A/N: Tadaa! Hey guys, this is my first Rimahiko story. Yes, it will end Rimahiko, and I told you so that you won't be dissapointed by reading a story that won't end the way you like. I hope you like my story!

Dedication: Vi-chan, who is an awesome friend, writer, and loves Rimahiko.

Happy Birthday!

I do not own Shugo Chara!

Edit: I had to put in new page breaks because fanfiction removed my previous ones =.=

Chapter 1 - A New Relationship

Rima surveyed the assortment of gag manga before her eyes. Where is it?, she thought, as Kusu-Kusu giggled at her. Then she spotted it behind the earlier volume of the series. Someone must have tried to hide it and come back to buy it later. Hah, too bad! She was going to buy it anyway. She hurriedly grabbed the latest issue of the manga from the shelf and dashed to the counter.

She bought the manga and started walking back home. Her parents had finally decided that they didn't need to always pick Rima up, and that she was old enough to take care of herself.

In a few minutes she would be happily reading her manga.

Just as she arrived home she heard a beep sound from her pocket. She took out her phone and flipped it open. It was a text message from Amu. It read:

Meet me in the park in ten minutes! I have something important to tell you! :D

Rima's face lit up and she threw her manga into her room and raced to the park.

"Hey Rima," Amu said when the petite girl arrived.

"Hi," Rima replied smiling.

"Let's sit down! This is going to take a long time to tell," said Amu, giggling uncharacteristically to herself. Her charas exchanged excited looks.

I wonder what Amu is going to tell me, Rima thought.

They sat down on the park bench. Their charas grouped together in the air and began chatting.

"You'll never believe what happened to me," said Amu. "Guess what?"

Rima pretended to look thoughtful. "You bought me a lifetime supply of gag manga?" asked Rima hopefully.

Amu giggled and shook her head. She suddenly turned nervous.

She took a deep breath and said, "Well I just thought since you're my best friend...I should tell you first...and well...I just became Nagihiko's girlfriend." She was smiling happily, waiting for Rima's reaction.

Rima stared at her best friend, gaping as her brain exploded. Nagihiko was Amu's boyfriend.How? They were normal best friends a few days ago when Rima was with them and now they're suddenly boyfriend and girlfriend? They are boyfriend and girlfriend? No matter how many times she repeated this in her mind it just didn't want to register in her brain and she had no idea why. Amu had been smiling a lot less ever since he left and now she was smiling ten times wider than ever. Rima should be extremely happy for Amu, and she was. But what's this bad feeling I'm having? thought Rima.

"Rima?" said Amu in a worried tone, since Rima was staring into space and wasn't answering.

"Oh –I –wow Amu! I'm so happy for you. How did it happen?" she asked, shaking off the feeling and now waiting for Amu to tell her the whole story.

"Well, remember yesterday the three of us were going to go shopping together," said Amu.

Rima had a dentist appointment so she couldn't come with them. Nagihiko was grinning at her mockingly and she shot glares at him in return.

"After we were done, Nagihiko wanted to walk me home. So we were just talking as usual and then he said, 'you're smiling now. You haven't been smiling lately.'" Amu had a glazed look on her face as she remembered the moment.

"I realized I actually haven't and I said, 'Only because I'm with you.'" Her face turned pink.

"It just suddenly slipped out, and he was staring at me. And well he told me that he liked it when I smiled and he liked everything about me. And then it hit me that he was my best friend and it's easy to talk to him. I'm always happy when he's around and I told him I liked him, as more than just a friend. But I only said all those things because of somebody."

Amu glared meaningfully at Ran. "Then he said he liked me too...so...we decided that we would try dating...and stuff."

"That sounded like it was amazing," said Rima, knowing how Amu really liked that kind of stuff. Amu must have been jumping for joy when she got home.

Amu nodded fervently. "He was really sweet," she said, sighing happily.

"That was really romantic of him," agreed Rima. "I didn't know he had it in him. But he did spend time as a girl after all, so he must have learnt some tips from all that time," said Rima, with a small smirk.

Nagihiko had finally got the courage to tell Amu that he was Nadeshiko about two months ago, Amu was shocked, but they laughed about it later on.

Amu frowned. "Can you try to be nicer to him now? I mean, well, he is my boyfriend..." she muttered.

