It was about four o'clock in the morning when I heard rustling noises. I opened my eyes gradually to see that Uma was on the other side of the bed wearing some of my old pajamas, shivering. I didn't know if she was concious or not but she had a hurt look on her face.
"I-Ikuto." she mumbled. I smiled at her. Then I itched closer to her and embraced her from behind. Her shivering slowly died down.
"I'm always here for you, Uma." I said softly as a ran my hand along her hair peacefully. Then I stared at the small versions of the Humpty Lock and Dumpty Key around her neck. I touched the mini Dumpty Key and when I did it started to glow a little. I pulled it back and the glowing died down. How was she able to posses this power?
"Uma..." I said softly in wonder.
Amu's P.O.V
"Where's Ikuto? He was supposed to be here with Uma an hour ago." I said in frustrastion to the Guardians and Kukai who decided to tag along. For some reason I was very happy about that.
"Knowing Ikuto, he's going to show up when he wants to." Tadase said smiling. I smiled back but then got annoyed again. I guess it was obvious.
"Are you okay, Amu?" Kukai asked coming behind me and putting his chin on my shoulders. At one point I felt like I was in a different world, but then when Ikuto and Uma came, I was brought back to Earth.
"I-I'm fine." I answered back as I ran towards Ikuto.
"Where have you been Ikuto?" I yelled. He shrugged his shoulders at me.
"I'm a heavy sleeper what can I say." he answered back. Uma rolled her eyes.
"Please tell me you asked your parents if I could stay at your place so I could get away from him." she said, almost as if she was begging. I giggled and nodded.
"So that's why our present to you today is...CLOTHES." I said expecting attention. She looked at the clothes she's been wearing for a while and shrugged.
"Kay." she answered simply and put her hands in her pocket. A dark aura appeared around me since I thought she would have a different reaction.
"Well, I think I should go." Ikuto said simply. A look of uncertainty appeared over Uma's face.
"I-Ikuto," she said catching him before he jumped off with Yoru, "Stay...please?" then suddenly, for the first time I saw a look of regret in Ikuto's face.
"Fine." he said simply. Uma suddenly smiled and laughed a little.
"So," Tadase said, "Today we're gunna go shopping, but mainly for Uma-chan. So now we're gunna split up in groups and meet back up later, kay?"
"I call Amu-chan." Kukai very smoothly as he put an arm around me. I blushed.
"I'll go with Tadase!" Yaya exclaimed.
"I'll go with Rima." Nagi said smiling as Rima looked down.
"Great, so now I have to go with him?" Uma mumbled as she looked up to Ikuto. I laughed a little bit.
"Uma, bring all the clothes you want and we'll buy them for you, kay?" Yaya said.
"But PLEASE don't go overboard." Rima added.
As we went our seperate ways, Kukai slipped his hands into mine.
"Just so we don't break apart." he said.
"Okay." I agreed, looking down.
"Lovestruck!." Ran, Su, Miki, Dia, and Daichi said together.
Nagihiko's P.O.V
As I started walking with Rima, I couldn't deny that I had feeling with her that I couldn't explain. Although it still pained me that she said that she gets along better with Nadeshiko than me. And even when she said I just like to crossdress. Tears came to my eyes but I wiped them away quickly. She must've caught me.
"Nagihiko, we're going to talk later, aren't we?" she said. It wasn't a question, it was a demand. I nodded in agreement.
Ikuto's P.O.V
"Why did you want me to stay?" I asked curiously. She played with her a little before she answered.
"Ikuto...lets go to that store!" she said as she dragged me to a store in the mall.
"Matthew, I need your help." she said. She took out a pink short sleeve top, with a poofy black skirt and added knew high boots to it.
"Does this outfit look good?" she asked. I rolled my eyes.
"Good, although I tould prefer a red top." Matthew said.
"Okay, I'm gunna go try it on with one." she said as she went in the dressing room. I sat down in one of the chairs that they had in there.
"Ha, Ikuto's rep is going lower and lower-nya." Yoru joked. I pushed his head away.
"Whatever. She's just lucky I have a decent heart." I said waiting for her to come out.
"So Ikuto, how do I look?" she asked. She came out with the outfit. She added fingerless gloves, a spiked choker and to spiked bracelets to it. She looked beautiful.
"Fine." I said, looking away.
"You're such an ignorant boy Ikuto." she said throwing the outfit at me as she tried on one after another. She finally decided to but about three different outfits from that store, and dragged me out.
"I think Ikuto isn't used to being bossed around like a child." I heard Scott say. I smiled, because he was right. I wasn't used to it at all. But when Uma bossed me around it just seemed so adorable.
