Hi there! So, umm, I've had this idea for a really long time in my head and I wanted to post it. It's gonna be a full length fic, I don't know how long, but I'm just gonna go with the flow. This is the first chapter and I'm still a bit iffy on the title... because I'm still not sure what to name it? Is it okay like this or should I change it to something else? Well, that's it for now c:

Disclaimer: Because you gotta do this, right? Sooo, I do not own Shugo Chara it belongs to Peach Pit. The only thing I own is my ideas.

"Amu, Amu where are you?"

It was just a simple game of hide and seek. Though for Amu Hinamori she always seemed to be the best hider whenever she would play with her friends. But there she was lost somewhere in the woods, hiding up in a tree and clutching for dear life to the body of it. She was too afraid to try to climb down or to yell for help, her whole body was drowned in fear.

"Amu, please answer us?" A small girl with long blonde pigtails cried out worriedly. They had been looking for the tiny pinkette for almost an hour and still had no luck of finding her.

"Please? Amu!"

Her tiny hands went to wipe her eyes when she felt herself losing hold of the tree and her being began to fall. 'No.. I don't wanna die yet!'

"It's okay, I got you."

Instead of feeling the cold ground beneath her, she was caught in somebody's arms who instantly held her tightly.

"I-Ikuto?" Her tiny voiced cracked as she lifted her head up to get a look at her saviour,

"Amu, don't scare me like that.." Ikuto's voice was stern yet calm. He gently patted her back hoping to calm down the small girl.

"I'm sorry.." She broke down in more tears and hugged him tighter,

"It's okay, Amu. It's okay now. Just be careful next time and don't go hiding in anymore trees, okay? You little monkey." He chuckled. This made Amu's tears stop and she began to giggle at him calling her a monkey.

"Thank you, Ikuto." She smiled up at him, her honey golden eyes were still red and puffy from crying. Though he was just glad to see her smiling again.

"Your welcome." He sent a smile back at her.

"Hey, Ikuto.." She asked, still staring into his navy blue eyes.

"Yeah?"

"Promise me something.. even if I get lost or I'm scared, promise me that you'll come and find me wherever I am." Amu said, completely serious with a smile on her face and held out her pinky to him.

"Aren't we getting a bit too old for pinky promises?" Ikuto teased and Amu puffed out her cheeks in embarrassment.

"Ikuto! We're only in the fourth grade that's not old! And besides you're never too old for pinky promises..." She turned her head away from him and huffed in an annoyed tone. He always acted so teasingly towards her and always had to make some kind of comment.

He chuckled once again and took hold of her pinky with his, "It's a promise then."

She smiled up at him as did he and then two other small figures came into view.

"Amu! Ikuto! Oh thank gosh you found her! AMU!" The blonde quickly ran over to her and tackled her into a hug.

"Gah, Utau! I'm fine, I'm fine." Amu said reassuringly while hugging her friend back.

"We were so worried, Amu!" Another boy with blonde hair and pink eyes came into view and tackled her with a hug as well. She felt like she was going to suffocate, and only felt even more air leave her lungs when a third person hugged them and almost picked them off the ground. But she was the only one being picked up.

"Hey, Ikuto! That's not fair I wanted to hug her." The blonde boy pouted and stood there defeated.

"Too bad, Tadase, but she's mine and you can't have her. Brother." He stated, smirking and kept hugging her.

"Hey! When did we start declaring who owned me?" She blushed furiously and squeezed out of his embrace skillfully.

"Come on. Let's go, Utau." Amu grabbed Utau's hand and they both ran out of the forest with both boys tagging along after them.

Years Later...

"I can't believe I still remember that." Amu sighed to herself, beaming with glee from the memory from so many years ago. Which played in her mind so vividly, almost as if it had happened just the day before. It was a memory she always kept close to her, at times it seemed like it would drift away, but stayed put within her memories. It wasn't just some event that held any meaning, no. That one memory in her life held so much more meaning to her and the promise she had made with him.

"Amu! Come out here and help me with these boxes. You know you're not the only one living in this dorm, so stop day dreaming and come and help me!" Utau huffed frustratedly from the doorway of their small dorm room, almost about to drop the box she was holding that held various contents inside.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm coming!" Amu sat up and stretched, she didn't know just how long she had been sitting on her bed just dreaming, but she had to come back to reality at some point or she wouldn't hear the end of it from her best friend.

"So when is Yaya getting here?" She questioned, while taking the box from Utau who heaved a sigh of relief.

"She said she'd be here in about half an hour, so I want to at least get our own things set up before she gets here." Utau added in, they were all in college now. Even though the dorm rooms weren't very spacious they had somehow convinced the college to let them have three people in the same room. Of course it wasn't extremely small, they had divided the room up into three sections. Amu wanted the bed by the window and Utau's was on the opposite side of hers, and Yaya's space was the one closest to the bathroom. Sure it was small, but to them they didn't care, it was cozy. They also had a mini fridge, tv and couch by the wall. They were surprised the room could fit so much furniture.

