You know the randomest thing appeared on my fanfiction profile yesterday. According to the site, I'm in Germany xD But Germans are cool! –Prince of Tennis moment- And Tezu-buchou went to Germany! So I bet he yells at his team in German sometimes…-snicker-

Well enjoy the chapter! It's…also quite long and took a freak long time to write xD

I do not own Shugo Chara in any way. If I did…-cackle manically- Amu would be hit by a bus! xD

Warning for: incomplete homework, letters and…EGAD! WERDDDDDSS!! XD

The Colours of Love: Chapter 6

Mad at my Would-Be-Me

Arisa's morning followed as listed; wake up, get changed, steal someone's breakfast, get in a fight, walk to school and arrive. But this morning would be somewhat different, because normally, she finishes her homework.

Upon arriving at school, stopping in mid-step, Arisa hurriedly opened her bag only to find the math package that she was assigned the day before; incomplete.

"Oh no…"

She turned to Kuukai who had stopped along with her, wearing his middle school uniform, but had yet to tie the green neck tie hanging carelessly on his shoulders.

"What happened, Arisa-chan?" He asked, a worried look appearing on his tanned face.

Her face twisted into an expression of worry, confusion and fear. She's procrastinated before, but she always finished her work…even if it was six in the morning.

She sat, almost lifelessly on the sidewalk, staring at her paper. Kuukai visibly flinched when she groaned loudly, covering her face with the thick pamphlet of paper. After watching her sudden out burst he knelt down and tried to look at her face, but failed.

"Arisa-chan…?"

Suddenly the young girl stood up and glared angrily at a space of air in front of her. Koorei too looked at her with worry, "Hey Ari-kun, seriously, what's wrong?"

Arisa growled and shoved the papers in Koorei's face, "Thanks to yesterday, I didn't get a chance to finish my homework!!"

The two males stared, dumbfounded at the fuming girl. Then Kuukai responded, "Well Nikaidou-sensei was never very serious about homework, so you'll be fine."

She glared angrily at him, "Well he cares about my homework so much, that now that I didn't complete my homework, I'm going to be tutored by a 4th grader!!"

Koorei sighed, admitting his defeat, "Whatever Ari-kun, whatever happens, happens and what doesn't, doesn't. So can we go now?"

So grumbling some incoherent words to herself, they continued on.

When they arrived at Seiyu Academy's grounds, a deep sigh escaped the girl's lips as she waved Kuukai off when he ran in the direction of his school with Daichi.

Arisa glanced around the school grounds, crowded as ever. So she made her way inside to her classroom.

Just as she was making her way up the stairs, there was a sudden commotion coming from the direction of the 4th grade Moon Class. Defiantly not wanting to go to class, she slid down the railing and ran towards the yelling.

After she turned the courner leading to the Moon Class sector, Arisa crashed directly into a large crowd of people surrounding something. When she successfully shoved through the crowd of eager students, her eyes shot open as she stared at her friend and an unknown boy pinned to the wall by her.

"Holy shit…Tsukiga-chan??" she called out.

The boy had a shocked expression on his face. Behind his glasses were clear blue eyes that stared at the older girl in fear. His face was pale…or he was just scared out of his mind.

Now Tsukiga; she had the expression of a demon on her face and was fuming frantically, holding the boy by the collar of his uniform.

From the people surrounding, the duo received whispers, "Isn't that Aoisora-senpai of the Guardians?" And, "What's she doing with Sanjou-san?"

Arisa was wondering these questions herself and more, suddenly she couldn't help it anymore. She shoved past the remaining people in her way and bounded forward, grabbing onto Tsukiga.

"What the hell are you doing?" Arisa demanded, grabbing a hold on the girl's arms, releasing the boy in her grip, who stumbled to retain his balance.

"A-Aoisora-senpai…"

After sending a glare at the boy, she stomped off with Arisa trailing behind her.

"Seriously Tsukiga-chan, what were you doing to that kid?" Arisa demanded, trying to keep up with her fast pace. She abruptly came to a halt, her long hair swishing as she did and turned to face Arisa, with tears at the edge of her eyes, "That was Kairi-kun…"

The brunette's eyes widened, but before she could respond, Tsukiga had sprinted past her to her class.

