Chapter Two- School Days

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Summary: AU. Usagi is mute. She has never been very good at making friends and enjoys being alone. But, one day her life is turned upside down when her mother forces her to make friends by forcing her out of the house. How will she deal?

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The bell rang for lunch, snapping me out of the trance I was in, staring out the window. I sighed as I put away my math work and grabbed my lunch. I then headed to my usual spot in the music room for lunch. It was nice sitting in there by myself. I walked down the hall towards the music room. The girls in front of me, however, were walking very slowly and I didn't have the courage to push past them.

"So are we all meeting at Rei's house tonight at five?" one of them asked the others. She had brown hair that she had tied back into a ponytail and her uniform was different than the rest of ours.

"Yes," said the girl with blue hair, "I think meeting there would be the safest. It is very secluded so we could speak freely."

"I still want to go to the arcade after school." Said the blonde. "Have you seen that cute guy that works there? Oh please guys just for a little bit?"

"Well," the brunette responded, "I don't see how it could hurt. I mean he is dreamy. I think he looks just like my old boyfriend."

"So what are we going to talk about at this meeting, I mean this is the first time we will actually be meeting as a group, together, all four of us, since Artemis gave us our powers," the blonde said seriously.

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Were they really… Could they truly be… No it wasn't possible… Was it?

"I don't know yet Minako, most likely we will discuss our proper course of action. We should all agree on what we should do to keep this a secret. Should we tell our parents? How should we meet to be able to train? What should our stories be if people ask us what we have been up to? And most importantly what these powers mean. We need background information and only Artemis can give us that." The blue haired girl reasoned.

Just then the brunette turned around and saw me standing there. I quick pretended to be preoccupied with my lunch box, and she turned back around after studying me carefully. Years of teasing had taught me how to fiend innocence quite well. If I didn't want people to know I was paying attention to their conversation, then they wouldn't know. The brunette quick whispered something to her friends and they quicken their pace just as we reached to music room door. I then slowed down and waited for them to turn the corner before turning around and walking into the music room.


Makoto's POV

Just as we turned the corner I asked the girls, "Do you think she heard us?"

"I'm not sure," Minako said, "it didn't look like she was listening to us."

"I know but I have a feeling that she heard us." I answered.

"Either way she won't say anything." Ami said.

"How do you know," Minako asked.

Ami blushed and looked down. "Well haven't you… noticed?"

"Noticed? Noticed what?" I asked.

"Well that girl is Usagi." Ami said, as if it was obvious.

We both gave her a look that said we had no idea what she was talking about.

She sighed, "Usagi… you know… she's mute."

"Oh," I said. Wow I felt dumb.

We turned into a stairwell and climbed onto the roof, where we usually ate lunch.

"Well anyways she didn't follow us." Minako said as she sat down.

"Hey Ami, whose to say she won't tell anyone? I mean she can still… you do sign language right? What if she tells someone that way?" I asked.

"I don't think she will. She doesn't have many friends." She replied.

"How do you know that?" Minako asked.

"Well she and I both usually arrive at the same time. Before I met you guys I would spend the morning before school started in the classroom to be able to study. Most of the other students were outside socializing, but not Usagi. She would always come into the classroom at around the same time I did. Then she would go to her desk and just sit there. She wouldn't even use the time to study. Then when school is over she heads straight home. No I don't think she has any friends here." Ami contemplated.

"Well still she could have friends somewhere." I retorted.

"True." Ami said.

"I think we should keep an eye on her. You know just to be sure she doesn't tell anyone." Minako said.

"Yes that would be a good idea. Besides, we aren't even sure if she heard us." Ami said.

We spent the rest of lunch discussing what we should talk about during our Senshi meeting tonight.


Usagi's POV

I quickly sat down in one of the plastic music chairs and took out my lunch.

Were those girls talking about being Sailor Senshi?! Surely Luna would have told me if there were others. Wouldn't she? Would she really keep it from me, if there were others? Was this why she agreed with my mother about making friends with others? To prepare me for dealing with the other Senshi? I would have to ask her when I got home.

Just then the bell rang signaling the end of lunch. I stood up and looked at my lunch. I hadn't even touched. 'Well I'll just have to eat it this afternoon. I guess I have a lot to think about during that detention.'

The final bell rang signaling the end of the day. I watched the other students gather their belongings and join their friends as they walked out the door. I had bought myself an hour but could I truly do this everyday? I didn't think I could. My mother would catch on eventually. Then what would she force me to do? Where would she force me to go?

"Tsukino-san here please." It was Haruna-sensei. She was calling me to the front of the room.

I quickly gathered my books and my other belongings and walked towards the front of the room. I then set my things down and bowed to my teacher.

"Tsukino-san it is very unlike you to be late. You are always on time. I expect this to be the first and last time you will have to be in detention Tsukino-san." She scolded me gently.

I nodded and sat down in the seat right in front of Haruna-sensei's desk.

"You are not to do anything Tsukino-san. You are not to do homework, read a book, draw or any of the other things you insist on doing instead of paying attention to my lessons." Haruna-sensei said briskly as she sat down in her desk and began to go through the tests we had taken a week ago.


Haruna's POV

I watched as Usagi sat down in front of me and folded her hands on the desk. I then turned back to my papers.

I had been in contact with her parents, and I knew she was having trouble in school, socially that is. Usagi always got good grades, but when it came to making friends and learning how to deal with others she was failing miserably. I don't what it was that held the girl back. She was pretty, smart, and very kind and polite. There was no reason for someone not to like her.

But lately, it seemed Usagi had become depressed. She was lagging in her schoolwork. She stopped paying attention in class. She wouldn't even smile anymore.

For some reason I found myself strangely drawn to Usagi. As if I was her big sister. Sometimes she would stay after class for a few minutes and I would help to explain something she had not understood in the lesson. But even that had stopped.

I was worried about her. This wasn't healthy.

What Usagi needs right now is a wake-up call, and I know a simple detention won't do it.

I reached Usagi's test. I graded it carefully, and then I went back over it just to make sure.

A thirty. Usagi had gotten a thirty on her test. Now this, this was unacceptable. Usagi was about to get a very big wake up call.


Usagi's POV

Now I could think about what I had heard those girls say earlier. They most likely are Sailor Senshi, but if that is true, then who was Artemis? And why hadn't I met him? Was Luna keeping me from him as well? Did she even know about Artemis? The girls had said that Artemis was the only one who could explain these new powers to them. Did that mean he knew about mine as well? And if he did know about mine then why hadn't he come to me? Was he working with Luna? Were they keeping me apart from the others for a reason?

I slumped further in my chair and gave a silent groan. Now I would be forced to deal with those girls. What were their names? The blonde was Minako, at least that is what the blue hair girl called her. The blue haired girl… Haruna-sensei was always talking about her grades, what was her name? Oh yes Ami. And the brunette, she was a new student Haruna-sensei had introduced her two weeks ago, her name was Makoto. And, they spoke of another, Rei, was that her name? They were to meet at her house. Yes, so there were four, plus me, so five, five Sailor Senshi to protect the Earth.

A thought just came to me. If all five of us are Sailor Senshi, then why was it that whenever a youma showed I was the only one there to destroy it? Did they hate me already? Did they already know that I was mute? Was that why they never helped me with the youma?

I looked up at the clock it read 4:00 detention was over. I gathered my things and stood up to leave…

"Just a minute Tsukino-san," Haruna-sensei said "I have finished grading your latest test. I don't know what's gotten into you lately but I hope this test will serve as a wake-up call to start shaping up."

She handed me my test. On the top of it was a big red 30.