Hiiiiii~ Here's another chapter for today! Then I can get off my lazy ass and start writing! And it's really weird trying to write a bunch of fics for different fandoms at once. Like 'Seiyo' from SC! And 'Seigaku' from Prince of Tennis are so similar, that I usually forget one or the other.

Waterdraon; there's…some action. Sorry if its disappointing though xD;

Warnings for: Group therapy, creeper Kairi (I'm aware XD), and of course, contradicting charas~

Don't own SC! And all that shiz.

The Colours of Love: Chapter 9

Of Chrysanthemums and a New Chara

The next day passed by quite quickly. Arisa continued to fail at paying attention to the teacher and was her extra homework. But after her quiet…boring…lame…boring…dull (and did I mention boring?) lunch break, her classmates rushed out the classroom in a stampede.

At that moment, Arisa was happily preparing herself to doze off on her desk after finishing her lunch. The sudden noise freaked her out, and made her fall over on her chair and landing with an explosive crash.

She slowly got up, rubbing her arm, which she had fallen on, "What the hell…?"

After most of the kids had cleared out of the room, Arisa stood up, stretching her arms and yawning when Tsukiga suddenly appeared at the door way.

"Arisa, Why are you still here?" She demanded.

It was strange: Tsukiga wasn't wearing the normal uniform, but a pair navy shorts and a white t-shirt with the Seiyo logo on it.

"Depends on where everyone's going. Does it involve doughnuts?" She asked, laughing.

The girl at the doorway rolled her, but smiled, "Come on stupid, we have PE right now."

As she made her way towards the door, Tsukiga walked off, in the direction of the field. Arisa chased after her, jumping onto the slightly taller girl's shoulders, shocking her.

"Oh, and you really expect me to know where I change?" Arisa asked, grinning.

Tsukiga laughed, then responded, "I thought so," then led her through the halls until they reached a doorway, which led to the female changing rooms. Arisa darted around, searching for her familiar locker number. (I think they have lockers there…) Finally, she found it; in the courner and farthest from the door; just where she liked it.

She pulled the door open, as she heard Tsukiga call to her, "I'm heading out, remember to close your locker."

Arisa shrugged and continued discarding her uniform, reaching into the locker for a similar set of clothes and slipped them over her body. She shut her locker behind her, and sped out of the locker room, while tugging on the short shorts.

Stupid gym uniforms.

Her legs carried her over to the area where her classmates were gathered. She waved at Rima and Tadase, and just passed a glance at Amu.

On the other side of the field, Tsukiga was sitting on the dusty ground, with her legs brought up to her chest. Her long hair was pulled back into a messy pony tail, while her bangs hung over her eyes.

Arisa thought about the strange phone call she had received the night before, and continued to wonder if Tsukiga should know or not.

The brunette was knocked out of her thoughts when the coach blew into the whistle, causing a loud screech to ring through her ears.

"Okay; Star Class VS. Moon Class; classic capture-the-flag. If you get caught, you return back to your side, returning the flag if you got it." The coach announced. She blew the whistle once more, commencing the game.

The boys of Star Class were rather…obnoxious. As they shouted insults and called somewhat, inappropriate names, Arisa took the chance to retrieve the flag. She dashed across the other side of the field, running as quickly as she could, dodging people as she ran.

She tried this several dozen times, until she was tired and panting.

Other boys tried getting the flag as well, while most of the females from her class, hung near the back of the field, guarding the flag.

But finally, when she was just about to reach the Moon Class' flag, somebody's leg just stuck out at the wrong place at the wrong time, and caused her to trip over, do a rough summersault and fall the ground, landing on her back groaning.

Surprisingly enough, groaning in pain was enough for a large crowd to form around you asking, "Is she dead?" "Will she be okay?" and the ever popular, "Let's poke her with a stick!"

While the both teams of Moon and Star class were distracted by Arisa's wipe-out, a certain pinkette scurried past the crowd and snatched the flag from their post, sprinting back to her respective team and giving a joyous leap in victory.

By now, Arisa had regained her senses and sat up, reassuring the crowd that she was perfectly fine. She glanced over at the Moon Class' pole, instantly noticing the missing flag. She turned to her own team was narrowed her eyes dangerously at Amu who was receiving praise for all of Arisa's work.

