Author's Note: First off I wanted to give a HUGE thanks to the guest: Chickolates, for pointing out that grammar error, sadly, I can't seem to find a way to change my story name, but I do REALLY appreciate when you readers point out stuff like that ^-^.

Anyways, I really thank you guys for following and favoring my story, it means a lot! So.. ENJOY!

It was a beautiful day and the guardians were on a bus going to a snowy mountain for the holidays. As they got off of the bus, they looked at the view in awe at the beautiful sight of pillow white snow covering the hills.

"Beautiful.." Ayami stared in a daze.

"Incredible.." Amu said excitedly.

"It's spectacular!" Nadeshiko commented. After a few minutes of staring the bus closed it's door, leaving to possibly go to another bus stop.

"Viva Resort Training Camp!" Yaya exclaimed jumping up and down, put Ayami put her hand on Yaya's shoulder, trying to calm her down. The guardians' charas went out of their bags and gave an excited expression.

"Awesome!" Ran gleefully said.

"Mother nature in all her splendor~" Harumi sang/said, her eyes growing big.

"But it's so cold." Pepe complained, putting a tiny blanket around her. The charas went down to the snow and started playing little activities. Daichi grunted while throwing a snowball at Kiseki, making Kiseki turn around and glare at him, while Temari giggled when Kiseki shouted, "How dare you throw a snowball at the king!? Insolent fool! Return fire!"

"Yes sir!" Harumi said, doing the American salute and throwing a snowball at Daichi, making him knock over, suddenly all of them started to have one big/fun snowball fight and then after a couple of minutes Ran, Miki, Su and Pepe joined in.

As the guardians watched their charas' snowball fight, Amu asked Yaya, "So where's Kukai-kun's grandpa's place we're staying at?" Yaya turned to look at Amu and said, "Maybe it's over there!" Gesturing over to a beautiful looking hotel.

Amu looked where Yaya was pointing and said, "Wow! Cool!"

Ayami also looked and gasped in amazement, "Pretty.."

Nadeshiko joined in and said, "Wonderful!"

Yaya asked, "Is Kukai-kun really rich?"

Kukai looked over at the girls in confusion and replied, "Huh? Oh course not, it's over there." He took Yaya's arm and pointed it over to a temple next to a 5 star hotel.

"A temple?!" The girls said in shock. Yaya shouted, "N-no!" While trying to fidget out of Kukai's grip.

"So we're not staying in a snowy mountain resort?!" Amu asked, looking intensely at Kukai, he shook his head.

"Aaaayyyyaaaaa-ccchhhaaaannn~~! Call Auntie and book us some roomsssss~!" Yaya complained/sang/shouted at Ayami, but she only shook her head replying, "M-my mother is too busy..., s-she wouldn't do something last minute.." Yaya started to cry out in frustration.

"I told you guys it would be a temple on the resort grounds." Kukai explained, while Yaya was still shouting in distress and Kukai continued, "It's where my grandpa lives!" As Kukai left to head to a ski ramp Amu shouted, "Y-you tricked us!"

In the Evening

"Fools! I told you to return before dark!" Kukai's grandpa shouted at them.

"Gomen grandpa.. We got a little carried away.." Kukai apologized, sweatdropping. But his grandpa hit him with a ruler on his shoulder and said, "Repent!"

"A little carried away you say?" Kukai's grandpa said, "This proves that you are slacking!"

"Clean the hallway to cleanse your soul!" he commanded. They all were disappointed in what he said.

...

"It's so loooonnnnggggg!" Yaya complained, "How are we suppose to clean this?!"

"Fools!" Kukai's grandpa said, opening the door, scaring the living-daylights of the guardians.

"There's no method to it," he began, "polish little by little and it will become clean, stop focusing on the easy way out! Even the longest journey must begin from the very first step!"

They all gave a sad face and Kukai's grandpa continued, "Okay! Start cleaning!" He put a water bucket down and left, leaving the guardians to clean the hallway.

"Why do I, a King, have to clean?!" Kiseki complained as Tadase gave a nervous smile. Temari, Nadeshiko and Su seemed to be enjoying cleaning as the started to sweep and dust the doors and floor.

