Ossu Minna! Now that school is back in, my chapters are going to get shorter and take longer to get out
(like this one). Sorry, but high school is finally getting challenging. (freshman year was so easy!) ENJOY!
Disclaimer: You know the drill, me no own any animes or mangas!
Chapter Five
Usagi closed her locker and sighed. Monday morning. Another Monday morning meant there was still
five days of school until the weekend.
"Morning Usa!" Minako greeted slapping Usagi on the back.
"GAAAH!" Usagi jumped in the air and spun around. "Minako! Don't do that! Especially on a MONDAY
morning! Plus, I'm still trying to recover from Friday night and my dad." Usagi screeched.
"Gomen Usa, but, did you know we only have TWENTY days until the homecoming dance! That means
we have to get a dress, matching shoes, make-up AND a man!" Minako said excitedly as they started up
the ten flights of stairs.
Usagi giggled. "Are you going to run for junior princess?"
"Of course! Just like you're running for sophomore duchess." Minako said confidently.
"What? I am?" Usagi asked alarmed.
"Of course!"
"But, but, I have NO coordination what's so ever! Remember what Mamoru used to call me?
Odango atama?" Usagi reminded frantically tugging on Minako's sleeve.
"Relax, I'll teach you edicate." Minako patted Usagi reassuringly.
"I FAILED edicate school! Remember?" Usagi groaned.
"The teacher was a youma!" Minako argued. "Besides, I already had you nominated."
"I thought the nominations were decided today." Usagi said slowly.
"I have my ways." Minako winked.
"Minako, you didn't rig the nominations, did you?" Usagi cried.
"Me?" Minako acted innocent.
"Oh no." Usagi moaned.
"I just made sure we had healthy competition." Minako justified.
"Oh no." Usagi moaned again.
"Relax." Minako laughed as they walked into the classroom.
Usagi moaned all the way to her seat and sat between Akane's seat and Quatre. Quatre looked up
from his book and glanced at Usagi. "Are you all right?" Quatre asked setting down his book.
"No, thanks to Minako." Usagi replied glaring at Minako. Minako giggled and smiled.
"What did she do?" Quatre asked.
"You don't want to know." Usagi warned.
Hotaru turned around to face Usagi. She sat right in front of her princess. "What did she do
this time?"
"Let's just say something even stupider than her two dates with Hawks Eye and Tigers Eye."
Usagi moaned.
Hotaru raised an eyebrow. "Is that possible?"
"Very."
BRRRRRRRING!
As the bell rang, Gene, Jim, Ranma, Ryoga and Akane ran in. Setsuna raised an eyebrow. "You
five are cutting it close." She warned.
"Gomen nasai Meioh-sensei." They cried before running to their seats.
"Your lucky, if we had my old teacher, you would have detention." Usagi told Akane as she sat
next to Usagi.
"Good morning class!" Setsuna began standing up from her seat. "Today-" Setsuna was interrupted
as the principle came on to the intercom.
"Good morning Ken High School! Today is the day we announce the nominations for each year
for homecoming royalty. We'll begin with the freshman. Nominees for Freshman Lord are
Hawking Jim~"
"WHAT?" Jim cried jolting up from his seat. "ME?!" he cried.
"All right Jim!" Gene called from the back of the room.
"-Dawson. Those are the freshman Lord nominees. For the Lady the nominees are Jackie Rhodes,
Hotaru Tomoe~"
"All right Hotaru!" Usagi cried hugging her young friend.
"Me?" She squeaked.
"Thank Minako." Usagi whispered into her ear. Hotaru's eyes widened in acknowledgement in what
Minako had done.
"-those are the nominations for the freshman royalty. The sophomore nominees for duke are Son
Gohan, Winner Quatre and Maxwell Duo."
Quatre sat there blinking while Duo jumped up and danced on his desk. Trunks tackled his friend
in congratulations. Usagi narrowed her eyes in suspicion at Minako. She shrugged mischievously
and grinned.
"The Duchess nominations are Shampoo of Chinese Amazons, Tendo Akane and Tsukino Usagi."
"Congratulations Usagi." Akane smiled.
"You too Akane."
"Ha, Shampoo show you two how to win." Shampoo triumphed.
"Don't be so sure Shampoo." Akane narrowed her eyes.
"Nominees for the Junior Prince are Fanel Van, Saotome Ranma and Yuy Heero."
"ALL RIGHT HEERO!" Duo cried laughing.
Van looked blankly at Hitomi.
Shampoo hugged Ranma. "Shampoo know you win."
"For Junior Princess the nominees are Amino Minako, Kino Makoto and Hino Rei."
Rei's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. "ME?" She squeaked.
"Oh! I'm so happy!" Minako pretended to be surprised. Usagi rolled her eyes.
Makoto was truly shocked and sat with her mouth open.
"-And the Senior King nominees are Briefs Trunks, Starwind Gene and~"
"Looks like I'm not the only one." Gohan laughed as Trunks looked stunned.
