Mizuno Ami’s Journal

We have a new student Kuroki Mio-san who is an idol, like Aino Minako, only she has just appeared and is already ’super-popular’. Usagi-chan doesn’t seem to be taking too well to this…she feels bound by a loyalty to Aino Minako to not like her so much, and the others in the class are all very excited and paying her a lot of attention.
She does seem okay; but I worry, of course, especailly Usagi-chan was hit by her serves, several times while the class was playing volleyball, even once in the nose.
*chews thumb* Kuroki-san was apologetic about it, and Usagi-chan stubbornly refuses to back down. But then I could swear she hit Usagi-chan on purpose…maybe I’m seeing monsters were there aren’t any.

Training, though, training, even after the extra sessions, didn’t go quite so well, in itself; but then Artemis-san, Sailor Venus’s cat came into the room. He explained to us Sailor Venus is worried about Kuroki Mio, but then there was a youma…so of course discussion had to be put on hold. *ahem*

In a sense it was useful, I’ve been able to practice using the tambourine’s some more. They’re an interesting device. In a sense they work like an amplifier, enabling us to use an attack without having to call and focus so much. We had a difficult time of it, the youma was able to absorb most of the attacks that we sent out towards it, and when we were trying to use the attack we had used the other day, a combination attack…it disarmed me.
While I was willing the youma to be able to not get the tambourine, energy flowed through me and caught the tambourine (not the youma) and enabled Luna to retrieve it for me. I was a little dumbstruck. Luna used an odd attack against the youma, which distracted it enough that we were able to use the attack, and defeat it.

Usagi had apparently been talking to Kuroki-san before the youma attacked, hopefully they were airing out their differences, and can see peace enough that there aren’t any strange things like there were today.
Kuroki-san seemed to be okay with Usagi-chan, she had been cut somehow, perhaps youma attack, and Usagi-chan bound her arm, and she said she was fine.

We can report that back to Artemis now, and it should be a relief for Venus-san.

We have a new student at school: Kuroki Mio, she’s an idol, like Aino Minako (more about some events concerning her in a little bit). Usagi-chan is wary of her (Kuroki Mio), to say the least. To me, she seems alright, sometimes a little like she’s trying over-much, but I think it might be the adjustment to being a student, and the fact that everyone is excited by her? Trying to weed out genuine people from otaku? Me just making excuses because I don’t like to think ill of people?
Judgement will have to be reserved.

We started the new training today, after rescuing Luna from Motoki-onii-san…well…perhaps the other way around. She looks so young as a human that he didn’t want to let her in to the center, so we had to vouch for her.
The new training is a concentration technique, also designed to inulcate patience, and skill. We have to try and catch confetti being blown through the air, with chopsticks, to add to the difficulty there are many different colors of confetti and we are only allowed to catch ‘our own’ it’s quite tricky, even trying to focus on just one piece of confetti…
Rei-chan can already manage it…but then she’s Awake, aware of more, so must remember the technique from before. I did have vague feelings of deja-vu about it…but…I suppose I don’t trust myself enough to allow myself to remember it.

Luna is calling us back to try again, so I will have to edit and add more later.