Chapter two, wooooooooooooooooooooot.

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"It's kinda small, eh?" Usagi noted to the cat perched on her shoulder cheerfully as she stepped through the door into her new apartment. She scratched the back of her head and laughed fitfully as she dropped the last box inside the doorway.

"We won't need much room anyway, Usagi-chan. It's only for one teenage girl and a cat." The dark-furred feline told her blonde charge as they inspected the medium sized room from the front. It was, as Usagi had said, a bit of a tight squeeze, but four rooms wasn't bad for a one person apartment.

"I wonder how the others are doing without us..." The blonde Shinigami mused as Luna jumped off her shoulder and made her way towards the back.

Closing the door with her foot as she picked up the box holding her bathroom amenities, Usagi sighed. As she hadn't needed to be kept to train her Shinigami abilities after her death, she had been dropped off at her new home to put her stuff away herself rather than it being put away for her. Oh well, it was better this way. She would rather put her things away herself than have some stranger have their hands all over them... Ew.

"The bed's rather big for the room," her cat called from the next room over. Usagi looked toward the open door of her bedroom as she made her way into the bathroom and shrugged, although she knew Luna couldn't see it.

"Oooooh!" The blonde squealed, setting the box on the counter beside the sink. "There's a huge bathtub in here!" She ignored the cat's amused huff from the other room as she ran her hand over the faucet, hearts in her eyes.

The dead girl turned as Luna appeared in the doorway. Her long pigtails brushed the floor, and she absentmindedly pushed them over her shoulder as her guardian gave the cat-version of a frown.

"I hardly think such long hair is going to be helpful in your new profession." Luna told her.

Usagi's eyebrows raised as she stared at the cat. "Seriously?" she asked, "I'm actually allowed to get some of it cut off now?" As much as the new Shinigami loved her long hair, it could be a hassle sometimes. She had been wanting to get it shortened before, but the expectations of her friends and family kept it long as much as her own inability to get it cut did.

Luna gave an exasperated sigh as she stood where she had been sitting in the doorway of the bathroom and turned. "It's not like anyone was forcing you to keep it long before." Usagi grinned cheerfully at the cat's back as Luna left to go to the front room.

"Of course not!"

The Next Day

"Well, it's now or never," Usagi told the cat once again perched on her shoulder nervously as they stared up at the huge building in the middle of Meifu.

"Don't be so nervous." Luna admonished her. For a moment there was silence as they stood stock-still amidst the whirling sakura petals of the land of the dead. The brief quiet broke as Usagi sighed and ran her hand through her now shoulder length hair, her cerulean eyes closing for a split second. She put on a cheerful, determined expression and winked at Luna before bounding forward and running up the steps in front of the building.

Usagi paused for a moment to look up at the forbidding doors before sweat-dropping and laughing nervously at herself. After all, she had agreed to become a Shinigami, right?

'Stop thinking, Usagi!' She commanded herself as her thoughts turned bleak. Composing herself, she fell back into the cheerful facade and pushed the doors open.

The blonde Shinigami hummed absentmindedly to herself as she made her way into the building the way she had been ordered to and came upon the door leading to the Summons Bureau. Pushing through it impatiently, Usagi shot a bright, gleaming smile into the room at everyone who had turned to look at her when she entered before spinning confidently into the office labeled 'Konoe'.

The room was medium sized and sparsely furnished. 'Talk about cheap,' she thought with another sweat-drop. Her eyes rolled around the room once before landing and staying on the middle to elderly aged man sitting at the desk in front of and slightly to the left of the door. Considering that the man was the only one in the room and 'old' like one of the men who had helped her move her things told her he would be, she brilliantly deduced that he must have been the one she was looking for- which meant that he must have already read her file.

"Good day, Konoe-san!" the blonde bunny shot smoothly with a 1000-watt smile. Konoe looked slightly blinded. "I'm the new Shinigami, Tsukino Usagi!" She clipped off the end of her sentence with another exclamation point and waited for him to speak.

"Good day, Tsukino-san." The man looked slightly surprised at her quick entrance. Then he was all business. "I trust you've been informed of what your job and place here is." A pause. "Despite your background and status, I do hope you understand that you understand you won't be treated like anything but another Shinigami here." He stared solemnly at her, waiting for her reply. What he didn't expect was the sudden dark smirk he received from his new employee.

"I wouldn't expect any less, sir." For a moment longer the black twinkle shone in her eyes, then it was gone as she snapped her head up and grinned mischievously at Konoe.

"When do I get to meet my new coworkers?" Usagi asked as she stood in front of the old man's desk; Luna perched calmly on her shoulder, forgotten in the conversation.

"Right now." The elder Shinigami said. His chair scraped against the ground as he stood and made his was toward the door, Usagi following behind him.

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Sorry, I know that was a sucky place to end it. No matter how I try, I can't get my chapters to be any longer. ;.; I was going to have this chapter out yesterday, but I was trying to write more and... will you ever forgive me::Puppy dog eyes:: Thanks to my reviewers, by the way. Five for one chapter is pretty good! Anyways, I'll have the next chapter out by Tuesday or Wednesday. Seeya.

-snowflakewriting

-P.S. Less than three pages!! ;.;