Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Shugo Chara! And definitely never will….


-Chapter Three-


Kuukai grinned back at her. Sticking out his hand, he said, "Sorry about earlier. Let me properly introduce myself. Name's Souma Kuukai. Captain of the school's soccer team. Age, fifteen."

Tenshi replied, "Nice to meet you, Souma-kun."

Kuukai pondered on asking her about last week. ' No…. I don't think I should ask her, I'd sound like a freaky stalker….'

Kuukai decided to keep quiet about it.

"So… what are your interests? Anything in particular that you hope to find here?" Kuukai asked.

Tenshi pondered a little. She was about the say something when she was interrupted.

"Souma! Don't keep her to yourself! Introduce us!"

Kuukai turned away from his new seatmate's gaze and came face-to-face with Marada and a few others.

"Right. Koigokoro, this is Marada Itouchi….. and…" Kuukai started.

Everyone started introducing him or herself to Tenshi. The teacher checked the girl's biodata once more and re-read a note sent to her by the principal.

"Koigokoro Tenshi…. It'll be interesting to see how she's gonna progress through…" the teacher smiled.

She stood up and clapped her hands for her students' attention. "All right! Leave the introductions for later! Now, who's gonna show Koigokoro-san around the school?"

Instantly, lots of hands shot up. Kuukai didn't lift his hand up though.

"All right! Souma-san will look after Koigokoro-san and show her around the school!" the teacher cheerfully announced.

"What?!?" the rest of the class moaned. The students protested.

"What? But I'm gonna be busy! I have to get the soccer team in shape for the upcoming season and all…" Kuukai said, baffled. He didn't mind showing his seatmate around the school but it would mean less soccer time.

"Enjoy each other's company!" the teacher ignored him.

Tenshi looked at him worriedly, "I'm sorry, Souma-kun. If you'd like, you can just draw a map for me and I'll look after myself."

Her eyes had widened and looked really worried.

'I'm sure she'd be good company… she really is cute too…' Kuukai thought.

He sighed, "It's okay. I don't mind."

Putting on his signature grin, he gave her a thumbs up and said, "Call me Kuukai. I'll officially be your new temporary best friend here!"

"All right. I'll call you Kai-kun if that's okay? Call me Tenshi!" Tenshi grinned back.


(Lunch Time)

"So, which place do you wanna go see first?" Kuukai asked Tenshi. He lifted his arms and folded them at the back of his head.

"Let me see…. I wanna see the library!" Tenshi said enthusiastically.

"What!? But I detest libraries!" Kuukai exclaimed.

"But, I wanted to look for this particular book…" Tenshi's eyes dulled a little.

By lunch time, the two were already indeed like best friends and acted like they've known each other forever.

Kuukai sighed. "Fine, I'll go there for your sake…"

Tenshi immediately brightened up considerably. "Really? Thank you Kai-kun, you're the best!"

"I know, but only just this once though," he said, not bothering to act modest.

"But I don't understand… I expect that you'd wanna see the cafeteria first!" Kuukai sighed. "Food's the best after all!"

Tenshi stuck her tongue out at him, "But, for me, books are better. Let's go the cafeteria later all right?"

"Sure!"


(In the Library)

Tenshi gazed around happily. She ran her long slender fingers over the spines of books lined up neatly on labeled shelves.

"This library is wonderful!" Tenshi said, her eyes shining.

It was almost as if this were the first time she'd seen a library.

"I'm sorry to say this, but Tenshi, is this the first time you've seen a library or something?" Kuukai asked, scratching the back of his head.

Tenshi looked at him, "It's not like that. It's just that books are like little different worlds made of just paper and ink. Books are like portals to different worlds of stories. Be it romance, humor, adventure or anything else."

The both of them wandered into the 'Fantasy' section. Tenshi inspected the spines, one by one until she took out a rather plain-looking book from a shelf. The book's cover was made of a hard, brown cover with a fading white printed title.

Tenshi held up the book and showed it to Kuukai.

"Hmm… what's that?" Kuukai asked.

"This book's called 'Falling in Love with Cupid'," Tenshi explained.

"What's that about?"

Tenshi hesitated. "Well, I'll give you a non-spoiling summary because I want you to read it yourself. Let's see… To cut it short, it's about falling in love with cupid."

Kuukai sweat-dropped. "Obviously…."

"Well, here you go! Read it. It's my favorite book!" Tenshi handed him the book with a big smile on her rather angelic face.

"But I'd read it really slow… besides, I hate reading…uhh…." Kuukai looked at the book with a lost look on his face.

"Kuukai!" a different voice interrupted.

The both of them turned to face Amu who was holding a stack of books.

"H-hinamori! Uh hi! " Kuukai stuttered. His face started turning red.

"What're you doing here? I thought you hated this place!" Amu asked, genuinely shocked.

"Umm I- uhh…" Kuukai didn't know what to say.

Tenshi observed her friend's behavior with utmost interest.

'Oh….this is interesting…' Tenshi chuckled a little. She kept quiet, not wanting to disrupt the moment.

Amu noticed Tenshi almost immediately. "Oh, hi! Sorry that I didn't notice you. Was I interrupting something?"

