Last time for The Rising Sun Adventures, Tsukino Usagi became Sailor Moon for the first
time, and encountered a monster who had taken control of Naru's mother. She eventually defeated
the monster with at least a little help from a dashing young man in a black tuxedo, white mask,
and a black and red cape. A man by the name of Tuxedo Kamen, by the way.
Little did she yet know in her life that her helper was also to be someone who had already
encountered her while using another identity. An identity by the name of Chiba Mamoru, in fact.
She had already encountered him at least once before while he was then using that identity, and
while she was using the identity Tsukino Usagi.
Readers, for the most part, if not entirely, I will be skipping the North American dub
episodes between "A Moon Star Is Born" and "Computer School Blues," at least for a while. The
next episode of this story should take place over the next few chapters. And after I get my version
of Episode 2 up, then I will move to the two episodes after that. Episode 5 in this story, though,
will still, most likely, if not definitely, be based at least partly on "Computer School Blues," for
your information, readers. Other future episodes that will be part of this title have yet to be
decided. And they may or may not agree with any or all of the known storylines in the officially-
established continuities for Sailor Moon.
If you have any opinions on this next episode, or any following episodes, in this story
series, then you all know what to do. I will patiently await the receipt of many quite clean, quite
courteous, and quite constructive reviews about my version of events in this timeline of mine, to
the best of my ability to do so here. This, of course, was for all the obvious reasons, no doubt.
But for now, let's all get to the story here, if you all don't mind. See you on the other side
of this chapter just as often and just as soon as possible, then, readers. Now without any further
ado, let's get on with the story here, if you all don't mind too much here, people! Feel free to read,
review, and enjoy this episode's chapters, then, if the need and/or desire strikes any or all of you at
all, of course!
The Rising Sun Adventures
Book One
Chapter Three
The next morning, Naru was conversing with several of Usagi and her classmates. And they
were discussing what appeared to be a dream to them all. She was trying to converse with Usagi as
well. But Usagi was trying to take a nap in class, at least partly due to her combat activity of the
previous night, if not entirely because of that.
As Naru was doing so with her and Usagi's classmates, she noticed that Usagi wasn't
responding at all in the conversation that she was then having. She asked, "Usagi, are you okay?"
Usagi said, "Shh. I was up really late last night. And I'd like you all to keep it down, so that
I can sleep at least a little bit more here. I really need to get at least a little bit more sleep, in fact."
"What were you doing, Usagi?" asked Naru, quite curious now, by the way.
"I was watching the late movie, and it kept me up really late at night." Of course, that was
a lie here, as Usagi then knew. But she really didn't want Naru to know just what she'd been doing
the night before, in fact. So she lied here. Even though she really wished she didn't have to here, she
still did so, for all the obvious reasons, of course.
"I see."
"Good night, all." Then Usagi went back to sleep at her desk, just a few seconds later, at
most. And she slept as much of the school day away as she then could, not yet knowing what was
to come for her or anyone else at all in her life. Whether they were human or not, she still did so, in
fact. Which really didn't surprise many of the people who already knew her well enough in her life
as a teen-aged Japanese girl.
Meanwhile, back in the Negaverse, Queen Beryl was conversing with Jeddite. She was
wondering what his next plan to gather energy for the purpose of wakening the Negaforce was. And
she was not yet aware that Sailor Moon and other Senshi had been sent into the future by her former
enemy Queen Serenity some time before, if she'd ever know that at all. But she'd eventually learn
that if she managed to survive at least that long into the future, if not even longer than that.
Jeddite said, "Humans have this fascination with something they call 'music,' Queen Beryl.
And they spend much of their time and energy listening and dancing to it, not to mention playing it.
I propose that we send another monster to gather this energy from them, so that we might hopefully
be able to use it to revive the Negaforce and Queen Metallia."
"And just how do you plan for the monster to do that here, then, Jeddite?"
"There is a concert scheduled not more than a few days from now in Tokyo, Japan. I propose
that we send our monster Nytra to capture one or more of the musicians that are expected to perform
at that concert, and then drain the attenders of that concert of their energy."