Still in a state of shock, Arisa glanced backwards at the place she had just come from and saw Kairi sitting against the wall with his head between his legs. Letting out an audible sigh, she continued to class.

When she pushed the door open, the class had already begun and everyone had their nose in a book (or at least made it look like it) and were concentrating on their studies (See other note thing).

Arisa was about to take her seat when Nikaidou signalled her to leave the room with him. She gulped nervously; this was always a sign of trouble.

Fidgeting with her fingers, she stood nervously as he shut the door behind him.

Finally after a tense silence he began, "Well Arisa-chan this is about your tutor…" For a moment, she stopped breathing and her eyes widened.

For once, his expression was stuck in a serious one and he actually tried avoiding her eyes. Clearly he was just as uncomfortable as she was, but she didn't care; she was too busy making sure she doesn't have a fit.

By now, Koorei who was resting in her camouflage pouch peeked out to see that was going on. A room can never be this silent when Arisa was around. When he saw her standing by the teacher, he panicked and flew out. When Arisa saw him from the corner of her eye, she instinctively shot her hand towards him, successfully holding him in her grasp behind her back.

"W-what did you need Nikaidou-sensei?" She asked as innocently as possible. She watched his eyes widen slightly, before looking through her innocent brown eyes and continuing his sentence, "Well your tutor arrived today, so since I heard you've joined the Guardians so you're going to meet him after school today at the Royal Garden."

Arisa noticed his eyes couldn't stop trying to look behind her. Just as she was about to step back into the classroom, Nikaidou randomly asked her, "Hoshiwa-san, are you aware of the real purpose of the Guardians?"

She froze, and suddenly Koorei escaped her grasp and flew up to Nikaidou's face and shook an angry fist at him, "And so what if she does?! Huh? What are you going to do 'bout that??"

Arisa bit her lip. According to Kuukai people without Shugo Chara wouldn't be able to see them, but instead of continuing to look at her, his eyes were fixed on a pair of icy blue ones in front of him.

The man confirmed his eyesight when he poked Koorei on his head, causing him to blow, being as impatient and short tempered as he was; just like a boy.

"That's it buster!! Arisa; chara-change!" He shouted, glaring daggers at the man.

"Wait—no, Koorei!!" Arisa cried, but she was cut off when, a pair of white goggles appeared on her forehead once more, along with blue fingerless gloves on her hands. She pulled the yellow tinted goggles over her eyes and when she looked at Nikaidou, she glared icily at him.

"Look! I don't need a tutor! I'll be perfectly fine on my own, so just stay out of this!" She screamed. Her voice carried though the halls and caused several classroom doors to slide open and handfuls of curious students to pour out, heading towards the commotion.

She sent a glare at the approaching crowd and dashed out of the scene, jumping the flight of stairs effortlessly and just ran.

As she ran, she felt her skirt flap behind her and her pigtails swish against her neck. Finally, she arrived at her destination, well more like middle of no where. By now the goggles and gloves and disappeared and she was left, out of breath.

But wherever she was, she thought it was pretty nice. Eyeing the colourful jungle gym to her left, she walked over to it, keeping silent from her chara. Immediately, she ran for the violet monkey bars, jumping upwards and hanging from the painted metal rods, a small smile creeping onto her face.

"Nice going with Nikaidou! You really showed him!!" Koorei cheered loudly, regaining Arisa's attention.

At first, she was silent. She had changed positions so that she was now hanging upside-down by her legs. Then, she released the bars and landed on her feet, "You know…I know sometimes it's great having you around, but has it ever occurred to you that I might want to do well and not be a total screw up in school?!"

Koorei's excited expression dropped and he muttered a quick apology before floating back into his egg glumly.

Arisa sighed; she normally hated yelling at people, but boys just always seemed to have something that made her go kind of crazy. She made her way over to a nearby tree and swung from a branch until she landed on the top. Resting comfortably against the tree trunk, she fiddled with some of the lush green leaves before drifting off to sleep.

