Neko-chan: I do not own Shugo Chara.

Chapter 2

Amu's POV

*flashback*

"I'd like to introduce a new student today," he finished his sentence, earning multiple curious looks from the class. "Hikaru, please come in now!"

*end flashback*

(A/N Okay, so I'm going to say this right now. I looked this up on a sight that is supposedly supposed to be a good English to Japanese site, and apparently Hikaru means which. I don't know if it's a girl's name, but if not… then she will just be an oddly named child)

In stepped the average sized (Not short, like most anime people. Seriously, why is that? O.o) blonde-haired girl. Her hair came down about an inch off of her shoulders and curved in to frame her face, and her bangs covered her right eye, while the other green eye stared out towards everyone worriedly. Down by her waist, she rubbed her knuckles together frantically.

I sweat-dropped. She's a bit on the spastic side, isn't she? I heard giggling inside my head as if I were schizophrenic.

Amu-chan! Ran laughed, you were the exact same way!

I felt myself blush from embarrassment. "Oh," I said aloud, getting a few strange looks from the people sitting by me. I looked back up to the panicking girl. At least I had the Cool & Spicy act to get me past that part.

"She's from America, aren't you?" Nikaido-sensei asked, smiling kindly down to the young girl.

"Um… hai," she said, looking down and grimacing. Weird. Then something above her shoulder caught my attention.

I gasped quietly at the small eyes looking at me curiously. A chara! Nikaido's eyes widened for a second as well, then he smiled once more. "Why don't you go sit by Himamori-san over there?" he said, motioning to the empty seat beside me that used to belong to Tadase. She looked up at it questioningly, as if it were covered in cobwebs that might be hiding spiderwebs.

I sweat-dropped, and then tried to give her a welcoming smile. "Hi!" I greated her politely. She replied with a wary smile and a curt nod.

Um… okay. It was a bit awkward, but Nikaido didn't let it stay like that for long. "Alright! Let's start out today's lesson…"

*After School*

*RING RIIIIIINNNNG* Everyone eagerly jumped up and began to cluster into small groups to talk and get their things to leave but me, the guardians, and Hikaru who took her time getting her things together in a neat stack.

Rima, Nagihiko, and Yaya walked over to me, and we all examined each other: Rima and Yaya's wounds, the fact that Nagi and Rima were holding hands, the other fact that Yaya wasn't spazzing at all.

"Well… were back," Nagihiko remarked, but there was no rejoice in his voice at all, despite the fact that it should be good news.

But we all knew why it wasn't. "We need a new King's chair, or at least someone to take lead of the guardians," I said it out loud, realizing that we would sit in this awkward silence until someone did.

"Aren't you going to?" Yaya asked, sounding puzzled. I shook my head.

"I am going to be too busy trying to get back mine and Ikuto's charas to lead it," I stated. Yaya frowned down at the floor. "Gomenasai," I apologized.

Amu-chan no baka! (Amu, you're stupid) What about the new girl! She has a chara, doesn't she? Miki scolded in the back of my head. I felt my face perk up. "Oh yeah!"

"Hey, Hikaru?" I leaned to the side to see past Nagihiko, and he turned to the side like a door so we could both see her as she was just about to walk away.

"Hm?" she hummed, tilting her head to the side like a cat. I had to hold back the urge to laugh at how it reminded me of Yoru.

"You have a chara, right?" She flinched violently backwards as if I threatened to kill her. Then her eyes drifted of towards the ceiling as if she were in deep thought, and she laughed.

I could sense my friends sweat-drop along with me as she stopped in mid-laugh. "Uh… how do you know about them?" she asked, glancing worriedly at us. Geeze. This is one weird character. I wonder what her chara is like?

"Well, they all have one, and I sort of have 5…" I trailed off, not wanting to become upset once more. She raised an eyebrow.

"Should I ask?" she questioned. I shook my head, and strangely enough, she didn't.

She turned her head and said, "Kyouko (Supposedly meaning strength), you can come out now.