"I see. And might she need help to capture them?"
"I don't think so, but if she does, then I'll figure something out to help here. That's if I can,
of course. A rumor I heard this morning from contacts in Tokyo, Japan, on Earth, seems to suggest
that a new enemy has appeared to fight evil. I don't know if the rumor is true yet, or not. But if it is,
I really hope that they won't prove to be a problem for us at all, of course, Queen Beryl."
Queen Beryl considered that information to at least some degree, and then said, "Proceed with
your next plan to gather energy for the eventual awakening of the Negaverse, then, Jeddite. Let's hope
that your next plan fares much better for us than your previous effort."
"Understood, Queen Beryl. Now if I may, I think I'd best see to the preparation of Nytra for
our next attempt to gather energy here, of course."
"Fine. And may you be quite successful, Satan willing, obviously!"
Then Jeddite left the area of the Negaverse where Queen Beryl was now sitting on her throne,
in fact. And he soon teleported down to a rather deserted area of Juuban with the chosen Negaverse
monster, so that he could get them set up and prepared for the next Negaverse energy-gathering
mission. Before the end of the local daylight period, then, Nytra was set up there well enough. And
from there, Nytra would operate, while she was in the middle of her current energy-gathering mission
for the Negaverse. Under Jeddite's direction, she'd then do so, of course. Later on, she'd move to
a nearby amphitheater, so that she could work over the crowd of attenders as necessary for their
energy, if at all possible, for as long as possible.
After school finally ended for her, and she was able to leave it again, Usagi then went walking
elsewhere in Juuban. Eventually, she encountered Naru near the arcade, and Naru then asked her,
"Usagi-chan, do you know of Mishikawa Sayumi, by any chance?"
"No, I don't. Why do you ask, Naru-chan?"
"I heard she is going to make a special visit to Juuban, and perform with her band during a
concert at the Koyumi Amphitheater in a few days. Mother thought that I might enjoy going to a
concert by her in the near future, for she knows that I've liked her for a while."
"This is the first that I've heard of her, I think, Naru-chan."
"She's only been well-known for a little while nation-wide, Usagi-chan. But I've known of
her considerably longer."
"I see. And what type of music does she play, then?"
"Popular music, mainly. She is part Japanese, and part Latin American. Her music is some
sort of blend between the popular music that is often played here and the popular music that is often
played in the Americas."
"Is she any good, you think?"
"She's okay, and getting better, as far as I can tell right now, Usagi-chan."
"Did your mother get some tickets to the concert that you just mentioned, then?"
"As a matter of fact, she did. She got them this afternoon, during her lunch break from the
jewelry store."
"I see. Well, I'm heading to the Crown Arcade for a while. Do you want to come with me
this time?"
"No, I have other plans, for the time being, unfortunately."
"Okay. Perhaps I'll see you again later, then." Then they both parted again.
After Naru parted from Usagi, Usagi continued on her way to the aforementioned arcade. As
she then did so, Luna suddenly dropped onto her shoulder from a nearby tree. When she did so, Usagi
started, and asked, "What did you do that for, Luna?"
"We have more training to do, Usagi. We have absolutely no idea at all just when our
enemies will show up again around here, Usagi. That's if they ever do so again, in fact. And it'd be
best, I believe, if we train as often as possible. That's so that if and when they do so again someday,
we might better be able to fight then in the future. Sailor V wouldn't quit, if she were in a rather
difficult situation, would she?"
"What's she have to do with anything here, Luna?"
"My contact seems to think that she might be a possible ally of ours in the future. Word has
is that she's some sort of superhero crime-fighter of increasing repute. She had her picture in the
paper this morning, in fact. She busted another bunch of robbers who tried to hold up the Tokyo
Dome ticketbox office, just last night, while we were at OSA-P."
"She busted a bunch of robbers?"
