Chapter 2: A new beginning

Previously:

"Aya-Itoko! Nade-chan made cookies!" Yaya exclaimed, and shoved them into her mouth, leaving one for Ayami. WAIT AYA-ITOKO?! "AYA-ITOKO?!" I repeated aloud. "Hai, I am Yaya's cousin." Ayami informs, bowing her head again, this girl is going to be a miniature Nadeshiko, I can already tell. "She's also going to be, the Diamond's Queen chair, since she has two charas." Tadase informed us. Wait two?! I only see one! "My second chara is still in it's egg." Ayami explained, that made WAY more sense then. As we start walking Tadase asks me, "So, what did you think about Aya-chan?" I look at him and shrug, "She's okay, I really didn't pay much attention." Tadase then looks at me and smiles, "I hope you two become great friends! You would like her a lot!" A new guardian, she may be my secret competition to Tadase's heart, or she could be inlove with someone else, I don't really know, I just have to be careful... She could be really sneaky, well... She's a miniature Nadeshiko! Of course she'll be sneaky... Nadeshiko is a bad influence for her.

It's going to be a new beginning...

(Third Person P.O.V)

"Well then, I'll be taking attendance!" Nikaidou informed, "Now where did I put the attendance sheet?" He said, looking around for the apparent lost attendance slip. He then accidently knocked the books over while trying to find it, making the whole class laugh in amusement.

"W-wow, he sure is clumsy isn't he?" Ayami whispered over to Amu, after a few days of getting to know eachother, they started to become good acquaintances, not friends, but good acquaintances. Amu nodded in response and looked out the window.

"I-I guess this is what you call a lucky mistake... because I found the attendance slip." Nikaidou tried explaining, although the class was still laughing.

"I'll take attendance now!" Nikaidou said, but Amu was still in a daze, thinking about how Ayami and Tadase had gotten so close. I wonder how you would get close to someone like her... she seems pretty friendly, but scared and nervous at the same time, Amu thought.

"Tsukino-san!" Nikaidou called out and Ayami looked up and said, "Hai!"

He then checked the mark off, meaning that she was present.

"Himamori-san?" Nikaidou called out, but Amu looked in a daze. Ayami and the charas noticed that since the teacher kept calling out her name and Amu didn't answer.

"Amu-chan, the teacher is calling your name.." Ran informed, tapping her shoulder.

"Are you there? Himamori-san?!" Nikaidou asked, calling out. Amu stood up and shouted, "It's "HIMA" It's HINAMORI-SAN!"

"Ah, sorry Himamori-san." Nikaidou apologized, but still saying her name wrong. Sulking, she went back down on her seat.

As class finally ended, Amu and Ayami were walking in the hallway, heading outside.

"Aww, what's wrong with that teacher, always calling me Himamori-san, but he can get everyone else's last name right." Amu growled, Ayami thinking in her head trying to come up with a solution, she then said,

"Maybe, he just likes teasing you."

Amu looked at her with a strange look, and Ayami soon realized what she had just said and tried to back it up, "T-that's...not what I meant um... Maybe he and you are very close, so you just... t-that came out w-wrong didn't it?"

Amu nodded and Ayami sighed, "N-never m-mind.."

As the were walking towards the stairs, they saw Kukai running with a duffel bag on his shoulder.

"O-oh, Kukai-san. " Amu said, but Kukai seemed to be in a rush, he then stopped and turned around.

"Oy! Hinamori-san, Tsukino-san! Not much going on heh?" He asked, (Note: Hima means "Having free time"), Amu got slightly offended by that comment, even though Kukai did pronounce her last name right.

"It's not "Hima" Sheesh.." Amu mumbled.

"Aya-chan! Amu-chan!" Nadeshiko said, suddenly right behind their backs, scaring the life out of Ayami and Amu.

"Y-you scared us!" Amu said, with Ayami right behind her back. Harumi, Ran, Miki and Su sweatdropped.

"Hey, if you two aren't busy, why don't you check out the soccer team's practice." Nadeshiko asked. Ayami's eyes grew bigger.

