Okay! Waterdragon, I think I've killed enough of your brain cells already, so here's the part BEFORE the action! xDD;
And to the rest of you, please enjoy (if you don't…I don't know. Go do something productive with yourself or something xD)
Warnings for: New extra characters, and some action at the end! YAY!
Don't own SC! Aaaand I'm going to sleep now.
The Colours of Love: Chapter 10
As a Guardian
That morning, Kuukai and Arisa both slept in so late, that they barely had enough time to change, and eat. But when Arisa heard that Hiro's letter had arrived in the mail, she dashed down the stairs wearing just a tank top and the uniform's skirt and grabbed the envelope, dangling from Hana's long fingers as the older woman chatted on the phone.
As she dashed out of the kitchen, Unkai whistled just for the sake of teasing her, and received a carefully aimed shoe to his face.
After they were both fully dressed, they dashed out the door, shouting simultaneously, "We're off!"
Jay-walking streets and cutting through ally ways, they arrived at the school grounds in record time, panting.
Arisa leaned over on Kuukai's shoulder, out of breath from the run.
"You idiot, you know we could've chara-changed right?" She asked, laughing slightly. A grin plastered his face, "I guess, but what fun would that be?"
Arisa mentally agreed, and was about to say more, when the bell suddenly rang.
She straightened herself, and then hastily waved to Kuukai as she ran into the large, castle-like building, "We're meeting in the Royal Guardian again! Don't forget!" Kuukai nodded silently to himself, then ran in the direction of his own school, praying he won't be late.
As Arisa dashed through the halls, she passed by Saaya. She was walking as calmly and as princess-like as ever, and as Arisa ran past her, like a gust of wind, before Saaya could say anything Arisa cried, "Sorry Saaya, I'm going to be late for class, I'll diss you for dissing me later," then continued her prolonged sprint.
She ran up the stairs, her hat threatening to fall off if she ran any faster, so instead of slowing down like how most people would, Arisa isn't like most people and pulled it off her head, stuffing it into her bag, and sprinting even faster.
As she whizzed by the open door of Tsukiga's classroom, she caught a glance of Tsukiga, being crowded by a mob of girls, along with a small bundles of white chrysanthemums, piled on her desk.
The brunette smiled, and spotted Kairi walking down the hall, with a small blush on his face when he took a quick peek in the room. Arisa laughed and approached him, "Nice work Iinichou!"
He scowled at her, but his expression instantly softened when he looked back into the classroom.
His rather explicit daydream was shoddily interrupted by Arisa slapping the math sheets he had given her, into his face.
"Well, I'd hate to get in the way of your swooning, but I've got to get to class!" She laughed as his colour on his cheeks turned an even darker shade of rouge, and ran the final stretch, and crashed into her classroom.
Arisa collapsed onto her seat, and pulled out some papers. Noticing the lack of a teacher, she read on the large chalkboard, "Study Hall." She shrugged, being somewhat relieved that she didn't have to work as hard today. Sleeping in really did a number to her in about ten minutes.
She slouched in her seat, examining the people around her. Typically, there were groups of girls, chatting their vocal chords off, the boys chasing each other around the room and some sensible people actually taking this time to nap or rest.
And that's exactly what she was going to do, but suddenly, she remembered the letter from Hiro. Cursing to herself for nearly forgetting about him, she dug through her bag, dumping the contents out onto the desk.
'Tsukiga gets flowers on her desk, while I'm stuck with HOMEWORK,' Arisa thought bitterly.
Finally a small envelope fluttered out of the main pocket of the bag. She dove for it, causing some of the other papers to fly off her desk.
As her agile fingers ripped the envelope open, a sudden burst of red caught her eye.
