Bunbun Bonbon- Well guys time for another chapter. Now introducing miss Lala Mitsuki!
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Bunbun Bonbon- And you should be because i have some exciting crap going on.
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Lala- Anger issues~
Bunbun Bonbon- WHAT?
Lala-noooooothing
Bunbun Bonbon- ohh i'll show you anger issues my a-
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ChApTeR tWo
Tricky Tricky Something's Not Right
Amu's POV-
I was awakened by Lala's terrible scream last night. I wonder what her dream was about. I saw her fall asleep first after 12:30AM and Mina was still awake. She looked peaceful. Actually she looked really deep in her sleep. I fell asleep after. Then a terrible cry followed by the rushing of my parents. Now here I am laying on my bed. It's morning and Lala still has her eyes closed. The chara's started getting up, Tina and Dia were the first ones up. The others started to wake up too. Mina is the only one still asleep. Well I'm not going to be the one to wake her up based on what happened in the shop yesterday. Heh! Oh well I guess I should tell one the charas to do it...now who will be the unlucky winner? Su is too soft, Dia hasn't done anything, now it's down to two. Ran has been surprisingly good so that just leaves-
"Miki, wake Mina up since Lala's asleep", I say as I sit up and yawn.
"EEEh Su! You do it!", Miki says obviously contemplating on the consequences.
"Neh! Heidi you wake her up!desu~", Su hid behind Ran.
"No need to worry I got it." , Lala groaned as she got up. Did we wake her up? Hmmm. "No, don't worry about it you didn't wake me up I've been up all this time." EHHH! CAN SHE READ MINDS! I'm alittle shocked. "No i can't read your mind." Gahhhhhhh, that did it. I took a good look at her. There were dark circles around her eyes, so dark that she'd look dead if it weren't for everything else on her signifying that she was okay. She tapped on Mina's egg.
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!", MIna bursted out of her egg with a mighty fury.
"Pipe it MIna.", Lala yawned. She slipped on her black slippers and slumped her way on into the bathroom. The Charas and I all sweat dropped. It was unexpected. I look at the time on my clock. GAAAAH! It's already 11:00 we were supposed to meet the others at 12:30!. Calm down Amu, calm down! I start pacing back and forth almost tripping on the air mattress. Lala came back into the room in thirty minutes all dressed and ready to go. She had on a baby purple shoulderless top with a black tank under, a black and baby purple striped mini skirt, and a black hair clip in the shape of a heart on the side of her hair. Our mothers have the same style. She went through her little travel dresser and pulled out a little carrier that was baby purple and black. The dark circles were still around her half closed eyes.
"Hey are you allright? You look really tired.", I asked. "You wanna talk about what happened last night?"
"No-" she was interrupted by a stretch and a yawn and continued,"-no I'm fine, just tired. Why don't you go take a shower and stuff while I cook up some breakfast and appology cakes for being late because I have a feeling that we will be."
"Okay that sounds good. Remember my mom wanted to talk to you about what happened last night. She gets worried so you should just tell her what you feel."
"Okay I'll remember that.", she yawned again. I went to go take a shower. I sincerely hope she's alright.
Lala's POV-
Amu closed the door behind her with her charas and I finally gave into my exhaustion. I let my body give and held onto the dresser for support. Heidi , Gina, Tina, and Mina all with worried faces. I go downstairs and talk with Amu's mom. I tell her that my nightmare had nothing to do with me being uncomfortable which is true. She still looked worried. She reminded me a lot of my mom. "Honey are you sure it's nothing?", she asked while sipping a cup of tea. Ami and her dad went out so it was just us plus Amu ,who was in the shower.
"Yeah it was just some random dream.", I put on a smile. She let me go and I didnt have to cook breakfast since she cooked. So I had Su help me out with choosing what to bake. Miki decorated, Gina wrapped and both Heidi and Mina licked the batter that was left. Tina and Dia supervised while Ran cheered on and on. By the time everything was done and clean Amu was heading downstairs. She was wearing a black T-shirt over a white longsleeve with ruffles at the bottom, a jean mini skirt and black tights. She had two red X's clipped on both sides of her hair. All I had to do was strap on my carrier, which doubled as a purse, and pull on my knee high strappy boots and we were off.
