I'm not getting enough sleep. I swear, I get tired as soon as I get home, at like quarter of 4. D: Sailor Moon is owned by Naoko Takeuchi and TOEI Animation, but if it were mine, I would let everyone view it no matter what, I would let everyone know of its awesomeness, instead of paying customers only ._. "Baby, Come Back" is owned by Halls & Oates. "Princess Moon" is owned by TOEI Animation.

Notes: I do not condone support intimacy before marriage, gambling (especially on the previously listed), or underage drinking. Actually, I don't think any sort of drinking at all is good. Or smoking. It'll kill you. o.o

The legal drinking age in Japan is 20, but plenty of people do it before then anyways. It's not as enforced there as in the US.

The phrase "Yeah, that's the way!" or "Sou, sou!" is a drinking cheer. It appeared in School Rumble in a bonus chapter in volume 7, I wanna say. Maybe 6. Anyways, what you do is, you spell out S-O-S-O with your hands.

"Kanpai!" means "Cheers!"

Don't fall for peer pressure, kids. It's bad. If your friends are like, "Hey, you wanna try some?" you be like, "Uh, no thanks, bro. Latuh." Aiight? :3

Mamoru stands. "Well, I've got some, uh, business"-he winks at Usagi, and she smiles and blushes slightly-"to take care of, so I gotta go. I'll be back later. See ya later."

"Bye, Mamoru!"

"Bye, Mamo-chan! Love you!"

"Love you, too! See ya!"

When Mamoru shut the door, it seemed to get much noisier in the temple. Maybe that was just his imagination, but they are girls, after all.

Usagi smiles in his wake, and the other girls look at her expectantly.

"So~?" Minako presses.

"Hm? What?"

They all scoff and groan. "Well, duh!" Minako says, slapping her hands on the table as she leans in towards Usagi. Usagi instinctively leans away from her. "You know, did you…?"

Usagi stares blankly as she tries to find the meaning behind Minako's words and the others' stares. When she realizes, she looks around at all of them all in shock and embarrassment. Her face turns a bright, tomato-red. "W-w-w-w-what are y-you all thinking?!" she stutters. "A-Are you c-c-crazy?!"

"I'm not hearing any deni~als!" Minako sings teasingly.

Usagi sighs and looks down. "W-We might have-"

"HA!" Minako shouts, giggling. "I knew it! Fifty bucks, please, both of you!"

"Wait a moment, now, Minako, let's not get hasty here," Rei says. "What about the other part?"

"Oh yeah!"

"Did you guys…" Usagi starts, a look of disgust creeping into her still-pink face, "bet on our… odds?"

"Well, duh! We've got nothing better to do with our lives! It was so boring when you left! I had no fun at all! Rei tried to make me quit slacking, and Ami tried to make me study more! I missed you so much! Usagi-chan!"

Usagi takes Minako's hands and stares into her eyes lovingly. "Minako-chan!" she says.

"Wah, Usagi-chan!" Minako squeals, and tackles Usagi in a hug.

"Oh, geez, you're going to mess up my room! You two had better quit it! I'm getting a headache!"

"Well, maybe, you wouldn't if you weren't so uptight!" Usagi argues.

"Now, now, Rei!" Makoto says. "Usagi has more experience than us now! Right, Senpai?"

"Eh? Senpai?!" Usagi says. "Oh, not this again!"

"So," Minako says. "Who started… you know!" She gives her a suggestive eyebrow raise.

"Well," Usagi says, smirking. "That depends on what you mean!" She winks, and the other girls all squeal loudly in delight.

Mamoru is almost to the bottom of the stairs when he hears a bunch of girly screeches. He sighs. What could they possibly be talking about up there.

He hears Minako laugh maniacally, and the color drains from his face. Oh. That's what they're talking about. He swallows, knowing that Minako might tease him about it later.

"So, like, did someone suggest it? Or did it kinda just… happen?"

"Well…" Usagi says, still feeling a little awkward. She looks at her lap and shuts her eyes, remembering last night. Her mind drifts, getting lost in the happiest night of her life.

