Artemis: Minna-san, I'm back! Here comes the Kutau story that I promised you.
Utau: Tell me why again you paired me up with Ramen Boy?
Artemis: Because you and Kukai fit together so good! Right everyone?
All the fans of Kutau stories: YES! KUTAU FOREVER!
Kukai & Utau: *sweatdrops* Okay...
Artemis: Well, before we start his story, I have to tell you guys about this story that:
- This story is rated T because of the cursing. Sorry for that, but I thought it fitted Utau's bad mood. I didn't made it that bad (I hope ^-^'), but if I did, you can just tell me.
- Utau and Kukai are in this story both 16. The ages of the others don't really matter, because they are not going to appear in this.
Artemis: Well, that was that, I believe. Oh, and I want to thank all the people who reviewed and added my other story ('What You Find, You Can Keep!') to their 'favorite stories' list. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HAPPY YOU GUYS MADE ME! *jumps happily up and down*
Rima & Nagihiko: Thank you for liking our story!
Artemis: Ok, and now: the story!
Kukai: You forget the disclaimer!
Artemis: Oh yeah, thanks Kukai. Do you please want to do it? *gives a sweet look*
Utau: Stop looking at him that way. *glares at Artemis*
Artemis: Aaah, jealous aren't we Utau? *giggels*
Kukai: Artemis doesn't own Shugo-Chara or the characters.
It Hit Me Like A Baseball
Utau P.O.V.
This day was not different than any other day. But it was different. The weather was great: no cloud was in the sky and the sun was shining like it was summer already (it just became April a few days ago). A nice breeze was blowing trough the city, and the temperature was warm enough to not wear a coat anymore. Everywhere in town, people were enjoying this perfect day in all kinds of places: in the amusement park, the open air theaters, and, of course, the park. Most of the people were in the park. Families holding a picnic, mothers walking with their little happy children, playing around and buying ice-cream for them, couples walking around and being totally in love. There was only one word to describe this day: Perfect
Damn. Wrong. This day was a perfect Disaster.
I'm sitting on a bench in the o-so-happy park. It is good that I'm wearing my sunglasses right now, otherwise if people would see my face, they would run away screaming that the devil himself has awoken. Because I'm pissed off like hell. I could kill every innocent person with just one look of my eyes and don't care a thing about it.
Oh. You may wonder why I am so angry. Let me tell you.
Ikuto rejected me. AGAIN! For the 1000th time, he turned me down! What the hell is wrong with him?
Every time he pushes me away, saying that we can't be together. That he only loves me sister like, and that there is nothing more and will never be anything more. Every time he says that, it makes me angrier, and still I come back to him. I don't know why. I think I had a reason why I loved him so much, but I have forgotten it.
It doesn't matter if I have a reason or not: Ikuto shouldn't be so freaking stubborn and realize what kind of wonderful sister he has! I'm mean, I'm the famous Hoshina Utau! The famous beautiful pop idol who sells thousands of CD's, has lots and lots of fans and has a voice that can make people go wild. Who doesn't want that kind of girl as his girlfriend? Apparently, Ikuto doesn't. He prefers more the "pink haired-blushes easily-cool and spicy outer character" kind of girl. And that lucky girl is: Amu.
You would think that I would be angry at Amu. I was! First. I was furious. I couldn't accept that there suddenly was a second girl next to me, who had Ikuto's attention. How dared she, trying to steal Ikuto away from me! Ikuto and I were together since our father left us. We were always together, helping each other, supporting each other, protecting each other and all those things that you do as brother and sister. I, of course, saw us as more that brother and sister, but Ikuto was stubborn, so he never wanted me. And then, Ikuto sees Amu and is, within seconds, completely obsessed with her! Obsessed! Yes, you hear me right! Who does that girl thinks she is?
But, as I got to know her, I learned more and more about this 'Amu'. I learned about her chara's. About her outer character. About why she joined the Guardians and became the Joker. And, in the end, about her dreams and why she wanted the Embryo. And I hate to admit this, but: I like her too. A lot.
It is almost impossible not to like her. And now Amu and I are, truly, friends (yes, you hear me right. My biggest rival and I became BF's. One of God's miracles on earth), I enjoyed it so much more than to have her as my enemy. So, I don't blame Ikuto from falling for her. I only wished it was me.
