New Year Wishes
Amu: INFY :] long time no c!
Ikuto: Yea, where have you been?
Infy: Sorry guys! I've been occupied by numerous of projects and homeworks, so I couldn't write a thing:/
Ikuto: Well nevermind it since u r back.
Amu: Yea
Infy: thanks guys:DD
Amu: Infy DO NOT OWN Shugo Chara or ANY of its characters!
Infy: Thanks for saying it for me –rolls eyes-
xxx
Amu walked home from school in the worst mood ever. Today had just been a disaster.
First she got chased by a dog on her way to school in the morning, and she ran all the way there while screaming and panicking, resulting that everyone saw her freaking out.
Second, her workbook magically disappeared, and she got yelled at by the teacher in front of the whole class for not handing in her homework when she said she did, in other words, lying.
Third, some idiot in her class accidentally spilled the chemical all over her during science lesson, and the colour of the chemical could not be washed away. The conclusion is, her favorite outfit was ruined.
She got inside the room and slammed the door shut. Images of what happened today flashed in her mind.
After a while, she was starting to feel so irritated that she decided to do her homework, thinking that it might be enough to distract her from all the bad luck she had.
"URGH."
The pink hair girl groaned in frustration as she stared at the workbook flipped open in front of her. Random doodles could be seen everywhere on the page. Amu picked up her pen, adjusting herself to a writing position again. But apparently nothing crossed her mind as she just stared blankly at the page, staying frozen in the position.
She sighed, "I really don't get all those formulas and stuff."
Putting down the pen, images of her disaster today flashed in her mind, again.
She stood up and walked across the room towards her bed, sitting on the edge. Reaching her hand out, she was just about to grab a random magazine from the book shelf beside the bed when someone knocked on her bedroom door.
"Come in!" She responded, walking towards the door.
The door swung open, revealing a smiling Modori, Amu's mother.
"Sorry to disturb you Amu-chan."
"No problem. What is it mama?"
"Here," Modori handed Amu two small pieces of paper in rectangular shape, "Take these."
Amu was confused, "Paper? What was that for?"
"They are wishing papers," She smiled, "You have to write your new year wishes on it, and tomorrow we're going to the park to hang them up."
"Wishing paper?" Amu studied the piece of paper in her hand carefully. They were in light-yellow colour, with a small hole punched on the top and a red string tied around it.
"Yep. Have a good think about what you want to wish for!" With a wink, Modori turned and left.
"Oh by the way," suddenly poking her head into the room again, "Just one more tip, when two person wish for the same thing, their wish would surely come true!" With that she withdrew her head and disappeared.
Amu closed the door lightly and went to her desk, carefully placing the papers on the table. She then dropped down in the chair, supporting her head with her chin in her palm and her elbow on the table.
'Great. Now I got one more thing to think about. I've already got bad luck and math problems, and now this.'
She searched through the mess on the table and fished out her pen, getting ready to write down her wish anytime an idea strike her. But unfortunately, none did.
'How about getting better grades?'
"No, that's not something I really really care about."
'Being prettier?'
"No thanks."
'Get more friends?'
"Not really."
Her mind kept coming up with ideas but her heart kept disagreeing. Honestly, those ideas sounded quite nice but it just didn't feel right.
She sighed.
"Seems like someone is depressed." A low, husky voice sounded, right behind her.
Amu yelped and turned. Standing right behind her, was none other than Tsukiyomi Ikuto himself, with his usual smirk on his face.
"Yo."
"Yo? How can you sound so casual when you sneaked into someone's room ILLEGALLY?" Amu yelled.
"I thought I told you to lock your door numerous times, and you never did. So I take that as an invitation for me to come in anytime." He shrugged.
Amu just glared at him.
"Don't look at me like that." He smirked, knowing that he had won. Looking over her shoulders, he eyed the things on her desk, stopping on the 2 wishing papers. His face showed a hint of curiosity.
"Wishing papers?" He asked.
Remembering what she was doing previously, Amu turned around and picked up one of the papers, staring at it.
"Yeah. Mum got me to think about my wishes." She murmured.
Ikuto simply nodded.
A moment of silence passed when Amu suddenly snapped her head up.
"Ikuto, what would be your wish for New Year?"
Taken aback by her sudden question, all that had managed to get out of his lips was a 'huh?'
Amu rolled her eyes, "Don't 'huh' me," mocking his tone, "Answer my question."
Ikuto paced across the room and plopped down on her bed, lying back and slipping his hands behind his head. "Nothing."
"Awh come on, I'm sure you'll want something, right?" Amu whined, standing up and walking towards him.
"Nah. You just asked because you don't know what your own wish is." He stated.
Amu's face redden, he strike the point. "Y-yea, so? W-what's wrong with getting ideas?" She argued.
He closed his eyes. "Nothing, but don't expect me to have any wish or something, I'm not a kid."
She sighed, "You don't have to be a kid to wish for something."
