Shadow: Yo!

Haruko: -anime vein- …how many times do you have to say yo? Don't you get tired of saying that?

Shadow: Apparently…no.

Utau: I bet you can't even make 3 whole chapters without saying yo. That also includes A Lost Butterfly.

Shadow: You're on! Wait…since I'm just typing this… why am I making a bet with myself…? –sweatdrop- Nevermind… deal's off…

Kukai: What?! Why?

Shadow: If I stop saying yo…I'll be confused for the whole day. I think saying yo keeps my head straight.

Haruko: …a-are you serious…?

Shadow: Apparently, yes.


"Haruko!" Kukai yelled as he saw me trapped in the dark glass orb. He took a step, and Hiro held his scythe.

"If you take another step, I'll make her be able to burn in hell." He threatened. A drop of sweat rolled down Kukai's face. Hiro turned to Ikuto. "You know what to do."

Ikuto nodded. "Let them out boss!" Hiro yelled. The sound of machines cranking and rumbling came and the whole top started shaking. Hidden doors on the floor next to me slid open and 3 purple spheres arose. In them, hundreds of X eggs were trying to break free like how I was.

"X eggs!" Miki yelled.

"Lots of them too!" Daichi's voice shouted. Kukai, Amu, and Tadase looked at the spheres troublingly.

Hiro held out his scythe sideways. He put his free hand in front of him. He closed his eyes and waited. Suddenly, his eyes shot open and he yelled. "Dispel!!"

The three orbs exploded into amethyst glitter and soon disappeared. The X eggs quickly soared everywhere. "Ikuto! Now before they get away!!"

Ikuto gave a slow nod before playing his violin. The eggs immediately stopped before flying more calmly. Ikuto played a sharp sound, making some eggs attack Amu and the others.

"Minna!" I pounded my fists onto the glass. "Hiro! Leave them alone!!"

Hiro, who was only watching from the sidelines, turned to me with a smirk. "Too bad. We need them to purify these eggs and finally get the Embryo."

"You're just using them like tools again…?" I growled and punched the wall between us. "Damn it! Why do you want the Embryo?! Why did you turn evil?! WHY?!"

Hiro growled and pounded the orb with the end of his scythe, leaving a crack. I fell down and looked up, seeing that Hiro's eyes were being covered by his bangs. "Shut up…you don't know anything…you don't know how much I've been through…"

"You don't know how much I've been through!" I snapped. "Everyone always cared about you! Mom and dad didn't even give a damn about me! Everyone admired you and treated me as if I was nothing!"

"But do you know how much pressure you would have to try and please everyone? Do you know all the suffering I had to go through to make myself be the perfect person?" I stared at him, shocked. I snapped out of my daze when a loud cry was heard. I looked at the fight and saw Kukai on the ground, clutching his arm.

"Kukai!!" I yelled worryingly. Hiro gave a small smirk.

"You pathetic Guardians won't be able to beat us. You're all too weak." He scoffed.

"Tadase-kun! We have to purify the eggs!" Amu yelled as she and the King were blocking the X eggs from attacking Kukai any further. Kukai weakly stood up and grabbed his board.

"I know…I think I have a plan…" Kukai glanced toward me and notice the crack on the side. "There's a chance that Haruko might get injured if I'm too slow though…"

"We have to take that chance if we want to save her though." Tadase said and did another Holy Crown to protect themselves. Kukai nodded.

"Okay…here's what we're going to do…"


Hiro blinked once the jelly like blob dispersed. The X eggs preceded flying toward all three of them. "Heh. That was a pretty dumb move of you people."

Kukai hopped onto his board and flew into the air, the X eggs following him. Ikuto watched his moves as he continued playing. Hiro looked at the boy confusingly when he was flying toward him and Haruko. His eyes widened. "What the hell do you think you're doing?"

Hiro quickly made another orb using Demon's Nightmare. Kukai quickly flew out of the way as the eggs collided against my cage and Hiro's. I gasped as the ball started to crack. Soon, it burst into glitter and some of the eggs knocked me over to the edge.

"Tadase! Now!" Kukai yelled. Tadase nodded and held out his scepter to do a Holy Crown, but then he was being blocked by some X eggs that were attacking them. I looked back fearfully only to see the tens of miles I'd have to endure before crashing to my death.

