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The Colours of Love: Chapter 13

Party Shinyu's

Shinyu swung the double doors of her house open, causing a loud bang when the door slammed into the wall behind it. Arisa wiggled in her friend's grasp and constantly yelled at them, demanding her immediate release.

"Damn it you guys; let go of me!"

Being the super random air-head Shinyu is, she completely ignored Arisa and suddenly whistled, causing Arisa to cringe from the sound. She has sensitive ears.

"Arisa-chaaaaan, since you're late, we're technically behind schedule and I have to show you everything I showed Tsukiga-chan and Aika-chan, in half the time!"

"Shinyu's house is HUGE! And really shiny!" Aika exclaimed, clearly hyper on ice cream or some other source of sugar.

"Her dog tried to eat me…" Tsukiga muttered bitterly, crossing her arms.

"D-dog?!" Arisa cried, excited. She has loved dogs for as long as she could remember, she has loved, loved, LOVED dogs and still does (even though some don't really like her back) But the ones that do, make her extremely happy and leaves her cheerful and skipish for hours on end.

A large, long-haired, golden retriever bundled into the room, wagging its tail excited for more visitors.

Arisa, excited as well, got down on all fours, removing her bag from her shoulder, greeted the dog happily.

"Arisa-chan, this is my dog Daisy-chan! She rocks and hopefully you'll get along with her!" Shinyu told her. Daisy was excessively sniffing Arisa as she laughed when the dog's fur brushed against her bare arms. Arisa pat her behind the ears, enjoying the feel of the silky fur under her fingers.

After the quick tour of Shinyu's massive estate, they stopped at the final stop; Shinyu's room.

It had six walls in all, with boldly painted red, black and purple with silver designs tracing around the door, window and closet. The floor was covered with a simple, beige carpet and a silver framed bunk bed sat in the courner.

Arisa looked up. The ceiling had a currently spinning ceiling fan while the rest of the ceiling was dark purple covered in small stars. According to Shinyu the stars glowed in the dark.

As they preceded more into the center of the room, Arisa gawked at the full body poster of Hoshina Utau on the back of Shinyu's door. Shinyu's cheeks turned pink slightly "Shut up."

Arisa gaped in amazement at the rest of the room as she continued stroking Daisy over her back and dropping her bag to the floor.

For the next little while, they set up mattresses and food; lots and lots of food. They all sped down the stairs and entered the marble themed kitchen, Arisa dashing straight for the fridge.

Her eyes shone with excitement when she spotted the many 2 litre bottles of soda, juice, water, and root beer sitting in the fridge grouped together. Shinyu who was grabbing prepared bowls of chips, chocolate and cookies, called over to Arisa, "Hey Ari-chan, can you take some of those for me?"

Letting loose a joyful cheer, she grabbed as many bottles as she could and dashed up the stairs, meeting in Shinyu's room.

As she ran up the old wooden stairs to the colourful room, she noticed the small amount of pictures on the wall. But the largest, centered picture was a gigantic portrait of Shinyu when she was younger, about eight, with an even younger girl with her, sitting on her lap.

The younger one had curly brown locks, framing her face that reached a bit past her shoulders. She held a small doll in her hand and was smiling brightly at the camera. The two girls shared the same bright purple eyes and looked as if they didn't have a care in the world.

Arisa smiled solemnly. That must have been Shinyu's younger sister, one of her family members who had died.

She made her way up the stairs slowly, observing each picture, and each memory it carried within its frame. Finally at the top of the stairs, Shinyu called Arisa from behind her door, making Arisa run.

Inside, the room was practically transformed; a wide coffee table was moved to the side of the room where all the snacks were placed along with several plastic cups. Next to it was a large pile of magazines and on the other side of the room, a large, black and purple stereo with surround sound placed around the room.

Aika, who was crouching by the stereo, was looking through piled of CDs while Tsukiga was sitting cross legged on the other side of the room, flipping through magazines.

After setting the large bottles on the table, she hopped over to Aika, picked a random CD that looked particularly shiny to her, and inserted it into the stereo. Instantly, music blasted from the speakers, suddenly shocking everyone in the room.

