Goose: I'm updating again!

Dwarfy: And tell them why you're updating again.

Goose: Because I have nothing better to do with my life!

Dwarfy: You're an idiot.

Goose: You're just upset because nobody ever pays attention to you.

Dwarfy: I feel so unloved! I mean, they could at least mention me in a review or something!

Goose: Dwarfy... there have only been three reviews... I'm sure someday someone will actually acknowledge your existence.

Dwarfy: Ack-whata?

Goose: (sigh)... I don't own Shugo Chara!

Normal POV

He couldn't believe it. He really couldn't believe it. He, Souma Kukai, was going to her for advice. He didn't know how exactly he ended up here, but he did, and there was no changing the fact that he regretted it.

"It's love! Three love bars!" El cried out after hearing Kukai's story. Kukai stared at the little angel chara in both horror and amazement.

"No way! I-I think of her as a sister! Or a friend! But there's no way it's love!" he stammered, hoping she would believe him.

"Who?" Kukai turned and saw none other than Hoshina Utau standing in the doorway. Ever since their whole ramen-eating contest, Kukai and Utau had been in a friend-rival relationship, much like Utau's relationship with Amu.

"Who on earth can you not be in love with?" Utau demanded, glaring daggers at the boy, who began to fear for his safety.

"And what, may I ask, are you doing in my house?" Utau looked fit to kill. Of course, she wouldn't really kill him. She would just make him suffer on the brink of death for the rest of eternity. Being anime characters, they never died unless it was part of the story, so eternity really did mean eternity.

"Ikuto let me in," Kukai replied calmly, though on the inside he was cowering in a little corner of his heart.

He heard Utau mutter something like, "That idiotic cat, he's going to suffer for this..." Kukai knew he'd have to call the cat-boy later to make sure he was still alive.

"Anyway," Utau said, "Who were you talking about?" Kukai was amazed that the girl could switch topics so bluntly.

"Uh..." Kukai was about to lie, but knowing Utau, that would be a fatal descision. He wasn't nearly as close to Utau as Amu was, and she had to escape murder by Utau on a daily basis. Apparently, Utau still had a minor brother-obsession, and Amu being all chummy with Ikuto wasn't helping.

He decided to tell the truth to the demon girl. "I was talking about Fujisaki," he said bluntly. Utau stared at him like he had three heads.

"Isn't he a dude? I knew Tadase liked him, but I had no idea you did too," she said, causing Kukai to twitch. He had known about what the Ikuto fangirls called Tadase, but he never thought that the blond boy really was. Now that he thought about it, the Nagihiko fangirls called him that, too. And the Kukai fangirls. And maybe a few Kairi fangirls, as well.

"No, you're thinking of Fujisaki Nagihiko. I'm talking about Fujisaki Nadeshiko." he explained. Again, he got the 'you-have-three-heads' look. He was beginning to believe he really did have three heads.

"Aren't they the same-"

"They were," Kukai interrupted her. Utau looked at him, confused. "Ugh... how do I say this... Yaya was playing with nuclear chemicals and spilled them on him," he told her, "and now both Nagihiko and Nadeshiko are real."

Utau took a moment to take this all in before saying, "So you like Nadeshiko, not Nagihiko?" Kukai groaned, frustrated.

"I don't like Nadeshiko!" he yelled.

"So you like Nagihiko?!"

"No!"

"Then Nadeshiko!"

Kukai dug his nails into his palms to keep himself from making the fatal mistake of hitting the blond singer.

"For the last time, I DON'T LIKE HER. She's just a friend! I just feel overprotective because she's my best friend's sister! I want to protect her, because we both know a lot of guys will go for her!"

Utau smirked and said, "Why do guys like her so much?"

Now it was Kukai's turn to give the 'you-have-three-heads' stare. "Because of her pale, porcelain skin, and her big, shiny golden eyes, and her beautiful, flowing, violet hair and..." Kukai stopped, realizing what he had just done. Utau's smirk got even bigger.

"Sure sounds like love to me."

"El agrees desu!"

Kukai groaned again. These two were impossible. With their knowledge on love, going to Amu, the most indecisive girl on the planet, would have been easier. He sighed audibly and marched out the door, waving good-bye to Ikuto, who was too busy playing with a neon-pink ball of yarn to notice him leave. Kukai could have sworn he heard someone go 'nya' as he close the front door.

As he walked home, he thought about what El and Utau had said. Of course it wasn't love. He only thought of Nadeshiko as a little sister! That was it. That's all he felt for her. But... he thought, I don't think that way about Amu or Yaya.

He felt his cell phone vibrate in his pocket and took it out to see that he had one new message from Utau. He read it out loud:

Did Yaya really play with nuclear chemicals? Your friends are so messed up!

~Utau & El

P.S. It's love desu!

Kukai sighed. What if it was love? What would he do if he really was in love with Fujisaki Nadeshiko?

Goose: And this chapter is over. Yay.

Dwarfy: WHY DOES KUKAI LOVE NADESHIKO?! HE'S SUPPOSED TO LOVE ME!!

Goose: Calm down, Dwarfy. You know I don't like actual characterXOC pairings. Besides, I love Nagi (understatement of the century), and I write Rimahiko anyway.

Dwarfy: Meh.

Goose: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW!!! *puppy eyes*