At the Mall- Lala's POV
Amu started going frantic. We are a half hour late. A girl with pig tails and ribbons pounced on Amu on sight yelling " AMU!" I backed away alittle afariad that I was next. Not that I hate hugs it's just that right now my body's too exhausted to fake being happy and give enthusiastic hugs...especially like that. "Amu why are you so late?"
"Yaya we're not that late. Thirty minutes isn't that long if you think about it." Amu cleared her throat. "Everyone this is Lala Mitsuki, my god sister from America."
Yaya gasped and motioned toward me. "This is Lala? She looks almost exaactly like you only her hair and skin are darker." Awwww nuts. Yet another person says it. I looked at the crowd of people and waved, alittle bit unsure of what to say.
"Hi! It's very nice to meet you. I'm Naghiko and these are my charas Rythm and Temari.", said a boy with really long purple hair and brown eyes. He looks really feminine though. He's wearing long khaki pants and a white T-shirt. His shugo charas looked almost exactly like him. The only difference is their clothing and the fact that one's a girl...that's really peculiar to me though.
"Hey, I'm Rima and this is Kusu Kusu, my chara.", said a short blonde with light brown eyes. She looks like she's seven but I figured she had to older than that. She's wearing a white and blue dress. The top is white and decorated with a bow the bottom is a deep blue and flowy. Her hair is massively long and wavy; it brushes just below her knees. Her chara is a clown with straight hair and looks almost exactly like her.
"Yo! Lala, I'm Kukai and this is my chara Daichi.", said a boy with redish orange hair and green eyes. He is wearing a red shirt with khaki shorts. His chara has really light blue hair and was bouncing a soccer ball until he was introduced at which point he and his carrier gave me a thumbs up.
"I'm sure you've heard of me already or have seen my photos around but I'm Utau. I'm a well known singer and these are my Charas, Iru and Eru.",said a girl who is also blonde with really long hair. Only this one is a lot taller and her hair is pin straight seperated into two ponytails. She is wearing a maroon dress with lots of ruffles. She has on a pair of shades and is sipping a smoothie. Actually she was right I had heard of her. Some of my friends back home went to see one of her concerts when she went on tour. Her charas are an angel and a devil. One obviously from each realm. Chara's that have a darker character like a black cat, such as Heidi, the chara is from the Nightmare Realm...where nightmares are born. Charas of a lighter character, such as Tina, come from the Dream Realm... where dreams are born. But there is a meadow between the two realms where the charas can mingle with others from the opposite realm. As I stated it isn't from what realm that destinguishes whether a chara is evil or not.
"Hello I'm Tadase Hotori, Amu's boyfriend, and this is my chara Kiseki. Nice to be aquianted", said a boy with blonde hair and redish eyes. He's wearing a turqouise T-shirt with a geen horizontal stripe across his chest and cargo shorts. His chara is a king that looks like him only with very light purple hair and blue eyes.
"Hey, I'm Ikuto and this is my chara, Yoru .", said a boy who has sapphire blue har that framed his light blue eyes. He is wearing a plain black T-shirt and blue skinny jeans. He looks like he's more of an outsider from the group. Like he doesn't really belong and he's just here to be here. In other words the lone wolf. His chara is a blue cat with spiky hair and surprisingly, yoru's outfit matched Heidi's outfit in a weird way.
"Last but not least I'm Yaya! Sorry for not formally introducing myself earlier and this is Pepe!" Yaya has brownish orange hair. She's wearing a pink T-shirt and black jeans. Her chara is a baby.
"Hi! It's really nice to meet you all and we're sorry that we're late so here we brought some homemade sweets to apollogize." I took out one of the little boxes of cakes and held it out. Yaya didn't hesitate, she took the the box and opened it . Her eyes sparkled in delight.
"They look sooo yummy!", she took a piece and bit a taste out of it."MMMMM! Who made these?" I shrugged and raised my hand a little. "Wow Lala these are almost as good as Nagi's!"
