Hey, mermaidcharaakazukin here! Wow, that's a long name, maybe it was a mistake and i should've gone with something shorter. Oh well! This is my first story, so please just constructive criticism only! I'm a huge Rimahiko fan, so this is my first try at pairing them up. I hope you enjoy.

DISCLAIMER: I wish I owned Shugo Chara, but I don't. All I own is Divi :)

CHAPTER 1: Rima's New Chara

Rima POV

I walked into the Royal Garden, followed by Kusukusu and my newest chara, who'd just hatched this very morning. "Hey, everyone, look at my new chara!" I yelled. I'd always felt kind of boring having just one chara, like a background character, but now I had two, so that made me just as good as purplehead. Actually, better, because one of his charas was a girl.

"Rima never told Yaya she had another chara egg," Yaya pouted, speaking in her annoying third-person way. "Yaya thinks Rima-tan's new chara is cool!" She'd immediately changed her mood in about half a second. Typical Yaya.

"I didn't tell anyone," I replied, which was the truth. I hadn't even brought my chara to school. "I didn't want to jinx it."

"How could you possibly -" Amu started, but then let the sentence drop. "Oh, whatever. What's her name?"

"Divi," I said smugly. "She's sort of evil." I had no idea I wanted an evil would-be self, except for that one night where I had curled up in a ball on my bed, when my parents were fighting and wished that I was evil so I wouldn't have any feelings and not care at all. But I knew Divi was evil because (and definitely not because she told me, because only an evil idiot would do that) she'd shoved Kusukusu in my mom's breakfast soup (yeah, my mom is odd, okay, I know!). Poor Kusukusu was still dripping wet, but at least she was warm.

"You wanted an evil would-be self?" Purplehead asked, raising an eyebrow. "Isn't that just you already?" Well. Of course purplehead would think, but I couldn't wait to character change with Divi and annoy the hell out of him all day, everyday. Okay, maybe THAT was why Divi had been born.

"Don't speak to Rima like that," Divi snapped at him. "Chara change!" She'd done this to me in the morning too, when my mom had started yelling at me for throwing things in her soup (not that she saw Kusukusu), so I knew a cute pair of little devil horns came up out of my hair when Divi character changed with me. Before I could stop myself, she kicked purplehead in the place where - well, where people shouldn't be kicked.

Purplehead looked like he was in pain, so I did what I always did when that happened - snickered, and then insulted him. For once, someone snickered with me (Divi, obviously). "Are you really that weak, purplehead?" Divi asked innocently, using the nickname I'd given him. I hadn't told her the name so she probably only knew it because she was a part of me. I sort of wanted to be the one who insulted him, though, so I said nothing.

Tadagay cleared his throat. "Can we continue with the meeting, please?" Divi snickered again and said, "We can't continue what we haven't started, kiddie king." Okay, now I was really confused. How the hell did she know IKUTO'S nickname for Tadagay?

"Ignore her," Kusukusu said, sounding very un-Kusukusu. "Divi's a devil and a jerk."

"Aren't you sort of insulting Rima-chan when you say that about her would-be self?" asked purplehead, to which Divi replied, "Don't call her Rima-chan, crossdresser. She hates you." Of course, that's 100% true, but only I am allowed to call Nagihiko purplehead, crossdresser, and to tell him I hate him. Just who does Divi think she is?

Oh yeah. Technically, she's me.

"Can we START THE MEETING NOW?" demanded Tadagay, raising his voice for maybe the first time. Ha! I guess Divi gets on his nerves ... yay me!

"Sure, prince," Divi said, taking the words straight out of my mouth. Admittedly, that's a little annoying. Is there any point in me being here if Divi is just going to say and do everything for me? But this WILL get all of us a little five minute live entertainment, so I guess I can overlook it. I'll just give her the rules when we get home.

*** TIME SKIP ***

I threw my bag on the floor the moment I walked through the door and screamed, "I'M HOME!" to no one in particular. As usual, I'm home alone, but at least I have two hours of peace to get my homework done before my parents come home and start threatening to kill each other, right? Wrong.

I was just about to start my algebra homework (it's my worst subject, so I always do it first because if I'm not done before my parents get home, there's no way I'll ever be able to finish) when I got a text from Amu.