"Megumi-chan did say that learning chores would be useful in life, Kiseki.." Ayami said in a soft tone, trying to encourage him. But unfortunately it failed because it only made him close his eyes and still mumble about why he had to clean.

Kukai put a washcloth on his foot, and started to foot-clean while whistling like 'nothing to see here'. "No cheating!" Su scolded as she flew up to them.

"Scrub hard Amu-chan!" Ran repeated over and over again, annoying Amu who shouted, "You help too!"

"What a pain.." Yaya complained, sitting on her knees.

"I'm sick of this! I can't take anymore of this!" Pepe complained, kicking her legs like a little baby, and so did Yaya.

"Yaya-chan.. Please calm down..." Ayami said, trying to put her hand on Yaya's shoulder, though it was difficult due to Yaya's kicking.

"Okay then Yaya, let's race around the temple!" Kukai suggested.

"A-a race?" Yaya asked, looking up at him.

"Ready, go!" Kukai said, running with a washcloth in his hand.

"Wait up!" Yaya said, joining in, then Amu and Tadase decided to join in, leaving Ayami and Nadeshiko.

"Well now, when it comes to cleaning..." Temari started, making Ayami and Harumi back away slowly, "I ain't gonna lose!" Nadeshiko exclaimed, running quickly past Ayami, making her spin quickly.

"Outta the way!" Nadeshiko shouted, running over Amu, Tadase, and Yaya.

"I'll run over you if you don't move!" Nadeshiko exclaimed to Kukai, but Kukai accepted that as a challenge and tried to go faster than Nadeshiko.

"Final lap!" Ayami shouted in her normal soft voice (in other words, like Su) while ringing a bell, and Amu was holding a 'Final Lap' sign. Temari threw a banana peel to Kukai, making him trip so that Nadeshiko could win. When Nadeshiko crossed the line she had an innocent face, while Kuaki's face was still flat on the ground.

"Man, I'm exhausted.." Yaya complained, as they all sat on a stair.

"But that.. was a lot of fun!" Su said, clapping her hands.

Suddenly, Kukai's grandpa opened the door with a purple aura, scaring the guardians.

"Who said you could have fun?" He asked, his eyes turning red with anger, making the guardians slightly temble.

"Fools!" He shouted.

"After all that cleaning-" Yaya started.

"W-we have to...cook?" Ayami finished, looking at the food on the counter, she wasn't THAT GREAT of a cook, but she knew the basics.

"I'm so sorry, " Nadeshiko bowed her head, "it's all my fault."

"I-it's not your fault..." Ayami said, not daring to look directly at Nadeshiko.

"Yea it's no big deal!" Amu said.

"Amu-chan, I'm hungry.." Ran complained, sitting on Kukai's grandpa's shoulders. "I'm on the verge of starving starving to death.." Harumi joined in with Ran, climbing onto Kukai's grandpa's shoulders.

"Heh? I think I just heard something.." Kukai's grandpa said, turning around, making Harumi and Ran fall off. Amu held onto Ran and Ayami held onto Harumi, preventing the two charas from talking.

"Y-you're just imagining things... It was nothing.." Kukai said, sweatdropping.

...

After they finished that, they attempted to try to cook some dinner (Hint: Attempted), but seeing as it was, Kukai couldn't cook rice, Ayami didn't really know how cook a fish, Yaya didn't know how to cut a carrot and Tadase couldn't cut the onion.

"My.. I wonder how long this is going to take." Nadeshiko said aloud, but it was really more to herself.

"Looks like it's my time to help!" Su said, chara-changing Amu to cook a meal.

"This is so cool Amu!" Ayami quietly said, clapping her hands together.

"This is fabulous Amu-chi!" Yaya commented, her mouth drooling.

"You'll make a wonderful wife." Tadase said, turning his head to Amu, and as soon as he said that, Amu turned bright red.

"A-a wife.." Amu stuttered quietly so no one could hear her, she then shook it off and pretended like she didn't care.

"Did you really make this?" Kukai's grandpa asked, staring at the food skeptically. Amu nodded her head in response.

"I thought I only had enough ingredients for curry.." He said, thinking deeply.

"H-heh.. Let's just eat!" Kukai said, trying to pass it off.

The Next Morning

"It's a beautiful day again!" Yaya commented, stretching her arms.

