NOTE TO ALL READERS: Just like the last chapter, this chapter was also edited, though not that much. Mostly just some un-important parts. And I just realized that I forgot about the disclaimer...

I am back, and ready to start typing! I am becoming obsessed in doing this, that I actually didn't want to go to sleep yet and whenever I had the chance to go on our laptops at school, I immediately went on to type my story. XD I was actually planning on spending the weekend trying to do my homework, but I ended up getting side-tracked at only typing my story. Next thing I know, it's 10 o'clock on Sunday and I didn't even touch my backpack! Anyways, FORWARD TO CHAPTER 3!

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Chapter 3

Hitsugaya had enough on his mind; he didn't need all those new heart-aches and strange reiatsu patterns to go along with it.

For the hundredth time that day, his mind wandered to the new reiatsu sheltered inside his chest, the unconscious citizens, the mysterious navy-haired teenager, and the bubble-gum hair colored girl. All these new thoughts ran through his head as he half-consciously took notes of the teacher's lesson in this dreaded, new, elementary school. It has been a week since the 'incident', yet he can't seem to get over the feeling of being watched every time he sets foot outside. Several times he also felt like he was being watched even in the hallways. The bell rang, breaking him out of his thoughts.

His body moving on his own, he packed up his stuff, thrust it over his shoulder, and headed towards the roof, but not before grabbing a drink that Kuchiki Rukia once identified as a 'juice box'. Taking a sip of the sweet substance, after learning how the juice box works, and crinkling his nose in distaste, he opened the door to the roof, which was deserted. Shutting the door behind him, he strolled across the area to the edge overlooking the town. Sitting on the edge, his back facing the town, he twisted his head so he could have a side-ways view of the town and allowed himself to relax, closing his eyes.

Meanwhile, an anonymous figure peeked around the corner of a wall, staring at the relaxing Shinigami in disguise. A guardian character popped out, then another, and then another.

"What's he doing?" Su asked in her innocent voice.

"Lounging around," Miki replied.

"Mou, I want to be able to do that!" Ran complained.

"You could do it anytime, while I have to stay awake through school. Anyway, quiet down, he'll hear you!" Amu whispered, looking pointedly at Ran.

"Amu-Chan, did you forget that since his guardian character hasn't awakened, he can't see us?" Miki asked looking up at the bubble-gum hair colored student.

"Ah, r-right," said girl recalled with a slight sweat-drop. "But, he could always just have a guardian character and be hiding it."

"Most of us don't like being hidden, Amu-Chan."

"Well, sometimes you don't have a choi-," she was broken off by a new voice.

"What are you doing?"

Amu froze. Very slowly, she turned her head back to the spot where the new transfer sat, but couldn't see. Why? Because right in front of her was a pair of arms crossed in front of a chest, to which Amu gulped. Raising her eyes, she was prepared to meet an accusing gaze, but instead, he was staring off into something next to her. She followed his line of sight- right to Ran, Miki, and Su. She gasped slightly, unintentionally catching his attention. She scrutinized his face: hardened teal eyes, with wisdom beyond any children's years, furrowed eyebrows, and a scowl that actually seems quite permanent, and short, spiky, white hair with one lock hanging over his left eye. Yep, this was definitely the boy they once talked about. His eyes narrowed.

"I asked, 'what were you doing'?" he repeated in an exasperated tone, weary of all the stares he has been getting for the past week. While in his mind, he was actually taking in this girl standing in front of him; the same girl who was there when he woke up from that incident. Bright pink hair with part of it lifted up by a red, X hairclip, golden-brown eyes, the regular Seiyo Academy uniform, but with leg warmers, a belt, and an arm accessory held to the uniform by a clip.

Said punk-gothic styled girl started after realizing that she was once again spoken too. "I-I-I'm," she stuttered, un-used to being caught, "SORRY!" She ran right out of there with several mini-reiatsu trailing after her, in Toshiro's view.

Toshiro stared after her, the cloud of dust billowing out as a trail. Having nothing to do and curious getting the better of him, he followed.

In the meantime, Amu was running in an outrageous speed towards the royal garden, where she knew all of the guardians were at the moment, her guardian characters flying after her and shouting at her to slow down.

Tadase, Yaya, Kukai, and Nadeshiko were all drinking tea in companionable silence while waiting for their Joker until they put their cups down and the cups started shaking. The four of them exchanged glances and smiled. Amu.

Kukai whistled. "She learned really fast," he spoke in a proud voice, having trained her when she began her duties as the Joker.

"Yaya thinks so too~!" Yaya agreed.

The Royal Garden's doors banged open and out came an almost hysterical bubble-gum haired girl. As soon as she entered, she ran up to the guardians in the blink of an eye. She banged her hands on the table, out of breath. "Why did I have to stalk him?!" she protested.

