A/N: Here's chapter 2! Please Review!

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Chapter 2: Let's Spar

            She walked slowly avoiding the looks passerbies gave her. She was determined to reach her goal. Serena let out a breath of relief when she reached the end of the block where her limo was waiting for her.

            "Finally." She breathed as she opened the door and hopped into the vehicle shoving her heavy bag to the seat next to her.

            The sliding window opened up revealing the head of Walter, her limo driver. He smiled warmly at her before speaking. "How was your day Miss Serena?"

            They were on first name terms now, though she wished he would just leave out the miss. At least it was a change from miss Tsukino…it made her sound old…too old. 

            "It was fine Walter, though it drained most of my energy." Her smile faltered a little as she sat back further into the leather seat of the limo and put on her seatbelt.

            "Well then, we're off." He turned his attention back to the front and began driving off.

            On the way back home she couldn't help but contemplate on where her life was heading. It had been happening for a while now. Seconds turned into minutes, minutes into hours, hours into days, days into weeks, and eventually months would pass by. She yearned for something. Something more then what was given her. She knew it was selfish to wish for more then her fortunate life has offered her. But she couldn't suppress the urge to find something…or rather that special someone whom was waiting patiently out there for her.

            At the age of twelve Serena began reading adult novels. Throwing herself into the enticing world of fantasy and romance away from reality, where it was safe. As she grew so did her imagination and longing. Now a young teenager she chastised herself for believing in such things as true and pure love. The novels that portrayed love as something so pure and beautiful you would never think to take fault in it. But Serena knew however, even if she wished it too not be true, love just wasn't like that.

            Love can be sad, it can be painful, and it most definitely isn't always pure. When a person loves, they are vulnerable, and they have to make sacrifices, this Serena wasn't ready for, this reasoning was all the more for her to keep her hopes down. Serena's romantic heart always yearned for someone to love ever since she discovered that members of the opposite sex didn't exactly have cooties. But since she entered the modeling world it just seemed like an impossible thing. She would never date a model, for they were all the same, conceited jerks that wanted nothing but a trophy girlfriend. And inside she knew it was hard for her to ever have a relationship with anyone outside of the world of fame and glory. It was just an obstacle that one must deal with when you are famous. In truth no matter how disagreeable it might seem, it was the truth. And besides, if she were ever to date someone outside of her social status, she would never hear the end of it from her manager. Serena sighed as she thought of Luna, the ever so uptight manager that she had since…forever.

            "We're here little miss." The words brought her out of her reverie as she smiled at Walter whom was standing outside the holding the door open for her.

            "See you Walter." She said softly making her way to the door that was the entrance to her extravagant mansion. Before having to ever lay a finger on the door it opened by itself in front of her.

            "Good afternoon little miss, you just got home from school?" a warm voice called out to her.

            Little miss…a nickname that had been given to her from the people who worked for her parents since she was ten. It seemed to stick into their minds that she would always be the innocent girl she was seven years ago. No matter how hard she tried to tell them differently her attempts were in vain, for not a single person in the household saw her as any other then little innocent Serena.

            Serena looked at the middle-aged housemaid before smiling softly and nodding her head.

            "That's great, I hope you still have some energy, master Seiya is here." Hana smiled down at the teenage girl before taking her school bag. "I'll just take this upstairs, you should go get into a new change of clothes, I'll draw you a nice bubble bath after practice."

            "Seiya's here? Now?" She asked amazed.

            Seiya, the young man with dark black hair and enticing dark brown eyes, the son of one of her mothers friends, her first crush, and last but not least her friend since birth. At first she had a childish crush on him, after all who wouldn't? But after a while she knew that they just weren't like that, and her naive ness wasn't doing her any good, so she started looking up to him as though he was her older brother. From then on he was always like an older brother to her. And now he had once again decided to pay her a little visit, probably one of his many attempts in seeing who was better then who at fighting. It didn't matter, she was ready for him. With thoughts of winning still in her head Serena ran straight upstairs to change out of the ridiculously large uniform and into a more comfortable and fitting outfit. 

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            She walked into the humungous training room stopping when she got to the corner where the weapons were stored. Picking up a long wooden pole she approached her target.

            A smirk came across his face as he saw her approaching. Like the tiger on its prey, Her eyes were locked on his. He braced himself for any attacks that might come his way. And true to his instincts the tiger did finally pounce on its prey.

            Wood met wood, as the two poles clashed against each other creating a loud noise that echoed throughout the whole room. As one withdrew their weapon the other would attack, it was as simple as that.

            Sweat dripped from his forehead down his cheek. His tight black shirt clung to his body from the perspiration their little spar had created. The last time he fought with her was a month ago, oh how he underestimated Serena's abilities.