"S-soccer! I love soccer!" She exclaimed, jumping up and down making Nadeshiko giggle slightly. They all began to walk outside towards the field.

"So Kukai-kun is the team captain of the soccer team?" Ayami asked, as they have all sat down to watch the game. When they saw Kukai running up to the coach, they saw a bunch of fangirls cheering his name, making both Ayami and Amu have a very twisted look.

"He's Popular, isn't he?" Amu asked.

"Oh? Are you both jealous?" Nadeshiko teased and Ayami shook her head and said, "Not my type." Making Nadeshiko have a mischievous smile, so Ayami scooted slightly away from Nadeshiko and closer to Amu. All three of them heard Kukai and another boy called Yamada switch.

"Heh? They're switching?" Amu asked, turning to Nadeshiko. Nadeshiko was in the middle of both Amu and Ayami.

"The ones who wear the blue are regulars." Nadeshiko explained.

"So what about the one's who don't wear anything?" Amu asked.

"A-amu-chan... They're the secondaries." Ayami informed.

"This is just so sad-desu." Su added. As they were watching the team, Kukai and Yamada accidently kicked the ball over to Amu.

"Oy Amu! Pass the ball!" Kukai asked, but suddenly Ran Character-changed and Amu and Kukai were competing against eachother to get the ball in the goal. (It's not really important, therefore no need to go into much detail ^-^)

"Nice shot Hinamori-san!" Yamada said, high-fiving Amu.

"I guess I have more practice to do." He added. As Nadeshiko and Ayami walked up, apparently Ayami heard and she tried to cheer Yamada up by saying, "Don't worry! You did really good out there!" Although she desperately wanted to say that Amu character-changed, she kept her mouth shut. Yamada blushed by what Ayami said.

After the practice was over it was about evening time and the coach gathered the team together.

He explained, "At long last, we'll be having our practice match with Seifuu Academy, since it's Seifuu Academy we can't overdue it. We'll play by the book and we'll win. Anyways I'll announce who'll be going up against Seifuu Academy."

He then started to call out names:

"Goalie: Hara"

"Defenders: Ishimori, Kamiyama, Itou, Nakamura"

"Midfielders: Takaki, Oda, Yamamoto

"Up front will be Suma" (Note this is the coach talking)

Ayami looked over at Yamada to see him a bit sad, therefore she felt a bit sad too. Nadeshiko noticing Ayami's sadness started to get her worried too.

"Isn't that wonderful Souma-kun." Nadeshiko asked Kukai as they (Nadeshiko, Kukai, Ayami and Amu) were walking home.

"Of course! I am captain over all!" He exclaimed with glee, making Amu giggle. Ayami still dazed off about Yamada. I wish I could've said something to him-, Ayami though but was interrupted when Nadeshiko called, "Aya-chan!"

But before she could gain her sight back, she ran into a pole making them sweatdrop.

"What's on your mind, Aya-chan?" Nadeshiko asked, helping Ayami up from the ground.

"E-eh?... I-it's nothing.." Ayami answered, slightly wondering off again, but Nadeshiko didn't buy that lie for one second. As they stopped Ayami walked on, but stopped and turned around and said, "Well I'm headed home now! See you later!"

"Oy! Come watch out game tomorrow, okay?" Kukai instructed, and Ayami nodded in response with Nadeshiko and Amu waving, though Nadeshiko was still wondering what was on her friend's mind.

"Don't you feel bad for him, Harumi-chan?" Ayami asked as they walked home, but she then heard someone kicking a ball, turning around she saw Yamada kicking the ball against a brick wall.

"He's not even playing tomorrow and he's still practicing.. poor him.." Ayami said, turning to Harumi who had a bit of a worried look too and she nodded in agreement.

"Good luck." Harumi and Ayami said quietly, then went walking to their home.

The next afternoon it was finally time for the soccer game to start, and all of the guardians, except Kukai, were on top of a blanket eating lunch that Nadeshiko made, (the order in which they were sitting in was: Amu, Nadeshiko, Tadase, Ayami, Yaya. Just so you know ^-^)

"This is really good Nadeshiko!" Ayami stated, eating the food.

