Goose: I'm back! Yay!
Dwarfy: Does anybody even read this?
Goose: Dunno. READ THIS STORY, DANG IT!
Dwarfy: Somebody's bipolar.
Goose: Why are you here, anyway?
Dwarfy: I need to make sure this is an actual chapter and not the randomness you tried to write.
Goose: Phooey.
Pepe: Goosie-tan does not own Shugo Chara! ~dechu
Normal POV
Nagihiko sneaked through the front door of his traditional Japanese home with Nadeshiko in tow. He was hoping, no, praying, that neither his mother or Baaya would notice him. If he could just make it safely to his room, he should be fine. He turned down the hall and was about to step into his room when...
"Nagihiko!"
Nagihiko froze, fear flooding his heart (A/N: Say that three times fast!). Slowly, he turned and found himself looking into the light hazel eyes of his suspicious mother.
"Uh... I can explain...?" he stammered, praying that she wouldn't ask how on earth he suddenly had a female clone of himself standing behind him.
"How on earth do you have a clone of yourself standing behind you?"
Dang it! Now he knew where he got his mind-reading powers from. "Uh... well..." he began.
His mother's eyes suddenly lit up. Oh, crap... Nagihiko thought, she's about to go into overactive-imagination-fangirl-mode...
"I know, I know! This is your daughter from the future! I always did think you and Rima-chan looked so cute together!" Well, it wasn't as bad as that time when his mother "talked" to Nadeshiko about having a sleepover with Amu (A/N: Oh yeahs! Episode 9!).
"No, she's not from the future, she's from this time period," Nagihiko explained slowly to his still fangirly mother.
She then proceeded to pinch Nadeshiko's cheeks. "But... she's real! She's not a hologram or anything!" Nagihiko stared as his mother dragged Nadeshiko into the bathroom. Several moments later, she came back out with a very, very angry Nadeshiko and said, "She's a girl, too!"
Nagihiko mentally face-palmed himself. "Mom, can I explain now?" he asked, rather angrily. His mother looked at him. "Why, of course, Nagi dear."
"Uh... my friends were playing with nuclear chemicals and they spilled them on me and..."
"It was Yaya-chan, wasn't it?"
"Yeah... anyway, uh... I guess now you could say Nadeshiko is real..." he looked at his mother, hoping she wouldn't think he was a total freak. Well, he thought, it's hard not to be called a freak when you have little chibi people hovering over your shoulder all the time.
His mother slapped herself. "M-Mom?!" Nagihiko stammered. "What's gotten into you?!" he said as he grabbed her wrist to prevent her from slapping herself again. She used her other hand.
"It's not true. I'm dreaming. It's not real."
This is going to be harder than I thought... Nagihiko sighed to himself.
Suddenly, Baaya came along and saw Nadeshiko. "How on earth do you have a clone of yourself standing behind you?"
Nagihiko sent an apologetic look towards Nadeshiko, who looked like she was about to kill somebody, and then started to explain to Baaya the situation. She had the same reaction as his mother.
After much more cheek-pinching, Nadeshiko-checking, and face-slapping, Nagihiko finally had the two women calmed down. He looked at them both suspiciously, and when he was convinced they were done freaking out, he said slowly, "You aren't dreaming. This is real. Nadeshiko is real. Everything that has just happened is real."
His mother and Baaya stared at him, then at Nadeshiko, and back to him. "Why didn't you say so?" They said in unison.
Maybe he would help Nadeshiko kill somebody.
Meanwhile...
Kukai was confused. Ever since Nadeshiko came around, he had this... feeling... in his chest. He didn't know what it was, but he hadn't felt like this since before he found out Nadeshiko was Nagihiko.
Why do I feel like this? He thought, And why is is only for Nadeshiko? Do I feel protective, because she's Fujisaki's sister? Is it because all the Guardians look up to me like a brother?
Whatever it was, Kukai was determined to figure it out. And to do that, he'd have to ask...
Goose: Woot! I'd say this is the best chapter so far.
Dwarfy: That was actually... okay.
Goose: What do you mean okay?!
Dwarfy: …
Goose: Anyway... there was very minor Rimahiko in this...
Dwarfy: If you can guess who Kukai's gonna go to, you get a free virtual pickle!
Goose: What the heck, Dwarfy? The script says pie, not pickle.
Dwarfy: ...oops...
Goose: When you say you fail at reading, you mean it.
Dwarfy: Shut up! And REVIEW. Or we'll get the comb... (check Goose-chan's profile for info on the comb.)