Chapter 4

Learn how to be Skinny from Usagi

Usagi had just finished her bath, and was now admiring herself in the mirror as she dried herself off. Then she slowly stepped onto the scale, while Luna stretched herself on the roof. Suddenly she screamed loudly at what she had seen, making everyone rush to the bathroom.

"Oh no, I put on weight! I'm so out of shape!" she cried loudly.

"It's okay, people look better with a little meat on their bones, especially when they're young," assured her father.

"Daddy's right hun," agreed her mother.

"You know what your problem is Usagi, you eat way too much," piped in Shingo.

"You could probably stand to get more exercise too, just like your friend Sora," said Kenji.

"And she does spend more time eating than studying," added Keiko.

"That's why you gained weight," said her family.

"Come on. You guys don't need to be that harsh to her," Sora said, making Usagi smile at him.

"I'm happy that Sora's on your side, Usagi. Just try to cut back on what you eat, that's all," said Luna.

"Okay," replied Usagi.

"And it couldn't hurt to get a little more exercise," continued the cat.

She nodded, until Luna had finished what she was drawing.

"What's that Luna?" Usagi asked.

To both their shock and dismay, Luna showed them a picture of Sailor Moon after gaining a lot of weight.

"It's you in six months," she said with a mischievous grin, making them mildly annoyed.

"That's not funny Luna. I'm gonna get you!" she shouted, making Luna yowl at her.

The next day at Usagi's school, all of her classmates were eating lunch, except Usagi.

"Where's your lunch?" Naru asked her friend.

Usagi tried to explain, when Sora stepped up.

"She's trying to cut back on eating today, Naru," he said to her.

Before he could press on, Umino called Usagi, making them all face him.

"Sounds to me you forgot your lunch today. Here, have mine, it's delicious," he said presenting his bento to her.

But Sora glared angrily at him.

"How about, no thanks!? She's not interested!" he snapped furiously, making Umino cower before him.

After lunch, Sora Naru, and Usagi met up with the rest of their friends.

"I see, so you're on a diet now," said Naru.

Usagi nodded sheepishly.

"Me too. I know how you feel, it's really hard to stay fit," said one of her classmates.

"Oh, is it?" everyone asked her.

"Usagi, why don't you try swimming? That's a good way to stay fit," said the other girl.

But Usagi seemed hesitant.

"That won't work. She's no good at it," Naru said to her.

"Unfortunately," murmured Riku.

"I've tried things like fasting and eating pineapples to lose weight, but none of those fat diets seem to last for very long," said the first girl.

"Oh, they don't?" everyone asked.

"I think the best diet is falling in love, because then you want to look good," said the second girl.

"Have you ever been in love before?" the first girl asked Sora.

"Um, well…" Sora said thoughtfully.

"No kidding," said Roxas and three of the girls.

"That's right," piped in the second girl.

"Well, there was this one guy who once asked me out on a date when I first visited the Olympus Coliseum," said Aqua.

"Really, who was it?" Usagi asked curiously.

"His name was Zack Fair, and he wanted to be a hero," replied Aqua.

"You know, Zack seems kind of strange for an English name," said the darker brunette.

"Listen, you're just born the way you are, and there's nothing you can do about it," said the darker red-haired girl.

This suddenly caused them to start infighting, until Terra stepped up and separated them.

"Enough!" he said furiously to them, as Usagi and Naru turned to face Sora and the rest of his friends.

"Actually, speaking of which, did you notice that Miss Haruna is looking really fit lately?" Naru asked them.

"How'd she do it?" wondered Sora and Usagi.

"Don't know," replied Naru.

"Good morning everyone," called Miss Haruna.

"Hey there," replied Sora as he respectfully waved his hand at her.

She soon turned and walked away.

"She doesn't look different than she did before," Usagi said as she saw her leave.

"You can't tell with that dress on, but here have a look at this," piped in Umino who appeared behind them with pictures of their English teacher.

