Hey ! C: I'm Remembering Alice, but you can call me Lexx. So this is my first real chapter story fiction for Shugo Chara. [x I'm not too sure HOW I came up with this storyline. Honestly, last night I just grabbed some paper and scribbled down notes for all the chapters (It took up like almost 8 pieces of paper ._.) and decided to start it today. :D Don't read if you don't like tragedy.

Oh yeah, people are gonna get OOC in here, but I mean come in it's a story about losing your sanity, who WOULDN'T get a little OOC? :D

Enjoy the story~

Characters + Ages

Amu – 13.

Tadase – 13.

Rima – 13.

Nagihiko – 13.

Utau – 15.

Kuukai – 14.

Kairi – 11.

Yaya – 12.

Nadeshiko – 13.

Saaya – 13.

Ikuto – 18.

Aruto – 40.

Nikaido – 38.

Yukari – 34.

I only bumped them up a year 'cuz I didn't wanna make them too old.

OK. Now to the story. :D

Normal POV:

Amu Hinamori awoke from her deep slumber with a startle. In her dream, she'd heard an aggrivating repetitive ringing noise, only to realize that it was her two best friends, Rima and Utau, attempting to awaken the young teenager by constantly ringing her doorbell until she got up. The child groaned impatiently, and yelled down at the two, "Okay, okay! I'm coming!" She quickly pulled on her school uniform, being sure to set it up in her miss "Cool & Spicy" attire, grabbed a quick snack, and ran to the door. Amu had been living alone ever since her father had gotten a job down in a more southern part of Japan. He had decided to take her little sister, Ami, with him in order for her to someday inherit the business. Amu never wanted to do what her father did. For her, photography was just clicking the camera a few times and pretty spots. She had higher expectations.

She opened the door to shyly greet a very impatient Utau and a pissed-off Rima. She questioned to herself how long the had tried to wake her up.

"Amu! You're late. Let's go, we need to meet up with Kuukai and the others."

"Yeah yeahh.." She mumbled lightly. The girl was still half asleep and didn't exactly feel up to doing much today, just sleeping and dreaming of unreal things.

She chucked quietly to herself. In her life, nothing was unreal. Everything was, so to speak, perfect. A little too perfect.. She pondered. Her and her friends we're the closest of people. The school she went to was civilized and the town she lived in wasn't too crowded or too rural. Her friends all seemed to have a thing for one another, although the only two who had actually mustered up the courage to confess were Tadase and Saaya.

Amu sighed. She always had a crush on Tadase, but was too slow in admitting it. She convinced herself that this was just another school girl crush. It's not like she'd marry the kid, right? Right?

The girl suddenly lost herself in daydreams. Dreams of her and her golden prince sweeping her off her feet and claiming her his bride. Hinamori.. she heard. That's odd. She thought. He's my husband, he should be calling me Amu at least.. He repeated Hinamori multiple more times until she knowingly realized that that wasn't Tadase voice.

A pair of hands clapped themselves in front of her.

She blinked twice and opened her eyes to a smirking Kuukai. She hadn't even noticed that Kairi, Yaya, Tadase, and Nagihiko had joined their walk.

Kuukai's smirk grew as he threw an arm around Amu. "Hey Hinamori, watcha' thinkin' about?" He asked with a curious wink. Amu blushed a deep scarlet, before throwing his arm off him and retorting to her Cool & Spicy mode. "It's not any of your buisness, it was just some school stuff, t-that's all." She cursed to herself. That damn stuttering ALWAYS gave her away!

Kuukai chuckled again, and patted her back. "Didn't know school made you blush so much." he said laughing. This resulted in her blush to increase and her to playfully hit him. Yaya quickly became defensive.

"Amu-chi! Don't bully Kuukai!" she pouted, clinging to his arm. She noticed Utau glaring at the candy girl, and laughed a bit. Yaya glared up at Kuukai and said "Don't mess with Amu-chi either! We ALL know she was dreaming about Tadase!" she said with a grin, grabbing a sucker from her pocket and beginning to suck on it.

Both the kids flashes lit up and they looked away. Amu and Tadase were good friends, but he was with Saaya. Amu and her group didn't have a problem with Saaya, even though she was quite annoying, but most of the time they knew better not to bring up the situation.

