Okay this is going to be WAY difficult because I've never even attempted to write about something based on the anime (I only own two of the mangas!)

But I'm a redhead, and I've always wondered why there was no redhead sailor scout. They can have two blue-haired ones, and even a green-tinted one, but only VesVes from the Amazon Quartet and Molly ever had red hair!

Plus, the biggest question of all…why was there never a Sailor Sun? No no, don't leave this page! Honestly, I've thought this whole thing through, and TRUST me, you are in for a fun time! So sit back, relax, and enjoy the unfolding story of…Sailor Sun!

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Disclaimer: I own two Sailor Moon mangas, the very first two. If I were Naoko Takeuchi, then I would probably own the entire series. So obviously, I am not Takeuchi, and so obviously, I don't own any of the Sailor Moon franchise, save for two mangas, one picture book, one dvd box set, and all three movies on VHS. Get it? Good.

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Note: I disliked the fifth season of Sailor Moon, so let's pretend that Queen Nehelenia was killed for good, as was Galaxia, and that Sailor Moon is returning to normal life, though she still has her powers. The Outer Senshi is not there, and neither is Chibi Chibi. But Chibiusa is, and yes, Ellios is coming back. Oh, and they all attend school together, to make things easier.

It was another beautiful day in Tokyo, Japan. Unfortunately for Usagi, it was also a school day.

"Ohhh, why do we have to go to school on such a beautiful day?" Usagi whined to her friends.

"I'm just surprised that you're on time today, Usagi!" laughed Makoto.

"Yeah, what made you get up so early?" asked Rei.

Usagi stuck out her tongue at Chibiusa, who was listening to a tape (sorry, I couldn't resist. The series IS horribly '90s, after all). .

"The little brat made me wake up early so that she could get this new tape. I tried to refuse but she dragged me out of bed!"

"What are you listening to, Chibiusa?" asked Ami, gently tapping Chibiusa on the shoulder.

"Oh, sorry!" Chibiusa smiled up at Ami. "It's this really cool new tape of classical music! I think it's nice to listen to in the morning."

"I find classical music very relaxing," agreed Ami.

Usagi yawned and stretched her hands over her head. "You know what's more relaxing? SLEEPING!"

"Oh, stop complaining, Usagi!" Minako playfully shoved Usagi. "Since you were on time, you were able to make sure that I would be on time!"

"Yeah, for once, the two of you won't be so tardy. Maybe now you'll stop being such lazy slackers!" Rei said haughtily.

Usagi and Minako exploded and started arguing with Rei as the group began to cross at an intersection.

Chibiusa was about to cross when she noticed that her shoe was untied. "Wait, guys!" Chibiusa called to her friends as she bent over to tie it. But the girls were too busy listening to Usagi and Minako argue with Rei.

Chibiusa stood up and quickly crossed the street, but because she was so small, the tall man in front of her was blocking the crosswalk sign. And because of the tape, she could not hear the car honking at her as it came speeding directly at her.

"What a pretty day this is!" Chibiusa thought to herself and looked up at the shining sun.

Usagi heard the car honking and turned around.

"CHIBIUSA!" she screamed, running back to her.

"NO!" yelled the other girls, quickly following. But they could see that they would not make it in time.

"Oh no!" Chibiusa cried as she noticed the approaching car.

Suddenly, there was a flash of light that barreled across the intersection into Chibiusa, and flew her to safety a little ways away from Usagi.

Chibiusa looked up. "Usagi!" she cried happily. The face looming above her was the same loving, beautiful face, with those shining, blue eyes.

"Are you alright?" she panted, pulling back.

"Usa…gi?" Chibiusa frowned. The face belonged to Usagi, but not the hair. The sun shone down upon shoulder length, red ringlets.

"Chibiusa!" cried the real Usagi as she came running forward. She pulled Chibiusa from the ground and enveloped her. "Oh, I was so worried! I'm never letting you listen to classical music again!" She turned to Chibiusa's savior, who had her eyes down. "Thank you so, so very much!"

"Oh." The girl raised her head, and everybody gasped. The face was the same as Usagi's! "It was no problem!" she said pleasantly. "I'm just glad that I got there in time to save her."

"Ye…yeah…" Usagi trailed off, dumbfounded.

"Usagi!" exclaimed Minako softly. "She looks…"

"Just like you!" everyone whispered in hushed tones.

"What was that?" asked the girl, still smiling.

"My name is Chibiusa," Chibiusa stuck out her hand. "Thanks for saving my life! I owe you!"

"It was nothing, really!" laughed the girl. Somewhere in the distance, a clock chimed. "Oh no, is that the time? I really must be off to school. It's my first day, and I don't want to be late!" The girl stood up, grabbed her bag, and ran off. "We will meet again! Bye!"

"Wow, that was weird!" Rei said.

"Yeah…guys, we're all going to be late for school now!" Makoto yelled, looking at her watch. "We better run for it!"

"Even on days that I wake up on time, I'm still late!" cried Usagi.

At School

"Wow, that was weird!" Rei said.

"You said that already," chided Ami.

"Yeah, about twenty times now!" Minako moaned. "It was weird, we get it!"

Usagi was staring out the window.

"What's up, Usagi?" asked Makoto gently.

"N…nothing. Just shocked over everything that happened. But don't worry about me!" Usagi said bashfully, running her hand through her hair—or at least, as far as her hand could get in her buns and pigtails.

