Because That Is How We Are

Chapter 4: A Plan About Another Plan

"I can't believe they would do something like that!" Amu exploded. "I'm going to kill Nagihiko and Rima for saying that! Then I'm going to kill Ikuto for believing them!"

"Are you saying that you don't love Tadase or Kukai?" Miki hinted with a sideways glance at her sisters and Yoru.

Amu blushed a shade of red that had yet to be named.

"I never said anything like that!" she said, struggling to keep her composure—and completely failing by turning such a deep red she could pose as a tomatoe.

"Riiiiiiiiiiiight," Miki said sarcastically and Yoru snickered.

"Why you little traitor," Amu growled.

"But what are we going to do, Amu-chan?" Ran squealed. Amu's face wrinkled up in confusion.

"I hear Utau telling Ikuto that if you scrunch up your face like that you get wrinkles faster, nya," Yoru told Amu.

"WHAT??" Amu shrieked and all the charas laughed.

"But I'm serious, nya," Yoru added and everyone except for the cat chara sweat dropped.

All was quiet until Suu came back with a platter of peanut butter cookies and a little strip of catnip.

"So what are we going to do?" asked Miki slowly.

"Weh cuod teg yeowu iz e huztegh!" Ran suggested through a mouthful of peanut butter cookie.

"Don't talk with your mouth full desu," Suu scolded her sister.

"What did you even say, Ran?" Amu asked.

"We could take Yoru as a hostage," Ran repeated.

"NO!!" Miki and Yoru both shouted at the same time, one in defense and in other in utmost terror. They all knew how painfully serious and persuasive Ran could be at times.

Everyone blinked. Once. Twice. Three times and…

"I DIDN'T KNOW YOU LOVED YORU THAT MUCH," Ran all but squealed.

"Um," Miki replied vaguely. Amu rolled her eyes. As adorable as this was, there were more pressing matters at hand.

"Can we please get back to how we're going to save Ikuto?" Amu asked.

All the charas shared a glance.

"So you don't care if Tadase dies in the process?" Ran asked slyly.

"Of course I do!" Amu insisted. "It's just that I'd feel bad forever if Ikuto's plan actually works."

"And knowing Ikuto, it probably will, nya," Yoru added darkly.

"You aren't helping," Miki whispered.

Amu sighed. They were getting absolutely no where. Seriously, how hard it is to think of a plan about another plan? Well, since it was Ikuto who came up with the plan they were trying to plan about…wait what? Amu grabbed her head and groaned. This was way too much.

Mistaking her headache caused by irritation for a sign of one who is concerned about their loved one in emotional pain, Suu patted Amu on the back.

"Ikuto will be okay, desu," she said. Amu scowled.

"Whatever," she grumbled. Then an idea sparked in her mind. And then faded in a matter of seconds, inclining that it couldn't have really been a good plan after all. This happened several times before Amu decided to just give it up and that they should just play it by ear.

"Do you have a plan, nya?" Yoru asked hopefully.

"Kinda," Amu said.

"Tell us!" all four charas shouted.

"We find Ikuto and tell him to stop and tell him I wasn't even at the meeting and he is free to kill Nagihiko and Rima," Amu said proudly.

"That's very—" Suu said uncertainly.

"I don't know if—" Miki put in.

"Do you think we can find another—" Ran started.

"Your plan is horrible, nya," Yoru said as he took a bite out of another cookie. Amu's soul slowly started leaving her body.

"AMU'S SOUL!" her charas shrieked and Yoru snickered as they shook the house trying to help their pink-haired friend.

Yoru scratched the back of his head.

"Do you think we should go save Ikuto now…or at least try nya?" he asked. On cue Amu's soul popped straight back into her body and she jumped up.

"Let's go save that pervert!" she cried and marched out the door, charas following behind her, questioning her sanity.