Ichigo stood next to me while I stared at the closed door; "it'll be ok Zakuro-chan," she said patting my back, "your mommy is very powerful and will come out of the spell soon."

My left fist, holding onto my pendant, was getting tighter by the thought of 'a very powerful witch' – I knew it too but I didn't want to face the fact that she might be dead. Father put up a barrier around her room when he found her lying on the ground, her clothes ripped from the fire blast, her hair unruly with soot, and her soft face motionless from using so much magic.

"I hope so Ichigo," I finally said after a while I looked at her, "otherwise I'll just give the crown to you while I rule the Underworld where I feel better there."

"Why would you do that Zakuro-sama?"

It was Haruhi with a gentle voice, "why do you want to live in the Underworld? Isn't it the place where your father was from? Or is there some other reason for wanting to leave?"

I looked back to my mother's room trying to figure out why I wanted to give Le Royaume to Ichigo while I took over the Underworld where using my magic was safe. I shook my head knowing the real reason why I wanted to leave was because of him. Ever since that night that was the only thing I wanted most in this or any other world. Becoming a Candidate was only getting in the way, but the thing I admire most about him is that I kept moving away from my father to get closer to him, but of all the places to hide in the human world why did it have to be there?

"The Underworld is the place where everything about it is the opposite of the Magical World. The Underworld is the same way how humans describe it in their minds, dark and depressing. Because my power is made up of Noir, the darkness, it doesn't hurt me there. Being here is fun yeah, but it annoys me and makes me weak." I told them that, even without looking at them, then lifted up my right index finger to the door, and used my left hand to call out my white hearts from my pendant.

"La Fleur Spirale," I said as the white hearts went through the door, "fill my mother's room with roses!"

I stopped after a bit thinking that was more than enough roses in her room, "now to see if father comes out with roses in his hair," I said smirking just a bit. Sure enough father opened and closed the doors behind him fast as red and pink rose petals fell off of his hair while he walked towards me with a mad look to his face. I smiled seeing him so mad but looking so silly doing so. He was trailing a few petals along the way as he got closer and closer to me until he took a hold of my shoulders and held me close. Just close enough to hear the beating of his heart.

"You remembered," he said in the wind, "I didn't think you would remember. It's been a while since I said anything in the first place but you remembered."

He smelled like roses too, "I'm going to find some Ice Berries later after the party if you want to join me," I said trying to make him ease up from me. "No," he said letting go, "I'll stay here until it's time for dinner ok?"

"Fine," I said making sure that he wasn't touching my face, "I'll see you then."

Before I could get out of reach he took hold of my arm, made me turn around, and turned my heart and diamond crown into a headband of black pearls with more black pearls holding my hair in place. He smiled as he took a step back to let me fly off with Ichigo on my tail and the Host Club on hers. But as he watched me I could tell that he was thinking of something else. I wasn't paying attention but as soon as I did, I bumped into someone with a hard back.

"Ouch," the deep voice said turning around as I rubbed my head a bit, "Zakuro you're as careless as you always are." I looked up and saw it was Ichigo's twin older brother Shunko staring at me with a smirk to his face.

"Yeah, well," I managed to say before Ichigo saved me by hugging her brother. Mori-san patted my shoulder while Honey-san lingered around Ichigo and Shunko while asking some dumb questions. As Shunko answered them he showed off his brilliant smile, his smile had a glow to it – no really it did! Kyoya looked at my face, told me there was nothing wrong, and made his usual cold face while he stared at Shunko.

Shunko and Ichigo : although both being twins they were complete opposites just like their dad and uncle. Ichigo was the nicer of the twins like her uncle Woo and Shunko was a bit more outspoken like his father Soul; but either way you looked at them you could tell that they were Vanilla's children by how alike they look to her.

Speaking of which, "hey Shunko!"

"Yeah princess," he asked leaning over to look at me with a smile.

"Where is Vanilla-sama, I want to ask her to make some cake for my friends."

