It's been forever since I've been on here oh my god. Okay so this is my very first Shugo Chara fanfiction and I really hope you like it. I always want to read a fanfiction where Amu meets an OC(s)m and befriends them. Okay I'll just get to the longer summary.

After a year and a half of traveling with Utau on tour and meeting Ikuto along the way, the Guardians have returned home only to find huge changes. There's a new enemy on the rise. Amu is the bearer to three new charas, and this time it's not the Embryo that holds the power. The guardians, Ikuto, Utau find that not only Amu has changed but also her power has grown to the level where she can't control it. Amu often panics into the arms of her new friends, panicking how she shouldn't be able to bear seven chara. Amu tends to push her older friends away- not wanting them to be dragged into her deathly game. Who are Amu's new friends? Her new enemies? And who is this new neko cat boy and guitarist Amu seems to be close to?

CHAPTER HAD BEEN REVISED

While You Were Away

Chapter One

One year and a half ago

"Amu, are you positive that you don't want to come along with us?" Utau questioned the pinkette who shook her head side to side as a no.

"I can't." Amu gave a small smile. "It's not that I don't want to- really I do, but there are things I have to take care of here at home."

Utau placed her hands on her hips, eyeing Amu suspiciously. Maybe Amu just didn't want to go, and that honestly hurt Utau inside. "Uh huh like what Amu? What do you possibly need to take care of here at home to pass up this chance of exploring the world alongside with your friends?"

Amu diverted her gaze to the ground, a sad spark igniting in her eyes. Amu's excuse was true; there really were things here at home that she had to take care of. If she could she'd go with Utau on her tour and support her along with the rest of their friends, but Amu couldn't do that.

"My grandmother has fallen ill, Utau, and mama and papa are too busy with work, so they need help with taking care of Ami." Amu lifted her honey eyes to meet the singer's purple. "She needs someone to take care of her nowadays."

Feeling a tinge of guilt for pressing Amu, Utau nodded, "I understand Amu." She smiled sadly. "We are going to miss you, I'll miss you."

"I'll miss you all too!" Amu tries to cheer up by offering her own cheerful smile. "Good luck Utau, I know you will do great on tour."

Utau turns around to walk into the boarding line after giving her pink haired fried a hug before pausing, casting one last look. It would be a year and a half of touring various states before she'd see the pink chara bearer again. That though alone made Utau sad, but she knew that one day they all would have to separate and live life, she was just starting a tad bit earlier. Utau walked down the hallway, stepping inside then plane with the guardians, preparing to go to the first stop of the tour.

"She isn't coming is she?" Kukai asked the singer, who shook her head rather sadly.

"No, I'm afraid not." Utau gazed out the window of the airplane. "She'll be okay on her own for a little bit."

Yaya cheered, "Amu-chan is strong! She can handle herself!"

They all knew this, but Utau still couldn't shake the feeling that something was bound to change in the near future. Now she could only pray for Amu's safety and that Ikuto returned soon.

Amu watched from the boarding gate waiting area from a glass window as the plane with her friends departed, smiling sadly to herself. She felt bad for lying about her grandmother being ill, but she needed to be here for her mother. A secret she didn't tell her friends was that her grandmother had recently moved into town only two days ago, and Midori couldn't handle the women. Plus her father was leaving on a trip, so she honestly had to help with Ami.

"Everything will be okay Amu-chan!" Ran cheered, hovering over her bearer with Su and Miki.

"I know, but it's going to be a little lonely for now." Amu sighed, beginning to walk away from the window and deeper into the airport, looking for an exit.

"Well now you have a chance to meet new people! ~Desu" Su says, smiling at Amu softly.

"I guess." Amu says shoving her hands into her pockets, keeping her eyes on the floor while maneuvering through the crowd of people. For some reason Amu didn't really like the idea of meeting new people, she'd grown use to her small group of friends she had been through so much with. It just didn't seem right to go off and make new friends just because hers were gone for a while.

It had been barely a year ago that Easter was finally defeated after finding out the Embryo was just a stone. The head of the Easter Company ended up being Hikaru Ichinomiya, a young boy who was forced to grow up too fast by his grandfather, Kazuomi Hoshina, who was the director of Easter at the time. Kazuomi was also Ikuto's and Utau's stepfather. Which only added to the drama.