"Yes, but I don't know if she could bust our enemies right now, Usagi. At least not well
enough to say one way or another for sure right now, that is, Usagi. My contact seems to think she's
quite special, though, for some yet-unknown reason."
"What makes them say that?"
"I can't say for sure. All I know is that they do seem to think that, just the same."
"Could they be imagining things about her, at least as it might pertain to this evil force you
supposedly want me to fight now?"
"Meow, meow, meow?"
"Luna, answer me. I asked you a question here."
"Hey, Odango Atama, why are you talking to your cat like this? They say that talking to an
animal is possibly the first sign of potential mental instability in people."
Usagi looked at her cat Luna for a moment, and then thought, "Oh, great. Conceited Jerk is
back. Why did he have to show up now, of all times?"
"I asked you a question, Odango Atama. Why are you talking to your cat like this?"
"None of your business, you mophead!" she soon exclaimed, just as she turned to face him
full-on as much as she then could do so here. A tree was partly in the way for her at the current time,
though, as she did so here, in fact.
"Mophead? That's a new one on me, if I remember correctly enough. I've never had anyone
call me a mophead before, I believe. Especially not a girl, if I'm sufficiently right here."
"Mophead! Mophead! Mophead!"
"What's your problem, Odango Atama?"
"Boys who think they know it all in their lives! And boys who make jokes at my expense,
without my consent!"
"I see. And just how does that make me a 'Mophead,' as you've just called me here, then?"
"Your hair is like the head of a mop! And you might want to get it cut at least a little bit into
a more attractive style, if you have any brains at all."
"I happen to like my hair just the way it is, thank you very much, Odango Atama."
"Well, you might, but what are you going to do about your minus-zero personality, then?"
"My personality is just fine to me. It's you who has the problem with it. Have you flunked
another test today, by the way?"
"None of your doggone business, Chiba! I've told you before, my name is 'Tsukino Usagi,'
Mophead!"
"I happen to like 'Odango Atama' much better now, thank you very much."
"Oh, why don't you just buzz off for a while, if not forever?"
"Maybe I like teasing you here at least a little bit, Odango Atama."
"You stop that!"
"Why should I?"
"Because it's not right to make jokes about my hairstyle?"
"You did it to me."
"You did it to me first!"
"So what? What's that have to do with anything here?"
"It's not nice to get a girl mad at you by making fun of her hairstyle, whatever it might be."
"I see. And what would be better, then, Odango Atama?"
"Buzzing off, when she tells you to, before she has to get after you somehow, Chiba!"
"Well, you seem to be in luck today here. For I was heading to my job at a nearby hospital
just now, Odango Atama."
"Like anyone would let someone like you near any patients!"
"Why's that?"
"Because if this is how you might act around them, then I'd have to suspect that you have a
terrible bedside manner, Chiba!"
"Oh, my patients just love my jokes, generally, Odango Atama."
"Well, I hope that I never have to find out about your bedside manner around your patients,
then, Mophead. I hope that very much, if the way you've been treating me since we first met a little
while ago is any real indication of your true personality."
"Oh, you wound me, fair maiden! How can I ever heal from such a wound from your
Odangoish lips?"
"Quit that!"
"Why?"
"Because I said so, that's why!"
"Well, I'd love to tease you a little more right now, Odango Atama. But my job awaits, and
I really don't want to be late for it at all, if I can possibly avoid it at all!" He left Usagi behind again,
just a few brief seconds later with a wink, and passed her on the necessary sidewalk near the arcade
as he did so.
As soon as he was far enough away from her and Luna, then, Usagi said, "Luna, I asked you
a question earlier. I asked you, 'Could they be imagining things about her, at least as it might pertain
to this evil force you supposedly want me to fight now?' And I expect an answer from you here right
now, by the way."
"My contact doesn't seem to think so, Usagi. They seem quite sure that she might possibly
be a future ally for us against our new enemies, at the very least, if nothing else at all right now."
"Well, tell your contact that I might have other things that might interest me more than
fighting monsters in my life."
"Then take out all the monsters, Usagi. If you can do that well enough, then just maybe you'll
have the life that you might want to have in your life, someday."
