Mind and body, working together. Tsumetai closed her eyes concentrating. The thin wooden pole weighed in her hands as she swiftly twirled it around, steadied on one foot to the other practicing gracefully around the dojo like it was some kind of traditional dance.

Familiar loud blasting music burst out, filling the room cutting her off from her training. She opened a silver eye to spot her phone ringing. In a swift motion she picked it up and flipped it open as well as grabbed a small towel and threw it around her shoulders wiping some of her sweat from her forehead. "… Hello?"

"Hello Tsumetai Kori. You have been excepted to Seiyo High, congratulations! You will be starting tomorrow but you may wear your regular clothes until you receive your uniforms. Good day." click.

Tsumetai stared at her phone for a few seconds before shutting it off. She took a sip from her water bottle before heading upstairs to her bedroom in her lonely house. The house itself was unusually big for a regular house with 2 floors, a dojo inside in a separate room and a balcony as well as a large skylight on the roof.

Tsumetai entered her room, throwing her towel over her shoulder and it landed straight into the hamper. She passed the many various types of posters in her room filled with different animes and bands. She went into her bathroom to take a shower and brush her teeth, getting ready for bed. As she slipped on a large over-size black T-shirt that was once her father's she turned on the faucet, grabbing her red color tooth brush and toothpaste. She stared at herself in the mirror as she slowly brushed her teeth. Long croppy black hair, her long bangs swept to one side of her face covering her right eye while the rest fell a little past her shoulders. Unusual silver eyes stared at herself back, studying her reflection in the mirror before she spit out her toothpaste and rinsed her mouth.

Drying her hands on her towel Tsumetai silently walked toward her bed, snuggling under her black and red covers. She turned and stared at a picture on her dresser next to her bed. A photo of herself and her parents when she was about 5-years old. A small fleeting smile crossed her face as she kissed her fingertips and pressed them against her parents in the photo. "Good-night mother…. Father. I'm going to start a new school tomorrow. Wish me luck," and she turned over and closed her eyes.


BEEP….. BEEP…. BEEP….. BEEP….. BEE- CRASH!

Tsumetai opened an eye to see that the pillow she had thrown had landed right on top of her alarm clock, knocking it over and breaking into pieces. She sighed before getting up and scooping up the broken pieces. "… there goes another one," she muttered under her breath as she dumped them into her wastebasket. She turned toward the other clock up on her wall. "6:30.…" she murmured before heading into her bathroom to get ready for school.

A few minutes later she came down the stairs, her black ankle boots treading silently at every step. She wore dark navy skinny jeans with a few rips on the front along with a black sweatshirt. A yin-yang necklace hung loosely around her neck on a small silver chain, her upper part of her hair was tied up in 2 long pig-tails and the rest fell along her shoulders, her bangs were swept to the side of her face, a small black backpack slung over her shoulder. She walked into the kitchen taking some cereal from the shelves and milk from the refrigerator and she silently munched on her Lucky Charms. She glanced at the clock hanging over her kitchen counter. "6: 55.…." she put her dish in the sink before grabbing a pair of big dark sunglasses. She opened the door putting her sunglasses on and headed outside.

It was bright and sunny, only a few white fluffy clouds in the beautiful blue sky. Tsumetai stuck on her headphones and listened to some loud music on her way to school. She glanced back at her backpack and sighed. I wonder what's those eggs for? she thought to herself. Ever since her parents passed away 11 years ago, 4 eggs had appeared under her pillow. A red egg with fire designs, a blue egg with music symbols, a black egg with white stars and a lavender egg with butterflies decorated on it. She had kept them, not wanting to cook them in case something might be inside cause it was warm when she touched it. But that was 11 years ago. Tsumetai is now 16 and keeping them seemed pretty useless and silly…

She spotted a tall building along with a bunch of other kids her age in black and red plaid uniforms hung around the area a few blocks ahead of her. So this is Seiyo High? she thought as the school came closer and closer in sight. Voices came from the alley way on her right catching her attention. She poked her head in to see 2 sophomores ganging up on some middle school boy.

"Hey kid, yesterday I heard a rumor."

"It said that you had the game we wanted."

"I-I….. um….."

Tsumetai sighed before walking into the alley picking up a small stone on the ground and throwing it on one of the guys' head.

"Hey!" shouted one of the guys holding a hand to his head and whipped their heads in her direction.

"Its really a pitiful thing, picking on a middle school kid," she said coldly, her expression emotionless.

"Eh? What's up with this girl?" said one of the guys rudely.

"It's you!" squealed the middle school boy, stars sparkling in his eyes as he stared up at Tsumetai. "The Top Teen Dojo Fighter in the Nation! I saw you on the news last night!"

"W-What Tsumetai Kori? The Nation's Top Teen Dojo fighter?" his friend yelled, sweat pouring down his forehead. "I heard she's can defeat an entire soccer team without even trying!"

"I heard that she knows how to use every weapon in the world and there is not one she hasn't learned to master!"

"Yeah what of it?" Tsumetai put a hand at her hip, with her other hand she pulled up her sunglasses as she raised an eyebrow.

"WE'RE SORRY!" both guys screamed in fear before cowardly running away.

Tsumetai sighed closing her eyes and shaking her head. "How much info did that woman put on the media," she muttered under her breath.

"Thank you so much!" the boy exclaimed running up to her with bright eyes, animated stars gleaming in his eyes. "Can I have your autograph?"

