Chapter 5 Hey my Amulets! The hunt for my Shugo Charas!
I felt a small sense of victory when a flash of surprise crossed Ikuto's blank face. Then his face returned to it's normal expression, and he lifted his hand reaching for my chest. 'No no nononono No!' I thought. Before his fingers settled on my amulets.
"Hey don't mess with those!" He plucked them from my neck and ran to my door. "Too late." He said sticking his tongue out at me. Then the door clicked shut in my face. I threw it open and ran down the hall sprinting after my Amulets. I tracked the blue hair through the surprisingly large crowd, all of them must have been preparing for my 2nd coming night. When a large man stepped in front of me blocking my way. I crashed into his chest as he bellowed, "Slow down sweet heart. Whats the rush?" Slowly I looked up. "Dad?"
The fat man smiled and laughed. "Who else would it be? Now what's the big hurry?" I looked past my father seeing no trace of the boy with kitty ears. Sighing I turned back to my father and shook my head. "Nothing Dad. Nothing..I was just...goingtogetMolly!" I blurted running the other way. I had made it pretty far when I came to the grand court where Daddy often held his conferences. The floor was slick and made of marble so as soon as I pushed open the doors my socks led me to the fate of slipping.
I landed painfully on my face. I sighed lifting myself off once more. As I got up I saw Utau walk through the door across the room. 'Gimme a break would ya? Oh wait! Maybe if I lay here motionless face down she won't know it's me!' "Pantomime I am a floor."
"Nice." Utau commented walking right past me.
"Shoot." I whispered.
She held her hand out for me to grab and I took it. "So why in the world are you planking at a time like this?"
I pouted, "Never mind that what are you doing?" I said pointing to the clipboard in her hands. She looked down.
"Oh. Cake list. I'm in charge of the sweets for tonight."
"Can I see?" I asked peering at the clipboard with evil eyes.
"No. But Amu by any chance..." Utau blushed slightly and looked down. "...Have you seen Ikuto today?"
Ikuto's P.O.V.
I shut the door behind me and pounced on my bed. Why was it always so warm in my room? Carefully I rolled over and looked at my own amulet. It was about the size of my thumb and in the shape of an egg. I smiled thinking of the boy sleeping inside. I locked the door and closed the curtains making sure he had no way out for mischief. Taking the chain off my belt I popped the egg open with my thumb nail. A blue mist followed out of the egg and glowed bright.
Then a shape took out of the mist. Yoru's body formed and he stretched. He had the same blue hair as me and the same colored eyes. His eyes though were bigger and brighter more full of dreams then mine. "Good morning Ikuto-nya!" he exclaimed. (To give you a better view of the situation Yoru is the size of a 11 year old boy and is currently; naked) I walked to the closet and pulled out a suitcase. I handed it to Yoru and he opened it eagerly his ears twitching and tail waving. Unlatching it he threw it open and riffled through all the clothes I had. "Ikuto-nya what's up with all these formal clothes? Cat's gotta be free ya know."
"That's because were going to a ball tonight. And," I held up the five amulets "which ever one of these girls you can woo before tonight is gonna be your date." Yoru stared wide-eyed at the small eggs. He took a step back turning slightly red.
"HEY! WAIT A MINUTE WHY DO I HAVE TO TAKE A GIRL?! AND YOU GET TO BE SINGLE!?" He yelled pointing at me accusingly. I sighed and put my hand on my hip, "You only have to take the one who decides to go with you. Anyway I'm not alone, I'm going with you and..."
Yoru pounced on the bed with a teasing look. "And who? You never like girls." I shooed him away with my hand. "You'll see when we get there. Now get dressed I don't want Utau seeing you like this. She might try something on you because we look alike."
"Utau-chan?" Yoru asked but I had already shut the door behind me. 'Great now how am I going to do this? Utau knows these are Amu's wait...what am I doing?' I stopped in the middle of the hall. Lifting up Amu's amulets I wondered why I was doing this. What's the point? I didn't plan on doing this when I grabbed them. Stupid girl didn't know I'm in heat. Although I'm mostly human I can ignore the urge but if she does something like that it's hard to stop myself. So instead of becoming a child molester I grabbed the amulets around her neck and ran as fast as I could.
Now, not knowing what to do with the little unborn girls I had stolen, I guess I did this. I sighed no choice but to get Utau so she can help me change the girls, really since I'm not their owner seeing them naked isn't appropriate.
