Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Breaking Free ❯ Is It A Fight You Want?: Part 1 ( Chapter 9 )

Breaking Free

Chapter 9: Is It A Fight You Want?: Part 1

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Usa yawns and walks down the stairs while rubbing her eyes thankful that today was one of the days that her father allowed her to sleep late on. When she arrives in the dinning room she notices that Hotaru is sitting there with a bowl in front of her. She waves a hand towards her Aunt and lets a smile grace her lips, but then frowns when Hotaru doesn't acknowledge her and gets up from the table then leaves the room without so much as a boo to her.

 

The blonde haired girl watches her Aunt walk out of the room and rubs the back of her head wandering what's going on with her, but shrugs her shoulders figuring that it'll resolve it's self soon enough before fixing herself a bowl of cereal. When she sits down she turns her head towards the door when it opens and in steps Haruka with Michiru right behind her.

 

“Hey, Usa, we're going to the temple today. Do you want to come with us?” Haruka asks while leaning a hip against the table then picks up an apple and bites into, chewing thoughtfully.

 

“Sure, I don't see why not. I've got nothing better to do later any way. Dad told me to take the day off from training and to just relax so that's what I was planning on doing anyway,” Usa states before digging into her breakfast with child like glee on her face.

 

Haruka and Michiru look at each other and roll their eyes together before sitting down with Usagi while she finishes her breakfast.

 

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A hand reaches out from under the covers and turns the screeching alarm clock before blurry amethyst eyes look at the clock and groan softly noticing that it's six in the morning. `Who in their right mind gets up at this hour?' Rei asks herself before getting out of bed and trudges towards her bathroom to shower and get changed into her priestess robes so that she can man the shrine with her grandfather who lives up there.

 

She walks back into her room and steps over Minako to grab her cell phone from on top of her bed side table then steps back over her before looking down at the girl slightly envying her ability to sleep in. With another yawn, she walks out of her room and heads towards the shrine, her priestess duties awaited her and her grandpa was not someone who tolerated tardiness in the least little bit. Today was a Sunday, which meant that the temple opened up at seven in the morning instead of the usual time during the week which was nine am.

After saying her prayers and finishing her cleaning duties around the shrine before people came, she went into her grandfathers house to have breakfast with him and her family. Breakfast was a quiet occasion though every once in a while the quiet was disturbed when they discussed various tasks that needed to be completed for the day.

 

“Hahahaha, Jiji, I saw Rei getting mad last night because some boy wasn't dancing with her. She had this really mad look on her face and …ouch!” Himiko cries out while rubbing the back of her head where Rei had popped her with her fan. “Mama! Rei just hit me!”

 

“Rei, don't be hitting your sister. Do you want her to get brain damage?” Their mother scolds with a crossed look on her face.

 

“Mama is Himiko allowed to gossip at the table during breakfast?” Rei asks with an innocent look on her face.

 

Rei's mother immediately rolls up the paper that she was reading and swatted the younger girl on the back of her head. “Himiko, you know better then to gossip at the table. It's not nice and you shouldn't be doing that!”

“PAPA!” Himiko cries out while leaning over to latch onto her fathers arm with a pout on her face while she looks up at the older man.

“Aww, there, there Himiko. I'm sure that your mother didn't mean anything by it.” The older man states while patting his youngest daughter on the arm.

“Honey, you're giving her what she wants again. That's the spoiling that you and I talked about,” Rei's mother states while shaking her finder at her husband who smiles at her cheerfully.

“Come now Yori, don't pick on our little baby like that,” Rei's father states while rubbing the back of his youngest daughters head.

`Little baby,' Rei thinks while her left eyebrow twitches. `Did he forget that Himiko is ten years old or what? He probably just needs thicker glasses.' She looks over to where her father is making airplane noises while her sister eats and rolls her eyes. `Nope, defiantly needs memory pills, instead.'

“Shall Papa take Himiko to the amusement park later today?” Rei's father asks Himiko who looks up at her with a hopeful look in her eyes.

A sweat drop falls down the side of Yori's and Rei's face while they exchange annoyed half lidded looks before looking back at the older man who was currently making faces at Himiko, causing her to laugh.