Amu's P.O.V
We already bought about four outfits for Uma. I mainly picked out the styles while Kukai just watched. At our current stop, I was working on finding gowns for Uma since we were gradutaing soon and I was hoping she would be able to go along with Ikuto. Kukai was just sitting there watching me again while our Shugo Charas looked at doll clothes for themselves.
"You know, when you ever get a girlfriend, or IF you get a girlfriend you're gunna have to buy stuff with her." I said to him. He smirked.
"I know, that's why I'm watching you Amu-chan." he said as he came closer to me and looked at the gown I was choosing for her. It was a sleek black gown that was shapped like a heart at the top and at the bottom it was puffed out by mesh.
"By the way, this dress is beautiful." he whispered in my ear, which sent shivers down my back.
"Shouldn't we get her a phone?" Kukai asked. I haven't really thought about it.
"I'll text Tadase and ask him to buy it." I said as I already flipped up my phone. He messed up my hair.
"You're very funny Amu-chan." he said. I smiled.
Uma's P.O.V
As I was dragging Ikuto around I saw people gathered around. I wondered what it was.
"Come on Ikuto." I said as I pulled him toward the crowd. When we got a better view, I saw that people were doing street performances. Different people were playing different kinds of instruments. It was like a whole symphony. But then something told me it wasn't like that at the same time. You heard great sounds coming from the instruments, but not from deep down.
"Why are these people clapping?" I asked Ikuto.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"Don't you hear? This people are playing their instruments." I said trying to point it out. He looked at me confused.
"They're not playing with their heart." I said softly. He listened even more.
"You're supposed to listen with your heart not your ears." I said as I flicked one of them. He rubbed it and glared at me.
"Are you forgetting that character change is a cat? My ears are sensitive!" he said deffiantly.
"See, I knew you wouldn't understand. You don't know what real music." I said getting mad.
"Eh? Ikuto knows more music than you, he plays the violin and-" Yoru said before Ikuto covered his mouth. I wouldn't back down.
"I don't think you ever used a violin as your power or your strength, you just used it for sadness." I said remembering what his heart told me. He was taken back by this because he knew I was right.
"Uma I-" he started.
"X Eggs," I said, "I sense a bunch of X Eggs from those people, they think that the sounds of their instruments sound horrible and that they're missing something." I said.
"It's still not good enough." I heard a person say.
"That's not a good tune." another said.
"This isn't working out."
Then suddenly X Eggs started to come out of them one by one. I don't know how but somehow when I needed to get the others as soon as possible, I managed to sense Amu's thoughts.
"Amu?" I said into her thoughts.
"Uma? What are you doing in my head?" she asked.
"No time, there's X Eggs here and we need help." I said.
"I'm on my way." she said back. As I got back into reality, I knew I had to do something.
"Come on Ikuto." I said. He glared at me, and was about to do Character Transformation, but then I stopped him.
"No, I feel a higher power level forming up within you, but you're not letting it out. Trust yourself. And stop being ignorant because I was telling you the truth." I said as I smiled at him. His eyes widened, and he nodded his head.
"Uma." Matthew said. And I knew what he wanted to do. I nodded.
"My Heart: Unlock." Soon I transformed. I had on a snaback hat on backwards with my bangs sticking out the little space in the front with a huge blue spade on it, with a long sleeve blue shirt and a dark blue jumpsuitover it, with the pants legs stopping above my knees. On top of it all, I had a white smock on. And for shoes I had brown heavy duty boots.
"Chara Transformation: Miracle Spade!" I exclaimed. And as I finished the others finally made it over.
"Miracle Spade?..." I heard Amu mumble.
"Horrible music." the X Eggs said in unison. I knew they thought their music was horrible. Then they said it even louder and sent horrible sounds of music toward me. A big old fashioned ben appeared in my hand, so I spun it around to deflect the attack.
"Beautiful Ink." I said as I sent colorful ink towards them. It worked as it slowed them down.
"Alright Uma-chi!" Yaya cheered.
"Now huddle them for me." Amu said.
"Okay." I said. An object started to form before my eyes. When it finished I realized it was a blue violin. Ikuto looked at the object as I took it in my hand.
"Ikuto," I said, "Make music with me."
"B-But-"
"Trust me." I said. He smiled, as to show that he did. And then he suddenly charcater transformed with Yoru becoming Black Lynx, a bergandy voilin appearing beofre him. He took it in his hand shocked.
"A-A power up?" he mumbled. I nodded and smiled.
"Bright Symphony." We said as we both played beautiful music from our violins. No. From our hearts. The sounds of beautiful music clustered them all together.
"Alright." Amu said as she transformed into Amulet Spade.
"Let's do it." she said as she smiled at me. I nodded.
