NOTE: YUKI HISHINO AND HER GUARDIAN CHARACTERS BELONG TO xDemonChickx!

'No More Sorrow'

Chapter 14

Back and Forth Plan

My head is stuffed under a pillow, my torso covered with the blanket, and my as along with legs sticking out the end (no, it's just folded up, not that I somehow landed in radiation poisoning and grew two feet or so). "Maki-cha…" Quartz whines, worried [still].

"I don't think she wants to talk…" Nana whispers to Quartz.

OKAY, THANK YOU NANA! My cell rings and I chuck the pillow at the nightstand, the clock and multiple Rosario + Vampire and Vampire Knight Mangas crashing to the floor, along with an empty glass that was water to go with last night's aspirin. I whip off the blanket and swipe the cell off the desk. I flip it open and bring it to my ear. "PSSED off Maki Kia, at your unwanted service!"

There's a bit of silence, so I nearly hang up. "Maki, I know you're upset, but I want you to talk to a friend of mine."

"What friend?" I lift it back to my ear.

"Okay, her name is Yuki Hishino," she informs. "I'll ask her to come over. Just please talk to her? She's really sweet!"

I sigh. "Alright, but if it ends up that she's a cannibal psycho, you're SO being eaten first while I run off to Acapulco."

I hang up and march to the closet to shrug on a off-shoulder navy top and black pants with a navy leather belt. Nana and Quartz smile and fly over as I stomp my feet into the black combat boots and tie up the hazel hair into a high ponytail, jumping up and dashing out (the window of course).

Get away

"Tell me again why you jumped out a window," Amu sighs, shaking her head at the door.

What did you think I was joking? Now that's cold people. "I wanted to see if I could fly," I snap sarcastically. I spread my arms in disbelief at this chick. "I mean hello! Everyone needs to see if they can fly like Peter Pan!" She just cocks her head. "Peter Pan?" I repeat. I groan when she shakes her head. "FLYING CARTOON CHARACTER FROM AMERICA! JEEZ WHAT IS WITH YOU PEOPLE!"

"I'm not American!" she sighs. "Yuki! Maki's here!"

"Oh this should be fun," I mutter as Amu forcefully drags me in.

Something collides with my forehead and I blink. "Sorry! Oh Annie stop ramming into people!"

"Sorry Yuki!" I hear a Guardian Character squeak.

I shake my head to see at the foot of the stairs is a girl, maybe fourteen, with shoulder yellow hair and large pink-brown eyes. Her skin is EXTREMELY pale, like paper, and she's wearing a off shoulder top with tank top sleeves that's ocean green with vertical black stripes and a pink tube top under it, since it goes down to her hip at the right side and gradually goes up diagonally to the bottom of the chest, left side. She has a white leather belt with 'X's going horizontally all around holding up black pants with black sneakers at the bottom. What sort of creeps me out is the abnormally large 'hyper' smile, but she looks like a nice person none of the less. "Hi, I'm Yuki Hishino!" she smiles. "It's nice to meet you, Maki! This is my Character, Annie," she points to YET ANOTHER cat like character (jeez, isn't Yoru bad enough?) with large black ears and gently whipping black tail with a white tip, tiny black paws and large eyes the same ocean color as Yuki's top. She has a knee length pink dress and she ALSO has shoulder yellow hair. Yuki smiles even WIDER and takes out an ESPECIALLY colorful egg, with one pink stripe at the top, then a red, white, brown, white, blue, white, beige, yellow, teal, pink, brown, and finally teal, one quarter note slanted to the right and a…eighth note? I don't know, next to it, with a microphone slightly above to the right and slanting in, a paintbrush's tip in between the gap of the eighth note, a little random shape with patches of the primary colors with a white background, a little paper with a flower drawn on it near the bottom and a pencil over to the right, slanted up slightly. "This is my second egg."

I raise a brow. "Uh…"

She giggles. "I don't know either."

Annie flies in front of my nose, so I have to cross my arms like when I first saw Nana. "Hello!" she waves a tiny paw. "It's nice to meet you!"

