Author's Note: You guys, do I suck THAT bad? Man, I'm going to get all depressed now…*sniffs* Anyways, this goes out to the people who actually read this =) HEY DARLENE! Look what's here? You readin' this? Well, anyways, if you do, can you review at least? LMAO.

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Ch. 8: "Is that REALLY Motoki?!?"

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'I knew that was the problem all along, I just couldn't tell the others.  Usa has to confess herself, even though it will hurt her very much.' Minako thought as she walked to the park to join the others. 'I hope Heero doesn't kill me! I mean, I said someone cares for her but I didn't say it was him.  I don't want to die yet!'

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'I hurt, and I made the others hurt, especially Heero.  I mean, I yelled at him and accused him of being a cold-hearted guy.  Well, he is a little cold-hearted, but that's just because I haven't figured him out yet.' Usagi thought as she went back into her room and stared at the rose.  Then she lay down on her bed and closed her eyes.  'I'm so tired…I think all that crying made me like this…'

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"So Duo, how are you and Minako doing?  Has she stopped her cute guy searching yet?" Makoto asked with a genuine smile.

"She what?" Duo exclaimed.

"Oh, her usual thing.  She hunts for hot guys!" Rei added in carelessly.

"I should hold her off for now." Duo smirked.

"Hold me off from what?" Minako chimed in as she stepped in beside Duo.

"Nothing Minako, Rei and Mako are just teasing Duo." Ami explained.

"Teasing him about what?" Minako asked curiously.

"Nothing, nothing!" Rei and Makoto smiled nervously.

"Duo…" Minako said as she faced Duo with an 'I-want-to-know' face.

"…What?" He asked.

"What were they talking about?"

"They were talking about you—" Duo was stopped by his own braid being stuck in his mouth so he obviously stopped in the middle of the sentence.

"Duo, sometimes you have to learn to just not say anything, alright?" Rei asked as she glared at Duo, and he immediately nodded his head in fear.

Minako placed her hand on Rei's shoulder. "Rei…"

Rei stared up at Minako's face and she knew she was in trouble. "Um, yeah?"

"WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT ME?????????"

Rei stood her ground, and almost went deaf.  Duo cracked up after he took his braid out of his mouth and Ami and Quatre couldn't help but laugh.  Usually it was the other way around.  Trowa and Wufei just looked at each other and shrugged, then back at Rei and Minako.

"WELL?"

"Minako, lower your voice, a person can go deaf because of your yelling."

"I want to KNOW!"

"We didn't say that much about you, just that you go hunting for hot dudes." Makoto spilled as she stepped back every so often.

"That's it?" Minako asked curiously as she glanced around the group.

"Of course Minako, we would never lie to you!" Rei answered with a large smile.

"Oh…I thought it was something big, like I had a stalker or something." Minako said as she sighed a sigh of relief.

"Hey, if you were getting stalked, Shinigami here would protect you anytime, anywhere!" Duo said as he placed an arm over Minako's shoulder.

"Wow, I've got a personal bodyguard!" Minako said as she wrapped her arm around Duo's waist.

"Phew." Makoto and Rei said as they sat down.

"Hey, where's Heero?" Minako asked as she looked at the group.

"Why do you ask?" Duo asked as he raised an eyebrow at Minako, suspecting she had something going on with Heero.

"Because I remember that he left like, half an hour ago from his dorm while I was talking to Usa."

"He hasn't come back yet."

'We have to find him…I've so got to set him and Usa up somehow!' Minako schemed.

"Hey, isn't that him over there on the other side of the pond?" Ami asked as she spotted a boy sitting under a tree on the other side of the pond.

"Yeah, that's Heero." Quatre said as he looked at the boy.

"HEY HEERO, COME OVER HERE WOULD YA?" Minako screamed as loud as she could, and Heero heard her. "Was that loud enough?"

"Well, he's walking over here now, so I'm guessing that was loud enough Minako." Ami replied.

Minako ran to Heero and grinned. "Hey Heero, thinking about something or someone?"

Heero glared back at her. "Mind your own business."

"Just trying to help you out. Anyways, when you get back to your dorm you better not glare at Usagi, she's really fragile, as you have noticed. Also, if she starts crying, can you at least try to clam her down or comfort her?"

