Konnichiwa again! Yay! I finished Chapter 3! I hope you enjoy! It only gets
better from here, teehee. On to work on chapter 4 then.
I don't own sailor moon don't sue. I do own Roxy/Ne-chan, so don't take her. Ummm yeah. (
Minako was panicking. She was supposed to meet her friend Roxy at the airport this morning but she slept in! She was turning into Usagi! What a thought! Usa-chan isn't nearly as bad as she used to be though. Minako laughed. Her Usa-chan had gone from total klutz to elegant and princess- like and it had only taken four years and Mamoru.
"Ne-chan is going to hang me! I hope she isn't waiting there for me. I mean she's never been to Japan before!" She spoke aloud to no one in particular. She ran through the crowds of people as fast as she could. She tripped over someone's luggage and almost went sprawling onto the floor but caught herself at the last minute. She didn't have time to fall, she was late.
Minako ran towards the gate that Roxy's plane was docked at and hoped that she was there waiting for her. The greeting area was empty. Minako looked around frantically for her friend, but there wasn't anyone in the area.
"AHHHH! Where is she?!" She screamed into the room. Passerby's looked at her cautiously as she started to bang her head against the nearest hard surface. She heard laughter coming from behind her and spun around quickly to find a mini skirt clad red head laughing at her. "NE-CHAN!!!" Minako yelled as she embraced the woman. "I was so worried that I had missed you and that you had tried to leave and find me!"
Roxy looked at her friend and smiled. "Mina, it's been so long since I last saw you. And you haven't changed one bit gurl!" She joked. Minako punched her friend lightly on the arm and said:
"You're one to talk Roxy! You're still dressing to kill! And on such a long flight, it couldn't have been comfortable."
"Mi-chan, obviously I didn't wear this da whole time! I changed on the plane, wonderful invention called the bathroom." She said sarcastically. Minako stared at her for a second and then smirked.
"Yup, just like always. Always finding one way or another to get what you want, when you want it." Roxy just smiled and winked at Minako. "So did you get your luggage already? Or do we have to go to the baggage claim?" She asked.
"Nope, I got it all taken care of hun. You see that gent over there," she said pointing to a young man standing beside a cart, "He so graciously offered to help me get ma luggage. And all he wanted was a simple autograph an' a kiss. You see he's a fan. And here I thought they din't even know who I was." Minako just shook her head, Roxy, or Ne-chan as she liked to call her, would never change. Sometimes she wondered if Roxy just liked to hear herself talk. She shrugged it off and grabbed her friend's arm.
"Well then! Let's go! I've got a room set up for you in my house. You'll love it! Oh and Artemis will be so happy to see you!" At the mention of Minako's white cat Artemis Roxy's eyes widened in happiness.
"No way d'you still have dat little angel! Your parents let him stay with you when you guys moved here? I thought for sure dat he'd be back on the streets. But I should've known. You love da cat so much!" Minako smiled and nodded her head.
"Yup, Artemis is still with me. And he's even got a kitten of his own now." Roxy's eyebrow's shot up. Minako nodded in thought, "Yup that little rascal and Luna, one of my friends cat, got together and had a litter of them. Diana is the only one we kept though, too expensive to keep the others." Minako said.
They walked out into the fresh air and hailed a taxi. Which wasn't very hard, seeing as everyone seemed to have their eyes on the mysterious American woman. Mina could easily see why of course. Ne-chan knew a thing or two about fashion and was always up to date with her looks. Today she wore a black mini skirt and a red v-necked shirt that went way lower that it had originally been designed to, showing off much more cleavage then any respectable lady should show. Minako laughed at this thought, Ne-chan is not a lady. She's respectable, but she is not a lady! The world wouldn't be right if she were. Well maybe right, but not fun. This made her laugh more. Ne-chan definitely knew how to have fun. It would probably take her less then forty-eight hours to find every hot spot in this city. It was going to be one hell of a summer.
