Bip: …Why does it feel like the story's stuck at Christmas? I mean its summer already! (Almost)

Sanjo: You have yourself to blame.

Bip: … I know… So let me apologize…again. I'M SORRY!!

Sanjo: Do so until the end of this chapter, then.

Bip: o…ok? I'm sorry. I'm sorry…

Sanjo: Bip does not own Shugo Chara.

"Talking"

Thinking

"YELLING"

"Person saying something special or person thinking back to what another person said. You'll have to figure it out yourself :O"

Chapter 11: Christmas Part 2

-Amu's POV-

I sat there, pouting. Why doesn't he tell me? What, does he not trust me? I paused for a moment. Is that it? The moment I thought that, for some reason, my chest hurt.

At that moment, I heard voices in the hallway. Huh? Why are there people here? Today's a day off. I don't think that many people would accidentally leave stuff at school.

The voices grew louder and I realized one of them was really familiar.

"Yeah, sure, we can go tomorrow…" One of the voices said. The voices continued to grow louder as the kids walked closer to the doorway.

There were 2 girls and 2 boys. At first glance, there was nothing peculiar at them. Then I realized, one of the girls was the girl from the party, the one that vanished. And one of the boys…my eyes widened when I realized it. One of the boys looked exactly like Ikuto…except a little younger, a lot shorter, at the least. Its not every day you find boys with the same blue hair as Ikuto. Oh, wait… There's Yoru, too.

The other girl had long green-blue hair tied into two braids that reached to the middle of her back. She was smiling at Ikuto, something that kind of pissed me off. The other boy had dark brown hair and he looked similar to the green hair girl.

It was only until all four of them were completely in my view when I saw that everyone of them were see-through. My eyes widened and I screamed.

-Narrator's POV-

Chihana sat on a rooftop. She looked down at the city below her. Everyone was hard at work moving all the snow. She sighed. "This is starting to get annoying, controlling these figures." She said to herself. "If the four of them are starting to appear in a ghost like form, then those two's future is almost completely decided."

"For Cat-Boy's life to disappear, 3 new lives will have to be created." She grinned to herself. "There's no doubt about it, that cat-boy will die. And there's nothing the do gooder Eru or Pink-Hair can do about it."

She stopped looking at the streets below and looked up to the sky. "Controling other's lives is so much fun. It's the best part of being an angel."

-Amu's POV-

Ikuto rushed in to the room after the scream. "Amu! What happened?! Why'd you scream?!" He asked.

I was sitting on the chair trembling as I held on tightly to the back of the chair as if it would keep away any spirits. Ikuto began scanning the room. Seeing nothing changed, he turned his attention back to me.

"What happened?"

I whimpered. "G-G-G…"

"Uh…I don't know what "Guh Guh Guh means…"

"GHOSTS!" I screamed at him.

He stared at me as if I had 10 heads. "First of all, there's no such thing as ghosts."

"But, I saw them!"

"Ok, assuming you did see them, there's no reason to scream. I thought something really happened to you." He said with a sigh.

"I-I-I'm not lying! I mean, how do you know ghosts don't exist?"

"It's unscientific."

I glared at him. "I don't want to hear that from someone whose existence is unscientific." From the look on his face, I got him good.

"Ahem. Anyways, there's no one around, so I'm just going to guess your feet will be ok if you stay in a warm enough place."

"…Ok…" After that there was a long period of silence. I put my hands in my coat pocket and felt something there. Oh, that's right, I forgot. I should've left it at home. Oh, well, not like there's any harm. I took the item out and threw it to Ikuto.

"What's this?" He said holding up the package that I awkwardly wrapped. It was hard to wrap since I kept on shifting it by mistake.

"Early Christmas present." I mumbled.

"Sorry I can't hear you."

"Early Christmas present." I said a little louder than my normal tone of voice.

"I missed that."

"IT'S A CHRISTMAS PRESENT! DON'T PRETEND TO IGNORE ME!" I yelled and stood up. "Ow! Ow!" I sat back down quickly.

"Well, I just wanted to make sure." He said with a smirk.

Translation: He wanted to tease me.

"Can I open it now?"

"Sure, why not?" He hastily tore the wrapping open. Damn. After all that time I spent on that… He finished opening it and his surprised look surprised me. "Um…a scarf?"

"Yea, what of it?" I said, trying to sound cool. So?! Is it good or not? Do you like it?

"I was kind of expecting a bag of chocolate Taiyaki…" (A/N: Was that what it was called? The stuff Amu kept buying for Ikuto to eat in the manga/Anime) he said, with just a bit of disappointment in his voice, but it was enough for me to catch it.

"OH YEA? WELL IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT I'LL TAKE IT BACK!" I yelled at him, upset since he didn't like it that much.

"No, I'll keep it. It'll keep me warm, this scarf."

"That's what I had in mind when I bought it. Just so you know, sewing that cat on the edge of the scarf is not as easy as it looks."

"It certainly looks easy to me." He said as he examined the cat. I was about to retort when he said "Kiding…I'm just kidding. I love it."