After swinging from the branch after she woke up, she began to walk back to the school, with Koorei still in his egg. But when she arrived, she noticed that students had already begun to exit the building.

"Shit…I was away for that long," and she ran for her classroom. If she screws this up, she'll be screwed for the rest of her time here. So she ran as fast as she could into the building, to find Nikaidou.

As she sped up the stairs, she ran past many people she recognized; Saaya, some of the girls from her class, the boy who always chews his pencils to death…and so forth. But someone she never expected to run into was Kuukai.

"Arisa!" He exclaimed grabbing onto her arm, "What's the rush?"

"K-Kuukai?! Eh…hi?" She stammered, praying that he doesn't know what happened.

She lashed out at the teacher.

She ditched school

She comes back when school is finished

She still didn't finish her homework.

"I came over to pick you up, but you weren't around, so I decided to wander and look for you!" He exclaimed, clearly happy to have found her.

"Yeah…" Whoever's up there, thanks millions.

She sighed, but instantly inhaled after hearing his question, "So, where were you rushing to?"

Arisa gulped nervously. Should she fess up and risk getting into massive loads of trouble, or…lie her butt off to live to see another day.

To her, seeing another day sounds amazing, so that's exactly what she did.

After folding her hands together and shifting her weight to the right, she began, "Oh, just—"

"Don't lie to me Arisa-chan," Kuukai interrupted giving her a stern look.

Her eyes instantly widened, "H-how did you know I was going to lie?" she demanded. A playful smile crept up onto his face and he responded, "You always lean to your left, so when I saw you lean to your right I already figured something was up."

She scowled and pouted, "Well now, I'm just not going to tell you."

Kuukai pouted and leaned towards her. The halls were currently empty and they were all alone. Arisa's breathing suddenly became heavy as the tall boy leaned closer and closer suddenly; she broke out of her given trance and took this chance to dash out of his grasp and up the stairs.

Realizing her disappearance, he sighed, what is the matter with me…?

-

When she ran far away enough from Kuukai, she stopped to catch her breath, leaning against a wall. When she set one of her hands on her face, she could feel that it's highly risen in temperature. She sighed to herself, taking the situation at hand into priority.

No, not how Kuukai was being…weird, 'tutor-san'.

She stood in front of the classroom, with a determined look in her eyes, ready to face whatever punishment, so what she never expected was to find her tutor, standing by Tsukiga. Even for a 5th grader, he is tall, she thought.

But the fact that Tsukiga was there with him shocked her even more. Didn't they have a fight or something?

Just as she caught their attention, Tsukiga rushed out the room pushing past Arisa blushing twelve shades of red at once.

"Eh…sorry, I think I interrupted something important…" Arisa muttered, bowing in apology.

"I-it's alright," he grumbled. Clearly, he was annoyed, but his face was void of any emotion and Arisa couldn't tell what he was thinking.

Feeling somewhat awkward in this situation, Arisa asked him, "So I'm kind of looking for my tutor…he's a 4th grader who's apparently really smart, so I was wondering if he was in here…"

When her eyes collided wit his, she watched as his bright blue eyes widened for a fraction of a second then returned to normal.

"Hoshiwa-senpai, that would be me."

She could've sworn he looked disappointed; he then bowed to her, "Sanjou Kairi, it's an honour to serve you."

Arisa's face suddenly flushed, "Likewise, but…you don't have to be so formal with me!" He glanced up, sending her a curious look, then straightened himself and nodded.

"Well it's late now, so we'll begin tomorrow." As he was about to leave the pink, orange room, she caught up to him, "Hey, did Nikaidou-sensei say anything about any certain…punishment for me?"

He shook his head, then left the room, muttering a quick good bye and leaving the room.

Arisa sighed, Tokyo is so weird…

After collecting her papers, and books, she left the room, sliding the door shut behind her. She walked down the hall to the stairs, staring out the window as she did. Suddenly, she let out a small yelp, as she collided with a walking pile of books.

…In other words, Nikaidou-sensei.

