Hey, it's Ni-Chan here. Soooo sorry for the veeeery late update, but if anyone has still stuck with us, I will give you 5 cookies! (Virtual cookies!)

Amu: (Emerging from the bottom of my brain.) There are a lot of very strange things in your brain, Ni-Chan.

Ni-Chan:…..er….

Ikuto: (Calling from inside) I like this bit. *smirks*. So who's J…..

Ni-Chan: IKUTO, GET OUT OF THERE, NOW! *Points a flame thrower at his head*

Ikuto:*Chased around by Ni-Chan* Aaaaagh, she's gonna kill me!

Amu: Um…….She doesn't own Shugo Chara!

Amu sat alone on her bed, staring at the photo of all of the guardians Nadeshiko had taken a month ago. She sighed, and settled back to read her favourite magazine (basically, like a Japanese version of Girl Talk (Come on, she's 12!)). That's when she heard the knocking at the doors to her balcony. She glanced across to see Ikuto smiling at her through the glass. Somehow, that smile seemed wrong. She shook her head; she must have imagined it. She walked over to the door, and opened it for him, signalling him to be quiet, and frowning at him in an annoyed way.

'What happened to your cheek?' She demanded. Somehow, the idea that something could spoil Ikuto's face annoyed her.

'Oh, nothing.'

'What do you want, then?' She said a bit more sharply than she wanted to; she was still confused about what she had felt at school.'

'Er….have you seen Yoru?'

'No.'Ikuto seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

'What's the matter, Ikuto?' Amu tried a gentler tone. Ikuto's eyes shifted to something behind her. She turned to look, but he placed a hand on her shoulder, and kissed her.

'I'm so sorry, Amu.' Amu eyes widened as a cloth was clamped over her mouth by someone behind her. The last thing she saw before she fell unconscious was Ikuto leaving through her balcony doors, the wind catching his cloak, and making him look like a bird.

She is sitting alone in her room, when a beautiful cat comes into her room. She bends down to stroke it, but as she does, the cat turns into a little black bird and plucks out her heart that's turned into a strawberry. The bird then shakes its wings and heads out of her balcony doors. She tries to call out in warning, but her voice doesn't work, and the little bird gets caught up in the wind, and taken out of her sight…

Amu felt the rays of sunlight burn through her heavy eyelids. She tried to sit up, but found that her body wouldn't do what she told it to. She screwed her eyes up in concentration; she had had such a weird and scary dream. She struggled again to sit up, but, yet again, found she couldn't move. After a while of sitting still, Amu found that she could open her eyes. When she opened them, she saw a familiar man standing by her bedside.

'Ikuto!' She exclaimed. 'I….' Then she remembered what had happened.

'Please, Amu….let me explain…'He sounded so desperate. By now, she found she could move her body in a sitting position. Then she noticed that she didn't have a clue where she was.

'Ikuto, where am I.' There was no answer. 'IKUTO! TELL ME WHERE I AM, NOW! OR I'LL…' He placed his hand over her mouth.

'Sssh. Listen, I shouldn't be here, and I've only got five minutes. So, please. Just listen.' Amu nodded and stopped biting the inside of Ikuto's hand.

'Please…' Amu took Ikuto's hand.

'Just let me explain……..'

To be continued…….

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Ikuto: So, anyway, who's J……..

Amu + Ni-Chan: IKUTO!!!!