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Sports: Go Usagi!
After school…
Usagi walked out of the auto shop feeling like a complete numskull. "I can't even check the oil with out breaking something!" She complained to Trunks and Gohan. Trunks and Gohan looked at her with sympathy. And a bit of awe. Who else was so incompetent at such a simple concept?
"You'll do fine Usagi. Hey, aren't you going to try out for track this afternoon?" Gohan changed the subject.
Usagi's face brightened. "Yeah! I just have to find Hitomi."
"YOU! You! Oh good gods you two!" A guy with a letter jacket on ran over to Trunks, Gohan and Usagi.
"What?" Trunks asked confused.
"You two would be perfect for the varsity football team! We really need good players this year. Our team is known as the defeat-able." He told them.
"I don't know how to play football." Gohan shrugged.
"We'll teach you! It isn't hard. PLEASE come to tryouts after school." He begged. He then saw Usagi. "Hi Usagi, if you ever need any help with cars, ask me. I'm a great mechanic." He winked. Usagi gave a weak smile. "Consider joining the team!" He called before running off.
"Is the whole year going to be like this because I'm in auto shop?" Usagi asked.
"Probably." Ranma came up behind her after witnessing the whole scene. "Do you think I could make the team? I'm always looking for excuses to stay away from home." He wondered. "Thanks for the cheer up Ranma. Sure you could make the team, you were playing with Duo and Gohan earlier." Usagi encouraged as the four headed for the stairs.
When the four reached the fourth floor the noticed Rei, Makoto, Haruka and Minako. They were covered in white goop. "Whoa! What happened to you guys?" Ranma asked trying not to laugh.
"Minako and Haruka tried to cook." Rei said dryly.
"What were you making?" Trunks asked curiously.
"Cookies." Haruka replied. Usagi, Trunks, Ranma and Gohan cracked up laughing.
"Usagi! Don't be late for Track tryouts." Minako reminded wiping some goop off of her shirt.
"Oh yeah! And don't forget about cheerleading tryouts." Usagi reminded before she took off down the stairs.
"Odango is going out for Track?" Rei asked as the rest of them walked down the stairs.
"By the way she ran off she'll make varsity." Haruka commented.
oOo
Usagi and Hitomi walked out to the track field in their track practice clothes. Usagi was bouncing she was so nervous.
"Calm down Usagi." Hitomi told her.
"It's just I've never tried out for anything and actually made it." Usagi confessed.
"Believe me, you'll make it. If you get under 18 seconds on the 100 meter than you make varsity." Hitomi encouraged.
"GO HITOMI! GO USAGI!" Usagi and Hitomi looked up to see Shampoo, Hotaru, Merle and Rei up in the stands rooting for them. They waved before jogging onto the field to join a group of kids in track clothes.
"All right, listen up! My name is Amano. I am the captain of the Track Team. To make Varsity you need less than 17 seconds. Junior Varsity is less than 19 seconds and the rest of you will be screwed. I will not tell you your times, you will just have to wait until tomorrow morning outside the gym."
"Oh great, Hitomi you said it was 18 seconds- Hitomi? Hitomi are you all right?" Usagi waved a hand in front of her face as she stared off into space.
"Amano…" She whispered.
"Oh no, just what we need, a dazed and confused Hitomi." Usagi groaned.
"You four will start." Amano pointed to Hitomi, Usagi and two other girls.
Usagi and Hitomi walked up to the line and hunched into starting position. Usagi took a deep breath and closed her eyes. 'I can do this, I can so do this.' She thought to herself. Hitomi was holding a pendent that was around her neck with her eyes closed.
"Get ready, get set… GO!" Amano called one hundred meters away. The four girls took off like little kids stampeding the candy aisle. Usagi concentrated on the finish line pushing herself to the limit. Hitomi was almost surprised no vision took her over as she ran.
Hitomi pounded over the line milliseconds before Usagi. Both were gasping for air. Amano smiled in approval. A second later the two girls with them finished.
Hitomi glomped Usagi. "Usagi! That was great! I know you would make it." She yelled.
Usagi hugged her back laughing. "I don't know if I've ever run that fast before." She gasped.
Rei, Hotaru, Merle, and Shampoo came jogging over. "You guys were so fast!" Hotaru exclaimed.
"I've seen Hitomi run faster than that, but that was an emergency." Merle commented.
Hitomi laughed. "That's because Van's life was in danger." She gasped and brought out her water bottle.
"Can we go see how Akane and Minako are doing at their tryouts?" Usagi asked after draining her Gatorade.
"I suppose. We aren't trying out for long distance running." Hitomi shrugged.
"All right!" Usagi leaped in the air. The group started for the gym.
As they passed the football field Usagi stopped walking and looked for Gohan, Trunks and Ranma. Trunks turned around to see Usagi and her friends. He waved and poked Gohan and Ranma. The two boys also waved.
