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Chapter three: Memories, Shopping and Celebrities.

Usagi woke up the next morning, hearing the phone ring. She quickly sat up and answered, hoping that it was Mamoru who wanted to meet her.

On the phone

"Moshi, moshi. This is Usagi speaking."

"Hi, Usa-chan! It's me, Rei. I wanted to make sure that you were awake. Don't want you to get back into your old habit again, now do we?" Rei teased at the other line.

"Well, what about you? You don't seen to grow out of that habit of yours? With teasing and all."

"But you still have the tendencies of getting mad and spitting back. Anyway, I called because I wanted you to be the first one to hear this."

"What? What is it, Rei?"

"Okay, you all know that I like Yuuichirou, but haven't had the courage to tell him? Well, I after what you said yesterday about a new beginning, yadda, yadda, yadda… I decided to tell Yuu-chan about my feelings."

"Yuu-chan? Whoa, that was fast. Couldn't you have gotten faster with telling him too, instead of letting that poor guy wait." Usagi snickered.

"Hey! Oh, anyway you know what they say, True Love Waits. And I had to find out, because if he really loves me as much as I love him, then he should wait."

"Wait? God, Rei! He's been waiting and waiting for a very, very long time now. He's really head over heels in love with you. Remember the time when he thought that Haruka was a boy?" Usagi asked.

"Yeah, I remember that. He thought that I was dating Haruka and when he saw her with Michiru, he thought that he was cheating on me. And then tried to fight with her." Rei smiled, while remembering.

Flashbacks

On a rainy afternoon, in a muddy field, Yuuichirou faced Haruka.

"What kind of a grudge do you have against me?" asked Haruka.

"Just fight me," yelled Yuuichirou.

Yuuichirou tried to attack Haruka, but she dodged his attacks easily. Yuuichirou fell in the mud every time, but he wouldn't give up.

"Yuuichirou!"

Yuuichirou slipped and fell face-first into the mud at the sound of Rei's voice. Rei had been walking nearby and had heard the racket. Rei ran over to Haruka.

"Yuuichirou, what is the meaning of this!"

"I see you really are with him," said Yuuichirou as he knelt in the mud.

"Please, don't say anything".

Yuuichirou walked over to Haruka,

"Be a man. Don't make Rei sad. Please break up with that other girl." Yuuichirou left.

"Shouldn't you follow him?" asked Haruka.

"I don't know", said Rei, "He's such an idiot."

Later on, after an attack

Later, Yuuichirou awoke. He was at the train station with his head on Rei's lap. Yuuichirou jumped up in surprise and asked where the monster was but Rei said that there was no monster and that he had just slipped and fallen. Rei used the string that Yuuichirou had given her before to tie his arm in a sling. Yuuichirou recognized it. Rei laughed and said that he should give her a ribbon next time.

"And," continued Rei,

"You have to apologize to Haruka. You tried to fight a pretty woman!"

"A woman!" Yuuichirou felt very foolish.

Rei and Yuuichirou headed back to the temple. Yuuichirou said he didn't need any help, but he was stumbling.

"Don't worry," chided Rei,

"Hang on to me..."

End of Flashbacks

"It was cute of him, trying to protect. But stupid though! I would never fight with Haruka-san knowing that she's good fighter. Cute, but stupid. Remember that time when he found out that Mamoru-san and I used to date?" laughed Rei.

"Yeah, and he got so mad that he walked straight into a tree!" Usagi laughed, but abruptly stopped when she remembered Rei seeing Mamoru naked.

"Usagi…? Hello…? HELLO? Usa-chan, are you still there? Hey, Odango Atama!"

"I'm still mad at you!"

"Mad at me? What do you mean "STILL MAD"?" yelled Rei.

"You saw him naked!"

"What are you talking about? Saw whom naked?"

"Mamo-chan! You saw him bare naked."

"WHAT?!? Mam… Oh…" Rei said as she all of a sudden realized,

"I remember now. But it was his fault for showing himself naked. And it was your fault too."

"My fault! How can it be my fault?" yelled Usagi.

"Well, if you hadn't been so reckless, then he's apartment wouldn't have caught fire. And he wouldn't have to stay at my place."

"Hey…" Usagi was going to say something, when she remembered that it was her fault. She then started to laugh,

"I guess that it was my fault. But do you remember when I dressed up as a ninja just to spy?"

"I remembered that. You looked ridicules in those outfit." laughed Rei as she remembered every detail from that day.

Flashbacks

At the shrine, Rei's grandpa is talking to Mamoru. He says that it's no trouble if he could stay for a year or two. He thinks that Mamoru is a nice young man and tells Rei to make sure to catch his attention. Grandpa tells Mamoru that he needs a grandson to inherit the shrine and Mamoru would be perfect for it. Usagi tries to go get Mamoru, but the girls hold her back. Yuichiro is behind them and says that he's never been asked to be married to Rei, and Usagi says,

"That's because you're you!"

Ami says that's rude even if Mamoru and Rei once dated, Yuichiro gets mad at this too and drops Mamoru's suitcase on his foot. Chibiusa asks if that's true and the girls say it was a long time ago, and Ami says that she's looking for a boyfriend right now. Yuichiro is mad because she's looking for a boyfriend when she has him. He gets mad and walks into a tree.

At night, Mamoru is in his room typing and Diana says that she'll never let anyone get into Mamoru-sama's room. Mamoru says just to call him "Mamo-chan." She says she can't because he's going to be king in the future. Mamoru gets up to leave and Diana asks where he's going. He's going to take a bath and he asks if she wants to join him, and she's very surprised.

