Ya-ho! SayoChan here, sorry about leaving you guys hanging in the last chapter…again, hehe, but it's so much more interesting that way :P
Argh my laptop has broken again so I only have one computer to use which my dad is usually on, but I will try and update as often as I can! (:
Here is chapter 6! This one is a little all over the place but it's quite funny too XD
Disclaimer: I still don't own Shugo Chara…
Note: Okay, so I decided that this story will no longer be a shortish Christmas story, it is now going to be a long story based on Amu's life in general, and obviously a lot of Amuto! So I've come up with a new title and summary =]
Summary: This started off as a Christmas-fic but I decided to make it longer. Basically, Amu's life just keeps getting worse and she covers it up with her cool and spicy act, however, a certain kitty we all know and love can read her like a book. AMUTO!
Friends, family and a misbehaving kitty
Chapter 6
[ "What? What's the matter?" I asked as I took in their surprised expressions. Well most of them looked surprised, Tadase looked absolutely horrified. I began to worry, what were they staring at? I blankly looked to my left and then it hit me. It hit me hard in the face.
I was standing at the door as if I had just woken up, on Christmas day, holding Ikuto Tsukiyomi's hand. That was why they were gaping at me, and damn, I didn't blame them. This was not gonna be easy to explain… Oops. ]
I gasped and whipped my hand away from Ikuto as I turned bright red. How could this be happening? I panicked and began stuttering as I avoided eye contact with the bewildered teenagers standing before me.
"I...Um!" I said as my heart pounded. I looked over to Ikuto for support but he just stood there smirking. He was enjoying the expression that seemed to be permanently set on Tadase's face… Tadase!
Oh no! Not only did I break his heart, but now I was dating his mortal enemy without telling him. Well okay, Ikuto and I weren't dating, but it sure looked that way…
I desperately tried to come up with something that would break the extremely awkward silence that now plagued the air. Clearly, Nagihiko was thinking the same thing as he was the first to speak.
"M-Merry Christmas, Amu-chan." he said with an obviously fake smile.
"Ehe, yeah, y-you too." I said as I nervously scratched my head. There must be some way to explain this. Before I could think of anything else, my Mama called to me from the front room.
"Amu-chan! Can you shut the door? It's getting cold!" she said.
"Yes Mama!" I called back.
"Well, you heard the lady" said Ikuto calmly as he began to close the door on them.
"W-wait" I said, putting my hand in front of the door to stop it from closing. I sighed heavily; there was no escaping this…
"I guess you should, um, should come in…" I said shyly, gesturing them upstairs.
"Mama is it okay if I take my friends upstairs for a while?" I called.
"Yeah sure" she replied lazily as she pretended to be interested in Ami's doll house.
I walked up the stairs one by one as Ikuto, Rima, Nagihiko, Yaya and Kukai followed. It came to my attention that Tadase hadn't moved from the spot he was in just outside my front door. Kukai also noticed this and pulled the still shocked boy into the house, closing the front door behind him. Kukai dragged him upstairs with the rest of us, but Tadase didn't seem to notice. He still wore that same expression.
We entered my room and stood there awkwardly.
"S-so…" said Yaya. I let out a small, nervous laugh.
"Oh hell let's just get to the point here. What the fuck is he doing here?" said Rima in a quiet yet deadly tone as she pointed at Ikuto. She was always like that; she never got properly shy and always spoke her mind. I heard Ikuto laugh slightly. He then sat down on my bed and to my surprise pulled me onto his lap.
"Tell them Amu." he said, wrapping his arms around me and resting his head on my shoulder. I felt my cheeks burn as my friends gawked at us.
"I-I-I" I stuttered, I had no idea what to say. There was a small pause.
"I slept over last night." said Ikuto coolly.
"WHAT?!?!" cried my friends in unison. My eyes grew wide. No!!! I was a horrible liar, so how was I going to answer to that!?
I saw Tadase clench his fists as he glared at Ikuto.
"I-Is that true Amu??" asked Rima. I felt the atmosphere thicken as they waited intensely for me to answer.
"Um…I…" I replied. I was now officially screwed. Everyone gasped; they knew I couldn't lie to save my life…
"AMU!!!!! OH MY GOD! YOU'RE FIFTEEN FOR GODS SAKE! IKUTO YOU PEVERTED BASTARD HOW COULD YOU!" screamed Rima.
"YOU DIRTY S…" Rima was then cut short as Nagihiko gently placed his hand over her mouth.
"Rima keep your voice down! Amu's parents will hear!" said Yaya quietly. Nagihiko let go of Rima and she narrowed her eyes, muttering something that was no doubt a string of curse words.
"N-No guys! No you've got it all wrong! Yes, he did stay here last night, BUT, we did not do that! No way!!" I said desperately trying to calm them down.
"Really?" said Kukai accusingly.
"Yeah!" I answered.
"Unfortunately…" muttered Ikuto.
"Pervert!!!!" hissed Rima.
"Well okay that's good, but still, why did he stay over??" asked Nagihiko. I sighed again.
"I was really upset yesterday, about everything, and Ikuto came to see me and realised I was upset, so he tucked me into bed and we just kinda, fell asleep… That's all!" I replied. There was a pause again, only to be broken within a matter of seconds…
"AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" screamed Tadase. This was the first thing that he had said for the whole time he had been there. It seemed he had finally taken everything in and snapped.
