(A/N) Hello everyone. My name is Robby, and this is my first story, so please give me some feedback to help my writing. IT's going to take a while for each upload, but I hope people will keep with me till the end. And this is a story if what if Rima's parents didn't divorce. Okay, I let you get to your story. Please send feedback!

It's funny how your life can change with one person. And him of all people, the rudest, selfish, pain in the ass. But thanks to him I'm alive. To explain this all, to tell my story I need to start at the beginning.

I sat in my backyard feeling the wind blow through my blonde hair. The stars twinkled above. Waiting, waiting, for Mama and Papa to stop yelling.

"Rima, Rima, look! Come on, smile! " I looked down at my little clown chara who was pinching her cheeks, trying to make me smile. I broke a sad smile. It's been rough for both of us. Smash. I jumped at the sound of shattering glass from the house. Then silence.

"Uh-oh" I said. I hide my head between my knees into what people call my "ball form."

"Rima! Get in here!" Mama screamed. I quickly got up and ran into the house. My mother was kneeling on the kitchen floor cleaning up kitchen glass. She didn't look at me as I walked in.

"Time for bed, hon."

"Yes, Mama." I walked up the stairs to my room. I changed into my nightgown, and got into bed. Tomorrow was school, so I could escape from here. But I knew I would have to come back. I was thinking hard about this, as I slowly drifted off to sleep.

Kusu Kusu watched Rima sleep, knowing that she was hurt, not just from the inside, sometimes she got caught in her parents fights, and she was bruised all over. If Rima would just tell Amu or Yaya or somebody, they could help her, but she refuses every time. How can I help her if she doesn't let me? She fretted all night.

Beep, beep, beep. I groaned and reached out to press the snooze button. It didn't stop. Hmmm? I wondered. I sat up and realized it wasn't my clock. It was my ringtone, which I always forget to change to something more… Pleasant sounding. I unhappily grabbed my phone.

"Konichiwa?" I mumbled.

"Rima?" Amu's voice drawled out. "Where the hell are you? School's gonna start in five minutes!"

"NANI?!" I glanced at the clock. "Thanks for telling me, I'll be there soon!" I hang up as I rushed out of bed and scrambled to my closet.
I pulled out my school uniform. I looked at it in disgust. The school had no size for a girl that was the size of an "elementary kid."(I'm in 8h grade, and I haven't grown at all! Still 4'10, while everyone else is in their 5'0 already. ) Mama had to make the sleeves ruffle up to fit, so now I look like a little princess.

"Kusu Kusu! We have to go!" I screamed at my still sleeping chara.

"Why?' she complained, rolling around on my pillow.

"I'm leaving!" I called as I ran down the stairs. That got her moving. Within a few seconds, she was flying past me.

"Shouldn't we get something to eat?"

"No time. I wish Mama would've waked me up. She always forgets."

I was breathing hard, I suck at running, and the school was pretty was pretty far. Goddammit! Finally, I was at the school gates. And you can't believe who was waiting for me.

Mister Long- Hair, cross dressing asshole, was leaning against the brick wall, smirking at my breathless expression.

"Hello, Rima." He said sickly sweet as he walked up to me. And unlike me, over the past two years, he had grown six inches, so I had to look up at him.

"Where's my honorific?" I said as we walked into the gate.

"Rima- chan."

"Don't call me by my first name."

"Mashiro-chan."

"Nope."

"Sigh… You're so mean… And your late." He smirked.

"So are you!" I said walking ahead.

"So? Need I remind you Kureiji-sensei is in love with me?"Even without turning around I knew he was smirking. He was pissing me off. I stopped walking to yank his precious hair. But as I stood (on my tippy toes.) to grab at it, he caught my wrist and pulled me to him. I felt the heat rise to my face as he laughed.

"Let go of me!" I snapped. I yanked my hand away from him, and turned away.

"You blushed!" He laughed.

"Did not!" I was relieved that I was turned away from him, as I become red as a tomato. Ring-ring. Shit, the bell. The two of us began to run to room 3-B, even though a certain someone probably could be in A.

"Care to tell me why you are late Mashiro-san?" Kureiji-sensei screeched as we walked through the door. "Hello Fujisaki, dear." She gave her best smile at him. I stammered to say something, but I didn't need to.

"Mashiro-san and I had to help the librarian carry some books, she kept dropping them." Nagihiko said brightly, flashing his beautiful smile and making his perfect amber orbs sparkle. Wait, what did I just think?

"Humph. Alright, sit down you two." Kureiji-sensei said sadly, really hoping to get me in trouble. I quickly walked to my desk next to Amu and sadly, it. As it went to its desk, it passed me a note. You owe me. When did he have time to write this? I looked over at him and stuck my tongue out. He smiled. I turned away as I felt my face turn red. Dammit, how the hell does he do that?

~The amazing time skip to lunch!~

At lunch, all the former guardians had gathered, Yaya, Amu, Tadase, Cross dresser, and Kukai. Kairi is still the Jack at Seiyo Elementary while Hikaru was King and Rikka was queen. I don't know about the Ace, but I'm pretty sure there's no Joker, since the Joker is a special position that rarely gets claimed. As I was making my way between Yaya and Amu, someone tugged on my hair. I turned around, but the only person nearby was a student I never seen before, and she or he didn't have a uniform. But they were at least 10 yards away. Then it turned to me. Its eyes were full of fire. Slowly I backed up. Into a wall. Wait; there isn't a wall behind me… I looked up into the annoyingly dazzlingly amber eyes of Nagihiko. He smirked. I skipped my snarky remark and asked,

"You know that person?" He looked at where I was staring. It was still staring at me. It looked at Nagihiko and walked over. When it stood in front of us, it bent to level with my eyes and it said in a deep voice with a strange accent,

"I'm a girl." I stared at her in shock. She broke a small smile. She seemed to notice Kusukusu on my shoulder. "Good luck. You'll find a way." She said. What was she talking about? She straightened up, and talked to Nagihiko in a foreign language, looking way too serious. As I resumed walking to the table, I whispered to Kusukusu, "Does she have a chara?"

