Umm wow, so sorry for the really, really, really long gap between updating... That was... bad of me. Sorry.

Um filler chapter, kind of but not really, I totally have everything planned for the next chapter (unlike this on which I was clueless on). But this one kind of speeds through, I'm not positive on it but anyway... Also I did the whole 'I'm leaving' thing in the last chapter at like, midnight, and at 10 the next morning I decided it was stupid, so I had to change that around as well

Also you may (or may not) have noticed the new summary. It is a little ahead of its time, and 'may contain spoilers' but its works for the next like...two chapters so I decided to put it in.

Thankyous

You're an idiot- my mind tutted while I packed

"I'm an Idiot" I repeated out loud in a robot-like fashion,

"Yes you are" Ume huffed, she was sitting, arms folded, legged crossed in the air in front of me, facing away. It was her way of throwing a tantrum.

"No you're not!" Jiyuu disagreed, as always; she came in close and pinched my cheeks together, averting my gaze from the bag to her, "Kana this is the best thing you can do! Just get on a plane a whoosh, back home you go. We can see everyone at school, Joko..." She lingered on the word of Joko, my full-time nanny, who was more of a mother to me, since my father refused to reveal the identity of my real one. I had been sent away from home with Joko when I was five, and first met my father again six years later, shortly before Ume was born. Joko had been with me those six years between, and before, and after, I had known her longer than anyone, living here without her was torture. She was, in fact, supposed to be flown up here just over a week ago, to live with us and work full time for Easter instead. But I didn't want Joko tangled up in the same place I was, I had finally convinced my father to let her stay down south, for good, but it was completely possible that I would never see her again...

The thought of my almost-mother brought a tear to my eye, the way she always smiled, how fearfully and carefully she spoke to me when the subject was of Easter, how sad she had been when I completed both my transformations. I missed her so much. The tear dropped to the floor, and Ume suddenly turned around, pain on her face.

"This is what being an Idiot gets you" She whispered, "Your heart is sad" as Jiyuu un-pinched my cheeks and hugged my neck,

"No duh Ume" I whimpered, trying to smile through the hurt. I wanted to see Joko, I wanted to go home, but what I was trying to do was stupid, I couldn't just leave! I couldn't bear what my father would do to me, and I certainly couldn't leave Kukai to Yuu's plan, I couldn't let him hurt Daichi.

"I'm sorry for bringing it up" Jiyuu spoke

"I can't do this anymore" my voice broke as I threw the shirt I was holding onto the ground, "I can't just leave, but I can't live without Joko either. I need to go home, I need to see all my true friends, but I don't want to leave Kukai and Amu!"

Jiyuu looked at me with sad eyes; I wondered if she could how my heart felt as well? But she would never say anything, that wasn't in her nature. Ume, on the other hand, floated down to my luggage and began unpacking what she could actually pick up, still looking rather heartbroken. I didn't like being sad, not like this, it hurt me and it hurt my chara's. But right now, I couldn't stop, I just lay on my bed and cried while Ume and Jiyuu unpacked my bag.

When I next opened my eyes, my room was dark, black in fact, pitch black. I couldn't see a thing, I could see end of my bed, or my dresser, Ume or Jiyuu's eggs. I could see myself though; if I looked down I could see everything down to my feet, which was when I realised, why was I standing? Where did my bed go? Why was I wearing my normal clothes? My white shirt and purple skirt, it didn't make sense.

"Kana?" I recognised that voice, my eyes darted up, but I couldn't see anything, "Kana?" The voice asked again, I kept spinning for a while before a tiny smoky figure appeared in front of me and made me stop. "Kana?" It asked again, I nodded, for some reason I just nodded, and slowly the smoke became clearer, sharpening into an actual image, but I already knew who it was.

"Daichi" I smiled, not really pleased or upset to see him, I was just happy that I wasn't alone in the dark.

"Yo, Kana!" Daichi smiled, giving the thumbs up, I smiled, instinctively looking around for Kukai, but he wasn't there, just me and Daichi. No, that wasn't right, there was someone else with us, I could feel it I just knew it.

