Amu's P.O.V

"Hurry Amu!" Ran cheered.

"I guess you'll never be on time for school." Miki said giggling. I rolled my eyes and ran even faster.

"It's a habit!" I yelled. I noticed that I wasn't paying attention when I was running and was about to crash into a girl That I thought wasn't paying attention. I tried to stop myself but I couldn't. As soon as I thought that we were about to give each other a concussion, she swiftly turned to the other side and dodged me. I only caught a glimpse of her face, she had beautiful dark gray eyes with long silky straight red hair with bangs. She looked perfect. Her red hair flowed as she ran before I could see her.

As I finally entered my class, I couldn't stop thinking about that girl that I ran into early this morning. Her face kept on going through my mind. Where was she going she didn't look like she was heading to school. why did she move so fluidly? Who was she?

"Hinamori-san, this isn't daydreaming class. Sheesh could you at least look at me while I'm talking, I mean your about to go in to Middle School aren't you?" Nikaidou said jokingly to me. I smiled.

"Amu? Are you okay?" Rima asked.

"I-I'm fine." I said putting a hand behind my head and smiling reassuringly. When she didn't buy it, I pretended to be interested in my work. But then my train of thought was stopped again. Kukai might be coming to the Royal Garden today because he promised to be there more. I smiled. His words still rang in my head.

Flashback

"The Guardians will know their duties sooner or later, even you Amu-chan."

End Flashback

Then I wondered, when AM I gunna know my duty as a Joker? He said I will but I'm not sure. I sighed deeply. But then I smiled at the thought that we shared ice cream. I giggled softly. Then the feeling that I had yesterday started bubbling up again. It stopped when the school bell rang, and I was releived the feeling was gone. As I stated to head to the Royal Garden, Rima stopped me.

"What are you hiding?" she asked. I looked at her nervously.

"N-Nothing." I said as I headed towards the Garden leaving her behind.

Rima's P.O.V

Amu was deffinantly hiding something I know she is.

"Rima, look." Kusu Kusu said pointing towards Rhythm and Nagihiko. They caught up with me and I couldn't help but notice how different Nagihiko looked today. I'm guessing he was getting used to his rhythm as Rhythm would say. I giggled. He looked at me confused, but just smiled and said, "You have a cute laugh." At first I gave him a look but then I softened up and blushed a little. I guess he saw me because he started to blush too.

"Ahem, I think we should head to Royal Garden." he said.

"Agreed." I said. We started walking towards the Garden and Kusu Kusu started to laugh.

"What is it?" I asked.

She came over and whispered in my ear,"Rima-chan likes Nagihiko." she laughed again. I blushed and shooed her away. Then I brought up a subjet to ease the tension.

"Nagihiko? Do you know what's wrong with Amu?" I asked. He looked at me and thought about it.

"I haven't seen her all day so I really don't know." he said matter of factly.

"She's been spacing out all day today, and even when Nikaidou-sensei woke her, she still went back to day dreaming." I said wondering what she was thinking about.

"I'm sure she'll tell us sooner or later." he assured me. I smiled at him.

Amu's P.O.V

As I entered the Royal Garden, just as I expected Kukai was there, along with Tadase and Yaya. Rima and Nagihiko followed behind me.

"Yo, Amu." he said as he smiled. I was so touched because he actually kept his word.

"Kukai...," I said dazing off into his smile but then I snapped out of it, "I mean hey." I ran up the steps and greeted everyone else.

"Amu, Rima tells me you had something on your mind all day today." Nagihiko said. I laughed nervously.

"W-What are you talking about?" I said mumbling and walking backwards expecting to sit in my chair. Instead I miscalculated and almost fell but then Kukai stopped me. I locked eyes with him while he got me back on my feet. He chuckled.

"You're very clumsy Amu-chan. Maybe sometimes the herorine DOES need help." he said as he winked at me. I smiled at him. He was here for me and all of the Guradians after all.

Later when I started walking home Kukai stopped me.

"Hey Amu, I wanna walk you home." he called. Then he finally caught up to me. He panted heavily from running to catch up to me.

"Kukai your starting to get slow." I joked.

"Shut up," he joked back. I was about to come up with another comeback but then I saw that girl again.

"Kukai come on, we have to run again." I said as I grabbed his hand and started running towards her. She was sitting on a bench reading a book. I stopped right in front of her holding on to Kukai.

"Hey, I-I'm sorry about earlier." I said to her. She looked up and noticed me, then her face turned red. She was about to say something but then she stopped. I think she's shy I thought.

As if Kukai was reading my mind he said, "Don't be shy." Then the most unbeleiveable thing happened. A pink Shugo Chara appeared from behind her. It was a boy. He had red spiky hair, a pink t-shirt, a light pink pants, and red and pink sneakers. He looked exactly like Ran but at the same time different. Ran looked at the Shugo Chara and was shocked.

"H-He..." she tried to talk but words couldn't come out.

"Come on, charcter change from a girl who's shy to a girl that's outgoing." he said. Then sudddenly two red hearts appeared in the headband in her hair. That made me, Ran, Kukai and the rest of our Shugo Charas shocked.

