A/N: Hey again all my readers! Well, here's the next drabble in a series that seems to go on forever, and I'm just about one fifth of the way through!! (Writing, that is. Not posting...)

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14. Closet

"Ready, Mamoru?" Rei whispered to the closed closet door. The room around her was unlit, and shadows from the darkening sky outside crept across the floor.

"Almost," came the muffled reply. "Remind me again, why am I doing this?"

"Because, I bet Minako a whole chocolate milkshake that Usagi would run away screaming, and goodness knows, that girl doesn't need any more sugar in her system!"

"True…" Mamoru replied. "But what's in it for me?"

"You'll get to laugh at Usagi?" Rei took a stab in the dark (so to speak).

"I don't know… All this trouble just for one joke at Usagi's expense?" Mamoru didn't sound convinced. He thought back to the start of it all. Why had he fallen for the old 'could you take a look in my closet' trick anyway?

"But you can tease her about it for weeks after it!" Rei was getting desperate. "And laugh about it forever!"

"Alright…" Mamoru grumbled. "But you owe me big time!"

"Rei! I'm here!" Usagi called from the front door.

"Come in! I'm in the Fire Room!" Rei yelled back.

"You took your time!" Rei fumed as Usagi walked through the doorframe. Then, in a flash, the spark of anger seemed to die within Rei. "Oh well. I'm glad you're here."

Usagi shot a puzzled look towards her. 'What just happened? Rei's anger seemed to just… go. That's odd…'

"There's something in the closet in my room." Rei continued, a pleading look in her eyes. "Could you take a look please?"

"Um… Ok…"Usagi said, trying to sound braver than she felt. It wasn't often that Rei came to her for help, and she was anxious to prove that she wasn't just a useless crybaby.

Standing tall with a grim expression on her face, Usagi entered Rei's room. The shadows of the early evening cast sinister shadows over everything, and the room was bathed in darkness. Usagi almost cried out when she saw a ghoulish shape coming her way, but it was only a cloud crossing the thinbeam of moonlightin the middle of the floor. Usagi shuddered. Bracing herself, she opened the closet door.

You could have heard a pin drop as Usagi stared, jaw hanging open, at the figure in the closet. Only one thought broke through her stunned daze. 'Oop- '

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"

Usagi ran out of the room screaming, but she didn't stop once she got out of the room.

By the time Mamoru walked out of the closet, shock written on his face, she was already halfway back to her house, still screaming about the 'hideous monster in the closet.'

Back at the Tsukino residence, Usagi was howling into her pillow.

"What happened, Usagi?" Luna asked, concerned. This didn't seem like one of Usagi's normal tear-fits. She actually seemed really scared.

"It was awful, Luna! My worst nightmare. It was… Mamoru…" Usagi sobbed.

Luna glanced at her, puzzled. "But, Usagi, you see him every day…"

"N-no…" Usagi sniffled, "in his boxers!"

Luna stifled a snicker as she rubbed against Usagi's side comfortingly.

"Well, you know what they say, Usagi!" she purred reassuringly. "There are only two things you find in closets. Monsters, and…"

"And?" Usagi's head peeked slowly up from her pillow, but a twinkle in her eye betrayed her curiosity.

"Clothes…!" Luna said quickly, her tail twitching. "That's the only two things you will ever find in closets! Nothing else! At all!"

"Luna, you're babbling!"

"I am not!" Luna said curtly, although her cheeks were flushing red.