Hey everyone!

Sorry this chapter has been a long time in coming...i have a lot of school work as i'm in my last year at school...

Well, i hope u guys like this and i forgot to mention last chapter that this is a first season story with the Shitennou and Queen Beryl.

Hope this chapter is good! And now for more legalities...

Disclaimer: No...I don't own Sailor Moon...Naoko Takeuchi does...

THAT NIGHT AT THE TSUKINO HOUSEHOLD

As Usagi reached her front door, she fumbled around for her house keys in her bag, managed to find them buried under about ten pounds of candy wrappers and let herself inside the house- tears flowing down her delicate face.

Inside, the smell of a wonderful dinner hit her right in the face, but Usagi took no notice. Mamoru had hurt her too badly for her to be excited about food.

"Mama, I'm home!" Usagi called tearfully to let her mother know that she had finally come home.

"Usagi?" Ikuko called out when she heard her daughter's stricken tone, "Daijoubu ka?" (Are you alright?)

"Hai, I am. Call me for dinner please!" Usagi yelled before fleeing up the stairs for a long cry inside her bedroom.

Ikuko watched her beautiful, blonde-haired daughter flee up the stairs and slam her bedroom door shut. After the resounding noise of the slam had died down, Ikuko turned around and clenched a fist.

"If only Kenji was home. Then I'd get him to go after whoever has hurt my precious Usagi," She said to the empty house.

OVER AT MAMORU'S OFFICE BUILDING…

Mamoru let himself into his office again. He was staying in it for the night because, since he had been robbed, the police had cordoned off his apartment so as to get evidence from the crime scene and had told Mamoru that he was not to enter for at least 24 hours. The room reminded him of work, and was a bit small, but at least it had a comfortable couch.

He tossed his awful jacket onto his desk and placed both hands directly in the middle. He bent his head over the desk and stared at it as if it would give him the answers to all his questions.

"Why did I say that awful thing to Usagi?" He thought, his heart burning at the mere thought of the look on her face when he had said those hurtful words.

He stood up straight, went out to the kitchen and grabbed a mug. He heaped about 3 teaspoons of coffee into it, boiled a kettle and walked back to his office. He plopped into his comfortable chair and stared out at the darkening Tokyo skyline.

"I feel awful!" he thought, "If only I had said how I truly feel, then maybe I wouldn't be staring out this window feeling this way."

He was stunned from his thoughts by the squealing noises made by the kettle and went back to the kitchen to finish making his coffee.

BACK AT THE TSUKINO HOUSEHOLD

Usagi lay face down on her comfortable bed in silence. She was crying softly now instead of sobbing. His words had hit her hard. She had set her alarm for 6am in the morning and she was going to abide by that time.

"I'll show him. I'll show him that Tsukino Usagi is NOT a failure!" she yelled suddenly.

She jumped off her bed in a sudden burst of energy, grabbed her textbooks and- for the first time in a long time- she began studying.

LATER THAT NIGHT- STILL AT THE TSUKINO HOUSEHOLD…

Usagi sat at her newly discovered desk (which had previously been hidden under piles of clothes), studying as if her life depended on it. When her mother had called her and her younger brother, Shingo, down to dinner, Usagi had requested that she eat her dinner in her room. But when Ikuko entered the room with a plate of hokkien noodles and steamed fish, she had nearly had a heart attack when she saw her daughter, at her desk, studying!

"Wow…Usagi…studying…" she had muttered whilst scratching her head and wondering if she was dreaming.

Luna had also wandered into her room and seen Usagi studying- except that she had thought that her charge was reading manga.

"Usagi! Put that manga down or I'll…" she had begun, only to be silenced from her shock when she saw Usagi studying hard.

"Usagi, you're…studying?" Luna had asked- only to be swatted off the desk by Usagi's hand.

Now, Usagi's eyelids were getting heavy and she wanted to sleep. But, if she wanted to be able to walk proudly into the arcade whenever she wanted, she had to study.

AT 2AM, STILL AT THE TSUKINO HOUSEHOLD…

Usagi lay asleep on her desk. She was giggling in her sleep at thoughts of Tuxedo Kamen coming in to defend her from Mamoru-baka's taunting words.

"Oh, Tuxedo Kamen, you're my hero…" she gushed in her sleep, giggling quietly afterwards.

Soon though, she was awakened by her communicator going off very loudly. She pulled the covers over her head, thinking that it was her alarm clock until she felt Luna jump onto her head.

"Usagi!" Luna screeched, "There's a youma attack at the park!"

With that, Usagi bolted upright and grabbed her pink communicator.

"Hey Mercury." she said tiredly, "What kind of youma, where and who?"

"Okay, it is at the Minamiza Park, with Zoisite and it is a really ugly youma." Mercury replied.

"Okay then, I'll be right there…" Usagi mumbled, getting up off her chair and stretching. 'Boy, studying does take a lot out of you!' She thought to herself as she prepared to transform.

AN: Hope that chapter was okay! please review!