"Maybe."

"You will, you repeat me!" Minako demanded.

"Fine." Heero said as he glared back at her.

"Glad you see things my way." She smiled proudly and walked back to the group.

"Minako, you never told us what was wrong with Usagi." Rei asked.

"I didn't, did I? Well, I can't."
"You better tell us now or else!"

"I can't, its not my problem, you should figure it out yourselves."

"Ok, I've narrowed it down to 2: number one is something's up with Mamoru and number two is that she…" Makoto listed and looked at Minako's smile, which changed into a frown.

"Something did happen with her and Mamoru? No way! Minako, are you sure?" Makoto questioned.

"My lips are sealed."

"That is the problem with Usagi, you can tell when she's happy, which is most of the time, and when she's sad.  She's sad, Minako, and she's weeping over Mamoru now, isn't she?" Ami asked.

"I didn't say anything."

"How did she find out? I mean it's impossible to find out…" Rei trailed.

"Ask her yourself, and anyways, she's says she sorry for treating you guys like how she treated you.  She's sincerely sorry." Minako answered. "If you want more details, you go ask her yourself, end of story."

"Minako, spill the whole story." Rei said.

"Rei, don't force Minako to tell you, I don't think Usagi would like that." Ami told Rei.

"Yeah, as much as I want to find out, you can't push her." Makoto agreed.

"Why am I always defeated?" Rei asked to no one. "Hey, is it just me or does that guy sort of look like-"

"Motoki? Is it REALLY him?" Minako asked as she stared at the back of a tall blonde boy.

"Wait just a minute, just who is this Motoki guy?" Dou asked with jealousy and got not answer from the girls.

"He's a guy from Tokyo, where the girls used to live." Trowa answered.

"How did you—"
"Makoto told me."

"Is he a threat?" Duo asked for everyone [guys.]

"I don't know."

"Well, let's just wait and see guys." Quatre said as he turned his attention back to a smiling Ami.

"You guys, this can't be! How'd he get here?" Rei asked.

"I don't know but I want to go find out." Makoto said with a playful smile.

"Yeah, I'm in." Minako said. "I wonder if he started an arcade here. I miss that the most."

"Let's go!" Rei and Ami said and the girls ran towards the blonde boy.

"MOTOKI!" Makoto and Minako yelled as they ran towards the boy first while Rei and Ami just walked.

"Ami, we don't know them."

"Yeah, I think you're right on that." Ami and Rei sweat-dropped.

"Hm?" the blonde boy turned around, and was definitely confused.

"Motoki?" The brunette and blonde girl asked.

"Hey, I'm not this Motoki guy that you're talking about but I am single." He winked at Minako and Makoto.

"He winked at Minako!" Duo said as he rolled up his sleeves. "Alright, I'm going to teach that guy a lesson…" Secretly, Trowa was thinking the same as Duo, but kept his anger in.

"Keep the rage in check Maxwell." Wufei said as he, Qautre and Heero were watching what would happen next.

"What the hell? Buzz off jerk." Makoto said. " You are definitely not Motoki."

"Sorry to hit you hard boy, but me and my friend are taken." Minako laughed.

"By who? I bet I can beat you're dumb ass boyfriends up." The guy sneered.

Minako and Makoto shook their heads. "'Fraid not, 'cause I bet that you wouldn't last a second with them." Minako said proudly as she shook her index finger at him.

"What are they doing? That guy isn't Motoki at all! Motoki was a nice and gentle guy, this guy's just a jerk." Rei whispered to Ami since they were only a couple feet away from the guy.

"I don't know."

"Well, who are they?"

"Really? You still want to find out?" Makoto asked with a smirk.

"Of course I do."

"They are right over there." Minako answered as she pointed to the group of four curious boys and the other one just standing with his friends.

"Which one?"

"The one with the braid, Duo Maxwell."

"…And the other guy with brown hair, green eyes. Trowa Barton."

"Well then…" The guy said as he nervously scratched his head.  He could never beat those guys as much as he wanted to.

"You scared yet boy?" Minako and Makoto laughed.

"Hey, I just forgot that I had to meet my friend. Catch you girls later!" He said as he ran off.

"Much later! It was nice to meet you!" Minako chimed as she waved to the back of the running boy.