"~The nominees for Homecoming Queen are Spjuth Cora, Spellman Sabrina, and Kaioh Michiru."
Michiru narrowed her eyes at Minako. Minako giggled and flashed Michiru a smile.
"Well this is going to be interesting!" Usagi commented.
~~~@~~~
Seventh Period…
"Okay, I think I've got it… To check the oil, I pull this stick thingy out, wipe the oil off, stick it back in,
pull it out and then that'll tell me the level of the oil and whether it's clean or not." Usagi cried
gleefully.
"That's it!" Trunks exclaimed.
"Yes!" Usagi cried hugging Trunks. "I can check the oil!"
Gohan looked up from under Mr. Weizer's car. The Auto class was in the parking lot working on
Mr. Weizer's car and Lee's car. Lee was the captain of the Basketball team.
"Don't be jealous, Usagi likes Trunks as a friend."
Gohan turned startled to Van. "W-what do you mean?"
Van raised an eyebrow. "C'mon Gohan, I saw the way you just looked at Usagi, you like her!"
"We're just friends, buddies, amigos, acquaintances." Gohan tried to reassure Van in a weak voice.
Van gave Gohan the 'yeah, right' look.
"You keep telling yourself that." Van shrugged. "Oh, Gohan, do you know what this homecoming
thing is?"
Gohan laughed. "It's simple, you look good and everyone votes who they thing is basically the best
looking and then you're a 'prince' for the night. For the girls, it's much more serious, we are going to
witness a LOT of cat fights." Gohan informed Van.
"Cat fights?" Van asked confused.
"That's what we call girl fights."
"Oh."
"You're not from around here, are you?"
"No, I'm from… well, far away. So how about this homecoming game?" Van quickly changed the
subject.
"We're playing the Katana High Assassins. They're tough." Gohan told him.
"There's no way their going to beat us, the Ken High Senshi!" Lee popped over to Gohan and Van.
"YEAH!" He cried arousing the whole class, except Heero, Trowa and Wufei to chant 'GO
SENSHI'.
Up to the Home Cooking room…
"AINO MINAKO! I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" Rei screeched lunging at Minako.
"EEEEEEK! Calm down Rei!" Minako squeaked ducking behind Haruka.
"Calm down? CALM DOWN? BECAUSE OF YOU I HAVE TO TAKE PART IN THIS SILLY
HOMECOMING PRINCESS THING!" Rei screamed. Makoto grabbed Rei before she could turn
Minako into a fireball.
"Relax Rei, it'll be fun." Makoto tried to calm the fire Senshi down. "Imagine on the attention you'll
get from the guys."
"What if I don't WANT that attention?" Rei roared.
"Yeah, do you think I want all the guys to be staring at MY Michiru?" Haruka narrowed her eyes
at Minako.
Minako backed slowly away from her fellow Senshi. "Just settle down guys." She held her hands up
in defense.
Let's go back to the auto class, shall we?
"Hey guys, we should go out tonight." Usagi suggested as she, Van, Trunks, Gohan, Ranma and Duo
walked back to the classroom.
Duo slung his arm around Usagi's shoulders. "You wanna date me?" He asked winking.
Usagi giggled and pushed his arm off. "All of us, along with some of the girls, after practice today.
We could grab a burger or something." Usagi suggested.
"Sounds good to me, as long as it's not raining." Ranma agreed.
"Good, how about it Gohan? Trunks? Van?" Usagi looked hopeful.
"I'm sure Hitomi would drag me anyways, so sure." He smiled fondly at the thought of Hitomi.
"Sure, Gohan and I have nothing better to do." Trunks agreed.
"I'll even drag Heero and the gang along, if I can." Duo grinned at Usagi.
"Perfect!" Usagi giggled.
"Mind if we tag along?" Gene asked coming up along side Usagi.
"Of course! The more the merrier!" Usagi laughed as they reached room 713.
~~~@~~~
After practice…
"So, Hitomi, is Van going to take you to Homecoming?" Usagi asked mischievously as they walked
out side to meet everyone.
Hitomi flushed pink. "No, what gave you that idea?"
"Well, you like him, he likes you…" Usagi trailed off.
Hitomi turned scarlet. "How, how did you know?" She stuttered.
Usagi grinned. "I know these things. Maybe I'll talk to him tomorrow in Auto and convince him to
ask you out." Usagi giggled.
"USAGI!" Hitomi shrieked blushing furiously.
"I'm glad to see I'm not the only one being yelled at." Minako grumbled. She was sitting on a bench
in front of the school waiting for everyone. Akane and Shampoo were with her.
"I heard Rei and Haruka didn't take it well." Usagi giggled plopping down next to her. "Where's is
Rei?" Usagi asked glancing around.
"She has to work at the temple, Ami is at Chess Club, Haruka had to prepare for a race, Michiru is
giving Quatre violin lessons, Trowa went along for the heck of it, and Hotaru is at the arcade with
Merle and Jim. She's showing them the new Sailor Moon game. Everybody else should be here in a few
moments."