Sora looked and saw that Miss Haruna was wearing a leotard, and lifting dumbbells.

"Here's a before picture, and here's after she started working out," the nerd said to them.

"Oh wow," Sora and Usagi said as they looked at them.

"And it only took her two days," replied Umino.

"Whoa, two days, really?" Sora asked in surprise.

"Uh, Umino, how did you get those pictures?" Naru asked as well.

"Well, that's a trait secret," replied Umino.

"Oh yeah?" Sora and Naru asked together, making Umino flinch.

"Just tell us how you got the photos! Spill it!" she said firmly.

"Tell us!" Added Usagi.

"TELL US NOW!" shouted Sora, making him run away.

All three of them began chasing after him, as they clamored at him for information. Quickly he hid from them, as Naru rushed by, but he began regretting how he blabbered to them.

"Found you," Sora and Usagi said.

"Okay! I admit it! I followed Miss Haruna and took those pictures of her with my very own camera! I'm sorry!" cried Umino.

"We don't care about that stuff. We just want to know about the name of the gym that she goes to workout," said Usagi.

"And we want to know what it's called," added Sora.

Soon they arrived at the gym that Umino spoke of.

"Shapelin, this is it, Miss Haruna's gym," Usagi said.

"I don't know, looks pretty expensive," replied Naru.

The girls looked and saw that it was Rieko on the screen above, telling them that exercising would put people in great shape, and that the gym was offering a free trial, which made Usagi and the girls excited.

"Free trial?" Usagi asked.

"Can't get any cheaper than that," said Naru.

"Let's do it! Come on!" said their friends.

But from above, Jadeite watched them, as Sora glared up at the building.

"More fools enter our lair. There's no such thing as a free lunch, girls," Jadeite said with a cruel chuckle.

.Once inside, Sora and his friends saw that Usagi and their friends had changed into their gym clothes.

"Good thing we brought our gym clothes," Usagi said with a light giggle.

"Time to get in shape," agreed Naru.

Sora glanced behind him and saw Jadeite stepping out in a tracksuit, instead of his usual garb.

Welcome to shapelin, are you girls new members?" he asked Usagi and her classmates.

"He's cute," Usagi said blissfully.

"I love his glasses," added Naru.

"I'm one of the instructors of this gym," Jadeite said to them.

"Oh, uh, We should tell you that this is our first time here," replied Usagi.

"Great, just come this way," the blonde warlord said to them.

"My friends and I are just gonna watch and stay out of it," Sora said to him.

"Of course, be my guest," replied the disguised Jadeite.

They all watched as Usagi, Naru, and their friends worked out by performing chin ups, lifting weights, and using different machines to get them into shape, as the other instructors coached them to do their best to look their best.

"Keep it up! Push yourselves to be fit! And all of you will end up gorgeous!" Jadeite said as he cheered them on.

"Where's Usagi?" Naru asked as she worked on the peddling machine.

Rowing machine, I think," said the dark-haired girl.

"Now don't slack off, you want to be beautiful, don't you? I can already tell you have so much potential," Jadeite said to them.

This made Naru more determined to become beautiful, as she worked a lot harder on the pedalling machine.

"All right! That's enough for today," the false instructor said to them.

All the girls were panting wearily.

"You worked really hard. So as a reward, come step into the shape ray, the pride of our gym," continued Jadeite.

"The shape ray? What is that?" asked the girls.

"Ohh, my muscles. I never knew it was possible to be so tired," Usagi said wearily as she sat in a spa.

Luckily for Sora, he had his back turned, so that he could respect his friend's privacy.

"It's tough to be fit. I'm so hungry," she said.

"I know what you mean. All I've done is run around in different places while fighting Heartless. But still, that didn't stop me from making sure I was well fed after some of my previous adventures in all the other worlds," replied Sora.

"Wait, really?" asked Usagi.

