Usagi?s Adventures in Cooking
Prologue
Rated G
By cosmic_star

Okay, some notes: This is going to be a multi parter (no more than five
or six) about Usagi?s attempts to make a half-decent meal (besides
curry) for her Mamo-chan.  I will attempt to make it humorous, though
it?s really a romantic comedy (though I?m not to sure on what others
would think of my humor).  It takes place during the Sailor Moon Super
series, after Usagi attempted to bake cookies, and failed miserably with
Chibi-Usa baking better ones than hers (well they would have to be,
since Usagi?s cookies were not edible!).  This takes place a few weeks
before Mamoru?s birthday (Usagi is trying to make him a 20th birthday
present that is special).  Oh, and if Chibi-Usa does make an appearance,
it will be very short (especially for those of you who loathe her).

Please mail me at cosmic_star@hotmail.com, and visit my homepage at
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Oh, and Sailor Moon does not belong to me, but to Naoko Takuechi, please
do not sue me, yada-yada-yada.
Sorry for the long notes, and now?On with the show!

It was a beautiful day.  The sky was blue, with no clouds in sight.
The birds were singing in the trees, and there was nobody out, save a
few souls taking walks, or jogging in Tokyo Park.  People were in their
houses at this hour of 8:00, making breakfast or eating it.  It was a
blissfully peaceful morning.   This peace was not to last.  At precisely
8:01 am, the peace was shattered by an earth-splitting scream.  It was
from one small, 16-year-old girl.  It seemed impossible that such a
frail girl could have such a set of lungs.  But appearances can be
deceiving.

Following the scream was an equally piercing wail, whose words were
slightly unintelligible, yet familiar to all who lived in the modest,
two story house situated in the Juuban district:
"Mmooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmm, WHY DIDN?T YOU WAKE MEEEEEEEEEEEE
UPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!"  Luckily, Tsukino Usagi?s family was prepared for
this (it was something of a ritual around her house), and was ready with
earmuffs at 8:00, as to not go completely deaf from the sonic boom.

And, sure enough, the wail was accompanied by a loud 'thump' as Usagi
tripped on her bed spread, fell onto the floor, and quickly got up,
yanked on her school uniform, put up her hair into the familiar
Odango?s, rushed down the stairs, tripped on the bottom two, landed on
her butt, wailed, grabbed her book bag, lunch and a piece of toast.
Before she could rush out the door, though Tsukino Ikuko yelled loudly
enough to her to get her attention-not an easy thing during one of
Usagi?s tirades.
"Usagi!" she called, and when as expected this didn?t work she resorted
to yelling (in other words, it was so loud the we can now see where
exactly Usagi gets her lungs from.) "U-S-A-G-I!!!" which was responded
to by an equally loud:
"WHAT!!!"
"Tsukino Usagi, don?t you dare take that tone with me, young lady!" her
mother warned.  "Now, get back inside this house right now!  I will not,
under any circumstances have my daughter going to school with her
uniform on backwards."  Usagi?s shriek, and the families muffled
laughter could be heard, echoing for minutes afterward.

As usual, Usagi arrived five minutes late, and in rushing to her
classroom, she astonished every one by not tripping over the janitor?s
pail of water situated by the door.  It seemed she was having a lucky
day.  Fortuneatly Sensei Haruna wasn?t there yet, so it seemed as well
that Usagi was safe from another detention for now.  As she slid into
her seat, Mizuno Ami, also known as (to a select few, of course) the
Senshi of Water and Ice, the intelligent Sailor Mercury leaned over and
asked Usagi a very important question that seemed to have eluded the
hair-brained girl for the moment.
"So, Usagi-chan; did you get a present for Mamoru-kun?s birthday yet?
It is coming up in two weeks.  Though I am sure you already have, I?m
just quite curious.  Knowing how much you adore him, I am positively
sure you would have gotten him something."  What was not said by the
young genius, though was that she knew what Usagi?s reaction was going
to be (she did know her friend well after all) she just wanted to see if
her carefully calculated hypothesis would be correct as planned. And, as
Ami suspected, at that very moment, another ?classic? Usagi wail escaped
from her mouth.
" I can?t believe I forgot, what am I going to do?  I?ll never have time
to learn how to cook now! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!"

Unfortunately for Usagi, the Sensei walked in the door at that very
moment and with, as luck would have it, the super-intendent with her.
And, again, as expected, five words left her mouth:
"Tsukino Usagi, detention after school!"

And thus, Usagi managed to push her way past the layers of fruitcakes
surrounding the part of her mind that thought, and realized that she
was going to have a very, very bad day.

So what do you think?  Comments and suggestions are welcome (please!) at
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