After a bit of time and a lot of wandering I came to Utau's door. When I knocked she opened immediately but just a crack, "Who- oh Ikuto.." She stuck her head out the door and looked around, before grabbing my shirt and dragging me inside. I was tossed onto her bed and she stood in front of me. Putting her hands on her hips she said, "Ikuto. I was doing something what do you want?"
My eye twitched as a stared at her, pointing I said; "Utau, why are you just wearing a towel?" As I looked I also saw her hair was in two buns dripping with water, the floor was wet where she had stepped and I felt water from on the bed soaking through my jeans. "I just got out of shower..." She blushed a bit and looked down.
"Ikuto-kun..." She looked up at me. Utau leaned down and rubbed my leg with one hand and put the other on my shoulder. She licked her lips "Do you like this Ikuto?"
I stared at her blankly. "Utau you have a promise to keep."
"Are you still on that?"
"Yes. Now your going to help me with a little something." She pouted and straightened up.
"What?" I lifted the eggs up.
"These little girls are coming to the ball with me." I waved my hand in the air nonchalantly. "But since I'm no good with fashion, Ms. Hoshina, your going to help me."
Utau gasped when she saw the eggs and sighed when my speech was done. Grabbing them she took them in the restroom with her. "Pedo..." she whispered under her breath.
Ms: Hoshina's P.O.V.
"Perverted stupid mean dummy idiot butt face ugly dope..." I muttered. Here in the castle you walked into a shower room with just a shower, then a bathroom with just a bath. I locked the shower door and took the girls into the bathroom. "I wonder if Amu even got a chance to open these."
I remembered accidentally leaving them there and not teaching Amu how to open them. These were different from most. They each had a little item connected to the egg as the witch instructed when she gave them to me I pulled the item hanging from the egg. In this case I tugged on the pink heart, then the blue paintbrush, green duster, yellow diamond and last the little gray stone. Five girls popped out one after the other.
"Hi! I'm Ran!" The first one shouted.
"Miki...nice to meet you." The second mumbled.
"Konichiwa. I'm Suu-desu." The third pipped.
The fourth one bowed. "I'm Dia." She looked up smiling. "I'm glad my owner is such a pretty girl."
Like the other girls the fifth was surrounded in a cloud of magic before shaping, but something was off about this cloud. It was gray and smelled of real smoke, making the room very stuffy to the point of the other girls coughing. The girl walked out of the smoke and I widened my eyes. Her gray hair was long down to her feet and her eyes were bright white. The thing that got me most was her size, she looked 11 like the other girls but her chest was...um...big.
"Kemuri. Charmed."
After getting over my shock I crossed my arms. "I'm not your owner girls, but tonight you'll get to meet your owner. I'm here to get you ready." I said trying to act calm. Did Ikuto think this through at all? I mean how am I going to get this done.
"Let's get started." First I ran out of the room. Ikuto looked up from his book and I threw my towel over his head.
"Don't look." I said ruffling through my bag for a swim suit. I grabbed my two piece and squeezed inside and ran back inside the bathroom with more bathing suits.
"Girls." I said turning the suits right-side in. "I'm going to need help getting you ready so meet my friends."
Putting the suits down I brought out Eru Iru. "Utau-chan!" Eru said excitedly. She started to run to me before Iru tripped her.
"Calm down." Iru said.
"NO TIME!" I shouted.
"Look girls put on you bathing suits and after your done help whoever doesn't have one." I gestured to the girls standing awkwardly in the room. Iru pulled out her black one piece with flames all over it and holes in the side. Eru slipped on her white and pink one-piece with a skirt over the bottom it. I pounced on Suu throwing a green swimsuit on her. Eru proceeded to help Ran while Iru tried to forcefully put one on Miki and soon got into a fight. After long we were all in a suit.
Then from then on it was like this; Me, Eru Iru and Ikuto were each at a post. I was at the bath while my charas were at the shower to help the other girls wash their hair and dry off. The Ikuto would be waiting outside too blow dry everyone's hair. Since I wanted Iru and Eru to go to the ball too I helped them take a bath with Ran, when they were out I washed Miki and they occupied the shower. Ran skipped away to dry her hair and while my charas helped Miki and so on. Eru and Iru were last. I had already taken a bath so Ikuto dried my hair while the devil-angel pair washed theirs.
By the time we were done it was six. "Ikuto what time does the ball start?" I asked finally relaxing.