Kuukai got redder, "No, not at all. Hinamori, this is Koigokoro Tenshi, one of the new transferees. She uh, came from Greece. So I'm just showing her around the school. It's not like we're together or anythin' "

Tenshi smiled to herself. She introduced herself to Amu as well, "Hi, as Kai-kun said, I am indeed one of the new transferees, my name is Koigokoro Tenshi and I'm from Greece. Nice to meet you!"

"Hinamori Amu. Nice to meet you."

'Kai-kun? I'm so asking Kuukai about that later... This girl's really pretty though, and nice...' Amu thought.

She smiled cheerfully and shook hands with Amu.

"Wow… so he's just here to show you around huh? I thought for a second that he was just here to read books or something. Kuukai barely ever comes to this place. He belongs in the soccer field for most parts," Amu said, giving Kuukai a mischievous look.

Kuukai smirked. "Hey, I'm human too. It's not like I'll die from just stepping into the library. What are you doing here Hinamori?"

Amu noticed the book in Kuukai's hands. "I'm doing something for the teacher. So you guys are here to borrow books?"

Tenshi nodded. Kuukai handed Amu the book to show it to her.

"Interesting title. But it's something a girl'd read, " Amu commented.

Kuukai sweat dropped. "I guess…"

Tenshi asked, " Do you wanna read it first? It's pretty interesting. Besides, I don't think me or Kai-kun would have the time to read it."

Amu read the summary from the back of the book and said, "Sure, thanks by the way. Welcome to this school! Let's get to know each other better some time!"

With a parting smile, Amu left Kuukai and Tenshi on their own.

After watching her walk away, Kuukai asked Tenshi, "Lunch?"

Tenshi nodded, "Definitely. I promised."


(Cafeteria)

The school's cafeteria was rather like a big café. Kuukai and Tenshi sat at one corner on the second floor of the big hall with trays of their lunches on their table.

While Kuukai hungrily downed his food, Tenshi looked up from her fruit salad and suddenly said, "You like her don't you?"

Kuukai choked and coughed violently. Tenshi immediately patted him on the back and gave him water.

"Sorry."

"Nah, it's okay. By the way back to what you said….. WHAT?!?" Kuukai asked, his cheeks reddening a little.

Tenshi sipped her drink. "It's obvious. You, Kai-kun are in like or shall we say love? With this Hinamori Amu-san."

Kuukai glanced around them as if looking for any close by listeners. He leaned in towards her, " How'd you know? I mean you know, that I kinda like Hinamori…"

"Not 'kinda like' Kai-kun. Really like. And anyway, it's very obvious. You got all red and lost at words when she appeared in the library. Did you know that one's emotions can be read just by looking into one's eyes?" Tenshi questioned.

"Your eyes shone really bright when you saw her. Almost like a dying flame suddenly re-ignited by gas."

'Obviously, I read a lot from your own eyes,' Kuukai thought. He looked into her eyes right now and thought that they showed a lot of excitement.

" Really? I rather thought my eyes were just a weird color which showed nothing but pupils," Kuukai said. He dug into his lunch once more.

"No, your eyes are a nice color Kai-kun. Very unique and pretty!" Tenshi said.

"Pretty would not be a good term to describe a guy's looks…" Kuukai sweat dropped.

Tenshi ignored him, "Anyway, you really like her don't you?"

"Sure I do…" Kuukai mumbled.

God, this mysterious girl just met him few hours ago and now, she seemed to practically know everything about him.

"Then do you plan on telling her then? You're a super nice guy though I just met you and obviously, she'd accept you! Besides, from what I learnt, you're pretty popular with the ladies around this school," Tenshi said casually.

"I have no guts to express my feelings to a girl. Besides, I'm engaged already…" Kuukai muttered.

Tenshi's eyes dulled a little, but showed no shock or whatsoever. "You're engaged?"

"Sure, my old man made a promise and betrothed me to some mystery girl who won't even show her face to me," Kuukai said carefully, wondering why she wasn't surprised that he was engaged.

"And Tenshi, this is something between you and me all right? No one else knows. I told you 'cause I trust you."

"Okay!" Tenshi made a cross gesture on the left side of her chest, where her heart was supposed to be. "Cross my heart an' hope to die."

"Well, I'm sure that if you met your fiancé some time, when you explain your current situation to her, she'd understand. I'm sure she won't want to force you to marry someone you don't really love instead of the one you really love." Tenshi said.

Kuukai looked into her eyes. 'Ugh, she's being truthful…she's looking straight into my eyes…'

"You know, you're like some Doctor Phil. Except without the bald head and glasses," Kuukai said.

'A much more cuter Doctor Phil … wait, what am I thinking? This girl is like an analyzing machine!'

Tenshi chuckled, "Maybe, but I don't plan on being Doctor Phil in this one…"

Kuukai stopped what he was doing and stared at her in disbelief, "You gotta be kidding….. your surname and given name combined may give that kind of meaning but seriously, you don't actually practice at playing cupid do you?"

Tenshi's eyes were filled with obvious mischievousness. "Too bad, so sad, you can't change my mind dear Kai-kun!"

You could almost hear the heart at the end of that sentence.


Author: As usual. I'm now gonna blab about how lazy and everything I am and I didn't get my butt up to finish writing this chapter sooner. So R&R! Positives are greatly appreciated!

-Your one true lazy and idiotic author, MewKohaku