Meenie Minie Mo
"... we need a good assasination! We need an earthquake or a war!"
Usagi sang along to the movie playing on t.v. 'Carryin' the Banner' from Newsies, her favorite movie. She was just so in love with Jack Kelly a.k.a. Cowboy. He was SO hot! And that accent...
She sighed dreamily, watching him make fools of the Delancey brothas.
"Usagi! For the last time, clean those dishes!" her mother yelled from across the house. She groaned and paused the movie, very reluctantly. She knew she'd be in some deep crap if she didn't wash the dishes. It was like the fourth time her mom had told her that day too.
"Man! This sucks. Dishes suck. Parents suck. But only sometimes." she muttered, walking down the hall to the kitchen.
If only she had that new Fall Out Boy cd, all her troubles would just be whisked away...
Music was her life! She could just dance to it all the time! If only she could play an instrument. The guitar or piano or something. That would be cool. And Minako said she'd look awesome bangin' on drums.
She could see it now! Mamoru playing guitar, Minako at flute, Ami playing keyboard or something.
They'd be the coolest band ever! And she'd get to spend more time with Mamoru... her "dream man"!
"Uptown to grand central station..." she sang - not so well- scrubbing some weird blue stuff off a plate.
The phone rang and she ran to get it, that annoying little tune playing that her evil mom picked. Weird blue stuff getting all over the cover - lucky for Usagi keeping all of it off the actual phone.
"Hello?"
"Hey! Its Minako!"
"Oh hey! Whats up?"
"Just callin'."
Usagi sweatdropped.
"Well I've gotta do the dishes! Call back later."
"No! I can't!" Minako whined, jumping up and down even though Usagi couldn't see her, "I've got some awesome news! Some family moved in behind our house!"
"A family moved in... behind your house?" Usagi asked, a quizzical look on her face.
"Yeah! You know that brick house behind my house? Their land stops like, right before our garden. Anyway, I saw this really hot guy! You've gotta come over tomorrow after that pie thing! Plus we can watch Newsies again!"
Minako was as crazy about the movie as Usagi was. And her favorite character was Spot Conlon. Though it sucked that he didn't dance at all in the movie.
"I'll ask my mom okay? I'll call you in ten, bye." Usagi hung up, staring at the weird blue crap on the cover, as well as felt it on the side of her face.
"Ewww!" she whined, grabbing a paper towel to wipe it off.
"Now I sound like David! Haha, I don't think I could take a spit-shake!" she said to herself, chuckling.
--+--
"Oh my gosh! You weren't kidding!" Usagi said as she hid behind a plant with Minako and her older sister Ami. Being sisters you'd think they looked alike but considering one had blue hair and the other blonde... well, they didn't. Ami wore glasses and Minako had contacts, not wanting to look 'nerdy' anymore.
Actually, Minako had been begging her mom for years and finally got her wish. She'd go on rants about how her own mom had contacts since she was thirteen. Minako was the outgoing, talks too much, only shy or quiet when in front of lots of people, eats like a pig kind of person.
Her sister Ami, a bit more reserved, really really smart, loves dragons and mythology, extremely crazy when with her friends, lover of anime and manga, anti-Sadie Hawkins type. And she loved Christian Bale too.
"Whoa! Look at that guy's hair!" she continued, "Its so long! ...Or is that a girl?"
Minako scrunched up her nose, "If its a guy he better cut it! Its gross for guys to have really long hair!" The others agreed. Brought up to date only clean-shaven guys. And only date when they were sixteen.
Ami was the oldest, she'd be sixteen at the end of June. Usagi would be sixteen in August, and Minako would be fifteen in October. Ami wasn't really looking forward to the dating experience, since she doubted guys would ask her out - and she would only have them ask her.
Usagi looked forward togetting her liscense and driving her mom's camaro. No boy would want to date her anyway, since she was insane and most guys around here she knew too well. She'd known Mamoru forever, and he couldn't stand her, even though she was "madly in love" with him. (It was all really a joke to get on his nerves)
Minako was asked out all the time, but found no interest in dating boys. And even if she wanted to she wouldn't be allowed. She wanted a nice guy who was fun and funny! Which was basically what all three of them wanted.
Only Usagi wanted a man who would fear her and do whatever she told him to.
Anyway, there were two boys about the same height, standing with a tall man and somewhat frumpy woman. This must be the new family. And there were two hot guys instead of one!
So what if they couldn't see their faces and know if they were really hot or not. But so what, beauty is only skin deep anyway!
--+--
"We should go introduce ourselves to the new family!" Usagi said, grinning evily, "Afterall, fellowshipping is the key to long-lasting relationships!" Ami and Minako stared at her, suddenly afraid.
"Where did you hear that?" Ami asked.
"No-where. I just made it up." she replied, plopping onto the couch in the living room. This got her some goldfish crackers in the face. "Ack! Take cover!" she yelled dramatically, covering up with a couch cushion.
"Who are you to say we have to go meet them? You don't even live here! You're like, twenty minutes away, so they don't need to know who you are!" Minako said.
Ami nodded, "They probably wouldn't wanna meet you anyway! You're crazy!" Usagi pouted,
"I don't believe you! I would never turn my back on my friends and yet here you are, stabbing me in the back! I'll never forgive you!"
"Sure you will, or you'll never get to watch Howl's Moving Castle." Ami replied, her glasses glaring over quite evily. Usagi gasped,
"No!"
"Yes!" the two sisters hissed. The girls' mother walked in. She smiled to herself, thinking how Usagi had opened up the girls to her in about five minutes. And an hour long phone call.