`Baka papa,' Rei thinks before shaking her head at the fact that her younger sister had once again suckered their father into giving her what she wanted once again.

One of the priests from the temple knocked before sliding the shoji open and entering. The priest bowed and then whispered something in grandpa Hino's ear. With a nod, he was dismissed while Rei's family waited intently for the old man to speak.

“It seems that there will be a large group of people coming from a very influential family today. I'm not sure how large it will be, but I suggest that we take every precaution to make them feel comfortable here so that they will want to come back here again at a later date. Does everyone understand what needs to be done?” Grandpa Hino asks while looking at his two granddaughters who nod their heads in acknowledgement.

“Hai, Jiji,” the girls answer together which makes their grandfather smile at their enthusiasm.

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Usagi whistles softly while waiting for Haruka and Michiru to finish talking to her grandfather. She rubs the back of her head and wonders what the two of them are talking with the older man about, but dismisses it when the thought of their marriage comes to mind.

Usagi shoves her hands into her pockets oblivious to the maids that pass by. She wears a pair of yellow work boots, black baggy cargo pants, an olive green long sleeved shirt and a gray short sleeved shirt on top. A light brown bomber jacket completes her attire.

“USA-NIISAMA!” came a cry before someone tackles her to the ground. She falls onto her back and winces when her head hits the hard wood floor causing it to bounce.

She lets out a groan wondering what the hell had just happened while laying there sprawled out on the floor. Still wincing from her fall, she opens her eyes only to see Haruka's face hovering above hers.

“Are you alright?” Haruka asks while raising an eyebrow at the groan that the girl lets out when the person that was still sitting on her begins to jump up and down on her.

“USA-NIISAMA!” a voice bellows in her ear almost causing her eardrums to explode from the close proximity. She quickly shoves her hand into the face that's close to her ear and pushes the person off of her, before finally sitting up. Blue eyes settled on the small figure dressed in almost the exact outfit that she's currently wearing. Short hair that's cut exactly like hers, but is spiked up to points while a ten year olds face with bright brown eyes looks back at her with a slight pout on their face.

“Shinzu?” Usagi calls out while looking at her younger cousin with a raised eyebrow.

“Huuuu... Usa-niisama's so mean to me! You're suppose to call me Shin-san,” the ten year old whines while crossing their arms over their chest pouting harder.

Usa lets out a groan before Haruka comes over to help the girl to her feet and she looks down at her pouting cousin before turning back towards, Haruka.

“Why is she here?” Usa asks while pointing towards her cousin who looks up at her with bright eyes that are close to shedding tears.

“Your Aunt and Uncle on your mothers side called to say that they were going out of the country and they didn't know anyone that could take care of Shin, while they were gone. So dad offered for her to stay with us while they were gone. Now, come on. We have to go,” Haruka states before picking up Shin and puts her on her shoulders and the two girls walk out with Shin giggling and holding her arms out like she's flying.

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It's around eleven when the girls finally make their way up the temple steps. Shin despite having so much energy when they left the mansion is now having a little difficulty maneuvering the steps.

“Why do they have so many steps?” she whines while tripping over a step and falls onto her hands then lets a pout come to her face while she turns it up to look at Usa.

“Oye, oye don't complain you're here because you wanted to come. You said that you could handle it,” Usagi chides while she helps the girl up to her feet then holds her hand to help her up another step.

Haruka frowns before looking back behind her only to see those who had started up after they did were now easily catching up to them. At the rate that they were traveling up the steps they'd be lucky to get up the steps before noon.

“Usa-niisama will you please carry me?” Shin whines while she struggles up another step only to fall down once again.

“Shinzu, just suck it up and continue moving. We'll get there eventually,” Usa states before letting out an exasperated sigh when the girl begins to whine once again.

“Oh, Usa, I forgot to tell you that I was talking with Hotaru before we left this morning and I think she said something about Rei-chan was going to be visiting the temple today and that you should be on the look out for her,” Haruka states which causes Usagi to gape at her thoughtlessness while Shin continues to whine that her knees where hurting from falling onto them so many times.

Haruka looks around for a moment then nudges Michiru who is standing beside her with her hand over her mouth and her eyes grow wide.

“Ara.. I think that's,” Haruka begins, but stops when she gapes at Usagi's speed.

