Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Breaking Free ❯ Mistakes: Part 1 ( Chapter 6 )

Breaking Free

Chapter 6: Mistakes: Part 1

By

Middlen

Throughout the week problems arose like the dawning of the new day. A lot of the boys had heard about the day when Nanami had come to the school and was practically throwing herself onto Nate-san or at least that was the tamest of the tails that were circling around the rumor mill. Not only had the boys heard about the rumors, but the girls as well. So they stepped up their attempts to get Nate-san to notice them, one of them going so far as throwing her bra towards Nate when he walked by.

 

Mamoru and his gang had pursued Usagi all week long, they dogged her at the start of the day, at noon and then again at the end of the day. By the time the week had ended, she was ready to collapse into a heap of exhaustion and just sleep the whole weekend away, but as luck would have it, that wouldn't be the case.

 

A knock on her door, brought her head out from under her pillow and she glared at the door willing for the person to go away.

 

“Usa, are you in there?”

 

“It's open,” she states then lets out a sigh when Haruka walks into the room.

 

“Hey, how was your day? You flew by when you came home that I didn't get the chance to ask you,” Haruka states while sitting down gingerly on the side of the bed and gives Usa the once over, noticing the new bruises, cuts and some bandages on her face. “Who did this?”

 

“Who do you think?” Usagi asks before turning onto her side with a grimace. “Mamoru and his cronies were out in greater numbers today then they had been for the entire week. Seems as the week progressed more and more boys found out about Nanami coming by on Monday and the rumor mill kept growing the entire week it ranged from her throwing herself at me to us doing it right there in the court yard.”

 

“That's insane! Why doesn't anyone do anything about it?” Haruka asks while pushing Usagi over onto her back and lifts up her shirt to see a multitude of bruises around her stomach and sides.

 

“I don't know. That's a question that I ask myself everyday. Hey, what's that?” Usa nods towards the envelope that is now resting at Haruka's side.

 

“Oh, Luna gave it to me, it's a letter from Hotaru,” Haruka states and the two girls share a grimace before Usa pulls her shirt down.

 

“Well, I guess we had better give it to her. I think she went out with Makoto and the girls after school. Something about wanting to go to a new arcade or something. I'm not really sure. I wasn't paying to much attention because I was to busy running away from the wannabe angry mob with their torches and pitch forks,” Usa responds with a roll of her eyes before she goes over to her dresser to change out of her school uniform.

 

Haruka stands up and puts her hands behind her head while she watches her niece rummage through her drawers. “Umm, Usa, how are we suppose to find them if you aren't sure where they are and why aren't you with them anyway? Usually you're all for hanging out with Makoto. What's up with that? She hasn't even been here once since you mentioned that she was here.”

 

“Why do you think I'm not with them, Ruka? That damn banshee goes with them everywhere and she tries to kill me all the time. So of course I'm not gonna hang around them,” Usa states with a roll of her eyes and scoff while tossing some cloths onto the top of the dresser.

 

“Did you ever think that maybe the reason that you two don't get along is because you like one another,” Haruka asks while leaning against the wall staring at Usa.

 

Usagi stops rummaging through her and turns around to stare at Haruka. “You have got to be kidding, Haruka. The girl is a maniac! Now get out of my room so I can change,” she says before pushing a laughing Haruka out of the room.

 

Haruka continues to chuckle while leaning against the wall waiting for Usagi to come out of her room. When she emerges Haruka raises an eyebrow at the cloths that she's wearing.

 

“There is no way that Dad is going to let you out in that,” she states while pointing towards the cloths while Usagi looks down at the cloths which consists of baggy olive green cargo pants, black and red skate shoes, a large dark and light blue t-shirt that has a surf board with a dragon on it and a white shell necklace.

 

“Why not? I'm dressed in boy's cloths, aren't I? Now, lets get going before he comes around,” she states before putting on her black leather jacket and follows Haruka down the stairs and out of the house.

 

“You want me to drive or should we walk?” Haruka asks once she's stopped by her car.

 

“Let's walk. That way, if we spot her we don't have to find a parking spot,” Usagi suggests while Haruka grabs her sun glasses and off they go.

 

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Hotaru leans back in her chair laughing softly while she watches Rei and Minako go up against each other in a dancing game that was turning more into a pushing match then anything else.

 

Makoto smiles and laughs along with them before turning towards Hotaru. “It was great that you could come with us, Hotaru. I just wish that Usa could've come with us,” she states quietly so that no one can hear her before taking a sip of her soda sitting in front of her.