"Arisa-chan, there you are! Gosh, this school is huge; I was looking for you everywhere. Did you know that when I was here, it was never this huge, like ever, and you know what, I can't believe all the cool people that graduated, I mean, Kuukai-san graduated after me, but seriously, even all the cool teachers are probably gone as well, I mean Kugimaya-sensei got the boot, but he was the coolest homeroom teacher EVER, and Ashiria-sensei was the funniest PE instructor the world has ever seen or had and—"
Arisa coughed while she was in mid-sentence, silencing the chatterbox, "So…what're you doing here?"
Shinyu's eyes widened, suddenly remembering why she in Arisa's classroom to begin with. She tapped her index finger along her chin, then widened her large, innocent, violet eyes.
"Right! A little birdie told e that you have free period today, so I figured I'd come over and chill."
Arisa fiddled with the envelope in her hands, eagerly waiting for the older girl to leave. Shinyu was nice and everything, in fact, she was quite awesome, but Arisa reaaally wanted to open Hiro's letter.
"Won't you get in trouble?" Arisa asked.
Shinyu just shrugged and shook her bangs out of her eyes, "Nah, Nikaidou and I go waaaay back. He'll probably just tell me to keep quiet, and if it comes down to it," she grinned, "I'm a hell of a runner!"
Arisa couldn't help but laugh, and crossed her legs on the small seat. She fidgeted with the envelope in her hands some more, and it wasn't long until Shinyu's eyes widened when she spotted it. "Ooh la, la what is that Arisa-chan?"
She snatched the envelope from Arisa and tore it open. Arisa's eyes widened, "Hey; give it back!!"
Shinyu couldn't help but giggle, Arisa was just so cute when she was chasing people around the classroom. Since the rest of the class was horsing around, they blended right into the surrounding chaos.
"Danm it Shinyu, give it back!!" Arisa cried, leaping over a chair.
The red-head laughed, and opened the envelope, "Hoshi-kun, Figure skating? Are you feeling okay? Didn't you pledge that figure skating was for the slow? …Maybe that Tokyo air is getting to you."
"Seriously Shinyu, hand it over!"
The older girl continued scanning her eyes over the paper, until she suddenly stopped, causing Arisa to crash into her, and stumble backwards, falling into a conveniently placed chair.
Shinyu was smirking, "So tell me about this 'Hiro-chan' of yours. I never knew you were one for long distance relationships!"
Arisa scowled deeply, evil thoughts emerging in her mind, "Not my boyfriend, just my best friend from back home. Now hand over that letter." Shinyu rolled her eyes, handing the sheet to Arisa, "Whatever you say Arisa-chan, but then again you're right," Arisa noticed a mischievous glint in her amethyst eyes, "You'd make a much cuter couple with Kuukai-san anyway."
The brunette rolled her eyes, and gave the older girl a stern push, and read over the letter, trying to hide the fact that she might have been blushing.
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Hoshi-chan,
Figure skating? Are you feeling okay? Didn't you pledge that figure skating was for the slow? I think that Tokyo air is starting to get to you. Oh don't worry. I'll only tell people when I need to. Like when you're holding me hostage one day! So don't worry about it. Also, thanks for the encouragement, but this year's competition is even harder, and the people here are tough (not to mention they smell weird.) But there's the girl who sits nest to me and she is HOT. Aaand this is the part where you roll your eyes right? Clean your room? Are you giving me a free ticket to go through your stuff?
--Hiro
-
Arisa folded the paper in half a couple times, then put it back into its envelope and throwing it into her bag. She leaned back on the chair, bringing the two front legs of it into the air, and threatening to tip over at any second.
Sadly for her, that's exactly what happened when a group of boys suddenly walked in front of her desk greeting her, casually.
"Holy--!" She shouted as she fell over.
She sat up and propped the chair upright, then laughed sheepishly at her actions, "Hey guys…what's up?"
At first they just stared at her, then burst out laughing, while Arisa's cheeks turned a light shade of pink.
"Wow, that was embarrassing," she muttered, taking a seat in the chair that had fallen over.
