Merlee: Muahahaha! my second Shugo Chara fanfic!! :D!!

Amu: You didn't even finish the other one...

Merlee: -sweatbead drops- ^^; heh heh. I'm almost done with it though! Only like four more chapters and I'm done with it ^^; Plus I got writers block a little

Miki: Only four more chapters?

Merlee: Yes. Now Miki be nice because you're the only one of Amu's charas in this story.

Ran, Su, and Dia: WHAT?!

Miki: he he he

Merlee: Anyway! Disclaimer!

Miki: Merlee does not own Shugo Chara or the characters. She's merely an obsessed fan.

Merlee: Do you always have to say that?

Miki: yes. It's a very true statement.

Merlee: -.-;

My plan was going to work. I could feel it.

Well, that is, if I could keep my "Rosamaria DeLuca: Italian Tomboy and Violinist" character up and not reveal my true identity of Amu Hinamori to anyone, not even Ikuto Tsukiyomi.

Yes, it was the truth. I was now officially stalking Ikuto. I'd heard that he was back after the failed search for his father and attending a fine arts school. Getting in was no problem. The only thing I had to do was chara change with Miki to play the violin almost perfectly. Playing the part of a tomboy wasn't hard either. I dressed as an old newsboy, complete with the hat, and pulled my hair back into a ponytail that stuck out of my hat. I needed to maintain a steady chara change with Miki to pull off the plan, but I kept confidence in myself.

The plan itself? Start playing violin. Check. Enter the same school as Ikuto. Check. Completely change my character to a girl that Ikuto wouldn't know at all. Check. Temporarily change my name to Rosamaria DeLuca and say I'm from Italy. Check. Convince my parents to let me stay with my aunt for a while. Check. The only thing left to do was to wow Ikuto with my violin skills and convince him that he needed to leave the art school, leave the art school myself and go back home, and wait for Ikuto to get back. He wouldn't suspect a thing!

But there where errors. I'd lied to my parents, for one. I wasn't staying with my aunt. Giordano School for the Artfully Talented was a boarding school. And another one was that it was hard to hide the fact that my hair was pink, which Ikuto would most likely pick up on quickly. Another? My charas. It would be too risky to take all of them, so I only took the most vital one. Miki. And it was more than likely that Ikuto would recognize my voice, but I hoped that was something that could be fixed with Miki's help.

Now, you may question the reason I planned this. The answer to that was simple. While he was away, I realized that I had fallen for Ikuto and that I needed to see him. Then, once I learned that he was going to a nearby art school, I just had to join him there, even if he didn't know it was me. It may seem like a silly reason, but it's the truth.

I was already at the art school. It was the middle of the night and I was already lying in bed. I needed rest. My roommate, I think her name was Kai, was sleeping soundly. Soon, I followed her example, and I had a dream of what was yet to come.

Next Day!

"Class!" Kinijo-sensei, my homeroom teacher, called "I want to introduce to everyone a new student! Her name is DeLuca Rosamaria; she's a transfer student from Italy. DeLuca-san, why don't you tell the class a little bit about yourself?"

Ugh. I'd been dreading this moment since last night. I tilted my head downward so my face would be covered with my hat and I chara changed with Miki. I looked back up at the class to make it seem like I had only bowed. "Hello, everyone. My name in DeLuca Rosamaria, but I'd prefer it if you called me by my first name. No honorific. My father is a violinist and he taught me how to play at a young age. That is all." Luckily, Miki's chara change disguised my voice.

"Isn't that lovely!" Sensei said "Another violinist! Well, we have two other violinists in this class De-er, Rosamaria. Kakaru Suzimus and Tsukiyomi Ikuto!" I expected to feel myself blush, but that was one more thing that Miki's chara change helped prevent. I looked over at Ikuto. He wasn't paying even the slightest bit of attention, then, to make it look as though I weren't staring at Ikuto (Even though I was), I looked over to the other violinist. Kakaru-san was a boy as well. Great, I thought I'm the only girl violinist. But if I'm a tomboy, I can get away with it, right?

