Making my way home I glance up at the sky seeing the beautiful stars already out. "I need to do some research on those auras and this so called embryo thing."

Chapter 5

Sakura's point of view

"It seems like the weather was going to be good for today." I said to myself, while sitting on top of my roof of my apartment.

Today I wasn't going to school because I wanted to get information about the little auras and this so called Embryo thing.

I let out a sigh on how much time and work this was going to take. "The better I know about these things, the better I will understand what I'm going up against."

Standing up I did a little stretch before jumping into my opened window. Turning my shower on, I quickly took a nice warm shower and threw on a red, fluffy towel. Walking out of my bathroom, I made my way to my closet to pull my clothes out.

Pulling out a black off the shoulder shirt that came down to under my bellybutton with some black short shorts. When finished I made my way to the bathroom again and put my hair into two low ponytails tied with white ribbons. Once done with my work I took a quick glance at the clock to see that it read 9:30. School started an hour ago.

Walking into my kitchen, I grabbed some leftover sushi from last night and popped some in my mouth while searching for a water bottle in the refrigerator.

Once done with everything in the kitchen I made my way over to where my scrolls were that held all of my ANBU gear and my weapons pouch. Strapping my pouch around my thigh and sealing my scroll into my wrist for easy traveling and I won't get any weird gazes from people anyway.

Walking to the front door, I pulled out some black knee high combat boots from the closet beside the door and strapped them on my feet. Walking out of the door and locking it, I took a quick glance around the area before sprinting off.

Jumping on top of a fence, I quickly search for any clues I could get. Seeing nothing I sprinted down the fence the jumped off and landed on the ground before jumping on top of a building.

20 minutes later

Jumping from roof to roof, I still couldn't get any hint to what I was looking for. About to jump off to another roof, but was stopped by a paper airplane. It seemed to fly so perfectly threw the air and directly toward me. Narrowing my eyes I snatched it with my first and middle finger before it could come any close. Looking over toward the direction it was thrown in I noticed no one was there. Closing my eyes I searched for a presence but, could not find any.

Opening the plane up my eyes came to nicely handwriting. The note said:

Dear captain,

You have questions about this world and you seek very wrong,

Please come to the planetarium behind the academy and you shall get the answers to your questions.

See you soon,

The watchful eye

Seeing no harm to what the owner of the letter meant. I put the letter in my back pocket grabbed my black gloves and my ANBU mask from my scroll and put them on before sliding into the darkness and sprinting my way to the building without making a sound.

Once I arrived I pulled out a kunai and slowly pushed the door open to see what was inside. Opening the door a little so my body could squeeze threw then closed it once I was inside.

Before I could take another step a dark presence made itself known near Amu. Knowing that they were in public and Amu was with her friends by the way she was surrounded by the multi colored auras that she was safe. Putting my attention to my surroundings I stealthily walked threw the seats as quite as possible and made my way to the bottom. Once there a voice came to life.

"Good Afternoon, Captain." A male voice said. Then the ceiling came to life, showing me the stars of the sky.

"I hope that you're enjoying this world very much."

Locating the voice very quickly to my right I turned and faced the man that was slowly coming out of the shadows. Once his body was showing, I disappeared from his vision to only appear in front of him with a kunai against his throat.

"I guess sending you was the best choice for our little Guardians, Neh Captain." He said with a little hint of surprise of the little attack he received.

"So you're the one that sent for me." I said while removing my weapon from his throat. Stepping back I let him walk fully into the light.

"Sorry for the little attack, in ANBU you must be ready to fight at any moment." I said while giving him a bow to apologize.

He chuckled before replying, "Yes, I understand. Anyways you must have questions. Please come sit and have some tea with me and I'll answer to the best that I can." The man said while guiding Sakura over to the seats in the front row.

"My name is Tsukasa, and you are Miss?" Tsukasa asked while pouring him and Sakura's tea.

"Haruno Sakura, Tsukasa-san." I replied while accepting my tea as well.

"Now what would you like to ask me, Sakura-san?" He asked before he took a sip of his yummy tea.

Putting the teacup down and crossing my legs I then took my mask off to reveal my bright emerald eyes. "I wanted to know what are those auras that hang around Amu-san?"

"Ah, they are characters. Those little auras represent what the owner wants to truly be." He said.

Nodding my head in understanding, I proceeded to ask the next question. "I heard from this dark haired boy that attack Amu-san not to long ago. What is the Embryo?"

"Now that my darling flower, is a very good question." He said while getting up. "Please follow me."

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Closing the door behind me, I took off into the night. Jumping from branch to branch. Not making a sound at all. Once near the gate of the courtyard, I jumped down from the branch and sealed all my stuff in my scroll then sealing that into my wrist.

