Hey Guys!!! So here's the next chapter to this story. Sorry for the long wait. I thought being in quarantine would make it easier...shocker, it doesn't.

Anyway, I hope everyone is doing all right during these trying times. Sending lots of love to everyone.

Again thank you for all those following my story, and taking time to read what I write. I hope you enjoy this chapter.

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She hadn't fully set foot in her home when her father's voice interrupted her train of thoughts.

"Where have you been, young lady?" Her father's voice resonated throughout the house. The house grew so quiet that the click of the door as she closed it echoed in the doorway and the usually lowered volume of the tv her father liked to watch his news at night was audible enough she could make out a reporter talk about how a little boy rescued a litter of kittens from a trash bin.

She looked at her father wide eyed, he threw her another question, not giving her a chance to respond. "Do you have any idea what time it is?"

She cringed, she knew it was late, it was fifteen minutes past eleven, and despite starting college her father still set a curfew she had to follow through. She looked at her parents, a guilty look on her face. Both her parents stood in front of the stairway, blocking her way in case she tried to pass them. Her mama wore a worried look while her Papa stood with his arms crossed, a displeased expression on his face. If his posture wasn't enough, she could tell he was currently upset by the way he clipped his lips in a narrow line, like all the times he was about to reprimand her whenever she came home with a bad test grade.

"I'm sorry Papa I was with—"

"Not with Mamoru-san, he called looking for you earlier. He sounded worried, he said he couldn't get a hold of you."

"Uh, no...I was with—"

This time her mama cut in. "Usagi sweetie, what is it? We've noticed you've been... acting a little strange lately."

Usagi didn't have enough time to wear a look of confusion on her face when her dad interjected again. "So, where were you and why was your phone off. We've also tried calling you."

Usagi didn't mean to snap at him but his tone of voice sounded more accusatory than concerned. "Geez, I was with Motoki—"

"At this time of night?" He answered sarcastically, raising an eyebrow in accusation.

"Yes! I went to pay him a visit, I hadn't seen him at the Crowne in the past couple of days and I was worried about him— if you don't believe me go ahead and give him a call if you want." she crossed her arms in defiance as she pointed with her chin toward the house phone.

"I think we will."

Usagi scoffed in disbelief. "Fine, go ahead." She couldn't believe her parents were really arguing about her whereabouts after all this time. In these past couple of months this wasn't the first time she'd come home late, in fact there were times she'd come home much later, especially when she went over to Haruka and Michiru's. Why the sudden interest?

"Don't use that tone of voice on me young lady." He reprimanded her.

Her mother then stepped closer towards her, putting a hand on her shoulder, "Sweetie, what has gotten into you lately? This isn't like you to behave this way," choosing to drop her hand from her shoulders she grabbed a hold of Usagi's hands, "Is it drugs?" She asked as she looked into Usagi's eyes.

The question barely had passed her mother's lips when Usagi ripped her hands away from her mother's hold, dropping her belongings in the process. "What!?" she shrieked. "I am NOT on drugs!"

Her mother tried to reach for her when a pair of feet padded their way downstairs, she didn't need to look up to tell it was Shingo. "What's going on?" He slurred as he was rubbing the sleep from his eyes.

"Nothing Shingo, go back to bed." Kenji ordered pointedly.

"Mama and Papa think I'm on drugs." Usagi deadpanned.

At that Shingo's eyes bugged out, his brain fully waking up by now. "What!?" He looked from his mother to his father, "Why— I mean...okay, I know the Odango isn't the most sane person in this family," he paused as he looked at his sister and let out a nervous laugh from the death glare she wore on her face. He cleared his throat, "I mean no offense to the Baka, but the only thing I see her overdosing on is sugar."

"Shingo!" Her mother admonished him, "This is a serious matter. Now listen to your father and go back to bed."

