Chapter 3
"Pig."
*poke*
*grumbles*
"Hey, Pig."
*pokes*
*smacks the evil finger away*
"Porkers, we need to go."
*lets out a defeated sigh*
"Hai, Forehead. I'm getting up."
Opening her eyes, Ino slowly flew up to Sakura's height and stared blankly at her. Sleepiness still in Ino's system. Sakura just smiled and shook her head at the little purple chara. Getting up from the bed, Sakura made her way over to her nightstand to pick up her other eggs. Kissing the tip of each egg, Sakura then placed them into a box and walked out of her room with a sleepy chara following close behind.
Making a quick breakfast, Sakura quickly ate hers while Ino ate slowly. When breakfast was over and the dishes put in the sink, Sakura went into her living room and kissed her pointer and middle fingers before putting them on her parent's picture. While Sakura was doing a soft prayer, Ino started to fully wake up with fresh energy flowing through her system.
Looking at the time, Ino turned towards Sakura and said, "Hey Forehead, If you want to be at school on time then we should leave now."
Finishing her prayer, Sakura turned to the clock then to Ino and gave a nod. Walking toward the exit, Sakura quickly put her combat boots on and swung her bag with her eggs inside around her shoulder.
"Ready, Pig?"
"Born ready, Forehead."
Rolling her eyes, Sakura was the first to walk out.
…
Walking through the crowded courtyard, Sakura easily dodged any incoming fans from seeing her. Ino only floated behind, looking at the kids that they passed. Once Sakura got near the entrance, one of her fan clubs surrounded her with hearts in their eyes. Sakura only raised a perfect pink eyebrow while Ino just looked at them like they were crazy.
"Hey, Sakura-chan!" they all said together.
Raising her other eyebrow, Sakura just stood there before responding, "Um, Hey guys."
Her fans then squeal, grabbed each others hands, and started jumping up and down together. While saying, "Sakura-chan said Hey to us!"
Sakura just gave them a crazy look before slipping past them and continuing her walk to her classroom. On the way Ino was just snorting her little piggy butt behind her. Sakura rolled her eyes at her purple chara.
Walking through the hallways and up the step, Sakura almost bumped into two Guardians, a brown head boy and pigtail girl. When Sakura walk past them, she felt them stare at her back but, mostly staring at Ino. Ino quickly flew up to Sakura's face and turned around so she was facing the Guardians and stuck her tongue out at them. Sakura could only chuckle at her.
They left two Guardians with their mouths wide open.
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(Ring)
"Time for art, Forehead!" Ino shouted at Sakura while she was putting her books in her bag.
Sakura only rolled her eyes and flicked Ino in the forehead making her float backwards a little bit. Rubbing her bruised forehead, Ino gave Sakura an evil glare.
Giving Ino a smile, Sakura then started to walk out of the classroom. Once outside with Ino beside her, Sakura started her walk to her next class, art.
Once they both got around the corner, they both were met with another Guardian. She gave them a smile and said, "Hello, Sakura-san."
Staring at her, Sakura said, "Hey, um. Whoever you are."
Ino could only snort to that.
The girls smile never left her face, which kind of freaked out Sakura and Ino.
The purple head girl bowed a little bit then said, "My name is Nadeshiko."
"That's nice, now what do you want?" Sakura said with a calm look.
Ino could only slap her forehead from the Sakura's reply.
Nadeshiko still had that smile on her face. She then pulled out a white envelope and handed it out for Sakura to take.
"This is for you, Sakura-chan. If you come to this place then all your questions about the charas will be answered."
Sakura only stared at the envelope and the girl. Ino just watched what Sakura would do next.
"No thanks." Sakura said while walking past Nadeshiko. Ino floated up to catch up with Sakura. Nadeshiko had a stunned look on her face and slowly turned around to see Sakura's and Ino's backs.
Meanwhile the two girls and one chara never noticed the croud of Sakura's fans watch and squeal once Sakura rejected the Guardian.
