Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or Gundam Wing.

AN I'm amazed you guys are still sticking with me! Arigatou Gozaimasu minna-chan! Anata wa totemo daisuki desu!

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Kami-sama – God
Daijoubu – Are you okay?
Un… daijoubu da yo – Yes, I'm fine!
Tasukette - Help me
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Oh, and if anyone cares, a Tamora Pierce book (PotS) was used as inspiration for this chapter.

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Boei Academy
Chapter Six
On The Fields
(Part Two)

By Angel-Goddess

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"Tardy! You're tardy! I've heard from others that you were late to two of your other classes, missy!" Usagi's teacher shouted at her. His loud voice boomed and echoed inside the arena/gym making her ears ring.

The boys in her class snickered at her misfortune as they watched the scene unfold greedily. For them, this was a Kodak moment.

She was about to say that someone had stalled her but he cut her off rudely. "No excuses! You shall stay and clean the school's five arena's top to bottom tomorrow!"

Now that wasn't fair! It wasn't her fault that the jerk turned up at the wrong time and stalled her! "But...!"

He turned to face her, dark eyes fiery. "I said no excuses, missy! For that, you're going to have to do thirty push-ups during your lunch break!" he snapped, making the small blonde flinch and take a step back.

The teacher was a grouchy Chinese man. His hair was cropped short on the sides, and the top of his head was slightly bald. Despite his slim build, every time he raised an arm, his muscles bulked visibly under the white shirt he wore. He was clothed in a plain karate outfit, complete with a black belt. He wore soft flexible cloth shoes instead of going bare-footed like the martial arts instructors she saw on TV.

He stalked over to a bench with a file and some loose leaf sheets of paper and wrote down something rather quickly as he grumbled softly to himself. "This is your second day, is it not?" he stiffly demanded, his onyx eyes glimmering.

Usagi's eyes were wide as she nodded, she couldn't even force a word out!

He glared, "You won't last in this school if you keep getting detentions. I'll give you an important advice, hold your tongue! It will not get you anywhere! Now sit down!"

She immediately sat down on the spot, sapphire eyes still wide. Her brain couldn't even register the fact that the boys were laughing at her or that the lesson had already started.

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Usagi stared at the shuriken in her hand. How did they throw it again?

After being screamed at loud enough to make her deaf, Usagi had tuned out to the most important part of the lesson. Throwing shurikens.

There were three types of shurikens. One of them was the basic type, the one that she was currently holding. That's all Usagi knew.

The four-pointed star in her hand had slight ripples of light blue as the sunshine glinted off the clean, polished metal, marking it as one of the finest that money could buy. It had a large hole in the centre. The edges were so sharp that it could easily slice locks of hair even though it just skimmed past it. Usagi knew that. Why?

Because some stupid boy just had to stick their foot out when she walked over to the shurikens' stand. She had stumbled and fallen, knocking down the stand and sending the lethal shurikens flying. Needless to say, it started raining deadly shurikens. Usagi was extremely lucky to have come out without a scratch and a haircut like some of the boys - though she did get a trim. One of the shurikens had managed to slice two centimetres off the end of her left pigtail. Not much of a loss, considering she had almost died when one rooted itself firmly just millimetres from her head

Usagi was careful not to the touch the edges as she lightly gripped it with the tips of her index finger and her thumb. She looked at the others; they held it in between their index and middle finger so that two of the points would be sticking out at the top, and down the bottom, not slicing the web in between their fingers. They held it in a symmetrical way.

Usagi watched in fascination as the closest boy to her threw the deadly piece of metal like he would a frisbee. The shuriken imbedded itself into a cardboard that was shaped in a man's form. The shuriken had struck where a forehead should've been with deadly accuracy. Usagi gulped.

"Missy! What are you doing? Throw the shuriken already!" A voice shouted loudly into her right ear, making it ring and go deaf for a while.

Usagi jumped and yelped in surprise, unknowingly changing her hold on her shuriken and squeezing it in her left hand.

… Yep… that's right. Ouch.

