come to and end, if Serena is actually studying. I must…be hallucinating.' She pranced to the baby blue leather bean bag that was her bed, and comfortably fell into a deep slumber.
Once again, as the alarm clock beeped, Serena slowly got up, and followed her usual morning routine. 'i…need…more…sleep.' She thought to herself, as the jets of water in her shower massaged her neck and back. Stepping out and wrapping herself in an ivory colored fleece towel, she once again surveyed herself in the mirror. Looking at the pair of eyes that stared back at her, eventually, she broke away. ' serena…what have you become…so that you cant look at yourself in the mirror anymore…serena…' an eerie voice popped in her head, officially freaking the crap out of her. Getting dressed in her blue pleated skirt and blouse, she headed for school, grabbing an apple, and eating it along the way to her school. 'my bag…is getting so heavy. Maybe I shouldn't have brought all my books home.' She wasn't watching where she was going, until
-whap.-
bumping into something hard, she fell to the hard concrete. 'ouch.'
"Serena?" she looked up.
"Mamoru." She acknowledged him with a flip of her hair, wondering where else she could be.
"Look…you were right yesterday…and I shouldn't be teasing you. I'm sorry." He looked at her with genuine sincerity.
'he looks…so kind…just forgive him.' Another voice popped in her head. 'was he kind when he made fun of you at the arcade two days ago? Don't do this to yourself…if you do, you might just find yourself falling…don't…'
"I'm sure you're sorry. Please excuse me, I must be getting to class." Not a single ounce of emotion in her voice. Arriving fifteen minutes before the early bell, Serena and Ms. Haruna were still not on speaking terms as of yesterday.
" I hope you know, Tsukino, we're having a test today. We'll see who's been neglecting responsibilities." A smirk on the teacher's face appeared, only to be wiped off soon enough.
"WOW, Ms. Haruna, you know, often at SCHOOL, we have TESTS. I know we're having one today. Guess what? I ALSO know that YOU'RE just trying to cover up when I humiliated you yesterday." Assuming the utmost formality as the other students walked in with their books, it was apparent that this girl, and this teacher…were NOT going to get along for the rest of the three months she had left in 10th grade. After roll call, second period, which was chemistry/science, had begun. She went down the rows of students, passing out the tests one by one.
"now class, be able to tell me the difference of ionic and covalent bonds, as well as having the whole periodic table memorized. You have forty minutes. Begin."
For the first time in her life, Serena actually understood the test material. And during the forty minutes, she breezed through it, being the first one to turn it in. 'In your face, ms. Haruna.' She sat back at her desk, quietly waiting for the rest to finish. The day dragged on slowly, as the classes' teachers were amazed at Serena's progress, and decided to pop a quiz. In every single class. 'every single class!!! How messed up ARE these teachers!?' during lunch, she sat by herself. lita, mina, and ami all sat at another table, unsure looks on every one of their faces. 'ugh.' Serena looked at her lunch, then at the girls. I don't know which one's more disgusting. My former friends backstabbing me some more, or this meatloaf that looks alive and bleeding.' She thought for a minute. 'yeah. Definitely the meatloaf.'
^**^
at 3:30, school ended, and swarms of students eager to get out lined the hallways. Serena was one of them, humming a tune and eager to go home. She was nearing the Crown arcade, and just as she was about to pass, all four scouts surrounded her. not giving them any hint of nervousness, Serena held her ground and looked like she could care less about what was going on. As of now, all the scouts were officially pissed at her. big time. And they wanted her out.
"Serena…" Rei started. "We've decided to kick you off the team. You're no longer apart of the sailor scouts."
"What you did yesterday was uncalled for. You don't deserve to be apart of us." Lita looked her straight in the eye.
All while they were talking, something popped in Serena tsukino's mind. Something weird. Something no one probably would have expected.
"No." she said in a light manner.
"I'm sorry, but you don't have a choice." Ami began to say.
"Actually…yes I do. You see, maybe if you ALL had a SILVER CRYSTAL, I would reconsider. But you know, I don't think I will quit the team. You know what? I think YOU ALL should quit, instead of me." She smiled apathetically, taking in the four girls' alarm. "because I can do without you. But you can't survive without me. You might as well give it up." She walked away, certain they would be there in the next youma attack. And no matter how much they tried to stop her, she would be too. And she would prove that they were worthless. 'there's going to be an attack tonight…I can feel it. And when those four girls come, they're going to wish…they had never doubted me.' Serena got home and finished her homework, with plenty of time to spare. Turning on the T.V, she flipped through the channels, watching everything that even appeared to be remotely interesting. –sigh- 'things are looking so different now…can I really survive this? Serena shook her head, ridding herself of the thought. 'don't care if I can…I have to.' Her mother called her at about 5:00 to help her with cooking dinner, and serena, having nothing better to do, agreed.
