Rei-chan asked us to help her with something. It turned out to be a competition between her and Aino Minako. It was a bit shocking, to say the least. Apparently she was willing to become an idol…I have to think there was something behind it given her distaste for all things karaoke.
Mako-chan and I played for Rei’s team, and Usagi and Luna for Minako’s. I think the meaning behind it was for us all to do something together as friends. We did all have fun as a group. I’ll have to post some pictures. I still need to post pictures from when Rei-chan and I had the camp-out at CROWN.
Minako-san’s new song is great, though. “Kiss-kiss, bang-bang!” I’m sure Usagi-chan’s going to be singing it for a long time.
People still aren’t talking to Usagi.
Although from what she was saying today things might be looking up when we get back to school next week.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
We waited for Usagi to meet us at a coffee shop this evening, but she didn’t show. On the upside Rei and I got to talk to Makoto a bit, and ease her feelings, I hope, about things that have and haven’t been going on.
It seems there had been a mix-up, Usagi was working with Kuroki-san to produce a concert for Aino Minako (!) but we got the message she would meet us. Makoto feels, and I think she may be right, this is Kuroki-san sabotage. Rei agreed once she got over being very, very ticked at the waste of time.
Things are very strange, especially because of Kuroki Mio…
When we got to school after the battle the other day we found that the class was upset with Usagi, to put it mildly. We had believed perhaps Minako Venus had been wrong on her impressions of Kuroki-san being someone to watch, after she was kind to Usagi and seemed understanding, but then when Osaka-san and I got to class we found she was telling the class in such a way they believed Usagi had deliberately hurt Kuroki-san, it was awful!
I keep remembering how I could swear she kicked Usagi the other day while everyone was playing volleyball…then I think maybe I’m wrong, but there’s certain times where she just…there’s just…I can’t put it into words.
At least Osaka-san also believes Usagi’s character is genuine, without knowing the full extent of the situation, otherwise I don’t think Usagi could bear it.
The main other focus has been the fact that Mako-chan hasn’t awakened to her senshi powers yet. I’m not sure if there’s anything the rest of us can do to help her…I wish there was.
Mama-san came home just now and was telling me that Aino Minako was at her hospital. I can imagine Usagi-chan is just frantic if she has heard the news. Apparently it was only a minor thing…she was almost hit by a vehicle that was out of control, but media some times has a habit of blowing things out of proportion, and I have a feeling in Usagi-chan’s mind it will escalate to something drastic. I would call her, but I don’t want to worry her if she doesn’t yet know, maybe by the next day Aino-san will be out of hospital. Although Mama-san was saying she might be grateful for a chance to rest in the relative peace and quiet of the room she has. I suppose so.
Things came to a head between friends today.
Usagi-chan came late to our meeting at Crown concerned more with a contest that’s going on involving Aino Minako than what we were supposed to be meeting for. I’m not sure of the nature of the contest, it involves dress-up and something that looks like a blue unicorn wearing a red cowboy hat.
Usagi-chan was wanting us to help her make something so that she could enter. When we told her we couldn’t, then she wanted us to help her redo her homework because she’d been working out of the wrong book, and while she thought she’d done what she was supposed to she hadn’t. Rei-chan got very angry with her over this, and she and Mako-chan had another argument. This one was much worse than all of the others they’d had, and Rei-chan left upset. Going after her was futile.
Usagi-chan gave Mako-chan a charm to take to the temple in the hopes that they’ll both make up. I told her that things would probably work out, and she was still upset also about her homework.
“Well, think how much less you’ll have to do when we get to that section,” I told her, but it didn’t make her feel too much better.
I hope things work out between Rei-chan and Mako-chan, I don’t want to have to take sides between friends, and neither would Usagi-chan so that would mean the break-up of the senshi so soon after we’ve apparently formed our quartet.
I can see I’m going to be spending more time working on trying to find out information on Sailor V. Hopefully my home computer has finished correlating her appearances to see if I can find a pattern.