Arisa stood up and shook the dirt off her legs. She made her way over back to her team, ignoring the reassurances of Tsukiga, who had insisted on helping her up.

Just as she shoved her way in between Tadase and Amu who were sharing a love-love-sparkly-throw-up scene (Don't kill me. I'm neutral people!!!), she heard a small, squeaky voice.

"Useless…useless…"

The voice got louder and louder, then suddenly just as they were about to start up a new game, Tsukiga shouted, "Sensei, bathroom!"

She excused her, blowing the whistle and a new game began.

Arisa was trying her best not to go and simply beat the cow ballerinas out of Amu, when Tsukiga grabbed her by the hand and rushed into the school.

As the two girls ran into the school, Amu, Rima and Tadase shared a knowing glance, then ran in after them, giving useless, and lame excuses.

Tsukiga dragged Arisa behind her until they reached the park Arisa had once escaped to. But this time, there was a small black egg with an X on it, floating in the air.

"Wow…that's…really something," Arisa said, staring at the floating egg. Suddenly they caught its attention and Tsukiga summoned her charas, Akari and Kurai.

"Stand back. I head you showed Hinamori-san up and didn't get a chance to see how to really purify and egg."

Arisa just stared. That was probably the most Tsukiga had ever said to her in…ever.

Akari floated to her master's side, her kimono, flowing out behind her. She nodded, signalling Tsukiga who muttered to herself, "Atashi no kokoro, unlock…!"

She was suddenly engulfed with a dark red light, and when she re-appeared, she was dressed in a knee length kimono with black designs, fishnets covering her legs, and red ninja sandals. There were red ribbons throughout her hair which was tied up in a bun, with a long ribbon.

Tsukiga held out her hands, and suddenly a long, thin (and very shiny) sword with a red hilt appeared in front of her. She grabbed it, and lunged forward, the large ribbon of her kimono flapping behind her.

"Try to keep up," Tsukiga called to Arisa. Arisa reached into the pouch, which carried her eggs, and scooped Koorei's up with one of her hands.

She brought it up to her face, staring intently at it, awaiting Koorei's appearance. Finally, she got fed up with him and shook the egg yelling at him, "Get up lazy ass! We finally get to see some action so chara change with me!!"

The egg cracked open, revealing Koorei.

"Geez, girls are so loud," he sighed, "for the action."

A bright smile illuminated Arisa's face as goggles appeared over her eyes and gloves on her hands.

She got down, in a pre-running position, then with a burst of speed, she dashed after Tsukiga who had already entered the nearby forest.

Arisa dodged trees, and soon reached a clearing where, to her surprise, found Tsukiga blade to blade, with, not the X-egg, but Kairi.

He was transformed with his chara, holding his twin swords, holding up against Tsukiga and her ever growing anger.

Seriously, she's going to have to stop beating this kid up every time she sees him.

Kairi sprung back (smart) and stared at Tsukiga, who was practically seeping with anger. Arisa approached her (no AS smart, but okay) and grabbed her by the arm, "Come on, you can deal with this kid later!" Arisa commanded her, jerking her arm, and pushing her towards the floating X-egg, who decided to hang around to see what would happen. (not smart at all)

Tsukiga sighed then resumed her battle position, and glared at the egg.

The glare itself could scare the egg off, but she wanted to purify it…not kill it.

She charged at it, and then slashed the air, sending a surge of energy fly at the X-egg. Once it hit, the egg froze suddenly, then the X cracked and it resumed it's proper, white exterior with small yellow designs on it.

The newly purified egg flew off into the distance, returning to its rightful owner filled with hopes, dreams and—Okay, let's see what she does to Kairi. That's a crap-load cooler.

Both Tsukiga and Kairi were silent. Arisa, feeling the obvious tension in the surroundings, approached Tsukiga, "Wow! That was really cool Tsu-chan!~ Now…let's go back to the Royal Garden so that—"

"Arisa-chan, go back to the Royal Garden," Tsukiga commanded, not revealing any emotion to the younger girl.

Arisa looked around the clearing nervously, then hardened her expression, "Fine, but if you do anything irrational, you better feel sorry for it later."

She dashed out of the clearing, leaving the duo in a silence.