Looking left to right, I made sure that there was no car insight so that I could cross the street. My mind still on what happened at the planetarium. "The Embryo is a magical egg, that can grant any wish to anyone who catches it. Only one person can wish on it though." Tsukasa told me while we both gazed at the stars.

Nodding my head again, to show that I understand.

"Is that all you needed?" he asked me.

With my gaze still up, I narrowed my eyes and said, "Who are the people that I need to be avoiding? Or who is also after the Embryo?"

Letting out another chuckle he tilted his head toward my direction and said, "Very forward and to the point, Sakura-san. Your Mentor sure chose the right ninja."

"Well, I wouldn't say the best, but I will take the compliment." I said while giving him a small smile.

"Easter."

Lifting an eyebrow, I asked, "Excuse me, Easter? Like the Easter Bunny?"

Shaking his head at my theory. "No Sakura-san, the company. Full of dangerous people who are also after the Embryo. They capture or make the X eggs appear. And sometimes destroy them as well."

Letting out a sigh, I nodded my head. "Well thanks for the info Tsukasa-san, but it's time for me to go." I said while getting up.

"Hai Sakura-san, and take care of yourself, the Guardians, and more importantly Amu-san as well." He told me while watching me disappear from his sight. While blending into the shadows, I was off.

"Don't worry Tsukasa-san, you got the right protector for these kids and Amu-san." I said to myself.

Walking up to a nearby dango shop and grabbing some I made my way over to Amu's house to see if she was okay.

"Knowing that she has Ran, Miki, and Su. She will be fine, but just making sure." I said while walking up to her door.

Knocking on the door I waited patiently for someone to answer the door.

A lady that looked around mid thirties opened the door with a warm smile.

Returning the smile, I asked. "Hello Miss, is this Amu Hinamori-san's House?"

I asked politely.

"Hai, hai I'm Amu-chan's Mother, Midori Hinamori." She said as she introduced herself to me.

Bowing a little for respect. "I'm Sakura Haruno, a friend of Amu-san. I was wondering if I could speak with her."

"Oh, come in please come in. Amu-chan never invited a friend over. Oh, my little spicy daughter has a friend!" she said with hearts in her eyes.

Walking into the living room, I was met with a dancing and singing two year – old and a man also in his mid thirties.

"Darling come here and meet Amu-chan's friend, Sakura-chan." Midori called over to her husband.

The man got up from taking pictures of his little singer and came up to us, then took a random picture of me before he spoke.

"Oh look how cute you are! Hello Sakura-chan, I'm Tsumugu Hinamori. Amu-chan's Father." He said.

"And I'm Ami-chan. The greatest singer in the world!" the little girl cam up to me and exclaimed.

Giggling I stooped down to her height and said, " Well Ami-chan, can I have the greatest singer in the world's autograph?" I asked.

"Yes, you may Sakura-chan." With that said the little girl ran upstairs to her room to get a piece of paper and a pen for me.

Midori clapped her hands twice like she remembered something and said, "Oh, that's right Sakura-chan. Amu-chan is taking a bath right now, but your more then welcomed to go upstairs and wait for her there." She told me while guiding me over to the stairs.

"Thank you, Midori-san and Tsumugu-san. It was nice meeting you both." I told them before bowing and continued to walk upstairs.

"it was a pleasure of meeting one of Amu-chan's friends as well, Sakura-chan." They both said.

Opening the door to my right which I quickly figured it was Amu's by the way it looked for a pre-teen.

Walking in I sat on the bed waiting patiently for Amu to come out.

A couple of minutes later

I heard a door from down the hall open and heard footsteps walk down the hall and down the steps. Hearing a couple of voices and pounding of feet coming up the steps before the door bust opened and in came a very red and tired looking Amu.

Giving a small smile and a wave. "Hey there, Amu-san."

Hearing my voice Ran, Miki, and Su flew past Amu and directly into me pushing me back on Amu's bed. Giving out a small giggle I opened my eye and was met with pink, blue, and green little people.

"Hey to you too, Ran-chan, Miki-chan, and Su-chan." I said while sitting up.

Looking past the charas, my eyes landed on a very dazed Amu. Holding up the bag of Dango I got from up the street. "Wanna join me, Amu-chan?"

Snapping out of her dream she nodded her head.

A few pieces of dango later

"Oh, that was good, Sakura-san." Amu told me.

"Glad that you liked it, Amu-san. This is also an apology for not showing up at school today." I told her while cleaning up our little mess and offering another stick to the girls.

"Sakura-san, why didn't you come anyway?" Amu asked me.

Turning my head toward her I gave her a little wink and said, "It's a secret."

