This week was pretty good for me. I didn't really do much, and it went by pretty slow. I didn't have writer's block, but the chpater was a little hard for me. I had a lack of motivation. The first part started out strong, but then I got a bit tired and only was motivated by the goal of to finish the chapter as quickly as I could. Not a very good goal, right? This chapter may be a bit crappy, but I promise the next one will be much better. Actually, I feel a bit guilty to post this, because to me I didn't put that much effort and I think it's trash. My main bone to pick with it, is the fact that I rushed the information, when I could have added more suspense and saved the surprises for later. A writer's technique that I suck at is foreshadowing and I never do enough of that, so I'll try harder to improve on my weaknesses. Now, I'm very sorry for sounding so depressive and wasting your time with that long rambling. I'll try to talk about more happy things at the end, okay? Anyways, I don't own Shugo Chara or any of the other things I use and also don't own. Thanks for listening to what I have to say. It's just a heads up so the chapter doesn't disappoint you, cause now you already know that it sucks! See ya!

***Chapter 17***

***Ai POV***

"The battle's coming soon." I whispered to myself, rubbing my temples. A slim figure came into my view. It was Rika.

"Phase A is starting now, isn't it?" She said softly in a overly excited voice. I nodded. It was almost funny that I had such an ability to play her like a violin. Just because I was making an anti-guardian group, doesn't mean all of them have to be mean. Rika was my cousin, complete opposite from the current me but just as sweet as the past weak me. To tell the truth, I've always been jealous of her beauty. Not only was she sweet, innocent, and naive, but she has looks to die for. She is slender, slightly shorter than I am with colorful hazel eyes, dark brown hair, and pale white skin. At one point I remembered being very jealous of her, but then realized that Nagihiko didn't even notice her that much when I introduced them, so it slowly faded away.

"Headache?" She asked, noticing my fingers still rubbing against my temples.

"Sure." I lied, "Can you get John, Yuki, and Erin." She nodded and pranced off to find the other anti-guardians.

John was originally from the UK. He transfered into my class in America, and finally agreed after awhile to come with me back to Japan. In fact, I'd say John was my best friend. He'd always crack jokes, and knew the best way to make me laugh...even when I wanted to cry. Enough about him, anyways, Yuki was the son of my dad's work friend. I always thought he was a little strange. He had always been almost emotion less and never put up much of an arguement. He was basically the smarts of our group. He would answer all the question, devise a plan when I asked for one, and agreed to fight along side of us. He once said that he was drawn to danger, so it didn't matter much whether he ran away from it or ran toward it, so that's why he became our ally. Lastly is Erin. There isn't much of a story behind us, except her being the only friend that's a girl that I really had ever had. I remember transfering over to the school at America and all the girls hated me for my looks. Erin, wasn't a jealous type. She made her way straight through the crowd and told all the girls off. I actually considered her my savior from that day on. Whenever I told her that she'd just laugh it off and say "What are you talking about? All I did was tell them to stop bullying, you got them off your back yourself by ignoring their mean comments." She was always modest but when it came to someone in trouble she loved to play hero, and she was good at it too. John, Erin and I always stuck together like glue. I loved them and would do anything for them, except stop this plan. For some strange reason John's been begging me to stop all week.

"I got em'!" Rika exclaimed happily.

"What's up? You decided to trash the plan?" John asked eagerly in his adorable accent. Holy cow! Did I just say adorable...I meant...a-dork-able.

"What do you think?" I asked giving him a fake annoyed look.

"Umm...no?" He smirked.

"Exactly." I giggled.

"You sure are stubborn." He frowned, "Especially for this Nagi guy." He murmured under his breath. It sounded almost as if he was angry, which confused me a bit. He always knew I was stubborn why would that anger him.

"Are you sure you want this girl dead? I mean that's kinda harsh, and I don't wanna be a murderer."

"You've never even met the munchkin girl. I never said you'd be the one doing the murdering. That's my job." I shot back.

"You seem more angry lately" Erin said, "Stress?" I nodded quickly.

"Yeah, stress. Anyways, all I need you to do John, is flirt with the munchkin a little, and tomorrow you'll ask..." I gulped, "...her out." I whispered. I don't know why It felt so wrong to say that. All of a sudden my chest hurt. Growing pains maybe?