Minako told everyone. "Do you keep tabs on everyone?" Akane asked in surprise.
"Yes." Minako giggled.
"Yo everyone! Who is hungry?" Duo asked walking towards them followed by Wufei and Heero.
They were coming from basketball practice. Wufei had watched them practice.
"I sure am!" Gohan cried as he, Trunks, Ranma, and Gene emerged from the school.
"Where's Ryoga?" Usagi asked.
"He probably got lost." Ranma supplied. "He usually does."
"Ryoga eternally lost boy." Shampoo nodded.
"Oh…" Usagi commented at the odd silence. "Are we ready?"
"Food!" Duo cried hauling Usagi and Minako off the bench and dragging them down the sidewalk
towards the nearest restaurant. The rest of the group followed.
~~~@~~~
The group sat around a huge table at the local tavern. It served every kind of food imaginable.
Gohan and Trunks had one of every thing off the menu. Duo had a huge steak with potatoes, Usagi
had two hamburgers, Van had a rare steak, Ranma had a bowl of ramen, same as Shampoo, Akane
was eating curry, Minako had a soft taco, Hitomi had a hamburger, Heero had sesame chicken,
Gene was eating shrimp, and Wufei was eating guacamole and chips. Ryoga had stumbled into
the restaurant and ordered fish. They joked and laughed and talked about everything in general.
The had one interesting conversation on why girls where skirts and guys do not. Usagi and Akane
giggled for ten minutes straight at the thought of Gene in a cheerleading outfit. Gene was glad Jim
wasn't there to tell them about the time he pretended to be a girl at theUnivere's Strongest Woman
Contest.
Akane glanced up at the restaurant clock before jumping up. "OH NO! We have to go! Ranma
and I promised Kasumi we'd help her make dinner tonight!" Akane waved to her friends as she
dragged Ranma out of his chair.
"I'm not one to miss Kasumi's cooking!" Ryoga cried running after them. Shampoo shrugged
and followed.
Hitomi glanced up at the clock. "We better go too, we have to pick up Merle." Hitomi rose from
her seat and waved to her friends. Van handed Trunks some money telling him it was for their
part of the bill before following Hitomi out.
Usagi leaned back in her chair content. "Do you think Van and Hitomi make a cute couple?"
She smiled.
"Yeah! We should~" Usagi interrupted Minako.
"NO!" Usagi cried clamping a hand over her mouth. "I've had enough of your schemes for one
day!" She cried.
Everyone else at the table just stared at them blankly. Minako giggled and pushed Usagi's hand
away giving her a slight glare. "Fine, I wont do anything." She promised.
"Good." Usagi nodded.
~~~@~~~
Twenty minutes later found the eight friends, Usagi, Minako, Gohan, Trunks, Gene, Wufei, and
Duo dragging Heero along, walking to an ice cream shop at Usagi and Minako's pleas. Usagi
turned to tell something to Gohan and ended up tripping on a rise in the sidewalk. She smashed
into someone walking past her. They both ended up on the floor.
"Old habits die hard." Minako giggled.
"I'm very sorry!" Usagi apologized and looked down to see whom the unlucky victim of her klutz
attack was.
"…Whatever." Came the reply. Usagi scrambled off of a VERY cute guy. He had messy brown
hair and ice blue eyes. In an odd way he reminded her of Heero. He wore leather pants and a
bomber jacket. He wore three belts around his waist and three around his right leg. He stood up
and brushed himself off.
"Squall always gets woman to fall all over him." A man behind 'Squall' spoke up. That's when Usagi
noticed six people were standing behind Squall. Squall glared at the man who had tease him. He
was much taller than Squall and had blonde hair slicked back. He wore a gray trench coat and had
a smirk on his face. A girl with brown hair that flipped out and green eyes wearing a rather skimpy
yellow dress hopped toward Squall.
"You all right Squall?" She asked clinging to his elbow.
"…Fine." He gestured.
"Looks like we have some Ken High Flunkies." Another man spoke up with a grin noticing their
uniforms. He had brown hair with a bandana similar to Ryoga's, and blue eyes. He was wearing
an orange shirt and jeans.
"Hey, who ya calling a Flunky? You look dumber than this girl." Gene glared at the man and
gestured to the girl in the yellow.
"Hey! I am not dumb!" She flared at Gene.
"Calm down Selphie." A beautiful girl with long blonde hair and sapphire blue eyes spoke up. She
wore a pink skirt and shirt. She placed a slim hand on Selphie's shoulder to calm her.
"Careful what you say Red." Another spoke up narrowing his eyes. He had long brown hair and blue
eyes. He wore jeans and a dark green shirt.
"It's Gene." Gene returned the glare.
"Come on Gene, we're just passing through." Gohan restrained Gene from pummeling anyone, or
from pulling out his gun and using a castor shell.
