After they left Ikuto spun around and ran to Amu who turned back to normal, "Amu are you okay."
Amu nodded and kept her eyes on Ame who too turned back to normal but had a sad look in her eyes. Ikuto followed her gaze and his own face fell.
Ame sighed and turned to Amu with a smile, "Hey Kiddo I guess I owe you an explanation."
The Bell rang and Amu turned to the school, "You can tell us in a little while we have to get back."
Ame nodded and watched Rima and Amu run to their class.
"Want to stick around Ikuto?" Ame said with a smirk on her face Ikuto's ears twitched and he turned around turning back to normal. "Maybe…"
Ame looked at him with a smug smile, "So why where you helping me Ikuto-kun? Is it because I'm related to Amu or cuz I look like her."
Ikuto shrugged his shoulders, "In all honesty I could care less about relations and you look very little like her."
"Really?" Ame said swerving to face him directly, "How so?"
His face rose into a smirk, "For one your face is shaper where Amu's is a more cute round, You eyes are green not honey gold and your hair is a shade darker than her not noticeable unless you two stand right next to each other."
Ame sweat dropped only a guy who pays close attention would notice that, "Wow you really like her."
"You seem to have that in your head. Oh and you're a little rounder in the waist."
Ame's face turned red and an irritated vein popped out, "Did you just call me fat?!"
"You asked how you and Amu were different so I answered." Ikuto said with a straight face.
"That didn't give you permission to insult me!" Ame yelled in his ear.
"Ow"
"Wow no wonder Amu's in denial you're a bit of a jerk." Ame said crossing her arms.
"How so?" Ikuto said scratching his ear, "How often do you tease Amu about her weight?"
He stayed silent and his face was blank.
"That often, huh? Don't you know girls are sensitive about their weight honestly Ikuto-kun you'll never get a girlfriend like that. Especially not Amu."
His eyes narrowed "Whatever," He eyed her and she stopped and yawned.
"I'm tired."
He rolled his eyes, "Then take a nap we'll be waiting for a while."
"Alright where's' a good place to crash I'm beat!" Ame said yawning.
Ikuto turned to her and stared. She stared back with a sleepy look. She opened her mouth for another yawn when he spoke, "You recover fast don't you?"
Ame stopped mid yawn and looked at the ground with sadness, "I can't dwell on it I know I will save them." She looked up with slight relief in her eyes, "I'm sure of it."
He nodded, "The royal garden is pretty peaceful I take naps in there when I want to check up on the council even if they don't know it."
"Sounds good to me." Ame said ignoring his last comment and walked to the green instead of going inside she stopped on the outside and fell asleep sitting up on it. Ikuto sweat dropped and turned around and stared walking the other way.
Ikuto didn't feel like sitting around he decided to walk around campus while he thought.
The issue of Ame's power came to mind and how close she was to falling to Easter. If her power fell into the hands of Easter it would be disastrous. Not to mention the danger it put Amu in. He cringed a little, he knew Ame wasn't a bad person but he couldn't help but feel Ame wasn't being fair to Amu.
He looked up at a window in the school there were little kids laughing and enjoying themselves. Carefree and happy. Something he wished he and Utau would have been able to have.
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Evan was reading a book looking bored when the door opened he turned to the six people walking in. His three friends walked in robotically and sat down in sofas and behind them was their managers Mika and Mic and Elby a small eight year old boy with the power to hypnotize people into doing what he wants his dream was to become a famous hypnotist and his chara Hypno, but Hypno was born an X-egg and Elby was forced by Easter to capture him and his friends.
"Welcome back all" Evan said flatly as they walked in.
"Well it seems your little friend treasures you less than expected Well get ready for the concert tonight and don't try and pull the same thing you did with the CDs."
Mika turned on her heel and Mic and Elby followed her obediently Elby snapped his fingers as he closed the door and locked it.
Rita was the first to come to and rushed to the door and tried to pull it open. "Hey this is kidnapping! You can't hold us here I'll Call my lawyer!"
She slammed her fist on the door making a lot of racket and the rest of the group sighed and went about their business.
"Oh would you shut it Rita you know their not going to listen to you." Evan said scratching his ear. She stopped banging on the door stormed over to Evan and started rattling his head, "You shut up you stupid Brit! It's your fault we are in here in the first place!"
