On a wondrous planet, within a grand palace, a beautiful princess dressed; in a white and gold gown ran through its halls, seeking a special someone.

It was her handsome prince, clad in resplendent black regalia.

The two were soon in each other arms, both the prince and princess moved in for a kiss.

Only for the princess to find herself completely underwater!

The water was cold; it was draining her strength!

"Aaaaahhh!"

"Quickly, the princess needs her scuba gear!" A young girl yelled.

The young girl had blond hair in long ponytails with odango buns, shot straight up in her bed and proceeded to blurt out some non-sequitur lines.

This is Usagi Tsukino, age 14, who goes to Juuban Public Middle School. People often say she a bit of klutz, and a little emotional.

Upon gaining full wakefulness, the fourteen year old soon realized that her face was soaking wet, which probably had something to do with her dream turning into nightmare.

"You know, I expected that the reaction would be interesting, but those lines are in a class of their own." A voiced spoke, filled with mirth.

The voice belong to a girl sitting on Usagi's bed, the girl had violet eyes, her hair was also blond and done in ponytails like Usagi, but hers lacked buns, instead the tails was held up by a pair of black ribbon bows.

This is Urufu Yuzuko, Usagi's oldest friend, age 15, who also attends Juuban Middle School, and is in a grade higher than Usagi. Said to be a tease, and a little bit mean.

Urufu happened to be holding an empty glass cup; Usagi realized that this was likely the source of her now soggy condition.

"You did this!" she accused.

"Why, excellent deduction my dear Bun-Bun." came Urufu's smug reply. "And a good morning to you."

"Why?"

"Well, how else was I going to wake you?" the ribbon haired girl asked, answering the question with a question.

"NOT WITH WATER." The moist girl answered back fiercely.

Usagi was starting to realize that Urufu wasn't even a bit remorseful about her actions.

At this point Urufu put the cup down and stood up, crossed her arms and looked her childhood friend straight in the eye.

"Alright speaking seriously; Usagi you and I both know exactly what it takes to you wake up in the morning. Because..."

Blued girl didn't answer immediately, not wanting to admit what they both knew.

"Usagi." the older girl prompted.

Usagi sighed "Its because you have the exact same problem waking up in the morning as me."

"Precisely," Urufu nodded. "So I wouldn't use a method that wasn't effective on you, if didn't work for me as well."

"I just wish you wouldn't use such unusual methods."

At this point Usagi gave up. She wasn't going to get an apology out of her friend, if Urufu didn't feel sorry.

Urufu had always been the kind of person who did things her own way, even if they sometimes went against what other people thought of as normal, right or okay.

"If it works, it works" her friend replied nonchalantly.

"Beside," she continued, pointing to Usagi's alarm clock.

"Now you're wide awake with plenty of time to get to school."

The time was 7:30am; Usagi noted that it was a vast improvement on her usual wake up times, which were often after 8 o'clock.

"It's so early, too early." The younger girl yawned, looking like see was about to collapse on to her bed and return to the Land of Nod.

"Oh no you don't." Urufu said, wagging her finger. You're not going back to sleep and ruining my efforts.

"Okay, okay. It's not as if I could get back to sleep with my face and hair, and bed squelcly anyway." Usagi voiced sullenly.

"That's why it's so effective." was the older girl's reply as she pulled a towel from her school bag.

"I grabbed a towel from your bathroom; I'll help you dry off and so you can get ready."

"Thanks Urufu." Usagi said. Her oldest friend could be a bit abrasive, but Urufu wasn't a jerk.

With her old friend's assistance, it wasn't long before Usagi was dressed for the school, currently the girls were in front of her dresser mirror, the older girl was brushing her hair.

"You're in your uniform, you coming to school today?" Usagi asked.

"Yay, I thought it would be good to do some socialising with Juuban's student body." Her friend answered. "Gotta avoid becoming socially odd."

"Odd… like pouring water on people's heads in the morning." Replied Usagi, her eyebrow raised for emphasis. "Then I'm afraid it's already too late Bow-Wow." She continued, using her personal nickname for friend.

"Holding a grudge is bad for the skin Bun-Bun." Urufu countered without pause, using her own personalized nickname for Usagi, whilst grabbing some bobby pins from the dresser drawers to hold Usagi's buns up.

"I would believe that if it wasn't coming for you Urufu." Over the years Urufu would occasionally take advantage of her gullibility to feed her misinformation, which lead to incidences of her looking, saying or doing something that her look strange.

So she had learnt to identify her friend's tall tales… some of the time.

"Well I can't argue with that." Urufu conceded, knowing what she was referring to. "There, all done." She announced, as she stuck in the last pin. "What do you think, how I'd do?"

Usagi touched her odangos, testing the firmness of their shape.. "Yay they'll hold, good job Urufu."

"Thank you, I'm happy to see my practice is starting to pay off."

Tying odango buns wasn't exactly like tying hair bows, which had often lead to painfully incidents of Urufu knotting her own hair when she rehearsed at home.

Urufu looked at the clock. "Alright, so we've got 20 minutes to get to school, so plenty of time for breakfast."

"Let's go, your mom making chocolate-chip waffles, my favourite."

"Really? Great. I'll take twelve." Usagi said with glee, and then asked. "Wait how could you tell?"

Urufu tapped her nose to illustrate. "The nose knows Usagi, I can smell the batter cooking and chocolate melting in the kitchen from here."

"Oh right I forget." Urufu had started developing a sharp sense of smell for some time now; it still surprised Usagi when she revealed something claiming her sense of smell told her.

"I wonder how your nose got so strong?" she asked as they headed down the stairs, Urufu in front.

"Well it could be puberty? Getting older and all that." Urufu speculated.

"Maybe you'll develop a super-sense as well."

"Really, like what?" the younger girl asked eagerly. She was interested, maybe having a stronger sense could help her be less clumsy.

"Well that's obvious isn't it Bun-Bun," the older girl placed her hands behind her head, waving them up and down. "Super-hearing, just like a real rabbit."

"Very funny," She answered fatly, enough with the jokes already. She humphed internally.

"No I'm serious." Said Urufu, as she started down the stairs, "Just think of the possibilities, you"ll be able to hear things from far away, like a real superhero."

That got her thinking, it would be pretty amazing using hearing to track down criminals, capturing and taking them to the police.

"That would be cool." Usagi admitted. The best part, she thought, no one ever accused a hero of being clumsy or a whiner.

Unfortunately Usagi choice to indulge in her superhero fantasies on the staircase, caused her to miss a slip, and then fall right into Urufu.

Usagi's momentum sent the two pigtailed girls tumbling down the last flights of steps to the first floor with a resounding crash.

"Owie" they both cried at once.

A concerned voice called from the kitchen.

"Usagi, Urufu. Are you alright?"

Both girls answered.

"No Mom." Replied Usagi.

"No Aunty Ikuko." Replied Urufu.

"We're not alright!" They yelled at the same time.

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My first Sailor Moon Fanfic, I hope to do this franchise justice.

Some of you may have an idea of who Urufu is, you guessed right, then I hope you enjoy what I have planned.

Feedback and criticism are welcome.

Happy Holidays everyone.