Hello minna! I think I'll enjoy this story more than the others. A lot more….heh heh heh…

Ikuto: what the hell? I sounded so evil last chapter. I'm not evil!

Me: yes you are Ikuto you meanie!

Ikuto: only to the selected few….

Me: whatever! Disclaimer- I do not own Shugo Chara, the magnificent Peach Pit does!

Ikuto: whatever just don't make Amu-koi hate me ok?

Amu:*sweat drops* what did you just call me!?

Me: er… let's roll the chappie while they're distracted, ne? *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*. *.*.*.*.*.*.

Ikuto's P.O.V.

"I think I have a crush," I whispered to Nagihiko, my eyes never leaving the pinkette. I was so lost that I barely caught his response.

"Me too."

It took a moment for me to process what he'd said, and then another to wonder who he was talking about. It better not be Amu-koi, I thought, somewhat jealously. "With who?" I replied, just as quietly.

"Rima." Nagihiko gestured toward the tall blonde helplessly. Relief flooded me. It's not Amu. Thank goodness. He turned to look at me. "Who is yours? If it's Rima-sama, I understand but-"

"N-no!" I shouted, causing everyone to turn and look at me. Well, everyone except the Hinamori sisters. "It's Amu," I hissed into his ear once they all looked away.

"You know what's amazing?" Utau suddenly asked, looming over me. "That the teacher hasn't started class yet. I would have assumed class should have started almost-"she looked at her watch

" five minutes ago."

"You were keeping track of the time?" I asked incredulously. In all my years, I'd never known my little sister to do something like that, so I grabbed her shoulders and shook her in alarm. "What did you do with Utau!? She never keeps track of the time!" behind me, Kukai giggled- a rather girly giggle if I do say so myself- and as soon as I released Utau, she turned and socked him in the arm. He yelped, and back away. Nagihiko and I just started cracking up, because she just dominated him.

"So, what's our plan?" Nagihiko laughed to me, making sure no one could hear him but me.

"Well, they are new here, why don't we offer to show them around?" I suggested, my mind hatching all sorts of brilliant, mouthwatering fantasies.

"How do you know they're new? It's not like they've told us anything!" Nagihiko cried. I flashed him a smirk, loving how confident I felt.

"If I had ever seen anyone with pink hair before, I'm sure I would've remembered it. And besides, that Rima looks like she's the type to challenge anybody who seems superior to her." I told him, before feeling a shadowy aura surround me. "She's right behind me, isn't she?" I asked with a shudder.

"Yes. She. Is." I heard the evil blonde's voice and panicked, trying to turn around and bow.

"GOMENASAI!" I shrieked, hoping the teacher wouldn't take note of the distraction we were causing. "Don't kill me please! I haven't written my will yet!" I frantically took out a notebook and pen from my backpack, quickly scribbling down my earlier thoughts. When I was all done, I handed it to Kukai, giving him a sad look. "Make sure my family thinks I went down fighting," I told my best friend.

"I'm not going to kill you, moron," Rima snorted. She lifted her eyes to mine and beside me, Nagihiko fainted. I moved to cover him as soon as I spotted his nosebleed. "Actually, I think you're right. I do challenge those who are too full of themselves to see the truth when somebody is better than them. But if the overall cause and intention is good, I usually leave them alone. I have a question for you, kitty boy." She leaned down to stare into my blue eyes and I felt a pang of terror, because this was one girl who could make anybody shit bricks of fear.

"Y-yes?" I stammered, cursing my stuttering.

Rima's P.O.V.

I forced my face to look emotionless so the squirming boy wouldn't know how much I was enjoying this, but I really found it incredibly amusing.

"Y-yes?" he stammered, and I could practically hear his mental curse.