Once their laughing fit was over, one of them rested his hand on her shoulder, leaning onto her, "Man, we were just going to ask you if you wanted to hang out and play some soccer or something after school, but after that crash, we know you're going to be the weird, crazy one," one of the boys announced. He ruffled her bangs, and gave her a playful push, "So how about it?"
The rest of the group smiled, "Yeah, I mean, you're not like those corporate clones giggling their lives away anyway. So I think you'd be pretty cool," another announced.
In the group, there were three boys. The 'leader' was the ever popular Hikaru-san; athletic, gets good grades, and an absolute video game junkie. Well, he was proclaimed as 'handsome' and 'Tadase's rival' but that's only what normal girls though.
To Arisa, he looked vaguely a lot like Hiro, except for the fact that his eyes were a light shade of green, and his hair was hanging in his face a lot more.
The second boy introduced himself as Daisuke, the brainiac. He has sandy brown hair, and bright orange eyes, along with freckles sprinkled along the bridge of his nose. Though he prefers to spend his days in the library, he was quite good at sports anyway.
Finally, the last boy, who stood at the back, remaining silent, was introduced by Daisuke, was Ryu; silent but deadly. He had midnight black hair, and eyes so dark, she could barely tell what colour they actually were.
As Arisa chatted with them (Ryu giving his thoughts and even smiling ever now and again) Shinyu (yes, she's still here) was talking with a group of girls about high school, boys and…well lots of other stuff that Arisa prefers to never talked about.
When she would take a quick glance over at the group, she and at least one of the girls would make eye-contact and they would instantly look away.
Suspicious, Arisa decided to voice her thoughts to her new-found friends, "So what do you think they're talking about over there?" Hikaru snorted, "Arisa-san, you almost sound like a love sick boy when you say that." Daisuke agreed, while Ryu nodded as well.
Arisa rolled her eyes at them, "Whatever, but I still think they're talking about me."
The other males shrugged it off, then recommenced their interrupted conversation on video games.
While they conversed, they had barely noticed Arisa, until she excused herself for a bit. She stood up and wandered into the hallway.
Out in hall, she leaned against a wall with her knees brought up to her chest. Noise radiated from the inside of the classroom, but in her mind, she could hear nothing but her thoughts.
In the hall, the girl's voices were the loudest, and seeing how they were farthest from the door, it was surprising, but not to Arisa. The discrimination she received from her 'female friends' got worse and worse. By spending time with Hiro and his friends all the time, she had received names like 'slut', 'man-eater' and…many others. It was not pretty.
Even though Arisa trusted Shinyu a lot, just her being in the presence of those other girls drove the poor girl mad.
If they were talking about Arisa, it's not like she could hate Shinyu. And if she did, that's basically asking the rest of the Guardians to hate her as well. …Maybe even Kuukai.
At this thought, she banged her head against the wall behind her repeatedly.
"Shut up me! Why must I think so much about the stuff that doesn't matter??" She demanded, trying to stay as quiet as she could, without killing somebody.
Korii, who was sitting patiently in her egg, emerged from it and floated to the front of Arisa's closed eyes. Once the large, chocolate coloured orbs opened, they suddenly widened at the sight of her chara.
"Mou, Arisa-chan! What are you doing?"
A small smile crept onto Arisa's face at just the mere concern of her chara, "You know…sucking at being female."
Korii's brow's shot up, "Well you could've told me that sooner! From one of the boys, to—"
Arisa grabbed her chara, immediately silencing her, "Shush Korii! I never said I didn't want to. Plus, I just made more friends and being a girly girl would just screw it up."
She wriggled out of Arisa's grasp, quickly enough to reply, "But didn't your mom say that you should have more girl friends?" Korii fixed her scarf and looked up at her master, glaring into hers with her own icy-blue eyes. Arisa looked away, rolling her eyes and scoffing, "It doesn't matter what my mom thinks of me anymore. All I want to do is skate without anyone caring about what I do."
Korii's glare softened as she fumbled with her ribbon, "S-sorry, Arisa-chan."
