"My new...?" I trailed off. What did I do to become my would be self.
Then I realized, "Yoru!" I spun around, but by then it was too late. He was already gone.
"Where did Yoru go?" Amu asked confused.
I remained silent. I didn't really want to talk about it.
"Ikuto." Said my new shugo chara, "I know it's hard on you but I'll be here!" the little guy smiled.
I remained silent again.
"For a while there I thought you would have never guessed why I was your would be self." He said changing the topic.
"Oh yea, why are you my would be self?" I asked.
"Wait," he looked surprised, "You still don't know?"
I shook my head, Amu giggled.
"Ikuto do you know what the word Shoujiki means?"
"Umm… Honesty?" I asked.
"Yeah." He smiled, "What you've wanted to be was honest."
"I don't know when I haven't been honest." I said annoyed.
"Well you can start off with Amu." Shoujiki smiled.
"Ikuto you've been lying to me?" she asked in shock.
"No! I haven't! Stop lying!" I turned to Shoujiki.
"No not like that. The day Amu told you Tadase asked her out you didn't say what you wanted too." He replied, "I'm here to help you be more honest."
Amu giggled again, "Okay well I'm going to go wash up." I said picking up my shirt and putting it back on, "I'll be at the lake if you need me."
"I'll go too!" Shoujiki said following me.
I walked a few cm ahead of Shoujiki. I guess I just wasn't used to him yet. I've had Yoru most of my life, so having another shugo chara just seems a little different.
I splashed water in my face and in the ripples of the water I saw Rima stand behind me. I spun around in shock.
She laughed, "calm down, it's just me."
Then she looked at Shoujiki. "Who's he?" she asked confused.
"My new shugo chara." I still didn't look at him. I wanted anything that would take my mind of him.
"You and Amu had it pretty good in there didn't you?" she smirked.
I laughed, "Your more of a perve than I am."
We walked back to the main camp site when I saw Nagihiko from the corner of my eye. I bent down and whispered into Rima's ear, "Go confess."
Her face went bright red, "No!" she yelled.
"You have honesty issues." I said.
"It's not like your any better." Shoujiki joked. I remained silent.
Tadase and Nagihiko walked up to us, "Where did you guys go?" the asked.
I laughed, Rima shouted, "No where!" her face still red.
"Uh, guys," he started, "I don't know if it's just me or does Yaya seem really close with Noir all of a sudden?"
We all looked in the direction Tadase was looking and Noir and Yaya seemed like they were having a very serious conversation.
"Yea." Rima said, "They didn't know each other before."
Nagihiko replied, "He even helped her up the slope in rock climbing. And they never met before yet they knew each others names."
"Not true." Tadase said looking into a distance, "Last time I went to the library Yaya came and said hi to me and I was talking to Noir. They could have spoken after I left."
I remained quiet. After all, it be weird for a teacher to gossip about his students.
"I have a bad feeling about Noir." Tadase said.
We all shot glances at him.
"The other day," he started, "he hypnotized me, but Keisha snapped me out of it."
I froze. Hypnotizes, it was in the book he was reading the last time I saw him.
"And I know this sounds weird," Tadase continued, "But I think he had a shugo chara." Rima and Nagihiko looked at him surprised.
Then he looked at me and I smirked, "That's because he does have one."
Immediately all their eyes were on me.
I sighed, "His name is Tanazaki. He's a magician shugo chara. Meaning," I looked at Noir, "He got a lot more power than any of us."
Rima looked annoyed, "Just cause he's a magician doesn't mean he has more power!"
I looked at her, "he almost hypnotized Tadase, and he has the power of illusion."
"Illusion?" Nagihiko asked.
"He made me believe that Yoru was his shugo chara." I replied.
"Yoru?" Nagihiko asked, "Wasn't Yoru with yo-"
Rima cut him off, "Enough about that."
She knew I didn't want to talk about it. But they looked at me and I sighed.
"I have a new shugo chara." I said annoyed.
"What?" they both said at the same time.
"Hi. Im Shoujiki." He said, as he came out from hiding behind me.
"Shoujiki… isn't that honesty?" Nagihiko asked.
Tadase and Nagihiko both tried to hold their laugh in.
I could hear Rima clenching her teeth. I turned to her and she was furious, "What so bad about having honesty issues?" Rima yelled.
I looked at her and smiled, she was about the only person who understood me. I patted her on the back and her expression softened.
Nagihiko was still in shock from being yelled at like that by Rima.
"Yoho!" Yaya said from behind us.
We turned around and faced her. She looked at us confused.
"What?" she asked puzzled.
Then she smiled, "Rima let's go for a girl talk!" she pulled Rima by the hand away from us. Somehow, it just didn't seem right.
"Rima how have you been?" Yaya smiled as they walked through the forests.
"Fine." Rima said, with her usual head up in the air personality.
Then all of a sudden Yaya pushed her and Rima fell to the ground.
"Ouch…" she said slowly getting back up, "What was that for-"
She froze when she saw that Yaya had chara transformed and her chara was not Pepe, her baby shugo chara. It was a new shugo chara, one we had never seen before. She looked down with a cruel expression in her eyes,
"Let's finish you." She threw laser beams that cut everything in its path straight for Rima.
TO BE CONTINUED