Before the blonde tom boy could finish her sentence the platinum blonde haired girl had Shin draped over her shoulder and was now bounding up the steps with speed that left others in awe.

Haruka grins evilly at Michiru before holding out her arm to her finance and they start back up the stares with Haruka chuckling all the way up there. `I was right to come to the temple. A good prayerful cleansing is an order,' She thinks before smiling at Michiru and the two of them engage in small talk while walking up the many steps of the temple.

When they finally reach the top, they see Usagi bent over with her hands on her knees panting for breath while Shin smiles happily at the ride that she had been on because of Usagi running up all those steps.

“Neh.. Haruka,” Usagi whispers to Haruka who tries to look innocent while Michiru puts her hand over her mouth once again while Usagi pushes her sweat soaked bangs out of her eyes.

“Did you really see, that banshee?” Usagi asks while Haruka puts a finger to her chin and a thoughtful look crosses over her face before she shrugs her shoulders and turns back towards Michiru who's shoulders are now shaking from trying to hold in the laughter that's bubbling up inside of her.

Usagi lets out another sigh before standing up right and pushes her stubborn bangs out of her eyes once again.

“Usa-niisama,” Shin calls and offers a blue and black handkerchief to her.

Wearily Usagi takes it then wipes the sweat from her face and shoves it into her back pocket for later wash then the two girls follow Michiru and Haruka who is muttering something about prayer charms for marriage.

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At around one in the afternoon the small group of girls was now done with their prayers and is currently weaving through the crowd that had grown from that morning.

“Hey, Shin, stay close to me,” Usagi states only to find that the ten year old is no longer standing beside her. She turns her head when she notices that Haruka and Michiru are no longer beside her either. She turns her head and lets out a sigh when she sees that Shin is with the couple standing across from her on the other side of the court yard. She's about to go over to them when man tries to get past her only to accidentally push her forward which makes her trip over her feet and is sent flying towards someone. She closes her eyes and prepares for the blow only to land between something soft. Using her hands, she pushes herself up and off the soft object.

Blue eyes widened in horror when she realizes that her hands are now resting on top of a girls breasts.

Amethyst eyes blaze with fury before a flaming punch is aimed towards Usagi's face. Using her reflexes that her father had pounded into her, she steps towards the side only just barely missing the lethal punch that was aimed at her head.

“Banshee?” Usagi asks before swallowing hard when she sees the girl that Haruka had warned that would be there standing in front of her.

The girl grits her teeth angrily at the blonde haired boy standing in front of her while clutching her handbag close to her body, a large black, cloud hanging over her head.

“Who are you calling a Banshee, you perverted freak?” Rei hollers before she uses her handbag to land a few hard hits to the side of the boys head then begins to chase him around the court yard while yelling at him at the top of her voice.

Himiko looks up from what she was doing when she heard Rei screaming at the top of her voice and lets out a sigh of relief when she notices that her older sister had changed out of her priestess robes before going out with her friends

`Thank the Kami, she changed before going out. It wouldn't look good for the temple if people were to think that we had an angry monster living in the jinja,' she muses before smiling brightly at the customer in front of her and hands them their good luck charm.

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Later that day Haruka carries in an unconscious Usagi and places her gently on the couch before backing up to look at the girls injuries that she had acquired at the temple before shaking her head then lets out an exasperated sigh.

`What is the problem with those two? It's like they can't see each other without throwing insults and beating the crap out of one another,' Haruka muses before sitting down in an arm chair with a weary sigh then looks up at Michiru who hands her fiancé a cup of tea.

“You know, if I didn't know better, I'd think that those two had a thing for one another,” Michiru muses out loud while looking at the unconscious form of her fiancé's niece.

“Yeah, but with the way those to keep going at it. One or the other is going to be dead before they figure it out,” Haruka scoffs before taking a sip of her tea.

“Well, then maybe they need a little help in figuring it out then,” Michiru states with a sly look on her face that makes Haruka cringe slightly.

`Watch out, Usa. You aren't going to know what hit you after Michi gets done with you,' Haruka states before chuckling softly to herself while watching her niece slumber on with no knowledge of what her Aunts fiancé was currently planning for the two girls.

