Disclaimer: Sailor Moon does not belong to me. It belongs to whoever might own her at this time. I am not making money off of this, so please do not sue.
Side Story Begin!
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"Hey, Ami!" called out Rei as the most studious of the Sailor Senshi walked up the steps to the shrine. It was typical for Ami to come early.
Ami smiled at the raven-haired girl as she waved back. "It's good to see you, Rei."
The shrine maiden nodded toward the temple. "Go on in, I've got this last bit of sweeping to do, then I'll change into something a little more comfortable."
During the summer, since there wasn't school to hold them together,
most of the Senshi drifted off in their separate ways; occasionally
they banded together to go shopping or some such, but generally each
either spent time with their families or did something they wanted to
do by themselves.
It was agreed, however, that they would meet together once a week,
unless they were on vacation with their families.
Today was that day.
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Rei finished changing as she entered the room to find that Minako and Makoto had arrived while she had been busy. Looking around, it was obvious Usagi had not arrived yet; her manga collection was still sitting neatly in one corner, the snack trays that she had prepared were still full, and the pillows weren't strewn about in a half-hazard fashion.
The shrine maiden checked the time; ten minutes after the meeting was supposed to have started. It was Usagi's usual time to show up. Why wasn't she here?
"Why isn't she here?" wondered Rei aloud.
Ami looked up from the book she was reading, deduced what the question was about, and shrugged her shoulders. "You know Usagi. She must have been later than usual."
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Now Rei was worried. It was an hour after the meet was supposed to start. Even Usagi wasn't this late! Well, usually. Still, it would be better to check up on her... she's probably getting a good laugh making us worry for her!
Stomping over to the phone, she angrily picked up the receiver and dialed Usagi's home number.
"I'm sorry, but the number you have dialed has been disconnected.
Please check your number, and dial again."
The fiery Senshi looked at the receiver in shock. Quickly, she brought out her communicator and paged Usagi with it. Luna's face showed up on the screen.
"-is where this blasted thing has been hiding!" the cat complained.
"Luna?" asked Rei in confusion. "Where is Usagi?"
"She's gone!"
"Where to?"
"I don't know! One day I just wake up and find the entire house empty. Do you know how hard it is to open the refrigerator?"
"Are you sure you don't know where they got to?" interrupted Rei.
Luna hesitated. "Well, I overheard them whispering about some sort of ship, and how they have been saving up their money for this, and getting rid of Usagi..." Luna's eyes widened. "Do you think they've gone over to the Dark Kingdom?"
Rei smacked herself on the forehead at Luna's remark. Sometimes the
moon cat could be so dense. "Perhaps they've just gone on a cruise"
asked Rei rhetorically.
"Oh." Luna blinked. "I hadn't considered that."
"I'll go tell the others." Rei shut off the communicator. She raised her voice as she said, "Hey, guys! We've got a problem here."
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Ami was the first to speak after given the news. "I might be able to find her with the Mercury Computer..." Thinking for a moment, she then muttered under her breath, "I knew I should have surgically implanted that tracking device."
"That's great, Ami-chan!" beamed Makoto with all the pride of a mother seeing her daughter score the winning goal in the championship soccer match.
"A false door shall lead you to a great tasting food," nodded Minako sagaciously.
Rei absently nodded in agreement. She was busy wondering where the heck that sexy little-- er, Usagi went.
By silent agreement, none of the Sailor Senshi decided to tell Mamoru Chiba that Usagi was missing.
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End Side Story!
Author Note: Just a bit of a side story to take up space. As you can see, I'm not very good at off-the-wall humor. Kagato is much better than I in that respect.