Okay after a lot of deliberation on who should win the race i finally this chappie.

Just a note: i'm thinking of writing another story after this one, i typed up a quick summary, its Life Swap, title is just random i need to think of a better one. Still if you could read it and let me know what you think.

Disclaimer- Once again i am here to tell you that i absolutely and definately do not own the Manga/Anime or anything else relating to Sailor Moon. If i did Seiya and Haruka would get together, and Mamoru would stay in America indefinetly.

On with the tale.


Even though she could not see him, she could tell that he was right on her shoulder, a new experience for her; in most cases she never even had to think about the other runners, let alone worry about even the slightest possibility that someone might pass her, unless of course she was simply pacing herself for a speedy finish. But there he was, right behind her. It was highly distracting she thought as she put on more speed to try and pull away.

100m gone, and he still hadn't trailed, neither had he attempted to overtake, she had seen other runners try this trick, keep on your opponents tail, force them to use up their energy trying to stay ahead of you, then right at the last second pull past. Well there was no way he was going to pull that one on her. If he was going to hang around behind her, he could jolly well stay there.

200m and Seiya hadn't felt this determined to win in a real battle of strength for years. He knew Haruka was an amazing runner, many said she was the fastest in all earth, and those that knew about the past said the fastest in the solar system. It wasn't surprising; she was the wind Senshi, fast was in her nature. But he wasn't from this galaxy, and he was the fastest from his own home, a shooting star, he would prove that.

300m and the finish line was in sight. Both started to speed up, pushing themselves to go faster. From the corner of her eye Haruka could see that as they came out onto the straight path, Seiya was level with her. Again this was new to her, a normal race was barely a challenge, now she was using all her strength. Neither had ever focused so hard on that white line on the floor.

400m and it was hard to believe it had only been less than a minute since they had started, Haruka had never been so worn out by a race, she had run marathons and not felt this tired. Seiya too was really feeling it. It had been a very long time since he ran that hard, Haruka at least raced on a more regular basis.

Neither had any idea who had won, and they watched as Yuki ran over to the man she had enlisted to help her if need be, they stood comparing times before Yuki beamed and started to walk slowly over.

Haruka raised her self from leaning on her knees to catch her breath and yelled over.

"Yuki, hurry it up will you!" She yelled. She heard a small tired laugh from nearby as Seiya also looked up.

"I think Yuki, you should get over here and tell us before poor Tenoh collapses from exhaustion… oof!" Haruka had nudged him aside causing him to stagger and fall.

"Who's collapsing Kou?"

Yuki had finally reached them and Seiya heaved himself off the floor, shooting Haruka an annoyed look, she returned with a superior one.

"Well…" Yuki looked from one to the other and then down at the two stopwatches she was carrying. Silence.

"Well?" Said both in frustration.

"Well you both just smashed the record…" she said.

"AND!" Yuki took a couple of steps away from them.

"And er… well by 0.71 seconds… the winner was…"


The End ... No just kidding:D i'm mean but not that mean.

"I knew it!"
"Just shut it already!"
"No way,"

"It was 0.71 seconds, it was hardly a grand victory,"

Haruka raised an eyebrow at him; she couldn't help but smirk at the sulky look on his face.

"You're just riled because you lost to a woman,"

"Woman is debatable," sniffed Seiya.

"Well whatever, I still beat your ass,"

"By less than a second, and I'd already raced,"

"Excuses don't do you any favours Kou,"

Seiya sighed; the horrible thing was that she was absolutely right. No matter what he said, there was no debating the fact that he had lost… it may have been an unbelievably small margin time wise, but it was still a loss. As the two headed out into the car park, Haruka was still bragging away animatedly about her win, and he'd given up listening. She soon caught on to this fact.

"Would it stop you jumping off a bridge if I told you, that you are probably the best opponent I've raced against?"

He turned to face her and it was his turn to raise an eyebrow.

"If I told you it would stop me… would you tell me?"

Haruka laughed.

"Maybe," she walked ahead towards her car. Seiya watched her go. She was so different at the track to how she was anywhere else. In fact, if you heard them and you didn't know them, you'd probably think they were just good friends bickering, kind of like Usagi and Rei. Whether it was just some strange effect the track had on people he didn't know. He always felt much more relaxed and himself whenever he came here and he supposed that was why they were both simply 'bickering' and not yelling and glaring at each other.