Besides that, the Embryo was either a myth that existed somewhere or was just another story for children to believe in. Amu didn't even know any more if the Embryo was real or a fake, and had honestly began losing belief that the Embryo was more than a mere bedtime story. It didn't matter anyway. Lately, all Amu had been doing was purifying X-eggs that appeared every now and then. Nothing too big and disastrous. Amu would be fine by herself for now on, no magical glowing eggs will appear.

"Gomen!" Amu cried out when walking right into someone's back. She mentally scolded herself for not paying attention to where she was going.

"It's fine." A soft voice said, lifting Amu's chin up.

Amu's breath hitched at just how close this stranger was to her, and felt the blush take over her cheeks, causing the stranger to chuckle. He was good looking with nice trimmed brown hair and warm brown eyes that were captivating to Amu. He was also fairly tall, but that was also because Amu was short. He also dressed in loose gray sweats and a tank top, a blue suit case behind him.

"What's your name?" He asks, his brown eyes warm and inviting, and that alone compelled Amu to answer the question. She was weak when it came to eyes.

"Hinamori Amu." Amu whispered her heart beating at the closeness of their bodies.

He smiled. "Amu." He tested her name, as if it sounded familiar. "The Joker of Seiyo Academy."

Amu eyes widen in surprise. How did he know that? Before Amu could even ask, the guy turned around and walked away. She mentally kicked herself, he knew her name but she didn't even ask for his. She wasn't sure if she should be proud or worried that a stranger knew her name. Shaking her head, Amu mentally scolded herself.

"Stupid Amu." Amu whispered to herself, walking away with her charas who had been watching from afar.

The next day at school was hectic for Amu. Apparently there was going to be new transfer students coming in today, which caused every student to go into a frenzy of gossip and rumors. It caused a head ache for Amu, who walked through the halls listening to the scenarios. Every time something happened at this school, it set off a chain reaction of people being crazy. Students acted as if they at no self-control, and that alone was annoying. Having to regulate the students was more like a job.

"Maybe they are the new guardians! I heard the old ones had a fight a split up, except of Amu-chan. She decided to stay here with us." One of the younger girls said as Amu walked past.

"That's horrible!" Another girl exclaimed over dramatically. "At least Amu-chan actually cares about us students! Oh maybe she can make new friends with the new students!"

Amu rolled her eyes at the two girls, a soft smile slipped onto her face before she quickly wiped it off. Amu really didn't want to make new friends. She didn't appreciate people making such rumors about her friends, but yet Amu could do nothing about how people thought or how they expressed their opinion. She just had to stay true to herself.

"Her stubborn side is coming out." Miki told her sisters, who giggled in response.

The classroom wasn't any better, if possible- it was worse when Amu entered. Girls where squealing together while guys smirked, and Amu simply shot them all glares while walking to her seat, successfully quieting the class down. These girls were like dogs, give them a treat and they barked, doing tricks to gain attention. It was sad and ridiculous how far these girls could go.

"Class today we will have a few new students." Nikaidou announces, opening the door to allow five new faces inside. Immediately, the male and female students erupted into a mob of voices.

"It's them!" A girl cried out.

"The Toma twins!" Another gasped.

Amu silently looked up from her notebook she was scribbling in, taking in the new students, stopping on the one she'd ran into at the airport yesterday standing next to a female who was the split image of him. It dawned on Amu that they all looked familiar; she just could place exactly from where.

"Class, calm down-" Nikaidou was cut off.

"Shin! Please take this." A female student, Hanako, offered a bento box. Her blonde hair fell around her face like a curtain as she bowed, arms extended to offer the bento box. Shin's face was grim, but the girl beside him elbowed his side trying to be discreet about it.

"Thank you, but I'm a picky eater." Shin says and glances at an orange hair boy that stood with them. "You see, I believe Sora would enjoy it much more than me."

Amu rolled her eyes; his outer character was a wall that was the first thing she noticed. The orange hair guy, Sora- took the bento box from Hanako without hesitation, nodding and saying thank you. Finally, Amu began to realize where exactly she'd see these people. The Toma Twins where well known in Japan now a days, a new popular band named Ayumu Chika (Dream Flower), that consists with another three band members.

