Hey!

Glad you all liked the last chapter! And thankyou all for your lovely reviews!

Now, I personally didn't really think that this chapter was up to scratch but I hope you like it anyway...there will be more Mamo/Usa reactions in the future (just as a warning) so I will work on those!

Anyways, onto more legalities...

Disclaimer: Neither Sailor Moon or InuYasha (slight mention at the end of the chapter) belong to me.

THAT AFTERNOON…

Mamoru entered the arcade. He had finished work for the day and it was exactly 3:30pm. He had had a better day compared to the day before and he could not wait to see his Odango! He waltzed inside and yelled to the arcade,

"Afternoon, Odan…"

He stopped. Usagi was nowhere to be seen.

'Hmm…maybe she has detention…again…' he thought to himself as he shrugged and walked up to the counter.

"Hey Motoki-kun! How's the cleaning going?" he asked

The arcade proprietor turned around. When Mamoru had left the arcade the morning, he had been rather angry as there had been a rather large coffee stain in his best pants. Motoki could still see the stain in the pants but he could not see the anger in the owner of the pants.

"Err…fine, I guess." Motoki replied, staring at his rather insanely happy best friend.

"Where's Odango?" Mamoru asked expectantly, as if Motoki knew the answers to all his questions.

"She's not coming today, Mamoru-kun."

Mamoru looked surprised.

"Why?"

"I found this note at the front doorfrom her when I went to buy more milk. It reads, and I quote,

'Dear Motoki,

I will not be coming to the arcade this afternoon nor will I be coming for at least a week- maybe more. Please let Mamoru know if he asks where I am and tell him that I will come back once I have grown up according to his standards and also let him know that I got seventy-five percent in my homework practice test today.

Thank you Motoki!

Love, Usagi.'

"So, Mamoru, As you can see, Usagi will not coming to the arcade this afternoon because of your cruel comments."

Mamoru did a face vault. Usagi was not coming? His Odango was not coming to the arcade for her usual sundae…wait…

'Did I just say 'MY Odango?' he thought, 'hmmm…'

Motoki watched emotions flow across Mamoru's face and watched as he shrugged and then stood up.

"Wait!" Motoki called.

"Hm?" Mamoru questioned

"Aren't you going to ask for a very strong black coffee?" Motoki asked, "You always do!"

Mamoru pondered this thought for a moment and then shook his head.

"No Motoki, nothing without Odango seems right today so I won't ask for my usual coffee." He replied, turning away to leave rather half-heartedly.

Motoki looked worried. Was Mamoru actually missing Usagi? And wait, did he just happen to make a slight mention that, without Usagi, his day was not right? Hmmm...

OVER AT THE TSUKINO HOUSEHOLD

Usagi opened her front door. It had been a heart-wrenching experience to leave a note at the arcade door saying that she wouldn't be entering the arcade for at least a week. Her hands itched to play the new Sailor V game which had just arrived two days ago and she knew that Shingo would not allow her to go anywhere near his gaming consoles. She also knew that if she didn't study, she may not be allowed to go into the arcade ever again! An image of what that might be like flashed through her mind…

An aged Usagi crossed the busy Tokyo streets. Space-suit adorned people were everywhere. She could see the arcade come into view and her heart leapt. She felt like dancing- but she was too old for that now. She crossed over to the arcade, pressed her hands against the glass and looked in with wonder. But, her smile faded at the sight of all the business suit-adorned men inside. Business women also walked aroundinside the arcade. She was just about to walk inside to stop this nonsense when she felt a hand on her shoulder.

"No Odango, you cannot come in here. You're too immature, remember?" Mamoru's sneering voice said out of nowhere.

Usagi's head flooded with that sneering tone...

"Too immature…too immature…too imma…"

"NOOOO!" Usagi screamed at the top of her lungs! "I will not be brought down by that baka! He is not the boss of me! I will do what I choose and I choose to study and ace those tests! I will show up at that arcade in a week's time and shove his heartless comments in his face! I'll show you baka!"

"Umm…Usagi? Are you okay?" Shingo asked from nowhere with a slightly surprised look on his face

"GYAAHHH!" Usagi squealed, frightened by the fact that her brother had snuck up on her like that.

Shingo just raised an eyebrow and bypassed his sister to go into his own room. Usagi watched him and then walked into her own room. She opened her school case, brought out her calculator and maths homework and, for the first time in her life, decided to study because she actually felt like it. She liked the feeling she had gotten when she had achieved 75 that morning. She had felt all happy and successful- not like a failure. Usagi grinned and quickly got to work on her maths homework- hoping to bring that 75 to at least an 80.

THAT NIGHT- AT THE TSUKINO HOUSEHOLD

Usagi sat up in bed, reading her manga. She had finished the whole night's worth of homework about an hour before (much to the shock of her mother and father) and had gone to collect a mug of hot chocolate and then had changed into her pyjamas. She was then granted the pleasure of reading manga without the burden of homework on her shoulders.

"Ha, ha, ha! InuYasha was told to sit again! Go Kagome!" Usagi laughed as she enjoyed her InuYasha manga.

Luna, who was sitting at Usagi's side on the bed, smiled at her charge and shut her eyes, ready to enjoy a night's rest- hopefully without youma disturbances.

AN: I hope that that was okay...please review!