New Queen's Chair? Sa-weet!
On the way back to the Hyuga manor, Ko, Hinata's bodyguard, caretaker and personal driver, was talking with Hinata about her new school.
"What is it like compared to Leaf Academy, Hinata-sama?"
"Ano, I like Seiyo Academy better because I'm not ignored or called a freak because of these eyes," answered Hinata, smiling. "I made a friend on the first day too. Her name is Hinamori Amu, and she was friends with Nagi before I arrived."
Ko's eyes softened, remembering the times when Hinata was verbally bullied and excluded, and how she had told him to keep it a secret from her family, and not bother to tell the teachers or principal. "Ah. So what was the class's reaction when you introduced yourself?"
Hinata sweatdropped, recalling the events earlier on. "Certainly… interesting. They gawked at me and," here she blushed, "they called me 'kawaii'."
"That's good then," Ko smiled. "It's nice to know Hinata-sama is fitting very well into the school. Hiashi-sama knows best, after all."
"Hai."
"Also, before I forget, the school sent you a letter, Hinata-sama. Something about the Guardians, I believe."
"May I see it, please?"
"Of course." He handed her the envelope containing the letter. It was from Hotori Tadase, who, she had heard, was the King's chair of the Guardians. She opened it up and read it. Basically, it told her all about the Guardians, their duties and their members. She would be the new Queen's chair and a Year 4 boy named Kairi Sanjo would be the new Jack's chair.
"Ah. I shall inform otou-sama of this as soon as we return home."
"Excellent," Hiashi praised Hinata after she had told him how she would now be part of the school's representative council. "I am impressed. This will be good for you as the Hyuga heiress in the future. You are also a very good role model for Hanabi, Hinata. Good on you." He smiled at his daughter, which was rare. She only received a smile from her father whenever she did something good and made Hiashi proud. "I am proud to have you as my daughter. Go now, for I have work to do," were his last words before he ushered her out of his room.
As Hinata was walking to her bedroom, she saw Hanabi, her younger sister, carrying her bag to her own room to do her homework.
"Hello, onee-sama," Hanabi greeted quietly before disappearing into her room.
"Chotto matte, Hanabi!" Hinata called out.
Hanabi's head poked out of the door and gazed at her older sister indifferently.
"How was school?"
"Boring," was Hanabi's curt answer.
"Always is, isn't it?" Hinata smiled. "Don't you play sports?"
"Sports are a waste of time, Hinata-nee-sama. I'd rather be studying."
"That's not true, imouto-chan!" Hinata walked towards her sister, and then crouched down. "Sports actually makes you smarter, I read somewhere. It does! I play sports and look how smart your onee-sama is, Hanabi!" She tapped her head. "When you go out for sports with your teacher, what do you like playing the most?"
"… Basketball. I like jumping around and scoring. I'm really good at it, too. But, otou-sama tells me to study, study, study, practice my martial arts, study, so I don't really pay attention to things like that." A faint blush appeared on Hanabi's cheeks.
"Well then! I'll tell otou-sama that as a 7-year-old kid, you need your sports! Let's see. Do you remember Nagihiko, Hanabi?" She paused, and Hanabi nodded. "Well, he's good at basketball, but he's in England now. Do you have any sports clubs in your school?"
"Hai. One for every sport. Should I sign up for the basketball club, Hinata-nee-sama?"
Hinata nodded enthusiastically, happy to help her sister. Suddenly, she had a worried look on her face. "Imouto-chan, if it feels like I'm forcing you to, you don't have to."
"No! I mean, no, it's okay, I'm fine with this. Won't otou-sama be angry?"
"If it's for your own good, I don't think so. I'll ask him if we can set a basketball hoop in our backyard as well. I'm happy I'm able to help you, Hanabi. You can always talk to me whenever you like, okay?" She patted her younger sister's head affectionately. "When you are in Grade 6, you'll for sure be in Leaf Academy's Representative Council!" In Leaf Academy, you only had a chance to be elected in the school council if you were in Grade 6.
Hanabi slipped out a small smile. "Arigato, Hinata-nee-sama." Without another word, she went back to her room, and closed the door.
"Oh, Hanabi…"
Everyone sat, gossiping to each other and fiddling, anxious to find out who the new Queen and Jack's chair would be. They had a hunch the new girl, Hyuga Hinata would be Queen's chair, but who would replace Souma Kukai-sama?
"Well then," began the MC, "I will now announce the Guardian members for this year."
The audience buzzed in excitement.
"King's chair: Hotori Tadase."
Tadase stood and, like a king, his hair floated back and forth, and he gazed at the audience like he really was a king.
The students cheered and some girls swooned or squealed.
"Ace chair: Yuiki Yaya."
"Yahoo!" Yaya greeted.
The students cheered for their favorite, happy Guardian.
"Joker: Hinamori Amu."
