Welcome to my first Shugo Chara fanfiction! I'll be starting it off with some background info on Rima. This is part one.

Story is in an alternate universe; there are no charas, but I found a way to use the charas in my story. They'll be in my disclaimers and they'll be the middle names of the characters.

Characters might also be OOC.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything. Copyright goes to Peach-pit!

(Normal POV)

February 6, 1994

A baby girl was born in the morning of February 6, 1994. The name bestowed upon her was Rima Kusukusu Mashiro. She was born to two happy and loving parents.

For the first four years of her life, Rima learned how to crawl, walk, talk, jump, laugh, and other things that children did.

One thing that surprised her parents, though, was that Rima could understand two languages, Japanese and English.

They came to the realization that Rima picked up English from watching a lot of comedy.

They decided to enroll Rima in school the next year.

One Year Later

Rima Mashiro was enrolled into the prestigious school, Briar Wood Prep (AN:// Don't own!) She attended kindergarten there and on the first day of school, she already had two close friends.

Her friends' names were Yua Sakurai and Kirishma Fuyuki.

Yua Sakurai loved to sing. During break, she would put on a show for Rima and Kirishma. Kirishma, on the other hand, loved playing basketball. At a young age, Kirishma had grasped the concept of basketball very well.

Rima attended Briar Wood Prep year after year. During the course of those years, Rima had made other close friends, but they weren't as close as Yua and Kirishma.

She was well liked by teachers because of her intuitive mind. Rima was even featured on the news for being a little smarty.

Rima loved her life so far and thought nothing could go wrong.

But, nobody could foresee what would happen next...

Five Years Later

One day in fifth grade, Rima was walking home by herself. Both her parents were working and her friends, Yua and Kirishma, were busy.

She was walking along until a ebony van crept up beside her. Rima tried to stay calm and mind her own business. After a couple more minutes, the van kept following her.

Rima tried really hard to ignore the following vehicle.

After a few more minutes, Rima couldn't take it. Her soft relaxed walking pace turned into a full-on sprint. The van was still trailing behind her.

Rima kept running and running. She came to a point where she had to rest. When she looked up, she found herself in a dead-end alley.

Rima rested a little bit, then turned around to exit the alley, but was stopped in her path.

Two men wearing black blocked the entrance. Rima stood there in shock and panic.

One of the men spoke up and said, "Are you Rima Mashiro, Kyoto's cute little genius?"

Rima just stayed there and let out a little whimper.

The same man cackled, "I'll take that as a yes." The two men started walking slowly toward Rima. Rima searched her pockets frantically for her cell phone. She pulled it out and tried calling her parents. As she was dialing the number, unfortunately, her phone's battery died. Rima looked up and saw that the two men were three feet away.

In one swift movement, the two men had Rima in their grasps. Rima, tried kicking and screaming her way out, but like most tiny and athletically challenged people, Rima couldn't break free.

The two men knocked Rima out before they threw her into the back of the van. They started driving to their headquarters.

Four hours later, Rima woke up to cold, dark surroundings. She began to weep quietly while rubbing the side of her head. After that, she took the formation of a round ball.

Rima was about to lose hope of people finding her until, a door opened revealing a bright, white light.

Rima looked up to see a man. This time, however, it was a policeman. The policeman bellowed, "Is this your daughter?" In a flash, two other figures stood at the door. Rima recognized them as her parents. She got up and ran to them, giving them a great embrace, but her parents didn't return the hug. Rima was confuzzled. (AN:// Confuzzled is not a real word. It's a word my English class made up. It means the same as confused, but I think confuzzled sounds cool.) The policeman gestured for the family to leave and return home.

As the three walked outside they saw the two men who kidnapped Rima in the back of a police car.

They also saw people from all over Kyoto. It included the citizens and the news reporters. The news reporters stuck microphones in their faces. Cameras were flashing every three seconds. Rima's parents grabbed both of Rima's hands and led her to the car before they were interrogated.

