Hi! YAY! Chara-changing! That's always fun! Cause somebody usually get hurt in the process! I don't really remember, but I remember Arisa trips, falls, crashes and collapses a lot…:D I hope no one minds the random lengths of my chapters. Sometimes there's just not enough to write xD But I've got a crap load of ideas, so look forward to it :D

Enjoy and review homesicles!

Shugo Chara is owned by Peach-Pit and not me…since I'm not Peach-Pit. But my main character's cooler D

Warning for: Chara-changing, tucking fypos, and side character sappy love life (but we love you anyway Tsu-chan!) oh yeah, and also massive homework packs :D

The Colours of Love: Chapter 5

Faster, quicker, speeding, CHARA CHANGE!

The youngest of the Guardians had orange-brown pigtails on either side of her head, secured with bright red bows. She happily introduced herself as Yuiki Yaya and her chara Pepe-chan, the Ace chair of the Guardians, before clinging onto Kuukai begging him to play with her.

Next to Yaya was a…boy? He had really pretty and straight hair. But was wearing the male's uniform. "Fujisaki Nagihiko pleased to meet you Hoshiwa-san, of Star Class."

Most people think it was weird when people knew random information about you, your school and stuff like that. Well…yeah, Arisa was one of those people. She shook his hand, while sending a weird look towards him. Amu and Rima simply waved, and Arisa sent her gaze over to the other two girls.

"That's Hayai Shinyu," Kuukai said, pointing over to the girl with long, fiery red hair, and a dark grey uniform.

"Kuukai-san, I think I can introduce myself, thanks," she shot at him, "I'm Hayai Shinyu, I go to the high school around here and I'm the, ex Ace! If you have any concerns, don't hesitate to ask me. And this is my chara, Hana-chan," Shinyu had long and straight red hair that reached her mid-back and was tied in a low, messy pony-tail. She also had really cool purple eyes and wore light purple eye-shadow. It went nicely with her eyes, Arisa thought.

The girl next to Shinyu was quiet for most of the time, but looked at Arisa with curiosity. They were both startled when Shinyu threw an arm around her. "And this is my buddy, Aoisora Tsukiga-chan!"

Arisa laughed at the annoyed expression that was plastered on the young girl's face. She had even longer dark green hair that reached her waist, and swished in the wind. Her eyes were bright orange, but empty of emotion.

"Come one Tsu-chi…you've been so depressed since he left. You really need to cheer up!" Shinyu whined poking at Tsukiga's face. Tsukiga replied to this statement with a scowl and shrugged the older girl off. "Nice to meet you," she muttered, then walked away.

Arisa looked at the girl's retrieving figure, then back at the Guardians. Tadase shook his head, "Don't worry about it…she'll be okay."

Luckily Arisa wasn't one to listen to people and followed her towards the forest.

Arisa followed the trail of broken twigs and trampled leaves into a small clearing where Tsukiga sat on the grass with her legs crossed. She was facing the other side of the clearing so Arisa couldn't read the expression on her face.

"Ne…Aoisora-san?" Arisa said, nervously inching closer to her. There was no reply so Arisa kept walking towards her. When Arisa was right next to her, Tsukiga's knees were brought up to her face, with her evergreen coloured hair covering most of her face.

Arisa sat down across from her and crossed her legs. "Aoisora-san…are you alright?" The young brunette's presence was ignored for a while, until the girl opposite to her looked up.

"Why are you still here? Everybody else leaves me so why not you?" She snapped at her. Arisa's brown eyes widened and responded quietly, "I have no idea what happened before, but I thought it'd be nice of me to follow you. So, if you don't want me around I'll just get out the way I came."

Just as she got up to leave a sigh escaped Tsukiga's lips, "Wait," she said, glancing upwards. Arisa turned and sat back down facing her.

"So Aoisora-san," she began, "Tell me what bothered you about Hayai-san's words."

At first, Tsukiga was silent, mentally searching for the right way to word her thoughts. Finally she just decided to say whatever she wanted, "Two years ago, I transferred to this school and joined the Guardians because of my charas. The former Jack before Nagihiko-san…interested me."

She lowered her legs and sat on her knees, crossing her arms and blushing slightly. "But then we found out he was actually a spy from Easter, A.K.A the bad guys. Luckily for us, in the end he chose our side and we won."

"Well that's good isn't it, but what did she mean by he 'left'?" Arisa asked, innocently.