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"Done yet?"
"No."
"Done now?"
"Still no."
A couple of minutes later.
"Forehead, are you done now?"
"Still no, Pig."
*Groans* "I'm so bored!"
"Then do something about it, Pig."
*Sticks tongue out* "Whatever."
Ino then sighed and glanced around the art classroom. Every student was sketching their partner for a project. Well Sakura on the other hand didn't want a partner since everyone in her class wanted to be hers, well except Hinamori. So Sakura was just sketching two figures, but Ino could not figure out who since it wasn't finished yet.
Ino floated over to Sakura and landed on her shoulder to get a better look of the picture, so far it was looking nice. Ino could tell that they were boys by the way they didn't have female parts. They were also young looking, must be little boys. The left boy had hair sticking up in the back while wearing a high colored shirt and some shorts. The right boy had spiky hair going in every direction, whisker marks on his cheeks, and wearing a short sleeve shirt and shorts. One had an arm slung around the other neck while the other had his arms crossed. They looked cute.
Sakura and Ino were both concentrated with Sakura's work that they didn't hear or see Amu making crazy movements and noises over in her corner. Until someone squealed happily that it brought them back down to earth.
Sakura and Ino both looked up at the same time to only see Amu show her picture to her partner, grab her stuff and run out of the classroom.
Yelling to the teacher, "I need to use the bathroom!"
The teacher just stared after Amu.
Sakura watched her leave as well and then had the sudden impulse to go after Amu. The same impulse she got yesterday when Sakura jumped off the construction post to get to Amu.
Sakura didn't know why but, she followed that impulse again.
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"Do you see her, Pig?"
"No, Forehead."
"Let's go over here."
"Alright."
Sakura and Ino were currently running around the school to find Amu. And So far they both have not seen the other pinkette.
"Stupid impulse." Sakura muttered while she and Ino ran around a corner of the school.
Ino flew ahead but, immediately stopped in her place.
Running up toward her chara, Sakura stood beside Ino and gave her a questioning look.
Ino turned toward Sakura and asked, "Do you feel that?"
"Feel what, Pig?" Sakura asked.
"That aura, I think it's my sister. The other chara." Ino said
Sakura looked at Ino then quickly opened her bag and looked for the box that held her eggs. Once Sakura found it, she noticed that the lid was halfway covering it.
Turning her head to Ino, Sakura said, "I think your right Pig because there is no way an egg could just get up and run away."
Ino nodded her head and pointed her hand in a direction.
"I sense her over there."
Stepping in front of Ino, Sakura said, "Let's got then, Pig."
Sakura then sprinted over in the direction that Ino had pointed to with Ino following close behind her. Turning around another corner, Sakura and Ino stopped in their tracks. Looking forward they both saw two charas floating near each other. Walking closer, Sakura and Ino were getting closer to the charas. Once they were close, Sakura looked at both of the charas and tried to figure out which one was hers.
The two charas turned toward Ino and Sakura once they sensed them. Ino floated up to them and gave them a smile.
"Hey guys, my name is Ino." Ino said. Ino then turned to Sakura and motioned for her to step up. Sakura did as she was ushered and stood beside Ino.
"This is Sakura or what I like to call her Forhead, she is my owner and one of yours too." Said Ino as she introduced Sakura. Sakura only glared at Ino for calling her forehead once again before she turned her attention back to the charas that floated before her.
The blue hat chara put away her sketch pad then looked at Sakura and Ino with the other blue chara floating beside her.
"My name is Miki. I'm Amu's chara." Said the hat chara.
To Sakura and Ino she looked like a mini tomboy but, once she pulled out her sketch pad again, she looked like a mini artist.
Sakura and Ino then turned their attention to the other chara that was quite. She had long dark blue hair that was down with bangs on her forehead. She wore this beige jacket with dark blue leggings underneath and the same sandals that Ino wore were also on her feet. And on her back were small white bird wings. This chara looked very shy other than Ino.
