Hey guys!

So today we've got a very special...*drum roll*

CLIFF HANGER!

Ikuto: Boo!

Well you should be G-L-A-D I did a cliff hanger!

Ikuto: And W-H-Y is that?

Because you ain't going to like whats happening next!

Ikuto: I never like whats going to happen next.

Good point.

Ikuto: So...you'll change the cliff hanger?

No.

Ikuto: So damn stubborn...

TADASES POV

I wonder if Amu is okay...

"I love you too! Tadase-kun."

It didn't seem like she meant it...she seemed confused and when she saw Ikuto, she became fragile as ever.

"Thieving cat!" I slammed my hand on my desk, too frustrated to do any work.

"Tadase!" Kiseke came and sat on my shoulder.

"I sense X-characters and four of them!" I stood up grabbed my coat before heading out of the house silently.

"Where?" The chara took some time to think before concluding.

"Near Amus house." Amu? Maybe she's dealing with them already.

"We should go help." I nodded and ran off, taking every short cut I knew to her house.

"I don't think anyone's home yet..." The door was wide open, I could hear four voices, all shouting useless and no sign of Amu.

"Amu! Are you here?" No answer.

I ran up the stairs towards her room and saw her figure lying on the ground unconscious.

"Amu! Amu, wake up!" I tried everything to wake her up, but it was no use.

That's when I saw whose X-chara's they were.

IKUTOS POV

Yesterday all seems like a dream to me...yes a long, long dream that I had no way of waking up from because it was reality.

"Hmm..." Yoru has tried to make up for it, I guess I wasn't very helpful though, because he gave up after a while, retreating to his egg to sleep.

"Amu! Wake up, Amu!" I sat up, listening for the voice again...it was very distinctive.

"Useless!" That's the voice of an X-chara.

"Amu, snap out of it!" Oh, it's just kiddie-king, no point in helping.

They rushed past my hiding place, Tadase in his transformation and Amu lying limp on his side.

"AMU?" I shot up and looked at the X-charas, there were four and sure enough, I could make out Ran, Miki, Suu and Dia.

"Damn! Yoru!" The sleepy chara got out of his egg, still rubbing his eyes.

"Yes? ~nya!~"

"Character transformation!" His eyes lit up as he happily unlocked my heart.

"Chara Transformation, Black Lynx!" I landed next to Tadase and distracted the X-charas.

"Tsukiyomi Ikuto! What are you doing here?" Oh my god, seriously? Tadase?

"Isn't it obvious? Your trying to carry someone and defend yourself at the same time...from my view, you weren't doing too well."

"I don't need your help!" I glanced back at the stubborn Tadase as he held out his staff.

"Amu does! I was never doing this for you! Now get out of here!" He put Amu down to the side and stood his ground.

"Since when did you care so much for her? You didn't act like this yesterday! In fact I thought I saw you cry!" When did Tadase get so malicious? He's really asking for it!

"Since she decided to be my girlfriend!" A smirk crept across my face he wasn't going to like this.

"What do you mean by that? Like Amu would ever be with you!"

"Are you really that stupid?" He took a step back at my rage, tightening his grip on the staff.

"Do you remember the full events of yesterday or not? And now, especially now is not the time to argue!" Ran and Dia attacked me while Suu and Miki went to Tadase.

"Useless! Useless! Ikuto!" Hey, why are the calling me useless? I'm not the one with an X-chara.

Normally in this situation Amu would make some sort of heart warming, life brightening, keep pushing through the tough times speech, but I'm hopeless at that.

So I'll just ask questions...

"Why are you saying I'm useless?" The two X-charas stopped for a moment.

"Wrong! Got it wrong!"

"What do you mean?" The X-charas shook their heads and made the unlocking symbol on their chests, the ones Tadase was fighting did the same.

"What are they doing?" I looked over to Amu who had transformed she was unconscious, just like me when I transformed into 'Death rebel.'

When I took a closer look at the transformation, I remembered where it was from.

"It's Amulet fortune!" Tadase wasn't convinced though, because last time the transformation was different, very different.

"Ikuto..."

"Huh? Amu?" She looked up at herself, confused.

"What am I doing?" Her arms moved back as whole lot of X-energy flew right at us, now I'm confused.

"Ikuto! I'm sorry! I can't move!"

"Tsukiyomi Ikuto, what's happening?" Tadase was apprehensive to attack, same goes for me but, what choice do we have in the end?

"What's happening? Whatever it is, it's cruel on Amu! She's conscious of doing this when she can't control it!" At least I wasn't aware of when I was hurting people, but Amu has to see people get hurt right by her unconscious hands.

"Ikuto? Can you hear it? It's the lock! ~nya~"

If Yoru hadn't pointed it out I never would of heard it, the key and the lock were resonating again.

That's when my character transformation failed.

"Eh? Yoru? Am I at my limit?"

"No! ~nya~ Hold on! ~nya!~" He went to make the sign again but stopped.

"What's wrong? Yoru?" And then I saw Amu struggling with the key and lock in her hand.

"Amu?"

"Don't! No! Stop me! PLEASE!" It was too late though, the key unlocked the lock and Yoru went into character transformation with me.

"Character Transformation, Seven seas treasure!"

There was something wrong though, even Tadase felt it.

"Ikuto, NO!"