I let my breath escape and looked to the ground. Falling in love...it seems so easy. But I haven't been in love with somebody else except for Ikuto. He was the only boy I cared about for the last 10 years. But now he isn't that "interested" in me anymore, I kind of lose the only boy I ever fell in love with. And yes, I know he still loves me, but as his sister. And seeing how he is head over heels with Amu, it made it clear to me, that I wouldn't have a chance. He denies he is in love with her, but he, I'm his sister. He can't lie to me.
But what am I going to do now? Fall in love. Yes, but finding a guy that I could actually like more than Ikuto is going to be very difficult. There are probably many guys who would die if they could go on a date with me, but those guys aren't any real. They only want me, because of the fame and the money and the looks that I have. They would think: Oh look, that's the famous Hoshina Utau. She would probably be very easy. And then they would try to flirt or make out with me, or worse. I'm already getting disgusted by the thought alone. Oh no, I met enough of those losers to know what they are after.
But the other kind of guy, the guy who says that he doesn't love the 'idol-me', but the real me, wouldn't be able to handle me. He would probably try to make everything ok for me, or be scared that I will give him one of my 'go-dig-a-hole-get-in-it-and-never-come-out-again' looks when I'm mad at him. That isn't a guy, that's a wimp. A sissy. A loser. No, I don't need that kind of guy either.
But when I say that I don't want a guy who loves me for the fame, and that I don't want a guy that is scared of the real me, there aren't any type of guys left! I smacked myself on the head. Utau you will never find a guy.
I looked up to the sky, and I sighed deeply. "Will there be anyone who will fall in love with me?" I asked out loud.
The answer to my question, came seconds later. In the form of something that felt like a cannonball and was just as heavy.
Kukai P.O.V.
A little while ago...
"This day is great!" Daichi yelled.
I nodded and grinned. "It really is! The sun is shining and the wind is so nice. This day is just perfect!"
"Yeah! Just perfect to do..."
"Nothing." we said in union as we laid lazily on the grass, starring up tot the sky. I know I know, I'm known as the sporty guy, the guy that never stands still. But today, it was just different. When I saw the weather, you would expect that my mind would fill with thoughts like: Yeah, let's go out and play football! or Let's call the others to challenge them for a baseball game!
But as I said, today was different. When I went out, and Daichi asked me what we were going to do today, I told him that I didn't have a clue. So he yelled: "Let's go the park!" And since we found the perfect place to lie down, we just did. So that is what we are currently doing. Lying down and doing nothing.
"Do you think that something exciting will happen today Kukai?" Daichi asked.
I turned my head and looked at Daichi, who was lying next to me on the grass.
"What do you mean?"
"I don't know, I just don't like all this lying around and doing nothing. I want something to happen, something unexpected!"
I looked to the sky again and closed my eyes. "Well the fun with unexpected things, is that you don't expect them to happen. So I think we just have to wait for them." Daichi floated up and pouted.
"But Kukai, I want it to happen now!" he yelled.
Before I could answer, something hit me in my stomach. Hard. I gasped for air and coughed, trying to breath. Daichi yelled: "Kukai, are you okay?"
"Y-Yeah I'm fine. What was that thing that hit me?" I looked around and saw then, lying next to me, a baseball. Of all things! A baseball? I picked it up and stared at it, wondering how something so small could hurt that much.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I hope I didn't hurt you that much sir?" A little boy came running to me, looking really embarrassed and guilty. "My friend threw the ball and I thought it was going to be a hard one, so I hit it really hard, but it went out of the field and then-" I interrupted him.
"Hey, it's no problem. I just didn't see it coming, so it is more my fault for not paying attention." I said grinning. The boy looked up in surprise.
"Really? So you aren't mad at me?" the boy asked.
I laughed. "Of course not! You know what? To make it up, you have to let me play with you."
The boy stared at me, thinking I might made a joke or something. Than a smile crept into his face. "It's a deal!" He turned around and started running, with me behind him. Soon we came to the middle of the park, where a group of boys, all 7 or 8 years old with baseball clothes on, were waiting for their friend to return. The little boy ran up to them and yelled:
"You guys! This guy is going to play with us!" All the other kids stared at me, and began to cheer. I couldn't help but to smile: that little kid reminded me of myself when I was younger. All I wanted to do was to play football or baseball or any other sport all day long.
