EMSiT PRODUCTIONS PROUDLY PRESENTS:
It's Not Easy Being Green
by: Sailor Elysia and Quicksilver
ely_chan@yahoo.com & mbsilvana@yahoo.com
Rated PG-13
Disclaimer: This is in answer to a challenge from Aino Minako herself!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smrff/message/18312 has the challenge,
and we're SURE you'll get a laugh out of this!   Aside from that,
Sailor Moon is not owned by us.


	It all started with a bald joke.
	Now, when you consider the Minako and Usagi, you would think that
going bald would be one of the last things they had to worry about.
They each had thick, glorious blonde hair that looked like spun gold.
Minako's was past her waist and Usagi's - well, Usagi's would one day
be a contender for the category of "longest hair" in the Guinness Book
of World Records.
	But unfortunately, both of them were currently victims of a truth or
dare game. Somehow, Usagi and Minako were now caught in the same trap
because they refused to complete their earlier dares. Eyes wide as a
deer's caught in the headlights, the two girls listened as Rei
sentenced them.
	"WHHAAAAT? You want us to do what?" Minako wailed loudly, clinging to
her beautiful golden mane. "You touch a hair on my head and I swear
you'll wake up covered in ashes!" 
	Usagi blinked. "Who's Sinead OÕConnor again?"
	Rei sighed, rolling her eyes. "How dense can you BE?" she demanded.
"Don't you remember- the bald singer?"
	Usagi squeaked. "BALD? You want me to.... to..."
	"She wants you to shave your heads," Makoto said in an amused voice.
	 "That's right, Odango atama- or maybe I should call you bowling ball
head, since you won't be able to wear those odango anymore," Rei said
with a wicked grin.
	"Bu--but.... this is the royal hairstyle, Rei-chan! Do you know what
could happen if I were to alter it?" Usagi exclaimed, thinking she
finally had a good comeback
	Rei smirked. "No, but I bet you don't either. Besides, with your hair
growth, it'll all be back in....say.... three months?"
	 Usagi yelped. "That's TOO long! Why don't we shave Luna instead?
	"And have her claws in my back? No thanks," Rei retorted. "Let's see,
I think I can find Yuuichirou's razor around here somewhere..."
	 "NO!" the two blondes yelped. "Part of Truth or Dare is that you do
nothing permanent!"
	"Well, I at least think you should shave your eyebrows," Makoto said,
offering a compromise.
	"IIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"
	Ami blinked, her head pulsing at the very shrill cries. "Um, Rei,
can't you change the dare?" she asked. "Be fair."
	Rei crossed her arms under her breasts, a pout on her features. "They
already refused the first dare- now they have to do whatever I can come
up with," she said stubbornly.
	Usagi stuck her tongue out at the raven-haired girl. "You're just
looking for ways to torment me. Besides, what would Mamo-chan think if
he saw me bald? He'd run away screaming!"
	Rei's eyes suddenly lit up. "Usagi, for once you're a genius. I know
just the thing for you to do now."
	The blond began to back away from the evil glare in Rei's eyes.
"Wha-what are you planning now?"
	The smile on Rei's face got bigger. "I want you to play a prank on
Mamoru-san."
	Usagi's eyes, if possible, got even wider. "A prank?" she whimpered.
	Makoto started to laugh, along with Minako. "I'll take that as my
dare!" Minako said cheerily. "We'd have to have a good plan..."
	All eyes in the room fell on Ami. "No. Most definitely not. There is
no way I'm doing anything to Mamoru-san."
	"C'mon, Ami-chan! You haaaaaaave to!" Usagi whined her trademark
whine. 
	Ami just covered her ears. "Most certainly not!  No way am I going to
get involved!"
	Usagi suddenly stopped and stared at Ami. "I knew we'd forgotten
something. We never dared Ami-chan to do anything! She's always chosen
truth!"
	The other girls circled around Ami like a pack of vultures. "Usagi's
got a point. We've all had to do something embarrassing now, except
Ami-chan," Minako commented with an evil look shining in her eyes.