I screamed as I fell. "HARUKO!!!" Kukai cried as he tried making his way out of the cluster of X eggs. As Ikuto saw me falling, his eyes widened and went back to their usual amethyst color.

"BIRDY-CHAN!" Ikuto yelled and dropped his violin. Without thinking, he jumped off the tower too.

Hiro ran over and looked down angrily. "Ikuto you idiot!"

My eyes started feeling heavy as the wind rushed passed me. 'Can't keep awake…so…this is how I'm going to die huh?' Memories were coming back to me. My parents. Hiro. The charas. The guardians. Ikuto. Kukai…and also… 'Tsuki…I guess we won't se each other again…huh…? S-sorry…' a tear escaped my eye.

'"HARUKO!" a voice yelled. My eyes opened to see Ikuto also falling down.

"G-gomen…" I whispered weakly before losing consciousness.


"Colorful Canvas!" Amu yelled after she made a quick change with Miki. The X eggs stopped and shook a little, trying to get the glitter away. "Tadase-kun! Now!"

"White Decoration!" he yelled, and some of the eggs were all trapped in the golden ball.

"Tadase, get on!" Kukai yelled as he jumped on his board. "We still have to save Haruko and Ikuto!"

Tadase nodded and followed him. "Hinamori-san! Please purify the eggs."

Amu nodded and quickly formed a heart with her hands over the Humpty Lock.

"Negative Heart!" She extended her arms. "Lock on!- Open Heart!" she yelled and heart shaped beams shot out and hit the X eggs. They all gave a small shriek before being purified. Amu sighed.

"Hwaa… that was tiring…" she wiped her forehead and looked at the remaining eggs. "But there's still a lot more to go…"

"Amu-chan!" Ran and Suu yelled. "Above you!"

"Eh?" Amu turned her head upwards to see Hiro lunging forward, raising his scythe. Her eyes widened and she dodged.


After Haruko was knocked out, Ikuto managed to get a hold of her. He tsked, knowing there was no way of surviving the fall. Ikuto held Haruko tight and turned around so she wasn't under him and wouldn't be that hurt. "Haruko…" he mumbled and waited for the hard impact, imagining himself with many broken bones and bleeding, but atleast Haruko would be safe.

"Holy Crown!" someone yelled, which made Ikuto's eyes widened. His landing wasn't painful and hard as he thought it would be. It felt soft and bouncy and jelly-like.

"Ikuto! Is Haruko okay?" Kukai asked as he flew by them. Ikuto looked at the girl, seeing that she still wasn't awake. He shook her gently.

"Birdy-chan… wake up." He whispered. The girl's eyes slowly opened. Kukai and Ikuto sighed in relief. Haruko dozily sat up and rubbed her eyes.

"Am I dead…?" she asked herself. The boys chuckled. Ikuto hugged her.

"No. You're not." He whispered. Haruko looked at him.

"Ikuto…?" she wondered. Tadase's eyes widened when he heard a crash from above. He looked up.

"Hinamori-san!" he yelled out, which made them all turn their heads up. They saw a light blue blur and another black blur jumped up and collide.

"Hiro and Amu are fighting. We have to help her." Haruko said. They all nodded. Ikuto carried Haruko bridal style.

"Hold on tight Birdy-chan." He said. Haruko blinked and before she knew it, the wind ran passed her, but instead of falling down, she was flying up.


Once we were all back at the top, I gently moved away from Ikuto, only to make him fall to his knees. "Ikuto!" I knelt beside him as he panted wearily.

"It's my dad… or this transformation….their trying to take control agai- urg!" Ikuto clutched his chest.

I heard someone chuckle and looked at Hiro. He stepped away from Amu and smirked. "Eh? You're still alive? That sucks." I glared at him. "You know, glaring won't make me explode."

"Haruko… you have to find the Embryo before Hiro does…" Kukai whispered. I nodded.

"I know. But there's still a lot of X eggs. It can be anywhere. And I don't have Tsuki, so I can't chara transform." I whispered back.

"You can Chara Transform with me! Nya!" We all turned around to see a grinning Yoru with the Dumpty Key in his paw.

"Yoru!" I yelled. He floated toward us and looked at Ikuto worryingly.

