Ohayo minna!~ I finished reading Prince of Tennis today :D I read the manga a while ago, but never finished it xD

That has absolutely nothing to do with Shugo Chara! I suck! xD

Well please enjoy the chapter~ Maybe then I'll get more reviews…

Shugo Chara! Belongs to Peach-Pit along with its characters and settings. I guess it's for the best; I'd put them in a world of cookies and marshmallows and they'd be gingerbread people who were cannibalistic!

Review please!

(Waterdragon, sorry if the fight's a disappointment xD)

The Colours of Love: Chapter 11

Friends of the New and Old Variety

"Atashi no kokoro…un…lock?!"

The Guardians watched in awe. Even when Amu transforms with the Humpty Lock, they've never felt so much power in a single transformation.

Once the light died down, everything was silent, except for the hum of the X-eggs.

Kuukai's eyes widened wondering, where is Arisa?

As if on cue, a bright ball of blue light, shot out from the crowd of X-eggs, into the air. The ball of light left a glowing stream everywhere it went. A bright light surrounded Arisa and Koorei, and knocked some of the X-eggs back.

Once the mixture of light and sparkles faded away, it left Arisa, standing in the air. Well, at least it looked kind of like Arisa.

Her hair was tied back in a pony tail with a pair of white goggles, with blue tinted glass over her bangs. She wore a white t-shirt, with a large blue snowflake on it, and a blue and white striped sweater underneath. And just under the sweater you could spot a pair of white fingerless gloves.

Her legs were covered with a pair of baggy, white, cargo pants with blue trims and a pair of blue and white hockey skates at her feet.

From her place in the air, her arms were outstretched and her expression was in absolute shock.

"Wow…this is…pretty awesome."

Suddenly, the swarm of X-eggs followed her upwards into the air. Not knowing what to do, she sifted her weight over to the side, and just like in skating, she glided. Figuring it out quickly, she smirked and playfully stuck her tongue out at the crowd of X-eggs, approaching her.

Just as they were about to reach her the small crowd below screamed, "Watch out Arisa!" She smirked and pushed off with her skates, gliding away. As the angry swarm sped up, Arisa did as well.

She let them chase her up, down side to side and at some points, upside-down. While most people would be screaming for their mommy, Arisa wasn't like most people, and was laughing and shouting for the entire thing.

Down below, Amu stared up jealously at Arisa. The pinkette noticed the look on Tadase's face when he watched Arisa fly and got instantly jealous.

Amu's hands formed the shape of a heart as she called out, "Negative heart, lock on!" One of the X-eggs that have strayed behind was caught in the pink, heart shaped prison, "Open Heart!" A stream of pink light and sparkles streamed towards the X-egg, purifying it.

Arisa caught sight of Amu's ability and nodded in approval, "Nice trick she's got there," she took a quick glance at the X-eggs behind her, "Do we have any tricks like that Koorei?"

In her mind, she heard his voice, "Minus the pink and girlyness, we ALWAYS have tricks up out sleeves."

Arisa suddenly stopped and turned to face the incoming swarm of X-eggs. Below, all the Guardians had a look of horror on their faces. Kuukai though, was thinking, what are you going to do now Arisa-chan?

When the swarm was mere inches from her, she jumped upwards, above all the X-eggs. Tired, the X-eggs turned up and looked at Arisa, not following her. Below her, the X-eggs were gathered in the vague shape of a circle.

A smirk formed on her lips as she pulled the goggles over her eyes.

"Let's dance." She did a quick aerial flip, as a fighter-pilot styled targeting system appearing on the lens of her goggles.

She was a lot higher than she originally was, but she loved it. The clouds were so close, and she felt so…free.

When the targeting system turned red on the X-eggs, her feet were in the air, the blood rushing to her head, but from this position she also had a better positioning from this spot.

Her gloved hands clasped together, forming a gun-shape and was pointed at the X-eggs.

"Ready…" the targeting system beeped once.

"Aim…" twice.

"FIRE!" There was a loud beep, and then suddenly a ball of blue energy formed at Arisa's fingertips.

She shot at the swarm, where a thin ring of blue energy formed around them, effectively trapping them. The shot that was fired from her fingertips was so strong that her arms were flung back from the force, along with the rest of her body.

She did several flips before regaining her balance and watching the bright light from behind her goggles.

On the ground, they all covered their eyes as Amu un-did her transformation. Kuukai who was shielding his eyes with his arm smiled and thought, crazy girl.