 

Hotaru sweat drops when thinking about the conversation that she had with Usa before she had run off and shakes her head. “Yeah, well you know how Usa is. Though her mannerisms right now are a bit strange when she's around Rei-chan,” Hotaru states with a thoughtful look on her face.

 

“Ahh, so you've noticed that too, huh? Minako and I can't figure out what her problem is. She's not usually like this at all. There's something weird going on between those two isn't there?” Makoto asks while folding her hands over her glass and leans towards Hotaru with a raised eyebrow.

 

She's about to respond when she notices that Rei and Minako are done playing are now walking over to them arguing about the game.

 

“I still think that you cheated some how!” Minako exclaims while sitting down in her chair.

 

“How could I be the one cheating when you were the one pushing and pulling me around onto of the console?” Rei asks with her eyebrow raised while looking at Minako as if she's lost her mind.

 

“That's exactly what I mean. You shouldn't have won because I was pushing you around so that you wouldn't and yet you still did. So that's got to mean you were cheating,” Minako states while the others around her sweat drop at the blonde's logic.

 

“Right, if you say so, Minako,” Rei states before turning her head when she hears the door to the arcade open then rolls her eyes when she sees her mom and sister standing right in front of the doors. “Oh great. My mom's here with my little sister.”

 

The raven haired teen places her head on her arms then looks up when she feels a hand placed on her arm only to grown when she sees that it's her mom standing next to her.

 

“There you are dear. Look I know that it's your day to hang with your friends, but something came up at the office that I can't get out of. So do you think that you can watch your sister for a while?” The older looking Rei asks with large smile on her face and her eye lashes batting.

 

“Hehehe. Okay, mom, just stop with the eye lash batting. Please!” Rei exclaims while she covers her face with her hand giggling.

 

“Oh, thank you dear. I'll make it up to you,” she states while leaning over and kisses her head then walks off leaving her younger sibling next to her.

 

“Hey, Himiko, how was your day at school?” Rei asks before scooting her chair back and lifts her younger sister onto her lap who giggles while Rei tickles her sides and smiles at the young girl.

 

“Neesan, I'm ten years old. I don't need to sit on your lap anymore,” Himiko states with a slight slap to Rei's shoulder.

 

“Well, there's no where else to sit and I don't want you standing there waiting for us to leave,” Rei reasons while tickling her younger sister again.

 

“So, Taru-san, I'm glad that you decided to come with us. We were starting to think that you didn't want to hang out with us,” Rei states while grinning at her other two friends who mirror the grin as well.

 

“Oh, yeah, I was just talking to Makoto-chan, about that. It wasn't that I didn't want to come along with you, it's just that I've been busy. I really am glad that I came with you. I've been having a lot of fun,” Hotaru smiles at everyone at the table. “And please just call me, Taru, we're all friends here.”

 

“Only if you do the same thing,” Rei states while the others nod their heads in agreement.

 

“Same goes for us, Taru,” Minako states with a dreamy look on her face while she watches the boy beside her then she raises an eyebrow when her cell phone rings.

She looks at the caller id then excuses herself before she gets up from the table and walks away from the group to answer the call, while the others casually sipped their milkshakes or sodas waiting for the blonde haired girl to come back.

After a few moments she comes back over to the table and sits down before smiling at everyone around the table.

“That was my father, he said that he might be coming home late tonight, so I can either order out tonight or go stay at a friends house since it's Friday,” Minako states with a slight dejected look on her face.

“Did he say what was keeping him at the office for so long,” Rei asks before sipping at her milkshake with a look of sympathy on her face.

“Not really, he just said that it was very important and that he had to take care of it before Monday and it couldn't wait any longer,” Minako states while putting her chin in the palm of her hand.

Hotaru looks over at the dejected looking blonde and realizes that she had worn that look many times over the years when her father couldn't come home for something, but she keeps silent about it.

Makoto looks over at Hotaru and notices the sympathetic look on her young friends face before leaning over towards her. “Minako works for your dad's company just like mine dad and Rei's mom and dad. His work keeps him there late because he's in sales and development so he ends up staying late. That's probably why Rei's mom dropped off Himiko here with us.”

“Oh, I see,” Hotaru states while nodding her head though she doesn't ask about Minako's mother because she doesn't like to talk about her own mothers death nor about her family either because most of the time she's not sure how to explain her families weirdness or without blowing her identity.

`Besides she probably did have a mother and didn't have to worry about living a life that wasn't entirely her own,' Hotaru thinks while sipping at her soda while thoughts of her mother fill her head.

Minako must be psychic because she turns to Hotaru and smiles.

