Sorry this chapter took so long. I had a lot of ideas, and my computer wasn't cooperating. Hope you like it.

Usagi was roused from her deep sleep by a knock on her door. I'll just ignore it. It will go away. But it didn't it continues, and it became more rapid and louder. "Ugh," she groaned as she walked to the door and swung it open, ready to yell at whomever woke her up.

Mamoru stood there and, she noticed, he was only wearing a blanket over his shoulders and his underwear underneath that. He was also shivering. "Hey," he chattered out.

"What the hell?" she demanded, throwing her hands up in the air.

"Can I come in?" he asked, trying to subtly check her out. She was wearing a cotton nightgown that ended mid-thigh.

Usagi got very angry when she saw what he was doing. "Stop that!" she hissed. "And—no!"

Mamoru hung his head, then he brought it back up and said, "Do you want everyone to wake up and see us, both nearly naked?" She closed her eyes and shuddered, she could just hear all of the five other girls demanding answers from her. She quickly grabbed his arm and slung him into her room. "What do you want?"

"Can I sleep with you?" slap Ow. "Okay, bad choice of words."

"Obviously," she said simply.

"I meant, can I sleep in here with you," he explained.

"What? Why?" she asked, still sleepy.

"I'm cold. It's cold on the moon!" he whined.

Usagi began to snicker. "It's cold on the moon? You are such a baby! It's perfectly fine. In fact, I haven't been cold or hot the entire time I've been here!"

"Maybe because you were born here, and oh yeah, YOU'RE THE MOON PRINCESS!" Mamoru whisper-shouted.

"Probably," Usagi said, still kind of laughing at him. "It still doesn't explain ME and YOU in the same bed."

"Body heat? Ever heard of it?" Mamoru joked.

"Teasing a girl, not the best way to get her into bed," Usagi said, while sliding into her bed, moving over to the far side.

"Yet I noticed you're getting into bed anyway," Mamoru said, with a quirked eyebrow.

Usagi regarded him with heavy eyes. "Try anything and die," she said threateningly. Mamoru merely smiled and got into the bed next to her.

In the morning, it was a normal maid, not Luna that woke up Usagi. "Time to get up, Lady Usagi! Today is a big day, its--OH MY GOD!" She turned around instantly. The maid's screech woke both Usagi and Mamoru. They were both very comfortable, and at first they didn't realize what kind of position they were in. Mamoru was lying on his back, with his legs spread a little. Usagi was lying on her side and had one leg on either side of his left leg, with her right knee around his groin. Her right hand was on his chest and her left was in his hair. His right arm was around her waist, while his left was idly teasing her side.

Usagi let out an, "Eep," as she scrambled out of the bed, gathering the sheet around her. Mamoru moaned out in pain as her knee hit him in a very painful place. He managed to sit up and let out strangled gasps. "Look, um, I think you got the wrong, very, VERY wrong idea!" Usagi tried to explain.

The maid tried to scamper off, but Mamoru jumped up and grabbed her arm. "Look, you really do have the wrong idea, we were just.." He was cut off by a squeak from the maid when she looked down. She got herself out of his grasp and ran off, screaming. Mamoru walked over to Usagi and asked, "Why she start screaming?"

Usagi was standing over near the balcony when she saw Mamoru coming towards her. She looked down at his pants and said, "Oh God, Darien!" Now he looked down and gasped. He went out onto the balcony. And then they heard more screaming.

This time it was from the other five female inhabitants near Usagi. "Usagi! Usagi! Are you all right?" If there were five people she didn't want to see Mamoru, almost naked, with a, um, little problem, it was them. So, almost without thinking, she pushed Mamoru off the balcony. He yelled and landed with a loud crash. Usagi didn't look to see if he was all right. She just jumped back into the bed with the sheet still around her.

That was when five girls, all in their pajamas, came rushing in her door. Lita was the only one with anything else, a bat. "Where's the trouble? We heard screaming!" Lita said as she looked around the room.

"Guys, guys! It's fine, I'm fine!" Usagi said reassuringly.

The girls gave her skeptical looks. "Are you sure?" Serenity asked.

"YES!" Usagi said, again. "Now go on, we have to get ready, and I need some privacy." The girls smiled, said their good-byes, and left. Usagi got up and went over to the balcony. She sharply sucked in breath when she saw Mamoru. He was rolling around, moaning on his back. He was on top of, what looked like, the debris of a table, table settings, and tablecloth. She saw many other tables like the one that he fell on set up for the luncheon today. Sorry Mamoru, but I've gotta go get ready, she said silently.

When the twelve teenagers arrived in the dining room, they saw only a carton of orange juice and a note.

Children, King Endymion and I are preparing for today's luncheon and party. Come to the courtyard at eleven.

A collective 'ok' was heard and they all poured themselves a glass of orange juice. "What time is it now," Endymion yawned. He was wearing nice pants and a button-down shirt like the other guys.

"Ten," Mina answered. She, and the other girls, was wearing different colored sundresses.

"Well, then, we should probably head to the courtyard," Gregorius suggested. Everyone shrugged and walked through the halls. On their way, they passed several maids and other servants, all of them pointed and whispered at Mamoru and Usagi, who had been avoiding each other all morning.

When they were on a walkway with a balcony, Usagi asked Mamoru, "Have you noticed that everyone keeps pointing at us?"