Finally, the bright light faded away, and everyone regained their sight once more. All of the black eggs had turned white and were speeding off to their owners. Arisa smiled, and from her smile, came a laugh. She stood in the air for a little while longer, then skated down to join her friends.

When she stepped onto the ground, the white and blue clothes disappeared, and Arisa's appearance was returned to how it normally would be.

Everyone there had a shocked, scared or speechless expression on their faces, but Arisa was in pure bliss.

"That was SO awesome! Seriously, ever since I saw Amu transform, I just thought transforming and purifying eggs would be nothing, but a girly outfit and a crap-load of sparkles. But that was AMAZING! Did you guys see me? I had a gun, and those goggles rocked! I seriously need to get myself a pair, and those pants I wore were really, really comfortable and—"

As she talked, she paced around. When she turned to the soccer field, she saw Hikaru, Daisuke and Ryu regaining consciousness.

Arisa ran over to them in a panic, "Guys! Are you alright?" Kuukai followed her as well.

Daisuke, pushed himself up with his elbows and rubbed his head, "Woah…that was weird, what happened?"

Kuukai gave Arisa a stern look, telling her not to tell him anything about what happened. Arisa thought for a second then replied, "Uhh…I don't know. When I came here to find you guys, you were on the ground."

Hikaru, who had walked over to them spoke, "Weirdness." Arisa's brows knitted together for a moment, then stared at him, "Wasn't that my word?" She noticed how a tinge of pink appeared in his cheeks, "Yeah, I guess it caught onto me."

Arisa laughed; proud of herself. Ryu walked over as well, brushing the dirt off his white dress shirt.

He shook his hair around, releasing the pebbles entangled in his hair from the fall. Beads of sweat dripped off his face and sparkled when the sunlight hit them.

Arisa couldn't help but stare in awe, "Hey Ryu-san? Do you have a girlfriend?" He glanced at her with curious eyes, and shook his head.

Kuukai choked when she asked this question, and stuffed his hands in his pockets. When a blush appeared on his cheeks, he turned away, trying to look like he wasn't so intensely fascinated about why Arisa was asking the question.

"Why?" Ryu asked her, helping Hikaru and Daisuke to their feet. Arisa responded with a careless shrug, "I don't know, you seem like the kind of dude who might have a girlfriend."

He smiled, and turned away, waving at the crowd. Hikaru and Daisuke followed after him, leaving the Guardians.

For the first time after the fight, Arisa looked down at her clothes and realized that the cuts from the X-eggs had not gone away, and the cuts on her clothes were showing more than she would've liked.

Her cheeks flared red, as she wrapped her arms around where the cuts were biggest.

Shinyu walked up to her, forcefully removing Kuukai's uniform jacket and handing it to Arisa, then turned to the Guardians, "Okay, nothing to see here."

Arisa blushed and pulled the jacket over her dress shirt. The sleeves were too long for her arms and it ended almost at her knees. And with her exhaustion finally catching up with her, Arisa yawned loudly and stretched. After the yawn, she slouched down, her eyelids suddenly feeling a lot heavier.

The remaining Guardians walked back to the Royal Garden, with Arisa practically sleepwalking, leaning against Tsukiga who was holding her by the arm, preventing her friend from falling over, onto her face.

When they arrived at the Royal Garden, Arisa collapsed into the chair next to Kuukai, leaning onto his shoulder.

Kuukai glared at Shinyu who was rummaging through her bag, "Seriously, take a picture and I'll wake her up telling her it was you."

Shinyu sighed, admitting her defeat. She pulled her bag over her shoulder and waved at the Guardians, "Adios everyone!" And with that she exited the Royal Garden.

Arisa shifted, and clung to Kuukai's arm, rubbing her cheek against the smooth material of his shirt. He reached across the table, trying his best not to move and awaken the sleeping girl. He took his and Arisa's briefcases and hung them over his shoulders.

He crouched down, and got Arisa to lean onto him. He picked her up with ease and carried her out the Royal Garden waving to the remaining people in the building.

Since it was a half day, the sun was shining bright, but Arisa's baseball hat kept the sun out of her eyes and kept her in sleep-mode.

He unlocked the front door of his house, and removed his shoes quietly. From the dining room, he heard voices. One of them were his mom's but the other was familiar, but he just couldn't place it. Whatever, he has to put Arisa in bed first.

