Enjoy the chapter. I don't own TMM (in case you forgot. :P) But I do own Ayame, and I guess I kinda half own Kenji. *Hugs angel Kenji* Awww. :) Kenji- ....

Zakuro followed Shirogane as he walked a few feet down the hallway. Once he stopped she leaned against the wall and looked at him. By now her heart was beating so loud, he could probably hear it. Shirogane looked at Zakuro, "so your friend knows your a Mew?"

Zakuro was silent, she had no idea what he was going to say but this definitely wasn't what she expected. "How did you know?" Shirogane gave a small smile, "I was outside taking out the garbage and I heard her muttering Ms. Wolfie before you knocked. It doesn't matter that much though, she seems like she can keep a secret."

Zakuro was relieved that he wasn't mad at her. Shirogane was now scarcely a foot away from her. Her sparkling purple eyes met the gaze of his light blue ones. For a minute neither of them spoke or made any movement. Zakuro's felt herself locked in his gaze, for some reason his eyes were calming her down a lot. In fact in her opinion a little too much. The guard she made sure she put up around people, to ensure she wouldn't get hurt, was starting the slip away.

The guard against others was important, no one not even Ayame fully understood how important. As a girl Zakuro had been abused by her parents until she was 5 and was taken to a foster home. Her new foster parents were some of the kindest people she could have wished for but after experiencing how much pain can hurt she still kept her guard up around them. To feel her guard slipping away from her, made her begin to panic.

Just as it was almost completely gone he broke off their eye contact. Zakuro was glad for the wall behind her supporting her, because she wasn't sure if she would be able to stand on her own at the moment. Shirogane leaned closer and whispered in her ear, "you don't have to be so careful and on guard around everyone all the time. Pain hurts, but it also helps us know that we're humans with emotions."

He turned and walked back into the kitchen to help Akasaka. Zakuro was left speechless. Finally regaining her senses she walked back to the room everyone was in. As soon as she walked in she turned to walk right back out, but Pudding grabbed her.

Standing on two couches pushed together, Ayame and Ichigo were doing karoke......to one of Zakuro's own songs..... in some of the most horrible voices they could manage to make. Ayame looked at Zakuro and giggled and Ichigo giggled too. Zakuro was wondereing what the heck their problem was when Pudding explained. "They had a pop drinking contest and after that a cookie contest."

That explained it, they both probably had over a week's worth of sugar in them. Ayame was very frightening to be around when she got hyper, and Zakuro groaned. Lettuce shut the door to try and help keep the noise less loud for the others, not that it helped much since Ichigo clumsily made her way to the karoke machine to turn it louder.

Looking around Zakuro saw that she wasn't the only one afraid by now. From the looks on everyone's faces they could tell they were going to have a long night in ahead of them.

12:50 A.M (the sleepover started at 7 so this has been going on for a while now.)

The noise had been too much for the boys in the next room so they had retreated to a different room upstairs to sleep. Now the girls were left completely helpless to deal with Ichigo and Ayame's craziness. The sugar had still not worn off and they were driving everyone else crazy, even the normally hyper Pudding. (Just imagine all the suffereing everyone else is going through.)

Everyone upstairs was asleep but it was clear that sleep for the girls still wouldn't happen for quite a long time.

Instead of getting better, every second that went by seemed to make the 2 girls act even worse. They were causing trouble with everything they did. The karoke machine had been unplugged for a long time now but that made no difference, they found other ways to entertain themselves, even the TV had to be turned off and the remote hidden.

A little while earlier they had faked being normal again only to convince Mint to let them brush her hair, instead they had sneakily loaded the brushes with yellow hair dye. Moe had been the first to notice and point it out. As soon as their scheme was revealed Ichigo and Ayame had stopped acting normal and started giggling again.

Mint had been barely able to contain her anger, Zakuro and heped her got to the bathrrom to wash it out. When they came back out they saw Lettuce coming out of the kitchen. When they asked what she was doing she replied, "Hiding all the food with sugar."

After many other disasterous things the sugar began to wear off and the 2 girls were left exhausted and promptly feel asleep. Much to everyone's relief they weren't faking and finally everyone was able to get some sleep. (not very much sleep since it was already 4:25 A.M.)

At 7:00 Ichigo and Ayame had decided that it was time for eveyone to wake up. After deciding how to wake them up they grabbed popcorn and decided to throw it at everyone until they woke up. Annoyed the other girls got up since they knew sleep was no longer an option.

Zakuro was eager to go back home, since Ayame and Ichigo being together wasn't a good combination. Ayame however had no intentions of leaving.

Zakuro told the others she was going home then and would pick Ayame up whenever she wanted to come back to her house. Zakuro started her drive home trying not to yawn too much. Even thought the girls had been annoying the night was still very funny, no serious harm had been done either. Even Mint's hair had been fixed to how it orginally was.

Zakuro was so occupied with her thoughts that she didn't realize that she hadn't needed her key to get in her house, the door had already been unlocked. Zakuro set her bags on the table when the warning bells finally rang in her head. The door shut loudly behind her, and she heard footsteps.

Her breathing quickened and she was about to run when an arm grabbed her around her waist and pulled her against the person. Then the person pressed a sharpened knife blade against her throat.

Hmmm.. the romantic moment didn't turn out how it was orginally planned, it wasn't very romantic sorry. The story will probably be about 2 more chapters. Who is the mysterious person withe the knife? You'll have to wait and see. Reviews and people adding the story to their favorites make me update it more. :)