"What is it exactly that you think of my sister?" I was afraid this boy felt some attraction to her, and I wasn't so sure that Amu could handle another guy being in her life so recently after Tadase's betrayal. He swallowed, shooting a quick look at my pink haired sister who was still talking to the teacher and then back at me. It almost looked as if he were deciding whether it would be worth it to lie or not. "Don't lie," I growled. Ikuto gulped again, although less dramatically this time, and straightened up, looking me straight in the eye.

"I think I have a crush on her," the bluenette confessed.

"Crap," I groaned, releasing him from my glare. I face palmed, and stumbled over to Amu, ignoring the stares I felt piercing my backside. "Amu," I croaked, "Leave the poor teacher alone. We need to start class soon." She gasped, glancing at the clock on the wall of the classroom before bowing and apologizing to the teacher and rushing back to her seat. She plopped down with hardly a glance at Ikuto and I watched in amazement from my seat as he couldn't seem to lift his eyes from her. I could tell then for sure that he wasn't lying, and tried to come up with a plan to brush him away without hurting him, but it was at that time that the teacher decided to finally start his class, and by doing that, he had Amu and me stand up and introduce ourselves.

"My name is Hinamori Rima," I stated through gritted teeth, because I absolutely hated playing nice when I didn't feel nice. "I am fifteen years old, and my previous school was 100 miles away. Please take care of me!"

Amu had stood up unwillingly, and I worried briefly if she would talk at all, when she caught me by surprise.

"My name is Hinamori Amu. I am fourteen years old, and yes; my hair is natural." She sat back down, leaving the class to stare at her in shock because 1. Pink hair was not natural, or at least, it wasn't around here, and 2. She hadn't added the usual, "Please take care of me", that students usually included in their introductions. Oblivious to all the sudden attention, Amu just kept her head down, going through her new papers. I cleared my throat, shifting the attention to me, and gave a glare that made everybody quickly jerk back into their own personal bubbles.

"Errm…. Well let's get started with the lesson class!" The teacher attempted feebly, and we all shifted our gazes to him.

Time skip

Amu's P.O.V.

The bell rang after the third class, and I got up wordlessly, shuffling to the cafeteria with Rima behind me worriedly.

"Are you ok? Do you need to go home? Should I call the mom? Answer meeeeeee!" I smiled my dazzling fake smile, but I shouldn't have bothered because Rima knew that smile well enough to tell it was fake. She sighed and followed me to the cafeteria. I would have gladly stayed silent but my sister had something on her mind that I could tell wasn't going unanswered.

"So, what do you think of Ikuto? Do you think he's cute, huh? I bet he's your type!" I glowered, and my defensive aura immediately went up. Rima stumbled away from me in surprise.

"I don't care who he is, I don't care if he's cute, and I don't think he, or anyone at this school for that matter, is my type. Now if you don't mind, I want to get something to eat." And I stalked away because I didn't want to continue this stupid conversation about a guy I didn't know and because I was freaking hungry. I felt a hand on my shoulder, and I whipped around, ready to scream at my sister for grabbing me, and was shocked when I found a familiar bluenette holding me instead. His eyes looked somewhat hurt, and I guessed that he had heard what I said. Surprisingly, I felt a twinge of guilt. He looked at me long and hard, and I felt myself drawn into his blue eyes, mesmerized by their utter beauty and clarity.

"What happened to ' I wanted to get something to eat'?" Rima grumbled, pushing him away from me and practically dragging me to the cafeteria.

"W-who was that?" I sputtered indignantly. Rima smirked at me, and then at the boy who appeared to be following us.

"I thought you didn't care. That's Ikuto." She giggled. I looked back at him. He waved. I raised my hand, and looked at it for a long time before my mind suddenly chose that moment to remind me of Tadase. I dropped my hand instantly, giving him a cold look before breaking away from Rima and stomping away from them. I brightened up after spying Nadeshiko. I was about to sprint up to her, until I noticed her brother standing with her. I deflated instantly, looking around for somebody else to join. Yaya was waving her arms around, and I got the impression that she was waving at me to go stand next to her and that was what I did.

