Summary:
(AU) What if their roles were reversed? What if it was Usagi who was hopelessly in love with Seiya and he was the one who was in love with someone else oblivious to the feelings of his best friend for him? How would Usagi get him to see her more than just a best friend?
Disclaimer:
I don't own any of the Sailormoon characters. But I do own the plot and (in the future) some invented characters.
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Look at him. Just look at him. How could you not fall for him? It's not just about those mind-blowing azure eyes or that long, straight jet black hair gathered in a ponytail or that tall, slender frame of his, that he keeps toned at all the right places. It's more than breath-taking smile that is able to melt hearts or all his God given talents combined. It's more than those superficial things those silly girls have noticed now that we were all older.
It's more than that...
I fell in love with the way he'd laugh with me and not at me when I'm having one of my klutz episodes. I fell in love with the way he would remind me of a ten year old bratty kid when he doesn't get his way. I fell in love with the way he shares his most intimate thoughts and feelings with no one else but me. I fell in love with the hundred and one small details about him as well as all the things that matter. I fell in love with the one person in the world who knows me better than I know myself. I fell in love with my best friend. I fell in love with Seiya Kou.
Here I am with the knowledge that I'm in love with him but I can't do anything about it...
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"Oi Odango!"
Usagi momentarily stopped what she was writing. She didn't have to see who called out to her to know that it was him. He was the only person to have called her by that silly pet name. Normally she would roll her eyes at this, for he knows how much she's annoyed that nickname and yet he persists to call her by it, but instead she smiled. Speaking of the devil...
She looked up and her eyes begun to search for his familiar tall and slim frame. His good looks, trademark killer-smile and that aura of confidence that permeates from him, enables him to be easily set apart from the rest. Of course it didn't hurt that he was one third of the school's most popular trio.
He was part of "The Starlights," an underground rock band that was slowly gaining a huge fan base from all the local high schools in the area. Now due to the band's increasing popularity, he and the other band members were pretty much treated like gods around the campus by their fellow schoolmates.
And naturally no one worshiped the guys more than their female fans or as Usagi would call them groupie-zoids. It was like after years of seeing these guys around campus; they have recently discovered just how desirable the guys were. Thus the groupie-zoids made it a point of hounding their every steps as well as finding out every single information they can of the guys. And despite all of that the guys tolerated the attention that was bestowed on them.
Of course on more than one occasion they did manage to annoy the hell out of the guys, especially when the groupies treated their female friends badly or more specifically Usagi.
Since Usagi and Seiya spent a lot of time together, a lot of them immediately assumed that she was Seiya's girlfriend. Therefore they all went out of their way to make sure they made her life a living hell.
When the guys were made aware of this they immediately told off their fans. Also Seiya made it a point to emphasize the fact it was really none of their business what-so-ever if he decided to date Usagi or any girl for that matter.
But Usagi realized that if it weren't for those damn groupies who idolized the guys, she probably wouldn't realize how in love she was with her best friend...
Naturally, when these girls started to treat her badly, she was oblivious to the reason behind it. But after overhearing two of them talking in the girl's bathroom she finally understood why.
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"Did you see that slut Usagi all over Seiya during lunch? Disgusting isn't it?" said one.
"Please don't make me vomit... She so doesn't deserve him." replied her companion. "He'd be better off with me!"
"Oh come on! Why would he want you when he can perfectly have me?"
Then both girls giggled.
"But you have to admit whenever Seiya is around that Usagi bitch, he lights up like a damn Christmas tree."
"Yeah it's like they're off in their own little world when they're together. They make goo-goo eyes at each other and stuff."
"But you have to admit, they make a cute couple..."
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When she heard that she and her best friend were thought of as a couple she wanted to laugh. She honestly thought all of the girls as insane and delusional. For one thing she knew Seiya didn't see her that way and she sure as hell didn't look at him that way. At that point in her life, Seiya was just Seiya. Her best friend of 13 years!
She's seen him naked when they were four while being bathed together by their respected mommies, held spitting and belching contests against the other as well as their other friends, pretty much treating each other like brother and sister that it was difficult for her to comprehend them being a couple.