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“Taru,” a voice calls out in the early morning air while Hotaru walks to school with her briefcase tossed over her shoulder and a scowl permanently plastered on her face.

“WHAT!” the girl snaps out angrily before turning towards the owner of the voice her brows furrowed in consternation.

Rei, Minako and Makoto plaster a large smile on their faces while a sweat drop rolls down the side of their heads.

Hotaru blinks her eyes for a moment when she realizes who's standing in front of her then lets out a sigh before bowing towards her friends.

“Sorry.. I didn't realize that it was you guys that were calling out to me,” she states which causes the girls to wave their hands around while their faces remain pale from the encounter.

`Scary,' Makoto thinks before raising an eyebrow. `I wonder what's going on that she's so mad.'

`I'll make sure never to get him mad at me,' Rei muses while scuffing a foot against the ground then looks up at the boy standing in front of her.

The three girls fall into pace beside their friend while they walk towards the school in silence. Makoto looks over at the girl with a worried look on her face wondering if everything was alright at home. She lets out an inaudible sigh before she begins to analyze the possible reasons as to the cause of Hotaru's foul mood, when she notices that Usa is surprisingly missing from her normal spot beside Hotaru.

Rei and Minako noticed the absence of the platinum blonde haired boy as well mostly because Rei and Nate-san aren't fighting.

“Ara.. Re-” Minako begins, but feels a slight tug on her sleeve which causes her to pause and look over at Makoto, who shakes her head in warning to the blonde haired girl. It took several moments for Minako to comprehend as to what Makoto's silent warning meant before she looks up towards Taru who thankfully hadn't heard her while he continues to walk down the side walk with his head lowered. Rei had already gotten the message that Makoto had sent to her other friend before the three of them exchange looks with their eyebrows raised. Taru, had sped up his walking and was now walking a long ways off in front of them. Rei shrugs her shoulders and continues on.

With the uneasy atmosphere that seemed to permeate the air around them, it left the girls to their own thoughts while they walked to school. Rei frowned slightly while she walked on down the street, because she was utterly confused about the annoying boy that seemed to be plaguing her thoughts lately. On the one hand, she was giddy with the thought of seeing him today at school, while on the other hand, she warned herself not to get too close to him. She lets out a sigh before she pushes back her hair and shifts her thoughts elsewhere trying to distract her thoughts away from the annoying boy and her conflicting thoughts. She smiled remembering that Ami had mentioned that she would be arriving to their school today before she had left the party. They didn't get to talk much while at the party, but the time they had spent together made them both feel like they've known each other forever.

The air of oppression didn't change in the slightest even when the four girls entered the court yard of the school. Instead it seemed as though the dark clouds were currently hanging over their heads had some how spread quickly towards the student populace who now stood gaping in horror towards the girls general direction. Actually it seemed as if they were staring more towards, Taru, then they were towards the girls. Judging from the looks on the faces of the students standing around in the court yard, Rei figured that them seeing an angry Taru was not an every day occurrence because some students turned to look at him with their mouths dropping open, some of them were pointing towards him and others were backing so quickly out of his path that the fell down to the ground in their haste to get away from the angry boy. Because of that reaction she figured that a very pissed off, Taru, was someone that you didn't mess with which unfortunately, one poor sap would soon find out because he was coming up to the pissed off boy now.

“Oye, lover boy where's your tag along?” a boy asked while he looks down at the shorter boy standing in front of him with his shoulders slumped and his head pointed towards the ground.

Rei, Minako and Makoto assumed that the boy with the slicked back, red hair is from Mamoru's gang. They looked him up and down taking in his tall, bulky form trying to use his height to exude power over the shorter boy in front of him. His white dress shirt wasn't tucked in revealing a dark blue t-shirt underneath it and a thick, silver chain mail necklace around his neck. He stands there with a wide grin plastered on his face, his hands were stuck in his pants pockets while he leered down at Taru in a way that seemed to ridicule his size, but as they say, big things come in small packages.

Taru tilts his head to the slightly to the side while his eyes darken while he looks up at the taller boy in front of him causing everyone around him to gasp.

“Lover Boy?” he asks while smirking viciously causing the taller boy to take a step back at the weird look on the normally calm boys face.