	"If we want to do a proper prank, we have to have the plan laid out,"
Ami said hesitantly, afraid of what they would come up with if she let
them think for themselves. Maybe should could... suppress the damage.
Last time she accepted a dare, she had ended up doing a strip tease.
	"And THAT requires reconnaissance," Rei said firmly, rising to her
feet. Her dignified air was somewhat marred by the moose slippers she
was wearing.
	"So we're going to go play spy?" Minako asked eagerly.
	Rei laughed that idea off. "Why should we? I can do a fire reading."
	Ami frowned with concern. "Rei, are you SURE you should use the sacred
fire that way?"
	"Ami, you worry too much. I always thought you needed to get your nose
out of the books and loosen up... you know like that one night that we
got you to striptease." Rei started laughing. "Oh, man, you looked like
you were going to die!"
	Ami glared at her. "Enough of that, moose girl. All I'm saying is that
I want you to be careful when doing the fire reading. One wrong move
and the shrine could go up in flames!"
	Rei nonchalantly waved a hand. "Leave it all to me, I've done this
before."
	Usagi's ears pricked up. "Done this before? Rei-chan, you've spied on
Mamo-chan before? I thought you said the day Mamo-chan stayed here was
the only day that you ever spied on him. Who said you could spy on him?
He's mine!" The blonde began to stalk Rei around the room, demanding
answers.
	The two girls argued the whole way to the shrine, with Ami, Minako and
Makoto bringing up the rear. Makoto had grabbed a bag of of popcorn and
was happily munching, while Ami had taken a pen and paper so she could
take notes for probably courses of action.
	 Rei entered the shrine and slid her miko garb over her pajamas,
looking ridiculous. The others grabbed pillows to kneel on, and Rei
added some wood to the sacred fire, stoking it higher.
	"No! I must have more to accomplish this feat!" Rei was really getting
into the reading this time, which started to worry the other girls. By
this time Rei was now sitting dangerously close to the fire.
	The flames licked the ceiling of the of the fire room as Rei threw on
log after log onto the fire. "Uhhh, Rei, I think you've got enough wood
for now," Makoto pointed out. 
	"No! I must have more to accomplish this feat!" Rei was really getting
into the reading this time, which started to worry the other girls. By
this time Rei was now sitting dangerously close to the fire.
	She murmured softly, her voice beginning to rise. Her long black hair
blew around her face dramatically, and the other senshi bit their lips.
	"Um, minna, I think it would be wise to make a tactical retreat,"
Minako said.
	The others nodded and started to edge towards the door, with the
exception of Rei, who was now fully engrossed in her chanting.
	 "ZEN!" The raven girl suddenly exclaimed, and the fire roared to
life, blazing a trail upward and burning a hole in the ceiling.
"REI-CHAN!" the girls yelled, running towards the prone figure still
kneeling on the mat. "Leave me be," Rei mumbled in a monotone voice.
"The flames... they're so pretty... they're calling to me..."
	Makoto lunged forward and yanked Rei by her hair away from the fire.
"Baka! What do you think you were doing, trying to get us all killed?"
	Rei's eyes were glittering in the soft firelight. "It's so nice," she
whispered.
	Ami cautiously walked forward and examined the miko's eyes. "I think
she has a concussion."
	"Well, that means we aren't going to prank Mamo-chan," Usagi said,
pretending to be disappointed.
	Rei seemed to become more alert. "No, no," she muttered. "I'll be
fine. There's no way I'm missing out on this one."
	"Well, should we get down to business, or should we put out the roof?
It seems to be on fire," Minako commented calmly. Usagi started to
scream and tugged on Makoto's arm. 
	"Putitoutputitoutputitout!" Makoto yanked her arm away and pointed to
Ami. "She's the one with the powers over water, not me."
	Ami sighed, positioned her mini-computer at the center of fire, then
calculated the area. Suddenly a rain cloud appeared out of nowhere and
dumped its contents on the roof, but forgot to stop as it went over the
house. In an instant the five girls were dripping wet. "Smooth move, oh
wet one, " Minako retorted. 