"You just want me to play your puppet for the rest of my life!"
"Of course not!"
"Then let me live my life as I might actually see fit!"
"Your world is in danger, girl. And if you don't do anything to deal with it, then you might
just find that your world will be destroyed all around you, Usagi!"
"You must be kidding!"
"I'm deadly serious, Usagi. If you don't fight, then our enemies could take out the Princess
of the Moon much easier than if you do!"
"I don't even know this Princess of who you're speaking, Luna! Why should I honestly care
all that much about her in my life?"
"She holds the key to this world's survival, from what I currently know of her, Usagi! That's
why we must find and protect her, no matter who she might actually be, in this world of ours."
"Can't you go back where you came from in the first place?"
"No, I can't. That place is long-destroyed. And I can't go back there and live there all the
time, unfortunately. If I could, then maybe I would. But I just can't right now, Usagi, if I'll ever be
able to do so in the future."
"Why me, then, of all the people in this world?"
"Why what?"
"Why did you hunt for me like some mouse you might want to have?"
"Because my previous owner told me to, before she died, that's why."
"Can't someone else be Sailor Moon besides me?"
"No. You are Sailor Moon, Usagi. You have to fight, at least until all the enemies are taken
out well enough to keep them from causing any more trouble ever again in this world of ours, at the
very least, in fact. That's whether or not they might possibly be anywhere else at all in the known
Universe, Usagi."
"I don't really want to fight any longer in the future."
"You have no choice right now in the matter. Be at the neighborhood library tomorrow
afternoon, and I'll meet you there."
"And if I don't show, then what?"
"Then I'll find Chiba Mamoru, and somehow make him follow you until you go there!"
"You wouldn't!"
"Try me, girl!"
"And if I still refuse?"
"Then I'll shred your comic books!" Luna said this here, for she'd found a few comic books
under Usagi's bed, while Usagi had been running to school earlier that day.
"You lay one paw on my comic books, and you'll be sleeping outside!"
"Not if your mother has anything to say about it. She seems to like me, though she doesn't
know all that much about me right now."
"Fine. You win. What time do you want me there?"
"6 pm, local time, at the very latest. If I don't see you there by then, I'll find Chiba, and make
him meet up with you somehow!"
"That's blackmail!"
"So what?"
"That's not fair."
"Life's not fair, and our enemies won't be fair during a battle, most likely, Usagi! So deal
with it, whether you like it or not!"
"Fine. I'll cooperate, at least to a point. But this better be worth it, or you'll have to face the
consequences here, eventually."
"Fair enough. But don't push me, Usagi. I can be even tougher on you than I've already been
so far, if I really want to. So watch it!"
Then the two of them arrived outside the Crown Arcade. Luna then hopped off Usagi's
shoulder, all of a sudden, and then hurried off in another direction entirely. Usagi then wondered why
she did that here, of course. Later she'd find out why, when necessary. And when she did, she'd
really hate it a great deal, in fact. A few seconds later, then, with not another thought about such a
thing here, Usagi then entered the arcade again, just as she'd been planning to do for a while.
In the next chapter, we'll see Usagi meeting up with Motoki for a while, as she patronizes the
arcade, like she's often known to do in her life. And they'll converse about various things of at least
some importance to either or both of them. No matter what they might be, they'd then do so, as much
as possible, for as long as possible.
And then Usagi will return home again, eventually, when it gets almost too late for her to stay
out at night alone with her parents' knowledge. This, of course, will be for all the obvious reasons,
no doubt, readers.
Until later, then, I suppose I'd better cut this short right here and right now, everyone. Take
care and God bless, God willing, of course, readers. If you feel the need or desire to read and review
this, then, please do so. And please do try to do so rather cleanly, rather courteously, and rather
constructively, if at all possible. Thanks in advance, readers, if you then do so. I know you might not
entirely agree with how I might write this story, of course. But please let me use artistic license,
whenever possible, for it, just the same. Until later, then, this is "The Universal Storyteller" signing
off. Over and out!
time, and encountered a monster who had taken control of Naru's mother. She eventually defeated
the monster with at least a little help from a dashing young man in a black tuxedo, white mask,
and a black and red cape. A man by the name of Tuxedo Kamen, by the way.
