Title: Graduation - Luna's view point part I
Author: Ree
Theme: Cats (finished)
Genre: General
Version: Manga/Anime Silver Millennium
Rating: G

The cats and all their friends are all from the imaginations of Takeuchi Naoko. I'm not that creative.

Graduation

Luna gazed into the mirror. Sparkling blue eyes gazed back at her. 'Today is the day. ' Her eyes sparkled even brighter. Today she was graduating from the training school, and finally eligible to join the diplomatic corps. 'And I'm at the top of my class! All that hard work has finally paid off. Tomorrow I'll be a diplomat. I will be able to work with people from many worlds, and many systems.' She turned away from the mirror and prepared to leave.

On her way to the school, Luna watched as groups moved out of her way. Holding in her sigh, she kept on walking. She knew that they thought she had it easy, and that she didn't deserve to be valedictorian of the class. It was because both of her parents were diplomats. Luna could have told them that her parents were both minor diplomats, but she knew that they wouldn't care. Her friends knew how hard she had worked for this. She had taken every course offered, even the minor foreign languages. Her friends knew her dream was to become an ambassador, not just a minor diplomat. Up ahead she saw her friend, Cari. Luna started to walk faster.

"Cari! Cari!"

The ginger-colored girl turned. "Luna!" She waited until Luna was next to her before she continued. "So, have you heard back from any of your applications?"

Luna nodded."I've heard back from the home planet corps departments."

Cari waited a moment longer, but Luna didn't continue. "So nothing back from the ambassador division?" "Not yet."Luna did her best to hide her disappointment.

Cari grinned."Don't worry Luna. It's coming. So why don't you decline to corps office, and tell them to give it to me?" Luna shot her a teasing look. "Yeah, right. Maybe I want to stay home for awhile. Even if they offer me the Jalilan position."

Both girls were laughing as they walked onto the auditorium. They both knew that it was Luna's dream to be the ambassador for the Jalilan system.

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Luna stood at the edge of the campus looking back at the school building. The ceromony had been perfect, and she was now a certified diplomat. 'One with out a job. Okay Luna, just take the job offered to you.' She looked down at her paws. 'I need the experience anyway. Besides it's an honor to be accepted to the main branch of the diplomatic corps right out of school.'

She turned to take her final steps off the campus when the sound of two people talking caught her attetion. Without thinking she stopped and listened.

"She would be perfect. With the array of classes she has taken, she would be a great assistant. She has even taken the language course." The guy's voice sounded coaxing.

"She is not experienced enough to be an ambassador's assistant. We have many highly qualified diplomats in the corps already." This one sounded defensive.

"They are all male, and they haven't taken the language. We need a female assistant. Sol is quite a distance from here."

Luna puzzled over why distance and gender should matter for just a moment. 'No! They can't be thinking of that...' She suppressed the thought and hurried off feeling sorry for the girl diplomat.