AN: Unfortunately this story is not going as planned, so I won't be finishing it off with this chapter . When I was writing it, I had the biggest writer's block ever, and then after it just suddenly decided to write itself O.o If anyone read Memoirs of a Geisha before, the last part will seem familiar .
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Chapter 2
"No! No! You're doing it wrong!"
The sudden outburst of anger made Usagi drop the book she was trying to balance on her head. It was one thing being yelled by Luna but this was someone who she couldn't even see... it made the comments that more scary and intimidating. Just imagine where he would be able to follow her to since she couldn't see him. She blushed at the thoughts... what if... was Koryu the peeping Tom kind?
"What are you blushing about?" an annoyed Koryu asked, this was more difficult than trying to talking to Kohaku, he couldn't believe how trusting this girl was. She was even worse than that bubble headed angel. At least Kohaku asked questions whenever he told her to do stuff.
"Nothing!" Usagi answered a bit too quickly. She couldn't see him, but she could feel the intense stare directed at her that just screamed 'crazy girl'. Oh well, she was used to stares by now. After years of being Sailormoon and having stares at her fuku from pedestrians to youmas for four years, there were almost no look that could faze her now.
"Whatever," Chibi-Koryu rolled his eyes even though she couldn't see him. "Now, how many times do I have to tell you that you have to sway your hips when you walk? SWAY! Not rolling it around like a ship at sea. You're trying to give off a coy feminine charm, not strutting your stuff on some back alley."
Usagi sighed at his coarse description. It took lots of time just to get used to the way he spoke, at first she was more than just a little traumatized by the demon, but now she couldn't stop herself from giggling at his figure of speech. Of course that was only when he wasn't yelling at her. The blonde took a deep breath and picked up from where she left off. If anything, Koryu was stricter than Luna, it seemed like the demon took great pride in his knowledge of aesthetic pleasures. And from the way he was yelling at her, the bunny had a feeling that she was more than an eye sore right now.
"Ack! I don't know who taught you to walk like that!"
"Luna," Without thinking the blond blurted out the culprit. The cat had always sat on her bed commenting as she walked with the stack of textbooks balanced precautious on her head.
"Well Luna deserves to go to Heaven for this," the demon grumbled from his spot on the table. "The only thing walking while balancing a book teaches you is how to walk like a robot. You're too focused on not dropping the books that you're not paying attention to other things. Now take those ridiculous things off of your head." The chibi-demon massaged his temples. Who knew that it was so painful teaching a lowly human about beauty? If this was what angels had to go through... then he was damn glad that he wasn't one. No wonder Kohaku was as loopy as she was, if she had to go through this kind of torture, he had to give the brainless chubby girl credits for not committing suicide yet.
"Now, listen carefully to what I have to say and try to engrave it in your brain."
Usagi solemnly nodded to the empty space that just spoke to her. Even though she couldn't see him, she knew that he was quickly losing his patience. Luna did, even when the cat was use to her klutzy ways, she tried, she really did but the fact that she couldn't see him still nagged the back of her consciousness. If anything, the fact that he was invisible only increased her nervousness.
"Forget everything your cat told you to do."
"But."
"No buts," Koryu continued before Usagi complain. "What does a cat know about being beautiful? Her beauty preparations every morning consists of licking herself including places that I personally think shouldn't be licked," he said disgusted. "She should leave the art of being beautiful to an expert like myself. You are very lucky to have me by your side Usagi. Not everyone can hear my advice; I'm passing to you what won me Mr. Gorgeous pageant so many times in Hell."
"Really? You are that handsome?" The pain from his stinging comments disappeared as an image of a handsome man popped into Usagi's mind. She unconsciously giggled as a particular image of a man in nothing but a Speedo swimsuit appeared. Why not, if all the female beauty pageants had the contestants in bikinis it might be very plausible that the men would be made to wear the male equivalent.
"I'm not only handsome, I'm the most beautiful creature in hell. No demon male or female can resist me. Why even Satan's own son..." a sneeze stopped the chibi demon from finishing his gloating. "Anyways, this isn't about me. The point is, I'm the most qualified being to help you with your problems. So forget everything that baka cat told you to do, and don't you ever touch those silly beauty magazines ever again if you want to achieve your goal."
"AH!" Chibi-Koryu screamed out in frustration as his chubby hands pulled at his own hair. If he thought that it was frustrating before, he wouldn't be surprised when his body explode from the pain and just plain rage. "Okay this is it! I give up. I've never seen anyone as clumsy and klutzy as you are."