            "I don't recall you being so strong…where did the change come from?" He was almost out of breath. Her wooden pole nearly missed his stomach.

            "I was always strong Seiya, it's just seems my potential has grown more since you've last seen me, either that or you're getting rusty." She breathed out as she dodged his coming attack. She wasn't trying to be conceited or stuck up, it just came naturally when they were near each other, teasing was just another of their favorite past times, eventually it stuck to them like an old habit.

            Seiya chuckled lightheartedly after hearing her remark momentarily losing his concentration. This proved fatal though for he left himself vulnerable. In mere seconds he found a wooden pole aimed at his throat. He raised an eyebrow as she withdrew her weapon.

            "Impressive."

            "On the contrary, I find that you too have improved." She smirked. "Though I'm better!" The moment she started doing the victory dance, her cool demeanor faltered as though it never seemed to have existed.

            "Hey, if you weren't so distracting I wouldn't have lost now would I?" He replied indignantly.

'Yep that's exactly like Seiya, never wanting to admit defeat.' Serena thought to herself.

"So why are you here Seiya?" She couldn't hold back her curiosity any longer.

"What no, it's so nice to see you again after such a long time Seiya, I miss you so much?" He asked feigning hurt.

"Oh come on! Please Mr. Melodramatic. We see each other at least once a week, it's just been a month because you've been busy with school work!"

"Calm down princess! It was a joke." He walked over to her and embraced her in a brotherly hug. "I'm sorry I couldn't visit you sooner."

"I know." She sighed as he let her go. "Everyone has a life Seiya, so where are your group of friends? They were a pretty fun group to hang around with when you introduced us last time."

"What you mean Jadeite, Malachite, Zoicite, and Nephlite?"

"Yeah. I'm sure if I introduced them to the girls, they'd be excited."

"Who? The girls or the guys?"

"Both."

"Hmm…I'll take that into consideration next time, their not here because they'll be meeting up with me later. But to get back to the point, other then visiting you princess, I also had plans to see a friend in the neighborhood."

Serena smiled at the nickname he gave her. However her content look turned into one of curiosity, whom exactly was he talking about?

"You want to come with me?" He asked her wiggling his eyebrows.

"I don't think I can, I have too many things to do, and not to mention the fa-" But she didn't get a chance to finish.

"I'm sorry Serena, I don't take no for an answer."

"Bu-"

"You need to get out more. You hardly have a life outside of modeling and school." Seiya looked at her sternly. She was overworking herself, and as an older brother figure he had to do something to rid her of that stress.

Serena merely gave him the 'you-know-I-can't-so-why-try' look.

"Come on…my friend is a guy…and he's pretty good looking, if you know where this conversation is heading."

            Serena rolled her eyes, and sat down on the cold floor. "I can't Seiya, and don't even try to set me up with whomever your friend is, you know it's no use. Not only that, Luna would kill me I can already hear it now."

            "Serena! I can't believe you are so irresponsible as to go out and not practice your cat walk for the upcoming fashion show, tisk, tisk, tisk, shame on you!" Seiya mimicked Luna in a high pitched mocking voice.

            Serena giggled. "You are so bad! Luna's not that bad you know!" She shook her head trying hard to suppress the giggles.

            "Come on just this once?" He pleaded clasping his hands together and giving her the best puppy face he could muster.

            "Sorry, Seiya I'll have to pass on that one, maybe another time, I'm really tired, I'm thinking of going straight to sleep after a nice long bath."

            "Fine, your loss." He sighed giving up all together. "But next time you will go out okay?"

            "Okay." She smiled at him reassuringly. She stood up and walked over to him giving him a goodbye hug.

            "Rest okay princess?" He said before making his way out.

            Serena waved goodbye and walked slowly up to her room. If she thought she was tired before, their little spar made her exhausted. Yep, she definitely could use that hot bath.

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            Seiya opened the door to his Mercedes and stepped in. He pulled out his cell phone and dialed a number.

            "Hello?" The young man on the other phone answered him.

            "Darien?"

            "Seiya? Where are you man?"

            "I'm coming, I just had to stop by a close friends house."

            "Oh, okay, the guys are all here except you, get here quickly man."

            "I'm coming, okay? Bye." Darien could hear his friend his friends agitated tone from the other line.

            Seiya closed the phone and looked ahead. He was really hoping for Serena to meet Darien. He thought of her as a little sister and only wanted best for her. From all the years he knew both his friends, he could tell that they would probably be able to be good friends too. Sighing because of the inconvenience he pulled out his car keys and started the car. Oh well…there's always another time.

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Well there you go, that was chapter 2, what do you think? Please Review.