Shugo Chara Fan Fiction ❯ Chara-mari: Lonesome Hearts ❯ Chapter 5: Dream Castles Crumble ( Chapter 5 )
[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
By: Pinkit 
Amu's visit to Tadase's goes sour. Warning: Adult situations inside.
Anime/Manga: Shugo Chara Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Fanfiction Sequel | Uploaded On: 04.11.2010 | Pages: 7 | Words: 6.1K | Visits: 230 | Status: Work In Progress
Amu's visit to Tadase's goes sour. Warning: Adult situations inside.
Anime/Manga: Shugo Chara Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Fanfiction Sequel | Uploaded On: 04.11.2010 | Pages: 7 | Words: 6.1K | Visits: 230 | Status: Work In Progress
A/N: Yo! I'm back with the longest chapter ever! I felt bad about having thought of making it two chapters so...I just let it take its course and become a mondo chapter! A thanks to all those lovely people who have added my story to their favs/and have reviewed, lots of love for everybody who reads it! I love, love, love hearing from you all!
Warning: Adult themes in this chapter, if you are easily affected by it, do not read it.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Shugo Chara - Peach-Pit does.
OST: Nirvana unplugged - Come as You are/
Metallica The House the Jack Built/
Metallica - King Nothing/
Pink - Sober/. (the songs have an order to them, you will understand later).
A shoutout to my friend HikaruLychee GET WELL SOON LUV! :3
On to the fun stuff then!
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- Chara Mari: Lonesome Hearts -
- Chapter 5: Dream Castles Crumble -
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I once had a dream...
Of being the ruler of my own world, of my own kingdom, be it big or small...
I wanted to rule the world because it was the only thing that made sense...
It was the only way to be able to rule on who could be happy and who would pay for other peoples suffering.
In my world I only thought of what I wanted, of how I wanted everything to be,
Nobody else’s' opinion mattered.
Along came a special someone that changed my point of view.
She showed me it was important to not take everybody else for granted, that they had feelings.
She showed me to trust.
To love.
To cherish.
To protect.
To value.
I built a dream around her; we lived together in a grand castle all types of riches at our finger tips.
One day came a knight in shinning armor with his loyal steed to rescue her from my frivolous dreams.
That day the castle crumbled.
That day I became, who I am now.
He lay propped against the far end wall of his room, having left the shades down and the light off the only source of brightness in the room was the small silvers of light that crawled under the door as his parents walked around getting their things ready for a picnic in the park.
His grandmother was feeling better and had requested to be taken out for a while. His parents happily following thru on the request and his mother came up with a last minute picnic. The peach blossoms were starting to bloom "and the ambiance would be lovely" his mother had claimed.
He ran his hand down the smooth skin of his chin, the weather was fair, indeed it was a perfect day to engage in outdoor activities, but the weather did not match his mood today. He had gotten a text message from her last night, "she is visiting me today, she needs to tell me something..."
Of course Tadase wasn't a fool to believe that Amu didn't feel anything of the amorous nature for his onii-chan, "pfft! My so-called brother! Brothers don't betray themselves, and flirt with their brothers' girlfriends!"
He tossed his phone across the room, the thin piece of metal and plastic of the screen and cover shattering on impact. No matter how many calls or emails he sent her she never answered them. He called his house and she never came to the phone. He felt the pang of jealousy inside his heart; his emotions swirled inside his soul, hatred, jealousy, longing, pain, betrayal...
He ran a hand thru his messy ash-blond hair. Wisps of it fell covering his eyes, his normally sparkling chocolate colored eyes filled of an ugly, heartless emotion.
A knock resounded thru the shoji door, "Tadase-kun we are leaving now, are you sure you don't want to come with us?"
He sighed expelling air thru his teeth, "No thank you mother, I am expecting company later today."
His mother covered her heart with her closed hand, "a visitor? Ah, school friend?"
"Hai Okaa-san" he answered.
Hopefully her son and his girlfriend would resolve whatever issue had come between them. Her son had gone from soft mannered and caring to a dark quiet, bottled up person before her withering eyes.
She lowered her head in defeat not knowing how to help him get thru this and walked to the waiting family car outside of the mansion, her husband and mother-in-law already aboard it.
It looks like today they won't be the whole family again as they used to be.
Tadase idly watched the car as the chauffeur drove it out of the winding parking lot, the maid closed the wooden front gate that lead to the mansion before getting in the car, as she would be accompanying his parents in case his grandmother felt under the weather and needed assistance in any way.
If he was going to be told off, he would prefer to not have an audience. Tadase lowered his head to his bare chest. His long unruly bangs covering his somber face.
And then as if planned, the electronic door bell rang.
"Let the show begin." He smirked as he stood up and put on a thin white cotton t-shirt.
The blue chara egg decorated with a yellow crown which sat on a small pillow in the corner of the room twitched unnoticed by its owner...
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Amu frowned as she glanced out of the passenger’s side window, just as Utau hand mentioned it, they were parked right outside of the Hotori mansion in the upper class side of town. not surprisingly since Utau drove like a bat out of hell, she stole a glance over at her blonde friend and saw her worried expression. Amu sucked in her lower lip, and cleared he throat as she gathered her purse and pulled the lever for the door to open, but it hissed and popped out, then upward before she reached the control.
Utau smirked at her surprised expression and reminded her that the car did have automatic locks and so forth. "Amu-chan, don’t fret about it, just go in there and say what you have to say, the rest is history. Just tell him how you feel, and about the trip, let him feel however he wants to feel. Don’t let him make you feel guilty."
Amu idly nodded and stepped out of the car, her charas quickly flying out after her glad to be out of the death-bringer on wheels. Utau throttled the engine while the door to the passenger’s side lowered itself automatically. She rolled down the window halfway so only her jeweled eyes could be seen thru the open space. "Hey Amu, remember to call me so I can pick you up after you are done talking to him. You've got your phone with you right?"
Amu nodded a worried expression on her face as she glanced at the looming doors of Tadase's house. "Hai, Utau-chan, I promise I'll call you when i am done speaking to Tadase-kun."
