Usagi released her grip on her father's GI and stood still for a moment, trying to figure out how she would go about challenging Mamoru. She looked up at her father in pure happiness. She couldn't hold her excitement much longer. She wanted to show Mamoru how much she had learned. She wanted to show him that she could beat him once and for all. "Do we have to train today daddy?" Usagi could feel her excitement building up inside her.
Goku shook his head. "Not exactly."
Usagi jumped for joy. He just released the pressure on her. Now she could go and do what she had been longing to do for a year now. "Great. Well I'll be seeing you guys then." She turned around to jump in the air and go her separate way.
Goku extended his arms and grabbed the back of his daughter's GI. "I said you didn't have to train, I never said that you could go anywhere." Goku knew she was anxious to fight Mamoru, he could sense it. He was fully prepared to allow her to do that, but he had other plans made out for that day.
Usagi hunched her shoulders as she groaned. "But daddy…I wanted to go fight Mamoru now." Usagi began to whine. She hated it when she didn't get her way. But she wasn't obnoxious about it like most kids were.
Goku glared at Usagi. He hated it when she whined. He still wasn't used to a girl's whining habits and he didn't think that he would ever be. "Usagi, don't whine please. There will be plenty of time for that later. Right now, we have to go pick Rei and then go to Capsule Corp. There is someone there that Bulma would like you to meet."
"Ooh, another surprise? Who is it?" Minako walked closer to Goku so he would tell her.
"Boy, you all sure are nosey aren't you? You'll just have to wait to find out. I haven't even met this person yet."
"Fine then." Minako hated secrets just about as much as Usagi did. But, the less she argued, the sooner she would find out who Bulma wanted them to meet. "Let's not sit here and talk about it any more. Let's go meet this mystery person."
"Yeah. Let's get out of here. I don't want to be here anymore anyways." Usagi leaped into the air. She hated school more then anything. She didn't see it as anything that she really benefited from. She just saw it as a place that took up all her free time. A place for other kids to get together and make fun of the weak. She tried to keep away from those types of people as much as possible. She didn't care about what others thought of her anymore either. She could now see past all their judgements on her. She pretty much tried to ovoid contact with other kids as much as possible. She had been through too much with kids to trust them. Usagi learned at a very young age that life is hard and she had been living with that fact for a long time now. But now, now she would be able to show Mamoru just what she learned. She would teach him a few things about life.
Usagi looked over her shoulder to her father. "Guess what?"
"What?"
"Today there was this new girl at school. We tried to talk to her, but she said that we just wanted to use her or something." Usagi still didn't understand why Ami had acted that way. She just figured that she had to have been through a lot at her old school. That was the only explanation that she could come up with.
"Well, maybe she's just had a hard time." Goku remembered back to when Usagi had been teased at school. She was a wreck. He thought about the day when he had to pick her up from school the day that she had been suspended. He could sense her sadness and fear the moment that he walked into the same room as her. If it wasn't for him teaching her how to fight, and Minako to be there with her, he didn't think that she would have survived going through the torment that the other kids put her through. He had witnessed it. He knew it wasn't just an over exaggeration.
"Yeah, that's what I was thinking." Usagi slowed down her speed so she could be by her father's side. "I told her that I was going to keep trying to be her friend whether she liked it or not. I heard the other kids making fun of her. I know what it's like to go through that and I don't want her to have to go through it anymore then she has to."
"Yeah, I guess you could kind of call our group of friends the outcasts." Minako added, which had some justification behind it. Usagi was considered a freak among the school because she had a tail. Minako was considered a freak because she was to outspoken and because she hung out with Usagi. Makoto was considered a tomboy. Rei was considered weird because she has special physic powers.
Goku showed a hint of a frown. "You guys aren't outcasts. There is no such thing as anyone being more popular then anyone else. You are always popular with your friends and family." Goku didn't like to listen to them talking like this. He knew they weren't freaks, yet they always looked down on themselves like they were. Although they said they never listen to the teasing of other kids, it was quite obviously that they did without even realizing it. That was one thing he was trying to convince them of. That they were just as normal as the next person was.
Usagi shrugged. She sort of believed that, but that didn't mean that the other kids did. Haruka and Michiru had pretty much ruined her chance of ever having a normal reputation at school. But she was getting to the point where she just didn't care anymore. "Oh well, it doesn't really matter. I'm still going to try to be her friend."
"Usagi, don't force the issue. You could make her angry with you. You wouldn't want to do that would you? Don't make her be your friend."
"Sure."
Goku knew better than to take her 'sure' seriously. He knew her mind was made up. It's not like he could make her not talk to the girl. She wasn't hurting herself, nor was she hurting the other girl. "Just be careful not to hurt her feelings."
"You got it! Right Minako and Makoto? We won't hurt her feelings." Usagi had never planned on doing such a thing. She just wanted to make friends with her. She looked over to her left, where her two friends were. The nodded to her in agreeance.
~*~*~
Rei sat on the stairs in front of her school and waited for the arrival of Goku and her friends, like she had been doing for nearly a year. She was dressed in a red GI much like Usagi's. Of course it's going to be red. She looked around the schoolyard to all the kids who had after school activities. There were mostly fifth and sixth graders around. There weren't very many activities for any of the other grades. She looked over to the baseball field to the right of the school where the team was practicing for an upcoming game. She didn't care too much for baseball. She always had to play it in her P.E. class and was never very good at it. That was one of the main reasons why she hated the sport. She actually didn't like too many sports. Every time she would make a wrong move, her classmates would yell her at. She would just rather stick to fighting then to play normal sports. Now fighting was something that she had gotten quite good at over the past year. Goku had taken her training as slow as she needed it. He didn't rush her, or push her into anything that she couldn't handle. That's the way she liked it. She knew Martial Arts teachers that didn't care one way or the other. They would move on with or without their students.
She rather liked fighting though. It was a fun activity and it had given her a reason to continue being friends with Usagi and the others. She couldn't imagine her life without either fighting, or her friends. Although at first she didn't want to fight with energy attacks, she liked it now. Once she started with the basics, she was left wanting more. She wanted to learn as much as she could.
Rei looked up to the sky. She could feel her friends approaching at a fast speed. She stood up. 'Yes. They're finally here. Now I can have some fun.' Rei didn't feel complete until she had her daily spar with Minako, Makoto, and Usagi. She spotted them not too far from her position. "Hey guys…over here!" She waved her hand up high over her head so they could see her.
"Hey Rei!" Usagi shouted back. She sped up a bit, letting the others know that she wanted to hurry up, get Rei, and leave to Bulma's so they could meet the mystery girl. The others sped up along with her. They knew she couldn't wait.
Usagi landed next to Rei. "Guess what, guess what, guess what?"
Rei laughed at Usagi. "What?"
"DaddysaysicanfightMamorunowandthatwegettomeetsomeonenewandicantwaitsoletsgook?" She didn't even give Rei a chance to reply before she bounced back into the air.
Rei stared blankly at Usagi. She hadn't understood a word that just came out of Usagi's mouth. She looked to Makoto. "What did she say?"
"I'm not sure, but let me tell you why she's happy. She's happy because Goku said she can fight Mamoru again."
