Ikuto: So you wrote another story huh.
BD: Yeah, I got stuck in the other one….
Amu: Well at least you have two stories now!
Ikuto: She hasn't even finished her first story.
BD: Well sorry, at least you have more time with Amu.
Ikuto: So is this an M?
Amu: I-ikuto!
BD: Not sure, for now it's a T depends on the later chapters, but it may turn into an M.
Ikuto: That's great! Happy reading everyone!
Amu: Well he's in a good mood….
BD: Yeah… (Disclaimer: I do not own Shugo Chara!)
"Chasing Dreams"
Chapter 1: Meeting You
AMU's POV
"Yes Mom." I said on the phone.
I just got off the plane from America, and here I am in Tokyo, Japan, to start a new life and to finally live my dreams. It has been almost five years since I have been in this place, and honestly I missed it.
My mom called once she knew I was off the plane and kept bugging me on returning home because she couldn't let her dearest daughter leave her, that and well because of my stupid debt to my step-father.
"You really don't have to do this Amu, your father was just umm… joking… about you repaying him." Her mom said in reply, she still kept on persisting that her step-father was kidding, and she should just return home.
"You know I won't believe you right? I mean seriously, I could care less if he was kidding or not, the point is I am going to prove to him that I don't need him and I can handle myself on my own."
"But-" she was starting to say but someone cut her off.
"Honey! Who is that?" a deep voice shouted.
'Bleh, honey my ass, he will never replace my father.' I thought to myself while making gagging noises over the phone.
"It's Amu dear!" she shouted back in reply.
"OH! Tell her I want that debt in two months! Or I'm shipping her off in boarding school at Europe!" my stepfather shouted. That got me really pissed, who the hell does he think he is?!
"Mom I told you," I said with a slight sigh, trying to control myself from shouting at that old man. "Don't worry about me, just take care of Ami and yourself, okay? Bye." I said with finality and put down my phone before she could make any sort of protest.
I can't believe she doesn't trust me on this, I know I can handle things on myself, I always have been. I did my best not to rely on either of them; I got part time jobs and everything just so I could avoid "mooching off "my step father, as he would call it.
But this one time, I really needed the money, because of repair of my motorcycle that cost me about ten thousand dollars, and I just didn't have enough money, so I asked him, for the first time ever since he came to our family.
Here I am now, using the money I earned to fly back to Japan and go to the famous performing arts academy, Seiyo Academy of Performing Arts, which I actually got a scholarship to. I am trying to fulfill my dreams and to finally get out of that mad house.
I swear to God that if I can't repay that step-father of mine, I would rather live on the streets rather than putting up with his antics.
My thoughts were cut off when my phone rang, blaring my ringtone which made passersby stare at me. (Dreaming Alone by Against the Current)
The story starts laying in the dark with someone new
I'm feeling tired from all the time I spent on you
But I know I'm strong from all the trouble I've been through
The story starts where the story falls apart with you
I looked at the screen and saw the name flashing, Utau, my best friend when I used to live here. I answered the call, and started walking towards Starbucks to get my daily dose of coffee.
"Hello my dear friend, are you nearly here to pick me up?" I heard her chuckle on the other line.
"Yes Goddess Aphrodite…" she said in a slight teasing tone, you're probably wondering why she called me Aphrodite, during my time in middle school, people called me the 'Cool and Spicy Aphrodite', their reason was because I was so unique and beautiful plus my attitude made me like a goddess. I really don't know what they saw in me, my looks are average, plus my attitude is just my outer façade.
Don't get me wrong it was flattering but I don't understand how they got Aphrodite when my name is Amu. It got old after a while, but my name stuck to me like glue until I left Japan.
"Can you please not call me that, I don't like it at all." I muttered, honestly, until now I thought she got over that nickname of mine; she always used it to tease me.
I finally got my café latte and I started walking to the front of the airport where she said she'll fetch me. I was enjoying the sight, the bright rays of the sun, the blue sky and the peaceful atmosphere.
"Well I happen to like your nickname so suck it up." She replied smugly.
"Try me, and I'll kick your ass." I said, a little to darkly.
