She was abnormal because of one event that had changed her life forever but he didn't care about that one aspect. In his eyes, she looked like a lost kitten waiting to be adopted. He gripped his umbrella tighter as the rain poured down. He reached out his hand and hoped for her to take it. She looked up from her small ball she had created and looked at the crazy man that stood before her. She unconsciously reached out for that gentle, warm hand but withdrew when their fingertips were millimeters apart.

"You're going to regret your decision." She warned him.

"To you maybe but I sure I'm making the right one." She was hesitant about taking the hand since no body had displayed such emotions for her. Everyone around her just looked down at her with pity in their eyes or thought of her as trash. It disgusted her how humans judged things at first glance but then again, she was part human too. Just not the same as the rest of them.

She warily reached her hand towards the man and accepted his invitation. His face brightened a little bit as he hauled the girl to her feet. She brushed herself off as the man held out his umbrella for her. She walked over to him and walked beside him as the rain continued to fall. Suddenly, the man came to a halt. She looked back at him because of his sudden stop.

"I forgot to ask, what's your name?" The girl was silent for a few moments before answering.

"I don't have one." The girl looked back at him with a blank expression.

"Then I'll just have to think of one for you, am I right?" He grinned at her. They began walking again under the gray sky.

"Just to let you know, my name's Ikuto. I work as a scientist at a laboratory in a rural area. We're going to drive there since it's quite far away from here." He opened the door to his convertible. The girl hopped in while Ikuto sat in the driver's seat. It was a long drive but Amu had her attention glued to the scenery that played before her. She stared out the car window as trees and pedestrians zoomed by. Amu hadn't seen much of the world since she usually sat in the same spot that Ikuto had found her before the incident happened. She had felt something she had never felt before because Ikuto had even bothered to reach out his hand for her. It felt warm inside of her. She didn't know how to explain it because she had never felt this kind of emotion before. The car screeched as it came to a stop.

"We're here." Ikuto unfastened his seat belt and the girl mimicked his movements. He stepped out of his car and she did the same. The girl stared at the enormous house but it could've also been a mansion.

"I thought you said we were going to your laboratory."

"We are. The laboratory is inside my house. Follow me." Ikuto motioned her to follow and she obliged. They walked down the stone waved pathway and entered through a door with intricate looking designs engraved on it. The mansion looked even bigger inside. Ikuto took the girl's coat and hooked his own coat next to her on a rack.

"Ah." He thumped his hand on his palm. The girl looked at him questionably.

"I just thought of a name for you. How's 'Amu' sound?" The girl didn't know why but she felt like that name was just perfect. Considering the silence he received, Ikuto thought the name was no good.

"No, no! I think that name suits me fine."

"Really? That's great. Now, lets go get you an extra pair of clothes. I don't have any clothes for girl so you can borrow mine for now. Is that okay with you?" Amu nodded silently. Ikuto directed Amu to a room where she could change. He told her that she could use whatever she found in the closet and to leave her dirty clothes there for now. He closed the door behind him and went of to his lab.

Amu stripped herself of her clothes until she only had her undergarments on. She walked over to the long mirror that reflected herself. She looked at the scars that covered her body. She closed her eyes and the wounds started to disappear. She opened her eyes when she had finished healing. She sighed and then put a hand on the mirror. The reflection of her in the mirror touched the person that was reflected on the mirror yet the mirror was the only thing that blocked the two from completely touching.

Why me?

Amu pulled the closet door open and it revealed Ikuto's clothes. It mainly consisted of lab coats, white collar shirts and some jeans. Amu grabbed a random set of clothes and put them on. The problem was that they were two sizes too big so they looked baggy on her. Amu grabbed her dirty clothes and exited the room. Since she had no idea where Ikuto was, she started to explore the mansion. She walked around the long hallways and opened several doors. Most of them were filled with boxes and equipment that scientists would use. Amu stopped at one particular door. It had a sign hanging on the door frame that said "Do Not Enter". Amu was curious what was on the other side of the door so she opened the door a little to take a peek. She didn't suspect the door to make a loud screeching noise so when it did, Amu jumped back all startled as Ikuto rushed out the door. He sighed of relief.

"I thought you were a burglar. Anyways, come in Amu." Ikuto pushed the door open and waited for Amu to come in. Like a curious 5 year old kid, she cautiously walked in and was amazed by how much equipment was in the room. There were test tubes, microscopes, papers scattered all over the place and other things that Amu couldn't exactly identify. Ikuto scratched the back of his head sheepishly.