"Oh. That's so cool! Usagi is going to kick the pants off that stupid guy. He's so mean!" Rei only met him for a few minutes the day of the tournament before she met Usagi and didn't really like him. He had a 'I'm better then you so stay out of my way,' type of attitude.
"Yeah, and that's not all. We aren't going to train today because Bulma wants us to meet someone special. We don't know who it is, but we really want to find out soon." Makoto's curiosity was growing inside of her. She really wanted to know who she was going to meet.
"Well then, let's go. I'm always up for meeting someone new. As long as they're nice." Rei joined Usagi in the air and soon, Makoto, Minako, and Goku were there too.
~*~*~
Bulma walked into the living room of her home and stared at the little girl that sat on her sofa. The girl stared at Bulma with big blue eyes full of curiosity. Bulma smiled. "You're really going to like these girls. They are the nicest people I have ever met." The girl said nothing in reply. She just watched avidly out the window. She couldn't wait to meet the girls. Bulma had told her so much about them. Bulma sat down in the chair that sat next to the girl as she looked down at her watch. "I don't know what's taking them so long. They should be here by now."
"It's all right Mrs. Bulma. I don't mind waiting."
Bulma smiled to herself. 'Such a nice polite little girl. I wish more children were this respectful.' "You don't have to call me Mrs. Bulma. You can just call me Bulma. I don't mind."
The girl looked down to the ground. "Sorry Mrs. Bulma…I mean Bulma." She laughed quietly to herself.
Bulma looked out the window that sat behind her. She noticed four figures in the sky not too far from the house. "Hey. Look they're here." She stood up and walked to the door. Before she opened it, she turned back to the girl. "Relax. Don't be nervous around these people." She could tell that the girl was stressing out. But with Goku and Usagi's personalities, she knew the girl would loosen right up. It was impossible to be unhappy when those two were around.
Bulma opened the door right before either of the four fighters had a chance to knock on it or ring the bell. She greeted them with a warm smile. "Hi you guys."
Goku got a big goofy smile on his face. "Hiya Bulma. What's shakin?"
Usagi looked up at Bulma. "Yeah! What's shakin?" Usagi was in an exceptionally happy mood at that moment. She couldn't wait to meet the new girl that Bulma wanted so badly for her to meet. She walked in the doorway and looked over to her right to see Ami sitting on the sofa, starring back at her.
Usagi suddenly stopped when she realized who it was, causing Rei to run right into her. "Usagi! Don't just stop short like that. Gees." She grabbed her nose. It was sore from running into Usagi's head.
Minako walked to the side of Rei and Usagi to see what the hold up was. She looked to Usagi and then to what, rather, who she was starring at. She smiled when she noticed that it was the new girl from school. "Ami! I didn't know that you knew Bulma." Being the people person that she is, Minako pushed passed Usagi and Rei and immediately went to sit by Ami.
Bulma closed the door after Goku and Makoto had gotten through it. "Oh? You guys already know each other?"
Usagi walked up to Ami. "Hi again!" She said as she waved to her. "Remember us?"
Ami began to blush. She was a bit embarrassed now. She had pretty much told them earlier in the day that she wanted nothing to do with them, and here they were, some of the nicest people that her mother's boss knew. "Uh…hi?" She held her head low so they wouldn't yell at her.
Makoto and Rei joined the three girls. "Hi. I'm Makoto remember? And this is Rei. She goes to a private school. She can talk to spirits. It's really cool." Makoto explained as she pointed to Rei.
Rei held out her hand to Ami. "Nice to meet you. I can't exactly talk to spirits…I just get feelings. And I can control fire, I guess." Rei was always modest when it came to her special abilities. She didn't exactly like to admit them to everybody either. She didn't really want to tell Ami until she found out she wasn't going to make fun of her for it, but Makoto kind of spoiled that.
Ami kept her head down and tried not to make eye contact with anyone. She slowly raised her hand to shake with Rei. "Nice to meet you all. I'm sorry about earlier you guys."
Goku found the girl a little bit strange. She had to be eight years old, or nearly eight and here she was, not acting like it. She was the calmest kid he had ever laid eyes on. He was used to his daughter and her friends and their wild habits. He walked up to her. "Hey, don't be so shy. We are all friends here. No one is better then any one else. So calm down." He extended his hand to her chin and slowly pushed it up, causing her to raise her face for everyone to see. "See, you've got a pretty little face. You shouldn't hide it."
Ami smiled to herself. No one had really ever said something like that to her before. She appreciated it. "Thanks." She began to feel more relaxed once she knew that they weren't going to yell at her for what she had done earlier.
Goku smiled. He could sense her becoming calmer. She was quite tense before. "Well, my name is Goku and I'm Usagi's dad." He said cheerfully.
"Well," Bulma interrupted, "Now that we have introductions done, you all know this is Ami." She sat on the side of Ami that Minako was not and put her arms around her shoulders. "She is very gifted. She is one of the smartest people her age. In Tokyo, she was enrolled in 'cram schools' Remember all those schools she went to in the Anime after school? Those were cram schools. But here, we don't have 'cram schools.' There isn't a big enough demand for them. So I'm teaching her. I know her mother because she works here to do check ups on the employees as a part time job. She told me about little Ami here and was complaining that there were no 'cram schools'. So, I offered to take her in. That's why I wanted you to come and meet her. I wanted her to get to know people. Maybe you could show her around the city a bit?"
"Sure, we can show her the ropes. It would be fun." There went Minako again. She had a habit of volunteering everyone. "It will be fun. What do you say Ami?"
'Nooooooooo!' Usagi couldn't show her around. She wanted to challenge Mamoru to a fight. She wanted to do it that day. She wanted to show him once and for all. Unless… "Sure, we can show her around." Usagi looked up at her father. "Can we? Today?"
Goku thought for a few seconds. He hadn't expected to be out that late. Chi-Chi hadn't expected him to be out that late. He promised her that he would be home that night. He rarely ever was. She had been complaining a lot lately about his absence from the house. "I don't know Usagi. Your mother wants me to spend more time at home with her."
Usagi got her begging look on her face again as she put her hands up under her chin and rolled her bottom lip. "Pretty, pretty please with sugar on top? We can go without you." Usagi could tell that her father did not like that idea just by the expression on his face. He hadn't let her travel alone in the city since the day she met Mamoru. She had to think of something to tell him, and quick. "Uh…there's five of us. We can take care of ourselves. Please daddy?"
Goku wasn't sure that that was such a great idea. Granted there were five of them, but only four knew how to fight. But, he couldn't say 'no' to that face and she knew it. She loved to torture him with that face. "Usagi…" He sighed. He couldn't disagree. She wouldn't let him. 'Oh well, at least I'll finally get some alone time with Chi-Chi if I let her go.' Goku hadn't spent time alone with his wife in a couple of months. Usagi was always with them or they were apart. He missed the time he spent with her. "Fine. But if anything happens…"
Usagi squealed with joy. "Thank you! And don't worry, nothing bad will happen. I promise." She jumped up and wrapped herself around her father and gave him a quick kiss on the check. She turned around to her friends after she jumped back down. "This is going to be fun." She smiled very deviously. Minako and Makoto knew Usagi well enough to know that this was a bad sign. She had something planned and they were pretty sure they knew what it was. They looked at each other and sighed.