Before busting into giggles. I watched as Amu's face turned pink and little smoke come out of her ears. Before she could blow her a tantrum. I asked, " Neh, Amu-san can you throw this away and get me something to drink?"

I watched as Amu took the bag and nodded her head toward me and left to get us something. Silently I watched as the girls finish up there dango. Closing my eyes, I quickly searched the perimeter to see any enemy around. Feeling one on top of the roof, I acted like nothing was wrong so that I wouldn't scare the girls.

Getting up and stretching a little bit, I walked over to the rail of the balcony and leaned against it pulling my pigtails loose and let the breeze take them away. Feeling the presence move above me so that the presence was now directly in front of my face.

"You know eating things like that will loose the curves that you have?" a deep musky voice said. Opening my eyes, I was met with these beautiful blue eyes.

"You know sneaking up on a lady like that, just might give your pretty little face a red mark." I retorted. Not moving away from the upside down boy, I made sure not to back down from him.

"Ikuto!" a voice yelled behind me.

Turning around I was met with a blushing Amu, pointing at the boy in front of me.

"Sakura-san, get away from him!" Amu yelled once again.

"So your Sakura-chan?" the same voice that sent me shivers down my back. Turning around the boy was now sitting on top of the rail with one leg up and the other dangling.

"And you must be Ikuto-san?" I asked the boy while I turned around. Putting my hands on my hips I watched as his eyes looked me up and down before settling on my eyes. Before standing up he whispered in my ear. "I prefer Ikuto-danna, Koi."

Before I could say anything, Amu pushed me away and demanded. "What are you doing here, Ikuto?"

Pulling a bag from out of no-where, he shoved it into Amu's hands. "You was making something sweet the day before, correct?"

The girls and I looked inside the bag as Amu opened it, there were sweets inside. Looking back we saw Ikuto bout to jump off the rail.

Amu looked like she was going to say something, but I quickly covered her mouth. We watched silently as he took off into the night.

After saying goodbye to the Hinamori's and telling Amu that I was going to pick her up in the morning, I left.

Looking up into the dark sky "Hope we can meet again, Ikuto." Was the last thought I had before I sprinted down the road to my apartment.

...

(Knock, knock)

Was the sound I made when I knocked on Amu-san's door to her house the next morning. Waiting patiently for the door to open, I quickly checked to see if my hair was nice and that my uniform was neat as well. Just to let you guys know that my hair is down in curls at the end with a couple of strands pulled back from my face to the back in a small ponytail.

Hearing footsteps coming closer and sensing three small charas, I quickly stopped what I was doing and stood still.

"I'm going, mom!" Amu yelled when she opened the door.

After greetings were exchanged. We were off to school! Yay! Aw who's kidding me):

Once arriving at school, we both were going to go our separate ways but, Amu stopped me.

"Sakura-chan, can you come with me to the Guardian meeting?" Amu asked with a slight hesitation in her voice.

Blinking a couple of time from the suffix that was just placed at the end of my name, "Sure, Amu-san."

The instant that I said that, the quicker her eyes glowed with happiness. "Okay then, let's go!" Ran said as she punched the air while posing in a heroic way. "Ma'am yes Ma'am!" Miki and Su replied while saluting to Ran as like she was the captain of a ship or something.

Following three happy charas, I took the time to study Amu. At first she was using a mask to cover up her emotions here at school but, now she's showing her true self little by little. Her smile reminds me of someone special to me, but I couldn't remember who.

Feeling a gaze on her Amu turned her head so that we were both looking at each other. Giving a smile to which she returned with one as well, we both turned our attention to our destination.

"Amu-chii!" a girl with dark orange or maybe it was a light orange came running up to Amu and gave her a big hug.

"Um hello, Yaya." Amu said a little awkwardly, while patting the girls back.

"Good morning, Amu-chan." Said the girl with the long purple hair pulled up into a high ponytail.

"Hey Hinamori!" a boy with brownish hair said with a wave.

"Hello, Amu-san." Said the blond boy.

Giving them a small wave Amu turned to me and pulled my hand causing me to step up a little bit so I was standing beside Amu this time.

Introducing me, Amu said, "Guys this is my friend, Sakura Haruno. She's sixteen and goes to a different school here in Tokyo. The only reason she's here at our school is because she's doing a project about our school."

"Hello." I said with a wave and a smile.

All of the sudden it looked like the four kids got a fever well mostly the boys cause they were very cherry red. The girls on the other hand had a little pink on their cheeks.

Giving me a hug and rubbing her cheek onto my stomach(just to let you guys know that sakura is a couple of inches shorter that Ikuto but six or seven inches taller than the group)

"So Kawaii!" the girl shouted. Pulling away a little bit she said, "I'm Yaya, Sakura-chii." She said all excitedly.

