Mirror

Disclaimer: Never in a million, trillion, billion will I own something like the creation of Sailor Moon. However, This story is mine.

"So if you cross X with Y, and divide your answer by the …" Mrs. Yamato, the new substitute teacher for the math department had started to confuse even herself as she tried to comprehend the mathematical terms. What are they teaching kids these days? She thought to herself as she broke her third piece of chalk trying to finish a few simple questions on the black board. Some kids in the back began to muffle their laughter at the new sub.

A deep blue haired girl stood up, obviously seeing the new teacher's discomfort and offered to answer the question. She tilted her head and smiled as if she was trying to say, "You get through this". Walking up to the board she heard her name being called after "brownnose" and "Teacher's pet". Flexing her hand, she masked her emotions once more.

It was a simple quadratic formula, and she couldn't understand why her classmates were having such a rough time with it. Even the teacher was having trouble with the question. Without warning, a memory of her klutzy golden blonde haired friend flashed through her mind. It reminded her that she was possibly the only one who kept up the school's average. At least she isn't sleeping behind a math book this time… Amy thought to herself.

"That's it!" Lita stood up so abruptly, that her chair clattered to the ground and started the person behind her from her notes. She reared her angry head toward the student's in the back of the class that had been making the comments and walked right up in front of them. "Do you have a problem with her?" her left hand had quickly been formed into a fist, showing that she wasn't afraid to throw a few punches, "Answer me! Do you have a problem with Ami Anderson?" she raised her right hand and grabbed one of the students' collars, waiting for an answer.

"What if I do?" came her calm reply, as the two others snickered, "Gonna do something about it?" She raised an eyebrow, challenging Lita. Even though she was in no position to do so. Wanting Lita to put her down, she shifted her body so that it would be difficult for her to keep up.

"Ms. Kino!" Mrs. Yamato practically screamed her name, and asked her to set Yumi down before anything endangers her future education. "I will not tolerate that behavior in this class room." Her voice was slowly becoming more calm by the moment, "Now, I'm sorry that Ms. Haruna isn't here for now, but could we please just get through this lesson before the be--"

The school bell stopped Mrs. Yamato from continuing. Instead, she hung her head in defeat, and returned to her desk to look over her lesson plan for the next class. "Ms. Tsukino?" She moved a stack of papers, which she still needed to grade, to see Serena better. "The bell rang. You need to go to your next class, don't you?"

Serena was busy trying to finish her comic. It was the latest addition to a collection that she had had for over three years. "…Hmm?" she looked around and saw that everyone had disappeared. Ami? Lita? She wondered where her friends could have gone, and why they didn't tell her that class was over. "Oh, I'm sorry Mrs. Yamato, what were you saying?" she tried to sound as nice as she could.

"No respect around here…" She sighed once more, closing her eyes and continuing "Forget it, no one else seems to be listening to be these days anyw--" When she opened her eyes, Serena was not to be found. She turned to face the door, and saw her leg and the ends of her ponytail fly through the door as if there was a disease floating around in the room. "Ugh" She growled to the air, "I give up!"

Meanwhile, at lunch Amy began to discuss the homework given out in her last class that she shared with Mina. Lita had just unpacked her enormous lunch, while Serena herself had her back to the tree, and had gotten out her blue mirror. It was a cheap plastic one that was easily accessible, it could be found at a dollar store anywhere, but she cherished that mirror like it was pure gold.

Mina, being her normal curious self, had always asked Serena why she didn't just get herself a newer one. There were many stores that carried much better, and less tacky ones. "This one is special, Mina…" Serena would complain back to her.

Every time she looked into that tiny blue heart shaped mirror, Serena would get a glassy look in her eyes. As if she was deep in thought. It was noted that this look Serena gave could be used for something other than Video games, for every time she tried to beat the high score on the Sailor V game, this would always be the look in her eyes. It was the look anyone got when they were trying to remember something.

"Hey Serena, I got ya sumthin'" A little boy voice was heard before a hand held out a small messily wrapped gift.

"Ohh Cool! For me?" She unwrapped the present, and found a mirror. It was the perfect size for her tiny hands to hold. On the back, there were spiral designs, painted in gold and blue. It looked like there had once been a top to cover the mirror, but it was gone now. "Where did you get it, Darien? Did you buy it?"

He shook his head and grinned "One of the nurses gave it to me I thought you'd like it. You know, so you can.." he didn't get to finish his thought, as Serena pulled him into a hug.

"I really like it. I'll keep it forever, promise" She winked at him, as her mother came and told her to say good-bye.

Lita waved her hand in front of Serena's face, "Hello? Earth to Serena. Do you want some or not? I packed extra for you." Rolling her eyes at her own mistake. Of course Serena would want some. It's food! Before Serena gave her usual reply, Lita handed her the extra lunch box.

Mina moved closer to Serena, "So, who gave that mirror to you?" A sly look appeared on her face, and if Serena hadn't been deep in her own thoughts, she'd realized that Mina was up to something, "Was it a guy? Was he Cute?" She asked, already thinking if she could hook up with him, if Serena hadn't already claimed him.

"What? No!" Well It's not like Darien and I are best of friends now.., "It was from an old friend. We lost contact a few months after he gave this to me" She wasn't lying; they had become friends when they were little, and for some reason, they never stayed in contact. That is until he showed up in her life again. Or maybe he never did disappear out of her life, maybe she was too busy to notice him…

Mina seemed somewhat depressed at that news, but perked right up when Serena began to talk about Andrew, "Girl, I know what you mean. He's definitely a 9.5 out of 10" She winked at her.

Ami looked at both of them, "You guys should really focus more on studying." Her voice had that 'I'm right' tone to it, as it always would when she talked about school or school related.

Serena looked from Mina, then to Ami as a giggle came from deep within her, before she had a chance to respond, "But we are studying…" She had secretly put away her blue mirror before anyone asked any more questions about it. After all, she was allowed to have some secrets. "And Mina..." Her gaze left Ami, and returned to her blonde haired friend, "You know that he's a perfect 10!" She gave her friend a semi tackle hug.

A/N: Hey! This is one of the very first Sailor Moon fanfic's I have done. Any reviews would be greatly appreciated. Any questions about the story so far will be answered at either the top or the bottom of each chapter.

Thank you Serenity-hime, those are the reviews that I've been look for. I really do appreciate those Nods and, because My editor is currently on vacation, it's gonna have a few mistakes. I usually write about three rough copies before I like it. Although, now that I read it over, it is a bit rushed isn't it?