Little did she yet know in her life that her helper was also to be someone who had already
encountered her while using another identity. An identity by the name of Chiba Mamoru, in fact.
She had already encountered him at least once before while he was then using that identity, and
while she was using the identity Tsukino Usagi.
Readers, for the most part, if not entirely, I will be skipping the North American dub
episodes between "A Moon Star Is Born" and "Computer School Blues," at least for a while. The
next episode of this story should take place over the next few chapters. And after I get my version
of Episode 2 up, then I will move to the two episodes after that. Episode 5 in this story, though,
will still, most likely, if not definitely, be based at least partly on "Computer School Blues," for
your information, readers. Other future episodes that will be part of this title have yet to be
decided. And they may or may not agree with any or all of the known storylines in the officially-
established continuities for Sailor Moon.
If you have any opinions on this next episode, or any following episodes, in this story
series, then you all know what to do. I will patiently await the receipt of many quite clean, quite
courteous, and quite constructive reviews about my version of events in this timeline of mine, to
the best of my ability to do so here. This, of course, was for all the obvious reasons, no doubt.
But for now, let's all get to the story here, if you all don't mind. See you on the other side
of this chapter just as often and just as soon as possible, then, readers. Now without any further
ado, let's get on with the story here, if you all don't mind too much here, people! Feel free to read,
review, and enjoy this episode's chapters, then, if the need and/or desire strikes any or all of you at
all, of course!
The Rising Sun Adventures
Book One
Chapter Three
The next morning, Naru was conversing with several of Usagi and her classmates. And they
were discussing what appeared to be a dream to them all. She was trying to converse with Usagi as
well. But Usagi was trying to take a nap in class, at least partly due to her combat activity of the
previous night, if not entirely because of that.
As Naru was doing so with her and Usagi's classmates, she noticed that Usagi wasn't
responding at all in the conversation that she was then having. She asked, "Usagi, are you okay?"
Usagi said, "Shh. I was up really late last night. And I'd like you all to keep it down, so that
I can sleep at least a little bit more here. I really need to get at least a little bit more sleep, in fact."
"What were you doing, Usagi?" asked Naru, quite curious now, by the way.
"I was watching the late movie, and it kept me up really late at night." Of course, that was
a lie here, as Usagi then knew. But she really didn't want Naru to know just what she'd been doing
the night before, in fact. So she lied here. Even though she really wished she didn't have to here, she
still did so, for all the obvious reasons, of course.
"I see."
"Good night, all." Then Usagi went back to sleep at her desk, just a few seconds later, at
most. And she slept as much of the school day away as she then could, not yet knowing what was
to come for her or anyone else at all in her life. Whether they were human or not, she still did so, in
fact. Which really didn't surprise many of the people who already knew her well enough in her life
as a teen-aged Japanese girl.
Meanwhile, back in the Negaverse, Queen Beryl was conversing with Jeddite. She was
wondering what his next plan to gather energy for the purpose of wakening the Negaforce was. And
she was not yet aware that Sailor Moon and other Senshi had been sent into the future by her former
enemy Queen Serenity some time before, if she'd ever know that at all. But she'd eventually learn
that if she managed to survive at least that long into the future, if not even longer than that.
Jeddite said, "Humans have this fascination with something they call 'music,' Queen Beryl.
And they spend much of their time and energy listening and dancing to it, not to mention playing it.
I propose that we send another monster to gather this energy from them, so that we might hopefully
be able to use it to revive the Negaforce and Queen Metallia."
"And just how do you plan for the monster to do that here, then, Jeddite?"
"There is a concert scheduled not more than a few days from now in Tokyo, Japan. I propose
that we send our monster Nytra to capture one or more of the musicians that are expected to perform
at that concert, and then drain the attenders of that concert of their energy."