"Ow"
Vince and Marcus just watched them as they sat on the couch, "How long do you think she'll do that?"
"I put my money on another ten seconds."
Rita stood there pounding on Evan's head for twenty seconds longer then finally gave up and stormed to the couch and sat with her arms crossed and a pout well defined on her face.
"Twenty Pay up." Marcus pulled out a small wade of cash and placed it in Vince's open hand.
"Now that Rita has gone through her temper tantrum did you guys find Ame?" Evan said rubbing his head where a large pulsing welt was poking out from Rita's previous beating.
Rita nodded, "Yeah she's fine but I'm worried she almost caved when she couldn't snap us out of it."
Evan's face fell and he looked thoughtful for a moment, "She's strong I don't think she'll cave."
Rita nodded, "She resisted you didn't she?"
Evan stared art her with a slight glare and turned back, "Well besides us ruining her life how is she?"
"She's fine Ooh and speaking of fine you should have seen that guy that was with her can we say hello!"
Evan snapped his head to Rita who knew this would bug him and had a smirk on her face, "Yeah he was all protective of her and stuff and looked around the right age unlike a perverted old Brit we know."
Everyone eyed Evan who had a vein popping out his head, "I'm not Old old is like twenty-nine! And who's to say this guy isn't a pervert or something I don't know about you but I don't think I can trust him."
"Did I mention he's a kitty boy not a dirty old fox?"
Evan's face was turning red and the vein got bigger. Rita was laughing her butt off and the other two stayed in a nervous quiet.
"This isn't true you're making it up." Evan said turning toward the wall.
"She's actually not this time Ame really was with a Cat boy but also there was a mini me of Ame and another little girl both around twelve and the cat boy was mostly protective around the Mini me."
Evan seemed a little calmer at this but he still simmered, "All right well the important thing is Ame's okay but now we have to find a way out of this place." They all looked to the locked door and sweat dropped.
"Without Beat I can't exactly break through anything.' Vince said resting his head on his hand everyone was now turned to Evan.
"Don't look at me when do I ever have a plan remember when we arrested for playing In the subway without a permit Ame was the one who got us out. Ame is the smart one we just have to trust that she's on it."
"I hope your right." Rita mused as she rolled her eyes, "But it's still your fault that Ame left us."
He averted his gaze and stared at the wall again, "I know"
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The bell rang and every one rushed out of the school Ikuto was standing by the entryway waiting for Amu to come out.
"Evening, Ikuto-kun!"
Ikuto spun around to see Ame walking towards him, "Has Amu come out yet."
"No she hasn-"
"There she is." Ikuto turned to see Amu and The rest of the Guardians walk out of the school and turned to them.
"Yo!" Ikuto said with a flick wave.
"Hey guys."
"…."
"What's with the awkward silence?" Ame said grabbing Amu by the ear. "Ow ow ow"
"We have some things to ask you Ame Hinamori." Tadase said seriously Ame looked at Tadase with a curious look and let go of Amu's ear and put her hand on his head, "Ta-kun what did I say about formalities."
Tadase blushed again, "Informalities are for people I can trust."
Ame dropped her hand, "What's going on?"
"Ame Onee-san we know you were with Easter." Yaya said quietly
"Oh that." Ame said with an embarrassed look on her face, "Well then shall we explain it over a cup of tea? Your invited too Ikuto we may need your help."
Ikuto looked at the sky then looked at the group of kids with the one his own age, "I would love to stay but I think I'll be leaving."
"What!?" Ame and Amu echoed, "If you were going to flake out why did you help me in the first place!"
"I was bored." Ikuto said and took off the other way.
"Sheesh he's almost as bad as Evan." Ame mumbled slapping her forehead.
She turned to the group of tweens behind her, "Alright, Alright story time yay!"
Yaya jumped up and down, "Yay Story time!"
Everyone sweatdropped.
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Ame followed the guardians into the Royal Garden and looked around impressed. "Wow nice digs."
They all sat down and pulled up a chair for Ame next to Amu.
"Okay fir-" Ame looked at the table and saw the CD of Egg salad and picked it up, "Ah so this is why you don't trust me."
They all looked at her, "Geeze they edited me out how rude!"
They all sweat dropped, "Would you care to explain."
Ame looked at all the guardians, "I was going to only tell Amu this but I guess since you are fighting Easter you guys could help me. This is my band The Egg Salad named after our Guardian Characters….. uh oh."