"Is Ranma try out for sport?" Shampoo asked observing Ranma.
"Yep. They guys decided to do that after seventh period." Usagi informed her friends. "That reminds me, HELP!" She shrieked latching onto Hitomi.
"What's wrong Usagi?" Hitomi asked.
"My seventh hour! I'm the only girl! It's all boys! Plus, they were hitting on me all class period! Even after class, the football captain tried to flirt with me! And, I can't change oil! And I can't even pump gas!" She wailed.
"Did Ranma flirt?" Shampoo asked narrowing her eyes.
"No, he was to busy running away from Ryoga." Usagi sniffed.
Rei patted Usagi's head and then turned around and looked at the basketball court. Fall tryouts were taking place for the guy's teams. She watched as a familiar looking boy with a long braid slam-dunked the ball. She gasped and pulled on one of Usagi's pigtails. "Look! Duo is trying out for basketball! And so is Heero!" Rei pointed the two boys out.
"Whoa, did you see Heero's shot? It didn't even touch the rim." Usagi gasped.
They watched the boys play a little while until Hotaru pulled on Usagi's other pigtail. "Can we go yet?" She asked.
"Ow! Yeah, we can go, but there is other ways to get my attention besides pulling on my hair." Usagi complained as they started for the gym to watch the cheerleading tryouts.
"Maybe Akane break neck." Shampoo cried excitedly hauling Usagi in the direction of the gym.
"There's a plus." Usagi rolled her eyes as she was dragged along.
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At Capsule Corp. Later that night…
Trunks and Gohan walked into the kitchen at Trunks' house. They headed straight for the refrigerator and started pulling out food to eat. Neither of them had eaten enough at lunch. Bulma walked in to see her son and Goku's son stuffing their faces.
Bulma sighed. "Don't they feed you at school?" She asked starting to clean up the mess they were making.
Trunks swallowed the bite he was eating. "Have you ever seen a school lunch mother?" He asked making a face of disgust. Bulma sighed again and walked out of the room. Trunks looked at his best friend. "So," he began, "do you have a lot of classes with Usagi?" Trunks asked casually.
Gohan swallowed. "Yeah. We have every single class together." He told him sipping his water.
"Oh. Do you know if she has a boyfriend?" He asked avoiding eye contact.
Gohan nearly choked on his chicken. "Why? Do you like Usagi?" He sputtered. Trunks reddened. "Well, yeah. She's really cute."
"Mirai! I can't believe you like her!" Gohan laughed.
"Who does Mirai like?" Chibi Trunks asked walking into the kitchen to bug his future self.
"No one." Trunks cut in.
Gohan raised an eyebrow. "I have to go, you know how my mom gets. I'll see you tomorrow Trunks. Bye squirt." Gohan called rubbing chibi Trunks head.
Mirai Trunks sighed and put his head down on the table. "So, who do you like?" Chibi Trunks asked smiling wickedly.
"Trunks likes somebody?" Bulma asked walking back into the kitchen with Vegeta right behind her.
"It better not be one of these Earthlings." Vegeta scorned.
Trunks groaned and muttered something about killing Gohan.
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At Quatre's Tokyo Mansion…
"Whoya! That was one LONG day!" Duo exclaimed falling into a big, fluffy, and comfy couch.
"You can say that again." Quatre exclaimed sitting in an armchair across from him.
"And that Language Arts teacher is brutal!" Duo complained.
"At least you don't have a baka onna class." Wufei grumbled crossing his arms over his chest.
"Ha, ha Wu-man!" Duo cried gleefully, which earned him a pillow in the face from across the room.
Trowa and Heero were sitting silently, as usual.
"So, anyone meet any cute girls today?" Duo asked casually glancing at Heero.
"What Duo?" Heero asked in a monotone voice. He hated it when Duo looked at him with a maniacal grin on his face.
"I saw the way you were looking at Usagi and Rei." He accused. He then turned to Quatre. "You too buddy, in fact, ALL of you were looking at her in seventh period… well, not Quatre, he had orchestra. But in all of our other classes." Duo grinned at his buddies. He then received four well-aimed pillows in the face.
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In a near-by apartment…
Jim eyed his older friend casually. "So, Gene how was your first day of school?" He asked sipping his ramune.
Gene shrugged. "It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be." He answered looking over at Jim. "Why?"
"I told you it wasn't going to be so bad." He exclaimed.
Gene shrugged. "Make any new friends?" He asked.
"Lots. Hotaru and Merle and I have a LOT of classes together. And Usagi is really nice-"
Gene interrupted him. "Usagi? The blonde in our Auto class? She's a looker!" He whistled.
Jim rolled his eyes. "Gene! Stop thinking with your package! Besides, she wouldn't go for a guy like you." He sneered.
"Wouldn't go for me? I've got a girl like Melfina, I could certainly get a girl like Usagi!" Gene glared.
