Another short Amuto one-shot. This time there's slight MikixYoru. I was thinking about making this into a chapter story but changed my mind again. So it's still a oneshot, for now anyway.

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Art And Ikuto

Summer blossoms danced in the warm summer breeze, and thin, blades of fresh grass swayed slowly. The sun beat down on the leaves of the tree Amu was sat underneath. Her pink hair tied up in high bunches on either side of her head while the rest of her hair fell loosely around her shoulders. She was surrounded by flowers of different sizes, shapes and was frowning and pouting slightly, as she chewed lightly on the end of her pencil. Looking up from her currently empty page of her sketchpad, she gazed at all the plants in front of her, and the trees surrounding her.

"Ughh," Her frown deepened and she leaned back pressing the top of her head to the tree bark and looked up through the gap in the leaves. She sighed as she watched the fluffy, white clouds float serenely across the midday sky. "I still can't decide..." She murmured to herself, her eyes sliding shut. Amu let her book fall down from her lap and join her bag on the floor as she stretched her legs out further. Placing her pencil next to them, she let her fingers run through she grass and trace the delicate lines of the separate blades until her fingers found a stem a little bit thicker than the grass, causing her eyes to flutter back open and look at her hands. There she saw a flower with slightly spiked petals lined with the smallest amount of black that faded into midnight blue the closer to the middle it got. Leaning forward to lay on her stomach, she reached for her pencil and sketch pad and placed them in front of her. Slowly she began to draw the flower. She drew it perfectly, she even colored it beautifully. After a while she was finished and really quite proud of her work. She smiled to herself when she looked over the edge of her book and saw her three charas carrying an orange egg towards her.

"That's great Amu-chan!" Miki smiled while looking at her owners drawing, after she, Ran and Suu gently lowered Dia's egg to the soft ground. Ran and Suu nodded along with their sister as they peered over the top of the book.

"Thanks," Replied blushing at her charas comment. "But I'm missing something..."

"Like what ~Desu?" Suu asked placing a finger on her chin.

Amu bit her lip, "I'm not sure yet." Still chewing her lip, she let the tip of the pencil drag lightly across the paper, barely leaving a mark. Then her eyes light up and a tiny blush adorned her face. She looked around before she returned to her place of lying on her stomach, leg swinging in the air. She began with the eyes, then moved onto the hair, then jawline, and the rest of the facial features. Ran had ran off somewhere again but little cheers for a squirrel climbing a tree could be heard on the wind. Suu had taken to polishing Dia's egg, and Miki had, unknowingly to Amu, floated behind her shoulder looking at her work as she lay on the floor. She spent ages on the drawing, determined to make it perfect. She wanted every details to be right. She was pleased with herself for not having used Miki's talent alone. Miki, who was still admiring her work with glittering eyes breathed ''Wow..." under her breath causing Amu to jump and cover her work with her bag.

"Miki...you scared me." Her face was an amazing shade of red, she tried to cool her face down in turn, making her blush deepen. Miki smiled apologetically before moving to stand on the bag and was still clutching.

"Why are you hiding it from me?" She asked looking into her owners face tilting her head slightly. Amu breathed in deeply.

"I'm not I'm just...well...you know..." She closed her eyes and turned her head away. "It's just embarrassing..." she whispered. After a small pause Miki thought of something.

"I know what will make you less embarrassed." She smiled. Amu looked back at Miki, confused. She watched her blue chara reach into her small messenger bag, sporting a blush of her own. She pulled out her own drawing pad and flipped through the pages until she stopped and looked at her drawing she bit her lip but handed over her book anyway. Amu looked at it and blinked, then slowly removed the bag from the top of her own work. She looked from Miki's drawing to hers.

"You drew Yoru..." Amu whispered.

"...And you drew Ikuto." Miki beamed.

Amu closed her sketch pad smiling until she turned to Miki with confused eyes. Miki blinked at her. "What?"

"Nothing...It's just, I thought you would have drawn Kiseki..?" It sounded more like a question than a statement. "Don't you like him?"

Attempting to hide her blush, Miki looked down at her drawing of Yoru smiling sat on the rail of Amu's balcony. "I thought I did..." she began after a while. "But...I don't know. I realised he didn't notice hardly anyone apart from himself, I guess. He didn't really act like he cared what anyone else thought or felt... I can't like someone like that." She finished looking down. Amu looked deep in thought but nodded once.

"Wait...so does that mean you like Yoru?" Miki's head snapped up to look at her, her face redder than Amu had ever seen it before.

"I...I..." Miki stuttered. Sighing in defeat she said "I g-guess I do... a little b-bit." with a shaky voice. Amu smiled. "Well, what about you?"

"Huh? Me?" Amu asked puzzled, her smile slowly fading into a confused look.

"Yeah...do you like Ikuto?" She asked crossing her arms, a triumphant look plastered all over her face, as Amu's eyes widened.

"N-no." She stated stubbornly crossing her own arms. Miki smirked softly.

