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Way
By Sailor Jes
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Phase One
Aggressions
Hi, all! Well, I've finished my first fanfic "Always Watching You"
(read it!) and have begun the intro to the next one. However, I'm not sure that
I want to continue this fanfic so I'm relying on your opinions of this one to
make my decision whether to continue this or not, so PLEASE drop me a line and
tell me what you think!
A few notes on this one:
It exists in an altered Sailor Moon timeline. I made Usagi, Mamoru, etc. all 16
years old, in the second year of high school (there are only three in Japanese
high schools), and in the same class. Unfortunately, Rei does not come in for a
very long while, as she does not attend Juuban High. Despite all this, I've
changed only a tad of the character's personalities. As you'll notice, Usagi is
a good student! (I did this for a very specific reason, crucial to the plot.)
Otherwise, most things are the same. Oh, I got the idea for this fic from two places:
a line from Act 5 of my previous story, "Always Watching You," and
the Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery (a lot of the events in this
fic are parallel to that series.) If you have a chance, read the Anne series.
It's terrific.
Enjoy! And don't forget to e-mail me! (Sailor Jes@aol.com)
Jessi
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"War is like love, it always finds a way."
-Bertolt Brecht
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The door to Year 2-Class 2 at Juuban High School swung open and Principal
Uematsu poked his round, bald head into the room. He entered, strode over to
the teacher, Ms. Ito, and began whispering something in her ear. Every so
often, Ms. Ito would nod or utter an enthusiastic "uh-huh."
"I wonder what ol' Uematsu's doing in here?" whispered a classmate to
Chiba Mamoru, from across the aisle.
Mamoru shrugged indifferently and continued rolling his pencil back and forth
on his desk. His eyes looked up to the empty desk on his right. The desk where
his best friend, Furuhata Motoki, used to inhabit. That is, until he moved
away. Now, there was just a deserted desk. Mamoru continued rolling his pencil
boredly.
Finally, Ms. Ito turned and faced the curious students. "Class, there will
be a new student joining us-"
Principal Uemastu walked over to the slightly-open door, made a beckoning
gesture, and indicated for the person to enter.
"-Her name is Tsukino Usagi. She just moved here so I hope you will make
her feel welcome."
Some boys in the back of the room snickered when they saw the strange girl's
even stranger hairstyle. She wore the dark blue and white uniform like the
other children and held on protectively to a black briefcase. Mamoru raised an
eyebrow at this most unusual girl who had just graced the room with her
presence. He wasn't exactly sure how he should feel about her. He knew she
would be sitting in that abandoned seat next to him and, like a defensive lion,
he wanted it to remain uninhabited, in memory of his friend. On the other hand,
he was thrilled by the prospect of one of the most beautiful girls he had ever
seen, sitting right next to him. Beautiful? No, he reconsidered, beautiful
wasn't the word. Pretty? Cute? Attractive? No, they really couldn't describe
her properly either. There was something about this girl-what's her name-oh,
yeah, Usagi. Rabbit. She reminded Mamoru of a rabbit with that peculiar
hairstyle and those large, wondering blue eyes like he had never seen before
from anyone. Exotic, maybe? That wasn't it either. Well, Mamoru would just have
to discover more about this peculiar being who was standing so shyly in front
of the class.
"Tsukino-san, I believe there's a desk right next to Chiba-kun over there.
I'm sure you'll do fine in this class. The principal told me you were top-rate
at your old school."
Usagi smiled nervously and nodded, bowed to her new teacher, and turned and
faced the class. She clenched her briefcase tighter as she walked down the
aisle of unsmiling eyes that inspected her as if she were a piece of meat.
*All so unfriendly,* she thought. *I don't believe I'll ever be friends with
any of them.*
When she finally arrived at her intended desk, Usagi smiled politely at the boy
who would be sitting next to her. And then her heart missed a beat. With jet
black hair that hung boyishly in his mysterious sapphire eyes, this boy appeared
different from other boys in the class, from any she had ever seen, actually.
His eyes, Usagi felt, mirrored her own uncertainty and surprise. It was like he
wasn't looking *at* her but rather *into* her; like *he* knew what she was
feeling. It made Usagi uncomfortable and her eyes faltered under his. Turning
her gaze away, her cheeks flushed a horribly embarrassing shade of pink. No boy
had ever caused this kind of reaction from Usagi.
As indifferent and affected as her smile had been, Mamoru found his stomach
jump a little. He had to know more about this elusive, new girl. He took his
opportunity when Ms. Ito resumed her lesson on the Trojan War.
"Psst," he whispered loudly. A few classmates turned their heads and
noticed his antics but Tsukino Usagi scribbled in her notebook furiously.
Mamoru thought maybe he should be paying attention, too, since history wasn't
his forte, but it was so painfully boring and this girl was spoiling his
concentration.
"Psst," he said a little louder. A pretty blonde girl sitting two
rows away named Aino Minako frowned and put her finger over her lips. Shut-up!
Mamoru was frustrated now. He would get this impertinent little Usagi-girl to
pay attention to him, darn it! After all, he was Chiba Mamoru, heart-throb of
Juuban High!
"Psst, Odango Atama!"
That fired up Usagi's attention. She turned her head slowly and asked in a low
voice: "What did you call me?"
The spiteful look her face reflected left his speech completely paralyzed.
"Uh...Odango...Atama?" he replied unsurely.
"Don't call me that ever again!" she retorted and then proudly
refixed her attention to the lesson.
He swallowed hard and waited a few seconds for his heart to stop pounding out a
salsa rhythm. Regaining his backbone once more, Mamoru narrowed his eyes. How
dare this new girl give him the cold shoulder! Didn't she know who she was
dealing with?
"Hey, Odango Ata-"
She looked at him with fire in her eyes. "I told you not to call me
that-"
"Tsukino-san!" snapped Ms. Ito. "I don't care how smart you were
at your old school, you must pay attention in class! One more outburst and
you'll be standing in the hall! And you as well Chiba-kun!"
Mamoru lowered his eyes and said nothing. Usagi turned a thousand shades of red
and looked down ashamedly. "I'm very sorry, Ito-sensei. It won't happen
again," she stumbled.
Ms. Ito turned her back to the class and resumed her lesson, leaving the
students gawking at a most embarrassed Usagi and Mamoru. Slowly, Usagi narrowed
her eyes and glared at this rude boy who had humiliated her, on her first day
at a new school nonetheless! Hatefully, Mamoru returned the gaze and
straightened up in his chair, pencil in hand, with a new-found determination.
If it was a battle this Rabbit-girl wanted, then it was a battle she would
receive! *I'll show you, Tsukino Usagi, that you messed with the wrong person!*
And he began taking notes furiously on all he could about Greeks, Trojans, and
their infamous war.
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Stay tuned...