Author's Note: *Sniff Sniff * IKUTO!!!!!!!!!!!!! :'(

Chapter 10:

"Amu-chan!" Emily tripped as she ran towards me. After both of us laughed like idiots for a couple minutes she looked up at me and ask, "Is Ikuto okay? I heard about the St. Patrick's Day thing!"

"He's fine more or less... losing his memory has... changed him."

"Well memories are part of someone's personality, though you'll see, his old habits will come back to him slowly. Don't worry he will be a pervert once more!" Emily smiled hugely trying to cheer me up. She could tell it wasn't working. She slammed down the textbook she'd been carrying on the puddle ridden ground.

"Dammit, St. Patrick's Day! You are going down! I don't care anymore, this time you've gone too far!"

"Um... what?"

"Eh? Err... Nothing! Nothing! Well, um, St. Patrick's Day did steal some of my experiment results, back in America... I think that's how they created the blank egg."

"Blank... egg?" I asked. Emily lost me there. Did she mean the entirely black egg I'd seen? The bell suddenly rang.

"At lunch okay? We could have lunch, just the two of use and talk..." She started walking away, but I grabbed her wrist and whispered in her ear.

"There are things you don't want the Guardians to know, aren't there Emily-chan?" She freed herself from my grip and looked back at me. Her expression was all I needed to know. I let her get to her class while I walked slowly to mine.

I kept going the wrong way because I kept thinking Why not ditch? but I knew I shouldn't. I knew Ikuto wouldn't approve, but the second I thought that my feet would change direction.

The first period was a quarter in before I made it to my class. I got some glares from Nikaido-sensei and all my classmates stared at me like I was some sort of sacred object of truth and justice and Holiness. Give me a break? Is it this bad for any of the others? I doubt it.

I sat under a tree, far away from where I knew the Guardians would gather. Rima would probably want to go looking for me, only she wouldn't suggest such a thing because then her stupid body guard (A/N: Remember at the end of Amuto Island Rima's parents got her a personal body guard) would come with.

I looked up into the branches of the large tree. All its leaves were gone; it was winter now. The sky was dull and made me number than before. I wondered if Emily had thought I would forget. If so she was wrong; when it came to Ikuto's safety and well being I did not forget.

"Thought I wasn't going to show didn't you?" I heard Emily's voice. She stood a good two meters away.

"That's not what we're supposed to be discussing right now, Emily. Now answer me, yes or no, are you involved with St. Patrick's Day?"

"I can't answer that with only a yes or a no Amu. You should know that by now."

"Come on! I said yes or no! I just want to know if you were involved with Ikuto losing his memories!"

"I'm afraid Emily can't answer that question either, Hinamori Amu-san." A voice I'd never heard before called. I turned around. A girl with long black hair and deep chocolate eyes leaned against a tree behind me. She was shorter than the ninja, but she did look Asian, also her accent wasn't as off.

I knew she was part of St. Patrick's Day just by looking at her clothes. She wore a dress that puffed out at the bottom and high socks. She also had a cloak. The cloak was white, as was the dress, but there was a large, green four-leaf clover on her dress and that was what gave her away. Hey, I never said I was some kind of detective or anything.

Emily moved in front of me.

"Amu, what a time for you to let Ami borrow your Charas!" she scolded me as she took a protective position in front of me. She character changed with Michiko (her owl Chara). Her ears became almost elf-like and she sprouted wings.

"I didn't lend them to Ami today! I wanted them at home to keep Ikuto company!"

"Aw how sweet, you can tell me more after we're dead! You couldn't have brought one Chara with you?"

"Bickering is not a good team make." the St. Patrick's Day employee commented with a condescending tone.

"Shut up, Anna!" Emily yelled at the girl, "I might have over looked St. Patrick's Day at the beginning, but not anymore! You've gone too far!"

"See you say that, but the Guardian's motives are not entirely pure either. The King wants to rule the world, is that so much better than our goal?"

"You know I couldn't possibly agree with either Tadase's goal or St. Patrick's Day's!"

"Is that so? Then did Takara fade away?" Takara was Emily's queenly Chara. Did that mean Emily wanted to rule the world?

"Dreaming of ruling the world is one thing! Capturing the Embryo for your own selfish purposes is entirely another!"

"What use is the Embryo when it's free?" Anna asked with an underlying tone of accusation.

"You know my theories on that too!" Emily shouted. The conversation was becoming too confusing for me. All I knew was that Emily was obviously involved in St. Patrick's Day somehow. Was it possible she used to be part of it? Had it been much like how it had been with Ikuto? Or was this like what had happened with Kairi?

"Emily... explain!" I demanded, forcefully grabbing her shoulder. She turned her head slightly, still keeping her eyes on Anna.

"This isn't the time, Amu!"

"Quite right!" Anna said, sparkles shown from all around her. I distantly heard the word "Watashi no kokoro!" Anna wore an intricate Chinese dress. It was mostly red, but on the skirt had a beautiful design that was laced with sky blues dragons and shimmering gold.

"Moonlight Shadow," Emily muttered, "Anna, I thought you were against cheating! Neither Amu nor I can character transform!"

"Does it look like we're on a preschool playground Emily!?" Anna demanded, "In the real world there is no such thing as cheating or fairness!" Anna waved her hands in elaborate circles. Suddenly an instrument I recognized to be a Chinese instrument called a guzheng.

"Dammit." Emily muttered taking a step back.

"What?" I asked. But it was too late. Anna sat down on a chair that had appeared with the guzheng and started playing.

"Lunar Carillon..." Anna whispered.

Resonating notes, at first deep and then gradually reaching higher and higher were played on the instrument.

"GET DOWN!" Emily leapt for the cover of some trees. The tree she was running for suddenly blew apart leaving behind glittering embers. I jumped behind a bush, but the bush blew up too. All around us greenery was being blown up.

I became so distracted with everything burning to smithereens that when I looked Anna's way again she was already gone.

Emily's POV

"Damn it! St. Patrick's Day was just messing with us again... but then agian..." I was still character changed with Michiko who was a super genius and therefore made me into a genius, "Anna was probably acting of her own accord, this time. But... she's usually so classy about her actions... why would she do something like this?" While I pondered thoughtfully Amu stood, silently glaring at me. Her face was like two wires had finally connected in her head or something. I looked her way, "What?"

Her voice shook as she spoke, "You're part of St. Patrick's Day! You helped them hurt Ikuto! Don't lie; Anna already blew your cover!"

So that was Anna's plan.

Author's Note: Well, what do you think? It took twice as long as usual to write this so please review!