"No worries," she said suddenly sounding cool, "It's cool." she gave me a thumbs up before the two red hearts disappeared.

"Ronald!" she yelled.

"Hey that's what you get for not being yourself." Ronald, the Shugo Chara said. Then even more shocking three more boy Shugo Charas that looked like mine appeared. The blue one had on a snapback hat and had blue hair, wearing a light blue shorts, a dark blue long sleeve shirt and a paint smock with paint on it. The green one had a a yellowish/greenish chef's hat with a short sleeve collar dark green shirt and a lighter green shorts. The yellow one had brown spiky hair, a dark yellow t-shirt and a light yellow shorts with headphones around his neck.

"W-What the-" I said as I pointed to all three of them. The girl noticed that I was confused and she started to see why as she looked at my Shugo Charas.

"This is very weird." she said.

"No kidding." Kukai commented. My Shugo Charas and hers decided to look at eachother. Ran, Miki, Su and Dia were awstruck.

"I-Im Uma." (A/N: Notice that Uma's name is Amu's name spelled backwards) the girl said starting to warm up to us. She was as perfect as I remembered, she looked about my age and she had on a blue long sleeve shirt with a black vest corset over it and blue jeans. Her hair was still nice and straight with her bang in the front and a black headband. "And they're Ronald, Matthew, Scott and Derick." she said in order as they appeared.

"I'm Amu and this is Ran, Miki, Su and Dia." I said as I shook her hand.

"I'm Kukai and this is Daichi." he said as he shook her hand too. She seemed less shy now that we introduced ourselves. She smiled. In all truth she was beautiful. The way her gray eyes shined in the sunset complimented her cherry colored hair. And her smile was gorgeous.

"So where ya from?" Kukai asked breaking my trance. Suddenly she looked confused, she thought for a minute and said, "I guess I don't know the answer to that question." she said smiling. Sweat marks appeared behind me and Kukai's head. She laughed.

"All I remember is an explosion from where I used to live, and then I came all the way here." she said looking down.

"An explosion?" I asked quietly. She nodded her head.

"I had no idea what it was though, it's such a blur. But I do know that it killed my parents and the rest of my family. And when I started to travel here I wanted to be more tough. Because I was so delicate back there, that I almost didn't have the strength to walk away from it all. That's when they all appeared." she said.

"At one time?" Kukai asked. She nodded. "I never seen that happen before." I said kind of confused. She shrugged her shoulders in reply.

"You guys should get home, it's late." she said laying down on the park bench.

"What about you?" I asked, wondering where she lived.

"Don't worry about me." she said as she winked at me.

"Yea knowing Uma, she'll be fine." Matthew said. The others nodded in agreement.

"O-Okay." I said a little taken back by her new confidence. Our Shugo Charas said farewell to eachother, then me and Kukai were on our way home.

"I see why you were spacing out about her." Kukai said, still thinking.

"Is it possible for all your Shugo Eggs to just hatch all at once?" I asked. He looked at me and shrugged.

"I say they have good sense in fashion, for boys." Miki said.

"The red one also has a lot of spirit." Ran agreed.

"I think Scott is a great chef-desu." Su said.

"And I could see the radiance from Derick." Dia said as she smiled. Daichi frowned.

"He's not all that radiant." he said. The rest of us giggled.

"I think she's actually pretty nice." Kukai said looking up at the sky while he walked. I nodded.

"Yea and her would be self actually makes sense. She wants to be more tough and strong like a boy, so she got four different types of boy Shugo Charas. It's rare to see someone with a Shugo Chara different than their own gender. Like Nagihiko." I said as I thought about it.

"Yea I guess." Kukai said. I smiled at him.

"Hey, when's the last time you seen Ikuto?" he asked randomly. The question caught me by surprise. Why was he asking about Ikuto. We're all friends but, still.

"I actually haven't seen him in a while. He's probably still studying music in Europe." I said. And it was true. He wanted to go spread the beautiful sound of his violin everywhere. And we hadn't seen him for almost four months now.

"Wherever he is I'm sure he's doing great." he said as he smiled at me. I blushed as his smile almost melted me.

"Yea I-I guess." I stuttered as I looked down.

Ikuto's P.O.V

It was the day I would return to Japan. I had on a light blue long sleeve shirt and black pants with my voilin case around my shoulders. I was already coming off the plane from Europe. It's been a while Japan, I thought. I wondered what new adventures happened while I was gone. Of course things were bound to happen since the Guardians were there. They made Japan exciting. Especially Amu. The kiddish Joker and also my close friend. Although it was late at night, I decided to go to the park and relax a little bit.

"Ikuto I'm tired why do we have to go to the park-nya?" Yoru asked. I rolled my eyes.

"Shut up." I said flicking him on the head.

"Hey, that hurt!" he said in pain. I smiled and continued walking down the park. I stopped when yoru came in front of me.

"Ikuto I sense a bunch of Shugo Charas and a dark presence." he said. I closed my eyes then opened them.

"Trouble already?" I asked flatly.

"I don't know it's hard to tell. Let's go check it out-nya." he said getting excited.

