The usual disclaimer: Neither Sailor Moon nor DragonBall Z belong to me, I am simply borrowing the characters for a time to use in my twisted little stories. If I did own them, I would be rich and famous, and rename myself the supreme goddess of the moon. But since I don't, and since I'm not, I'm writing this disclaimer. Remember - I only do what the voices tell me to do….

Key:

Italics mean thought

Chan = term of endearment

PROLOUGE

"But why Mamoru? Why can't we be together? I don't understand…" with a gasp Usagi woke up, pushing her sweat soaked bangs off of her forehead. She had been having a recurring dream of her and Mamoru's breakup, which was also the only thing she had been thinking about for the past few weeks. She couldn't get it out of her mind. And the dream wasn't helping any… Again and again, she asked herself why… Was it something she did? Something she said? The way she acted?

"Oh Mamoru…. I would do anything to be with you once again…." And with that small statement of longing, desperation, and misery, Usagi curled into a fetal position and sobbed herself back into a restless slumber, back to her tortured nightmares once again…

Something was ringing… buzzing… blaring…. Usagi jerked awake, sitting up straight and swiveling around to get a good look at her alarm clock. The dial read 6:30 a.m. Plenty of time…She collapsed on the bed, relieved at not waking up late for once…. On the other hand, it was only 6:30…. Half an hour of extra sleep couldn't hurt… She closed her eyes, trying to slip back into the warmth, safety, and comfort only slumber had been able to give her…. Mamoru sure couldn't…. A small whimper escaped her tightly pursed lips at the thought of her supposed eternal love…. I'm never going to get back to sleep this way, that's for sure… I should take a shower, get ready… maybe if I'm early Mamo-chan will see that I am not so scatter-brained as he thinks…. Perhaps he will take me back…

With that thought propelling her, Usagi threw off the bedclothes and collected her clothing. As she slowly walked down the hallway to the bathroom, she thought how surprised everyone would be at her early arrival to school. Grinning at the concept of everyone's shocked expressions, she quickened her pace to the bathroom door, wanting to get to ready as fast as possible.

Ahhh…. Finally, school is over, for today anyway… now, to relax, kick back, and get my mind off of these… problems…. Usagi continued to walk away from school, still thinking about the day, her brow furrowed deeply in thought. A smile flitted across her features as she thought of everyone's expressions when she had walked into class before the late bell. Ms. Haruna had been especially shocked. Usagi giggled as she wondered what would have happened if Ms. Haruna had been twenty years older... We might have had a real medical crisis on our hands... "Doctor, we have a heart attack victim on our hands! We're not sure what caused it…" Usagi was lost her chain of thought as someone called her name.

"Hey Usagi, wait up!" The blond girl turned around to see Minako and Makoto rushing towards her.

"Kudos on the early class arrival today, Usa-chan!" Makoto complimented her.

"Yea, that look on Ms. Haruna's face was priceless! I wish I had a camera! What a Kodak moment!" Minako chattered excitedly.

"Thanks guys. That expression was partly the reason I got up this morning," Usagi replied.

"Speaking of priceless… You know Usa-chan, I think you should write out a whole ad for those Mastercard people." Minako schemed. "You know, 10 dollars for an alarm clock – 50 bucks for a comforter – 100 dollars to get Usagi out of bed in the morning – the look on Ms. Haruna's face – priceless."

"No, Mina-chan," Makoto laughingly replied. "It takes more than that to get Usa-chan out of bed in the morning."

The two girls became involved in an argument about how much it would cost to get the notoriously sleepy headed blond out of bed in the morning. Usagi giggled again as she listened to their argument. The reality of it is that friends like I have are priceless…Usagi thought.

The three girls continued to walk on until they came to an intersection. Usagi broke into Minako's and Makoto's dialogue. "Hey guys, sorry to interrupt the debate - but where exactly are we going?" Minako and Makoto looked at her with blank stares.

"I dunno, Usa-chan," Makoto slowly replied. "We could head over to the temple."

"Hey, sounds good to me," responded Minako. "Usually we never go over there except on senshi business. Visiting simply for fun could be a welcome change."

"For once, Mina-chan, you make sense," Usagi joked. "Let's head over– it'll be a (hopefully) welcome surprise."

Usagi, Minako, and Makoto all sneaked up the temple steps. They had hatched a plan to surprise Rei, and were trying their best to keep it a surprise. However, that wasn't working out too well. The three senshi were trying their best to hold back the giggles that want to burst out into full fledged laughter, but they were determined to try and make it up the steps without making any major sounds. Tiptoeing up the steps and staying as close to the shadows as possible, the three friends kept tripping over each other's feet, and kept accusing each other of making a noise. Of course, all of them were at fault, but each told themselves that it wasn't their fault that they were giggling uncontrollably, it was the fact that Makoto had just caught her shirt on a tree branch, causing a rip that let a little too much cleavage show. Or they may have been laughing because Usagi had just tripped over Minako's foot and almost fell down the steps... no one was sure, but the hilarity was definitely there, and it was getting very bad. The group would almost pee their pants at the smallest thing, which wouldn't have seemed even remotely funny a minute ago. But who could judge the logic of a group of 16-year-old girls?

