Note: 'thoughts' "talking" 'telepathy'
Usagi smiled to herself. Math and english where her worst subjects, but with a lot of help from Omi she thought she may actually have a chance at passing them.
"So, how's it going?" asked Ken as he entered the kitchen.
She grinned at him, "I may actually pass my classes now."
Ken and Omi chuckled.
"I always hated math," she admitted.
"Most people do. Math is almost like another language," replied Omi.
Ken nodded.
Usagi looked at the clock, she needed to be getting home. "Time for me to start home," she announced. Then she began packing her school books and papers into her bag.
"It was nice meeting you. I'm sure you'll be here again, though," Ken said with a smile.
"Me too," Usagi replied.
"It's kind of late, do you want me to walk you home?" Omi asked.
"No thanks, I can manage. See you in class tomorrow, Omi," she replied.
As she was heading down the stairs Ken called to her, "Be careful, Usagi."
"I will," she replied. On her way out she said "Good night" to Aya and Yoji.
Aya just nodded his head, but Yoji replied, "See you later, sweetheart."
Usagi shook her head and left.
"Do we have a mission tonight?" Omi asked.
"Yeah, it's just one to gather data, though. Nothing really difficult as long as Schwarz stays away," Ken replied.
"Is that your new girlfriend, Omi?" Yoji asked as he entered the apartment.
"Shut up, Yoji," Ken said. Aya walked in behind the blonde man.
"Just asking a question," Yoji replied innocently.
Ken and Aya both glared at him.
"Is the shop closed up?" Ken asked.
"Yes," Aya replied, "Let's get ready and head out."
The others nodded and headed to get ready.
"Are we going to play with the kittens tonight. Hurting them makes god cry," said a young man with white hair.
"We have to wait and see what Crawford says, Farfarello," Nagi replied.
The German grinned.
'You're still thinking about that girl, aren't you,' Shuldich asked Nagi.
Nagi replied, 'I wasn't until now, why bring that up?'
'You know it isn't good for you to be fawning over some girl. You have a job to do.'
'I know that, Shuldich. I don't need a reminder.'
'Just remember what happened to the last girl.'
Nagi growled. He didn't want to be reminded about that. Besides, Tot had been a member of another assasin group that got in his group's way. Usagi wasn't a enemy.
'You never know, Chibi,' Shuldich reminded him.
Nagi just glared at him and closed off his mind so the German couldn't read his thoughts. Crawford choose that moment to appear with their orders.
"Do we get to play with the kittens?" Farfarello asked.
"Tonight, yes," Crawford replied and shifted his glasses.
Farfarello grinned.
"So what's our mission?" Shuldich asked.
"We are to keep Weiss from uptaining information about a new virus Este has been working on lately."
Nagi didn't like the sound of this mission. Something seemed wrong, and he wondered if Crawford had had a vision.
"Any sign of trouble?" Ken asked over the headsets.
"Nothing here," Omi replied as he continued to download the information. Omi looked around as he waited for the computer to finish. Aya stood at the door keeping watch on the hallway.
"Damn," Yoji's voice rang over the headset, "Trouble's here."
Aya looked over at Omi, "Ready?"
"Just a couple more seconds," he told his leader. Aya nodded. Finally the computer was finished and spit out the disk. Omi grabbed it and placed it in his jacket. He headed towards the door. Aya signaled for him to follow as they headed out. However, when they turned the next corner, there was the Oracle.
"Damn," Aya muttered, "Get out of here."
Omi nodded and took off in the other direction. Omi finally made it out of the building, but trouble found him. Mastermind was there waiting for him.
"Give up the disk, Kitten," Shuldich said to him.
"Not a chance," Omi shot back.
Mastermind grinned, "This should be fun."
Omi glanced behind him and noticed the Berserker. Farfarello grinned and licked one of his knives.
"God will cry if I hurt a kitten," Farfarello said, then laughed. Suddenly Farfarello lunged at Omi. Omi managed to avoid him, however when Farfarello threw his knives one hit Omi. Omi went down for a second before getting back up. With his leg wounded Omi knew he didn't stand much of a chance against the two other assasins. As luck would have it Ken appeared and moved between Omi and the two members of Schwarz.
"Are you okay?" Ken asked him.
"Yeah," Omi replied as he pulled the knife out of his leg. The wound stung.
Shuldich frowned, this was going to be more difficult now. The other two Weiss assasins appeared to back up their teammates. Abyssinian attacked him and he moved out of the way. Balinese helped Bombay to his feet and they took off. Siberian and Abyssinian blocked him from going after Bombay and the disk.
'Retreat, we'll get the disk back later,' Crawford informed the others. Shuldich was far from happy but complied, he knew better than to question orders. He smirked to himself. As he walked away from the two confused Weiss members he peaked into their minds. What he found was rather interesting. 'That girl gets around,' he thought to himself as he walked away, 'Can't wait to tell Chibi about his girl.'
Usagi was sitting in her room, her school work in front of her. She knew she needed to finish all her work to pass and make her parents proud. Somehow, it just wasn't as easy as others, such as Ami, seemed to make it out to be. She had been noticing lately that she wasn't the same person she was in the past. Princess Serenity was as graceful as Minako and as smart as Ami. She wasn't good at school or graceful. At first she thought maybe with time she would return to being like she was in the past, but now she didn't think that was going to happen. She wasn't the Princess she had been, or the Queen she was to become. She was beginning to doubt herself, who she was, her past, and her future. She began to doubt she truely was the Queen she had seen in the future. Since being in the future other battles had occured, maybe that changed the future. She wasn't even sure how she felt about Mamoru anymore. She sighed, she had too much responsiblity. 'Right now the only thing I'm sure of is that I just want to be myself, Tsukino Usagi. I'm not Princess Serenity or Neo-Queen Serenity, I'm just me,' she thought to herself and smiled. From now on the only person she was going to try to be was herself.
A.N.> Sorry this took so long but I got side tracked with adding onto my website. To Concrete Tenshi and Kyrstyn I hope I have improved the length of the chapter. I'll work on making them longer. Thank you Kyrstyn, I was wondering if I had portrayed Usagi correctly. I have seen the anime and seen her do that. Shadow Nightress, as of right now I am working out who I should pair with who, however I am considering a Nagi/Usagi pairing. Thanks everyone for your reviews! I hope this chapter is as popular as the others. Well, I will try to get more out soon! Thanks again everyone!
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