A/N: By reading this you are now obligated to review (jk)

Chapter 3: It'll be Okay

I sat fidgeting anxiously on the couch. The sun had gone down, but Ikuto and Ami weren't back yet. I was extremely worried, but I didn't want to admit to myself that something might be wrong.

"Ikuto has Yoru, he'll be all right." I told myself for the hundredth time. My Charas huddled around me, Miki looked especially worried. Yuri didn't look worried so much as she looked determined. It was the determination I felt deep inside to find Ikuto and Ami, to protect them.

There was a thud sound at the door, like someone collapsing. I jumped up out of shock pushing back my fear best I could. Then there came a lighter thud sound, like someone trying to knock on the door. After a long silence the doorbell rang. I ran to the door, pulling it open with too much force.

"I-Ikuto!?" he stood there, drenched. The first thing that caught my eye we the bright red blood on his leg. He was scratched up everywhere and he was covered in dirt as if he'd stopped to roll around in muddy grass. Weakly, he limped forward.

I caught him as he began to fall forward. There was something in his hand. It was an X egg! I grabbed his shoulders.

"Ikuto? Ikuto can you hear me?..." I brushed back his wet blue hair. His eyes were half closed and his breathing was shallow. "GODDAMMIT I'M NOT LOSING YOU AGAIN!" I cried desperately. He stirred a little. His eyes still half closed, he looked up at me, horrified.

"Amu... I'm sorry... I couldn't... I was too weak." he gripped my shirt, his shoulders shaking as if... as if he were crying, "Ami... I couldn't do anything."

"Ami?" I looked around, there a sign of her, "I-Ikuto... where's Ami?" I asked. He looked up at me. I gasped, unable to move, as I watch a couple tears roll down his cheek. Ikuto crying? No! Ikuto never cries! He can't cry!

"Amu... I—" he began, but passed out in my arms. I stood still as stone until my dad came thundering down the stairs and Mama came running in from the kitchen.

"My word! What's happened?" My mother cried.

"Ikuto-kun?" my father asked, surprised. They helped me lay him on the couch.

"Oh dear! He's injured!" Mama gasped, "Amu, what happened?"

"And where's Ami?" my father added. I shook my head.

"I'm sorry, I don't know. Ikuto passed out before he could tell me anything." passion and determination were pounding underneath my distressed exterior. Who ever did this will consider themselves lucky to simply rot in prison!

"We have to get him to a hospital." Papa murmured solemnly; mama just nodded, holding a handkerchief to her face as she tried not to cry. I knew she was thinking about Ami. I was too.

The heart monitor beeped. I took a slow breath. Normally I'd find the regular beeping annoying, but right now it meant my love was still alive. I held his hand and stared at his face as he lay on the hospital bed unconscious. He still gripped that X egg as if for dear life.

"Miki," I whispered, "that's Yoru isn't it?" Miki looked over at me, tears welling in her little blue eyes.

"Yes. I can sense his energy coming from the egg." her voice shook. Comfortingly and put my free hand on her head.

"It'll be okay. Yoru's a fighter. Ikuto is too. Don't worry Miki. It'll be okay" I kept saying that because I was trying to hard to convince myself that.

The heart monitor started beeping quicker, not so dangerously slow. Ikuto's brow furrowed and he frowned. My heart almost jumped out of my chest. I moved closer to him.

"Ikuto?" I asked, wondering if he could hear me. Suddenly I was looking into his deep blue eyes. Without thinking I pressed myself against him, wrapping my arms around his neck. "Ikuto! I was so worried!"

"Perverted kid! Were you watching me this whole time?" he questioned. I hurried to defend myself, but my voice came out cracked and mournful.

"But —I thought I'd finally lost you," I cried, literally.

I felt his hand move up and pat me on the back, "Stupid, I've been hurt worse than this."

"B-but this time something so bad happened that Yoru became an X egg!" I wailed, jumping off of him as my blood began to boil. STOP BEING STUPID AND MAKING ME WORRY LIKE THAT IKUTO!

He stared up at the ceiling with a hollow look in his eye, "That's right... Yoru..." he muttered. He suddenly gasped and jumped out of the hospital bed, "AMI!" he yelled. He moved as if he was going to try and leave the room. Quickly I grabbed his arm and made him look at me.

"Ikuto! Ami's not here! Now explain what in hell happened!" I barked at him, pushing him back on his bed.

"A-Amu..."

Ikuto's POV

"A-Amu..." I looked away. I couldn't bare thinking of the kind of look she'd give me once I told her. She already had such a heart breaking expression of worry on her beautiful face. How could I hurt someone like that? "It was Hollow's Eve. They took her."

Silence.

That was the scariest thing in the world for me. It was scarier than Yoru being an X egg. It was even scarier than the thought of Amu breaking up with me.

"I-I tried to help, but they shot me... with, r-remember those X Lasers?"

Silence.

I couldn't bare it anymore. I turned to her yelling, "I tried to help her! I really did!" the glimpse of her face. It wasn't full of hate like it should've been. She just looked ready to break into a thousand faces. I looked down, ashamed, and lowered my voice, "I tried to protect her."

The sound of a chair moving across a titled floor.

Amu was leaving. I wanted to look up at her. I wanted to call her back to me. I wanted to hold her close to me and tell her it would be okay, and that I would stop at nothing to find Ami again, but I didn't think my heard could take it, so I stood still.

To my surprise I felt her wrapping her arms around my neck. Out of shock I tried to move away.

"A-Amu!? What are you doing?" I demanded. But then I saw her face. She was crying! How many times had I made this girl cry? Too many times that was for sure. I pulled her up onto the hospital bed with me, hugging her close.

"I- Ikuto-koi," she sobbed,

"Yes, Amu-koi?" I hesitantly added the "koi". Surely she felt hate for me right now? I was the man who had been unable to save her wonderful baby sister. Sure Amu found Ami annoying sometimes, but really the two loved each other a lot.

"S-stop being stupid! I know what you wanted to say. You were going to sop at nothing to find Ami for me right? That's how you get even more hurt!" she paused for a moment, to steady her voice and then she looked up into my eyes. I stared into her wet golden eyes, my heart aching as if it'd become empty. "We have to work together!"

I patted her silky pink hair and whispered with all my love pouring into this promise, "Yes. It'll be okay."

Author: *sigh Ikuto got hurt again!

Tadase: Not very original, Emily

Author: *hits Tadase over the head * IN A/N'S YOU REFER TO ME AS AUTHOR!

Amu: aw, but Emily!

Author: *smiles sweetly * oh well every except tadase doesn't have to.

Tadase: Racist!

Author: *sweat drop * how is that racist? what are you saying I'm racist again gay blonde really short red eyed anime guys who wear plaid blue capes and transform into really frilly princes!?

Tadase: PRINCE!? I am not a prince! I AM A KING! HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Ikuto: T_T there he goes again! Rima-chan get the bucket.

Author: I don't own shugo chara, and now that you've read this you must review BWAHAHAHAHA!