Many students gawked at her for she had, for once, worn the Guardian cape, which was such a rare moment that a certain Grade 3 student (now Grade 4) decided to capture this moment in time with 'the video camera of his heart'.
Amu only sweatdropped while Yaya asked her if it was her first time, to which she responded that yes, it was, and that she was only wearing it because it was a special occasion.
"And now, for this term's new members!"
Hinata and Kairi stepped forward together and looked at the crowd. Hinata blushed under the attention and smiled, causing all the boys to swoon.
"Our new Jack's chair: Sanjou Kairi! Our new Queen's chair: Hyuga Hinata!"
The audience burst in excitement.
"She's so pretty!"
"She's so cute!"
"The new Jack is cool too!"
These were among the many comments that were exclaimed from various fangirls/fanboys.
Out of the corner of her eye, Hinata noticed that Amu was glancing at her, probably in surprise.
"Hinata-sama!" the boys cheered.
"Tadase-sama!" the girls cheered.
Then the student body burst into a war of which Guardian was the best. Hinata and Tadase blushed, and every Guardian just sweatdropped. "Should we go now…?" Amu asked. "Yeah…"
They were all sitting at the Guardians' table in the Royal Garden now, with Japanese tea and a few slightly burnt biscuits for afternoon tea.
"Well then," began Tadase, "let's introduce ourselves again."
Kairi started first. "Jack's chair, fourth grade, Sanjou Kairi."
"I'm Musashi," his guardian character greeted. "Pleased to make your acquaintances."
Straight after he said that, Pepe asked Kiseki what 'acquaintances' meant.
"Don't ask me," he said, which implied that he didn't know either.
"You look nothing like a fourth grader!" exclaimed Yaya.
"That's because he's tall," Tadase said.
"I was the youngest one too!" Yaya complained. "I'll bully you!"
"Please be gentle," Kairi calmly responded.
"O-okay…" Yaya, confused, said in return.
After that, both Hinata and Nina stood up to bow briefly. "A-ano, Q-Queen's chair, sixth grade, H-Hyuga Hinata."
"Konnichiwa, I am Nina," Nina said. "It's a pleasure to be part of the Guardians."
Then, both Musashi and Nina headed towards where most of the shugo chara were.
"I'm the leader, Kiseki!" Kiseki declared. "My dream is world conquest!"
"Who decided you'd be the leader, dechu?" asked Pepe.
Suddenly, Su floated towards them and introduced herself to the new guardian characters. "I'm Suu, desu~. Nice to meet you!" "This is Miki!" she motioned towards her. "She's not here right now, but there's Ran, too!" A picture of Ran popped up randomly which said "Yahoo!" "We're all Amu-chan's shugo chara."
"Arigato all for your politeness and kindness," Musashi and Nina, who had bowed, thanked in unison.
'They get along with each other very well…' thought all the guardian chara.
"Let us have our new Queen, Hyuga-san say something then," Tadase said.
"A-ano, how did you get such a n-nice place for the Guardians?" Hinata asked in wonder. "The p-plants are w-well taken care of."
"I think it was just there all the time, Hinata-tan," Yaya said in wonder. "I never really thought about that."
"Umm… let me first explain what the Guardians' activities-" began Tadase, but he was interrupted by Kairi.
"That won't be necessary." He showed them a stack of books. "I've already looked into it. I had a look at your activities for the past five years."
The Guardians looked at him, dumbfounded, except Hinata.
"Ah, Sanjou-san, i-if I may, can I please borrow these books?" she asked tentatively.
Yaya, Tadase and Amu stared at her, even more dumbfounded.
"Hai." Kairi turned to address the rest of the Guardians. "However, there are too many pointless ones. In order for a small organization to unify the students, I believe rationalization is required." Again, Tadase, Amu and Yaya just stared at him. Nevertheless, he continued. "In other words, our activities need to be more functional and efficient."
"E-Excuse me, Sanjou-san," Hinata interrupted. "I believe you are v-voicing it a bit too h-harshly. Fellow guardians, a-after skimming through the latest of the r-records, I have found that for the past few months, there has been a r-radical increase in children with e-empty hearts. All we really have to do is s-support Hinamori-san in hunting these X-eggs."
"Having to support the Joker implies that the Joker's X-egg hunting isn't up to par," Kairi said, a bit annoyed that he was interrupted and had his words stolen from him. "She fails as a Joker because of this." Amu looked at him shocked, and then as he continued, her soul started to come out and her mind kept repeating, 'Fail…' As this was happening, some random guy popped out from the bushes and screamed "FAIL WHALE!" before going back to wherever he came from.
"X-egg hunting is a job that cannot be handled by only one person, Sanjou-san, therefore she does not fail. She is merely a little… behind in her duties," Hinata defended, her stutter all but gone.
'They get along very well…' Tadase and Yaya thought, amazed.
"Well, what Sanjou-kun and Hyuga-kun said are correct," Tadase said, "we don't know why X-eggs are increasing, but we can't leave them alone."
