Chapter 7

A/N: Hope you guys are enjoying the story so far! Anyways I'm trying my best to keep the story interesting, but if there's any advice or questions you guys have I'm all ears okay? Also Kichona's personality is based off of my little brother's and I'm from the Caribbean so if I use a word in a way you may not understand don't be afraid to ask me what I mean... in this chapter Italics= messages, nightmares etc. Don't be shy to read my other stories...They might not be that great.

Ikuto: Tia doesn't own Shugo Chara

Kichona: Enjoy the chapter! (^.^)

Kichona woke up the next morning the pain still present, she sat up slowly tears poured from her eyes like a waterfall did from a cliff. She got up and waddled to the bathroom and removed her clothes and stepped into the shower. The water stung her barely healed bruises, wincing at every touch she cleaned herself. She hopped out the shower drying her skin and quickly dressing making sure to wear clothes that would hide her injuries.

As she made her way downstairs she noticed she was limpingway more than before, this however didn't go unnoticed by the on looking couple who were worried for the child.

"Kichona, sweetheart are you alright?" Amu asked.

"Yeah, just slept bad that's all...I'm totally fine!" she lied.

She made her way to the table where she struggled to sit due to the immense pain. Once she was seated Amu brought her breakfast of eggs, bacon and toast with a cup of bush tea.

"Oh there's no school for you today because of a thunderstorm okay?"

Kichona was thrilled. Ikuto who was observing her the whole time got up and pulled Amu upstairs with him to their room.

"We'll be back in a minute Kichy!"

Once they were behind the closed doors of their room Ikuto sat Amu on their bed.

"Amu something's wrong with Kichona!"

Kichona kept turning trying to wake up.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean look at her..she can barely walk or sit for that matter, she's obviously in pain and sleeping bad doesn't cause that mush pain."

Amu nodded. She was sure that Kichona was hiding something.

"We should ask her what's wrong," Amu suggested.

Kichona really wanted to wake up now. But she was struggling...she couldn't face the truth.

"Yeah."

They went back downstairs, Ikuto turned off the T.V. which Kichona and the Charas had been watching Fairy Tail on, they whined and groaned for him to put it on again.

"Kichona we need to talk." Ikuto said.

Amu and Ikuto took a seat in the couch while Kichona stood in front of them with her hands behind her back fidgeting. Ikuto was giving off a scary aura. She was scared she could tell he was upset also she felt sick, light- headed like she could faint at any moment.

"Kichona you know you can trust me and Ikuto with anything right?" Amu asked calmly.

Kichona nodded and remained silent.

"Now can you please tell what's wrong?" Ikuto asked, "you were limping this morning and you looked you were in pain."

"It's nothing I really am fine!" she forced a smile and stretched her arms which irritated her injuries but she wouldn't give herself away so easily.

"Kichona...please be honest!" Ikuto said almost in an upset tone frightening her.

She couldn't hold back anymore, her stretching caused the pain to flare up worse than before. She began cryin, Ikuto rolled up her sleeves to reveal her obvious injuries.

Kichona began sobbing into her pillow and clenched her sheet. Why couldn't she wake up from this nightmare?

"Who..." Ikuto was searing mad.

"I can't tell you..." Kichona cried backing away from him, she could hear the voices in her head reminding her of what would happen to the couple if she told them.

"Kichona...wha...who did this?" Amu asked.

"I...can't tell you!"

"KICHONA! TELL ME PLEASE!" Ikuto shouted.

"I can't Ikuto...I can't!"

"WHY?"

"THEY'LL KILL YOU BOTH!" She screamed.

It didn't take long for the couple to piece together who did this to her. Amu sat with her hands over her mouth stifling her sobs. Ikuto was enraged at this point and opened the door to leave when all of a sudden there was a loud bang. Ikuto collapsed to the ground his chest all bloody where he had been shot.

"Kichona...KICHONA!" Amu shook the sobbing five year old.

Kichona sat up with a start, she wiped her face of the tears she had shed. Amu was worried and pulled the brunette into her lap.

"Hey, why are you crying in your sleep...what happened?"