"Serena…" Ikuko called her daughter in the form of more like a question than a statement.
She looked up from chopping the cucumbers and grating the carrots.
"yes?"
"what happened?"
"what do you mean?" Serena looked slightly alarmed that her mother knew something was going on.
"you changed. Something hurt you deeply, and you changed."
"how would you know?" the cold voice returning, after a bit of uncertainity.
"I'm your mother. Of course I know. You've changed haven't you?"
"what if I have? Its not like you bothered about it before!!!" she threw the knife down that she was cutting the chicken with and ran back into her room.
"Serena…" Ikuko called quietly after her, knowing she wouldn't hear.
Dinner was a quiet change to the busy life around everyone…more like the drama around everyone. Sammy was engrossed in his food, and serena had refused to look at her mother. Kenji, who was probably the most confused out of all the family, just grabbed a newspaper he had bought from his office vending machine and started reading. Not bothering to ask to be excused (that sounds weird…) Serena went up in her room, waiting for the youma to appear. The scouts were sure as heck not going to call her, so she just dumped her communicator in the trash bin. Closing her eyes and concentrating a moment or two Serena's blue cloudy eyes opened quickly. She looked out the window, in the east direction, facing the cherry temple. 'There.' Quickly transforming, she leapt out the window unaware that a certain black cat was eyeing her. 'I didn't even sense anything…yet she did. What powers is Serena hiding from me? What has she been hiding from…all of us?'
Running at top speed to the cherry hill temple, she arrived alone. 'fools. They think I can't sense the scouts hiding in those trees and behind those bushes…oh well.' She smiled to herself. 'show time.'
Hello again! How do you like the second chapter? Im sorry….i just cant get things to stop rushing…but I will TRY next tym ok? I mite not continue this, because I have SEVERE writers cramp…and fingers cramp…-_- well, still~ let me know if you enjoyed it ok? Please review!
Love yoo peepz
Qtpi920x
Again, thank you for all your suggestions, and if you want me to email you when I update, just email me at qtpi920x@hotmail.com.
Anyway, some questions I'm gonna answer:
~I think It will be…u/m but I'm seriously not sure…
~well, I think I write depressing fics because it adds more plot to the story than just two people falling in love, having someone break them apart, the usual yada yada…and anywayz, its just my favorable genre I guess.
~and regarding Shirazuki, you were rite about me rushing, so I'll try to make this chapter longer for yoo, k?
**an hour later** nope…cant make it longer…I think im just descriptively challenged…T_T
~ some of the reasons that I mixed the English names with Japanese weren't because I didn't know all of them, I just had preferences…I don't know, I just think serena sounds a lot prettier than usagi, ya know?
~ oh yeah, thanks for all the suggestions everyone gave me!!!
disclaimer: I don't own sailor moon. Bite me.
^**^
"Serena! Sammy! Dinner time!" Ikuko yelled from the bottom of the stairs, wondering if any of her children had heard her. She went back to the kitchen, finishing up on the tuna casserole and garnishing it with some parsley. After a while, it became apparent that both children had heard, they were just taking their time. One step at a time. Off the stairs. Slooowwwllyyy. (:D)
'oh gosh…' Serena thought to herself.' Mom is going to totally flip out at my new haircut…whispering a silent prayer, she and her brother slowly entered the room. The bright yellow light of the kitchen chandelier greeted them. Sammy, who hadn't said anything about the apparent change in Serena, just decided to leave it. ' Not my problem.' Ikuko took one look at her daughter, and the mug of oolong tea she was holding dropped to the white tiled floor.