"Oh c'mon mama, I'm kidding. But seriously I highly doubt Usagi's on drugs. She doesn't even take pain meds." He pointed out as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

It was true, no matter how much pain she endured she stood far away from any pain medication. Instead of making the pain go away it only made her feel worse and drowsy, Ami had explained early on in their senshi years that it was due to their DNA changing after acquiring their transformations. Their genetics from their home planets had started merging and morphing with their human DNA. In other words, they were mutants, aliens, outsiders, or as Ami eloquently described planetary foreigners. It didn't matter what word they used to describe them, they were powerful beings who could take hits and blows that could wipe out at least 15 people with one shot, but who couldn't handle something as simple as acetaminophen. Ami herself wasn't even able to explain it. All in all they were all just glad they had fast healing abilities.

Her mother turned around to face her, "That still doesn't explain the sudden change in attitude and coming home late. Please Usagi, we want to help."

Usagi shook her head and rolled her eyes. She still couldn't believe her parents' outrageous allegations.

Her father snapped his fingers and pointed a finger at her. "Hey, don't give your mother that attitude young lady. And as your father I demand you tell us this instant if you're doing any drugs"

"I already told you, I'm .NOT. doing. drugs."

Her father straightened up to what she imagined was supposed to be his intimidating posture. "Fine we'll believe you," he paused then narrowed his eyes at her, "but you best believe there are gonna be some new ground rules around here. You may be a college student but you're still a minor and living under our roof and you will follow ALL rules."

"Fine." She gritted out through clenched teeth.

"Sweetie—" Her mother tried to reach for her. She however, was done. With this day, with her parent's strict act, Mamoru and the girl's obliviousness, the throbbing migraine that's been pounding in her head all day. She could feel her body slowly waning away, her energy draining from the rough day she had. All she wanted to do was reach her bedroom and leave this whole day behind.

She walked past them, her head downcast as tears fell from the anger and hurt she felt. Before she made it to the top of the stairs, she turned to face her family. "And I'm not a minor, I turned eighteen last Friday." And with that she went into her bedroom slamming the door shut.

The week had flown by with her classes, dance rehearsals and mini session with Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna she had a hard time keeping track of time. If she wasn't studying for a test or writing term papers then she was at the dance studio preparing for the upcoming audition to perform at a charity gala to bring attention to the performing arts.

All in all it had been a busier week than usual. What made it more difficult was the fact her parents made it their mission to make up for forgetting her birthday. Had she known they were going to make it harder for her to keep her facade of pursuing an art degree then she would have kept her mouth shut. Not that she didn't appreciate or enjoyed the time with her family, but it was getting to be too much. Her mother and father had felt so bad about forgetting their little girl's big day they've been paying more attention than usual from her mother making her favorite meals both in the morning and afternoon, going as far as baking her favorite desserts and packing her snacks for school, something that broke her heart because she couldn't eat any of it, so she opted to donate it all to the local orphanage knowing the kids would enjoy her mother's baking just as she did when she was younger.

Her parents even went as far as buying her new materials that every art student should have; three different types of easels, some canvas portraits to paint on for her "future projects", an expensive set of both acrylic and oil paints with a set of new handmade sable brushes. She really appreciated them trying to show their support but she knew they bought her all these supplies because they were honestly sorry for being too preoccupied with other things to forget her birthday. Her dad even took off her curfew, stating that he trusted his little angel.

Now let's not forget the day Luna came home from Minako's and discovered her new hair. She had expected her feline friend to overreact but some of the things she told her was both hurtful and unnecessary. From telling her how she only cut her hair in a childish attempt to draw attention for her friends forgetting her birthday to not being mature and remembering her role or responsibilities she had as both Sailor Moon or Neo Queen Serenity. She seemed to put her at ease when she reminded Luna that it was just hair and that it would grow back before Crystal Tokyo. That conversation only caused Luna to let the girls know of her new look which caught everyone by surprise and taking immediate action on getting a hold of her.

The girls were much nicer and receptive to her new style while Rei voiced her true opinion, saying how she looked weird not like her usual self. Not that she was surprised by the priestess' remarks. But everyone said she looked nice, a good kind of different. They had all gotten together to celebrate her very belated birthday. Makoto even baked her a cake and the girls bought her some supplies she might need for school. Of course she would not be using any of the supplies, not for her major anyway. That made her feel guilty at how they were trying to be supportive while she was deceiving them all. But what made her feel worse was they didn't contact her because they wanted to but what Luna had told them.