"There was nothing to it really. Though I had some help. Even though I baked it alone I had Su tell me what to bake, Miki decorated the cakes and Gina wrapped the boxes. Here I have about nine more." I handed a box to each of them. Each box was unique and different. when I got to Ikuto he looked alittle bit uncomfortable. When I handed him the box he grabbed my entire hand and pulled down to my level and whispered into my ear. " I recognize the heart shaped gate on your necklace...these people are too under educated to know but I know and you know that you're the guardian of the gate." He pulled back and crossed his arms over his chest looking smug like he'd won something. I looked behind me and everyone was in their own world talking to one another except for me and him. He was right. I where a gold gate necklace in the shape of a heart that enables me to preform character transformations. "You see I have the key and Amu has the lock. I figured there had to be a reason for them to be made so I read some old manuscripts and came acrosss a few interesting things."
"I don't want to talk about this right-" I yawn." -Excuse me, sorry. I really don't want to talk about this right now. I'm exhausted. I didn't sleep well at all after this nightmare I had." wait...wait...wait...did I just admit something to him?
"LALA! Come on we're going to start shopping!", Amu called.
"Nice chatting with you but as you can see I'm wanted." I turned to start walking but he grabbed my arm. Which stopped me dead in my tracks. Again he bent down and whispered so close to my ear I felt the air brush against it. "We're not done talking about this. I'll find a way to get you to talk." He let go.
"Well then I'll be ready for you." I answered. Then he abruptly walked away. I wonder what's with him. Oh well for the mean time I'll try not to burn all my spending money...which is A LOT of money. We stop at cute accesory store I look around a see some necklaces. One of them is really pretty. It's an old fashioned key with lace work within it. The end of the key is shaped like a heart. I don't know why but it's really screaming at me buy me! So I pick it up and go to the cash register. Not worrying about how much it cost I whip out my wallet and give the amount that's due only to turn around and find that Mr. Ikuto is hovering over me. "Neeeh! You surprised me." I could feel myself laughing even though I'm alittle ticked.
"You carry around a lot of money."
"Yeah well I guess so. There's not much I can do about it now is there?", I say while putting away my wallet.
"Answer my questions.", he said straight to the point.
"Not now."
"Why?"
"Because it's not something people should know about."
"Are you planning on telling me?", he asked very intent on capturing my gaze.
"Why should I?"
"Because if you don't I'll tell Amu and the others." Fudge! Using blackmail against me.
"Okay fine! But it'll have to be a time when nobody else is around."
"Done."
"And not today because I need to catrch up on loads of sleep."
"Fine you buzz kill."
"I'm not a buz kill if anything I'm the opposite!" I put my hands on my hips and pouted. Then Amu called my name. "I gotta go." Again he grabbed me. This time he spun my around so that his front was to my back and folded me into an embrace . "Let-"
"I'm not finished talking with you yet." He character changed. Now he has cat ears and a cat tail.
"Hey I can do that too now let go." I character changed with Heidi and ran out of his arms. I was blushing terribly. I ran through the mall passing Amu and the others afraid he would pursue me. I hid behind a pillar. Sure enough when I thought it was safe he came out of no where.
"Why are you hiding?"
"Okay look I-"
"Hey just calm down we're all here to have fun and get to know eachother. Please tell me you know what the meaning of fun is."
"Of course I know what it means to have fun."
" Yes now later on I'm gonna show you how to have fun the Ikuto way."
"Oh god."I turned and started walking towards Amu. By the end of the mall day I had become very good friends with everyone. Apparently they really liked the cakes. When I wasn't teasing Amu about Tadase I was looking around the shops with the girls, cracking jokes with Kukai , or talking about cooking with Naghiko. It'd been very tiring. Utau decided to host a slumber party to keep the fun going but I refused. Amu went, so right now I'm home alone with my charas. It's about 8:00PM. I'm way too exhausted. That's it ,I know what I need. The ultimate uplifter. My music. I grogily went to the closet and grabbed the cherry wood violin and the bow. I opened the door to the balcony and played Fur elise by Beethoven. After that I switch it to a song I'm working on. I kept stopping at the same note wondering what should come next but kept on replaying from the beggining getting frustrated with myself.
The still night was vibrating with the sound of my violin. Suddenly my necklace started levitating without warning. It pulled me to the edge of the balcony when I sensed it. X charas. A lot of them but something's wrong...they don't have quite the same energy vibe. Their different like their obviously X charas but the energy isn't the same alarming feeling. It's more of a repulsive feeling, nausea would be more descriptive. How can that be though? I usually get a sense of danger but this is outrageus. Yet if this were an ordinary attack my necklace wouldn't be doing what it is now. How?