Rima sighed. If it was anyone else she would have refused immediately, but for Amu she would try not to tease Nagihiko.

"Alright," said Rima.

Amu grinned widely and gave Rima a quick hug. "Thank you! I'm going home, my Okaa-san is making her specialty, and later I have to call Yaya about this."

Rima grinned and said, "She'll be screaming through the phone."

They laughed at the thought since it was positively going to happen. Amu waved at Rima as she headed home.

Rima looked around the park. Evening had fallen and it was getting darker. She walked back home too.

"It's a really good thing to happen to Amu," she said to Kusu-Kusu, once she had jumped onto her bed, ready to sleep.

Kusu-Kusu giggled, which Rima took to be a 'yes, it's definitely a good thing!'.

She watched her chara go back into her egg and then clicked the lights off. She lay down in her silent bedroom for while. Usually she would be able to fall asleep as soon as her head touched the pillow, but too many thoughts were swimming around her head.

Just now, when Amu told her that Nagihiko was her boyfriend, she definitely felt something, only she didn't know what. It was a bad feeling, she was sure of that. Or maybe I was just shocked. I didn't expect that from Amu at all, she thought. She was satisfied at the answer she came up with and fell asleep, because it was just shock, that's all.

XOXOXO

Rima walked through the crowd of students, trying to find Amu. The sea of students no longer parted as they did when they were in elementary school. Now they were in their second year of middle school. Rima and the other former-guardians of her year still held some respect from the other students, though they were no longer treated like royalty.

"Queen Mashiro, I love you," Rima heard someone call out. They still had to deal with what was left of the crazy and obsessed fans, though.

Rima entered the classroom and sat down in her seat, noticing that Amu's seat was still empty. Late as always, Rima thought to herself, smiling slightly. One minute before class started, Amu walked in, though she wasn't alone.

She was holding hands with her new boyfriend, Nagihiko. Rima stared at them, completely unprepared for this. She knew that they were dating, Amu had definitely told her about that the day before, but seeing them hold hands like that made it feel like she just found out, like everyone else in the class. The whole room went silent as they stared at Amu Hinamori, former Joker, giggling at the side of Nagihiko Fujisaki, the former Jack. Whispers emerged and spread across the room like wild-fire. Rima was used to whispering but for some reason this time it annoyed her.

She saw Amu blush and let go of Nagihiko's hand, making her way next to Rima.

"Hi, Rima," greeted Amu, taking out her books for the first class.

"Hi," Rima greeted in return.

"Good Morning, Rima-chan," said Nagihiko, whose place was in front of Amu.

Rima didn't reply, like most times when Nagihiko said 'hi' to her.

"I said, 'Good Morning'," he repeated, with a small smirk on his face.

Right...Rima had agreed to be nicer to Nagihiko. Amu had obviously told him. Rima glanced sideways at Amu, who shrugged with an apologetic smile. Rima sighed.

"Good Morning, Nagihiko," she said, avoiding eye contact with him.

"It's rude to not look at people when they're talking to you," Nagihiko said in a would-be matter-of-fact tone.

Rima looked up reluctantly at Nagihiko and stared straight into his eyes. "Good Morning, Nagihiko 'Cross-Dresser' Fujisaki."

"I guess that's a start," said Nagihiko with a small smile. He turned to Amu and stared rapidly talking to her.

But it wasn't a conversation that Rima could join; they were talking about their date after school. Rima should've expected this, she had read romance manga besides her much preferred comedy ones, and relationships were always giggly and on-going at first. She felt oddly left out, though.

XOXOXO

"You're dating Nagi?" screamed the least-mature of the former-guardians, for the entire cafeteria to hear.

"Yaya!" Amu hissed, peering over her shoulder, hoping that no-one had heard Yaya.

"How did it happen?" Yaya squealed excitedly. "Tell me!" Yaya had finally fallen out of her habit of addressing herself in third person last year, though she still acted as young as ever.

Rima ate a mouthful of steamed rice with sea-weed, not joining the conversation. Yaya must have had candy before this, she seemed extra hyper today.

"Why didn't you call me yesterday," Yaya whined after Amu told her the story. "How come Rima-chii knew before me?"