They both undid their transformations, their charas floating loyally by their side. Kairi was silent, for a long time before he said anything.

"Aoisora-senpai, I-I tried calling you, but…"

She frowned deeply, almost screaming at him "What? You called Amu instead? You got together? You didn't want to see my sorry face again??"

"You broke ohime-sama's heart!" Akari cried, pulling her sword out.

"And now you're going to pay!!" Kurai chimed in, notching an arrow in her bow, aiming it at Kairi, who flinched at their loud voices.

Tsukiga's expression remained unfazed, "You two go back as well."

They stared up at her with saddened faces, "B-but…ohime-sama…"

"If I have any trouble, I'll be able to care for myself. Now go."

They floated off. Kairi sent Musashi off as well, leaving them alone…awkward much.

Tsukiga sat down onto the grass, fiddling with the short blades in front of her. Kairi feeling awkward standing, sat down as well. As she fiddled with the grass, he couldn't help, but stare into her absent minded orange eyes.

Suddenly they stared back at his, "So what did you want?"

He was taken aback for a moment, "Huh?"

Tsukiga rolled her eyes, crossing her legs, "I mean, you probably tried called me or a reason didn't you?" He nodded, "I tried calling you…but accidentally called Arisa-senpai by accident."

She cocked a brow at him, wondering why that was such a big deal.

But her mind jerked back to her original question, causing her expression to suddenly harden.

Noticing her change in expression, Kairi stared at her worriedly.

"What—" He began, only to be cut off the girl opposite of him.

"Why did you do it?"

He changed his expression from worried to confused, "What are you talking about Aoisora-senp—" She shot him a hard glare, and he hesitated, "…Tsukiga-chan."

She deeply sighed, fiddling with the edge of her shorts, a habit she retained when she got nervous or agitated, "Why did you confess to Amu-san even though you know how I feel for you?"

Kairi watched as she tightly balled her hands into fists on her lap. A single tear escaped her eye, as she bit her lip, awaiting his response.

A sigh passed his pale lips, "I did it because—" his hands too, balled into fists, "—because it's what I thought was right."

Tsukiga shot upwards, standing, not daring to make eye contact with him, then sped off into the direction of the Royal Garden.

In her mind, only one word repeated itself over, and over, like a broken record in her mind—

Idiot…

Idiot…

Idiot…

SANJOU KAIRI YOU IDIOT!!!!!

-

"So," Arisa said in the midst of a bored silence, flipping a pencil through the air, ditching her class, "What are your thoughts on strawberry-peanut-mint-choco-swirl ice cream?

The group groaned, out of pure boredom, hearing generally the same topic recommencing over, and over, and over again; chocolate, mint-chocolate-chip, peanut butter, vanilla, orange sorbet, cookies & cream…and many, many more. It was unnatural for somebody to know so many ice cream flavours.

They sighed, another long silence approaching. Though when the front door of the Royal Garden was slammed open, it sent a shock of surprise throughout the present members, along with Arisa falling off her chair, other Guardians were knocked off of whatever number cloud they were on.

Tsukiga stomped past everyone, clearly ignoring them, her face as expressionless as she's ever seen it.

"Tsukiga-chan!" Arisa cried out, standing in front of her as she collected her papers, stuffing them into her bag, "How'd it—" The older girl shoved past her and exited the garden, "—go?"

The brunette stared at the door, dumb-founded.

"So…hopefully she didn't kill Kairi-san."

Towards the end of the day, as they were packing up, Kairi entered the garden, silently, not making a sound, but that never stopped anyone from noticing him. He too collected his things and made his way towards the glass door.

But he never made it. Arisa grabbed him by the arm and stared at his blue eyes filled with sadness, "Weren't you supposed to tutor me today…or something?"

Luckily he caught what she meant, 'I can help you with Tsukiga you know.'

He took a moment to think it over, then nodded. Arisa smiled brightly, then ran over to the table, and grabbed her papers and bag, and ran back to Kairi.

She paused then looked at Kuukai, "I'll be home a bit late, so make sure nobody worries about me."

She waved to Kuukai, then exited the glass building with Kairi.

"So…are you jealous of that kid or what?" All Kuukai did was roll his eyes at the red-head and give a sharp tug at her bright, long, red hair.