Sora nodded in response, then he left the spa room which made Usagi all the more curious about him. In the basement of Shapelin, Jadeite and the girls stood before several pods that were attached to an orb hanging above them.

"Step in here," he said to them.

Naru and her friends were confused.

"Keep in mind that a mere five minutes in the shape ray, and you'll be fittest in that you've ever been in your entire life," Jadeite assured them in a motivational tone.

"That's it, I bet that's how Miss Haruna got that fit in just one day," piped in Naru.

Then she and the girls agreed to enter the pods, making Jadeite chuckle quietly to himself. Once they were in the pods, the orb began to glow. But what they didn't know was that Jadeite was really draining them of their life force, filling him with malevolent pride. In Queen Beryl's throne room, Sephiroth stood nearby with his arms across his chest, as Queen Beryl was growing restless, and called him.

"Yes, I'm here, Queen Beryl," Jadeite's projection said to her.

"Do you have something to report?" Sephiroth asked him.

"No need to worry, we are continuing to gather a large amount of energy for our great ruler," replied the blonde warlord.

"I see, then proceed as planned," said Beryl.

"Right, these foolish women are determined to lose weight no matter what. So, I'm sure that this plan will be a complete success," replied Jadeite.

"Hmph… We'll see," Sephiroth said as he vanished into the corridor of darkness.

When the girls stepped out of the pods, they were looking weary and a tad bit peckish.

"I feel…" Naru said.

"So tired," added the dark redhead.

"Isn't that a small price for how attractive you become?" asked Jadeite, who was still disguised as a gym instructor.

The girls nodded in agreement.

"And if you come back tomorrow, you'll become even more stunning," he said to them, as he removed his glasses, and watched them leave.

Once they were gone, Jadeite stood silently as he looked at the life force he had managed to collect from them.

"It's so strong, the energy of these girls who shortened their lives for their ideal body," He said with a wicked grin.

Then he laughed wickedly.

"I still can't believe that Naru and the rest of the girls just left me behind in that Gym. Boy, some friends they turned out to be. So hungry," moaned Usagi, as she stood with Sora and the Guardians of Kingdom Hearts.

Suddenly a young boy walked past them, catching her attention.

"Hey wait," she said to him.

The boy looked up at him in confusion.

"Those are some yummy looking pork buns," Usagi said, her mouth watering with hunger.

"Easy Usagi, he's just a kid," warned Sora.

The boy nodded and raced off into the distance, but he still told his mother about how Sora put Usagi in her place.

"I've been dazzled by pork buns, how pathetic. I just can't stop thinking about food. It must be nice to be Sailor V, she's so perfect and never needs to diet, or exercise," she said softly.

"Watch out! Usagi you almost fell down!" cried Motoki, who caught her in his arms.

"Motoki," whispered Usagi.

"Are you sick or something?" he asked worriedly.

"Maybe, I'd much rather go to a restaurant," breathed Usagi.

"She's been trying to go on a diet to try and lose some weight," Sora told him.

Motoki was surprised.

"I haven't eaten a single thing since yesterday. So hungry," Usagi said wearily.

But she began to imagine herself in Motoki's embrace.

"Usagi, Usagi, are you alright?" he asked.

"Yes I think so," replied Usagi.

"Good just stay strong, and hopefully the energy of love will help you recover quickly," Motoki assured her.

"The energy of love?" Usagi asked him.

"That's right, my love for you," replied Motoki.

"Motoki," Usagi said.

"Yes, Usagi?" he asked.

But as she shut her eyes, She soon opened them to see that Motoki was looking over her, with Sora and his friends at his side.

"Just hang in there, okay?" he said.

He gently placed a medicine to Usagi's lips, and she drank the contents of what was in it, just as Luna arrived to look into the window. Usagi blushed, looking at him with confusion in her eyes.

"Well, I'm glad you're feeling better. But what did you mean when you said you hadn't eaten since yesterday?" asked Motoki.