"Oh really? Then I guess I'll head back home and sleep then…" she said, obviously threatening to leave me in the airport.
I sighed, I'll have to deal with it I guess… for now.
"I was just kidding, you know. I love you too much to kick your ass." There was a slight sarcastic tone in my voice, I would kick her ass any day for the fun of it, but it is true I love her very much and I am glad she didn't notice my sarcasm at all.
"Yeah sureee…"she drawled out. "Oh by the way, I have three guys here, my brother, our cousin and their friend." She said, in a slight whispered tone. I think my mind went blank for a while their.
"Hahaha, you're kidding right? You know I hate guys…" I said, hope laced in each word, and I hissed when I expressed my hatred for men. Taking a sip of my latte while I listened to her talk.
"I'm sorry… well not really hehe…" she whispered the last part hoping I didn't here her, lucky for her I didn't. "Plus we're already here you know." She said.
Just then I heard a car honk.
"Oh shit…" due to my obvious surprise, I accidentally let go of my latte, I watched it fall to the ground, spilling its contents.
'My precious coffee… I will miss you dearly…' I cried in my head. Nobody messes with me and my coffee, she is so going to pay.
"I don't understand why she's called Aphrodite." I heard a low husky voice from behind me, I turned around to be faced with three unbelievably hot guys, as well as a girl grinning from ear to ear at me. I walked up to her ignoring the previous comment made by one of the guys.
I was smiling at her, an evil intent in my mind, I lifted my hands and started pinching her cheeks….. hard.
"owuuu! Lesh go osh mesh!" she said all the while I was pinching her cheeks, she was trying to pry of my hands from her face which was useless of course.
After a while of me doing revenge for my spilt coffee I finally let go of her red cheeks, which she was rubbing in obvious pain.
"Sorry not sorry, it's what you get for spilling my precious coffee." I said smiling at her, seeing her now I can see the obvious changes, her golden hair was tied in two high ponytails, her purple top hugging her curves as well as her ripped jeans. She was wearing high top converse, her purple amethyst eyes gleaming with happiness. I missed her, we haven't seen each other in years but she was still my best friend.
"Well sorry! I didn't know you even drank coffee!" she said.
"Oh please, I'm sixteen of course I drink coffee." I said slightly rolling my eyes in a joking manner.
"You told me before that you hated coffee." She said in a whiny voice.
"I changed my mind when I tasted REAL coffee" I said emphasizing the real.
"I didn't mean to place salt instead of sugar! Plus I said sorry!"
"You also placed vinegar instead of regular water." I said while glaring slightly at her. The vinegar made it sour at the same time salty and bitter, I remembered the taste bombarding my tongue, it was utterly horrible.
"Still you love me and you forgave me." She muttered while closing the distance between us while she hugged me to death, we were there in front of the airport, having a moment.
My mind suddenly went to the memory of me drinking my first coffee…
*Flashback*
"Hey Utau, you sure you know how to make coffee?" I asked, I was really curious of how it tasted because we always saw adults drinking it, making it their everyday beverage.
"Yes I do." She had her back facing to me, trying to grab things for the coffee on the upper shelf.
"If you say so…" I said sitting down, waiting for her t finish her concoction.
After a few minutes….
"I'm done!" she said, skipping happily to me while holding a giant mug of coffee.
I looked at it and it did look like coffee, it was black, and I could smell the caffeine. Adults usually had it black so I guess it's right.
I took a sip and immediately spit it out.
"What did you do to it?!" I asked while shouting at her, it tasted horrible, at first it was too bitter, a little while it became very sour, but the worst part is, is it tasted like sea water, the super salty kind.
"I made it how my dad makes it!" she said defending her creation.
"How exactly does he do it?" I asked trying to contain my anger and my lunch.
"Well he places one teaspoon of the black powder, then he adds two teaspoons of the white powder, then adds water." She said while listing of what she remembered.
"I thought that maybe if I use tablespoon instead of teaspoon it would taste better." She explained while smiling.
"WHAT?! Are you crazy?! What is the white powder that you used and the water huh?" she got up and grabbed the pitcher of what seemed like water and the small container that held the white powder.
