Me: Yay! Updating time!
Ikuto: Aw crap. Updating time.
Me: …just cuz you have a huge fan club doesn't mean you can pick on innocent people!
Ikuto: Watch me!
Me: Ha ha ha! I read chapter 39 of the manga and I started cracking up again…Ikuto…what the hell is with the PIRATE thing? Amu and her bridal thing I get but seriously…A PIRATE?? I'm still laughing
Ikuto: -.- I'll cut you up with that sword
Me: oh crap! It was still funny though
Ikuto: -tries to kill Hana-chan with a butcher knife because he can't Chara change since Yoru is ditching him for Miki-
Nagihiko: o.0 Hana-chan doesn't own Shugo Chara!
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I expected Yaya to turn away, but her reaction was not what I expect, nor what I wanted it to be.
"Yaya has the best idea," she declared her eyes glowing dangerously
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"That's great, Yaya!" Amu cheered and I sighed at the same moment Ikuto did. Heh. Even he could tell something bad was going to happen.
"What's your idea?" I asked, slightly dreading the answer.
"Get her something cute!" Yaya said happily. My jaw dropped. How come I didn't think of that in the first place?
Amu's reaction must have been quite similar to mine because I heard Ikuto say "Careful Amu or you might swallow a fly."
"Ew!" Yaya squealed.
"That's great Yaya!" I said happily. "But where am I going to get her something like that?"
"That easy," Yaya said smirking. She looked a lot like Ikuto when she did that and I was starting to get nervous. "Go to Magical Monkey Luuuv!"
"Magical Monkey Luuuv?" I asked absolutely bewildered.
"New store," Ikuto explained rolling his eyes.
"How do you know?" Amu and I asked at the same time.
"Kukai took Utau there and when she saw me next she wouldn't stop talking about the place," Ikuto said disgustedly.
"Let's go," I said resignedly. I really didn't want to put myself through this but if that's what it took to win Rima then I didn't have much of a choice. After all, what could go wrong?
We reached said store too soon and when we walked in, I almost fainted. Everything was bright pink, including the uniform the shop keeper wore.
"Ikuto? You look kind of green," Amu said uncertainly.
"I think I gotta step outside a minute," Ikuto said gagging and all but ran out the store.
"Green really isn't his color," Amu said thoughtfully. I stared at her. "It's not your color either," she added. I looked at my reflection in the window and saw that I was also green. Ikuto finally came back in, not looking much better.
"Can we go soon?" he asked.
"Not until Nagihiko gets Rima a present," Amu said firmly. Ikuto looked at me with the most terrifying expression on his face. You could feel the danger radiating off of him as he spoke.
"Do it fast," he said. I grimaced.
"I'm planning on it," I said only to be dragged off by Amu to find "something Rima would just love!"
"I don't know what Rima would even like," I said finally and Amu smiled devilishly, scaring me half to death.
"Look at that!" she squealed and I turned around to see a small toy that was a bear in a tutu standing on a ball. It was one of the weirdest toys I'd ever seen.
"Um, Amu-chan, do you really think—"
"Rima will absolutely adore it!" Amu squealed, getting the attention of many shoppers.
"I think we should be more quiet, Amu-chan," I told her, but she didn't pay any attention to me. Instead, she seized the toy, stuck it in my arms and pushed me to buy it. So I did, much to Ikuto's relief because that got us out of the store that I had intention of going anywhere near ever again.
"Now all we have to do is get it to Rima," Amu said happily.
"How're we gonna do that?" demanded Ikuto, still looking a bit sick. Amu and I both gave him a look and he groaned. "First you make me go into that store—"
"Nobody made you follow us," Amu pointed out.
"—and now you're making me get back onto that roof! You guys are mean as hell!" he growled. Amu frowned.
"Just do it, Ikuto," she sighed and I stared. Amu was so…merciless!
"I will…if you call me Ikuto-koi for the rest of the day," Ikuto challenged her and Amu turned bright red. I take that back. Ikuto is merciless and Amu just returns the favor. Or maybe it's the other way around. I wouldn't know.
"You can't be serious!" she shouted. Ikuto smirked. I noticed he did that a lot around Amu. Interesting….
"But I'm entirely serious," he said. "I don't want the girl-boy doing it so that leaves you."