The car ride was extremely quiet, not a sound was made, except for the deafening of the car engine.

Rima finally arrived at her house. Getting out of the car, she noticed two shadowy figures on the front step and heard whispers.

Her parents also heard the whispers and pushed Rima back to investigate. The two adults approached the silhouette shapes slowly.

The two adults, but mostly Rima's dad was about to attack when in an instant, a flashlight lit up.

Rima's parents stopped. Rima wondered why they stopped, she couldn't see anything, because they were blocking her view. Rima walked away from her spot to see who the people on the front step were.

She pushed past her parents.

There, on her front step, she saw her two best friends Yua and Kirishma.

Rima was happy to see her friends. She let out a delighted squeal, "Yua-tan! Kirishma-kun!"

The two friends peered up and immediately stood up.

In a wink, Yua tackled Rima with a squeeze. "Gomen Rima-chi. We didn't mean for you to walk home alone. Gomen. I hope you forgive us. Gomen. Please, don't hate us. Gomen. We'll make it up to you. Go-"

Kirishma pulled Yua's ear and dragged her to make her shut up. (AN:// Kind of like Brock and Max from Pokemon.)

Rima gave a heartfelt giggle. Kirishma then walked up to Rima. "Gomen, Rima-chan about Yua-tan. Are you alright? Are you mad at us for making you walk home alone?"

Rima was about to answer, but her parents jerked her inside the house. They slammed the door in Yua's and Kirishma's flabbergasted faces.

Rima turned to her parents about to question why they made her go inside, but she stopped when she saw the faces her parents were making at one another.

They were full of fury and detestation.

Rima stood there waiting for something to happen.

Something did happen.

Her kind and caring, her understanding and patient, her loving parents roared insults at each other.

Rima stood there horrified at the scene before her.

...and thus marked the end of Rima's perfect life...

Three Years Later

Rima was sitting alone in her room curled up into a little ball. Downstairs shouts of anger, rage and frustration could be heard. After awhile, Rima was finally fed up with her parent's arguments so she decided to sneak out or her room to clear her mind. She changed into all black to disguise her usual cute outer appearance and to show that she was in a sad, depressing mood. She carefully climbed out of the her window to the tree without making a peep. She jumped down from the majestic rooted plant.

Crystallized drops of water filled her eyes as she started running to the park. Rima thought her life wasn't going to be the same. She thought everything was her fault. After running a block or two, Rima finally arrived at the park. She found an old , but sturdy bench to sit upon. She still kept her gaze to the ground. Her eyes becoming misty with tears to the point where everything was blurry. Rima let out a whimper and said, "My life sucks. I'm the unluckiest girl in the world."

"No, you're not." A sudden voice startled Rima. She looked up and saw a girl around her age. She was wearing a cardigan as white as snow over a cherry polka-dotted halter top and a plum skirt going to mid-thigh. Her rose colored hair was down with two red cross clips on both sides. (AN:// Picture on my profile.) "Why does your life suck?"

Rima just gazed at the mystifying girl who took a seat next to her. Rima came out of her trance and responded, "It's a long story." Her voice was soft and shaky. Rima put her stare back to the ground. It was a few minutes before the pinkette answered.

"Oh, I don't want to intrude then, but like I said you're not the unluckiest girl in the world," she halted for a bit. "I am."

Rima lifted up her heard to peer at the puzzling girl.

The girl broke out in a small smile as she continued. "You see, at school, I have this outer character I pretend to be. Everyone sees me as cool and spicy, but deep down inside I'm not really like that. I'm actually very shy and timid; sometimes it's hard keeping up my image. I'm the unluckiest girl because I don't have enough courage to tell everyone and be myself."

Rima listened to every word being spoken. It was a little like her. After the kidnapping, Rima pretended to be alright when within she knew she wasn't.

The two of them kept talking for a little bit, until the strawberry-haired girl suddenly said, "I see you're feeling better." Rima had totally forgotten why she was in the park in the first place.

