Title: Morning Surprise

Author: KiwiKol

Chapter 3 – Serena's Day

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon…though it would be nice (sigh)!

A/N: Thanks for reviewing everyone. You all make me feel so good. Hope that you like this chapter as much as the others. It's a lot longer and follows Serena through the day. The next chapter will follow Darien's day. Read and enjoy!

JNgirl - Muhahahah...cough-cough...haha. I knew I'd catch someone ;) ! Sorry, went a little crazy there. Anyways, sorry I didn't get to put you on chapter two but I had already submitted it. Thanks for the review and I'm glad that you liked it.

Low/Astrum - Thanks for the compliment, hope you like this chapter too!

serena r - Hi again. Here's chapter 3. I tried to get it out as soon as possible. Hope you like it, and thanks for reviewing.

Meg-Of-The-Moon - Haha, glad that you like it so far. Hope that you continue to read and like.

Last Chapter

"I'm so late! I can't believe this is happening to me. Ms. Haruna is going to be sooooo mad. I'm going to get detention for sure!" Once she was finished getting ready, she ran out the door and headed strait for school. Darien didn't even notice Serena leaving, until his apartment door closed. Though, even then he was too busy getting ready to be able to talk to her.

"Aww man, Meatball Head's already starting to rub off on me. I hope I make it to class on time, if I don't I'll lose my perfect attendance," muttered Darien as he grabbed his stuff and headed out the door.

Chapter 3

"Our plan has been set into motion, you're Majesty," Zoicite stated upon appearing in the throne room of the Neaverse.

"Good, now we wait to see if the serum to keep Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask apart will work," replied Queen Beryl, "prepare to get another rainbow crystal. You did good this time, Zoicite, keep it up. I do not like failures."

"As you wish, you're Majesty, leave it to me," Zoicite replied. He then disappeared in a flurry of sakura petals.

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Serena slowly and quietly tip-toed into class, hoping Ms. Haruna wouldn't notice her tardiness.

"Serena, detention," Ms. Haruna stated without even turning around from the black-board.

"But I-"

"I don't want to hear excuses young lady. Just be here this afternoon, on time." Ms. Haruna continued to write on the black-board, while Serena took her seat next to Molly.

"Her date for tonight must have gotten canceled," Molly whispered to Serena low enough that Ms. Haruna couldn't hear.

"Yeah, I just hope that she doesn't make me stay too long," Serena replied, "I'm just glad that I actually did my homework for once."

Molly looked at Serena in shock and whispered, "you did your homework?"

"Yeah, I know, surprising for me huh?" Serena smiled at her friend, "I got bored last night so I just decided to do it."

"Wow…" was all Molly could say as she stared at her friend in shock. She shook her head to clear it and turned back to the front of the class room. Serena lightly giggled at her friend's response and also turned back to the front to 'listen' to Ms. Haruna's lecture. However, though she looked like it, she wasn't listening at all. Instead, she was thinking about the morning's previous events.

'Hmm…this morning was crazy. I can't believe that neither Darien nor I took the time to think about what had happened last night.' She played the following night through her mind again…

Flash Back

Beep…Beep…Beep…

Serena woke up to the sound of her communicator going off. She looked at the time to realize that it was 1:00 am.

"I'm going to kill the Negaverse. Why do they always, always have to attack in the middle of the night? I mean, come on, nobody is even up to steal energy from," she grumbled while reaching over to pick up her communicator from on her night stand.

"Moon, here," Serena stated as she watched the face of Raye as Sailor Mars show up.

"Took you long enough to answer, Meatball Head. Get your butt out of bed and over to the park. There's a youma causing trouble, and I personally want to get back to bed. So, hurry up," the face of Mars disappeared as the communicator went blank.

"She doesn't even give me the chance to get out of bed before she starts yelling at me," Serena mumbled as she got out of bed and threw on her school uniform. She didn't really want to be out in the middle of the night wearing her pajamas, even if she was transformed. Once she was dressed, she grabbed her broach and carefully climbed out her window. She ran a couple of blocks down the street and checked for anybody who might be watching. Once she was positive that no one was around she threw her hand in the air and said her transformation phase, "Moon Prism Power." In a flash of pink ribbons and light Sailor Moon stood in the place of Serena Tsukino. Sailor Moon then took off for the park. When she got there Mars, Jupiter, and Mercury were already on the scene.

"Mars Fire…Ignite!"

A ball of flame shot out of Mars' finger tips towards the youma. Before the attack even got close to the youma, though, it sidestepped and prepared to retaliate. This is when Sailor Moon decided to say one of her infamous speeches hoping to distract it.

"Hey, Nega-trash, what do you think your doing destroying a place everybody loves to spend time at and have fun. I'm Sailor Moon, and in the name of the Moon I will punish you!" In all her glory, however, she didn't realize that instead of distracting the youma, she caused it to aim its attack at her. She didn't notice it until the last minuet and by then was stuck standing in shock.

'Oh no, now I'm going to die… and I didn't even get to get a full nights rest! (Insert sweat-drop here)" she mentally wailed.

Thankfully, though, at the last minuet Tuxedo Mask swooped down and grabbed Sailor Moon to take her to safety. However, having both arrived late to the scene; neither knew what the youma could do. The youma, being extremely fast, saw Tuxedo Mask and intercepted them before they got to safety.

Tuxedo Mask tried to dodge out of the way, but wasn't able to get far enough away because the youma reached out with its clawed hands and made a deep cut into both of their arms.

"Jupiter Thunder…Smash!"

Being distracted by Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon, Sailor Jupiter's attack hit the youma square in the back.

"Mercury Bubbles…Blast!"

A fog surrounded the area, allowing Tuxedo Mask to take Sailor Moon the safety. Mars and Jupiter continued to distract the youma, while Mercury pulled out her mini-computer and analyzed it to find its weakness.

"It's a regular youma, Sailor Moon, use your tiara and aim for its left leg!" was Mercury's conclusion.

"Alright, Moon Tiara…Magic!"

Thanks to Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Mars, the youma didn't see the attack coming.

"Yeah, Moon Dusted!" Sailor Moon cheered enthusiastically, punching a fist into the air. She winced in pain, however, when her arm started to sting. The scouts didn't know that Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask had gotten hurt, and so went home to go back to sleep.

"Sailor Moon, wait," Tuxedo Mask approached Sailor Moon when the scouts were out of sight.

"What is it Tuxedo Mask?" She asked as a slight tint of pink stained her cheeks.

"I wanted to look at your arm. I know mine hurts pretty badly, and you got the worse of the attack, unfortunately."

"It's ok; I don't want to keep you up or anything."

"Don't worry about it," he smirked, "by looking at yours I get to see how bad mine is."

"Oh, so you're just worried about yourself. I see how it is," she responded while playfully sticking her nose in the air and thinking, 'wow, he reminded me of Darien just then, but there is no way that Darien could be Tuxedo Mask!"

He chuckled lightly and replied, "No really, I'm worried about your arm." She could hear the sincerity in his voice and complied too his request. She slowly walked towards him, and started to turn to the side. She got dizzy on the way, though, and started to lose her balance and footing.

"Whoa, be careful," Tuxedo Mask said while gently catching her.

"Sorry, I just got a little dizzy," Sailor Moon replied quietly, embarrassed from falling.

"I can imagine; you've lost a lot of blood. I didn't know that your arm was that bad." He gently touched the wounded arm causing Serena to draw in a breath, and wince in pain. "Sorry. We need to get your arm cleaned up and bandaged before it becomes infected." He gently turned her to face him. "I have the proper equipment at my apartment where I can clean, it up."

'His apartment? Should I go or not? I mean, I don't think that he would hurt me, but I don't know his true identity and the scouts don't trust him. However, he does always save my life. I mean, come on, how could you not trust hi? Though, his apartment?'

Sailor Moon was brought out of her thoughts when he suddenly said, "Well, you don't have to. I know that the scouts don't trust me, and I would understand. However, you need to get your arm looked at a-"

"NO, let's go. I mean you save my life all the time. Whether the scouts trust you or not, I do trust you. Also, how would I explain this to the hospital," she said while laughing lightly to ease the tension.

"Thank you," Tuxedo Mask smiled at her, picked her up and headed for his apartment.

End Flash-Back

"Serena, let me guess. You don't have your homework. I shou-" Ms. Haruna started to lecture Serena, when Serena cut in.

"Ms. Haruna, but I do have my homework," she expressed quickly, "its right here!" She quickly reached into her bag and pulled out the homework that was assigned the previous night. She handed it over to the stunned teacher and let out a huge sigh. "See, and I even did all of it." 'Good thing I took the time to stop by my house this morning to pick up my bag, or else I would have been in big trouble,' she thought to herself.

Knock…Knock…Knock…

Ms. Haruna was pulled out of her stunned state when knocking emitted from the classroom door. She shook her head slightly and walked over to see who was at the door.

"Yes?" she asked as she opened the door. The person at the door started to quietly talk to Ms. Haruna. All the students could hear was what Ms. Haruna was saying ("Oh…I see…well, yes, I'll give it to her…thank you"). When the conversation was over, he handed her what looked to be a pink box like object. Ms. Haruna took the object and started back for Serena's desk. When she reached her destination, she placed the object on the desk.

"Serena, it seems that when you were running late this morning you accidentally forgot your lunch. I would thank your brother if I were you, for dropping it off so that you didn't starve." Ms. Haruna then turned around and went to her desk. She faced the class before saying, "Lunch is in about 10 minuets, you may have study time until then," then sat down and began grading papers. The rest of class time Serena just sat quietly and thought about what had just occurred.

'OH MY GOSH, I can't believe that I had forgotten about lunch!" she mentally wailed. 'I'm sure glad Sammy dropped it off for me. Wait, Sammy couldn't have dropped it off. He's with Mom and Dad in Kyoto visiting our grandparents. Then who could have done it?' Just then the lunch bell rang and everyone headed out to their respective eating areas.

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Serena sat down under the huge Sakura tree in the schools courtyard for lunch; waiting for her friends Ami, Sailor Mercury, and Lita, Sailor Jupiter. She was still contemplating who gave it to her when she opened it to find a note. It was neatly folded and laid on top of the food. She gently picked it up, unfolded it, and started reading its contents.

Meatball Head,

Hey, I figured you didn't get a lunch since you left in such a hurry this morning. I hope you weren't too late, and I hope you like the food. Oh, I also hope you like the lunch box. When I saw it, I thought of you instantly (She looked at the front of the lunch box to find a picture of Sailor Moon. She smiled and continued to read the note.). Anyways, we need to talk about 'you know what'. Meet me at the Arcade when you get out of detention (not an insult!). I guess I'll talk to you later, bye.

Darien (a.k.a. Jerk )

"What do you have there," Lita asked plopping down beside Serena, "is it a love note?"

"No," Serena replied a little uneasily, "it's just a note that was with my lunch that was brought to me because I forgot it this morning." She inwardly cringed, 'It wasn't a lie, just not the whole truth. I hope she didn't see through it." Ami then sat down by them too, and they discussed scout business for the rest of lunch.

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Serena was sitting in class again and doing what she normally does. She was daydreaming. Only, not just any daydream. She was finishing her daydream from earlier.

Flash-Back

Tuxedo Mask lightly landed on a balcony with Sailor Moon still in his arms. He gently set her down and walked into the apartment. After turning on the light he turned to Sailor Moon.

"Make yourself comfortable. I'll go get the first aid stuff, be right back." Sailor Moon walked over and sat down on the couch. The apartment appeared to be pretty expensive.

'Wow, I wonder how much he pays to live here. I mean, it's huge and I'm just in the Living Room.' Her thoughts were cut off when Tuxedo Mask entered the room again. He walked over and sat down beside her. He took out the supplies needed and carefully tended to her arm. When he was done cleaning it he lightly laid his hand on the wound.

"What are you doing?" Sailor Moon curiously asked.

"I'm going to heal it so that there isn't a scar," he replied as a gold glow emitted from his hand. To Sailor Moon's surprise, the wound and pain slowly disappeared.

"Wow, I didn't know that you could do that," she stated in wonderment. Tuxedo Mask just chuckled and smiled. Sailor Moon then grabbed the disinfectant and turned to Tuxedo Mask. He looked at her puzzled. Her only reply was, "You got hurt too, now turn and let me clean it."

Tuxedo Mask slowly took off his hat, jacket, and shirt to expose the wound. Sailor Moon blushed when she got a glimpse of his well toned chest, though, continued on with the task at hand. Once she was done cleaning his arm, Tuxedo Mask reached over and healed the wound.

"Well, I guess I should go. Thank you for healing my arm," Sailor Moon said as she got up to leave.

"Wait…I don't know why but I don't want you to leave yet," Tuxedo Mask said as he took hold of Sailor Moon's hand. She gazed up at him and their eyes locked. Slowly, their faces drew closer together. She could feel his breath against her own lips right before the gap between them closed.

The kiss was simple and sweet. However, the longer it lasted the more passionate it became. The two broke apart breathing heavily and waited a minuet before they went back to kissing. Sailor Moon reached up to intertwine her fingers in Tuxedo Mask's hair but in the process knocked of his mask. The two broke apart and Sailor Moon gasped.

"Darien?" she stated in awe.

"You know who I am?" he asked with confusion written all over his face, "Do I know you?" At that question Sailor Moon reached up and touched her broach. In a flash of pink Sailor Moon faded into Serena.

"Meatball Head?" Darien asked stunned by what he saw.

"Yeah, sorry if you don't like what yo-" Serena started but before she could finish Darien had pressed his lips to hers again. Serena was surprised, to say the least, but didn't complain one bit. The rest of the night is left to your imagination.

End Flash-Back

When Serena came out of her daydream she only had five minuets left of class. She pulled out a piece of paper and wrote something down. When the bell rang, Serena headed to Ms. Haruna's room for detention. However, when she got there Ms. Haruna was leaving.

"Ms. Haruna, where are you going? What about detention?" Serena asked in confusion.

"Well, something came up, and since you did turn in your homework today, I decided to let you off this time. However, don't expect this to happen again Serena. I want to see you on time tomorrow." Ms. Haruna replied while locking her door.

"Sure thing, Ms. Haruna, and thanks," Serena responded and went to go find her friends. Once she found Ami and Lita, they all headed for the arcade. Serena thinking of two notes the entire way.

A/N: Hope you all liked it. I hope to get Chapter 4 out soon. R&R and let me know what you think.

Toodles,

KiwiKol