"Quatre, are you sure that she promised to come back  by 9:30??" Luna asked for the 20th time.

"Yes.." Quatre said to the worried guardian.

"Maybe Maxwell got her drunk." Wufei said getting whacked by Meiran. "You wanna fight, Onna??"

"Yeah!!!" She said.

"Guys!!!" Diana stopped them.

"Fine.. only for y ou Diana…" Meiran said.

"Your friend isn't the type to take advantage of .."

"Luna!!!" Quatre gaped at the woman.

"I'd rather that happen than Kimori get her!!" Luna said.

"I'd rather neither!!!" Artemis said.

"I guess I really don't care.. because she's still been nice to me even after trying to take her throne." Releana said.

"To answer your question, Luna,  Duo would most likely bring her home if she were drunk." Heero said and the doors to the palace opened and much laughter was heard.

"Are you serious.. they tried to cut your braid off as a kid??" Serena asked Duo still laughing.

"Yeah.. The nun who did it told me it was dirty.."

"Man I can't see you without a braid, Duo.." She said. "It would be too weird."

"Yeah well it was just straight down like yours until the nun who tried to cut it braided it."

"I see.. and it's like a memory type of thing."

"Yeah…" He said. "Your turn to tell me something about your trade mark."

"My trade mark.. my only trade mark is tripping and falling on  my face." She said stumbling forward..   but seeing how  Duo was already holding her from behind as they walked she didn't get far. He laughed just then as she blushed and finally let her go. "Ok.. something embarrassing… Hmm The first time I actually met Darien I was  late for school and was doing my usual dash to school."

"Usual??"

"I was always late to school." She shrugged. "Anyway I was rushing and I wasn't watching and ran smack into him. I got up quickly and was bowing and apologizing to a telephone pole.. and when I say apologizing I mean like 'omgi'msosorryiwasn'tpayingattentiontowhereiwasgoingi'msosorry'."

"A panic apology…" He said cracking up laughing. "To a telephone pole…."

"Yeah.." she said nearly tripping but stabled herself last minute.

"Serena!!!!" Luna nearly glomped the girl. "Where the heck have you been?!?!"

"Lil ol' me?? I was with Duo.. we went to a movie then to the park and then dancing!!"

"Dancing?!?!" Luna looked at her.  "I  thought maybe something happened to you?!?!? You can't just walk out and go dancing when there's the chance that."

"Just hold it Luna." Serena said glaring at the woman. "You are impossible I tell you!!! You're not my mother..  both of the ones I had died ok.. and I don't need another one. Secondly I've never had much of a life don't you think.. I never even got to slack off as a kid and when I finally made friends I became Sailor Moon so for the first time I got to have fun and not have to worry about youmas popping up.. and if you'd let me finish I would tell you I was Celebrating.." She said pointing to the group behind them that Luna had ignored since she came and glomped Serena. Now she looked as if she would faint.. then the others slightly flickered. "I'm Sorry Minna… I forgot you live off of me currently." She said yawning. "Listen I'm going to bed.. I'll see you all in the morning." She said giving Duo a kiss on the cheek. "It was fun.. maybe some other time we can take and early tour of the city." She said then  kissed Quatre's Cheek. " 'nite Q-chan." She ran up the  stairs and went to bed.

"Hi Luna.. Artemis..   Diana." Mina  said breaking the silence.

"I'm going too.." Duo said going to his room.

*~*~*~*~

"398…3999..400!" Serena said flipping through the pages of Duo's art book. "I like this one!!!" She said pointing to the one her drew  of the whole Sailor group.

"I drew it this morning.. I figured now that  I've had a chance to  get to know them why not do something nice." He said while they switched places.

"I'm Telling you D-chan.. Your hair is almost as long as mine." She said beginning to brush his long dark hair which was now free of  it's braid.

"Not really.. Yours is still a lot longer." Amara said from the doorway.

"Yeah.. but it is rather long for a boy." Michelle said.

"I know." Duo said.

"Are you guys here about me and the way I acted with Luna??" Serena said. "Just to let you know I'm not going to apologize. Firstly Kimori cannot kill me because he doesn't have the strength to.. I took way too much of it when he was here last, he can't even conjur up youmas anymore.. and she knows this.. why she chose now to suddenly worry  like that I will  never know." Serena said and the two scouts left seeing how she just cut their purpose for being there short.

"Come here, babe." Duo pulled her into his lap.

"Yes??" She grinned at him.

"I  understand your situation.. but don't you think that since she's known you since the whole Sailor moon thing.. well actually a millenia  ago she's got this certain motherly protection over you??" He said and rested her head on his shoulder. "And well even though we all know Kimori's out of order there's a chance he could start up much quicker??"

"True.." Serena said.

"So maybe that's what's she worried about.. your well-being."

"But still… I've been losing mothers… and if Luna acts like my mother something might happen to her, ya know." Serena said showing the reason she won't let Luna act that way,

"So you're worried about each other.. just like things should be." He said. "Besides..  you're probably breaking her heart by pushing her away."

"True.." She said.

"Now tell me why you listened to me when your friends were probably gonna tell you the same thing."

"They're not as cute as you." She said kissing his nose.

"No.. they're cuter.." He said.

"Duo!!!" She said ready to get up but he grabbed her.

"I didn't say you could get up."

"Didn't know I needed permission."

"Nope… there's a 5 kiss charge." He said grinning. "Or since you're there a lap dance."

"Duo!!" She whacked him with a brush.

"Ok.. forget the lap dance." He said.

"Oh   you..  let me up so I can re-braid your hair!!" She hit him again.

"Pay up first!!!"

"Oh   you!!" She said kissing him five times, the last one lasting form a while. He let her go and she braided his hair and sat by the window.

"What are you looking at??"

"Nothing really… just Heero and Releana. Such an odd pair.. but  it seems to work." She said giving Duo a kiss just as Quatre walked in the room.

"Just like everything else in the world, they always seem to work out one way or another." Quatre said when they went back to staring out the window.

"Afternoon, Q-chan!!" she smiled at him.

"5 more minutes until noon." Quatre said,

"Well it's close enough!!" She said.

"Uhmm  yean anyway  Mina's looking for you." Quatre said.

"Hmm.. ok.. I'll see you at lunch!!" She said leaving the room.

"Energetic she is…" Duo said.

"Yeah.. a lot like you can be."

"Yeah I know.." Duo said.

"Just thought I'd tell you. Trowa thinks of her as a little sister as well as Heero."

"No need to warn me…." He said waving off the threat. "I don't see how anyone would want to break her heart."

"Her last husband.. although his reasons were right it was still the wrong way to go." Quatre said.

"Gotcha.." Duo said. "And it's time for me to make my exit stage right!!" Duo said leaving the room.