"Sorry, I forgot how messy it was. I'm sort of used to how messy this place is." Ikuto started to pick up some papers he left on the floor and started to clean up. Amu saw how intent he was on making the place look as clean as possible so she started to help him clean up. Amu gathered some papers she found on the floor and stacked the papers on a nearby desk. She looked at the desk that had all sorts of paper with different stuff written on them. She noticed a photo frame sitting at the corner of the desk and picked it up to look at it. It had a tall man that had blue hair just like Ikuto, a lady with a hat placed on her head and children that greatly resembled them. They were all smiling making it a picture that captured that special moment forever. Ikuto put the papers down on his desk and looked around for Amu. He saw that she was looking at his family photo. He walked over to her and looked over her shoulder.

"That's my family photo if you hadn't figured that out yet." Amu rapidly whipped her head as blades came out from her sleeves. Her eyes narrowed as she pushed Ikuto onto the floor. She placed the edge of the sword against his neck. Ikuto eyes were as calm as ever while it left Amu stunned. Amu quickly made her swords vanish and got off of Ikuto.

"Sorry. You startled me." Amu apologized. Amu gulped as she had to find a quick excuse to get out of the room as long as it was away from him. She carried on the conversation like nothing had happened.

"Don't worry about it."

"You said that this was your family photo?"

"Yea."

"Then who's this?" Amu pointed to a blonde girl that had extremely long pig tails. She had a beautiful shade of purple for her eyes. Ikuto's eyes softened a bit.

"She's my sister. Her name's Utau. She worked as a model just like my deceased mother but she just disappeared one day. I don't even know where she is now." Amu put the picture frame back down on his desk.

"Sorry. I didn't know."

"It's alright. Don't worry." There was an awkward silence between them. Ikuto ddecided to break it.

"So, you know how you summoned those swords earlier?"

"Yea."

"How come you could do that? I know that normal humans can't do that."

"But don't you think I'm a freak? Weren't you surprised I could even do that?" Ikuto thought about it for a moment and then answered.

"I wasn't really that surprised that you could do that because I didn't know anything about you so I could expect anything from you."

"I see."

"Now tell me how did you do that." Amu sighed.

"Are you sure you want to know?"

"Of course or I wouldn't be even asking you!"

"I'm basically a human weapon. I can turn my hands into any weapon I desire and can heal my wounds. So to sum it all up, I'm invincible." Ikuto whistled.

"What?" Ikuto leaned on his desk.

"Who would have known I would pick up a weapon from the streets. I really didn't suspect this." Amu looked down at her feet.

"So you don't want me?"

"I never said that."

Amu spun around and ran for the door, her hands trembling along the way. She opened the door and slammed it shut. Ikuto closed his eyes and ran his hand through his cobalt hair.

"Agh! We got off to a rough start." Amu walked down the never ending hallway and bursted into a random room and slammed the door shut. Her swords ripped through her sleeves without her intending to and she sliced the door into pieces. The door fell down into broken pieces. Amu was breathing heavily as she fell on her back on the hard floor. Amu closed her eyes to calm down.

I almost killed him. I got to be more careful next time. Every time I let out my weapons, I have such intent to kill people! I turn into a totally different person! Damn the friggin' army! They just had to train me to make me end up like this. Damn it!

I could feel the blades in my hands slowly crawl out from my arms. I tried to force them back but they found their way through and shot through my sleeves.

"Mom, Dad, Ami! Get out of here!"

"We won't leave you here Amu!" Mom called out.

"Even if you escape from me, the military will come and get you! They've invaded the city! They already surrounded most of it! Escape while you can!"

"We won't leave you!"

"Hurry!" I yelled at them. I couldn't hold in the urge much longer. I shouldn't have escaped from the army to visit my family. Look at what I've caused. I jeopardized the whole city and the stinking army set the whole town on fire just to get to me!

My family hesitated on what to do at the moment.

"Hurry up and run!" I screamed at them. We were in the midst of the fire and it was starting to heat up but it didn't bother me one bit. The problem was that my family was going to get toasted if they didn't leave at any second now and I couldn't hold the intent to kill them any longer. I ran up to them and drew my hand back. The sword slashed through all 3 of them like cheese. I kept on stabbing them until no more blood spilled. I wiped the blood that had gotten on my face and looked at it. I didn't even know what I was doing until I looked at my hands. I stared at the lifeless corpses. I covered my face with my bloody hands and belted out my sorrows. I could feel the warm tears fall down my cold cheeks. It left a pool of tears right below me. I couldn't believe I just killed my only family. It wasn't fair. Then, I heard a maniacal laugh come from behind. I stopped crying and my face turned sour. I knew that laugh anywhere. It was the General.

"Tadase." The name seethed through my teeth like venom. I looked at my family and then glared at him. He suddenly started to clap.

"Bravo. Such a great family reunion don't you think? Still as merciless as ever I see."