Utau felt weird inside like she needed to protect Amu from any selfish or stupid comment the prince might go after as a cheap shot to not let her get away from him. But she decided to let Amu try to handle things on her own first. She pushed the control to roll up the window and took a last glance at Amu before slowly driving away, hitting the speed-dial for Kukai on the cars' sound system that was tied by Bluetooth to her state of the art cell phone.
Kukai picked up on the second ring, "Oi angel, I've missed you, were have you been love?"
Utau sighed contentedly and answered, "I've missed you too koi, I've been busy visiting the Hinamoris seeking and approval from Amu's parents so she can come along on the tour."
Kukai hummed in an understanding tone, "I see so did they?"
Utau shifted gears as she turned into the main street, "Yes, they took the news quite well, I followed Yukari-sempais' advice to take the permit paperwork with me, that way I wouldn’t have to go back and forth between her office and Amu's house in the same day. They signed and stamped them right after they both agreed to my proposal to take her on tour with me. Her mother was extremely happy, since she knew about the situation between Amu-chan and Ikuto-kun."
Kukai smiled; as he too had met Mrs. Hinamori on various occasions when she invited him over to dinner, the first time of many was to question him on Ikuto's intentions with her daughter.
"She is a sweet caring mother, I've hade the chance to meet her before, that’s why that does not surprise me." "So what is Amu doing now? You two aren't back at the mall leaving the racks bare are you?"
Utau giggled, her boyfriend knew her every move, "No baby, I just drove Amu to Tadase's house so she could talk the trip over with him. I hope he doesn't get melodramatic as always with her, the Jerk..." Utau bit the inside of her lip as she thought of the overbearing man the sweet meek Tadase had become, stalking Amu day and night for a good amount of time before she told her a while back. Kukai had dealt it to him to lay off the emotional crap for a while. She bit the inside of her cheek as she speed thru a red-light on purpose, the small rush of doing something illegal doing nothing to quell her anxiety. IL squealed in giddy contempt as little black wings appeared on top of Utau's pigtails.
Kukai could feel it in her voice as she spoke, she was worried about her best friend and Tadase, hoping he didn't do anything brash he sighed and tried calming his girlfriend down, "listen baby girl, Iknow you are worried about her but you need to let her try to work it out with the guy first. If not, Amu has us to trust in, we'll step in if stuff gets ugly right?"
Utau sighed, feeling the worry leave her for the time being but not all together, "O.k. champ I'll trust what you say, but if he gets out of line I'll tear him a new one for making her feel guilty about this! I mean he is the one making her fear her shadow sometimes, you saw how she was acting yesterday right?! Looking over her shoulder to see if he would pop out of thin air!"
Kukai groaned, knowing she was still worked up, "Hey angel, how about we meet up at that Ramen place you love? Let’s have a contest between us to see who can eat the most!"
Utau grinned, he always knew how to cheer her up, "O.k. lover, I’ll race you there, the last one to get there pays the tab!" she cheered, as he laughed out loud, only Utau could go from worried to hungry in a fraction of seconds. He took off in a run and tossed his dirty soccer practice t-shirt on the locker hamper and rushed to shower and change. Meahwhile Utau made a nasty U-turn at a busy intersection and gunned the engine towards the mentioned restaurant.
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Amu trudged up the stone walkway towards Tadase's house, she bit her lip in worrisome anticipation while ringing the doorbell and waiting for a response. A couple of minutes passed and she rang again, the wooden gate swung open she called out to see who had opened, but no one was around.
"Hello is anybody there?" she cautiously stepped around the walkway towards the main house, "Mrs. Hotori? Grandma-Hotori? Tadase-kun?" nobody answered.
She arrived at the front door of the main house, the large traditional Japanese garden looming over her, a bit too quiet for her liking at the moment, the silence pressed her on to search for another person in the large property, her heartbeat thundered in her ears, she saw a shadow out of the corner of her eye, the front door quickly slid open. Finally somebody was there, she had not come in vain, and it was strange since she had told Tadase-kun she would be visiting today.
"Ah! Amu-chan! I knew I heard somebody open the front gate."
Amu quickly spun around, her heart having skipped a beat from the unintentional surprise. "T-Tadase-kun?!"
She thought she saw him smirk at her nervous stance. She took an unconscious step back - her mind reeling, 'is he trying to scare me purpose?'
He smirked knowing she felt anxious one more thing in his favor, she would be easily convinced.
"Welcome to my house Amu-chan, please step inside." he motioned for her to step thru the front door and into the genkan, she took time removing her sandals, slipping her dainty feel into house slippers, while her heartbeat slowly skid back to its regular languid pace; he sat observing her the whole time his shadowed, calculating semblance going unnoticed by her.
Tadase pocketed his fists and cleared his throat, "So would you like something to drink? A cup of tea, or better yet, I think mother made orange juice this morning..."
Amu smiled, Tadase always knew how to soothe her when she was nervous. "A glass of juice sounds nice, thank you."
Tadase bowed his head just barely, and disappeared behind the swinging kitchen door. Amu made herself comfortable on a cushion next to the low table. She heard no noise from the halls behind the shoji screens, no voices from the other rooms.
She gulped, trying to convince herself that her imagination was getting the best of her, as she saw the sly smirk on Tadase's face when he looked at her from behind the glass panel on the kitchen door.
He walked over to the table and placed a small tray with a pitcher of juice two glasses and a few assorted types of cookies on the table. He sat down across from her; a calm facade adorned his face. He had matured into quite a handsome young man. His wide shoulders, muscular arms and legs, and trim waist along with his lovely face making the ladies swoon everywhere he went.
Quite the playboy.
And just before a few weeks ago he had been quite the charming gentleman. "Quite the catch," she had heard somebody comment in hushed tones about him one of the times he asked her out on a date and they were walking along the sidewalk together.
He quietly observed her, knowing she was here to speak about their relationship he narrowed his eyes trying to figure out how long it would take her to brave it out and tell him about it. Tadase smiled at her as he poured two glasses of iced orange juice, offering her one, "Here Amu-chan, enjoy."
She took the glass and drank from it, her lower lip trembling, "This is sure refreshing, thank you Tadase-kun."
"I'm glad you like it."
The sat in uncomfortable silence as he stared at her, while she had to fight back the strange urge to lean away from the table to get away from him.
"S-Say Tadase-kun, I actually came to visit you because I wanted to speak to you about something..." Amu’s charas all huddled in the corner watching the odd conversation.