He stood back up, "she's probably in La Ville Violette helping out with the decorations of the Queen Candidates' Return Party. Why did you ask that? You know that her role as the other Queen Candidate from - …"

"Yeah I know, I know," I said cutting him off, "but anyways I would like to get there before Mocha-sama cuts open "the pie" otherwise we might not win!"

Ichigo agreed with me as she took hold of her brother's hand and nearly dragged him all the way to the village.

"Zakuro-san?"

"Un?"

"What's "the pie" mean," Hikaru asked me as the boys flew next to my side.

"It's the most amazing thing! Mocha-sama's mother was the one who invited it, so whenever we have a special celebration we have it," as I caught a breath to explain more, "basically "the pie" looks like a pie but is filled with bats that turn into cookies when you catch them, and whoever catches the special bat is either the King or Queen and can have only one wish or grant one wish."

"Oh so something like a birthday," the Ouran twins said in unison.

Shunko turned his head around for a moment, "not really but somewhere along those lines. You humans wouldn't know the first thing about – eh…?"

We landed just as he was about to finish as all the girls came running up to Ichigo to give her congrats on being a Candidate of course. They shoved Shunko out of the way to hug Ichigo then turned their attention to me.

"Zakuro! It's been a long time since we've seen you in the village! How long are you going to stay this time," one girl asked.

"It better be longer than the last time where she only spent an hour with us," another said.

"I hope so because my mom said that "the pie" is almost ready. She's trying to make it as big as her mother's was!"

All three had similar colored outfits to go along with the party's theme colors, but they looked different in styles and their hair color as well, but they each had the same cream colored skin.

"Hey Zakuro," the first one said, "can you do your chocolate spell later?"

"I'll think about it Midori," I told her. She had a braided ponytail that was lime colored and dropped down to her shoulders with green sparkles all over. I looked at the second girl, Lily, who had a neon bright orange tiger lily on the left side of her hair – a pixie style cut with a darker orange color. I told her that I was planning to stay for a while longer than I did before. Then finally Violet, her dark purple hair with light purple highlights went down to her hips while in a high top ponytail with silver sparkles enweaved into it, whom I told her several times that her mother's "the pie" was the best thing that'll be passed on to her someday.

As they were about to drag us away I introduced the Host Club to them, they seemed not to care, and drug us down the main streets anyway.

Shunko folded his arms as he looked back at the club while he spoke in a firm voice, "nobody cares that humans are in the Magical World except for the guards. If I were you I'd watch myself and not interact with anybody, even the Queens. You got that humans?"

Tamaki closed his eyes while he tilted his head in respect as he took hold of Haruhi's shoulders and walked ahead to the party.

At the party I looked around for the boys as Midori and Lily blindfolded me and spun me around. I heard Violet say that I need to aim for one of her targets so I could be let go. "But I don't want to play games with children," I told her - well them at least, "I want to sight-see with my friends."

"They are humans," Midori said then Violet, "besides they left the party."

"They did," Ichigo asked as Lily answered her question, "yeah, besides who needs another mangy human around anyways? All we need are their hearts and ah-!"

I got really mad as ice stared to form around my feet and by Lily, wherever she's standing, but my ice started to freeze up in other places until I was told to make it stop by a familiar voice. I took my blindfold off, turned and saw Woo and Soul standing next to each other with smiles to their faces. "Chocolat would be mad if she knew that you were freezing the village," Woo said holding out his arms to me. I ran right over to hug him as I heard Ichigo tell her father that it wouldn't be my fault.

"Maybe," Soul said patting the top of my head as they passed us to the other brother, "but Chocolat likes the village without ice in it. She got upset when the ogres would freeze things way back then. So if you could can, can you try to unfreeze everything?" I stood up and looked around once more to see that my friends were right behind Woo and Soul this entire time. Soul used his thumb to point behind him as he continued on, "besides she would be thrilled to know that Zakuro had actually made friends that like her."

Woo finished up, "Zakuro is Zakuro, and that's what Chocolat would like most of all."

Shunko – meaning excellent child