"My n-n-name is H-H-H-Hinata." The little shy chara said while poking her two index fingers together.
Sakura gave a warm smile to Hinata and bend her head down so now Sakura could see her beautiful pearl eyes. "Hello, Hinata. You don't mind me calling you Hina-chan, do you?"
Hinata only gave a shock look but, then she blush and nodded her head.
"As l-l-long as I can call you S-S-Sakura-chan."
Sakura kept her smile and said, "Deal."
Ino flew in front of Sakura's head while also blocking Hinata's view of Sakura's face.
"I'm so glad you hatched already, Hinata-chan." Ino said toward the shy Hinata.
Hinata gave one o her smiles to Ino and said, "Me too, Ino-chan."
Sakura watched as the two charas started to talk, she then turned her head to Miki who was still sketching on her pad.
"Miki." Sakura said to the artist chara. Miki looked up from her drawing and looked at Sakura.
"You should go find Amu, I'm pretty sure she is worried about you."
Miki nodded her head then put her pad away into her little bag. Giving a goodbye wave to Sakura, Ino, and Hinata, Miki flew away toward her owner. Sakura watched as the other chara went around the building then turned her attention back to her two charas.
"Shall we go back to class, Pig, Hina-chan?"
"Hai, Sakura-chan."
"Do we have to, Forehead?"
Were the replies Sakura received from her charas. Sakura turned around and started to make her way back to her classroom with two not one but, two charas floating behind her.
…
"Ran, have you found her yet?" Amu asked her pink chara.
"No, Amu-chan." Ran said with a worried look on her face.
They both then ran in another direction to only stumble upon their missing blue chara. Once Ran found the blue chara, she quickly floated up to her while Amu walked.
"Hey there, my name is Ran." Ran said to the blue chara.
The blue chara just looked at her then turned her attention to Amu. Amu just gave her a blank stare in return. The blue chara then turned her attention back to Ran.
"I'm Miki." She said.
Ran gave her a smile but, Amu just still gave her a blank stare. Sakura was much nicer than her. Miki thought in her head.
Amu finally said, "Amu is my name."
Miki shook her head and turned around and floated back to the direction she had met Sakura. Ran looked surprised but, flew after Miki.
"Where are you going, Miki?" Ran asked.
Miki turned around and said, "I do not wish to be here if my owner does not want to even acknowledge my presence."
That made Amu and Ran look at her with a surprised look.
Ran then looked sad at the moment. While Amu looked and felt confused.
"Excuse me?" Amu asked.
Ran turn towards Amu and said, "Miki does not want to be with you since you don't really believe in her or me, Amu-chan. If you don't believe then Miki, the green egg, and I will disappear."
Amu looked shocked at that. Then Amu turned her head to the side. Do I really want them around? Will they actually help me with making new friends? This is so weird but, I don't want to be alone. Amu then turned her head towards Ran and Miki and gave them a warm smile. A smile that made both Miki and Ran feel like they would be staying with their owner for a long time.
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A couple of more boring classes later and the bell for dismissal of the end of school finally rang. Packing her stuff up, Sakura slowly took her time while Hinata tried to wake up Ino. She was slowly succeeding in waking up the snoring Pig. Once Ino was up and the books were packed, Sakura made her way out of the classroom with Hinata and Ino floating behind her. All three of them were walking down the hallway but, was stopped once again by Nadeshiko.
This time she had a frown on her face. Sakura just kept walking by her and never once did she stop until Nadeshiko grabbed her wrist. Sakura stopped in her tracks and narrowed her eyes. Quickly everyone was gathering around them to see what was going to happen. Ino glared at Nadeshiko while Hinata tried to glare at her. Sakura slowly turned around to look at Nadeshiko with annoyance clearly shown in her eyes.
Sakura was the first to speak.
"May I help you, Nadeshiko-san?"