After making his way to their room, he laid her down on the bed. He removed her shoes, and set her books on the desk.

He changed out of his uniform, into a pair of sweatpants and a baggy t-shirt. Since she was asleep, it was perfectly fine for him to change in the room; one would think.

Kuukai made his way down the stairs, entering the kitchen. He opened the fridge and glanced in, but from the dining room, he heard the sound of a jazzy piano piece. He shot up, his neon green eyes, opening wide. "It can't be." He shut the refrigerator door and ran into the living room, where the music was coming from.

On the couches were his mom on the single couch, but on the one across from her, was a younger woman with sandy brown hair, tied up messily in a bun.

Kuukai gaped at his childhood friend, "…Sion?"

-

Ikuto and Utau walked up the driveway of an old looking house. Ikuto kept his hands in his pockets, while Utau walked obediently behind him. He rang the door bell once. His sensitive ears picked up rushed footsteps, and sub-consciously straightened himself.

When the door opened, it revealed an older woman with dark black hair with red highlights, holding a large cooking spoon in one hand and a blue dish rag in the other.

She looked Ikuto over once then asked, "What can I do for you two?"

Ikuto cleared his throat, "Is Suzuki Aika home?"

The woman's eyes widened as she closed the door slightly, "You're not from that wretched company are you?" she asked in a low voice. They both shook their heads. She looked past them, then to their sides, then ushered them both in.

The front hall had a worn, wood-panelled floor, covered in scratches and shoes. By the door was a hall that leads to the laundry machines and a bathroom. The stairs were to your right and there was another hall next to the stairs that lead to both the kitchen and sitting room, along with a worn door that lead to the basement.

The woman introduced herself as Tamura Suzuki; Aika's mother. She explained how some men wearing suits would sometimes come to their house and how they were after Aika. Utau sympathized with her.

After a short conversation, Tamura led them both up the stairs and took a left. They faced a simple white washed door-way. At first Ikuto hesitated, then suddenly there was a blood curling scream coming from the room. His hand raced for the handle and pushed it open.

"Aika--!"

She was sitting at a desk, covered in papers, along with papers covering the ground around her. On each paper were several rough sketches. There was an electronic piano at the end of her desk, and even that was covered in paper.

There was also a small end-table covered in books of all sorts; novels, dictionaries, atlases, picture books, music books, manga, and many others. This surface was also covered in paper.

The walls of her room were blue, her sheets were blue, her pillows were blue, her lamp was blue, and from her slightly open, and overflowing closet, a lot of her clothes were blue.

Next to her was a young girl, no older than 8, who was standing beside her, shaking her head stubbornly.

Music was playing from the (blue) radio on her desk, while paper whirled around the desk.

In the midst of all this chaos was a young teenaged girl with aquamarine hair, down except for a small ponytail at the right side of her head, tied with a small, yellow scrunchie, sketching like mad at her desk, over several other papers. As she worked, she spoke (shouted) at her younger sister.

"Keiko, go away! I'm busy, I have a project due in a few days and I never even started! Plus, I'm planning to finish that drawing today, along with that manga. Oh no! I forgot! I have to do that other drawing today as well!"

The younger girl shrugged, "Whatever nee-chan, I was just going to tell you that we have Cinnabons downstairs."

Aika's actions stopped immediately, "SERIOUSLY?! THAT IS AWESOME! MAKE WAY! COMING THROUGH! I WANT MY CINNAB—"

Her mother coughed suddenly, "Aika! You have guests."

Her eyes widened, as she looked around her room in a state of panic, "Get out, get out! It's so messy, why didn't you tell me earlier? I would've stopped you know?" She shoved them out of her room, then got to work, shoving papers into her desk and shutting her closet successfully.

When she emerged, she smiled sweetly at the two (her mom went back downstairs), "Hi, what can I do for you?" But when she actually realized who they were, a bright smile erupted on her face, "Ikuto-kun, Utau-san! How are you doing?"

Utau smiled at the girl, "How's the new house?"

She smiled, "It's old, scary, makes weird noises at night, the basement has a lot of scary bugs, but besides all that, I love it!"

She looked over at Ikuto, who's face became solemn, "I heard they found you already." Aika's cheerful expression disappeared when she responded, "Yeah…but I'm not going to let them get to me! I'm starting school tomorrow so, Easter's goons are going to be the least of my worries."

Yoru emerged from behind Ikuto's shoulder, "Nya, so how have the charas been, nya?"

