Lily: Welcome to...the perfect stranger! -dun dun dun- lol, now that I've had a weird intro, you should know that this had characters and stuff from Shugo, but its in a twisted universe where Ikuto meets someone after he called Amu from paris.

Ikuto: So no Amu to toy with?

Lily: nope, better. Now make your call! Oh, and I don't own anything except a few characters and maybe some lyrics that'll come later. (It'll directly state if its mine or not ^^ you'll know)(also, I may say Odelle wrote it, but it would be something wrote that just happens to fit XD)

Ikuto: Who's Ode-

Lily: Okay people! scroll down already and read the actual story!

Chapter 1

In some love stories, the girl hates the guy then falls in love with him over time. Or maybe she dreams of finding her prince and ends up meeting him while she's dreaming. Or sometimes she goes to a ball and loses her slipper. Well, in this story, it all started in Paris; the city of love.

"So, how do you like Paris so far?" asked my best friend ever, Susie. Her family was going to Paris over spring break, and she asked if I could go. I didn't have any big plans, and since they were paying for my ticket, my parents said sure. I felt like a huge loner though seeing so many couples or at least people in love. Right now, my friend and I were riding up the elevator to get to the visitors balcony of the Eiffel tower.

When we stepped off, the first thing me friend and I heard was "I'd kiss you, and hug you, and everything else." Well, I heard that. She asked me to translate since it was Japanese. I looked down and want to cry. I was in the city of love, where dreams are supposed to come true in the most fairytale-like manner possible, but I felt more alone and pathetic than ever.

My friend and I went to the rail and sat at one of the little café-style tables. I started to zone off at the city below.

"Odelle… Odelle… ODELLE!" I snapped back, only to see people staring. I looked at saw the Japanese guy laughing. I know he already has a girlfriend, but he was still really cute. I slid down into my chair.

"Yes, Su?" I was wincing. People finally stopped staring, so I came back up. I looked back to the Japanese guy. He was still looking, but now he was looking at me weird. Not like he was wondering why I was staring at him, but like something clicked in his mind from something I said. "Okay, before you start, I need to be right back."

"Um, okay?" Susie seemed a bit confused, but she was used to it. I walked over to the guy, and it was like he snapped back to reality.

"Oh, um, hi." He started, knowing obviously why I came over. Oh, by the way, I'm changing everything he said to English.

"Hi. Do you want to tell me why you were looking at me weird when I said Su?"

"Oh, just reminded me of someone back in Japan. Sorry." He gave a sweet smile, saying he felt awkward about it. I felt bad now, so I returned the smile.

"I-it's okay. I kind of understand that feeling." I leaned onto the rail and watched the city go by for a couple seconds, before looking back up at him.

"If you don't mind my asking, who's the lucky guy?" He looked like he genuinely wanted to know, so I figured, what the heck.

"Well, technically no one, but well…it's a long story."

"I have time." He leaned into the rail next to me." He smiled teasingly.

"Well, I met him a year or so ago, and I gradually started liking him. Well, a girl he literally met just before I me denied him. She's that kind of girl who guys fall for all the time, though, so it was easy for her to deny him. Anyway, so we met soon after and hung out a lot after that. I gradually started liking him, and she did as well. She was far more out-going than I was, so two months ago, she confessed to him, and I over-heard everything." I looked at the guy to be sure he wasn't getting bored out of his skull, but he actually looked more intrigued. "I told him how I felt, but he thought I was joking. I think the girl he's with is nice, but I don't think they'll last long. I told him a couple of days ago how I really feel, and it wasn't a joke. They were still dating, so he looked shocked. I gave an awkward smile and walked away. I don't plan on going back." I looked over to my friend who was just texting on her now, or playing Angry Birds.

"Wait, what?" The guy seemed super confused.

"My friend asked me if I'd like to come here for break, but before I left to get on the plane, I stuck a note in my mom's purse, telling her goodbye and what I felt like I needed to do. I'm not going back to my home town until I know who I am, and other things." It was relieving telling someone.

"I guess I don't blame you." He looked out into the city, and I looked at him. "I've been traveling for a while. My love story is similar to yours, although, I'm now not quite sure of how I feel for her. Also, I'm out looking for clues on where my father might be. Well, my real father that is." He paused for a moment, and then looked back to me. "Did we ever formally greet each other?" Shock went across my face when I realized we hadn't. I didn't have a clue what his name was. "Ha ha. I guess not. I'm Ikuto." He held his hand out. He must've caught the American accent, because Japanese people don't normally shake hands.