Nadeshiko slowly loosed her grip on Sakura's wrist, but still had that frown on her face.
"Please come with me. So we could talk about them with the rest of the Guardians." She said.
Sakura just sighed and yanked her wrist out of Nadeshiko's hand.
"What I said before is the same answer now." Sakura said before turning around and walking through the path made by the students who saw Sakura coming their way. Ino stuck her tongue out at Nadeshiko and Hinata gave a small wave before turning around and grabbing Ino's arm and flew up to Sakura.
Once Sakura made her way out of the school, she then continued her journey to home with her charas while leaving a sad Nadeshiko behind.
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Later that day, Sakura had already made dinner while Ino was showing Hinata around the small apartment. When all three of them finished dinner and did the dishes together, Sakura went into her room and started to do her homework on her bed. Ino and Hinata were entertaining themselves while she worked.
When Sakura was almost done with her work she felt the same impulse again. Sakura stopped what she was doing and stared ahead. This action made Ino and Hinata stop what they were doing and flew up to Sakura's face with worried expressions.
"Sakura-chan?"
"Sakura?"
Ino and Hinata asked. Ino then flew closer to Sakura's face and started to wave in front of her face, luckily it help snap Sakura out.
"Huh? What? Ino? Hinata? What's wrong?" Sakura asked once she saw their faces.
"You spaced out, Sakura-chan." Hinata said while Ino just nodded her head to agree with Hinata.
Sakura had a confused look on her face at what Hinata had said.
"I did? All I know was that I feel that impulse again." Was all Sakura said.
This time Hinata and Ino shared the confused look on their faces.
"What impulse, Forehead?" Ino asked this time.
"The one I always get when something is about to happen to Amu." Sakura said but, then continued with, "Remember when Amu jumped off the construction post yesterday, Ino?"
Ino nodded her head with a confused look, "Yeah, Forehead."
Hinata just floated there with a confused look still on her face. Sakura got up from her bed and walked to her window with her right hand on her heart. Turning around toward Ino and Hinata, Sakura began to speak again.
"Well once Amu jumped off, I felt the need to do the same. When I was close to her, I also felt the need to put my life before hers so I switched our positions so my back was facing the ground and her back facing the sky."
"Then I also had another impulse today when Amu ran out of class to go find her second chara." Said Sakura.
"So you was worried and went to go find her, but we didn't find her cause we also realized that you, Hinata was gone." Said Ino as she finished off Sakura's reason and pointed to Hinata once she mentioned the chara's name.
"Your right, Pig." said Sakura while leaning on the wall beside the window watching Ino and Hinata. Ino puffed out her chest at her praise while Hinata still had a confused look on her face.
This time Hinata asked a question. "So Sakura-chan, what does the impulse tell you to do now?"
Sakura just stared at her two charas before closing her eyes and concentrating on the impulse. While Sakura was concentrating, on the book shelf not to far from the three that held the gold sword charm was glowing a bright red. Once the glow kept getting brighter and brighter, Ino and Hinata turned around and flew over to see what was glowing the pretty red. When Ino and Hinata was in front of the glow, they both gasped making Sakura stop and open her eyes to see Ino and Hinata floating in front of something producing the red glow. Sakura slowly walked over to them and stopped right behind her two charas also gazing at the glowing sword.
Grandpa, is it time to protect when I don't have anything or anyone to do so?
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After school, Amu with her now two charas was on their way to the green house to talk to the Guardians. Once they arrived, Amu slowly cracked the door open and stuck her head inside along with Ran and Miki. All three gasped in amazement at the beauty the greenhouse held inside. All the flowers were perfectly bloomed and their colors making the flowers more pretty.
Amu then pulled the rest of her body through the door with Ran and Miki quickly following behind her. All three walked down the isles of flowers to the stumble upon the Guardians. They were all sitting in a circle around a table that was placed in the middle of the concrete floor with flowers and water surrounding them. To Amu it made them all look so nice. Especially Tadase.