He nodded as he starred out of the window. "I'm listening Amu-chan, I’m sure you will tell me anything that is bothering you, right?" He blinked, and fixed his molten chocolate colored eyes on her, she felt them eat away at her soul. She felt guilty for wanting to break up with him, because he had been such a good friend. "But now..."
She put her half empty glass on the table the juice sloshed around while the partially melted ice cubes clinked in the glass, while she busied herself making nervous motions with her hands trying to find the confidence to come out and spring the news of the trip on him, so she could leave.
Then it happened all too quickly.
One minute Amu was waving her hands around in front of her.
Then she clumsily knocked over the glass of juice, she went to reach for it and it and it spilt over towards her end of the table and fell drenching both her top and skirt. The ice cubes prickling her skin.
She had not felt Tadase reach under the table and tilt it towards her so the glass would fall towards her.
"Oh dear, Amu-chan hold on, let me go get something to help you clean up." He said as he stood up and quickly walked into the kitchen as the silence was marked by the swinging kitchen door creaking on its hinges.
Amu pouted while she plucked the ice cubes from her ruined skirt and dropped them in her now empty glass sighing, "Dammit! I always do stupid stuff like this!" she puffed her cheeks out exasperated at herself. She felt icky as the juice ran down her legs and pooled in front of her soaking the expensive grade tatami mats.
Tadase came back from the kitchen with a small wet towel and knelt next to her, wiping at her shirt all too calmly.
She blushed and tried taking the towel from him, he pulled back and she pulled at the towel too, he let his grip slacken double intentions still hidden while Amu tumbled backwards pulling him along with her. He landed atop her, his weight bearing over her, she blushed and looked away and pushed his shoulders to dislodge him from atop her.
He didn't take the hint, Tadase opted to act out of character and push his luck running his nose up the velvet skin of her neck planting soft kisses and whispering in her ear, "you smell quite well Amu-chan," she blushed deeper and stuttered while trying to curl away from him, "H-Haha thank you Tadase-kun, well now please let me up." She blushed and pushed at his shoulders again, embarrassed at the position they were in.
He shook his head the negative against her chest kissing and licking the exposed skin atop her shirt, Amu squealed and slapped him away managing to scratch his unblemished skin in the process, twisting his upper body and face away from sheer force and leaving red welts as evidence. "That’s enough of that Tadase! I deserve some respect!"
She sat up trying to wipe off the juice from her already spoiled clothes and went to stand up, her temper rising. He pulled her arm roughly towards him; she landed hard on her knees between his thighs, her hands on his chest. He shot his hands up capturing hers quite easily, that way she wouldn’t be able to hit him again. Amu squirmed trying to get away scowling at Tadase for the stupid things he was doing.
“Stop being pig-headed Amu-chan don’t you see I love you?”
The blue chara egg that held Kiseki inside which was still nestled atop a small pillow in his room bled from blue into a dark void color while a white X appeared atop of its surface.
"This is not funny Tadase, let me go! I don’t want to play around!"
He licked her cheek next to her lips, "That's to bad, cause I am in the mood to play around" she whipped her head away from him, unconsciously rubbing her breasts against his chest. "Hmm, do that again, I actually like it, I didn’t know you were a hidden hentai Amu-chan!" he tsk-ed against her neck, planting unwanted kisses along her jaw.
"Stop it Tadase! I didn't come here to be man-handled by you, what on earth is wrong with you?! You’ve never acted like this!" She bolted a knee up towards his crotch which he easily avoided.
He then used his weight to roll them around switching positions, leaving him atop of her, his hands pinning hers away from her body.
"I've been calling you lately, and you never answer, or you are never there, maybe you think that I don’t love you enough, who knows? My idea is let you know how much I can't be without you..." He pressed his arousal to the creamy supple skin of her thigh, his body heat acted like bolts of electricity jolting Amu of a daze.
His words hit Amu like a ton of bricks. His intentions being known now she fought back harder.
"What the hell is wrong with you-you brute?! Let me up!" She squirmed kick her legs beneath him while she tried using her body weight to push him off.
His face scrunched up into a scowl, "How is it that you readily agree to sleep with Ikuto-niichan but when it comes to me you become ill-mannered Amu-chan?"
"What does he have that I don't?!" He yelled at her referring to Ikuto while he gripped her wrists tighter, holding her chin quite stiffly between his thumb and forefinger, trying desperately to find the answer in her light gold colored eyes.
Her mind swam, “if Ikuto were here, he would already have saved me, he always showed up when I needed him the most, he always saved me from being hurt…Ikuto”
"Please let go of me Tadase!" she pleaded while pulling back at her wrists, the grip he held them with was painful, tears of helplessness formed in her eyes, and slide languidly down her cheeks.
She felt abused as he scowled down at her, leered at her, and mocked her that he had her cornered. He could ruin her life if he so wished it, he could take her virginity and her dream to do all the great things she had planned.
She choked on her words as the sentiment was too great, "w-wh-why are you doing this to me? wha-what did I ever d-do to you? is this who you r-really are T-Tadase?!"
"My dream castle, my dream...it's vanishing..."
Amu squirmed under him trying to break free her dark tinted tears flowing into her hairline smearing her makeup making her look like a emotion-driven muse, "I don't want this Tadase!” she clamored, shaking her head furiously from side to side.
“I don't want you!”
I don't love you!”
“I never did!”
“Let me go!!!" she screamed from the bottom of her heart, knowing she was hurting him with her honest words, but he was doing more damage to her making her feel like a cornered animal trying to fight back, trying to stay alive, to stay safe.
The tainted chara egg flew into the room while her words seared into his brain like jolts of pain.
"My dream castle has crumbled...I stand alone, I stand scorned, ridiculed..."
He let go of her severely bruised wrists to grab tight hold of her shoulders, shaking her with each word he screamed, "You never loved me?! Is that what you are saying?! How could you?! You tricked me! You played with my heart!"
He slapped her hard across her cheek, her head snapping in rapid succession to the left while her lip busted open blood dripping onto her already soiled blouse, and she fell to the side tumbling over herself in the process, her shrill pained scream echoing throughout the premises. She tried picking herself up, her vision blurred and she flipped herself over to look up at him.