"Ok. Be careful you guys. I guess I'll see you later then." He turned to the door. He stopped before he opened it. "Usagi, I want you home before dark." He turned his head to look over his shoulder. "Good bye Bulma. Good bye Ami. It was nice to meet you."
Usagi watched her father leave and turned back to his friends. "Well, let's get this show on the road shall we?"
~*~*~
All five girls walked in the heart of the city. They had been walking around for about an hour. Ami was in awe. The city was spectacular in her eyes. She thought that Tokyo was great. This city had everything. There weren't really any airships in Tokyo, yet here, they were all over the place. "You guys, this city is perfect."
Usagi stopped in front of a dark brown building. "Yeah. It's got its good points, while at the same time, its got its downs." Speaking of downs, Usagi was currently looking at the home of one. "He's here you guys."
"Who's here?" Ami hadn't been informed about Usagi's background with Mamoru, Haruka, and Michiru. She stared at the building in which Usagi was. "Usagi, do you know people in middle school?" With small kids, if you knew anyone older then yourself and they weren't your older sibling's friend, you were considered someone of high status.
Makoto sighed. She knew what Usagi was going to do. She also knew there was no way to stop it. Once Usagi made up her decision, it could not be changed. "Ami, Usagi has a little conflict going on with three people who go to this school. It's been going on for three years now. The boy of the group, Mamoru, pretty much left Usagi for dead last year in a battle. Now Usagi wants to repay him the favor. Usagi…don't do anything stupid, alright?"
Usagi nodded. "Don't worry. I won't do anything that daddy wouldn't want me to." She began to walk forward into the parking lot. "Come on. I want to settle the score once and for all. I want to know who actually IS the better fighter."
Rei looked to Ami as they all began to walk forward. She looked frightened. "Um Ami, I can take you home if you want. You don't have to watch this. Our fights kind of get a little on the intense side."
Ami kept her eyes straight and continued to walk forward with the rest of the group. "No, I'm interested to learn about you guys. I want to see you guys fight. It might be fun."
Rei shrugged her shoulders. "All right. I don't mind." She continued to walk. "I can feel Haruka and Michiru too. I think they're sparring right now."
~*~*~
Usagi found Mamoru in the football field of the school, sparring with Haruka and Michiru just like Rei had predicted. She stopped at the track that outlined the field and crossed her arms as she shook her head. "Pathetic!" Her friends stopped behind her.
Mamoru finished his drop kick on Haruka and turned to look at Usagi. He walked close to Usagi so he was within talking distance. "Odango! What are you doing here? I see you brought your circus of freakish friends with you."
Makoto frowned. "We aren't circus freaks!" She hated Mamoru. He always had some rude comment to say to them whenever he saw them.
Mamoru rolled his eyes. "Yeah whatever. So Odango…what brings you here after a year? I thought you were afraid of me. You had to get your daddy to beat me up last time."
Usagi scowled at Mamoru. "You keep running your mouth, but I'll show you once and for all that I can beat you on my own. I've been training for this day."
Mamoru grinned. "So you wanna fight me again huh? Why don't you just give up already? You can never win against me." Mamoru couldn't even feel her Ki. It felt the same now as it did the day he met her.
"Monkey Girl, give it up already!" Haruka could now back up her words. She and Michiru had been training with Mamoru for the past year. They could now hold their own against basic Ki attacks. But they wouldn't stand a chance against Usagi or any of the other girls.
Usagi began to take off her boots and her wristbands to relieve some weight from her body. She wanted to be as close to her full potential as possible. She needed every bit of her strength if she wanted to beat Mamoru. "Why don't we get this show on the road if we're going to do it?"
Mamoru got into his fighting stance. "Great idea Odango." He turned his head over his shoulder in the direction of Haruka and Michiru. "You two stay back. This could get gruesome again. For Usagi that is." He smirked. He knew he wasn't going to have a problem with Usagi.
"Yeah you guys. You should get back too. I don't want you guys to get hurt." Usagi's friends complied. They knew it would get fierce. Usagi was powerful. She had surpassed them even.
Rei stayed close to Ami. "Be careful Usagi."
Usagi grinned. "Don't worry about me. Just get out of here if it gets to bad." She kept her eyes on Mamoru and watched for any sudden movement. "Let's get this thing started shall we?"
"Yes, let's. That is a great idea." Mamoru, smirked with an obviously large amount of arrogance, was supremely confident of his victory. He had beaten Usagi before and he would do it again. It was only a year's difference. She couldn't have improved all that much. It was impossible for her to beat him with such an insufficient power level anyways. He had always been taught to only fight when you knew you could win, or when the earth was at stake, in this case, he was fighting to show his 'obvious' superiority to the younger fighter who stood, glaring at him.
"The winner is the last one able to stand or when the other begs the other for mercy." Usagi knew exactly what she was doing. She knew that she could beat him. Her father wouldn't have allowed her to talk to him unless he knew that she could do it.
Mamoru Smirked; "Agreed, Odango. I guess I'll be looking down at you while you are on the ground crying again. Really Odango, do you think you can beat me?" He said as he stretched out his arms, cocking his head from side to side. He regarded her as a piece of cake. He would quickly take her out and then proceed with the rest of his day as planned.
Usagi's eyes flashed gold as she felt her anxiousness rising in her. "Well, I guess we can see what happens. But I doubt that I will loose. Daddy says I'm strong."
Mamoru snickered. "Your father? Your father is just as weak as you are." Mamoru knew he just took a low shot, but hey, you take all you can get.
Usagi frowned. "He's stronger then you are. That's why you ran away after he hit you. And he'll do it again if he has to." She looked over to her friends. They all looked indifferent about the situation. Except Ami. Her eyes were full of fear. 'Sorry you have to see this Ami.' She turned to look back at Mamoru.
Both fighters stared at each other. Both with totally different views on why people fight. Usagi fought for the fun of it, while Mamoru fought to hurt people. That was why her father fought, to save the world from people like him. Maybe that's why she fought too. Maybe she just didn't realize it until now. Haruka glared at Usagi and shouted; "Begin, and kick her ass Mamoru."
As though agreed upon from the beginning, though no words had been spoken, they started off with hand-to-hand combat. Usagi, having long since learned from her father that simply running right at an opponent would only leave her vulnerable, slowly began to circle Mamoru, looking for an opening while reading his ki level. Despite herself she was impressed with the power radiating off him, but knew she was at least his equal. She began to raise her Ki also. She didn't want him to think that she was still weak. She wanted her strength out in the open, and since she took some of her weights off, her power was a bit higher.
Mamoru was a bit shocked by Usagi's high power level. He hadn't expected her power to grow so much in such a short time. "So, I see you've been training a bit Odango." 'Gee's, what has this girl been doing in the past year? She's almost as strong as I am and I have been training since I was five.' He began to raise his power level to its highest, getting the same response from his enemy. The faster he would raise it, the faster she would. He grinned to himself. "So, you think you're better then me do you?" He didn't get a response.
Mamoru soon grew tired of the power lever contest. He was now ready for some action. He began to launch a series of roundhouse kicks at Usagi's head, she acted quickly and jumped to the side. But not quite fast enough. She was hit in the arm, nothing to serious. She grabbed a hold of his leg, adding her momentum to it, and threw him to the ground.