“Who are you calling Lover Boy.. BASTARD!” Taru snarls before bringing her fist back and punches the boy in the face with more power that the boy had ever expected to feel from the shorter boy.

The boy staggers back from the blow and touches his now bloody lip with his finger tips before bringing it away to look at, his eyes growing wide at the sight of blood that rests there.

“You asshole!” he shouts angrily while his face twists into a look of rage.

Before Makoto, Rei or Minako can react to the situation, the boy charges towards Taru like a bull with his head down intending to tackle the smaller boy to the ground and teach him a lesson. A swift kick to the stomach sends the boy into a coughing fit while he kneels down on the ground and struggles to get some air into his deflated lungs.

She uses the tip of her briefcase to push his chin up so that he's looking her directly into the eyes while she narrows her eyes.

“Don't you ever call me lover boy or an asshole ever again. Got it?” she growls out in a low tone. “And don't you ever ask me about Nate either,” she states in a deadly tone before stepping away from the fallen boy and makes her way into the school.

Minako pales at the sight of the injured boy in front of her, before imagining herself in a similar predicament had it not been for Makoto stopping her from asking about the other boy. She turns her head towards Makoto, who is currently watching Taru walking off towards the school with a worried look on her face while Rei glances around as the students that had stood around then quietly now begin to whisper amongst themselves at the scene that had unfolded in front of them.

“Hey, hey, what's this? Taru-san and Nate-san had a fight? That's unheard of.”

“Wow, I think that guy needs to have his head checked for approaching Taru-san like that!”

“I remember what it was like the last time those two had a fight. It wasn't pretty.”

“You were around when they had a fight last time? I thought that they were so close.”

“Yeah, I have to agree with you on that one. Though I heard last time they ended up in a fight, Taru-san took down a guy that was ten times his size.”

“Well with Nate-san being in the state that he'll be in then he wont stand a chance against Mamoru-san and his gang..”

“I heard that the last time those two had a fight, it lasted for almost a month. My brother told me that their teachers all called in sick because they couldn't stand the oppressed feel in the room when those two were together Even the substitute didn't want to be in the same room as those two.”

“Hey, maybe they'll let us out of school or something since I'm in a lot of classes with them.”

“I love watching Taru-san when he's so angry. Taru-san is just so Kawii and cool. It gives me love chills just thinking about him.”

“Oye, oye stop that or we're going to throw up!”

“Yeah, you'll get chills alright if it's you that he comes up against!”

“I really think that Nate-sempai would do a lot better if he didn't hang out with Taru-san so much. It's like he doesn't allow Nate-sempai talk to anyone and oh what I wouldn't give to go out on a date with him!”

Rei, Makoto and Minako sigh before shaking their heads at the whispering teens around them before walking towards the school each one thinking that those whispering teens should have something better to do with their time instead of wondering about Nate-san's and Taru-san's relationship. It was just so unbelievable how many people wanted the two torn apart for some reason or another. The boys were ranting about how big of an ass Nate-san was for stealing away all the girls and how he was going to get his ass kicked because of the oppression that was going on between the two boys. While the girls were divided some where going on about how hot Taru-san was when he was made, while other girls were hoping that Ren would finally break free from his best friend Taru and finally notice them for once.

“Kami, this is so horrible! I never realized how big those two were on campus,” Makoto states while shaking her head at all the whispering that was going on around them.

“I wonder how, Taru feels about all of this,” Minako wonders out loud while they walk into the school and down the hall towards their lockers.

“Why don't you keep an eye on her Rei since he's in your class and make sure he comes to lunch,” Makoto states with a worried tone to her voice.

“That sounds like a plan Mako, I'll see you guys at lunch time then,” Rei states before watching the girls go off to their class rooms before she enters the one that she was in with Nate and Taru, but before she can enter the class room a bunch of girls mob her.

“Rei-san, Rei-san. Is it true? Did Taru-san and Nate-sempai have a fight?” The girls ask while looking at her expectantly, waiting for the raven haired girl to answer their questions.

“Uhh,” Rei manages to get out while looking at all the girls standing in front of her with eager looks on their faces. She hadn't expected them to surround her and start asking her questions nor did she even know that they knew her by her name for that matter.