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At the Anything-goes Tendo Dojo…
"Well Ranma my boy, how was school?" Genma asked. For once, he wasn't in his panda form.
Ranma shrugged. "I didn't get hit by cold water all day, and I tried out for football. The coach said I was pretty good."
"Football? You're going to become a brain-dead jock? Oh wait, you already ARE brain-dead." Akane sniggered. Ranma growled.
"No talk about Husband like that." Shampoo glared as she appeared in the room.
Kasumi looked up and smiled. "Oh, are you staying for dinner Shampoo?" She asked.
"Shampoo? How did you get in here?" Akane cried as the Chinese Amazon glared at her.
"None of your business." She stomped.
Ranma sighed and sat back, watching the fireworks, also know as Shampoo and Akane existing in the same room.
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The Next morning…
Usagi, Rei, Ami, Makoto, and Minako walked into school. Rei had thankfully driven them so they weren't frazzled. Usagi turned to her friends. "I'll meet you guys up there, I'll be back." She waved as she started for the gym. She was so nervous that she was twisting her hair in knots.
Usagi peeked around the corner looking at the Sports Board where the track scores were. She took a deep breath and walked around the corner towards the list. She skimmed over the board till she came across the big bold letters 'Track Scores'. She skimmed down till she saw Hitomi Kanzaki- 15.9 seconds- Varsity. She smiled for her friend and kept scrolling down till she saw Usagi Tsukino. She closed her eyes and opened them again. Usagi Tsukino- 16.3 seconds- Varsity.
"YES!" She screamed jumping up and down. A few people around her gave her weird looks. Usagi did a cartwheel in the hall and ran for the stairs. She ran up the ten flights of stairs effortlessly. She then ran down the hall till she came to her homeroom class. She burst into the room. Most of the class was the already there.
"Hitomi! Hitomi!" She bounced.
Hitomi started laughing. "Did you see the posts?" She asked standing up.
Usagi leaped on Hitomi. "I MADE VARSITY!" She squealed at the top of her lungs. Hitomi giggled as Usagi did a little dance around the classroom. "We both made Varsity Track." She sang. She hugged Minako as well. "Your cousin made Varsity Track!" She squealed.
"EEEEE!" Minako squealed just as excited. "Akane and I made Varsity Cheerleading." Minako told her.
Usagi's smiled got wider, if that was possible. "Congrats!" She squeezed her cousin again.
The five Gundam boys were walking towards their classroom. They had a long night with a tough mission last night and were dead tired and cranky. Plus, none of them were happy with Duo and his comments last night about Usagi. Quatre opened the door and was the first in the room. Usagi leaped upon him in her excitement.
"Quatre! You'll never guess what!" She cried. Quatre gave a tired smile.
"Hey, get out of the way you weak onna." Wufei said grumpily at Usagi.
Haruka was behind her princess in a second. "Did you just call Koneko-chan a weak woman?" She demanded narrowing her eyes at Wufei. "Yeah, you got a problem with that onna?" Wufei returned the glare. Usagi and Quatre wisely backed out of the way.
"Yes I have a problem with that." Haruka growled. Her fist tightened and she brought it around for a punch. She hit Wufei across the eye. He flew back into Heero and Duo. Duo gave out a short laugh until Heero pointed his gun at him. Haruka smirked and walked back to her seat behind Michiru. Usagi also walked back to her seat to talk to Akane, figuring Quatre needed to help his friend.
"Hi Akane, did you make Cheerleading?" Usagi asked plopping down in her chair.
Akane nodded. "I did! I was the one that told Minako." She giggled.
Usagi hugged her friend. "Congrats to you too!"
"Good job on making varsity Track." Akane hugged back.
oOo
Gohan walked up the stairs next to Trunks. Trunks hadn't talked to him the whole morning. Gohan smiled as he thought up a way to get Trunks to talk. "So, Trunks, you know I have all my classes with Usagi, including lunch. I could talk to her for you; tell her that you want to make out with her in the back of-" Gohan was interrupted by Trunks' fist meeting his cheek.
Gohan laughed as he flew up the rest of the stairs with Trunks on his tail. "Don't you dare say a damn thing Son!" Trunks cried.
"I wont! Just relax!" Gohan called behind him laughing. They burst into homeroom to see Wufei nursing a swelling eye and Haruka smiling triumphantly with Michiru shaking her head disapprovingly. Gohan and Trunks looked at each other and shrugged before going to their seats.
The bell rang and the class perked to attention as Miss Setsuna walked into the room gracefully. "Good morning class! I hope you all had a wonderful first day of school." She smiled. "My first order of business is to tell you Thursday is Parents Night."
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Parents night? Vegeta, Genma, crazy Mr. Tsukino? Goku? Soun Tendo? Clonge? Oh my! Is all that can be said for the next chapter!
Well, Ja mata until then! And REVIEW of else! LizBethy will go crazy and STOP posting!
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EDIT: 5 May 2006