Amu's POV.
"Amu-chan!!!" I heard three small voices calling out to me.
I opened my eyes barely to see Ran, Miki, and Su huddled together nudging me awake.
"Wake-up desu~" Su's motherly voice asked me as Ran and Miki were less patiently jumping on top of me to get me up.
"Ugh! Come on guys, just five more minutes!" I groaned turning over so I wouldn't face them.
"You don't have five minutes! You're going to be late Amu-chan!!!" Ran practically yelled in my ear. It's not like it's the end of the world or anything....WAIT WHAT?!
"Oh man!" I panicked throwing my covers aside and jumping directly into my closet, "Why didn't you say that sooner?!"
I quickly put on my uniform and ran out of my room without so much as a glance at myself in the mirror. From what I see, everything seems normal this morning. Ami's sining one of Utua's new songs. Papa's taking pictures of his cute daughter for the scrapbook. Mama's cooking breakfast while agreeing with every statement Papa says about how cute Ami is. When that's an average morning here, you'd think they wouldn't wonder why I'm always out or in my room.
"Good morning Amu-chan." Mama greets me warmly with a nice smile.
"Morning," I say as a natural response walking towards the door, "I'm gone,"
"Have a good day, and be careful," Mama said right as I was out the door running towards school.
"Amu-chan's been sleeping in a lot lately," Ran said taunting me, all of them giggling.
It's not like I want to sleep in and be late, but lately, I've had a hard time falling asleep. There are so many things I still don't know, and at this point, it's driving me insane! I mean, I became the Joker for the guardians almost a year ago, and I still have this feeling that I'm not being told everything I should be. Maybe I'm paranoid, but still... things just seem different than they used to. I just don't know how, or why.
"Amu-chan! Watch where your going or your going to-"
"What?" I asked losing my train of thought and looking at her. That was my mistake. Wham!
"Ow!" Was all I got out after running straight into a tree landing on my butt. I dropped my bag and all my books and papers flew out. "Great." I mumbled sarcastically under my breath.
"What? Did you not see the big tree in front of you or are you trying something new?" I heard someone with a familiar voice ask me.
"Huh?" I asked looking around for the source of the voice. I looked up and saw just who I was expecting to see. "Ikuto?!"
"Yo." He answered sitting on one of the branches in the tree. He was smirking at me as he usually did. He seemed to be amused, or think I'm an idiot. In this case though. I won't press that issue.
"What are you doing?" I asked trying not to seem interested, but come on! I'm running to school trying to be one time and he's lounging in a tree! I thought he was the high schooler here!
"Curious?" he asked in a taunting voice he usually used when he spoke to me. He was looking at me with his dark blue eyes, his eyebrow arched still smirking of course. I felt flustered and looked away, only to here him chuckle.
"Don't you have school or something?" I asked refusing to make eye contact now.
"Don't you?" he asked snapping me back to reality.
"Ah man!" was all I got out trying to get my things together.
"How'd you manage to run into a tree?" I heard him ask jumping down from the tree.
"Uh..." I really didn't want to tell him I was spacing out while running. Why should I anyway?! I parentally I was blushing at my embarrassing event because I heard him chuckle again. I glared at him which probably looked weird while I was still blushing. "What's it to you anyway?!"
"Touchy," Ikuto stated leaning back against the tree, "And thought you looked cute." How can saying something like that come out so casual? Of course, he is just making fun of me. As if running into a tree wasn't embarrassing enough, let's just mess with me some more.
"Whatever, I don't have time to deal with you right now." I told him continuing to gather my things but with more speed.
"Not right now huh?" he asked in a low voice in my ear making me jump. I didn't look at him, but I could tell he had a smirk on his face from scaring me. I just kept gathering my loose papers. Maybe if I ignored him he'd get bored and leave. "That mean you'll have time for me later?"
"No, it means I'm late and you're in the way!" I told him making sure he got the drift. So much for ignoring him, but it's kind of hard to ignore an arrogant person.