She opens her mouth to tell them that she didn't know anything about what was going on, but can't get out a word because of the continuous flow of questions while the bodies in front of her begin to close in around here which starts to bring on an panic attack. She's about ready to bolt when she hears a voice behind her yell out.

“WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?” A familiar voice asks in a very loud, very angry tone.

The loud voices that were reverberating along the hallways became deadly silent instantly and the girls that were once surrounding Rei part when they see a platinum blonde boy standing off down the hallway, glaring at them with his eyes narrowed to dangerous slits. Rei's eyes widened and are in danger of popping out when she sees the boy before her looking nothing like the boy that she had seen on Saturday who had bowed before her in a gentlemanly manner, though she left out Sunday because she was still slightly trying to forget the feel of him on top of her. Messy platinum blonde bangs fell across icy blue eyes. One hand was shoved deep into his pants pocket, while the other hand was currently holding his schoolbag over his right shoulder. Rei notices that the boy isn't wearing a school tie and that his normal appearance had changed as well. His shirt was unbuttoned all the way down and hanging loose under his blazer, which was also unbuttoned, which reveals a blood red t-shirt beneath the shirt with a large black and white dragon design on it, that shirt was partially tucked into the waistband of his black pants showing off his silver studded black leather belt with holes that ran in between the studs, while clipped to his belt loops where two silver chains that rain along side his thigh and to a pocket in the back of his pants.

`Dangerous,' she thinks before taking a deep, breathe of air and lets it out slowly. `Sexy.'

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Next Chapter: The fighting between Usa and Hotaru continues. Ami makes her debate at school and Rei gets jealous again? What?

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To Be Continued…

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Note from the Author: This story has been coming along great, but with me starting my new job, I might not get the chance to write this story up as quickly as I have been. So please be patient with me. I promise not to forget this story and I'll write the chapters every spare second that I can get. Thank you all for your reviews. They're great!

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Riku: It's a pleasure getting your reviews. Now, as for Rei/Usa parts that you wanted to know about are now beginning as you see from above. Heh. It took a while but hey, give it a little time. Lol. Now as for Hotaru/Yomiko well that's going to be explained more with the coming chapters. Also if you've noticed I'm doing more Rei then Usa before, there will be a reason for that as you will see with the coming chapters. I'm glad that you are enjoying this story so much and I hope that this chapter doesn't disappoint. Until next chapter. Thank you for the review.

FeralDemonArtemis3.0: Yeah, I feel bad that it happened to Usa as well, but I had to do it to make Hotaru made at Usa so that she can pound some sense into the girls head. Heh. I love doing that. The irony! Anyways. I enjoyed your review and I hope I get more from you. Thank you for your input and I'm glad that you are enjoying the story. Until next chapter.

Aleric: No, no. Rei isn't obsessing about Usa at all. Nope. Lol. I love doing brooding moments in chapters and then put the irony in it for everyone to see except the character. Lol.

And No, I didn't get that at all from your last review. I know that it's sort of weird between Hotaru and Yomiko right now, but I promise that I'll write out why this is so weird for those two to begin with, that way there isn't so much confusion on their parts. Though your review did give me the idea to put those two's relationship more into the story that it will clear up any questions. Thank you for that. I hope that you enjoyed this chapter and I look forward to seeing more reviews from you.

Stormforce: Actually, I do have how Rei is going to find out about Usa, but that isn't for a while yet and nope. Not giving any clues. Lol. As for who Ami is going to get with, well it's a definite possibility that I'm going to get her together with Makoto, but I have yet to figure out if I want to do that, but I'm think it's highly possible.

To answer the question about Hotaru. It's more that she was jealous with Usa for dancing with Yomiko as this chapter has suggested with her out burst at the boy.

Lol. No, I don't think that Mamoru will be trampled with elephants in a parking lot anytime soon. I do realize the reference. I like Utena. Heh. Anyways, Mamoru-baka will be getting his just deserts in the next chapter. It's going to be great writing that out and I promise I shall do that. Lol.

Thank you for the review and if you have any more questions just let me know. I'm glad that the party went off really well with everyone. I wasn't sure if I should put that in, but I'm really glad that I did. Again, thank you for your review and I'm looking forward to more.