Once again, hello to anyone actually likes this story enough to have gotten to chapter 4, and thankyou very much for your support! Now, I was just thinking about what I should write next, and it suddenly hit me that I've been rather cruel to the poor Shugo Chara's...They haven't really made any appearance in the story so far except for chapter 1. So, I decided to use this chapter to put in some X egg/shiny egg action =). And I also realise there hasn't been a lot going on between Rima and Nagi so far...But I promise to do my best with that! I'm trying to make this story as long as possible (cuz I'm cruel to my readers like that), so yea...Anywayz, enough rambling and on to the story!

Oh wait, I've been forgetting to do the disclaimer- so if I forget to do it again (which I know I will), here's one that will cover for the whole story:

I never have and never will own Shugo Chara! or any other licensed show/series or anything like that. I'm saying this just in case you hadn't realised!


Chapter 4: Soccer Suckers

It was another lovely day at school. The sky was blue, the sun was shining and the birds sounded as though they were all singing for a special someone. That is, until a certain trio walked up the path to school. In the middle was a pinkette with a rather exasperated look on her face. She was flanked by a petite blonde girl and tall, purple-haired male. If you're reading this chapter and don't know who the hell they are, then you're either really dumb or you don't know anything about Shugo Chara- either way, you shouldn't be reading this yet.

Rima was walking to school with the usual scowl on her face. Every morning, Nagihiko never failed to arouse her anger. Try as she might, for some reason, Rima just couldn't seem to ignore Nagi's taunts and teasing. On this particular morning, Nagi was goading her about a certain creep she had rejected just yesterday.

"Wow, Rima, never heard a better rejection. It must have at least reached the ears of everyone in Australia. You'll become a role-model to all people who are having trouble rejecting people."

"Shut up before I kick you. Hard. In a place that's rather precious to you." Nagihiko merely grinned.

"Aww, Rima-"

"And call me by my first name one more time, you'll regret being born with nuts."

"How ironic you should say that..." Nagi mumbled.

Amu looked sideways at him.

"What was that, Nagi?"

"Hm? What was what?"

"Didn't you just say something?"

"No, why?"

"You mean...you didn't just retort back? Wow..."

"Can it, Amu."

"This must be the first time in the history of the world that-"

"I said CAN IT, Amu."

"Crankpot."

"Flat-chested."

"..."

"OW!"

Rima simply grinned and slipped her arm through Amu's, dragging her into the classroom. They didn't have to wait very long before their homeroom teacher walked into the room.

For the first few minutes, Amu, Rima and Nagi focussed most of their attention on the teacher...That is, until their charas simultaneously started tugging them to get their attention.

"Amu, I can sense some X eggs, close by!" said Miki. Amu looked surprised.

"There's more than one? Damn, we better hurry then." She quickly raised her hand.

"Sensei, I'm sorry, I'm feeling really sick. Can Rima and Nagihiko take me to the Nurse?"

"Sure, but Amu, do you really need both Rima and Nagi-" but before he could finish his sentence, the three had already disappeared from the classroom.

The three ran as fast as they could, their charas leading the way. They hadn't gotten very far before Tadase, Kairi and Yaya, all with their charas also appeared (see A/N at the bottom). Amu looked around and sighed.

"Sheesh, dudes, did every single one of you need to come? I'm the only out of you all who can cleanse X eggs, next time why don't you just leave it to us three?"

"YAY, but Yaya likes chasing around X eggs! It's so much FUN! And Yaya and Pepe-chan like playing with everyone afterwards!" Three guesses who that came from...Rima, Nagi and Amu simply sighed and increased their pace, hoping to draw away from the others.

Finally, they arrived at the X egg area. Seven or eight girls and boys lay unconscious on the ground, all in their sports uniform. In the middle of the group lay a soccer ball. Kukai was standing among them, looking totally lost.

"Wow, I didn't know our mixed soccer team was THIS bad." commented Rima.

"THEY ARE NOT! They just...have some...issues..." Kukai lamely tried to defend them. He was, after all, their coach, which is why he happened to be there. Daichii hovered beside him, looking slightly guilty.

"Sorry, I character changed with Kukai and we went a bit overboard with the training...And I think they all got a bit depressed, so...yea..." Before the others could let out a groan, the X eggs began to attack, all the time spouting on about being useless, while hologram-like visions of their owners appeared everywhere. The sound of soccer players lamenting how they would never win a match and become recognised throughout the school could be heard everywhere.

The X eggs paused in their attacks momentarily as the group took their time character transforming, surrounded by bright light and naming their transformations in a gay voice. Finally, they were ready to battle.

Kukai pulled his sky skateboard out of thin air. He got onto it and went up in an attempt to bring the X eggs closer together, but he overestimated his power (after all, he hadn't been using the skateboard very long), went up WAY too high and was useless for the rest of this chapter.

Kairi pulled out his sword and started slashing randomly, but was told to go sit in a corner after almost smashing three or four eggs to bits.

Tadase made a shield of jelly around himself and simply stood there, doing absolutely nothing.

Yaya started randomly shooting rubber ducks at the eggs, while shouting,

"Go, go, little duckies!" she, too, was absolutely useless.

Rima, Nagi and Amu, meanwhile had managed to round up all the X eggs, Nagi with his cool basketball skills and Rima with her even cooler ropes. Amu, who had transformed with Miki, brought out her giant paintbrush and yelled,

"Colourfuuuul Canvas!". Pretty soon, all the eggs had been cleansed and as they went back into their owners, they started stirring. Soon they were all awake. Amu discharged her usual speech about 'No one is useless, you just have to try your best. I'm not that very good at sports myself, but I decided to try my best" etc, etc. And so, everyone went back to their classroom. All chattered happily about how nice it was to work together again to cleanse X eggs after so long, except Amu, Rima and Nagi. They were slightly puffed out after the workout they had just had.

The three entered the classroom. They were slightly late for first period and were about to apologise and make excuses for being late, when they realised who exactly they were about to apologise to. Amu was grinning like a maniac, Rima simply raised her eyebrows (though inwardly, she too was grinning like a maniac), while Nagi was paler than a ghost. After all, who wouldn't be shocked after suddenly seeing their embarrassing, insane mother at school? Yes, Nagihiko knew that something baaaad was about to happen. He just wasn't quite sure what.


A/N Hey, sorry, I forgot to tell you. I'm keeping the same age differences between everyone, so Kairi and Yaya are in the same year, Kukai is one year older, and Nagi, Rima, Amu and Tadase are all the same age (except Tadase is in a different class).


Hehe, ok, so that was an absolutely useless chapter in terms of plot...But...I just felt like writing that...xD. I promise to try and stick to the story next chapter! Please read and review, any ideas on plot would be helpful too...And for any people here who are fans of Tadase, I do apologise for the last chapter. I promise to do my best to not be so evil to him. He, Amu and Ikuto aren't going to have a lot to do with the story (I think), so yes...please keep reading =P.