"That's the plan? To tear her apart from the guy you like?" He asked as if it were the silliest plan ever. He let out a musical laugh.

"What? That's all I could think of." I defended looking into his blue eyes. They were clearer than the ocean and full of little specks of other colors if you look real closely. It's like a picture, and I swear I could spend hours looking at them.

"Ai! Ai! Are you okay?" Erin asked shaking me out of it, as if I were in a trance." Okay. I totally was not getting lost in his eyes. We're nothing than friends and Nagi's eyes are probably prettier...or not. Whatever they totally are. John ran his fingers through his blond hair.

"Whatever. Let's just try and get this day over with." He sighed.

***Rima POV***

It felt like I was floating on air. I went on a date with Nagi two days ago! Although I was mad at Amu for interrupting my confession, I was so nervous it didn't matter anymore. Who said I couldn't say it again later? I could confess anytime I wanted, like music class today! So hah! Take that Amu and Ikuto! I was skipping to my next class, when I suddenly ran into something.

"Who the heck would stand right in the middle of a hallway doing nothing?" I said in frustration. I looked up to see a boy with blond hair. Must be a foreigner, because most asian don't have blond hair unless they dye it.

"Hello? Can you speak japanese?" I said real slowly. He turned towards me a smiled. He was cute like a male model, but not my type if I even had a type.

"Sure. Sorry about being in your way." He had pale blue eyes and blond hair. He obviously didn't dye it. He was also able to speak japanese perfectly.

"I'm new here. I came from the UK. My name's John, and you are?" I smiled back at him.

"Mashiro Rima."

"You're really pretty." He said smiling. I would've blushed at that compliment, but only if it came out of Nagi's mouth, which it didn't. It came out of John's.

"You're quite the looker yourself." I said, returning the compliment.

"So...do you know where my next classroom is?" He asked showing me his schedule. I immediatly recongnized it as my next class and smiled. That's great, I didn't have anyone I knew in that class anyways. Now I have someone to talk to.

"Sure. Follow me." Mashiro Rima can be the guide too, so take that Nagi!

I could feel John's face so close to mine, staring at my paper. I'm pretty glad Nagi's not in this class, cause he may get mad for no reason at this. I had to help John with this because apparently I knew more about this stuff than him which is pretty hard to believe. If I was a mean person I'd say "back off now John cause I hardly know you and you're getting too close", but I'm nicer than that even though he is oddly close.

The bell suddenly rang, so I darted out of the room.

"Sorry. I have to go! Tsukasa called me."

"I have to go there too!" John smiled.

"You do?" I asked in dibelief. Wasn't this meeting about the new guardians? John? Guardians? Don't tell me...

"All according to plan." He whispered into his phone.

"Who were you talking to?" I asked as he put his cell phone away.

"Hmm? My friend from my old school. They wanted to know how I was doing." Yeah right. Nice lie. Then what's this plan?

"Hey Rima!" Suddenly my day lightened up. I could've sworn I saw John glare at Nagi as if he were about to kill.

"Who's this?" Nagi asked suddenly glaring back at John.

"New student. His name's John." I answered.

"Nice to meet you." He said through gritted teeth, holding his hand out to John. Whatever Nagi was mad about was bothering me, because he got angry so suddenly. At least he was being sorta nice to John.

"Ditto." John said shaking his hand, matching up to Nagi's glare with one of his own. They looked like they hated each other even though they just met.

"WE have to go to the meeting Rima. Bye John."

"Actually, I have to go too!" He said with a smirk.

"What! Don't tell me HE is going to be a guardian!" Nagi exclaimed angrily.

"Hey! What do you guys have against each other! You just met for crying out loud!" I exclaimed interrupting their glaring fight.

"You're right." Nagi agreed putting his arm around my shoulder, acting all protective. This was just wrong, not that I didn't like Nagi clinging to me. :)

***Nagi POV***

"Hello Everyone!" Tsukasa grinned, "You probably guessed that all of you gathered here are the new guardians." All of us previous guardians nodded.

"Remember how Iike to name my guardians after cards?" Tsukasa asked happily. Rima rolled her eyes.

"Well, you all get to be named after cards! AGAIN!" Tsukasa exclaimed, "And now for the positions..."