	Ami pushed the wet hair out of her face. "I never said it would be
perfect."
	"Nothing ever is," Rei said. She ditched the miko's garb and started
back for her room, her moose slippers making weird squishing noises.
	"Doesn't she have a concussion?" Minako wondered.
	"Like that would stop her," Usagi said resentfully.
	The girls went back to the room, and Makoto discarded her bag of
popcorn, which had gotten sopping wet and wasn't fit for consumption
anymore. "Um, Rei-chan, why are you getting dressed?" she asked. 
	"Because I forgot where I put my clothes."
	Ami's eyes widened. "Maybe she really does have a concussion. We ought
to get her to a doctor, don't you think?"
	"Mamo-chan's a doctor!" Usagi supplied happily, and sweatdrops
appeared on everyone's heads. "And you think we should take REI to see
Mamoru?" Minako quipped. Usagi shook her head wildly. "Iie, that's not
what I meant! I just thought that he could be helpful in a case like
this. I think that if were all were in the same room... it might be
okay."
	"And that would be the perfect excuse to get into Mamoru's apartment!"
Minako said cheerily. "And then we can-"
	"MINAKO!" Usagi said, aghast. 
	"You're such a worry wart, Usagi-chan!" Minako said. "Artemis and Luna
aren't here to make sure we behave, and I intend on taking full
advantage of that fact!"
	"And you wonder why they were worried about our slumber party," Ami
said, sighing deeply.
	"Well, we're going to have to get into our clothes so our pajamas have
a chance to dry," Makoto said reasonably enough. "Paying a visit to
Mamoru-san can't hurt."
	 "At eleven at night?" Ami protested.
	Minako nudged Usagi in the side. "Not like it wouldn't be the first
time for her to visit that late, ne?" 
	Usagi's mouth dropped open. "Mina-chan! You weren't supposed to tell!
If Luna ever finds out, it's my leg she'll use for a scratching post!"
She suddenly looked around. "Uhhh, minna... you didn't hear that."
	Makoto laughed. "You know this means you're going to be the one to
pull the prank, ne, Usagi-chan?"
	"NANI!!! I can't do that to my Mamo-chan!"
	The other girls, even the reluctant Ami, quickly outvoted her. They
quickly dressed, Rei spacing out every few moments. Still, the miko was
coherent enough to want to participate.
	"We're going to need some supplies," she said, racing to the bathroom.
	"Why is Rei-chan scaring me more then Minako-chan does when she's on a
sugar high?" Makoto wanted to know, asking Ami.
	"Because you have a brain," Ami said tiredly.
	"Hey! Wait a second! I am NOT scary when I've had sugar!" Minako
protested.
	"No, you don't need sugar to be scary," Makoto agreed.
	"That's right- MAKO-CHAN!" Minako shrieked, and began chasing her
around the temple.
	Usagi was sitting in a corner by herself, whimpering to herself,
repeatedly mumbling that she wouldn't do anything nasty to her
Mamo-chan.
	Ami felt the a migraine begin to set in. Why her? she wondered.
	Rei returned at that moment carrying a roll of toilet paper, a mop,
and a plunger. The other four girls raised their eyebrows. "Ne,
Rei-chan? I can understand the toilet paper and maybe the mop, but
what's the plunger for?" Makoto ventured to ask. Rei shrugged. You
never know when you might need it."
	Usagi still had a look of horror on her face. "Why do I have to be the
one to do this?" she wailed. "Because you're the only one Mamoru really
trusts. He always looks at us as if we're up to something."
	Ami looked up from her computer. "That's because you usually are."
	Minako ignored that comment and continued filling Usagi in on the
sudden plan. "So all you have to do is seduce Mamoru-san, and while
you're *ahem* distracting him, we can carry out the rest of the plan."
	"NAAAAANNNNNIIIIII?!?!" Usagi's screech could be heard around the
block.



Part Two coming Usa-Day!