Mamoru was a bit startled by her speed. He took his mind off his thoughts just in time to almost be hit by Usagi's follow up jump kick. Right before her foot made its mark in his face, he managed to roll away and jump to his feet. He stared at her for a moment as he remembered his father's words not to EVER underestimate an enemy, and that especially included Usagi. He had underestimated her. For the rest of this fight, he would act as if she had to potential to beat him. He grinned evilly at her. "Humph, Odango, you might actually be a bit of a challenge."
Usagi stared right back into his eyes, never letting her guard down. "I COULD be a challenge? How about I am?"
Mamoru growled at Usagi. He didn't want to admit that she was right. He hadn't really been able to make very many hits on her. Throwing a hard close fist punch at her, she deflected it with her forearm and attempted to sweep his legs from under him. He back flipped over her sweep and lashed out with his foot while in midair, catching her off guard, slamming it into her jaw. Stunned, Usagi hit the ground, but this time she rolled past Mamoru as he tried to follow up his hit with a stomp to her chest. Rolling on the ground, barely avoiding Mamoru's blows, Usagi suddenly reversed the direction of her roll back on him, grabbing his foot that had just landed near her head and hurling him away from her. Both instantly sprang to their feet, and Mamoru glared at Usagi, and suddenly laughed. "First blood is mine." He pointed to the blood that dripped from her lip.
Usagi knew what he was talking about. She could feel the stinging sensation on her lip. She raised her hand to wipe it away. It didn't hurt her that much. She had been through worse with her father. He had even broken a few of her bones a few times on accident when they were sparring. She didn't even have the use of Senzu beans at the time so she had to let it heal itself. Lucky for Usagi, she was Saiyan and she healed much faster then a human. "Its just a little cut. You can't beat me with just a cut. You'll have to do better then that to beat me."
"Seems that I'm already beating you Odango, you just..."
Usagi had had enough of Mamoru's ranting. She didn't want to listen to it anymore. Usagi decided it was time to her own attack. Throwing punch after punch, she managed to make him fall back with the strength of the blows she throwing.
"Shit." Mamoru
"It's…not…nice…to…swear…so…stop!" With every word, came another punch from Usagi. Each punch was harder then the one before it.
"Make me Odan…." One of Usagi's punches get through his defenses before he could finish, and this time Mamoru was sporting a bloody lip. He was thoroughly shocked with Usagi's performance, 'how can this little girl be that strong.' He began to loose his temper. It was now time to bring out the big weapons. He began to fire Ki blasts at the golden haired warrior. Reacting quickly, she leaped over his blast and throws a quickly make Ki blast of her own at him, hitting him in the chest, knocking him back, nearly off his feet.
Usagi, grinned and taunted Mamoru; "This time I got the first shot in." 'Wow, daddy was right, I am up to his level of skill. COOL!'
Mamoru replied with a sharp growl, He could feel his anger increasing inside him. It was overcoming his reasoning. He started to increase the level of his Ki attacks, launching one after another at Usagi, not really paying attention to where they were going. He was too angry to try to be stratigical about this anymore. She was too fast for him.
She barley missed being hit by the first blow and retaliated with her own attracts, matching him blast for blast. She grinned. She was rather enjoying herself. She could sense his anger rising. She had the upper hand and they both knew it. The fight continued like this for over twenty minutes, each launching attacks at the other and all being met with their opponents Ki blast. The battle didn't even stay on the ground, into the air, on the ground, both fought with all the skill and power they possess.
They both began to get worn out from all the intense fighting and landed on the ground at the same time, both panted heavily as they attempted to stare the other down. Minako, Makoto, and Rei watched the two warriors. They had never seen Usagi fight with such skill before. They now knew that she was holding back whenever they sparred. They were no where near her level. Of course, she was Saiyan and they were humans. They would have to wait for power like that, just as Mamoru had. Ami, on the other hand, was rather excited about the fight. She was enjoying it.
Mamoru, for the first time, started to wonder if he would even win this match. She seemed to be putting up a great fight and matched nearly every move that he had to give. He was totally and utterly confused. This thought increased his anger a hundred fold. Thinking of what his father had told him to use his enemies' weakness against them, Mamoru grinned. He had a pretty good hunch about what Usagi's weakness was. She always kept her tail away from him. He quickly ran to Usagi and stomped on her tail before she had a chance to do anything.
"AAAHHHHOHOWW!" She could feel all her energy leaving her body as she fell to the ground. She couldn't do anything. As she fell, though, she used all her remaining energy and punched him in his sensitive area.
His breath caught in his throat as her fell to his knees and grabbed himself. "You BITCH!" He howled in pain. Both lay on the ground and cried out in pain.
Usagi glanced over at him. "Surrender?"
Mamoru defiantly looks over to his enemy with even more hate then before. "Never."
Both slowly rose to their feet, never taking their eyes off the other, protecting their tender area. Usagi would now know better then to leave her back unguarded. It was time to start the fight once again. Both fighters began to glow as they glared at each other. Mamoru focused all his energy, his fury, his hate, his for Usagi, and summoned this into one concentrated Ki ball surrounding his fist. 'No mercy, enemies must be destroyed.'
Usagi could sense his hate filled attack growing stronger with each second that went by. She began to fear him. The hate building up in him was indeed some intense power. She got scared and began to build up her own fury in a Ki ball around her own fist. Usagi gasped and stopped her attack. 'What am I doing? I can't do this? I can't fight out of hate.' She began to remember what Kiro had said about her. That her true power was a great power. That she should never loose sight of her innocence. Her true power was free of anger and hatred. 'What do I fight for anyways? I fight for peace? I fight for…for…for…love. To protect and not destroy. For life. He is what I want to be the champion of. I want to protect people from his hate.' She closed her eyes for a second, though in her mind it was like an eternity, Usagi re-opened her eyes. Her face had the look of utter peace, calm, SERENITY. She began to summon her energy to her fist again. This time it was made with pure love and the sense of justice. This time, it glowed silver again. Usagi was a bit startled by this, but didn't really think to much past being startled. She had other things that needed to be done.
Both warriors locked eyes with each other. Mamoru's radiated hate, Usagi's radiated love and compassion. At the same exact time, they both charged at each other with their fists out. Their fists hit each other and created a huge explosion that shook the ground beneath them. The spectators were thrown off their feet from the vicious force that had been created.
When the attack was over, Usagi and Mamoru stood, both hunched over, and panting heavier then before. Mamoru glared at Usagi, with a hint of a smile on his face. His eyes rolled into the back of his head as he fall backwards onto the ground. Usagi stood over him. "I guess I won this round." She collapsed over him. Still halfway conscious, she could hear the footsteps of someone near her head.
The boy's father looked down at the two fighters. "Well, now that you have been beaten by a little girl Mamoru! And by HER for god's sake!"
Usagi barely lifted her head just enough to see who his father was. She gasped. "It's you?!" With that, she had no strength left. She closed her eyes and let her head slam against Mamoru's chest.