"I agree, it is very delicious!" Tadase said in agreement to Ayami's comment.

"Yaya-chan, eat all your lunch first, you'll get fat!" Amu scolded at Yaya for eating the caramel candy.

"That's okay!" Yaya gleefully stated, while Ayami was trying to take the candy away from Yaya.

"Ah! It's starting." Nadeshiko announced, trying to calm Ayami and Yaya down for a second, of course they did, knowing what Nadeshiko would do when she's mad, and they weren't in the mood to see her mad.

Kukai waved to them as he was walking and Yaya shouted his name while the other guardians were waving at him, then some fangirls came behind them and started shouting his name, making the guardians sweatdop.

As the game started, the guardians cheered Kukai on, while Nadeshiko character-changed and started to shout

"What're you spacing out for?! You're suppose to give it your all from the first second!" She shouted standing up, since they had all changed positions and now Ayami was in between Yaya and Nadeshiko, Ayami tried calming her down, "Na-nade-chan... he's probably t-trying to g-give it his all..."

Nadeshiko turned to her with a menacing glare, and Ayami scooted over closer to Yaya, hoping that Yaya would back her up, but unfortunately Yaya was busy eating snacks to notice Nadeshiko and Ayami's situation... Well more Ayami's then Nadeshiko's.

Ayami saw Yamada walking up and going some where, out of curiosity, she began to get up and follow him. Tadase also noticing this got up and gently tapped her shoulder making her turn around quickly.

"H-heh?" Ayami asked with a slight confused face.

"Are you okay... is something wrong?" Tadase asked with a worried look on her face.

"U-um... Just a second!" Ayami explained and dashed to the point where Tadase couldn't catch her again and he called her name out but Ayami didn't stop to acknowledge. Amu saw what happened and decided to follow her too.

Losing track of where Yamada went, Ayami finally slowed down for a second letting Amu catch up with her. "Are you okay, Ayami-chan?" Amu asked, taking Ayami by surprise, normally because she doesn't really ever ask someone, if he/she is okay.

"I-I'm just worried about Yamada-kun..." Ayami explained, Amu nodded and they began to run and find Yamada.

When turning a corner they accidently ran into Nikaidou.

"Oh! It's was just you two, Himamori-san and Tsukino-san." Nikaidou said, slightly relieved.

"It's Hinamori!" Amu exclaimed but Nikaidou obviously ignoring what she said.

"You two aren't going to watch the soccer game?" He asked, and Ayami slightly panicked, she didn't really want to tell him what was going on, but she's not really good with talking to adults either.

"S-sorry... We're I-in a b-bit of a... hurry, r-right now." Ayami shyly stated grabbing Amu's hand and running past Nikaidou. Something's not right about that teacher, Ayami thought as her and Amu ran to find Yamada.

After a few seconds Amu complained, "Ugh! We lost Yamada!"

"Guys look! He's over there!" Ran shouted and Ayami and Amu looked Ran's way to see Yamada sitting on a bench with a bit of a sad face, making Ayami have a worried expression. Amu and Ayami started to walk over to him

Yamada was looking over at Kukai and thinking to himself, Kukai's Really awesome, someone like me will never...

"Something's off." Harumi noted as they saw Yamada's upset expression.

"Yea, something's definitely not right-desu." Su agreed as Ayami and Amu watch Yamada. Soon when Yamada shouted "It doesn't matter!" and soon enough an X-egg, appeared above him.

"I-it's a-an x-egg!" Ayami whispered, slightly worried.

"SO his heart's egg was weak!" Miki stated.

'Kiiiiiicccckk OFF!' is what the x-egg shouted before it turned into an x-egg.

Over at Kukai's game, Tadase stood up and Yaya asked, "What's wrong Tadase?"

"The way Tsukino-san was acting acting worries me." Tadase explained.

"I agree." Nadeshiko agreed and they nodded, getting up and running towards the school. Yaya soon enough, followed right behind them, almost tripping.

The X-Character started to kick balls at Ayami and Amu, trying their best to dodge them Ayami brought out a white umbrella with yellow flowers, well a very powerful Umbrella that is. Amu saw where Ayami is going and also went behind the umbrella too.