"Negative Heart: Lock On!" we both said. I made a X on my chest with my arms as if to make a promise. Then Amu made a heart.
"Promise Heart." I exclaimed.
"Open Heart." Amu exclaimed. Then blue X's and hearts cleansed the Eggs. When everyone got back to normal, me and Amu walked into the center of attention.
"May I get your attention please?" Amu asked trying to get them to calm down.
"Maybe we should character change." Dia said.
"Yea." Derrick agreed. We did as they said and charcter changed. Yellow diamond barettes appearing in Amu's hair and a yellow diamond appearing on both sides of my headband.
"May I get your attention please?" Amu asked again, this time sparkling. The crowd all looked at us.
"Some of you who are performing today have played wonderful music with your instruments." she said.
"But you guys haven't been playing well with your hearts." I said.
"See your music sounds good, but I can tell that all of you thought your music was missing something." Amu said.
"And that something was your soul."
"Anytime you do something, you do it to the fullest." Amu said as I walked to one of the performers with a trumpet.
"Now play it, with all the happiness that you have in your heart." I said.
"Okay." the guy said. And when he played it, a beautiful sound came forth.
"Now that's what we're talking about." I said, pleased with the sound. Later, the Guardians gave me all the gifts they got for me, including a cell phone.
"Arigato." I said to each of them. Then I wanted to say goodbye to Ikuto before he left off.
"Arigato, Ikuto." I said to him.
"For what? You helped me." he said as he smiled.
"For caring for me. I really appreciate it."
"No problem." he said as he winked and hopped off.
"Come on Uma." Amu called as she started walking off.
"Kay."
Nagihiko's P.O.V
As I started walking home Rime stopped me.
"Tell me what's wrong." she said. I wasn't able to turn and face her or else I would cry again.
"Why do you hate me?" I asked her holding back from crying.
"W-What do you mean?" she asked confused.
"When I first met you, you didn't enjoy my presence and you still don't. You say that you get along with Nadeshiko more than me. You call me a crossdresser even when you know the situation I'm in." I said tears coming to my eyes again. I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it without crying and that wouldn't make it any better.
"Nagihiko the reason I-" she started, but I ran off, never wanting to face her again.
"Nagi..." I heard Rhythm say sadly.
Darren's P.O.V
"The Second testing result is the same as yesterday. I don't think it could even go any higher." Seth said.
"Agreed she's very powerful." Tari said.
"The more tests the better." I said shrugging proudly.
Uma's P.O.V
I lyed in the guess room of Amu's house which was right across from her room. It was very plain. A little white couch on one side, my white bed on the other which was next to a window and there was another window across the room. I touched my necklace with the Humpty Lock and Dumpty Key.
Flashback
"Uma, this is very inmportant to you. We don't know how it was created like this for you though. I have the Humpty Lock while Ikuto has the Dumpty Key. When they're combined, any miracle could happen. But it only does it when it's ready and when you've found what you need. Got it? This also helps you Character Transformations. So keep it with you at all times." Amu said as we were walking to her house.
"Okay." I agreed.
End Flashback
I tried to go to sleep but I couldn't. I don't know why. I usually fell asleep easily...with Ikuto.
"Ikuto, I admit I can't sleep knowing you're not there..." I said hoping no one heard me, but someone did.
"Then you should've just said that." I turned to see Ikuto smiling at me on the edge of the window.
"I-Ikuto, what are you doing here, you could get arrested." I said.
"It's for a good cause. A little girl needs someone to sleep with." he said. When he said it like that, I blushed.
"When you say it that way you sound so perverted." I said as I closed my eyes. He climbed in the bed and itched next to me. I decided to be nice. I moved his hair from the ear that I flicked, and leaned in and kissed it. After I did, he touched the spot that I kissed softly.
"So you're apologizing to me," he asked smiling, "Well this is how I'll say, it's okay." He removed my hair behind my ear and began to nibble on it. I didn't know if I felt good or bad.
"Ikuto stop it." I said, trying to push him off. He finally did, and I turned away from him. Then he embraced me from behind.
"Goodnight, Tsukiyomi Uma. One day you know I'll be able to say that and it will be true." he said. I blushed.
"S-Shut up." I said.
"It's true though, you know you want it to happen." he teased.
"You can't tell what I'm thinking." I said. Then he began to rub his face against my neck and took a deep breath. Then he suddenly charcter changed.
"To tell you the truth, I can't sleep without smelling your beautiful scent. I got so used to it." He said as his tail rapped around me. Then his heart started telling me that his love is growing stronger. Who do you love Ikuto? I thought.
A/N: How is it goin? Like Ikuma? R&R