Shelly: I have a question for you readers out there. Would you like me to keep this story more kids appropriate or do you want a little passion in there?
Ikuto: I vote passion.
Amu: Ikuto! I-I'm not ready for that!
Shelly: Don't worry. I still don't do sex scenes.
Ikuto: Really?
Shelly: ... Okay, fine. I did once. You happy?
Ikuto: *Grins*
Amu: *Gasp* What? ShellyCullen how can you become such a pervert? O/O
Shelly: It was once! And it was actually pretty tamed. I got it over as quickly as possible, but anyway I'm getting off topic. Readers! Would you like this story to be a bit more-
Ikuto: Passionate-
Amu: WITHOUT any sex-
Shelly: OR do you want me to keep it in the kid zone where it pretty much is now? OR do you want a sex scene?
Amu: *Whispers* They don't want sex scenes.
Shelly: Tell me in your review and we'll see if Ikuto or Amu will be happy next update.
Cat Obsessed
Amu spun around only to find herself alone.
"Wha…?" She looked around. Wasn't someone just here? They had asked about eggs…like character eggs?
Amu stood firmly in the shadows, expecting an X egg to appear and pummel her to death. Without her guardian characters, she was as defenseless as those puppies that lacked the ability to hold in their pee. She squinted in the distance, seeing two shadowy figures running to her.
"Amu-chi! What are you doing here?" Yaya shouted, accompanied by an out of breath Rima. "It's dangerous."
Amu slowed her racing heart, sighing. "Sorry. I wasn't feeling well."
"You shouldn't just run away," Rima added. "Yaya's right, for once. It's dangerous."
Amu nodded, staring at the bricked walls around her. "Yeah. Let's just get out of here," she agreed, making her way down the section, unaware of the man stalking her.
"Ta-da!" Yaya cheered, waving a hand at her completely remodeled bedroom.
Amu gave a polite smile as Rima simply glared at the surroundings. Flowers, stuffed animals, and boy bands she hadn't even liked when she was a preteen lingered on Yaya's walls.
"It's great, Yaya," Amu commented, stepping into the entirely different dimension. A rubber ducky squeaked under her foot and she picked it up, gently putting it on the desk. "Have you gotten all your stuff set up for college?"
Yaya stuck out her tongue. "I don't want to think about school! I finally get to move in with you guys. Don't ruin it!"
"Okay, okay." Amu sighed. "So, as your official night of living away from your parents, what do you want to do?"
"This is not what I had in mind!" Rima snapped at the sheepish Amu. They all stood in their bathing suits, watching Yaya mess around in the bathtub.
"It's her first night, Rima. Let her have fun." Amu laughed. "Don't worry. We'll probably be out tomorrow so you and your boyfriend will have the place to yourselves."
Rima blushed. "I wasn't thinking about that!" But she looked away anyway, throwing the beach ball in the air and serving it to the bathwater.
Dressed in her pajamas with a towel wrapped around her neck, Amu went out to the shed, changing the food bowls.
The cats meowed at her, rubbing against her limbs.
"Don't give me that look," Amu stated, sighing.
"So this is where the disappearing cats have gone."
She turned, this time greeted by a mischievous grin in the darkness.
The cats purred, making their way to the mysterious man as if he were their leader. He picked one up and she rubbed against his touch.
"Who are you?" Amu demanded. She lost her grip on the food bowl and it tumbled onto the grass.
The man jumped off the box he stood on, landing gracefully onto the ground. He was tall and lean with quick, fluid movements. Amu could hardly make out anything other than dark blue eyes; eyes that strangely reminded her of the Russian blue she saw at the pet store.
"Don't you remember me, Amu?" The cats followed as he slowly made it out of the shadows and into the moon's glow. He stood a foot away from Amu; a giant creature overwhelming her small form.
"Ikuto!" She did remember him. She had fallen on him in a, er, hole; not one of her best moments. They had met occasionally during the Easter struggle and when the embryo appeared he ran off and she never saw him again.
What did he want now?
He took a step toward her, and Amu flinched, taking another one back. There was something…off about him. She wasn't sure what she was feeling, but negative energy bounced off his figure, drowning her in despair.
"Aren't you happy to see me?"