"Hey!" Rei snaps her fingers in Usagi's face. "Dumpling-head! We're talking to you!"

"Huh? Oh, right. Well, I guess, it was me, in that case."

"I'm getting one, fat Benjamin!" Minako shouts. "Woo-hoo!" (Benjamin=$100 bill)

~The Starlight's Apartment~

"Fighter, Maker, Healer! Come on, you three, we must be on our way!" Kakyuu says as she walks in the front door. She had just gone shopping for normal clothes. Yaten is lying on the couch watching TV and Taiki is sitting at the kitchen table reading The Great Gatsby. "Where's Fighter?"

"Princess, I told you, please call us by our normal names here," Taiki says, not taking his eyes away from his book.

Kakyuu pouts. "I've been calling you those names our whole lives, and now I've gotta change?"

"Well, people will look at us strangely. The Earth Soldiers call themselves separate names from their Soldier names."

"Are you not proud of your planet? Of who you are?"

"That's not it. I am, but the culture of this planet is different, and we must blend in. Anyways, what did you need?"

"Call me 'Kakyuu', then," Kakyuu says, crossing her arms.

Taiki rolls his eyes, putting his book down. "That would be disrespectful. I would not feel comfortable to call you that."

"The Earth Soldiers call their princess 'Usagi', not 'Princess', or even 'Serenity'. Maybe I should come up with a casual name for myself?"

"No, Kakyuu is fine."

"Then call me that. Call me 'Kakyuu'."

"You're serious?"

"As a heart attack, Ma- Taiki!"

Taiki groans. "Fine, K- K- Ka-"

"Ka-kyuu! Kakyuu!" Kakyuu says, trying to be encouraging, but feeling like a first grade teacher.

Taiki swallows and squeezes his eyes shut. "Kakyuu!" he says quickly, and his face turns pink.

"Yaten, you, too!"

Yaten turns his head slowly, not looking away from the TV. He pauses it, and then looks at her pleasantly. "Yes, Princess?"

"Call me 'Kakyuu'."

Yaten is silent, processing this. "H-Huh?"

"I want you to call me 'Kakyuu' instead of 'Princess'. I don't want you to treat me like your princess here. I want you to treat me like a normal person."

"Oh. Okay, Kakyuu," he says, indifferently, turning back to the TV and playing it.

"Now, Yaten," Taiki says. "I know it wasn't that easy. Come on, react."

He pauses the TV again, and sighs. After a little bit, he gets on his knees and bows to her. "Please forgive my rudeness, Princess!"

"Why is this so hard?"

"Because of my great respect for you, my princess!"

Kakyuu sighs. "Will I never get you to call me 'Kakyuu'?"

"I'm back!" Seiya says, walking in. He stops when he notices Yaten. "Whoa. What's going on here."

"Get up, Yaten," she says, then turns to Seiya. "Yaten won't call me 'Kakyuu'."

"Well, it should be as easy as how those Earth Soldiers call Dumpling 'Usagi', right, Kakyuu?" Seiya says, grinning at Kakyuu.

Kakyuu smiles. "Thank you, Seiya, for understanding me! I said that, too, not too long ago."

Seiya shrugs. "Your wish is my command, Princess. I mean, Kakyuu," he says, winking. "Well, we should be heading out, right? We wanna surprise them in time."

Seiya turns, and Taiki is looking at him with an angry expression on his face. "How can you say that without feeling guilty?"

"Huh?"

Taiki sighs and places a hand on Seiya's shoulder."You know…" He gestures with his head towards Kakyuu, who smiles and waves.

Seiya looks at her and back at Taiki with a faux-confused expression. "I'm not following you."

Taiki groans and throws his head back, both hands covering his eyes. He looks forward again. "You know…" he says again, then barely audible, "Kakyuu."

Seiya cups his hand around his ear. "Sorry, what?"

A little louder, Taiki repeats himself. "Kakyuu."

Seiya leans forward, shutting his eyes to hear better. "One more time?"