The blade managed to pierce her palm and lightly cut through the first two joints of her index and middle fingers. Thankfully the cut was longer, instead of deeper. It had skimmed the surface of her hand, cutting up at least four layers of her skin (AN You have nine layers of skin all together, I think…) "Kyaa! Itai!!!"

"BAKA!!" Her Chinese teacher cried, looking horrified. "You're lucky you didn't lose all your fingers!!!"

Her classmates – for once - were quiet as the teacher pulled the clumsy, weeping blonde with him to the nearest bench to bandage up her cut.

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He was frowning deeply at her as he secured the white bandage with a safety pin, "That was stupid, Tsukino! Do you realise you could've cut all you're fingers off?" He barked.

Usagi sighed, he had been ranting about fallen, chopped, cut and no more fingers for the last five minutes. "Hai. But you startled me." She pointed out.

He just glared at her at didn't repond to that. "Even if you have an injury, you're still going to have to throw that shuriken at least once before the end of this lesson. The only time I would even consider letting you off a lesson was if you got your legs or arms chopped off. And as far as I'm concerned, you're still able-bodied! Now scat!"

Usagi sweatdropped.

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Balancing the shuriken between her middle and index finger, she held it carefully in her right hand. She waited until the boy next to her threw it frisbee style and immediately brightened.

Usagi copied the way he threw it, she positioned herself so that she was directly in front of the target board. She curled her arm, so that the shuriken was pointing to her chest. She closed her eyes and whispered a prayer before opening them again. She let her arm fly out and she released the shuriken. She watched as it spun- almost in slow motion – to the target board. She was pleased to see that she managed to hit the target in the chest.

This was it… her chance to shine! She'd be able to throw this shuriken with ease if all she had to do was throw it like a frisbee! With a determined smile on her face she bent down and picked up her other shuriken. Aiming carefully once again at the cardboard man she cried out, "Here we go!"

Usagi twirled around in her spot and threw the shuriken like she would've with her tiara.

She whooped with joy as the shuriken struck the 'heart' of the cardboard cutout and gave a V-sign to her instructor, who sweatdropped.

"I have to admit I'm impressed that you managed to hit the target board twice. But I highly doubt that you would be able to hit it there again." He spoke evenly, not revealing the fact that he was miffed at the accuracy and speed she had throw it. It was almost as if she had used shurikens before… but he knew that she hadn't, or she wouldn't have cut herself so stupidly.

Usagi frowned. He doesn't seem to think I can do it. Well… we'll just have to change that… A bubbly grin appeared on her face, as her usual cheerfulness filled her, renewing her energy. She skipped over to the shuriken rack, ignoring the odd looks she received from her teacher and fellow classmates and picked up two shurikens.

She had the feel of the shuriken now … a smile appeared on her face, as she balanced both shurikens in one hand. She held the shurikens in between her index, middle and ring finger. She did the exact same thing as she did, twirled on the spot before throwing the shurikens. The deadly little stars stuck themselves on the opposite sides of her first shuriken. She giggled and jumped, sending another V-sign to her teacher.

He looked stiffly at her, before sighing, "Very good, Tsukino-san, very good." He congratulated her after a moment of silence.

Usagi beamed, My first step to victory. But as they say… 'A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step'. "Arigatou, Katana-sama!"

Her sensei looked at his watch, "Okay! Gather up! We'll start on Staff Fighting and Fencing!"

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Usagi nervously licked her dry lips as Katana-sama corrected her stance, pulling her foot towards the white chalk mark he made because she just couldn't get it right. Staff lessons were quite odd. It wasn't exactly a skill that you needed in daily life. She sweatdropped at the thought of someone trying to rob her and the chibi version of her pulling a stick out of nowhere and beating the attacker senseless.

She figured that staff lessons weren't too bad, the only thing that irked her was the hand positioning on the large stick, and the 'fighting' stance.

"Alright, I want you all to stick to a drill to get your muscles used to the excercise. Kuroiki! Kazumi! Get up here!" He barked two last names of the boys in the class and motioned for them to hurry to the front. He didn't like to be kept waiting.

Usagi watched as Kay smothered a yawn of boredom, picked up his staff and ambled to the front casually, throwing smiles at his friends and sending a smirk her way. A lanky boy with blonde hair tied in a short ponytail stood up and made his way to the front, looking nervous as he gripped his staff tightly.