The taxi ride over to Minako's house was full of excited babble and conversation of what the two long time friends would do together this summer. Roxy had decided to take off a few months from working after having a bad break up with her on-again off-again boyfriend, Seiya Light. Not that it surprised Minako because both Seiya and Roxy were not the type to settle down with only one person at a time, although they did go together very well. Mina had a feeling that the two of them would end up together when they grew out of the wild stage of adult hood. She wasn't sure what had happened that had been so bad this time but she knew that Ne- chan would tell her when she was ready. Until then she wouldn't say anything about the time that Seiya had been in Japan.
When they got to Mina's condo Roxy let out a whistle. "I see that ya haven't exactly been livin' in the slums now have ya Mi-chan?" She said. Minako blushed and walked up the stairs that led to her door. She opened the door and they entered into a large opening. The condo had two floors and was all done in a light hard wood and there was a large Turkish rug that covered the floor. Minako prided herself in the accessories that she and her mother had acquired over the years.
"Well you know how my mom is when it comes to having a well furnished place." Minako said as she brought Roxy upstairs to see where she would be spending the summer. "Well this is your room." She said opening the door. The room was a light blue color and was furnished with a queen size bed and a small love seat. There was a dresser with a mirror and a TV was being held up in one corner of the room by a shelf on the wall. There were two lamps on either side of the bed that would produce the light at night, but on this sunny July afternoon the sun shone through the large bay window that took up most of the east side wall. Roxy walked over to the window and looked out at the city.
"This is quite a view Mi-chan," she said turning to her friend, "are you sure I'm not putting you out?" Minako shook her head.
"Nope, my room is down the hall; second door to the left." Minako said and led Roxy into the hallway. "That is the bathroom," she said pointing to the door in front of Roxy's room. "And this is the 'office'." Walking down the hall and opening another door. "Not that I use it for work... I do lots of my sketching there." The room was covered in sketches of clothes that Mina had drawn in her spare time. There were also a few signed posters from her Sailor V movies. Minako then brought Roxy to the last door in the hall. "This," she said opening the door, "is my room." This was definitely Minako's room. The whole thing was done in a light peach color. She has a queen sized canopy bed and there were fresh flowers in vases all over the room.
"Mina this room is amazing! The smell is so intoxicating. You must get lots of action here." Mina looked at Roxy with the most evil face her could muster but couldn't help but smile when she saw the large smirk on her friends face. I swear that girl only has one thing on her mind. Minako thought. She saw Roxy yawn and realized that she was still on Californian time. "You must be exhausted from your flight Ne-chan, why don't you take a nap?" she asked. Roxy looked at her and shrugged.
"I just got here; I wanna explore and check out the scene." Minako laughed at this and then sighed. "It's only six in the afternoon at home anyways; I'd just be getting home right now." Mina laughed out loud.
"Well I bet you didn't sleep much last night, or would it be the night before that? Ah I dunno! Just go have a nap anyways." Roxy raised her eyebrow; Minako knew she would protest but she had to make her point. "Roxy you go have a shower and a nap. I've got some errands that I've got to do so I can't show you around yet anyways." Roxy pouted but raised her hands in defeat. Minako smiled triumphantly and pushed Roxy towards her room.
Minako went to check on her friend half an hour later and found her fast asleep on her bed. And she said she wasn't tired. Minako laughed and closed the door quietly behind her. She really did have errands to run so she grabbed a light jacket and her house keys. She left a note on the kitchen counter telling Roxy that if she wasn't there when she woke up that she would most likely be at the Hikawa Shrine where her friend Rei lived and that she was welcome to make her way there if she wanted. Minako drew a map that would help Roxy find her way to the shrine and left the house.
Minako hailed a taxi and told the driver to head to the shrine. She and her friends met there every Saturday afternoon for lunch and their usual gossip. She had planned on bringing Ne-chan, but when she saw how tired she was she decided not to tell her about it. She loved meeting new people and would love to meet her friends from Japan, but she had all summer so there was no rush. Minako would introduce them later. "Driver? Could we please stop at the bakery down the street for a second?" She asked. She remembered that it was her turn to bring the snacks and hadn't gotten anything yet. The driver nodded and continued to drive down the street.