"Hey Hinamori!" the boy with brown hair yelled towards her while also waving at her.
Amu was then jumped out of fantasy about Tadase and slowly recomposed herself to her "Cool" and "Spicy" attitude. Putting her hands into her blazer jacket and putting on her blank mask, Amu calmly walked over with Ran and Miki floating on either side of her face. Once Amu was in front of the Guardians she just simply stood there for a bit before asking her question.
"Are you guys going to give me the information that I need or just sit and simply stare at me? I do have better things to do, you know."
Nadeshiko quickly stood up and walked over to Amu and grabbed her hand while guiding her over to Tadase that pulled out a chair for Amu. Placing Amu in the chair, Nadeshiko then walked back over to her seat and sat down while Tadase did the same. Yaya the pigtail girl then thrust a plate of cake towards Amu and asked.
"Wants some sweets, Amu-chii? I'm Yaya!" She gave a smile to Amu while in return Amu just stared at her. Kukai just looked between the two then ushered Tadase to hurry up and tell Amu what she came here for. Tadase gave a confirming nod to Kukai then turned his attention to Yaya that was now eating Amu's slice of cake while Amu just watched her and Nadeshiko just smiled.
"Hinamori-san." Tadase said.
Hearing her name, Amu turned her head so that Tadase had her full attention. He gave her a smile and in return received a blushing Amu.
"I'm pretty sure you know who we are and we know who you are. So I'm going to tell you about the charas and our goals." Tadase started off.
"In the Queen's chair: Nadeshiko, I'm in fifth grade like you and my chara name is Temari." Said Nadeshiko as a purple headed chara that was wearing a kimoto flew up to Nadeshiko as she said her name.
"In the Ace's chair: I'm Yaya, in the fifth grade with you too and this is my chara, Pepe-chan." Yaya said while pointing to her baby chara, Pepe.
"In the Jack's chair: Yo! The name is Kukai and I'm in the sixth grade and also captain of the soccer team. This is my chara, Daichi." Kukai finished his intro with a wink and a point with his thumb to Daichi who looked like a mini sporty chara.
"And in the King's chair: Tadase, also in the fifth grade with you too and my chara is Kiseki." Tadase said while a mini king chara floated up beside Tadase when he called his name.
Nadeshiko then said, "We know that you're in the fifth grade, Amu and your two charas name is Ran and Miki."
Amu just stared in surprise while Ran and Miki were blushing. They sure didn't expect the Guardians to know their names when they just got here yesterday. Quickly Amu schooled her face to blank once more then asked a question.
"That's nice but, I just want to know more about charas and what this" shows the Humpty Lock "is."
Pulling out a book, Tadase then preceded to hand it over so Amu could take it and look at it. Amu took the book from Tadase after trying to calm her blush down, and studied the covering.
Amu could only raise an eyebrow and ask, "A picture book?"
Tadase nodded his head and said, "Open the book and read it Hinamori-san."
Amu did what she was told while Ran and Miki came up to read it as well. Once they go to a page that was ripped, Amu looked at Tadase with a raised brow again.
"To sum it up till the page breaks, this book talking about a hearts egg." Tadase said.
"Hearts egg?" asked Amu.
Yaya jumped in front of Amu's face so she could get her attention.
"It's an egg that comes from your heart. Then when the egg hatches out comes a mini you or something you want to be."
Amu just turned her head to Ran and Miki who were staring at Yaya but, turned their heads to Amu once she was done talking and smiled at Amu. Amu gave a small smile back.
"And you Amu, you have three eggs which make you special. That's why the Humpty lock chose you. It is said that if someone comes with three eggs then it will own the Humpty Lock that could purify eggs." Said Nadeshiko while pouring Yaya another cup of tea.
"Yea, Hinamori. We need you to join us so we could purify all the bad eggs." Kukai said.
"If you join you will be the Joker's chair, Hinamori-san." Tadase then said.