Amu looked to her left and asked, "Heh? What's that over there?" Gesturing to a crowd of people who were walking in to where a bunch of snow sculptures were, "I wonder what it is.."

"A snow sculpting contest?" Kukai read on the sign as they started walking towards it.

"Feel free to participate." A man said, handing Amu a flyer.

"Let's see.." She said, reading the paper, "First place receives.. A voucher for a free stay at a fancy hotel?"

"It's that hotel!" Yaya said, pointing at the hotel they thought they were going to be staying at in the first place.

"We're definitely going to win!" Amu, Kukai and Yaya said at the same time, pumping their fists in the air.

"Y-yeah.." Ayami, Tadase and Nadeshiko said, slightly putting they're fists up with (WAY) less enthusiasm.

...

"Huh? So we chisel away with this heh?" Kukai asked, feeling the gigantic ice cube.

"What should we make?" He asked.

"What about a castle?" Nadeshiko suggested and Ayami's eyes lit up and she said, "Oooh! With a prince and princess and-oops.."

"Did you just say "prince"?" Tadase asked, with a menacing voice as a crown appeared on his head. The rest of the guardians sweat-dropped as Tadase started to laugh like a maniac.

"It would appear that my time has finally come! To build a castle for a king!" He ranted, "Now loyal subjects! Slave for me! Take your positions!" He commanded, making them all look like -_-.

"I-in that case, we can assign a different part to each person." Nadeshiko suggested.

"I'll do the roof." Ayami and Nadeshiko said at the same time, both sweat-dropping. "Heh? How about you both make the roof?" Yaya suggested, Nadeshiko nodded and smiling and Ayami silently sighed but nodded. Even though Ayami didn't want to work together with Nadeshiko, she knew saying no would only make matters worse, seeing that Nadeshiko has tried a couple of times to reach out to her.

"Then I'll make the grounds!" Kukai said, picking up a trowel.

"I'll make the cute decorations!" Yaya exclaimed, with glee fully in her voice.

"I shall craft a tower which will look down upon the world! Now subjects! Get to work!" Tadase ordered, they all nodded and headed to their stations.

...

"A-amu-chan.. What's that?" Ran asked, looking at a very crappy sculpture Amu made.

"H-heh..? C-can't you tell? It's a gate! This is a gate!" Amu stuttered, though it looked more like a crooked rainbow.

"Looks like the gate to hell." Ran said, sweat-dropping.

"I'm just not cut out for this stuff. It's not me!" Amu said, sighing while she sat on her knees. Miki's eyes widen when she heard the last part of what Amu said.

"Hey, wait a second!" Amu looked up and turned around, "I could do this in no time if I chara-changed."

"Miki, you're good at this stuff, right?" Amu turned to Miki, with hope in her eyes.

"If I chara-changed with you-"

"Not a chance." Miki interrupted, turning around and crossing her arms.

"Just like that?! Why not?" Amu asked shocked.

"It feels like cheating!" Miki replied.

"Not at all! You're the one who said Chara-changes bring out my hidden talents! So I can use my own abilities however I want, right?" Amu exclaimed, making Miki slightly scrunch up.

"Chara-changes and Chara-transformations are just your hidden potential, they're not your own abilities yet. So.. I can't do it." Miki explained, looking down.

"I'm not cut out for this.. Do you like yourself when you say those things?" Miki asked, turning around to face Amu. Amu looked flustered and slightly avoided eye-contact with Miki (in other words, NO).

"If you act that way, your potential might disappear." Miki informed, flying away (possibly to the others.)

...

(Note: Even though Nadeshiko is a guy, I'm just going to call him a her for now.)

On the other hand, Nadeshiko and Ayami started to make the roof, Ayami working on one end, and Nadeshiko on the other.

"Should we make the pattern like this?" Nadeshiko asked, trying to break the silence and making a pattern on the snow. Ayami nodded, not daring to look nor say anything to her.

"So... how is Megumi-san doing?" Nadeshiko asked and Ayami simply replied "G-good."

Nadeshiko looked down to see Temari and Harumi making a tiny-snowman and laughing with eachother, making her slightly frown. I wish that was Ayami-chan and I.. Nadeshiko thought, sighing.

