Chapter 3: The Guardian Apprentice
"These are the sport fields."
"I know…..wastefully vast space of land used for pointless sporting activities."
Nagihiko ignored Hikaru's smart remark on sports; instead he wanted to play basketball with the young boy. Sure Hikaru was small and obviously no match for Nagihiko, but that wasn't the point. The main reason for this game was to make Hikaru run around for a little bit. It's not healthy to sit around inside an office twenty four hours a day, reading and studying.
"Do you know how to play basketball?" Nagi asked, while playing with the ball in his hands.
"I know the rules." Hikaru said with a bored expression on his face.
"Then, enough talking," Nagihiko said, taking off his Guardian's cape and jacket and throwing them to the side. Luckily, Amu caught them before they hit the dirty ground.
"Boys," she thought sarcastically and sat down on the nearest bench, watching the two boys play. Besides her, Miki was sitting, drawing something, with Rhythm by her side, watching her with keen interest.
Nagihiko passed Hikaru the ball. "Over here!" he said. "It's one-on-one," he said, blocking the basketball hoop. The boy hesitated, but started to dribble the ball and ran toward the hoop. Easily, Nagihiko took the ball away.
"You've got a good feel for it. Now try to take the ball back," Nagi said, while spinning the ball on his finger.
So, Hikaru tried to block Nagihiko but he got past him easily. But, he kept trying. So, after a lot of failing at the game, Hikaru finally got the ball back!
"Doesn't getting a bit of excercise make you feel good?" Nagi asked.
The boy was panting heavily, but nodded in approval.
"There, I'm finished." Miki flew over to Amu and showed her a picture of the playing boys, which she just finished.
"It looks great, Miki." Amu said in amazement, while looking at the photo-like picture.
"Looks totally cool, Miki." Rhythm hugged her playfully, receiving a cute blush from her in return. Amu giggled at them, but stopped when she felt something soft tickling her cheek. She turned her head to the side and saw Nagi's head on her shoulder, eyes closed and breathing softly. She smiled softly and ran her fingers through his silky amethyst hair.
"Tired?" she asked softly.
"A little." He murmured back, grabbing a hold of her hand and squeezing it a little. Amu was about to say something, when Miki and Rhythm interrupter her.
"We sense an X-Egg nearby!" Rhythm said, while looking around the basketball field.
"Break time is over." Nagi stood up, pulling Amu with him. "Let's go." They ran off to look for the X-Egg, leaving Hikaru alone on the field.
They reached the storage house and saw a few students running away from flying bolls. They quickly changed into Beat Jumper and Amulet Spade and went inside.
"Why are you doing this?" Amu asked the black egg, after dodging a few balls. The egg only send more balls her way, which Nagihiko caught easily. Throwing the balls to the side he threw his Blaze Shoot at the X-Egg, which dodged at the last minute.
"Why would it come here?" he thought aloud.
"He says he hates balls."
The couple turned around and saw Rikka standing in the doorway.
"Even though he tried his very best, he didn't make it as a starter." She continued to translate the egg's words. "And if it was impossible for him, he thought it'd be best to make all balls disappear..."
"So your only goal was to become a starter?" Amu asked the X-Egg.
"Wasn't it really that you enjoy playing sports?" Nagihiko asked.
"I bet when you joined the sports team, your eyes sparkled with excitement." Amu said cheerfully. "It's not about whatever you can become a starter; just remember how great you felt back then!"
While the X-Egg looked lost and confused, Amu chose that time to purify it. The now pure white egg flew back to his rightful owner.
"There it goes!" Rikka said happily as she waved goodbye to the egg.
Nagihiko sighed heavily, but smiled when Amu wrapped her arms around his neck and gave him a soft kiss on the cheek.
"Alright, your Guardian work is over for today, you can rest now," she whispered into his ear, while nuzzling her face into his soft hair.
"A Guardian's work is never done," he whispered back, before giving her a soft kiss of his own.
They were interrupted when they saw a panting and tired Hikaru running towards them.
"Hikaru-kun?"
"You could have just waited for us." Nagihiko told the boy.
"But I'm a Guardian Apprentice..." Hikaru replied, after he caught his breath.
Amu sighed in amusement. "That's right." She replied and brushed her cheek against Nagi's, receiving another sweet kiss from him.
They were rudely interrupted again, this time by a screaming Rikka, who demanded to know who was this Guardian Apprentice.
"A Guardian in training." Nagihiko answered.
"I wanna'be a Guardian too!" Rikka all but yelled at them. Amu closed her eyes tightly and buried her face in Nagi's neck to hide from the ear-splitting girl.
"Please! I put 120% into everything and anything I do! Make me a Guardian Apprentice too!" she pleaded them.
"We've got to ask Tadase-kun first, Rikka," Amu said from behind Nagi. "We can't make such decisions without him."
"Alright, then I'll go and ask him now!" with that, she ran off towards the Royal Garden.
"I don't think she is suitable to become a Guardian." Hikaru pointed out.
"I don't know; that girl really is something." Miki said.
"Yeah, wait and see till she surprises us!" Rhythm agreed and put an arm around Miki, who blushed cutely.
"Yeah, let's wait and see." Nagi whispered into Amu's ear.
The other Guardians were working when Rikka came running to them.
"Tadase-senpai, Tadase-senpai!" she shouted rather loudly.
"Yes, Rikka-chan?" he asked, while putting away his documents. The girl was jumping up and down, her face glowing with excitement.
"Hikaru-kun is a Guardian Apprentice, and the lovely couple said that I should ask you to make me one as well!"
The three Guardians blinked in confusion.
"The lovely couple?" Rima asked raising an eyebrow in confusion.
"Amu and Nagihiko-senpai." She explained.
Everything went quiet for a few minutes before the sound of a cup falling to the ground broke the heavy silence. Everyone turned to Rima. The girl looked ready to kill.
"What did you say about Amu and that stupid playboy?" she asked slowly.
"Um, Sure Rikka-chan, you can be a Guardian Apprentice as well." Tadase said quickly.
"I can? Yeah! Thank you, Tadase-senpai!" Rikka left the Royal Guarding, shining brightly like the morning sun. Tadase and Yaya turned to Rima. The girl had a dark scowl on her face and was pouring herself another cup of tea.
"God forbid if those two ever got together." She growled under her breath. Tadase laughed nervously.
What would she do if she knew that those two were dating for six months now?
A/N: Here is a different version of episode 2 (Party)
Please enjoy and thank you for your lovely reviews. I love them! (kisses)
Oh, how I wish that there was more Nagi/Amu fics. THEY ARE MY FAV, FOR GODS SAKE! I don't really like Rimahiko, Or Amuto. Never did actually. Somehow they didn't inspire me...at all.
Well anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I'll update later.
Love, Amethyst