Mamoru cocked his head to the side to think, but winced because of the pain in his neck from being thrown off a balcony. "Yeah, you don't think that maid would've said anything, do you?"

"Oh, no, because maids never gossip. I bet they embellished too!"

They would've continued, but they heard angry voices ahead of them. It was Serenity and Endymion. "Why not!" he demanded.

"I…hate…you! I will never let you court me!" she hissed back.

"Fine!" he said and then he hopped up on the railing of the balcony. The girls all gasped, and the guys looked at each other knowingly.

"Get down from there before you hurt yourself!" Ami reprimanded. Endymion just paced in front of them on the thin railing.

"Will you please let me court you?" he asked of Serenity. She crossed her arms and walked away. He followed her on the railing. As he walked, he managed to rid himself of his shoes, almost falling many times. "Please?"

"No! And get down from there before I have to push you off," Serenity threatened.

"You know," Endymion said while unbuttoning his shirt, "I really wish you would stop saying no to me, dearest!" He finished undoing his shirt and threw it at Mamoru. He glared at Endymion before throwing the shirt over his head.

"Dearest? You really do have mental problems don't you?"

"Yes or no?" Endymion asked, his hand on the front waistline if his pants, touching the button.

"No," Serenity said with a humorless smile. Endymion shrugged and undid his pants. He let them drop to his feet. "Oh, wow."

"Thank Selene he's wearing underwear!" Usagi said, shielding her eyes.

"You should be angry at her because he is wearing underwear!" Mina hissed into her ear. Usagi grinned back at her devilishly.

"Endymion I will kill you if you don't put your pants on and GET DOWN!" Serenity said, blushing.

"Not until you say you'll let me court you," he said, with his thumbs on the inside waistband of his boxers (we all know that's what he would wear, right?). "So, what'll it be?"

Serenity looked like she couldn't decide. Then, after a moment of thought, "Fine! Just get down!" Endymion put his pants back on and jumped down triumphantly. He grinned and moved forward to hug Serenity. She punched him in his chest. "Arrogant idiot!" she said and walked away.

When they finally reached the courtyard, Queen Selenity reprimanded them for being late. The party today was to celebrate her hundredth year in ruling the Moon. The entire Lunarian population, along with many others from all the other planets had gathered to celebrate this occasion. Queen Selenity wanted everything to go perfectly, so she was quite angry when the teenagers arrived late.

She thrust a fan into each of the girls' hands, and a saber to each of the guys. The guys barely had time to fix the swords to their belts before Selenity pushed them up to the stage. With the men in back, and the girls in front of her man. Gregorius, Chadwick, Mamoru, Endymion, Joseph, and Druisus; and Ami, Raye, Usagi, Serenity, Lita, and Mina respectively. The girls all had their fans open and covered half of their faces with them.

Queen Selenity strode out onto the stage a moment after they did. "Thank you all for coming!" she said, silencing the crowd. They all looked at her dutifully. "It's hard to believe I've been ruling for 100 years."

"Old hag," someone coughed from down in front.

"I wouldn't be talking if I was you, Aphrodite. You're what? Ten years older than I am?" Queen Selenity joked with her long time friend and mother of Mina. "Anyway, I would like to introduce my daughter, her court, and our friends from Earth." In turn, each girl and guy got up and introduced themselves. "Now then everyone, eat, drink, and be merry!"

This was the teens' cue to jump down off the stage, get to their own table, and eat all of the food that was given to them.

After getting thoroughly stuffed, Usagi went around to look at the vines on one of the castle wall next to a fountain. She was admiring the work the gardeners had done, when she felt a heavy hand on her shoulder. She spun around and pointed her fan threateningly at him. "Leave me alone!"

Mamoru just grinned back at her. "Now what would people say if a man was found in your bed in the morning, and by the afternoon, you had used him up and tossed him away? Why, you'd be branded with the Scarlet Letter!" he said in mock horror.

"Have I mentioned recently how I loathe thee?"

"Why yes you have, but," he said, putting his arm on her shoulders, "Serenity said she hated Endymion, but just accepted his courtship. A rather interesting turn of events if you ask me."

She crawled out from his arm and looked at him. "You came up with that striptease idea didn't you!" she said accusingly, pointing her fan once again.

"I have no idea what you're talking about," he said with fake innocence.

She poked him in the chest with the fan. "Didn't you!"

"Hey!"

Thwack! His left shoulder. "Admit it!"

"I didn't!"

Thwack! His right shoulder. "Didn't you!"

"Ow!"

Thwack! His head. "Just admit that you told him to do it!"

That was the last straw. He grabbed the fan from her. "You shouldn't hit people with these things!" he scolded, hitting her on either shoulder and then on her head.

"Ow! You can't hit the princess!" she whined. He kept hitting her, lightly, but still hitting her.

"Serenity is the princess, not you, Usagi!" he mocked and held the fan just out of her reach. She scrunched up her face and lunged at the fan. Unfortunately, she didn't look or she would have realized he was tricking her into the fountain. She fell in with a huge splash! She raised her head from the water and her hair was covering her face. Mamoru leant down and parted her hair with both hands. He was smiling at her. She glared and grabbed his arms. He fell in with a larger splash!

Ten minutes later when the two of them were heading back to the castle, people exchanged knowing looks and giggled.