Minako arrived at the shrine ten minutes later, snacks in hand she made her way up the stairs. She saw Ami and Rei sitting on the porch as she got to the top of the stairs. She waved to them with her free hand and smiled saying: "Konnichiwa minna!" They waved back and stood to greet her.
"Konnichiwa Mina-chan, what do you have there?" Rei asked as she peered into the bag of goodies. "It smells delicious."
"I got some fresh pastries from the bakery near my house." She said. Rei nodded in recognition and took the bag from Minako.
"I'll put these in the house." Rei said leaving Ami and Minako to sit in the warm sun.
"So Ami-chan; how's the long distance relationship going with Urawa?" Minako asked her friend. Ami sighed and shrugged.
"I'm not sure Mina-chan. It's hard to keep it going when we can only see each other once a month." Minako put her arm around Ami's shoulder and tried to comfort her friend. "The good thing is," Ami continued, "is that he's going to be moving here at the end of the summer." She said the last part quietly. Minako looked at her. How could she say that wasn't an awesome thing!
"AMI-CHAN! That's great news!" Minako shouted and hugged her friend. Ami laughed and hugged her back.
"I know! When he told me he was moving back here to go to University I was so excited! I couldn't sleep at all that night!" They continued to giggle about it .When Rei came back outside she raised her eyebrows at the two girls.
"What's so funny?" she asked. Ami looked at her and told her the good news. Rei was just as pleased as Minako has been and three girls sat outside talking excitedly about many different things.
Makoto showed up half an hour after later and when she heard Ami's news they restarted their giggling. Minako loved when they got together like this because it seemed like the rest of the world wasn't there anymore and they were all still bubbling fourteen year olds. She sighed. "What's the matter Mina-chan?" Makoto asked. Minako looked at her and smiled gently.
"Nothing is the matter. I'm just remembering when we first started coming up here, when we were all boy crazy teenage girls." Makoto nodded her head.
"Mina-chan, you and Mako-chan still are boy crazy teenage girls!" Rei said trying to hide her smile. Minako and Makoto opened their mouths to protest but Ami interrupted.
"Usagi-chan! Mamoru! Konnichiwa!" Usagi ran up to them and gave Ami, who had gotten up to greet them, a big hug.
"Sorry we're so late minna, but we went to greet my parents and Shingo at the airport." Minako looked at her friend. She and Mamoru made the perfect couple. She wished that she could have a relationship like theirs. She saw Usagi looking up at Mamoru and smiled.
Usagi put her left hand on his chest and that was the first time she saw it. She looked at the other girls and they all wore expressions of shock on their faces as well. Rei was the first to speak.
"NANI!?! IS THAT WHAT I THINK IT IS USAGI?!" She screamed. Usagi was soon surrounded by her best friends as each wanted to examine the ring and ask her millions of questions. They dragged her into the shrine leaving Mamoru outside all by himself unclear of what had just happened.
Mamoru sighed and sat down on the porch. The girls would no doubt take half the afternoon talking about every little detail of the previous night. Yuuichirou joined him a few minutes later. "Those girls are crazy man. I went in to see what they were all giggling about and Rei yelled at me and said that it was girl stuff and to leave. Then she threw a pillow at my head." Mamoru laughed. It was just like Rei to act so violently towards Yuuichirou. Why he put up with all this abuse was beyond Mamoru, but he supposed that when you were in love with someone great nothing else mattered. At least that's how he felt about Usako.
Yuuichirou sat down beside him and congratulated him on his engagement. "You do realize that you're like marrying those girls too right?" He said laughing. Mamoru smiled, he knew very well how important the girls were to Usagi, and he could put up with them, because they were his friends too.
The two men continued to talk about this and that until Yuuichirou stopped in mid sentence. Mamoru followed his gaze and saw why he was now captivated by the site in front of them. It was the same woman from the airport. She was in a light purple sundress now though. The way the sun hit it though, it didn't leave much to the imagination. Mamoru could make out every curve of her well-shaped body. He met her eyes, the same smiling blue-green as before. He opened his mouth to say something but all he could get out was a small gasp. Then she spoke, her sweet voice playing with his senses. "Well hello stranger. I din't think I'd be seeing ya 'round here." Mamoru just starred at her. Who was this goddess who graced him with her smile?