"Yeah, it was weird, wasn't it?" Rei asked slyly.

"DON'T PUSH IT!" Minako yelled, bopping Rei over the head.

As the two girls were bickering, their teacher came back into the room. The girls had been shocked yet pleased when they had arrived late to their class to find that the teacher had not shown up yet.

"There's apparently going to be a new student!" Molly (sorry but I love her English name! She's so cute!) had informed them. "That's where the teacher went, to go get her."

"Class?" the teacher asked. "Our new student is here, please welcome her nicely. Come in!" she called to the door.

The door opened, and the new student came in.

"AHHH!!!!" yelled Usagi and her friends. It was Usagi's doppelganger, the one that had saved Chibiusa!

"Class, this is Amaterasu Akane." (a little tidbit: Amaterasu is a mythical Japanese sun goddess, HINT HINT HINT. Akane means "brilliant red" in Japanese!)

Smiling, Amaterasu bowed. "I go by Ari," she corrected to the class.

"Ari, then. Please take that empty seat next to Usagi over there," the teacher pointed to the empty desk next to the window.

"Hey, I remember you!" Ari said happily to Usagi. "How is your little sister doing?"

"Oh, she's my cousin," Usagi blushed, looking away. It was like looking into a mirror.

The other girls smiled timidly and turned away, too unnerved to look at Ari. They didn't see Ari's sad gaze, or see her finger a golden pendant hanging from the long chain around her neck.

Lunch

Everybody was huddled together, whispering about the new girl. Or really, everybody but Usagi, who was stuffing her face full of Makoto's delicious, abandoned lunch.

"Who do you think she—? USAGI!" Makoto swiped the lunch away from Usagi.

"But it was so delicious!" Usagi cried.

"Be serious! Don't you think it's weird?" Rei asked, receiving a blow on the head from Minako. "Ouch! I mean, don't you think it's kind of interesting that Ari looks exactly like you in the face?"

"I wouldn't worry about it so much. It's probably just a coincidence." Sensible Ami acknowledged, sipping her soda.

"Yeah, maybe you're right," agreed Makoto, who had handed some of her food back to Usagi nicely.

"Still…" Ami muttered. "It's uncanny."

It seemed as if Usagi had not been paying any attention to the conversation. She stood up and yelled "Hey!" at Ari, who was eating alone under a tree.

"Why don't you come sit with us?" Usagi called out.

"If you don't mind!" Ari called back.

"No way! Come on over!" Usagi yelled cheerfully.

"Thanks, that's really nice of you!" Ari yelled back.

"WOULD YOU TWO STOP YELLING?" a boy at another table yelled.

"It seems like you're already rubbing off on her, Usagi!" Molly said as she passed by the table, laughing.

But we haven't spent any time together. As Rei would say: Weird! Usagi thought to herself.

"Oh wow, that looks delicious!" Ari exclaimed when she saw Makoto's food.

"Oh, you want some? I have plenty, even though I already gave some to Usagi," Makoto held out a meat pastry to Ari.

"Wow!" Ari's eyes shined. "Thanks!"

Usagi picked up the pastry that Makoto had given her, hungry for it now that she saw somebody else holding one. Without noticing, she and Ari unwrapped the pastry, pulled the wrapper off and crumpled it in their right hand while quickly bringing the pastry up to their mouths, and threw the wrappers backwards, missing the trashcan by a landslide.

Within two bites each, Ari and Usagi had finished them.

"Mmm, that was delicious!" they cried to Makoto, hugging their stomachs and grinning happily.

Their mouths hanging open at the sight they had just seen, Makoto, Rei, Ami, and Minako started to laugh.

"It's like Usagi times two!" Minako giggled.

"Yeah, double trouble!" Makoto laughed in agreement.

"Huh?" asked puzzled Ari and Usagi. They looked each other and shrugged.

"Hey, want to hang out after school?" Usagi asked Ari.

"Oh no you don't! This is high school, and we need to study extra!" Minako scolded.

"Oh come on, she's new, and I want to show her some of the cool things around here!" Usagi argued.

"Let her do it," Makoto placed her hand on Minako's shoulder. "It's kind of her thing, showing around new students, isn't it?" She looked knowingly at Minako, Ami, and Rei.

"Okay, go for a little bit," Ami smiled. "The rest of us are going to study."

"Oh great!" Usagi cried happily. "Ari, do you like video games?"

"Do I!" Ari clapped her hands together. The two girls giggled and started talking together excitedly, and stood up to collect the trash they had thrown.

There were clouds in the sky, and there had currently been one covering the sun. But as Ari moved away from Usagi, the cloud scuttled away, and the other four girls could swear that they momentarily saw a girl with floor length red hair in a long white gown, shining in the light of the sun, throwing away a pastry wrapper.

Yay! First chapter done! If you are familiar with my other work, which you probably aren't, you know that I tend to write long, descriptive chapters. This will be a little different, as I am trying really hard to make it sound more like it does in the anime. I really just needed to get this introductory chapter out of the way. But I had a fun time writing it, and I hope you had a fun time reading it! Please, please, PLEASE comment! And I'd prefer it if you didn't flame, but if you must, then…sigh…you must.

p.s. For you more romantic readers…yes, there will be a big romance later on! I won't dissapoint!

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