Then there was Mamoru. Since Tuesday he'd been calling and texting her non stop. He even left her a box of her favorite assorted chocolates with a beautiful arrangement of roses, yet he hadn't been able to come see her. He wrote her a beautiful poem about how much he loved her and how he looked forward to the future of being together. Yes, it was all romantic. Everything she would have wanted in her early teens, but she needed more than that. She could care less for gifts.

All she wanted was to spend time with him. It didn't matter how they spent it, as long as it was by his side. Even a stroll around the park or taking a boat out on to the lake, just like they used to when they were younger.

Maybe she was being too harsh on not answering his calls or texts but she needed to know he was willing to show he was invested in this relationship as she was.

She was too lost in her thoughts she barely heard the car honking, it wasn't until the car swerved that she focused her attention on where she was.

"Learn how to drive you moron!" Asanuma let out his road rage.

"Dude! Calm down!" Motoki shouted from the passenger seat.

"People really need to learn how to drive." Asanuma grumbled.

"What's going on?" The petite blonde said groggily before yawing.

"Welcome back princess."

Usagi rolled her eyes then took a look at her surroundings. "Are we almost there?"

Both males up front let out a snort. Motoki turned to look at Usagi. "You act as if we've been on the road for hours. It's literally been like 45 minutes."

On Thursday Asanuma had told her he found something else they could cross off her bucket list. Number 10, swimming with sharks. She was kind of iffy about the whole thing but Asanuma promised her it wasn't dangerous. They weren't the kind of sharks that come out in horror movies, these were houndsharks and that there would be a professional with them through the whole experience. He found a place nearby in ITO, it was a 2 hour drive from Tokyo.

Since there was no rehearsal scheduled for the upcoming weekend and neither had plans, they decided Asanuma would drive them there, opting to leave at seven in the morning to beat the crowds.

They had convinced Motoki to join them, knowing he needed the distraction. Ever since Reika broke things off with him he wasn't the same. That night she went to see him at his apartment. He was an inconsolable mess. Turns out that night Reika called him at the karaoke bar, she called to tell him it was time to go their separate ways. Since that night he hadn't been able to leave his home, much less go to work.He said it wasn't that she broke up with him what hurt him but what she said.

Never would she have guessed Reika to be so cruel, especially to Motoki who showed nothing but love and support for her. Motoki said she had told him she was done being tied down to someone who had no aspirations or dreams. That she couldn't be with just an arcade worker. It wasn't fair, Motoki had dedicated his time and taken over the family business after his dad's health started deteriorating and Unazuki made the surprising revelation of backpacking through Europe with her boyfriend before coming back to go school.

It took her two days to convince her sandy haired friend to change clothes and go back to work, that everyone missed him and there were people who loved him for who he was.

Now here they were on their way to a new adventure leaving their problems back home.

Since they left Juuban she was an array of emotions. She was excited to try something new, to cross another item off her bucket list. Yet she was nervous, what if a shark bit her, or what if her tank ran out of oxygen. What if—

"I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I WANT, WHAT I REALLY REALLY WANT, SO TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT WHAT YOU REALLY REALLY WANT—"

"USAGI!" Both men shouted, Motoki changing the song to something instrumental that had no words so Usagi couldn't sing the words to it.

"Hey! I was singing! Change it back Toki!" Usagi whined.

"Nuh-uh."

"But I loved that song! I'm on a roll here!" Since both Motoki and Asanuma made fun of her for falling asleep she busied herself by singing along to all the songs she knew, more like yelling just to annoy both men, but that's what made this more fun.

Usagi let out a huff as both her friends ignored her. " Boo! You guys are no fun."

"More like we want to conserve our hearing." Asanuma replied, sending a wink through the rear view mirror to Usagi.

"You guys didn't complain about my singing last week." She replied coolly.

"I blamed it on the alcohol." Motoki retorted playfully.

