Yayz! This is my second (TadaseXAmu) fanfic!
Amu's POV
I've been tracing over his face in a picture, from almost three years ago, with my finger, for almost an hour laying on my stomach on my bed, nearly dying from boredom. I sighed for like the tenth time. 'Tadase, you better come back like you said you would... because... I'm still waiting for you.' I said to the picture, in my mind as if Tadase could really hear me. I've been missing him like crazy the past years. And then my mind started to replay, once again, that very day he told me he was leaving.
Flashback
It was graduation day and we were going to all join Kukai as middle schoolers the next year as seventh graders. Well except for Yaya, but all the guardians feel settled down about her since Kairi is back to be the new Jack once again. The graduation ceremony at Seiyo Elementary has just finished and we all decided to have our own party afterwards in the Royal Garden.
I sighed as I looked around the garden. I wasn't going to be able to have meetings here like usual with the other guardians anymore. Then I said aloud, "I'm sure gonna miss this place once we go to Seiyo Middle."
"But you have all of us to join you next year too, Amu-chan," Nagihiko said optimistically.
"Ah, yeah, your right." I looked over to Tadase just to find him looking uneasy. "Tadase-kun..., Daijoubu?(Are you okay?)" He looked up to me and then looked at the others with some kind of questioning look and they all nodded back at him as if they knew something I didn't know about.
"Amu-chan, I need to tell you about...something," Tadase said to me, ignoring my question then grabbed my hand to lead me to the edge of the garden, away from the others. When he stopped, he stood there facing away from me for a moment then faced me, staring straight into my eyes. I couldn't help but feel a little shy but I was also a little alarmed at the way he looked at me. "I love you, Amu." My heart nearly skipped a beat. So it was another one of his confessions...except this time he just called me
Amu. I was still wondering why he had to feel uneasy when he's done it so many times before...,but it always lifted my spirits.
I remained silent as always. "Demo(but)...that's not the only thing I wanted to tell you though." I raised my eyebrows. "Amu-chan, I'm leaving in two days." And this time my heart nearly stopped.
"W-What? You're leaving? Wh-Why?"
"My father has to do his job somewhere in the northern part of Japan. So my mother decided, she wanted me to go with her and my father..."
"A-Are you coming back?" I asked him, and I found that I was near tears.
"Its only a temporary place that my father's going to work at, so, yes, I'll be back, but I don't know when. I will be back, Amu-chan, I promise you." He put a hand on my face, brushing away my tears then leaned in and kissed my cheek gently. I could feel myself blushing furiously from head to toe but I still didn't want him to leave, even if he was going to come back.
This feeling was just like how I felt when I found out Ikuto was leaving but worse. "Write letters to me, okay?" I practically pleaded.
"Don't worry, I'll write letters telling you I love you, everyday. I won't forget once." I smiled. I knew he would keep his promise. He has to. Then he grabbed my hand and placed a bracelet in my hand. It had different colored flower petals for charms on it and I looked at him with sparkling eyes then bear hugged him.
"Thanks, Tadase!!!"
When the day came that Tadase had to leave(they're going to drive there) I came to bid him farewell with the rest of the guardians in front of his house. "You're leaving now...huh?" I admitted aloud, reluctant about the whole thing.
Tadase came up to me and said, "I found out I'll be away for at least two years but I will come back to join you at Seiyo Middle, sometime."(A/N: I'm making 9th grade be a part of middle school in Japan, kay?) I gave him an are-you-kidding-me look. '
That's freaking too long!' I thought. Then he held up my hand that was wearing the bracelet. "Wear this everyday and it will be like having me by your side everyday," he said with a lovely smile. I tried to smile back, but I knew it wouldn't be the same without him.
I found out later that his grandma's going to stay behind since she's well enough to take care of herself now and we all stood in front of Tadase's house waving after the car that was driving away from us.
End of Flashback
I sighed heavily, again. The eleventh time now. 'I really need a life,' I thought, I was laying around too much just waiting for Tadase's mail and I've saved every single piece of mail he's sent me so far. Yes I know, we could e-mail instead, but he's told me that he's not going to have his own computer over there since its only a temporary stay.(For like three years!) He hasn't sent me them everyday, but I knew he couldn't be able to do that anyways since he actually has to go to school over there. 'But then,' I thought again, 'I'd rather he skipped school than have girls fawning all over him or, worse, him falling in love with another girl...'
SLAM! I looked up from the picture on my bed--as my thoughts were interrupted-- to see my bedroom door slammed open, revealing a little, mischievous, eight-year-old girl with a small smirk on her face. I raised an eyebrow in question, then started to smile, realizing there was some kind of envelope in her hand.
"Letter for Oni-chan, from the King!" she said, saluting. I got up immediately to recieve the letter.
"Ah, arigatou, Ami-chan!" I said with sparkling eyes as I took the envelope.
"Oh, another letter from Tadase-kun! I wonder if Kiseki said anything!" said Miki, floating over by my side with the others.
"No prob!" Ami replied cheerily and kidnapped my charas but I didn't really paid any attention to that. So I continued to rip open the letter, eager to read what Tadase wrote to me:
Hello Amu-chan,
First of all,...I love you.
--(Amu:)Ah, there it was, the usual confession.(Kya!)-- And I have good news for us! My father's job is going to take its original place back again soon, so I should be able to come back right before you and the others start another school year. I wonder if there are counsels to be elected at Seiyo Middle... I'm counting on you to show me around at school, Amu.--(Amu:)I could just imagine him smiling as he wrote this...--
I just want to let you know that I really miss you so much right now. I can't wait to see you again. But when you see me, I might look a little different 'cause I look older now...its been almost three years! I can't tell you the exact date I'm going to be arriving but you'll know when I come. ;D
Await my arrival, Amu.
Love,
Hotori, Tadase
The stupidest thing is, I'm blushing at a letter again. But I can't help it...I mean I should be used to this stuff by now but no, I'm still all mushy about it. 'But I'll still be awaiting your return even if you didn't tell me you'd come,' I said in my head, talking to the letter.
Okay, now I dunno if I should make this into a longer story and add chapters because this could stand alone as a oneshot. Let me know if its good enough to be a longer story!