Disclaimer: I hope you enjoy this story, my mother and I have been working on this for some time now, I do not own Sailor Moon or any character involved with it. It belongs to Naoko Takeuchi, This is a story for what happens after the Three Lights leave!
CHAPTER 5
When the girls came out of school the next afternoon, they noticed Kakyuu's limo driver holding the car door open as Rei climbed in.
"Ladies," he bowed at Serena, Lita, Mina and Ami, still holding the door open.
"Is something wrong?" Ami questioned as they neared the car.
"I owe you a coffee," Kakyuu stated from inside the car, peeking out at the girls.
"I wasn't serious," Lita squeaked, feeling guilty for making Kakyuu think that she was really indebt to them.
"I know," Kakyuu laughed gently. "I think I will be rather busy for awhile and wanted a good giggle and gab session."
"We could set aside a specific day for that," Serena offered, "That way you will have something to look forward to when you get bummed out." Serena smiled and sat next to her new friend.
"I would like that," Kakyuu admitted.
"Where is the best place to go for this gab stuff you have with tea?" Sikora asked.
The girls all broke into laughter, even Kakyuu.
"Gab is a form of communication that friends do together," Kakyuu explained, still giggling.
"Rei's,!" The girls said in agreement.
"It's donut day," Serena spouted.
"Where would that be?" The driver asked through the divider window, as he slowly pulled away from the curb.
"I'll show you," Rei volunteered and climbed through the little window and sat up front.
"Watch out for Grandpa when you get there," Lita warned Kakyuu and Sikora. "He likes to flirt with pretty women.
"He's completely harmless," Mina laughed.
"He does not mind such a large intrusion?" Sikora questioned.
"He loves playing host," Lita assured them.
"In their certain topics one should or should not gab about?" Sikora inquired.
"We talk about boys," Mina grinned.
"We talk about anything we want," Lita told her. "You know."
"Boys," Mina mentioned again.
"Mina discusses boys, we talk about school, who's dating who," Serena responded. "The latest movie, how bad I am doing in school," she snickered.
"There is a math test tomorrow, so during our gab fest, we'll be helping Serena study," Ami stated.
"That's not fair," Serena whined.
"And we'll pick on Serena every time she whines or gives the wrong answer," Lita chuckled.
"She's actually funny sometimes when she gets frustrated," Mina threw in.
"You talk about her like she isn't here," Kakyuu scowled, then smiled at Serena.
"She has allot of faults," Rei commented from the front seat.
"Do not!," Serena defended herself.
"Do!," Rei started.
"Do not!," Serena yelled again.
"Do!," Rei giggled
"Do not, do not, do not!," Serena started getting frustrated.
"Do, do , do, do!," Rei laughed harder.
"Oh, please," Ami protested.
"Do not!," Serena turned and stuck her tongue out at Rei.
Lita pulled the glass divider shut. Rei tried to reopen it, but Lita could easily out power Rei's attempts.
"This is a normal part of tea and gab sessions," Ami sighed.
"Why do you spend time with each other, if you are going to argue and become frustrated?," Sikora asked inquisitively.
"It's their way of showing affection for each other," Mina explained.
The car stopped, Serena opened one door and Mina the other.
"Come on," Serena chirped and ran up the steps.
"Grandpa, I need some sweets," Serena bellowed as she ran.
"She'll tell him we need extra cups," Ami said to no one in particular.
"Not if Grandpa already has donuts out for us," Rei quipped.
"I'll take of it,"Mina volunteered and bounced off up the stairs.
"What's he going to do?" Lita whispered and twitched her head slightly in the direction of the driver.
"This gab session is strictly for girls?" He inquired.
Lita giggled with embarrassment, she hadn't meant for him to hear her,"Umm...Well...Ahh!" She stammered.
"To tell you the truth Sir," Ami politely interjected, "We've never had a guy at our gab sessions."
"My name is Maliki," he smiled at Ami. "I have a few things to tend to. Or I could..."
"No," Sikora scowled.
"Does that mean you'll be discussing me?," A bright eyed grin formed on his face.
"Maybe," Sikora had a teasing tone and a very big grin.
"Maybe I'll sneak in," Maliki winked at Rei.
"They might not know your female form, but we do," Kakyuu smirked.
"I'll leave you ladies to enjoy yourselves," Maliki gave a little pout.
Sikora went over and gave him a kiss on the cheek, "I'll call your cell when we're ready to go."
"More pretty young ladies," Grandpa beamed.
"They're here to join our study group, Grandpa," Rei told him.
"Chad is brewing some extra tea, I'll see if its ready," Grandpa puttered off, but kept looking back over his shoulder and smiling at the girls.