Rima, there's a whole bunch of X-eggs down by the park. Nagi, Yaya and Tadase r already here. Hurry up and get here, we need Juggling Party! - Amu

"Come on, Divi, Kusukusu," I grumbled, slightly annoyed that I'm going to lose about an hour of hour of quietness to do my homework. "We've got X-eggs to purify."

Kusukusu, for the first time today, smiles. I don't think she really likes Divi, but they are sort of opposites in personality, so that's probably why. "Yay! Let's go, Rima-tan!" She speeds ahead, I follow her, and Divi reluctantly trails behind. You'd think she'd be excited, seeing as this will be the first time she sees us purify some X-eggs.

When we get there, I can tell there are a lot more X-eggs than 'a bunch'. Twelve are chasing purplehead, Amu is failing at purifying, say, another twelve, Yaya and her little duckies are screaming their heads off in fear and Tadagay is just standing there, protected by his Royal Crown. This does not look good.

"Okay, Kusukusu, let's go," I said, ready to help them out here. A Juggling Party will round them up and let Amu purify them easily so that's just what we'll do. Thankfully, this will only take about ten minutes at the most.

"That's not fair!" Divi cried out suddenly. "Character transform with me! You've done it a million times with Kusukusu and I've just hatched. I want a turn!" I glanced at Kusukusu, who obviously wants me to character transform with her, but it would be fair to do it with Divi just once.

"You don't mind, do you, Kusukusu?" I asked. Of course, I really want to know what a character transform with Divi will look like, and how powerful I'll be. Kusukusu just sighs and says, "Okay, Rima-tan. But next time is my turn." She does not look at all pleased.

I nod, thinking it will probably be fair to alternate character transforming with them (how does Amu deal with this? She's got FOUR charas!) I motioned to Divi and then say, "My heart: Unlock!" Divi returns to her egg, which is bright red with devil tridents and combat boots all over it.

"Charanari: Devil Diva!" we shout together, and I look down to see I'm wearing a strapless short red dress, that's slightly poofy at the bottom, with a pair of black combat boots that go all the way up to my knees. My hair is half-up, half-down and wavy more than its normal curly. I'm pretty sure that I look good.

My character transform finally makes the other guardians realize that I'm here. "Rima-tan!" Yaya shrieks happily, probably forgetting her fear and her little duckies. "Yaya thinks you look very pretty!"

"Is that a character transform with Divi?" Amulet Heart asked me, ducking from the attacking X-eggs. I nodded, thinking that its sort of obvious, since it's obviously not Clown Drop. "Well, I hope it's got some good moves," Amulet Heart shrieks, as the X-eggs come stampeding back at her. "Help me!"

Divi, I think, realizing that I don't know any of Devil Diva's moves or what they do, um, help me out here! How do I help Amu?

You don't need to help Amu, Divi scolds me, from inside my own head, you can do this yourself. Just let me take over, and I'll do my thing!

Well, since I have no idea what to do when I'm Devil Diva, it can't hurt. Do your thing, Divi, I think, giving her free rein to take over. Suddenly, I feel way more confident than before, and also just a tiny bit cocky, since I can't help thinking I'm-hot-and-I-know-it. But that's just because Divi's sort of controlling me right now.

"Devil Trident!" I shout, and somehow throw a random trident I didn't know I had at the X-eggs. It goes straight at them, but as they try to scatter, the trident circles around them and cages them in, just like Juggling Party. The X-eggs are trapped.

"Thanks, Rima," Amulet Heart shouts at me, getting ready to use her Open Heart move. "You should probably go get the X-eggs that are chasing Nagi now. He looks pretty tired."

I tried to turn around to face the direction purplehead and the other X-eggs were in, but it seemed I couldn't move. Divi wasn't giving me back my control. "Devil's Kiss!" I shout, completely unwillingly, and a red heart comes out of my hands, just like the one that comes out of Amu's when she does Open Heart. Could it be ... is Divi really powerful enough to be able to purify X-eggs like Amu?

