A Shining Promise

Summary: Somehow, Amu finds herself falling in love with Ikuto. One day, she reveals this piece of information to Rima and Utau, causing her fourth shugo chara to hatch! But that still leaves the issue of Ikuto, stupid cosplay cat! And who is her fourth shugo chara? It doesn't look exactly like Dia…does it?

Disclaimer: I do not own Shugo Chara. If I did every episode would be Amuto and there'd be free Ikuto plushies because everyone needs an Ikuto plushie :)

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How did it happen? When did it happen? Why did it happen? Oh gods…I'm going to go through the 5 W's at this rate.

I stared up at the ceiling. I was totally tired from character transforming with Iru earlier in order to defeat a huge bunch of X eggs. Funnily enough, the Guardians weren't there this time, and instead I found myself teaming up with Utau in order to defeat the X eggs. But even Utau's Angel's Cradle hadn't been enough, or Ikuto's Black Lynx.

The siblings were actually rather glad when I showed up; even though I couldn't use any of my own shugo charas because the X eggs had kidnapped my poor eggs before I could character transform.

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"Ah! Iru is so much harder to control properly! I prefer Eru, even if all she does is wave white flags most of the time."

Ran, Miki, and Suu smiled. They knew I would never admit that Eru and I had grown fond of each other during the time that Utau had ignored Eru.

All in all it had been a good night, until a certain perverted cosplay guy just had to catch me from falling out of my character transformation with Iru. Did I mention I preferred Eru to Iru? Stupid cosplay hentai.

But of all people, why did I actually have to fall in love with Ikuto? I mean, Tadase is gorgeous too isn't he? Maybe I could re-fall in love with him. Besides Tadase is more my age…

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"Ne, what about Kukai?" Ran giggled.

"What about Kukai? Oh right you like Daichi-kun don't you Ran-chan?" I smiled at Ran. She was really cute, even if she was annoying most of the time.

"Amu!" Ran blushed. Great, more pink to add to her outfit. Miki smiled and commented on how it worked great with the color scheme. We all burst into a fit of giggles until Ran got really mad. "So what if I like Daichi? It's better than Yoru isn't it?"

Instantly, Miki got really defensive. I know Miki has a huge crush on Yoru, but what happened to Kiseki? Maybe Miki and I were two eggs in a basket. Oh…wait one egg and one Guardian…I chuckled at my own bad joke.

"Yoru tops Daichi any day! All Daichi can think about is sports!"

"All Yoru can think about is food!"

"You can't blame the cat for being hungry! Or bored!"

"Would you like Suu-chan to make everyone some hot cocoa to argue over, desu?"

"Yes please!"

"Definitely!"

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Anyways, Somehow I ended up hooked on Ikuto, damn him for being gorgeous. And having perfect hair. I have to ask Rima how she keeps hers so perfect. I played with the tips of my pink hair before I accidentally fell off the bed because someone knocked on the door.

"Hello?" No one…hmm, I'm sure I wasn't imagining it.

KNOCK. KNOCK.

Oh it's on the balcony! That makes sense! (anime freeze where the whole body becomes stiff and rigid) Wait…how did someone get on the balcony unless…

"Open up already," Ikuto coldly stated from the other end of the screen door. Geez, you'd think he'd be nicer about it by now. I mean I totally helped out with those X eggs earlier!

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Moments Later

"Finally you open the door. It's cold outside you know." Ikuto walked closer to me. "Maybe I can warm up in here?" he whispered into my ear…

I could literally feel my face turning red. One thing was for sure; I was definitely not cold right now! Suddenly, Utau walked through the door. So Ikuto can get up here and bring someone else with him? He's crazy…

"Stop being stupid Ikuto. She already has to deal with Eru half the time, she doesn't need you annoy her either. Let alone tease her…" Utau looked pissed off, but not because I was with Ikuto…That was definitely new.

"What happened to your brother complex, Utau?" I asked, moving towards her, partly to hear her better and partly to get away from Ikuto. Just being in the same room as him makes me woozy!

"Kukai asked me out."

"Serious?"

"Right out of the blue…and completely randomly, in front of the whole school."

"Wah! That's so cool of him!"

"Umm…I'm still here you know. I'd prefer it if you didn't start ranting about Kukai in the presence of someone as hot as me."

After a few moments of laughing, I finally asked Ikuto why he'd come here tonight. And why he brought Utau with him this time.

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"This time? You mean you visited Amu this late at night without me before?" Utau and I had become fast friends after I bugged her like crazy because Kairi left…besides Utau is so much fun to shop with! And Utau is the only one who understands the pain of having more than one shugo chara. Oh and while I was thinking about all this Utau was ranting like crazy, just so you know. That girl can really rant once she gets into it. Her inner character really is fun.

