A/N (general): This story will be a collection of unrelated oneshots centered around everyday life situation, like going back from school/work, buying groceries, studying in a library etc. I will be taking requests for this story, so oneshots will be based on your wishes. I would like to keep it in a normal world AU, but if you want a Guardians and purifying eggs situation or a chara pairing or something, I guess I should try and make that work too.

Rating can be anywhere between K and T - no M because I would be terrible at writing smut and am not completely comfortable writing it, so it's really for your own good.

Genres can be Romance, Friendship, Family, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Drama or basically anything else, but I would prefer it if you would go around Horror, Poetry, Parody and Western, and I also don't really know if you can make Suspense and Mystery work in a oneshot, but if you really want me to write one, you can suggest it separately of this so maybe I will make a separate story about it (though I never tried writing either genre, so it might turn out disastrous, but I have to practice anyway). Genres like Adventure or Supernatural are available in the original Shugo Chara! world chapters I mentioned above.

Pairings can be literally anything you want, and not just canons. Shipping a crack pairing? Bring it on! I enjoy crack pairings because they are great fun, and I know there aren't any fanfictions about them usually, so now's your chance.

Characters can be any age and in any sort of relationship: romantic in any stage (on the beginning, established etc.), friends in any stage (bests, normal etc.) or family. Or enemies. Or, I don't know, a shrink and a patient. Or a fireman and girl whose house just burned down. Anything.

You can PM me the requests or just leave them in reviews. You can be as detailed as you like, meaning you can tell me how old you want them to be, what school/college/work you want them to attend/do, should they live alone or with someone, what relationship should be like for him/her and the one you're pairing them with, rating, genre etc. If you don't have anything that particular in mind, tell me the pairing and situation and I will make the rest the way I see best. In really extreme cases, you can just tell me either pairing or situation, but I would like you to stay on both. Also, if it is not clear from the very request what world do you want, you have to specify that too.

One last thing: I haven't watched the anime, so I'm sorry, but no anime originals as characters. I might watch just the episodes they're in so then you'll be able to request it, but until then (I will tell you if that happens, don't worry) please don't bother.

These rules will be posted on my profile too.

Warning(s): Crack pairings. No anime originals. Mostly normal world AU. Possible mistakes.

Disclaimer: I don't own Shugo Chara! or any of its places and characters, nor do I own any of your ideas.

Rating: K+

Genre(s): Friendship/Romance

Summary: Shared flat, and what can happen in the process of making a cup of tea.

World: Normal world AU

Pairing(s): AmuxIkuto [AMUTO], but just in a crush stage, mentions of RimaxNagihiko [RIMAHIKO]

Warning(s): Eh… Ikuto being Ikuto?

Disclaimer: The plot is mine.

A/N: Starting with the classic. Based around the everyday situation of making tea.

~The Tea Problem~

Amu was standing in the middle of the kitchen, staring at a small wall cabinet.

It wasn't something one would usually entertain himself with in the middle of the day, but she was currently performing sort of a praying session, silently pleading that her attempts to hide the cupboard's contents proved to be useful for once. She really tried everything she could think of, hiding it behind jars and boxes at first, before realizing such measures were far too small, then moving on bigger things like putting it in jars and boxes. When that still wasn't enough, she started using dirty tricks. Leaving it in other rooms, putting it in other spices' places, hiding it in the dirty laundry basket, keeping it in the silverware drawer, but nothing ever seemed sufficient to keep it safe.

Taking a deep breath, Amu closed her eyes, yanked the cabinet's doors open and peeked underneath her eyelids.

Her tea wasn't there. Again.

"Ikuto!" she screamed while slamming the doors shut, wondering how did he manage to find it hidden in the can she usually kept her favorite cookies in. She could imagine him in her head, snickering at the thought he managed to piss her off again. She actually hated giving him the satisfaction, but considering her temper and the fact that her currently missing tea was, for now, the only nonliving thing that could relax her, she somehow managed to justify the outbursts in her head.

An almost bored voice rang from the other side of the apartment. "What do you want?"

"Get over here! Now!"

Amu crossed her arms over her chest, patting one foot impatiently on the floor. She was absolutely positive that Ikuto will take all the time in the world just to make her angrier. It was still a mystery to her how he ended being her roommate. All she knew was one day she was putting up a flyer about searching for one, and the next day he was in her flat, paying his half of the rent and unpacking. The rest was kind of a blur.

There was a lot of shuffling and all sorts of weird tapping noises before Ikuto finally decided to show himself. The bad thing was that he was apparently taking a shower before she called him, which Amu regrettably realized only when he casually strolled into the kitchen, so not only was he wearing nothing but a pair of pants, but was also drying his hair with a towel so all his muscles were straining. Amu sighed. Why was this guy determined to not in any way help the tiniest crush she might or might have not developed on him? When she caught herself thinking that, Amu almost blushed, but contained herself in the last moment. It was really fortunate that it was still a secret only her diary knew.

She returned her attention to Ikuto, successfully ignoring the fact he hasn't stopped rubbing the towel to his head yet. "Will you ever learn the proper dress code?" she growled at him.

He looked at her, unimpressed. "In case you have forgotten, I live here."

"Have you forgotten that you're rooming with a girl?"

Ikuto produced a sound very much like tehee. "Now Amu, I know you love me, and I want to let you know I'm ready for you to jump me any time you want, but –"

"Ikuto. Go. Get. Something. To. Wear."

"Sure. I was pretty certain you called me for something, though, but I'm going to leave now then… "

"No!"

"Oh, so you want to oogle me naked that much?"