"Ah. Okay." She replied blandly, placing the box down on one of the bed's and her voice seemed to be drifting away and Utau became suspicious of her change of tone.

"Amu, is something wrong?" Utau asked concerned, she placed another box down and walked up to her friend placing a hand on her shoulder.

Amu's eyes widened, she didn't know what was coming over her, but she kept getting this weird pain in her heart. Specks of blue kept clouding her thoughts and she couldn't think straight. She shook off the thoughts, they couldn't possibly mean anything.

Turning around she gave a smile towards her friend and shook her head, "Yeah, everything's fine, Utau. "

Utau crossed her arms and raised her eyebrows at her, she knew something was up every time she made that smile. It wasn't your average ordinary happy smile, it was a smile she always made when she was hiding something.

"Amu, don't lie to me. I know something's up?" She protested.

She held her hands up in defence and smiled nervously, "Okay, fine, fine. You got me. I was feeling a little bit home sick and I was missing my parents and my sister. Honestly."

"You miss him don-"

"I have arrived!"

Utau was cut off suddenly when the door slammed open a little too loudly, as the always ecstatic Yaya Yuki made a grand entrance standing there with her hands up in the air smiling joyfully.

"I'm so excited to spend my first year of college with my two favourite girls!" Amu and Utau were a bit stunned at first, but then smiled back at her before being crushed with a hug by the brunette.

"Geez, someone's happy." Utau said, sarcastically.

"Well, duh! Guys it's college, you know it's supposed to be like the best years of your life! I wonder if it's gonna be like how it is in the movies?" Yaya spoke a mile a minute and squealed, which was ear deafening.

"Woah, woah, woah. Slow down. Before you start speaking of such crazy ideas, we have to get our dorm room in order still. Because to be honest it's far from finished." Amu halted her hyper active friend by putting a hand up in front of her face and squinting her eyes in pain from the squeal. That girl could get hyper off of nothing, but if she ever got near candy or caffeine there's no escaping.

"I agree with Amu. Let's fix this place up and don't sit around doing nothing.. I've had to do most of it so far, because some people just like to day dream." She nodded her head, agreeing to that. Utau stared at Amu specifically. The girl had practically spent her whole day just sitting there doing who knows, but at some point she wanted to get down to the bottom of it. But for now they were far from finished moving in. All they had so far was a bunch of boxes that they had to unpack and still had more to bring into their room.

Yaya puffed out her cheeks and crossed her arms, she was not happy with this idea in the least, "But, Uta-"

"U-uh.. I-I was just going to bring in more stuff.." She never got to finish her sentence because Utau had sent her the angriest glare, which scared her into helping as she bolted out of the room. If nobody would help, Utau would have someway of making them help out even if that way was by threatening.

"We haven't even started school yet and already you are shooting people death glare's." Amu couldn't help it, but she started to burst out laughing. It took her mind off the other things she was worried about at the moment and made her mood lift more from it's previous state.

"Shut up! We still have plenty of work to do.. so get a move on!" Utau pouted, and walked quickly out of the room to get more of her things.

Amu giggled a bit more, she felt so much better now. If it weren't for Utau and Yaya being here with her, she probably would be a mess without them. She walked over to the window that was right in front of her bed and sat down, putting her arms on the windowsill and resting her head on them. She was staring out at the campus from what her window could see and smiled a bit. Maybe it won't be that bad? I still wish he could have been here with us.. it just doesn't feel the same without him.

The room was filled with music and resounded off of every wall in the room. The rhythm and timing of all the instruments were in perfect harmony, the melody was bitter sweet to the ear, but it was full of feeling. The song soon came to it's end, as the Professor at the head of the Orchestra raised the sticks into the air and brought them down slowly until not a sound could be heard.

"Alright, good job everyone. I'll see you again tomorrow. Remember to keep practising it's very important." The professor spoke and fixed the spectacles on his face as everyone began to exit the room.

"Hey, Mr. Tsukiyomi. Good work today, you seem to always be getting better every single day. I'm sure your father is quite proud of you." He spoke kindly. Ikuto had the exact same music teacher as his father did when he went to this college, so he was very well-known around because of his father and his musical career.

"Thank you, Mr. Lawrence. Everyone always keeps telling me that." He replied. He was the most talked about person at school, because he was the son of a famous violinist. It got really annoying at times. He wanted to make at least some friends here instead of only have friends that liked him just because of his father or his talent. He wanted them to know him for him, not for somebody else. Though he acted unfazed most of the time. He knew he had really good friends. Back in Japan where he left everyone.

After graduation and everyone had chosen which college they were going to, he wanted to go to the same one that Amu and Utau were going to, but he had been accepted already at the music school in England and couldn't say no. The music program was excellent and was a very prestigious music school. Of course he missed all of his family and friends back in Japan, but he promised he would come visit from time to time and would never lose contact with anyone.

He made his way back to his dorm room and was never surprised to hear some sort of musical instrument in the hallway every time. He finally got to his door, which was the very last one at the end of the hall and opened it before being greeted by his roommate.

