Hello everyone! As promised, this chapter came quickly! ^•^ I had fun writing this and I hope you all enjoy it!

Thank you Squishu/Jo-chan for beta reading. You really understand my writing. :)

Disclaimer: I don't own Shugo Chara. 'Precious Secrets And Beautiful Liars' by TheLingeringWolf=most of the story's inspiration. 'Got to be perfect Not' by bleachlover1999=Rima's original disguise. The story is also influenced by Durarara

n o t e x p e c t e d

"Everything comes with a price. Everything. Some things just cost more than others."
― Brom, The Child Thief

Normal POV

Rima's price was high. And she would pay it.

A certain girl licking an oversized lollipop relaxed on top of a desk during break time. Girls were chattering around her but she wasn't participating, in fact, she didn't even listening what they were saying. She had floated off into her own wonderland full of sugar.

"Yaya, are you listening? Yaya? YUIKI YAYA!" One of her friends shouted at her, startling the whole room. The girl then put her hands together, covering her mouth timidly as if she was ashamed for yelling so loudly.

"Huh? Oh," Yaya said as she found herself back in reality, "Yaya's listening," she assured her friend even though she had no idea what they were talking about.

Her friends sighed and continued talking; some of them were sighing for real, some of them were playfully sighing. Yaya felt uneasy.

"I think that was really stuck-up of her, " one girl commented and Yaya nodded in agreement, although she didn't know who they were talking about.

"What she did is stupid, is she trying to get attention?"

"Right? First hitting Kukai with a desk, who was nice enough to overlook it―"

"Then that weird thing where Nagihiko asked her to be his friend," another girl continued.

By then Yaya had realized they were talking about the blonde girl with the back corner seat. She loved seeing the moment that girl threw the desk at Kukai. It was hilarious.

Including Yaya, there were five girls in that group. Their usual break-time hangout was in the room Nagihiko and Kukai routinely resided in, most of them were from that class anyway, including Yaya.

"I don't like her that much," The girl who had earlier called out Yaya's name proclaimed, seeming to be over her embarrassment from yelling loudly earlier. She was Yaya's least favorite friend, this girl was always the one who made the things worse. What started as simple complaining would be turned into a loathing marathon because of one sharp statement from her.

Yaya never joined in when they talked about others.

Needless to say, Yaya was the one who kept the group out of any major trouble. She made sure the group did nothing really horrible, which thankfully, almost never happened.

But if she had known better, she wouldn't have joined that particular group of talkative girls in the first place.

They seemed like the only ones who could stand her when she was in her hyper mode.

"Saaya, she didn't do anything to you," Yaya said to the girl, morphing out of the third person lingo. She did that occasionally, but often when she was really mad.

"Oh Yuiki," She said, stretching out the word 'oh' for a few seconds, "You just don't get it. You should stop eating all that sugar."

"Yaya's identity is sugar," a girl piped in.

"Yaya, can you tell me how managed to stay so skinny? I need to lose some weight," another girl chimed.

And so the path that was about to be taken was averted.

Instead, the conversation transitioned to the dietary affairs of the five girls.

And they were not shocked to find that almost all of Yaya's diet consisted of candy, and laughed at her good naturedly.

As skewed the influence they had they had on each other, there was no apparent leader in the group of five, something that Yaya was happy for.

But not everything was how it seemed and if someone wouldn't do what the masses wanted than another would.

Yaua did not notice the other girls in the classroom were quite jittery.

\

"Should we wake him up?"

"Nah, he looks tired, he needs the sleep," Kukai told Rima.

"Okay."

Rima and Kukai were both sitting on the edges of the bed Nagihiko occupied, but they were on different sides of the bed. Their backs were facing each other, and Nagihiko's legs were resting in between them.

"So do you believe it now?" Kukai asked a question he would not have asked if they were face to face.

"Believe what?"

Their conversations were very stiff when the one of them wasn't joking.

"That you need friends."

"I believe it, I guess I always did. I just didn't think I needed more that one," Rima mused.

"I'm glad."

"Glad? Why?"

"I thought you were one of those people who were broken beyond repair," Kukai confessed.

Rima sat in silence for awhile, and Kukai wondered if he had said something insensitive.

Finally Rima spoke, but her words were quiet.

"I was... I am..." she trailed off.

"Eh?"

"Kukai, listen, I am broken beyond repair. I'm healing, time does that, but I'm still broken, as much as I will mend, I'm only scratching the surface. I'm not going to be able to fix the cracks deep within me."

"You will, I promise," Kukai said, closing his eyes, "If you know that much, you will."

