Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Second Chances ❯ A Vague Conversation and We Learn About Puberty From Maybe The Wrong Person ( Chapter 1 )

Thank you for not thinking the prologue was a waste of time. I really think you needed that little heart-felt moment between those two scouts. I know the last chapter was totally, "Oh I bet you cant guess which scouts Jade likes better." Anyways, there are other people in this story. So without much further ado, here's chapter one.

Disclaimer: No! I don't own it!

Warning: Um some mean comments and some teenage conversations.

Second Chances


Chapter One

"A life is waiting for you,

It's all messed up but we're alive,

A life is waiting for you,

It's all messed up but you'll survive."

- Our Lady Peace Life



"Another year of school about to begin." Hotaru told Mamoru with a tired voice. "I wish it was still summer."

"Hotaru, don't worry, we'll have fun like we did last year." Mamoru reminded her as he walked into the living room of their apartment. Hotaru and Mamoru had lived together since they had become old enough for high school. It was a very large apartment and Hotaru had paid for the whole thing, but it was far better than the orphanage they lived in before. Mamoru had been there since he was two, and Hotaru since she was three.

"Yeah we'll have fun, but you know what I mean. Don't you sometimes wish that we could...I don't know." Hotaru sighed trying to think of just the right way to approach this.

"That we could be left alone? Last year the teasing was almost as bad as it was at the orphanage." Mamoru grimaced at the horrible names they had been called all year. They were always called freaks. Plus, most people thought it was a little odd that they lived together. Mamoru and Hotaru were close, though. It was like Mamoru having a sister. Hotaru had a huge family fortune behind her though, which was something Mamoru lacked.

"Exactly. Wouldn't it be weird to trade places with people that are really superficial and popular?" Hotaru giggled at the thought.

"Like the Kous?" Mamoru laughed. The Kous. That was what everyone called them. Three boys who by mere coincidence shared the same last name. They were really good friends and were also really popular.

"Exactly." Hotaru nodded her head in affirmation.

"Hotaru, do you think this year, maybe I'll find out more about her?" Mamoru put emphasis on the word her, but Hotaru knew who he was talking about anyway.

"I hope so. This mystery has been driving you and me both nuts for years." Hotaru said dryly. Mamoru had dreamed of some sort of golden princess since he was little. Always the same dream, and never had they even gotten so much as a hint. She never said a word to Mamoru. Just stood there with the wind running through her hair and making her white dress trail out. Hotaru had gotten a detailed description of the dream, trying to decipher what it meant.

"Last night, she said something." Mamoru's brow creased in thought and Hotaru's eyes widened.

"And you failed to mention this until now? What did she say, I want even the smallest details." Hotaru told him sternly.

"She didn't really say anything. She sang the verse of a song." Mamoru took a deep breath before singing a song that Hotaru knew was familiar, something she couldnt quite place, perhaps she had only heard it once in her whole life.

"Led by moonlight,

We cross paths again and again,

Counting the blinking of the stars,

Reading the future of our love,"

"That's it, huh?" Hotaru rubbed her chin. "It means something. She hasn't spoken in years, has she? This crossing paths thing, maybe you are going to meet her!"

"How will I recognize her? I've told you, I know her hair is blonde, but I can never see her face." Mamoru looked down at his feet, dejectedly.

"You will just know." Hotaru reassured him. She got up slowly. "For now, I'm going to bed, we do have school tomorrow you know."

"Don't remind me." Mamoru yawned and stretched. The two went off to bed.
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"Usagi!" Minako's voice filled Usagi's very tired brain.

"Minako!" Usagi managed to suppress her sleepiness to call out a greeting to her best friend, and next door neighbor. Usagi's group was very close-knit. It had started with Usagi and Minako when they were in sixth grade, right when Minako moved to Tokyo. Then in junior high they met Makoto and Rei. After that it seemed like everyone else was just an acquaintance. Bringing someone else in would seem weird now. They had so many inside jokes and secrets.

"Did you almost sleep in?" Minako opened the schools doors for Usagi. Usagi stepped ahead of her, inside the warm building.

"Almost, but lucky for me the phone rang. It was my aunt and uncle, they went to America for a few weeks." Usagi explained to Minako.

"Your aunt and uncle are the coolest! I love your Aunt Luna's baking. Its fantastic! Almost as good as Makoto's." Minako commented. Usagi waved to Makoto who had just spotted them, and was with Rei just sort of hanging out in the hall.

"Hey Usagi, Minako!" Makoto yelled. The whole group greeted each other. Usagi knew it was going to be just like last year. The four of them together again. Rei had to work all summer at her grandpa's farm in the country. Makoto went on a trip to America with her two parents. They had taken a ship because for some reason unknown Makotos mom was terrified of planes. The group began to head to their classroom, room number eleven. They got there to find a few students already in there. What Usagi failed to spot was three boys, one boy staring at her like he had never seen a girl before.
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"Seiya, as much fun as it to watch you being a drooling idiot, could you please close your mouth?" Yaten asked with a superior sort of smirk.

"Huh? Does she," Seiya paused to point after the blonde girl that had just passed them with her friends. "I mean, is she new?" Yaten just snorted and Taiki looked up from his book momentarily.

"That's Tsukino Usagi, she was in our class last year and I believe that she's in our class again this year." Taiki stated very clearly, as if answering a question that a teacher called on him for.

"Yeah, you start to notice girls when you hit puberty. Also hair starts to grow in strange places, noticed any of that?" Yaten's comment would have normally earned a hit in the back of the head from Seiya but of course the dark-haired boy wasn't paying that much attention.

