A Sailor Moon Fanfiction: The Pledge of the Sun.

Chapter 1

"Good morning Harusuke!"

"Good morning. How are you?"

"How're you doing, Harusuke?"

"Very well, thank you."

Then Harusuke looked at the watch around his wrist. The current time was a quarter past eight.

"Oh, man. School starts in about fifteen minutes," he thought. "I better hurry and get to class. Don't want Ms. Haruna getting angry."

He quickly sprinted towards the building, making his way inside and turning his sprint into a brisk walk. As he walked down the halls, a crowd of students stood in front of a large bulletin board. Harusuke knew what it was, which made him stop his brisk walking.

"Those are the results from the last practice exam," he thought. "I still got time before the bell rings. Let's see how I did."

He scanned the board, trying to find his name on it, hoping he was high in the rankings. Then, he soon found his name in the tenth place position.

"All right!" he said while pumping his fist. "All the studying paid off."

"Looks like someone's in a good mood today."

Harusuke turned to the voice, and a young boy with brown hair wearing large glasses with swirls in the lenses came up to him.

"Hello Umino," said Harusuke. "Yes. I am. I got Tenth place in the last practice exam."

"That's pretty good," said Umino. "You beat me by my a couple of points. I got thirteenth. How do you do it, Harusuke?"

"I study as hard as you do, Umino. Nothing special or anything," said Harusuke. "Anyway, we better get to class. Ms. Haruna will be here any minute, and the bells are about to ring."

"Oh yeah. Don't wanna be tardy."

The two walked into the classroom and quickly took their seats. It was nearly time for the bell to ring. Harusuke looked around for a certain bun-headed girl, but he didn't see her anywhere.

"It would seem that Usagi is going to be late again," he thought. "I suppose Shingo only sent me away because he thought that Usagi would drag me down."

"Hey, Harusuke."

A girl's voice made Harusuke turn his attention towards her. She had reddish-brown hair in a bow and blue eyes.

"Oh hello Naru," said Harusuke. "Is something the matter?"

"Oh, nothing's wrong," said Naru. "I was just wondering if you've seen Usagi, but I think it's obvious that she's late again."

"I'm sorry, Naru. I tried to get her up, but Shingo told me to go ahead and head for school anyway," said Harusuke. "I feel kinda bad now."

"It's OK, Harusuke," said Naru. "Besides, it's Usagi's fault that she's like this, not yours."

"I suppose so, but still."

Then the bell began to ring, signaling that school was now in session, and the teacher Ms. Haruna entered the classroom.

"Rise!"

Everyone stood up from their seats.

"Bow."

Everyone bowed.

"Sit!"

Everyone sat down. Then Ms. Haruna began taking roll. As she did, she happened to see Usagi's seat, which was as usual empty.