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Chapter five--Humpty Lock?!

//Ikuto's PoV//

Muko noticed the closet and we darted inside, closing the door just as a younger girl came in, dressed in plaid pajamas of the pink nature, to match her hair obviously. She was about twelve or thirteen, with the same Hinamori Gold eyes, muddled with sleep. Her three charas floated around her head, the pink one still annoyingly hyper, the blue one nodding off slowly, the green one already unconscious, holding onto the blue one.

The girl rubbed her eye, the other glaring a her sister, because obviously, they were related. "Ne, Ame." She started gently, then resorted to slapping her older sibling on the shoulder hard, which made her shoot up with a gasp.

Muko stiffened beside me, and I felt his True Aroma shift. I rounded on him in the closet, eyes narrow. Uh-oh.

Muko's eyes were turning the shade of sick yellow that He normally obtained when Character changing with his chara, but this time, his ears and tail never showed.

The strange colored orbs never left the strawberry girl--because she smells like strawberry, and a bit of tangy after taste-- and was totally fixated on her.

"Amu…?"Ame began slowly, "how did I get here?"

Ame wrinkled her forehead. "What are you, high?" She asked, putting her hand on Ame's forehead like a worried mother. "Or drunk?" I resisted a chuckle.

"Ame! Finally, you're awake!" Her second chara wailed--sparing some major drama--a frowning drama mask on the headband she had holding back her green hair. Her blue eyes Were brimmed with tears, and filled me with this everlasting sadness (not sparing the drama). She hugged Ame tightly around the neck.

Ame rubbed her arm as she sat up. Mina, still sleeping on her chest, rolled to her lap, and was immediately awoken. "None of the above--"

"Amu? Ame? We're home!" I heard a deep, male voice call from somewhere else in the house. Footsteps up the stairs, then her door swung open. "Onee-chan!"

Ame was tackled by yet another younger sister, more around the three year old range. Her brown hair was pulled up into pig tails on the top sides of her head, and her golden Hinamori eyes were large and bright. "Onee-chan, Onee-chan! Work magic for Ami!"

Stiffly, holding Ami up with one arm, she put a finger to her pursed lips and whispered, "Shh. That's a secret, Ami. Maybe tomorrow."

A few moments later, her parents appeared in the doorway. She looked a lot like her mother, with the stature, slim, round hips, firm set jaw, defiant glow in her eyes. Her mom's hair pulled back into a ponytail at the height of her neck.

Her father though, she got her tallness from, her in your face attitude that was always obvious when she was on TV or live, and of course, her striking eyes. He was a big man, with spiked up brown hair, and a bit of a goatee. Pretty handsome, really.

"All three of the sparrows in one room, now that's rare. Much less your room, Ame." her mother eased, and weakly, Ame stuck her tongue out. She was trying her best to hid her rigidity.

"My room is my room. It should stay that way." She argued. "No uninvited visitors allowed." She gave Amu a look, then Ami. I feel a little bit of my conscience tug at me in the back of my mind, but I give it no heed.

"Alright, Ami, Amu, time to go to bed again. It's nine-thirty. You especially, Rockstar." her mom waggled her eyebrow knowingly, and Ame looked away.

"Alright Ami, go back to Mama." She said sternly, putting her three year old on the ground.

"But Onee-chan never did her magic!" She yawned cutely, and I felt my heart melt a little. She was adorable, for a three year old.

"Ami…"She warned. "I don't do magic at night. Especially not for sleepy children who won't be awake long enough to watch it." She lectured.

"Onee-chan!" She whined, but her mama scooped her up.

'Time for bed. Good-night, Ame, Amu." She walked out, and her husband wished them goodnight as well. Amu stayed, closing the door behind them and stared at her older sister as Ame tried to stand, her leg crumpling beneath her. "Ow."

"What'd you do this time?" her sister had not been fooled still. "I swear if you had to fight again--"

"Nothing like that, Amu." She snapped. "I don't need to fight to get rid of preppy blonde chicks. Just hand them a mirror." She joked, and I covered my mouth.((No offense to any blonde's out there--it's just that you're easy to pick on and are good entertainment))

"Then what?!"

They glared at each other for a moment, before Ame turned away. "Nothing that concerns you."

Frustrated, Amu let out a hissed sigh, "Ever since you couldn't sleep you've been the most anti-social sister ever." With a last venomous glare, she stormed out, slamming the door.

Using the bed to stand up again, and with a little bit more experimentation, she moved Mina to her shoulder and quieted her other, murmuring something like, "Karasu, start smiling please, I can't deal with your mood swing right now." Her voice quivered slightly.

I heard her hidden emotions screaming in her head, telling her to go make right with her younger sister Amu, to find out who she was. Was she a good sister? Nope, was her answer. Was she having trouble sleeping lately, and was it affecting her moods, Yes.

But…

Did she know who she was anymore?

With every step a wince, she stopped in front of her body length mirror, and looked at herself for a long time.

And that's when she smashed it.

\\Ame's PoV\\

The mirror blossomed into a spider web all across the frame, and I sank to my floor as a few of the shards fell to a Clt-Clltt. I stared at the ground, at my bloody hand, at the fragments of shiny glass in the knuckles.

"Ame!" Mina cried, flying from my shoulder unsteadily. "Why'd you--"

"I can't see myself anymore!" I shouted, turning away from her, tears falling silently. "What's the point of a mirror if you can't see yourself?"

"Ame…" Karasu mumbled, looking at me with her sad blue eyes. Her Mood Swing happened whenever I felt turmoil, and she switched back and forth between the Smiling Crow and the Frowning Crow.

"I don't know who I am. The moment I stopped my music, I got lost. I stopped sleeping, I stopped thinking on my own, I grew apart from my closest sister. I have no friends because they can't figure out the true me either, I get jumped by random old men, saved by teenagers who apparently had enough time on their hands to spare on me, and now I've busted my hand. My life's gone downhill."

Mina sighed, thinking.

"Is this okay? For me to be so confused? To not know the true me?" I asked no one in particular. "What do I do now?"

Mina growled slightly, and made me look at her. "Ame-chan! That's what we're here for! We're here for you when you get lost, when you go the wrong way! We bring out your true feelings, and give you the courage to speak your mind! So that's why you should--you should believe in us as your Guardian Characters!"

Her eyes were so red right now, I couldn't help but listen to her, but after a moment they abruptly turned yellow as she turned meek again, "well, um, what I mean is…" She looked for her words.

I felt different now. I felt…more complete than I was before. I was in tune with myself now, and could see what I had to do to get back on my welcome, beaten path. "I understand." I nodded.

Suddenly, my mirror exploded, or something, and I shielded Mina from the glass rain. Karasu ducked behind my shoulder, and I shut my eyes.

Slowly, with increasing hesitation, I slid open my eyes.

And sitting in this almost perfect pile of glass shards was a gold lock, and a cream egg. Even the glass in my hand was gone, the cuts sealed.

The lock was gold and heavy, with a four-leaf clover behind the keyhole, the petals raised up as white diamonds. The pattern was intricate around the leaves and across the bar on top.

The egg was cream, as I said a moment ago, with thorny, golden vines twining around it in a protective manor, white lotuses bleeding through and blooming despite their harsh brothers. I touched the egg gently, and saw that it was warm, and shimmering.

I picked up the lock and inspected it carefully, then my empty mirror frame. "My true self?" I whispered.

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Samaru- What did I tell you? Awesome, right? Ame has the Humpty Lock and a new chara! That was a touching scene between Ame and Mina. I still can't believe that Muko imprinted Amu. *giant gasp* Please R&R! Bye!!!