They'd only become to become popular a few months ago after a live performance. Amu had listened to a few over their songs, she liked them but wasn't crazy for them. She'd never been crazy for anyone, besides Ikuto- but she'd never admit that out loud. She was honestly beginning to move on from the blue haired neko, over a year ago he'd gone in search for his father, and she was truly happy for that, but they rarely spoke now a days- and the last time Ikuto told her that he wanted her to be happy.

Instead she found herself unhappy most days.

"They shin brightly." Dia whispered into Amu's ear, perched on the pink head bearer's shoulder. Amu glanced down at the orange chara. Dia had started to come out more often now, and it made the girls ecstatic that their sister would come out more often.

"They have guardian charas! ~desu." Su exclaimed, drawing the new student's attention, but the pink, blue, green charas went to hide in their eggs, while Dia giggled and hid in Amu's pink hair.

Amu saw five little charas when she looked closely above the new students, but when they realized Amu spotted them- they hid.

"Please introduce yourselves to the class." Nikaidou says, sighing when he realized this class would now be a lot harder to control.

A female with brown hair pulled back into a side braid stepped up. Her blue eyes shining in the light. She wore her uniform similar to Amu, but her shirt was more unbutton on the top, the tie was loose, her messenger bag was leather, and she wore black combat boots.

"Emily Toma here, head singer of Ayumu Chika." She grinned winking. That sent the school boys over the edge just a little bit more.

"Shin Toma, guitarist of Ayumu Chika." Shin shoved his hands into his uniform pockets, meeting Amu's gaze. He wore his uniform like his sister with the tie loose, and top a little unbuttoned.

A blonde bounced up, her wavy hair flying. Her uniform was tight on her, showing her curves. Her bright green eyes reminded Amu of a curtained honey pair. This girl was like an adult version of Rima. "Kaitlynn Misaki, Ayumu Chika keyboardist."

"Ryou Natsumi, Ayumu Chika drummer." Ryou had ebony hair that was spiked up, with ruby eyes.

Sora grinned at the class, winking at Hanako. "Ayumu Chika drummer, Sora Kaito."

Nikaidou spoke up. "You may find a seat, class is ending shortly."

Once again, Amu paid attention to her scribbles on her note book, letting her mind run freely as her hand glided over the paper with the blue ink pen. Making little pictures of random hearts and swirls- not noticing that Sora had token the empty seat beside her.

"You want to be an artist?" A teasing voice asks.

Amu glances at Sora for a second, shrugging. Her cool-and-spicy character slipping on. Dia sweat dropped from behind Amu's hair.

"You don't know?" Sora chuckles. "Isn't art your would be self?"

"Does it matter to you?" Amu asks, a little harshly.

"It does actually." Sora says. "This is Riku, my would be self."

Amu looks over at the little guardian chara of Sora, Riku. He had orange hair, like Dia, and to her surprise, cat ears and tail too. Like Your. Damn cats. The bell rings before Amu could say anything, and the class shuffles out.

"Himamori Amu." Nikaidou calls, once again mispronouncing her name.

Amu rolls her eyes. You'd think that after all the times she's corrected Nikaidou, he's catch on at some point, but apparently not.

"Yes Sensei?" Amu pipes up.

"You wouldn't mind showing our new students around campus, would you?" Nikaidou bats his eyelashes.

"Amu sighs "No, of course not."

Amu gathers her thing, putting them away in her messenger bag. Dia carefully moves with Amu as one to stay hidden, despite that Sora has shown them his chara. Ran, Miki, and Sue peeked at Amu through their eggs and Amu shot a smile before closing her bag.

"This way." Amu motions for the band to fallow her as she shot looks at approaching students; who scurried away under her glare.

The was the very last thin Amu honestly wanted to deal with, the crowds of fans surrounding them, begging and confessing their love. It would take up time and Amu wanted to get this tour of the school over with quickly.

Amu explained the two different classes, the moon class and the sun class. She introduces them to different teachers and even Tsukasa. Amu went over the different club actives, the newest school assignments and group projects and how they'd be dismissed since they came towards the end.

"Shin mentioned something about the guardians?" Emily was naturally curious, Amu had picked that up.

Amu nodded. "The guardians is a type of club where you have to be elected into. I'm the Joker here. The king, queen, ace, and jack are all out at the moment, but we mainly focus on paper work."

Amu mainly told the truth, just not mentioning the charas and x-eggs just yet.