As Haruka got into her car, she was wondering along the same lines. She was just glad the scouts hadn't witnessed the previous conversation, they'd probably be bugging her for weeks about 'Oh My God, you mean you and Seiya were alone, within fifty feet of each other… and your both still walking!!!'

She knew that they had a point, most days whenever she ran into him, she got the intense desire to hit him...hard. Maybe it was his cocky attitude, she wasn't sure, but since the day he had come round to her house to apologise, the feeling had lessened to simply a desire to show him up. Which she had done, and she would use that fact for all it was worth. She was just about to start her car when…

"Oi Tenoh," She turned in her seat and saw Seiya leant against his own car.

"What!" She yelled back, trying to sound annoyed.

"I'll want a rematch!"

She smiled to herself and turned away starting the engine, as he opened his door and slid inside.


"KOU YOU MORON!"

"ME! YOU'RE THE BLOODY MORON!"

And off they went again. Another scout meeting ended by Haruka and Seiya. Today the issue was a slight scratch in Haruka's paintwork. Now normally she would be very upset about this, after all, the car was her pride and joy. But since it was Seiya's car that appeared to have done the damage, she wasn't upset… she was livid.

The scouts, plus Taiki and Yaten, watched on in despair. Well except Yaten who watched on in annoyance, and Setsuna who seemed vaguely amused by the scene.

"IS IT MY FAULT IF YOU PARK LEAVING ALL THAT SPACE IN FRONT OF YOUR CAR, IF YOU'D GONE FORWARD A COUPLE OF INCHES I'D OF HAD THE SPACE TO PARK PROPERLY!"

"YOU COULD HAVE FOUND SOMEWHERE ELSE TO PARK!"

"NOT WITHIN THREE MILES I COULDN'T!"

"SO WALK!"

"Oh Haruka, Seiya just quit it will you," Makoto stamped over

"Nose OUT Makoto!" They shouted not even looking at her since neither wanted to be the first to break eye contact. Makoto threw her arms up in frustration.

"Come on we'll leave them here to argue it out." She said, the others sighed and nodded, and they all turned and headed away leaving Seiya and Haruka to tear each other apart in private.


"Have you two quite finished?" Said Minako looking from one to the other.

Both looking pointedly in different directions, they nodded.

"And you promise you're not going to start up again and make a scene,"

Both nodded again.

"Very well you may join us," Mina and Makoto, who were sat on the ends of the seats in the Crowns café, scooted up allowing Seiya and Haruka to sit down.

"Well as we were saying before we were interrupted by that petty fight between two of us who we all know!" Said Mina looking pointedly at Seiya and Haruka, who both rolled their eyes and continued to look like sulky teenagers. "Since it has been quiet for some time now, I think that…" she stopped as someone's phone went off loudly.

"Oh for goodness sake… I thought we said phones off during meetings and… oh, it's me,"

Even Seiya and Haruka let out a sigh and a small smile at Mina's display of her usual dizziness.

"Hello… yes… uh huh… oh my god… yes it's perfect… yes thank you… goodbye," She hung up, a huge smile on her face. She composed herself.

"Now where was I,"
"Woh wait a sec what was that about," Makoto leaned forward across the table.

"Nothing…" said Mina slowly; she gave a small cough, "So if…"

"Uh uh, tell us," Usagi and Rei had now leant in as well, and Ami soon followed suit along with Hotaru, and Yaten. Haruka and Seiya, though they continued to pretend to be in a sulk, were listening intently, Taiki looked interested, and Setsuna was smiling knowingly to herself. Minako sighed and for a moment acted frustrated at not being able to get to the end of the meeting. Then the frustration disappeared and gave way to excitable, bouncy, smiling Mina.

"Well… that call was from this company, and they're only like the biggest firm in Japan and one of the top in the world for films!"

"And," Chorused the Inners.

"AND! They only want ME, to be a leading part in their latest project."

There was a chorus of loud screams, a couple of crashes, and a loud "Ow guys you're suffocating me," from Mina, as all the younger girls leapt at her. Haruka and Seiya finally dropped all pretence and smiled widely, congratulating her when she emerged from the pile that was the Inner Senshi. When Taiki and Yaten both offered there own congratulations Yaten found himself being crushed round the middle by the excited blonde and he turned a violent shade of pink, which changed to purple as he found she was cutting off his oxygen supply.