"Ah! Sensei—gomen, gomen, gomen!" Arisa repeated, preparing herself for the fury of her teacher. She hastily shuffled some papers around her in a pile and had began picking up some heavy textbooks before she realized that she hadn't received the lecture of a life time.

She glanced up from her book collecting, to see Nikaidou also collecting books, not saying a word. Once they completed the minor task, Arisa handed her pile of books to him, bowing.

"I'm sorry for this…and earlier too." She told him, bent over, still bowing.

There was a tense silence until a light hearted laugh escaped the teacher's mouth, "It's alright Hoshiwa-san. I'm sure you were just having an off day…along with someone else," his eyes glanced at her pouch, carrying her two eggs.

Chocolate brown eyes widened, "You can see them?! But Kuukai said that people without charas are unable to see them!"

This caused Nikaidou to sigh, "It's a long story Hoshiwa-san, but I'll be sure to tell you one day. Right now, I think you have somebody waiting for you," he smiled and gazed at the bottom of the stairs, where the green-eyed Souma stood, waiting patiently with his skateboard and uniform jacket in hand.

A bright smile erupted on Arisa's face, "Arigatou Nikaidou-sensei!" She ran down the stairs, past Kuukai clearly challenging him to a race. A laugh bubbled up her throat as she ran past the boy and in the direction of their home, wile Kuukai followed close behind her on his skateboard, his shirttails flapping behind him in the wind.

A small appeared on Nikaidou's face, but it soon became a frown, "If what I head about her power is right…it's very likely Easter is going to target her," he gave an exasperated sigh, "no wonder I quit…I hate kids."

-

The two crashed through the front door, shouting at each other.

"I won!"

"No you didn't! I beat you!"

"You couldn't even beat me and you had your skateboard!"

"You were clearly in chara-change!"

"Oh, so you admit I win?"

Two of Kuukai's other siblings poked their heads through the door frame to observe the current commotion, staring intently.

Suusui sighed, and called Arisa into the kitchen, "Arisa-san, a letter came for you today."

The fighting pair froze in their wrestling position, and stared at the oldest of the brothers. At first there was a dead silence, then when Arisa finally realized she squealed loudly; very, very loudly.

"Kyaa! Hiro-chan!" She swiftly removed her shoes and sped into the kitchen, causing Kuukai to fall over, since he was leaning on her.

When she stepped onto the tiled flooring, the slipperiness of her socks, caused to fall over and land on her butt. As she did, she knocked her hand on the wooden table, causing it to shake and a small white envelope flutter off the table and into her lap.

After recovering from the impact, she squealed once again and hastily ripped the envelope open, while crossing her legs. And seeing how she was still wearing the unsightly school uniform, whoever was to stand in front of her, it wouldn't be pretty at all.

Just then, Hana stepped into the room, sweeping ideally, but when she passed Arisa at her first glance, fires erupted in her eyes and she quickly pulled Arisa up by the back of her shirt as she choked at the sudden motion.

"Goodness Arisa-chan—" she began, but was interrupted.

"Seriously, Hana-san, don't call me that." Arisa retorted, crossing her arms stubbornly.

"But if you're going to sit, don't sit cross-legged. Unkai and Rento might do something weird…" she drifted off and once she saw Kuukai walk into the room she got an idea.

"But don't worry; I'm sure Kuukai-chan will protect you from anything and everything."

This statement caused both Kuukai and Arisa to freeze on the spot and blush like mad.

"I-I'm going to go open Hiro-chan's letter upstairs," Arisa muttered, quickly excusing herself as Kuukai did the same. The woman smiled, "They are so cute."

Upstairs, they each jumped into their respective beds. Arisa sat cross legged—just how she shouldn't be and Kuukai was thoroughly absorbed in one of his many sport magazines, while Arisa continued ripping the envelope open.

For a moment, Kuukai's neon green eyes flickered over in Arisa's direction, watching her read the letter intently, smiling widely. His lips tugged upwards for a moment, then returned to reading his magazine.

As she read, her smile grew wider at each sentence she sped past, and once she finished she would read it again.