I don't own sailor moon don't sue. I do own Roxy/Ne-chan, so don't take her. Ummm yeah. (
Minako was panicking. She was supposed to meet her friend Roxy at the airport this morning but she slept in! She was turning into Usagi! What a thought! Usa-chan isn't nearly as bad as she used to be though. Minako laughed. Her Usa-chan had gone from total klutz to elegant and princess- like and it had only taken four years and Mamoru.
"Ne-chan is going to hang me! I hope she isn't waiting there for me. I mean she's never been to Japan before!" She spoke aloud to no one in particular. She ran through the crowds of people as fast as she could. She tripped over someone's luggage and almost went sprawling onto the floor but caught herself at the last minute. She didn't have time to fall, she was late.
Minako ran towards the gate that Roxy's plane was docked at and hoped that she was there waiting for her. The greeting area was empty. Minako looked around frantically for her friend, but there wasn't anyone in the area.
"AHHHH! Where is she?!" She screamed into the room. Passerby's looked at her cautiously as she started to bang her head against the nearest hard surface. She heard laughter coming from behind her and spun around quickly to find a mini skirt clad red head laughing at her. "NE-CHAN!!!" Minako yelled as she embraced the woman. "I was so worried that I had missed you and that you had tried to leave and find me!"
Roxy looked at her friend and smiled. "Mina, it's been so long since I last saw you. And you haven't changed one bit gurl!" She joked. Minako punched her friend lightly on the arm and said:
"You're one to talk Roxy! You're still dressing to kill! And on such a long flight, it couldn't have been comfortable."
"Mi-chan, obviously I didn't wear this da whole time! I changed on the plane, wonderful invention called the bathroom." She said sarcastically. Minako stared at her for a second and then smirked.
"Yup, just like always. Always finding one way or another to get what you want, when you want it." Roxy just smiled and winked at Minako. "So did you get your luggage already? Or do we have to go to the baggage claim?" She asked.
"Nope, I got it all taken care of hun. You see that gent over there," she said pointing to a young man standing beside a cart, "He so graciously offered to help me get ma luggage. And all he wanted was a simple autograph an' a kiss. You see he's a fan. And here I thought they din't even know who I was." Minako just shook her head, Roxy, or Ne-chan as she liked to call her, would never change. Sometimes she wondered if Roxy just liked to hear herself talk. She shrugged it off and grabbed her friend's arm.
"Well then! Let's go! I've got a room set up for you in my house. You'll love it! Oh and Artemis will be so happy to see you!" At the mention of Minako's white cat Artemis Roxy's eyes widened in happiness.
"No way d'you still have dat little angel! Your parents let him stay with you when you guys moved here? I thought for sure dat he'd be back on the streets. But I should've known. You love da cat so much!" Minako smiled and nodded her head.
"Yup, Artemis is still with me. And he's even got a kitten of his own now." Roxy's eyebrow's shot up. Minako nodded in thought, "Yup that little rascal and Luna, one of my friends cat, got together and had a litter of them. Diana is the only one we kept though, too expensive to keep the others." Minako said.
They walked out into the fresh air and hailed a taxi. Which wasn't very hard, seeing as everyone seemed to have their eyes on the mysterious American woman. Mina could easily see why of course. Ne-chan knew a thing or two about fashion and was always up to date with her looks. Today she wore a black mini skirt and a red v-necked shirt that went way lower that it had originally been designed to, showing off much more cleavage then any respectable lady should show. Minako laughed at this thought, Ne-chan is not a lady. She's respectable, but she is not a lady! The world wouldn't be right if she were. Well maybe right, but not fun. This made her laugh more. Ne-chan definitely knew how to have fun. It would probably take her less then forty-eight hours to find every hot spot in this city. It was going to be one hell of a summer.