Ikuto sighed. "Well Amu-chan," umm, insert blush here! "Do you want to listen to Utau rant, or do you want to know why I'm here and why I put up with my annoying little sister all the way over here and even brought her into our, special area." He smirked and motioned towards my bed, which was still a mess from me pounding on it because I just couldn't figure Ikuto out.

Utau glared daggers at Ikuto while I created another shade of red. I think I'll make the official color theme for the Ikuto hate-club.

"If she lets Utau rant, does that mean you'll shut up?" Ran asked, while giggling like crazy. Then she flew up to Yoru and stuck her tongue out at him. Miki noticed but decided that instead of yelling at Ran, she would just draw Ran teasing Yoru and threaten to show the picture to Daichi. Suu only giggled and flew off into the kitchen to make another batch of hot cocoa.

Ikuto faked hurt, which looked really funny and made me laugh, while Utau smacked him a couple of times. "So do you want to listen to a bored singer rant?"

"Or an even more bored cat?" Utau retaliated immediately.

"I'd like to know why Ikuto is stealing your beauty sleep, Utau. Models definitely need every drop of rest they can get! Especially with the crazed fan boys nowadays." Utau and I nodded, once again forgetting that Ikuto was still in the room. Which is pretty hard to do when I'm alone, but maybe that's because if Utau wasn't here I'd probably just stare at Ikuto all day.

Ikuto coughed, stared at us in a pissed way, and finally said, "Easter just "shipped" a bunch of new recruits from foreign countries. And they're all really strong. It's more than a couple of X eggs now. These people…well let's just say that tomorrow Utau and I will be joining the Guardians for tea. Utau refused to let me go unless I gave you a heads up first."

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The situation was rather serious, but when Utau and Ikuto are both around…I'm just so happy and I can't really realize how serious the situation is. Ikuto always brings out my inner character, and my inner character and Utau's inner character get along really well! Besides, I have Ikuto, and Utau, and all the Guardians to help defeat Easter. It didn't really matter how strong the other side was right now.

"Hey Utau, do you want to stay over? You can stay too if you want Ikuto. Since we're both going to leave for my school anyways…" Utau and I went off on a rant. We were once again in out happy place…and Rima wasn't even here yet! Gods, tomorrow was going to be so much fun. Because, of course Rima is the Queen of ranting. She has code names for all our missions, including KBN (Kill Bitch Now), KBL (Kill Bitch Later), and MBP (Murder Bitch Pronto!) Nothing could go wrong.

I closed my eyes and smiled. When I opened them again Ikuto was smiling at me. Well actually, he was smirking. "It's time for kids to go to bed." He blew in my face and told Utau to stay with me before he left.

"Wait Ikuto!"

Utau shook her head. "Don't. He's giving us our privacy. He'll be just outside. Unless you want him in this room? While you're sleeping?" I blushed…I guess I should tell Utau…shouldn't I?

"No way! Unless…you do, don't you?"

"Huh?"

"You like Ikuto."

"Yeah." I nodded; I should have known Utau would figure it out without me telling her. Thank god, I think it might be hard for me to say that I l-l-like Ikuto.

"OMG!" Utau hugged me. "You've been like a sister to me ever since you got Dia back, and now you'll be my sister-in-law!"

"Utau! Don't you think that's a bit far?" We giggled all night long and finally fell asleep just before midnight. I looked up at the moon just before I fell asleep and saw Ikuto's character transformation standing on top of the lamplight by the streets.

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The next morning, Ikuto stood in my room. There was something in his hands. An egg! A diamond egg…wait isn't that mine? A bright light evolved from the egg and a number ten shone on the egg. He tapped lightly on it and pointed to the number. Okay…I'll have to figure out what the number is about later.

"Ikuto?" I groggily asked.

"Shh." He pointed at Utau, who was still sleeping. So he could be pretty sweet. "We need to take care of this fast." Huh?

I knew Easter played dirty…but when Ikuto showed me the ransom note, clearly signed by Easter, and my little sister's name somewhere on the paper…

"Let's go," Ikuto said, still character transformed with Yoru. But this just didn't feel right. I looked at Utau.

"She needs sleep." Ikuto said.

"I know, but is it safe to leave her like this. I mean…they got Ami…"

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And then the whole room turned black. All I heard was, "Ikuto-kun. You better say bye to Utau. You're lucky…I didn't give your girlfriend the chance to say goodbye to her sister…consider yourself privileged!" A maniacal cackling was heard as a group of X eggs and some X charas took Utau away.

At that point I collapsed into Ikuto's arms.

This situation was serious. And there was no Utau to lighten up the situation now.

The diamond egg shone once again, and the number changed to a nine.

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My first Amuto! Please Review. and ummmm well what else is there to say? I hope you liked it!