"Hey, I'm not keeping you, and it's not fault you ran into a tree."
"Oh would you let that go!" I shouted frustrated now. I knew he wasn't going to forget that any time soon.
"I'll let it go when you do something funnier than that," he stated simply. I only glared at him and focused on getting my papers in a neat stack and getting the rest.
"You can't ignore me forever." I heard him say as he waved something in front of me. I glanced up barely and saw him waving the rest of my papers in front of me. How could he be so fast and that quiet at the same time? Got to have something to do with being a cat.
"Thanks," I grumbled taking my papers from him.
"Better hurry if you want to be on time," he said leaning on the tree again with that smirk on his face.
"Oh! Man! I'm late!" I said taking off running as fast as I can again.
"Ran! Do a character change with me!" I told her not stopping to speak.
"Got it Amu-chan!" she answered enthusiastically. Then I felt my speed increase making it to my class just in time. Of course I felt dizzy after getting there.
"Just in time, Himamori-san," I heard sensei comment to my out of breath expression. I was too tired to correct him, so I just sat in my seat by Rima.
She eyed my appearance. "Did you look in a mirror this morning?"
"What? What's wrong?" I asked. I hadn't thought about how I looked, just about getting to class on time.
"Well,...I can tell you didn't brush your hair, and your uniform's dirty. Plus, you have bags under your eyes." Talk about brutal. I didn't know I looked that bad. I'm going to have to run to the bathroom and fix myself up before my next class. Why didn't Ikuto comment about how I looked? That would have actually have been helpful teasing, but no, he chooses the obvious one. He's going to have to get more creative.
I felt myself freeze. What the heck am I thinking?! I can't stand Ikuto teasing me. I don't want him to get creative, I want him to stop and leave me alone! I glanced towards the back of the room. I caught Tadase's eye and he smiled at me with a quick wave. I smiled back and turned around. My smile seemed to drop and I looked down at my hands in my lap. I was fidgeting not paying attention to the lesson. Not too long ago, when Tadase looked at me, my heart would skip a beat. Now though, I think I got used to his presence.
That's a good thing, right? I got his attention and I've been close to him so much that I really know him now. I really like Tadase. I won't let anything or anyone ruin it for me, but still, I know that spark I used to have for him wasn't as strong as it used to be.
Snap!
"Aw!" I snapped out of my trance and got back to this world.
"Pay attention Himamri-san," sensei told me waving a ruler in front of my face he had just slammed down on my desk.
"Hinamori not Himamori!" I told him with my usual cool voice I used at school.
Ikuto's POV.
Watching her run off was worth watching. She took off with speed in a hurry to get to class on time. She's always fun to watch. It's occurred to me before, but she's the only one that can get me to really laugh and be amused.
Watching her run off made me realize she's kind of looks reacked. Hmph, her hairs kind of a mess and after landing on the ground and moving around to get her papers, she got her uniform dirty. Wonder why I didn't notice that before?
"Ikuto! There you are nya~" I heard Yoru's voice and looked away from Amu towards him. "I've been looking ever where. Where have you been?"
"Nowhere in particular," I answered keeping my tone emotionless. "Let's go Yoru." Then I notice something.
"Nya? What's wrong?" I ignore him. I lean down and grab a pink book off the ground. "Huh? What's that nya?"
"Not sure," I answered sounding uninterested, but I really did want to know what it was.
I opened and flipped through the pages. About 3/4 of the book was filled with handwritten pages with different color pens. I close the book fast, and gently open the front to the first page.
Hinamori Amu
Do Not Read
Or Else!
She's not very creative, but this is something for only her eyes to see. I shut the book. I put it under my arm. I've got return her diary, but somehow do it without her accusing me of stealing it or something.
"Come on Yoru."
"Huh? What's that nyaa~" he asked me in more of whine than a question.
"Don't worry about it. It's Amu's."
"Ah!" he answered giving me his small evil grin.
"What?" I asked annoyed already.
"Nya, watching Amu again?"
"Shut up Yoru."