Taiki grits his teeth. "KAKYUU!" he shouts.

Seiya grins and pats him on the shoulder. "I know. I heard you the first time. Good job, Taiki!"

"You little-"

Kakyuu clears her throat. "Anyways," she says. "We should be going, huh?"

"Yeah! Let's go, you two!" Seiya says enthusiastically.

Yaten groans and stands. "Fine, fine, let's go."

"Wait a minute!" Seiya says, holding up a finger. "Yaten, you must first pass the test of ultimate loyalty. Taiki passed with flying colors, now you must as well! You must say her name with total confidence, and not have a reaction."

Yaten groans. "Gawd, you SUCK! Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine! Whatever you want! Alrighty! Her name is K- K- Ka- Kakyuu!" he says quickly. "Now, let's go!"

"That didn't sound very confident to me," Seiya says, and wraps his arm around Kakyuu's shoulders, squeezes them, and looks at her. "Did it, Kakyuu?"

Kakyuu shakes her head, smiling. "No, sir, it didn't!"

"Fine. HernameisKakyuu. Now let's go!"

"Nope. Not good enough!"

Yaten takes a deep breath through his nose, holds it, then lets it out through his mouth all at once. "Her. Name. Is. Ka. Kyuu! Let us leave, please!"

Seiya strokes his chin, smiling. "Hm, well, I'm not-" Yaten pushes past him, towards the door. Seiya laughs. "I was totally kidding! Geez, you passed! Alright? You wanna cookie or something?" he says, jogging after him. Yaten slams the door behind him, and Seiya quickly opens it again.

"Baby, come back!" he sings. "You can blame it all on me!"

Kakyuu giggles. "Well, Taiki, we should be going, huh?"

Taiki fiddles with his collar nervously. "Heh, yeah… Kakyuu."

Kakyuu smiles. "Let's go!"

~Hikawa Shrine~

"Yo!" Seiya greets as he slides the door open. He and the Starlights pop their noisemakers, and let themselves in.

"It's you guys!" Rei says. "How long have you been here?"

"Oh, just a couple days! We came to visit ole Dumpling here!" Seiya says, taking a seat next to Usagi where Mamoru sat before, uncomfortably close. He wraps his arm around her shoulder, blocking her from escape. She swallows down her awkwardness, and smiles.

"That's right! We saw him yesterday! He told us all about it!" she says with fake-enthusiasm. Not that she doesn't like Seiya. She really does. But, friendship just doesn't seem to be enough for him. And that's the source of her uncomfortable feeling.

"Oh, Seiya, I told you to make it a surprise!" Kakyuu scolds.

Seiya laughs. "Well, I saw her yesterday, and I couldn't not talk to her, and well, you know! Once you start talking to her, you can't stop!"

"Until her boyfriend comes and punches you in the face," she mutters, smirking.

"Um, what?!" Minako laughs. "Mamoru punched you?"

"Yeah! It was just totally out of nowhere, ya know?"

Usagi elbows him in the stomach, and he moves his hand from her shoulder to his pained solar plexus, the wind knocked out of him. "It was not 'just totally out of nowhere', and you know it!" Usagi sighs and looks up at her friends. "This one tried to kiss me yesterday."

"Was this before or after…?" Minako asks, grinning like a perverted idiot.

"Shut up, Minako-chan!" Usagi warns through her teeth, making the Planet Senshi laugh and leaving the Starlights wondering.

"Well," Kakyuu says, reaching into her bag. "I brought some sake!" She pulls a large bottle of liquor out of the large purse and smiles.

"But we're not twenty yet…"

"Oh, lighten up and have some fun, Ami!" Makoto says, taking the bottle from Kakyuu and grabbing a plastic Solo cup from the bag of cups they used the night before for soda. "It's a celebration!"

She passes it around, and once everyone has some, Kakyuu holds her cup in the air. "From one fine princess to another, welcome back! Kanpai!"

"Kanpai!" everyone replies.