"And this is it really." Amu said, stopping outside the Royal Garden. She'd went over the flower beds and soccer field. Relieved this was her last stop.

"Your different Amu." Kaitlynn smiles. "You're the only person we've meet in a while who doesn't confess anything every second and treat us normally."

Amu shrugged. " That's what I'm supposed to do, not that I really would."

They all sweat dropped, even Dia.

Amu-chan! Stop being so blunt- express yourself! Hop, step, jump!

Ran grinned from inside her egg as Amu's X clip changed into a heart.

"Sorry I didn't mean to sound so rude!" Amu perks. "I really do love your music- but I don't have the time to chase people around- Ran!"

Amu glares at her bag, mentally scolding the pink chara for the forced character change. The Ayumu Chika band members look at Amu weirdly while Sora bursts out laughing.

"She has a chara." Sora explained when his fellow band members looked at him.

"Did she force a character change?" Emily asks with a smile. "I hate when they do that, but they will if they think it helps."

"Can we meet her?" Kaitlynn questions.

Amu blinked, letting the questions soak into her head.

"She can be slow sometimes." Miki says, coming out of the bag.

"And harsh." Ran says, next to Miki.

"But she's really sweet.~desu" Su smiles.

"She's our Amu." Dia giggles at the shocked faces of the Ayumu Chika band members as she settled on top of Amu's pink hair.

"Eh!? Four charas?!" Emily squeaked out first from her shock.

"Four charas." Sora breathed. "Amazing."

"I'm Ran!" Ran cheers. "I represent Amu-chan's desires to be more honest, confident and athletic."

Ryou chuckled. "So you're the one who forced the character change just now?"

Ran grinned. "Yup!"

Then hid behind her sister when Amu gave her a glare.

"I'm Miki." Miki says calmly. "I represent Amu's desires to be more sharp, level headed, and artistic."

"See, told you that you had and artist would be self." Sora gloated.

Amu shrugged at him. "So what?"

Su smiles brightly. "I'm Su! I represent Amu-chan's desires to be more caring, sensitive, and improve her domestic skills."

"You should character change with her so she can play nice." Sora whined.

Amu shot daggers. "I don't play well with others."

Dia giggled at how bright Amu's radiance was now, even if Amu didn't know it yet- these people brought out her shine. They'd be around for a while.

"I'm Dia. I represent Amu-chan's radiance and desire to be more clam and optimistic" Dia smiled.

"You're so cute!" Emily squealed.

"I'm Nanami!" A bubbly chara chirps. She has long purple hair pinned to one side. She wears a elegant black dress with a microphone much like Dia's but black. "I represent Emily's dream of singing!"

This explains the perkiness.

A chara emerged from Shin, who had been silent all this time. "Yo, names Kyo. I represents Shin's desire to be more reasonable, caring, and more social."

It went on like that; everyone's chara's introducing themselves. Kaitlynn had a cute blue hairs chara, with cyan eyes that wore a shirt with a dinosaur and shorts that had a pair on miniature binoculars. Her name was Minako, representing Kaitlynn's dream of adventure.

Ryou had a silver haired chara named Zero. He wasn't very social. Amu guessed it made sense since Zero represented Ryou's desire to be smart and successful. Smart and successful people were quiet right? Or was that stereotyping people?

Amu didn't need to meet Sora's chara again, she'd meet Riku earlier.

Above all, Amu noticed Dia, Ran, Miki and Su were happy to have new friends, making Amu realize just how much friends they had. They only had each other.

"Amu- chan!" Ran cried out, sensing the negative feeling. "X-egg!"

Amu looked up sharply, giving a wistful nod.

"I have to go. Excuse me." Amu said, character changing with Ran- fallowing the pink chara. The other three fallowing their sister and bearer in pursuit.

"We should help." Emily says, stepping forward but Shin caught his twin sister's arm.

They stared at each other for a second,

"Let's see how powerful she is first." Shin commented, slowly fallowing Amu's direction she'd set off in, followed by the rest.

"My guess is that she's pretty damn powerful."

"Sora shut up."

Amu stood in the clearing of the soccer field or the local park, facing at least fifteen x-eggs. Usually there were four or five that showed up in a group, but not this many. There wasn't so many in a bunch like this for a while, and it honestly surprised Amu that they showed up now. Instead of dwelling on that fact, Amu watched, listening to them chatter the single word that seemed to be a drive for Amu.