Usagi looked down quickly as the demon continued to vent. For some reason this hurt twice as much as Luna's lectures. She swallowed the urge to wail as well, as tears gathered in her eyes, but she tried to blink them away. She knew that he wasn't the kind to be swayed by feminine tears and if she started wailing, he might just burn her like what he did to that tree earlier. "I'm sorry Koryu-san, but can't you be a little patient?" She asked as she forced a smile on her face even though she refused to look into the direction the voice was coming from.
"I don't know how long the offspring of a huge rock can live up till, but I know that I don't have the time to waste. I'm not going to spend the rest of eternity trapped in this midget size body as you try to learn how to walk gracefully," Chibi-Koryu said bitterly. "This was a bad idea from the beginning. I should've known that Angel Master had a trick up her sleeve, they wouldn't let us demons get something so easily. Listen girl, you should just give up on that fiancé of yours. There's no way that you can live up to his standards, not with you're habits."
Through out his whole speech, the tears slowly burned away in the sapphire eyes. The hurt that was inside of her turned into anger. Just who did this demon here think he was? He was the one who was in need of her help to get back his adult body. How dare he insult her like that? She knew she was a little on the clumsy side but it wasn't as if she wasn't trying, but he just had to point out every single tiny fault and magnify it a thousand times and rub it into her face, didn't he? The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. Fingernails bit into the soft flesh of her palms.
Too bad Chibi-Koryu was too occupied with his own rambling to notice the aura of death that suddenly surrounded a very quiet Usagi. Without warning a pillow hit him in the face, the force knocked him off the soft bed that he was sitting on. For someone who couldn't see him, she sure had a good aim and such a strong arm for someone so skinny. "What the hell is your problem you human?"
"You! You're my problem!" Usagi pointed to the floor where Koryu sat. "Leave! I don't ever want to see you again!" With that the blonde ran out and slammed her door, making the demon wince, surely the hinge would've fallen off by the force.
The demon blinked at the closed door. Did that just happen? No one had ever had the guts to slam a door in his face before. And even if they had, they never got to live till the next minuet. Of course the fact that a human girl had just done something that no demon and angel dared to do was only adding fuel to his fire. But he had to give her guts for daring; after all she had seen what he was able to do to the tree. But he was too surprised to throw a fireball at her, especially since she was already gone. What should he do now? Surely he wasn't going to apologize to her since it was her fault for being so clumsy, but then again, if he left, there was no other way to get his adult body back. What to do?
Usagi slid down against the bathroom door and leaned her head against the smooth cool surface. Oh god, what had she done? She just pissed off what could be one of the most powerful and evil demons in Hell. There was no way that she could win if he decided to take out his anger on her, her compact was still safely locked in her room... which coincidentally was where the demon was. She was too young to die! With that thought in mind she gave into her instinct and wailed.
Idiot girl, Chibi-Koryu thought as he heard the familiar voice. He had thought that she had run away to that temple again, but obviously she was still in the house. The crying was giving him a headache. Hell, there must be an easier way to approach this.
Usagi tensed when she felt the air next to her move, making the hair on her arm stand up. "What do you want now? Or haven't you had enough of making fun of me?"
"Look, I know you're trying you hard, but I'm going through some very rough times right now too, so you can't blame me for acting that way," Chibi-Koryu said. "Look, I don't want to waste time and neither do you. So if you would stop sulking, I think I have the perfect solution to this." The demon smirked.
The last statement made the bunny lift her head up in curiosity.
"Instead of going through all this trouble that is very painful for the both of us," he grinned at the glare he received. "How about I just use magic to transform you? It's every simple and painless and you'll still feel like yourself except with no more falling down and wailing, as well as the odango hair and the pink bunnies, blue moon clothes..." he could of continued with a longer list of things that could be changed if Usagi hadn't made an swipe at the empty air right above his head.
"Okay okay, so I know I'm not perfect," Usagi growled out, the nerve of the guy to still be so rude when he's trying to apologize in his own twisted way. "So how long will the magic last if I agree to it?" She asked grudgingly. As much as she didn't want to admit it, if there was a short cut to getting Mamo-chan's heart again, why waste energy and time? But... would he be able to notice the difference? And would he like the new her better than the older her?
"As long as you want," the demon grinned, happy that his plan was taking into affect. "I can make it one day, a week, a month, a year, forever...."
"Forever is a little too long. I don't think I'll be able to last that long."
"Nonsense, who wouldn't want to be beautiful forever?" the demon dismissed Usagi's worries with a wave of his tiny hand.
Yes, who wouldn't? But she couldn't erase the bitterness in her mouth as she nodded, forcing herself not to think about the consequences. As long as Mamo-chan would notice her again, no price was too big to pay... right?
"How do you feel?"