"I'm not sure… We didn't see one, but she had this weird aura…" she squeaked.

"Who was that?" Amu asked as I sat down.

"No idea."

"Was..."

"She."

"Was she trying to hurt you?"

"Don't think so. She could see the charas. And I think she can read minds."

"Haha, wait what?"

"Ooooooh, psychic!" Kukai and Yaya said in a hyper tone.

"Anyways, Rima, why were you late?" Amu asked, and touched my shoulder.

Dammit, it hurt, and my body didn't listen to me as I tried not to wince.

Flashback~

We were eating dinner. Mama and Papa sat at opposite sides of the table. They were talking about things I didn't understand. Then they simultaneously got up with their dishes. At first, I thought that, for once, I could go to sleep without the yelling, I didn't need to wait outside while they argued. I knew it was too good to be true.

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU, JUST CALL ME BITCH?"

"I JUST CALLED YOU AN IN SUFFERABLE FUCKIN' ASSHOLE, YOU CAN'T EVEN KEEP HIS OWN DAUGHTER SAFE!"

Then came the sounds of glass shattering. I ran into the kitchen, with Kusukusu screaming for me to stop. I should've listened.

Papa was about to hit her. Before he could, I pushed her out of the way. When he hit me, the impact caused to fly back, and hit my back on the counter. He registered in his mind that he hit me instead of Mama. I watched in fear as he slowly walked up to me. Mama could only watch in shock. He crouched in front of me and grabbed my hair.

"Since you like being hit so much, you'll be my punching bag from now on." He sneered. He let go of my hair and left the room. IT took a moment for me to register what happened. When I finally did, I ran up to my room, curled into my ball form and cried.

Present~

"Gomen, did I hurt you Rima?" said Amu worried.

"No, I'm fine." I lied.

At that moment, Nagihiko came and sat down.

"So?" I said to him.

"So now I'm your slave, and you can command me to do whatever." He said with a sly smile.

"Shut up, and tell us about that girl."

"Hai, Chibi devil- hime. Her name's Robyn. She's part of a very powerful clan, the Kurayami Kage No. In their clan, everyone is either a very experienced fighter or an amazing healer. She's half Filipino, half Japanese, fluent in lots of languages, and she hates her family, but she likes Japan. For a while she lived in America to protect her sister. She says she is a renegade, she'll protect people who pay her, unless she doesn't like the person, or she'll watch over you no matter what if she does. She's transferring here, and she was looking around and that's all I got."

"You got that all from that?" Yaya asked intrigued.

"If you say things in English Slang, it all flies by. She seemed to know about the charas, but she didn't say anything."

"Oookay. This Robyn person seems freaky, so let's talk about something else." Amu said quickly.

As they started a conversation about Easter, I was slowly dreaded going home, now remembering what Papa said. Then I noticed someone was staring at me. I looked to see Nagihiko staring intently at me. What, I mouthed. He narrowed his eyes shook his head and got caught up in the conversation.

~Time skip to Afterschool~

Afterschool the guardians still hung out, but we usually did normal stuff, unless we ran into an X egg here or there. We laughed went to the mall. At the Arcade, Nagihiko was beating every game, Yaya and Kukai were trying to beat each other at a dance off, and Tadase and Amu… were being Tadase and Amu. I just sat watching everyone, laughing when Yaya was pouting at Kukai for beating her, watching Mr. SmartyAss breaking all the games, so the manager asked to stop playing games, and Tadase and Amu being embarrassed at every little thing they do when their near each other. Nagihiko sat next to me on the bench. As we were watching everyone, I thought we were going to sit there in silence. Suddenly he grabbed my wrist so I couldn't go anywhere. I looked at him in surprise. He peered into my eyes.

"I know something's up with you. I'm going to dig my nose really far in your business if you don't tell me." Nagihiko's voice was serious. It was not kind or soft. It was kind of like a growl. I shook my head and looked away. He glared at me for a few moments than got up. Kusukusu, who had flown away with the other charas, came to my side. She already guessed what we were talking about.

"He can help you. They all can." She whispered. I shook my head once again.

An hour passed. I realized it was the time I dreaded. The time to go home. We all went our separate ways. I avoided Nagi's gaze. (Wait, did I just call him Nagi?!)

I walked home slowly with Kusukusu drifting behind me. Is this going to be my life? Having happiness then coming home to hell? IF this doesn't get any better, I will have to break all relationship with everyone.

At home, I was greeted by silence. I ran to my room and cried. MY chest hurt. I wanted to scream for help, but my voice didn't want to comply. I couldn't let anyone help me. They'll treat me different, or they'll only show pity for me. 'But if you don't, you'll break and lose yourself' a part of me fought. I didn't know what to do. Even Kusukusu could only watch.

"What can I do!" I cried out to nothing. I sobbed uncontrollably as my mind went dark.