I turn to Amu. "She has two Characters?"

"Yep," Amu shrugs.

I turn to Yuki. "Do you have…uh…"

She shakes her head. Oh of course she doesn't, she's way too happy! "No, I don't have 'X' Negative," she smiles. "Although I won't tell anyone, I swear!"

I roll my eyes. "Okay, so if I said I killed someone, you'd keep it a secret?" She nods and I smile, turning to Amu. "Hey Amu…are you able to call Ikuto over?"

She sighs and shakes her head. "Okay Yuki might not be able to tell, but I sure as HLL am!"

I roll my eyes and fake a pout. "You're no fun."

Yuki laughs and we all sit on the couch. After ten minutes of awkward silence, she stands, eye twitching (what the heck) and starts pacing back and forth. "Jiamdj afgjalgk dgdjgspgks lskj stpslf sflsmf osgm slgm socsla kfal fmaa sf lcjw pp jw pc pweet cow shepa asphalt…" and more jibberish than THAT.

I raise a brow and turn to Amu. "So Amu," Yuki stops pacing and sits back down with the smile, making me scoot closer to Amu, "why did you want me to talk to Yuki?"

She smiles like she accomplished something. "To introduce you. You're already happy, so mission complete!"

I groan and slump back. "Jeez…"

I stand to leave. "Wait!" Yuki calls. She walks over and places a note in my hands. Before I can speak, she speaks. "That's my cell number if you ever need me to come over."

I blink and exit. I have thoughts of just tearing it up, but she is a nice person, so I decide to keep it.

Get away

Okay, so here's what happened.

An hour or so ago, my cell rang and I went to pick it up. It was Kio. Who else? "Hey, Ma!" he greeted. "How are you?"

"Good!" I blushed, thankful he couldn't see me. "So, are you calling for a reason, may…I…ask?"

"Yep!" he cheered. "I was wondering if you were free tomorrow at five?"

"I always am. Why?"

"Because, there's this party for my team and we're allowed to invite people, so I was wondering if you wanted to come?"

I covered the phone and jumped with joy. I covered my mouth to stop from saying 'YES, YES, MARRY ME GD DMNIT, YES!' and just cleared my throat casually. "Sure," I muttered. "Don't see why not."

"Great! I'll pick you up at four-thirty!"

He hung up and I placed it back on the desk. Okay, I couldn't stop smiling, but that's not CLOSE enough to why I'm even writing this fraction of the chapter. I was comfortable with the fifteen minutes of Manga reading I got before SOMEONE put their hands on the fronts of my thighs. "YAHAYAYHYA!" I jumped, nearly falling off the chair while turning around.

"Yo," Ikuto (WHO ELSE NEARLY RAPES ME?) chuckled. "Why do you seem so surprised?" I pointed down to the hands on my thighs, not removing my 'what the fcking heck are you doing btch' gaze from his amused eyes. "What?" he clutched them. "You don't like it?"

"NO!" I screamed. "CUT IT OUT YOU FCKING PEDOPHILE!"

He laughed and removed his hands (thankfully that's not enough to have to change the ratings [haven't you noticed I'm lazy peoples?]). My stomach was churning, and I doubted it was the leftover garlic bread from dinner, since Mommy came home early. He leaned in next to my ear, whipping the chair around so I was facing his shoulder. "Do you know what tomorrow is?"

"N-No!"

Something went onto my lap and I looked down to see the same music festival flyer I got in the mail some days ago with his hand pressing it down. Jeez I was b-l-u-i-f-s-t-y-h-j-s, blushing! "You said you would go," he whispered, the tip of his tongue tracing the ear's outline.

"H-H-HEY!" I screamed. "CUT IT OUT!"

He pushed his hand down harder. "See you tomorrow my little kitten."

He went out the window and I screamed when I looked down at the flyer. It was tomorrow.

At five.

Get away

So that's why I'm tapping my feet impatiently, waiting for Yuki to get her as over here! The door opens and she walks through, smiling and Annie by her side, a small little knit bag containing the mystery egg and a brown egg with a single red rose. "Yo!" she smiles (oh dear Gd). "You needed something?"