Usagi looked rather rattled by what she heard.

"Don't tell me you did so poorly on a test that your mother refused to feed you for a day, or something like that," he said with a light chuckle.

"Come on Motoki, Usagi's mother would never be that cruel to her daughter," piped in Sora.

"Yeah Sora's right, it's nothing like that. I just thought I'd go on a little diet, that's all," added Usagi.

"A diet?" asked Motoki.

But he, Sora and the Guardians of Kingdom Hearts laughed.

"What is it? What's so funny?" she asked near tears.

"Sorry, we didn't mean to laugh, it's just that we don't know where you got the idea to diet. If anything, you could stand to gain some weight," replied Motoki.

"Yeah, you can't stop eating food. And besides, we all care about your health and safety, right?" added Sora.

"And besides, people who want to be all skin and bones, is not the way for you to go," Riku said to her.

"What? Really?" Usagi said, as she smiled at them.

"Yeah," Sora and Motoki said together.

"Wow, you're the best!" She cheered happily to her friends.

Then she was walking down the street with her friends, sharing pork buns with them.

"This is so good, nothing's better than a pork bun. I'm still young after all," Usagi said as she stuffed herself silly.

"What do we have here? Would you call that cannibalism? A bunhead eating a pork bun?" asked the guy they had met before.

"Hey, back off!" snapped Sora.

"Yeah what he said! Why do you care what I eat anyway?" agreed Usagi.

"If you keep eating like that, you just might end up turning into a pork bun," replied the guy.

"Get real! How Usagi looks is not your concern," said Roxas.

"Yeah, shut up!" piped in Usagi, as she threw one of her pork buns to the guy.

"What a catch. Thanks for this," said the guy in the tuxedo.

Then he munched it down, and walked away.

"At least that means, one less for you bunhead," he called to them.

"Man, what a jerk," grumbled Sora.

"You said it, Sora," agreed Usagi.

He does kind of have a point though," said Luna who was standing on a dustbin.

They all glanced back at her.

"If you keep eating like that, then you're just gonna have to work even harder to stay fit," she added, reminded Usagi about her appearance, which made her throw her trash at her.

They soon arrived at the playground and sat on the bench.

"I don't care what anyone else has to say. Motoki told me that I'm pretty just the way I am," grumbled Usagi.

"But, I'm wondering if you might be getting this all wrong, Usagi," replied Luna.

"How so?" she asked.

"He said that he prefers girls that aren't just skin and bones. But you can go far too the other way too, you know," said the cat.

Usagi was shocked, but Luna became serious.

"But never mind that, there's a bigger problem," Luna told them.

"Oh no, you're right! let's see, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, I ate six pork buns today!?" she said in a panicked state.

"I mean, Miss Haruna has been acting really strange lately, and she looks like she's wasting away to nothing," said Luna, with a serious tone.

But Usagi wasn't listening to her, she was now panicking about her appearance, and began imagining herself blowing up like a balloon.

"And it isn't only Miss Haruna, a lot of the girls who went to work out at Shapelin have become far too thin. Something is going on down there at that gym," continued the violet cat.

"You're right, Luna. It's almost as if they're being deceived by the darkness. Which means that Miss Haruna might transform into a Heartless," said Sora.

Then Riku placed his hand on Usagi's shoulder.

"Pull it together Usagi! They still have their hearts! But, we have to protect them," he said to her, making her snap out of her panicked stupor.

"Then it's gotta be shapelin," she said to the silver-haired keyblade wielder.

"Yes!" cheered Luna.

"Shapelin is the only thing that can save me from turning into a total nightmare!" declared Usagi, and she raced back to the gym.

"Wait! Usagi, that's not what I was saying!" called Luna.

But it was too late, Usagi had already raced into the distance.

"Guess we'll just have to investigate for ourselves, Luna," said Sora.