Once they arrived they had to get something to eat because Usagi swore that if she didn't eat, her growling stomach would alert the sharks and confuse it for a sea lion or something and try to eat her.

Since Usagi was the first one to finish eating she went to get the diving suits and gear they needed and confirmed their appointment for 10:00 a.m. The guys were still eating when she gave them their suits so she decided to go change. After she was done changing the guys took their turns.

Usagi was talking to a family asking them questions about how it was swimming with sharks and stingrays and if she should be worried when Asanuma passed by telling her he was going to get Motoki a new suit, the one he had was much too small. She was gonna ask them more questions when Asanuma approached them.

"Hey, my mom is calling. I need to answer this, do you mind taking this to Motoki?" He asked, handing her the diving suit.

Usagi knocked three times but Motoki had yet to answer. So thinking he was in the bathroom she opened the door and went inside.

"Hey Toki—"

Usagi ran back out and slammed the door shut while Motoki scrambled to cover himself.

"Why are you naked?!" She shrieked through the door.

"Why didn't you knock?!" He bellowed back.

"Why are you naked?!" She screeched again. That seemed to be the only thing her brain was able to form into words.

"The other suit was too tight and wouldn't close with my trunks on!"

"Why didn't you use the bathroom?!" She whispered harshly against the wooden door.

"It smelled in there!" He all but yelled from the other side of the door. "Where's Asanuma?!"

"He had to take a call from his mom. He told me the suit you tried on was too tight so he sent me to bring you this one." Her voice had a higher pitch than normal. "Here!" She yelled while creaking the door open, she threw the said suit haphazardly inside the room while she kept looking away in embarrassment, just in case he was still indecent and then shut the door holding on to the door knob as if he'd try to open it and expose himself on purpose.

After she heard a mumbled 'thanks' from her sandy haired friend she let go of the door knob. "Okay...Um," she bit her lip then cleared her throat trying to clear the disturbing image of a naked Motoki from her brain. "I'm gonna go look for Asanuma. We'll wait for you out there." She rushed out. She left without waiting for a response.

Rounding the corner of the narrow hallway she stopped and pressed her hands against her face. Hot. Her skin was burning hot and she could only imagine how flushed she looked at the moment. Groaning into the palm of her hands she shook her head still trying to erase what transpired just a few moments ago.

'Why me?' She thought miserably. Fourteen year old her would have been giggling like the middle school girl she was back then, except she wasn't fourteen anymore, and she no longer thought of Motoki other than an over protective brother. At that thought she cringed. It felt wrong and awkward and, and, AND just plain wrong. She'd just witnessed her first naked male in person and it belonged to none other than her beloved Toki onii-chan.

She blanched.

'NOOOo!' Her mind screamed. It wasn't supposed to happen like this, especially not with Motoki. If only Mamoru wasn't such a moral induced live by the rules kind of guy then maybe they would have had sex a long time ago instead of his 'waiting til marriage' proposition, then MAYBE this wouldn't have been so bad. But that wasn't the case and it WAS bad. This was more mortifying than the time she found Shingo's 'secret' not so secret anymore porn file on his phone.

Taking a deep breath, she tried thinking of sick puppies, a screeching Luna, the time she caught Ms. Haruna and her date making out inside the movie theatre, anything to bring down the redness from her embarrassment.

'It's cool. You didn't see anything. You got this.' was her mantra as she did her best to not make it obvious to the world that she had walked in on a naked Motoki as she went looking for Asanuma.

Asanuma was sitting on a nearby bench waiting for his two friends to join him. He was scrolling through his phone when he felt Usagi take a seat next to him. He found it was odd for the usually bubbly blonde who had been a row of emotions since they left Tokyo was suddenly quiet. Putting his phone down, he turned to face the petite blonde and noticed she had a deep blush that ran up to her ears.

He was just about to ask what was wrong when he saw Motoki heading towards them. When he reached them he noticed Usagi and Motoki both turned away as soon as they made eye contact. He found it even more weird when Motoki took a seat on his right side, where there was barely any room.