"Assume immediate defensive positions." Katana-sama ordered. Kay and the blonde slid into their guarded fighting stance which was slightly similar to the neutral matial arts posture, only it had more balance.

"I want you to show fellow year-mates the simple attack and block, followed by each counter strike as well as proving to me that you have been paying attention to the past lessons." Katana-sama instructed them, "You may begin."

Usagi observed as Kay shifted his grip on his staff and swung it straight at the other boy's head, which could've knocked the other boy out if he hadn't hastily blocked the blow with a wince. Usagi flinched in sympathy for the boy. It was obvious that Kay had tried to hit the boy with a considerable amount of force when a malicious side smile appeared on his face when the boy had blocked with difficulty. The boy pushed back Kay's staff and retaliated with a strike that aimed directly at the red-head's stomach. Kay stopped the blow by holding the staff in front of him and twisting it around, changing his grip easily.

The two continued, giving and exchanging basic blows until Katana-sama was satisfied with their work. "Good… I want you all to pair up!" Katana hollered to his class.

Usagi just stood there as the boys immediately paired up. She figured that if she asked any of the boys to be her partner they would surely refuse. So she decided to save herself some embarrassment and stood there. It was better to stand there like a fool than be rejected and laughed at after all. They lined up in a straight line, keeping a good distance away from the other pair next to them.

Katana-sama frowned, realising that his female student didn't have a partner. "Kuroiki, pair up with Tsukino."

Usagi mentally winced. This could be very bad. As he walked over to take his place in front of her, he whispered something to his friend, whose eyes flitted her way before a wicked grin cracked his face. She looked reproachfully at the dark blue eyes of Kay Kuroiki as he stood in front of her. He smiled at her almost innocently and her brows knitted together edgily. Feeling wary, she didn't say anything as she heard instructions from Katana-sama to start the drill.

Usagi striked at him first with a high hit which he caught and slowly countered with a blow at her knees. Usagi managed to block it, albeit a bit slow. His hits actually weren't all that hard and Usagi knew that he was going easy on her. They continued to exchange blows, and she let her guard down slowly. He couldn't do anything to her. The teacher was in the room! But that didn't stop her from getting suspicious about his almost-sugar sweet actions. What's he up to? She wondered, observing him with narrowed eyes.

Distracted with her thoughts, she hadn't been able to block the next blow towards her shoulder and she tried to quickly dodge it. Instead, the hard wood walloped her neck. Usagi gasped as pain erupted from her collarbone and she dropped her staff, falling to the floor. It was only then that she realised that the other boys beside her were his friends. Katana-sama hadn't seen anything because he was lower down the line, attending to another one of the red-head's friends.

She glared up at him defiantly, "That was low." She whispered, she couldn't seem to be able to raise her voice. The hit must've somehow affected her voice box.

"You shouldn't have tried to dodge it." He smirked at her, "I don't know why you came to this school in the first place. This isn't a place for girls. Go back to whatever dump you came from." He hissed scornfully.

He continued, looking down at her derisively, "Save yourself the money, I bet your family must be begging in the streets by now." He raised his staff to deliver an intentional blow at her but was blocked by another staff. "What th- Maxwell-sama! Ahh… I was just about to help Tsukino-san." He lied.

Usagi turned to look at her saviour. It was the friendly braided boy with cheerful indigo eyes from the hallways that she had encountered earlier in the morning. Only this time, there was no twinkle of cheeriness in his eyes at the moment. Only displeasure and irritation.

The braided boy glared warningly at the surprised boy, his eyes darkening a few shades. "Kuroiki, you watch your place. Or I'll be forced to keep you in your line. I didn't think you'd sink so low, but I was wrong." He rebuked the boy in avertion.

Kay masked his fury behind a forced smile as he bowed low to the high-ranking student. "Of course, Maxwell-sama. Forgive me."

The boy Kay referred to as 'Maxwell-sama' frowned in disapproval, "It's not me you should be apologizing to, but to Tsukino-san."