I sweat dropped. So now I was girl-boy now? Great.
"Please, Amu-chan," I pleaded. Amu blushed and I had to admit it was pretty amusing.
"Jeez," she groaned. "If Ikuto can get the toy into Rima's room I will."
"What did you call me?" Ikuto asked too innocently. Amu bit her lower lip.
"Ikuto-koi," she said, wincing at the end.
"I'll get that ugly bear thing into the shrimp's room then," Ikuto said looking completely entertained.
It took me a minute to realize that 'the shrimp' was Rima. I wondered if Ikuto had a nick name for all of us. Probably.
"It's not ugly," Amu protested and Ikuto looked at the disfigured object in his hand.
"Sure it's not," he said. I looked up at the house we had made our way to and saw Ikuto smirk.
"Too easy," I heard him mutter and then call his chara. Cat ears and a tail appeared (A/N I totally wish I could do that T.T) and he delicately made his way up to the window, one perfect jump at a time. I looked at Amu and saw her shaking her head. I turned my gaze away and watched as Ikuto knocked on the window impatiently. Rima opened it and exchanged a few words with him and he nodded. The window closed with a loud snap and Ikuto jumped down. The tail and ears vanished and he walked toward us looking amused. Ikuto turned to me and I had a bad feeling.
"She told me to ask you if your Nadeshiko side was kicking in and you wanted to play dolls," he chuckled. The small chuckle became a full laugh until he was on the ground laughing.
"That's not funny," Amu scolded.
"I need another tactic," I said glumly. Ikuto finally stopped laughing and pulled himself up off the ground. He still had an amused look in his eyes.
"But there's a bright side," he told me. I almost groaned.
"I think I don't want to know," I told him.
"Before I left, I saw her put it in a box that said 'Rima's treasures'. If it helps, the box was empty except for a picture of her and her parents smiling and laughing together and an autographed poster from this old comedian guy," Ikuto said quietly and I felt my heart beat increase. I looked at his face to make sure he wasn't teasing me and I saw he was being completely honest.
"Really?" Amu gasped. Ikuto nodded.
"The shrimp probably likes you and just wont admit it," he told me casually.
"I didn't know you were that deep," Amu said appreciatively.
"The shrimp kind of reminds me of you, Amu," Ikuto added. "She can't admit she likes Nagihiko, just like you can't admit you like me."
Amu's face turned bright red and she started yelling at the cat as he fell back into fits of laughter. I sighed. OK, so Rima put the toy away, but it wasn't helping me actually confess to her.
"Hey guys," Kukai yelled from across the street. He was walking with Utau somewhere and Amu stopped yelling so she could wave back. She was still glaring at Ikuto and her face was still red. The two crossed the street toward us and we moved away from Rima's house so we didn't look like a group of stalkers.
"Why were you guys crowded around that house?" Utau asked looking slightly curious.
"Nagihiko is in love with Rima and doesn't know how to confess," Amu said before Ikuto or I could interject.
"The girl-boy and the shrimp," Ikuto said thoughtfully. "How disturbing."
"You mean my plan didn't work?" Kukai asked.
"What did you do?" asked Utau wearily.
"I suggested sports," Kukai said casually and Utau groaned.
"Idiot! That's not what you do!" she shouted and Kukai winced.
"It seemed like a good idea at the time," he said in his defense. Utau sighed sadly. The blonde girl turned to me.
"You do the most romantic thing of all," she said.
"What's that?"
Utau stared at me.
"You don't know?" she asked incredulously.
"Um, no," I said feebly. Utau smiled dangerously, making Kukai, Ikuto and me all take a big step back. Amu however was completely enraptured.
"Then not only will I tell you, I'll teach you," she said. Suddenly I knew exactly what she was talking about.
"Oh no," I whispered. This wasn't going to end well.
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Me: Ta-da! Saicy told me that I should make Rima like Nagihiko and just pretend that she didn't, but since its Nagihiko's POV, that was all I could do. So that part went to Saicy...aren't you special XD
Ikuto: You made me seem so weak!
Me: You're so sensitive! All I made you do was puke!
Ikuto: …grr
Me: Be grateful I didn't make you dress up in a bunny suit!
Amu: WTF??
Me: Just wait my friend. Just wait.
Ikuto: -sneaks away-
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