They finally managed to stifle their giggles, or at least keep them down to a minimum, as they approached the doorway of the temple. However, since their plan had been doomed from the moment they set foot on the first temple step, Rei had somehow (what a surprise) managed to hear them advancing, and stood in the temple doorway. That might have been the reason Minako and Usagi almost fell down the temple steps after Makoto had stopped without warning. Of course, the two blondes, not looking where they were going, crashed into Makoto and both promptly lost their footing. How the two managed to stop from tumbling down the steps remains a mystery.

"What exactly were you baka's doing creeping up my temple stairs?" Rei demanded. "And it better be a good excuse for interrupting my fire readings!"

Makoto looked around, hoping that someone else would answer. But seeing that Usagi and Minako were still struggling to get untangled, she realized it was all up to her to give a good explanation, and fast.

"Ha ha, we were just… ummm…" Makoto put one hand behind her head as she stumbled over an explanation of wondering whether there had been any new visitors at the temple lately who looked suspicious, laughed nervously again, and prayed to Kami that Rei bought it.

"Yea, Mako-chan…" Rei said slowly, sweat drops appearing on her head. Meanwhile, the senshi of Jupiter was still standing there laughing frantically. "I swear, sometimes you are as bad as those two," Rei said, pointing down at the two blondes, who had finally disentangled themselves and were crawling back up the stairs, uttering a nervous giggle everytime they glanced at one another. "Jeez. I can't believe I have friends like you," Rei commented laughingly. "Come on inside."

The four girls entered the temple. However, the three who had originally sneaked up the steps with so much (supposed) slyness and stealth, now acted nervous and downcast. They all were expecting a scolding from Rei, and thus were extremely surprised to hear a chuckle. Three heads snapped up – one with hair the color of daffodil petals, one with hair the color of rays of sunlight, and one with hair the color of toffee. Rei stood in front of the three guilty faces, and started to laugh in earnest.

"Oh man, all of your expressions were the greatest! You really thought you were going to sneak up on me! Mako-chan, your face was frozen in a look of someone who has just seen a ghost!" Rei exclaimed, laughter dancing in her eyes. "And I have never seen Minako and Usagi do something more clutzy! Oh man, that whole scene was priceless!" As Rei collapsed in helpless fits of laughter, the three senshi who stood in front of her started to giggle as well.

"Yea, I guess it is pretty funny…" Makoto said self-consciously, while starting to laugh at herself.

"Hey Minako," Usagi whispered to her friend, "Weren't we talking about things that were 'priceless' on the way down here?"

"Oh yea, I forgot about that…" Minako whispered back. "But how perfect is this?" And the girls were again taken by an uncontrollable fit of laughter.

"So girls, why did you drop by?" Rei pestered. "There had to be some reason."

"Nope," Minako replied cheerfully. "We just decided to drop by."

"Yea," Makoto chimed in. "We figured it would be a nice change to meet here for something other than study groups or senshi business."

"We all needed a break from that," Usagi agreed.

"Well guys, your right for once. Finally we can relax and do nothing while the world turns." Rei said contentedly. "Nothing to worry about…."

"We can be semi-normal for a little bit…." Usagi said.

"No major tests in school…" Minako said happily.

"Finally those midterms are over," Makoto said

"Well, not quite Mako-chan. We do still have that science quiz in two weeks," a new voice interrupted the four teenager's daydreams.

"Ami! Hey, what's up?" Usagi exclaimed at the sight of the blue haired girl standing in the doorway.

"I just thought I would drop by the temple, and maybe convince Rei to study with me," Ami replied. "I wasn't expecting you guys to be here, though."

"Well, we just decided it would be a good idea to just drop by and hang out for a while," said Usagi.

"Though it might be a stroke of luck," Ami mused. "We could get in a study session!" The remark elicited groans from all the girls, which caused Ami to look around in surprise. "What?" She asked innocently.

"Ami-chan…. We did sorta come here to not study," Makoto replied.

"Yea, we need to STOP studying." Minako agreed. I mean, what if we waste our young lives pining over grades and the next test, and walk around all day with our nose in a book!" Minako cried out.

Sweatdrops appeared on all the girls' heads at Minako's outburst. "Ummmm… yea…." Usagi murmured.

"ANYWAY, no studying today, guys. No books are going to be opened in this temple at all!!" Makoto declared. "And that means…." Makoto grabbed Ami's book and ran over to some shelves, where she proceeded to place all the books on the highest shelf. "There are some advantages to being tall," Makoto said, satisfied that none of the other girls were going to be able to reach the textbooks.

"But Mako-chan! " Ami protested.

"Ah ah ah!" Makoto scolded. "There will be no studying, and I meant it! So there!"

"Well...I guess I can always catch up later," Ami thought out loud. "So Rei, where do you hide the chocolate in this place?" The girls chuckled at Ami's query, and headed to Rei's room. The girls got comfortable on her bed and couch and settled down to chat for hours about nothing. Their topic's included the latest hot guy, those pathetic things the fashion world called 'chic' and 'fresh', and whether anyone had smelled that awful stench in study hall. As the girls whiled away the time, they were unaware that a greater darkness was overtaking them.

Well guys, how do you like it? My first attempt at fanfic writing, and while I didn't include DBZ in this chapter, there will be more to come. Please, please, I need feedback! Flames, constructive criticism, checks, and flowers can all be sent to [email protected]!