AN: Yay! More chapters! lol. Nothing terribly exciting is happening yet, though. D: (Yet being the key word.)

Chapter 2: Changes and Lying

Sugiura's POV:

I stood with my back to the closed door wondering what just happened to me.

Why had I just blown off my teacher and classmates over a stupid (and simple) question?

"Dang it!" I chanted over and over.

What could I do now?

"Pointless going back in, I'd just have to explain to everyone..." I sighed, "Can I even explain this to myself?"

I decided to head for home.

For the next few minutes (best referred to as the seven blocks between my house and the school) I dodged the glances of anyone on the street.

I didn't need someone asking me why I wasn't in school.

I set my books down on the counter, and fished around for a book I had taken from the library a week earlier.

But I found something else instead.

"TOMO!?" I screamed in shock.

The egg was shattered, nothing in or around it except bits of egg shell.

I dumped out my bag, frantically searching for anything that could have come out of it.

"Nothing..." I said in dismay, "Two years... and not a bird, not even a snake, nothing..."

I picked up the egg shells and placed the egg on the table "I should have known, it was too fancy to be natural...Such a waste...maybe I can glue it back together."

I found my book, and sat down to read; I hadn't had a chance to read in so long, too many student duties.

Hearing a smash, I looked up.

No egg.

"Dang! Could it have rolled off the table?"

Indeed it had, and it was broken into even smaller pieces now.

"Gluing it back together now is pointless..." I sighed, gathering up the shattered remains.

"Don't be so down! Just pick yourself up!" a voice sneered.

Chiharu's POV:

I was still in shock.

Even though the event had happened at least 20 minutes ago.

The idea that the perfect class vice president would be able to do such a things as talk back to the teacher and then walk out of the class room like she didn't care still shocked me.

She was so composed, together and in control when she was scolding me.

But in the classroom she was a completely different person.

Wait, that was it.

She was completely different.

It must be... no. How could it be?

There had been nothing floating there. Nothing to suggest that it was so.

But that was the only possible explanation.

Sugiura's POV:

"WHAT THE HECK!?" I dropped the shells onto the floor.

A small figure was floating in front of me.

"BACK OFF!" I screeched, grabbing the closest thing to me and flinging it at the floating figure.

I had grabbed my book, and that was what hit the thing a second later.

It made a horrid noise, like a mix between a squeak and scream.

But it floated back up a second later.

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you.... I'm Kinshoukodawaritsukurite!" it chimed, rubbing its head.

I gave it a dumbfounded look.

"No," I looked back at 'Kinshoukodawaritsukurite', "You're Tomo."

He, she, it, or whatever it was, looked a tad confused, "No.... It's Kinshoukodawaritsukurite."

"NO. You're TOMO." I empathized the name, to make sure it could understand me.

It gave me a sour face, "B-b-but-"

"T-O-M-O," I said, holding up another object threateningly.

"I GET IT!!!" The little creature shook its arms furiously, "TOMO TOMO TOMO!"

In a flurry, Tomo was suddenly floating in front of my face.

"Eek!" I smacked him down onto the table, "WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU?".

"Will you stop!?" Tomo squeaked, "I don't need this! I don't deserve to be hit!"

It wasn't a problem keeping Tomo pinned down with one hand, I could have done it with one finger if I had wanted.

I searched frantically for something to hold him down with, and glass was the first thing I spotted.

So I tossed it on top of him, treating him as if he was a spider I NEEDED out of my house.

"LET ME OUT!" Tomo pounded on the glass, "COME ON!"

But it came out more as, "LEB MEH OU! CO ON!"

The glass was a good insulator.

"WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU!?" I replied, "If you answer that, and I like it, then you can come out!"

"I'm a guardian chara! Your guardian chara! Your would be self!" Tomo pouted, sitting down on the table (still under the glass, of course).

"My...would be self?"

Chiharu's POV:

School was over now.

And since I lived closest to Sugiura, I was the one to deliver homework to her.

"I just don't understand," Kaiso said, arms folded in dislike. "Why is it that you have to deliver her homework to her?"

"Don't know?" I asked, knowing the real answer but refusing to tell.

In actuality, I wanted to bring her some "bad" news.

Kaiso mumbled, "I could be home right now, all snug in my egg, but nooooo."

"Her house is just around the corner, be quiet and go home or something."

That shut Kaiso up, and she floated off.

I stepped up the stairs and knocked slowly on the door, "Sugiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!"

I had never called her that before, but truth be told, I had held more respect for her before too.

I had to wait for a few minutes before Sugi finally opened the door.

"Hi...?" Sugiura seemed a bit surprised to see me at her house.

"Afternoon Sugi-chan!" I sneered, "The teacher sent me to tell you some rather bad news..."