"Is Ikuto alright, nya?"

Ikuto groaned. "…I'm fine…" he said. He nodded.

"I'll try and believe you." The chara turned to me. "Birdy-chan! Let's go!"

"Eh?!" It was too late. My body glowed, and suddenly Yoru and I transformed into Black Cat. "What the hell is with this outfit Yoru?!?!!"

Black Cat was a rather…skimpy transformation. I was wearing a dark purple strapless top that had a few white ruffles on the edges. It only went up to my belly button. A silver bell was tied around my neck with the help of a black ribbon. For the bottom, I was wearing a short black skirt that had purple ribbons hanging around and black stockings that went up to my knees. Black cat ears and a frilly purple Lolita headband were placed on my head. I had purple combat boots. Black arm warmers appeared and so did metal claws.

I blushed at how I looked at tugged the skirt. "Yoru!!!" I whined.

"It's not my fault, nya!"

I sighed. "Whatever, let's go." I said. I was stopped by Kukai. He had some pink in his cheeks. Probably because of this outfit. Damn…

"Haruko. Be careful. And take this." He handed me something. I opened my hand to see some amethyst stone that seemed to shine even more because I held it.

"What is this?"

"The First K told me to give you that. I don't know what it is."

I clutched the stone and nodded. "Got it."

"Let's go! Haruko!"

"Right." Before I left, I turned to Kukai. "Hey…you have some blood running down your nose." Kukai looked at himself, shocked, and quickly wiped the blood that was trickling. I giggled. "Pervert…"

When I was about half way to the building, Hiro stopped me. "You ain't going nowhere."

"Ain't ain't a word." I pointed out. I held out my fists. "Bring it."

Hiro smirked and raised his scythe, only to have the blade be tied up with a rope. He raised a brow and turned to see where it was coming from. Rima, Yaya, and Nagehiko appeared beside me. "Minna!" I yelled. I noticed Nagehiko finally had a transformation that looked like a mix of a break dancer and a skater(in my own opinion). "Ah! Your chara hatched!"

He gave a small wink. "Leave him to us, Haru-chan." I nodded.

"Arigatou." I said and proceeded towards the building.


I busted the doors open. The room was dark, except for the dim computer screens that were on. Suddenly, the door closed behind me. I could hear the others yell my name outside.

I tried to adjust my eyes in the dark. Suddenly, the lights flickered on, and I squinted at the brightness. I heard someone chuckle. "Welcome, Fujiwara Haruko." My eyes narrowed.

"Old man…" I said in return. Kazuomi twitched. "Whatever you're doing to hurt Ikuto, stop it."

"Why should I? Ikuto's just a waste of space. But we have to use him for something, don't we?"

"Don't treat him like he's some kind of puppet."

"Oh, but he is." I growled. He smirked and walked to a controller. My eyes followed his every move. "Let me ask you something, do you know what the Embryo is exactly?"

"Where's this going old man?" he ignored the name this time. "The Embryo's a magical egg that could grant any wish. What else?"

His smirk grew. "Oh? But do you also know it's a key?"

I raised a brow. "Key…?"


Shadow: Chapter 14 done! 6 more to go!

Haruko: Wait wait wait…6?

Shadow: Yes. I thought I should only make 20 chapters for my stories. Why? Well, it's because if it's too long(number of chapters) then you would have that scroll bar thing in the chapters box.

Yoru: Are you serious, nya?! Because of that?!

Shadow: Yes. I don't know… it just looks weird to me… but that doesn't mean I don't like other stories over 20 chapters. I still read them, but I won't make my stories no longer at 20.

Haruko: So…no chapters over 20?

Shadow: -shakes head- Well…maybe…if I have too…

Iru: What about your other story? It's already at 14 chapter and you're not even near the end.

Shadow: It is?!

Everyone: –shakes head-

Shadow: …sh*t… I guess that means I have to make it over 20, or I have to find a way to make a new series like I did with this… -sighs- Anyway, I'm thinking for these last 6 chapters(or less…) I'ma right atleast 5 pages or more. That way…-thinks about it- well…I don't know what I'll get from it…but yeah. I'm still going to do it.

Ikuto: You used the wrong type of 'right/write'

Shadow: I know! I'm just too lazy to change it :P