Aika glanced sheepishly at the door, and the crashing sounds coming from behind it, "Why don't you see for yourselves?"

She pushed the door open, revealing her two charas, one male, with sloppy aqua hair, with a long sleeping cap on his head. He wore a set of dark blue polka dotted PJs and a pair of fuzzy blue slippers.

The other one was female with long, dark blue hair, tied in long, neatly braided pigtails, and wore a graduation cap and gown, and held one of those pointing sticks teachers hit people with.

Each of them had a pen or pencil in their hands and were charging at each other angrily.

As they watched the battle happening, Utau muttered, "Same as always," but giggled.

Aika stepped foreword, grabbing them before they could pierce each other with Aika's school supplies.

She laughed and sent them back to their eggs. She sat down on her bed, Utau sitting on the rolling chair and Ikuto sat on the floor, leaning against her closet.

They discussed what was going on in their lives, Ikuto talking a lot more than he normally would. When he still was working for Easter, he saw Aika quite often and sometimes spoke with her. He enjoyed talking to her…most of the time.

Aika too, was an ex-worker for Easter. She would play the piano at recitals, and extract X-eggs searching for the Embryo.

But eventually, the stress of performing for so many people, so many times got to her, and she quit and ran away from Easter. Her and her family moves often, since Easter keeps tracking her down.

Aika laughed, "Even though they think I live her, my mom is one heck of an actress, and made them think that a crazy lady who was in the middle of feeding her pet ostrich lives here!"

Utau let loose a laugh, while Ikuto just smiled.

The room was silent for a while except for the radio, and pages rustling against each other as Ikuto flipped through some of her books.

Suddenly, Utau's expensive looking watched beeped, causing her to glance at it, panicked. She informed them about how she had to get back to Sanjou-san. Aika nodded and showed them down the stairs, and waved them good-bye as they made their way down the path way.

Before Ikuto was out of ear shot he asked her, "So what school are you going to?"

She jumped up, and clapped her hands excitedly, trying to remember where she was going. She paused, then proudly announced, "The big castle-like school downtown!"

Ikuto smirked at her response, "Seiyu Academy?"

Aika laughed nervously, "Yeah, that's it." She gazed up at the clear blue sky, "Seiyu Academy…" Sadly, her daydream was short-lived when her mom yelled at her to come inside to do the monstrous pile of dishes in the sink.

She groaned, "I'm coming!"

-

Sion smiled brightly when she noticed Kuukai enter the room, and since then, they were chatting about things that were going on. She ruffled his hair playfully as he sat down next to her.

And about an hour later, the house got another surprise visitor; Souma Kaidou, Kuukai's eldest brother.

He entered the house dragging a suitcase behind him and shouting, "I'M HOME!"

Both Kuukai and Sion approached the voice curious. Rento, Unkai and Suusui walked in from the kitchen as well, quickly followed by Hana.

"Kai-kun! You should've called. Then I could've made something nice! Here, I'll take your coat, go un-pack. Don't worry, your brothers stayed out of your room and Sion's over—"

All of the siblings noticed the hint of colour appearing in his cheeks when he asked, "S-Sion's here?"

Right on cue, the pianist waltzed into the hall where everyone else was. A bright smile emerged on her face, "Kaidou-kun, welcome home!" She jumped onto his, reaching around his neck for a hug. He was tall, like really, really tall, and Sion brought him back down with her once gravity did its thing.

A light giggle bubbled up her throat. When she looked at his face, it was so red it looked like his head was going to explode.

Sion laughed once more, and ruffled the older boy's hair, staring into his bright green eyes.

The rest of the crowd remained silent, until Unkai and Rento nodded at each other, taking Sion by her two arms and leading her in the direction of the living room away from Kaido.

The two younger siblings babbled to Sion about how boring it was without her at the restaurant.

In the hall, Kaidou was left, standing crouched over and staring at where Sion used to be. Suusui tsked at his older brother, "Not much of a lady's man, are you Kaidou?"

The older boy straightened up and glared at the glasses wearing Souma, "Like you would know Suusui."

A small smirk appeared on his thin lips as he responded, "Well, Kuukai seems to be advancing much faster than you and Sion." Suusui followed his two younger brothers into the living room. Kaidou looked at Kuukai who was sitting with a look of pure innocence on his face.

Kuukai inched out of the hall, and followed the crowd of people while muttering to Kaidou, "I have no idea what he's talking about."