A small chara flew out eagerly from Hikaru's backpack and let out a deep sigh. "Geeze. Finally," she rolled her eyes. "Do you have any idea how hot it is in there?" she questioned her master with a disgusted look.

I could've sworn all 4 of our jaws dropped. Geeze. I think this could be an even bigger change then Tadase and his chara!

The chara gave us a wide grin, similar to Kukai's. "Nice to meet ya'!"

"Uno… Hello?" Amu said, speaking the English word for Hello. (Okay, so when the words are in English, they are italicized, and when they are in Japanese, it's normal.)

A sudden burst of happiness seemed to explode from Hikaru. "You know English?!"

Yaya tilted her head to the side in the same manor that Hikaru had done earlier. "Amu-chi… what did she say?" she whispered into my ear.

"I don't know!" I panicked in the same whisper. "I only know how to say 'hello'!"

Hikaru's face dropped, easily overhearing them. "Oh… gomen ne."

"I… wait, what?" This is so confusing…I upset her and she apologizes…I though I was the one who was supposed to apologize! Geeze, this girl is weird.

She gave me a warm smile. "I said I was sorry. I didn't mean to confuse you," she replied in an odd cheerful tone.

I mentally shook myself. Okay. Whatever. Let's just ask her to join the guardians. "Would you like to join the guardians? We all have charas, and we just los- I mean, we are on the look out for one more member." We have to be careful not to give get an odd rumor started by giving out too much information. Though I honestly doubt she would purposely do it, it couldn't be too hard to get something out of spazzy over here. I stifled a sigh.

"What do you guys do? Wait… who are you?" she said, as her eyebrows pushed down against her eyes.

"I'm Hima- Hinamori Amu," Geeze. This teacher is going to make even ME forget my name. "this is Rima, Nagihiko, and Yaya," I replied, referring to each one of them with my hand as I stated their name. "The guardians basically a group of kids who help students get rights from teachers and crap, but mainly focus on catching the embryo…" I explained the entire story to her.

When I finally finished, she gave me a light smile. "Sorry. I can't. I'm not allowed to."

My face fell, and I was disappointed. She had seemed like a perfect answer. Don't tell me she has parent issues like Rima… I turned my head slightly, and out of my peripheral view I could tell Rima thought the same thing.

"Please just ask your parents. I'm sure it'd be okay if you just explained it to them!" I attempted to persuade her to confront her parents, though I knew that it was highly unlikely that she would.

Unexpectedly, she smiled and willingly agreed. "Okay, I'll try and talk to them." For a few seconds I stared at her dumbfounded, and then I laughed.

"Friends?" I offered out my hand to her.

"Friends." She nodded curtly as she took my hand. (Okay, I'm going to put this out right now. This next part may sound like I'm going for a yuri fanfic. I'M NOT. Sorry, but I just don't get into those types of things. ,) As soon as our hands touched, I felt strangely happy that she was there. Like some of those guys complain about in stories, it was as if we sort of had a girl to girl connection. (FRIENDS, NOT LOVERS. AMUTO FANFIC.) She smiled once more, and left.

"Do you think she will be able to join?" Rima asked. I frowned as I realized she must be thinking about her own parent problems.

"I think she'll be able to pull something off," I responded. And to be honest, I did.

"Yaya get's a weird feeling from her," Yaya complained in her usual third-person speech.

I sweat-dropped. "Yeah, she's definitely strange, but I can tell she's a good person."

***

*On the way to Amu's house*

Amu-chan? Dia said cautiously.

Hm?

There's something weird about that Hikaru girl.

I laughed. I know. Didn't you hear me talking to Yaya? She's strange, but I can tell she's a good person.

Inside, I could feel Dia's unease, and it became difficult for it not to become my own. That's not what I mean. I can tell she's a good person, it's just… something strange

"I don't get what you mean," I complained. It was beginning to concern me a bit. Why was everyone getting this weird feeling from her? And why didn't I get it?

And the damn questions return.

Neko-chan: I'll probably update again soon.