The blonde girl blinked when the question stopped her train of thoughts and answered with an intelligent "Hn?"
The chibi demon sighed in annoyance. "I just cast the spell to make you beautiful, how do YOU feel right now?"
"I don't feel any different," Usagi asked confused. When did he cast the spell? She didn't hear any magical words nor did she see any bright flash of light, and she certainly didn't feel the tingly feeling that comes every time she transformed into Sailormoon, or when she used the Luna pen to disguise herself. Didn't all magic require some sort of flash of light or chant? And she distinctively remembered seeing the fire and thunder when Koryu cast that attack spell a few days before.
"Stand up and take a few steps and you'll notice the difference," came the smug reply. Usagi nodded and followed the instructions, taking one small step after another still trying to detect any faint traces of magic within her.
"Have you noticed anything?" The chibi demon asked after the blonde bunny reached the end of the room and walked back, repeating the process over and over again.
"What?"
"You've been walking for some time now and you haven't tripped even once," he enjoyed the surprised look on her face when she realized, but the look was quickly disguised and the blonde girl pouted. "But that's because there's nothing to trip over in the bathroom." Indeed there was nothing except the shinny tiles lining the small space.
"Fine, if you don't believe me let's take a walk outside in those stilettos you're hiding in the bottom of your closet. Let's make a bet, if you don't trip during our walk then you'll have to do whatever I tell you to do from now on without whinny or crying or any other female tricks that you're used to play. If you stumble even a tiny bit, then I promise never to bother you or your friends ever again. Agree?"
"Agreed," Usagi nodded, very sure in her own clumsiness that she was positive that she was going to win the bet with no problem. "Wait a minute! How did you know about the stilettos?!" the bunny suddenly cried out, her cheeks tainted with pink. She had bought them upon an impulse a year ago during a sale hoping that someday she would be able to wear them, but after she nearly broke her ankle the one time she tried them on, they stayed in the bottom of her closet, and she had made sure that no one would know about them. Just imagine what other things the little pervert could know and saw if he knew about them. Usagi felt her whole body heat up with anger and embarrassment. She wasn't even safe in her own home anymore. "Hentai!"
The demon laughed and Usagi couldn't stop herself from taking off a slipper and throwing it in the direction of the infectious sound. Even she couldn't help but sort of smile at her own accusation. After all even though she couldn't see him, she knew that he was about the same size as Chibi-Chibi. And accusing him of being a hentai was almost as bad as accusing the little pink haired girl of being the same.
No sooner did she step into her own bedroom, she was greeted by the sight of her clothes flying out of her closet at the speed of light. Some of them seemed to float in midair before it was sent flying along with the others.
"Hey what are you doing?!" Usagi screeched loudly. Did the demon how much time she spent cleaning her room last night? She had painstakingly color-coded her entire closet and now all of her hard work was in ruins. Her mom was going to have her head on a platter if she saw the state it was in right now.
"Don't you have anything else except for these elementary kids clothes?" Chibi Koryu said in disgust as another blouse and bunny dress sailed over his head. God if anyone needed a fashion makeover it was the blonde. How did she go out on the street wearing clothes like that? Koryu thought, he himself felt embarrassed for his charge.
"If you're going to be seen with me, there's no way that you're wearing those clothes," the demon said firmly leaving no room for argument.
"Fine, but tell me how am I suppose to go out if you won't let me wear my clothes? I don't have anything else you know," the bunny asked stubbornly, more than a little pissed that he insulted her fashion taste. And plus if wasn't as if the people on the streets could see him in the first place. She didn't see anything wrong with the baby blue and pink clothes, and if you asked her, the bunnies and crescent moons were adorable. She had survived this long in those clothes without being ridiculed and now he waltzed in and shattered her perfect reality.
"You're not the only woman who lives here Usagi."
She didn't even need to see him to be able to see the nasty smirk on his face. Even though she was often called an idiot and slow, it didn't take Usagi long to figure out what Koryu was implying. "Oh no! I won't wear my mom's clothes! I refuse to admit that she has a better fashion taste than I do!" And not to mention that her mother was more gifted when it came to certain 'assets', Usagi thought to herself, of course it was something she would rather die than to say out loud.
"Yes you are. It's either wear the clothes I tell you to or go out naked," without hesitation with a snap of his fingers, Usagi watched with her mouth open as all of her clothes spontaneously combusted right in front of her. The young blond shrieked out loud and would've jumped to save her burning wardrobe if Koryu hadn't held her back with an invisible barrier. A speechless blonde watched as her entire collection... thousands of dollars... countless time spent on shopping... all went up in smoke. There wasn't any other choices nowhere there? As happy as some of the male population might be at seeing her naked, she had no desire to please them.