Amu just stared until a thought ran through her head. I could be closer to my prince, Tadase. And immediately Amu started blushing.
Kukai made her jump out of her daydream by saying, "We would also like to see that Character Transformation that you did before, Hinamori."
"Oh, and if you join you could wear this awesome cape, Amu-chii!" Yaya said while pulling a cape out of nowhere and waving it up and down like a flag would do when wind is blowing it.
"Will you join, Sakura-san?" Nadeshiko then asked.
Then the three Guardians started crowding around Amu slowly. Amu put her hands up in front of her and slowly started backing up.
"No."
That made the Guardians stops their advancing. They also gave a shock look.
Grabbing her bag, Amu turned towards the Guardians and said, "I'm not joining you guys so keep that ugly cape and find someone else."
With that said Amu and her charas left the green house leaving shock Guardians in their wake.
Once Amu was far from them and close to the playground she let out a sigh while Ran and Miki gave her a worried look but, Amu just brushed it off until a dark presence made it self known. Quickly Amu ran to it while Ran and Miki floated behind her.
Once they reached the playground Amu and her chara saw a boy sitting in a fetal position with a black egg with a white X in the niddle of it floating above him. Walking a little closer, Amu cautiously stepped closer to the boy. When the boy felt Amu's presence, he immediately raised his head and sent a blank empty stare towards Amu.
"I bet you think I'm worthless too, Hinamori-sempai."
Amu took a step back and said, "No, I don't. You're not worthless."
"LIE!" the boy yelled then the egg flew towards her and her charas. Thinking quickly, Amu dodged the egg before it could hit her.
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Sakura jumped once the impulse flared. Ino and Hinata turned their heads to Sakura.
"Amu is in trouble, the impulse is stronger now."
Sakura then reached for the glowing sword and picked up in her hand.
"Grandpa, is it really time? I don't even know what to do."
Ino and Hinata just stared at Sakura with determined eyes. In Sakura's eyes just held worried and fright.
I'm not ready Grandpa, I'm just not ready.
The faces of Naruto and Sasuke flashed through her eyes and it made her squeeze the sword in her hand and shut her eyes trying to stop the tears that were bout to come.
Naruto-nii, Sasuke-kun
Ino and Hinata let the determination disappear to only let worry come. They flew up to Sakura's face and tried to comfort her as much as they could.
Next time, Amu.
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"I want to save this boy, Ran."
Ran could only nod her head and say, "Let's do this Amu-chan."
Amu put her hands in front of the lock and made an L with both of her hands and said, "MY HEART: UNLOCK!"
Amu then could see pink and Ran jumping into her egg so Amu could put it in her chest then flashed a smile.
When it was over and the transformation was done, Amu then posed while saying, "Amulet Heart."
When Amu was done she didn't notice the other Guardians run up to the hill that was behind Amu and see their shocked faces.
The boy then made another attack but, Amu dodged it like before. She turned to the boy and said, "You're not worthless. No one is worthless in this world."
Pointing at the X egg, Amu said, "Negative Heart: Lock On!"
Shaping her hands into a heart then thrusting them in front of her.
"OPEN HEART!" Amu yelled.
When the pink hearts reached the X egg, it was turned back into a pure white egg that it was and flew back into the boy's heart.
When the danger was gone the Guardians ran up to Amu and congratulated her on while the boy was unconscious. Once he started to wake up, Ran quickly flew out of Amu so he wouldn't see.
During all this, Amu had to wonder.
Haruno-san? Where are you?
…
Sakura was sitting on her roof with the Humpty sword in her hands. Ino and Hinata were already sleeping on her pillow. Sakura then lay on her back while pushing the sword in front of her face, just staring at it.
Don't worry Amu, I'll protect you next time.
Sakura clutched the sword in her hand so tight so she couldn't see it and had a determined look in her eyes.
Naruto-nii, Sasuke-kun, and Grandpa, I will do what I must to protect Amu.