"Yup, that's exactly what he did," she said, quietly. "I confessed to that kid the day before he left. I guess he was a little freaked when I did, so he never gave me an answer. So the next day, I didn't bother going to the airport to see him off and I heard from Yaya-chan he confessed to Hinamori Amu," the green haired girl ended with a scowl.

Arisa's eyes widened, "And, how long ago was that?"

Tsukiga sighed once more, "Almost a year now…"

The younger brunette stared at the girl sympathetically and scooted over next to her. Tsukiga stared at her curiously and suddenly let loose a yelp when the young girl wrapped her arms around her shoulders, almost knocking her over with the impact.

Tsukiga stayed frozen in her position for a moment, but then slowly embraced the other girl.

"You better not be taking pity on me," Tsukiga grumbled into Arisa's shoulder.

"Don't worry, I'm not." Arisa replied.

Empathy would be a better word anyway.

The two girls returned to the Royal Garden and entered it watching everyone inside. Some (Tadase, Nagihiko and Amu) were working, some (Shinyu and Yaya) were slacking off, Rima was her usual self sipping her tea and Kuukai was standing by a small fountain, dribbling a soccer ball boredly.

"Aaaaand they're back!" Shinyu cried out happily, running up to the two girls.

"Welcome back," Nagihiko greeted.

Arisa stared around the Royal Garden in awe. According to Hiro, and many other people, she got distracted, and, or fascinated very, very easily. The Royal Garden was basically, a large glass green house, with many flowers and plants growing around. There was also a small fountain surrounded by bright and colourful flowers. The walkway that you go in lead to a gazebo where the Guardians held daily meetings, and according to Yaya, ate really good snacks.

"Tsu-chaaan, now that you're back from explaining your love life to Arisa-san, can you please do my work for me?" Shinyu begged.

Tsukiga sighed, probably of annoyance, "Shinyu, seriously, you're two years older than I am."

"But Tsukiga-chaaaan!" She continued.

Arisa laughed, "Ne, Aoisora-san, since Haya-san is already offering her work, how about you do my homework as well?"

By now, Tsukiga practically had the funny anger mark her favourite anime characters had when they get annoyed.

The three girls laughed with each other happily, "Ne, Hoshiwa-san?" Shinyu asked, after settling from her laughing fit.

"What is it Hayai-san?"

"Can we please agree to cut all these useless formalities with each other?" She asked, laughing.

Tsukiga smiled, "I agree, formalities suck!"

Arisa also agreed and from that point on, they were pretty much known as F.A.N's; Freakin, awesome, nobodies.

Kuukai looked up from his soccer ball to the commotion of laughter. His bright green eyes instantly laid on the brunette, and smiled himself.

His reaction caused Nagihiko to walk over to him, with a very unwilling Tadase in tow.

"Sou-ma-kun," Nagihiko greeted, clearing stating each syllable. Kuukai sent a questioning look towards the male Fugisaki boy and cocked an eyebrow at him.

Fujisaki-kun, what is it?" He asked.

"We were just wondering why you were smiling like that," He asked with a sly grim plastered on his face.

"…We were?" Tadase asked from behind, unsurely.

Kuukai stared a the pair strangely, then finally responded, "It's funny isn't it?" and walked over to the girls, leaving the plotting Nagihiko, and somewhat clueless Tadase.

Amu and Rima had joined the girls and were in a heated conversation about Arisa's eggs and soon to be charas.

"Hoshiwa-san-"

"You know what?! EVERYBODY has to cut the formalities!" Arisa interrupted, being fed up with being so formal. Formal meant controlling yourself, and she hated that. For Arisa it was full force, no matter what.

Rima had stated that she shouldn't even be with the Guardians since her eggs hadn't hatched yet, but luckily Shinyu and Tsukiga backed her up (but mostly Shinyu; Tsukiga mainly absent-mindedly shot glares at the pinkette standing across from her.)

Along with Kuukai, Tadase and Nagihiko had joined them.

"Hoshiwa-san," Tadase began, but he never really got to finish his sentence after being, once again, interrupted by the somewhat hyper Arisa.

"Tadase-chaaaaaan?" She whined cutely clinging to his arm. The startled Hotori looked at her and sent a look of confusion, "What is it Hoshiwa-san?"

"I'm bored…" She stated releasing him from her death grip.

Suddenly random anime light bulbs appeared over everyone's heads, except Arisa.

"Amu-chi; why don't you show Arisa-chan your transformation and how you purify X-eggs?" Yaya chirped, proud of her idea.

Tsukiga sent Shinyu a look, and Shinyu returned it with a shrug. All the Guardians agreed to this and swiftly ditched their paper work and rushed out of the Royal Garden, on the hunt for an X-egg or two.