Rima looked up at Amu. "Yeah, I thought you said you were going to call her."

"I did call her," said Amu. "Yaya didn't pick up. I tried calling like about ten times."

Yaya blinked and said, "Oh right! I went to sleep early that day."

Amu and Rima sweat-dropped.

"Yo," said the voice of the oldest former-guardian. "I've heard about you and Nagihiko."

Amu blushed. "W-who told you?" she stuttered. "When did you hear about it?"

"Yaya did, I think" answered Kukai with his face looking like he was concentrating on remembering. "Today –um, oh yeah! - about five minutes ago," he finished, unable to conceal his grin.

Amu scowled. If Kukai had heard it from across the room then everyone had definitely heard it.

"Well congratulations! I'm surprised though, I thought that you weren't over Ta-"

"Kukai!" Yaya yelled, tackling her almost-older-brother.

"Ouch, Yaya! You're too heavy!" said Kukai.

Amu laughed at them and Rima giggled softly. It was a good thing that Yaya had glomped Kukai though, if Kukai had said Tadase's name there'd probably be a cold silence, Rima thought. She glanced at Amu who probably didn't know what Kukai was going to say.

She looked at the seat that used to be occupied by Tadase Hotori, during lunch times (where now, the charas were having a discussion). Amu had cried when Tadase told them, on the last day of the first term of middle school. He was leaving because of his father's job and he said he was really sorry and he promised he'd come back. She cried for a few weeks, until she finally decided that she was done with boys since they always left her. Nagihiko had convinced her otherwise, of course.

As far as Rima knew, Amu and Tadase were still friends. Amu told her that she called Tadase told him that she thought that they should just be friends. According to her, Tadase was okay about it, but she still didn't talk about him after all this time.

"Hey guys," said Nagihiko as he walked towards them.

"Where've you been, Nagi?" asked Amu when he sat next to her.

"I had to clean the room, apparently I did really badly me in one of my tests," he replied, apparently thinking in which test he went wrong.

"I bet you got an 'A+' for your brilliant cleaning skills. You were a girl after all," said Rima, looking innocently at Nagihiko as if this were a compliment.

He rolled his eyes. Rima glanced at Amu who was talking to Kukai about how his football practices were going and grinned. As long as she wasn't looking, Rima could always sneak Nagihiko an insult or two.

Rima turned back to face Nagihiko, waiting for a comeback so she could further insult him. But he was staring at Amu with a smile.

For some reason unknown to Rima, her grin had slipped off her face.

XOXOXO

Rima waited at the front of Seiyo Middle School, waiting for Amu. She wanted to walk home with Amu today. She wanted to also show Amu her new manga that she bought, which was hidden in her school bag.

When Amu emerged from the school, Rima tried to wave at her to get her attention. Amu saw her and waved back.

"Do you want to walk back together?" asked Rima eagerly.

Amu shook her head and said, "Sorry Rima, but I'm going out with Nagihiko. He's taking me out on a date somewhere."

Rima was disappointed but she smiled. "I forgot about that but it's okay. Have fun!"

Rima watched as her best friend ran up to Nagihiko and smiled at him and he smiled back. Nagihiko took her hand and they walked happily away. Rima frowned as that strange feeling returned and turned to walk home.

Right, Rima thought bitterly, they're going to be all lovey-dovey for the whole week. Maybe even two weeks. No, considering how shy Amu is when she was around Hotori, she'd definitely act lovey-dovey for much longer. I'm not going to have any time to spend with Amu. Nagihiko's going to spend all that time with her. Stupid Nagihiko, with his soft long hair and his cute smile and – Rima stopped at that thought. What was she thinking?

She shook her head slightly. Must be the heat, she thought, looking up at the blazing sun and she smiled. Of course it was, she never felt well when it was too hot. It was usually cool these days since it was November. That must be why she was feeling strange. That was obviously the answer.

And at that moment, she absolutely believed in that answer, and wondered why it was this hot on an autumn day, not thinking of what else the feeling might possibly be.

A/N: Well that's chapter one! I already planned the whole story so I'm hoping you stick around.

I hope you liked it Vi-chan, it's just a little extra present for you! (even though it is a bit anti-Rimahiko at the moment.) :D

Please review and thanks for reading!