Sensei took a look at his seating chart. "Ah. DeLu- er, Rosamaria, it looks as though your seat is right next to Tsukiyomi-san," he gestured over to the only empty seat in the room, the one next to Ikuto. He was looking now, and I pulled my hat over my face a little more so he wouldn't recognize me. I picked up my violin case and made my way to my seat. But one of the students spoke up, "Hey Sensei, why don't you have her play something like you did the other transfer students? I'd love to hear her play!" Everyone else agreed. I had no choice.

I went back up to the front of the classroom and took my violin out of my case. "What will you play?" a familiar voice asked. Ikuto. I looked over to him. He was smirking as usual, and I copied his expression well enough for other people to gasp and stare at the similarities of our expressions. "Why, violin, of course," I said and I mimicked the tone of his voice. Then, he tried to make his expression impossible to copy. "You've got quite the mouth on you, Rosamaria," he said, his tone sharp. Again, I impersonated his expression and tone, "I know. I must have learned it from you." It was no lie. I'd picked it up after three years of seeing him all the time.

"Ikuto-kun, she's just like you!" someone said and Ikuto shot me a pleased look, which I gave right back to him. Miki! I thought, allowing Miki to start playing, and she responded Roger! And I assumed the violin playing position and played. After the first few notes I realized that I was playing the song that I'd first heard Ikuto play. At first my emotions panicked that he might realize that Rosamaria DeLuca was actually Amu Hinamori, but then I closed my eyes and relived the moment, accidentally adding soul and love into the song, improving the sound.

When I finished, everyone was silent and they stared at me. I got nervous, but then they all started clapping. A few people stood up and clapped, including Ikuto. I lowered my cap more, slightly embarrassed. I'd thank Miki later when it was just the two of us. Once the clapping died down, I went to go take my seat.

"Tell me," Sensei said, "What is the name of that song?"

I was about ready to sit in my seat, but I paused to let Miki speak for me. "Tsukiyo no Violinist," she answered using my lips. I myself had no idea. I had always called it "Ikuto's song". But, Miki was apparently right because Ikuto blinked in surprise and one of his friends said, "I didn't know you had a personality clone, Ikuto!"

To add another Ikuto-clone factor to my Rosamaria character, I sat in a way I'd seen Ikuto sit often. A few more people gasped and Ikuto gawked, which told me he'd sat that way at Giordano before. I decided to play it up even more by turning to him and simply said "Yo."

"…Yo." He replied. I turned back to face the front of the room. I still felt his eyes on me, however, and I realized that he was looking for a good glimpse of my face. He couldn't have guessed already, could he? I thought and I pulled my cap down even more. He looked away quickly, but not before I could see the embarrassment on his face out of the corner of my eye. I felt a little bad about embarrassing him like that, but not too awful much. He'd just have to learn how to deal with embarrassment from now on, because Rosamaria would embarrass him a lot more than this.

Later on, I realized that I sat next to Ikuto in all of my classes up until lunch at least. I didn't mind it too much, but I was worried that he'd notice I was Amu or Yoru would sense Miki. I sighed and pulled my cap down more. I was carrying my violin to the lunchroom with me. I wasn't about to leave it anywhere, even if it were just in my locker. I grabbed my arm with my free hand. The violin was a little heavy. I sighed again. I'd have no one to eat lunch with and-

I bumped into something and realized it was a person.

"E-excuse me," I said.

"Hey, you're Rosamaria-chan, right?" I recognized the voice before I looked up.

"It's Rosamaria, Ikuto-kun. My name is Rosamaria, not Rosamaria-chan," I told him.

"Well if that's the case, I'm just Ikuto. And you might want to take your hat off. It's messing with your vision." He reached to pull the hat off but I grabbed his wrist before he could.

"I'm more comfortable with the hat on," I said.

Ikuto shrugged. "Fine then. Hey, why don't you sit with me during lunch?"