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The group chatted ideally as they made their rounds around the school grounds for a while until they stopped at the soccer field. They all stood, staring at a small, round and…squishing looking object, with a large, white X on it.

Arisa looked at it weirdly, "What the hell is that thing?!"

"That, Arisa-chan, is an X-egg. It's what happens when somebody doesn't believe in themselves and start thinking that they can't do something," Nagihiko explained in a whisper, making sure not to scare off the X-egg.

"Also, if they don't get purified, the person stops believing in their dreams all together and become boring," Rima added plainly.

Arisa's eyes widened, maybe this is why her parents kept telling her to follow her dreams…that and to stop hiding dirty laundry in the yard so she would avoid doing laundry.

The group stood in silence, then Kuukai finally announced, "Now I'm going to show you how to chase X-eggs. After you get some practice, it actually becomes quite fun!"

"O…kay?" She said, suddenly quite unsure of what she got into.

All of the sudden, he shouted, "Chara-change!" which shocked Arisa. Nagihiko waved at the duo and said, "Chase the egg around for a bit, then chase it back here."

Kuukai nodded as a yellow star clip appeared in his hair and a blue and yellow skateboard emerged under his feet. Arisa stared in awe how things were suddenly appearing out of thin air, but was literally pulled out of her trance when Kuukai grabbed her hand and sped ahead.

At first, Arisa thought she was going to die, or at least get brutally injured, but after a while, she was getting used to it and was laughing like crazy. She called out directions and if they needed to go faster or not. The only bad and really uncomfortable side was that the skateboard wasn't all that big, so she was basically pressed against Kuukai's back.

After making several rounds around the field and almost crashing into bushes and walls, they returned to the meeting point, cornering the X-egg.

"Amu, go!" Nagihiko called.

The Joker nodded and called to one of her 3 charas. The pink one, how did I guess?

"This is Ran, Miki and Suu, my charas," Amu announced proudly. Arisa watched her curiously, mentally taking notes. Sadly for her, she took notes for everything that isn't school related.

"Atashi no kokoro, UNLOCK!" Amu cried. Suddenly a bright light engulfed her and stayed for a few minutes, when finally Amu emerged from the bright pink light in a light pink cheerleading outfit.

Amu stared at the X-egg with determination shining in her eyes. The X-egg seemed to be quivering in fear and began to speed away.

"Heart Speeders!" Amu cried, as matching pink roller skates appeared on her feet. Amu sped directly towards.

"What do you think?" Kuukai asked, nudging Arisa in the ribs. At first, the young brunette was silent, then she replied, "It's…pink; very, very pink." This caused Tsukiga and Shinyu to snicker, hearing her response.

Even after five minutes of chasing, Amu still couldn't catch up with the X-egg. And Arisa was getting quite fed up.

"Does she normally take this long to catch one and purify it?" Arisa asked, crossing her arms.

Kuukai thought for a moment, "I think this one is a lot faster than most."

Faster.

Arisa''s eyes suddenly widened, She vividly remembers her obsession with being faster than everyone else, so whenever said something about being faster, something inside her clicked. But this time, she heard a voice.

If you want to go, then go right ahead.

The oblivious girl whipped her head around then turned to look at the small bag Kuukai had given her. She hurriedly pulled the blue egg out and stared at it, oblivious to the stares she received from the Guardians.

"Arisa-chan, daijobou?" Shinyu asked, suddenly concerned.

Just then, the blue, crystal egg floated up from her palms and cracked open through the middle and out bust a small, 3 inched person. Well, that's what she thought it looked like.

It was a boy with blue hair, the same shade as the egg, a striped blue, with white goggles tightly fastened to his head and white scarf and blue scarf wrapped around his neck. Along with that he sported a simple white t-shirt and baggy white jeans, and black hockey skates on his feet.

Arisa stared at him in shock, "Holy—"

"If you want to go fast, then go! Faster! Quicker! Speeding! Chara-change!" He shouted.

At that moment, goggles similar to his appeared in her hair along with blue hockey skates. Did I mention she was floating?

"What—what's happening??" She demanded, but before anyone could respond something in her mind clicked and commanded her feet to go. So that's what she did.

That day, Arisa Hoshiwa went faster than she had ever dreamed of.

Eventually, she had gotten the hang of it and was 'air-skating' like mad. Sometimes she would turn around to watch the trail of clear, blue sparks appear, tracing her trail. Arisa was absolutely exhilarated by the sudden adrenaline rush and sped forward after the X-egg with all her might; backwards.