Kukai gave a wink and a grin. "You need to learn how to work on your stealth to sneak up on X-eggs and characters!" he said matter-of-factly.

Amu was still flushed, but finally regained her breath. "D-demo," she protested weakly. She looked down. Turning around she folded her arms and closed her eyes. "He saw me."

"Hah?" Kukai said, as if he already knew that it would happen. "So is that the reason why he's here right now?"

Amu flinched. She turned 180 degrees, her body creaking cartoon-like as she did so to stare horrifyingly at the grinning athletic. A few seconds passed. "Come again?"

On cue, the door to the Royal Garden opened yet again. The gravel crunching underneath his feet, Hitsugaya Toshiro stepped inside, hands in his pockets, and observing his surroundings.

Guardians and guardian characters alike, except Amu who was rather clueless, smiled, or in some cases, smirked or grinned, knowingly.

Amu stared at them. It was their plan all along! Though she was somewhat upset that she was left out.

Stopping about a foot or two away from the slightly lifted platform, his eyes catching every person's gaze, he finally met and held the gaze of the person most likely in charge: Tadase. A slight staring contest began, the tension in the air, before the intruder finally spoke. "I only have one question," he said in a rather low voice. "Who are you people?"

~XoX~

Toshiro leaned back against one of the columns, arms crossed and staring skywards, emotions carefully concealed. "So you're telling me, that this 'Easter Company', is trying to find this 'Embryo' to grant wishes for, most likely, evil purposes?" His tone sounded like he didn't believe them, but in actuality, he was taking in every single detail.

Everyone nodded. But when you put it that way, it doesn't sound entirely believable, Amu thought with a slight sweat-drop.

"And you, Guardians of Seiyo Academy, are trying to stop them from finding this Embryo and also protecting people from losing their guardian eggs and making them become 'X-eggs' and 'X-Characters' using your guardian characters?" He closed his eyes.

"That's right," Tadase said with a nod.

Toshiro sighed. "If you have guardian characters, where are they?" he asked, gazing at the guardians as if he was expecting an answer.

"People without guardian characters cannot see them," Nadeshiko answered. Though, from what I see, he occasionally keeps glancing at places where all of our guardian characters are, she observed. She stared at the transfer student with a scrutinizing gaze. Something didn't feel right.

Though he felt the suspicious gaze, he deftly ignored it. Everywhere they went, most Shinigami couldn't help but to be able to attract attention and be considered as 'strange'. It was expected and was rather a big habit to ignore them. Though, he knew it shouldn't be taken as lightly. Individuals among those people could be a danger to their mission or even to Soul Society. As he thought of Soul Society, he couldn't help but wonder how Hinamori was doing in the Fourth Division, still in a coma after what that Aizen-his eyes darkened- made him do to her; after he failed to protect her.

Unbeknownst to him, his guardian egg, once shining brightly, dulled in color. Something the guardians didn't fail to notice.

Nadeshiko and Tadase glanced at each other, as if silently agreeing to watch over him. Yaya, her fist covering her mouth, stared worriedly at the white-haired youth. Kukai frowned, and Amu gazed from person to person.

"Anyway, we think that you might be helpful in the future, if we come across problems that we might not be able to handle," Tadase spoke, breaking Toshiro out of his dark thoughts.

"Helpful," Toshiro echoed with a questioning tone. He raised an eyebrow. "And, pray tell, how am I supposed to be 'helpful' to the guardians?"

Nadeshiko smiled. "Once you get your guardian character, you'll understand," she replied. "In the meantime, your heart's egg is resting safely inside yourself."

What surprised them was the fact that once the words left her mouth, Toshiro flinched. He tilted his head down so that shadows came across his face and causing the Guardians to not be able to read his expression.

A long silence descended upon the group. Each and every guardian was curious about his strange reaction.

"Well, I believe that's enough for today," Toshiro stated, getting off the column. He put his hand back in his pocket. He nodded to the guardians in farewell, his expression still unreadable. Walking the short distance to the door, he felt the guardians watching his retreating back. Once he reached the door, he turned to look directly at a reiatsu that was standing off to the side of the door, and then exited the Royal Garden.

Ran squeaked as she stared at the strange youth when he stared right at her. Though it was only brief, and it shouldn't be possible for him to see her, it still sent shivers down her miniature spine. Once he exited, she let out a sigh of relief.

Yaya suddenly let out a small exclamation of surprise.

Amu, who was right next to Yaya, scurried backwards when she heard the tiny yell. "W-what is it Yaya?" she asked, calming down when she realized nothing bad happened.