I turned around, to see if there was someone behind me, but the room was blank, and when I turned back I realised I was right. Standing behind Daichi was Yuu, his hair was out and his glasses were off, this was Easter Yuu, not the kind Yuu from school. His eyes were closed, his arms folded, and his head down, he laughed, and Daichi didn't even seemed fazed.

"I knew you'd come back Kana" his voice echoed around the room, but his mouth didn't move, Yuu smirked and raised his head, slowly opening his eyes. "You always come back, just as you are told" the voice echoed again

When his eyes were open, Yuu stared intently at Daichi, who was still smiling at me, as though he had no idea. I instinctively reached for him, to help him, but just as my hand reached out, two black semi-circles formed above his head, and below his feet. Yuu keep his stare close, and his smirk dark, watching as the two halves of the shell enclosed Daichi within them, until his was nothing more than an X-egg. Daichi, how could I let this happen,

"No, no, Daichi, no" I whispered to myself, jumping forward to catch the dark egg. There was still, hope, I could still change him back. But as soon as my fingers touched the eggs cold, shell, it disappeared in a cloud of dark purple light. I caught my breath and balanced myself, looking back to see Yuu now holding the egg out in one hand, and smirking at me, as if to say 'ha'

But that wasn't it, the worst wasn't over yet. I could feel something around me growing sad and cold. I blinked a few times, only two or three, but before I knew it, Yuu became Kukai, the real flesh and blood standing Kukai. But something was off, the way he stood, with his hands in fists like that and his head down, this was wrong; the egg was still there, hovering next to Kukai shoulder just where Yuu had been holding it. My heart skipped a beat when Kukai finally lifted his head and began to open his eyes, I was breathing faster, but not because I was happy, I just knew that this was going to be bad.

Kukai's eyes were what scared me the most, they were dark and soulless, like the children at Utau's concerts when she took their eggs, he was lifeless, and his voice was icy when he spoke.

"This is your fault"

I woke up in a cold sweat, breathing heavily, which was all a little strange since I was being bathed in scorching sunlight; it was even stranger that it was so bright so early... Or so late.

I sat up straight and glanced to my alarm clock, but, being my magical bad luck powers and all, it was unplugged. Of all times, really!

"Ume!" I called, my breath was obviously distressed, I brushed my hair back and scanned around the room, I was too frantic to see where they had fallen asleep, "Ume!" I tried again, the only thing I noticed was an empty suitcase lying on the floor, I must have fallen asleep crying.

"Kana? Are you okay?" Her black-clothed figure flew in front of my face; Ume's face was stricken with worry, "You were screaming in your dream, are you okay? I went to get you a drink but the tap was really heavy and hard to push-"

"Ume what time is it?" If it was still early I could get to school and stop Yuu, but if it was late already...

"9:30" she answered without hesitation, how did she know? I brushed my hair back again, thinking- school was just starting, if I transformed with Jiyuu I could literally jump there, the cars would've already been and gone anyway, I just needed to get ready,

"Can you get Jiyuu up?" I asked, frantically rushing around my room to get ready pulling out any parts of my uniform I could find

"You're going to school today!" Ume jumped a little and clapped her hands together- of course I was, she was even the one who had unpacked my bag last night,

"Jiyuu!" I yelled as Ume dashed over to my dresser where Jiyuu's egg lay in my side-bag, she tapped the shell lightly a few times, and there was a tiny nudge in response. "Jiyuu up, now" I growled, fastening my hair up and shoving random books in my bag. Aside from being the side of me which longed for a free life, Jiyuu also represented the part of me which hated being woken up before I was ready. Ume tried again, and there was no response. "Geez you're useless" I sighed, finally opting to just take the side-bag and change with Ume instead. It was 9:45

"Kana transform with me!" Ume pressed her hands together in a tiny prayer position and looked at me with wide eyes. Out of the ten X-egg clean ups I had done since we'd arrived, I had only transformed with Ume for four of them; I guess she felt a little left out. It was also a little strange that those four times, a wanderer had always interfered with us, almost the same one it would seem...