"OH MY GOSH!" she rushed to embrace her teenage daughter. Or rather…her teenage daughter's hair. "WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR HAIR?! I MEAN, YOU'VE BEEN GROWING IT OUT SINCE YOU WERE FIVE!!" She was grabbing the strands and sobbing. " It was so BEAUTIFUL, what have you DONE-it looks nice honey." Abruptly the supposedly insane mother let go, and started cleaning up the bits and shards of the green mug of tea she had dropped about a minute earlier. 'Saved.' Thank goodness her mother was so linient…
Serena, Sammy, and their mother were all waiting around the mahogany dining table, obviously waiting for their father to arrive. Smells of rice, soba, teriyaki, and kimchee (I know its Korean, but its SO GOOD!) wafted through the springtime air. Serena was drooling, but still managed to control herself. 'geez dad..where are you? We're starving!' some time later, Kenji walked in through the house and started taking of his hat and putting his worn black briefcase down. Pouring himself some water in a tall glass, he sat down at the table, drinking the contents of the glass while surveying his family.( you KNOW what's going to happen. But I just had to put this…) 'ahh…my darling wife…looking so stunning today…and Sammy…has been doing so well in school lately…save for Serena, who really needs to impr-pppppppppbbbllllllllttttttttt~!! He took one look at his daughter and automatically spit out the water in his mouth. Everyone, of course, had already started eating, and the outburst…or the unwanted spray of water was rather surprising.
"Serena!!! What have you done to your hair!?" Kenji's eyes were so big they looked about ready to pop off, serena thought. 'eeeeew.'
"I got it cut."
"now now, sweetheart…" Ikuko replied. " don't you think you're being a little over reactive about her hair? I think it looks nice." From this remark, both children spit out the soda they had been drinking. 'this,' her brother thought,' from the woman who clutched my sister's hair for a full 2 minutes ranting and raving about it?' Serena must have been thinking along the same lines, because she was barely able to cover up her amusement. After everything was settled and eaten, both kids went back to their room.
Serena closed the door of her room and sat down in her desk, pushing away all the volumes of manga and gum wrappers there were. 'from today on…I'm going to study hard. Too bad Luna isn't here to see this and call Ripley's. I wonder when she'll be back from Mina's house…' so from 9:00 to 3:00 in the morning, only stopping to go to the restroom, textbook after textbook slowly imprinted their information in Serena's tired brain. Physics. Chemistry, algebra, American literature, French II, make it stop…' bags appeared under her eyes, but she kept going…until she fell asleep right on her desk. Around the time Serena was snoring, Luna leaped in the window purposely left open for her. Glancing at the blonde haired teen, Luna spotted the books around her. 'the world must have come to and end, if Serena is actually studying. I must…be hallucinating.' She pranced to the baby blue leather bean bag that was her bed, and comfortably fell into a deep slumber.
Once again, as the alarm clock beeped, Serena slowly got up, and followed her usual morning routine. 'i…need…more…sleep.' She thought to herself, as the jets of water in her shower massaged her neck and back. Stepping out and wrapping herself in an ivory colored fleece towel, she once again surveyed herself in the mirror. Looking at the pair of eyes that stared back at her, eventually, she broke away. ' serena…what have you become…so that you cant look at yourself in the mirror anymore…serena…' an eerie voice popped in her head, officially freaking the crap out of her. Getting dressed in her blue pleated skirt and blouse, she headed for school, grabbing an apple, and eating it along the way to her school. 'my bag…is getting so heavy. Maybe I shouldn't have brought all my books home.' She wasn't watching where she was going, until
-whap.-
bumping into something hard, she fell to the hard concrete. 'ouch.'
"Serena?" she looked up.
"Mamoru." She acknowledged him with a flip of her hair, wondering where else she could be.
"Look…you were right yesterday…and I shouldn't be teasing you. I'm sorry." He looked at her with genuine sincerity.
'he looks…so kind…just forgive him.' Another voice popped in her head. 'was he kind when he made fun of you at the arcade two days ago? Don't do this to yourself…if you do, you might just find yourself falling…don't…'
"I'm sure you're sorry. Please excuse me, I must be getting to class." Not a single ounce of emotion in her voice. Arriving fifteen minutes before the early bell, Serena and Ms. Haruna were still not on speaking terms as of yesterday.
" I hope you know, Tsukino, we're having a test today. We'll see who's been neglecting responsibilities." A smirk on the teacher's face appeared, only to be wiped off soon enough.
"WOW, Ms. Haruna, you know, often at SCHOOL, we have TESTS. I know we're having one today. Guess what? I ALSO know that YOU'RE just trying to cover up when I humiliated you yesterday." Assuming the utmost formality as the other students walked in with their books, it was apparent that this girl, and this teacher…were NOT going to get along for the rest of the three months she had left in 10th grade. After roll call, second period, which was chemistry/science, had begun. She went down the rows of students, passing out the tests one by one.
"now class, be able to tell me the difference of ionic and covalent bonds, as well as having the whole periodic table memorized. You have forty minutes. Begin."
For the first time in her life, Serena actually understood the test material. And during the forty minutes, she breezed through it, being the first one to turn it in. 'In your face, ms. Haruna.' She sat back at her desk, quietly waiting for the rest to finish. The day dragged on slowly, as the classes' teachers were amazed at Serena's progress, and decided to pop a quiz. In every single class. 'every single class!!! How messed up ARE these teachers!?' during lunch, she sat by herself. lita, mina, and ami all sat at another table, unsure looks on every one of their faces. 'ugh.' Serena looked at her lunch, then at the girls. I don't know which one's more disgusting. My former friends backstabbing me some more, or this meatloaf that looks alive and bleeding.' She thought for a minute. 'yeah. Definitely the meatloaf.'
^**^
at 3:30, school ended, and swarms of students eager to get out lined the hallways. Serena was one of them, humming a tune and eager to go home. She was nearing the Crown arcade, and just as she was about to pass, all four scouts surrounded her. not giving them any hint of nervousness, Serena held her ground and looked like she could care less about what was going on. As of now, all the scouts were officially pissed at her. big time. And they wanted her out.
"Serena…" Rei started. "We've decided to kick you off the team. You're no longer apart of the sailor scouts."
"What you did yesterday was uncalled for. You don't deserve to be apart of us." Lita looked her straight in the eye.
All while they were talking, something popped in Serena tsukino's mind. Something weird. Something no one probably would have expected.
"No." she said in a light manner.
"I'm sorry, but you don't have a choice." Ami began to say.
"Actually…yes I do. You see, maybe if you ALL had a SILVER CRYSTAL, I would reconsider. But you know, I don't think I will quit the team. You know what? I think YOU ALL should quit, instead of me." She smiled apathetically, taking in the four girls' alarm. "because I can do without you. But you can't survive without me. You might as well give it up." She walked away, certain they would be there in the next youma attack. And no matter how much they tried to stop her, she would be too. And she would prove that they were worthless. 'there's going to be an attack tonight…I can feel it. And when those four girls come, they're going to wish…they had never doubted me.' Serena got home and finished her homework, with plenty of time to spare. Turning on the T.V, she flipped through the channels, watching everything that even appeared to be remotely interesting. –sigh- 'things are looking so different now…can I really survive this? Serena shook her head, ridding herself of the thought. 'don't care if I can…I have to.' Her mother called her at about 5:00 to help her with cooking dinner, and serena, having nothing better to do, agreed.
"Serena…" Ikuko called her daughter in the form of more like a question than a statement.
She looked up from chopping the cucumbers and grating the carrots.
"yes?"
"what happened?"
"what do you mean?" Serena looked slightly alarmed that her mother knew something was going on.
"you changed. Something hurt you deeply, and you changed."
"how would you know?" the cold voice returning, after a bit of uncertainity.
"I'm your mother. Of course I know. You've changed haven't you?"
"what if I have? Its not like you bothered about it before!!!" she threw the knife down that she was cutting the chicken with and ran back into her room.
"Serena…" Ikuko called quietly after her, knowing she wouldn't hear.
Dinner was a quiet change to the busy life around everyone…more like the drama around everyone. Sammy was engrossed in his food, and serena had refused to look at her mother. Kenji, who was probably the most confused out of all the family, just grabbed a newspaper he had bought from his office vending machine and started reading. Not bothering to ask to be excused (that sounds weird…) Serena went up in her room, waiting for the youma to appear. The scouts were sure as heck not going to call her, so she just dumped her communicator in the trash bin. Closing her eyes and concentrating a moment or two Serena's blue cloudy eyes opened quickly. She looked out the window, in the east direction, facing the cherry temple. 'There.' Quickly transforming, she leapt out the window unaware that a certain black cat was eyeing her. 'I didn't even sense anything…yet she did. What powers is Serena hiding from me? What has she been hiding from…all of us?'
Running at top speed to the cherry hill temple, she arrived alone. 'fools. They think I can't sense the scouts hiding in those trees and behind those bushes…oh well.' She smiled to herself. 'show time.'
Hello again! How do you like the second chapter? Im sorry….i just cant get things to stop rushing…but I will TRY next tym ok? I mite not continue this, because I have SEVERE writers cramp…and fingers cramp…-_- well, still~ let me know if you enjoyed it ok? Please review!
Love yoo peepz
Qtpi920x
Again, thank you for all your suggestions, and if you want me to email you when I update, just email me at qtpi920x@hotmail.com.