Arisa smiled apologetically at the 3-inch girl sitting on her knee, and scooped her up in her palms, "Don't worry about it. I'm just being a freakazoid again. Let's get back in there to make sure nobody died."
Korri loosened her scarf, and huffed as she watched Arisa re-enter the classroom, then floated in after her.
Arisa joined the Hikaru, Daisuke and Ryu, and began talking about sports. Suddenly Shinyu approached them, and grabbed Arisa by the arm, "Arisa! Don't forget about the—"
But Hikaru interrupted her, "Hey there Shinyu-chan, beautiful as ever I see."
Arisa rolled her eyes, "Shut up Hikaru," and then looked back at Shinyu, "The what?"
Her cheeks tinted pink, not used to receiving such complements, but ignored him, "The Guardian meeting after school; don't forget."
Arisa nodded, but after the red-head walked off and exited the classroom, Arisa turned back to the group, who had shocked expressions on their faces. Arisa stared at them weirdly for a while, until she asked, "What?"
Daisuke gawked at her, "You're with the Guardians?" She nodded, not knowing what else to say.
Hikaru crossed his arms over his chest, "Seriously, what transfer student doesn't accepted into the Guardians?" Ryu nodded in agreement.
Arisa shrunk back in her chair, maybe it was better to never mention that she's a Guardian ever again. Suddenly, she shot up, slamming her palms on the desk in front of her, "Shit! Doesn't that mean I can't play soccer with you guys after school??"
Ryu shrugged, "I guess so." She saw Hikaru give Daisuke a look, then shrunk back in her seat as Hikaru announced, "Well maybe some other time, how 'bout it Arisa-san?"
She nodded gloomily, then stood up and made her way back to her seat.
I don't want to be a Guardian…
-
The rest of the morning flew by quickly, but when the lunch bell rang, instead of rushing for their lunches, everyone exited the building. It was a half day.
Arisa walked in the direction of the Royal Garden, which was past the soccer field, where she spotted Hikaru, Daisuke and Ryu; Ryu in net and Hikaru and Daisuke taking shots at him.
The brunette sighed deeply and pushed the hair in her face to the side. She continued walking, until her head came in contact with a wall; a uniform wearing, green-eyed wall; Kuukai.
"Arisa; yo!" He exclaimed, holding onto her shoulders.
She looked up and smiled weakly, "Awesome, so you didn't ditch me."
He grinned, "And you didn't forget." Arisa shrugged and moved out of his grasp, "Shinyu reminded me, so don't give me all the credit."
They made their way to the Royal Garden together.
Instead of taking the forest route, they decided on actually the paved path for once. As they walked, the students they passed by whispered to each other, not realizing how—freaking' loud they whisper!
Arisa sighed, and nudged Kuukai, "Doesn't it suck to not be able to walk down a sidewalk in peace?"
He let out a short laugh and tapped her on the shoulder farthest from himself. She just stared at him, "If you want to race, can't you just challenge me like a man, princess?'
Oh yeah, she went there.
She sped ahead, leaving him behind. He groaned, "You're making me run today!"
"Come on lazy-face, don't make me tell all the Guardians about all the weird stuff you say in your sleep!"
A look of horror appeared on his face, "What?! You never told me I talked in my sleep!" Arisa stopped for a moment, and stuck her tongue out at him, "I was saving it for sometime I might've needed it." She continued running.
Kuukai groaned and jogged after her.
When Arisa entered the Royal Garden, soon followed by Kuukai, she saw an unfamiliar face standing by the Guardians along with a certain cat-eared teen, who she knew a little too well.
"Holy shit; you're that dude who randomly tried to rape me in the middle of the day and got me lost, and almost got me hit by a bus—wait, was that before, or after I saw you? Whatever! You still tried raping me in the middle of the day and that's—"
The taller boy stepped over to her and bent down to her eye-leval. Behind him, she watched as Amu, and the other girl fume. She couldn't help but let loose a laugh as she watched their faces turn red, and steam to practically pour out of their ears.