"Ouch!" She yelped.

"Seriously Shinyu-san, I'm not jealous," He told her, picking up his skateboard from the ground.

I don't think I am at least…

-

They entered the samurai's house, greeted by the older woman, claiming to be Kairi's loving 'onee-chan.' From the expression on his face, Arisa couldn't help but burst out laughing once they reached his room.

He pulled out some papers and a pen, Musashi floating by his side. His chara sat himself down on the desk and assumed a meditative position.

Koorei sat across from him, staring boredly. "Do you do this all day?" The blue hair chara asked.

Musashi cracked an eye open, and responded with a curt nod, and resumed his position. Koorei sighed and floated up to Arisa, "Hey Ari-kun, can't we do something more…exciting? Like more exciting than studying with these two bozos. Can't we go bungee jumping instead??"

Arisa snickered, "Chillax Koorei. This is important, and plus," she looked at him, and poked him in the head, knocking him over, "You know I only plan to bungee jump when there's a rain storm going on."

The chara couldn't help but laugh, "Fine, fine. Then I'm going to sleep until we leave."

He retreated back to his egg, and shut it, leaving the two students to recommence their work.

"So…about Aoiso—"

"First things first, if you ever want to address her again, you'll stop being so formal with her and just call her 'Tsukiga-chan,' or since I'm so nice, 'Tsukiga-san' will do as well.

He jotted something down messily onto his paper, as Arisa continued.

"As you should know, she doesn't like loud noises, sudden noises, and especially—"

Kairi broke her off, "—sudden, loud noises, I know."

Arisa smiled, then stood up, pacing around the room, "Her favourite colours are—"

"—black, red, purple and blue."

"She loves—"

"The rain, ice cream, manga, plushies, Pocky, her MP3 player, snow, night time, video games—"

Arisa cut him off herself, "What's her favourite video game?"

Kairi didn't even have to hesitate, "The Kingdom Hearts series."

"What's her favourite song?"

"Starry Heavens or Reisha's Lullaby, she can't decide since they're both are so awesome."

For several hours, they went on and on, Kairi listing all of Tsukiga's opinions, and preferences perfectly.

"Seriously, does she know this much about you?" Arisa asked, out of breath from asking questions too quickly. Kairi thought, and then nodded, "We used to hang out a lot…"

Arisa watched his expression harden, and his eyes glaze over, as if going into a dream.

"She enjoyed silence, and that's exactly what I gave her. At first, she thought I was really stuck up and a workaholic, but," Arisa cocked a brow at him, "Okay I still am, but not as much as she thought I was."

"So even though she preferred to listen to her MP3 player, or just sit in silence…we talked a lot."

Kairi rambled on and on about his experiences with Tsukiga, finally, he for to the part Arisa cared most about.

"But later on, I guess I started 'liking' her," he admitted. Arisa's eyes widened, if they both had feelings for each other what went wrong?

"But…she idolized the King, and there was too much of an age difference between us anyway."

Arisa couldn't help but scoff. "Seriously? Doesn't Amu-san have this thing for some high schooler in his senior year? You and Tsukiga would be perfectly fine. In fact, I'm absolutely positive it'd work out."

A small smile appeared on the younger boy's lips, "I guess…"

Arisa then continued their 'game', "So anyway, Tsukiga's favourite flower is—"

"The summer snowflake," he responded breezily.

Arisa playfully stuck her tongue out at him, then blew a raspberry, "Wrong! That used to be her favourite flower."

Kairi sent her a confused, and startled look, and Arisa told him, "The chrysanthemum; she loves them to death now. Especially the white ones."

He stared at her, his eyes glazing over for a moment, "Kairi-san…? Are you…you know; alive?" He responded with a small nod, then stood up.

"Chrysanthemums?" He asked her, verifying what she had told him.

Arisa nodded, "Chrysanthemums," she echoed.

The faintest of smiles appeared on his face. Arisa couldn't help but smile, but when he pulled a package of papers from his bag, and handed it to her.

"You didn't think you'd get out of working did you?" He asked her, smirking, clearly amused. Arisa's smile instantly disappeared when she realized what the paper was.

Seiyo Academy: Star Class- 6A [Math 6.4]

She sent a glare at him, as his smirk just widened, "I hate you so much."