"Ayami-chan I..." Nadeshiko began, but was interrupted when Ayami apologized, "I-I'm sorry..". She still didn't look at Nadeshiko, but Nadeshiko stared at her.

"P-pardon..?" Nadeshiko asked, in a polite tone.

"I-I said I'm.. Sorry..." Ayami repeated, slightly blushing but trying to look more focused on the sculpture.

"I.. I can't ever forgive you for lying but... I'll keep it ... a secret." Ayami explained, Nadeshiko looked at her softly and smiled.

"Even though I really want you to keep it a secret, I just need you to do what doing now." Nadeshiko giggled while saying it but Ayami looked at her in confusion. So Nadeshiko explained, "You're talking to me for the first time in weeks it feels like... Ayami-chan.. Even though you're mad at me, you're still really important to me, no matter what, and it makes me sad to see you so upset at me, but I really want you to know that I'll be there for you if you need me, angry at me or not."

Ayami blushed slightly more, but nodded and smiled back. Harumi and Temari looked at the two with a delightful expression as they saw two were starting to get along once again.

...

After they all finished their castle for the day (not completely finished.) they started to walk home.

"That was fun!" Kukai said, stretching his arms.

"Sorry for over-doing it again." Tadase apologized.

"Tomorrow is our last day! Let's do our best!" Nadeshiko encouraged. Ayami, walking right next to Amu, asked in a quiet voice, "A-amu-chan, are you alright?"

Amu looked up at Ayami and smiled sadly saying, "Oh! It's nothing.." Though, Ayami didn't buy it, she nodded with a worried expression.

"Hey, Hey! Let's go buy souvenirs! I'm hungry too!" Yaya exclaimed.

"There's a hot-spring mall nearby. Wanna head there?" Kukai informed.

"Yea!" Yaya rapidly nodded her head.

...

(Too lazy to write about their journey buying souvenirs, PLUS it's not really important, so I'll skip it.)

"I got to eat buns and I bought souvenirs. I'm totally satisfied!" Yaya gleefully said.

"Oh no! I forgot to buy something!" Yaya said.

"Oh dear, that's awful! Let's go back immediately!" Nadeshiko said.

"We'd better hurry.. It's turning dark too.." Ayami noted, pointing up to the sky.

"Why not tomorrow?" Kukai asked, shrugging his shoulders.

"Come on, come on!" Yaya said, grabbing both Kukai and Ayami's arm and running towards the shops.

"Ah, you two should head back without us." Nadeshiko suggested, shrugging and following Yaya.

"W-what just happened?" Amu asked, looking at Tadase.

"Beats me, shall we head back ourselves, then?" Tadase suggested. Amu blushed thinking, by ourselves?

...

They started to walking back to the temple, Amu blushing like crazy, but she hid hit in her scarf.

"A-a graveyard?" Amu said, looking frightened.

"Huh? Are you scared?" Tadase asked, looking at the graveyard.

"P-please! As if! Monsters and ghost couldn't POSSIBLY exist." Amu said, putting her hands on her hips.

"They could. Since Guardian Characters exist." Tadase pointed out smiling.

"Heh..?" Amu asked, shellshocked as Tadase grabbed her hand.

"Don't worry, I'm with you." Tadase said, doing a sparkle attack at Amu. She started to blush again as they started to walk through the graveyard. Amu's charas started to smile at eachother.

I hope I'm not sweating.. Come on Amu, say something! Amu thought as she accidently said aloud, "S-say.."

"Yes?" Tadase asked, facing Amu.

"U-um what was it again.. That's right.. a while back you said you liked someone..?" Amu stuttered, fidgeting with her hands.

"Who might that-" Amu paused, scolding at herself for even bringing that up.

"Oh, that." Tadase thought for a moment, he handed her a picture of his dog, Betty and started to explain that Betty died last year but that was the person (or dog) he was talking about.

"So the person you liked.." Amu started.

"She was definitely the girl I liked most." Tadase finished, scratching his head.

"I'm not very good at handling confessions, so I always character-changed and let Kiseki turn the girls down." He explained, putting on a nervous smile.

"But now.. There is girl who's always on my mind." Tadase confessed looking down and blushing.

