Okay I'm ill and injured! So I had some extra time to write something. Thing is that I currently have a tiny little bit of writers block on another fic of mine because I haven't really been in the swing of things with it lately, so this is really to help me get back into writing more often. It's 588 words so not really long. I didn't really mean for it to be this short but it's got everything I wanted. ^^ It's about the way I think Amu and Ikuto fell in love.

I don't own Shugo Chara!

Enjoy and please review ^^

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And That Was It

By Tsukiyomi Gemma

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It was on the construction site, that he had first saw her. He was there minding his own business, thinking of ways to capture the embryo. He had heard from 'the ones above' at Easter, that a girl with three guardian charas had suddenly appeared. There was suspicions. Ones about one of her eggs being the embryo. Ikuto didn't know what to believe. He had been lied to most of his life. He had never been let in on anything important. Why would this time be any different? It wasn't, he decided. But he had to check it out. He had to be sure there was nothing about this that interested him. He was sure there wasn't.

It was when she was clutching desperately at the scaffolding, that he had first felt scared for her. She was staring at the ground from way up above it. Her hands were shaking as the tightening her fingers around the cold metal. Even if he didn't know her, he could at least give her comfort. Even if that comfort was in the form of sneaking up behind her and taking her eggs. At least she knew someone was there. Enemy or not.

He didn't trust her. Of course he didn't. He didn't even know her. She was just some kid in the way. Then why did his heart stop when he watched her fall? Why were his feet suddenly routed to the ground when hers weren't routed to anything? When her small body was falling, dropping through nothingness to crash into the hard ground below. Why didn't he do anything?

Because he was scared.

Not of falling, himself. He didn't care about that. But he was scared of what this feeling inside of him was. Sure, he'd felt it before, or at least a part of it.

Dread. Complete and utter fear.

It was terrifying…watching her fall. His mind screamed at him to do something. His legs ached with the need to jump. His arms twitched to reach out and grab her. But his heart…

Even though his heart wanted nothing more than to catch her, to save her…

His heart also didn't want to get hurt again. Anyone that promised would always be by his side, had left him. They had always turned and walked away heartlessly. He couldn't bare to watch anyone leave him again.

So Ikuto stood… and he stared, as she plummeted to the ground. Down, down, down. Until she fell straight into Hotori Tadase's hands. He caught her. He saved her. He held her.

Everything Ikuto wanted to do.

He stood there and watched someone else do it all.

He whispered her name again. Amu.

She looked up into Tadase's face as he held her. He had his eyes shut.

Ikuto didn't understand why he felt something so strong when he saw her safe in Tadase's hands. He didn't even realize that it was Tadase at first. He couldn't take his eyes from Amu. He didn't care who had caught her, just so long as she was alive. Alive and safe.

Ikuto was suddenly scared again. What if it happened? What if he was right? He didn't want this to happen. Not now. He couldn't let anyone get involved with him. No matter how much they meant… this could not happen.

Then Amu looked up at Ikuto, who still stood, staring down at her…

…It happened. No matter how much they both wished it wouldn't. It happened.

Honey met midnight.

And that was it.

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Well I hope you all liked it! I was thinking about the first time Amu and Ikuto met and Ikuto stood by when she was falling in the first episode of the anime, and I was thinking about why he didn't help out. So then I thought that maybe he was scared of getting involved with someone in case they leave him? Think about it people! Love at first sight. He was protecting her! It makes sense and you know it. ^^

Reviews are love~! ^^