Mumbling under her breathe, she went back to her table and grabbed something. She sat beside him on the bed, handing him whatever was in her hand. "Here."
Ikuto opened his eyes to see the object dangling in front of him. He raised an eyebrow at her.
"Why are you giving me a wishing paper?"
"Cause you are being a shy little kitty who does not want to be honest." She said, "Now at least be honest with yourself. Write down your wish."
"No."
"Yes."
"NO."
"YES."
"I said NO."
"I said YES."
"Urgh. You sure are stubborn." He complained, unwillingly taking the paper from her.
"That's right! Good kitty!" she smiled.
Ikuto just rolled his eyes at her comment and closed lazily closed them once again. But then a smirk made its way onto his face.
"Now now, I know Amu loves her kitty cat Ikuto very much~"
Amu blushed ten shade of red and yelled at him.
"N-No! I don't mean it that way you pervy old man!"
He only chuckled.
A moment of silence passed again when suddenly Amu leaped up, dashing towards her desk.
"OH CRAP! I haven't finished my math!"
Ikuto sat up and watched as the pinkette sat in her chair, scratching her hair in frustration as she tried to figure out the solution.
"Urgh! How come I never get it right?"
He sighed and shook his head, but he couldn't help but chuckled at the sight of the frustrated girl. Walking over to Amu, he took a good look of what she was working on.
"The three angles of a triangle would just add up to 180, so if you first find this angle, then you could use it to find the rest and the length is this side. " he said.
Amu had a confused look on her face. "Huh? Care to repeat?"
"Now," He pulled a chair beside her, ready for a long night of explanation, "Do this step first. Then after you get the answer, use simultaneous equation to find x and y."
Amu did as she was told. Step by Step, she soon worked out the answer. And with the help of Ikuto, she soon finished her math homework.
"HA! I FINALLY FINISHED!" She cheered as she put all her homework in a nice pile. Ikuto just watched her in amusement.
"See? That wasn't so hard was it?"
"Nope," She smiled, "Thanks to you!" And she gave him a big hug.
"Aww, is little Amu showing her affection?" He teased, causing Amu to immediately let go.
"N-No, w-why would I ? PERVERT!" She yelled back at him.
He stood up as he chuckled, walking towards her balcony.
"Time for me to go."
Amu looked at the clock. It was now 11:39 p.m. The sky had already darken, and the stars are shining brightly in the night sky. "Yeah, guess so."
He walked onto her balcony and leaped onto the railing. But before he jumped, he turned around.
"Are you happy?"
Amu looked confused. "What's with this sudden weird question?"
"Just answer me."
"Y-yeah, I think. I mean, there's really nothing for me to complain about my life"
He smiled, not a smirk, but a true smile. "Then you should treasure it."
With that, he disappeared into the night sky.
Amu closed her balcony door, sitting back on her desk. 'Why did he ask such a question?'
Silently sitting there, Amu tried to remember what she was doing before Ikuto came. Memories of her bad day flew into her mind, once again.
Amu had totally forgotten that she had such a bad day. In fact, she didn't feel bad anymore, she even managed to giggle a little at her own foolishness when she remembered how embarrassed she felt when everyone watched her freaked out over a dog. She felt somewhat…happy. She sighed, no point in denying the effect Ikuto had on her.
'Wait…happy?'
Her mind flashed back to moments ago.
'Are you happy?' Ikuto's voice rang in her head. 'Then you should treasure it.'
"Happy…" She mumbled when something caught her eye. Lying on her desk peacefully, was the wishing paper her mother gave her.
Then something clicked in her mind.
She quickly grabbed a pen and wrote down her wish.
Reading it over again, she decided she might as well be honest and precise with her wish, since no one would see it anyway. No point in being shy. And with that thought in her mind, she added one more sentence, the sentence about the thing she really wished for.
xxx
'New year wish, huh.'
Ikuto was lying on his bed, with one hand behind his head, and another holding the wishing paper Amu gave him in front of him.
'I've always got only one wish.'
He sat up and turned on his desk light, grabbing a pen. He wrote down his wish on the wishing paper in his neat handwriting.
'I wish I could always give happiness to Amu and stay by her side.'
xxx
The birds are singing joyfully on the trees in the park. The sky was a beautiful bright blue. It was a very nice and cheerful day.
Amu and her family got in line to hang their wish on the lucky tree. The park was packed with people.
"Onee-chan, what did you wish for?" Ami asked Amu in her childish tone.
Amu smiled, "Something good."
When they finally reached the front of the line, the Hinamoris walked towards the tree and hung their wish.
Amu chose a spot where the most flowers were. She hung her wish onto a flower, carefully trying not to cause any harm.
When she'd finished, she looked at her wish on the tree and smiled sweetly.
'I wish all the happiness would stay and continue forever. And my happiest times were when Ikuto was by my side.'
When two person wished for the same thing, their wish would surely come true.