Shinyu on the other hand had stomped out of the area to the back of the Royal Garden, effectively escaping the scene. Though Arisa could see she was obviously blushing, she knew she'd have to keep quiet about it or she might end up randomly hung over a bridge by a thread being threatened to never tell anyone or else she's unleashing Ikuto in kitty-mode on the thread.
…Fun.
Though, when Ikuto's forehead touched with her's, he got the royal treatment.
Actually, his balls got it. Arisa kneed him, and left him in a curled up position at her feet. She looked back at Kuukai, who had taken a step forward and was about to step in.
"Now that wasn't very, ninja-ally-cat of you," Arisa grinned widely. She was so sadistic sometimes.
The girl who was fuming, and now arguing with Amu wore a stylish black dress and has long, blond hair which was tied in two pigtails.
Right next to her; and I mean right next to her was Shinyu, who had rushed back to the scene to make sure Ikuto was okay. But it was kind of creepy how she was mere millimetres from Utau; personal space bubble infiltration, much?
"Wow…I can't believe Hoshina Utau is actually here." Shinyu swooned, staring at the blonde, who was backing away my the inches.
Arisa stared dumbfounded, and stepped around the recovering blue haired high-schooler who groaned in pain.
"Yo, Hoshina-san, I'm new around here, nice to meet you!" Arisa said, extending her hand to shake the other girl's.
Shinyu's jaw dropped open, "Arisa! You can't speak so casually with Hoshina-sama!"
In the background, Kuukai, Tadase, Rima, Nagihiko and Tsukiga sighed, all of them thinking the exact same thing; not again.
Arisa stared at Shinyu's generally creepy obsessed face, "So, is there a specific reason you're calling her 'Hoshina-sama'?" Utau rolled her eyes and put her hands in the dress' nearly invisible pockets, and whispered to Arisa, "Don't worry, this happens all the time."
Arisa's question practically made Shinyu's head explode into a million and five pieces, "Hoshina Utau, pop-idol singer, and also singer of the indie band Black Diamond, was born on November 9th, 1994 and is currently 15 years old. She is 165 cm. tall, 66kg and is so AWESOME!!!"
A chara emerged from its egg, attached to belt around Utau's waist. One of them had a short, dark purple bob-cut and devil horns along with a red tank top and miniskirt in the shape of red bats; Iru.
"Hey you crazy lady! Give Utau some space will 'ya?" She shouted at the red-head.
Shinyu scowled at the chara, "So we meet again, Iru."
Suddenly the atmosphere became freakishly tense as Shinyu and Iru glared poisoned covered dagger, maces, swords, lances, spears, knives, axes, arrows, sharp pencils, sporks, and various medieval-styled torture devices at each other.
That's how tense the atmosphere was.
"Well…moving on," Arisa stated, pushing the two of them away from each other, "Is there a reason why Hoshina-san and kitty-chan are here?"
The question wasn't directed to anyone in particular, but was responded with multiple shrugs and looks of confusion. It seems like nobody knew why.
Utau shrugged as well, "I'm on my break so I thought it would be nice of me to visit. And I brought Ikuto along as well," she sat down next to Ikuto, and clung to his arm, "Ne, Ikuto-kun?"
Arisa looked at Amu who was red as a tomato covered in hot sauce and went diving with an army of red M&Ms.
"Chillax Pinky, he's waaaay too old for you anyway," Arisa told her, ruffling her bright pink hair, effectively messing it up from its usual 'do.
Amu panicked and moved to flatten her hair, then shot a glare at Arisa, "But she's his SISTER."
This caused Arisa to choke on the words she was about to say, "Say whaaaaaat?" Her large brown eyes stared at the two, Ikuto trying to pry Utau off him, and Utau clinging to him even harder. "Weirdness."
She pulled the ever-horrible skirt a little lower and approached Kuukai, "Okay, I'm bored, can we go now?"
