"So what are we going to do?" Amu asked. She and her Chara had arrived home and went straight to her room. She didn't even talk to her parents, or pay attention to what they were doing for that matter.
"We need to find away to keep the Guardians from finding the Embryo, without giving ourselves away" Dia informed them.
"I think I have an idea" Miki told them.
"Well, what is it? Come on and tell us. Tell us!" Ran cheered impatiently.
"We could try to cultivate X Chara." Miki explained.
"But won't that be counter productive? Amu is in charge of cleansing the X eggs and X Chara." Su replied.
"We'll have to see what the new members can do before planning are next move." Dia told them. "So we wait until tomorrow. Then will see if Miki's idea will work."
"So for now, we sleep on it. Dia, remember to stay hidden. I know your not coming with us to school, but Ami can still see you. We don't need her telling the other guardians about you." Amu said.
"Understood." Dia replied.
-Meanwhile-
"WHAT!" Utau screamed and spat out the tea she was drinking.
"It's true. Amu –san has another guardian Chara!" Eru exclaimed.
"That- that- that bitch! Three Chara weren't good enough for her. Why does she get so many Chara?!" Utau began ranting when her manager and her manager's little brother walked in.
"What's going on?" Yukari, her manager asked.
"That blasted Amu got herself another Chara!" Utah snapped.
"A fourth Chara?!" Yukari, exclaimed in surprise. "Kairi, is this true?"
"I wouldn't know. Amu failed to be present at today's meeting, but I'll see what I can find out tomorrow" The boy replied.
-The next day-
With a sigh, Amu headed to school at a casual pace. She was trying to focus so she could stay in character. That was not as easy as it sounded. She was afraid that she wouldn't be able to pull it off.
Calm down. Just remember, 'old habits die hard'
She marched on, back in her old persona of 'cool and spicy'
When she arrived at school she was quickly inquired by Tadase.
"Where were you yesterday? You missed the announcement of the new Guardians." The King said.
"I was busy" she said without stopping or passing a glance.
Some of the students saw this. They weren't close enough to here what was said. All they saw was the King trying to talk to Hinamori, but was flat out ignored. They students told there friends. And their friends told their friends, and so on and so forth, until the whole school new about the incident before first period. Of course this insignificant act became skewed by wild rumors and other such nonsense until…
"Hinamori-san! Hinamori-san!"
"Is it true that the king proposed to you?"
"And you rejected him?"
"Even though when you confessed your feels to him he rejected you?"
Amu just gave a small grunt that was neither a yes nor a no.
"Cool and Spicy" the girls all said in unison.
This is easier than I thought. But why am I acting like this out right? Tadas- No, Hotori-san will be able to see something's wrong, won't he?
Before her internal musings could continue, Mashiro Rima entered the room. Instantly she was flocked by almost every boy in the class. The key word being, 'almost'. Rima took notice that two or three boys were staring at Hinamori. A frown appeared upon her lips.
"Hinamori is upset!"
"We must do something to please her!"
Before any more action could be taken, the teacher walked in.
"Alright class, settle down and take your seats." He said as he walked over to his desk, only to trip and land on his face. Everyone was laughing at the teacher's fate. Everyone, but Amu and Rima. It was then that Amu noticed a little clown hovering above Rima's head, and was laughing its ass off.
The mighty queen wishes to be the fool? This should more interesting then we first thought.
-After school- Royal Garden-
"I'd like to introduce you to the two newest members of the Guardians" Tadasi said.
"Mashiro Rima. 5th year. Queen's Chair. Chara: Kusu Kusu." Rima explained.
"Sanjo Kairi. 4th year. Jack's Chair. Chara: Musashi." Kairi explained.
"Hinamori Amu. 5th year. Joker. Chara: Ran. Miki. Su." Amu explained.
"Now that introductions are out of the way, Let us explain the purpose of the Guardians." Tadasi began.
"No need. I managed to get a hold of the record files of the Guardians dated back to their founding." Kairi explained as he placed the stack of files on the table.
"Well that takes care of that." Tadasi said sheepishly
"I want tea." Rima said emotionlessly
"Coming right up" Yaya said as she left go get tea for the 'queen.'
"I've noticed a lack of efficiency concerning the capture of X eggs. I suggest from now on we due patrols in pairs." Kairi explained.
"Fine." Rima said.
"Whatever." Amu replied.
"So it settled. Rima and Amu will go out on patrols." Tadasi said. As he said this, both Rima and Amu got up and left.
"Amu-san has been acting different lately." Yaya commented.
"I believe it has to do with the fact that the 5th year class is at war with itself." Kairi replied.
"War!" Yaya exclaimed.
"Yes. It seems the class has split between the faction that worships Rima, and the faction that admires Amu. Amu maybe acting out of character, but to the class, this is her true character. If she doesn't keep it up when Rima, who doesn't know her true character, is around, she'll be viewed as weak." Kairi explained.
"It must be hard on her"
"Indeed."
-Six Minutes Later-
"Come on hurry up." Amu called over her shoulder to the panting Rima.
"Slow down. I'm not good at running. Carry me!" Rima replied.
"Why don't you get one of you servants to carry you?" Amu retorted.
At this Rima paused and took out here phone. She immediately started texting.
"I wasn't serious. Why don't you go on patrol with Yaya? She'd probably carry you." Amu said in response.
"Useless. Useless." A voice echoed from above, before Rima could reply. Both girls looked.
"An X egg!" Amu whispered. Before she could do anything else, there was a flash of light. When the light died down, Rima stood wearing a clown costume.
"Character Transformation: Clown Drop" She said, before pulling juggling pins out of thin air. "Juggling Party!" she cried out as she threw the pins. The X egg tried to get away, but the pins homed in on it. Eventually they hit home, causing the egg to shatter. After which, Rima effortlessly caught all six pins.
"You didn't do anything." Rima pointed out as she dropped her transformation.
"I didn't have to. You did my job for me." Amu replied, before walking away leaving a slightly wide-eyed Rima, and a giggling Kusu Kusu in her wake.
"Are you alright, Miki?" Amu asked after noticing how tried Miki looked.
"I'm just tired from holding the change for so long." Miki replied.
"You can drop it when we get home so hang in there." Amu said before hurrying home.
AN: I didn't realize until after I reread this, that I hardly gave Ran any lines. Isn't she supposed to be the most talkative of the Chara?
Sorry if the wide-eyed bit makes Rima seem out of character. She just realized someone beat her out her own game, without even doiing anything.
About updates. I'm going to alternate(or at least try to) between updating this story and my other story 'Insert of Symphonia. So don't expect updates to come as fast.(even though I already started using this system) Another thing that will be delay updates is that I start school tomorrow.
I would also like to the the readers of this story. It hasn't even been on the site for a week and it already has favs and alerts as IoS, which has been on for a couple of months