Several people in the gym were now watching Usagi working hard on the pedaling machine with every ounce of determination.

"Ugh, that girl is hopeless, I can't watch this anymore," groaned Luna.

"Wait a second, Luna, it's Miss Haruna!" Sora said, pointing at the figure ahead of them.

"You're right, it is Miss Haruna. She really is skin and bones. I wonder where she's going," replied Luna

"Let's follow her and find out," said Kairi.

Stealthily, Luna, Sora, and the Guardians of Kingdom Hearts followed her down the stairs.

"Hm… I already don't like the looks of this, guys," she said to them.

Suddenly there was a flash of light coming from down the stairs.

"Wait, what is that?" asked Luna.

"It's Jadeite, and he's holding her captive, so that he can turn Usagi's English Teacher into a Heartless," whispered Sora, as Jadeite chuckled malevolently.

"This young woman's life force is nearly all gone, we'll finish draining her today, and after that she'll just grow weak and turn into a Heartless, Sephiroth," Jadeite said to the silver haired swordsman in black.

"Sephiroth?" gasped Luna.

"Yep, he's Cloud's dark side," whispered Goofy.

"Oh no!" hissed Luna, and she ran back to Usagi.

Sora and the others followed the dark colored cat as well, and soon met up with her, just as Luna jumped at her, sending her off the pedalling machine.

"What are you guys doing?" demanded Usagi.

"Miss Haruna's in trouble! She's about to be turned into a Heartless!" said Sora.

He and Luna soon raced out the door.

"Wait a second!" said Usagi, as she raced after him.

She looked around in the hallways of the gym, until Luna jumped up at her.

"Usagi, Miss Haruna's in trouble!" snapped the violet cat.

"Forget her, you're going down!" Usagi snapped back.

But she was tackled to the ground and had her claws near her face.

"Just quit yelling and listen to me closely! And if you give me any grief, then your face is gonna pay the price!" She said in a malicious tone.

Now Usagi was truly afraid. She'd never seen Luna acting this way before.

"If you don't hurry, Miss Haruna could turn into a Heartless, so you have to turn into Sailor Moon right away and save her," she continued as she inched her claws closer and closer to her.

"What, just like that? But it's so sudden!" replied Usagi.

"Shut up and just do it!" Luna said furiously, as she raised her claws to strike at Usagi's face.

"ENOUGH!" shouted Sora, making them turn and face him.

They'd never seen Sora this angry before.

"As much as you hate Miss Haruna, she's your teacher! And if she turns into a Heartless, we might do something that you might regret letting us do, by ensuring that her heart returns to Kingdom Hearts so that she can rest in peace! But you need to think about now, and what would happen if you got a new teacher who was even more strict than Miss Haruna could ever be! If you don't turn into Sailor Moon, Jadeite could take away everything that you hold most dear to you, like Naru, Umino, Motoki, your mother, father, and brother! So either turn into Sailor Moon, or you'll regret seeing everyone you cherish be turned into Heartless!" he snapped furiously.

"Okay, okay, I get it! I'll turn into Sailor Moon!" whimpered Usagi.

But as he suddenly summoned his Keyblade, and pointed it at her, Luna looked worriedly at him.

"That's enough Sora! You've made your point. There's really no need to hurt her with your Keyblade. And besides, you're scaring Usagi to death," she told him.

Sora relented, and Usagi transformed into Sailor Moon. Once that was done, they raced to where Miss Haruna was being held captive.

"Just a little more until we reach our goal," mused Jadeite.

Then Sora and the Guardians of Kingdom Hearts suddenly lunged furiously at the Heartless that were surrounding her and struck them all down.

"Jadeite! This stops here!" shouted Sora, pointing his keyblade at him.

"That's right! Praying on the dreams of girls who want to be fit, you're an unforgivable enemy of all women!" Sailor Moon said from behind him.

"Well, so it's you guys again," Jadeite said observantly.