"Looks like the Ken Senshi are still a pack of chicken wusses." Teased another man with messy
orange-red hair and brown eyes. He was a little taller than Squall.
"Careful Tasuki, they might peck ya!" The last man spoke up. He had greenish blue hair and his eyes
were a cross between gray and purple. He was the exact height as Tasuki.
"They must be the Katana Assassins." Duo gestured to the group in front of us.
"Give the boy a prize." The blonde man spoke up again sarcastically.
"Rivals or not, it's polite to move out of peoples way!" Minako exclaimed sticking her nose up in the air.
"Owww! I'm wounded now! Help me Seifer!" Tasuki pretended to be hurt and leaned against the
tall blonde man.
"We're gonna SMASH you guys at your homecoming game!" The man with the bandana spoke
up grinning widely.
"I don't think so." Trunks glared taking a step forward.
"Oh? And who are you?" Seifer asked.
"I'm Trunks, the quarterback of the Senshi football team. That's who." Trunks' glare turned to
Seifer and a look of challenge flew across his face.
"Oh? Squall, why don't you show this BOY how a REAL quarterback acts?" Seifer grinned evilly
tossing an arm around the shorter man's shoulders. Squall shrugged of Seifer's arm and said nothing.
"Is your pretty boy a mute?" Wufei asked crossing his arms. He was still mad about his woman
class and this looked like an occasion to vent his rage.
Squall shot Wufei an icy glare. "…No, we have to get going, I'm not missing another dinner with
my father." Squall told Seifer. Squall was the obvious leader of the pack because after he spoke,
the rest of the guys quieted down and nodded in agreement.
"See you pussies soon." Seifer sneered as they walked off. Gohan grabbed Trunks by the shoulders
before he could pound Seifer into the ground.
Usagi glared at the leaving group. "That just ruined my appetite for ice cream." She scowled.
"What about you Minako?" Usagi glanced over at her friend. Minako had a dreamy expression
on her face. "Minako?" Usagi poked her in the arm.
"Wha?" She asked shaking herself from the daze. "Squall… what a babe!" She sighed dreamily.
"I hate to break it to you, but if he's Squall Leonheart, son of Laguna Loire, he's taken by that Selphie
girl." Duo patted Minako on the shoulder.
"Laguna Loire as in President Laguna Loire?" Usagi squeaked. Duo nodded.
"How'd you know?" Gene asked raising an eyebrow.
"Heero is an expert computer hacker. He hacked into the Katana High's mainframe." Duo winked.
Heero shrugged like it was no big deal.
Usagi shook her head in amazement. "He's out of your range Minako, he's even got a girlfriend."
Mina sighed wistfully before smiling brightly. "Well, how about that ice cream?" She cried
gleefully. The group slowly trudged onto the ice cream place.
~~~@~~~
"RAMNA! STOP INSULTING MY COOKING!" Akane screeched chasing Ranma with a mallet.
"I only said Shampoo made good food!" He cried ducking another swing.
"You hear that Ryoga? Airen love Shampoo's cooking!" Shampoo smiled and blushed. "Ryoga?"
Shampoo turned around where Ryoga had been not to long ago. "He lost again?" She shook her
head in amazement.
"I'm not Ryoga but I'll be glad to fill his shoes." A voice drawled behind her. Shampoo whirled
around to see three guys leaning against the bookstore wall. The one that spoke was very tall
and dressed like a cowboy. A hat and a duster completed the outfit. The other two were shorter
than the first one. One had Dark blue hair and the other had blonde hair that covered
one eye.
Shampoo's face turned red. "Shampoo love Ranma!" She grabbed a book of the stand, the
Japanese Dictionary, and slammed it over his head. The man stepped out of the way and only
caught the wind of the book flying by.
He grinned and winked at her. "Looks like we found a frisky one Sage, Rowen." He called to
his buddies.
"Hey, no one talks to Shampoo like that!" Ranma stepped in front of Shampoo and glared at
the man.
"Watch out Irvine, the girly boy looks a little mad." Rowen joked to his tall companion.
Ranma's face started to boil. "I AM A GUY!" He screamed before leaping on Irvine. Irvine twisted
out of the way and started to run down the street closely followed by his friends. Ranma was hot
on their heels.
"Ranma so romantic." Shampoo sighed to Akane. She had stopped chasing Ranma and stood next
to Shampoo.
"If my suspicions are correct, that was Irvine, Rowen and Sage of Katana High School, they're on
the varsity football team." Akane pointed to the guys growing smaller in the distance.
"How you tell?" Shampoo asked.
"Their uniforms." Akane smiled. "C'mon Shampoo, let's go eat, Kasumi made lasagna for dinner,
she's on an Italian streak." Akane motioned
for Shampoo to follow her and the pair made their way back to the Tendo Dojo.
~~~@~~~
To be continued...
Now we've met the rivals! Homecoming just wouldn't be the same with out them! ja for now!
