Yes Sensei

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(A/N: Besides, if we all know it was me who owned Shugo Chara!, I would leave Nadeshiko as a true and pure girl.)


It must've been her hair. Or maybe her eyes. No, that's not right. It was definitely her personality. It had to be that. That's probably what made me finally fall in love with her.

Fujisaki Temari.

We've been friends since grammar school. That's saying a whole lot already. It was always Ran, Miki, Temari, and I. We were inseparable. We've known each other's since diapers and we each took our first steps together (that's what our parents say). We all have the same birthday, February 14. We understood one another.

That's what I always thought.

It must've started in ninth grade. Right after we graduated from middle school.

Miki and I were laughing with a few of our middle school friends and graduating from Seiyo Middle School was the best feeling ever (at the time). Girls were crying, boys were high-fiving each other. Few of my peers were so tired that they went home right after the ceremony.

"Which high school are you going to?" A friend with curly hair came up to me and asked. Mentally rolling my eyes, I grinned.

"Seiyo of course. Everyone's going there, right?" Chuckling, I looked back at Miki who formed a tense smile on her face. "What's up?" I asked quickly, asking Miki was the right thing to do when she was like that. If you waited too late, Miki wouldn't tell you what was on her mind at all.

"W-well… Temari-chan…you know. She's not going to be there. Remember? She's going to a private school." Miki informed me. "To follow Shantou-kun."

'Oh yeah.' I bitterly thought. A punch flew to my gut at the thought of us four not being together. Sure, Temari wasn't much, but she was still part of our group. The thought of her gone made me almost, sad. And angry. It was like she was leaving us on purpose. 'Just to follow a guy?' Was that enough reason to not be with us? I knew that Temari liked Shantou for a while, but I could've sworn that she was over him. "Don't worry Miki!" Forcing a grin her way when I noticed she seemed sad. "We'll always be together. I'm sure of it!"

I wasn't sure at all.

In fact, I was filled with doubt and Temari clouded my thoughts. She was always the weak one, would she be alright by herself? Wouldn't girls bully her? Temari usually tried to hide things from us, so what if we didn't notice her problems? No matter the case, I always made sure Temari's problems were my own.

'I want to protect her.' It's what I told myself, and it was no lie. I wanted to protect Temari from all the bad things. It was our promise. I wanted to protect her, forever. 'But if I'm not around? Then…' I clenched my fists. 'And what if Shantou is just a total ass bag?' That was my excuse.

Example: Temari at different private school. Shantou being a total ass bag to Temari. Temari sees us once in a while = hides everything. The four of us grow apart. Just Ran, Miki and I. Temari has no one.

It would be my fault for not keeping our promise.

"I'm not sure." Miki had the same thoughts as me. Go figure. "Temari-chan isn't one to confide in anyone unless pushed to the edge. You're usually the one who does that Daichi. You are the closest to her."

'Why was that romantic?' I began to feel weird all of a sudden. My face was increasing in warmth, way too fast for my pace. "Wh-what? No. That's all Ran. They're the closets!" Lie. Although, from someone else's perspective, you would have thought it true. Miki's smile was strain.

"I'm really going to miss her." She had this far off look in her blue eyes. Like she was thinking of her next choice of words carefully. "If only she wouldn't go to that private school with Shantou-kun. Well, I guess if she must follow love, then she has to let us go."

Damn Miki. Now I had to find Temari.

"Miki! Daichi!" Both of us turned our heads. It was Ran and she was running full speed our way.

"Whoa!" I yelled as she screeched to stop. Ran had trouble breathing.

"What's wrong?" Miki looked at Ran in concern. Ran only shook her head and looked up, smiling our way.

"You have to see this! Shantou-kun is confessing to Temari! C'mon! C'mon! We have to be there! They're so cute!" Ran cheered as if that was the greatest thing on Earth (Hell to the no it wasn't).

"What?" I shouted. An anger I never knew before took over. "Over my DEAD body! Ran! To Temari!" I ordered. Giggling, Ran obliged and we dashed off to her direction. There was no way that those two were going to get together. No, I wouldn't allow it. Not then, not ever.

Truthfully, by the time we reached Temari, Shantou was still stuttering nonsense and Temari's face was pink (she still liked this guy?). Ran and I were completely out of breath. It was when he noticed the both of us that he seemed to summon up some courage.

"I like you."

That's what he's supposed to say.

Now, I always have to be fast on my feet. Speed is my specialty. Why not put it to some use?

Before he could even utter a breath, I dashed in between the two almost (and never, ha. Take that Shantou) lovers. Knocking Temari off her feet—literally—and picking her up bride style, I glared at Shantou and was out of there before Ran had the chance to realize what was going on. Temari was flabbergasted at my heroics.

"D-Daichi? Wh-what are you doing?" Her voice sounded weak, like it was filled with the admiration and like-y feelings she had for that Shantou creep (yes, he would be a creep to me from then on forth until the day I die). That was really irritating to me. I stopped moving and looked at her, closely. Literally breathing in her face, I smelled roses. "Daichi?" Temari questioned.

"You're not going to that private school and that's final! Got it?" I commanded with authority that I knew I had over Temari. She only looked at me as if I grew another head.

Ouch.

Sighing, I glanced away, cheeks growing unusually warm. "We can't be separated. It's always the four of us. Ran, Miki, me, and you. Temari, you have to be with us. It won't be the same anymore if you're not there." Temari's fists clenched onto my black gakuran. "I don't understand why you would want to follow that guy when you have us Te-chan. Don't follow him and leave us, okay? It… I won't be happy. I can't let you go, not yet." I can tell you right now, my face was probably ten shades of red that moment. I didn't like Temari at the time, oh no. In fact, the moment I realized that I liked her was when I did a major screw up.

I just wasn't comfortable with saying how I felt. Temari knew that better than anybody and she started crying.

Panicking is a natural thing we men do when females cry (you darn cretins!). I bombarded Temari with questions filled with concern and that just made her cry more (really now?). After a while, she calmed down and just started laughing with tears still climbing down her cheeks.

How unnecessary.

"I'm alright Daichi." She reassured me. "I was going to tell Shantou-san that I wouldn't be able to attend the private school with him." Temari's smile softened me somehow. I should have known that from that moment on, things would be different for us. I didn't know what though. Her smile made a feeling of a weird kind of pride fill me. "I'm going to Seiyo with you all."

Miki, Ran, Me/Just Me is more than Shantou. Winner(s)!

I almost dropped Temari when I did a fist pump. She squealed and choked my neck. But I was forgiven when I offered her a hug.

'She's really tiny and light. Warm and soft too.' That thought ran through my head as my arms embraced her little body. Now, I don't mean to brag, but I've hugged a lot of girls my age. Or, more like they hugged me first. I was use to it, but Temari's hug seemed smaller, lighter, warmer and softer than all the other girls.

Ah, now that I think about it. It was definitely that hug that started it all.

Yupp, most definitely that hug.

Things really changed between us from then on.


(A/N: This chapter was okay. I think. I mean, I tried to make it a little like Kūkai's too. ):. Hard work, that kind of writing! Eh, whatever. This is an intro into Daichi's part of the story. Yeah, he'll be semi-important. How about that? Just kidding~! Although, I'm just a little sad how this turned out. Well, it is 12-something at my place and I do have school tomorrow...

Well, friend, if you know what's best for your health, only you cannot review. That's what calling each other is for ;). LOL(:! Anyhoo, hope you readers liked this more than I did. Oh well. I had to update tonight or I' would have forgotten. Sorry it's quick. Tomorrow's school, drats! I need another break!)