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"So, Minako-chan," Kana led the blonde into the courtyard and towards a group of girls. "This is where the magic is happening. You said you had some costume designing experience, right?"

Minako nodded. "I've worked with my aunt. She used to work in the theatre nearby."

"Excellent," the teacher smiled. "In that case, I want you to meet our princess, Tsukino Usagi."

"Okay, guys," Usagi struggled to escape the overly excited group of girls. "Kana-sensei just called me."

"Wait, Usagi-chan," one of the girls insisted. "Your hair isn't done!"

"It's okay," she assured. "We can finish later."

Once Usagi came to meet her teacher and Minako, Kana gave a smile. "Usagi, this is Aino Minako, the new chief costume and make up designer. She'll be in charge of the Princess's and Prince's costume, make up, and hair."

"Hi," Usagi gave a small bow, the messy curls put in her hair by the girls flying everywhere. "It's nice to meet you, Aino-san."

"The feeling is mutual, Tsukino-san," Minako said politely, a little hurt that her princess didn't remember her. "I'm happy to work with you."

Kana smiled, seeing that the girls would get along without a problem. "I'll leave it to you, Minako-chan."

"Thank you," Minako said. With that, Kana left. "Come on, Tsukino-san. Let's do something about your hair." The girls laughed and walked to join the group of girls.

Yuri growled as she watched Usagi and the newcomer from a distance. Usagi was getting royal treatment while she was doing grunt work! It wasn't fair. She was the one with the amazing powers, not Usagi! She deserved to be Princess Serenity! "I'll destroy her," the raven vowed. "Bit by bit, I'll crumble her into nothing."

"Yuri-san!" Umino called. "We need your help!"

Yuri rolled her eyes. "I'll be right there."

"Okay, girls," Minako adjusted to her new leadership position with ease. "According to ancient accounts, Serenity didn't have curly hair, but long, straight hair."

"Aino-san," a girl raised her hand. "Isn't Tsukino-san's hair a little too long?"

"Actually," Minako smiled. "It's not long enough. Serenity's hair was so long that it dragged on the ground." Mumbled 'wow's echoed through the small crowd of workers. "We might have to give Usagi extensions the day before the festival."

"Minako," Artemis's voice whispered from the earpiece given to the Venusian earlier. "Be careful with the details. We don't want Usagi to look too much like the princess. She's hidden for a reason."

"Okay," she whispered back. To the group, she said, "Okay, guys, I'm going to check on the costume team. Experiment with some styles on the wigs and I'll be back in a few. Tsukino-san, do you want to come with me?"

Usagi nodded and waved good-bye to the hair team. "Wow, Aino-san, you make a great leader."

Minako laughed. "Thanks. I guess you could say leading is second nature to me. And call me Minako."

Could this girl be the princess? Usagi thought. She found it very suspicious that Minako knew so much about Princess Serenity. With that and the leadership quality that she possessed, Minako was looking like the perfect candidate to be the Moon princess everyone was searching for.

She nodded. "Minako, then."

"And what about this one?" Makoto pointed to a cake design that she made.

"Wow," Naru said with wide eyes. In the end, Naru's group decided to be the culinary booth and home of Makoto's delicious creations. Everyone in the group was now in the school's home ec room deciding which desserts were to be sold.

The cake they were looking at was a two layer circular chocolate cake. It was decorated with yellow icing and white icing formed a lace-like pattern around it. The edges were decorated with white icing that took the shape of small marbles.

"That is beautiful, Mako-chan," Naru whispered. "I think it'll sell exceptionally well."

Makoto nodded and dog-eared the page so she could turn to it later. She put away the cake design notebook and pulled another one. "This has cookie designs in it," she explained. "What do you think of this?"

She turned the pages until she found the one she wanted. The sugar cookies were shaped like half-moons, with white icing on the front and yellow sprinkles. It was a simple, yet beautiful design.

"It looks great," Naru said. There were many nods of agreement. "I say we should sell them."

Makoto smiled. "This festival is going to be great."

"Hey, Usagi," Mamoru said when he came over.

"Hey," the blonde smiled to him.

"What are you doing?"

Usagi rolled her eyes. "Building a weapon of mass destruction. What does it look like I'm doing, Mr. Honors Student?"

"Stay still, Tsukino-san," a girl insisted.

"Oh, sorry," Usagi apologized.

The 'princess' was in the middle of being measured so the costume could be made. According to Minako, the costumes chosen for the Prince and Princess seemed to be from the Victorian era and wouldn't be accurate. After a second look at the clothes, the team agreed and decided to make the costume instead of buying them.

Mamoru chuckled. "After this, do you want to go somewhere with me?"

"That depends," the blonde replied, "Where are you going?"

"It's a surprise."

Usagi laughed. "Lucky for you, I like surprises. I'll go."

Yuri, who was working close by, was seething with anger at this point. Not only did Usagi leave her with the grunt work but her man was taking the brat on a surprise date! "I'm done," she said simply, throwing the tools that she was carrying onto the ground.

"No you're not," a boy said, grabbing her shoulder.

Yuri growled and shot him a glared. "I suggest you let go of me. Right. Now." The energy she possessed was slowly slipping out of her control. It formed a glowing aura around her that didn't get unnoticed by Umino.

He pulled off his glasses and cleaned them before putting them back on, just to make sure what he was seeing was real. "Wow," he whispered as he pulled out his phone. He quickly shot a picture and slipped his phone back into his pocket.

The boy's eyes widened. He let the angered girl go and she stormed off.

"Okay, Usagi-chan, we're done."

"Thanks, everyone," she said as she let her arms fall. She stepped off of the stool she was standing on and gave Mamoru a smile. "Ready!"

"Come on," the dark haired man led them out of the school and into the hall.

"Wow," Usagi mumbled. "The school is creepy when it's deserted."

Mamoru laughed. "You've stayed after school millions of times. This isn't the first time you've seen it empty."

"I didn't really pay attention to it, then. I was running out of here as fast as I could. Now that I'm walking and looking around…" She glanced at his hand, vaguely remembering what Makoto told her the day before.

Boys like to be depended on, the brunette had said. Act like you need him there to feel safe.

She sighed and butterflies grew in the pit of her stomach. She slowly took his hand in hers but immediately pulled away.

They both stopped and stared at each other. She looked down at her hand. "Mamoru… did you…"

"Yeah."

It felt like a shock went through both of them when their hands touched. It wasn't painful but it was still strange. "That wasn't supposed to happen…" she mumbled to herself. Were her powers acting up?

"Don't worry about it too much," Mamoru said. He took her hand back and the strange shock occurred again but, this time, Mamoru didn't let go. He gave a light smile. "Come on, Usagi. Your surprise awaits."

Hand in hand, the couple left. Little did they know, there was someone trailing not too far behind.

And that's the chapter! For a bridge, it turned out to be pretty well, in my opinion. What do you all think? Love it? Hate it? Tell me in a review!

I'll put up a cover for this story soon!

And...I have an idea for a new story... I'll experiment with it before putting it up.

That's all for now!

~Koneko~