Hello again, I will be updating again!! And as always, I do not own either Harry Potter or Sailor Moon. They both belong to their respective owners.

Chapter 9

After seeing both Sirius and Usagi's reactions to the results of the bet, Lily couldn't help herself, she had to laugh. She knew, just knew neither had anticipated a tie. Now the only question was how would they decide what to do about the bet. Would they just declare a tie and leave it at that? Or more likely, find a way to have a tie-breaker. Lily nodded her head decisively. Yes, that is how they will probably do it. Neither Usagi nor Sirius could stand to be on the same level for very long.

And how would Lily know this, you ask, if she wasn't friends with him? As it had been noted earlier, Usagi and Sirius were very much alike. No matter how many times they would deny it. They were alike. Lily wouldn't have been suprised if they had gotten married someday. That is if Sirius ever stopped playing around like he did now. Well, if it wasn't marriage, it would be some sort of relationship. And it would last a long time. The same was true of Hotaru and Remus. They were both quite, and smart, in their own ways. And they both had their secrets. Remus's being that he was a werewolf and Hotaru's being that she had the strange, or so she thought, ability to heal. With out a wand. Seeing as how this was not normal, not even among witchs and wizards, she considered herself weird and an outcast from society. When she had first arrived at Hogwarts she kept to herself and didn't talk much. That is until Usagi and Lily had gotten a hold of her. They had seen that she looked lonely and decided to help. ANd they had been great friends ever since. Although Usagi would be maid of honor at Lily's wedding, Hotaru at Usagi's, and Lily at Hotaru's. They had flipped a coin their first summer as friends.

Usagi, however, was a different story from Hotaru. Lily and Usagi had grown up together, but Lily was Muggle-born and Usagi was not. The reason for this was Usagi's family wanted to live in an environment where Usagi would learn things useful to Muggles so when she had grown up, they wouldn't be worried about letting their only child grow up in a world of Muggles all alone. However, she had also grown up with Sirius Black and James Potter. Unusual yes. You see, when Usagi was growing up, she spent the school year in the Muggle neighborhood that she lived in, but for the summer, she went to the Black's house. Usagi's mother and Mrs. Black had been friends for a long time when their children were born. They naturally assumed Usagi and Sirius would be best friends as well. But when Sirius first dumped a jar of neon pink finger paint on Usagi, 2 things were made clear. 1. They would most likely never get along. 2. Their parents dreams of the 2 of them getting married and making them family were dashed.

Now James Potter, he had met the 2 (Usagi and Sirius) when he and his parents had moved in next door to the Blacks. Naturally the 2 became best friends and the sworn rivals of Usagi. On the train to Hogwarts, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew were introduced. They became unsepartable friends after their first encounter with Snape. Usagi, however, believed she was doomed to spend the 7 years at Hogwarts with the 4 self proclaimed Marauders. Alas, her luck had changed. Her old time friend Lily Evans met her on the train. Needless to say they were both very suprised, but at the same time, glad. They now had someone to share their years at school together.

Lily shook her head grinning. 'Oh what a tangled web we weave,' she thought ruefully. 'Who would have thought that we would get stuck going to America with the people we considered our worst enemies?'

Across the terminal, James Potter was also watching the preceedings with interest. His interest faded away, however, when he saw Lily. Yes he had seen her before, but for some reason it was different know when he looked at her. He didn't know why. He shook his head, 'I'm just imagining things. There is no way in hell I'll EVER fall in love with Evans. Or even get a crush of some sort on her.'

ALRIGHTY!! Thats it for chapter 9. I have decided that I am going to concentrate solely on this story for a while and then maybe on some of my other ones. Expect the next chapter up sometime later this week.

Later Dayz