At this rate the neighbors had started looking out their windows to try to see what was going on inside the Hotori Estate.
The X-chara egg cracked and from it emerged a small void being with a side-cocked red crown and a red X on its head.
Tadase let out an evil heartless cackle, his heart was unlocked, letting out all of the ugly emotions. He transformed with the void X-chara, the transformation was that of a stoic lord, wearing a crown on the side of its head, a skull on the other. His sphere was topped with a blood red skull and his feet were lit in fire. "Chara Mari: Jaded King!"
"Foolish Harlot! I the King have found you guilty of lewd adulterous natures; I cast your fate, so I shall end your life!" He extracted a sword from its sheaf held at his waist by a belt.
"I shall behead you, and thus end your sinful life!"
The transformed Tadase took a swing with the ominous magic infused blade, which came a breath away from her neck before a purple tinted magic charged dagger bounced off the blade deflecting his attention for the few seconds Kukai needed to glide in lifting Amu's battered body and air boarding her away to safety.
Utau dressed in Full Nightmare Loreli regalia, lifted her hand and called the dagger back by magic, it flew in her waiting hand and she brandished it again against the now transformed prince.
"You got a lot of nerve jackass! Hitting a defenseless woman! How 'bout you try that with somebody of your own size douche bag!"
Utau used her bat wings to fly at him, killer intent in her eyes.
Utau had met up with Kukai at the ramen shop but while she finished her broth she felt a pang of a something calling out to her. "Helplessness" so she egged Kukai into driving along with her to Tadase's house.
She had insisted to Kukai that they drive back towards the side of the city where Tadase's house was located so they could be close if Amu called them.
They had only parked outside when they heard Amu's shrill scream as he slapped her around like a ragdoll, thanks to Utau's insistence they had arrived to the Hotori Mansion in the nick of time.
Kukai was torn between stepping between the now battling siblings, and nursing Amu which was now unconscious and sported a bloody lip and a large red bruise on her right cheek and jaw.
Utau's battle cry rang loud in the premises; she swung the dagger in a wide arch striking Tadase on the forearm, drawing first blood. She curved the dagger in an upright position trying to cleave his arm in half but he retracted in time. She followed up with a strong front kick she learned from Kukai's brother, it landed in the center of his ribs, the force she used was unearthly - call it chara transformation power but she managed to crack three ribs from sheer force she used, he choked gasping for air and collapsed to the floor.
She flicked the dagger away from her to clean the traces of blood from it and hid it in its holster strapped to her thigh. She squared off and jumped in the air calling out her attack,
"NIGHTMARE LORELEI!"
The room turned black as the ominous cloud of sheer power surged from Utau's body, black feathers bloomed and surged from behind her and aimed at Tadase, the knife sharp edges cutting at his unprotected body in rapid succession. It was a gruesome gory show, as blood spurt from every cut from his body at the same time, bathing the tatami mats and walls with the crimson liquid. Utau rejoiced in his pained gurgle.
He lost his transformation and barely held on to his consciousness. The X character ran back to its egg and hid itself inside as the egg dropped a few feet away from his prone body.
Utau walked over to it and picked the egg up, then walked over to Tadase and knelt next to him harshly slapping his cheek and pulling him up by his shirt to make him look at her. Blood spurt from his bruised mouth, "It's over now, she told me all she needed to, let me be...leave!" he screamed, hurt still layered his normal calm voice.
Utau gripped the egg more firmly ready to crush it; she figured he didn’t deserve to have dreams, if he was so ready to crush someone else’s so easily.
But she was drawn from her path of action by a soft rasped plea from behind her, "No! Please don't Utau-chan! Please stop! Don't crush his dreams!"
The blonde justice bringer was in shock, the girl lay bruised and battered in someone else's arms and she still pleaded for her attacker’s hopes and dreams to be kept intact.
"Amu how can you even think about letting this jerks' dreams be? Didn’t he just try to rape you? And you defend him? Dammit all Amu!"
Utau stood abruptly and tossed the egg at Tadase, it hit him square in the face and rolled to the side without cracking then she walked out in a huff.
Amu called after her, "You don't understand Utau-chan we all have had our dark moments, and our friends were there to remind us of which path to come back to. We are his friends, it’s our duty to make sure his hopes and dreams are intact..."
Amu glanced over to her shell-shocked chara's that were huddled in the corner. "Suu please if you may?" Suu nodded and chara transformed with Amu into Amulet Clover and they purified Kiseki's egg. She then used “Remake Honey” to restore all the damage done to the property, but not to Tadase, he would have to pay for his transgression even if it were in pain.
After all this she collapsed from exhaustion loosing her amulet transformation in the process, Kukai rapidly ran over to her and lifted her in his arms. He carried her out to his car where Utau stood leaning against it, Amu’s charas silently gliding along behind him.
"Amu rolled her head to the side to stare at her, "Utau-chan I know you don't understand, but you also had a period of time when you couldn't remember your path, I am glad I was able to help you find it again my friend..."
Utau stared at Amu in awe, this small slip of a girl had made her feel a lousy person with just a few words, but she wasn't mad at her no, she was actually glad Amu had helped her when she needed it the most.
Kukai then signaled for Utau to follow him as they took Amu to his personal Dr. to get her checked up for any serious bruises.
“C’mon angel, Amu has had enough excitement to last for the rest of the week, it’s best to get her to Dr. Utada’s right away, you best follow me and in the meantime try to think up what were are going to tell her parents? I mean it wouldn’t be in her best interest to let them see what has happened to her, being so close to traveling with you, she was supposed to be with you when this happened to her right?”
Utau huffed and pinned Kukai with an icy glare, “It’s not like I didn’t try stopping her from being alone with him you bonehead!”
Kukai placed Amu in the passenger’s seat in his car and strapped the seatbelt across her, then closed the door in the process and ran around to the driver’s side, while getting in and gunning the engine. “I’m not blaming you, heck if there is anybody to blame here it would be me for not knowing Tadase could be so bent on harming her.”
He stopped himself before shifting the car into drive, “Let’s just tell them that she is staying over at your place until tomorrow, that she is helping you get your stuff ready O.K. angel?”
