Morg: Heyo! Yes, this is ANOTHER new story by yours truly.

Ikuto: How in the world do you have the time for this?

Amu: Yeah! You're writing 15 Shugo Chara stories now.

Morg: I don't sleep…

Ikuto: That explains a lot, actually.

Amu: Thank God you don't own us.

Morg: Enjoy this one! It's going to be a crazy ride! This starts WAY back in time. Like WAY back. Like using fires to cook food and for lights but no fancy lamps or candles back in time.

~Your Blood in Mine~

"There isn't a problem with the woman. The problem is with the spirits. Plan this seed and you'll conceive a child."

Tsumugu followed the old woman's words exactly. Nine months to the day the seed was planted, his wife, Midori, gave birth to a beautiful girl with pink hair. On that same day, the tree sprouted.

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"Midori, Midori, my dear. Where are you?"

Hearing her husband's calls, Midori rocked her baby girl in her arms. "This is the tree, Amu. This is the tree that appeased the gods and allowed us to give you life. We're going to make sure it grows up big and beautiful, just like you."

"Midori! Mid- oh there you are! What are you doing out here with little Amu-chan?"

Watching her husband walk up with a loving look in her eyes, Midori motioned towards the small amount of green above the ground. "I was showing Amu-chan her tree."

Tsumugu gently knelt to examine the small plant. "We'll take care of it too. We have much to be thankful for. Now let's get you and little Amu inside. She's barely a day old and you need to rest."

Midori allowed her husband to take the small infant out of her arms and walk them both back inside their small house. She just knew that that tree wasn't done giving her child life.

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"Tsumugu! Have you seen Amu-chan?"

The two parents began searching the house for their one year old daughter. She had only just figured out how to walk, albeit a little unsteadily still, she could go pretty far. "I don't think she's in the house!"

They widened their search and discovered their daughter playing with one of the branches of her tree. The small tree was growing just as fast as their Amu-chan and was now several feet tall. The young branches held a few cherry blossoms and Amu loved to stare at them. She spent most of her time under her tree, watching the wind blow its branches and leaves.

Her parents were glad to have found her there, but mortified that she'd managed to get outside without them knowing. They were going to have to start watching their daughter very carefully.

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"Hello Tree, its Amu-chan. Momma said not to come out here today because I'm not feeling too good, but I wanted to say hello. Have a good day, Tree-san and drink up lots of sun and water!"

Amu scurried back into her house before her mother ever knew that the ill pinkette had been outside. Snuggling deep into her blankets, Amu wished she could be outside with Tree. She loved Tree. Tree was her best friend.

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Midori let out a sob as Tsumugu held her close. The doctor just kept talking. "I've never seen this illness before. There is nothing I can do for her. Little Amu-chan has to fight this on her own or die. Those are the two options. I'm sorry."

Tsumugu couldn't figure out what went wrong. The tree was still healthy. His Amu-chan should be fine if the gods really did accept the tree as a gift for the life of their daughter.

Amu lay nearby. She could hear her parents crying and talking with the man that had poked her with his cold fingers as she dozed. Her mother had called him a doctor but Amu wasn't so sure about the man. If he was as good as her momma had said then why were they crying? Why did she feel so weak?

"Amu-chan, Amu-chan, come out and play with me."

Amu tried to sit up, she really did, but her body was too heavy. Slowly, oh so slowly she managed to roll herself over to face her room rather than her wall. The urge to be outside was so strong, the little pinkette thought that she might fly out of her bed. She wanted to know who was calling for her. She needed to know.

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"She's gone! Tsumugu! Amu-chan is gone! Where is she! Where is she?"

Tsumugu rushed to his wife's side as they frantically began searching for their sick daughter. A little girl so badly ill that she shouldn't have been able to move out of her bed. "You don't think…"

"THE TREE!"

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Amu finally made it to her beautiful tree. It had been weeks since she was allowed outside to see it and the pinkette had never felt so lonely. "Hello there Tree-san." *cough cough cough* "I'm sorry that I haven't been out to see you in a while. I miss you Tree-san." *cough cough cough*

A soft breeze blew the branches of her tree as if it was waving to her. "Amu-chan, why didn't you visit? I was lonely."

Amu struggled forwards until she collapsed against the trunk of the young tree. "Momma wouldn't let me outside. She said a dying girl doesn't need to be outside."

"But Amu-chan isn't going to die. You only need to do what I say. Can you do that, Amu-chan?"

Gripping the bark with the very little strength the four year old girl had left, she nodded. "Yes, Tree-san."

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"Amu! Amu-chan! Oh what were you thinking! Wake up Amu-chan! Let go of the tree! We need to get you back inside."

Amu fought her hardest to open her eyes. "No, Momma. I need to be with Tree-san. You must help me, Momma. Do what Tree-san says."

Midori, being at her wits end and losing her only child, slowed down to hear what the small pinkette had to say. "What does Tree-san say we should do?"

"Get a knife, Momma. Get a knife."

Midori sent Tsumugu running for one with just one look. He returned less than a minute later with the only sturdy knife the family owned. "Papa got it for you, Amu-chan."

Amu nodded and leaned her head back before raising her arms. "You must cut me with the knife. Tree-san says that it's going to hurt for just a little bit but then I'll get all better."