~LizBethy~
REVIEW PLEASE! OR NO MORE CHAPTERS!!
(like this one). Sorry, but high school is finally getting challenging. (freshman year was so easy!) ENJOY!
Disclaimer: You know the drill, me no own any animes or mangas!
Chapter Five
Usagi closed her locker and sighed. Monday morning. Another Monday morning meant there was still
five days of school until the weekend.
"Morning Usa!" Minako greeted slapping Usagi on the back.
"GAAAH!" Usagi jumped in the air and spun around. "Minako! Don't do that! Especially on a MONDAY
morning! Plus, I'm still trying to recover from Friday night and my dad." Usagi screeched.
"Gomen Usa, but, did you know we only have TWENTY days until the homecoming dance! That means
we have to get a dress, matching shoes, make-up AND a man!" Minako said excitedly as they started up
the ten flights of stairs.
Usagi giggled. "Are you going to run for junior princess?"
"Of course! Just like you're running for sophomore duchess." Minako said confidently.
"What? I am?" Usagi asked alarmed.
"Of course!"
"But, but, I have NO coordination what's so ever! Remember what Mamoru used to call me?
Odango atama?" Usagi reminded frantically tugging on Minako's sleeve.
"Relax, I'll teach you edicate." Minako patted Usagi reassuringly.
"I FAILED edicate school! Remember?" Usagi groaned.
"The teacher was a youma!" Minako argued. "Besides, I already had you nominated."
"I thought the nominations were decided today." Usagi said slowly.
"I have my ways." Minako winked.
"Minako, you didn't rig the nominations, did you?" Usagi cried.
"Me?" Minako acted innocent.
"Oh no." Usagi moaned.
"I just made sure we had healthy competition." Minako justified.
"Oh no." Usagi moaned again.
"Relax." Minako laughed as they walked into the classroom.
Usagi moaned all the way to her seat and sat between Akane's seat and Quatre. Quatre looked up
from his book and glanced at Usagi. "Are you all right?" Quatre asked setting down his book.
"No, thanks to Minako." Usagi replied glaring at Minako. Minako giggled and smiled.
"What did she do?" Quatre asked.
"You don't want to know." Usagi warned.
Hotaru turned around to face Usagi. She sat right in front of her princess. "What did she do
this time?"
"Let's just say something even stupider than her two dates with Hawks Eye and Tigers Eye."
Usagi moaned.
Hotaru raised an eyebrow. "Is that possible?"
"Very."
BRRRRRRRING!
As the bell rang, Gene, Jim, Ranma, Ryoga and Akane ran in. Setsuna raised an eyebrow. "You
five are cutting it close." She warned.
"Gomen nasai Meioh-sensei." They cried before running to their seats.
"Your lucky, if we had my old teacher, you would have detention." Usagi told Akane as she sat
next to Usagi.
"Good morning class!" Setsuna began standing up from her seat. "Today-" Setsuna was interrupted
as the principle came on to the intercom.
"Good morning Ken High School! Today is the day we announce the nominations for each year
for homecoming royalty. We'll begin with the freshman. Nominees for Freshman Lord are
Hawking Jim~"
"WHAT?" Jim cried jolting up from his seat. "ME?!" he cried.
"All right Jim!" Gene called from the back of the room.
"-Dawson. Those are the freshman Lord nominees. For the Lady the nominees are Jackie Rhodes,
Hotaru Tomoe~"
"All right Hotaru!" Usagi cried hugging her young friend.
"Me?" She squeaked.
"Thank Minako." Usagi whispered into her ear. Hotaru's eyes widened in acknowledgement in what
Minako had done.
"-those are the nominations for the freshman royalty. The sophomore nominees for duke are Son
Gohan, Winner Quatre and Maxwell Duo."
Quatre sat there blinking while Duo jumped up and danced on his desk. Trunks tackled his friend
in congratulations. Usagi narrowed her eyes in suspicion at Minako. She shrugged mischievously
and grinned.
"The Duchess nominations are Shampoo of Chinese Amazons, Tendo Akane and Tsukino Usagi."
"Congratulations Usagi." Akane smiled.
"You too Akane."
"Ha, Shampoo show you two how to win." Shampoo triumphed.
"Don't be so sure Shampoo." Akane narrowed her eyes.
"Nominees for the Junior Prince are Fanel Van, Saotome Ranma and Yuy Heero."
"ALL RIGHT HEERO!" Duo cried laughing.
Van looked blankly at Hitomi.
Shampoo hugged Ranma. "Shampoo know you win."
"For Junior Princess the nominees are Amino Minako, Kino Makoto and Hino Rei."
Rei's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. "ME?" She squeaked.
"Oh! I'm so happy!" Minako pretended to be surprised. Usagi rolled her eyes.
Makoto was truly shocked and sat with her mouth open.
"-And the Senior King nominees are Briefs Trunks, Starwind Gene and~"
"Looks like I'm not the only one." Gohan laughed as Trunks looked stunned.