The kids quick explained in which team I was in, and before I knew, I was playing a game of baseball (a really tough game, I might add) with a bunch of 8 year olds. I know, it sounds crazy what I played with such little kids, but so what! It was sport, and the kids knew how to play. I was, of course, the best of the group, but I didn't go all the way, so it stayed fair. Time skipped, and suddenly we were at a break point: my team needed one more point, and than we would win. But we had two outs already, so I really had to hit the ball, otherwise we lost.
Hitting one ball, than is not going to be a problem! I walked up to the plat, grabbed the baseball bat and looked up to the boy who was about to throw the ball.
His arm went backwards and the grip that I had on the bat tightened. I'm definitely going to hit this one!
The ball left the boy's hand and came to me really fast. I swung the bat and I fell it made contact with the ball. The ball flew into the sky. Higher...higher...higher It's going too high!
The ball went over the threes and disappeared out of sight. I scratched my head and turned to the little boy.
"Looks like I made the same mistake as you did." The boy's face looked troubled. I pointed my thumb up. "Don't worry, I'll get it back for you! Wait one minute okay?"
I turned around and ran into the direction the ball went. I walked for a while, but I didn't see the ball anywhere. I stopped and looked around. Sheehs, where is that damn thing? Suddenly, I heard somebody scream. I walked to where the sound was coming from, and than I saw the baseball.
Only, the ball lay next to a girl.
That may seem not that worse, did it?
A girl who was cursing like hell.
Here begins the trouble.
She was kneeling on the ground and she held her head in both her hands. Her eyes were closed from the pain the baseball had coursed. The baseball that I hit and that flew into the park, and that, as it seems, hit the girl pretty hard on her head.
But here comes the worst part of all this.
That girl, that girl that I hit with my baseball, that girl had long blond hair that went down to her waist, and hang now low along with the girl's head. When she opened her eyes, I could see that they were a special kind of violet.
A very special violet that I knew way to well. (note: getting who it is?^^)
Kukai, you're screwed.
Utau's P.O.V.
Holy asghdfklasghdfklasghdfkl!
I was kneeling down on the ground cursing my head off. I'm glad that there weren't any people around, because otherwise I wouldn't be known anymore as the 'nice and innocent' Hoshina Utau. But can you blame me? My head feels like it is split into half! It hurt like hell!
'Utau!' I cracked my eyes open and stared up to the boy that was standing in front of me. Thanks to my tears, I couldn't see clearly who it was. The boy knelt beside me and grabbed my hands. He was now so close to my face, I could see a pair of emerald-green eyes looking into my mine, filled with concern and worry. I have seen those eyes before...
'Utau! Are you ok?' My eyes widened. I could recognize that voice anywhere.
'Souma?' He laughed, and now I knew for sure that it was that Ramen Boy, Souma Kukai. Nobody else has such a loud and carefree laugh as he has. I looked at him as he was kneeling in front of me, and somewhere in my mind I heard a voice squeal:
OMG! Kukai is here! And he is holding my hand! This is just so perfect!
I quickly pushed that freaky and unfamiliar voice away and looked into his face. A smile was spread across it.
'Great! You recognize me! I was afraid you lost your memory of something. And really, you can just call me Kukai Utau, I'm not calling you Hoshina-san too or something.' he said grinning.
I growled. 'Souma, I'm not in the mood for your jokes.
'Ah, sorry, my fault. Let me help you up.' He grabbed my hands and pulled me up. When I stood up, I fell like the whole world was spinning. I held my head in my hands again and shut my eyes, fighting back the pain. Damn, that thing hit me harder than I thought...What was it in the first place? Kukai probably noticed I wasn't all right, because he heard him say:
'Come on, you have to sit down.'
I didn't command as he grabbed my hand again and led me to the bench on which I first was sitting down, before something hit my head with the impact of a meteor. I sat down and putted my head between my legs. I heard that is what you have to do when you are about to faint, and since I'm close too, I thought it wouldn't hurt if I took that position. Kukai sat down next to me and I felt him starring at me again.
Suddenly, he moved forward and pulled my head towards him, so that the back of my head was now right under his nose. I yelped and yelled: 'KUKAI! What the hell do you think you're doing?'
He said nothing and moved his fingers trough my hair, like he was trying to find something. I wanted to yell at him for touching my head and playing with my hair, but that strange voice in my head interrupted me again.
OMG HE IS TOUCHING MY HAIR!
Yeah, without my permission!
Wow, I didn't expected that his grip would be that soft, I thought it would be way firmer because he is such a strong guy...