"AHHHHH…" Tadase screamed some more, now flailing his arms about a bit.
Ikuto was laughing his head off, but this time I couldn't blame him. Tadase looked ridiculous.
Yaya, Rima, Nagihiko, Ikuto and I just stared at Tadase. We didn't know what to do! This was such a strange situation, what were we supposed to do with him? I blinked and watched Kukai clasp his hand over Tadase's mouth. His eyes were wide and we could still hear muffled shouting. Kukai raised an eyebrow and stared in amazement at his friend who seemed to be having some kind of fit. Finally, Tadase stopped screaming and then started laughing, uncontrollably. Kukai let go of Tadase and took a few steps back.
"U..Um, Tadase?" said Yaya quietly.
"Ahahahahahahaha!!!"
"He's finally lost it…" said Nagihiko, shaking his head.
"Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!"
"He looks so stupid." said Rima in her calm, serious voice.
Suddenly, the room went silent as Tadase stopped laughing. His lips were pressed tightly together and he had a blank expression on his face. We all watched cautiously as Tadase calmly sat down on the floor and huddled his knees up to his chin. He was still staring into space and he was now motionless.
We all stared at him, our lips parted and eyes wide. Even Kiseki, his shugo chara was speechless. There was another awkward silence. Everyone was too scared to say something incase it set Tadase off again… Well, everyone but Ikuto.
"Wow, what a retard." said Ikuto as he too looked at the blonde in amazement.
"Oooo-kaaay… Moving on…" said Yaya as she gripped Kukai's arm and watched Tadase with frightened eyes. He was still motionless. I half expected him to start sucking his thumb and rocking back and forth…
Kukai cocked his head and blinked a few times.
"T-Tadase?" he said.
No answer.
"Is he like, insane now?" said Rima.
"Should we put him in a home?" asked Yaya worriedly. Kukai shook his head with a smile and ruffled his girlfriend's hair.
"Um…well, let's leave him alone for now. Back to you Amu." said Nagihiko. Kukai nodded and their attention was once again on me and Ikuto.
"Are you a couple now?" said Yaya curiously.
"No!" I blurted out. Ikuto looked away and seemed to be deep in thought. I wondered what he was thinking about…
I turned back to my friends, the sane ones anyway…
"He just, he was just comforting me that's all, and before he could leave we ran into my Mama and she invited him to dinner." I said. As I continued to explain the events that had taken place before their arrival, Ikuto had crawled over to the other side of the bed. I finished explaining and wondered what he was doing, we turned to look and watched in confusion, and fascination as Ikuto poked Tadase continuously in the head. Tadase still didn't move, he just sat there hugging his knees. Ikuto raised an eyebrow and carried on poking him.
"Ikuto stop that." I said, shaking my head. Ikuto shrugged and sat down beside me.
"Well, I don't know what to say really…" said Kukai.
"This all seems a bit suspicious, I don't trust you cat boy…" said Rima bitterly.
I laughed, unsure of what to say or do next. Luckily I didn't have to do anything as a small voice caught our attention.
"S-stop that you worthless peasant!!" cried Kiseki in frustration as Tadase continued hugging his knees and rolled around the floor in a ball-like position. His face was still completely blank and we couldn't believe our eyes.
"What…the…fuck...?" said Rima as she watched the blonde roll up and down the floor. Kiseki was now waving his arms around and shouting at his owner to stop.
Wow, what a sight that was…
Tadase continued to slowly roll along the floor until he reached the door and then he would roll back to the foot of my bed, still apparently on another planet to us normal people…
Our eyes followed him back and forth as we gawked. He definitely needed some form of medical attention.
I wondered what would happen if I opened the door, would he just continue rolling until he fell down the stairs? The thought of Tadase rolling down the stairs with that zombie-like face caused me to giggle a bit, but no one seemed to hear it over Kiseki's frantic shouts.
"You pathetic excuse for a servant get up and get a hold of yourself!!"
Nagihiko knelt down carefully and grabbed hold of Tadase as he rolled past. This stopped him and when Nagihiko felt confident that Tadase had got it together a bit, he let go, however Tadase just continued to roll. Nagihiko opened his mouth to speak but gave up and hid his face in his hands, shaking his head.
"Lunatic…" he muttered.
Ikuto at this point was clutching his stomach and couldn't stop laughing.
"Um… we should probably take him home…" said Kukai as he dragged his friend off of the floor. Tadase wouldn't stand up, so Kukai carefully held him upright and dragged him along.
"Urm, we'll talk to you on IM, kay Amu?" said Nagihiko.
"Bye Amu-chi…" said Yaya quietly.
"Stupid pervert cat boy with his stupid perverted cat ears and…" muttered Rima as she too left my room. I heard the front door open and then close again as I stared in the direction they had just left. Ikuto was still laughing and I just played things back in my mind.
"Did that really just happen?!" I murmured to myself.
Talk about the weirdest day ever.
Rofl, I love how Kiseki is just screaming his head off in the background. I was laughing for like 10 minutes straight when I came up with the rolling around the floor bit, the image of Tadase just rolling around in pure insanity was too much! XD
Anyway, I'm really not sure about this chapter; I got a little bit of writers block toward the end. What do you guys think?
Review please! Thanks to everyone that already has! If I get a lot of reviews I may write a longer chapter 7 tonight, but I don't know.
SayoChan x