Pulling the girl off of me was the other girl with the purple hair. Fixing her clothes a little bit, she stuck out her hand and introduced herself. "Hello Sakura-san, I'm Nadeshiko."

Taking her hand I gave it a little shake before turning my head to the next person.

Closing one eye and giving me the thumbs up with a big smile. The boy with the brownish hair said. "Hey there, The name is Kukai."

"Hey there, Kukai." I said then turn my head to the last kid that was here.

The blondie boy came and gave me a slight bow before straightening up and saying, "And I'm Tadase. And we are the Guardians."

Acting like I was a little slow on the news of the Guardian. I asked, "Guardians? Of what?"

He replied with a little blush, I guess cause he had all the attention on him. "We are protecting peoples dreams, Sakura-san."

Nodding my head to show that I understand. Kukai clapped his hand and said, " Well enough chit-chatting time for some training."

Turning to Amu, he continued "Alright Hinamori, it's time to run!" he said excitedly.

Before he could run off with my charge, I grabbed his hand making him blush.

"Is it okay if I join you guys? I mean I already know that you guys have charas and stuff. So maybe I can help out."

Nadeshiko came up to me and asked, "You have charas as well, Sakura-san?"

Shaking my head no. "Nope, I don't but, I do see them."

The Guardians except Amu eyes went wide and looked at Tadase for answers to which he just shrugged his shoulders.

"Well, Haruno If you are sure with doing some training with us then I'm okay with it." Kukai said a couple of minutes later.

Nodding my head, I followed everyone to an open area beside the school. Watching Kukai pick up two ropes from the ground than he began t tie it around him and Amu then grabbed the second rope and tied it around him again but, this time tying it around me.

Before we could start whatever Kukai had in store for us, I quickly took my combat boots on so I could move more freely. Then off we went.

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Sitting down in my seat at the back I waited for the teacher to come in today. Catching some gazes on me from the little boys, I gave them a wave showing that I know that they were staring and watched in amusement on how they turned around quick with a very deep red now etched onto their faces.

Hearing the door slide open, I turned to see Amu walk in. Giving her a wave which she returned lazily.

Sensing a dark presence coming from in the classroom. I quickly scanned the room for anything suspicious. Hearing a sharp yell I turned my head to see a girl with a bob cut get up and storm her way out of the classroom. Immediately I got up and ran out of the classroom, side stepping a man with stacks of books in his hand.

Hearing a crash from behind I turned my head to the side to see Amu on the floor with the teacher I side stepped strewn on the floor as well with books and papers scattered across the floor.

Rolling my eyes at the clumsy Amu. I quickly turned my attention on the girl that now had a dark aura around her with a black egg flying behind her. Once we were outside, I slowed down so that I was walking. Narrowing my eyes at where the girl would go and jumped off into the trees. Feeling another dark presence up above, I turned my head to see Ikuto with his chara standing on top of the roof of the school watching the girl run below him. He looked like he was going to give chase when Amu appeared and went the other direction that we were going.

Shaking my head at her rookie sensory mind, I quickly changed my pace so I was going faster. Landing on the ground I was met with girl with the dark presence. She was swaying and then started to fall backwards. Flash stepping so I was there to catch her and lay her head on my lap while I studied her pulse and temperature to see if she was okay. Feeling the presence going toward Amu, I quickly sent a shadow clone to watch her.

Hearing rapid footsteps coming behind me, I turned my head to see Kukai and the others. Before they could stop I immediately told Kukai and Tadase to go after Amu and Nadeshiko and Yaya to stay with me. Nodding their heads at the orders they quickly did as told.

An hour later

A white egg came flying toward us, sensing that it was a good presence I watched with my guard down as it floated towards us and centered itself on the unconscious girl's chest. I watched as it sank into her heart and saw her twitch before her eyes started to flutter open and that's when Amu and the guys chose to show up.

After giving a speech

The three of us, Amu, Yuki-san, and I walked back to the classroom. We meaning Amu and I were telling Yuki-san about transitioning to a different school maybe hard at first but, that will soon change once you make friends.

As I opened the door for us to get inside, Amu just had to trip and embarrass herself in front of everyone and the teacher. Shaking my head at Amu I turned to walk around them, but stopped when I felt a bad presence radiating off of the man. Narrowing my eyes, I carefully watched the man on the floor.

I watched as they both communicated together and when he was bout to get up, my stance got a little wider, but I relaxed a little when he slipped on a piece of paper. Making the class burst out into giggles.

Rolling my eyes I continued walking toward my desk all the while thinking " Better watch out, Sakura. The first battle is bout to come soon."

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