“My parents are divorce that's partly way we're here. Dad felt that it would be best if we just moved away. I'm originally from England, but then dad moved us to where I met Makoto and Rei, before him, Rei's parents and Makoto's dad ended up having to transfer here to help the sales department. They're a good team and the company didn't want to split them up. Anyway, I go see mom in the summer and over the holidays and she said that this year she'd come to Tokyo to visit, so it's not that bad.”

Hotaru nodded her head and sipped at her soda while digesting the information that Minako had offered. It had become a rule of hers to never to pry into other people's personal lives because she really didn't want them to pry into her own messed up life. Sympathy and pity were two emotions that she neither wanted nor needed from other people that barely knew her.

“So, Taru, what's your family like?” Rei asks while Hotaru sighs mentally.

She really didn't want to talk about them. It's not that she's ashamed of them, but it's just hard to explain to others that aren't in her family what they are truly like and yet it would be extremely rude to tell Rei that it was none of hers or anyone else's business as to what her family was like.

“Taru?” Rei asks before reaching over to Hotaru and places a hand on her shoulder with thoughtful expression on her face.

“Oh, I'm sorry, I was just thinking. My family is regular, I suppose. There isn't much to say about them. My father owns a business, I've got a lot of brothers, some nieces and nephews, Aunt's, Uncles, and cousins, just like everyone else,” she states with a forced grin that makes Makoto raise an eyebrow.

`That isn't her family at all, but I guess it would be weird to tell them that her father makes her, her older sister, Haruka and Usagi dress, act and practically be boys. Yeah, that would go over like a lead balloon,' Makoto thinks before taking a sip of her milkshake.

“Oh yeah, sounds like my family. My father is always taking my sisters side. Isn't he, Himiko?” She asks her younger sister before tickling her, making her giggle and the other laugh around the table.

Makoto looks over at Hotaru who forces out a laugh and shakes her head sadly.

`Yep, defiantly something going on. Kami, those two girls have got to be so lonely,' Makoto thinks again before joining in on the conversation with her friends.

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Usagi sighs while walking down the street with Haruka beside her.

“Where the hell is she? We've been to every friggin arcade that we could find and yet no Hotaru.”

“Hey, Usa, let's stop and get something to drink, huh? We've been walking for an hour and I don't know about you, but I could use a drink,” Haruka states before steering the other girl over towards an out door café.

Usagi lets out another sigh then nods her head and allows the other girl to direct her towards a café.

“And don't get so bent out of shape. We'll find them and then you can make googly eyes at Rei all you want,” Haruka states with an evil smirk on her face.

Usagi's face turns red, her left eyebrow twitching before she turns towards Haruka and begins to yell at her.

“I DON'T LIKE THAT BANSHEE!” She exclaims while shaking her fist at Haruka before looking around at the people looking at her with expressions that range from angry to mildly amused.

Usagi hangs her head while a large sweat drop appears at the side of her head then she follows a chuckling Haruka over to a table.

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Hotaru and her friends crossed over to another street while chatting away about school and some teachers. Hotaru let a smile cross her face while she watches the other three girls carrying on. For the longest time, she didn't allow herself to make friends and her only companions were Usagi and Haruka, but she now mused that it was actually fun to hang with them. She knew that she couldn't allow her guard to drop or her identity could become compromised and they'd have to move again, but for now she just enjoyed the girl's company.

“So, do you want to come?” Rei asks which makes Hotaru blink her eyes in confusion.

“I'm sorry, what was that? I was thinking,” Hotaru explains while blushing slightly.

“Well, my family is sort of throwing a party tomorrow night and I know that it's short notice and all, but I thought you'd like to come with us, maybe spend the day as well. Go out have dinner then come to the party. It's nothing formal so you don't have to dress any differently then you usually do. So can you come?” Rei asked in a hopeful tone while her eyes go all doe like.

Hotaru's eyes widen before she nods her head slightly and lets a small smile come to her face. `What was that about not letting my guard down?' She asks herself before hanging her head slightly and shakes it.

“Hey, Usa, you wanna share a piece of chocolate cake?” a voice asks.

“Umm, I don't think that's a good idea. After all, didn't you get smacked by Michiru last time you ate before dinner?” A familiar voice asks.

Rei turns her head and notices a familiar platinum blonde haired boy sitting at a café table with a taller blonde haired boy in front of him.

Makoto smiles and points over to the boys. “Hey, isn't that Haruka-san and Nate-san over there?”

Hotaru lets out a sigh of relief before waving over towards her sister and her niece.

“Hey, Taru!” Haruka shouts before getting up from the table before walking over to where Hotaru and the others are standing then puts an arm around Hotaru's shoulders and smiles at the other girls standing around them.