Suddenly, everyone has stopped what they're doing and watching my Devil's Kiss attack come closer to the trapped X-eggs. It's going pretty fast, but it seems like time has slowed down for all of us, and that the red heart is just inching along. But then it makes contact - and every single one of the X-eggs shatter into a million little pieces.

Amu and I gasp simultaneously. She turns to look at me, her expression first bewildered, and then angry. It's just like the first time we fought an X-egg together, and I shattered it without letting Amu purify it. But this time, I hadn't meant to do it. This was Divi's fault.

"Rima?" she said simply, but I could tell the question was loaded. It seemed that she thought I had done this on purpose, and everyone else probably thought that too. No one had heard me give Divi free reign, so no one would know that Divi had done the Devil's Kiss attack without permission.

I kick Divi out of my heart, and I land back on the ground as normal, ice queen Rima. "Amu, I'm so sorry," I cried out. "I swear, I didn't know that would happen. I gave Divi control because I'd never been Devil Diva before, and she didn't know you could purify eggs. I really didn't mean to!"

Thankfully, Amu looks as though she believes me. "Okay," she says, but she doesn't exactly smile. "I'll get the other X-eggs, and you should probably explain to Divi how we do things here." I nod.

Amu turns her attention to the X-eggs still attacking purplehead, and me and Kusukusu turn on Divi. "What did you think you were doing?" Kusukusu snapped before I could say anything.

"You wanted to take care of the X-eggs, didn't you?" Divi shrugs, completely calm. "So I took care of them."

"That's not what I meant!" I tell her, angrily. "Amu can purify the X-eggs, and THAT'S how we take care of them. We are never using that Devil's Kiss move again!"

"I can't believe you're not even sorry," adds Kusukusu, and I have to agree with her. Divi doesn't look sad or apologetic, just eerily uncaring. "You just destroyed twelve people's dreams forever!"

"Are you going to apologize?" I demanded, figuring that making Divi apologize - which I can already tell is something she hates to do - will stop her from doing this ever again. "You are sorry, right, Divi?"

Divi shrugs. "Yeah, whatever," she says, unconvincingly.

I sigh, figuring that's the best I'll get out of her. "Come on," I say, dejectedly, because I feel like Yaya and Tadagay are staring at me, as if wondering what's wrong with me and my chara.

"She just destroyed twelve X-eggs," I hear Yaya whisper.

"And she's blaming it on her chara," Tadagay says back, sounding slightly disgusted. But he only sounds that way with Ikuto!

"See what you've done?" I snap at Divi as we shamefully leave the park. "Everyone hates me because of what you did. You could at least feel bad about it."

"What's the point about feeling bad about anything?" Divi says. "It's already been done, feeling bad won't change it. Emotions don't matter, Rima. Especially not laughing." She threw a dirty look at Kusukusu. "Trust will only lead to backstabbing, and that to revenge. It's better to keep all your secrets to yourself, and to not even have friends. You're an ice queen, you already know that. I'm the chara that will help you make your life better. See, your emotions - your love - for your parents makes you feel bad when they argue. But they don't care about you, so you shouldn't care about them. No one cares about you, so you should care for no one."

Then she looks at me, directly into my eyes, and I'm forced to stare into her red ones. "But I am you, Rima. The perfect you. I'm the only one who cares about you, who can you make your life better. Who can make you better. Trust me, Rima. Together we can create a perfect world for the two of us."

Divi does a 180, and puts on a burst of speed, flying far ahead of me, leaving me alone to think about her icy cold speech. But as I'm thinking, I realize that everything she's said is, well, true. Divi is my would-be self, after all. She knows me, she knows what I want. She knows what I need, and even better, she knows how to get it. Divi is my chara ... and I can trust her.

But what I don't realize, not until it's too late, is that Divi meant it when she said "Together we can create a perfect world for the two of us,". Which meant it was a world without Kusukusu.

Sorry about the lack of Rimahiko there, people. I sort of wanted a slighty dramatic, foreshadow-y ending (yeah, I've been listening way too much to my English teacher's literary elements speeches) and I sort of wanted readers to just see what Divi was really like, because that is very crucial to the plot (yup, I've been listening to closely to my English teacher's speeches). Please read and review!

Thanks so much! - mermaidcharaakazukin