Thanks for the reviews everyone! They're what keeps this story going!

Anyways, about last chapter...

Usagi did not climb out her window because I wanted to make her escape harder for her and besides, nearly every story I have read which includes an escape scene from the house has had Usagi climbing out her bedroom window. So, I thought I would be different for a change!

Okay, now that my little rant is over, onto the story!

Disclaimer: What? I don't own Sailor Moon? Damn...

A CONTINUATION OF CHAPTER 3…

About 1 hour later after the fight, Usagi came sneaking up her front steps outside her house. She pulled her forgotten trench coat from the bushes beside the steps, fished her keys out and quietly unlocked the door.

CHAPTER 4- THE NEXT DAY

At about 6:30am that next morning, Usagi was stirred from her sleep by her very annoying alarm clock.

"Damare…" (Shut up) she mumbled.

She was just about to pull her pillow back over her head when she remembered that she could only show her face at the arcade once she had decided to grow up.

'Fine…I'll get up now…' she thought as she sat up slowly and swung her legs over the side of her bed.

Ten minutes later, Ikuko came walking up the stairs to awaken her daughter, thinking that she was still sleeping, and nearly had a heart attack when she saw her daughter walk into the bathroom with her vanilla-scented shampoo and conditioner and her bunny-print towel!

'Usagi? Up before eight in the morning? Hmmm…someone must have spiked my coffee…' she thought as she scratched her head and did an about-face to walk back down the stairs.

About an hour later, Usagi came quietly down the stairs in her school uniform and began to help herself to her mother's famous blueberry pancakes. She was busy tucking into them when she felt like she was being stared at. She turned her head to the left and to the right and, sure enough, on one side of her was her mother Ikuko and on the other side was her brother Shingo.

"Usagi? Are you really up early or am I dreaming?" Ikuko asked dazedly- still shocked that her daughter was up before 8am.

"Wow, baka Usagi was up before me for once…" Shingo remarked in surprise.

Usagi just blinked at them and got back to eating her rather large helping of pancakes. She finished in less than ten minutes, got up from her chair, kissed her mother on the cheek, hugged Shingo- to which he remarked "Ew!"- grabbed her lunch pack, homework and school bag and ran out the door.

"Okay, who was that and what have they done with my daughter?" Ikuko commented to no one in particular.

Shingo just shook his head in reply.

ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL…

At exactly 8:15am, Usagi rounded the corner just before her school. It seemed weird to arrive at school that early, and something had not seemed quite right about the whole marathon run to school. She couldn't quite place what had seemed so weird about it until she turned around and saw Mamoru walking down the street behind her. Usagi grinned evilly at his retreating form.

She watched with no surprise as he stopped abruptly in his tracks for a moment, looked up from the newest novel he was reading and looked around.She smirked when she watched him look around with a confused look on his face. She just stood in the school grounds for a moment and watched Mamoru until he looked up and saw her, standing in the front yard of Juuban Junior High- watching him. His jaw dropped.

Usagi was at school fifteen minutes early?

Mamoru gawked at her for what appeared to be a very long time- but in reality was only about two minutes. Usagi's smirk changed into a wide grin that took up her whole face.

"Morning baka!" she chirped cheerfully

"M-m-morning Odango…" he replied dazedly.

Usagi smirked again. She could get used to this side of Mamoru! Confused, surprised and shocked…it made her feel much better when he was the one who could not come back with witty retorts. She watched him gawk at her until she heard the school bell ring.

"Well baka, if I want to show my face at the arcade, I had better go inside and ace those tests!" she yelled.

Mamoru's eyes widened. He had not forgotten that- he had just thought that she had not taken him seriously.

"O-okay…" he said as he watched her walk confidently into the school.

AT THE ARCADE- AN HOUR LATER…

Mamoru walked into the arcade- with a very strange look on his face. Motoki looked up from the counter he was cleaning when he heard the bell above the door ring and his eyes narrowed when he saw his best friend enter the arcade. Well, soon-to-be former best friend if he didn't apologise to Usagi when he next saw her… Motoki watched as Mamoru approached the counter and waited until the black-haired man had sat down to bite into him for the cruel remark he had made the day before.

"Chiba Mamoru! What the heck was that comment you made all about yesterday? You hurt Usagi really badly! You are such a baka! I cannot believe…"

Mamoru put up a hand to silence Motoki. Motoki stopped his rant and also stopped pounding the bench to support his comments. He looked Mamoru in the eye and noticed a strange glint in them.

"Mamoru? Are you okay?" Motoki asked

Mamoru continued to stare at Motoki until he began to tell the tale of the strange thing he had seen that day.

"Usagi was at school at eight fifteen this morning. She also said that she was going to pass the tests. I think she took me seriously Motoki." He said with wonder in his voice.

"Yeah, so? She's probably doing it so she can show her face around here ever since you did not permit her to come in here, which, may I remind you, is my job. I tell which customers to leave and which customers to stay. The rules in this place do not state that the best friend of the proprietor tells customers what to do and what not to do." Came Motoki's slightly spiteful reply.

Mamoru didn't hear that comment. He just stared into space…until he felt a burning sensation in his pants…

"MOTOKI! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" Mamoru yelled as he tried to hurriedly wipe off the burning coffee the Motoki had dumped on him to make him listen.

"You went into fairy land and I wanted you to listen to what I had to say for once!" Motoki said simply.

Mamoru finally got the primary burning off his pants and went to the bathroom to wash the coffee stains off.

BACK AT JUUBAN JUNIOR HIGH

Usagi entered Sakuranda Haruna's maths class with her completed homework sheets in hand and a worried look on her face. She felt worried that Miss Haruna would not like her work and tell her to go to detention for not getting the answers all right. She shakily placed the sheet onto the growing homework pile and went to sit at her desk. She didn't see Miss Haruna's shocked face as she picked up her homework and looked it over with wonder in her eyes.

"Tsukino Usagi? Please come up the front."

Usagi slid out of her chair under the watchful eyes of her classmates and walked slowly up the front.

"Yes, Haruna-sensei?" Usagi asked timidly

"You did your homework?"

"Hai, I did."

"Miracles can happen…" Miss Haruna remarked in a near whisper.

Usagi watched her teacher look the homework sheet over, over and over again until she took out her marking sheet for that particular homework and began to mark it right then and there. It was finished in five minutes and Miss Haruna looked up at Usagi and said,

"Seventy-five percent, Miss Tsukino. Well done!"

There were shocked gasps from around the class as Usagi's eyes went wide. Seventy-five percent? She had passed! Mamoru was going to go bonkers when he heard this!

'Oohh…Mamoru-baka is going to freak when he hears this! Not to mention what my friends and family will say!" Usagi thought as a grin emerged on her face.

'But is it good enough to go into the arcade with?' she thought as the grin disappeared.

AN: Usagi has passed a test, but is it good enough for her to pass Mamoru's standards? Hmmm... please review!