"Gina! My heart unlock!" I character transform. "Character Transformation: Rock Princess!" Right now my outfit is a light blue dress that stops just below my thighs with black short sleeve arm holes, numerous black chains and belts, black high heel boots, and black lace gloves. I hopped onto the balcony's edge and jumped into the sky. I scan the city below. What the-oh my god...
Amu's POV-
I'm in Utau's house with all the girls except for Lala. I feel wrong about leaving her but she insisted that I go and have fun. I wasn't about to argue with her becuase one she was abosolutely tired. Two I think she needed the time on her own. Suddenly the lock around my neck started to glow. X charas. This time the glow from my lock wasn't subtle at all. it was shaking. Something is horribly wrong. I turned down the radio in Utau's room and caught everyone's attention. "X charas are here we need to go now. I have a strange feeling this isn't an ordinary fight." I turn to my charas. "Miki! My heart unlock!" I character transform. "Character Transformation: Amulet Spade!"
"Eru! My heart unlock!" Utau character transforms."Character Transformation: Seraphic Charm!"
"Pepe let's go! My Heart Unlock!" Yaya character transforms."Character Transformation: Darling Baby!"
"Kusu Kusu! My heart unlock!" Rima character transforms."Character Transformation: Clown Drop!" We all leave the house in a rush so that no one notices. I wonder if I should go get Lala...is there anyway she could've known? Man should I even ris-
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" A blood curdling shriek i knew all too well broke the silence of my thoughts and that's when I looked down at the city below to see-oh my goodness...Lala. Battling a band of X charas on her own. These were no ordinary X charas though. They were hunched over, grey, and had blood red eyes. They were foaming at the mouth and the X's on them were all sewn together in the middle. They all graoned with the same zombie-bear like monster tone. They were mutated, tampered with, creations of nature now bathed in the waters of everything wrong.
She took every blow and stood straight back up to fight again. I couldn't get there fast enough to see her switch the chara she tranformed with. The next thing I heard was "Dream guardian staff!"Right then her outfit was a white strapless dress rimmed in light blue. A gold stripe from the right corner of her dress to the bottom left decorated her. She had white wings that enveloped her. A gold staff with a snowflake shape top appeared out of thin air and in her hand. With a wave of it she commanded,"I call upon thee to cleanse,revive, and rid of these unnatural beings." A warm bright dome appeared all around the perimeter of her battle and sprinkled snowflakes that felt good at the very touch. All of the monsters were reverted back and disappeared into the night. Lala stood for a good ten seconds before she herself wavered and crashed to the ground.
"L-" I was stopped from making any other noises in shock that Ikuto had appeared from the shadows in his character transformation. We were in a park and he appeared from behind a tree. so instictively me Rima, Yaya and Utau went behind a tree and tried to be nosy. Why was he there? He scooped lala up, who was now in her bunny shorts and silky black tank, leaving Tina, Mina, Gina, and Heidi speechless. He jumped into the silent night with her in his arms.
Lala's Unconciousness-
Suspeneded in time, darkness all around me. I can't escape no matter how fast or hard I run. Just a black void, thousands of mutated X charas pursuing after me. I can't out run them. All of them foaming at the mouth and trying to capture me. A cold touch made me shiver, I turn around. Crap! "Nooooooo!" They caught me. In an instant I felt the blows of their attacks. The dark energy impaling and taking no mercy upon me. They were monsters. Unearthly beings.
Ikuto's POV-
I placed Lala into Amu's bed. I haven't been in this room for a while. Not since-no don't think about that. I look down at Lala. She's struggling in her sleep. She started gasping and crying. What's going on in her mind? I leaned in closer because now she was mumbling something. She's pleaing "No" Now her whispers were growing alittle louder and now she's crying harder "Stop! Get away! Get away!No!" She starting to shake and cry. Damn what do I do? I grab her shoulders. She stood perfectly still. She was still mumbling so I leaned in to hear. "Get away from me you wretched being! No...no..no. NO!" she sat straight up. On instinct she shoved me so hard that I fell off the bed on my head. She got up and ran to me.
" I'm sorry are you alright...wait a minute...what are you doing here?" Tears were still streaming her face before she wiped her eyes.
