Shugo Chara=Not mine!

Chapter 1

Ikuto took Amu's hand softly in his gently caressing it to his cheek before lifting his dark eyelashes looking deep into her eyes. A blush spread over Amu's face before she looked down avoiding his probing gaze. A tear slid down Amu's cheek, she squeezed her eyes shut trying to stop the tears that seemed intent on making their way out.

"Amu…" Ikuto's dark silken voice whispered before bringing his other thumb to her cheek wiping away the stray tear, "why are you crying?"

"I-" Amu began before bursting into a fresh bout of heaving sobs.

"Amu, I love you."

Amu's mouth fell open and she brought her hand up to her eyes wiping off the new tears. She shook her head quickly and tried to pull away from Ikuto's warm grasp to run away from the situation that was coming on faster than she had ever wanted it to. She knew what she had to tell Ikuto, the thing she'd never wanted to tell him, but knew she had to.

Ikuto's gentle grip turned into a steel grip that held her close to him, "Amu, come with me to America, don't you want that."

Amu brought her eyes up to Ikuto's and shook her head slowly. Ikuto's face fell with a sad expression but he quickly recomposed himself staring down at her with new hard look in his eyes. But when he saw her lower lip trembling dangerously his eyes turned soft again.

"I can't. I don't want to go to America with you Ikuto. I'm so sorry but it wouldn't work out between us, we both know that."

"Amu-"

Amu ripped her hands out of the warm grasp of Ikuto's and ran across the park towards her house. Hot tears streamed down her cheek as she stumbled forward leaving Ikuto behind her forever. She knew he loved her, but how could she keep leading him on like this? She thought she loved him, but did she really?

She ran faster trying to run away the horrible realizations that kept flooding her mind, she had left Ikuto. But it was the right thing to do. She couldn't go with him to America if she wasn't sure that she loved him with all her heart, he deserved better than that. A better girl altogether. She would only be a burden to him if she went with him feeling the way she did now.

She only hoped one day he could find it in his heart to forgive her. Hopefully she could do the same.

Violin music drifted throughout the dimly lit room. The music was perfectly combined with the soft melodic pings of the rain on the windows. The notes were sad and full of feeling, perfect for a rainy day.

Amu sat on her bed hugging her knees to her chest staring out the window as the violin music took her away to a different day, a different time. She rested her forehead on her knees allowing the music to sink in and take over her emotions and heart.

She fell to her side on the soft bed hugging a pillow to her chest as tears began to form in her eyes once again. She rolled over onto her back pressing the pillow to her face to hide the tears from her chara's.

"Why is Amu crying?" came Su's frantic high pitched voice.

"That's Ikuto's new single, Su, we need to be quiet so Amu can deal with this." Miki said in a hushed voice.

"Then let me cheer her up," Ran squealed enthusiastically. Amu could hear her small pompom's shaking eagerly in the air.

"Oh, no you won't!" Miki said sternly while she herded Su and Ran out of the room so Amu could be alone.

Amu rolled over putting her feet on the ground smiling at Miki's level headedness that was so important when she was having a day like this. She walked to her desk sitting down opening a small drawer to her left pulling out four Kodak pictures. She studied the pictures a small smile pulling on her lips as she scanned four of the most important pieces of paper she owned.

The first picture was of Amu sitting in Ikuto's lap on a bench in their favorite park while they ate ice-cream together.

The second was taken right after Ikuto had pushed Amu's ice-cream cone into her face. The picture was shot when Ikuto was leaning over licking and kissing the ice-cream off of her lips and the tip of her nose as Amu's face became red while she laughed and giggled.

The third picture was Amu waving from a horse on the carousel at the amusement park with a big smile on her face. Ikuto sat behind her on the horse his arms wrapped around her waist staring blankly at the camera but his eyes twinkled like he had the whole world in his arms.

And the last was a sneak shot that YaYa had taken at the fireworks on New Years Eve. Ikuto had kept pushing Amu away from the group until he finally got her to a little forest. They walked through it coming to a small clearing that gave the best view of the fireworks Amu had ever seen. They stood together staring up at the sky holding hands their fingers interlaced the sides of their bodies pressed up against each other. That's the scene YaYa had captured, and it was perfect.

Amu's eyes studied the picture carefully. She couldn't believe it had only been three years ago that all of this had occurred; it felt like it had happened yesterday. She wished she could return to the time when she was fourteen and change everything that happened between them on their last night together. She wished back then she knew what love was because now that she was seventeen she knew what love was, and she had lost it when she had left Ikuto that night.

She put the pictures back into her desk standing up crossing to the large windows that led to her outdoor balcony. She placed a hand on the wet glass looking up at the cloudy sky watching the clouds dissipate until the moon could shine through. The moon was brilliantly bright, even with the long wisps of clouds that clung to its surface, as were the stars that surrounded it.

Amu smiled softly at the moon thinking of Ikuto again as the last part of the long violin solo softly eased to silence.

A/N: hey i've been wanting to do a Shugo Chara Amuto for a long time...so i decided to try it. I think I'm going to continue with it but make sure you review and let me know if you like it!

~BrokenAngel714