Rima gave a tiny smile and whispered, "Arigato."

The other girl smiled and told Rima that she had to go. Rima nodded and waved good-bye.

As the mysterious pink-haired girl left, Rima decided what she should do. She should stand up to her parents and tell them to stop fighting. Rima stood up and wiped away the remaining waterworks that were still on her face.

She hurriedly dashed for her house. After fifteen minutes, Rima reached her destination. She stood on the porch debating whether she should actually confront her parents or not. One minute went by and then another. Rima was still lost in thought.

Abruptly, the front door swung wide open. Rima looked up to see her parents with shocked expressions on their faces. A dreadful silence filled the air.

After a few moments Rima's mom broke the peace by saying, "Rima, what are you doing outside? You're supposed to be inside where it's safe. Do you want to get kidnapped again?"

Another silence.

This time after a couple of seconds her father spoke up. Instead of yelling at Rima, he started yelling at his wife. "Haven't you taught this girl to obey yet? What kind of mother doesn't teach her daughter," he paused, "at least now I know where she gets it from!"

Rima's mom looked taken back. In exchange, she fought with an angry remark. Back and forth the insults flew. Neither of the two adults wanted to give in to the hurtful comments. They were on the verge of throwing breakables at each other until someone shouted, "SHUT THE HELL UP!"

The two parents looked up from each other, astonished, to Rima. That booming voice had come from their petite, innocent and adorable daughter.

At that very moment, though, Rima was anything but innocent. Her face was full of disgust, her fists were clenched in a tight ball and she was in a battle-ready position.

Everything Rima had been wanting to say had boiled to the top inside of her.

"YOU'RE ALWAYS FIGHTING ABOUT THE SAME THING, YOU'RE BOTH IDIOTS! I'VE HAD IT TO HERE WITH YOUR SQUABBLES! DON'T KEEP ME LOCKED UP INSIDE THE HOUSE BECAUSE THERE'S A WORLD OUT THERE FOR ME! IT'S BEEN THREE YEARS SINCE THEN; NORMAL PARENTS WOULD HAVE STOPPED FIGHTING AND DROP THE SUBJECT, BUT NOT YOU TWO...BECAUSE YOU TWO ARE THE SHITTIEST PARENTS EVER! I WISH I WAS NEVER BORN!" (AN:// Part of this was actually from Shugo Chara episode 40 when Rima's yelling at her parents.)

Rima stomped up to her room with tears in her eyes, leaving her parents dumbfounded and full of guilt.

They called Rima from her room two hours later. They asked her to join them at the dining table. Rima thought about what she said earlier, wishing she could take it all back. She pulled the seat farthest from her parents and sat down. She started shaking in anticipation of what was going to happen.

For the first couple of minutes Rima's parents just looked at Rima and then each other back and forth. At last, Rima's mom spoke up. She looked at Rima and uttered, "Rima, everything you said, well shouted, was absolutely..."

To be continued...

Me: Gomen minna. I don't know why I'm making the background story so long. It felt boring.

Suu: You're telling me and I'm the nice one, desu.

Me: Thanks Suu. I thought I could count on you to at least say one thing nice about it. *Sniffles in a corner*

Suu: Sorry Milly-chan. I liked how.....oh, this is difficult.....I know! I liked how you spelt Rima's name right and how you said 88 times in the story. J

Me: Thanks a lot Suu. It means a lot. *Sarcasm*

Suu: *Sweatdrops*

No seriously, was it that bad? If it was I'll probably stop, but in the meantime I'll continue it.

Instead of doing questions at the end, I'll be putting truths about me, so you know how crazy the author is. Just kidding. It'll probably help you understand the elements of the story better. I don't know how, but hopefully it will. Also, the characters might be a little OOC, so when they are, they're probably acting like me. Haha...no joke.

Chapter Truths

Truth 1: I constantly think about how the world would be if I never existed.

Truth 2: I try my hardest to look like I'm not trying hard.