"Tsukino Usagi." Seiya breathed her name. Yaten shook his head in disgust.

"I don't understand you Seiya. First you complain about girls, then you sit there and act like a moron because one walked past you." Yaten told him, folding his arms.

"But...it...was..." Seiya tried to get out. When his eyes had laid on that smiling face, he felt something completely indescribable.

"Oh dear, no coherent sentences shall ever be heard from Seiya again." Yaten sighed melodramatically, the effect was of course ruined by his rather mischievous smile.

"I'm sure there will be." Taiki didnt even look up from his book, "How else will he get her to go out with him?"

"You think she'll go out with me?" Seiya looked surprised and Yaten just rolled his eyes.

"No of course not, I mean only half the girls at this school want to date you." Yaten muttered sarcastically. The bell rang and they strolled into their new classroom, room number eleven.
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"Good morning class. To start off the new school year, I already have an assignment for you." Miss Meioh smiled as a collective groan was heard from the class. I already have a vocabulary sheet for you. I will assign partners and you will look up the twenty vocabulary words with your partners. Miss Meioh held up a small sheet and she could see the shining hope on the kids faces, just hoping that they wouldn't get put with someone horrible.

"I hope were together." Minako told Usagi. Usagi nodded back to show that she had heard her.

"Tomoe Hotaru and Chiba Mamoru," Miss Meioh's list was interrupted by a small sigh of relief from Hotaru.

"Wow, the two freaks were put together." One student said and Miss Meioh's eyes shot towards them like an arrow.

"Excuse me, sir, but I will have no rude commentary in my classroom. Go out into the hall." Miss Meioh told him sternly. Some of the other people jumped slightly, realizing that Miss Meioh was not a pushover like some of the other teachers were. She kept listing off names. Usagi heard her name and her ears perked up.

"Tsukino Usagi and Kou Seiya." Miss Meioh read off. Usagi's eyes widened. Kou Seiya was very popular. He had never spoken to her before and she couldn't believe that he would start now. She let her eyes stray in his direction and noticed with surprise that he was looking back at her too. Miss Meioh soon finished off reading names. Usagi moved her chair to the other side of the classroom with her books so they could look up the words on the sheet that was being passed around.

"Tsukino Usagi, right?" Seiya asked in a surprisingly friendly voice. Usagi had always thought that the Kous as they were always called, were a little self-absorbed and snotty.

"Yes, I guess we should get started then." Usagi felt a small flush going to her cheeks. The way Seiya was looking at her made her feel funny.

"I hate getting stuck with idiots." Yaten had leaned over to tell this to Seiya. Yaten's partner happened to be Minako. Minako seemed perfectly oblivious to what he had said as she searched for words in her dictionary.

"Excuse me, that's my friend." Usagi tried to stare him down. There was one thing Usagi could not stand, and that was people making fun of any of her friends. Sure, Minako was a little ditzy and sometimes mixed up sayings, so what if Rei had a bad temper, so what if Makoto tended to try to solve things violently? That was just part of who they were.

"Ah, aren't you Tsukino Usagi? Well maybe you're the brains out of the two of you." Yaten eyed her and shook his head. "But somehow I think probably not." Usagi opened her mouth to say something but Seiya got in before her.

"Yaten, tell me something. If your partner is such an idiot then why is she working, and you're gossiping?" Seiya asked, finally glad to get back at Yaten for earlier that morning.

"I'll let you have this one." Yaten turned back around, making it sound as if he could care less.

"Uh, thanks, Seiya." Usagi gave him one of her cheerful smiles. His face changed dramatically. He looked so happy. Usagi wondered why. Maybe he didnt get a lot of smiles from people? No, that didn't make sense since he was very popular. Maybe some things aren't what they seem...
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"Kakyuu." Setsuna acknowledged the girl before stepping into her tiny teacher's office. It wasnt very big but she had hung up curtains on the one window and gotten flowers to sit on her desk, with her computer.

"Setsuna, I'm a little nervous about tomorrow." Kakyuu brushed some fingers through her red hair.

"Kakyuu, dont worry. I still don't see why you didn't come today but youll be fine. Just remember that none of them know." Setsuna gave her the same look that she always did, reminding Kakyuu for the thousandth time that no one remembered but them. Kakyuu could never figure out why she remembered. It made sense for Setsuna to remember, she was the Time Keeper after all.

"I thought that-" Kakyuu looked slightly confused when Setsuna cut her off.

"They only remember a feeling, a sort of leash that leads them straight towards each other. They never could be separated for very long." Setsuna explained to ease the bewildered red head.

"It will be hard to see them all again." Kakyuu affirmed. Setsuna gave her a softer look.

"I know. It's always hard for me. I've never had a sister before, but I guess Fate thought it would be necessary this time. Odd, it doesn't usually happen." Setsuna smiled at her red-haired sister. Kakyuu and Setsuna both had the same dark red eyes. Setsuna's hair was like her father's and Kakyuu's like her mother's.

"I'm glad I could be your sister." Kakyuu answered truthfully. Setsuna smiled gratefully at her.
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The end of the wicked stepmother. Just kidding. Hey, how is this so far? Okay like I mentioned, Ive never seen Sailor Stars, but I think I did an okay job. Plus people are bound to be a little different every time theyre born. Good excuse huh? Actually, if you look at the Sailor Moon Universe, it all makes perfect sense. Like, take for instance their previous life on the moon. Princess Serenity was most likely not a klutzy crybaby, but look at her now! And what are the first four letters in Tamaguchi? I rest my case!