(The fight seen wasn't all MY idea. It was an integration of my ideas, and Comet Moon's ideas. A lot of the ideas were his. He sent me a document of what he thought should happen in the fight and man, I was blown away by the greatness of it I just had to use some of it. K! That's it for this part! So what do you all think? Good or bad? Please review and tell me what you think)
Goku shook his head. "Not exactly."
Usagi jumped for joy. He just released the pressure on her. Now she could go and do what she had been longing to do for a year now. "Great. Well I'll be seeing you guys then." She turned around to jump in the air and go her separate way.
Goku extended his arms and grabbed the back of his daughter's GI. "I said you didn't have to train, I never said that you could go anywhere." Goku knew she was anxious to fight Mamoru, he could sense it. He was fully prepared to allow her to do that, but he had other plans made out for that day.
Usagi hunched her shoulders as she groaned. "But daddy…I wanted to go fight Mamoru now." Usagi began to whine. She hated it when she didn't get her way. But she wasn't obnoxious about it like most kids were.
Goku glared at Usagi. He hated it when she whined. He still wasn't used to a girl's whining habits and he didn't think that he would ever be. "Usagi, don't whine please. There will be plenty of time for that later. Right now, we have to go pick Rei and then go to Capsule Corp. There is someone there that Bulma would like you to meet."
"Ooh, another surprise? Who is it?" Minako walked closer to Goku so he would tell her.
"Boy, you all sure are nosey aren't you? You'll just have to wait to find out. I haven't even met this person yet."
"Fine then." Minako hated secrets just about as much as Usagi did. But, the less she argued, the sooner she would find out who Bulma wanted them to meet. "Let's not sit here and talk about it any more. Let's go meet this mystery person."
"Yeah. Let's get out of here. I don't want to be here anymore anyways." Usagi leaped into the air. She hated school more then anything. She didn't see it as anything that she really benefited from. She just saw it as a place that took up all her free time. A place for other kids to get together and make fun of the weak. She tried to keep away from those types of people as much as possible. She didn't care about what others thought of her anymore either. She could now see past all their judgements on her. She pretty much tried to ovoid contact with other kids as much as possible. She had been through too much with kids to trust them. Usagi learned at a very young age that life is hard and she had been living with that fact for a long time now. But now, now she would be able to show Mamoru just what she learned. She would teach him a few things about life.
Usagi looked over her shoulder to her father. "Guess what?"
"What?"
"Today there was this new girl at school. We tried to talk to her, but she said that we just wanted to use her or something." Usagi still didn't understand why Ami had acted that way. She just figured that she had to have been through a lot at her old school. That was the only explanation that she could come up with.
"Well, maybe she's just had a hard time." Goku remembered back to when Usagi had been teased at school. She was a wreck. He thought about the day when he had to pick her up from school the day that she had been suspended. He could sense her sadness and fear the moment that he walked into the same room as her. If it wasn't for him teaching her how to fight, and Minako to be there with her, he didn't think that she would have survived going through the torment that the other kids put her through. He had witnessed it. He knew it wasn't just an over exaggeration.
"Yeah, that's what I was thinking." Usagi slowed down her speed so she could be by her father's side. "I told her that I was going to keep trying to be her friend whether she liked it or not. I heard the other kids making fun of her. I know what it's like to go through that and I don't want her to have to go through it anymore then she has to."
"Yeah, I guess you could kind of call our group of friends the outcasts." Minako added, which had some justification behind it. Usagi was considered a freak among the school because she had a tail. Minako was considered a freak because she was to outspoken and because she hung out with Usagi. Makoto was considered a tomboy. Rei was considered weird because she has special physic powers.
Goku showed a hint of a frown. "You guys aren't outcasts. There is no such thing as anyone being more popular then anyone else. You are always popular with your friends and family." Goku didn't like to listen to them talking like this. He knew they weren't freaks, yet they always looked down on themselves like they were. Although they said they never listen to the teasing of other kids, it was quite obviously that they did without even realizing it. That was one thing he was trying to convince them of. That they were just as normal as the next person was.
Usagi shrugged. She sort of believed that, but that didn't mean that the other kids did. Haruka and Michiru had pretty much ruined her chance of ever having a normal reputation at school. But she was getting to the point where she just didn't care anymore. "Oh well, it doesn't really matter. I'm still going to try to be her friend."
"Usagi, don't force the issue. You could make her angry with you. You wouldn't want to do that would you? Don't make her be your friend."
"Sure."
Goku knew better than to take her 'sure' seriously. He knew her mind was made up. It's not like he could make her not talk to the girl. She wasn't hurting herself, nor was she hurting the other girl. "Just be careful not to hurt her feelings."
"You got it! Right Minako and Makoto? We won't hurt her feelings." Usagi had never planned on doing such a thing. She just wanted to make friends with her. She looked over to her left, where her two friends were. The nodded to her in agreeance.
~*~*~
Rei sat on the stairs in front of her school and waited for the arrival of Goku and her friends, like she had been doing for nearly a year. She was dressed in a red GI much like Usagi's. Of course it's going to be red. She looked around the schoolyard to all the kids who had after school activities. There were mostly fifth and sixth graders around. There weren't very many activities for any of the other grades. She looked over to the baseball field to the right of the school where the team was practicing for an upcoming game. She didn't care too much for baseball. She always had to play it in her P.E. class and was never very good at it. That was one of the main reasons why she hated the sport. She actually didn't like too many sports. Every time she would make a wrong move, her classmates would yell her at. She would just rather stick to fighting then to play normal sports. Now fighting was something that she had gotten quite good at over the past year. Goku had taken her training as slow as she needed it. He didn't rush her, or push her into anything that she couldn't handle. That's the way she liked it. She knew Martial Arts teachers that didn't care one way or the other. They would move on with or without their students.
She rather liked fighting though. It was a fun activity and it had given her a reason to continue being friends with Usagi and the others. She couldn't imagine her life without either fighting, or her friends. Although at first she didn't want to fight with energy attacks, she liked it now. Once she started with the basics, she was left wanting more. She wanted to learn as much as she could.
Rei looked up to the sky. She could feel her friends approaching at a fast speed. She stood up. 'Yes. They're finally here. Now I can have some fun.' Rei didn't feel complete until she had her daily spar with Minako, Makoto, and Usagi. She spotted them not too far from her position. "Hey guys…over here!" She waved her hand up high over her head so they could see her.
"Hey Rei!" Usagi shouted back. She sped up a bit, letting the others know that she wanted to hurry up, get Rei, and leave to Bulma's so they could meet the mystery girl. The others sped up along with her. They knew she couldn't wait.
Usagi landed next to Rei. "Guess what, guess what, guess what?"
Rei laughed at Usagi. "What?"
"DaddysaysicanfightMamorunowandthatwegettomeetsomeonenewandicantwaitsoletsgook?" She didn't even give Rei a chance to reply before she bounced back into the air.
Rei stared blankly at Usagi. She hadn't understood a word that just came out of Usagi's mouth. She looked to Makoto. "What did she say?"
"I'm not sure, but let me tell you why she's happy. She's happy because Goku said she can fight Mamoru again."
"Oh. That's so cool! Usagi is going to kick the pants off that stupid guy. He's so mean!" Rei only met him for a few minutes the day of the tournament before she met Usagi and didn't really like him. He had a 'I'm better then you so stay out of my way,' type of attitude.