Yaya turned to face Amu, a wink and smile plastered on her face and a finger out and tilted slightly. "Amu-chi was 'cool and spicy', ne~?" Yaya asked, though she already knew the answer.

Amu thought for a minute. It has been a while since she was called that. She nodded, urging Yaya to continue.

"He was just like you!" Yaya said, eyes shining.

Amu blanched. "Hah?"

Kukai intervened. "Not really," he claimed. "He was more of a, 'cool and icy'." He finished with a grin.

Yaya nodded vigorously.

"S-sokka?" she stated more than asked, slightly sweat-dropping once again. They heard the school bell ring. "Ah! We have to get back to class!"

~XoX~

Toshiro dropped his bag on the desk chair and practically collapsed onto his bed in the room of his temporary home. Matsumoto was nowhere to be seen- but he had a sneaky suspicion of what she was actually doing. Considering the fact that her wardrobe was beginning to overflow and get stuffier each day. He sighed and placed an arm over his eyes. Guardians, guardian characters, X-characters, X-eggs, Easter Company, Embryo, Heart Eggs-. He put a hand over his chest, feeling the slightly different reiatsu coming off. This shouldn't be possible. This shouldn't be even happening, but it was. He sat up and took out his Soul Pager. As he reported his mission so far, many questions ran through his head. How were the guardian characters and heart eggs even created? Why haven't they noticed them until now? Why does he have a heart's egg, but Matsumoto doesn't?

All that was heard in the medium-sized bedroom was the beeping of the keys on the phone being pressed. That is until a particular, busty woman burst through the front door, loudly proclaiming that she was home. Toshiro had just finished the report, but closed his eyes and took a deep breath, bracing himself for the migraine that came along with someone who was currently bounding up the stairs.

Why does it always have to happen to him?

~XoX~

"Ne, Taicho, are you sure you're okay?"

No response. He already decided that it was useless to keep answering after she asked the same question fifty-eight times ago (and yes, he counted).

"Taicho, you shouldn't ignore me while I'm concerned for you," she whined, arms behind he back and leaning forward to look at his face.

"And since when were you in the position to berate me on what I do?"

She pouted and put her hands on her hips. "You're so mean, Taicho~, I was just worried that you aren't all hale and hearty," she continued.

He could've scoffed, but he didn't. "I'm as healthy as a horse."

Matsumoto rolled her eyes; Toshiro noted that she didn't do it very often. "'As healthy as a horse' that's dying," she rephrased his answer. "Taicho, what about the…?" She broke off, gesturing to his chest.

He hesitated, but soon relaxed since it was his subordinate after all. He looked at his sub-ordinate in a way that specifically told her to listen carefully. He talked about his meeting with the Seiyo Academy Guardians, the Guardian Characters, the heart's egg, and the Easter Company. Surprisingly, his lieutenant remained quiet with a serious face the whole lecture through.

He fell quiet, awaiting her reaction. She frowned as if she contemplating something. After several moments, she finally brightened, apparently having figured something out. "Ne, Taicho, can I try something?" she asked.

He scrutinized his lieutenant's face. She seemed genuine and sincere, so he nodded, albeit a bit reluctantly.

She grinned. Leaning in close, too close for Toshiro's comfort, until she made an almost 90 degrees angle with her body and with her face directly in front of Toshiro's chest, ignoring the suspicious aura rolling off her Taicho's body. "Hello there! Can you hear me? If you can, can you please raise your reiatsu so that I will know!" she practically yelled. In another person's view, it would've looked rather… awkward, having a lady yelling at your chest. There was no response, nor a raise in reiatsu. She pouted. "I'll try again."

Toshiro sighed. "Matsumoto, I don't think-"he broke off after he felt a somewhat different reiatsu coming from him rising slightly. He widened his eyes.

Matsumoto grinned at her achievement. "Raise your reiatsu if you really are Toshiro's guardian character," she continued, using her theory. It did as it was told. Suddenly serious, she asked the question they were most curious about. "If you know why Toshiro has a guardian character, don't raise your reiatsu." After several long moments, it raised its reiatsu. Matsumoto sighed, and then smiled sincerely. "Arigato ne, guardian character-san," she said. It raised its reiatsu as an act of farewell. She stood up straight and made eye contact with her superior.

What to do?

To be continued…

So… each chapter I am trying to raise how much words are in each chapter more than the last, so probably by the later chapters, I'll hopefully have at least twice or three times the amount of words I have in this chapter! Sound fun~? Sounds tiring to me….but I'll work on it. I won't be able to update as soon as I am updating right now because they just moved me to upper classes in school. First thing that happens: I get to do the hardest part of a project in my group and I have many people stare at me. Talk about pressure! I'll try my best to update soon though!

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