Utau nodded silently pouting, while looking at a pebble next to her feet on the ground. Kukai sighed calling her over, “Hey, come here…”
She walked over to the car and leaned closer to him, he placed a hand behind her head and pulled her the rest of the way down to meet her lips in a chaste kiss then pressed his forehead to hers, “Don’t feel bad about it O.K.? we would have never been able to know he would stoop so low, let’s just help Amu thru this together alright?”
Utau nodded a bit more encouraged than before and walked away to her car, getting in and starting the engine, rapidly following her boyfriends’ Porsche that had already drifted around the corner.
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I apologize for any typos or mistakes you might find.
Ja Ne!
-Pinkit!
Warning: Adult themes in this chapter, if you are easily affected by it, do not read it.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Shugo Chara - Peach-Pit does.
OST: Nirvana unplugged - Come as You are/
Metallica The House the Jack Built/
Metallica - King Nothing/
Pink - Sober/. (the songs have an order to them, you will understand later).
A shoutout to my friend HikaruLychee GET WELL SOON LUV! :3
On to the fun stuff then!
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- Chara Mari: Lonesome Hearts -
- Chapter 5: Dream Castles Crumble -
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I once had a dream...
Of being the ruler of my own world, of my own kingdom, be it big or small...
I wanted to rule the world because it was the only thing that made sense...
It was the only way to be able to rule on who could be happy and who would pay for other peoples suffering.
In my world I only thought of what I wanted, of how I wanted everything to be,
Nobody else’s' opinion mattered.
Along came a special someone that changed my point of view.
She showed me it was important to not take everybody else for granted, that they had feelings.
She showed me to trust.
To love.
To cherish.
To protect.
To value.
I built a dream around her; we lived together in a grand castle all types of riches at our finger tips.
One day came a knight in shinning armor with his loyal steed to rescue her from my frivolous dreams.
That day the castle crumbled.
That day I became, who I am now.
He lay propped against the far end wall of his room, having left the shades down and the light off the only source of brightness in the room was the small silvers of light that crawled under the door as his parents walked around getting their things ready for a picnic in the park.
His grandmother was feeling better and had requested to be taken out for a while. His parents happily following thru on the request and his mother came up with a last minute picnic. The peach blossoms were starting to bloom "and the ambiance would be lovely" his mother had claimed.
He ran his hand down the smooth skin of his chin, the weather was fair, indeed it was a perfect day to engage in outdoor activities, but the weather did not match his mood today. He had gotten a text message from her last night, "she is visiting me today, she needs to tell me something..."
Of course Tadase wasn't a fool to believe that Amu didn't feel anything of the amorous nature for his onii-chan, "pfft! My so-called brother! Brothers don't betray themselves, and flirt with their brothers' girlfriends!"
He tossed his phone across the room, the thin piece of metal and plastic of the screen and cover shattering on impact. No matter how many calls or emails he sent her she never answered them. He called his house and she never came to the phone. He felt the pang of jealousy inside his heart; his emotions swirled inside his soul, hatred, jealousy, longing, pain, betrayal...
He ran a hand thru his messy ash-blond hair. Wisps of it fell covering his eyes, his normally sparkling chocolate colored eyes filled of an ugly, heartless emotion.
A knock resounded thru the shoji door, "Tadase-kun we are leaving now, are you sure you don't want to come with us?"
He sighed expelling air thru his teeth, "No thank you mother, I am expecting company later today."
His mother covered her heart with her closed hand, "a visitor? Ah, school friend?"
"Hai Okaa-san" he answered.
Hopefully her son and his girlfriend would resolve whatever issue had come between them. Her son had gone from soft mannered and caring to a dark quiet, bottled up person before her withering eyes.
She lowered her head in defeat not knowing how to help him get thru this and walked to the waiting family car outside of the mansion, her husband and mother-in-law already aboard it.
It looks like today they won't be the whole family again as they used to be.
Tadase idly watched the car as the chauffeur drove it out of the winding parking lot, the maid closed the wooden front gate that lead to the mansion before getting in the car, as she would be accompanying his parents in case his grandmother felt under the weather and needed assistance in any way.
If he was going to be told off, he would prefer to not have an audience. Tadase lowered his head to his bare chest. His long unruly bangs covering his somber face.
And then as if planned, the electronic door bell rang.
"Let the show begin." He smirked as he stood up and put on a thin white cotton t-shirt.
The blue chara egg decorated with a yellow crown which sat on a small pillow in the corner of the room twitched unnoticed by its owner...
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Amu frowned as she glanced out of the passenger’s side window, just as Utau hand mentioned it, they were parked right outside of the Hotori mansion in the upper class side of town. not surprisingly since Utau drove like a bat out of hell, she stole a glance over at her blonde friend and saw her worried expression. Amu sucked in her lower lip, and cleared he throat as she gathered her purse and pulled the lever for the door to open, but it hissed and popped out, then upward before she reached the control.
Utau smirked at her surprised expression and reminded her that the car did have automatic locks and so forth. "Amu-chan, don’t fret about it, just go in there and say what you have to say, the rest is history. Just tell him how you feel, and about the trip, let him feel however he wants to feel. Don’t let him make you feel guilty."
Amu idly nodded and stepped out of the car, her charas quickly flying out after her glad to be out of the death-bringer on wheels. Utau throttled the engine while the door to the passenger’s side lowered itself automatically. She rolled down the window halfway so only her jeweled eyes could be seen thru the open space. "Hey Amu, remember to call me so I can pick you up after you are done talking to him. You've got your phone with you right?"
Amu nodded a worried expression on her face as she glanced at the looming doors of Tadase's house. "Hai, Utau-chan, I promise I'll call you when i am done speaking to Tadase-kun."
Utau felt weird inside like she needed to protect Amu from any selfish or stupid comment the prince might go after as a cheap shot to not let her get away from him. But she decided to let Amu try to handle things on her own first. She pushed the control to roll up the window and took a last glance at Amu before slowly driving away, hitting the speed-dial for Kukai on the cars' sound system that was tied by Bluetooth to her state of the art cell phone.
Kukai picked up on the second ring, "Oi angel, I've missed you, were have you been love?"
Utau sighed contentedly and answered, "I've missed you too koi, I've been busy visiting the Hinamoris seeking and approval from Amu's parents so she can come along on the tour."
Kukai hummed in an understanding tone, "I see so did they?"
