Sasha: I'm sorry this took so long to update, but I had a lot of school work.

Amu: yeah, that means she was too busy singing, dancing and gaming to write.

Sasha: SHUT UP!

Ikuto: #AGREE

Sasha: dude, you spend too much time around my friends. And you're like, 17. PERVERT!111!one!122! Anyway,my life sucks so imma go wallow in sadness. People hate me. You know who? Okay, the people who hate me ar-

Amu&Ikuto: *duct tape her mouth*

Sasha: mmmph!

Amu: she doesn't own anything except the plot-line.

Amu grudgingly showed me to the room where I'd be having English.

"There. Now piss off and let me win the bet."

I glared at her.

"Not on your life."

Then I put a smile on my face and entered the classroom.

All of a sudden the room was silent.

I sighed inwardly.

"Hello everybody. My name is Mashiro Rima and I'm going to be in your class this year! Omigod, this is going to be so fun!" I gushed.

All the boys cried "She's so cute!" and pushed girls off the seats next to them.

Only one boy didn't offer me a seat.

He was sitting right at the back and was looking at me critically, as if assessing everything about me.

His eyes were calculating behind his shining glasses, and his green

I walked up and sat down beside him.

"Hey! You can call me Rima." I told him.

An amused smirk settled onto his face.

"Kairi." He replied.

"So, what is this school like?" I asked

"Seiyo High School is the most popular school in the area for children aged 13-16. You must be intelligent to get in at half term. You're name was Mashiro-san, correct? I trust you have liked Seiyo so far? If you have any qualms feel free to talk to me, as I am one of the Guardians of this school."

I sat for a second, shocked at his sudden outburst. But then I remembered... Kukai was a Guardian! I could use this weirdo to get to him and win the bet!

"I've heard a lot about these 'Guardians', but what do they do? Who are they? Do they, like, look after everything?"

"The Guardians are a student representative council. We address problems in the school. The current Guardians are as follows:

Hinamori Amu, Souma Kukai, Hotori Tadase, Yuiki Yaya, Fujisaki Nagihiko and myself."

Amu was a Guardian?

"How do you become a Guardian?" if I could become one then Kukai would talk to me more...

"New Guardians are selected by the current Guardians. They all have certain... talents..." he trailed off as the teacher stood up to start class.

Now, the thing about English is that... I fail at it. Miserably. So you can guess that my teacher would be someone who'd speak it for the whole lesson.

"Okay everybody, open up sugar dog book, to fly English" Miss. Dennea said.

Oh damn.

I turned to Kairi.

"Umm... could you please tell me what we had to open up to? I'm... not the best at English."

"Page 36."

"Thanks..."

I opened the book and saw a whole load of gibberish. All I could understand was a few words here and there... boy, red, girl...

Clown. Comedian. Funny. Happy.

*FLASHBACK*

"Momma, when I grow up I want to be a comedern!" I giggled and ran around.

"Momma, look at mwy funny face! FUNNY FACE!" I pulled my tongue out and my momma hugged me.

"Haha! Wow, you're going to be the BEST comedian Ri-ri-tan!"

"Dada, will you watch mwy funny face?" I pleaded to my dada. "PWEEASSEEE?"

"Not now Rima." he snapped "Rin, don't encourage her. It's a bad dream. Comedians are useless. And teach her how to speak properly."

"Akito... Don't be so cruel!"

"I don't want to have a daughter who becomes something worthless like a comedian. She must succeed!"

"You have no right to destroy her dreams just because yours didn't work out!" she screamed at him.

My dada's face darkened.

"You are my wife. You will NOT speak against me!" he shouted angrily.

"And she's your daughter! You never do anything to encourage her, you selfish bastar-" my momma was cut off as my dada hit her.

"Fucking shut UP!" he screeched "Why don't you just SHUT UP! You're a WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT. I never should have married you!"

My momma just sat, curled up on the floor, tears streaming down her face.

I tried to crawl over to help her but dada pushed me away.

"No. Don't crawl to her. Walk or you'll be punished. How old are you, four? Old enough to walk and talk properly."

"But Dada... I want to help Momma..." I wailed, struggling through tears.

"She doesn't need or deserve your help. Now, call me 'father' not whatever you're trying to say. From now on things are going to be different. We are going to succeed as a family, and right now your mother and you are holding us back. Grow up or leave." he snarled before leaving the room.

I ran over to my momma and gave her a hug.

"Momma, why is Da...'fader' being so mean?"

She just held my face in her hands and kissed my forehead.

"Don't worry Ri-ri-chan... Everything will be fine."

*END FLASHBACK*

That was the first time I can remember my dad even raising his voice, and it was also the end of the time in my life where happiness exsisted.

Just then the bell went and brought me back to the present.

Everyone stood up, but I still sat in my chair, a dazed look on my face.

Kairi looked at me with amusement in his eyes.

"It's break now. Come with me, I'll show you around." he said

Nodding my head in agreement, I followed him out of the room and down the large marble steps into the schoolyard.

"Wow, everything is so big here!" i exclaimed, giggling and clapping my hands together girlishly.

"You can drop the act now." he told me, matter-of-factly. "I won't tell anyone."

I blinked in surprise.

"What act? Oh em gee, are you talking about like, a drama club or something?" okay, I know that sounded really weak, but I was in shock. How could he know that this wasn't the real me?

Kairi sighed and pushed his shining glasses up his nose.

"Everyone has a character that they use for protection against the unknown. For it to leave and for you to become your true self will mean opening up to someone."

"Haha, I still don't get what you're talking about..." I said weakly.

"I think you do. You see, Mashiro-san, I believe you have an outer character. I think this, because I used to have one too. Only when I found my true... my true friends did I begin to leave it behind."

"You don't know anything." I said coldly, barely supressing the rage inside me. His mother hadn't killed herself, had she? I turned away, tears burning behind my eyes.

"YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING!" I screamed at him.

I ran. I didn't know where I was going, all I wanted to do was get away from him.

An hour later the bell rang, and I sat curled up on the ground behind the gym. Tears made shining tracks down my face, and I wondered whether anyone would care if I missed fourth period.

Who am I kidding? Of course no one would care.

I wish everything would go back to the way it was before mom died...even though everyone was figthing all the time.

At least then I knew what I wanted to be...

"Dear God," I prayed "Help me to find who I really am...I can't stand this anymore."

Just then the strangest feeling came over me and then there was a beautifully patterned orange egg sitting in my hand, as if it had always been there.

I blinked in surprise.

"Wh-what?"

It was warm.

I peered at the egg closely, looking for a clue, anything, about how it got here.

As soon as I put it down in my lap again, something happened:

It cracked.

Amu: OMG THAT IS LIKE, SO UNTHINKABLE, THAT AN EGG WOULD CRACK SASHA YOU FREAKING GENIUS!

Sasha: O.o... MPHHHH!

Ikuto: *tapes Amu's mouth* R&R