Chapter 1

"Shh, guys, you're going to get us kicked off the plane!" I told my siblings. "They wouldn't!" my sister, Lily, gasped. "Oh, they would," Peter said. "Yeah," the middle child, Arthur, added.

"They just give you a parachute and push you off," he said. "They wouldn't, would they, Maya?" Little Marie asked. Little Marie isn't her real name, but we call her that because she is the youngest and her name is Maria, so it stuck. "Don't worry, they won't. They'll just drop us off at the nearest deserted island," I muttered the last part.

"If I put a movie on, will you guys be quiet?" I asked, desperately. They agreed and a few minutes later, Little Marie was sitting next to me, the three boys were in the middle row, and the other two girls were sitting in front of us.

Little Marie chose 'Barbie and the Three Musketeers', Mia and Lily chose 'One direction: This is us', and the boys chose 'Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension' while I listened to the top 40 in the US. Two hours later, the plane landed and Little Marie had fallen asleep.

We got in a cab after we got our luggage and headed toward a hotel. When we got in the hotel room, the kids practically passed out on the bed.

When I made sure that they were all fast asleep, I took out my shugo chara. I have 4, Halo is the girly, innocent, angelic side and she wears a angel outfit with flare, for example, her white dress is torn, her high heels have ribbon, her wavy, loose, long black hair has glitter in it.

Kiara is the opposite, she is the evil, free, tough, devilish, tomboyish side and she wears black and red converse, black, ripped, tight jeans, and a black spaghetti strap that had a red cat skull on it. She has a black cat ear and a red cat ear with a black tail with red strips and her hair is black with red highlights.

Melody is the musician, artistic, fashionable side and she wears white and black flip flops, white short shorts, a cerulean blue tank top, and her blue/green hair loose.

Then there's Roxy, she is the athletic, sporty, and flirty side and she wears white converse, white short shorts, a white tube top with an Olympic sign on it, and she had a white cap with a baby blue design and her black hair with cerulean blue highlights and it was in a high ponytail.

"How are you going to pay for the room?" Halo worried. "Don't worry, the manager knew our mom and felt bad for us and is supporting us until we can get on by ourselves," I told her. "You better be going to look for a job, starting tomorrow," Roxy told me.

The next morning, I ordered food my siblings and put a note next to Peter saying where I was and that he was in charge. Then I went to a lot of different stores. I found this super cute pouch that my charas could use and it could go around your waist.

It was black with white ribbon, I loved. In the end I was working at a music store, and the made Melody very happy. I could let them out because it didn't look like anyone could see them. "Roxy!" Melody yelled, looking around.

I knew immediately that she flew off looking at something, and then got lost. I sighed. She was always getting lost. A few minutes later, we found her talking to a pink character.

"Who's the friend, Roxy?" I asked her. "This is Ran, her owner lives here, in Japan, and is willing to take us to her house," Roxy said with a hopeful face. "Fine," I sighed and started to follow Ran. When we got to her house, it was dark.

Did I mention it was the end of the school year? It slipped my and I just felt the need to say that. Anyway, I rang the doorbell and I guessed that it was the mom that answered the door.

"Are you one of Amu-chan's friend?" she asked me. Ran said yes, so I nodded. "Amu-chan, a friend is here!" she called upstairs as she let me in.

A few minutes later, a pinkette came downstairs wearing a bathrobe on. She looked confused, and then she saw Ran so she played along. "Do you want to come upstairs?" she asked me.

I nodded and we went upstairs. "Can you see guardian characters?" she asked me straight out. I lifted the lid to the pouch and my charas flew out. "Halo, Kiara, Melody, Roxy," I said, pointing to each one in turn.

"Roxy met Ran, Ran showed us here," I explained, short and simple. She nodded and said, "Would you like to meet my other-,". I interrupted, "Not-so-little blue boy is standing outside your balcony window," I said, pointing.

The boy had a plastic bag with stuff in it in his hand. He opened the door and said ,"You should lock your door, pervs could come in," he said. Then he noticed me. "Who's that?" he asked, pointing to me.

Before she could answer, I replied for her. "That's for me to know and for you guys to find out," I said, smirking. Then, I character changed with Kiara and I had a black cat ear and a red cat ear, got a black tail with red stripes, and my eyes, normally brown, turned blood red.

Still smirking, I jumped off the balcony and jumped on lampposts to the hotel with my charas following me. When we got to the room, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

The room was messy, but it was cleanable. Everyone was asleep, so I didn't have to worry about them. I got on the computer and by the next morning, there was a school that we could go to and a daycare slash kindergarten where Austin and Little Marie could go.

The summer was pretty much the same thing everyday. The boys fighting, the girls arguing, me punishing whoever started it, and because I was always at work, everything happened over the phone.

By the end of the summer, I had earned a lot of money, counting half of the gamble money mom won, it was 10,000 American dollars, but in yens, it was about 15,000. There is a positive side to gambling, especially if you're good at it.

The week before school started, we all went shopping for school supplies, uniforms, and other stuff. I bought my uniform, school bag, jeans, and accessories. Everyone else bought just the uniform and bag.

When we got to the hotel, I borrowed sewing materials from friends across the hall, so I could make my outfit a little different.

Instead of the skirt, high socks, and shoe, I wore ripped, boot loose jeans, and black converse. I liked the top, but everything red turned blue. The bag was fine, except for the colors. I got a black one and drew a broken heart, g clef, and cat skull in different corners with a white sharpie marker.

On the first day of school, we had to be there extra early so that we could talk to the principle. On the way there, we dropped off Austin and Little Marie at the kindergarten and made our way to Sieyo Elementary, that's the name of our school.

I was supposed to start seventh grade, but I'm terrible at reading and writing in Japanese, so I'm starting fifth. When we got there, there were only a few students there, but they didn't pay much attention to us. We went to the Principle's office and we were ordered to stay there until the bell rung.

When it did, we went in youngest to oldest order to drop each other off in the classrooms. When I got to my mine, the teacher told me to come in, and boy did make an impression on them.