Ikuto's P.O.V.

I whimpered as Amu gave me a cold look and disappeared without a backward glance. Rima looked lost and then she walked up to me looking rather apologetic.

"I think I know what happened, and if I'm right, I'll have to tell you to stay away. I'm not saying this out of spite or anything, but like I said earlier, she has a bad history and I'll have to hurt you if you hurt her. Which is what you're doing." She almost ran after Amu but I snaked out an arm and caught her.

"Wait," I cried out, "What do you mean!? What's her history?" she paused, giving me sad look, and then stepped back up to me.

"I… I suppose you have a right to know… but you mustn't tell anyone, you got that? If you do, I will personally send you to the hospital." Something about her tone of voice indicated that she wasn't joking, and I nodded back at her. "I'll tell you after I get my food, ok?" I didn't want to wait but I knew by now that she wasn't one to disagree to.

After I picked up my lunch tray, I navigated to where Rima and Amu were and sat down beside Rima after a moment of hovering next to the pinkette. Amu refused to acknowledge my presence, but I knew now that it was because of her past that she ignored me. She picked at her food until it was mostly gone, then stood up and grumped over to Yaya and Nadeshiko. I looked to Rima and she nodded and sighed.

"Ok, before we moved here, Amu had a best friend named Saaya, and a boyfriend named Tadase. Apart from her family, they were the two people closest to her." I nodded, waiting for her to continue despite the cold feeling I was beginning to have. "And then one day, at school, she got sick- really sick- and she had to go home early. It also happened that that day, both Tadase and Saaya were gone as well." The cold feeling grew, and all of a sudden I was rather afraid for her to continue. "Well, after I took Amu home, we went to her room and found…. We found them," she swallowed, her eyes growing distant and cold, hard and in that moment I was absolutely sure I didn't want to know what she would say next. "We found them in Amu's bed, doing the deed, which naturally broke her heart, being so horribly betrayed by her best friend and her boyfriend. And then she's been extremely cold and reserved to all males, and most other people because she's afraid she'll get betrayed again."

I felt numb. After hearing that terrible story, I didn't know if I could bring myself to approach Amu again. I shifted my gaze to the pinkette quietly eating the remains of her food. I face palmed. "Well, then, I guess that means I don't get to try and be closer to her," I mumbled dejectedly. Rima patted me on the shoulder, looking somewhat sympathetic.

"Actually, if it's you, and you don't do anything bad to her, I would allow you to do that. But if you do anything, anything, to hurt her, even if you do it unintentionally, well, I'll just let you use your imagination for that." She nodded once, reminded me not to tell anyone what I'd just been told, and then dumped her tray and joined Amu. As soon as she had sat down, Nagihiko zoomed next to me, making extra care to sit in the same place Rima had sat.

"Dude, why would you talk to her knowing that I love her? Do you hate me or something? How would you like it if I went and had a very long conversation with Amu?" I waved his suspicions away.

"Yo," I said instead. "She was actually telling me about Amu's past and why she is so cold to me. But if you do go and talk to Amu," I let my eyes darken to deep cobalt, "I will make sure that you will have nothing to fear about Rima beating you down because there won't be any of you left to beat down. Understand?" (in the anime, he would probably be Black Lynx right now) Nagi held my glare for a few short seconds, then we both laughed. "Bro fist," I chuckled, and we tapped our fists and whipped them back as if we were about to punch each other.

"So you didn't try and make a move on Rima?" he confirmed as the lunch bell rang, signaling that lunch was over.

I shook my head as I emptied my tray away. "I've only got eyes for Amu, and Rima approved of me." Nagihiko choked on his own spit and I fought to keep a straight face as I pounded him on the back. I gave him an amused look and sauntered off, because we had different fourth period classes. I rubbed my hands together; hoping that Amu would be in my class and Rima, well she could but honestly she was kind of scary still.

Rima's P.O.V.