Tsumetai stared at him before she walked right past him, lightly patting his head. "Stand up for yourself and get stronger. Be careful next time, I might not be here to save you," she said softly before walking away.

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"WAH, SHE'S SO COOL!" the boy shouted.


Tsumetai walked into the school court yards. Whispers followed at her ever step, from every person she walked by. "Is that Tsumetai Kori?"

"Wah she's so cool!"

"Did you see her on TV last night?"

"Yeah she won again, against that one guy!"

"She's so awesome!"

Tsumetai sighed before glancing around, her dark sunglasses gleaming in the sun. "COOOOL!~" the students and her future fellow classmates squealed stars in their eyes.

"Eh?" a herd of girls ran past her forming a crowd behind her. "Kya! So lovely as always!" Tsumetai turned to see a group of other students, they wore the same uniform as the rest but with red or blue plaid shawls on their shoulders. There were 2 girls, one had pink hair and the other black, and 2 guys, one with light brown hair and the other blond.

2 girls appeared beside Tsumetai. "Since you're new to this school Tsumetai-sama I guess you don't know who these people are."

"They're called 'Guardians' because they are students who are for students: a special student council!" the other explained. "They protect us from strict school rules and keep us safe from insecurities. Truly they are as guardians!"

"There's the king's chair, Hotori Tadase. The queen's chair, Fujisaki Nadeshiko. The Jack's chair, Souma Kuukai. And the Ace's chair, Yuiki Yaya!"

"The guardians have a royal garden where they drink tea. And above all, the guardians have that royal cape!"

"Royal overdose!~" squealed both girls, clasping each others hands and jumping up and down.

An animated sweat drop rolled down the back of Tsumetai's head. She sighed and shook her head. "Well those capes are kind of…." she mumbled under her breath.

"Right?" asked the girls. Tsumetai sighed again crossing her arms over her chest. "Lame," she finished closing her eyes. "Really stupid looking…" she shook her head.

"Eh?" gasped both girls. "So cool!~" they both squealed staring at her with animated stars in their eyes. "You'd be so cool together with them!"

Tsumetai turned her gaze toward the guardians again. I…. I wish I could get a group of friends like that….. But I-I can't cause inside I'm too shy to talk to people! I usually mess up with some kind of smart a** comment…..

Tsumetai's eyes widened as she felt something move in her backpack. She unzipped it to find the lavender egg moving. "N-N-N-N-N-N-N-Nani?" she mumbled in surprise. She tried to stuff it into her backpack before anyone could notice.

Tadase turned his head and blinked in surprise when he saw, not one but 4 chara eggs in black haired girl's bag. "Eh? Tadase-kun?" the others watched as the blond boy approached Tsumetai.

Tsumetai zipped up her backpack and slung it over her shoulder before anyone could notice the eggs. She began to walk away but a hand stopped her when it grabbed her shoulder. She turned around to face Tadase. "Um excuse me, you might be…"

Murmurs went around them as they stared at the pair. Tsumetai smoothly took her hand and shouldered off his hand from her shoulder. "Its usually the more common curtsey to give your name first before you ask for someone else's….. Shortie," she said coldly before turning her head away and walked off.

"OOOHHHHHHHH!" everyone watching exclaimed in surprise.

"Ah sorry," murmured Tadase as he watched her go.

"That girl…" Nadeshiko stared after Tsumetai.

"I saw it too!" Yaya raised her hand up. "I saw that she had 4 eggs"

Kuukai whistled. "Wow that's amazing! I heard of people having 2 but 4?"

"We must get to know her more…"


"Presently, we will begin the Fall Guardian's meeting," Tadase spoke into the microphone in front of all the other students. "First off I would like to start off with the uniform voting results…"

Tsumetai watched the meeting boredly from the roof's skylight. She sighed before rolling over to her back and yanking off her sunglasses to stare at the clouds. She had skipped the assembly to watched the clouds in the sky like she'd usually do at home and sometimes at night. She folded her arms behind her head to rest on as she saw the different fluffy white shapes that passed by. "That one looks like a dragon…." she murmured out loud.

"That one looks like a cat," a voice said beside her.

"Hm not really it looks more like a tiger-" she stopped and quickly sat up turning her head to the side to find a man with blue hair and cat ears sitting next to her. "Who the heck are you?"

The man smirked before grabbing her backpack and jumping onto the roof's ledge. "I smell chara eggs," he murmured before rummaging through her bag and pulled out her 4 eggs. He sniffed them before grinning slyly. "I have never seen so many different charas at once."

Tsumetai quickly stood to her feet, grabbing a nearby broom and twirled it around her hands and pointed the pointed end at him. "Give me back those eggs."

"Where the heck did she get broom?" a small voice piped up beside the blue haired man. Tsumetai turned and blinked in surprise at the tiny little chibi figure hovering over the man's shoulder.

"What the- a floating puffball?" she exclaimed staring at it.

"Eh?" the blue haired man looked at his hands to see the lavender egg moving around before cracking.

"I….. It's hatching!" the chibi exclaimed.

A small chibi head popped out. A chibi girl with lavender eyes and long dark purple hair jumped out and floated toward Tsumetai, stopping in front of her. "T-Tsumetai-s-san?" the girl stuttered.

Tsumetai's silver eyes narrowed. "Eh? What's it to you? Why are you just a chibi? A floating chibi at that."

The girl squeaked, blushing and covering her hands over her face. "I-I'm H-Hinata. I'm you're w-would be s-self," she whispered quietly.

"My… would be self?"