Saeba Usagi was late to class and had to spend the whole period holding buckets and wearing a sign saying [I was late] around her neck for the first period. Unfortunately, the incident this morning had left her without eating breakfast, and her stomach was growling something awful. She carefully set her buckets down and opened her bento box, giggling about breakfast being the most important meal of the day.
No sooner had that happened, Haruna-sensei whisked open the door to the classroom and started roaring at her about her sucky grades, a lousy 30 on her last test. Usagi briefly considered pulling her gun out on Haruna-sensei to make her shut up, but fought the urge down. She didn't need ANOTHER black mark on her record.
It was then that Umino Gurio and Osaka Naru made their apperance with their own grades. Naru was her best friend and the only one of her classmates who knew about Usagi's alter-identity as 'Chibi Hunter'. She was present during the afforementioned incident where she proved to be quite adept at pulling large firearms out of seemingly nowhere. Everyone in her class knew Usagi to be a gun-nut however; her habit of bringing gun mags to class was proof enough of that. Gurio was just a nerd with a crush on Usagi and the Chibi Hunter... not that he knew they were the same person.
Gossip and classes filled the rest of the day. She did reasonably well in her other classes—it was really English that was her waterloo—because daddy said it was important for a crime fighter. The gossip was uninteresting save for two tidbits of information, that jewelry stores had been hit last night (as the Chibi Hunter, she always kept one ear bent to high-profile crimes) and one about Sailor V (especially about being an undercover cop; she needed no competition).
Next came to the Osa-P, the jewelry store owned by Naru's mother. Said mother was pushing her merchandise like hotcakes at a rate that would make a used car salesman green with envy. The other girls in her troupe started wondering aloud whether they could get their folks to foot the bill for some of that jewelry, but Usagi was indifferent.
The Saeba daughter knew it was important to look presentable but not flashy, something she learned from her mother. Well, she tried to be more feminine than her, seeing how her mother really didn't look all that much like a woman. She may not have been interested in boys now, but she did want to keep her options open. Besides, she didn't think any rewards would be coming her way anytime soon with this sucky grade.
Usagi sighed, filled with dread about how her parents would react to her bringing home this kind of grades and disappointed in herself in getting that grade, and tossed the test paper with a crappy grade over her shoulder.
A guy's voice came from behind her, seeming to grumble at how the scrap of paper seemed to find his face magnetic, "Right in my face. Thanks a lot, Meatball Head!"
*CHA-CHICK*
The guy dressed in a fancy tuxedo froze as he found himself looking down the barrel of a Cobra Commander.
(Cobra Commander: "COOOOOOBRAAAAAA!!" *SWACK* "Ow!")
"Care to repeat that, Tuxedo-san?" said Usagi calmly on the other end of that big peashooter aimed right in the guy's face. Her own face betrayed her annoyance, however, just as the tux-guy's betrayed his sudden anxiety. "And before you ask, yes I do know how to use this."
"Where the heck did you pull that thing from?" came the stranger's confused reply.
Usagi grinned. "Saeba family secret." The cold look returned. "And for your information, stupid, these are pigtails," she stated, poking at her peculiar hairstyle.
The tuxed-guy opened the ball of paper and said, "With grades like this, you don't have the right to call anyone stupid." He casually flipped the test paper back at Usagi, who caught it.
Usagi humphed and walked away, vanishing her gun, intent on passing the time at the arcade.
When they saw the grade Usagi made on her English test, they simply grounded her. Emotionally drained, Usagi flopped onto the bed to snooze...
Which was interrupted by a scratch on her face, causing Usagi to wake up instantly.
The immediate culprit was the black cat she had rescued that morning.
"You're that cat with the crecent shaped bald spot!" Usagi stated aloud. This earned her another swipe. "OW!"
"It's not a bald spot! What a rude thing to say!" complained the cat in the voice of a young woman.
Silence reigned for a few seconds. "The cat talks," stated Usagi, a suspicious frown forming on her face.
"*Ahem!* I've been looking for you, Usagi. My name is Luna." the cat, Luna, said, "Thank you for removing the bandaids; with those on I couldn't talk or investigate. So many punk kids in the area. Anyway, I'm glad I found yo—" *CHA-CHICK* "ACK!" Luna came to a full stop in her narration as Usagi's Cobra Commander made its second appearance in this episode (CC: "COBR—" *WHANG* "…oooohh!").
"A monster attacked me this morning before I chased it off," said the girl coldly, "You have exactly five seconds to explain yourself, kitty. Starting now."
"*EEP!*"
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