"No pro-blem! It is o-okay!" She said in a slow, overly cheerful voice, a corny smile plastered on her bright face. Usagi accepted the case from Haruka's hands and grinned even wider. "Thaaank-yuuuu."
Haruka sighed again. Eight years hadn't changed Usagi in the least: same blond hair worn in her usual buns and ponytails, same lack of coordination. If anything, she was even more immature than the fourteen year-old girl she had once known. Of course she was married. She and Mamoru had had a beautiful wedding the minute she dropped out of high school. Usagi was also a mother of two little girls that looked strangely similar to Chibi-Usa, but the only noticeable difference was the gigantic diamond on her ring finger.
Usagi continued to beam at Haruka until her solemn expression transformed into the slightest smile. "Is Michiru here? I finally started violin lessons, but I am having a bit of troouublllle," Usagi drawled, as clueless as ever.
"No, she left to go to the store-" Haruka started.
"Ookaayy! I will just wait for her then!" Usagi slipped off her pink sandals and stepped into the house.
Haruka rubbed her head and sighed once more. "She said that she would be gone for-" There was no point of finishing. Usagi had already seated herself in one of the sofas, her legs propped up on the cushions. Haruka stepped back into the house and closed the mahogany door behind her. Usagi had now turned the widescreen television in the wall onto cartoons and was currently laughing her head off, her buns bobbing up and down like two ducks in a pond.
"Can I get you something to eat or drink?" she offered. There wasn't much else that she could offer to Usagi.
Usagi dipped her head in thought, her index finger working at her temple. "Three milkshakes, four hamburgers, and a ramen with extra union and leeks…oh! One ice cream sundae. No wait! Make that three milkshakes!" Usagi made a few more adjustments to her list before she smiled, gave Haruka the "V" sign, and turned back to the cartoons.
What scared Haruka the most was that Usagi was actually being serious. She had no idea where she packed away the food, but Haruka knew that she normally eat thrice that much for a snack and that Usagi could not have weighed more than 110 pounds.
"Uh, Koneko? I don't think I have all of that…"
Tsukino Usagi ignored Haruka, or rather, didn't bother to hear her, and continued to laugh at the television. She loved Haruka's house. Not that you could call it house: it was large enough to get lost in. There was the family room: complete with three of the most comfy sofas ever, two loveseats of the same type, beautiful wooded floors laden with soft pillows, and of course, the gigantic television in which she had a passion for that ran almost as deep as her passion for her husband.
The bathrooms were almost as large as Usagi's entire house and the bedroom that Haruka and Michiru shared (which Usagi had never been in, due to a matter of sheer embarrassment) was about twice as large as her home. Haruka also had a ballroom, a composition room, an art room, a poolroom(which included an Olympic sized swimming pool and a huge Jacuzzi ), several guestrooms, and many other large rooms of which Usagi knew no name for. It was just to good to be true.
Haruka entered the room with a tray of crackers and tea and set in on the coffee table. Usagi popped back into realty the instant that it hit the table. She hadn't even noticed that Haruka had left the room. Usagi immediately went to work and downed the plate of makinori in a few seconds and took hot tea in one gulp.
"More, please!" she asked politely, offering the tray to the gawking woman.
Haruka knew that she would ask for more until there was no more food in the house, and just saved herself time. "I'm sorry, I don't have any more."
"PLEASE HARUKA! YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO MEEE!" she wailed, "IM SO HUNGRY! I DIDN'T EVEN HAVE BREAKFAST!"
The number of sighs that one will release in the presence of Tsukino Usagi is infinite, so it is not necessary not tell you what Haruka did next. It will simply be said that Haruka took the tray and brought more crackers and tea until her supplies of both were depleted and that Usagi then raided the kitchen for the cookies.
This chapter finally finished.