"Well considering that I just saved you from the streets, that's a nice way to thank someone." I smirk and continue. " I was hoping for something else like maybe a card, or some info I've been waiting on. Maybe even a kiss on the cheek. But no. Instead I get thrown on the floor. On top of that I landed on my head."
"I guess you're right I do owe you a thank you. But why were you still here when I woke up?" Damn she got me there. " Why were you holding me when I woke up anyway."
"One, you fainted! What else was I supposed to do?Just leave you here not knowing if you were okay? Two, you were also shaking and mumbling stuff. I wanted to hear what you were saying. Maybe it would help for you to talk about it. I've been having nightmares lately too. It's not good." What did I just say?
"Oh...another thing...how did you know where I was?" I turned around so that she wouldn't see me blush. I sigh.
"First of all Utau is my younger sister. So I convinced her to throw that slumber party because I knew you weren't going to want to go and I was going to come here so that we could chat about the fact you're the gate guardian and answer my questions. Secondly I was half way here when my key started to react differently than usual. Sure enough I ended up up in the park with you. I'm pretty shocked that you got there before me and that Amu wasn't there either. So technically I didn't know you were there I just happened to be there."
"Wow. I can't believe you. You're weird I told you already that I wasn't going to talk because I'm exhausted."
"Yeah but I also told you earlier that we were going to have fun my way and you didn't object." I step into her personal space."So are you ready to have fun?" She blushed.
"Oh god why me?", she answered sarcastically and defeated. I win.
Utau's POV-
I lead Amu and the others back to my house. I knew why Ikuto had done what he did. I can't tell anyone though, not unless he tells me to. He'd done it because he wanted something from her. He wouldn't tell me what though. He said that it was "something no one should know about." What's with that girl though? How did she find out abot those charas when none of the charas could sense these? She was immensly powerful because she revived all of them with just that staff of hers. There were thousands of them. Is she hiding something? If so, what is she hiding? Well if anything's evident it's the fact that somethings up and it has to do with that girl. Which creates a trust barrier already.
The only one who has solid information on this girl is Amu. I sit on my bed waiting for the perfect moment to bring her up. Amu spoke first when we all settled and got comfortable again. "I wonder where Ikuto took Lala." she stated.
"I have no idea," I said. " What I want to know though is how Lala found out about those mutated charas. Not even our charas could sense them. The only way we knew was because of your lock and Ikuto obviously wasn't with her because he rescued her after the fact." I flipped one of my pony tails."There's something fishy about her."
"You shouldn't judge her like that. Lala is very independent that's what makes her seem so 'fishy.' She does everything on her own and somehow things just blow back up in her face. She takes responsibility for a lot of things. That's why Heidi was born, because she pushes herself too hard.", Amu defended. "Even though I agree with you that it's weird she got there before any of us I'm not making rash decisions." I hadn't the slightest idea of anything now I feel alittle like a jerk for saying that she's fishy.
"Well said Amu.", Yaya agreed. Rima nodded her head.
"I'll talk to her when i get home tomorrow. I'm pretty sure Ikuto wouldn't be stupid enough to take her anywhere else besides my house since he's not here." Amu stated. We start getting ready for bed because it's now 11:00PM. I lay down on my bed but something in my gut is telling me to stay up.
5:37AM-Utau's POV
I'm still awake and the room is as dark as can be.I'm about to give in to sleep when I hear Ikuto. He's laughing. I haven't heard his laugh since...nevermind that. I got out of my bed to see if my ears were correct. I opened my door just a crack so that he couldn't hear or see me. I was right he is laughing. But his face was also grim at the same time. Like he regretted something. It doesn't make sense. Unless he got what he wanted...whatever it was.
Bunbun Bonbon- well now things are getting interesting are they not?
Lala- well if you call that ineresting...
Bunbun Bonbonn- what's that supposed to mean?
Lala- whatever... forget it anyway i did like the fact that this chapter is longer than the last one.
Bunbun Bonbon- i guess...
Lala-well ummmm soooo how about them Lakers?
Bunbun Bonbon- okay i guess...alright this is obviously going no where. you wanna end it Lala?
Lala- fine. STAY TUNED! and feel free to review! Chapter three breaks the ice even more.