"I am," Amu said, surprising herself with her bluntness. He was still dressed head to toe in black, still as enigmatic as ever. "But where did you go? And why are you here?"
Ikuto put the kitten back down, allowing it to eat the spilled can of cat food. "Why?" Ikuto asked, standing again. He reached out his hand, grabbing Amu by the hip and pulling her to him. With a seductive smile, he whispered, "I'm here for your chara, of course."
"C-chara?" Amu fought against the fierce blush, her skin warming as she was wrapped in his long arms. "B-but they're gone!"
"Then what's this?"
Ikuto lifted his hand, revealing a character egg. It was like her other ones with a distinct flannel pattern the harsh shade of violet. Instead of a geometric shape her other charas shared, this one had a purple paw print.
"I've heard that you can turn an egg that hasn't hatched into the embryo." He lifted the egg in the air above him, examining it in the moonlight. "I wonder whether that's a rumor or not."
"Embryo?" Amu gasped, running up to the deranged man. "Wait! You plan to use my egg? That's crazy, Ikuto! You can't change charas!"
"Why not?" he asked, stopping her. "Charas are meant to reflect one's desire. The person they want to be. It can be influenced to be something else." He laughed as Amu struggled against his chest, reaching her hand up to grab her egg. "Look at you. Acting all innocent. You're not a kid anymore, Amu. See?"
He gestured to the cats in the shed, pleading for love and attention. She eased off him slightly, embarrassed of her own actions.
"You're kidnapping cats, Amu and you think you have any right to tell me what's good and evil? Even your heart has run out of light." He tapped the egg lightly. "It's a shame that even the best of us fall. Don't you agree?"
Amu fell to her knees, horrified of her own actions. She was kidnapping cats, cats, and locking them up in a shed. No light, no warmth, no love. Her charas were gone and Amu was a mess. She dug her hands into the grass, pulling at the roots.
What are you doing, Amu?
"The darkness isn't so bad, you know," Ikuto continued, ignoring her fragile state. "When there's nothing else pushing you forward, darkness will always be there. No matter how good someone claims to be, purity is impossible."
"No."
Ikuto smirked and took her challenge, squatting in front of her broken form. He leaned toward her, tilting his head to the side. "No? You disagree?"
Amu shook her head. "Purity isn't possible," she answered, meeting his eyes with bold determination, "but every heart has the chance to change. Even you, Ikuto."
Taken aback, Ikuto hardly felt when the egg slipped out of his hands and floated into the air. The egg twitched and then cracked.
"M-my chara…?" Amu gasped.
The egg shattered and a girl blinked her eyes open, smiling down at Amu. No, wait, this chara was smirking. Immediately, Amu felt the air around them shift.
"Hey, Amu. I'm Kat!" Kat represented much of the punk goth image her mother tried to create for her back in elementary school. She had messy purple hair, short, and cut uneven. The entire left side of her hair was shaved off. Bangs covered her entire left eye, styled in a slant so her other eye could pierce right through one's soul. She had a sharp tooth on one side and a choker that looked eerily similar to a collar around her neck. On her ear was a paw-print shaped earring. She wore a purple tank with black shorts and knee high boots.
Her eyes though, the one that Amu could see, was the strangest thing. The pupil was open in a slit; a cat eye.
Her chara crossed her arms, not amused. "Well, are you going to spend all day gaping at me?"
Amu shut her mouth. "Oh! Sorry."
Kat turned to Ikuto, who had composed himself at that point. He sighed, running a hand through his hair. "Your charas always pick the worst times to hatch, Amu." His cool look turned into a smirk. "Or perhaps the best."
Instead of answering Ikuto, as he would imagine she would, Amu tackled Ikuto in a bear hug. He was so caught off guard he nearly fell, staring wide eyed at the nineteen year old girl.
Amu lifted her head, revealing a small paw print shaped earring. "You're such a cute kitty," she stated, wrapping her hands around his head in order to reach up and kiss his neck.
Shelly: I've drawn a picture of Amu's chara Kat and will be posting it in the future for all of you to see!
Ikuto: I think the real question here is whether or not the readers want that sex scene.
Amu: OR if they simply want fluffy, somewhat passionate scenes!
Shelly: LOL they're waiting, reviewers! What's it gonna be?
