Hello! I don't own Shugo Chara.

I slowly opened my eyes, waking up from my sleep. I rose up from my bed, and yawned loudly, so that the sound vibrated through the room. I took deep breaths, and tried to calm down myself. Today was the day. The day I had waited for such a long time. I was happy, yet kind of nervous at the same time.

Rima was already up, brushing her teeth in the little bathroom that was connected to our room. I could hear the water splashing all over the sink, and clashing noises in the bathroom. Rima was unusually quiet today...she usually spilled milk on my face if I didn't wake up before her...

"You should be glad I didn't pour any milk on your face today. Your sleeping face looked too ugly for my expensive milk, you know" said Rima, coming out of the bathroom with a towel in her hands.

"You don't change, do you?" I asked, shaking my head slowly from side to side.

"Yes, I don't change. I like the way I am right now. Thank you very much for worrying about me so much" said Rima, smiling her innocent smile.

I smiled. Rima was always Rima. She never changed...even if this was the day scheduled for her surgery. Her life depended on this day, yet she still smiled.

"Amu, it's time for you to start getting up too. Its 6:00 A.M. you know. The surgery starts at 7:00 A.M." said Rima, giving me her sweetest smile possible.

I immediately stopped smiling. Usually Rima had something up her sleeve if she had that angelic smile on her face. Something that was not pleasant.

"I believe you, Rima. You wouldn't do anything bad to me right before the surgery right? Even you aren't that..." I paused, as I thought of all the possible things Rima could do to me.

"Of course not, Amu. Don't you believe your best friend?" asked Rima, smiling that angelic smile again.

I slowly got down from my bed, and walked to the bathroom. The whole time I gave Rima a suspicious look, while she just smiled at me innocently. I got my surprise as soon as I closed the bathroom door. The floor was flooding with water, the bathtub and the sink was full of water, and everything was just...water.

Rima was a little too energetic that morning, but I thought we were off to a pretty good start. Better off being cheerful than gloomy, right?

Almost everyone came to encourage us that day. My aunt, uncle, cousin, mom, dad, little sister, you name it. Rima seemed to look towards the window a lot, and I knew why. She was checking to see if her parents were coming to meet her. It was fifteen minutes before the surgery was going to start, and Ikuto, Rima, and I were lying down on the "moving hospital beds". Well, at least that's what Ami keeps telling me.

Souko was looking down at the floor, and Utau looked confident as if to say, "You better come back alive, or else..." Well, if we didn't come back alive, it wouldn't matter anyhow, since we wouldn't be able to feel Utau's wrath. My mother was crying, my dad...was playing with Ami, but I knew he still cared about me too. I put on my best smile, Rima looked a little disappointed, and Ikuto looked like he didn't care. In other words, it was kind of like a graduation ceremony rather than a scene right before a big operation.

After about five more minutes, we managed to say all of our "good-lucks", and "don't worries". After that, the surgeons pushed us all into the operation room, and we had five more minutes before the surgery really started.

The surgeons placed us in the middle of the room, and turned on the lights. Then, they started to get prepared for the surgery. I was trying to soothe down myself, when Ikuto suddenly spoke to me.

"Aren't you going to be polite, and say a thank you to me before the surgery starts?" asked Ikuto, using that usual mischievous voice.

I screamed at Ikuto's sudden whisper, and all the surgeons that were working in the room suddenly looked at me with surprised looks on their faces. I muttered a quick "sorry", before I glared at Ikuto. He just silently laughed with his eyes.

"No, I'm not going to say thank you to a jerk who rudely shouts at other people right before their surgery is about to begin" I said, still glaring at Ikuto.

"But I didn't shout. I whispered, like this" said Ikuto, shrinking his voice to the minimum level.

I just sighed, and rolled my eyes.

"Are you still not willing to say thank you to me? After all, it's all because of me that you are able to get rid of your lung cancer...plus if I run away right now, you won't be able to get better" said Ikuto, making up his own story with a smile.

"You're such a...a..." I said, trying to find the right words to describe Ikuto.

"A nice person that is willing to help a little girl with cancer?" suggested Ikuto, yawning a little.

"Yes...I mean no! That was not what I was going to say! You...you...jerk!" I whispered loudly.

"I thought you already used that word" said Ikuto, yawning again.

The medicine was starting to affect our bodies. It started to dull my senses, and I was starting to feel sleepy.

"Alright then, I'll say thank you if the surgery is successful" I said, losing the energy in my body.

"Alright, I believe you, Amu. It's a promise" said Ikuto, slowly closing his eyes.

"Promise" I said, before I lost consciousness too.

Alright...the next chapter is the real last chapter. I think this is a really good place to end. Anyway, one more chapter left! I promise I'll update as soon as possible!