~Later~

"Yeah, that's the *hic* way!" Usagi shouts, drunken. "Kakyuu-cha~n! Do you know any *hic* princess songs? Maware, maware, tsuki no Merry- *hic* Go-Round…" she sings.

The door slides open, and Mamoru says, "I'm back!"

"Welcome home, dear~!" she says, and grins widely.

Mamoru takes a big whiff of the room, and stumbles back at the overpowering scent of liquor. Usagi stands and almost falls back down, but catches herself on the wall. She walks over, but trips over Seiya and falls against Mamoru's chest.

"Whoa, take it *hic* easy, baby!" Seiya drawls.

"Shutcher tra~p!" Usagi says, glaring at him with a hand on Mamoru's chest to stabilize herself. She leans into him and sighs contently. "Mm, I missed you *hic*!"

Mamoru leans away in disgust, hardly able to take the thick stink of liquor. Her shirt was stained with the concoction, wetting Mamoru's shirt as well. He was never much of a heavy drinker, as he preferred having a clear head, instead of a foggy one, then having a splitting headache in the morning. "How much did you drink?" he asks.

Usagi places a finger on her chin, thinking. "I'm not sure. Maybe a couple o' *hic* shots."

"We sowwy, Mamowu!" Rei says in a baby voice. "Kakyuu here brought over these nice bottles, *hic* and we couldn't possibly let them go to waste! There's still some left, I *hic* think, if you want some!"

"No, I, uh-"

"Oh, come on!" Makoto shouts. "You're such a flippin' killjoy! Sit down and chillax for a couple minutes! Even Ami drank some!"

Mamoru eyes a passed out Ami on the other side of the small room. How they're fitting ten people there is beyond him.

"You sit here!" Usagi commands, yanking him over Seiya and pulls him down between her and Haruko.

"Hi, Mamoru-san!" she greets him soberly, smiling, which surprises him.

"Oh, so I'm not the only one with a clear head?" he asks. "You didn't drink?"

"Yes, I don't like alcohol. It isn't ladylike to be drunk."

"See that, Usagi?" Rei says. "You could learn a thing or two from Haru-chan!"

"Yeah, well, I already know how to be a lady! I'll show ya!" She stands up, and curtsies, but loses her balance and falls into Mamoru's lap. "How do you do?" she says softly.

Mamoru suppresses a groan. "This is why you shouldn't drink, love. You're already clumsy."

Usagi giggles, not catching his comment, which makes his lips twitch into an almost-smile. "But it's fun! I haven't had so much fun in years!"

She sits up on her knees and kisses him, and he almost gags from the heavy odor of sake, but just coughs slightly so as not to offend her.

She picks up the bottle, and says, "Here, I'll pour you some!"

Instead of getting a cup, she brings the opening the bottle to her lips, gripping it at the neck. `Bottoms up, Sailor,` he thinks snidely, and snorts at his own joke quietly, knowing it's rude. Without swallowing, she puckers her lips and leans in.

He weighs his options for half a second. Refusing will make her cry, but accepting won't be good either, since he's a bit of a lightweight. He sighs, deciding that refusing is heavier than accepting. He doesn't want to, but he hates seeing her in dismay, so he allows her.

She pushes him against the wall and gets on top of him. She pulls his lower jaw down and he squeezes his eyes shut. He hears her chuckle, and opens one slightly. "Oops," she says. "I already swallowed it."

He sighs in relief. That could've been bad.

"Well, since we're here…" She presses her lips onto his already-open mouth and forces her tongue in fiercely. She holds him as tight as a drunk person can. He kisses her back, but can't help cringing at the taste of the liquor in her mouth, the smell of it on her breath.

"Wa~h, Usagi-chan!" Minako squeals in delight. "Love-love!"

That's the last thing Mamoru remembers from that night.

*stretches* Ah, finally done! Was it good, minna? Review please! Sorry if you thought it was kinda weird o.o Honestly, I think it's kinda weird, too. I don't even know what this chapter is. What the nell goes on in my mind? (nell is from ep 91, the kitty-cat Daimon named Nekonell)