Kay looked at her in distaste, hidden fury nearly making his dark blue eyes a stormy black, "I'm sorry for my horrible actions, Tsukino-san. I assure you it will not happen again." He bowed and walked away, his friends - like sheep - following him obediently.

The braided boy looked down at her in worry, before crouching down to her eye-level. "I'm sorry about his behaviour. Don't worry about it though, he's naturally brash and rude." He gently took her hand off her neck to inspect the damage. It was swelling and turning red from the hit. He pursed his lips slightly. It looked like it would bruise pretty bad.

"Hm… it's not too bad." He said as he gently pressed his fingers into the bruised skin. Usagi yelped and pulled away instantly, eyeing him cautiously. He held up his hands to show he wasn't going to do that again."Sorry. I just wanted to see if it was broken."

Tears collected in her bright blue eyes. "It hurts so much, I can barely breathe…" she whispered.

He immediately frowned. "Wait here." He told her as he got up and jogged over to the teacher. Usagi resisted the urge to roll her eyes, as if she would actually move freely in this state.

He jogged back to her. "Here, I'll take you to the nurse's office." He said, offering her a hand, a bright smile on his face.

(A/N Nope! Not Duo/Usa fic. Unless you vote for them to get together. The romance is going to come up as soon as she knows thefive well.)

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"Maxwell-sama… arigato for saving be back there…" Usagi thanked the boy in a soft whisper, she still couldn't raise her voice.

He looked at her, his navy blue eyes, holding mirth. "Hey, no prob!" He winked at her, but he didn't get the desired effect as she sweatdropped at him. He shook his head, "Call me Duo. I don't like being called Maxwell-sama. It makes me sound so … old!" He complained, wrinkling his nose to openly show his dislike.

"Duo." A familiar voice called.

Duo turned around and grinned, "Hey Trowa!" He answered, waving to someone who was at the back.

Usagi twisted her head to look at the person behind her, forgetting the fact that her collarbone wasn't exactly in the best shape. Usagi gasped and fell to the floor in pain. It felt as though someone was stabbing her in the collarbone continuously!

"Usagi-san!" Duo dropped down next to her. "Daijoubu ka?"

"Un… daijoubu da yo." She reassured with a weak smile, her face was pale.

"Tsukino-san?" Another figure bent down next to her and Usagi immediately recognised the only visible emerald green eye and the odd hairstyle of the teenage boy that was hiding his other eye. She managed to send a weak smile his way. So his name's Trowa.

"You don't look so good." He stated.

Duo's eyes seem to bulge as he stared at Trowa. "Hey! Wow! That's the first sentence I've heard from you in two weeks now!" Duo paused and looked from Usagi to Trowa. "How do you know her anyway?" he pestered the tall, quiet boy.

Trowa ignored Duo, a diminutive frown forming on his lips. "What happened?"

Usagi bit her lip, "Um, an accident during my staff lessons." She replied wanly.

Trowa nodded and didn't force her to say anything else that she didn't want. He seemed to know that she didn't want to reveal anything else past that. He looked at Duo, "She was with Quatre yesterday." He answered the braided boy finally. He stood up, giving Usagi a nod, "I'm going back to class. Take care, Tsukino-san."

He walked off. Usagi looked at Duo who was staring at Trowa's back in amazement. "Duo? What's wrong?" She asked.

He turned his cobalt blue eyes to her, incredulity shining in their depths, "I've never heard him speak so much to someone he hasn't known for more than a year!" Duo saw her wince in pain and shook his head, feeling somewhat ashamed that he had forgotten about her injury. "Ahh, you're probably hurting a lot, let's get you to the office soon, ne?"

They walked in tense silence before Duo had the sudden urge to stick his nose into her business, hoping to get an answer to a question was bothering him. "What's going on with you and Kay?"

"I-It's nothing I can't handle…" she assured him with a bright smile. "I can take care of it. Really, I can. Please don't concern yourself, Duo-san."

Duo didn't look convinced, "You do realise that he's one of the top middle-class fighters in this school, don't you?" he pressed on. At Usagi's nod his brow furrowed, "Why would you pick a fight with him? You won't win…" he told her bleakly.