"Hey, Ikuto." He said and waved at him from his desk.

"Yo, Kyle." He replied back and waved a lazy hand back and made his way to his side of the room, setting his stuff down. Kyle was almost finished at the school and was graduating that year. He had brown hair and green eyes and occasionally wore glasses when he was working.

"Anything new happen?" He questioned. Turning away from his homework and stretched his arms above his head.

"Nope. Just the usual, like always." He replied, shrugging. Everyday was always the same. Either he was being bombarded by people who kept asking him questions or girls who didn't know how to get a clue that he wasn't interested in them. There was only one girl who came to mind and to him she was all he wanted.

"Soooo you gonna call her?" He prolonged the 'o' and asked him again.

"Who?"

"You know who I'm talking about, that girl you always keep telling me about? What was her name again-"

"Amu. Her name is Amu." He cut him off and was very blunt and to the point with his words.

"Right! So dude are you going to?" He raised an eyebrow at him.

"I can whenever. She's probably busy right now or she's with my sister and her friends." Of course he wanted to talk to Amu, but always wanted to wait till it was night. Never again would he talk on the phone during the day, because Kyle would always embarrass him, especially when he was speaking to Amu. Their semester started earlier than her college and why he had already experienced what his classes were like.

"Dude, don't give me that bullshit. The look on your face says it all." He stated.

"Does that mean you'll leave the room so I can talk to her in peace for once?" Ikuto crossed his arms and eyed him seriously,

Kyle laughed at this and gave him a thumbs up, "Yeah, don't worry. I won't bug you while you're speaking to you girlfriend!"

Kyle smirked, and this made Ikuto's eyes widen and practically facepalm himself.

"She's not my girlfriend! We've just been really good friends ever since we were kids. Though I wish that could change..." He said, but the last thing he said was in more of a whisper that his friend couldn't hear.

"Yet. What happened in highschool? If you liked her-"

"It's not that easy, Kyle. I know she's always liked my brother Tadase." Ikuto sighed, he saw the way she looked at Tadase. She would smile of course around both of them, but he only made her blush whenever he teased her or bugged her about something. With Tadase she would naturally blush. Though he was always there for her whenever she needed somebody to confide in.

"And how do you know that?" He questioned.

"I just do." He shrugged, being completely blunt.

"Did you ever ask her?" He questioned him yet again, Kyle didn't know why his friend didn't even go out with any girl.

"Why the hell would I ask her?" His voice suddenly became more angrier, though it was in a much lower tone than normal.

"Ah.. sorry. I guess that's probably not the best idea.. I mean I've tried it before." He said and rubbed the back of his head nervously.

"And what did that get you, hmm?" He asked.

"Umm.. well... Okay fine. I got friend-zoned and she told me she liked somebody else." He finally said and threw his arms into the air in frustration.

"Ouch, that's rough."

"No kidding." He had a pained expression on his face, but later on smiled.

"Sure I was hurt, but she was more like a sister to me than anything." He shrugged, but then realized what he had said though before he could say anything, Ikuto spoke.

"Oh? So you're into that kinda stuff. Geez, Kyle. I didn't take you for the sister complex type guy, but now I'm starting to re-think my opinion about you." Ikuto spoke sarcastically and tried his best not to start laughing.

"Shut up! It's not like that! I just – just whatever! You understand what I mean. It's like a friendship that you have with Amu." Kyle was flailing his arms every which way in complete embarrassment and crossed his arms afterwards.

"But I didn't call her my sister. I said best friend. There's a difference." Ikuto stated, proving his point.

Kyle opened up his mouth in further protest, but shut it just as fast and grumbled words under his breath, "Bu – whatever.."

Ikuto chuckled a bit, "Don't get so mad I was only stating the facts." He said, trying to cheer up his friend.

"Yeah, yeah, I got it. So. Ikuto." He started and stared straight at him.

"Yes?"

"You gonna call her?"

"Are you gonna solve out your sister complex?"

"Hey! I – ugh, never mind. You know what as a matter a fact, I'm gonna go out there and ask a girl out!"

"Oh really? Good luck with that. Try not to think of her as your sister." Ikuto smirked, this was way too easy for him, every time they would have an argument like this he always won.

"Watch and learn, Tsukiyomi, watch and learn." And with that Kyle confidently strode out of the dorm room to whatever destination he was off to.

When he finally heard the door shut and the sound of footsteps getting farther and farther away, Ikuto let out a long sigh and plopped backwards onto his bed. His mind was racing with all sorts of things, homework, memories, calling Amu – Crap. He mentally scolded himself. He had completely forgotten he promised to call her right after he got out of his class. He wondered how long he had been talking to his roommate and tilted his head to the side to look at the clock on the wall, shit. It was well over an hour since his class finished. Yup, this year was definitely going to be an interesting one.

So for the first chapter... how was it? I didn't want the first chapter to be too long or too short, I wanted to make sure I got the introduction out of the way and soon the plot will start to stretch out. What do you all think of it?