miwa:well here you go. the next chapter. sorry it took so long. i got kinda lazy and then i got distracted with the first chapter of keito's story and blah blah blah.... you people probably don't even read this... REVIEW if you read this. lol. sorry i had sugar... sugar is spelled funny isnt it. oh well. i don't own shugo chara or any thing else mentioned in this chapter -_- i wish owned ikuto but... even if it was possible i would have to share him with the hundreds of other fan girls... unless of course one of you has a cloning machine then we should be good. erm i'll stop talking now sorry. enjoy! =3

Chapter 2

[Normal pov]

Amu woke up to the sound of people talking. On voice was deep, yet soft, a man's voice. The other high pitched, a girl. Amu sat up trying to remember what had happened last night. In the corner of the room the guy that had saved her was kneeling and talking to a chara. The chara had long white hair, and light sapphire eyes flecked with red. She also had black cat ears with a tail to match. Amu rubbed her eyes and walked over to him.

"Is that your chara? I didn't get a good look at her last night. She's cute" amu said squatting down next to him. He stared at her and leaned away toward the chara. Amu sighed and stood up.

"I'll go see if I can find some food for you. My mom is at work today, so she'll leave soon and drop my sister off at daycare, and then you can take a shower." Amu said before walking out of the room. Ikuto tilted his head a bit and looked at the small chara that floated next to him. Suddenly the chara began to glow and she grew to the size of a normal human. She was wearing a tight silver shirt and black pants.

"Iku-tan if you act all jumpy and untrusting that girl might not help you anymore. In order to hide from those people you need to stay out of sight. This is probably the best place." she said leaning against him.

"I would rather you didn't call me Iku-tan" he said pulling on a strand of his hair. The Chara-girl tilted her head to the side and looked at him.

"If we're going to hide you then we need to disguise you… sorry Iku-tan but the hair has got to go" she said grinning evilly. Ikuto glared at her, and pushed her away as she tried to cut off his hair with her knife.

"You just want an excuse to cut my hair you psychotic thing!" he yelled pinning her down. Suddenly the door burst open revealing an Angry Amu.

[Ikuto's pov]

The door bursting open startled Isis and she popped back into her chara form and hid in her egg. I turned around quickly ready for an attack. The human world confused me some people attacked you, and some ran away, while others sat around and stared at you like you were some kind of weirdo. On the island things had been easier to understand. If its stronger than you it attacks, if its weaker it runs.

The girl was glaring at me seemingly angry. I tried to remember if I had done anything I wasn't supposed to but I guess that whatever I did was some weird thing that only upset human… maybe I smelled or something. Humans didn't have great senses of smells but even the slightest stench made them cover their noses.

"What did I do?" I asked looking up at her. Her face turned slightly pink and I wondered if I had said something embarrassing.

"I told you to be quiet till my mom left. Luckily I was able to make enough noise to drown out your voice." She said sitting down on a pink blob that rattled like there were seeds in it. I was tempted to rip it open to see what was inside but I knew that would probably make her mad. And like Isis had said this was probably the best place to hide.

"Oh sorry… I forgot." I said attempting to make my lips curl up in what I hoped was a smile. Her face turned pink again. Maybe I was doing it wrong. I tried to smile again and waited for her to say something.

"W…why are you s...Smirking like that?" she asked kind of franticly. That's odd. I don't remember doing anything to scare her. Humans are so weird.

"Smirking?" I asked curious as to what the word meant. Isis knew a lot about things but, how to interact with humans wasn't one of them. The girl sighed as though she was annoyed with me. She then picked a plate up and set it down in front of me. On it was some kind of tan-ish food on it covered in some dark colored sticky slim. I tried to pick it up but it slipped out of my fingers and I got more of the sticky stuff on my fingers. She laughed and took some kind of silver pointy thing off the plate, and started to cut the tan-ish food.