"You can tell me you know, Amu-chan."

Amu looked at her chara then stared at the bark of another tree opposite her. It was silent apart from the slight rustle of leaves above her head. She thought back to the night she and Ikuto were both in the air reaching for the embryo. She remembered the look on his face as he looked at it. He looked like he'd give anything to get it. When she saw the pain in his eyes, she hesitated. She could have reached out that little bit extra and grabbed it out of the air before him. But she didn't. She couldn't do that to him. She remembered the way he held her when they were falling, the way he let her know he was there when he held her closer. The way he let her know he would die to protect her when he placed his hand on her head. She also remembered Death Rebel. Amu had hated seeing Ikuto that way. Fighting her against his will, under their control. But she never stopped believing in him, especially when those cold, dead eyes gave way to his honest, pure ones when he told her to stay back. She found she couldn't stay away from him. She knew she had to, she knew when he was hurt he couldn't stay at her house, but she let him anyway. She couldn't leave him. She made a vow to herself that she would never leave him on his own when he needed her most. She understood he was meant to be her enemy...meant to be. In truth she had never thought of him as one. Even when she saw him surrounded by X-eggs for the first time, she refused to believe. She always knew deep down that he was a good person. And she also knew she had to help him, she'd give anything to save him. Anything at all. She lied to her friends for him, she lied to her parents. When she learned about his childhood, her heart broke and she felt pain. Pain for him. She understood why he done the things he did. She understood all about Easter trying to use him as a pawn in their giant game for obtaining the embryo. What she didn't understand was why she felt safe when he was there, even though he was supposed to be working against she didn't understand was how she ever lived without him...

What she didn't understand was how she ever lived without loving him.

Snapping back to the present she saw Miki looking at her, worried. "Amu-chan...are you okay?" Amu nodded, before shaking the thoughts out of her head.

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"You were thinking about him again weren't you?" Miki said with understanding eyes. Amu was about to deney everything when she realised there was no point. Why should she Deny everything when she knew in her heart it was all true?

"Yeah...yeah I was." she said, her eyes looking sad and beaten. "And yeah, I do like him. I like him alot."

"Amu-chan? Whats wrong?" Miki asked floating over to her owner's crossed legs and standing her her knee to look up into her face. Amu looked back at her and smiled a small, sad smile.

"But theres no point,Miki...he doesn't feel the same. He can't feel the same...not about me." She looked brokenhearted, so different from when she was drawing the one she was speaking of now.

"You don't know that." Miki whispered to her.

Amu carried on as if she hadn't heard her. "I feel so stupid. I can't believe I actually... actually love...him. And all he sees is a kid." tears where in her eyes threatening to overflow, but Amu refused to let them. She stood up,as Miki got of her knee, and got her things together. "Please go and get the others Miki, were going home." Miki nodded with sad eyes and slowly floated towards Suu at the bottom of another tree, humming to herself and swinging her legs from where she sat on an above-ground tree root, next to Dia's egg. Sighing and still attempting to blink back her tears, Amu swung her bag ,that looked like Miki's messenger bag, over her shoulder. She let the breeze brush her hair away from her face, and with the wind went one single tear drop that escaped from her unwilling eyes. Suddenly two strong arms wounded their way around Amu from behind her. Amu gasped and was about to squirm out of whomsoever grasp it may be until said person murmured,

"I don't think your a just a kid Amu..." into her ear.

She froze.


Ikuto...

"Wh...what?" her voice came out as a broken whisper.

"I said," He breathed "I don't see you as a kid." His breath tickled her ear as he spoke softly. His arms were still around her and he tightened his grip. "I heard everything you said..."

Amu's eyes widened. "Every...thing?" Instead of an answer, Ikuto spun her round quickly but gently, and kissed her passionately. He dragged his tongue along Amu's bottom lip begging for entrance, which she gladly accepted. She let the last tear she held back slide down the side of her face. When they finally parted for air Ikuto wiped it away with his thumb and rested his forehead against hers.

"Amu..." He stated taking her face in his hands lightly. "I love you." Her eyes widend slightly as new tears came to her eyes.

"You mean that?" She asked afraid of the answer.


"More than anything." He smiled. A real smile.

"I love you too, Ikuto." She blushed.

They kissed again, this time pouring every emotions they've ever had to hide from each other into it. Ran,Miki and Suu who were heading back saw this and their faces light up. Yoru who was holding Miki's hand closed his eyes and nodded. Even the orange egg opened slightly revealing a smiling Dia. Safe to say, the only person not smiling was a young, blonde haired boy standing at the side of the large iron gate of the park, with a shocked, broken look on his face as he saw the two kissing under the falling summer blossoms...


It looked alot longer on paper...darn. Anyway I hope you all liked it! I wasn't really sure about the ending but it was the only one I coukd think of at such short notice. I haven't been feeling well so I had a little time to write and this suddenly came to me. If anyone had any idea's for turning this into a chapter story then please reveiw and tell me if you like. I'll credit you, promise! ^^