With the family, plus Sion back together, they spoke non-stop for several hours, until Arisa finally woke up.

The loudness of Kuukai and Sion's voices woke her up, and when she sat up in bed, she glanced at the digital clock, '9:34 PM." She sighed out loud, and stood up on her bed and stretched. She removed Kuukai's jacket and tossed it onto his bed. She worked at the top buttons of her dress shirt and un-buttoned them.

She hopped off the bed, landing on the floor with a thump. Arisa glanced at the mirror for a second before, tugging at her bangs, her own way of commanding them to fix them.

Arisa sighed once more, and shrugged any thoughts of her hair, off the cliff…in her brain. There is not cliff in the room.

Her feet dragged against the wooden floor of the hallway as she held onto the wall and railing for support, sure she would collapse at any given moment. She stepped down the stairs slowly, yawning.

Once she made it to the bottom, she looked to her left, the direction of where the noise was coming from and followed it, flexing her jaw, still tired.

When she walked in, everybody in the room had stopped talking for about a minute. That was some minute.

"Good…morning?" Arisa said, unsurely. She took note of the two new faces in the room; an older male with striking green eyes, probably Kuukai's oldest brother. His arm was around a petit girl about the same age as him, if not younger. She had sandy, brown hair and purple-brown eyes.

Sion gave Kuukai a playful grin, then hugged him tightly, "Aw Kuukai-kun, it's so great that you finally have a girlfriend! When I said you were going to be a good man when you grew up, I never expected it to happen so quickly."

Kaidou glared at his youngest brother, who was red in the face at this point, "You're going to pay for lying to me, brat."

Arisa who was standing by one of the couches, chocked when she heard what the woman had said. Colour raised into her cheeks as she scowled, "Boyfriend; as if." Arisa cracked her knuckles out of habit, and sat down next to Rento, and across from Kuukai.

Just then Hana walked into the room, carrying a platter covered with cookies of all sorts. Arisa and Kuukai cheered and dove for the platter once it hit the table.

"I bet I could hold more cookies in my mouth than you," Arisa joked at Kuukai, playfully kicking him, under the coffee table.

He smirked, "Bring it on."

But sadly, before they could begin, Hana called from the kitchen, "Can one of you go and pick up some things from the store?" All the siblings looked from one another, glaring.

"I have to do homework!" Unkai called rushing to the stairs.

"I…have to help Unkai with his homework!" Suusui called.

"I have to clean my room!" Rento said.

Kaidou looked at Kuukai who was trying to think of an excuse, suddenly Kaidou said, "I have…something I have to do." But Sion interrupted him, taking him by the hand, causing him to blush bright red, "We have something to do."

Kuukai's shoulders slouched, as Sion dragged Kaidou out the door to places unknown.

Hana looked into the living room. The remaining one always has to go.

She smiled, "It's alright Kuukai-kun," she began. He perked up, beaming, "I don't have to go?" Hana snorted, laughing, "Of course you still have to go. I was just going to point out that Arisa-chan can come with you as well!"

His eyes darted over to Arisa, who was sitting on the couch, slouching. She shrugged and sat up, "Okay, I guess it'll give me something to do anyway."

She stood up and jogged back to the front hall and pulled her sweater from the closet. Hana smiled at Kuukai, "Have fun!~"

He rolled his eyes and took the list, held to the fridge by a magnet. When he entered the front hall, he found Arisa, lying on the ground, grunting as she pulled her shoe on with limited success. A small laugh burst out of his mouth, acquiring her attention.

She smiled as well, "Shut up; these are weird shoes."

After Kuukai pulled a sweater from the closet, the folded the list with one of his hands and opened the door with his other.

"We're off!" Arisa shouted into the house to no one particular. When she didn't get a response, she shrugged and shut the door behind her.

Kuukai was waiting for her on the sidewalk. Arisa jogged up to him, zipping up her sweater and stuffing her hands in her pockets. Fall was settling in, and as the temperature dropped, Arisa piled more and more sweaters onto her body. Even though she likes the cold much better than the heat, being freezing cold is not fun at all.

They walked side by side on the street lamp lit sidewalk, the soles of their shoes scraping against the rough pavement beneath their feet.

Silence enveloped the two as they walked, Arisa then looked up towards the sky once they cleared out of the streetlamps. When she would normally see a velvet sheet of black, dotted with so many stars, she (or Hiro) could never count, here; there was nothing but a soft orange-yellow glow of all the Tokyo lights.