"Sure, I have nothing else to do." I said. But truthfully I wanted to see what Yoru was talking about. As he lead me towards what he was sensing, I started to hear voices.

"Hmmm it looks like you made new friends today." One of them said. Then I heard a cute little laugh.

"Yea I guess, she's actually very nice. And so is her friend and her Shugo Charas."

"I think the pink one is pretty cute."

"Of course you would Ronald, you're a true flirt."

I turned the corner to see a beautiful girl, with long flowing red hair and the most gorgeous gray eyes with boy versions of Amu's Shugo Charas. I was a little taken back by that. She didn't notice me at first, but then she looked up and saw me, along with her Shugo Charas. She was startled by my appearence and turned away. I knew she was blushing.

"Here we go again." the pink on said as he shook his head. I walked over to her as Yoru went to meet the other Shugo Charas.

"Hey, I'm Yoru, who are you guys?"

"I'm Ronald." the pink one said.

"Matthew." the blue on said.

"Scott." the green one said.

"Derick." the yellow one said. As they started to mess around, I sat next to the girl. She was still turned away from me, hugging her knees on the bench. I knew she was blushing really hard. Maybe this is the perfect time to tease, I thought. I smirked.

"It's not good for pretty girl's to be out at night." I said. She turned slightly and looked at me confusingly, still hugging her knees.

"W-Why?" she asked slowly. I smirked a little more.

"You don't know what kind of creep is out there, that may just pin you down right here right now." I said coming closer and closer to her. She opened her mouth to say something, but in one quick and fluid motion, I pushed her shoulders down on the bench and I positioned myself right on top of her. Her gray eyes didn't look scared, they looked dazed and I could tell she knew I wouldn't harm her. I then began to chuckle and her blush reappeared only this time it was light. I got from on top of her and smiled.

"Your an easy tease." I said. She sat up and scowled at me.

"S-Shut up." she said. Then she turned away from me again.

"Are you mad because you liked it?" I asked interested.

"A-As if. Why would I like for a perverted creep to pin me down on the bench?" She said. Perverted? I had another idea. I wrapped my arms around her from behind and put my chin her shoulder.

"I'm sorry for getting you startled." I said softly. She began to daze off again and then looked down.

"It's okay, I'm easily frightened." she said truthfully.

"I'm Ikuto." I said introducing myself.

"I-I'm Uma." she said still not sure if she trusted me or not.

"Shouldn't you be getting home, Uma?" I asked her. She ignored the question.

"I-Ikuto, you're still hugging me." she said softly. I noticed that I was so I let go of her.

"Do you want me to walk you home?" I asked smirking.

"No, because this is my home." she said quietly. I wasn't that shocked when she said she was homeless so I just said, "Okay." She looked at me with tired eyes and yawned. I looked away from her and said, "You can put your head on my lap...if you want to." She smiled and happily did that. Five minutes later she was asleep.

"Ikuto, lets go." Yoru said. I nodded.

"Thanks for putting her to sleep, she's been having a hard time resting." Scott said. I looked down at her. Maybe staying at the park isn't the best idea for a girl. I character changed and picked her up bridal style.

"Lets go guys." I said to the Shugo Charas. They were shocked that I was bringing her home with me. I was actually pretty shocked myself. I usually didn't have sympathy to people I just met.

As I finally reached my house, I climbed into the window of my room and rested her next to me on my bed. I couldn't help but think that she looked like an angel while she slept. At the same time in her sleep she was defenseless and innocent, like a baby. As if it was her reflex in her unconsious state she itched closer to me and wrapped her arm and leg around me, almost like she was trying to hug me. So I did the same. My chin was now ontop of her head. Her hair smelled like sweet cherries. I knew she would be pissed at me in the morning, but it was worth it.

Darren's P.O.V

My weapon was a success. The U-MAE X was perfect. She had everything an actual human has, except for some wires inside of her that run her circuts. So did her Shugo Charas. And the plan was working wonders.

Flashback

"Hello Sir. Do you know where we are?" five voices said in unison.

"Do it." I said to Tari.

"Yes sir." she said as she shot amnesia darts at each one of them. While they were all still unconsious the security rested them outside near Seiyo Academy.

End Flashback

I looked at her tracking device and found that she was already at someones house, sheltered. I smiled. The more trust she got from other people, the more X Eggs she would collect. Getting involved with the Guardians should do the trick. I smirked, and when I did people sometimes say I resembele my brother, except I'm a little younger.

"Sir should we start collecting?" One of the scientists named Seth said. He had silky blond har with purple eyes and wore glasses.

"No, not yet. She's just been created. I haven't even saw here character transform. We have to wait."I said as I began to leave the room. I took the elevator all the way to where the Boss was located.

"Darren, I'm hoping that you're making progress, are you?" he asked.

"Yes sir, I am. The U-MAE X should start collect X Eggs for you in two days. The ratings on her strength are off the chart." I said confidently.

"Good, don't let me down, like your brother." he said.

"Yes sir, you won't be disappointed."

A/N: Hey how was it? I'm trying my best Lolz