I nod frantically. "Okay, so two boys asked me to go out with them same day, same time!"

"Wow," she blinks. "Can't you just tell one no?"

"Yeah but one is a guy I REALLY like and the other I made it a long time ago!"

"Then why did you agree to the other?"

"Because I never knew the date to the first!"

"Then shouldn't you call the guy you already said and say 'something came up'?"

I put on my thinking face. I snap my fingers and she sits down on the chair, Nana and Quartz flying out to talk to Annie. "I got it! I'll just go to both!"

She raises a brow. "Do you have a cloning machine?" I shake my head. "Then that's impossible, Maki."

"How so?" I place my hands on my hips, one smug brow up.

"Look, if you just go back and forth between them, they'll figure out something's up, be hurt, and never want to talk to you again thus loosing a friend and a future husband."

I smile at the future husband remark. "Not if I have help!" I cheer.

"Am I here for a reason or just so I can hear you chat?" she giggles, arms crossed.

"Nope! You're helping!"

"Wait what?" she blinks. "Maki, I don't thin-"

"It's easy! You'll be a man at the side!"

"I'm a girl."

"Girl at the side!" I correct myself. "Annie can distract Yoru…"

"Huh?" Annie turns around.

"Yoru is the guy's Guardian Character, the one I promised already. He's a cat too."

"Yay! Annie want to talk to Yoru!"

"Okay, so you got that down," Yuki leans back. "What are you going to do when one guy gets curious where you went and goes to look for you while you're at the other date?"

"That's where patience comes into view!" I cheer. "Kio is extremely patient, Ikuto is or isn't, so when either of them look like they're going to check, you'll come to help!"

"That'll only work once for each."

Get away

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU BROUGHT A COSTUME CHEST!" she hisses at me, me with the large, brown plastic chest.

I shrug. "It's all about-"

"Being desperate?" she sighs.

"Yep, pretty much."

I set it down and she shakes her head, arms crossed. "It's not going to work, Maki. No matter what I can't change costumes every five minutes! And…is that a fake mustache?" She points inside the box and picks it up, sticking it to above the lip. "Cool!"

I roll my eyes happily and tug on the navy skirt below the green tank top with white stars lining the bottom and a huge 'PUNK IT' made of Star of David's in the center slanted. The silver chain has the angel from six months ago (well, now it's six months) clipped to it and my black combat boots are buckled up with stars today, a tight black sash choking my right upper arm and my hair pulled into a spiky ponytail with two thick strands on each side of my face. "Wish me luck!" I click my tongue and give a thumbs-up, running off to Kio's party.

"BE CAREFUL!" she calls after me.

I skid onto the field and Kio waves me over. I smile and walk over. "Hey Kio!" I smile.

"Hey Ma," he laughs. "How's it going?"

"Eh, could be better." I wince. "So, has the party started?"

He has one brow raised from the wince. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah," I wince again. "Oh…um…can you excuse me for a second? I sort of scraped my thigh yesterday, so I need to rinse it out."

Okay, who tells a boy that? Tip: DON'T COME TO ME FOR DATING ADVICE! He laughs nervously. "Uh, sure!"

I nod and run off, blushing like crazy. I mean jeez out of everything I could've lied about, I chose that? Why didn't I use that on…Oh yeah…

…Ikuto would've said something along the lines of 'I'll kiss it to make it feel better'.

Decided: No using injury lies around Ikuto (ESPECIALLY SOMETHING IN THOSE AREAS! [I guess that 'breast cramp up' Kurumu tried to pull off in Rosario + Vampire pretty much scarred me for life].

Get away

To be honest, the soccer field is not THAT far from the festival, only three minutes if you run at one mile an hour, unlike me, so I got here in under a minute. I pant and my thigh really does feel like I scrapped it, just against a cheese grater. I huff and wipe some sweat off and something clonks into my forehead. I'm knocked back and I rub my head to look up to Yoru in his egg, multiple rounds of duct tape shutting him in. "IKUTO-NYA! IKUTO-NYA LET ME OUT-NYA!"