"I see. And might she need help to capture them?"
"I don't think so, but if she does, then I'll figure something out to help here. That's if I can,
of course. A rumor I heard this morning from contacts in Tokyo, Japan, on Earth, seems to suggest
that a new enemy has appeared to fight evil. I don't know if the rumor is true yet, or not. But if it is,
I really hope that they won't prove to be a problem for us at all, of course, Queen Beryl."
Queen Beryl considered that information to at least some degree, and then said, "Proceed with
your next plan to gather energy for the eventual awakening of the Negaverse, then, Jeddite. Let's hope
that your next plan fares much better for us than your previous effort."
"Understood, Queen Beryl. Now if I may, I think I'd best see to the preparation of Nytra for
our next attempt to gather energy here, of course."
"Fine. And may you be quite successful, Satan willing, obviously!"
Then Jeddite left the area of the Negaverse where Queen Beryl was now sitting on her throne,
in fact. And he soon teleported down to a rather deserted area of Juuban with the chosen Negaverse
monster, so that he could get them set up and prepared for the next Negaverse energy-gathering
mission. Before the end of the local daylight period, then, Nytra was set up there well enough. And
from there, Nytra would operate, while she was in the middle of her current energy-gathering mission
for the Negaverse. Under Jeddite's direction, she'd then do so, of course. Later on, she'd move to
a nearby amphitheater, so that she could work over the crowd of attenders as necessary for their
energy, if at all possible, for as long as possible.
After school finally ended for her, and she was able to leave it again, Usagi then went walking
elsewhere in Juuban. Eventually, she encountered Naru near the arcade, and Naru then asked her,
"Usagi-chan, do you know of Mishikawa Sayumi, by any chance?"
"No, I don't. Why do you ask, Naru-chan?"
"I heard she is going to make a special visit to Juuban, and perform with her band during a
concert at the Koyumi Amphitheater in a few days. Mother thought that I might enjoy going to a
concert by her in the near future, for she knows that I've liked her for a while."
"This is the first that I've heard of her, I think, Naru-chan."
"She's only been well-known for a little while nation-wide, Usagi-chan. But I've known of
her considerably longer."
"I see. And what type of music does she play, then?"
"Popular music, mainly. She is part Japanese, and part Latin American. Her music is some
sort of blend between the popular music that is often played here and the popular music that is often
played in the Americas."
"Is she any good, you think?"
"She's okay, and getting better, as far as I can tell right now, Usagi-chan."
"Did your mother get some tickets to the concert that you just mentioned, then?"
"As a matter of fact, she did. She got them this afternoon, during her lunch break from the
jewelry store."
"I see. Well, I'm heading to the Crown Arcade for a while. Do you want to come with me
this time?"
"No, I have other plans, for the time being, unfortunately."
"Okay. Perhaps I'll see you again later, then." Then they both parted again.
After Naru parted from Usagi, Usagi continued on her way to the aforementioned arcade. As
she then did so, Luna suddenly dropped onto her shoulder from a nearby tree. When she did so, Usagi
started, and asked, "What did you do that for, Luna?"
"We have more training to do, Usagi. We have absolutely no idea at all just when our
enemies will show up again around here, Usagi. That's if they ever do so again, in fact. And it'd be
best, I believe, if we train as often as possible. That's so that if and when they do so again someday,
we might better be able to fight then in the future. Sailor V wouldn't quit, if she were in a rather
difficult situation, would she?"
"What's she have to do with anything here, Luna?"
"My contact seems to think that she might be a possible ally of ours in the future. Word has
is that she's some sort of superhero crime-fighter of increasing repute. She had her picture in the
paper this morning, in fact. She busted another bunch of robbers who tried to hold up the Tokyo
Dome ticketbox office, just last night, while we were at OSA-P."
"She busted a bunch of robbers?"
"Yes, but I don't know if she could bust our enemies right now, Usagi. At least not well
enough to say one way or another for sure right now, that is, Usagi. My contact seems to think she's
quite special, though, for some yet-unknown reason."