"Eight." He said looking up from his watch. I sat up in bed thinking of the girls on my balcony. The seven girls I had just finished bathing, the seven girls I had just finished coating in lotion and perfume. The seven girls who need all their make-up done individually. The seven girls who I would have to find underwear and cute dresses for and I would have to do it all by myself in less then two hours. Not even including myself. "That's it." I said sitting up. "I'm getting Rima and Yaya."
Back to Ms, Amu's P.O.V.
"Turn!" A seamstress told me. "Please Molly I'm begging you!" I said running from the seamstress, her needle still in the hem of my dress. She sighed loudly and chased after me. Molly shook her head.
"Amu pllleeeaassseeee! It's already seven just let Kendra get your dress done." 'Oh!' I thought turning around to face the woman. 'That's who this is.' Kendra bent down to continue on my dress.
"But I can't wait that long my dress isn't even half way done and once it is your going to make me sit down for hair and don't lie!" I said
Molly threw her hands up in the air and walked off to talk to someone else. I followed her, this time snapping Kendra's thread in two. Kendra shook her head going off to find more blue silk string. "Molly!"
"FINE!" Molly shouted "I couldn't care less about half of the other people coming but this is YOUR ball Amu. If you sit down...I swear to go help you look for you charas."
I made sugar candy heart eyes at Molly and pounced on her. "Thank you sooo much Molly." She sighed. "No problem now go show Kendra where you hid the thread she needs."
Before long my dress was finished. It was a dark blue silk dress, a v neck. The sleeves were long and the dress went to my ankles but also ballooned out. The bottom had yellow lace attached that matched my yellow choker. The dress was covered in silver sparkles that reminded me of the stars at night. Molly forced me to put on my shiny blue heels before we left which was troublesome for me. It was so hard to walk in them.
I speed down the hall granny style until reaching Ikuto's door. I knocked on it loudly saying for him to open the door.
"Amu-sama he's not home." Molly said glancing at her watch.
"He's in there." I said "He's just to chicken to come out!" I said more loudly for him to hear.
"Amuuu." Molly whined.
"Fine." I said putting my hand down.
"Were going to Utau then." I took off the shoes tossing them on the floor and ran down the hall with the speed of a cheetah. I felt a little bad, I knew Molly would stop to grab the shoes and then wouldn't know where I went. So then she would have to return to the room with all the girls preparing for my arrival and say she had lost me. I ignored the guilt and ran faster on my bare feet. Up stairs, down halls, past courts and through wings.
"Utau!" I breathed pounding on her door. Rima answered, her hair was frizzy and outfit was trashed. Inside I heard mixed voices doing all sorts of things. Rima looked tired like when she ran and tried to deny it was to fast but when she saw me she gasped covering her mouth. I heard Utau shouting commands, Yaya taking orders and an assortment of other voices asking in all kinds of tones things like; 'This one!' 'No thanks.' 'OH YEAH!' 'Not really.' 'Too big.' 'Are you sure?' There were also lots of feet moving picking up and putting down things, drawers and door opening and shutting then I heard a boy's voice.
"Um..." I said. Suddenly I felt like I had done the wrong thing. Were they having a secret party I wasn't supposed to know about? Did they plan to skip my banquet? I just felt so awkward and out of place. I opened my mouth to say something but Rima whipped around before I could say anything.
"Guys Amu's here!" She hissed. All but five voices stopped. They were all girls and asked things like; 'Who's Amu?' 'Hey Yaya this outfit is soo not my style.' 'Yoru what's going on?' 'Utau are you still going to do my make-up now?' 'Why did it get so quiet all of a sudden? I though we were having a good time?'
Rima turned back around to face me. "Did you need something." The voices inside were now muffled like someone had a their hand over their mouth.
"Uh...I s-snuck away from coming night preparations to find Ikuto because he has something of mine I want back...uh is he urm here?" Rima opened her mouth but no words came out.
"N-No he's not because...he um..he just left! Yeah! If you run you can catch him now! He went down that way!" She pointed down the opposite way I had just came and when I looked away she shut the door. Having no choice I walked down the hall she said to. Rima seemed to be lying and what was with all those people. I tried to shake the feeling and trust what Rima had told me. I mean friends are allowed to have other friends right?
With that I rushed down the hall looking for my charas.
Ikuto's P.O.V.
Rima twirled around shutting the door behind her. "Rima!" Utau screeched
"What?!"
"HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?!"
Yoru and I sighed shaking our heads. I continued to straighten Miki's hair while the two girls wasted time they didn't have.
"Who is Amu anyway?" Ran said loudly. Yaya who was helping with her dress whispered; "Amu's your owner." Ran froze with an mouth open. All the other charas froze with that news.
"Well at least your done now sweetie." I said. Miki's blush melted the stone as she looked up at me.
"You look lovely." I said giving her one of my rare smiles. She put her face in her hands, "Really?"
"Yes." I said. "Just one last thing." I grabbed a blue bow from the table and placed it in her finished hair. Then I kissed her cheek and she practically fainted. The stopped what everyone was doing. Utau and Rima froze both about to throw something at the other. Utau dropped the lamp and whined.
"How come Ikuto never treated Utau like that?!"
"Never mind." I said "Hurry and get the other girls done it's almost eight." Everyone looked at their watch and screamed. Before I knew it there were clothes flying everywhere including panties of every kind along with hair products and clouds of blush and eye shadow flying around the room.
"Now Miki, Yoru could you come with me? I have something to do and the less people in here the better." The two nodded and followed me out onto the balcony. I lifted Miki on my shoulders and jumped onto the roof Yoru right behind. We ran until I got tired with Miki on my back and I slowed. She rolled her eyes. Then jumped off my back over the side of the roof. Yoru and I gasped peering over to see if she was dead when she flew back up on a blue paintbrush the brush part covered in rainbow paint. (That sounds so stupid)
"Did you forget I'm a chara too?" she asked winking at us. I shook my head and we continued. Until I stopped and landed on another balcony. It led to an empty room we all entered and got out into the hall that way. As soon as I closed the door I heard faint footsteps from down the hallway. I stood in the middle of the hall Miki holding one hand and Yoru the other. Just when I felt the steps would reach me they stopped and I heard faint weeping.
"Are you giving up so soon princess?" I asked. The sobbing stopped and that confirmed it was Amu. Soon the steps were coming closer and I smirked, Amu ran past the corner almost slamming into the wall. She stopped and stared up at me. Most likely looking at the tux Utau had shoved me in.
She hit the wall with her fist tears coming out of her eyes, what was going on? Why was she crying? I could feel Miki tense in the way she squeezed my hand and Yoru's sympathy by the way he loosened his grip. I let go of their hands and they willingly did the same. Moving closer I gently pulled Amu into a hug. She tried to get out and shake me away by punching my chest but I just held her tighter. She finally just gave in. "JERK!" she screamed wrapping her arms around my waist and sobbing into my chest. I stood there with her because I knew for whatever reason she was crying some of it was because of me.
Amu's P.O.V.
'Why am I doing this?!' I asked myself. 'Is it because I'm going to miss my coming night? Because I want my amulets back? Because of what I did to Molly?' With tears in my eyes I looked up at Ikuto. He smelled so comforting and safe a kind of musky smell that I loved.
"W-where are they?" I asked. He let go and I regretted letting him go because immediately I missed the warmth. He brought the little blue girl forward and she smiled.
"Hello Amu. My names Miki I'm your second shugo chara. I hope we become good friends." She leaned a little closer and whispered
"Nice catch you got. Don't let that one get away." I blushed and looked back at Ikuto. "Where are the others?" He looked away down at the floor and the kitty ears came out again.
"Well you see I kind of lost them."
"Don't worry." Miki whispered again. "Their fine I promise."
"And what about the little boy next to you?" Ikuto looked over to the little boy behind him. The were so alike they could be twins except for the age difference.
"You want him too? Cuz that one's mine." Ikuto said.
"Yeah! The names Yoru so get it right." The little boy said.
"Isn't he dreamy." Miki whispered. Ikuto stepped beside me and held out his arm.
"Shall we go my princess?" I looked at him
"Go where?"
"The ball of course!" Miki said.
"But then what do I do with you?" I asked Miki. She looked offended.
"Well I come with you of course!"
"Yeah we spent all day getting ready for this. And the best part is Yoru's taking her." Ikuto said. Both charas froze looking at Ikuto like he was crazy.
"Well be better get going." Ikuto said sweeping me up. "Hey wait!" I said. Before Ikuto ran off with me.
Yoru stepped up to Miki and held out his arms. He looked away blushing; "Come on are we going or what?" Miki smiled and nodded. Yoru picked her up and the followed Ikuto and the protesting Amu.