I couldn't shake the feeling that I was being stalked. I mean, seriously, how am I supposed to know when somebody is constantly watching me when I can't even see them? At one point, when the vibe was incredibly strong, I whipped around, spotted a head of long dark blue hair, and logically assumed that I was being stalked by Nadeshiko. I sweat dropped, and looked around for my sister, wondering if she could perhaps ask our friend why she was so interested in how my body looked from behind me.

Amu's P.O.V.

I wondered briefly what Rima had told Ikuto that had gotten him so angry, and actually leave me alone for a little bit of fourth period- which we happened to have together. I brushed a strand of hair away from my face, intent on finishing my math paper before class was over so I could have some time to go over papers from my other classes, when all of a sudden, a note was flipped onto my desk. I ignored it for a while, only looking at it after my math was finally done. I reached out to pick it up and read, before deciding that it would be better if I checked for other homework before doing that. I shuffled through my binder to confirm that I was homework-free, and at last returned my attention to the note. I thought I could hear a sigh of relief when I opened it up, but the fancy paper interested me too much for me to bother with looking around the small class to find out who had sighed. After I lost interest in the paper itself, I began to read the words written inside.

Ur sister told me about what happened in ur old hom. I want u 2 no that im here 4 u, OK? I want u to trust me cuz I want to be friendz with u. I promise I wont do anything to hert u so plz try and b my friend.

Ikuto

Well then. I crumpled the note, feeling unreasonably angered by the lack of proper spelling and grammar in this note. For heaven's sake, we had honors English together! How could he be so terrible when he was in such a high class!? I huffed angrily, and glared at the clock. The second hand seemed to speed up, which was completely strange, and I noticed we had about a minute left. Perfect. I gathered my stuff together, hoping to get to fifth on record time because that class was one I shared with my sister.

(INSERT AMAZING BELL RINGING SOUND HERE)

I jumped up and raced out of the classroom, not wanting to be stopped by Ikuto because I already knew he would be in my fifth, seeing as he'd been in all of my other classes. I bumped into Nadeshiko and suddenly remembered something Rima had said after we had separated after lunch.

"Um… were you by any chance stalking Rima earlier today?" I asked awkwardly. I felt even more awkward when she gave me a startled look.

"Me? Stalking Ri-chan?" she started giggling, and I couldn't help but giggle along with her because her laughter was incredibly contagious. This I realized when the whole hallway of people around us started laughing too, and I heard a lot of people exclaim, "Why are we laughing?" but continue to chortle just as loud as everyone else. We stayed this way until we reached the science classroom, where Rima popped out and gave Nade a weird look. "I wasn't stalking you," she laughed before the blonde could speak.

"It had to have been you," Rima protested. "I saw you. You're the only person in the whole school with long, dark blue hair."

"No, I'm not," Nadeshiko howled, clutching her stomach. I gawked at her, was the situation really that funny to her? "My brother, my twin, remember? Nagihiko has the exact same hair as me!"

I stared at Rima dumbfounded, because for our whole lives, nobody had the courage before to stalk her. Or at least, no guys. Remembering my sister's little conversation with my not-so-favorite bluenette, I smirked. It was time for some matchmaking.

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My computer says I'm on page ten of this story, and currently at 3,162 words. Considerably longer than chappie 1. Anyways… dang it I use that word far too much… I so I will try not to anymore! Ok, just so you people don't think I got lazy with my editing, the note is supposed to have all those typos, or would they be writos? I just needed it to seem as if Ikuto was in a hurry as he wrote it so he didn't bother to make sure he had spelt anything right. Now I'm on page 11! Yay me! I want to stop making my notes so long at the beginnings and endings of my chapters because I honestly feel like I'm rambling….again…. shoot. Alright, chappie 2 is over! And my computer time is now limited, so it might be a while before 3 is out, ok? Stay loyal, safe, healthy, and able to read!

IM OUT!