Chapter Four: Rhythm, I thought you were nice!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!!"
The world came to life that morning with a scream.
Miki had gotten up at 4:30 that morning to finish her painting, but when she got there, all that was left was a few scraps of canvas. Miki started to cry as she flew home, thinking about how hard she worked on the painting.
The same morning, at Ikuto's refuge in a small alley, sat Yoru, snickering at what he did. "I will not hand Miki over to Kiseki or Rhythm…" he chuckled, "and I will make sure that happens-nya…" (OMG I'm making Yoru so evil.)
"Miki-nya."
Miki turned and there stood Yoru, holding a whitish blue beanie.
"Yoru? Why are you holding Rhythm's beanie?" Miki questioned.
Yoru started his act.
"You know that your painting was ruined, right? Amu told Ikuto and Ikuto told me. Well, this morning I was the first one at school so I went to check-nya. I found…this there."
Miki's eyes grew as wide as a ping-pong ball. At that time, Rhythm was strolling past the two and Miki, using her special hawk eyes of rage and sadness, spotted him.
"RHYTHM YOU JERK! GET OVER HERE!!!" Miki yelled.
As soon as Rhythm saw Miki's tears, he came over and hugged her. "Don't cry, Miki!" Miki shoved him away. Furious, Miki screamed, "Why did you ruin my painting? I worked so hard on it just for you!!!"
Miki slapped Rhythm---hard---and stalked off sobbing. Yoru followed her but gave Rhythm an Ikuto-style smirk before leaving.
Yoru and Miki sat in identical chairs in the studio. Miki's eyes were red and swollen.
"It's ok, Miki-nya." Yoru comforted her. "Yoru…" Miki looked at him.
Just then, Yoru leaned over and (here it comes!) kissed Miki.
5 seconds later, Yoru broke away and Miki stared at him in awe. A small thump was heard at the doorway.
Rhythm was standing there, a bag full of art materials on the ground next to him.
"Oh, I guess you won't be needing this then, if you're so happy you can kiss Yoru."
Rhythm dashed out of the studio and jumped out of the window parallel to the room.
Yoru was smirking. Miki was horrified. Kiseki, who saw the entire thing, punched his fist in the air but got mad later because it wasn't him that kissed Miki.
Over the next few days, Miki tried to patch things up with Rhythm, but he avoided contact with her.
One day, Miki came up to Rhythm and said, "I really need to talk to you, Rhythm…"
Rhythm, seeing that Miki was really depressed, agreed.
Rhythm was led by Miki to her room in the Shugo Chara Doll House. They sat on Miki's bed in awkward silence. "What did you want to talk about? If there's nothing, I have an important basketball match coming up so…" Rhythm stood up, but Miki tugged on his shirt. Just then, Miki pulled him and they fell on the floor. Rhythm and Miki were kissing as Kiseki flew past. (Man, Kiseki just comes at the perfect times, doesn't he?)
Rhythm broke off the kiss and looked at Kiseki. "Guess you can't win, huh, Kiseki?" Kiseki blushed and stalked off. "Rhythm…" Miki started to say, but Rhythm left without saying another word.