-

Ari-kun,

It's great to hear from you! I'm awesome, yes, it's true. And wow; just wow. RAPED?? My little Ari-chan can't be raped! If so…uwaaa, don't worry, I won't tell your parents. And guess what?! The math competition is going on again! So if I make it to the finals, you'll be in town! If not, whaa, I'll cry! So basically, wish me luck! Heh, we all need some luck right now, don't we? Well, good luck to you! Just remember, don't go getting a boyfriend before letting me approve first. Oh yeah, and as for not blowing stuff up…I'll try to fix my microwave.

-Hiro-chan

-

Reading over once more, Arisa folded the paper and placed it into the large box he had given her. Her gaze wandered over to Kuukai was just plainly lying on his bed, having a small conversation with Daichi.

Receiving a sudden, yet immense wave of boredom, Arisa made her way across the room and picked up her leather briefcase with ease, taking it over to the wooden desk.

"What are you doing?" Kuukai called over to her. Arisa took the two eggs and placed them on the desk. Koorei's egg clicked open and Koorei peeked out.

Arisa smiled and gestured him out of his egg. He floated out somewhat translucent and tired looking.

The brunette looked at him worriedly, "Eh? Koorei, are you okay?" His usually bright blue eyes were dull and downcast as he floated up to her gloomily. After several moments of no response, she looked over at Kuukai and called him over. "Hey Kuukai, I think something's wrong with Koorei,"

One of his brows rose curiously and he hurried over to her side to examine the chara.

He sat on the chair with Arisa and bent down to look at Koorei at eye level. His face was fixed in an expression of great concentration, and startled Arisa when she suddenly sat up, while she fell off the chair.

Normally Koorei would be in hysterics, but his expression remained emotionless.

Once she had recovered from the impact, she leaned against the desk and propped herself up. Arisa glanced worriedly at Koorei, then at Kuukai.

"Kuukai…?" She began. The girl watched as he closed his bright green eyes for a moment, creasing his brows together; deep in thought. They suddenly shot open and after taking a confirming glance at Koorei, he turned to the young Hoshiwa who was sitting cluelessy on the floor.

"Arisa…I think I know what's wrong with Koorei," he began. Arisa's eyes widened at the serious tone in his voice.

For a while, he explained how if you stop believing in yourself for something, your chara will slowly fade away and your dream will be lost. So in this case, Arisa didn't want to have a cocky, irresponsible, loud, annoying, boy-ish character which is why Koorei had become so translucent and silent. If she were to continue her dislike of that character, Koorei was sure to disappear.

Arisa's face was struck with nothing but sadness. She only had her chara for a couple days and had already screwed it up. Her chocolate coloured eyes shut, then opened with determination shining in her eyes. She stood up and shoved Kuukai off the chair, ignoring his cry of pain.

She stared at Koorei the happily smiled, "Okay, I've got a mountain of homework to do, and the only way to finish it by morning is the fast, boy way," she paused and brightened her smile, "And I know just the chara for this!"

Suddenly Koorei's expression brightened and he returned to his normal state.

"From a slow worker to someone faster; faster, quicker speeding; CHARA CHANGE!" He shouted, enthusiastic as ever.

So for the rest of the night Arisa worked hard with Koorei on each question, not caring for the answer much.

She pressed on until the early hours, when she finally completed the final question; she smiled; smiled until it hurt. She looked down at her chara, who had loyally stood by her side for every passing hour, giving her words of encouragement and even helping her with the questions.

As she turned around to announce to Kuukai that she has finally finished her work, she realized that the entire house was dark except for the table lamp that lit her work. Also that Kuukai was slumbering peacefully in his bed, shuffling every now and then.

Her bright smile softened into a gentle one, and once her reign of hyperness has ended, her eye sight began to blur and suddenly she became light headed and she collapsed in onto the desk, falling asleep, with the pencil loosely sitting in her hand.

Koorei, also beat, floated towards the lamp and clicked it off, then retreated to his egg for the night.

Still somewhat conscious, Arisa smiled and ceremonially threw her pencil across the room, earning a small crashing sound from something it had hit.