But the idea stuck with her and simply would not go away. She tried to see what it was these girls see in Seiya. She started to notice that his smile was indeed intoxicating especially when he bestowed one just for her. She also noticed how she'd get goose-bumps whenever she heard him singing and how she could picture herself the object of the songs he wrote. She also caught herself staring at him, absorbing each and every detail of his features. She also began to realize how she'd miss him when he wasn't with her and how she'd be counting the seconds until she was to see him again...
It was only during that faithful night while she watching him catching a power nap on her bed, too tired from the gig his band just had, that it dawned on her that she was in love with her best friend.
"Odango Atama? Hello? Anyone home?" Seiya said while snapping fingers in front of her face.
Usagi shook her head, narrowed her eyes at him and gave him a scowl. "I though I told you not to call me by that nickname?" Giving him a playful shove.
"Ow! That hurts you know." He said while clutching his arm and giving her a puppy-dog-look.
But she just rolled her eyes at him, lowered her head once more and on continued writing.
Seeing that he wasn't getting the attention he wanted from her, he decided to annoy her a bit. He tried looking at what she was writing but seeing that he wasn't about to get a good view of what she was writing, he formulated a new plan.
He leaned closer to her then whispered, "Are you writing about me and about how you're secretly in love with me again Usagi?"
At his words, her head snapped towards his direction and she gave him a death-glare. Though she knew that she was now sporting a nice blush, she wasn't about to give him the last laugh! The nerve of Seiya! She loved her best friend but sometimes he can be such a complete ass.
"Like I'd actually waste my time writing about how I'd love to marry you someday and give you ten kids." She said slamming her journal and stashing it away in her bag. "Don't you have your millions of groupie-zoids for that?" She then stood up and left Seiya.
Seeing this, he immediately stood up and followed her. He then grabbed her hand and gently pulled her to him before she could get away. But Usagi persisted to get away from him by trying to pry her hand away from his. Seiya knows that his best friend is stubborn but he knew that he is the king of stubbornness, so he held on to her.
Sensing that she wasn't about to be free of him she stopped squirming and relented to her defeat but contented herself by stumping her feet and crossing her arms. She then turned around and gave him a "piss-off" look.
And though Seiya knew that the hostility was directed at him he could not help but feel amused at her childish behavior. "Oh come on Usagi. It was just a joke!" He said while giving her a smile and draping his arm on her shoulders.
Usagi then shrugged his arm off and replied, "And you know how I feel about one of them groupie-zoids over hearing these private jokes of yours and making a big deal out of it!"
"I know... I know... But..." He started, donning on a serious expression, placing both hands on her shoulders and continuing with "they know better than to harm even a single hair on your head. They'd have to get through me before they could hurt you."
She cringed at his comment. "Oh God! Seiya!" she said as she brought a hand to her face, "Not another one of your 'Classic Lines'..." She looked at him and saw that he was laughing hysterically at her expense.
"But I couldn't resist it! You were getting too worked up over nothing..."
But she cut him off by punching him repeatedly. "Argh! How can I possibly be 'in love' with you when you're treating me like this!"
He held his arms up to defend himself. "Hey! Don't go hating the genius behind those."
"I bet you stay awake at night practicing those goddamn lines!"
"Ah but Odango, many girls have fallen to the 'Classic Lines.' They are guaranteed to make any girl swoon."
"Mr. Kou, you seem to have forgotten that I'm not just any girl. I'm your best friend."
"Yes you are Ms. Tsukino and that's what you'll always be to me." He said while outstretching his arms, extending an offer of a hug. "Peace?"
Reluctantly, she accepted the offer and she felt herself crushed in a tight bear-hug. "Yep, peace."
"Good." He said then he kissed her forehead and broke the hug. "Now let me make it up to my best friend by treating her to some ice cream.
She willed herself not to cry at his words. She just smiled at him and followed him to the direction of the ice cream vendor. All the while she thought to herself, that's right... I'm just your best friend.
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