Chapter 5 is here. I hope you like it. It's shorter than I thought it would be, and for that, I apologize.

Disclaimer: I do not own Shugo Chara.

Enjoy.

Chapter 5

Amu's POV

"Ahhhh." I sighed. The sun felt sooooo goooood. It warmed me all the way through. I lay on the raft on my back with my eyes closed, soaking up as much of the sun's rays as I could before it got dark. The sun shone yellow through my eyelids and that reminded me of the color of someone else's hair. "Tadase. I wonder how he is. I haven't seen him in a long time."

As I lay there, I couldn't help but think over the day. How weird things had turned in just one day! In the last 24 hours, I had met the most annoying and confusing boy on the face of the earth. No one I knew could annoy me that much. Why did he annoy me so much? It's not because I like him or anything…Right?

"I'm going to stop thinking about him now," I told myself.

"I wonder where my chara's got off too?" I shrugged and sighed. Back to the warmth of the sun. pretty soon, though, I heard something that sound like water dripping. A very faint 'bliddip, bliddip'. I was just going to sit up to see what it was, when a hand grabbed my ankle and yanked me off the float, into the water.

"Gah!" I gasped as I broke the surface of the water. I whilred around. "Where are you," I growled in a sing-song voice. I had a pretty good idea who had pulled me in.

"Right here," the culprit whispered in my ear. His breath tickling it.

"Thought as much" I grumbled. I tensed, waiting for him to wrap his arms around me again. Sad, that only after one day, I could already predict what he was going to do.

But he didn't.

I turned around. He was just standing there. My breath caught in my throat. His midnight-blue hair was plastered back from his face, water making it darker. This made his dark eyes darker. Droplets of water on his face and on his chest and arms glistened in the setting sun.

"Yes," he asked, smiling.

I shook my head. "Nothing, I just expected you to be trying to hold me again. Seems like something you would do." I shrugged.

"Well, I thought you didn't like it. But, since you asked…" he grinned evilly and reached for me.

"No," I said and turned around to swim away. Too late. He grabbed my waist again and pulled me back to him. I crossed my arms and pouted.

"You're such a perverted girl, Strawberry. Wanting to be held by older men."

"What! Strawberry!? Perverted! I wouldn't be talking, Cosplay cat-boy. -

I heard him chuckle at that.

I sighed. "Why do you do this to me?"

"What," he asked, innocently. Like he didn't know.

"Bug me so much. We barely know each other."

I felt him shrug against me.

That made me mad. I turned around to yell at him in his face, but stopped dead. My face flared up right away. Our faces were inches, no, centimeters, apart. He leaned forward a little until our foreheads touched. What is this feeling? My stomach is in knots!

Suddenly, I looked up and gasped. "I have to go, it's getting late!" with that, I slipped out of his arms. I swam back to the shore, grabbed my bag, called to my charas, and set off back up to the cabin.

Ikuto's POV

As she swam back to the shore, I smiled to myself. "See you later. My Strawberry."

She set off up the path, her three charas little floating specks that followed her. I'm sure they were grateful for that. Yoru had been bugging them the entire time. Especially the blue one.

I swam back to the shore and put on the shirt that my parents had left me. I started walking off. Yoru caught up to me in a couple of seconds.

"Her charas are fun to tease. Nya."

"Especially the blue one?" I smiled.

"Her name's Miki. And I guess so." He said, blushing.

I just kept smiling. "Well, what shall we do tonight, Yoru?"

No answer. I looked around. Yoru was thinking, a slight blush on his face. He started drifting aimlessly. I could see where he was headed. "Yoru," I said softly.

He didn't seem to hear me, for the next second, he bumped into the tree. Bok. "Owww, nya. Ikuto! Why didn't you tell me? Nyaa. Now my head hurts."

"I tried, but I guess you were too busy thinking about Miki to hear."

"Was not, Nyaa!" he retorted, but his smile gave him away.

"Anyway, let's go do something."

"Like what?"

"Wanna go to the store for some catnip?"

"Yes! Woohoo! Nyaa."

"Alright then, let's go."

Yoru sped on ahead of me. I just kept walking, thinking. "Amu." Then I Chara-changed with Yoru and ran off after him.

A/N: so sorry for the short chapter. I should have put this in with the other one, but I thought it would be longer.

sorry if the last part sucked a bit. I just wanted to get this chapter done so I could do the next one.

More fun for Ikuto and Amu later! *grins evilly*

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