Usagi walks over to them casually with her hands in her pockets. When she arrives to nods her head towards Minako and Hotaru before waving at Makoto and Rei who merely glares at her.

“So, hey, do you mind if we tag along?” Usagi asks when she turns towards Makoto feeling the slight negative energy directed at her from the raven haired girl standing not to far away from her.

“No”

“No”

“YES”

“No”

Minako and Makoto turn to glare at their friend while Rei looks down at her sister beside her and glares at the younger girl who shrugs her shoulders slightly.

“What? I think he's cool looking,” she states to her sister who grows fangs and is about to yell at her sister for saying that the stupid boy standing beside them is cool.

Before she can utter a peep, Makoto swoops in and puts a hand over the other girls mouth and smiles widely at their two new guests standing in front of them.

“We'd love it if you two join us. We're just out for a walk. So come on,” she states before looking at Rei and gives her a warning glare before taking her hand away.

“Fine, fine, I can live with him coming with us,” she states in a huff before crossing her arms over her chest.

Makoto, Minako and Hotaru let out a sigh of relief that the two teens wouldn't come to a verbal argument again before walking down the street. While walking Usagi walks in the front of the group with her hands behind her head while everyone else talks amongst themselves for a while then they decide to go to the beach and have some fun since they have Rei's little sister with them.

Usagi sighed, and let a shiver pass over her body as she felt the hairs on the back of her neck prickle. It felt as though someone was trying to bore holes into the back of her head and though she could be a little slow every once in a while, it didn't take a genius to figure out just who exactly it was that was doing the glaring. She sighed wearily while she thought about the feisty girl that's behind her. She knew that Makoto was okay and Minako seemed alright, even though she comes off a bit spacey at times, but that amethyst eyed girl was an entirely different case. For some odd reason she just couldn't get along with her at all.

`That girl. What the hell is her deal anyway?' Usagi thought, but then frowned to herself while furrowing her eyebrows. `What was her name again?' She knew that she had heard it from Hotaru and Haruka on numerous occasions, but usually after they said her name she'd get angry with them and start ranting about that girl. She knew Minako's because the girl had come up and told her, but she just couldn't remember that girls name for the life of her. Usually she just referred to her as the banshee, abusive animal, a dragon and on a couple of occasions she called her the beast, but never the abusive girl's name while they traded insulting names back and forth whenever they saw one another.

During morning class she often dozed off during roll call and never paid much attention unless her name was called. At lunch, she would sometimes nap on Hotaru's lap so she wasn't included in their conversations. While throughout this week she had hardly seen any of them during break because she was to busy fighting off Mamoru and his gang of pansy boys.

Her thoughts were interrupted when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looks over to her side and sees Haruka smiling down at her then points over towards a store.

“Hey, Usa, let's go on in and see if we can't find a couple of beach toys for the squirt huh?” Haruka asks before Usa looks up and sees Rei's sister on Haruka's shoulders with a large smile on her face.

“Sure, lets go on in,” Usa states with a chuckle before following the duo over to the store to purchase a couple toys for the beach.

When they come out they continue on their way to the beach with Rei glaring at the back of Usagi's head the entire way there.

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Hours passed and the sun had set when Usagi and her aunts return back to the mansion. Hotaru and Haruka watch with amused expressions on their faces while they watch Usagi collapse onto the sofa and stretch out on top of it.

“I've got a feeling that girl is out to kill me or something,” Usagi whispers which makes Haruka and Hotaru look at each other with shared frowns on their faces.

The two girls sit beside Usagi and place their hands on the girls shoulders.

“Oh come on, Usa. She's not that bad,” Haruka offers with a small grin on her face.

“Not that bad!?” Usa exclaims before shooting up from her spot on the couch and glares at her Aunt.

“At that beach she kicked a football at my head and made me take a nose dive into the sand!”

“I'm sure she thought you knew that she was going to kick it to you so that you could deflect it with your chest or your head and as for doing a face plant into the sand well how was she suppose to know that you were behind her when she was backing up?” Hotaru reasons while Usagi frowns some more.

“Fine, one point for you. Then what about her pouring her soda into my lap and making me loose my hot dog to the evils of the sand dune?”

“Well she said that she was trying to get a better spot on the sand and accidentally dumped it into your lap then when she was explaining something she accidentally hit your hand and it ended up into the sand.”

“Alright, how about when one of her sandals flew from her foot and hit me in the head?”

“Her strap on her sandal broke.”

“When she stretched out her arms and her ice cream cone shoved into my face.”

“How was she suppose to know that you were walking up to her on the side of her?”

“HOTARU! HARUKA!” Usagi howls out when her two Aunts gave plausible reasons for each of her acquisitions.