"Yeah, and that's not all. We aren't going to train today because Bulma wants us to meet someone special. We don't know who it is, but we really want to find out soon." Makoto's curiosity was growing inside of her. She really wanted to know who she was going to meet.
"Well then, let's go. I'm always up for meeting someone new. As long as they're nice." Rei joined Usagi in the air and soon, Makoto, Minako, and Goku were there too.
~*~*~
Bulma walked into the living room of her home and stared at the little girl that sat on her sofa. The girl stared at Bulma with big blue eyes full of curiosity. Bulma smiled. "You're really going to like these girls. They are the nicest people I have ever met." The girl said nothing in reply. She just watched avidly out the window. She couldn't wait to meet the girls. Bulma had told her so much about them. Bulma sat down in the chair that sat next to the girl as she looked down at her watch. "I don't know what's taking them so long. They should be here by now."
"It's all right Mrs. Bulma. I don't mind waiting."
Bulma smiled to herself. 'Such a nice polite little girl. I wish more children were this respectful.' "You don't have to call me Mrs. Bulma. You can just call me Bulma. I don't mind."
The girl looked down to the ground. "Sorry Mrs. Bulma…I mean Bulma." She laughed quietly to herself.
Bulma looked out the window that sat behind her. She noticed four figures in the sky not too far from the house. "Hey. Look they're here." She stood up and walked to the door. Before she opened it, she turned back to the girl. "Relax. Don't be nervous around these people." She could tell that the girl was stressing out. But with Goku and Usagi's personalities, she knew the girl would loosen right up. It was impossible to be unhappy when those two were around.
Bulma opened the door right before either of the four fighters had a chance to knock on it or ring the bell. She greeted them with a warm smile. "Hi you guys."
Goku got a big goofy smile on his face. "Hiya Bulma. What's shakin?"
Usagi looked up at Bulma. "Yeah! What's shakin?" Usagi was in an exceptionally happy mood at that moment. She couldn't wait to meet the new girl that Bulma wanted so badly for her to meet. She walked in the doorway and looked over to her right to see Ami sitting on the sofa, starring back at her.
Usagi suddenly stopped when she realized who it was, causing Rei to run right into her. "Usagi! Don't just stop short like that. Gees." She grabbed her nose. It was sore from running into Usagi's head.
Minako walked to the side of Rei and Usagi to see what the hold up was. She looked to Usagi and then to what, rather, who she was starring at. She smiled when she noticed that it was the new girl from school. "Ami! I didn't know that you knew Bulma." Being the people person that she is, Minako pushed passed Usagi and Rei and immediately went to sit by Ami.
Bulma closed the door after Goku and Makoto had gotten through it. "Oh? You guys already know each other?"
Usagi walked up to Ami. "Hi again!" She said as she waved to her. "Remember us?"
Ami began to blush. She was a bit embarrassed now. She had pretty much told them earlier in the day that she wanted nothing to do with them, and here they were, some of the nicest people that her mother's boss knew. "Uh…hi?" She held her head low so they wouldn't yell at her.
Makoto and Rei joined the three girls. "Hi. I'm Makoto remember? And this is Rei. She goes to a private school. She can talk to spirits. It's really cool." Makoto explained as she pointed to Rei.
Rei held out her hand to Ami. "Nice to meet you. I can't exactly talk to spirits…I just get feelings. And I can control fire, I guess." Rei was always modest when it came to her special abilities. She didn't exactly like to admit them to everybody either. She didn't really want to tell Ami until she found out she wasn't going to make fun of her for it, but Makoto kind of spoiled that.
Ami kept her head down and tried not to make eye contact with anyone. She slowly raised her hand to shake with Rei. "Nice to meet you all. I'm sorry about earlier you guys."
Goku found the girl a little bit strange. She had to be eight years old, or nearly eight and here she was, not acting like it. She was the calmest kid he had ever laid eyes on. He was used to his daughter and her friends and their wild habits. He walked up to her. "Hey, don't be so shy. We are all friends here. No one is better then any one else. So calm down." He extended his hand to her chin and slowly pushed it up, causing her to raise her face for everyone to see. "See, you've got a pretty little face. You shouldn't hide it."
Ami smiled to herself. No one had really ever said something like that to her before. She appreciated it. "Thanks." She began to feel more relaxed once she knew that they weren't going to yell at her for what she had done earlier.
Goku smiled. He could sense her becoming calmer. She was quite tense before. "Well, my name is Goku and I'm Usagi's dad." He said cheerfully.
"Well," Bulma interrupted, "Now that we have introductions done, you all know this is Ami." She sat on the side of Ami that Minako was not and put her arms around her shoulders. "She is very gifted. She is one of the smartest people her age. In Tokyo, she was enrolled in 'cram schools' Remember all those schools she went to in the Anime after school? Those were cram schools. But here, we don't have 'cram schools.' There isn't a big enough demand for them. So I'm teaching her. I know her mother because she works here to do check ups on the employees as a part time job. She told me about little Ami here and was complaining that there were no 'cram schools'. So, I offered to take her in. That's why I wanted you to come and meet her. I wanted her to get to know people. Maybe you could show her around the city a bit?"
"Sure, we can show her the ropes. It would be fun." There went Minako again. She had a habit of volunteering everyone. "It will be fun. What do you say Ami?"
'Nooooooooo!' Usagi couldn't show her around. She wanted to challenge Mamoru to a fight. She wanted to do it that day. She wanted to show him once and for all. Unless… "Sure, we can show her around." Usagi looked up at her father. "Can we? Today?"
Goku thought for a few seconds. He hadn't expected to be out that late. Chi-Chi hadn't expected him to be out that late. He promised her that he would be home that night. He rarely ever was. She had been complaining a lot lately about his absence from the house. "I don't know Usagi. Your mother wants me to spend more time at home with her."
Usagi got her begging look on her face again as she put her hands up under her chin and rolled her bottom lip. "Pretty, pretty please with sugar on top? We can go without you." Usagi could tell that her father did not like that idea just by the expression on his face. He hadn't let her travel alone in the city since the day she met Mamoru. She had to think of something to tell him, and quick. "Uh…there's five of us. We can take care of ourselves. Please daddy?"
Goku wasn't sure that that was such a great idea. Granted there were five of them, but only four knew how to fight. But, he couldn't say 'no' to that face and she knew it. She loved to torture him with that face. "Usagi…" He sighed. He couldn't disagree. She wouldn't let him. 'Oh well, at least I'll finally get some alone time with Chi-Chi if I let her go.' Goku hadn't spent time alone with his wife in a couple of months. Usagi was always with them or they were apart. He missed the time he spent with her. "Fine. But if anything happens…"
Usagi squealed with joy. "Thank you! And don't worry, nothing bad will happen. I promise." She jumped up and wrapped herself around her father and gave him a quick kiss on the check. She turned around to her friends after she jumped back down. "This is going to be fun." She smiled very deviously. Minako and Makoto knew Usagi well enough to know that this was a bad sign. She had something planned and they were pretty sure they knew what it was. They looked at each other and sighed.
"Ok. Be careful you guys. I guess I'll see you later then." He turned to the door. He stopped before he opened it. "Usagi, I want you home before dark." He turned his head to look over his shoulder. "Good bye Bulma. Good bye Ami. It was nice to meet you."