"~The nominees for Homecoming Queen are Spjuth Cora, Spellman Sabrina, and Kaioh Michiru."
Michiru narrowed her eyes at Minako. Minako giggled and flashed Michiru a smile.
"Well this is going to be interesting!" Usagi commented.
~~~@~~~
Seventh Period…
"Okay, I think I've got it… To check the oil, I pull this stick thingy out, wipe the oil off, stick it back in,
pull it out and then that'll tell me the level of the oil and whether it's clean or not." Usagi cried
gleefully.
"That's it!" Trunks exclaimed.
"Yes!" Usagi cried hugging Trunks. "I can check the oil!"
Gohan looked up from under Mr. Weizer's car. The Auto class was in the parking lot working on
Mr. Weizer's car and Lee's car. Lee was the captain of the Basketball team.
"Don't be jealous, Usagi likes Trunks as a friend."
Gohan turned startled to Van. "W-what do you mean?"
Van raised an eyebrow. "C'mon Gohan, I saw the way you just looked at Usagi, you like her!"
"We're just friends, buddies, amigos, acquaintances." Gohan tried to reassure Van in a weak voice.
Van gave Gohan the 'yeah, right' look.
"You keep telling yourself that." Van shrugged. "Oh, Gohan, do you know what this homecoming
thing is?"
Gohan laughed. "It's simple, you look good and everyone votes who they thing is basically the best
looking and then you're a 'prince' for the night. For the girls, it's much more serious, we are going to
witness a LOT of cat fights." Gohan informed Van.
"Cat fights?" Van asked confused.
"That's what we call girl fights."
"Oh."
"You're not from around here, are you?"
"No, I'm from… well, far away. So how about this homecoming game?" Van quickly changed the
subject.
"We're playing the Katana High Assassins. They're tough." Gohan told him.
"There's no way their going to beat us, the Ken High Senshi!" Lee popped over to Gohan and Van.
"YEAH!" He cried arousing the whole class, except Heero, Trowa and Wufei to chant 'GO
SENSHI'.
Up to the Home Cooking room…
"AINO MINAKO! I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" Rei screeched lunging at Minako.
"EEEEEEK! Calm down Rei!" Minako squeaked ducking behind Haruka.
"Calm down? CALM DOWN? BECAUSE OF YOU I HAVE TO TAKE PART IN THIS SILLY
HOMECOMING PRINCESS THING!" Rei screamed. Makoto grabbed Rei before she could turn
Minako into a fireball.
"Relax Rei, it'll be fun." Makoto tried to calm the fire Senshi down. "Imagine on the attention you'll
get from the guys."
"What if I don't WANT that attention?" Rei roared.
"Yeah, do you think I want all the guys to be staring at MY Michiru?" Haruka narrowed her eyes
at Minako.
Minako backed slowly away from her fellow Senshi. "Just settle down guys." She held her hands up
in defense.
Let's go back to the auto class, shall we?
"Hey guys, we should go out tonight." Usagi suggested as she, Van, Trunks, Gohan, Ranma and Duo
walked back to the classroom.
Duo slung his arm around Usagi's shoulders. "You wanna date me?" He asked winking.
Usagi giggled and pushed his arm off. "All of us, along with some of the girls, after practice today.
We could grab a burger or something." Usagi suggested.
"Sounds good to me, as long as it's not raining." Ranma agreed.
"Good, how about it Gohan? Trunks? Van?" Usagi looked hopeful.
"I'm sure Hitomi would drag me anyways, so sure." He smiled fondly at the thought of Hitomi.
"Sure, Gohan and I have nothing better to do." Trunks agreed.
"I'll even drag Heero and the gang along, if I can." Duo grinned at Usagi.
"Perfect!" Usagi giggled.
"Mind if we tag along?" Gene asked coming up along side Usagi.
"Of course! The more the merrier!" Usagi laughed as they reached room 713.
~~~@~~~
After practice…
"So, Hitomi, is Van going to take you to Homecoming?" Usagi asked mischievously as they walked
out side to meet everyone.
Hitomi flushed pink. "No, what gave you that idea?"
"Well, you like him, he likes you…" Usagi trailed off.
Hitomi turned scarlet. "How, how did you know?" She stuttered.
Usagi grinned. "I know these things. Maybe I'll talk to him tomorrow in Auto and convince him to
ask you out." Usagi giggled.
"USAGI!" Hitomi shrieked blushing furiously.
"I'm glad to see I'm not the only one being yelled at." Minako grumbled. She was sitting on a bench
in front of the school waiting for everyone. Akane and Shampoo were with her.
"I heard Rei and Haruka didn't take it well." Usagi giggled plopping down next to her. "Where's is
Rei?" Usagi asked glancing around.
"She has to work at the temple, Ami is at Chess Club, Haruka had to prepare for a race, Michiru is
giving Quatre violin lessons, Trowa went along for the heck of it, and Hotaru is at the arcade with
Merle and Jim. She's showing them the new Sailor Moon game. Everybody else should be here in a few
moments."