"Dude. There's more space over there next to Usagi." He gave Motoki a 'what's wrong with you' look. After receiving a growl and a 'scoot over' from the usually super friendly arcade worker, he scooted over. Asanuma looked from Motoki to Usagi. "Okay, what's up with you two?" He huffed in annoyance.

"NOTHING!" They shouted, nearly rupturing his eardrums.

"Okay, now I know something's up." He said, giving them a deadpanned look.

Again he noticed that when Usagi and Motoki made eye contact they looked away from each other and sat as far back as they could against the bench, both sporting a deep blush on their cheeks.

"Geez, you guys are being so weird."

Usagi choked on her saliva. "What?! No we're not! I mean…" She sputtered comically. He raised an eyebrow and looked at his blonde friend as she played with a strand of her hair and her over exaggerated gestures. "No.no.no...I mean no, nothing weird is going on. Why would you think there's something weird going on?...it's not like either of us accidentally walked in on them and saw the other naked."

During her ramblings he heard Motoki facepalm and let out a loud groan. Asanuma's eyes widened. Then he remembered he had sent Usagi to give Motoki his new diving suit. In the changing room. Where people changed. "WAIT!" He looked back and forth between his two friends. "Usagi did you—" He didn't have to finish to confirm his suspicions, the poor blonde gave way when her eyes widened and looked like a deer caught in headlights.

A gasp broke out from Asanuma's lips. "Usagi!" He held a mock scandalized expression on his face. "Did you see Toki-san's treasured jewels?!"

"Asanuma!" Usagi cried out in embarrassment, thwacking him on his side with her scuba mask. He ignored the pain and howled in laughter.

"Okay, hold up.." He turned to look at Motoki, his voice filled with mirth. "Why were you naked in the first place?"

Motoki's already flushed face deepened even more. He shifted his weight from one side to the other. "The first suit was too tight and wouldn't close with my trunks on." The sandy haired man narrowed his eyes at him and answered his question before he asked it. "And no, I didn't use the bathroom to change because SOMEONE left it a stinking mess."

"Touché."

"I knocked three times!" Usagi whined from his left side. "Three times Toki!" Throwing her arm across him to wiggle three of her fingers in Motoki's face.

"I'm sorry okay...I didn't hear it I was struggling and too focused on trying to take the stupid thing off." Motoki grumbled as he pushed her hand away looking straight ahead at a flock of young seagulls as they looked for food. "Look, let's just pretend this didn't happen. Simple as that. "

Asanuma let out a snort and laughed some more while Usagi nodded vigorously.

Not even a minute had passed by when Motoki added, "Yeah. Let's also not mention any of this to Mamoru."

At that he felt Usagi stiffen next to him.

"Wait, that's right! You're best friend's with Usa's boyfriend."

"Uh-huh." Motoki nodded slowly, his gaze still fixed on the flock of birds now attacking a left over bento box. "I don't need him to be on my case and think I have a thing for Usa again."

"Again?" Both he and Usagi replied in confused unison.

Realization hit her. Usagi's eyes widened in horror. She stood abruptly to stand in front of Motoki, pointing a finger in accusation. "You told him?! Motoki, we promised!"

"I know! I'm sorry!" He yelled into his hands.

"Wait. I'm lost...did you...did you two used to date or something?"

Motoki and Usagi looked at Asanuma with a look of horror and distaste. "NO!" They practically yelled.

"Okay, now I'm really lost." Knitting his eyebrows in confusion.

"I kinda was Usagi's first kiss—" Motoki mumbled.

"It didn't mean anything!"

"Ouch." Motoki feigned a hurt look, clutching a hand over his chest.

"I was thirteen! And it was a game of truth or dare." She crossed her arms and gave him a pointed look.

Unazuki had invited Usagi and a couple of other girls from school over to her house when Motoki had a study group with a couple of his friends from school. Back then she had the biggest crush on him. Motoki had always been good looking and he was really sweet to her every time she'd come over to their house. That only made her crush on him grow even more. It didn't matter that he was three years older than her, her manga taught her that age didn't matter when it came to love. And she thought she was in love with the sandy haired boy.