"Just hurry" I hissed as she disappeared into her egg and again I lost touch with reality, feeling only weightlessness and a power boost until my feet touched my bedroom floor again. "Charanari Faithful Radiance" my mind did the thing again where it somehow seemed like I was talking but I was actually thinking the words. My next thought though, was me cursing to myself when I looked at my dresser and realised I hadn't attached my side-bag to my belt and had to settle for tying it to my puffy, black, transformation skirt. It looked really weird,

"Out the window?" Ume asked from inside me, I glanced to the window and dashed to open it, it was nearly 10 now, and Yuu would probably try and strike just before Amu's speech, which was at 11, oh god.

"Okay we're hurrying now" I muttered, taking no hesitation when I climbed onto the windowsill and leaped high into the air, using my scythe to help me rise higher, people were probably going to need therapy after seeing me...

"Kana Amu's speech is in just under an hour" Ume told me the obvious as I soared higher in the air, scanning the ground for the school, and a good building to land on. How the hell did she always know the time anyway? "If you land between the two small towers, no one should see you" she pointed out, something in me nudged my head towards the school's main building, it was tall and obvious, but two low key towers stuck out on top, landing between them would be perfect. I lunged forward, aiming for the exact spot, and slowly and gracefully soared through the air until I was able to land softly right between the towers. If I was lucky, no one saw me, or more, no one cared.

"Too easy" I whispered, noticing the areas below the building where students were flocking into the main assembly hall below me. I could jump off, mix in with the crowd, find Yuu, and beat him up. It was all going so perfect...

That was when it happened, when something went wrong or whatever. Everything was going too smoothly, and nothing ever went smoothly for me, ever. That was why, as soon as I stepped forward, prepared to change back, something blew on me, something strong blew on me. And I quickly realised that a small portion the roof area I had landed on was laid with metal slates. I had landed on an air-vent; a large, powerful air-vent, which, along with my incredible bad luck powers, decided to turn on as soon as I stepped forward. The powerful blast took advantage of the fact that in my charanari I was light as a feather, and blew me high up into the air, high enough for anyone who wanted to, to see me. The air twisted my body and flipped me before, as quickly as it came, the air shut off, and I rapidly began to plummet back towards the cement building.

"Ume do something!" I was screamed as I gained speed. If I didn't jump properly, I couldn't land properly, falling like this could....

"Ume!" I screamed again. I would had to have been ten feet from the ground when a sudden pulse raced through my body, my muscles automatically twitched and I flipped, once or twice, until I was the right way up. Another pulse and my arm twitched, cutting my scythe through the air, my downfall immediately slowed and I came to a lucky and calm stop, landing directly on the edge of the building, only inches from falling off the side.

"That was close" Ume tutted inside of me as my heart came down to a normal pace again. I breathed a heavy sigh of relief

"This is too much for one day" I sighed, spinning around. I just needed to jump down and the assembly hall would be directly inside, I could get to Yuu just on time if I hurried...

When I turned, one thing caught my eye, I held my breath and Ume gasped, Jiyuu... was still asleep but it didn't matter. The building cast gaze over the entire schoolyard; all was empty, all lifeless, all aside from one part of the footpath where a girl stood, alone in the entire yard. She seemed to be memorising a piece of paper, totally oblivious. Out of shock I locked my eyes on hers, and suddenly she jerked her head up and locker hers with mine. We stood like that for a moment, both totally silent, her eyes on mine, my eyes on hers, completely shocked. The girl with the paper and the girl in the Charanari; it was awkward, it was bad, it was terrible, it was... it was...

"Amu"

Yay I did the cliff-hanger thing! I never get to do the cliff-hanger thing, except in chapter two...kind of.

I'm sorry, I'm not happy with it either. But the next one will be better, it's my promise to like...whoever reads this.

So anyway, for the next chapter just press the button...

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