My first Shugo Chara fanfic, and I warn you, it is very dark and sad.

Summary: Amu's life is going through dark turmoil. She accidentally takes her frustrations out on her Charas and she is left alone. Soon her outer character isn't just for show. Can her old friends and enemies return her to her usual self? Main Pairing: AmuXIkuto.

Chapter 1-How it All Started

In movies, something drastic happens to the main character changing his or her life. In one day, their life could go from being absolutely perfect, to horrible. They would talk to someone, and then not expect that to be their last meeting. Also, in most movies, whenever someone dies, its either at night or raining or both. But no one has to worry. That crap only happens in movies, right?

Dead. Wrong.

Amu Hinamori. Walking away from the scene of a horrible accident. Rain falling. Soaking her. The night air cool. Blood is all over her, though she herself is not injured. Her eyes wide with shock and clouded with hopelessness and deep thought of how she had survived.

When she got home, she pulled out her keys and let herself in. After taking over her mud-covered boots, she went into the living room and put on the television.

"Breaking News!" the news lady said. "There has been a report of a fatal car crash." Footage of a car was being shown, a phone pole that had landed smack dab on top of it, crushing it. It was her family's car. "It has been announced that there are no survivors." Then more footage came on with police pulling the bodies out. "It seems that the victims were two adults and a small girl." They were mangled and torn and bloodied everywhere, unrecognizable, but Amu knew them.

She gasped at what she was watching and covered her mouth with her hands. "Mama. Papa. Ami!" she barely got the words out because she was trying to choke back tears; they spilled out of her eyes anyways.

"No, Amu-chan shouldn't be watching this," Ran said and Miki turned off the television.

Amu got up and went into the kitchen. She glanced around. She needed a different pain. Any other pain would be better than the weight of her family's death. A box-cutter caught her eye. 'Perfect.' She rested her left arm on the table and began to carve into it words of pain.

"Amu-chan! Amu-chan! Stop! You mustn't do that!" Her Charas were yelling at her, but she didn't give a damn.

"Do something else, please, l-like dance," suggested Ran.

"Or draw."

"Or cook."

These words had struck her. "What the hell is wrong with you three?" she asked them coldly. She paused from cutting herself. You do all that shit when you are happy. My family is all dead. Do you expect me to be happy?!" She began chopping away the flesh on her arm. It hurt like hell, but she didn't care. Blood gathered in a pool on the table. Her vision became blinded by tears.

"Amu-chan! Amu, Amu, Amu, AMU!!"

"SHUT YOUR GODDAMN SELVES UP!!"

Amu's first victim was Suu. She grabbed the little blond-haired girl and held her hand over her face long enough for the poor thing to suffocate to death. As Suu was dying, Amu felt something else inside her die as well.

"Miki, get help! Get Yoru and Kisekei!" commanded Ran.

"YOU THINK I NEED HELP?! And your not going anywhere!" She grasped Miki and through her down the trash disposer and pressed the button that would usually grind up the garbage. A blood-curdling, dying scream could be heard over the loud grinding. Blood spurted out and onto the floor.

"Miki! Amu-chan, you've gone completely insane!"

"So what?" She took Ran and held her down against the table.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, NO!!"

"SHUT UP!!" she took the box-cutter and decapitated her first Chara.

"G-good...bye...A-Am-mu," Ran's disembodied head spoke with her last dying gasp.

Then there was silence.

Amu woke up from her state of insanity and saw what she had done. "Ran? Miki? Suu?!" With her Charas dead, she felt like she herself were dying, but she wasn't. She remained alive no matter how much she wished to be part of the deceased. Now she was alone. Truly alone. "No..." Amu fell to her knees and cried herself to sleep in the middle of the kitchen where she had murdered her Charas.

(End Chapter 1)

I warned that it would be dark. What is Amu gonna do to herself now? Can her friends help her? Please review and await the next chapter.