"What?"
"Wakana do you still have the bag?!" Wakana nodded and pulled it up Ame quickly opened a secret zipper and four Shugo Chara eggs fell out with the sealing tape on them, "Guys I'm so sorry I completely forgot."
She and Wakana peeled the tape off and each chara popped out and landed on the table exaughsted, "I'm so hungry!" whined a little gray fox boy.
A red girl Chara with a suit with tails on was flat on her back, "Ame please try not to forget about us next time."
"Sorry guys I was preoccupied."
They all sighed and Suu served each of them a smallish serving of food and water and they gained a little energy The little fox boy munch happily and had several helpings his tail flicking back and fourth, "well who are all these people and where is Evan?"
"Tune these are the guardians and I'm researching the where abouts of the others I don't know where they are as of yet." Ame said sadly.
"GAh! Let's just storm Easter and demand them to tell us were they are!" A little Brown Chara in an army style clothing said as he stomped on the table causing it to rattle.
"We can't just do that Beat we have to go at this cunningly." Said Tune as he stuffed his mouth with another bite.
The Girl Chara and the other boy Chara with black hair and dog ears thanked Suu for the food and got to the point, "I'm Muzzle I'm the Chara of Marcus we were stolen when they were hypnotized."
"Hypnotized?" Tadase asked.
"Yeah," The little red Chara said, "back in NYC after that horrible concert they lead most of the band into a room dis-including Evan and Ame who at the time were having a fight the room they lead us into had a boy by the name of Elby."
Ame patted her head, "I got it from here Plink."
"Elby is a young orphan boy who we secretly took into the dorm to take care of he was a mess and stayed quiet he had a Shugo Chara too. His Chara is Hypno Elby's dream was to be a famous hypnotist and make people feel free to be themselves. One day Elby disappeared and the next time we saw him he was under the control of Easter."
"So wait weren't you with Easter?"
"At the time yes we didn't know about their plan to capture the Embryo or what they wanted with us until the night of the concert. The songs we had been singing uptil then were happy and encouraging but Easter made me write new songs saying they were to joyful for a rock band so I did. I didn't think much of it until the night before when they came to my dorm and kidnapped my best friend Debby. They said I had to Character Change on concert night or else. I was so afraid I did what they told me and I knew what was going to happen too. I told Evan what they had done secretly he wasn't too happy with me or Easter and it was another reason the effect was so strong Evan's power is similar to mine but instead of bending wills, people feel what he feels when he character changes. The other guys had no idea what was going on and the first song we played was "In Ice" Evan darted off stage right after and Came back quickly wit Debby in hand. So I reversed the effect of my voice and we told the band to run. It took a while for me and Evan to get off stage but by the time we got there the band was already under Elby's command and Easters control. We were cornered and were about to be hypnotized too but Evan pushed me and Debby out of the way telling us to get out and we weren't welcome anymore. Debby and I were confused at first but them we caught on that Evan was protecting us. We left and ran away and left the group. Debby had told me that they also had captured the group's chara and told me where they were I managed to get these guys away from the goons and Debby and I made a run for it. Debby and I took a leave from school to find ways to save the band. She flew home to London and I came here knowing Easter Head Quarters was here and I could find a way to free my friends."
Everyone was quiet and Tadase finally spoke up, "I'm sorry about before Ame Onee-san I didn't know that was the case."
"It's okay Ta-kun but right now I have the files on where they are keeping them and obviously they are here So that makes my search a lot easier. I was planning on staying here at least a month!"
They all sweat dropped.
Amu put her hand on Ame's shoulder, "Well help anyway we can!"
"Thanks but please try not to get too involved with Mika and Mic they're the most dangerous Easter agents in the world they will do anything to get their way we have to be on our guard."
Everyone nodded. "We'll be on our guard."
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A distant ring sounded through the house. Susan picked up the phone not bothering to look at the caller I.D.
"Hello Hinamori residence Susan Hinamori speaking."
"Hello this is The University of New York We are calling in regards to your Daughter Ame's sudden drop out of the school."
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Ha ha well I guess it's been a while since my last update well I've been busier than I expected sorry! Well I hope you liked this chapter and it cleared up some confusion if there was any thanks!
Disclaimer : Do not own Shugo Chara end. Of. Story.
Thanks to all who reviewed.