Aika screamed in shock and assumed a fatal position, while Tsukiga jumped and swore…loudly. Shinyu rushed into the room to see what the commotion was about, but only stared at Arisa who was laughing loudly at Tsukiga who was glaring sharp and pointy objects at the brunette.

"Let's get this party started!" Shinyu laughed, waltzing into the room.

For the next several hours, they danced and talked, read magazines, sang loudly into hairbrushes and chased each other wildly around the room.

As Shinyu and Aika chatted the evening away, and while Tsukiga sat against the wall next to them, flipping through a magazine, Arisa sat contently by the blasting music with a bowl of chips in her lap. This went on for several hours until they all grew silent and randomly bored.

Then exactly one minute later, they all whipped out their phones, having the same idea.

"Who wants to prank call someone?!" They shared a look of amazement, then laughed and shouted excitedly.

All of the girls crowded around Shinyu's phone, shouting out any random idea that magically popped into their heads. In the middle of this chaos, Arisa's voice randomly dropped a few octaves lower, causing her voice to sound more male than it ever has.

They turned their heads at Arisa, knowing she was the source of the sound. She cleared her throat, and shrunk back in embarrassment.

Tsukiga was the first out of the three girls to speak. She let loose a small laugh, "Was that you Arisa-kun?"

Laughing nervously, she replied, "Y-yeah…"

Aika and Shinyu both stared at Arisa in pure disbelief. They spoke simultaneously, "You sound just like Ikuto-kun." They heads whizzed to face each other with expressions of surprise and shock, "How you know Ikuto-kun??" they both demanded at once.

At this time, Arisa and Tsukiga inched away from the situation and unlike trying to stop the incoming fight happening like a pair of good friends would do; they decided it'd be funner to watch from the sidelines.

The two girls glared at each other, interrogating each other fiercely.

"When did you two meet?"

"What's your business with him?"

"Did you know he tried to rape me?"

They both turned to Arisa, leaning against Tsukiga boredly.

Aika stared at Arisa in disbelief, "I'm telling Utau-san!"

Shinyu gasped, somewhat over dramatically at Aika, "You know Hoshina-sama as well??"

"And if I do? Plus, I'm not the one who's obviously head-over-heels in love with Ikuto-chan," Aika told Shinyu smugly. As this took place; sitting in the background, Arisa ooh-ed dramatically.

At that statement, Shinyu's face turned so red, you could barely tell the colour difference between her hair and her face. "I am NOT head-over-heels in love with him! He's part of Easter, he's the enemy, I'm not aloud to like him anyway!"

Noticing the tense air for the first time, Shinyu relaxed her shoulders and looked at her friends who stared with surprise.

A laugh bubbled up her throat as she grabbed for a pillow on her bed. "I don't like him like that so stop teasing me about it," she laughed as she launched the cushion at Aika who gave a sudden shout of surprise.

Another pillow sailed across the room, landing in Shinyu's face. She looked in the direction of it, only to find Arisa, her lands loaded with pillows and her tongue stuck out at the older girl.

"Sleep-overs may not be my thing, but if you challenge me to a pillow fight then you are DOOMED!"

After throwing another pillow in her direction, Arisa bolted to the other side of the room, when Shinyu approached her.

Aika armed herself grabbing one of the pillows she was previously sitting on, and charged into the battle going on between Shinyu.

Tsukiga on the other hand, gathered a pile and constructed a fort of pillows around her. But when one of them launched a pillow at her, landing spot on her head, Tsukiga stood up and grabbed pillows. She glared at them fiercely while the other girls stifled their laughter and ran for their lives when Tsukiga charged at them.

Screams were heard, pillows were thrown, expensive sounding things were destroyed and shrieks of distress echoed throughout the halls of the house.

They all crowded around the broken vase. It had many different designs of roses on vines on it. As Shinyu stared in disbelief at the broken vase, Arisa looked around the room.

For the first time she had noticed all the forms of roses, rose themed designs and vase full's of roses there were in the house.

