Sailor Scouts Of Yin And Yang
Chapter One: You Get Just One Chance

Kaylynn

As soon as I got up and got dressed, I went downstairs to my mom's office, purposely avoiding my 'medicine' which was supposedly for my heart. Mom never told me exactly what it did, or why I had to take it after this long, but I knew I had to take it. Not by choice though, 'cause every single time I'd ever tried to not take it, she caught me. Still don't know how.

Noting that she was on the phone, I leaned on the door frame outside her office. She was always on the phone for work. What she did, I didn't remember. I blamed the ADD.

"Have you taken your medicine?" Mom mouthed as she turned around in her chair, probably noting that I was up.

I nodded even though I hadn't. Mom rolled her eyes and pointed towards the counter. Grumbling curses under my breath, I went to take my medicine. "Guess it won't be today that I get away with not taking my medicine."

Mom came out of her office. "I'm not sure what it is you have against taking your medicine." She said, exasperated. We had this argument several times a day.

"I always feel so much more alive when I'm not on it!" I complained.

"It's for your own good you know." She reminded.

"I'm afraid I don't see how." I told her.

She let out a strangled groan. "Remember, it keeps your heart healthy. I've told you this before, several times in fact, I know I have." She reminded me.

I sighed. "Whatever. Anyway, I wanted to ask if I could go to Pokémon Academy. I waited until I turned twelve like you said, and I haven't bugged you about it either, so I can I go? Please?"

"Yes—" She began before I cut her off.

"Yes!" I cheered.

She glared at me. "I wasn't finished." She scolded. "You know what I'm going to say next."

"'Interrupting people is rude.'" I recited. "Yes, yes."

"Anyway, I was going to say that your uncle Shawn called me earlier and told me that Maddy is going to Pokémon Academy too. I want you to go with her." Mom told me.

I scowled. "You're making me go with her so she can babysit me." I snapped. "Seriously, I'm twelve years old now, I don't need my cousin to take care of me. Can't I just go with Reeve?"

"I never said you did." She replied calmly. "I would just prefer that you go with your cousin, for reasons that, no I will not tell you." She added when I opened my mouth. "As for your question, Reeve is going to Duel Academy with Wes this year. In fact, he just left this morning."

I sighed. "Terrific. Mom, can't you just trust me?" I whined. "Seriously, I told you this before, I'm twelve years old now, so can't you just trust me to go to school on my own?"

"I do trust you." She informed me.

I snorted, raising an eyebrow doubtfully. "Then why, do tell, will you not even let me walk to school by myself? At twelve years old, most kids can at least be trusted to walk one block home from school, but not me." I reminded.

Mom opened her mouth, most likely to say something in retort, but closed it after a minute. She sighed. "Oh alright, you've got me Kaylynn. I don't trust you. Do you remember how I've told you that when you were born, you had a heart problem?"

I nodded. "Yeah, so?"

"Well, I called a woman named Jessamine Longbranch, who fixed your heart, but in the process made you a fighter for her organization the White Rose. You see, there's a sort of underground society that revolves around five different attributes, which I won't tell you, and the Red and White Roses would fight every year until recently for control of it." She began. "While someone very powerful came and disbanded the Red and White Roses, they're looking for fighters like you to start up the old ways. I don't want that to happen to you. I'll make you a deal: I'll sign your permission slip and let you go on your own, and if something exciting happens, tell me about it, and depending on how exciting it is, I'll tell you the full story of why I don't trust you, and who your father is. I know you've wanted to know who he is for as long as you've been able to wonder why he isn't here. But it has to be really exciting, even more so than just getting your first Pokémon, unless it's something rare of course." She added. "Do we have a deal Kaylynn?"

I grinned. "Yes Mom, it's definitely a deal." I held out my hand. "Shake on it?"

Mom held out her own hand. I grasped it and shook it.

"It's a deal." She told me. "I'll get you a ticket for the ferry to Pokémon Academy and you can leave tomorrow. Now go upstairs and pack, I'll not have you leaving unprepared. Oh, and watch out for anyone with a red or white rose pin. They might be from the Roses."

I nodded. "Got it." I ran upstairs to pack, throwing everything and anything I thought I might need into storage scrolls, made by my cousin Wes who was a sealing genius and the biggest Naruto addict I knew, which I stuffed in my backpack.

It would be entirely too much of a hassle to pack several months' worth of clothing, at least, in a backpack, because a suitcase would be far too heavy and bulky to take on a bike, so I packed everything in sealing scrolls, which could easily fit in a backpack.

I could take a duffel bag, but I didn't have one that could easily be thrown over my shoulders and carried the same way as my backpack could.

"You done yet?" Mom called after about five minutes, just as I finished.

"Just finished, yeah." I called back, hurrying downstairs to grab some non-perishable food. It would take a couple days to get to the ferry station where the ferry for Pokémon Academy left from, and I sure as hell didn't intend to go hungry.

"Great. Grab the peanut butter and bread from the pantry and the jelly from the fridge." She ordered. "I know it doesn't taste as good when it's not cold, but at least it's something."

I sighed. "True, true." I grumbled. "I still don't like warm jelly or warm soda. It doesn't taste as good as it does when it's cold."

She rolled her eyes. "So then put some ice in your bike's basket. I know you had Wes put seals on it the last time he was here."

I smiled sheepishly. "Yeah, okay, that I did." I admitted. "We made a deal: I teach him a chakra control exercise if he does a few seals for me."

Mom smirked. "Nice. So are you all ready to go?"

I nodded. "Yup." True to her word, later on that day, Mom got me a ticket for the Pokémon Academy ferry, and made sure I was all packed up.

Then, the next morning, it was time for me to leave.

As I headed out the door, mounting my bike in a hurry, I could have sworn I heard Mom say "You'd better not blow this Kaylynn, because you're far too important to blow this one chance."