I almost blushed. "Uh, sure."

So we stood in the lunch line and a bunch of girls where glaring at me. So Ikuto has fans, I see. I thought Well, I think that they're going to get their hearts hurt.

"Hey, Rosamaria," Ikuto said, "How come you brought your violin?"

I shrugged. So he'd noticed? "I bring it with me everywhere. It's important." More like expensive, I thought. I noticed that he, too, had his. "And I expect that it's the same with yours."

"I guess. It was my father's."

I acted surprised even though I already knew this. I was about ready to say something when he bombarded me with another question.

"Why do you always wear that hat?"

I scoffed. "Why do you ask so many questions?" I sighed "It's like a security blanket for me I guess. I always wear it." Okay, I completely pulled that one out of nowhere. I wasn't prepared for so many questions.

"Hey you speak Italian, right?"

Oh no. I didn't know Italian! "Of course."

"Say something, then."

I took a deep breath and let Miki's creative personality come up with words that'd sound Italian. "Lasciare me chiedere alcuno domanda, va bene?"

"Uh, what does that mean?"

"'Let me ask some questions, okay?'"

"You could at least tell me what that means!"

"I just did."

"No you- Ooooh. Go ahead then. Ask."

"Why do you keep hanging around me?" Normally, if I where Amu, he'd say something like "Because you intrigue me" and I waited for him to say that to Rosamaria.

"You remind me of someone I knew. Well, know, anyway."

Oh dear. Had he already figured out? "O-oh really? Do tell."

I heard him let out a deep breath. "Well, the only thing that really reminds me of her about you is appearance, so I guess it doesn't really matter."

I needed to know what he once thought about me. "No, it's very important. I want to know!"

I saw him bite the inside of his lip. "I'd prefer not to talk about it."

No more miss nice Rosa. "Fine. You're probably saving us both time, anyway."

He didn't say anything after that. We got our lunches and sat down at a table with Ikuto's friends. "Hey everyone," he said "this is DeLuca Rosamaria, for those of you who don't know." I rolled my eyes and moved my hat down further. He was acting like one of the teachers. Everyone greeted me with my first and last name either ending with –chan or –san. To keep up my "I'm definitely not Japanese" Appearance, I told them all it was just Rosamaria.

"So, Rosamaria," one of Ikuto's friends said, "you play violin, too?"

I nodded. "Yes, actually, I do."

"Cool!" another one of his friends said, "Hey, I have an idea!"

"What?" we all asked her

"Well, you know how the Cullare Musicista Club is running low on funds? How about Rosamaria and Ikuto to a duet concert fundraiser thing? That way, the Cullare Musicista Club can afford that field trip to the symphony!"

"That's a great idea," Ikuto said, "but Rosamaria would have to join the club."

Oh dear, I thought playing violin in a concert? I hoped I didn't have to do that. I looked at everyone at the table, all of them had eyes full of hope that I'd agree. I pulled my cap down. But everyone is counting on me. And if it's a duet with Ikuto…

"Sounds like fun," I said. The girl who suggested the idea handed me a sheet of paper that had a bunch of names on it. "Sign this," she said "then you'll be in the club. We've been needing another violinist."

I signed the paper. What have I gotten myself into? I thought. The only reason I came here was to talk Ikuto into leaving, and now I'm getting involved.

"Thanks!" the girl said, "My name's Kina, by the way. Pleased to meet you!"

"Uh, pleased to meet you, too." I said. Kina was the kind of person you could easily make friends with, and I hoped I wouldn't get to close to her.

"Well! So, anyway, now we need to pick out a song for you two to play. Any suggestions, anyone?"

Great. Now they where all about to find out that I didn't know many songs on violin. My perfect plan was going to fall into ruins, and I could do nothing but watch.

Merlee: That was... kinda long.

Others: ...

Merlee: What?

Amu: You really don't have a life.

Merlee: I'm on break! Sheesh!

Miki: Anyway. R&R!!