Minako told everyone. "Do you keep tabs on everyone?" Akane asked in surprise.
"Yes." Minako giggled.
"Yo everyone! Who is hungry?" Duo asked walking towards them followed by Wufei and Heero.
They were coming from basketball practice. Wufei had watched them practice.
"I sure am!" Gohan cried as he, Trunks, Ranma, and Gene emerged from the school.
"Where's Ryoga?" Usagi asked.
"He probably got lost." Ranma supplied. "He usually does."
"Ryoga eternally lost boy." Shampoo nodded.
"Oh…" Usagi commented at the odd silence. "Are we ready?"
"Food!" Duo cried hauling Usagi and Minako off the bench and dragging them down the sidewalk
towards the nearest restaurant. The rest of the group followed.
~~~@~~~
The group sat around a huge table at the local tavern. It served every kind of food imaginable.
Gohan and Trunks had one of every thing off the menu. Duo had a huge steak with potatoes, Usagi
had two hamburgers, Van had a rare steak, Ranma had a bowl of ramen, same as Shampoo, Akane
was eating curry, Minako had a soft taco, Hitomi had a hamburger, Heero had sesame chicken,
Gene was eating shrimp, and Wufei was eating guacamole and chips. Ryoga had stumbled into
the restaurant and ordered fish. They joked and laughed and talked about everything in general.
The had one interesting conversation on why girls where skirts and guys do not. Usagi and Akane
giggled for ten minutes straight at the thought of Gene in a cheerleading outfit. Gene was glad Jim
wasn't there to tell them about the time he pretended to be a girl at theUnivere's Strongest Woman
Contest.
Akane glanced up at the restaurant clock before jumping up. "OH NO! We have to go! Ranma
and I promised Kasumi we'd help her make dinner tonight!" Akane waved to her friends as she
dragged Ranma out of his chair.
"I'm not one to miss Kasumi's cooking!" Ryoga cried running after them. Shampoo shrugged
and followed.
Hitomi glanced up at the clock. "We better go too, we have to pick up Merle." Hitomi rose from
her seat and waved to her friends. Van handed Trunks some money telling him it was for their
part of the bill before following Hitomi out.
Usagi leaned back in her chair content. "Do you think Van and Hitomi make a cute couple?"
She smiled.
"Yeah! We should~" Usagi interrupted Minako.
"NO!" Usagi cried clamping a hand over her mouth. "I've had enough of your schemes for one
day!" She cried.
Everyone else at the table just stared at them blankly. Minako giggled and pushed Usagi's hand
away giving her a slight glare. "Fine, I wont do anything." She promised.
"Good." Usagi nodded.
~~~@~~~
Twenty minutes later found the eight friends, Usagi, Minako, Gohan, Trunks, Gene, Wufei, and
Duo dragging Heero along, walking to an ice cream shop at Usagi and Minako's pleas. Usagi
turned to tell something to Gohan and ended up tripping on a rise in the sidewalk. She smashed
into someone walking past her. They both ended up on the floor.
"Old habits die hard." Minako giggled.
"I'm very sorry!" Usagi apologized and looked down to see whom the unlucky victim of her klutz
attack was.
"…Whatever." Came the reply. Usagi scrambled off of a VERY cute guy. He had messy brown
hair and ice blue eyes. In an odd way he reminded her of Heero. He wore leather pants and a
bomber jacket. He wore three belts around his waist and three around his right leg. He stood up
and brushed himself off.
"Squall always gets woman to fall all over him." A man behind 'Squall' spoke up. That's when Usagi
noticed six people were standing behind Squall. Squall glared at the man who had tease him. He
was much taller than Squall and had blonde hair slicked back. He wore a gray trench coat and had
a smirk on his face. A girl with brown hair that flipped out and green eyes wearing a rather skimpy
yellow dress hopped toward Squall.
"You all right Squall?" She asked clinging to his elbow.
"…Fine." He gestured.
"Looks like we have some Ken High Flunkies." Another man spoke up with a grin noticing their
uniforms. He had brown hair with a bandana similar to Ryoga's, and blue eyes. He was wearing
an orange shirt and jeans.
"Hey, who ya calling a Flunky? You look dumber than this girl." Gene glared at the man and
gestured to the girl in the yellow.
"Hey! I am not dumb!" She flared at Gene.
"Calm down Selphie." A beautiful girl with long blonde hair and sapphire blue eyes spoke up. She
wore a pink skirt and shirt. She placed a slim hand on Selphie's shoulder to calm her.
"Careful what you say Red." Another spoke up narrowing his eyes. He had long brown hair and blue
eyes. He wore jeans and a dark green shirt.
"It's Gene." Gene returned the glare.
"Come on Gene, we're just passing through." Gohan restrained Gene from pummeling anyone, or
from pulling out his gun and using a castor shell.