Then Riku bravely stepped forward, and struck down several more heartless with his keyblade.

"Consider this a warning! Either let Miss Haruna go, or pay the price!" Riku said to him.

"I agree with Riku! I am the pretty guardian who fights for love and justice! I'm Sailor Moon! And on behalf of the moon, I'm punishing you!" she declared in a loud clear voice.

"Got it memorized?" asked Axel.

"What a bunch of fools. Take care of them!" Jadeite said to both his minions and the Heartless.

The three instructors charged at Sailor Moon, swinging their weights down at her. Thankfully she was able to jump out of the way in time. But another was right behind her, and she had to run. But now they had her cornered on all sides.

"Oh no, they've got me surrounded!" gasped Sailor Moon.

"Not if I have a say in the matter!" Sora said as he lunged at them, and bonked them on the head with his keyblade.

"Go ahead and eliminate them!" Jadeite said, as he disappeared into the corridor of darkness.

"You guys! Help me, do something quickly!" cried Sailor Moon.

Suddenly, Ventus noticed something on the instructors heads.

"It's the rings! They're being controlled by the darkness in those headbands they're wearing!" he said to her.

"That's right, if you can destroy those, then they'll be freed," added Luna.

"All right! Here goes nothing!" said Sora as he and the body builders charged at each other.

But to Sailor Moon's surprise, Sora was able to utilize his agility to dodge their attacks, and hit them with everything he had with his Keyblade.

"Wait Sora! Don't leave Sailor Moon out just yet! If she fights then she'll lose weight!" called Luna.

"Yeah, let me help out as well!" agreed Sailor Moon.

Then she began punching, kicking, and dodging the body builders like a master of Taekwondo, as one of the weights surged towards the orb, destroying it, and scattering the collected energy in all directions, while also blind them. Without second guessing, she removed her tiara, and flung it at them, destroying the headbands they were wearing, and releasing them from Jadeite's control.

"Bye boys, been fun," Sailor Moon said to the body builders.

"Hold on, what are we doing down here?" they asked.

"You really don't want to know," replied Sora.

"Wow, that really was a good workout," said Sailor Moon as she wiped the sweat off her brow.

In Queen Beryl's throne room, Jadeite presented all the collected life force he had managed to attain and placed it into Beryl's scepter.

"Jadeite, you've done very well to collect this much energy for our great ruler. I'd say I could call your plan, mostly a success," she said to him.

"Yes, thank you very much, Queen Beryl. And next time I'll get those pathetic fools, and the traitorous Cloud," replied Jadeite.

"So he betrayed you? Then he must understand by now," said Sephiroth, as he approached them.

"What!? Cloud has betrayed us!?" snapped Beryl.

"Yes, he stopped Jadeite from finishing Sailor Moon off with his own two hands. And now, he has gone into exile in that city," replied Sephiroth.

"I see, then I leave the task of finding and eliminating Cloud to you, Sephiroth," Beryl said to him.

Sephiroth nodded, then he vanished in a burst of darkness. That night, at Usagi's house, Usagi was relaxing in the bathtub, and washing herself off.

"So nice," she said blissfully.

"Usagi, i've put out a towel for you," called her mother.

"Thanks Mom," replied Usagi.

"So is Miss Haruna feeling all better now?" she asked Sora.

"Yep, she sure is. But she needs a little time off to recover," replied Sora.

"Well, what an ordeal," said Keiko, as she walked out with Sora following behind her.

"You know mom, I don't think that you should go on a diet either," said Shingo.

"Yes, you have to be careful about that. Usagi too. And Kairi, Aqua, Namine, and Xion," agreed his mother.

"Seems like Usagi's back to normal," he said to his mother.

Sora nodded at him, and respectfully shook hands with him, until they heard Usagi scream.

"See?" he said to them.

"Oh no, I've gained weight, come on! But I just got all of that exercise! Why me!?" she wailed loudly.