Just as she passed Amu, who had already began to persperate, Arisa turned forward once more and sped ahead. Right when the X-egg was in her reach, she bounded forward, reaching out at the egg, successfully catching it in her hands.

Arisa smiled cheerfully as the poor X-egg squirmed and wiggled around in her hands. She stared at it with awe, and while in her trance her mind suddenly convinced her to say, "All bad things in your mind…FREEZE!"

Just as she said those words, the X on the egg cracked and the eggs turned white and returned to its original form. Arisa watched in awe as it floated back into the sky and disappeared in the distance. Her trance was suddenly disrupted by the group of Guardians rushing to her side.

"Wow Arisa-chan! That was so cool! You could purify eggs while only in chara-change!" Yaya cheered. Many of the Guardians agreed to this and nodded in approval. Arisa's cheeks flushed to a light hue of pink and her fingers crossed themselves together, out of shyness.

"Well it's not like I planned to show Amu-chan up like that," she replied sheepishly, in shock. Amu was still in her transformation when she approached the group. She quickly changed back, showing her outer personality again.

"Amu-chan, I'm sorry. I really didn't mean to get so…cocky out there." Arisa apologized, bowing to her.

The pink-haired girl's eyes widened with surprise, not expecting an apology, of all things from the girl.

"I-it's alright." She responded.

"It was all…" Arisa paused and turned to the little person floating carelessly by her head, "you're fault!"

"Right, sorry about that, but that's how you want to be; cocky and confident when you play, so that's what I am," he replied lazily, from his lying position in the air. "By the way, the name's Koorei; don't wear it out."

Arisa's mind unexpectedly came to a pause. One of the eggs that she laid this morning had hatched…

Concerned, the Guardians were startled when Arisa suddenly broke into a laughing fit, "Wow, now that I can actually see it, I am sometimes too lazy for my own good!"

Koorei looked up at her and a small smile broke onto his face, "Well Arisa-chan, I'm here to stay so you better get used to it!"

She smiled back, "Nice to meet you Koorei."

The Guardians watched the scene from behind, happy for her. Amu sighed, 'Maybe she's more powerful than me after all."

By the time their little adventure finished, they were left with a fairly hyper Arisa, loads of unfinished paperwork and some stale cookies they had left out after they ditched the Royal Garden.

In her hyper state, Arisa cried out, "YOU LEFT THE COOKIES OUT?? ARE YOU PEOPLE INSANE? WHEN IT COMES TO COOKIES—" luckily before she could continue, she crashed.

Yes; she literally crashed. As in, fall to the ground, topple some chairs over, break a flower pot and pass out; crash. Kuukai laughed silently and pulled her onto his back, carrying her bag in his hand and bid his farewells to the Guardians. Luckily, Daichi and Koorei got along quite well and raced each other as Kuukai carried Arisa.

Once they entered the house, after removing his shoes, when he passed the kitchen he received whistles from his brothers who were suspiciously huddled at the table. Kuukai simply dismissed the thought and continued up the stairs into their room.

Shutting the door behind him, he walked the still slumbering girl to her bed and set her down.

After he stretched his shoulders from the long walk home he bent back down to look at Arisa, deepest sleeper ever, he thought.

Kuukai suddenly remembered that on their way to school, Arisa had told him that she never sleeps with socks on, so that's what he thought to do first. His fingers gingerly tugged at her now, stained until they flipped off her feet. He discarded these in the courner of dirty laundry.

He pulled the sheets behind her down and moved her, until she was nestled nicely under the covers. He pulled the soccer printed sheets over her shoulders and placed Lappy-chan under along with her.

Standing up, he looked over at his work. He smiled. Suddenly caught in a trance, his hand moved towards Arisa and brushed the bangs that covered her eyes.

Suddenly, Kuukai's mind couldn't help but wander and wonder what she looked like with her hair down. His hand drifted to one of her pigtails that lay lifelessly on her shoulders. He hazily fiddled with it, his fingers nearing the hair tie. Then right as he was about to pull it off, he came back to his senses and shot his hand away from her.

What am I doing? If she doesn't want me to see what she looks like with her hair down, I won't.

After grumbling several incoherent words to himself, he changed, turned off the lights and retreated to his bed flushed.

As he drifted off into a calming rest, Arisa's eyes slowly opened.

I knew you wouldn't do it, and with that, she too fell asleep.

Too bad for her the gigantic math package she had for homework was still incomplete. I wonder what Nikaidou sensei's going to think about that…