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"After The Rain" Chapter 2

Usagi swung her dainty legs to the side of her bed, at the same time thoughts were chaotically swirling through her mind. I've been there so many times before...why can I not recall the name? Who is that man I see there every time?

Today would be quite a celebration, for both Neo Queen Serenity and Usagi would celebrate their birthday. She knew she had to put out her best foot forward today, since all eyes would be on the Earth and Moon kingdom. She doubted this would be a problem for she had spent her entire life growing up in the public's eye; through trial and error she had learned what the public liked and disliked. The only people that she could be herself around were the Asteroid Senshi, the Royal Cats, and the Senshi of the past. Her mother and father expected much from her...act proper in public ,never back talk anyone, don't curse, walk gracefully, never be impolite. She rolled her eyes and giggled inwardly.

She walked over to her full length mirror and sighed; she was a lady now, or was that a teenager with the body of a lady? She admired herself in vain, her legs were long and shapely, her body was slender and supple, and her breasts were full and curved. Then it hit her, when she was a child fighting with the Senshi of the past...wasn't her dream to become a lady? There was someone I fought for back then...a boy...with gold, or a Pegasus, perhaps.

She proceeded to brush her hair, a wavy ocean of shining pink. Carefully dividing the hair in half, she twirled it upward into a cone and left the rest trailing behind her. Then she clipped two barrettes with a row of three pearls on either side of her mane. Walking into her hall-like wardrobe, she drew a gown from her closet and turned to face the wall of mirrors behind her.
"Good evening, General Piss-face, it's so lovely to see you. I do hope the Earth's military is doing well." Usagi said with a strained smile, for she was referring to the head General Oberon, her arch nemesis. He had found and scolded her for sneaking off to see what civilian life was like, one too many times.

'Yukio Oberon you're an arrogant bastard!' she fumed inside her mind silently.

With that, she threw off her nightgown and slipped into her pearly white gown.
While she was brushing her teeth she wondered exactly who was planning to attend the morning breakfast...she knew almost everyone was coming to the celebration tonight, so perhaps she wouldn't have to see Oberon's face until then. The Asteroid Senshi were all quite taken with him, for he was a rather handsome man, but Usagi begged to differ. She practically stabbed herself in the eye with her eyeliner pencil thinking about how he constantly makes fun of her odango-atama hair-do. After her make-up is finished she glances at herself in the mirror once more, and then exits her quarters, scheming of ways to get out of seeing Oberon.

Author's Note: Well this is the end of Chapter 2! I hope you liked it. It was somewhat hard to make up a name for the General...finally I decided on Yukio Oberon. Yukio-(in Japanese) means "gets what he wants" and Oberon is the name of one of Uranus' moons. R&R! ^_^