Neko-chan: Ugh… I don't know how long of a wait that was… but ah well. Friends were over, so don't blame me.

Mirror: Neko-chan does not own Shugo Chara!

Chapter 6

Dream

~Ikuto's POV~

I continued to walk back to my house throughout the night, shivering every once in a while at the cold wind that tried to knock me over. Ever since Yoru was gone, getting from place-to-place seemed to take forever, especially at night.

A racking shiver broke through my body. This was getting way too irritating. Of course, I wasn't going to tell Amu how difficult this was, though. She would just worry, and nothing could make me not want to go over there any more.

When Yoru was here, I didn't have to worry about tripping over things in the dark or how long it would take to get home. I didn't even have to worry about the cold nearly as much, because I'm assuming being with Yoru gave me an invisible fur coat or something. Who knows. All I know is that before, this wasn't nearly as bad.

The wind continued to push at my body, and it seemed as if it were all I could do to keep my feet going. My guess was that it was about an hour since I left, and I still have a couple more miles to go.

A shocking noise seemed to split through my contemplation.

"Mew?"

I looked down. By my feet sat a little speckled gray female cat staring up at me with wide eyes.

"Well, hello ther-" and then the familiar smell wafted up to my face.

"Woah!!!" I yelled, jumping back five feet, completely taken in by surprise. Then I regained my calmness and sighed. "You must be Kiki, I'm taking it?" Her head turned to the side.

It's eyes met mine and for a moment I was dazed. They just seemed so familiar…I shook my head fiercely. If I suddenly started believing in this weird connection between chara and animal, only to find out it's fake in a couple days, Amu would be devastated.

She's already gone through enough with this. I can see the stress and loneliness in her eyes everyday. No way am I going to make it worse for her.

But even with the promise, it's eyes still seemed to bore into mine, trying desperately to tell me a message I just couldn't make out.

"What do you want?" I asked it, no longer to keep up my enthusiasm. The cat threw it's head back into a loud, pitiful yowl. Then it looked up at me, its face even looking slightly annoyed.

A small ripple of shock rippled through me. How could this cat make such a human expression?!

Ugh… I can't believe I'm actually thinking like this… Maybe I'm getting hypothermia and it's messing my brain up.

I smiled and nodded at that thought. Downplaying your health is always a better excuse than downplaying your sanity. I grabbed the cat and finished the long walk back to my apartment.

~Amu's POV~

That night was a restless night as I never really did have a full dream, but continuous flashes of visions, each painful or horrifying in it's own unique way.

…Tadase holding Kiki as her eyes seemed to burn. The dark red began to possess her eyes, making it seem as if blood were spilling into it-

"…Why?!" Miki was crying as she shook a small body laying on the ground. Everyone else continued to watch in shock, not knowing what to say-

My own charas, each turning black and gray as small red 'X's replaced their original hair-pins-

My own heart, practically snapping in two in my chest-

A dark figure in the shadows with darkened cat eyes, glaring me down-

Sudden red-

No air-

Ear-piercing screaming coming from a distance, not too far away-

The short visions continued to flash through my head, some shorter than others, all haunting.

After a time that seemed to last forever, I finally woke up with sweat dripping down my face, and I was taking in short breaths at a rapid pace to match my heartbeat.

What was that?! That dream… no, those dreams were horrible… what… Why did I dream that?

My eyes drifted downwards to look at my hands. They were shaking profusely. "I… Why did I dream that?!" I asked myself once more. A supposedly stronger question seemed to peck at my mind.

Was this going to come true as well?

Lately, I've been having prophetic dreams lately… could this be another one of those? Why was have having those dreams?

Ugh…. Lately it seems as if I can only come up with more questions. For a while I thought I would be away from all this… why did it have to come back?

Great. Another question to add to the pile.

Neko-chan: I know, it's short, and I fail. .

I just got into a huge argument with a friend… she suddenly became an Ikutau fan… or not. She says she doesn't want to be, and she's trying not to be, but she's failing… miserably… it's stressful since Amuto is practically part of my religion now. -.-

Oh, and since I deserve it, I won't go off on anyone for my failure. -.- I'm taking forever to update and making the chapters unreasonably short.