The walk to school continued on with more teasing from Kuukai, resulting in a few hits from Utau, some insults from Rima to Nagihiko, a hyperactive Yaya, the bookworm Kairi pointing out Rima's mistakes in her insults to Nagihiko, Amu's blushing and Tadase's kind laughter. Even Saaya caught up to the group and joined in their, what it seemed, everlasting innocence.

All good things have to come to an end though.

The group of kids never did notice a figure hiding behind the trees, watching them, and sighing inwardly to himself, knowing that fate would soon unfold on these kids. He knew that Amu, and her friends, didn't deserve what would soon be bestowed upon them.

The school day came and went by in a breeze. Amu groaned on the way home, upset because she decided to make up for sleep in History class, and now she had no idea how to do the homework.

"Hinamori-san!" She turned towards the voice and saw Tadase running towards her. When he caught up, he smiled at her and said, "I saw you weren't paying much attention in History," he laughed. Amu turned away stubbornly, obviously embarrassed. "Y-yeah, I needed to c-catch up on my sleep, s-so what?" She stuttered. Tadase chucked, and said "Mind if I come over and help you with the homework?" He asked politely. Amu's eyes lit up and her cheeks formed a cute pink blush. "O-oh! Not at all! Thank you Tadase!" She smiled at him. He nodded to her, and they walked to her house.

As they set inside, the sunset was already gazing over the sky. It was mid-december, and even if it wasn't snowing yet, it didn't change the fact on how early the sun would set. Amu grinned lightly at the sunset, feeling as if she should take in that moment of innocence for some reason.

She led Tadase inside, and they began to set down their books. Just as they were about to study, the phone rang from upstairs.

"Ah! Sorry Tadase, wait here, I'll answer it!" She said, and ran up the stairs.

She reached out for the phone when her heart skipped a beat at the number.

Caller ID: Unknown

Number: 000-000-0000

Anyone would have their heart jump a bit at such an odd number. Regardless, she answered the phone. For all she knew it could've just been her dad using a different phone. Yeah, that's all it is, she reassured herself. Even with that, her hands still trembled as she answered the phone.

"H-hello?" She asked. There was no answer. Simple dead air in the background. Her eyes widened, and she asked again, "Um.. dad? Uh, who is t-this?" She frowned at the lack of response. She then heard a clash downstairs and something that sounded like a ripping sound. Amu quickly hung up the phone and ran downstairs to check on what had happened.

Blood.

Bright red liquid was flooding itself on her pale living room carpets.

Knives.

A large butcher knife lay in the blood, with it's own fresh red coating it as well.

She hardly had time to intake those two.

The thing that caught her eye was the boy in the middle of all of this.

She started emotionless at Tadase. He was laying in the middle of the mess. She guessed had had been standing before attacked, because his blonde bangs were now pulled over his forehead and falling into the pool of red underneath him. The side of his chest was cut open into, and the blood still wasn't done coming out. A trickle of the sticky red had escaped his mouth as well.

His eyes were the worst part.

His eyes were shot wide open, the pink/red color completely dulled into a hazed over grey-ish pink now. There was no life in them. You could faintly see tears drying from his cheeks that we're losing color by the second.

Before Amu even knew it, the clocks of fate had struck upon her.

Okay, so I got the idea of how Tadase would look when he died from Pandora Hearts. I basically took the description of how Alice looked when she was killed and put it in Shugo Chara mode (Sidenote/ THAT SCENE WAS SO SAD IN P.H. OMG ;_;)

And just to clear some things up, I didn't kill of Tadase because I'm one of those people who are like "o omj tadagay iz lik su gay he liks men omg!1!12! Lts mak keel him of in mi stori lawlz!#!" Honestly, his death is the key pointer in this whole story. And I chose him cuz he wouldn't really play an important role being alive in this story anyways.

And also, if you're one of those people that bashes Tadase JUST because he loves Amu, grow up. He's obviously not gay and it's annoying when I read fanfictions where everyone hates Tadase. e_e.

I know this chapter kind of moved by fast, but I SUCK at making happy stories. I love READING them, but I can only write tragedy so this whole time typing this I was like "asfklas when will I get to the death scene ahhhhh ;3;" ._.

Please R&R, and tell me any mistakes/corrections I should make. C: