"Well now that they all know who we are they can torture us even more… Well Minako, Rei shall we show them how to play some volleyball or not?" Makoto's question rang out in the silent air.
"Well Ami, that leaves us to Frisbee, shall we?" Serena asked the quiet girl knowing how much she feared gym.
"Might as well Usa, but well much as I dislike volleyball shouldn't we all stick together…you know just incase something happens?" the last part the blue haired genius added quietly.
"We'll be fine, besides the girls will be within hearing distance. You worry too much."
"Someone has to."
"Well Neph, Jed, ready for volleyball today?" Malachite asked.
"I think we should play all together today guys, I mean it has been over a year since the unfortunate accident in the dodge ball game."
"Jed, just because you're in no mood to play Frisbee doesn't mean we can disregard the rules. You know it's their turn to play volleyball." Zoicite glared at her.
"You're no fun Zoi. Honestly it was not like we meant to."
"Not like you meant to! You guys broke the 'unbreakable' glass windows and the scoreboard, I cringe at what would have happened if you had 'meant' to, now stop whining and go play volley ball with the others," Zoicite bit out at him
With the argument put to rest, they all split up going to their respective areas. The volleyball nets were set up and the group playing volleyball started to warm up as the Frisbee group headed out towards the soccer fields.
"Oh, two of the new girls are coming to play Frisbee with us, this should be interesting. I hope the blond doesn't trip over her hair."
"Kit is there a reason you are being so harsh to the poor girl? She hasn't done anything to you."
"Zoi, she… I think she's Venus. You know how well the two of us got along. I mean honestly I was quite happy being single and living the life of a scout, but no every scout has to have a soul mate or so Venus said and she was out to find them."
"Well if she is not you're going to be putting yourself in a tight spot, because as I remember the princess had blond hair just like Venus and the two of you got along quite well, so play nice."
"Okay Zoi. Except four of them are her guards and the fifth one I'm not really sure how she fits in, the only problem was I wasn't sure which of the five were the four scouts and which one wasn't one at all. What's running through your mind Mamo? You've been quiet since I told you."
"… If her guards have shown up then she will show up soon too, only what that means I don't know. The only thing I want to know is will I be able to keep her this time, or is my fate only to lose her. I don't want to hurt this time; I don't want to hurt her."
"Cousin, remember any love worth having is worth fighting for."
"Warm ups over, captains over here!" The male voice boomed inside the gym echoing off the walls.
"Umm coach… sir… you realize you haven't told us the captains for the day yet?"
"Oh right well, Kenji, Motoki, Kyo and Minako." There was a slight pause at the end of his statements. "Minako is the new girl." A collective ah followed. The four afore mentioned people ran over to the coach to start picking teams. Minako unsure of how it all worked sat back and watched as the captains fought over people. Suddenly they all stopped and looked at her.
"I'm guessing you want your two friends," one of the boys asked her. "And since we already made our teams you get those three as well," with that he gestured towards Malachite, Nephrite and Jadeite. The three boys seemed to be off in their own little world not really paying attention to anyone.
"Oh…okay I guess," with that done Minako walked back to her friends. "We get those three plus ourselves. Looks like that means we'll be the only ones playing, not that we can't handle it."
"Yeah, just make sure you don't slip on your own drool Mina," at the blonde's glare, Rei smiled back, "What? Did you think I missed how you were staring at the tall one with pale hair?"
"Rei if we weren't in public I would so zap your pyro butt."
"Play nice girls, I think we had better go introduce ourselves to those three." Makoto's eyes seemed to dance as she stared at Nephrite, "Besides the brown haired one reminds me of an old boyfriend." With that comment she headed off towards the guys, Minako and Rei trailing.
"Hello! My names Makoto, this is Minako and Rei we're going to be your team-mates today."
"That's nice, why should we care?" Malachite's cutting tone surprised them, but Rei was not deterred.
"Look buddy I don't really care if you tell us your names or not, I don't care if you talk to us or even if you play, but don't get in mine or the girls way because we play to win. Got that?" the last bit was snapped out through clenched teeth.
"Well don't we have the little temper?" Jadeite shot back at her.
"I suggest you don't argue with or spark Rei's temper even more then you have, she's known for not playing nice," Makoto smiled sweetly at him.
"Jadeite here didn't mean to offend; he's just a little thick in the skull when it comes to knowing how to talk to girls."
"I don't know what you are talking about Nephrite; I know how to talk with girls very well. Oh by the way Mr. Flowers and smiles over there is Malachite."
"Nice to meet you all."
"Okay everyone the teams seem to be picked now you will get a 7 minute team warm-up, use it wisely!" the coach's voice boomed out again.
"Well let's get started shall we?" Minako asked
"Sure why not, the faster we realize we can't play together the faster you'll leave us alone."
"Malachite, you need an attitude adjustment. No one likes a cold-hearted cynic. Besides it's not like we can't play the sport, I was captain at my old school and we were state champs. Now let's warm-up." Mina's snapped back at him, his eyes lit up as he heard her tone, no one had spoken to him like that in years. Well okay Kit speaks to me like that all the time, but that was Kit
"Why do you seem so nervous Usagi?"
"The girl from earlier is in our class. She has a powerful aura around her, even Rei was a little surprised by it. I can't help but feel we know her."
"I know what you mean. Even the boys she stood with felt familiar. The boy with blond hair seems nice and friendly… kinda cute too."
Usagi stopped dead in her tracks and stared at her quiet bookworm friend in shock, "You just called some boy cute, why did you just call some boy cute?"
"Because he is, now please we're falling behind." Finally she shrugged and the two jogged a little to catch up to the rest of the class who was standing on the soccer field.
"Okay class I'm guessing you've all played this game before so I'm not going to bore you with the rules and all the rest of that, so just one lap around the two soccer fields and you can start your warm up throwing." Before the teacher could even finish the command most of the class was off running around the field, Mamoru, Kita, and Zoicite in the lead. Usagi and Ami were in the middle both holding their own, when suddenly just as they were back and starting to stop Usagi klutzed out. Ami watched as she started to tumble headfirst into the ground. But she never hit; Ami stood in shock as the dark haired boy that had stood with Kita had managed to catch her.
Meanwhile Usagi had been cringing and bracing for impact, but suddenly realized she was hitting person instead of the ground… and well built person at that. "Th…Thanks," she managed to stutter out.
"Sure no problem, I'm use to girls falling all over me," the smooth reply echoed in her ears.
As she started to look up at the guy who had caught her she noticed Kita coming towards her. She was bracing herself for another stinging remark, but instead, "You okay there? Looked like you were going to take a header into the ground for a second? Nice save by the way Mamo."
"I'm fine," she looked weirdly at her, trying to decide whether to run for cover, or except this change of attitude.
"I see Kita was her usual charming self in the locker room. Well allow me to introduce my friend and I My name is Zoicite and this here is Mamoru, Kita's cousin. You would be?"
Ami reacted first, "Ami, and this is Usagi."
"It's nice to meet you Ami. Would you like to throw the Frisbee around during warm up?"
"I'm sorry, I promised Usa I would, maybe next time, Zoicite right?"
"Oh okay, well Mamo, Kit shall we?"
"Yep, I'm all over it Zoi, I already grabbed the discs." The five of them spread out Ami and Usa together and Zoicite, Mamoru and Kita together. The three passed the Frisbee with ease. The other two were a different story. Usagi had no problem throwing or catching the disc, but Ami was another story. It seemed no matter what the scout of Mercury did, she just could not get the hang of the disc.
"Looks like Mercury, or what is her name here… Ami is still not so great at sports, but she probably still makes up for it in brains. Who do you think will be captains for the day?"
"Oh you know the regulars Kento, cause he's Mr. Athlete, Ryo cause he's teach's favorite, Kari cause she's a girl who can play, and either you or Kit, cause well you know."
Just as Zoicite finished his explanation a loud whistle was heard followed by the teacher's bellow, "Kento, Ryo, Kari, Kita get yourselves over here now!" They all reacted with speed, each running quickly to the gym teacher's side.
"You know the drill, pick the teams." At that Kari, Kento, and Ryo started claiming people, each with their normal picks, until it came to the non-athletic ones. Kento and Ryo tried to pick the more athletic ones, and usually Kit got annoyed at them, but today she could have cared less.
"Guys have whom ever you want all I ask is that as usual I get Zoi and Mamo, and I want the two new girls," silence greeted this announcement, usually they would fight to the death over people.
"Okay, fine you can have them looks like one of them can't do anything anyway, and you know Coach's rule, everyone has to play." Kento smirked towards her
"Watch yourself Kento you might just find out that there is more to my four then you think," with that she skipped off towards them her blue eyes laughing.
"Kari your playing Ryo and Kento versus Kita." the bellow of the teacher could be heard over the noise that they all made. "Oh and Ryo and Kento are shirts." (A/N: the 'shirts' are the colored shirts that gym teachers have to tell the difference between teams; they often make you look like colorful potato sacks.) They set up the fields and started to face off flipping a coin to see who got to receive the pull. Kari won hers and Kento won his. Kita looked at Mamoru.
"Have fun Cuz, just remember keep it in bounds." Her eyes laughed their challenge at him.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah just be ready to run Kit, and you to Zoi." He let the disc fly and it made it right to the start of the other team's end zone. "Happy?"
She laughed and set off down the field with Zoi following on the left. The group spread out and got ready to play…
"Argh!" the volleyball came down in a spike towards the other teams side, Makoto landed with a smirk.
"Nice one Mako."
"Yeah, I haven't seen you spike a ball that well in ages."
"It helps when you pretend it one of your teammates heads your sending into the wooden floor Rei."
"Really? Maybe I'll try that next time."
"Ouch, Neph I do believe these girls don't like us."
"Well Jed it could be they don't like our comments."
"Can't imagine why boys, we've only been really encouraging towards them the whole time."
"Mal is right, we really have haven't we Neph?"
"You've been as encouraging as a rattler in a bad mood, you jerk" Makoto's stinging words shot at the three guys from behind.