"What type of umbrella is this?" Amu and Miki asked at the same time.

"I made it, just incase for emergencies like this!" Harumi stated, and Ayami nodded,

Soon Tadase and the others (except Kukai) ran towards them and Tadase shouted, "Tsukino-san! Hinamori-san!"

When the X-character started to shoot more balls, Ayami shouted, "Quick behind my umbrella!" And the guardians quickly went behind her umbrella.

"I'll never be able to do this," Yamada started to say as Ayami turned around, "I don't care, I'll never be good enough to be on the team."

"That's NOT True!" Ayami shouted, and everyone turned around (including the X-character)

"Just because you failed at something once, doesn't mean you have to give up! You're not going to be good at anything if you don't keep trying!" Ayami stated, and everyone was starting to agree with her comment.

"Ayami! Let's do this!" Amu said and Ayami nodded in agreement.

"My Heart Unlock: Amulet Heart!"

"My Heart Unlock: Styled Harmony!"

Soon as Amu was dressed as a pink cheerleader, Ayami was dressed in a sweet Lolita Princess dress that was colored with yellowish white. (despite her favorite color is pink)

"I... I saw you practicing river bank even though you weren't chosen to be a player! You still didn't give up! So you can't give up now!" Ayami explained.

"That's a lie! You don't think I have talent either!" Yamada's conscience said, making the x-character throw more balls. Ayami managed to dodge them, making the other guardians worry.

"Aya-chi be careful!" Yaya shouted.

"Others... Don't get to decided whether or not you have talent!" Amu chimed in.

"What can you do if you don't believe in yourself?!" Ayami quizzed, getting closer to the x-character. The X-character then shouted "Red Card!" Throwing a bigger ball at her.

Ayami made a hand movement and then A Yellow and white parasol appeared in her hand, making her use it as a shield to block the ball.

"Don't X Yourself out!" Ayami shouted, making the X-character stop for a second, and Amu lost no time to purify the egg. Then Yamada's chara came out and looked at Ayami and said, "Thanks for clearing things out! You're a good person!"

Ayami blushed and asked, "Y-you're Yamada's dream?"

The chara flew closer and nodded playing with the soccer ball, "Yep. I love soccer! Anyways Ciao." He said as he winked at her and went back into his egg, going back into Yamada.

"Player switch, Sato! With Yamada!" The coach shouted, while Ayami was still facing Yamada, she heard his name and looked in shock as Yamada woke up.

"Oh, Tsukino-san?" Yamada asked as he got up.

"No time for c-confusion!... You're being switched in! So hurry and go" Ayami informed, as Yamada realized what she had just said.

"Heh? I'm being switched in?" Yamada asked.

"H-heh... Yea! N-now hurry! You've got to go win this!" Ayami stuttered while trying to encourage Yamada.

"I don't know what really happened, but thank you Tsukino-san, I will definitely try my best." Yamada thanked, as he got up from the bench and patted her head, running to the field.

As the guardians ran towards the game, they saw Yamada playing, when Kukai got trapped between the opposing team, he kicked the ball to Yamada and Yamada kicked to the goal. Right on time too, the time had just ended and the score was 2-1. The guardians and the crowd started cheering. Kukai high-fived Yamada and Yamada ran up to Ayami and told her, "It was thanks to you for encouraging me!"

Ayami shuttered and said, "W-well.. I d-didn't s-" She was interrupted as Yamada kissed her on the cheek, making Ayami blush madly.

"Kyah! Ayami's first kiss!" Yaya pointed and shouted, making Ayami blush even harder.

"Why that little.." Nadeshiko growled under her breath and had a dark purple aura around her and Amu trying to calm her down sweatdropping. Tadase too, looked slightly disappointed but quickly covered it by smiling and congratulating both Yamada and Kukai.

But this Journey has just begun!

Author's Note: So sorry for not updating! School is ending soon, which mean more work has to get don't quicker, I hope you all understand and I hope you liked this chapter!

Third chapter will hopefully be up sooner than this chapter!