Angel!

Chapter 2

Ikuto POV

She stood up straight, with a confident smile on her face. She was beautiful. Nice curves, wonderful face, and piercing eyes. "Hey." She said casually. I just looked at her.

"Follow me, I want to show you something!" she said as she started climbing back up the ledge. I followed.

"Who are you?" I asked as I pulled myself over. She smiled at me.

"It's me silly! It hasn't been that long. Or did you forget me?" She said in an obvious tone, a worried look on her face. I blinked a few times, and then had a slight epiphany as she pulled me to a cave. Pink hair… gold eyes…

She pulled me inside, I was still in shock. We walked in silence through the cave. It wasn't an awkward silence though, just… normal silence. Then she stopped. I tore my eyes away from her and looked in front of us.

"Wow, you led us to a dead end."I said in monotone. She giggled.

"Why would I do that?" She asked scornfully. She walked to her left and ducked into the WALL. I gasped. She came back out. "You coming?" I walked over to the wall and put my hand where she had just been, and then I pushed into it and fell into darkness. I turned on a flashlight, but rock surrounded me. Soon the rock-tunnel around me faded and I was able to see. I was sliding down smooth rock on my stomach. I looked up to see her standing, back turned away from me, at the end of the "slide". I slowly got up. "Turn the flashlight off." She said quietly. I turned it off and gasped as the whole cavern lit up.

Little glowing white balls floated around us. "W-what is this?" I asked.

"A long time ago, there were some… people… who made these to supervise the galaxy." Sure enough, the formation was in the form of the Milky Way. I reached out for one… "Don't touch them." She said grabbing my hand. She put her hand out and grabbed one. "They are made of the same gas as stars. They'll burn any human, but I can pick them up." She held it in front of me. The slightly blue light silhouetted her face. She was just too beautiful. I felt guilty for leaving for so long.

"A-amu," I said absentmindedly.

"Yes?" She asked. I shook my head.

"Nothing." Then we heard calls from outside.

"Maybe you should go," I nodded and ran for the exit, she followed. We walked out of the cave to see all of them looking for me. I ran up to Utau.

"Amu found this star simulation thing in there!" I panted, pointing at the cave. She looked at me severely worried and put her hand to my head. "W-what?"

"Ikuto… Amu isn't here."

"How do you know?"

"Because it's impossible for her to be here, Ikuto." I just looked at her. "I-Ikuto… Amu's dead." She said, bangs covering her eyes.

"N-no she's not, she's right…" I pointed next to me, but she was gone. "She can't be. She was with me, I saw her…"

"Maybe you were in the sun too long," her voice shook.

"No she was…"

"NO, she wasn't!" she yelled her voice hoarse, but harsh. "I saw her die Ikuto! I was there! She is dead!" I just looked at her.

"W-when?" I asked putting my head down. She took my arm and we went back to camp in silence. There we sat down and she explained. Everyone had gone into their rooms.

"About 2 years ago, Amu had defeated Easter. We were all there to help, but really, of course, she did everything. She was always the one to take charge. However… no one knew that Gozen was still alive…" she trailed off and started sniffling. Gozen… my hand tightened to a fist.

"We were all weak from fighting, but she was trying her best to keep us going." Her voice started shaking, "She was helping Yaya find her Chara that had been blown away when we heard a loud boom and the most sickening sound I think I've ever heard." She let out between sobs. "She f-fell to the ground an-and, I-Ikuto, the blank look on her face, h-her eyes staring into nothing… t-the sight still haunts me Ikuto. It haunts all of us. She had gotten shot… right through her heart. She died on contact… and Gozen was put in prison for murder…" she trailed off again and started sobbing. I got up and mechanically walked into the cabin. My bangs were over my face that was turned to the ground. I slammed my hand against the wall and stood there. When I looked up… everything was spinning. I walked, no stumbled, to my room I shut the door and slid down it; sitting on the floor, my eyes still blurry.

"Little did anyone know it didn't matter if she died because her family was already dead," came her voice in a far away, echoed way.

"I'm crazy..." I mumbled.

"No, I'm here."

"Where," I said laughing dryly. She's dead… not here at all. A white ball appeared in the corner of the room, it exploded into many shimmering pieces, lighting up the whole room, and where it had been, sat a girl. Hinamori, Amu to be exact.

"H-How?" I said crawling over to her. She smiled at me. She was wearing a white sleeveless dress that tied around her neck with a layered, flared skirt. There were two gold ribbons that wrapped around her middle fingers than criss-crossed up her arms to right below her elbow where they were tied in small bows. She had on white heels with gold ribbon that tied up her legs. Her hair was down, down to her waist, with a white ribbon tied in it like a headband. (Haruhi Suzumiya style!) She seemed to glow there. I reached out and put my hand on her bare arm. She is… so warm… She just looked at me.

"Isn't it obvious?" she said. I thought it over again. The only thing I can come up with was bogus…

"It's not bogus." She said sweetly. I looked at her in wonder. "I can read your mind. Since I'm your Guardian I should be able to, right?" she said.

"Guardian?" I asked, she nodded.

"You see, when the parents of a child are, or once were, caught up with Angels or very religious, they're child becomes an Angel. When the child is born they are told by God what their child is destined to be."

"So, you're saying that you were born to be my Guardian Angel?" she nodded. "B-but isn't that stealing from your parents? I mean now you die because I'm here?" She gave me a patient smile.

"No, no. You see, usually I wouldn't have even met you. Most of the time, we live long lives and die of old age, but I died young, which made it possible for us to meet. The reason for this whole thing is society. With the rising of sin, the population of Heaven is going up as much as it used to. So, the need for Guardian Angels to come help is growing."

"So, why are you here?"

"Because you're lost. Now go to sleep." She waved me off to bed. The words echoed in my head forever

'Because you're lost…'

Then I thought for a moment. I came up with this theory…

Maybe, when the shock fades away, I could have some fun with this… I could feel a mischievous smirk spread across my face.

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YAY! Ikuto's back! Tee-hee… what will he do to his poor little angel? Please Review!

PEACE!

n.n REX ;]