So there she was at his house once again like the love sick puppy she was. Of course being the childish middle schoolers, the gaggle of girls all wanted to look cool in front of high school boys so when one of Motoki's friends offered to play a game of truth or dare, they all agreed. When it was Motoki's turn they dared him to kiss her on the lips. She was scared and nervous and even though she dreamt about kissing the love of her life, she didn't want to do it in a room full of kids making fun of the whole situation. So when the sandy haired boy kissed her she felt no sparks or magic or the butterflies like the movies or her manga claimed. In fact she had expected in her fairy tale filled mind that her first kiss would be the boy she would marry. That was not the case. It was as if a spell had been broken. She remembered she felt her heart shatter at that realization and ran away with tears in her eyes.

She had been sitting on one of the swings in the park with tears streaming down her cheeks when Motoki had found her, flushed and out of breath. He had come running after her to apologize for taking advantage of her and making her feel uncomfortable. He expressed how he didn't want to kiss her but he didn't want to humiliate her in front of everybody and the boys from his school to make fun of her. She appreciated him and thought even more highly of him, especially when he offered to walk her home. It was at that moment she realized he'd become someone special in her life, not her special someone but someone special in her life. It didn't take long for their friendship to grow, within a month he appointed himself as her older brother, tag teaming with her father to keep all the boys away from her. Well with the exception of that Baka boyfriend of hers. Sometimes she wondered if he played a part in her and Mamoru's destiny, scaring all the boys until she'd finally meet her prince.

She gave Asanuma a short version of how her first kiss was with Motoki and how it was the start of a great friendship.

"Awww, that's so sweet Toki," Asanuma put a hand over his heart. "And disturbingly weird since you two have this brotherly sister thing going on." He grimaced. Receiving a punch from both blondes.

"Try explaining that to him." Motoki grumbled.

"Wait, but Mamo-Chan doesn't get jealous?"

At that Motoki snickered loudly. "Riiight. Don't you remember a few years back there was a time where you didn't come into the arcade for almost two weeks?" The arcade worker rolled his eyes as he recalled how his best friend went as far as having Usagi's milkshake ready by the time she got out of school so she wouldn't have direct contact with him. That lasted a good two weeks before Motoki called him out on it and had to reason with him that he only saw Usagi as a sister and how Usagi only saw him as an older brother figure.

Usagi's jaw dropped. "What?! He said you were mad at me and you didn't want to talk to me after I broke the pac-man game."

Motoki snickered loudly and wore a smug smirk. "Actually, I broke it. I just needed my dad to believe it was one of the patrons so we could get a new game in. No one was playing it, it just took up space."

"I played it! And I was pretty darn good at it too!" She huffed indignantly. "I can't believe my Mamo-chan let me believe I broke it after I told him how bad I felt. I literally cried for days!"

"That's a jealous Mamoru for you." He replied coolly.

Asanuma let out a low whistle. "Wow. If that was him reacting to a simple kiss, I can't imagine how'd he react if he finds out that you saw his best friend's treasured jewels."

"Would you stop saying that?!"

Two older men that passed by them sickered loudly. Asanuma was smart enough to take off running, Usagi was hot on his tail, trying to thwack him some more with her scuba gear. Both blondes were running back and forth like a couple of school yard children. Motoki sat back against the wall and let out a sigh, a slight smile on his face as he kept a look out for the small sail boat that would take them to their destination. Out in the near distance he could hear Asanuma and Usagi's bickering.

"Hey! It's not my fault you saw another man's treasured jewels!"

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A/N

So a lot kinda happened in this chapter. I feel like some parts were rushed but they will be explained in later chapters. I just really needed to get this chapter out there.

anyway, I hope you enjoyed. I hope it made you laugh when Usagi walked in on Motoki or how Mamoru does get jealous. Trust me this will come out to light later in this story.

Reviews are appreciated!

Thanks again for taking time for reading and following me on Finding Usagi. Kudos to all of you, especially those leaving reviews and messages. i do read them and they are honestly helping me to keep the story going.