Everyone chose a place to sit around Rei's tea table. Before Rei had a chance to sit down, Grandpa appeared in the doorway with a tea tray.
"Thank-you,"Rei said and took the tray.
"Bye Grandpa," the girls said and gave a little wave.
Using her feet, Rei slid the doors closed.
"You remember your math book and notes, didn't you Serena?" Ami asked as Rei served the tea.
"Yeah," Serena sighed. "I need donuts and tea first."
"We wouldn't think of trying to get you to study on an empty stomach," Lita sarcastically remarked.
"Muu..baler...D..Gooby..Battermay" Serena mumbled with her mouthful.
"What?" Rei stared at her wide-eyed.
"New Sailor V movie on Saturday," Ami replied.
"How did you come up with that?" Rei questioned Ami.
"Serena's been talking to us with food in her mouth for years," Ami giggled.
"Help me study!" Serena screamed and in a flash pulled her math book out of her bag.
"Since when do you want to study so eagerly?" Rei scowled at Serena.
"If I don't pass I'll be grounded, and won't be able to see the movie," Serena whined and pouted at her friends.
"It's just a review on this chapter," Lita flipped the pages in Serena's textbook to the appropriate section.
"But we haven't finished this," Serena remarked. "There's still this stuff," She pointed at the last four pages.
"We've been working on that for the past two days, Mr. Hayashi said that whatever wasn't complete today would be homework. You have to hand it in tomorrow," Lita explained to Serena.
"That's what you get for dozing off and goofing around with..." Lita started to lecture but Serena cut her off.
"You fed me all that lunch and I fell asleep," Serena whined.
"We know what or I mean who you were dreaming about too," Mina laughed.
Sikora leaned a little closer to Serena and glanced at the math problems.
"I can show you and easy equation to figure this out," Sikora offered raking a piece of paper and Serena's pencil.
Sikora showed Serena step by step instruction, then repeated the steps.
"Now you try," Sikora told Serena.
Serena did one, then another.
"I think I got it," Serena howled and let herself fall backwards.
"Donut time," Mina said and stuffed a donut in Serena's mouth.
"I'll get some more tea while you work on a few of them," Rei told Serena.
"I'll give you a hand," Lita stood up with Rei. "Serena's going to need another plate of donuts."
Ami started talking with Kakyuu. Mina took some paper, a pencil and a math book from her bag.
"I'll start at the last page," she said to Serena, "and you start at the front."
"How is Serena going to learn if you are doing her work?" Sikora asked Mina.
"She knows hot to do it now and I want practice," Mina smiled.
"We can get it done sooner," Serena grinned.
"If you didn't dream, scream and argue with Seiya..."Mina smiled.
"I can't control my dreams," Serena whined.
"You didn't get your work done because of Seiya?" Sikora scowled.
"I fell asleep in class and I had a dream about Seiya, then screamed his name in my dream and... Out loud I guess," Serena sighed. "And now he wants me to tell him what I was dreaming about, I don't want to tell him," a sad pout formed on Serena's face, then she looked away from Sikora and went back to her math.
"Did you know Molly is taking Melvin to Austria when her and her mom go next month?" Rei mentioned as she refilled everyone's tea.
"They don't seem to go anywhere without the other," Mina snickered.
"Like you and Yaten," Lita quipped to Mina.
"When we're together other girls don't bother him," Mina responded, "We're not going out or anything.. We're just friends."
"Sure," Lita nodded and winked at Mina.
"You follow him around and flirt like Seiya does to Serena," Rei snickered.
"Seiya doesn't do that," Serena defended.
"Serena, you're so naive," Rei huffed.
"Am, not!" Serena yelled.
"Are!" Rei scowled.
"Not!" Serena screamed.
"Are, are, are!" Rei laughed loudly.
Serena gave up with a huff and did another math question.
"Have you found many of your people yet?" Ami asked Kakyuu, ignoring the Serena-Rei squabble.
"Maliki has been in contact with a few. They will soon travel to different galaxies and explain our situation to others," Kakyuu explained.
"Will you be leaving?" Lita asked Sikora.
"No, my place is with Kakyuu," Sikora informed Lita.
"That's good," Ami smiled. "Taiki and I have been working on a computer generated force field for your sparring ring, we need it to confine our powers plus yours," She told Sikora. "It's probably going to be another week or more before we can actually test it out."
"A sparring ring?" Rei quarried.
"I'm having one built on the estate," Sikora informed them, "we'll be going to a different world, with unknown neighbors. We have to keep our fighting skills up, plus there is always new ones to train, Ami thought it would be goof for you girls to practice in too. You may not have a new enemy right now, but one may come some day."