Rei is going to take a bath and says that she can't stay at the shrine; she has dreams, and is going to have love, a job, and a beautiful life. She goes in the bathroom and Mamoru is towelling off and he jumps back in the tub. Rei goes outside and covers her eyes and Yuichiro asks what happened. Rei gets mad at him for not telling her someone was in the bath. Yuichiro looks in at Mamoru and says he looks very relaxed. Mamoru wonders what he means.

Rei runs into her room and calls everyone an idiot. There's a voice and says,

"Who's an idiot?" Usagi crawls out from under a table in a ninja outfit and Rei asks what she's doing here at this time of night.

 

"A girl in love doesn't care if it's day or night. Where's Mamoru?" Rei says he's in the bath and to go see him if she wants.

"A bath? Did you take a peep at him?"

"What does that mean???"

Rei gets all red.

"I didn't want to see that!"

"You saw him naked!"


"O.. only his back!"


"You saw his back!"

"You saw him naked!"

"Just a little bit!"


"You saw it, just a little bit!"

"What! It was his fault to show it to me!"

Mamoru is still in the bath and Yuichiro is putting logs in the fire to heat it up. Mamoru opens the window and says it's a little to hot, Yuichiro says,

"Oh, it is?"

He throws in about 4 more logs and Mamoru gets burnt.

End of Flashbacks

"Oh, I'm so happy for you." said Usagi.

"Yeah… " all of a sudden Rei remembers something,

"What time is it?"

"It's 10.40 a.m. Why?" asked Usagi.

"We were supposed to meet them in about… Aaah!!! 20 minutes! Oh my, did we really talked that long?" panicked Rei.

"I think so… I have to get dressed! I'm still in my pyjamas."

"Well, get ready quick and I'll pick you up at your place in about ten minutes. Okay?" said Rei.

"Okay. Bye!"

Usagi hung up the phone and stormed to her bathroom. After taking a quick shower she went to her closet, putting on a new outfit she just bought two days before her graduation. It was a short, pink dress in Chinese-style. Instead of pulling up her hair into the traditional odangos, she instead wore a bandana that matched the colour of her new dress and braided her hair. While grabbing her purse she heard the doorbell ring.

"Must be Rei-chan," she thought.

She ran down the stairs, putting on her shoes and went outside to where Rei was waiting.

"Finally, I thought I was going to wait until next year…" teased Rei.

"Haha! Very funny, Rei-chan."

"Well, are we going or are we going to stand here all day? Come on." Rei said as they started to walk to Rei's Mercedes.

15 minutes later, outside the mall…

Three girls were standing outside the mall. A blonde, brunette and a blue-haired girl. The blonde one was walking forth and back, while the blue-haired girl was reading a book and the brunette thinking.  

"Where are they? We've been waiting here for a long time now. I feel like I've been waiting here for hours." said the blonde, while looking at her two other best friends.

The blue-haired girl put down her book and said,

"Actually, it's only been 5 minutes."  before going back to her reading.

"I thought that Usagi-chan had grown out of that coming-late-habit," said the brunette.

"I did, but it was Rei-chan's fault. So blame it on her." a serene voice was suddenly heard behind them.

"Oh sure. Blame it all on me. Part of it was your fault too!" another voice was heard.

The three girls turned around, knowing whose voices it belonged to. There in front of them stood Usagi and Rei, smiling at them. The other three girls smiled back, while walking to them. 

"You're late. Both of you!" said Ami, while putting her book in her bag.

"Yeah, how come you're both late?" asked Minako.

"Well, I have something to tell you all." Rei said smiling to them.

"What is it, girl? Just spit it out!" Makoto said excited.

"No, I think I'll tell you later. But it's great news." Rei said knowing that the girls couldn't wait.

Groans were heard from the three of them, knowing that Rei was stubborn; the girls went inside the mall.

Inside the mall

"Hey, Kouichi-kun. Isn't that the actress, miss Aino Minako?" a man whispered to his friend.

"Yeah. Man, she really is beau…" the man abruptly stopped, when he saw whom Minako walked with.

"Are… Are those two women, Makoto and Usagi?" asked Kouichi to his friend.

"Makoto and Usagi? Who are they?"

Kouichi stared at his friend. Thinking that he must be pretty stupid if he hadn't heard about them.

"You're kidding right? Because if you don't, then you must be pretty dumb. Makoto, the tall one, is a famous chef and the owner of those restaurants, Jupiter's Light. And Usagi, she's an artist. You know that painting that I bought for my girlfriend? The one with a couple standing under the stars? She painted it."

"Wow, they're really beautiful. And those two other women too, that's walking with them. God, I would give anything be around those girls." the man said, while walking out of the mall.

Soon other people recognised them. And so the whispers began:

"Look, it's Aino Minako."

"Isn't that the paint-artist? Hm, Tsukino Usagi, right?

"That's the Shinto priestess."

"Hey, that's Mizuno Ami!" said a man.

"Who? Mizuno Ami. You know they wrote about her having an IQ over 300."

"Oh my, there's the queen of chefs."

Hours later, after shopping

"Now you will tell us?" asked Makoto.

"Okay.. Well, guys. I finally did it. I've told Yuuichirou about my feelings. About how much I like him."

"No! Are you serious?" asked Minako.

"No, I'm not! I was just curios about how you all would react."

"Very funny, Rei-chan. But I'm so happy for you."

"About time, girl. Yuuichirou-san must have fainted out of happiness, when you told him." Makoto smirked.

"I'm glad that you finally told him." Ami smiled softly

"Yeah, I'm happy too. And yes, Mako-chan, he actually did faint."

The thought of Yuuichirou fainting made the girls laughed. Soon laughter's were heard all over the place. And there among the crowd, three men were looking at the girls, while listening to their cheerful laughter's.

"Odango!"