He Calls Me Strawberry

Chapter 1

Death By Chocolate

Her throat felt like raw meat, like she had just swallowed a whole bunch of needles. Every once in a while she would glance behind her but she kept sprinting as hard as her legs would take her. There was nothing out but the young girl running for her dear life. The streets were completely deserted.

The cold night air stung the girls face as she took a sharp turn down the dark streets, only the lit lamp posts illuminating her way. Pink flip flops smacked the ground and she mentally hit herself for being so stupid to wear flip flops.

All the blood in her pale body left as she took another sharp turn and realized it was a dead end. There were no more lightings of the lamp posts anywhere. She turned around, thinking that maybe she could get out before it came.

She was too late.

Caramel brown eyes widened in fear as she took steps back until her back hit the cold brick wall and she stared up into nothing. Or at least that's what it would look like to a normal civilian.

"Please! Spare me!" The girls voice yelled, echoing through the night air but no one came to her aid

And just like that her eyes dulled of emotion. The young girls caramel eyes just turning to a mucky brown, the natural sparkle in them completely disappearing. A cream colored egg with golden designs floated out from beneath her purple tank top.

It was pure and full of light. The egg was cracked open and a small girl that looked like she was about to star in a dancing music video popped out. Her big hazel eyes looked up at nothing, glazed with fear.

The small person screamed and held its small head, as if in pain, as it sunk to the dirty ground, a bit X taking a place of her pink and white hair band. Dull hazel eyes blinked open and the small person looked up into nothing as it disappeared with a shimmer of black dust.

On the other side of the street the shadow of a girl stood, a small smile taking her pink lips as she turned around, another job done. She walked down the street, being engulfed by the deep shadows that surrounded her like a warm blanket.

And then, like air, she was gone.

.:Shugo ~ Chara:.

I raced across the grass, gun in hand. My breaths were coming out in hard pants as I tried to regain air into my lungs. The vest on my chest was weighing me down like a ton of bricks but it was for protection, so I wasn't going to complain...that much.

Yelling filled the air and I heard a whistling sound and ducked just in time for the weapon to land where my head was.

"Their in the trees," I said into my walkie talkie as I sprinted across the grass again, jumping and summer salting behind a bush as more of the weapons it where I was just running.

The bushes provided me like a shield, but that was only going to be for a short while. The walkie talkie on my hips started to go static so I brought it up to my ear.

"General, I've been shot, it's just you and him now," said Kukai's voice came out in big puffs as I heard him breathing hard "Good luck," and with that the walkie talkie went silent.

I cussed under my breath and looked around slowly, looking for my target. There was a whistle that coursed through the air and I rolled away, just as the bullet hit where I was. Jumping to my feet, I made a bee line for the forest, my chest huffing with every step as I avoided the bullets that whizzed past my head.

A few sharp turns, and checking into the trees later, I stopped to catch my breath and looked around to make sure that I had lost him. There was a crunch of leaves not too far away and I shot at it, barley missing the blur of speed that hid behind a tree.

I didn't go over to the tree because I knew that if I did then he wouldn't be there anymore. But to my surprise, he came out and stood in plain view, gun up and ready to shoot. I pulled my gun up and glared at him but he just smirked.

"Give up know Ikuto, and I might just spare you," I said but he only chuckled and shook his head, his navy blue hair blowing softly in the wind, as did my bubble gum colored hair.

He moved in a blur of speed and was gone in an instant, like a cat trying to chase a mouse. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up and I twisted around, pointing the gun at Ikuto's chest as he wore the same vest as mine.

"Game Over Amu," Ikuto bent down and surprised me with a light kiss on the jaw and we both pulled the triggers. I gasped at the impact, widening as the dark red splayed everywhere and pain shot threw my stomach.

I fell to my knees and clutched the spot where I had been hit, groaning in pain. Ikuto kneel down beside me and looked at me with concern.