"It's called a pancake, and it's covered in syrup. And this thing" she said indicating the silver thing, "is a fork it's used for eating so you don't get your fingers sticky." She said. I looked down at my fingers and licked the sticky s… syrup off them. It was really sweet, like honey, but different. (A/n Well duh)

"It's sweet" I said looking at her in surprise. She laughed, and stabbed some of the… Pancake…

"Here try this." She said holding out the, um fork (?). I leaned forward and bit the strange food. It was sweet and fluffy. I tried to smile at her again, but I noticed that her face was red again. Was I doing something to embarrass myself again? People are so hard to understand.

"Ne Iku-tan maybe she has a fever" Isis whispered in my ear. I blinked remembering the time I had gotten sick. My face had turned red and hot. I leaned forward and place my forehead on hers. It wasn't hot but her face turned even redder and she started to stutter something. I wasn't really sure what she was saying. She pushed me away and quickly moved to the other side of the room.

"Huh did I do something wrong?" I whispered to Isis not really getting why the girl reacted the way she did.

"Um I don't know!" she said before hiding back in her egg. I turned back to look at the girl and realized that there were four chara's floating around her head.

"You have chara's too… wait that means you can see Isis." I said. She nodded and looked at me like I was crazy or something. Then she laughed. I stared at her baffled.

"W…what are you laughing about?" I asked moving closer to her. She froze; ready to jump away if I got to close. 'Maybe people haven't lost all there animalistic instinct'

Suddenly from downstairs I heard a door open but Amu didn't react to it so I assumed it meant nothing wrong.

"Will you help me cut my hair?" I asked her suddenly. She blinked surprised. Maybe she thought I trusted her. That definitely wasn't the case. I just had no one else who could help me and I didn't want it to be too messed up. she stared at me for a minute as though trying to figure out what I meant. Then she got to her feet with a sigh and walked over to the door.

"I'll go get some scissors wait here" she said before opening the door. As soon as the door was opened her eyes widened and she looked up at the person who stood on the other side.

[Amu's pov]

I opened the door about to go get him some scissors. I didn't really get why he wanted to cut off all that beautiful hair. When I opened the door I was looking down at the pink carpet. That's when I noticed the feet. Someone wearing green slippers was standing outside my door. I looked up slowly and realized that it was my mom. I gulped knowing it was too late to try and hide Ikuto. I mean she was looking right at him there wasn't much I could do. But I'm sure she would understand my reason for helping him. Although she might not like the fact that I hid him in my room… or that I slept next to him.

"Uh um m...Mama what are you doing home?" I asked stuttering. She was tapping her foot impatiently, her arms crossed over her chest. I sighed knowing excuses wouldn't work.

"Well Amu what is this boy doing here?" she asked. I sighed and knew I would have to tell her everything.

Me, my mother, and Ikuto sat at the kitchen table as I explained the events that had taken place the day before, of course omitting the fact that I had fallen asleep in the same bed as Ikuto. And the fact that most of his injuries weren't from the fight. When I was done she sighed and looked down.

"Thank you for taking care of my daughter Ikuto-kun. And yes it was the right thing to do taking care of your injuries like she did… but amu honey why didn't you tell me?" the tone of her voice filled me with guilt and I found myself looking down wishing I had told her.

"I'm sorry mama you looked so peaceful last night. And this morning you were trying to get ready to go to work. Please let him stay mama he's got nowhere else to go, and he doesn't know his way around the city." I begged. He saved my life the least I could do was give him a place to stay.

"Fine but he'll be staying in Ami's room and Ami will stay with Me." she said standing up. "We'll talk about this more when I get home. Take some of your father's old clothes and trade them for some that will fit Ikuto-kun. "She said before grabbing her things and hurrying back to work.

I was so happy that I jumped into Ikuto wrapping my arms around his neck. He stiffened as did I. I let go quickly and looked away my face was burning.

"S…so…sorry" I stuttered glad that he didn't seem to know what blushing meant.

"Erm that's ok…." He said seeming just as embarrassed. Maybe his instincts embarrassed him or something.

"ah um you wanted me to cut your hair short right" I asked smiling. He paused for a moment thinking, and then he nodded.

"yeah I think I can trust you for now" he said watching me the wariness gone from his gaze.

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