"What makes them say that?"
"I can't say for sure. All I know is that they do seem to think that, just the same."
"Could they be imagining things about her, at least as it might pertain to this evil force you
supposedly want me to fight now?"
"Meow, meow, meow?"
"Luna, answer me. I asked you a question here."
"Hey, Odango Atama, why are you talking to your cat like this? They say that talking to an
animal is possibly the first sign of potential mental instability in people."
Usagi looked at her cat Luna for a moment, and then thought, "Oh, great. Conceited Jerk is
back. Why did he have to show up now, of all times?"
"I asked you a question, Odango Atama. Why are you talking to your cat like this?"
"None of your business, you mophead!" she soon exclaimed, just as she turned to face him
full-on as much as she then could do so here. A tree was partly in the way for her at the current time,
though, as she did so here, in fact.
"Mophead? That's a new one on me, if I remember correctly enough. I've never had anyone
call me a mophead before, I believe. Especially not a girl, if I'm sufficiently right here."
"Mophead! Mophead! Mophead!"
"What's your problem, Odango Atama?"
"Boys who think they know it all in their lives! And boys who make jokes at my expense,
without my consent!"
"I see. And just how does that make me a 'Mophead,' as you've just called me here, then?"
"Your hair is like the head of a mop! And you might want to get it cut at least a little bit into
a more attractive style, if you have any brains at all."
"I happen to like my hair just the way it is, thank you very much, Odango Atama."
"Well, you might, but what are you going to do about your minus-zero personality, then?"
"My personality is just fine to me. It's you who has the problem with it. Have you flunked
another test today, by the way?"
"None of your doggone business, Chiba! I've told you before, my name is 'Tsukino Usagi,'
Mophead!"
"I happen to like 'Odango Atama' much better now, thank you very much."
"Oh, why don't you just buzz off for a while, if not forever?"
"Maybe I like teasing you here at least a little bit, Odango Atama."
"You stop that!"
"Why should I?"
"Because it's not right to make jokes about my hairstyle?"
"You did it to me."
"You did it to me first!"
"So what? What's that have to do with anything here?"
"It's not nice to get a girl mad at you by making fun of her hairstyle, whatever it might be."
"I see. And what would be better, then, Odango Atama?"
"Buzzing off, when she tells you to, before she has to get after you somehow, Chiba!"
"Well, you seem to be in luck today here. For I was heading to my job at a nearby hospital
just now, Odango Atama."
"Like anyone would let someone like you near any patients!"
"Why's that?"
"Because if this is how you might act around them, then I'd have to suspect that you have a
terrible bedside manner, Chiba!"
"Oh, my patients just love my jokes, generally, Odango Atama."
"Well, I hope that I never have to find out about your bedside manner around your patients,
then, Mophead. I hope that very much, if the way you've been treating me since we first met a little
while ago is any real indication of your true personality."
"Oh, you wound me, fair maiden! How can I ever heal from such a wound from your
Odangoish lips?"
"Quit that!"
"Why?"
"Because I said so, that's why!"
"Well, I'd love to tease you a little more right now, Odango Atama. But my job awaits, and
I really don't want to be late for it at all, if I can possibly avoid it at all!" He left Usagi behind again,
just a few brief seconds later with a wink, and passed her on the necessary sidewalk near the arcade
as he did so.
As soon as he was far enough away from her and Luna, then, Usagi said, "Luna, I asked you
a question earlier. I asked you, 'Could they be imagining things about her, at least as it might pertain
to this evil force you supposedly want me to fight now?' And I expect an answer from you here right
now, by the way."
"My contact doesn't seem to think so, Usagi. They seem quite sure that she might possibly
be a future ally for us against our new enemies, at the very least, if nothing else at all right now."
"Well, tell your contact that I might have other things that might interest me more than
fighting monsters in my life."
"Then take out all the monsters, Usagi. If you can do that well enough, then just maybe you'll
have the life that you might want to have in your life, someday."