"These freaking paint ball guns are going to be the death of me," I told my best friend, Ikuto as he ruffled my hair and I huffed, shoving his hand away in anger

"Stop being stubborn," Ikuto told me, running a hand through his own hair as I stood up and walked with him back to the car where everyone was waiting for us

"Who won?" Nagi asked when we had finally made it

"I did," Ikuto and I said at the same time and glared at each other "No, I did!" we both snapped and I saw him smirk

"Really?" Ikuto asked as I glared up at him

"Really," I told him and he shrugged and got into the car. That sparked my curiosity, but I was going to save scolding him for later.

I sighed and blew a piece of my bubble gum hair out of my face as we all got into the cars and headed home

.:Shugo ~ Chara:.

"SNOW!" I yelled the next morning, running outside as the fluffy, white substance fell from the gray skin. The cold and fluffy looking snow was everywhere, drenching all the different colors in white, so when I ran outside I immediately regretted it, my eyes feeling as if they were just stabbed by small needles.

I blinked a couple of times and opened my eyes, squinting a little bit as I looked around. The snow looked so pretty and shiny, making me gape at it in awe, it's not everyday that I get to see snow. My thoughts were interrupted by something cold and wet hitting my back.

A shiver ran up my spine as I turned around and glared at a smirking Ikuto, dressed in a black sweater, dark wash jeans, and black and white DC's. Judging by the fact that I was only in a black sweater (that I had stolen from Ikuto a few weeks ago), pink and black stripped leggings, jean shorts over the leggings that stopped mid thigh, and black converse, the snow was pretty dang cold.

"Ikuto!" I shrieked as the chills went up and down my spin. A small giggle passed my lips. I bent down and grabbed two hand fulls of snow and started to ball them up into a snow ball. Ikuto wasn't paying attention to me because something behind me caught his interest.

I threw the snow ball at his head, the white snow bursting when it came in contact with Ikuto's face, looking like a puff of glitter that shimmered through the air and landed on the ground, blending in with the other pure whiteness that littered the area.

"Amu," Ikuto said in a deadly voice as he started to walk closer

"IKTUO- KUNNN!" voice yelled and a girl threw herself onto Ikuto, her arms wrapped tightly around Ikuto as he almost fell over.

"Tempest...?" Ikuto said obviously confused but I saw the small smile on his lips and for some strange reason, it kind of hurt

"Oh Ikuto! I missed you so!" The girl squealed in delight but stopped when she finally noticed me. How could she not? She practically shoved me face first into the snow!

"Who's this?" I asked Ikuto in a confused tone, because, I was, after all, confused. Ikuto held lightly to the girl who still clung to him like her life was on the line while she looked me up and down. It seemed to have gotten colder then it was before out here.

"This is Tempest, my ex girlfriend," Ikuto said with a small blush to his cheeks. I'd only ever seen him blush 3 times!

"Hi! Is she your new sister or something? She's really short!" the Tempest girl asked Ikuto, making him chuckle a little bit and me flush

I want to say that she's slutty and ugly, faker then Barbie, wears too much make up! But I cant. She was tall like a model, with perfect curves and a thin frame. Her short blond hair curled around her head perfectly, only going to her chin and kind of frizzed out in a good way. Her light green eyes danced with kindness and her light colored skin had a light and natural blush to it on the cheeks where her light freckles were.

This chick was like a freaking Barbie doll with a whole new meaning.

"Oh she's just a friend," Ikuto told her and my breath was taken away just like that. Just a friend? JUST A FRIEND? I could practically hear my heart in my chest crush- wait no, I take that back because if my heart crushed, I'd be dead. Just putting that out there.

I could practically feel myself crumple like fire wood ashes, while they burned and crumbled, uncared about and are blown away without anyone really caring. Immediately, I took a step back and made a bee line for my house, neither of them noticing my sudden absence.

The door slammed shut behind me and I raced up the stairs, ignoring the questions that Mom asked me. Locking myself in my room, I tore my clothes off and put my strawberry patterned pajamas on before lying in bed and staring up at my pink and black stripped ceiling.

After a few minutes of peace and quiet my phone started to go off, the song "Pay phone" by Maroon 5 started to go off and I knew instantly who it was. I let it ring a few more times before it finally went to voice mail.

I don't want to talk to that jerk. My phone rang about 8 more times and I didn't pick up once because I'm stubborn and Ikuto's a jerk.

