Yeah, so I was rewatching Shugo Chara and I got to episode 11. I was watching the part where Amu was sitting outside while everyone was sleeping and thinking about Tadase's d*ck move. You know, saying that he liked Amulet Heart and not Amu. Well this idea was born from that.

Don't get me wrong, I like Tadase and all, but after he said that all that I thought of him hit rock-bottom.

Don't ask how Ikuto got into the picture, he just kinda did...

Enjoy! XD

Why would he say that? Amulet heart? Ran? What was wrong with Amu? What about her?

Amu was sitting outside Kukai's grandfather's temple with a pale green blanket wrapped around her pajama clothed body. As far as she knew, everyone was asleep. Earlier, Amu had finally worked up the courage to ask Tadase who he liked. The answer was less than satisfactory.

"Why not me? Why not Amu?" cried the pink-haired adolescent out loud. "Am I really so terrible...?"

Unbeknownst to our suffering teenager, there was a dark-haired stranger lurking not too far away in the shadows. Searching for the Embryo that he had been told would appear around her. He hadn't expected to see her in such a state though; tears streaming down her face, hair a rat's nest from tossing and turning in failed attempts to sleep. She looked so utterly broken.

Her words surprised him as well.

"It had been so much fun... Snowboarding, shopping, eating, the contest. We were alone and..." her sentence finished in her head, bringing a fresh bout of tears. The grip she'd had on her blanket loosened and her hands dropped to the wooden deck. The cloth slid down her back and to the ground, leaving her shivering.

"There must be something wrong with me..." she murmured quietly.

"What?" came a voice out of nowhere, in Amu's opinion at least.

"Ehhhh!" she jumped back in terror and surprise. There was someone crouching on the railing of the deck.

"You said something must be wrong with you, what?" replied Ikuto 'as a matter of factly.'

"I-I-I-I-I-I-I," stuttered Amu. She really hadn't expected to be torn out of her self pity in such a way.

The cat-eared male jumped off the ledge and crouched in front of Amu.

"You've been crying," he observed.

Amu squeaked and immediately tried to cover her eyes with her right forearm.

"What do you know?" she sobbed.

Ikuto was taken aback. Normally Amu would shout and insult him, trying to hide all of her real emotions from him. Whatever happened must've shaken her very badly.

He leaned closer. "You're still crying," he reached his right arm out and tugged her limb out of her eyes.

"Wh-what are you-" she was interrupted.

"Why are you crying?" he asked in his smooth voice. It demanded an answer.

She wanted to tell someone. Amu really did, but, him?

"I-I... I don't want to tell you..." she said quietly, looking down.

"Tell me," he replied simply.

Amu looked down for a moment longer, mulling over the statement. She came to a conclusion.

"Why does no one like me?" she asked him.

"Because you blush all the time," was the quick response.

Amu glared at him while a blush spread across her cheeks, then looked at her arm. Ikuto was still holding it making her skin burn.

"Let go of my arm please," she asked.

"I don't think I will." Ikuto was in a defiant mood. Already he had succeeded in making the strawberry blush and angry at him. She was forgetting her sadness. He didn't know exactly why he wanted to help her though.

Amu wrenched her arm back, trying to make him release her wrist. She started backing up as well, sliding across the waxed and icy surface of the deck. Ikuto followed. Suddenly, her back hit the door and her foot got caught in the blanket she had been sitting on. She slid down on her back and found herself underneath the other.

Her blush burned brighter. Ikuto chuckled.

"You need to tell someone if it's preventing you from sleeping," he said with a smooth voice, leaning closer to her.

Amu whimpered and tried to shove him away.

"F-Fine just- just give me some space!" she complained. He backed off so that she could sit up.

She took a deep breath when suddenly, a thump was heard from the room behind her. She gasped and turned around. The door opened to reveal Ran.

"Amu, what are you doing outside? *yawn* It's too late for that."

"I was just-" Amu turned back to Ikuto only to see he was gone. Her face scrunched up in confusion.

"Nothing."

Amu didn't know what to think of the darker haired male. He always left her confused and flustered, but still... He managed to make her forget her problems in such a short time... And managed to always leave her with a fluttery feeling in her stomach. She couldn't help but want to see him again.

My first Shugo Chara fic. I'm not really sure what to think of it though. I may make this a series of oneshots, I'll need more opinions to make the decision.

Yoru just isn't really there... Maybe he was off playing with his cat friends while I was writing this...

I live to improve, if you see an itsy bitsy teeny weeny mistake, TELL ME! I want to do all I can to make this fic better.

Mata Ne! XD