"Nothing," she lied, she couldn't tell Amu, "I just miss mama and papa...that's all."

She was scared, she couldn't risk them being killed, who knows if those guys are watching her, or what if they planted some sort of bug like in the action movies she watched with her dad. Her eyes roaming as she looked for the said 'bugs' in her room. Due her earlier movements her body began to hurt, luckily her pajamas covered up her bruises from plain sight.

"Kichona," Amu said, snapping her out of her thoughts, "take a bath and get dressed, Ikuto and I have something to tell you."

- Five minutes later-

Kichona made her way to Ikuto and Amu's bedroom, wondering what it is that they had to tell her. She hoped that Miki and Yoru hadn't rat her out.

She opened the door to the room and found Amu and Ikuto sitting on their bed.

"You wanted to see me?" she asked.

"Yes." Ikuto said as he pulled her close to him.

Amu got up and kneeled in front of them and pinned a heart shaped button on Kichona's shirt, it had the words 'Best Big Sister' on it. Kichona looked at it, she was puzzled because she didn't have any younger siblings, so why were they giving this to her?

"Amu, Ikuto….I really like it but I don't have any little brothers or sisters!" she explained.

Amu took her small hands and placed it on her now enlarged baby bump, "You do now!" she said.

"But that's your baby!" she argued.

"And your our daughter!" remarked Ikuto.

"No I'm not...remember."

"Well according to this certificate, it says that," Ikuto read aloud," Kichona Ruby Jones is the official daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ikuto and Amu Tsukiyomi!"

Ikuto showed her the certificate he had one of his co-workers make for her and paper work approved by the court that she was now their daughter. He even read it and explained everything to her.

Kichona was shocked; completely flabbergasted that she couldn't even utter a word, so she began crying tears of joy.

"I know, I know, not everyone has a dad as sexy as me." he hugged her.

Amu rolled her eyes at her overly dramatic husband; sometimes she wondered what really had possessed her to marry him in the first place.

"Oh and Kichona we'll be taking you to the doctor in a matter of weeks, for a checkup." Amu said.

-The next day-

"Okay...yes...thank you Midori." Ikuto hung up the phone in his office. He picked up his cell phone and texted Amu

Ikuto: Hey Strawberry!

Amu: What is it -_-

Ikuto: we need to talk when I get home it's imprtnt!

Amu: Ok seya when u get home then.

Ikuto put away his phone away and resumed his work.

-At home-

Ikuto got home from work, worry washed over his face in a downpour. He set down his workbag down and took off his coat.

"Tadaima!" he shouted to let everyone know he was home.

Soon Kichona came running with the Charas closely behind her. As usual, whenever Ikuto came home he would bring them candy and other treats, today was no exception; he smiled knowingly and took out the different flavoured taffy from his pocket. To Ran he gave a strawberry flavoured toffee, to Miki and Yoru, blueberry, Su got green apple, Dia got sweet lemon and Kichona got caramel.

"Thank you!" they sang together.

"No problem, where's Amu?"

"She's in the bedroom, nya" Yoru said licking the toffee, "she just came out of the shower."

After they left to eat their toffee, Ikuto went to the room he shared with his wife, the door was partially open, but he could see inside clearly. What he didn't expect to see was his wife strutting poses without her towel in front of the mirror.

"Amu...?" Ikuto started, "what are you doing?"

"Examining my body, why you ask?" she said turning to him.

"You know I can do that for you, right?" he smirked.

Amu rolled her eyes and got dressed, then sat on the bed. Ikuto sat beside her and pulled her into his lap and smothered her in kisses.

"You wanna tell me why you were 'Examining' yourself?"

"No..." she whispered.

"Humph, I think you're just worried that I won't love you because you'll get fat right?" He stated.

"I...I haven't the foggiest idea of what you're talking about!" she stated flatly.

"Yeah right... well no matter how fat you get I'll love you no matter what!" He said kissing her.

Amu smiled blushing at his words, "So what did you want to tell me?"

Ikuto sighed, "It's about your dad...he had a stroke."

"WHAT!?"