"Looks like the Ken Senshi are still a pack of chicken wusses." Teased another man with messy
orange-red hair and brown eyes. He was a little taller than Squall.
"Careful Tasuki, they might peck ya!" The last man spoke up. He had greenish blue hair and his eyes
were a cross between gray and purple. He was the exact height as Tasuki.
"They must be the Katana Assassins." Duo gestured to the group in front of us.
"Give the boy a prize." The blonde man spoke up again sarcastically.
"Rivals or not, it's polite to move out of peoples way!" Minako exclaimed sticking her nose up in the air.
"Owww! I'm wounded now! Help me Seifer!" Tasuki pretended to be hurt and leaned against the
tall blonde man.
"We're gonna SMASH you guys at your homecoming game!" The man with the bandana spoke
up grinning widely.
"I don't think so." Trunks glared taking a step forward.
"Oh? And who are you?" Seifer asked.
"I'm Trunks, the quarterback of the Senshi football team. That's who." Trunks' glare turned to
Seifer and a look of challenge flew across his face.
"Oh? Squall, why don't you show this BOY how a REAL quarterback acts?" Seifer grinned evilly
tossing an arm around the shorter man's shoulders. Squall shrugged of Seifer's arm and said nothing.
"Is your pretty boy a mute?" Wufei asked crossing his arms. He was still mad about his woman
class and this looked like an occasion to vent his rage.
Squall shot Wufei an icy glare. "…No, we have to get going, I'm not missing another dinner with
my father." Squall told Seifer. Squall was the obvious leader of the pack because after he spoke,
the rest of the guys quieted down and nodded in agreement.
"See you pussies soon." Seifer sneered as they walked off. Gohan grabbed Trunks by the shoulders
before he could pound Seifer into the ground.
Usagi glared at the leaving group. "That just ruined my appetite for ice cream." She scowled.
"What about you Minako?" Usagi glanced over at her friend. Minako had a dreamy expression
on her face. "Minako?" Usagi poked her in the arm.
"Wha?" She asked shaking herself from the daze. "Squall… what a babe!" She sighed dreamily.
"I hate to break it to you, but if he's Squall Leonheart, son of Laguna Loire, he's taken by that Selphie
girl." Duo patted Minako on the shoulder.
"Laguna Loire as in President Laguna Loire?" Usagi squeaked. Duo nodded.
"How'd you know?" Gene asked raising an eyebrow.
"Heero is an expert computer hacker. He hacked into the Katana High's mainframe." Duo winked.
Heero shrugged like it was no big deal.
Usagi shook her head in amazement. "He's out of your range Minako, he's even got a girlfriend."
Mina sighed wistfully before smiling brightly. "Well, how about that ice cream?" She cried
gleefully. The group slowly trudged onto the ice cream place.
~~~@~~~
"RAMNA! STOP INSULTING MY COOKING!" Akane screeched chasing Ranma with a mallet.
"I only said Shampoo made good food!" He cried ducking another swing.
"You hear that Ryoga? Airen love Shampoo's cooking!" Shampoo smiled and blushed. "Ryoga?"
Shampoo turned around where Ryoga had been not to long ago. "He lost again?" She shook her
head in amazement.
"I'm not Ryoga but I'll be glad to fill his shoes." A voice drawled behind her. Shampoo whirled
around to see three guys leaning against the bookstore wall. The one that spoke was very tall
and dressed like a cowboy. A hat and a duster completed the outfit. The other two were shorter
than the first one. One had Dark blue hair and the other had blonde hair that covered
one eye.
Shampoo's face turned red. "Shampoo love Ranma!" She grabbed a book of the stand, the
Japanese Dictionary, and slammed it over his head. The man stepped out of the way and only
caught the wind of the book flying by.
He grinned and winked at her. "Looks like we found a frisky one Sage, Rowen." He called to
his buddies.
"Hey, no one talks to Shampoo like that!" Ranma stepped in front of Shampoo and glared at
the man.
"Watch out Irvine, the girly boy looks a little mad." Rowen joked to his tall companion.
Ranma's face started to boil. "I AM A GUY!" He screamed before leaping on Irvine. Irvine twisted
out of the way and started to run down the street closely followed by his friends. Ranma was hot
on their heels.
"Ranma so romantic." Shampoo sighed to Akane. She had stopped chasing Ranma and stood next
to Shampoo.
"If my suspicions are correct, that was Irvine, Rowen and Sage of Katana High School, they're on
the varsity football team." Akane pointed to the guys growing smaller in the distance.
"How you tell?" Shampoo asked.
"Their uniforms." Akane smiled. "C'mon Shampoo, let's go eat, Kasumi made lasagna for dinner,
she's on an Italian streak." Akane motioned
for Shampoo to follow her and the pair made their way back to the Tendo Dojo.
~~~@~~~
To be continued...
Now we've met the rivals! Homecoming just wouldn't be the same with out them! ja for now!
~LizBethy~
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