"Fine, you win," Usagi growled out between her clutched teeth. God, once she could see him, she would get her revenge, ten times over.
Chibi-Koryu smirked. He always got his way. Leading the way out of the room, he knew for sure that Ikuko was out today, they heard her tell Usagi that she was going out to shop with Shingo who, as expected of a growing boy, needed new clothes every few months.
Even though she knew that there was no one home, Usagi couldn't stop herself from tip toeing into her parents' room. She remembered all too well how her mother had punished her the last time she tried to steal the curtains from the room to make a new dress. She unconsciously felt the top of her head where the bump had been when her mother hit her with the duster. She was not at all ready to face Ikuko's wrath any time soon.
"What are you doing? Hurry up before you mom comes home," an annoyed Chibi-Koryu snapped, already in the closet flipping through the different dresses. "Ah I found it!" With an triumphant laugh, he held up his prize for his protégé to see. He saw Ikuko come home with a package from Vivian Westwood a few days ago, and couldn't stop his curiosity, and who would've known that the mid-aged homemaker had such a erotic side?
"That... that..." Usagi couldn't find her tongue. "You want me to wear that?! But that's a lingerie! A very revealing lingerie! And why does my mother have that in her closet?!"
"First of all, it's only a lingerie when you wear it as such. The top is a little revealing, but it's not something that's considered scandalous. Paired with a simple cardigan or jacket or even a poncho, you'll have men from all ages following you like puppies. And plus it's a really nice color and the short length will compliment your legs and give you the inch that you lack even without help from the stilettos." The demon explained as he started to pull out other articles of clothing that were hidden in the deep side of the closet.
"These are all my mothers?" the blonde was still in too much shock to say anything else. She had to admit that the demon was right... her mother did have good taste in clothing. But the question rests... why did Ikuko only wear that Martha Stuart Purple dress and that ugly white apron?
"Yeap, you didn't expect her to have anything besides that dress did you," the demon smirked. "There's a whole new side to your parents that you don't know..." He left the sentence hang.
Usagi stared at his general direction, eyes glassy then suddenly she clutched her head and shook it from side to side, the two blonde pigtails whipped against the walls. "Eww! You just gave me a mental image that I don't ever want to have! My parents can't be like that... they're my parents... and they're old!"
Chibi-Koryu chuckled evilly, he loved to see his victims being mentally tortured like this, and he was sure that as much as she tired, the image of her parents doing naughty things to each other would stay in her head for a long long time... he would make sure of it personally.
"Whatever, let's go," She had to get out of here before she saw anything else that would make her question her parents' private life. "I don't want to be caught by my mom."
"Are you sure about this?" Usagi hissed under her breath to the demon she knew was floating next to her head. One pedestrian gave her a weird look as he walked pass the blond girl who seemed to be talking to air. Teenagers these days.
"Yes yes, now stop hugging your chest and walk normally. If you keep hiding your breasts like that, people are going to think that you're some kind of suicidal maniac who's hiding a machine gun to wipe out the entire city."
"But.. but if I don't support it it's going to fall out!" Usagi hugged herself closer as she felt him trying to pull her arms apart.
"For Hell's sake baka! They're made of gel! They're not going to pop out that easily!"
For you see, when Usagi tried on the lingerie in her room, they discovered a major problem. Everything else fitted perfectly, the hips, the length, the color... but the blond was a little lacking in the chest area compared to her mother, and every time she bent over... lets just say that she wasn't as flat as Holland but close enough.
"Can't you do anything with your magic? It's so cold and slippery, it feels like I have fish inside my bra!" She cried out as softly as possible, but it still didn't stop a few high school boys from hearing and blushing bright red.
"Fine fine, if you're against the idea THAT much," Chibi-Koryu grumbled as Usagi turned into a park where there wasn't that many people during the middle of a business school day. With a snap of his fingers the feeling that Usagi despised so much disappeared and when the blonde girl looked down, she was pleased to see that her bosom was much rounder than before and every inch of it felt real.
"Are these really mine?" the bunny asked in wonder a little shocked how easy it was to gain cup sizes.
"Go ahead and touch it if you don't believe me," the demon smirked licking his lips, anticipating a good show.
"Hentai!" Usagi cried out and hit the air blindly completely missing her target. Most people might mistaken her blush as one of anger, but mixed in there was just a tiny bit of pride... just wait till Rei saw her.
"Whatever, you're the one who wanted me to change you. Now stop hiding yourself and let me continue my lesson, only one more to go before you're allowed to show your new self to that baka fiancé of yours."