I tasted the water first since, I tried a cap full of it, and spit it out immediately! It was vinegar! How the hell can you mix up vinegar and water?!
"This is vinegar you idiot!" I said, shouting because of the sour taste. She just muttered a sorry, which didn't sound sincere at all. I sighed and proceeded to taste the white stuff.
I dipped my finger and licked it. It was salt!
"Why the hell would you place salt?!" I asked, with my eye twitching like crazy from annoyance.
"That's salt? I thought I grabbed sugar. Oh well" she said while shrugging her shoulders. Dark aura started spreading from around me, and it's dark intent directed toward the blonde girl.
"I'm going to kill you…" I said darkly, she squealed and ran around the house with me chasing her.
While she was running she shouted a sorry to me, and when I caught her she begged for forgiveness. I of course couldn't stand my friend, I just forgave her, lie that.
*End of Flashback*
"EHEM!"
My thoughts were interrupted when we heard someone cough, trying to get our attention. We let go of each other and faced the three guys from before.
There stood before us, guys with slightly annoyed looks on their faces, well only one of them, the one with midnight blue hair.
"Oh yeah, I forgot to introduce you." Utau said while smiling, it was brighter than before, I guess she missed me as well.
"So Amu here are my umm acquaintances-" I cut her off not wanting to know any of them.
"Nope, I can't hear a thing…" I said walking towards my luggage which was beside my spilt coffee.
Utau chased after me, "Come on Amu! I know they are boys but try to be nice, please." She said with puppy dog eyes, I sighed, I really couldn't go against her.
"Whatever…" I muttered.
"And what's wrong with being a boy?" asked a guy with brown reddish hair with his dashing green eyes, his eyebrows lifted in obvious curiosity.
"Hey just let it go-" Utau said but was cut of with the guy who had blonde hair and light red eyes.
"No we want to know why, plus we are offended of your accusations of being merely a boy when we are in fact men." He said his speech, the two beside him lightly scoffing but still agreeing to what he had said.
"You call yourselves men? I scoffed, "You guys wouldn't know the meaning of men if it punched you in the gut."
"Is that a challenge?" I recognize this guys voice, he was the one who insulted, well tried to insult, me earlier. He had midnight blue hair with matching midnight blue eyes which were gleaming with mischief.
"Hey guys! I'm still her-" Utau never got to finish her sentence because she gasped when I swiftly walked up to the guys and punched them each in the gut.
I grabbed my luggage and started walking toward the silver porche. While heading there I didn't notice that one of them was running towards me, suddenly I was tackled to the ground, my stomach and chest towards the ground.
Passersby stared at us, looking at our little show.
"Now that's what I call a real hit…" he whispered in my ear all the while not getting up from our current position. His muscular chest on my back, I could feel his muscles flex and his breath that was fanning all over my neck.
"Oh and by the way, my name's Ikuto, Utau's dear brother." His voice sounded husky like he had just woken up froma deep sleep.
"I don't fucking care!" I hissed angrily, "G-get the fuck of m-me!" I was stuttering due to the lack of oxygen, he was squeezing the life out of me, it felt as though he weighed twice my size. That wasn't the only that I noticed, I felt his body heat spread to mine, making it feel hotter than necessary.
My sweat started trickling from my forehead to my chin dripping on to the cement.
"Your stutter says otherwise," he said, I could practically hear his smirk, "Plus I kinda like this position, me on top of you…" Ikuto said, filling my mind with unnecessary thoughts.
"Damn you, you asshole, are you really not going to get off me?" I said, my tone was challenging and an evil glint in my eye spreading.
"Ikuto you better get off her…" Utau warned, seeming to see my evil intent.
"Go Ikuto!" the two other guys said.
"Sorry sis, two beats one" he said cheekily still in the same position, while I was wriggling like a worm underneath him, I finally got one leg free and was able to flip us over.
The next thing he knew was that I was straddling him, our faces millimeters from each other my hands placing his' over his head as I stared at deep blue eyes while he stared at my golden ones, one wrong move from any of us would have us kissing.