The taxi ride over to Minako's house was full of excited babble and conversation of what the two long time friends would do together this summer. Roxy had decided to take off a few months from working after having a bad break up with her on-again off-again boyfriend, Seiya Light. Not that it surprised Minako because both Seiya and Roxy were not the type to settle down with only one person at a time, although they did go together very well. Mina had a feeling that the two of them would end up together when they grew out of the wild stage of adult hood. She wasn't sure what had happened that had been so bad this time but she knew that Ne- chan would tell her when she was ready. Until then she wouldn't say anything about the time that Seiya had been in Japan.
When they got to Mina's condo Roxy let out a whistle. "I see that ya haven't exactly been livin' in the slums now have ya Mi-chan?" She said. Minako blushed and walked up the stairs that led to her door. She opened the door and they entered into a large opening. The condo had two floors and was all done in a light hard wood and there was a large Turkish rug that covered the floor. Minako prided herself in the accessories that she and her mother had acquired over the years.
"Well you know how my mom is when it comes to having a well furnished place." Minako said as she brought Roxy upstairs to see where she would be spending the summer. "Well this is your room." She said opening the door. The room was a light blue color and was furnished with a queen size bed and a small love seat. There was a dresser with a mirror and a TV was being held up in one corner of the room by a shelf on the wall. There were two lamps on either side of the bed that would produce the light at night, but on this sunny July afternoon the sun shone through the large bay window that took up most of the east side wall. Roxy walked over to the window and looked out at the city.
"This is quite a view Mi-chan," she said turning to her friend, "are you sure I'm not putting you out?" Minako shook her head.
"Nope, my room is down the hall; second door to the left." Minako said and led Roxy into the hallway. "That is the bathroom," she said pointing to the door in front of Roxy's room. "And this is the 'office'." Walking down the hall and opening another door. "Not that I use it for work... I do lots of my sketching there." The room was covered in sketches of clothes that Mina had drawn in her spare time. There were also a few signed posters from her Sailor V movies. Minako then brought Roxy to the last door in the hall. "This," she said opening the door, "is my room." This was definitely Minako's room. The whole thing was done in a light peach color. She has a queen sized canopy bed and there were fresh flowers in vases all over the room.
"Mina this room is amazing! The smell is so intoxicating. You must get lots of action here." Mina looked at Roxy with the most evil face her could muster but couldn't help but smile when she saw the large smirk on her friends face. I swear that girl only has one thing on her mind. Minako thought. She saw Roxy yawn and realized that she was still on Californian time. "You must be exhausted from your flight Ne-chan, why don't you take a nap?" she asked. Roxy looked at her and shrugged.
"I just got here; I wanna explore and check out the scene." Minako laughed at this and then sighed. "It's only six in the afternoon at home anyways; I'd just be getting home right now." Mina laughed out loud.
"Well I bet you didn't sleep much last night, or would it be the night before that? Ah I dunno! Just go have a nap anyways." Roxy raised her eyebrow; Minako knew she would protest but she had to make her point. "Roxy you go have a shower and a nap. I've got some errands that I've got to do so I can't show you around yet anyways." Roxy pouted but raised her hands in defeat. Minako smiled triumphantly and pushed Roxy towards her room.
Minako went to check on her friend half an hour later and found her fast asleep on her bed. And she said she wasn't tired. Minako laughed and closed the door quietly behind her. She really did have errands to run so she grabbed a light jacket and her house keys. She left a note on the kitchen counter telling Roxy that if she wasn't there when she woke up that she would most likely be at the Hikawa Shrine where her friend Rei lived and that she was welcome to make her way there if she wanted. Minako drew a map that would help Roxy find her way to the shrine and left the house.
Minako hailed a taxi and told the driver to head to the shrine. She and her friends met there every Saturday afternoon for lunch and their usual gossip. She had planned on bringing Ne-chan, but when she saw how tired she was she decided not to tell her about it. She loved meeting new people and would love to meet her friends from Japan, but she had all summer so there was no rush. Minako would introduce them later. "Driver? Could we please stop at the bakery down the street for a second?" She asked. She remembered that it was her turn to bring the snacks and hadn't gotten anything yet. The driver nodded and continued to drive down the street.
Minako arrived at the shrine ten minutes later, snacks in hand she made her way up the stairs. She saw Ami and Rei sitting on the porch as she got to the top of the stairs. She waved to them with her free hand and smiled saying: "Konnichiwa minna!" They waved back and stood to greet her.