Why cant he just go play with Tempest? I thought to myself angrily as I rolled over to face the window. My curtains were wide open and Ikuto stood at his window, putting his body from the waist down outside his window and waving at me like crazy. Trying to get me to open the window.

"Are you going to answer him?" Miki asked me but I only shook my head and sighed before glaring at him and tugging the curtains closed, accidentally trapping Su behind them. I got her out and sat back on my bed.

After my phone rang 9 more times, on the tenth time I picked it up in annoyance.

"WHAT?" I yelled into the phone, obviously pissed off

"Did I do something to upset you?" Ikuto asked from the other side of the phone and I rolled my eyes

"No Ikuto, you didn't do anything," I said, sarcasm dripping from my mouth like a rabid dog but he didn't seem to catch it, or he was really good at hiding that he caught it

"Then why do you sound mad?" When I was about to answer there was giggling in the background. I hung up after that, not wanting to hear anything else that was going on. The sun had already set and I was exhausted.

"Amu-chan!" Ran yelled while thrusting her small, pink pompoms up "Stay strong!" she cried

"Yeah Amu!" Dia cheered. Dia was walking on my desk and grinning at me when she fell off "Oh!" she cried as she flew up into the air. The four Shugo Chara's flew into their eggs. Ran turned off the lights and my room was engulfed in darkness.

"I wish I was stronger," I whispered as I lay my head on my pillow and fall into deep slumber

.:Shugo ~ Chara:.

"Yes! I finally got the job!" The boy cheered as he walked out of the police officer building. He was so distracted by his new joy that he didn't realize the shadow of a girl standing across the street, her eyes staring at him while a small smile played at her lips.

When the boy looked up his eyes grew wide and he took a step back, fear taking over his light green eyes. He threw his arms out and let a yell out of his mouth before his eyes dulled of the joy that they had just held, the natural sparkle disappearing along with it.

Like the girl, a cream colored egg with golden designs was pulled out of his chest where his heart should be. The egg popped open and out flew a little person dressed as a cop. The little persons gray eyes looked up into nothing and its big eyes widened in fear as it looked from its holder to nothing.

It let out a yell of pain and held its head as it floated to the ground like the first one. A big black X took its place on the small persons blue officer hat and its gray eyes blinked open. The small person looked up into nothing, a small smile tugged at its mouth as it disappeared like a cloud of black dust.

Officers ran out of the police building, having heard the cry of the young man who still sit on the sidewalk.

"Are you okay?" The man asked him in a worried tone and the young boy looked up at the officer with a blank look

"I'm fine sir, but I think I'll quit. I don't want the job anymore," and with that, the young boy stood up and walked away, feeling nothing.

The shadow of the girl grinned as she turned around and walked away, once again the dark shadows swallowed her body whole.

.:Shugo ~ Chara:.

I sat up in bed and groaned, I had a splitting head ache and I felt like I'd just eaten something that would upset my stomach. I moved my legs to get out of bed but I felt something warm touch my leg. My whole body froze up and I lifted the blanket and gasped.

A camouflage egg lay between my legs and it was jiggling a little bit. A small squeak escaped my lips as it cracked open and a little army woman popped out, her black hair pulled in a tight bun with a military hat on her head, black leather military boots, and the rest of the uniform except that instead of wearing the camouflage top she just wore a tan, short sleeve shirt with her small, tan arms crossed over her chest.

"Huh..," was all I managed to get past my lips as I looked at the Shugo Chara floating in front of my face

My other four Chara's floated out of their eggs and one look at the new Chara, all of them froze in mid air.

"The name's Strong and I am your new Chara, now get ready for school in 5 minutes or you can drop and give me 200," The Chara told me and I ran around my room, getting ready as the strict Chara watched my every movement while Ran, Miki, Su, and Dia stared at the new Chara

I was finished up in 3 minutes. The balcony door to my room opened and the six of us turned around and looked at Ikuto and Yoru. They stop and look at Strong who looks like she's about to kill someone.

"Um...," that was all I could say before there was a squeal of joy and a frizzy blond haired girl was on my balcony.

Dang.