"It can be used for regular hand to hand training," Ami added, "or Sailor power training, we have to make sure that when Sailor powers are used they stay in a confined are. We can't have Mars using Sniper arrow and it taking off to who knows where."
"Are you saying my aim is bad?" Rei sneered at Ami.
"If you shoot your arrow and Sikora moves where does that charged energy go?" Kakyuu grinned at Rei.
"Why would she shoot at Sikora?" Serena screeched.
"It's just to practice, dummy," Rei scowled and shook her head at Serena.
"I find hand to hand good for working out frustrations," Sikora said, looking directly at Rei.
"Rei will be there everyday," Mina laughed.
"I think its a great idea," Lita beamed, "when will it be ready?"
"the ring itself should be ready early next week," Sikora replied. "But to use Sailor powers, will take a little longer," she looked over at Ami.
"We are moving to the estate on the weekend," Kakyuu told the girls, "maybe you can all come and stay one weekend."
"That sounds great," they all chimed.
"Finish your homework," Rei ordered Serena, "or you won't be going anywhere for weeks."
"Yeah," Mina scowled at Serena, "I've already done a whole page."
"Two more questions and I'll be done this page," Serena responded and pointed at her book.
"Here, let me help you," Lita volunteered and grabbed some paper.
"You really do stick together and help each other out," Kakyuu giggled with delight.
"That's what friends do," Lita smiled back at her.
Serena woke early the nest morning.
"Is something wrong?" Luna asked when Serena disturbed her, by getting up before the alarm clock even went off.
"No, I have a big math test today and I want to get to school early and study," Serena replied while getting dressed.
"What!" Luna squawked and popped her eyes wide open.
"I want to go see the new Sailor V movie tomorrow, so I have to pass the test," Serena explained.
"Someone should tell your teacher to always schedule test before a new movie you want to see comes out," Luna quipped, "let's have a look at the work while we eat breakfast."
Serena finished dressing, then went over to her desk. No book bag. She scanned the room, then flung open her door and dashed down the stairs.
"I know I had my book bag when we left Rei's," Serena whined.
"Did you leave it in Kakyuu's car?" Luna asked.
Serena ran over to the phone.
"Hello," a female voice came on the line.
"This is Serena, I think I might have left my book bag in the car yesterday and I have to hand in my work first thing," Serena replied with urgency.
"Give me your number and I'll go have a look, then call you back," the voice relayed.
Serena gave her number, hung up and grabbed her shoes.
"If you pass, I'll pay for your movie and you can keep your allowance for something else," Serena's father smiled at her as he pulled on his coat.
"We'll have our test papers back at the end of the day," Serena told him, "and I'm going to pass," she said confidently.
"That will be a nice change," he teased and picked up his briefcase, "Good luck."
Serena closed the door behind her father and raced over to the ringing phone.
"Hello," she answered.
"Hi Serena, its Sikora. I found your book bag, did you want me to bring it to you?"
"I'll meet you in front of the school," Serena replied and hung up the phone, without even saying good-bye. She dashed into the kitchen, grabbed some toast off a plate and flew out the door.
Serena wolfed down her toast as she briskly walked down the road.
"Serena," Luna called for the second time.
"Sorry, Luna," Serena apologized, "I was trying to remember all that math stuff."
"We left without waiting for the girls," Luna mentioned.
"Tell them I had to meet Sikora to get my books," she told Luna, "I'll see them in class."
Luna sprinted off the way they came, while Serena hurried her pace to school.
Serena began to pace up and down in front of the school, waiting for Sikora. After ten minutes of pacing, a sleek black sedan pulled up to the curb.
"Dumpling," Seiya smiled as he exited the car, "you waiting for me?" He teased.
"Morning Serena," Taiki nodded, getting out of the front passenger seat, while Yaten pushed Seiya, so he could get out of the back.
Sikora was standing near the driver's door, holding Serena's book bag.
"Thank-you, thank-you," Serena smiled excitedly, bowing with every thank-you.
"Good luck on your test," Sikora returned the smile and climbed back into the car.
"What test?" Seiya questioned Serena when she joined him on the sidewalk.
"The one for the end of the math chapter," Serena explained, "Whatever you didn't finish yesterday was for homework last night, you have to have it done or you can't write the test today."
"Sikora asked me if I finished my homework last night, I told her I didn't have any," Seiya moaned.
"Go copy mine," Serena told him and handed her math book to him.
Seiya grabbed the book and ran off into the school.
Serena sauntered into the classroom, to find all her classmates in their desks, flipping threw books. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at Serena.
"I have to pass so I can go see the new Sailor v movie," Serena announced to the shocked expressions on everybody's face.