What the-? Who are you? What are you doing in my head? And why in the world should I care about Kukai's fingers?
Because you enjoy how he does that, don't you?
I do not!
Yes you do! You totally do! Don't deny it girl!
I don't care if I like his touch or not, he has to let my head go right now!
Aaah, so you like his touch don't you? *giggling*
WILL YOU SHUT IT?
Kukai's voice interrupted the fight between me and that freaky voice. 'Found it.'
'What do you me- AAAAAAH DON'T TOUCH IT YOU IDIOT!' I screamed.
Kukai had found the place where that strange object hit me. But instead of keeping his fingers away from it, he touched it. And let's say: that hurt. I tried to pull my head away from him, but he had a firm grip. Stupid Ramen Boy with his mussels of steel...He placed his hand on that of mine, and moved it to the back of my head. I could feel a huge bump being their. As I went over it, I bore my teeth: the bump was maybe smaller than I thought, but still it hurt pretty bad.
'You see? He is not that big.' Kukai commanded.
'Doesn't matter...it still hurts like hell. What was that thing that hit me anyway? It felt like a meteor or a cannonball.'
I saw Kukai looking to the ground. He let my head go, stood up, and picked something up that laid under the park-bench. He stood up again and showed me what he was holding in his hand.
A baseball.
I fell my jaw drop. 'You got to be kidding me.'
I took the ball from Kukai's hands and starred at it in disbelieve.
'How in the world is it possible that such a little thing like this, can feel like a cannonball?'
Kukai sweatdropped. For some reason he didn't want to look me in the eye. He murmured:
'Well, if this thing goes hard enough, it could hurt pretty bad.'
My head shut up and I starred in his eyes. I didn't notice, but Kukai had moved closer to me to take a better look at the ball. So when I looked up, I didn't expected to see his face so close to mine. I could see all the colors in his eyes. They weren't one kind of green, but all different kinds: forest green, the green of grass, emerald green...I had never seen such eyes before.
They look pretty nice...
They do, don't they?
Wait-what! What am I thinking? It was you again wasn't it?
I said nothing. It was all you girl.
'Utau?'
'...'
He waved his hand, and I snapped out of my confusing conversation with my strange voice.
'Sorry, I was just thinking...And how do you know that anyway?'
'How do I know what?' Kukai said wondered.
'That baseballs can be pretty hard when they hit you? I thought you were that kind of guy that is obsessed with football, like all the other guys?'
Kukai grinned and pointed his thumb to himself. 'I like all kinds of sport! Football, baseball, doesn't matter. That's why I know.'
I mentally slapped myself. Of course. How could I forget? Every time when I saw Kukai, he was always or playing football, or playing baseball or running or doing something else that was sportive. This guy lived for sport.
Suddenly, a huge grin spread across Kukai's face. 'I have an idea.'
'What is it?' I raised an eyebrow.
'Since you're all feeling better, let's go out and eat some ramen! I'm sure you will feel a whole lot better after that.'
I let my head hung. Is sport and ramen the only thing this guy thinks about?
'So, what do you say? Or...' he tapped his chin and watched me questionably '...or you just don't want to lose from such a great guy like me.'
That did it. I pointed my finger to him. 'You are on it. And for your information: I'm absolutely not going to lose.'
He said nothing. He only starred at me with a determent look in his eyes and a smile on his face as he and I ran out of the park, to the ramen shop.
Kukai you are so going down.
Artemis: And here is stops! What do you guys think?
Utau: ...What's with that strange curse that I say after that baseball hits me?
Artemis: Oh yeah, I made that curse up. I didn't want to let you say: Holy Ch*st. I thought that people who believed in God wouldn't appreciate it, so I made a random curse^^
Utau: So, letting me say 'Holy Christ' is bad, but saying 'it hurt like hell' is OK?
Artemis: *silence, looks quickly to Kukai* Kukai what did you thought of the story?
Kukai: *points his thumb up* I thought it was good! *whispers* And I'm glad you didn't let Utau find out that I was the one who hit that baseball.
Utau: It was you? Come back here Kukai! *begins to chase Kukai with a baseball bat*
Amu: Well she calls him by his name, that's a plus.
Artemis: I agree on that one Amu. Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this first part of my Kutau-story. I really liked to write this (writing about an angry Utau is hilarious xD). I hope to have the second part up ASAP, but it depends on my homework and what school is going to do to me.
Amu: Everyone, please read and review ok? *winks*