Rei and Ami joined their friends. "I think I missed something." Ami said.

"What exactly happened?"

"A little bribery from ours truly." Makoto smiled.

"Really? I just saw him wink, get all worked up, then shrink back and then run off like any coward would."

"Exactly it." Minako smiled.

"I get your point.  He wanted to challenge Duo and Trowa cause he thought he was Mr. Macho, then found out that they were your boyfriends, then acted really cowardly and ran off."

"That's right." Makoto said, and the boys walked towards them.

"I miss Motoki…he always listened to me when I told stories about Artemis and when Usa would embarrass herself. I miss him, I miss the arcade, and I miss the races with Usa!" Minako cried. "I remember one day I was telling him about Usa, and I didn't know she walked right through the door and he and I were laughing our heads off when she exploded.  Then we raced each other, and he said to us, 'please keep the road rage in check'." Minako finished with laughter.

"That was the day when we met Haruka and Michiru! I remember…that was embarrassing." Rei blushed as she thought back to the moment.

"You can say that again." Makoto thought. "Who's fault was it anyway?"

"What happened?" Qautre asked Ami since she was the one who wasn't thinking of the day they first met this Haruka person.

"When?"

"Now."

"Nothing much, the same usual jerks guys can act like." Ami replied.

"Oh."

"Not me, I remember we met at the temple and Usa and Minako here were late.  And then, we were back at the arcade and we saw Haruka and Michiru, and that's when we discovered the secret.  It was Minako's fault." Rei said as she pointed at Minako.

"Me?"

"Yeah, Usagi told me she was going to make it on time but passed the arcade and saw you there.  Then she saw you looking at Haruka and you made her—"

"Enough!" Minako shouted. "Let's just forget that whole experience, ok? Thank you!"

"Whatever you say Minako, you stalked her." Rei smirked.

"HER?" The pilots asked as they stared at Minako, and she glared back at Rei.

"Y'see, we have this friend named Haruka, and she dresses like a guy.  So, I made a common mistake and thought she…was…a...guy, and did what every girl would..." [Ha ha! Sorry, inside joke *coughs*]

"Stalk them?" Duo asked his girlfriend.

"I just wanted to find if 'he' was single when I thought that she was a guy cause our other friend, Michiru, we thought that she was 'his' girlfriend, and yeah…" Minako blushed.

"Did you stalk me?" Duo asked with curiosity.  If she did, she might have found out his and the guys secret.

"No silly, I saw enough of you already."

"Is that a good thing of a bad thing?" Duo frowned.

"It's very good! I didn't stalk you, and anyways, Makoto, I heard that you followed Motoki home and tried to secure Rita's decision of going on that Africa thing."

Makoto was stunned. "Uh…well, it was for a good reason, I made him dinner and tried to teach him how to cook."

"Oh really?"

"Hey, we were out here for an hour and a half, it's seven thirty now, how about I make dinner for us?"

"Sounds great!" Duo smiled happily.

"Alright, let's go." Makoto said as she took Trowa's hand and lead them up to her and Minako's dorm.

"I'll go get Usa, k?" Rei said.

"Ok, I'm not sure if she wants to come though, but you can try."

"Yeah yeah."

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"Very good Relena.  Now have you figured out the other sailor scouts yet?"

"I am not sure if they are them, but I suspect that the other scouts are Ami Mizuno; Sailor Mercury, Rei Hino; Sailor Mars, Makoto Kino; Sailor Jupiter and last but not least, Minako Aino; Sailor Venus."

"Yes, very good Relena.  Strike an attack on them soon, when they have not transformed yet.  I will give you power before you strike."

"Thank you Pharaoh." Relena bowed.

"Very well.  I will be back, and that will be the time you attack."

"Yes, Pharaoh." She bowed and the one named 'Pharaoh' was gone.

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Author's Note: Man…how was THIS one? Good/Bad? Suck/SUPER suck? Man, you guys, I GOTTA know for this to continue. If your one of those readers who read but DON"T review, I hope you review for me! *I know, I used to do that, NOT anymore though!*  Y'see…reviews are VERY important, LMAO. Who am I trying to be here? Please do not ask…just go and click that 'submit review' and I'll be happy.

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