"She suddenly appeared before me, " Tadase started, and Amu listened carefully, " We were both guardians so I felt it was wrong, but I couldn't forget about her.."

Could he mean.. Amu thought, her eyes widening and so were her charas.

"I'm just going to say it Hinamori-san!" Tadase exclaimed.

"H-hai!" Amu blushed, looking deeply into Tadase's eyes.

"It was the first time I've ever seen a girl so bright, gentle, and kind!" Tadase inhaled as he was ready to confess.

"A girl like Tsukino Ayami!" Tadase confessed.

"S-so you like Ayami-chan?" Amu said.

" 'Like' is now more of an understatement.." Tadase blushed, looking down. Amu's heart was broken, but she didn't want that to be shown.

"But, I thought you like strong and energetic girls..?" Amu asked.

"I do but... Ayami is so nice and caring, she was always really interesting to me, one minute she could be shy and quiet, then next, she is super talkative and cheerful. But I fear.." Tadase started as he looked down, Amu looked up at him when he said 'he feared'

"I fear, someone else is too after her heart.. I really wouldn't know how to compete with him either.." Tadase explained, looking down.

"W-well... you seem to be doing a pretty good job.." Amu stuttered, feeling like she could cry at the moment. Suddenly, some snow fell, making Amu jump in surprise.

"Gomen ne(sorry)... did we scare you guys?" Nadeshiko apologized, as the rest of the guys started to walk behind her.

"Kukai! Y-you weren't s-suppose to make any noise..." Ayami scolded (but she was really bad at it).

"Huh? Really?" Kukai asked.

"Let's go, Hinamori-san." Tadase said as he started to walk back to the temple, but Amu slightly sighed in disappointment.

The Next Morning EARLY morning.

"Amu-chan?" Nadeshiko asked, surprised that she was at the sculpting contest.

"Heh? Nade-chan? Aya-chan? Why are you guys here?" Amu asked, turning to them.

"W-well I was here to fix some places I screwed up on yesterday.." Ayam quietly said.

"And I was going to help her.. Looks like I still have to work on that pattern though." Nadeshiko said smiling and giggling and Ayami smiled too.

"I'm guessing you're doing the same thing, Amu-chan?" Nadeshiko asked walking up to her. Amu nodded and said, "Well then, let's do our best." Nadeshiko and Ayami nodded in agreement.

"Huh?" Yaya called out, and the three girls looked towards the sound, seeing Yaya, Tadase and Kukai walk their way.

"Nade-chan, Amu-chan and Aya-chan!" Yaya called running up to them.

"Yaya-chan." Ayami said, waving to her.

"Everybody else too?" Nadeshiko asked.

"I wanted to do this in secret!" Yaya exclaimed smiling.

"Guess you guys beat us to it, heh?" Kukai asked.

"Well then, " Yaya pumped her fists in the air, "Let's do our best!"

...

So then, they started to chisel away on the sculpture, Ayami and Nadeshiko doing the roof, Kukai doing the grounds, Tadase making the tower, Yaya doing the decorations and Amu making the gate. Even if it doesn't look the way I want it to, I just need to do it step by step.. Even if it takes time..If I can just get to who I want to be Amu thought, finishing her gate.

As they started to finish the castle Kukai's grandpa was watching and said to himself, "I was wondering why they were sneaking around this morning.."

Once they finally finished it, it looked like a very crooked castle filled with a Japanese-styled roof, soccer balls, Amu's gate to hell, Yaya's bows and Tadase world-viewing tower and even though it didn't looke THAT great, they all laughed it out, happy that they finished the castle.

"We didn't win after all." Kukai said, slightly disappointed.

"That's okay! We all had fun!" Yaya gleefully said. Once they made it to the temple, they saw Kukai's grandpa at the entrance of the temple.

"That was an unfortunate result. Well, it's a good thing to have accomplished something on your own. I made lunch for everyone today!" He said, cracking a smile. They all cheered with joy.

"Okay then, let's hurry back and eat!" Kukai said, running into the temple and the others following.

Author's note: After a few hours of typing I finally finished this chapter! And it's pretty long if I do say so myself. ^-^

I just wanted to let you know that Ayami's voice sounds like Su's voice, accept slightly softer (is that even possible?). But anyways I hope you guys are enjoying my story so far!