At this point, Amu considered continuing this conversation pointless and in the same time pretty impossible. She was taking very deep breaths, the way that Nagi taught her was the best, listening to Ikuto's quiet chuckling and trying to think of it as a calming and not an irritating sound. "Okay", she breathed out. "Alright. Let's drop that for a minute. Now. Where is my tea?" she asked looking him straight in the eyes.

Ikuto returned the look completely calm. "And how should I know?"

All of Amu's attempts to keep this remotely civilized failed. "Because you took it, you moron!"

"And what makes you think that?"

"Oh, I don't know, maybe the fact that you do it every single day?"

"No I don't."

"Yes you do!"

"No I don't."

"Where is it?"

"I don't know."

"Ikuto", Amu snarled menacingly. "Listen. I have to study for an extremely stressful test for tomorrow, so I'm really not in the mood for your nonsense, and if you don't give it back –"

"I don't have it."

Amu sighed. He was sometimes too stubborn for his own good. "Why do you even do this? It's not like you drink it or anything."

He grinned. "Maybe I just like seeing you frustrated."

With that, he turned around and left the kitchen.

Fifteen minutes later, Amu was in Ikuto's room, searching for her missing tea with zero success.

After she got over her rage fit, she went straight here. It was where he usually hid it. It was an enchanted circle, that was: She would hide the tea from him, he would, somehow, unexplainably, find it and hide it in his room, and then she would search for it with changeable results.

It wasn't like she couldn't just make herself another tea, but there was some special calming effect to this one, and with the end of semester just around the corner and tests lurking from everywhere, she needed it more than ever. She sometimes, however, was too tired to bother or just had too much work to keep wasting time, so she would make herself another one. But with all the recent stress, she couldn't let herself do that unless she wanted to fail every single test, so she actually purchased another box of it unknown to Ikuto (or at least she hoped so) which she kept hidden in her room and which was kind of a backup if she couldn't find the original. Granted, she could skip that part completely, but she couldn't bear the humiliation of losing to him. Yes, she did consider it a competition, and giving up before you tried was something she would never do.

Amu returned the books behind which she was looking back to the shelf and sank to the floor. She was searching for half an hour now (surprising enough, Ikuto was never in his room when she searched, but she was certain in was because he enjoyed watching her torture from afar) and still couldn't find anything, so no matter how much she hated to admit it, it was time for the second box.

She got out of his room and headed for hers which was down the hallway, wondering where did Ikuto go. It was too… peaceful.

So you could say she didn't quite expect that when she opened her room's door, there would be Ikuto sitting on her bed.

Amu just stood at the door, her hand still on the knob and her jaw on the floor. Ikuto smirked at her. "Yo."

That made her get back to reality again. "You! What do you… What are you doing here?!" Her eyes wandered from his face so she noticed something else. "And why are you still half naked?!"

"Nothing much. Chillin'. And because I like it that way. And I know you like it that way too."

"GET OUT!"

While she was making her very much deserved cup of tea, Amu was constantly glancing toward Ikuto. He put a shirt on, at last, and was now sitting at the table writing some notes and eating a piece of toast. He seemed completely normal, or at least what passed as normal when talking about him, but Amu still sensed something wasn't right.

Leaving the tea in the boiled water, she turned around and leaned on the counter. "Ikuto?"

"Mmm?"

"What were you doing in my room earlier?"

He looked from his notes to view her from head to toe. "I told you. Chillin'."

"Yeah, yeah, and you expect me to believe that? You are always somewhere when I search your room, and now I suspect I know where."

"Yeah, I'm in your room, so what?"

"So what are you doing there? And why do you go there in the first place? It's hardly inspirational."

"I like the atmosphere."

Amu snorted. Her room was in the same measure girly and gothic, which probably made it depressing. She highly doubted it was a place Ikuto would "like the atmosphere" at. "Yeah. Sure. Seriously, what were you doing there?"

"Nothing."

Concluding it was no use and he was obviously not going to tell her anything, she shook her head and got back to making her tea. Some time passed in silence.

"So you have tests, and you're still going to the cinema with Nagi and Rima on the weekend?"

Amu flinched a little at the sudden sound of his voice. She turned around to look at him suspiciously. It was weird to hear such a normal question from him. When they talked, they usually either fought or he was trying to convince her she wanted him. Not that she didn't, but she could never admit it to him.

When she confirmed he looked as innocent as he sounded (which was also suspicious, but still), she turned back and slowly answered. "Yeah. It's kind of a stress relief. Like the tea you're constantly stealing from me."

Clearly deciding to ignore the last statement, Ikuto continued, "Even though they are probably going to "make out all the time"?"

"Well", Amu started defensively, "they are boyfriend and girlfriend, so I guess it's natural, but it can still get quite annoying when you're trying to concentrate on the film and all you hear are this disgusting, wet –"

Amu froze in the middle of the sentence. It only now hit her that what Ikuto was saying was not something he was supposed to be saying because it was not something he was even supposed to know. She was sure she didn't tell him, and she also knew he didn't have any contact with Nagi or Rima, so how did he find out?

His voice appeared in her head. "Even though they are probably going to "make out all the time"?"

That was something she had written in…

Ikuto was ready when she jumped at him, slipping from his chair and catching her arms to hold them behind her back. Amu struggled. "You perverted idiot! You read my diary! You've been reading it every day! You jerk!"

Ikuto laughed at her meaningless attempts to get free and punish him for such a sinful deed and leaned in and to her ear, "I told you I knew you liked me."

Needless to say, the diary was locked in Amu's drawer from that day on. Along with her tea.

A/N: Hehe, silly Amu. Keeping a diary while living with Ikuto. Oh well. You imagine what was happening next.

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