Last summer they had moved to Juuban from Hokkaido. The month started with them popping up and Usagi wanting to know if the girls even knew about anime and manga - it being her passion, and in the middle of June the girls had all gone to girls' camp together, as best friends. It had been awesome.
Usagi distinctly remembered Ami screaming out "Usagi likes anime?" over the phone as Minako told her the news.
"Hey girls," Mrs. Mizu-Ai called, getting the their attention.
"Tomorrow we're gonna go see that new family, I'm baking some cookies right now for them, so don't go anywhere near them, I don't need you eating the sacrificial offering." Minako and Ami's mouths dropped and Usagi pumped her fist in the air.
"I am victorious!"
--+--Part 02, The Itsy Bitsy Spider--+--
The door bell rang. Hiiro looked up, they weren't expecting visitors...
The bell rang again. And again. And right after that it rang again. A vein popped in Hiiro forehead. He practically ran to the front door to stop the perennial ringing. He flung the door open to see three short girls and a short woman. One blond, with her hair in the weirdest style pulled her finger away from the bell as another blond smacked her upside the head.
Hiiro held in his snigger.
The short woman, looking mid to late thirty-ish, with shoulder-length brown hair smiled at him. She had a plate of cookies in her hand.
"Hi there!" she started cheerfully, "Are your parents home?" Hiiro nodded, motioning for them to step in - past a bunch of boxes, a rubber tree plant, and into their new living room.
"I'll go get them," he replied curtly, as he headed upstairs he looked back and saw the spaghetti-headed girl glaring at him evily. He couldn't help but wonder what the crap her problem was.
"Dad," he called, his father taking out clothes and his mother setting up their bathroom. The man turned around, he had a five o'clock shadow and sparkling blue eyes.
"Yeah? Who was at the door?"
"Our new neighbors, they wanted to meet us." he said, shrugging lightly. His father nodded,
"Allright, honey! Lets go meet them." the frumpy woman coming out from the right an odd sparkle about her,
"Neighbors came to meet us? How lovely!" she chimed. The two men sweatdropped and back out of the room very, very slowly. It was scary when Mrs. Yui said the word 'lovely'.
They headed downstairs, the weird blond was standing and staring at a mirror that had been pulled out earlier. Hiiro figured she was a bit into her own image, until he saw her crossing her eyes at it.
The woman and the other two girls stood, Hiiro's father and mother shaking their hands.
"I'm Judii Mizu-Ai. We live, well, right across the yard! We noticed you moving in and came to welcome you into the neighborhood! These are my two daughters, Minako and Ami - and their friend Usagi." The two girls smiled, saying their little hellos.
The weird girl Usagi turned to face them, she grinned.
"We brought you chocolate chip cookies! They're really good!" she exclaimed, Hiiro looked at her as if she were some kind of alien as his mother rattled on about how nice these people were - earning modest blushes from the two sisters.
'How old is she, five?' he thought, 'Duo would have a cow! Good thing the bum's still asleep. We don't need him embarassing us anymore than usual.'
He blinked, looking around, everyone was staring at him. Did he say that out loud?
Nope.
His father spoke first, "You've been staring at Usagi for three minutes. What's up son?"
'Ah, crap!' he thought, 'Think fast, Yui...'
"I like her hair." he said simply. So what if he was lying? He wasn't gonna get himself in trouble.
"Thats so sweet!" his mother chimed. Usagi looked at him like he was the weird one. Which he wasn't. Not in his opinion anyway.
So after the hair thing, there was a conversation about the weather, recipes, sports, their families - the Yui's mentioning their other son Duo - and then...
"Aaahhh!" Usagi suddenly screamed, she began flapping her arms around, acting as if she were hyperventilating.
And with that, the girl went flying. Hiiro headed after the screaming girl as she went around the staircase, up and down the staircase, into a bathroom, through the kitchen and outside. What was Crazy Girl thinking?
"Getitoffme!" she screamed hysterically, "Getitoffme!" Poor Hiiro couldn't quite decipher what she was saying, his family and her friends came running as Usagi suddenly pulled a 180 and ran straight at him.
Needless to say, things got pretty ugly.
--+--
"He was staring at me! It was soo creepy!" Usagi squealed, "And cool! 'Cuz he was all like 'I'm such a cool guy!' and then he snaps!" her rant making the other three crack up.
"I think that went quite well," Mrs. Mizu-Ai started, "Except for the spider thing." she looked over at Usagi, who sweatdropped.
"Oh come on! It was huge!"
"Yeah but you didn't have to run around their house screaming. And you ran right into that Hiiro guy!" Minako chided. But then she grinned, showing that she thought Usagi's big debut pretty funny.
"I thought it was funny too. With you flappin' your arms everywhere!" Ami said, chuckling. Her mom and sister agreed, Usagi pouted.
"It wasn't that funny."
"Yes it was." they replied in unison.
"ARGGHHH!" she growled, pulling on her pigtails, this causing her friends to pat her on the back comfortingly.
"Okay, it wasn't that funny." Ami said seriously. Usagi nodded.
"Thank-you!"
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I do not own Sailormoon, Gundamwing, Newsies, or Howl's Moving Castle. This fic is dedicated to two of my best friends - Ellane and Amy, you guys are the best!
Okay, a lot of this stuff you won't understand unless you watch the movie Newsies! AND WATCH IT! Anyone who already has, tell me and we can talk newsies!
Okay, everyone is also gonna be really ooc. This story is based on, well, my life and my friends! Only Usagi won't have seven brothers and sisters. Nobody is mormon, and don't you love how I mixed Ami and Minako's last names together?
CHRISTIAN BALE is the best actor in the universe!
I hope you guys don't think this story is too stupid, or insulting.