Tsumugu stared at his wife in horror. There was no way that he could hurt his little girl. There was also no way that he was going to make his wife do it. In one quick motion, he made too shallow cuts on his daughter's arms. Afterwards he dropped the knife and dropped to his knees. "I'm sorry, Amu-chan! I'm so sorry!"

Wanting to be able to comfort her father, Amu smiled just a little. "Tree-san says that Momma must cut into Tree-san and make the sap come out."

Midori felt a little less guilty about stabbing the blade with her daughter's blood on it into the tree than her husband felt about cutting their daughter. "What does Tree-san want us to do now, Amu-chan?"

The small pinkette lifted her heavy head and struggled with all of her might to get herself to her feet. Both her mother and father reached to help her but she stopped them. "No, I must do this part myself or else this won't work."

Midori and Tsumugu snatched back their hands and stifled sobs as their young girl managed to get to her feet and move towards the spot where the tree bled. With fascination and horror they watched as their daughter made sure that some of her blood went into the tree's wound and vice versa.

Amu collapsed once more at the base of her tree. "You can take me inside now, Momma. Tree-san said that I'll get better soon."

Wasting not a moment, Tsumugu snatched up his daughter and hurried her inside to treat her cuts. By the time they got Amu on their table and a bowl of water with a rag ready, the cuts were gone.

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Lulu, the girl that was once human called herself Lulu. Well, she had before Ikuto killed her. But hey, it was his job to make sure that regular humans didn't acquire the powers to live longer than they should. Lulu was not his first victim and she would not be his last. As the Angel of Death, Ikuto was forever hunting down those that tried to escape him.

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"Happy birthday, Amu-chan! You're six now! What are you going to wish for?"

The pinkette was all smiles on her special day. "Tree-san says not to tell you or it won't come true."

Any other parent would worry about the fact that their child talked to a tree. Midori and Tsumugu were simply used to it by now. Since the day their daughter had almost died but was saved by the tree planted to please the gods and allow her to be conceived she was constantly talking and saying that the tree could talk back. Considering that their daughter was in fact alive even after being so close to death, Midori and Tsumugu decided that they would believe whatever their Amu-chan said about her 'Tree-san'.

Tsumugu ruffled his daughter's hair and beamed at his once again pregnant wife. "I couldn't wish for anything more."

Amu giggled as she hugged her papa tight. "I love you, Papa!"

"I love you too, Amu-chan."

"Soon Amu-chan, soon enough you will have only me to love."

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"Tree-san! This is Ami! She's my new sister! Isn't she beautiful, Tree-san? I know that she'll love you just as much as I do! She's so precious."

"I'm your Tree-san, Amu-chan. Just as you are my Amu-chan. Don't forget that."

Amu sighed as she ran her hand over the bark of her tree. "I won't forget."

"Amu-chan! Bring Ami back in the house! We don't want her to get too cold!"

Without a backwards glance, Amu cooed at her younger sister as she carried the baby girl into the house. She did not notice the branches of her tree quivering without the aid of wind at the abrupt departure of the pinkette. The tree disliked it when it was ignored, especially by the pinkette. By mixing its sap with Amu's blood, the tree had linked them in a way that could only be broken if one of them were to die. The tree wasn't about to die and that meant that neither was Amu. They would be together forever. No knew siblings or her parents would prevent that. The tree only had to wait.

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Having only been to town one other time in her life, Amu-chan was excited when she and her papa returned home from the four day journey. He had told her that since she was nine now, she could go with him. The first thing the pinkette did was kiss her momma and sister hello. The second thing she did was go to talk to her tree.

"I wish that I could have taken you with me into town, Tree-san. I didn't know anyone there but Papa introduced me to some kids around my age and we had fun. There was so much to do and see in town. It was a lot of fun! I can't wait to go back!"

"Amu-chan! Don't speak like that! If you go back to town then I won't get to see you every day. Do you want that?"

Amu quieted down to do some heavy thinking. Tree-san was her only friend at her house, but she'd met so many other boys and girls her own age in the nearby village. They could all run around and play with her in a way that Tree-san couldn't. Amu felt guilty but she did want to go back and play with the other children. "I want to go back, Tree-san. You don't have to be sad when I'm away. I'll always come home to you."

"I know, Amu-chan. I just worry. The last time you were away from me for so long you got sick."

Amu didn't have to think hard about what the tree was referring to. When she was four, she almost died from an unknown illness. Only by mixing her blood with Tree-san's sap was Amu able to still be alive. A ritual that they had to repeat four times a year. Tree-san stated that it had to be done with the changing of each season. Amu no longer needed her parents to help her to complete it and when Ami was older, they'd explain everything to her. "Tree-san, I'll always do as you ask. Don't worry. I love you."

This time the tree quivered with happiness as the pinkette walked away. "I'll make sure that you love me forever, Amu."

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Morg: So there's the first chapter.

Ikuto: I hunt down humans that live too long by 'magical' means?

Amu: And I'm a human that is living too long by those 'magical' means?

Morg: Yes. Your points?

Ikuto: I thought this was an Amuto! I don't want to kill Amu!

Amu: I don't want to live forever! Especially if Ikuto can't die either!

Morg: Just wait and see you two. Calm down.

Ikuto: At least this is an M.

Amu: WHAT!

Morg: He…hehehe… review?