"Hey! He might be a little insensitive and cold but he's not an idiot! I'll let you know that he was accepted at Harvard before," Usagi retorted angry at anyone who dared to mar her perfect fiancé.
"Yes, he's not an idiot but you certainly are for falling for such a man," Chibi-Koryu murmured carefully so that the bunny wouldn't be able to hear. "Anyways, last lesson of the day."
Usagi perked up at hearing this.
"See that young man walking over there?" the demon pointed to a young man in front of a convenience store, carrying several large boxes, before he suddenly realized that Usagi couldn't see his arm. "The one who's on the other side of the street, in front of the store."
"Yes, what about him?" the blonde asked puzzled.
"I want you to cross the street and walk towards him, and as you walk pass him, look at him and make him drop those boxes," Chibi-Koryu instructed with a smirk in his voice.
"What do you mean?" Usagi asked not sure that she really understood what her instructor was telling her. Making him drop the boxes? She might be Sailormoon but she had no telekinetic powers.
"Look at him, give him your best sultry look, make him forget what he's doing until all he can look and think about is you," the demon explained a little impatiently. Must he explain everything to this human?
Usagi looked baffled. "But... but I don't even know him! And.. and I'm just going to walk towards him... like for five seconds! I can't seduce a man in five seconds! That only happens in manga, TV, and books!"
"Have a little confidence in yourself will you?" the demon said a little cross. "You're one of the better looking humans I've seen," he admitted grudgingly. "Try to imagine that it's your fiancé that you're walking towards, think about how much you want him, how much you want to take those clothes off that sweaty muscular body, how much you just want to lick the sweat off of that broad chest, how much..."
"Alright alright! I get the point you don't have to get into so much detail you hentai!" the blonde was blushing to the roots of her hair and she had to stop herself from covering her face. Even though the demon assured her that she was the only one who could hear him, she still had a hard time believe it since his voice was so clear and loud.
"Well if you understand, then get moving, we don't have all day here!"
She grumbled under her breath, why was she letting him take over her life? Oh yeah, because she was a masochist. Anyways, time to put away the sour face, the sooner she got the task done, the sooner she would be able to see her Mamo-chan. Her whole visage changed from being white and depressed into pink and smiling with anticipation. It was with the bright smile and flushed cheeks that she walked towards the young man, eyes shinning with joy and steps light and confident. She walked pass him head high and eyes partly closed, trying to catch his eyes... but too bad for her, he didn't even see her because of the boxes he was carrying covered his eyes.
Usagi made a disappointed sound. What was she supposed to do now?
"Turn back and do it again," Chibi-Koryu hissed.
The blonde nodded, for some reason determined to get it right. If she could just pass this test, she was sure that she would be able to do the same to Mamo-chan. Imagine turning the man into a pile of putty just by a look. She could just feel the power rushing through her system like a drug.
She walked through a little alley and back to where she started and lucky for her, the young man just finished putting down the boxes he was carrying and was walking towards her. She smiled shyly and walked slowly, taking delicate steps and as she neared him, she shook her hair a little, tossing the blonde tresses over her shoulder so that it would catch the sun. She could feel his gaze on her now like a brand. Her heart sped up, she was almost afraid that he would be able to hear how nervous she really was. She continued however almost shyly, and when she saw him trying to catch her eyes, she lowered her head giving him a small coy smile and looked at him through her lashes, holding his eyes and enchanting him with the sapphire blue through the thick pale lashes.
So captivated by the sun kissed girl, the young man didn't notice until it was too late that the side walk was finished and he tripped and fell down when his foot landed in air with the next step. Both him and Usagi giggled quietly as he sat down and rubbed the back of his neck, blushing and waving at her.
"Not that bad for a beginner," Chibi-Koryu commented as Usagi turned around the corner. The blonde girl was trying hard to contain her own excitement at her accomplishment.
"I did it.... I DID IT!!!!!" Usagi yelled out jumping up and down, momentarily forgetting that she was suppose to act like a lady, instead of a child. "Thank you Koryu!" She grabbed the little demon who was sitting on her shoulder at that moment and even though she couldn't see him, she still planted a kiss on his head... at least she assumed it was his head.
It was a good thing she couldn't see him, because he would be forced to do something very bad to her if she could see the blush that covered his face. Strange behavior for one who was so experienced in the worldly art of lovemaking. "Whatever, don't get too ahead of yourself. You still have a long way to go." He said gruffly.
Usagi smiled, nothing can dampen her mood right now. "I know, but right now I want to see Mamo-chan!"
The blush on his cheeks disappeared and he felt like whining. Why after all the hard work he put in, the only person she could think of was that jerk?
TBC...