"I know!" Yaya exclaimed. "Let's take turns and support Amu-chi! We'll hunt for X-eggs in teams from now on!"
"Good idea, Yuiki-san. First, to induct our new members, Hinamori-san, could you pair with Hyuga-kun?"
"Sure!"
"That w-would be nice." Hinata commented.
"That's a good idea," agreed Kairi.
Just then, Amu and Tadase had a little cute moment which Hinata decided not to watch, as she thought it was impolite. However, she did want to watch that kawaii Tadamu moment! But her head told her it was an invasion of privacy. So instead, she nibbled on the slightly burnt biscuits and sipped some of the Japanese tea. 'Maybe I should make the afternoon tea…'
"Let's go, Hyuga-san!" Amu dragged Hinata away, waving to Tadase as they ran off into the sunset, and followed Gai and Lee. Nah, just kidding, they just went off the X-egg hunt, that's all.
In the background, Kairi noted down in his notepad (which was endless, I say) Tadase and Amu's 'unusual relationship'. Weirdo.
"Sayonara!" Nina called out as she followed Hinata with Ran, Miki and Suu.
"All right! I'm going to do my best!" Amu shouted, completely motivated. Hinata ran beside her. "I'll go and capture all the X-eggs in the city! And then I'll find my diamond egg for sure!"
'Diamond egg?' Hinata asked herself. Unfortunately for her, Amu forgot Hinata was right beside her!
A little while of running later…
"Hey, Hyuga-san, your Shugo Chara is Nina right? So, when you Chara Change, what happens?" Amu asked after they had stopped for a little rest.
"Hmm… well then," Hinata said, and then she winked. "You'll have to f-find out yourself, wouldn't you?"
Amu pouted.
"L-Look, there's an X-egg there!" she pointed to where she saw it.
"X-egg? No, that's not mine…" Amu muttered. Again, Hinata heard her, and saved the information to ponder on for later.
"Nina, let's Character Transform!"
"Hai!"
"Watashi no kokoro, unrokku!"
"Chara nari: Kunoichi Light!"
"They did a Character Transformation!" Miki exclaimed in surprise.
"Kunoichi Light…" Amu said.
Hinata appeared in front of her. "Hinamori-san, here is a way that you may be able to use to improve your X-egg hunting skills."
"Eh?"
Hinata then whispered, "Byakugan!" Veins popped out next to her almost pupiless eyes, which made her look very dangerous. Then, a sort of blue energy gathered around both of her fists, and then she called out her attack. "Gentle Step: Twin Lion Fist!"
The blue energy, now in the shape of two lions, was released from her fists towards the X egg. The lions chased the egg and soon, the energy had wrapped itself around the egg, and when one lion went to 'eat' it, the X egg broke into pieces.
Amu watched in horror as the pieces slowly fell and vanished.
Kunoichi Light floated down to the ground, where the transformation became undone to reveal Hinata and Nina. "Hinamori-san, I… I am not one to insult others, b-but maybe Sanjou-san was right. You do fail as a Joker. You… You didn't do anything just then. Quite p-pathetic, if I say so myself."
Hinata walked away, leaving Amu alone to sit on the ground and repeat the words in her head.
As they got further away from Amu, Hinata regretted what she said more and more. 'I should go apologise…' "Hinata-sama! Leave her!" Nina said. "Hopefully, she will be motivated by your words."
"She's not like me, Nina!" Hinata exclaimed. "When otou-sama told me that I was a failure when I sparred against Hanabi and she won, I was motivated because I was the Hyuga heiress! I knew he told me that so I could improve! But for all I know, she may have taken it seriously! And then…"
"Urusai!" Nina ordered. "Gomennasai, Hinata-sama, but leave her alone! She will eventually learn. She is the special one after all, the Joker. She's a positive girl and she'll learn!"
A shadow covered Hinata's eyes. "Hai, Nina. Gomen. We will leave her alone. But," she brightened up, "arigatou. For everything. For guiding me to be a good martial artist, for guiding me to become a good businesswoman to take over the company, for everything! Oh and, for giving advice too!" She smiled, making Nina glad to have herself be a guardian chara of her Hinata-sama.
x.x Go ahead. Kill me. I'm just another slow-updating retard that wrote a fanfic with two chapters. And you had to wait 3 months for second chapter. I don't mind. x.x –Gets ready-
But I have some last words! I'M SO SO SO SO SORRRRYY YOU HAD TO WAIT 3 FRIGGIN MONTHS! . I just didn't have any… inspiration? Yeah. Ehehe… -sweatdrops-
Sorry if there are any grammar/spelling mistakes. I know how you all hate those. Everyone does. But yeah. Anyways, I hope you liked the chapter, even if Hinata was a bit OOC in some parts. Especially when she calls Amu a fail. –Sigh- GOODBYE WORLD! Um... and I won't know when I will update too. I guess I'll just go with the flow! Ja!
~Sayuki