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SUMMARY: Usagi Tsukino has been sick for quite a while and now she only has a few months to live. What'll she tell everyone when the symptoms start to kick in? When she can't deny the fact that she is dying anymore?

CHAPTER TWO: HORSEBACK RIDING INCIDENT

"Ugh! Minaaaakkkoooo!" Usagi groaned in frustration.

Rei, Ami, Makoto, Minako, and Usagi finally finished up their paperwork and helmet fitting and were now standing outside. Well, everyone except for Usagi and Minako who were inside wiping horse poop off of Usagi's shirt.

"Why did I let you drag me here?" Usagi sniffed, wanting to cry.

"Hey, its your own fault that you tripped. Besides – aren't you glad to have had all that nice squishy horse poop to land on?" Minako giggled.

"Grr… when I get done wiping this off, I swear I'll –"

"Minako-chan!" a male voice said excitedly.

Minako and Usagi looked up to see an extremely hot guy with a helmet standing by the doorway. Minako immediately threw the dirty rag away (which landed on Usagi's head) and went up to the guy.

"Akira-chan!" Minako smiled flirtatiously.

"Reason number one . . ." Usagi growled, extremely pissed off that she now had horse poop on her shirt and her head.

"Please tell me you are going to be our guide today?" Minako batted her long eyelashes.

"How could I say no?" Akira smiled and showed off his buff arms.

How lovely . . . Akira the Almighty and Minako the Matchmaker in one place. Oh, joy, Usagi rolled her eyes. At the thought of having those two together, she immediately rushed outside.

"Hey, Usagi, did you get it all off of –" Makoto started but stopped when she received her answer from the deadly stench that came from Usagi. All the girls inched away from her.

"Hey, Rei, how about a hug?" Usagi smiled mischievously.

"Um, oh look! Our horses have arrived!" Rei quickly set off to the horse area and immediately got on her horse.

"Come on Usa, smelly butt," Rei stuck out her tongue immaturely.

"Oh… Rei when you come back, I will personally kick your ass!" Usagi stuck out her tongue and surprised everyone with her language.

"No way, Usagi, you are coming with us!" Ami butt in. (Author's Note: Whoops, too much about butts Sorry, not meant to be a pun LOL).

"I-I can't! Really!" Usagi felt trapped now.

Usagi couldn't ride the horse in case she had a fainting spell but she couldn't tell her friends of her condition. It would crush them too much.

"I'll catch the next one," Usagi smiled.

"Rei, shall we?" Makoto smiled as Rei got off her horse.

Mokoto and Rei started smiling evilly and went closer and closer to Usagi.

"Guys . . ." Usagi gulped, "you're scaring me!"

Usagi tried to run away but Rei and Makoto caught her and dragged her to a horse. Oh, boy, not fun, not fun! Usagi's head screamed.

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"So, what brings you guys here?" Akira asked the girls as he guided their horses along.

"Well –" Rei started but Minako interrupted by saying, "we were dying to improve our horse riding skills!"

"Well, then using a guide for horseback riding isn't such a great idea if you want to improve!" Akira smiled.

"Did I say that?" Minako bit her tongue. "I meant, we were dying to . . . uh . . . see these horses again!"

"Riiigght," Rei and Usagi rolled their eyes.

"This has been fun, let's go back now!" Usagi smiled.

Makoto looked at Usagi strangely, "we've been riding for ten minutes, Usagi."

"And what fun it's been!" Usagi said cheerfully.

She was trying to get her horse to go back but her horse only kept following Akira's. Finally she gave up and sighed, just petting her horse's (Mickey's) mane.

"You girls want to go back?" Akira asked gentlemanly.

"No of course NOT!" Minako said in horror. "Usagi wants to stay, right?"

Minako gave Usagi the agree-with-me-or-die look.

"Y-yeah, I was kidding!" Usagi chuckled nervously.

"Great!" Minako said happily, trying to get her horse in front of Usagi's so she could be closer to Akira. "I owe you one, Usa!" Minako whispered to Usagi.

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"Nice view, huh?" Ami sighed peacefully.

"Yeah," Makoto agreed.

Usagi, in the meantime, was getting dizzy. Everything around her was growing blurrier and blurrier and all light was fading. OH NO I'M GOING TO FAINT! Usagi dreaded the thought. She was determined to stay awake but her hands weakened, loosening her grip on the reins, and her eyes starting closing, making everything dimmer.

"What are you thinking, Usagi?" Rei asked Usagi, assuming that Usagi was daydreaming.

When Usagi didn't answer, Makoto went, "Hello? Hello? You with us, Usa?"

"I –" Usagi tried to say a sentence but she let go of her reins and plummeted to the rocky earth.

"USAGI!" Ami, Makoto, and Rei screamed.

"What?" Minako and Akira turned around to see Usagi on the ground, bleeding.

"Oh my gosh! USAGI!" Minako quickly jumped off her horse and in the blink of an eye was next to the unconscious Usagi.

"I'm calling 911!" Akira quickly whipped out his cell phone and dialed the emergency number. (Author's Note: Or whatever they have in Japan ).

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"Is she going to be okay, Dr.?" Minako asked worriedly.

Everybody, excluding Akira who went back to his job earlier, was stationed by Usagi's bedside, not wanting to leave for a second. She had a mild concussion from hitting the rocks after she fainted, a few cuts and bruises, and a possible sprained wrist but that was all. Well, all that everyone knew.

"She seems fine to me but I'll have to call her personal doctor," Dr. Metz, a new American male doctor, told the group in broken Japanese.

"Okay?" Rei muttered.

The girls all looked at each other in confusion. Usagi hated going to the hospital and they certainly didn't think she had a personal doctor.

"Is it my Japanese?" Dr. Metz asked the group kindly.

"Oh, no, no, no," Ami replied.

"Okay, I'll just call Dr. Suzuki," Dr. Metz informed them.

While Makoto, Minako, and Rei were talking, Ami looked closely at what Dr. Metz was holding and saw a folder on Usagi. Trust me – it was not a light folder. Rei noticed Ami staring at Dr. Metz's hands and followed her gaze, gasping as she saw Usagi's folder.

"Ami . . ." Rei whispered.

"Has Usagi been here before Dr. Metz?" Ami inquired, making all the other girls stop their chat to look at her.

"Well –"

"Usagi, darling!" another voice cried with concern.

The group turned around to see a young woman in her thirties wearing a white lab coat (with very stylish boots, as Minako pointed out), running to Usagi's bedside. This woman was none other than Dr. Amaya Suzuki (aka, the woman with all the answers).

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Author's Note: Okay, this chapter wasn't all that it was cut out to be but that's okay, next chapter is better. In case you didn't know, though – I LOVE REVIEWS! Make my day and press that Submit Review button! Next chapter should be really cool!