I had another strange dream, and this one also had a blonde girl in it, I wonder if it was the same girl…although for some reason I kept thinking this girl was Aino Minako, but she didn’t look like…
I remember we were sitting on a bed, a water bed, and I remember looking at her bookshelf too, and I remember she and I were talking and asking each other questions, although I think she was mostly asking me questions and I was telling her about myself…I remember that she was talking to me about some of the things and when I was looking at some thing on her bookshelf and she said, “I don’t think you should be reading that Mizuno-san…” but I don’t remember what I called her when I was talking to her.
Maybe I should mention it to Tsukino-san, and Hino-san later…
The party was loud. I’ve never really been to a place like that before, but given it was ‘business’ there wasn’t really much of a time to enjoy the party.
I felt a little uncomfortable dressed as a cat-girl, but I could at least move in a gainly fashion than Tsukino-san who was in a giant teddy-bear suit. She was having such problems, that Luna and I went to investigate the crystal ‘back-stage’ and left her on the floor.
As I was wondering around I ran into Rei-san. After some hesitation on both our parts we agreed that we could sort of understand where each other was coming from and that we could work together for the investigating given that two heads was better than one if we came across a youma of some kind.
As it was we did. The lady who was looking after the crystal seemed to have been taken over, was able to get the box away from her so that we had the crystal and the enemy wouldn’t. When the youma appeared we henshined, and Rei-san/Mars told me to get the crystal away from there, she would handle the youma and call Tsukino-san. What we didn’t realize at that point was that there was more than one youma, and I wound up stuck on the roof with them after me, and unable to do anything for fear of losing the box with the crystal in it, until Luna could look at it and tell us whether it was the crystal we were looking for or not.
Thankfully, Tsukino-san and Rei-san were able to rescue me. But we had a problem in that whenever we attacked the youma they would regenerate each other…we realized that we had to all attack at once, but our timing was off and we got trapped behind a building.
Music was floating up from the party, Aino Minako’s new single, ‘C’est la vie,’ Tsukino-san started singing along, and we realized, much to Rei-san’s distress that if we sang along with the song we could keep ourselves in time, and attack in-sync.
It worked, but by then we had lost control of the crystal, and the enemy had it. Tuxedo Kamen managed to get it away from the enemy, but in doing so pitched it towards the edge of the roof. Tsukino-san leapt to catch it, but didn’t have balance and almost fell. Rei-san and I were too far away to help, but Tuxedo Kamen tried, pitching them both off the roof. I was too terrified to even breathe…but then the strangest thing happened. Tsukino-san’s wand/weapon started to glow and an orb of light encircled them and seemed to act like a parachute, lowering them to the ground at a safe velocity.
I thought I would pass out, but Rei-san picked me back up and we headed for the stairs, trying to speculate what could have happened.
Tsukino-san was fine, thankfully, and Rei-san agreed that she would work with us, and that it wasn’t so bad. Although I can anticipate that she and Tsukino-san are going to have problems given Rei-san apparently despises karoake with the same kind of passion that Tsukino-san tries to avoid math problems, and Tsukino-san is rather keen on music, specifically Aino Minako and spreading the good word about her to the masses.
Today was a sort of break-through, but I don’t want to get too excited. I actually made conversation, sort of, considering I was so nervous, with a person who might be interested in talking to me for some reason other than the fact that I make good grades, or my mother is a doctor. Her name is Tsukino Usagi. She’s a bit goofy, and easily excitable, but she seems pretty sincere.She has this really cute black cat, called Luna, who has a crescent moon on her forehead. She’s the reason that we met. I found Luna on the way to cram school: she was separated from Tsukino-san, and as I was setting her right Tsukino-san approached, she said I was ‘funny’ because I had been talking so politely to the cat, and kept talking to me animatedly. I wasn’t quite sure what to make of her at first.
We walked by the Crown center, and she showed me the new ‘Sailor V’ video game, and the karaoke machines which have even managed to get the latest Aino Minako release already. I was afraid I would be late to Cram School, and that she was just wanting test scores, but she seems genuine even though I was probably being more than a little stand-offish. *shakes head* that was silly of me, I really would like to find some people who I can be friends with, because I’m me, not because I’m smart, or I study so much, and they just want me to help me with their homework, but I’m afraid to let myself hope.
She did give me a copy of Aino Minako’s new album (which is really good! I’m listening to it right now) and normally people who just want to use me don’t bother with things such as that. I should stop thinking about it and analyzing every little thing about the situation and go to bed.