Utau shifted gears as she turned into the main street, "Yes, they took the news quite well, I followed Yukari-sempais' advice to take the permit paperwork with me, that way I wouldn’t have to go back and forth between her office and Amu's house in the same day. They signed and stamped them right after they both agreed to my proposal to take her on tour with me. Her mother was extremely happy, since she knew about the situation between Amu-chan and Ikuto-kun."
Kukai smiled; as he too had met Mrs. Hinamori on various occasions when she invited him over to dinner, the first time of many was to question him on Ikuto's intentions with her daughter.
"She is a sweet caring mother, I've hade the chance to meet her before, that’s why that does not surprise me." "So what is Amu doing now? You two aren't back at the mall leaving the racks bare are you?"
Utau giggled, her boyfriend knew her every move, "No baby, I just drove Amu to Tadase's house so she could talk the trip over with him. I hope he doesn't get melodramatic as always with her, the Jerk..." Utau bit the inside of her lip as she thought of the overbearing man the sweet meek Tadase had become, stalking Amu day and night for a good amount of time before she told her a while back. Kukai had dealt it to him to lay off the emotional crap for a while. She bit the inside of her cheek as she speed thru a red-light on purpose, the small rush of doing something illegal doing nothing to quell her anxiety. IL squealed in giddy contempt as little black wings appeared on top of Utau's pigtails.
Kukai could feel it in her voice as she spoke, she was worried about her best friend and Tadase, hoping he didn't do anything brash he sighed and tried calming his girlfriend down, "listen baby girl, Iknow you are worried about her but you need to let her try to work it out with the guy first. If not, Amu has us to trust in, we'll step in if stuff gets ugly right?"
Utau sighed, feeling the worry leave her for the time being but not all together, "O.k. champ I'll trust what you say, but if he gets out of line I'll tear him a new one for making her feel guilty about this! I mean he is the one making her fear her shadow sometimes, you saw how she was acting yesterday right?! Looking over her shoulder to see if he would pop out of thin air!"
Kukai groaned, knowing she was still worked up, "Hey angel, how about we meet up at that Ramen place you love? Let’s have a contest between us to see who can eat the most!"
Utau grinned, he always knew how to cheer her up, "O.k. lover, I’ll race you there, the last one to get there pays the tab!" she cheered, as he laughed out loud, only Utau could go from worried to hungry in a fraction of seconds. He took off in a run and tossed his dirty soccer practice t-shirt on the locker hamper and rushed to shower and change. Meahwhile Utau made a nasty U-turn at a busy intersection and gunned the engine towards the mentioned restaurant.
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Amu trudged up the stone walkway towards Tadase's house, she bit her lip in worrisome anticipation while ringing the doorbell and waiting for a response. A couple of minutes passed and she rang again, the wooden gate swung open she called out to see who had opened, but no one was around.
"Hello is anybody there?" she cautiously stepped around the walkway towards the main house, "Mrs. Hotori? Grandma-Hotori? Tadase-kun?" nobody answered.
She arrived at the front door of the main house, the large traditional Japanese garden looming over her, a bit too quiet for her liking at the moment, the silence pressed her on to search for another person in the large property, her heartbeat thundered in her ears, she saw a shadow out of the corner of her eye, the front door quickly slid open. Finally somebody was there, she had not come in vain, and it was strange since she had told Tadase-kun she would be visiting today.
"Ah! Amu-chan! I knew I heard somebody open the front gate."
Amu quickly spun around, her heart having skipped a beat from the unintentional surprise. "T-Tadase-kun?!"
She thought she saw him smirk at her nervous stance. She took an unconscious step back - her mind reeling, 'is he trying to scare me purpose?'
He smirked knowing she felt anxious one more thing in his favor, she would be easily convinced.
"Welcome to my house Amu-chan, please step inside." he motioned for her to step thru the front door and into the genkan, she took time removing her sandals, slipping her dainty feel into house slippers, while her heartbeat slowly skid back to its regular languid pace; he sat observing her the whole time his shadowed, calculating semblance going unnoticed by her.
Tadase pocketed his fists and cleared his throat, "So would you like something to drink? A cup of tea, or better yet, I think mother made orange juice this morning..."
Amu smiled, Tadase always knew how to soothe her when she was nervous. "A glass of juice sounds nice, thank you."
Tadase bowed his head just barely, and disappeared behind the swinging kitchen door. Amu made herself comfortable on a cushion next to the low table. She heard no noise from the halls behind the shoji screens, no voices from the other rooms.
She gulped, trying to convince herself that her imagination was getting the best of her, as she saw the sly smirk on Tadase's face when he looked at her from behind the glass panel on the kitchen door.
He walked over to the table and placed a small tray with a pitcher of juice two glasses and a few assorted types of cookies on the table. He sat down across from her; a calm facade adorned his face. He had matured into quite a handsome young man. His wide shoulders, muscular arms and legs, and trim waist along with his lovely face making the ladies swoon everywhere he went.
Quite the playboy.
And just before a few weeks ago he had been quite the charming gentleman. "Quite the catch," she had heard somebody comment in hushed tones about him one of the times he asked her out on a date and they were walking along the sidewalk together.
He quietly observed her, knowing she was here to speak about their relationship he narrowed his eyes trying to figure out how long it would take her to brave it out and tell him about it. Tadase smiled at her as he poured two glasses of iced orange juice, offering her one, "Here Amu-chan, enjoy."
She took the glass and drank from it, her lower lip trembling, "This is sure refreshing, thank you Tadase-kun."
"I'm glad you like it."
The sat in uncomfortable silence as he stared at her, while she had to fight back the strange urge to lean away from the table to get away from him.
"S-Say Tadase-kun, I actually came to visit you because I wanted to speak to you about something..." Amu’s charas all huddled in the corner watching the odd conversation.
He nodded as he starred out of the window. "I'm listening Amu-chan, I’m sure you will tell me anything that is bothering you, right?" He blinked, and fixed his molten chocolate colored eyes on her, she felt them eat away at her soul. She felt guilty for wanting to break up with him, because he had been such a good friend. "But now..."
She put her half empty glass on the table the juice sloshed around while the partially melted ice cubes clinked in the glass, while she busied herself making nervous motions with her hands trying to find the confidence to come out and spring the news of the trip on him, so she could leave.