"Konnichiwa Mina-chan, what do you have there?" Rei asked as she peered into the bag of goodies. "It smells delicious."
"I got some fresh pastries from the bakery near my house." She said. Rei nodded in recognition and took the bag from Minako.
"I'll put these in the house." Rei said leaving Ami and Minako to sit in the warm sun.
"So Ami-chan; how's the long distance relationship going with Urawa?" Minako asked her friend. Ami sighed and shrugged.
"I'm not sure Mina-chan. It's hard to keep it going when we can only see each other once a month." Minako put her arm around Ami's shoulder and tried to comfort her friend. "The good thing is," Ami continued, "is that he's going to be moving here at the end of the summer." She said the last part quietly. Minako looked at her. How could she say that wasn't an awesome thing!
"AMI-CHAN! That's great news!" Minako shouted and hugged her friend. Ami laughed and hugged her back.
"I know! When he told me he was moving back here to go to University I was so excited! I couldn't sleep at all that night!" They continued to giggle about it .When Rei came back outside she raised her eyebrows at the two girls.
"What's so funny?" she asked. Ami looked at her and told her the good news. Rei was just as pleased as Minako has been and three girls sat outside talking excitedly about many different things.
Makoto showed up half an hour after later and when she heard Ami's news they restarted their giggling. Minako loved when they got together like this because it seemed like the rest of the world wasn't there anymore and they were all still bubbling fourteen year olds. She sighed. "What's the matter Mina-chan?" Makoto asked. Minako looked at her and smiled gently.
"Nothing is the matter. I'm just remembering when we first started coming up here, when we were all boy crazy teenage girls." Makoto nodded her head.
"Mina-chan, you and Mako-chan still are boy crazy teenage girls!" Rei said trying to hide her smile. Minako and Makoto opened their mouths to protest but Ami interrupted.
"Usagi-chan! Mamoru! Konnichiwa!" Usagi ran up to them and gave Ami, who had gotten up to greet them, a big hug.
"Sorry we're so late minna, but we went to greet my parents and Shingo at the airport." Minako looked at her friend. She and Mamoru made the perfect couple. She wished that she could have a relationship like theirs. She saw Usagi looking up at Mamoru and smiled.
Usagi put her left hand on his chest and that was the first time she saw it. She looked at the other girls and they all wore expressions of shock on their faces as well. Rei was the first to speak.
"NANI!?! IS THAT WHAT I THINK IT IS USAGI?!" She screamed. Usagi was soon surrounded by her best friends as each wanted to examine the ring and ask her millions of questions. They dragged her into the shrine leaving Mamoru outside all by himself unclear of what had just happened.
Mamoru sighed and sat down on the porch. The girls would no doubt take half the afternoon talking about every little detail of the previous night. Yuuichirou joined him a few minutes later. "Those girls are crazy man. I went in to see what they were all giggling about and Rei yelled at me and said that it was girl stuff and to leave. Then she threw a pillow at my head." Mamoru laughed. It was just like Rei to act so violently towards Yuuichirou. Why he put up with all this abuse was beyond Mamoru, but he supposed that when you were in love with someone great nothing else mattered. At least that's how he felt about Usako.
Yuuichirou sat down beside him and congratulated him on his engagement. "You do realize that you're like marrying those girls too right?" He said laughing. Mamoru smiled, he knew very well how important the girls were to Usagi, and he could put up with them, because they were his friends too.
The two men continued to talk about this and that until Yuuichirou stopped in mid sentence. Mamoru followed his gaze and saw why he was now captivated by the site in front of them. It was the same woman from the airport. She was in a light purple sundress now though. The way the sun hit it though, it didn't leave much to the imagination. Mamoru could make out every curve of her well-shaped body. He met her eyes, the same smiling blue-green as before. He opened his mouth to say something but all he could get out was a small gasp. Then she spoke, her sweet voice playing with his senses. "Well hello stranger. I din't think I'd be seeing ya 'round here." Mamoru just starred at her. Who was this goddess who graced him with her smile?