Shinyu heaved a heavy sigh, then dropped the pieces she held in her hand and stood up, smiling weakly.

Aika waved her hands in front of herself frantically, apologizing at the speed of wind.

"I-I'm really sorry Shinyu-san! I'm sorry, I really didn't mean to!" She apologized.

Tsukiga looked sympathetically at the red head, "Really Shinyu-chan. And I know how much this stuff means to you…"

Arisa sat down and picked up one of the larger pieces with a simple painted rose on it. After observing for a moment, she looked up at Shinyu and asked, "Say, what was your…little sister's name?"

A dreamy smile graced the older girl's features, "Aikaze Roze…"

Aika and Arisa gave a small laugh, Tsukiga smiling. She still remembers when she found out the utter obvious connection between Shinyu's choice of décor and her past.

"Wow, Roze-san must've been one awesome sister to get her older sister to deck her house out with her name," Arisa joked, handing the piece to Shinyu.

"Actually, Roze-chan would act very similar like you Arisa-chan. And she was a great sister."

Arisa and Aika laughed simultaneously. They have this joke and…really it makes no sense to most.

Aika burst out, "Shinyu-chan, if you're little sister acts like Arisa then she's nearly equivalent to a younger BROTHER!" Arisa laughed hysterically as Aika told her.

Tsukiga began laughing as well, but Shinyu, being the air-head she can be, looked confused, "Eh? But Arisa-chan's a girl isn't she?"

Arisa rolled her eyes, getting down on her knees and arranging the pieces of the broken vase into a pile, "Shinyu have you ever met a tomboy, ergo, a girl who acts like a boy and hates being a girl?"

Shinyu shook her head. Arisa sighed and shot up, with her hands positioned in a peace sign, "Well Shinyu-chan, that would be me. So please stop calling Arisa-chan because Ari-kun will do just fine!" Shinyu shrugged offhandedly and agreed, beginning to pick up some of the pieces of the vase.

Shinyu laughed slightly, "Whatever, but just to warn you I love shopping."

Arisa shuddered and rolled her eyes, "Good thing I don't."

After a while of silence, Shinyu sighed deeply. Suddenly she turned to face the other girls who were watching her quietly, "You know what?"

"What?" the three replied at the same time.

After staring at the trio strangely for a second, she continued, "Who wants to go hunt some X-eggs?"

Tsukiga, for once, cheered loudly. Arisa though yawned and shrugged, agreeing. Aika though looked somewhat un-easy from hearing the term 'hunt X-eggs' but agreed none-the-less.

Clapping happily, Shinyu called her chara Hanachi to her side. The rest of the group did the same and their charas assembled at their respective owner's sides, except for Tsuki and Koorei who were lazing behind.

After devising a well thought out plan (yeah right) they set off, wandering around and looking for an X-egg or two.

Sighing of boredom once they reached Seiyo Academy grounds, they glanced around.

Shinyu wondered out loud, "There aren't any X-eggs anywhere today?"

"Maybe Amu's hunting them as well," Arisa pointed out.

Tsukiga and Shinyu sighed. Aika stared ahead of them, in the direction of the eastern wing of the building, "Does anybody else feel that…?"

Koorei frantically sniffed the air, "Oh I feel it alright. It reeks of X-eggs!"

Arisa raised her arms and sniffed under, jokingly, "Well, I'm pleased to report that it's not me!"

Tsukiga's chara, Akari, pointed in the direction Aika was previously looking at, "It's coming from over there!"

Aika's eyes glazed over, "What on earth…?"

-

The entire office was dark except for the sunlight streaming through the small cracks in the window-blinds.

There was a brisk knock on the door. "Come in," a gruff voice responded to it.

A blue haired, blue eyed teen walked calmly into the room with a white violin case over his shoulder. He wore a dark grey high school uniform, and kept his hands stuffed in his pockets. By his side floated a chara with hair of a similar shade, but sported a pair of blue cat ears as well.

"Tsukiyomi Ikuto," the man began. Ikuto looked boredly at him and replied, "You wished to see me, Gozen-san?"

