Hi! Here's chapter…1? 2? I don't know really…I'm bad with numbers. Okay! Let's say this is chapter 1 (since the previous chapter was a prologue). But anyway, Read on people! The chapters can get pretty long…depending on my mood of course xD;

Shugo Chara and its characters are not mine. The only thing I own is Arisa, some other Ocs and my magical box called a computer. …And some Cheetos.

The Colours of Love: Chapter 1

In the City.

Arisa stepped off the train onto the crowded platform of the central Tokyo train station. Glancing down, she double checked her had all her bags, her sweater and her hat. After verifying all her belongings were there, she pulled out a slip of paper from her pocket and read the address several times before stuffing it back into her pocket.

She wandered through a crowd onto the sidewalk. She glanced around nervously for a moment. It was the first time she was outside. And everything looked so…big. Yes, it was really tall and shiny and there were people all over the place, but the cars that crowded the streets were honking angrily at each other, the army people shoved their way through the crammed side walks and creepy ally-ways gave her the heebie-jeebies.

Arisa ran back into the train station and panted as she tried to catch her breath. The air here was heavier and a lot more polluted than the air back home. She collapsed on the ground leaning against a wall. Taking several deep breaths, she decided to ask someone where the address was and go from there. She stood up slowly and looked around.

'Information Desk.' That sounded pretty helpful.

She approached the desk fidgeting with the slip of paper in her hands. Her parents had told her that they arranged for her to stay with close family friends. They had a child around her age, but had not specified a gender for her.

"Excuse me, but do you know how I can get to this address?" She asked.

The woman stopped typing for a fraction of a second and glanced at the paper before replying, "It's really close; walking distance actually. Just go out the door, cross the street and go forward for 3 blocks. Take a right and it should be there."

"Um…thank you." Arisa replied, nodding unsurely and slipping away from the desk.

She took a deep breath and marched through the automatic doors bravely. She strained to remember what the woman had said; her memory wasn't exactly the best ever.

Out the door, cross the street…

Just the thought of her crossing the street sent panic throughout her body. But suddenly a crowd of people pushed her onto the street, as they too needed to cross the street. Then before you knew it, they had pushed her all the way to the other side of the street, and then dispersed back into individuals with a destination.

Now all she has to do is walk three blocks. But from where she was standing, three blocks looked more like thirty. So groaning in frustration, she journeyed on.

"Close my ass…that place is practically a million miles away." She muttered bitterly to herself.

On the last cross walk on the 3rd block, someone suddenly pushed her causing her to fall onto the hard concrete while being trampled by the army Tokyo commuters.

"Ow! Hey; watch where you're going!"

When the crowd subsided, she stood up, not noticing how the crossing light had turned red, after all, they never really had street lights in her town. Then suddenly there was a loud truck horn blaring in her ears. She saw the headlights only several meters away from her.

She raised her hands in front of her face, awaiting the impact, but it never came. Instead the truck driver had slammed down on the brakes at the last minute and successfully stopped mere inches away from her. Arisa shouted several quick apologies to the driver then ran back into the endless crowd of people.

She leaned up against an empty ally way, taking deep breathes in an attempt to calm herself.

"That was pretty intense…" she whispered to nobody in particular.

"I agree." A smooth, male voice responded to her statement.

She whipped her head around looking for the source of the anonyms voice. Suddenly her eyes found a boy about 15 or 16, wearing a dark grey high school uniform and dark blue hair and aquamarine eyes. He was sitting on the top of the building across from her, smirking down at her.

"Who the hell are you?" She demanded.

He smirked in response and jumped down to the ground somewhat weightlessly and walked up to her.

He backed her up to a wall before whispering, "You know, you're pretty cute when you're angry."

"I never asked what you think; I said I wanted to know who the hell you are." She told him with gritted teeth.

"And I like feisty girls…" In an attempt to bite her ear, she slapped him across the face and brought her elbow to his stomach.

"Get lost Sasuke wanna-be, I'm not interested in ass holes." She spat, sticking her tongue out at him as she marched away. For a moment, he just stared at her thinking, 'What the hell? Who's Sasuke?' Coincidentally, he actually asked the question.

"Who?"

This caused her to turn and look back at him, "Oh, Sasuke? He's the guy who's going to get beaten up by a 12-year-old girl if he doesn't get the hell away from me right now."