"Oh?"

"R-right!" I just remember that I hadn't come up with what the bad news yet, "You've been expelled! That's it! Because of your outburst, and since you're a role model student, you've been expelled!"

Sugiura looked shocked, "A-are you sure...?"

"Positive! Absolutely positive!" I repeated myself, just to help get the message through her head, there was no way she'd take this well.

"Ok then..." Sugiura's eyes were wide now, and I couldn't tell if she believed me or not, "I'd better be going..."

Sugiura began to shut the door, and right before she had shut the door all the way, I noticed something by her left shoulder.

"A chara...?" I thought.

But Sugiura was already inside, and I could promise you, she wouldn't come back out.

But my job was done, and after that day, if I was lucky, I'd never see Sugi again.
The next day...
"No Sugi-chan today Kaiso! I guess she really did believe me!" I smiled in content.

"Right..." Kaiso didn't look too convinced.

"Have a problem smarty?" I said, adding an annoyed tone to my voice.

Kaiso smirked, "You must be blind or something... No Sugi? I saw her just this morning with Kairi in the conference room."

"Awwww, seriously? She's always with him... I should've known she'd be discussing who-knows-what in the conference room!" I moaned.

"Wanna go spy?" Kaiso chirped, "I'd like to know what those two talk about!"

"Same, but Kairi's pretty alert, I wouldn't be surprised if Sugi was too..." I made a face at the idea, but then reluctantly sighed, "Fine..."

"Right!"

Kaiso was gone in a flash.

Sheesh, that chara was quick.

Sugiura's POV:

"Kairi, pleeeeeeeeeeeeease." I begged, trying to look as pathetic as possible.

"What? No, you expect me to just transfer with you? What gave you an idea like that!? WHY ME?"

"But I don't want to go alooooooooooooooooooooooooone, it's a whole plane ride away!"

We were sorting through papers, maybe not the best time for me to bring up the subject of me switching schools suddenly.

Asking the student council's president to come along with me probably wasn't the best idea either.

Even being my regular persuasive self probably wasn't to get me far this time.

"Kairi.... come on, it's not like you've never gone to a different school before, I mean, you did transfer that one time right? Last year?" I pointed out, recalling that Kairi had in fact been missing for at least a month.

"Yeah? So? That's not that same as leaving for the entire year, or longer."

"SUCK IT UP AND BE A MAN!"

That one obviously took Kairi aback a little bit.

I loved being persuasive.

"B-but I like it here, I mean, sure it was nice to go for a few months, but I don't want to go any longer." Kairi stammered, "I can't just leave."

Sure I felt a LITTLE guilty about shouting at a kid younger than me, but then again, this wasn't about him, it was about me.

"Then come for a month! If you like it, you can stay longer!"

"No no, that'd be a lot of money wasted on the plane ride for nothing."

Protesting, once again.

"My family would pay for you! I know they would! They'd be glad that I had someone I knew coming along!" I informed him.

Then I recalled something.

"Kairi..." I grinned, "I know how badly you want to become a samurai."

"Yeah..."

"And you also know that my uncle runs the sword arts academy just outside of town..."

"Yeah, I know that..." Kairi nodded.

"And I am assuming you know that only the best students can get in, and it's still very, very expensive."

"Get to the point."

"The only way to get in for free is through scholarship... or..." I added a pause fordramatic effect, and dropping my voice to almost a whisper, added, "Personal recommendation."

Kairi glared at me, "I know."

"If you come along, I may be able to, I don't know, slip my uncle a recommendation for you... I do have that kind of power after all."

Kairi seemed to contemplate it for a moment, before muttering, "Deal."

I grinned. "We're leaving Friday."

Chiharu's POV:
"Su-Sugi believed me?" I muttered to Kaiso, completely stunned.

Okay, so I hadn't known someone could be that gullible.

And she was taking Kairi with her to a new school?

I thought she was going to ask the teacher if she had been expelled for real.

I guess I was wrong.

Oops.

Not that it really mattered.

Even if they DID trace the lie back to me, I would be half way across Japan by then.

"Guess you were right. She IS that gullible. Chiharu? Is something wrong?" Kaiso whispered in my ear.

That was one thing about Kaiso that bugged me. She could tell when I was feeling stressed.

Trying to act cool, I simply got up and walked away.

"Nope! I'm just surprised she's moving away, not just changing schools. I can only hope she's not moving to the same school as me."

Still...

Where was Sugi moving?

AN: More soon! I just didn't feel like going through and proofreading more chapters yet, and I might have done a crappy job with this one, so please don't hate if you find a misspelled word; I'm tired, I miss those things. Please reviewwww~! :3