"King's chair is Tadase, Queen's chair is Rima, Jack's chair is Nagihiko, Ace's chair is Yaya, Joker's chair is Amu." Tsukasa used our first names so freely, and I cringed at the sound of my name coming from his mouth.

"And now for the new chairs!" He exclaimed, "I gave some of them to great new students!"

"10's chair is Utau, and yes she goes to our school. 9's chair is Kukai, 8's chair is Ikuto, 7's chair is Ai, 6's chair is John, 5's chair is Rika (not to be confused with Rikka), 4's chair is Yuki, 3's chair is Erin, and 2's chair is...ME!" What the heck? Tsukasa's not even a student at our school! Why is Ai a guardian anyways?

"Yay! I can spend more time with Nagi!" Ai squealed, clinging to my arm. It felt so wrong, and for some reason I felt her skin immediatly make a little space from mine as soon as we touched. I'm guessing she may have felt a little wrong too. I caught a glare from John and started to realize something. There was no reason I should be jealous of this guy. He has no feelings for Rima.

A few seconds later, Ai let go of my arm. She was looking down at the ground with a slightly guilty look on her face.

"What am I doing? Why'd I stop?" She whispered to herself. Ai was a wonder. I have no idea what she was going through, because usually she'd cling to me the whole day, but now she was looking guilty and weak.

"You're all dismissed." Tsukasa said looking a bit bored. Everyone filed out of the room, but John motioned me over to him.

"You're a smart kid." He said slowly, "Perceptive. I'm guessing you already figured it out?" I nodded. My hate for John slowly faded away, but I could tell he still didn't like me as much. I could'nt read his mind, so I didn't know why.

"Yeah."

"I have no power over Ai. I just have to shut up and follow her plan so I don't ruin our relationship."

"What are you to Ai?" I asked, suddenly confused by their "relationship." He closed his eyes and bit his lip.

"Nothing." He said sadly, "Nothing more than a friend."

In case you haven't already guessed, I am now posting a new chapter every week. Now this doesn't guarentee it. If I have too much to do, I may tell you guys, and post it a few days after. But, every week, either Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, there will be a new chapter. I'm veryu sorry to say, but this story will be coming to an end soon. Probably in the next 5 or maybe a little more chapters. I'll try and squeeze maybe one or two more turns and surprises before ending it with the final battle.

CHAPTER 17: Now I can talk about this chapter. First off, I loved making the anti-guardians and making them actual good people who just stuck around Ai because of friendship and other stuff. Actually, Ai's not that bad. She's just a confused person who's trying to get what she thinks she wants even though it's not what she wants. Does that even make sense? No. Anyways, I absolutely love John. I added him in, because I decided that as you all know at the end Rima is eventually going to end up with Nagi since this is a Rimahiko fanfic. So I felt a little bad for Ai. In this chapter I showed her true colors, and she's actually semi-nice. Anyways, I really like John, because I think English (British) accents are adorable.

TOPICS: BOOKS: Lately I've been reading the book The Vampire Diaries. I watched the show once, but the book is so awesome! I first thought it was a takeoff of Twilight, but then I found out that it actually came out before Twilight, so maybe it's vice versa. Sorry all you Twilight fans. I'm a Twilight fan too, because the books are great even though the movies sucked. Anyways, I strongly suggest reading the Vampire Dairies. I love them.

MOVIES: There are a bunch of movies in the movie theater that I want to watch right now. When In Rome, Valentine's Day, The Lovely Bones, etc. If any of you have watched these, can you please tell me if they were good or not. Also, can anyone give me suggestions of good books, movies, and music to read, watch, and listen too? Or any other suggestions of things. I like finding new things to do, and that would really help.

SUGGESTIONS: I'm running out of topics to talk about lately, so if you as viewers have anything you actually would care enough for me to ramble on about, please share your thoughts.

NEW SEGMENT: Q & A: Okay, I'm a little bored so I'll start a segment at the end of each chapter where I'll ask some questions and you guys can respond to them in your reviews and comments. Then next chapter I'll pick out a few and write a comment about them as well as more questions. The questions of the week are...

If you could be any T.V show person/character whether it be anime, cartoons, reality t.v, or whatever, who would you be?

AND...

What is your favorite guardian chara and why?

I decided to have one Shugo Chararelated question and one regular question just to spice things up. Anyways, thanks for reading. I can't wait to see what ansers you'll come up with, and till next time. Ciao!