Then it happened all too quickly.
One minute Amu was waving her hands around in front of her.
Then she clumsily knocked over the glass of juice, she went to reach for it and it and it spilt over towards her end of the table and fell drenching both her top and skirt. The ice cubes prickling her skin.
She had not felt Tadase reach under the table and tilt it towards her so the glass would fall towards her.
"Oh dear, Amu-chan hold on, let me go get something to help you clean up." He said as he stood up and quickly walked into the kitchen as the silence was marked by the swinging kitchen door creaking on its hinges.
Amu pouted while she plucked the ice cubes from her ruined skirt and dropped them in her now empty glass sighing, "Dammit! I always do stupid stuff like this!" she puffed her cheeks out exasperated at herself. She felt icky as the juice ran down her legs and pooled in front of her soaking the expensive grade tatami mats.
Tadase came back from the kitchen with a small wet towel and knelt next to her, wiping at her shirt all too calmly.
She blushed and tried taking the towel from him, he pulled back and she pulled at the towel too, he let his grip slacken double intentions still hidden while Amu tumbled backwards pulling him along with her. He landed atop her, his weight bearing over her, she blushed and looked away and pushed his shoulders to dislodge him from atop her.
He didn't take the hint, Tadase opted to act out of character and push his luck running his nose up the velvet skin of her neck planting soft kisses and whispering in her ear, "you smell quite well Amu-chan," she blushed deeper and stuttered while trying to curl away from him, "H-Haha thank you Tadase-kun, well now please let me up." She blushed and pushed at his shoulders again, embarrassed at the position they were in.
He shook his head the negative against her chest kissing and licking the exposed skin atop her shirt, Amu squealed and slapped him away managing to scratch his unblemished skin in the process, twisting his upper body and face away from sheer force and leaving red welts as evidence. "That’s enough of that Tadase! I deserve some respect!"
She sat up trying to wipe off the juice from her already spoiled clothes and went to stand up, her temper rising. He pulled her arm roughly towards him; she landed hard on her knees between his thighs, her hands on his chest. He shot his hands up capturing hers quite easily, that way she wouldn’t be able to hit him again. Amu squirmed trying to get away scowling at Tadase for the stupid things he was doing.
“Stop being pig-headed Amu-chan don’t you see I love you?”
The blue chara egg that held Kiseki inside which was still nestled atop a small pillow in his room bled from blue into a dark void color while a white X appeared atop of its surface.
"This is not funny Tadase, let me go! I don’t want to play around!"
He licked her cheek next to her lips, "That's to bad, cause I am in the mood to play around" she whipped her head away from him, unconsciously rubbing her breasts against his chest. "Hmm, do that again, I actually like it, I didn’t know you were a hidden hentai Amu-chan!" he tsk-ed against her neck, planting unwanted kisses along her jaw.
"Stop it Tadase! I didn't come here to be man-handled by you, what on earth is wrong with you?! You’ve never acted like this!" She bolted a knee up towards his crotch which he easily avoided.
He then used his weight to roll them around switching positions, leaving him atop of her, his hands pinning hers away from her body.
"I've been calling you lately, and you never answer, or you are never there, maybe you think that I don’t love you enough, who knows? My idea is let you know how much I can't be without you..." He pressed his arousal to the creamy supple skin of her thigh, his body heat acted like bolts of electricity jolting Amu of a daze.
His words hit Amu like a ton of bricks. His intentions being known now she fought back harder.
"What the hell is wrong with you-you brute?! Let me up!" She squirmed kick her legs beneath him while she tried using her body weight to push him off.
His face scrunched up into a scowl, "How is it that you readily agree to sleep with Ikuto-niichan but when it comes to me you become ill-mannered Amu-chan?"
"What does he have that I don't?!" He yelled at her referring to Ikuto while he gripped her wrists tighter, holding her chin quite stiffly between his thumb and forefinger, trying desperately to find the answer in her light gold colored eyes.
Her mind swam, “if Ikuto were here, he would already have saved me, he always showed up when I needed him the most, he always saved me from being hurt…Ikuto”
"Please let go of me Tadase!" she pleaded while pulling back at her wrists, the grip he held them with was painful, tears of helplessness formed in her eyes, and slide languidly down her cheeks.
She felt abused as he scowled down at her, leered at her, and mocked her that he had her cornered. He could ruin her life if he so wished it, he could take her virginity and her dream to do all the great things she had planned.
She choked on her words as the sentiment was too great, "w-wh-why are you doing this to me? wha-what did I ever d-do to you? is this who you r-really are T-Tadase?!"
"My dream castle, my dream...it's vanishing..."
Amu squirmed under him trying to break free her dark tinted tears flowing into her hairline smearing her makeup making her look like a emotion-driven muse, "I don't want this Tadase!” she clamored, shaking her head furiously from side to side.
“I don't want you!”
I don't love you!”
“I never did!”
“Let me go!!!" she screamed from the bottom of her heart, knowing she was hurting him with her honest words, but he was doing more damage to her making her feel like a cornered animal trying to fight back, trying to stay alive, to stay safe.
The tainted chara egg flew into the room while her words seared into his brain like jolts of pain.
"My dream castle has crumbled...I stand alone, I stand scorned, ridiculed..."
He let go of her severely bruised wrists to grab tight hold of her shoulders, shaking her with each word he screamed, "You never loved me?! Is that what you are saying?! How could you?! You tricked me! You played with my heart!"
He slapped her hard across her cheek, her head snapping in rapid succession to the left while her lip busted open blood dripping onto her already soiled blouse, and she fell to the side tumbling over herself in the process, her shrill pained scream echoing throughout the premises. She tried picking herself up, her vision blurred and she flipped herself over to look up at him.
At this rate the neighbors had started looking out their windows to try to see what was going on inside the Hotori Estate.
The X-chara egg cracked and from it emerged a small void being with a side-cocked red crown and a red X on its head.
Tadase let out an evil heartless cackle, his heart was unlocked, letting out all of the ugly emotions. He transformed with the void X-chara, the transformation was that of a stoic lord, wearing a crown on the side of its head, a skull on the other. His sphere was topped with a blood red skull and his feet were lit in fire. "Chara Mari: Jaded King!"