Usagi watched her father leave and turned back to his friends. "Well, let's get this show on the road shall we?"
~*~*~
All five girls walked in the heart of the city. They had been walking around for about an hour. Ami was in awe. The city was spectacular in her eyes. She thought that Tokyo was great. This city had everything. There weren't really any airships in Tokyo, yet here, they were all over the place. "You guys, this city is perfect."
Usagi stopped in front of a dark brown building. "Yeah. It's got its good points, while at the same time, its got its downs." Speaking of downs, Usagi was currently looking at the home of one. "He's here you guys."
"Who's here?" Ami hadn't been informed about Usagi's background with Mamoru, Haruka, and Michiru. She stared at the building in which Usagi was. "Usagi, do you know people in middle school?" With small kids, if you knew anyone older then yourself and they weren't your older sibling's friend, you were considered someone of high status.
Makoto sighed. She knew what Usagi was going to do. She also knew there was no way to stop it. Once Usagi made up her decision, it could not be changed. "Ami, Usagi has a little conflict going on with three people who go to this school. It's been going on for three years now. The boy of the group, Mamoru, pretty much left Usagi for dead last year in a battle. Now Usagi wants to repay him the favor. Usagi…don't do anything stupid, alright?"
Usagi nodded. "Don't worry. I won't do anything that daddy wouldn't want me to." She began to walk forward into the parking lot. "Come on. I want to settle the score once and for all. I want to know who actually IS the better fighter."
Rei looked to Ami as they all began to walk forward. She looked frightened. "Um Ami, I can take you home if you want. You don't have to watch this. Our fights kind of get a little on the intense side."
Ami kept her eyes straight and continued to walk forward with the rest of the group. "No, I'm interested to learn about you guys. I want to see you guys fight. It might be fun."
Rei shrugged her shoulders. "All right. I don't mind." She continued to walk. "I can feel Haruka and Michiru too. I think they're sparring right now."
~*~*~
Usagi found Mamoru in the football field of the school, sparring with Haruka and Michiru just like Rei had predicted. She stopped at the track that outlined the field and crossed her arms as she shook her head. "Pathetic!" Her friends stopped behind her.
Mamoru finished his drop kick on Haruka and turned to look at Usagi. He walked close to Usagi so he was within talking distance. "Odango! What are you doing here? I see you brought your circus of freakish friends with you."
Makoto frowned. "We aren't circus freaks!" She hated Mamoru. He always had some rude comment to say to them whenever he saw them.
Mamoru rolled his eyes. "Yeah whatever. So Odango…what brings you here after a year? I thought you were afraid of me. You had to get your daddy to beat me up last time."
Usagi scowled at Mamoru. "You keep running your mouth, but I'll show you once and for all that I can beat you on my own. I've been training for this day."
Mamoru grinned. "So you wanna fight me again huh? Why don't you just give up already? You can never win against me." Mamoru couldn't even feel her Ki. It felt the same now as it did the day he met her.
"Monkey Girl, give it up already!" Haruka could now back up her words. She and Michiru had been training with Mamoru for the past year. They could now hold their own against basic Ki attacks. But they wouldn't stand a chance against Usagi or any of the other girls.
Usagi began to take off her boots and her wristbands to relieve some weight from her body. She wanted to be as close to her full potential as possible. She needed every bit of her strength if she wanted to beat Mamoru. "Why don't we get this show on the road if we're going to do it?"
Mamoru got into his fighting stance. "Great idea Odango." He turned his head over his shoulder in the direction of Haruka and Michiru. "You two stay back. This could get gruesome again. For Usagi that is." He smirked. He knew he wasn't going to have a problem with Usagi.
"Yeah you guys. You should get back too. I don't want you guys to get hurt." Usagi's friends complied. They knew it would get fierce. Usagi was powerful. She had surpassed them even.
Rei stayed close to Ami. "Be careful Usagi."
Usagi grinned. "Don't worry about me. Just get out of here if it gets to bad." She kept her eyes on Mamoru and watched for any sudden movement. "Let's get this thing started shall we?"
"Yes, let's. That is a great idea." Mamoru, smirked with an obviously large amount of arrogance, was supremely confident of his victory. He had beaten Usagi before and he would do it again. It was only a year's difference. She couldn't have improved all that much. It was impossible for her to beat him with such an insufficient power level anyways. He had always been taught to only fight when you knew you could win, or when the earth was at stake, in this case, he was fighting to show his 'obvious' superiority to the younger fighter who stood, glaring at him.
"The winner is the last one able to stand or when the other begs the other for mercy." Usagi knew exactly what she was doing. She knew that she could beat him. Her father wouldn't have allowed her to talk to him unless he knew that she could do it.
Mamoru Smirked; "Agreed, Odango. I guess I'll be looking down at you while you are on the ground crying again. Really Odango, do you think you can beat me?" He said as he stretched out his arms, cocking his head from side to side. He regarded her as a piece of cake. He would quickly take her out and then proceed with the rest of his day as planned.
Usagi's eyes flashed gold as she felt her anxiousness rising in her. "Well, I guess we can see what happens. But I doubt that I will loose. Daddy says I'm strong."
Mamoru snickered. "Your father? Your father is just as weak as you are." Mamoru knew he just took a low shot, but hey, you take all you can get.
Usagi frowned. "He's stronger then you are. That's why you ran away after he hit you. And he'll do it again if he has to." She looked over to her friends. They all looked indifferent about the situation. Except Ami. Her eyes were full of fear. 'Sorry you have to see this Ami.' She turned to look back at Mamoru.
Both fighters stared at each other. Both with totally different views on why people fight. Usagi fought for the fun of it, while Mamoru fought to hurt people. That was why her father fought, to save the world from people like him. Maybe that's why she fought too. Maybe she just didn't realize it until now. Haruka glared at Usagi and shouted; "Begin, and kick her ass Mamoru."
As though agreed upon from the beginning, though no words had been spoken, they started off with hand-to-hand combat. Usagi, having long since learned from her father that simply running right at an opponent would only leave her vulnerable, slowly began to circle Mamoru, looking for an opening while reading his ki level. Despite herself she was impressed with the power radiating off him, but knew she was at least his equal. She began to raise her Ki also. She didn't want him to think that she was still weak. She wanted her strength out in the open, and since she took some of her weights off, her power was a bit higher.
Mamoru was a bit shocked by Usagi's high power level. He hadn't expected her power to grow so much in such a short time. "So, I see you've been training a bit Odango." 'Gee's, what has this girl been doing in the past year? She's almost as strong as I am and I have been training since I was five.' He began to raise his power level to its highest, getting the same response from his enemy. The faster he would raise it, the faster she would. He grinned to himself. "So, you think you're better then me do you?" He didn't get a response.
Mamoru soon grew tired of the power lever contest. He was now ready for some action. He began to launch a series of roundhouse kicks at Usagi's head, she acted quickly and jumped to the side. But not quite fast enough. She was hit in the arm, nothing to serious. She grabbed a hold of his leg, adding her momentum to it, and threw him to the ground.