“She's a friggin, demon, I tell you!” Usagi exclaims while crossing her arms over her chest.

“Naw, she's purely human and I keep telling you that,” Hotaru states while Usagi gives her a dirty look then lets out a huff before stomping out of the room muttering to herself.

She brushes past Setsuna and goes up to her room. Setsuna looks back at the girl before looking towards the other two in the room.

“What's wrong with him?” She asks before moving over to a chair with a large sketch book under her arm.

“Oh, he's just pissed because he has a crush on this girl, but is determined to prove that she's out to get him,” Haruka states while chuckling before Hotaru slaps her arm.

“While most of that is true,” Hotaru states with a glare at her sister. “It's more that he thinks that Rei want's nothing more then to hurt him, so he looks at things with a negative light then anything else. Even if they incidents are purely accidental.”

“Setsuna nods her head and chuckles before rolling her eyes. “So it's like grade school crush where they insult each other and pull one another's hair?”

Haruka and Hotaru look at each other before breaking out into laughter. “Yeah something like that,” Haruka states with a nod of her head.

“That's just too funny,” Setsuna states with a shake of her head before she opens her sketch book then looks up towards Hotaru. “Actually, I've got a question for you, Taru.”

“Oh, what's that, Setsuna?” Hotaru asks before sitting down in a chair next to Setsuna's while Haruka stays on the couch.

“Well, I was wondering if you could maybe show Ami around a bit. I mean, I know she's shy and all, but if you could just show her around and let her get to know the place then maybe she wouldn't stay hold up in her room studying all the time. Not that I condone studying, but there is only so much someone can do, you know?”

“Sure, I can do that. Nate and I can show her around at school too. We can introduce her to Makoto, Minako and Rei. Well, I'll introduce her to Rei, because if Nate comes with us for that one, then those two will just get into a fight again,” Hotaru states before a wide smile breaks across her face. “Speaking of Rei. Her family is having a party tomorrow. That would be a great time to get her out of the house. I'll ask Rei if it's okay that I bring her along then she can meet everyone there.”

“That sounds like a great idea. Arigato, Taru,” Setsuna states with a large smile on her face before she goes back to her sketching in her book.

Hotaru smiles widely before Haruka comes over and says good night then leaves for her own house. Hotaru says good night to her sister and Setsuna before heading upstairs to Usa's room, where she finds her sitting at her desk with her homework in front of her. Usa doesn't look up from the text book, but holds out a letter towards Hotaru. After she takes it, Usa points towards the door dismissing her Aunt then goes back to what she's doing.

With a sigh and a shake of her head, Hotaru walks off towards her own room then closes the door shut behind her.

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To Be Continued…

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Please Read and Review

Aleric: Yep, poor Usa couldn't sleep because Nanami wanted to play Yahtzee. Lol. I thought that was original and yet funny enough to use. I was trying to work Setsuna and Ami into the story, but I wasn't sure exactly how I was going to do that, but I'm glad I got it in there. Yeah, there is going to be a lot of that and I'm not quite sure if misassumption is a word, but hey if the spell checker doesn't red line it then I guess it is! Lol. Thanks for the review. Keep'em coming.

a person writing a review: Actually if I'm not mistaking, I had Setsuna dreaming about someone, but I might have written that wrong and of course Mamoru-baka is chasing Usa around. That's what he does. Lol. As for Usa being a black belt well let's just say that soon Mamoru is going to get a taste of what Usa is really like. Lol. But I really do like your idea of rescuing Rei from Mamoru. I just might use it. Heh. o_- Thanks for the review. Keep'em coming!

N8mist: Lol. Actually your pairing is right on the money. However, I am planning on changing Chibi-usa's name, due to the fact that it wouldn't work for this story. I wont however tell you when I'll make her debut, that's for later. Heh. Thanks for the review. Keep'em coming!

Riku: It's really great to know that you are enjoying my story. I hope that everyone that is reading this is getting just as much out of it as you are. Thank you for the review and the kind words. It's great to know!

FeralDemonArtemis3.0: I have to tell you that your review really made my day and inspired me to finish this part of the story. It's great to know that someone can get so much out of my writing. I have to admit for a while I was very hesitant about writing this story because Lostraius did such a great job with Dark Mansion that I didn't want to screw it up for anyone else that had read it, but getting a review like that made me glad that I made the decision to write this. I have to agree, reading the story over and over does make the suffering worse because I have the story saved as well. Again I am really glad that you are enjoying this story and everyone else that is reading it. Thank you so very much for the review and drop a review again. Keep'em coming!

Thank you all for your reviews it's truly nice to see that everyone is enjoying this story so much.

~Middlen