"Foolish Harlot! I the King have found you guilty of lewd adulterous natures; I cast your fate, so I shall end your life!" He extracted a sword from its sheaf held at his waist by a belt.
"I shall behead you, and thus end your sinful life!"
The transformed Tadase took a swing with the ominous magic infused blade, which came a breath away from her neck before a purple tinted magic charged dagger bounced off the blade deflecting his attention for the few seconds Kukai needed to glide in lifting Amu's battered body and air boarding her away to safety.
Utau dressed in Full Nightmare Loreli regalia, lifted her hand and called the dagger back by magic, it flew in her waiting hand and she brandished it again against the now transformed prince.
"You got a lot of nerve jackass! Hitting a defenseless woman! How 'bout you try that with somebody of your own size douche bag!"
Utau used her bat wings to fly at him, killer intent in her eyes.
Utau had met up with Kukai at the ramen shop but while she finished her broth she felt a pang of a something calling out to her. "Helplessness" so she egged Kukai into driving along with her to Tadase's house.
She had insisted to Kukai that they drive back towards the side of the city where Tadase's house was located so they could be close if Amu called them.
They had only parked outside when they heard Amu's shrill scream as he slapped her around like a ragdoll, thanks to Utau's insistence they had arrived to the Hotori Mansion in the nick of time.
Kukai was torn between stepping between the now battling siblings, and nursing Amu which was now unconscious and sported a bloody lip and a large red bruise on her right cheek and jaw.
Utau's battle cry rang loud in the premises; she swung the dagger in a wide arch striking Tadase on the forearm, drawing first blood. She curved the dagger in an upright position trying to cleave his arm in half but he retracted in time. She followed up with a strong front kick she learned from Kukai's brother, it landed in the center of his ribs, the force she used was unearthly - call it chara transformation power but she managed to crack three ribs from sheer force she used, he choked gasping for air and collapsed to the floor.
She flicked the dagger away from her to clean the traces of blood from it and hid it in its holster strapped to her thigh. She squared off and jumped in the air calling out her attack,
"NIGHTMARE LORELEI!"
The room turned black as the ominous cloud of sheer power surged from Utau's body, black feathers bloomed and surged from behind her and aimed at Tadase, the knife sharp edges cutting at his unprotected body in rapid succession. It was a gruesome gory show, as blood spurt from every cut from his body at the same time, bathing the tatami mats and walls with the crimson liquid. Utau rejoiced in his pained gurgle.
He lost his transformation and barely held on to his consciousness. The X character ran back to its egg and hid itself inside as the egg dropped a few feet away from his prone body.
Utau walked over to it and picked the egg up, then walked over to Tadase and knelt next to him harshly slapping his cheek and pulling him up by his shirt to make him look at her. Blood spurt from his bruised mouth, "It's over now, she told me all she needed to, let me be...leave!" he screamed, hurt still layered his normal calm voice.
Utau gripped the egg more firmly ready to crush it; she figured he didn’t deserve to have dreams, if he was so ready to crush someone else’s so easily.
But she was drawn from her path of action by a soft rasped plea from behind her, "No! Please don't Utau-chan! Please stop! Don't crush his dreams!"
The blonde justice bringer was in shock, the girl lay bruised and battered in someone else's arms and she still pleaded for her attacker’s hopes and dreams to be kept intact.
"Amu how can you even think about letting this jerks' dreams be? Didn’t he just try to rape you? And you defend him? Dammit all Amu!"
Utau stood abruptly and tossed the egg at Tadase, it hit him square in the face and rolled to the side without cracking then she walked out in a huff.
Amu called after her, "You don't understand Utau-chan we all have had our dark moments, and our friends were there to remind us of which path to come back to. We are his friends, it’s our duty to make sure his hopes and dreams are intact..."
Amu glanced over to her shell-shocked chara's that were huddled in the corner. "Suu please if you may?" Suu nodded and chara transformed with Amu into Amulet Clover and they purified Kiseki's egg. She then used “Remake Honey” to restore all the damage done to the property, but not to Tadase, he would have to pay for his transgression even if it were in pain.
After all this she collapsed from exhaustion loosing her amulet transformation in the process, Kukai rapidly ran over to her and lifted her in his arms. He carried her out to his car where Utau stood leaning against it, Amu’s charas silently gliding along behind him.
"Amu rolled her head to the side to stare at her, "Utau-chan I know you don't understand, but you also had a period of time when you couldn't remember your path, I am glad I was able to help you find it again my friend..."
Utau stared at Amu in awe, this small slip of a girl had made her feel a lousy person with just a few words, but she wasn't mad at her no, she was actually glad Amu had helped her when she needed it the most.
Kukai then signaled for Utau to follow him as they took Amu to his personal Dr. to get her checked up for any serious bruises.
“C’mon angel, Amu has had enough excitement to last for the rest of the week, it’s best to get her to Dr. Utada’s right away, you best follow me and in the meantime try to think up what were are going to tell her parents? I mean it wouldn’t be in her best interest to let them see what has happened to her, being so close to traveling with you, she was supposed to be with you when this happened to her right?”
Utau huffed and pinned Kukai with an icy glare, “It’s not like I didn’t try stopping her from being alone with him you bonehead!”
Kukai placed Amu in the passenger’s seat in his car and strapped the seatbelt across her, then closed the door in the process and ran around to the driver’s side, while getting in and gunning the engine. “I’m not blaming you, heck if there is anybody to blame here it would be me for not knowing Tadase could be so bent on harming her.”
He stopped himself before shifting the car into drive, “Let’s just tell them that she is staying over at your place until tomorrow, that she is helping you get your stuff ready O.K. angel?”
Utau nodded silently pouting, while looking at a pebble next to her feet on the ground. Kukai sighed calling her over, “Hey, come here…”
She walked over to the car and leaned closer to him, he placed a hand behind her head and pulled her the rest of the way down to meet her lips in a chaste kiss then pressed his forehead to hers, “Don’t feel bad about it O.K.? we would have never been able to know he would stoop so low, let’s just help Amu thru this together alright?”
Utau nodded a bit more encouraged than before and walked away to her car, getting in and starting the engine, rapidly following her boyfriends’ Porsche that had already drifted around the corner.
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