music4soul - I know, I just enjoy writing these too much. Ah, Paris Hilton! No! Get the bimbo exterminator!

Sky's Bouquet - It's a good guess. But, unfortunately, way off the mark. You'll see what I mean, anyways. Oh, and this is where it starts to get a lot more, as I said, random.

FrozenForeverInHisHeart - Man, your name is long. Thank you so much! I have bad self-control and I just can't resist putting them in.

black neko hime - I'm glad you think so. Personally, I think it started off rather flat. Still, hopefully, it'll just get better.

Disclaimer: If you haven't worked it out from the first three disclaimers I put up, here it is again; I do not own Shugo Chara! It gets more depressing every time I have to type it up...

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With a Bang

The exhausted blonde slumped down onto the couch, wiping her forehead with the back of her hand. She'd been practicing her routine for hours until she'd gotten it down to perfection. Tomorrow, it would be the same thing all over again. Even so, she didn't regret this; she was doing what she loved, even if it felt like it was slowly killing her.

"Utau! Answer this sheet! LOVE!" an energetic Eru yelled at the top of her voice. Utau glared at the Chara but was too tired to actually do anything about it.

"Man, how lame can you be?" Iru complained.

"Look! Look! LOVE!" Eru exclaimed again, shaking the piece of paper in front of the demon's face.

Iru glanced at it, prepared to turn her nose up at the subject but ended up getting interested despite herself. Still, she couldn't let Eru know that. "It's a load of junk. Who would be interested anyway?" Iru said quickly, turning her back on it.

Utau sighed. "What is it?"

"LOVE!" was the oh-so-informative response she got. Utau reached up and grabbed the sheet in annoyance. Eru was ecstatic at the prospect of her bearer actually answering the question.

"Besides, why would Utau be interested in writing something like that? After all..." Iru sweatdropped as she recalled Utau's attacks on Ikuto. Her biological brother. It wasn't the ideal pairing by a long shot, and it got very tiring after a while.

"She'll write it about singing, I'm sure. After all, it's Utau," Eru said confidently.

"She probably won't write it at all," snapped Iru.

"But..."

"Fine," Utau interrupted. "If it will shut you up."

Iru sniffed, and Eru cheered. Utau reluctantly picked up a pen, thought for a moment, and then started writing.

Name: Hoshina Utau

Age: 14

Gender: Female

1. Do you believe in love? Why? Is it really relevant?

2. If love had a form (may be an idea or metaphor), what do you think it would be and why?

You'd think that I would think love is like a song. It's not. I think love is much more like a car crash. Yeah, you read it right. Got a problem?

You never know when to expect a car crash. It's something that just happens out of the blue due to a variety of circumstances. It's loud, sudden, heart-stopping and its after-effects last for the rest of your life. You suffer traumatic experiences afterward, recalling vividly every second during the accident.

During a car-crash, many people can get hurt. You, the person in the other vehicle, any passengers, people in the cars around you, or even innocent bystanders. Every emotion is multiplied a thousand-fold. Sure, there's stuff like happiness and... er, what else? But there's also sadness, regret, anger, jealousy, confusion, and a sense that the world's going out of control. There's one good emotion, and six bad ones right of the top of my head. So people lash out accidentally, just as the car accidentally smashes into some innocent person strolling along on the footpath and causes a spinal injury.

Not only that, but luck is the only thing that dictates who, if anyone, walks away unscathed. You might end up battered and bleeding while the person in the other car saunters away whistling after minor hassles, like signing paperwork or having to pay for car repairs.

Car crashes change people, for the better or the worse. It kills people, sure, but it teaches people important lessons like 'don't drink and drive' or 'don't talk on your phone while driving', because not only is it annoying, it risks lives. If you survive a crash, you value life more, you're more open to things and you want to live life to the fullest while you can. You also want to prevent anything so bad or life-threatening happening to anybody you know, or at least care for.

There may be adverse effects too, and I don't mean just the physical ones. People might shatter mentally and become overcautious or overprotective and may never wish to ride any form of transport ever again. Likewise, people may become afraid to love or to live fully for the rest of their lives, becoming nothing more than an automated shell.

So, a love is like a car crash. You don't get in the car expecting to crash it, but if it does and you survive, count it as a blessing. It will let you live a better life if you allow it to.

Eru gaped as she read the piece. "But... but... LOVE isn't a car crash! LOVE is wonderful and beautiful and... and..."

"Go Utau," Iru snickered. Eru actually had tears in her eyes from the injustice.

"No! Utau! This isn't what you really think, is it?" the angel-Chara asked pleadingly.

Utau gave her a look and, without another word, got up and went into her bedroom. Eru was crying by now. "Utau..."

"What did you expect? Utau ain't lovey-dovey. She likes winning and being strong more than anything else. Like with ramen challenges against that kid..." Iru explained. Her smirk slid off slowly as Eru's eyes began to glint again. "Uh oh..."

"I smell LOVE in the air!" Eru cried out joyfully.

"What? No way. It'd never happen," Iru denied emphatically.

"It will, because it's LOVE!" You could literally see the light shining in Eru's eyes.

"Shut up!" came Utau's muffled scream from behind the closed door.

Eru retreated, her bright eyes never dimming, plotting ways to get the two together. Iru just shook her head and gave her counterpart a kick in an effort to discourage her. Who knows what'll happen? Who will win? Eru or Iru? Or perhaps they'll all be in for a car crash of epic, fiery proportions soon. After all, nothing is impossible.

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A/N: I really had fun with this one, if you couldn't tell. Well, like everybody says... read and review. If you feel like it.