"Odelle." I reached back to his hand and shook it.

"So tell me, Odelle, how long are you in Paris? I'll be here another week or so." If he didn't already have a girl he liked, I'd swear he was flirting.

"I really don't know. My plane leaves in four days, but whether I'm on it or not is the question." Things were so confusing for me right now, and I needed time to think where nobody could tell me what decision to make.

"You're a brave girl." Now that caught my attention. I looked up at him in the best say WHAT?! face I could. "I mean, I know so many girls who want to go out and explore the world, but you seem like you're really going to do it. That takes bravery." He gave me a proud smile. It was weird talking to him. I only knew him, maybe twenty minutes, but yet it felt like I'd always known him. That's when Susie came in.

"Odelllle." She cried. "oh, who's-?"

"Ikuto." He held out his hand for her. She looked at me with an approving smile, causing my head to fall flat onto my palm.

"I'm Odelle's friend, Susie." She shook his hand.

"Pleasure to meet you, Susie." He said in English.

"You speak English?!" Susie and I exclaimed at once.

"Yeah, I needed to learn that for my world-wide trip. It's better than learning fifty languages." He tried joking. We just stood there feeling like morons.

"Relax, you couldn't know." He rubbed my back a little bit. I rolled my eyes. I looked at my phone to see it was nearly six here; the ideal time to see the sunset this time of year.

"Look, look!" I squealed with excitement. The sky was pink and red with hints of orange. The sun was bursting with color and it was the most beautiful sunset I'd ever seen.

"You did research on this, didn't you Odelle?" Susie said teasingly. I always had to plan a trip perfectly.

"Maybe…" Susie burst with laughter, so I darted a look at her to calm down. Once she stopped laughing like a crazy woman, the three of us just stood there, enjoying the sunset. After about five minutes, Ikuto broke the silence.

"Would you guys mind if I took you out to dinner? Not a date of course, but to thank you for this pleasant evening."

Susie, of course, spoke first. "Sorry, I can't. I promised my parents we'd spend every dinner here in France together, but Odelle made no such promise." I looked at her as fast as I could. She smiled at me the smile she always gave when she was helping me trust more. My parents always talked about the news, so I heard a lot of horror stories involving trusting strangers.

"So, will you join me?" He said, directly to me. His eyes were obviously trying to charm, but I was a brick. You can't charm a brick to do anything they didn't want to do. Sadly, since a part of me wanted to say yes, the charm worked, and a strange Japanese boy was talking me to dinner.

"Bye." Susie said when we got her to the hotel. He got a taxi cab to get us to the restaurant, and we dropped her off on way there. When Susie left, I realized I was now in the back of a cab in Paris with a perfect stranger. Literally, he so far seemed perfect. I just sat there looking down at my feet with my face red as a tomato. When Ikuto looked over, he chuckled and lifted my head up.

"You really don't have to come." He smiled charmingly, with his finger under my chin, making me blush more. It was right then I realized he had to be way older than me. I also realized most people at first look thought I was several years older than I am. I looked back down, but I think he already saw the spaced looked on my face saying Oh crap.

"You okay, Del?" He gave me a worried and confused look.

"This was a mistake…" Now he was really confused.

"Excuse me?"

"Stop the cab!" The driver did as told, and I got out.

"What's a mistake?" Ikuto called out after me. He paid the driver for how far we'd gotten and got out chasing after me. "Wait just a second!"

I stopped and had my back to him so I didn't have to see his face. "You're probably thinking I'm 16, 17, maybe 18, right? Reality check, though-"

"You're 14." He said blankly. I paused, unsure of what to say. "You're only 14. I can tell because, normally, sixteen year olds who look and act mature like you are taken." He put an arm around my shoulder. "And yes, knowing this, I still asked you to dinner. Why? Because sometimes you find the best people are not the same age as you, but younger." I could tell he was smiling, but I held my head down. I could tell that any moment tears would fall down my red cheeks in embarrassment. I tried holding them back, but they still fell. That's when he wrapped me in a hug.

"I'm sorry." I said. I didn't know what else to say. He just hugged me tighter.

"C'mon. Let's go eat."

Lily: So, does that answer you'e question from before, Ikuto?

Ikuto: Yes, thank you.

Odelle: So is not having Amu soooo bad? wait...who's...

Lily: You'll know later ;)

Ikuto: Yes, you will. For now, we'll just hope people leave a review...-hint hint-