She audibly sighed, acquiring Kuukai's attention. He nudged her, "What's up?"

Arisa smiled sadly, still gazing up at the sky, "Where are all the stars?" Kuukai looked up as well, "They're there, its just that you can't see them."

Arisa looked ahead of her once again, as did Kuukai. And once again, they fell into silence.

Neither of them said a word until they entered the store and picked up all the items Hana had requested them. After they found all the items required, Kuukai paid with the money he had received, also paying for a pack of sour keys.

They left the store quietly, Kuukai offering Arisa one of the tangy candies. She took one happily, and put it in her mouth.

When they were nearly at Kuukai's street, he took her by the arm and led her to a nearby playground.

Arisa followed him, mentally question where he was taking her.

He led her to a set of monkey bars that arched above a sand pit. He set down the bags in the sand, while Arisa did so as well.

His large hands gripped the blue-painted, metal bars, and swung himself until he sat comfortably on the bars. Arisa did the same and sat next to him.

For a little white they were both quiet. Finally Arisa asked, "Is there something you want to tell me, or something?"

His green eyes stared at her, almost glowing, "Actually, I have the feeling that you have something you want to tell me." Arisa suddenly blushed, and turned away. She stammered with her words until she coughed and cleared her head.

It's not like it's that, DUH he doesn't like me like that. Stop being an idiot. Just think of something that you wanted to say earlier…

She looked at him and smiled sadly, the same smile when she mentioned the stars.

"You know why Hoshiko is called Hoshiko?" Kuukai looked confused for a moment then shook his head, "No, not really."

Arisa couldn't help but beam, "It's because out of the entire part of northern Japan, it's the best place to see the stars for the longest part of the year." She beamed, that was one of her favourite things about her home.

She continued on, "And back home, we; that's Hiro and I, we'd have something just like this," she hit the metal bars of the monkey bars with her hands, "And we'd stay up all night on New Years and watch the stars."

A serene smile appeared on Kuukai's face, "That sounds awesome…"

She beamed at him, "It is."

Arisa leaned back, steadying herself with her hands. She exhaled, and watched a small puff of air emerge from her mouth. She leaned back forward and put her hands back into her pockets.

"We should go home now, shouldn't we?" Kuukai asked, noticing her slight shivering. Arisa nodded eagerly and smiled weakly, "Yeah."

They ran back to the house, and crashed through the door, gratefully welcoming the warmth of the house to their bodies. Arisa took both hers and his jacket and hung them in the closet, while Kuukai delivered the groceries to the kitchen.

Arisa bolted up the stairs with her remaining energy and grabbed her pyjamas from her bed and ran into the bathroom to shower. Once she finished, about twenty minutes later, she walked down the stairs, tying her hair in a messy ponytail.

She heard Hana's voice announce to everybody who was settled around the television, "Sion-chan is going to be staying for the night so be nice to her." They all muttered agreements, their attention locked onto the glowing box in front of them.

It was the final period of a soccer game they were watching. There were mere seconds left when Hana added to her statement, "And she'll be staying in Kaidou's room, so don't bother them too much."

The four younger siblings turned and stared at their mother in shock, taking their attention from the game for the most crucial part of the game. The opposing team scored and Tokyo had just lost.

They all groaned in frustration, "MOM! HOW COULD YOU? I BET IF WE WERE WATCHING WE WOULD'VE STAYED TIED!"

As they shouted, Kaidou sat with his arm around Sion's waist as she laughed nervously.

Hana continued with a straight face, "So I guess that means we have no objections for Sion staying with Kai-kun?"

Arisa walked into the room, laughing at the siblings, "Chill guys; there's something called instant replay. She took the remote and turned the volume up as they announced the shoot off, and played replays of the goal, just as Arisa said.

Unkai and Rento hugged her tightly, "You see mom? She would be the ideal sister!"

Hana just rolled her eyes, smiling, "If she could listen to me unlike the rest of you, then that would be good." Hana walked into the kitchen and flipped through a magazine.

After watching the kick-off (Tokyo wins!) they all retired to their rooms, some more excited than others (coughKaidouandSion). After bidding Kuukai good night, and crawling under her covers, Arisa fell asleep.

Kuukai on the other hand, stayed up, and sat by his window staring at the sky.

After the story Arisa had told him, he couldn't help but wonder how it would feel to see a million stars, within your own reach.