"Shut up! You're the one who did this to me! You fused me with the human weapon the army created but it went berserk! You had to find another vessel to contain it in and I was conveniently chosen! I wouldn't have killed my family today and they would still be alive if it wasn't for you! "

"So what? I enjoyed every moment torturing you." He looked down at me with the eyes I despised. I ran up to him and tried to kill him with my swords but Nagihiko and Nadeshiko held me back. Yaya and Kukai were standing in front of Tadase to protect him from any harm while Rima was standing alongside him.

"Let go of me! I don't want to hurt you!" I struggled from their grasp to no avail.

"We don't either but we don't have much of a choice." That sentence made me remember that I was the one that got them into this position and I hung my head in defeat. Tadase's couldn't help but smile in victory. He walked up to me and pulled my hair so that my head would face him. The pain so intense that it made me want to scream even more but I couldn't show him the pain I was going through. I didn't want to satisfy his desires. His face fell into a menacing glare when he didn't get the reaction he wanted. This time, he told Nadeshiko to let go of me and she obeyed. I was stepped on just as I made contact with the floor. I coughed as he dug his heel into my back. I kept on coughing but that wasn't the reaction he wanted. He pulled my hair back while stepping onto my back. I screamed as the pain was too much to bear. Yaya and Kukai winced as they watched me wither in pain while Rima kept her poker face on. Nadeshiko and Nagihiko looked the other way but stayed in their position. Tadase smiled and let go since he was satisfied.

"Bring her with us. We're leaving this trash heap." Tadase left and Rima, Yaya and Kukai followed. Yaya and Kukai looked back at me. Yaya tried to smile at me while Kukai gave a wary thumbs up to try to cheer me up in his own way and they quickly resumed their positon. Nadeshiko and Nagihiko pulled me up arm by arm and they walked me in the direction Tadase was walking. They leaned in close to my ear and whispered.

"I'm sorry Amu."

"We couldn't do anything to stop him. We're all sorry." I smiled a little because my friends still cared about me. Or at least that's what I thought. I quietly whispered back.

"If you want to help me then I'm going to try to attack Tadase after 'accidently' elbowing you guys and I make a run for it after. How's that sound for repaying?" I looked at them and the siblings both looked at each other. They were probably both concerned about what would happen to them after this whole scheme but they wanted to help me right?

"Ok fine."

"Great."

"Hey! Hurry up back there or I might take your heads!" Tadase ordered Nadeshiko and Nagihiko to quicken their paste and they followed his orders. I hung my head and whispered to them.

"Get ready." When I was placed a metre away from Tadase, Nadeshiko and Nagihiko's grip loosened and I broke free. I summoned a scythe and gripped it tightly. It was attached all the way to my shoulder and I could feel it creeping through my sleeve when it came out. I swung swung my scythe around and luckily my friends ducked but Tadase didn't. The scythe pierced through his skin and dug in deep through his stomach. It wasn't a severe injury like I hoped it to be but it should keep him down for a while. While he was withering away in pain, I managed to run for it. I could still hear Tadase calling for me to come back angrily.

"I swear I'm going to come after you Amu Hinamori!" That sentence just made me run faster. I didn't even know what my destination was but I just wanted to get away from there. All I felt at the moment was fear, pain and sadness. I just wanted it all to end. The whole situation was giving me a headache. It was like I was a bird trapped in a cage for eternity and even if I escaped, a chain would restrain me from going any farther. I wanted to run away from reality. As far away from all of this commotion as possible.

Amu shot up from the bed covered in sweat. She looked around the room which appeared to be a bedroom.

When did I fall asleep? When did I get on this bed?

Amu found Ikuto sleeping on the edge of the bed with his face facing her.

He must have been the one that brought me here.

Ikuto suddenly opened his sleepy eyes a little and looked at Amu. When he saw that she was awake, he smiled at her.

"Glad your finally awake." He said sleepily and went back to sleep. Amu just stared at Ikuto and realized that he was sitting next to her and waiting for her to wake up this whole time. Amu's face reddened but it wasn't noticeable in the dark. She got off the bed and lifted Ikuto's legs. She placed them on the bed and rotated his body a little so he could sleep more comfortably. She pulled the covers over him and smiled at her proud accomplishment. Amu suddenly yawned and noticed that she was still sleepy. She got onto the other side of the bed and slipped into the blanket. Amu closed her eyes and tried to get to sleep but she just couldn't go to sleep.

Ikuto started to move around in his sleep and rotated himself so he was facing Amu. He dragged his arm over Amu and left it there. Amu didn't know what to do in this kind of position. After a while, Amu found it comfortable how warm it was with Ikuto next to her. Amu cuddled closely to Ikuto and closed her eyes with a smile on her face but that hapiness was soon to be disrupted...

So how was it? I don't exactly know if this idea is original since I read stories from here and there and watch animes here and there so I sort of use some of their ideas =.= Dunno but do tell me if you think it's okay so far or needs improvement. Greatly appreciate it. Thanks for reading Chapter 1 of Outsider~