He smirked, "Well I'm glad I'm not that guy," he suddenly appeared in front of her, bending down placing his face dangerously close to hers and holding onto her shoulders making sure she couldn't move. "Well my name's Ikuto if you're wondering."

Rolling her eyes, she tried to shove him off, away from her. 'At least now I know who this loser is.'

Since she could barely move herself, she moved closer to him until his arms loosened and she was able to move her arms. Then she punched him square in the face and sent a spinning kick to his head once he backed away.

"When I tell you to get lost, I mean it. Got that I-ku-to?" She spat.

Hunched over, he silently smirked and disappeared into the shadows of the ally without her noticing. She leaned against the wall of the ally, trying to contemplate what had just happened.

Due to the rush of sudden events, Arisa had completely forgotten which direction she was headed in, how far she had walked and any other information that was supposed to help her get to her new home.

Sighing aloud, she stepped back into the crowd and wandered along the sidewalk, hoping to eventually, reach her destination.

After wandering past shop after shop, building after building, and person after person, she was exhausted. She wandered onto an empty walkway and decided to follow it and see where it leads. About half way down the path, she began to hear shouts, cheering and a whistle blowing.

Her head shot up from staring at the sidewalk and she started running out of pure joy of seeing some people who possibly won't trample her down. She quickly disposed of her finished chocolate filled drink in a garbage bin and started running in the direction of the noise.

Panting, she stood atop a small grassy hill staring down at a field where a game was going on; soccer.

Arisa adjusted her cap to shield her eyes from the sun better, but once one of the teams scored she reflexively threw her hat up in the air. Now she got really excited. She tried to contain her energy by sitting her self down after picking her hat up again, but as the game went on, she couldn't help but cheer and shout from her spot on the hill. At the last second the mid-fielder scored a goal and won the game for the team. Everybody went wild, including Arisa.

"YEAH; AWESOME WORK!!" She shouted down to the crowd.

Suddenly there was a shrill squeal coming from a group of girls chanting one name; Kuukai. Assuming that that was the name of the game saving mid fielder, Arisa had an out burst.

"GO KUUKAI!"

Her naturally projected voice caused the boy to turn and look in her direction. When their eyes met, her face suddenly flushed for a second before continuing to clap for him.

His autumn coloured hair was messy, wild and untamed, while his eyes were a soft, yet vibrant green with a tinge of yellow to them. He was sweaty from the game but she thought he actually looked…pretty cute. To this thought, she turned around and shook her head in a frustrated manner. 'Cute?! He's not cute…I can't think he's cute. I never even met him, plus I'm a tomboy. Tomboys don't like guys like that.'

After recollecting her thoughts, she turned back to face the field. To her cheering, he returned with a bright smile and his trade-mark thumbs up pose.

After the teams had shaken hands, she ran down the somewhat steep hill, making sure she doesn't fall and land on her face at the bottom. She approached him proudly with a dazzling smile on her face. Then suddenly she was pushed over into the dirt by a girl about her age with dark red hair that was perfectly curled and a group of girls following her.

"Kuukai-sama you were so great today" The leader giggled girlishly getting as close to him as possible without getting sweat on her clothes.

"Saaya…thanks." He replied looking somewhat nervous, or nauseous; she couldn't tell. After his eyes landed on Arisa's position on the ground he darted away from Saaya to Arisa, helping her up.

"Hey, are you alright? What happened to you?" He asked wiping a smudge of dirt off her face gently staring at her eyes.

"Me? I… uh…yeah. I'm fine." She replied, struggling to mentally and physically compose herself. After a while of him holding her, Arisa started to feel awkward, so she lightly pushed herself off of him and smiled. She mentally scolded herself, crossed her arms and gave the best 'no, I don't give a damn of what just happened' look.

Arisa looked over at Saaya who was absolutely fuming. She laughed nervously and began to walk away, but before she could, a tight grasp grabbed her arm and pulled her back.

"And where do you think you're going?!" Saaya snapped at her face.

"To find this address?" Arisa replied carelessly waving the slip of paper in the air loosely.

"I'm Yambuki Saaya, and I am not losing my beloved Kuukai-sama to…you! I mean just look at you! I wouldn't even call you female. You're a disgrace to girls everywhere." She glared at the Arisa harder than ever and snatched the paper from her hand ripping it into shreds.