The man grunted, then continued, "I have a new mission for you Ikuto." Naturally, he rolled his eyes, but forced himself to the old man's rant/lecture.

"Whatever you wish, Gozen-san," Ikuto replied, biting back his sarcastic tone.

"At Seiyo Academy, there is a new transfer student. There is a rumour that she has the ability to purify 99 eggs at once. Since her name is unknown to us, we call her '99'."

Ikuto smirked; Hoshiwa Arisa, the new, and very loud Guardian.

"Also," Gozen continued, "It's also been reported that Suzuki Aika is attending the school as well." Ikuto's expression remained un-changed as he personally wondered if the old man was really the last one to know anything.

Ikuto made a sound of acknowledgment. Gozen continued, "Your mission is to retrieve '99' and convince her to work for Easter. Her strength would come in handy. Also, Suzuki and '99' work with two other companions who could be equally as powerful so retrieve them as well."

Sighing quietly, he complied.

"Your mission also consists of bringing Suzuki Aika back to Easter. Fail one of them; and you fail them both."

Ikuto's eyes widened and shared a worried look with Yoru, the chara next to him. He understood that Aika wanted to be free from Easter, and wouldn't want to be any part of dragging her back.

"But why do we need them? They're just school-girls," Ikuto said, somehow hoping it would change Gozen's mind.

His remark obviously angered the man, and it showed even clearer when he snapped at Ikuto, "Because Suzuki-san actually followed her orders and with '99' we'll be able to make more progress finding the Embryo, fool!"

Even though Ikuto knew how he had angered Gozen, he couldn't stop defending his friend, "So the mass company Easter is resorting to depending on little girls to get the Embryo now?"

Gozen stood up from anger and growled threateningly at him, while Ikuto's expression remained unchanged; mocking.

"Ikuto!!" He yelled.

"No wonder Utau left. This company is a bunch of weaklings striving for something to great for them and could only get to it using other's strength and never their own. It's amazing that I never left yet."

Even from behind the murky curtain, anyone could see the evil smirk appearing on Gozen's face.

"Do you want to find your father or not, Ikuto-kun?"

Ikuto's aquamarine eyes widened, but then closed in concentration.

"I accept your offer," he stated, turning to leave. He turned back around and glared angrily at Gozen, "The man who uses others because he, himself is too weak will always be the one losing."

Ikuto slammed the door shut, leaving Gozen smiling evilly, sitting back down onto his chair.

He paced down the hallway, Yoru reassuring the teen. Once they reached the front steps of the building, he sat down and sighed aloud. Yoru floated by him loyally with a sad look on his face, "Ikuto, nya. Are you really going to do this?"

The small chara suddenly felt the change of his aura from a sad one to a fierce one.

"Tomorrow Yoru; tomorrow we strike because we have no other choice." His usual aquamarine eyes were usually a variety of bored, sad, amused, tired or mad. But when he said that, they were completely void of any emotion and that scared Yoru.

The chara shrunk back slightly and bowed his head, "O-okay Ikuto…nya."

-

The group ran in the direction Aika and Koorei lead them in. Right before they turned a courner to the back of the building, they spotted a lone X-egg hopping on the walkway.

A dangerous smirk appeared on Shinyu's lips as she eyed the X-egg. Arisa looked at the object in excitement, but before she could say anything, Shinyu broke her off, "Now, now; play nice Arisa-kun. I remember what happened last time, so no chara-nari for you!"

Arisa pouted, but was interrupted when Aika pointed excitedly. From the other side of the wall, a few other X-eggs appeared joining the first one.

"Useless, useless…" they squeaked.

Tsukiga decided, "On the count of three, we charge."

They agreed and waited for the countdown, "One…two…"

"THREE!" They four of them charged forward at the four X-eggs, chara-changing.

Noticing their charge, the small; group of X-eggs made a break for it, back behind the wall they had come from.

Smiling smugly, Shinyu followed. But when she turned the courner, her grin disappeared and was replaced with a look of shock. The three other girls joined her shortly, gasps escaping their lips.

Laid out before them was a massive swarm of X-eggs, all floating together, their X's facing the girls.