Pretty soon they were getting thrown out for disturbing the customers and nearly breaking the table by jumping across it. But high spirits meant they weren't too bothered.

"I'm so happy for Mina, she's dreamed of this," Said Seiya to the person walking beside him as he watched Mina dancing with the rest of the Inners and Hotaru, just ahead.

"She certainly deserves it after all she's been through to get there," Haruka smiled at the ditzy blonde, who was already drawing the stares of passers by, without a care in the world.

Seiya nodded, then both turned their heads, on making eye contact both looked away immediately as if electrocuted.

"Don't think I've forgotten my car Kou!" Snapped Haruka and she strode away to walk with Setsuna. Seiya frowned after her for a while, jumping slightly when Setsuna turned at him, a small smile playing on her face. She seemed to do that a lot, and it annoyed him, it was like she knew something he didn't, or she knew something about him. Had Haruka told her something… that wasn't possible what would Haruka know about him without him knowing that she knew it? But she had looked away again almost instantly and Yaten had joined him, moaning about broken ribs from Mina's hug, so his train of thought was broken as he started to tease his brother about his very obvious blush.

"I couldn't breath… It was not a blush!" was all he got in return.


"Ready to admit defeat Kou… or do you want another rematch!" A smirking Haruka was what met him as he walked out onto the track. He frowned, he had so far had three more races against Haruka, and to be fair to him he had never been more than a second behind her. This however served less to encourage him, more to infuriate him that he could quite get passed.

"Oh not again," Yuki groaned,

They both looked over at her as she collapsed to the floor on her knees.

"You two need a new hobby," and she promptly fell limply to the side so she was lying on the floor, "Just watching you battle it out makes me tired, having to referee nearly killed me last time"

Both Seiya and Haruka laughed, Yuki was a dramatic, much like Minako and she usually managed to calm the tense feeling and bring out an almost friendly atmosphere between the two rivals.

"You needn't play mediator Yuki, you'd save yourself some trouble and energy," Laughed Seiya.

"What!" Yuki sat up again, "And have you two murder each other… nuh uh,"

"I had no idea you cared so much Yuki," Smiled Haruka.

"Ha," Said Yuki pulling herself back onto her feet, "I don't give a damn bout you two, I just don't want to be the one who has to clear up your remains when you tear each other apart,"

"Well that makes me feel so loved,"
"Yeah Charming Yuki,"

"Yeah yeah… look can we just have a non competitive session… just once? Please!" She begged. She looked so pitiful that neither Seiya or Haruka could deny her.

"Alright," They said.

"You'll call truce?"

"I guess," They nodded.

"Shake on it!"

"Wha…" They froze, and then turned their heads to face each other, then away again to look at Yuki.

"Yuki… you could…"

"Can't you just… take our word for it,"

Yuki frowned at them both, and she shook her head. She strode forward and grabbed the right hand of both and held them near each other.

"You two are going to shake or I'm going to leave and you can clear up your own bloody mess!" she let go of their hands, which hung in the same position.

Each eyed the others hand as if it might be diseased, not wanting to be the first to make a move. Yuki frowned at them again, and then made a move as if to leave.

"Eugh, damn it Yuki," Haruka rolled her eyes and moved her hand slightly, Seiya followed suit and soon the two were locked in a handshake. Yuki gave a triumphant smile.

"Truce?"

"Truce," They both sighed.


So... Haruka and Seiya called a truce... who saw that coming... (raises hand) :P so where to go next, i'll have to get my brain in gear.

Remember i love reviews :). Speaking of which... last chapter's reviews were as always a great motivation and they make me feel all fuzzy and loved:

bibi3758: Yeah i didn't even think of it till when i was writing the last few bits, thanks for all your comments ;)

Seiharu: Once again thank you, and poor Yaten, oh well i'm sure it'll get better as time goes by ;) also 'ingenius' new one for me xP i've been called many things... but that one made my friends laugh, i'm very Minako, born blonde i think.

RICEA42991: I'd like to see that vid... i think they make good rivals, but a better couple -

Nancy: Okay Okay... (is scared, hides behind couch with laptop to update as fast as possible)

Jokerisdating: Thanks, i try :)

Sailorahiru: Yeah i had some trouble with those tough decisions, but i decided that Haruka's smugness could be turned to my advantage more than more hatred xP. Thanks for you comment :)

Well as always thank you guys for your kind reviews, all positive so far, which is a good sign. I'll try and Update Soon. Ciao.