"And you think I care? My gender has been mistaken one too many times and I don't mind." Arisa remarked, disregarding that the opposing female had taken a fairly important piece of paper.

Saaya looked offended; very offended. Then suddenly; she smirked.

Arisa's mouth formed an O as she watched the slip of paper get torn to shreds before her eyes and get blown away in the wind.

"Have fun sleeping in the streets tonight." Saaya told her before marching off with the groupies giggling evilly behind her.

After a long silence, Arisa finally exhaled deeply and said, "Well…that really sucks."

She adjusted the baseball cap sitting on her head and checked for her bags once more. She took a few steps forward before turning her head around to the somewhat forgotten Souma.

"By the way, my name's Arisa! I moved here from the Hoshiko prefecture and will be studying at Seiyu Academy for a year. I like sports, animals, hats and sweet things! I dislike snobs and obnoxious people." She smiled brightly, and then laughed. "That's my interdiction for my new school, do you like it?"

He laughed at this, then, almost instinctively, Kuukai said to her, "Since you don't have a place to stay, how about you come home with me?"

By now all of the other players had left the field and had gone home. The sun was beginning to set and the air began to cool itself and blow against their faces.

He stared at her; hopefully she would consider his offer. He had no bad intentions, but he was guessing she was raised to say no to boys who want to take her home with them, so-

"Alright," she replied bluntly.

For a moment he stared at her blankly thinking thoughts along the line of, 'Really? Seriously? Are you kidding?' But then after, he broke out of his trance and smiled cheerfully.

As they walked side by side down the nearly empty, an awkward silence consumed them. After an awkward cough, a sigh and the rustling of Arisa's bags against her hip, Kuukai finally said, "So…you're going to Seiyu Academy."

"Yup…my parents say it's a really good school." She replied.

"Well I can tell you; it is." He told her proudly.

She cocked an eyebrow at him, "So I'm guessing that you went there before?"

He nodded in response, "Yup; graduated last year."

For the time being, she couldn't think of a response for this and just left them in a silence. Then eventually, they reached his home.

"Oi; this is my place!" Kuukai exclaimed when they stopped at the front of a simple suburban house with a large garage door and stairs at the side that lead to the door.

As they walked up the driveway, she admired how wide and large the black pavement was. She also took note of the wooden gate that lead to a backyard.

She watched Kuukai hop up the stairs and followed suite.

Kuukai pulled out a shiny silver key and turned around to face her then explained, "We're supposed to be having someone over today, so I'm not sure how long you can stay, all right?"

She nodded. Before he could open the door, she forcefully turned him around at the same time pulling her camera out.

"Smile!"

Then click went the camera as it saved the face of Souma Kuukai.

"What was that for?" He asked, laughing.

"I wanted a memory of the dude who helped me find a place to stay while I'm in Tokyo!" She replied, also laughing.

After Kuukai opened the door Arisa poked her head inside the doorway and looked around. The enterance way was crowded with shoes of all sorts,

"Mom; I'm home! And I brought a friend who needs a place to stay, so can she stay for a day or two?" He called closing the door behind him.

Suddenly a woman about in her mid 40s burst out of the hallway carrying several cleaning supplies in her arm. She busily bustled around the sitting room, rearranging throw pillows, dusting the pictures on the wall and organized the games.

Sighing heavily, she replied, "Kuukai-kun, we don't have time for your friends to come over today. Arisa-chan is going to be here any second and-"She glanced up at her son and the girl next to him, causing her to freeze in mid-dust.

"Arisa? Hey, isn't that your name?" He asked turning towards the shocked girl behind her.

She shocked expression never changed, even when she cocked her head to the side, "…Souma-san?"

Kuukai's mother suddenly went ecstatic and pounced on Arisa, hugging her tightly.

"Oh my Arisa-chan, you've grown so much! You'll have a great time in Tokyo, Kuukai's going to be good and protect you from all the mean boys, you'll be going to a fabulous school with the cutest uniform, and everything will be great!" She exclaimed.

As she rambled on and on, Kuukai's dumbfounded expression changed when he finally realized one thing.

"Arisa's going to be staying….HERE?!?!"

Well that was interesting wasn't it? :3 Tell me, cause I don't remember xD And I don't read my chapters over much as well…only after I post them! Reviews make the world go round, so please review!