"…" I was kind of surprised at that response and I can feel like I was blushing. "Um…Your…Your Welcome…" my voice trailed off.

It was Christmas day. One day after I gave Ikuto my present. That day, I woke up and the first thing smack in front of my face was a box…a gigantic box. W…What the heck is this thing doing on my BED?!" I turned to the other direction and noticed that Ikuto wasn't in his kitty bed. Huh. He must've gone out for a walk or something.

I got out of bed to get a better look at the other problem. How did a giant box get on my bed while I was sleeping and not have me notice? The box reached halfway up to my ceiling, when it's on my bed. It was just a cardboard box, though. There were no decorations so it couldn't have been Santa.

After staring at it pointlessly for 15 minutes, I proceed to pull the box down. The box landed with a thump on the floor, not a loud crash or anything but the way a heavy pillow of feathers would sound if it hit the floor. On the floor, the box went almost up to my waist and on the top it said 'Handle with Care' …too late for that.

It was easy to open the box (you just flip open the top). Inside, I just see over a million of peanuts. I wonder if its one of those tricks where the item is only 5cm and the rest are peanuts. I was wrong. I stuck my hand in, expecting to go all the way through the peanuts with out touching anything. Instead, my hand barely went in 5 inches when I felt something furry. I pulled it out a gigantic, adorable, teddy bear. "IT'S SO CUUUUTE!" I exclaimed and hugged it really tightly. I fell on my bed because of its weight, though. I loosened the grasp on the teddy and thought But who gave me this teddy anyways?

I put the teddy on the corner of my bed and went out to the stairway to get breakfast. I turned around and ran back to hug the teddy again. It was just too cute. Thirty minutes later, I finally had enough and went downstairs.

(A/N: If you want an image of the teddy bear, go to google images, type in cute teddy bear and choose the one you like best.)

"Merry Christmas, Mom, Dad, Ami!" I said in a slightly cheery voice.

"Well, you're happy today, Amu." My mom said.

"Of course, with a cute present like that!"

"Cute…present?"

"Yea, the giant bear."

"What giant bear?"

Huh? It wasn't from them?

For the rest of the day, I didn't get a chance to see Ikuto. I figured he just went on a longer walk than usual.

-Ikuto's POV-

"Thanks for helping me out, Eru." I said to the golden hair girl sitting in front of me. We were in a café.

"Nope! No problem!" she said and looked out the window with a long sigh.

"That doesn't even come close to the face of someone who has no problems." I said.

"Uh…I didn't say I don't have any problems." She said with a hint of sarcasm.

"You normally don't do stuff I ask you to."

"You normally don't ask me to help you."

"…Well, thanks for getting that bear, I'm surprised that you were able to find one identical to what I asked." I said, stirring the coffee in front of me. I had no intention of drinking it, though. Cats prefer milk.

"I'm surprised you were able to describe such a girly thing."

Man, what's biting her today?

She looked out the window again and murmured something under her breath. "…Chihana…ghosts of fill ins…"

"Who's Chihana?"

"What?" Eru was startled and paid attention that I was still there. "W…Where'd you hear that name?!"

"…You just said it. Don't play dumb."

Eru sighed again. "Don't mind it; you just keep on trying to win her love."

"Sure. Can't get her to forget Tadase, though."

"Did I sense bitterness in your tone?" Eru asked. "Never mind…Wait, Tadase? As in Hotori Tadase?"

"Yes, who else?"

"You're not worried about…"

"No I'm not worried about him."

"Right. Then you're worried because of Amu's ties to Tadase, right?"

"Sort of. I am not worried about Tadase." I said after seeing the look she gave me. "I wan to make sure that person is either dead or gone so that he never has to come back."

"Don't worry about that, he's serving his sentence."

"How long was his sentence?"

"I don't remember. I hope it's as long as possible. He didn't do too many good things, that person." Eru looked deep in thought. "Also, you don't have that much time left."

"You told me that already." I said as I took a sip of the coffee. I decided to try it in the end. "But what I don't get is…why don't I have enough time?"

"Well, of course, you have to go back to…" her voice trailed off as she realized what she just said. "Ah! Never mind what I said." She began putting on her coat and picking up her bag. "Sorry! I gotta go!"

"Huh? Hey wait, what did you mean before…" She was out the door. The moment she stepped through the frame, she disappeared. I'm starting to wonder if she's a witch of sorts…to appear and disappear at will.

But, she left me thinking. What would happen to me if I ran out of time?

Bip: …I'm sorry I'm sorry…

Sanjo: Ok, enough. My brain is starting to rot from hearing you repeat that. I hope you learned you lesson about last minute things. I mean this chapter was too short!

Bip: …yes…I understand. ;^;

Sanjo: and what else are you suppose to say.

Bip: I'm sorry…

Sanjo: Not that! Say something else.

Bip: Um…Thank you for putting up with me…I'm sorry ;^;

Sanjo: ok, good enough please review.

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