"Usless!" One x-egg cried out, shooting a black beam at Amu, who swiftly dodged it.

"Ran! Character Change!" Amu yelled.

"Hai!" Run obeyed, happily getting into her egg while Miki pouted and complained about never getting to character transform.

"My heart unlock!"

Pink light engulfed Amu and the Humpty Lock as she underwent her transformation with Ran, oblivious to the fact that she had an audience a few feet away near the tree line.

"Character Nari- Amulet Heart!" Amu and Ran said in unison.

"Useless!" X-eggs yelled, this time shooting multiple beams of negative energy instead of a single one. Amu maneuvered her body to get in between the beams, crying out in pain when she was hit- falling to the grassy ground.

"Don't." Ryou said, gripping Emily's arm, watching Amu closely as Shin and Sora did.

"We have to help her!" Emily shrieked. She was ignored.

Amu got up steadily, glaring at the x-eggs.

"I wanted to be a soccer player, but I can't run fast."

"I've always wanted to cook, I'm horrible at it."

Amu listened to the x-eggs whines and smiled gently. These where children.

"How do you know you can't if you don't try?" Amu questioned, getting the x-eggs attention. "Don't say you can't unless you've tried!"

Seeing the x-eggs become confused, Amu used that to her advantage.

"Heart Racers!" Amu cried out, little skates with wings appearing onto her feet. Not hesitating to race into the sky. "Heart Rod!"

Amu tossed the pink rod, sparling as it rounded up the x-eggs, catching the rob as it retuned.

"Negative Heart, lock on!" Amu arranged her fingers to form a heart in front of her chest. "Open Heart!"

The bright pink hearts purified the x-eggs, and Amu watched for a second as the heart eggs returned to their owners. The transformation between Amu and Ran became undone.

"You have an audience." Dia says, smiling at the Ayumu Chika band members.

"Emily didn't think you could do it." Sora flashed a grin, showing his white teeth. "I had faith in you though."

Amu forced herself to restrain the blush she felt building up.

"I've been doing this for almost three years." Amu replied coolly. "I think I've got this down."

Sora laughed. "There's a difference between knowing and thinking you have it down."

Shin and Ryou stood with Emily and Kaitlynn as they talked in hush whispers. They kept glancing over at Amu and Sora, watching to make sure Amu wouldn't see them talking, but Dia did, and she nodded her head at Emily.

Shortly after, the four other band member came over to the persistent Sora and irritated Amu. Straightaway, they caught the attention of the orange haired guy and the pinkette.

"You have a surprising but yet amazing ability." Shin praised, smiling slightly.

"We want you to be a part of our band!" Emily jumped in excitedly.

Amu gave them a confused look. It was so sudden to propose that. They didn't even know her.

"As part of the band." Ryou says, seeing her confused look. "And our friend. You see, we try to help the hearts egg as well and we think you'll make a fine addition."

Amu fists curled when hearing fine addition. She was a person not an object of power or a prize.

"I am a person not an object. Do you understand that?" Amu snapped. Her chara's looked at each other worriedly.

"That's not what he meant-" Amu cut Kaitlynn off

"No, it's exactly that. I won't accept, just because you want me for my charas and powers."

"Amu." Shin said trying to grab her, but she pulled away roughly, slipping pass a Sora who understood if he tried to stop the fuming pinkette it would make matters worse.

"Ran, Miki, Su, Dia!" Amu yelled for her charas.

They all fallowed but Dia who lingered just for a second.

"You may have just worded what you meant to say wrong." Dia smiled. "But don't give up on Amu-chan, after all she is a stubborn character but you'll wear her down afterward if you just keep trying."

Dia had been right after all. Like the Guardians, the Ayumu Chika band kept talking to Amu, being persistent- wearing her down. After a week and a half, Emily and Kaitlynn finally got Amu to give in and agree to try it, and that was the start of a beautiful friendship. Leading up to their eventful year of problems and complications.

Hey there! So this was the first chapter of While You Were Away! I only have a few questions.

How did you like this opening? This isn't the first chapter, it's the before story, just how Amu meet the band and become a member.

I know there are a lot of Amuto fans, I am one- but we wont get some of that until later in the story. Sorry darlings.

Okay last question. Who are your favorite characters?

Oh! And one last request, please review!