Amu sat on the couch. A blanket wrapped around her shoulders, her head rested on her knees and her pink hair fell in front of her face. Kuro and Kero sat on either side of her worried expressions on both of their faces.
"Amu will you tell us now what all that was about, they like transformed and had weird powers… how did they do that Amu?" Kero asked pushing his gold hair out of his face. Kuro nodded agreeing with his twin.
"Yeah start explainin Amu then you can go all emotional" Kuro said with an idiotic smile. Amu punched his arm and sat up looking between the two of them.
"Alright fine I'll tell you…. But its going to be pretty hard to understand since you can't see them" Amu said looking at the charas who sat on the table in front of her. Her brothers followed her gaze and gave her a strange looks, unable to see what she was talking about.
"Well since we can't see why you don't tell us already" Kuro said rolling his eyes. Amu elbowed him in the ribs and stood up.
"Well you see all kids have this um egg... and it's supposed to well um…" Amu scratched her head trying to think of a good way to explain it. Dia pulled on Amu's sleeve and smiled up at her.
"Just tell them what I say" Dia said. Amu smiled at her and nodded.
"It's like this all kids have and egg in their heart, the egg of their dreams their would-be-self. That they haven't realized yet. And when a child wishes to know their true self the egg appears in front of them. That egg then hatches and a chara is born. The child who the egg was born from can character change with that chara and their character changes to become like the charas… what you guys saw was a character transformation. When the human and their chara combine… thanks Dia" she said repeating everything that Dia said. Her brothers stared at her looking extremely confused.
"So… you have one of those chara things and so does Ikuto and that Tadagay kid" Kero said trying to make sense of it all. Amu nodded.
"Well actually I have four chara's… Ran, a sports girl, Miki, an artsy girl, Suu, whose into all the home economics, and Dia, a singer. Ikuto has Yoru, a cat, and Isis; I think she's a panther or something. And his name is Tadase" Amu said glad that they where at least trying to understand what she was telling them about.
"I know what his name is" Kero said with a smirk. Amu giggled and jumped on her older brother's lap. Kero laughed and tickled her. Kuro jumped up and started to help. Amu laughed uncontrollably. Suddenly both of them stopped and looked up. Amu followed her gaze and was surprised to see that they where staring at the chara's. She sat up quickly.
"You guys can see them can't you!" she said excitedly. Kuro and Kero just nodded in disbelief. Kuro reached out and grabbed Ran's pony tail. Ran cried out and tried to escape.
"Yes see I'm not crazy now let ran go I'm the one she's going to bother if you hurt her" Amu said. Kuro let go of Ran and the flustered chara flew away and hid behind Amu.
Suddenly the door opened and Ikuto walked in looking down. Everyone got silent and Amu stood with her back to him. He looked around the room hoping to find a friendly glance but he knew none of them were even going to spare him a glance. He sighed and pulled his shoes off.
"Will one of you stop ignoring me long enough to help me look something up on that computer thing?" he asked scratching the back of his head. Amu sighed and walked over to the computer. She brought up a search engine.
"What do you want to look up?" she asked in a cold voice. Ikuto leaned on the back of the computer chair and looked at the screen.
"Tsukiyomi" He said knowing it was pointless to try and explain why. Amu typed the name in and hit enter. Many different links came up and she got up.
"There's too many there for me to read to you before I go to work. Miki will stay and help you. Kero can you walk me to work" she said walking over to the door and pulling her shoes on. Kero nodded and jumped up.
The two of them left and Ikuto sat at the computer listening to the articles that Miki read for him. Kuro lay on the couch staring at Yoru as he rolled around with a ball of yarn. Ikuto glanced over his shoulder.
"If you don't take that from him it will get everywhere" Ikuto said before going back to listening to Miki. Kuro sat up and looked at Ikuto.
"You really care about my sister don't you? To tell you the truth I wanted to beat the tar out of that guy too. But Amu's always been against violence… So what exactly are you looking up?" Kuro asked still looking at Ikuto.
Ikuto stared at the computer screen looking for anything that could jog his memory again. As he listened to Miki he heard the word Easter mentioned a lot. He wondered what it meant he knew he had heard it somewhere before but where. Suddenly his eyes came to rest on a name. Once again the pain shot through his head. He fell forward clutching his head as though that could cause the pain to go away.
Images flashed through his head, a boat, a storm, a large house and a girl with blonde hair. Every flashed through his head and he cried out once again. He curled up trying to save himself from the pain. He bit down on his lip so hard that blood started to run down his chin. Kuro jumped over the couch and knelt next to Ikuto trying to figure out the source of his pain. Miki flew out of the house hoping to catch up to Amu with Yoru close behind her.
Ikuto dug his fingers into his skin as though trying to rip out the source of his pain. Kuro carried him over the the couch and pinned his hands down so he couldn't harm himself anymore. Ikuto continued to cry out and kept trying to get at what was causing him pain.
Miki and Yoru caught up to Kero and Amu as they where about to reach the store Amu worked at. Yoru grabbed her sleeve and started to pull her back towards the house while miki tried to tell Amu what had happened. Amu grabbed both of them and covered their mouths.
"i'm going to move my fingers and one of you is going to coherently tell me what is going on" She said with a sigh. Both of the charas nodded as best as they could. Amu let them go and Miki started to talk.
"I was helping Ikuto and then suddenly he cried out and he's in alot of pain and we don't know whats wrong with him!" Miki said quickly. Yoru nodded confirming what miki had said.
"This happened earlier too. He just collapsed and he's really hurting i can tell!" Yoru said looking like he was about to cry.
"lets hurry back!" Amu said before running off. Kero ran after her.
"Amu chan Character change!" Ran yelled giving Amu more speed. She ran as fast as she could Kero struggling to keep up with her. When she reached the house she burst in and fell to her knees next to the couch. Ikuto's eyes opened and they came to rest on her but he showed no recognition. He was still struggling to free himself from Kuro's grasp and Amu could tell that Kuro couldn't hold him down much longer.
"Kero help him!" she ordered placing her hands gently on Ikuto's cheeks, trying to find some way to calm him down. She leaned forward and rested her forhead on Ikuto's.
"Ikuto please you need to calm down. We wont let you hurt yourself. If you tell me whats wrong i can try to help. But i can't do anything when your like this, i can't help you when your not my Ikuto." she whispered, hoping that her Voice would reach him. she herself had started to cry and her tears mixed with his.
She kissed him softly and felt his body relax beneith her. The twins let go of his arms and he reached up his fingers brushing gently against her cheeks.
"Amu" he muttered his eyes meeting hers. Amu smiled wiping tears from his face. She nodded and kissed him once more.
"Ikuto please tell me whats wrong" She begged pushing his hair out of his face. He wrapped his arms around her and kissed her forhead.
"i remember who i am" he said his eyes seemed to be seeing something that none of the others could see. Amu stared at him wondering what it was that he had remembered.
nuuuuu IKUTO IKUTO IKUTO! the poor guy i'm a mean writer i know. well i hope you guys like this chapter... or feel horribly bad for poor ikuto. tell me what you think ok T_T i still feel bad for writing it. well i hope you guys review ok. love you mean it ~miwa