"Yoru?"

His egg swoops down in front of my face(…no comment…). "Maki-nya! GET ME OUT!"

I pluck the egg up and unwind the tape, Yoru bursting out and stretching. "Why the heck did Ikuto tape your egg?"

"Ikuto didn't! It was your whack-job one, Nana!"

I grit my teeth and take out super glue.

Get away (from the super glue [I WILL USE IT!])

"NYA! NYA! LET ME OUT-NYA!"

"You sure about this?" Yuki raises a brow.

"Yeah, it shouldn't be bad if you stuff it into a robot cat," I shrug. "I got to get back to the soccer party before he thinks I'm ditching. Ikuto might just think I'm running late."

I run back off and skid to a stop in front of Kio. "There you are!" he laughs. "Your…thigh…feeling better?"

I blush and nod. "Y-Yeah, um…thanks for asking?"

We're forced into that 'awkward silence' stage and my phone rings. "You should take that," Kio smiles and walks off to meet with some friends.

I nod and run off, forcing the phone to my ear (originally typed as 'ear to my phone'). "HELLO?"

"Oh, you're alive," Ikuto chuckles. "You do remember the festival's today, right?"

I swear he knows somehow. "YEAH! I'M ON MY WAY NOW!"

"You can stop screaming, I'm pretty sure I can hear you from-OOMPH!"

Yeah, so I ran into him. DON'T TALK ON THE PHONE AND RUN! IT HURTS THE MARATHON RUNNERS, IT'LL HURT YOU! We crash to the ground, me on him. I blush and jump off before he can remark 'you really want to touch my balls again?' or some perverted crp like that. "Sorry!"

"Oh it's okay, you only broke my spleen," he sighs, grunting while he gets up.

"Is that supposed to make me feel better or worse?"

Then he has me in a hug, lips [] far from my ear (REALITY BABY). I'm tight against his chest, even the legs close together! "Worse, so I can make it better."

Oh jeez…I feel him lick my ear and hold me closer, making me blush deep crimson. "H-Hey!" I yell, trying to push away. "W-What about the festival?"

"It can wait. It's only four: forty-five."

Oh yeah…Someone rams into us and we separate, me rolling onto the top step of stairs and Ikuto on his butt, rubbing his head. That's when some girl in a jogger's suit comes up. "Sorry!"

I raise a brow at the fake mustache. "Really Yuki?" I mouth. "Oh it's okay," I sigh. "You actually saved me from rape."

"Oh ha, ha," Ikuto snaps. "At least I can NOT cut myself for five minutes."

"Is that supposed to be a good thing?" I laugh. He nods. "Oh whatever, it's fun."

Yuki runs off, leaving Ikuto to sigh and lean down. "It's not. You really want to scar yourself up?" I nod and he sighs, cupping my face. "They're brown again."

"Huh?"

"And here I thought you were letting your true self go for a while…"

I blink. "So I put the contacts on…it's a habit." My phone rings. "Excuse me."

I run off, phone to ear (despite the don't talk on phone while running comment). "YEAH?"

"Hey, it's Amu."

"OH HI! YOU OKAY?"

"Yeah, um…Kukai was just wondering if you were coming to this soccer party in the-"

"ALREADY INVITED!"

"Oh really? That's good since Kukai and Tadase are coming!"

I freeze, my stomach churning. "T-Tadase?"

"Yep!"

Oh is this going to be fun.

A.N: Sorry, I have to end the chapter there!

Okay, new Shugo Chara poll is up on profile!

Yuki, Annie, and mysterious 'art' egg is ALL xDemonChickx

THIS STORY IS TIED FOR FIRST IN REVIEWS (out of my stories that is)!

Something to think about (eh, I like talking to you guys [I'm lonely online :( [APRIL FOOLS! OH…it's not April]]): How would YOU have solved this situation where you were Maki and Kio AND Ikuto asked you out, the other not knowing you had a date already?