"You know if you don't finish it, there's going to be very dire consequences if it's not completed," he told her, clearly amused by her annoyed expression.

"Die in a fire…Iinichou," She muttered stuffing the papers in her bag.

She had heard the other Guardians call him by that, and since it seemed to annoy the wits out of him, she decided to join in the fun.

He scowled and rolled his eyes. "Iinichou, iinichou, iinichou, iinichouuuuu," she repeated in a sing-song voice as he escorted (forced) her out the door.

"Remember; chrysanthemums!"

Arisa laughed to herself as he slammed the door shut, followed by several angry shouts from his sister.

When Arisa entered through the front door of the Souma household, she was suddenly swarmed by the Souma boys who were all taller than her, towering over her, while bombarding her with questions.

"Kuukai said you were at a boy's house."

"And he said he was younger than you."

"He didn't do anything weird to you did he? I heard younger boys are more perverted."

Arisa's eyes widened, then narrowed at the soccer jersey clad Souma sitting comfortably on the stairs, lazily flipping through a sports magazine.

"What? I was worried about you." Kuukai said, sitting up and looking her in the eyes.

Arisa instinctively rolled hers, "Whatever. Well you should know I can take perfectly good care of myself if some dude ever wants to try anything on me."

Rento broke in, "But Arisa-chan—"

She growled at the suffix applied to her name, "I'm not some sissy-princess-wimp who's easily pushed around by people. Whatever comes my way, I'll deal with them."

She shoved past the brothers crowding her and stepped over Kuukai, up the stairs and entered her room, slamming the door behind her.

Being underestimated was one of the things Arisa despised about…society. Just because she was a girl…because she's not a boy, that was always the reason. And she hated it.

Even though the weather was cool, from the open window appeared a small crystalline egg floated up and through the window, hesitating before lunging forward and landing on the desk gracefully in front of her.

The egg cracked open and a small girl, about the same size as Koorei, popped out and stared at Arisa, with a small scowl on her face.

"Just because you don't like being a girl, it isn't that bad! You should know, what about your dream to figure skate?! D—"

Suddenly, Koorei broke out of his egg and charged over to the new found chara.

"Hey, what do you think you're doing here?? And what are you talking about this 'dream to figure skate'? Arisa-kun wants to be the fastest hockey skater ever! Don't you Arisa?" Koorei shouted at her, waving his arms around frantically.

"Don't be an idiot; she wants to be a figure skater and to be able to reveal her girly side easier, right Arisa-chan?" The chara broke in.

Arisa stared, dumb founded at the two charas glaring at each other, "I…uh…I want both of those things. Isn't that why you two are here to begin with?"

They stopped glaring at each other then turned away from each other, scoffing, "Fine," they both muttered.

The female chara was wearing a long white t-shirt with light blue designs on it, and a blue and white striped long sleeved shirt under it. She had a pair of shorts on, but was barely visible under the long t-shirt. She wore knee length striped socks, similar to her sleeves and a pair of pure white figure skates on her feet.

Her hair was crystal white at the roots, but gradually became light blue closer to the tips. It was held up with a clip, with the light blue ends, hanging over the clip.

"So," Arisa began, "You were the one that chara-changed with me at the rink?"

She smiled brightly, and curtsied, "Korii, the figure skating ice chara, at your service! It's a pleasure to finally meet you Arisa-chan!~"

Even though her girly side was somewhat embarrassing to her, she couldn't help but burst out laughing, leaning back on the chair she was sitting on, and falling back, causing her laughter to escalate even more.

Kuukai entered the room to Arisa in the middle of a laughing fit.

He walked over to her, making sure he doesn't do anything to make her blow up on him. But instead of getting the glare he expected, she smiled brightly, "Hey Kuukai, guess what? I got another chara!"

Her smile caught onto him and caused him to smile back, greeting the new chara, and introducing Daichi.

The rest of the evening went my normally, with Arisa complaining over how much work Kairi had given her, and Unkai crashing into the room, commanding her to shut up.

Once she completed the sheets, give or take a few questions, she went to sleep.

Something else worth mentioning is Kairi stopping by a local flower shop, and purchasing a bouquet of white chrysanthemums.