"How can you be so sure?" Rima said, her voice cracking.

"Kukai knows these things, trust him," a voice not one of their own startled the two. They flipped their heads to face to boy lying on the bed.

"I guess," Rima replied. Being the awkward person she was, she did not bother to comment anything about Nagihiko waking up, even though he scared her for a moment.

Kukai followed Rima's example.

After a good amount of silence, the nurse came in, done with whatever she had needed to do, and the bell signalling the end of break rang.

\

"Is it worth it to become Vegan?"

Just as that question was asked, the bell rang.

"Yaya'll walk over to Minami's class with Minami," Yaya said to one of her friends, assuring her that she would make it back to her own classroom before the teacher arrived.

The conversation shared between the two was easygoing. In that short distance, two classes over, they were laughing uncontrollably. When they arrive to the Minami's classroom, they still had grins on their faces.

"Bye Yaya!" the girl said, entering her classroom.

"Bye Minami!" Yaya exclaimed.

She peeked back into her friend's classroom as she was leaving, catching a glimpse of something that excited her.

Yaya saw a girl with pink hair sitting at a desk inside Minami's classroom.

That girl was none other than Hinamori Amu.

And with that, Yaya was so sure something was going to happen, which was a great improvement for her. She had really bad grades.

Rima POV

I would never understand myself. I didn't know what I was doing.

Two awkward statements were the only possible description of how I was feeling as I headed towards class trailing slightly behind Kukai and Nagihiko.

I was uncomfortable.

The bandage on my cheek began to itch.

I tightened my hairband and pushed up my glasses.

I had figured out that those items weren't causing the discomfort, though I wondered what was.

I was still wondering, stoic look on my face as I walked in my classroom a step behind Nagihiko and Kukai. At that very moment, eyes turned toward me.

They were not nice stares, but glares, dagger-filled eyes, and most of the eyes were coming from females.

I inwardly relaxed.

This was what was bothering me. I could stand that. I was sort of used to it.

I was content. This much a given, nobody would accept a sudden change so lightly.

This was what Nagihiko was talking about. I would get some attention but it would die away.

This was the price I would pay.

That's what I thought until I reached my desk.

I stood in front of the seat and stared.

Nagihiko had already started napping on his desk, he didn't notice.

Kukai saw it, and gave me a sympathetic look.

My chair was full of pins.

It was a petty little trick.

The pointy sides were facing up. I cringed.

It would have been terrible if I had sat on it.

Thankfully, there was nothing on my table, but the sound of giggling echoed throughout the room.

Almost every girl was laughing. Almost. There was one that was not.

As I quickly scanned the room to find the culprits, I instead I found the lone girl not giggling. And it was a girl licking on a over-sized lollipop.

I recognized her as one of the girls that talked to Nagihiko while I observed on that one day I had nearly gotten hit with a soccer ball.

And I was glad to find that at least part of this world was not yet corrupted.

I moved all of the pins carefully into the cup I had drank coffee out of that morning and threw it away.

Inspecting my desk one last time, I sat in my seat just before the teacher arrived.

Crisis averted.

Nagihiko POV

Tired. Exhausted. Jet lag. Sleepiness.

I wanted to go home and crawl into my bed.

I could hear the teacher asking if I was alright, but I was too tired to respond.

Everyone was being too noisy. I wanted them to shut up.

Before I knew it, I was asleep.

Rima POV

The teacher's lessons passed by in a blur, but I didn't think I wanted it to happen so quickly.

Earlier the teacher found that Nagihiko was asleep, he left him alone. The sound of Nagihiko's breathing was too light to bother the class and the teacher didn't want to have someone miss class to bring Nagihiko back to the nurse's office.

So he was left alone.

I, however, was not. Snide glares were being thrown at me. Honestly, it was annoying.

I wondered if they had anything better to do.

"Yaya!" the teacher scolded.

"Yes?" acknowledged a girl in pigtails.

"Stop eating that lollipop! Pay attention, you had a horrifying grade on the last test."

"Okay, okay, Yaya's going to stop eating the lollipop now," the girl responded.

I filed away her name in my mind. She could be useful, at the very least she seemed moral. After hearing her talk, as if lightning struck, I knew she had nothing to do with the pins that were on my chair.

\

Too quickly.

Too quickly, lunch came and I paid my price. Nagihiko, tired and exhausted, went to the infirmary. I knew he would have helped if he could.

Kukai was useless at times like these. He gave me a warning, not to eat my lunch in a secluded place or in a really crowded place, but I understood why he wouldn't help. For him, there was too much at stake.