"Shiiiit," Arisa began. "We're screwed aren't we?"

Tsukiga shrugged, then summoned her katana which appeared in her hands, "Maybe."

Aika wielded a sword as well. Hers was made of flames, and she also wore a black graduation hat with a sun dangling from a string. The hilt of her sword was decorated with sun designs of many fiery colours and a long collection of ribbons at the end of the hilt.

Arisa pulled her gloves on tighter and glared daringly at the crowd of X-eggs. "It's your call Shinyu-chan!"

When she didn't respond, the three of them turned around worriedly, "Shinyu-chan…?"

"Atashi no kokoro, UNLOCK!"

On reflex, Arisa took the goggles from her bangs and covered her eyes. She looked at her other two friends, covering their eyes with their arms from the bright light.

Arisa puffed her cheeks in annoyance, but smiled, "Cheater…"

The bright green light eventually faded and revealed Shinyu wearing a shoulder-less, grass, green dress that reached her knees. Her ruby hair was flowing in the wind, and had several vines entangled into it and had a large multi-peatled, magenta flower entwined into her bangs.

She also had a necklace around her neck, which had a flower similar to the one in her hair.

"Chara nari; Green Dance. "

A mischievous smirk made its way onto her lips, and she suddenly snapped her fingers. Her friends stared in fascination. Even for Tsukiga, it was her first time seeing Shinyu transform.

At the snap, two large, ferocious looking flowers appeared behind her. They growled and snarled at the X-eggs with barred teeth, causing them to whimper in fear. Arisa whooped loudly at Shinyu, who sported another daring smile on her usually, calm and happy face.

She whistled sharply, and the two carnivorous plants rushed forward in a blur. Once they did so, Tsukiga looked at Aika, who looked to Arisa, who nodded. They dashed forward as well, purifying X-eggs as they went.

Eventually, Shinyu sped into the mass of X-eggs as well. She launched vines surrounding them, and flowers bloomed. As the blossoms opened, they released a faint pinkish powder, which caused the X-eggs to freeze and become purified.

"Useless…useless…" they all whimpered as they were disinfected. Faster and faster, more cleansed X-eggs sped off into the, now dark night sky.

When about half the swarm has been purified, Shinyu sighed contently as a cool evening breeze swished her hair in different directions and cooled the thin layer of perspiration gathering on her forehead.

She looked over at her friends with curious, purple eyes.

Tsukiga was whizzing around, purifying eggs at every second. Her movements were quick, yet graceful…unlike Arisa's.

Since she was able to purify eggs at the touch, she was attempting to juggle them. Sadly for her since they were purified they would fly away from her, leaving her with a sad, distressed look on her face.

Aika was swinging the sword around with much energy, since that's what her chara Haruhi was all about; energy.

Shinyu sighed again, purifying a few more X-eggs before calling her giant plants off.

But suddenly through the crowd of X-eggs, she spotted the body of a man wearing an expensive looking tux. He looked about in his mid-40s. His silhouette was faint, but Shinyu could recognize the man from anywhere.

Her eyes widened, but then glared dangerously as she spat his name out as if saying his name itself tasted awful.

"Hamagichi…"

His gaze caught hers, and she spotted a devilish grin appear on his face. As he made his way through the swarm X-eggs towards her, Shinyu unconsciously stepped back.

"W-what the hell are you doing here?!" Shinyu demanded.

The man walked in long, easy strides, holding a small mechanical device in his hands.

Aika, Arisa, and Tsukiga rushed to Shinyu's side. They all stared at the man in wonder. "Shinyu…" Aika began, worried.

Arisa looked up at Shinyu's face. Her eyes were wide with fear, but burning with anger. Tsukiga glared at the man, and switched her chara-change with Kurai.

A black and white, archery bracer appeared on her right arm and she held a pure black long-bow and a quiver of arrows.

Notching an arrow on her bow, she called over to Hamigichi, "Take another step closer and I'm shooting."

Arisa and Aika, looked from their friends to the man, oblivious, Arisa asked, "Shinyu-chan…who's that?"