"You just want me to play your puppet for the rest of my life!"
"Of course not!"
"Then let me live my life as I might actually see fit!"
"Your world is in danger, girl. And if you don't do anything to deal with it, then you might
just find that your world will be destroyed all around you, Usagi!"
"You must be kidding!"
"I'm deadly serious, Usagi. If you don't fight, then our enemies could take out the Princess
of the Moon much easier than if you do!"
"I don't even know this Princess of who you're speaking, Luna! Why should I honestly care
all that much about her in my life?"
"She holds the key to this world's survival, from what I currently know of her, Usagi! That's
why we must find and protect her, no matter who she might actually be, in this world of ours."
"Can't you go back where you came from in the first place?"
"No, I can't. That place is long-destroyed. And I can't go back there and live there all the
time, unfortunately. If I could, then maybe I would. But I just can't right now, Usagi, if I'll ever be
able to do so in the future."
"Why me, then, of all the people in this world?"
"Why what?"
"Why did you hunt for me like some mouse you might want to have?"
"Because my previous owner told me to, before she died, that's why."
"Can't someone else be Sailor Moon besides me?"
"No. You are Sailor Moon, Usagi. You have to fight, at least until all the enemies are taken
out well enough to keep them from causing any more trouble ever again in this world of ours, at the
very least, in fact. That's whether or not they might possibly be anywhere else at all in the known
Universe, Usagi."
"I don't really want to fight any longer in the future."
"You have no choice right now in the matter. Be at the neighborhood library tomorrow
afternoon, and I'll meet you there."
"And if I don't show, then what?"
"Then I'll find Chiba Mamoru, and somehow make him follow you until you go there!"
"You wouldn't!"
"Try me, girl!"
"And if I still refuse?"
"Then I'll shred your comic books!" Luna said this here, for she'd found a few comic books
under Usagi's bed, while Usagi had been running to school earlier that day.
"You lay one paw on my comic books, and you'll be sleeping outside!"
"Not if your mother has anything to say about it. She seems to like me, though she doesn't
know all that much about me right now."
"Fine. You win. What time do you want me there?"
"6 pm, local time, at the very latest. If I don't see you there by then, I'll find Chiba, and make
him meet up with you somehow!"
"That's blackmail!"
"So what?"
"That's not fair."
"Life's not fair, and our enemies won't be fair during a battle, most likely, Usagi! So deal
with it, whether you like it or not!"
"Fine. I'll cooperate, at least to a point. But this better be worth it, or you'll have to face the
consequences here, eventually."
"Fair enough. But don't push me, Usagi. I can be even tougher on you than I've already been
so far, if I really want to. So watch it!"
Then the two of them arrived outside the Crown Arcade. Luna then hopped off Usagi's
shoulder, all of a sudden, and then hurried off in another direction entirely. Usagi then wondered why
she did that here, of course. Later she'd find out why, when necessary. And when she did, she'd
really hate it a great deal, in fact. A few seconds later, then, with not another thought about such a
thing here, Usagi then entered the arcade again, just as she'd been planning to do for a while.
In the next chapter, we'll see Usagi meeting up with Motoki for a while, as she patronizes the
arcade, like she's often known to do in her life. And they'll converse about various things of at least
some importance to either or both of them. No matter what they might be, they'd then do so, as much
as possible, for as long as possible.
And then Usagi will return home again, eventually, when it gets almost too late for her to stay
out at night alone with her parents' knowledge. This, of course, will be for all the obvious reasons,
no doubt, readers.
Until later, then, I suppose I'd better cut this short right here and right now, everyone. Take
care and God bless, God willing, of course, readers. If you feel the need or desire to read and review
this, then, please do so. And please do try to do so rather cleanly, rather courteously, and rather
constructively, if at all possible. Thanks in advance, readers, if you then do so. I know you might not
entirely agree with how I might write this story, of course. But please let me use artistic license,
whenever possible, for it, just the same. Until later, then, this is "The Universal Storyteller" signing
off. Over and out!