She sighed and looked at Duo, "Duo, I appreciate your concern for me. But I know how to take care of myself. There will be a day when I'll finally win… you'll see!" She held her head up in determination. I promised myself that I would be one of the best at this school. I have to do it… for my family, my senshi … and myself.

Duo could easily see determination glimmer brightly in her sapphire eyes and a grin appeared on his face. Tsukino Usagi, I have a feeling that you'll be able to change the viewpoints of the students here in Boei. He chuckled and wrapped an arm around her shoulders, careful not to touch her collarbone. His grin widened as a rosy hue appeared on her cheeks. Yes. She'll definitely make it. He thought, his faith in the girl escalating.

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Usagi shovelled food into her mouth as quick as she could, wanting her stomach to stop complaining about not being fed. She ignored the disgusted and odd looks she got from the other students.

"Man, what a pig!"

"How can she eat so much? That's not human! I'm surprised she hasn't popped yet!"

"I can't believe she's eating the cafeteria food so fast. She's probably going to eat this school to bankruptcy!"

"Her parents must have sold two children to be able to afford the food bills!"

Usagi sweatdropped, her ears were burning red at the gossip and tried eating normally.

As soon as she finished her food, she walked out of the cafeteria and into one of the gardens outside. What she needed right now was sleep. Being tended by the nurses always sucked her dry of her energy.

She lay down under a fully bloomed sakura tree and was starting to slowly drift off to sleep…

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"Usagi-chan?" a familiar voice roused her.

Usagi felt a little annoyed, she was just on the brink of falling asleep! Cracking one eye open, she saw Relena's worried face. She opened both eyes. "Relena?" She yawned.

"Are you okay? I heard from people that you managed to get beaten up pretty badly in justfour hours!"

Usagi sweatdropped. It seemed there was a lot of explaining to do.

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Usagi was in pain as she awkwardly double-checked the straps of the saddle. She hurt from head to toe, not to mention her collarbone was throbbing in agony. This was a horrible day! And to think… she thought yesterday was bad!

Usagi tried to mount her horse in the open paddock, away from the stables. Her mount was a playful and energetic white mare named Kumori. Her mare just wouldn't stand still! She put one foot on the stirrup and tried to jump onto the mare's back, only to find herself falling onto the muddy ground with a 'plop'and getting her riding clothes that she had recently changed into splattered with dirt.

She heard a few muffled giggles and sighed. She wiped at her face with her muddy glove to clear off some of the mess but only succeeded in adding to the muck. She painfully got to her feet and gripped the saddle, so that she wouldn't fall.

Once again, she tried to heave herself up on the mare. Lifting her other leg that wasn't standing on the stirrup, she swung it onto the saddle and pulled herself up with difficulty… only to find herself facing the back of the mare instead of the front.

More giggles erupted from her fellow classmates as they watched her struggle to climb onto the saddle of her horse. Usagi flushed and tried to get down, accidentally kicking the mare at the side and making it run.

Usagi yelped and held onto the mare's well-groomed tail in fear of falling off. She screamed, fearing for her life as the mare started to gallop wildly.

Usagi forcefully turned her head, regardless of the pain her collarbone was causing, to look at the direction the mare was heading. Her blue eyes nearly popped out of their sockets when she realised the mare was heading straight for a five-foot wooden fence. I'm gonna die! Her mind screeched as the mare continued to head for the fence. It's not fair… there are still so many different foods I haven't tried yet!

Usagi gripped the mare's tail tighter and squeezed her eyes shut, waiting for the pain. Instead, everything seemed to be floating. Am I … dead? Usagi opened her eyes and shrieked, the mare was in mid-air jump! Her mount easily cleared the five-foot fence! Usagi turned white. Now that there were no boundaries to stop the mare…

"Tasukette!!" She screamed at the top of her lungs.

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AN There you go an extremely eventful chappie. So stop being angry at me. I hope you're satisfied and that the wait was worth it.
Please review. Or you won't be seeing anymore of this story . Nah, just joking. I'm not that evil. Pairings are still undecided. Romance will only start when she gets to know all five of them.

Much Love,
Angel-Goddess
Aka Tenshi-Megami

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