"Sorry," he whispered to me after carefully giving me advice. I replied saying it was okay.

As soon as the bell rang, an aura of menace engulfed the room. The boys fled. Nagihiko apparently had all his senses cut away from him. I wondered what had happened as he slowly went out the door.

Before I realized it, I was stuck. Still, I was relieved, they wouldn't dare hurt me severely in the classroom. The teacher would notice the blood.

It was true.

And that's why they led me to a secluded place at the back of the school.

The leader was apparently a girl named Saaya. The lollipop girl was nowhere to be seen.

"Ow!" I yelped as one of them pulled my ponytail.

Before I knew it, we were there.

Normal POV

Yaya had ran out of the classroom even faster than the athletic boys. There was cream bread for lunch and the lunch line was usually super long.

She didn't even take time to talk with any of her friends before leaving. She had to get that bread. It was the most sweet, delicious thing the cafeteria sold.

But when she arrived to the lunch line, it was, in fact, long, but there was an absence of girls in the line. So Yaya got her food as quickly as possible and ran back to her classroom, feeling, not thinking, that something was wrong.

Her classroom was deserted. The boys that had felt the murderous aura refused to come back, and all the girls had already migrated.

So Yaya, feeling panicked, ran for Minami's classroom. The were some girls in there, but not many. Not Minami.

But there was the pink haired girl.

With nothing to lose, Yaya began talking to her.

" Are you going to say anything?!" Saaya asked the petite blonde girl in rage.

"Not really, there isn't really anything to say," Rima replied coolly.

"You―," Rima never heard Saaya's next words.

She was hit. They had slammed her sideways to a wall.

Another girl began kicking her.

They tormented her;

"Why the hell did you bother wear those goggles?"

"You think you're so pretty now, showing off your ugly blonde hair."

"Stop bothering Kukai! I saw you talking to him again!"

"I bet it's your fault that Nagihiko's so tired!"

"We tried to ignore you."

"Nagihiko shouldn't pay attention to you."

"I can't believe I believed it when people said you were actually drop-dead gorgeous."

"You're just normal, stop being full of yourself! You're bothering Kukai and Nagihiko!"

It went on and on. Rima let them torment her for awhile. Not everyone there had joined in yet. She wanted to at least let them get out some anger. At least enough to be satisfied.

They were almost halfway into lunch.

Finally, when Rima felt she had taken too many blows in the stomach, she started talking.

"Could you guys stop?" She asked them delicately, getting up from her spot on the ground next to the wall.

They all stop hitting her in shock.

They couldn't fathom how she could stand.

Rima brushed herself off.

"I'm not stupid, I took self defense lessons," She said, but she altered the statement in her mind.

It's the normal thing to do, I took self defense lessons after I got kidnapped.

Almost all the girls jaws were open.

"B―but," Saaya started.

RIma sighed.

"I seriously don't care about you guys, so could you leave me alone? It's not like I approached Nagihiko and Kukai, they approached me."

"Ah..." said Saaya, still dumbstruck.

Rima started walking away from the mob of girls.

Rima walked slowly and casually, even though her light wounds were stinging. She made it out of the group of girls at a good pace.

She looked up at the sky, wondering if the price she paid was worth it.

And as if in a trance, she made her way to the Seika Academy's rooftop. She had picked the lock.

The place was deserted.

As if in a trance, she let her hair fly out behind her, taking off her hairband.

As if in a trance, she did not notice two pairs of footsteps running to reach the rooftop.

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
― Bernard M. Baruc

I went through a phase a few year back where I loved worldly quotes. I was thinking about it and I thought they could help me write my chapter faster, since I'll have something to work with and connect with. I don't think I did well for the last quote though..

Also, Minami is NOT and OC, she's one of those girls that called Amu 'cool&spicy' in the first episode. And everyone knows Saaya...

So, who are the two pairs of steps? I don't know myself :p JK!

Jo-chan really is the best.

The people whose quotes I used? I don't know them! Haha XD

I'm rambling.

Yaya is a very precious character to me, and no, its not because of Yairi. It's because she's so upbeat and happy. Her cheerfulness is special to me.

Auagh! But so is Kukai! Maybe I should have chosen Yaya as the third main character... But it doesn't fit in so many ways...gosh I want to write Yaya's POV so badly! BUT BUT LIKE IT WONT WORK SINCE SHES NOT A MAIN CHARACTER. THAT WOULD CAUSE PLOT HOLES AND MAKE ME DIVERGE FROM THE PLOT.

My pride is stopping me... :(

~KiMi