Mamoru was a bit startled by her speed. He took his mind off his thoughts just in time to almost be hit by Usagi's follow up jump kick. Right before her foot made its mark in his face, he managed to roll away and jump to his feet. He stared at her for a moment as he remembered his father's words not to EVER underestimate an enemy, and that especially included Usagi. He had underestimated her. For the rest of this fight, he would act as if she had to potential to beat him. He grinned evilly at her. "Humph, Odango, you might actually be a bit of a challenge."
Usagi stared right back into his eyes, never letting her guard down. "I COULD be a challenge? How about I am?"
Mamoru growled at Usagi. He didn't want to admit that she was right. He hadn't really been able to make very many hits on her. Throwing a hard close fist punch at her, she deflected it with her forearm and attempted to sweep his legs from under him. He back flipped over her sweep and lashed out with his foot while in midair, catching her off guard, slamming it into her jaw. Stunned, Usagi hit the ground, but this time she rolled past Mamoru as he tried to follow up his hit with a stomp to her chest. Rolling on the ground, barely avoiding Mamoru's blows, Usagi suddenly reversed the direction of her roll back on him, grabbing his foot that had just landed near her head and hurling him away from her. Both instantly sprang to their feet, and Mamoru glared at Usagi, and suddenly laughed. "First blood is mine." He pointed to the blood that dripped from her lip.
Usagi knew what he was talking about. She could feel the stinging sensation on her lip. She raised her hand to wipe it away. It didn't hurt her that much. She had been through worse with her father. He had even broken a few of her bones a few times on accident when they were sparring. She didn't even have the use of Senzu beans at the time so she had to let it heal itself. Lucky for Usagi, she was Saiyan and she healed much faster then a human. "Its just a little cut. You can't beat me with just a cut. You'll have to do better then that to beat me."
"Seems that I'm already beating you Odango, you just..."
Usagi had had enough of Mamoru's ranting. She didn't want to listen to it anymore. Usagi decided it was time to her own attack. Throwing punch after punch, she managed to make him fall back with the strength of the blows she throwing.
"Shit." Mamoru
"It's…not…nice…to…swear…so…stop!" With every word, came another punch from Usagi. Each punch was harder then the one before it.
"Make me Odan…." One of Usagi's punches get through his defenses before he could finish, and this time Mamoru was sporting a bloody lip. He was thoroughly shocked with Usagi's performance, 'how can this little girl be that strong.' He began to loose his temper. It was now time to bring out the big weapons. He began to fire Ki blasts at the golden haired warrior. Reacting quickly, she leaped over his blast and throws a quickly make Ki blast of her own at him, hitting him in the chest, knocking him back, nearly off his feet.
Usagi, grinned and taunted Mamoru; "This time I got the first shot in." 'Wow, daddy was right, I am up to his level of skill. COOL!'
Mamoru replied with a sharp growl, He could feel his anger increasing inside him. It was overcoming his reasoning. He started to increase the level of his Ki attacks, launching one after another at Usagi, not really paying attention to where they were going. He was too angry to try to be stratigical about this anymore. She was too fast for him.
She barley missed being hit by the first blow and retaliated with her own attracts, matching him blast for blast. She grinned. She was rather enjoying herself. She could sense his anger rising. She had the upper hand and they both knew it. The fight continued like this for over twenty minutes, each launching attacks at the other and all being met with their opponents Ki blast. The battle didn't even stay on the ground, into the air, on the ground, both fought with all the skill and power they possess.
They both began to get worn out from all the intense fighting and landed on the ground at the same time, both panted heavily as they attempted to stare the other down. Minako, Makoto, and Rei watched the two warriors. They had never seen Usagi fight with such skill before. They now knew that she was holding back whenever they sparred. They were no where near her level. Of course, she was Saiyan and they were humans. They would have to wait for power like that, just as Mamoru had. Ami, on the other hand, was rather excited about the fight. She was enjoying it.
Mamoru, for the first time, started to wonder if he would even win this match. She seemed to be putting up a great fight and matched nearly every move that he had to give. He was totally and utterly confused. This thought increased his anger a hundred fold. Thinking of what his father had told him to use his enemies' weakness against them, Mamoru grinned. He had a pretty good hunch about what Usagi's weakness was. She always kept her tail away from him. He quickly ran to Usagi and stomped on her tail before she had a chance to do anything.
"AAAHHHHOHOWW!" She could feel all her energy leaving her body as she fell to the ground. She couldn't do anything. As she fell, though, she used all her remaining energy and punched him in his sensitive area.
His breath caught in his throat as her fell to his knees and grabbed himself. "You BITCH!" He howled in pain. Both lay on the ground and cried out in pain.
Usagi glanced over at him. "Surrender?"
Mamoru defiantly looks over to his enemy with even more hate then before. "Never."
Both slowly rose to their feet, never taking their eyes off the other, protecting their tender area. Usagi would now know better then to leave her back unguarded. It was time to start the fight once again. Both fighters began to glow as they glared at each other. Mamoru focused all his energy, his fury, his hate, his for Usagi, and summoned this into one concentrated Ki ball surrounding his fist. 'No mercy, enemies must be destroyed.'
Usagi could sense his hate filled attack growing stronger with each second that went by. She began to fear him. The hate building up in him was indeed some intense power. She got scared and began to build up her own fury in a Ki ball around her own fist. Usagi gasped and stopped her attack. 'What am I doing? I can't do this? I can't fight out of hate.' She began to remember what Kiro had said about her. That her true power was a great power. That she should never loose sight of her innocence. Her true power was free of anger and hatred. 'What do I fight for anyways? I fight for peace? I fight for…for…for…love. To protect and not destroy. For life. He is what I want to be the champion of. I want to protect people from his hate.' She closed her eyes for a second, though in her mind it was like an eternity, Usagi re-opened her eyes. Her face had the look of utter peace, calm, SERENITY. She began to summon her energy to her fist again. This time it was made with pure love and the sense of justice. This time, it glowed silver again. Usagi was a bit startled by this, but didn't really think to much past being startled. She had other things that needed to be done.
Both warriors locked eyes with each other. Mamoru's radiated hate, Usagi's radiated love and compassion. At the same exact time, they both charged at each other with their fists out. Their fists hit each other and created a huge explosion that shook the ground beneath them. The spectators were thrown off their feet from the vicious force that had been created.
When the attack was over, Usagi and Mamoru stood, both hunched over, and panting heavier then before. Mamoru glared at Usagi, with a hint of a smile on his face. His eyes rolled into the back of his head as he fall backwards onto the ground. Usagi stood over him. "I guess I won this round." She collapsed over him. Still halfway conscious, she could hear the footsteps of someone near her head.
The boy's father looked down at the two fighters. "Well, now that you have been beaten by a little girl Mamoru! And by HER for god's sake!"
Usagi barely lifted her head just enough to see who his father was. She gasped. "It's you?!" With that, she had no strength left. She closed her eyes and let her head slam against Mamoru's chest.
(The fight seen wasn't all MY idea. It was an integration of my ideas, and Comet Moon's ideas. A lot of the ideas were his. He sent me a document of what he thought should happen in the fight and man, I was blown away by the greatness of it I just had to use some of it. K! That's it for this part! So what do you all think? Good or bad? Please review and tell me what you think)