Serena took her seat and giggled quietly to herself as she listened to Seiya mumble profanities, while his pencil scribbled frantically.
Mr.Hayashi came in carrying a stack of papers, he placed them on his desk and then partially sat on the front edge of his desk, waiting for the bell to sound.
"Put your homework on your desks and all other books away," Mr.Hayashi ordered as the bell rang.
"I need my homework," Serena whispered while leaning as far back in her seat as possible.
"Damn it," Seiya huffed and handed Serena her book.
Mr.Hayashi made his way down the first row collecting workbooks and leaving a pack of stapled paper, facedown on each desk. Then he went back to his desk, dropped off a handful of workbooks and took another stack of test papers and made his way down Serena's row.
Serena had a huge grin on her face as she held out her workbook for him to take.
"You finished your homework?" Mr.Hayashi asked Serena as he took her book.
"I finished it yesterday," she said proudly, as he placed her test papers face down on her desk.
"I didn't get mine finished," Seiya sighed when Mr.Hayashi stopped at his desk.
"Take your books down to the office and finish," Mr.Hayashi stated, "The make up test is on Wednesday."
Mr.Hayashi moved to the next desk, while Seiya picked up his books and glared at Yaten, who was snickering.
Mr.Hayashi placed the last test paper down and said: "Turn your papers over, you have until class end to finish," he explained as he made his way back to his desk. "You may leave quietly when you are done."
Several of the questions caused Serena to chew her pencil as she racked herbrain. She soon decided to answer the ones she found easy, then go back to the hard ones she found easy, then go back to the harder ones. She was having difficulties concentrating with all the noise of pencils scribbling, erasers moaning from the pressure they were under and the smart kids taking their papers up when she was barley halfway through.
Serena proudly walked her papers up to the front, moments before the bell sounds and some people were still writing.
The rest of the day dragged on, Serena didn't like Fridays much because most of her friends had different afternoon classes then her. But she did love the sound of the last bell of the day, except today. She hadn't really done any work in any of her classes because she kept having math questions pop into her head and then wondered if she answered it right. Now was the moment of truth, she took a deep breath and walked up to Mr.Hayashi's desk.
Mr.Hayashi as smiling at Serena and holding out her test papers, " this is a test you have to show your mom," he kept smiling.
Serena reached out for the papers, then pulled her hand back. Then she tried again, this time she took control of her fear and actually retrieved the papers.
"87 percent" Mr.Hayashi told her before she looked at the score.
Serena beamed as she saw a beautiful 87 drawn on the top corner of her test. She held it close to her chest, like a prized possession and began to bounce around.
"Enjoy your weekend Serena," Mr.Hayashi chuckled at her as she darted out of the room.
She was disappointed that none of her friends were out front when she burst threw the school doors.
Serena noticed a black sedan pulling up to the curb. She was hoping it was Sikora's car.
Sikora stepped out and Serena bounced over, waving her paper and screaming: "I did it, I did it."
Just the sight of Serena's excitement brought a big smile to Sikora's face. Sikora took the waving piece of paper from Serena, looked at the score: "87 percent," Sikora said cheerfully. "I guess you're going to your movie tomorrow."
"Yes,yes,yes," Serena chirped. "I thank you, I thank you," Serena bowed and bounced in front of Sikora.
Sikora found herself laughing with a joy she hadn't felt in a very long time.
"Your test score that funny?" Yaten questioned sarcastically when the three boys approached.
Seiya said nothing, he just climbed into the back of the car.
"She got an 87," Sikora proudly announced to Yaten.
"You really need to study more Yaten," Taiki commented. "Serena got a better mark then you," he snickered and opened the passenger door.
"At least I passed," Yaten grinned.
"You failed?" Serena bellowed with shock at Taiki.
"Never," Taiki smiled with a little laugh. "I think he's talking about him," Taiki pointed into the car where Seiya sat.
Sikora re-opened her door, stuck her head in: "You failed your math test?" She snapped at Seiya.
"He never got to write it," Yaten started howling with laughter.
"Serena, you'll have to tutor him," Taiki laughed loudly.
"Okay, you two in the car, and be quiet," Sikora ordered, then turned toSerena. "You have a good weekend, you deserve it," she smiled and got in the car.
"What was everyone laughing about?" Mina asked, as she watched the car drive away.
"Seiya," Serena continued to giggle.
"And what did you score?" Ami asked.
"87 percent," Serena glowed.
"You scored higher then me," Mina pouted.
"That's great," Lita slapped Serena on the back as they started walking.
"With a test score of 87," Ami smiled at Serena. "I'll buy you a shake today."