Suddenly, Utau's second egg burst open, and out came an angel themed chara. When she emerged, she was screaming, "THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR ERU, THE ANGEL OF LOOOOOOVEEEEEE!!!"
All the Guardians, plus Ikuto and Utau, stared at the chara in silence. Here dramatic pose was held for quite a while before Arisa broke the silence, "Yeah, seriously, this Guardian business is officially REALLY weird."
She walked towards the exit of the Royal Garden, "I'm out of here guys, I'll see you Monday!" When she turned to face the outside, a small black egg with a large, white X on it appeared directly in front of her. It squeaked, "Useless," then hopped on Arisa's head and bounced away.
The Guardians rushed out of the Royal Garden. Ikuto and Utau followed out slowly.
"We have to purify that X-egg!" Amu cried loudly.
Arisa rolled her eyes, "No shit dumbass." Koorei appeared by her shoulder, "Ready Arisa-kun?"
A pair of goggles appeared in her hair along with a pair of white fingerless gloves. Ikuto walked off with Utau clinging to his arm once again, "Yeah, you guys go do that. We've got to go see someone today."
Utau looked up at him with large, innocent eyes, "Ikuto-kun, do you mean her?" He nodded, "It'd be smart to check up on her…" With that they walked away, leaving the Guardians.
"Now, let's follow that X-egg!" Amu shouted, punching her fist in the air. Meters ahead, Arisa called back to them, "Seriously, stop screaming the painfully obvious!"
A saddened scowl appeared on Amu's face as she dashed after her. But before that, Nagihiko and Rima excused themselves, saying that they 'had somewhere to be.'
The remaining Guardians, that being Tadase, Tsukiga, Yaya, Kairi and Amu chased after Arisa along with Kuukai and Shinyu.
Arisa sped through the forest, arriving at the soccer field where she found the X-egg floating above three figures who had passed out on the field; Hikaru, Daisuke and Ryu. Arisa snarled at the egg, "Damn it; that is way beyond nice." But as she was about to charge at it again, the X-egg suddenly multiplied.
At first it was just two and Arisa laughed dryly, "Are you serious? I've seen paperclips scarier than that!" At her words, it continued to multiply, from two to four, from four to eight, and on and on, until there were roughly a hundred of the X-eggs.
Finally, the rest of the group entered the field, finding Arisa surrounded by the X-eggs.
Kuukai called out, "Arisa!" She glanced in the direction of his voice, "Oh, hi guys. What's up?"
The eggs were swarming in, around Arisa. Finally Amu shouted, "Hold on Arisa, I'm coming! Atashi no kokoro…UNLOCK!" Pink sparkles, she transforms, she poses, and okay; let's move on with the story.
Amu glared at the hordes of X-eggs until, she turned to the group, "What should we do?!"
Hearing this, Arisa rolled her eyes. Even when in danger, Arisa still manages to think about how stupid that girl can be. A stray X-egg whizzed past her, creating a thin cut on her upper arm. She quickly examined her wound, then looked back at the army, "At least I know you guys aren't illusions I'd waste my time on.
After the first cut, another sped past her legs along with several more that whizzed past her back, causing a tear in her shirt. More of the eggs attacked her legs, until she didn't have enough energy to hold herself up. She fell.
As she shielded her eyes, she saw Koorei next to her.
"What are you doing? You can beat these guys!" He called to her, over the loud hum of the X-egg's speed.
She cringed as another cut her in the shoulder, "Are you insane? There are almost a hundred of them, and you think I could beat them? You MUST be insane!"
Koorei heaved a sigh then responded, "This is going to sound disgustingly cheesy, but if you believe that you can then you can do it. Now move your ass and GO!"
A light blinded Arisa for a moment, as well as the Guardians.
"Atashi no kokoro…un…lock?!"
Just a little FYI I want to unleash onto the world; the character Ryu is actually the personified version of my pet rabbit XD Silent but deadly…he likes to glare at me while I write :D
Please review if you are able to stand my ridiculousness! xD