The question seemed to make Shinyu quake with emotion. Though, whether it was fear, anger or frustration was unknown to them. She growled angrily, then shot her head up and glared dangerously at the man who stood across from her, several meters away.

"That's…Hamigichi; the man who killed my family," she stated, a stray year escaper her eyes.

The devilish smile resurfaced on Hamigichi's face, "So nice to see you too Shinyu-chan. How's your family doing? In fact, how's Roze-chan doing?"

Shinyu's mind was overtaken by her anger and hatred for the man. She summoned her plants and charged at him, blind with anger, "Shut the fuck up you murderer!"

Tsukiga sent the arrow she had notched, flying towards Hamigichi at high speeds. It skimmed his cheek, causing a thin cut to appear and a small trickle of blood to drip to the ground.

Her assault seemed to distract him long enough for Shinyu to charge at him with a raised fist.

His head was turned to stare at the arrow implanted into the ground by him in awe, but when he looked back at the group, he was found face-to-fist with, well, Shinyu's fist.

Blood gushed from his mouth as he bent over, gasping, but Shinyu didn't hold back at all. She sent a series of kicks, punches, and attacks of her carnivorous plants at him until he remained on the ground motionless.

Arisa watched her greatly angered friend and instinctively stepped forward, ready to help. Though her attempt to assist in the situation was blocked by Tsukiga's longbow, which she had put in front of Arisa, preventing her from moving any farther into the battle.

All Arisa did was gape at her green-haired friend with utter disbelief.

Aika agreed with what Arisa was trying to get across, "What would happen if Shinyu-chan got hurt? That guys reeks of dangerous!"

Tsukiga's face remained still and emotionless, even as she responded, "This is Shinyu's battle. Just…don't interfere."

Arisa looked worriedly at Shinyu, whose eyes were burning with anger as she looked at Hamigichi with the eyes of a wild animal. A small stream of blood trickled down the man's face as he stood up shakily, and he wiped it away quickly then looked smugly at Shinyu, "You've gotten faster since last time we met, Shinyu-chan. Roze-chan would be proud…if she were alive."

She yelled angrily at the smirking murderer, "SHUT THE FUCK UP!"

As she swung another punch, he side-stepped causing her to fall forward a bit and punch a well constructed wall of X-eggs.

Barring her teeth she growled at him constantly, "Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up…"

After a while of taunting a livid Shinyu, she summoned her plants once more and they automatically began clearing a path through the X-eggs straight to Hamigichi. They whipped their vines at Hamigichi who dodged them and slashed their vines with a pocket knife he had pulled out.

The plants shrieked in pain, but continued unleashing their destruction on the man. Shinyu shouted wildly, sending thorny wines flying towards him.

Sadly, they were easily blocked by a group of X-eggs which shattered at the touch of the vines.

Shinyu whipped the thorns in all directions relentlessly shattering X-eggs around her. Eventually, Hamigichi retreated bidding a simple, care-free farewell to them, eyeing Arisa in particular, causing her internally shiver, but glare dangerously at him.

Shinyu's expression remained the same; shocked, angry, and like she had the need to kill.

Her character transformation disappeared and Hanachi appeared at her side. "Ohime-sama…"

The group ran up to her instantly and helped the girl to her feet. Tsukiga remained silent as she draped one of Shinyu's arms over her shoulders.

In fact, no one dared say a word as they made their way back to her estate.

Arisa pushed the door open, and was greeted by Daisy, who was curled up snugly at the base of the oak stairs. When she saw the limp body of Shinyu, she whimpered, her expression dropping as she approached the girl and began to examine her.

The group took careful steps up the stairs with Daisy trailing obediently in front of them. Once they reached Shinyu's room, the dog nudged the door open and the girls entered.

Tsukiga set Shinyu on the bed carefully then sighed solemnly.

Aika sat by the window, glancing at the lit city surrounding them, then saw the slight silhouette of a teenaged boy standing on one of the rooftops.

Just when both their aquamarine eyes met, he leaped off.

She squinted into the distance. What are you doing now Ikuto-kun?