More people started to gather, and it looks like we have an audience. The two boys from before whistled at our position, making me return to the present.
"You don't know who you're dealing with buddy, I am not a girl to be messed with." My 'Cool n' Spicy' façade acting up as I whispered with my breath fanning over his flawless face, usually I would be blushing like crazy, but for some reason I was very brave, and I think it's because he is a guy.
But in the end all I got was a smirk.
"I think I like this position better." He muttered, his eyes flickering to my lips, leaning closer to place a kiss, but I easily avoided him by doing a back flip, and accidentally stepped on his manhood, sarcasm intended.
He clutched it and groaned in pain.
"Oops, sorry… not sorry." I said heading toward Utau, who was just shaking her head left to right, knowing that I would do something crazy like that. The two other guys were staring at me mouth agape, and scrambled to help Ikuto stand up.
People went away seeing that nothing more was about to happen.
"Can we get out of here now." I said pointedly at Utau, for not helping me earlier, but instead of giving me what I want, she did the total opposite.
"Nope." With a popping sound on the 'p' "Boys introduce yourselves first, properly." She said extending the word properly.
"Fine." They grumbled simultaneously and stood in front of us in a straight line.
"Ikuto Tsukiyomi, Utau's brother." Grumbled the one who tackled me earlier. He had midnight blue hair and midnight blue eyes, he wore all black with a black chocker and a cross as its pendant, his muscles showing slightly with the tight fit of his clothes.
"I'm Kukai Souma, nice to meet ya, even if you did punch me…" he whispered the last part, he had the same figure as Ikuto, only a couple inches shorter, he was grinning ear to ear at me, he had black and red jersey with his name on it, underneath it was a plain white shirt, he had jeans hanging loosely around his torso. He had reddish brown hair, that was messy and looked like he just got out of bed.
"I am Tadase Hotori, pleasure to meet you, I am sorry for the bad first impression." He said with a princely smile, he walked up to me and grabbed my hand giving it a light kiss.
I practically rolled my eyes at him while wiping my hand on my shirt, the two other guys snickering at my reaction, I guess usually girls faint when meeting the princely kid. Meanwhile the only word that registered my mind when I saw him was 'gay'.
He had blonde hair and light red eyes, he was wearing a white button up shirt and black slacks, he had a little muscles not as much as the two other, but it made him look innocent and princely.
I muttered a whatever, shruggig my shoulders and started dragging my bags toward the car, I was suddenly pulled back by Utau.
"Oh no you don't missy, you introduce yourself as well." she said, her voice held finality meaning I couldn't argue or she'd skin me alive.
I sighed dramatically, I wasn't really a fan of formal introductions.
"Amu Hinamori, I hate all of you." I said, slightly glaring at them. Ikuto, who didn't seem to learn his lesson hugged me from behind nuzzling his face in my neck. The sudden action made my façade drop and a light blush covered my face.
"L-let go of me!" I prostested, damn it I stuttered, I was slapping myself in my head.
They all laughed at my embarrassment even my best friend, he finally let go of me.
"Let's just go" Utau said, trying to cover her earlier laugh. The three boys snickered from behind me as I followed her toward her car.
"I absolutely love your acquaintances." I muttered sarcastically which earned me another laugh from them.
"We love you too!" the three said all together, with me just grumbling profanities under my breath as I got in the front seat.
Amu: I liked it!
Ikuto: You hit my balls!
BD: I think that's why she likes it…
Amu: YUP!
Ikuto: I still got to make her blush though…
Amu: Shut up! Your ruining my mood!
BD: Well I hope you liked it!
Ikuto: I am having mixed feelings…
Amu: I for one like being bad ass!
Ikuto: Oh you do, do you? *grabbing Amu from behind*
Amu: Let go of me!
Ikuto: No.
BD: Nevermind them! Please R+R!
Hey guys, well I really got stuck in my other story, but I am currently working on updating it so don't worry meanwhile this is another story and I hope you like it, has more Amuto haha, please again review and please give me constructive criticisms if you'd like. I wrote this 3 years ago, but with different names, so I thought why not make it a fanfic for shugo chara! So yeah… Enjoy!
~BD :)
