Dreams, the Present, Past, and Future!
A/n: Chapter two! Yeah! This is going to (hopefully) be great! Well on with the story!
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When the castle was out of sight I began to run. I was almost past all the houses near the castle and then I'd be safe in a cover of jade green forest. I closed my eyes and began to run faster. I gradually started to speed up till everything around me was dark. I opened my eyes to find my self in the forest. I began to slow down till I came to a complete stop. I looked back and could see only a tiny glimpse of the castle far off on it's hill and the town beneath it that no matter how hard you looked the castle was out of sight by all the trees. I turned my back to the castle. Now all that lay ahead was a few miles of forest that kept me from freedom. I raced forward eager to get there. Time seemed to move in slow motion. The joy of finally being free. Everything around me slowed and then came and hit me hard. The slow joy of believing I could be free left me as soon as they had come. I looked around. Where was I? I remembered marking a path when I was little for every time I had snuck out to get to the city but now I couldn't find it. This part of the forest was familiar. It had an eerie feel to it. As if something dark lurked around here. I turned around to see my Shugo Chara's huddled together shivering. I grabbed them and hugged them. I turned to my right and headed away from this place. As I walked away I could've sworn I heard something mutter useless. I felt the hair on my arms stand up and I ran forward heading north. It felt as if I had been running for hours when the bad feeling finally left. I stopped and looked at my watch it had been four hours since I had left. It was three. I began to wander still heading north.
"Amu. A-Are we lost? Ran asked.
"Um. To tell you the truth I don't know. I feel like I'm going the right way but I also have no Idea where I'm going." I said.
"That's just great. You got us lost." Miki said.
"Well I don't see you leading the way now do I." I stated firmly. They were quiet after that.
We walked for another few hours. This meant another few miles. To somewhere, but I didn't know where. It began to get dark and my body grew weary but I didn't give up not till I found where I was going. Just another part of my stubborn side. I struggled to keep my eyes open as the night grew black. I felt a gust of wind and something soft before everything went dark.
Tadase's POV
I sat down at the table and began to eat breakfast. Kiseki tried to talk to me but I was lost in my thoughts of the dream I had last night. I was wandering in the forest and then I was met by a pair of golden honey eyes. I never got to finish the dream because Kiseki had woke me up. Whose eyes were they anyways? Why did I dream about them? I finished breakfast and washed my dishes. I walked outside and wandered. I was in a daze so I had no idea where I was going. When I finally slipped out of my daze I was at a bus stop and was about to board the bus. I got on wondering where I was going. I went through town. The bus stopped at the next stop and I thought about getting off but something told me to stay on and go a little further. I was in the next town when I finally decided to get off. It had been about two hours so it was 1:00. I began to walk around. This town was pretty nice. It was close to the forest too. It had some fairly good sized houses and a few parks. After a little while of walking my phone went off. I picked it up.
"Hello." I said.
"Tadase where are you man? We were supposed to meet at the park an hour ago." Kukai asked.
I looked at my watch to see that it was three. I thought about going back but something told me I had something to do here.
"Sorry, I won't be able to make it I'm in the next town running some errands." I said.
"Ok. See ya tomorrow." He said and hung up. I hung up my phone and began walking around.
I came up to the forest and decided to go in. I headed south a ways but came back. I picked up a sharp rock and started to wander again marking some of the trees so I could find my way out again. After a few hours I found myself wandering in circles and coming back to the exit. It began to get dark. I finally choose one direction and walked it straight. I marked the trees and went deeper in to the forest. I gradually grew darker and I was about to turn back when I heard something. It sounded like something had dropped on the ground. I ran forward through some bushes and past some weeping willows and found a body lying on the ground. I walked up to it. I turned it over and checked for a pulse. I could tell it was a girl by the facial features. I couldn't find a pulse for a few seconds but then it appeared. I watched her chest rise and fall for a few seconds then picked her up.
I walked back the way I came fallowing the markings. It took less time then it did to get up here. I walked through the town and got on the bus at the bus stop. There was practically no one on the bus so it wasn't as embarrassing. When we got to my stop I walked back to my house. I took her in to the spare bedroom and layed her down on the bed. She had two back packs hanging off each shoulder I took them off of her and set them next to the bed.
I got a chair and sat down next to the bed. She looked exhausted. I wonder what she's been doing all day.
"Do you think she's ok?" Kiseki asked.
"Yeah she just seems exhausted." I said.
Her eyes began to flutter and they opened slightly. I watched her eyes look around for a moment before they opened in surprise. She sat up quickly and looked around. Her eyes stopped on me. I held a gasp in when I saw them.
They were a golden honey color.
Amu's POV
I saw a swirl of colors before a picture began to form. I was standing in a park with no one around. I saw one boy there. He had blonde hair and violet red eyes. He was about three inches taller than me. I ran to the fountain and he fallowed. It was the same as the last day I saw that boy. He was my only friend from the town beneath the castle. We sat at the fountain and talked. Not about anything really we were just talking to talk and be with each other. He looked at me and took a hold of my hand and dragged me somewhere. We were a ways in to the woods when he stopped underneath a tree. There was a tree house there. He climbed up the tree but I couldn't because I was wearing a dress. He sent down a little swing and I sat on it. He pulled the swing up and let helped me on to the tree house. We walked in side and sat down at the table and chairs he had in there.
"Tadase I won't be able to come down here anymore. My mom doesn't want me too." I said.
He looked surprised.
"Why? I mean there is nothing dangerous and I'd miss you. You can't just leave and not come back." He said.
"I'm sorry. My mom expects me to be home in a few minutes I have to go." I said walking out the door. He followed me out to help me down. Be fore I sat down on the swing I whispered in his ear.
"It's not like I'll never come back. One day when I'm older I'll escape and come back to you. I promise." I said.
"Pinky promise?" He asked.
I held out my pinky and his clasped around mine. We chanted the ever so famous promise.
"Pinky promise that if you lie I'll make you swallow a thousand needles. Promise made." We chanted. I hugged him and he let me down.
The colors began to swirl and the picture changed.
"Honey your being a bit hard on her." My mom said. I was watching around the corner unnoticed as my parents talked about me.
"I don't care if she is going to be married to become queen then I will pick her suitor. I only want the best for her and nothing else." My dad said.
"Well don't you think it would be better if she chose? She deserves her true love or at least even a chance at love." My mom said.
I ran out and began to yell.
"Stop deciding MY future! It's mine to choose and I won't let you take it over." I yelled at them. "Besides I don't believe in any of it. I don't believe in love so just choose a suitor for me and see what I make of it." There was only a matter of time before I left anyways. I may not have believed in love but I believed in crushes and they tore me away from mine a year ago. I was a nine year old with attitude and I won't let some grown up control my life especially if they take me away from someone I cared about.
Everything went dark again and my eyes began to flutter. I opened them slightly and looked around. I saw a ceiling instead of the night sky that I remembered. My eyes shot open and I sat up. I looked around till my eyes fell on a boy. He looked just like the boy from my dream and I couldn't help but mumble:
"H-Hotori Tadase?" I asked.
"Hoshina Amu?" He asked. I nodded slightly. Yep even four years ago when I met him I went by Hoshina Amu. Didn't want anyone to know I was the princess.
"Why were you in the woods?" He asked.
"I had to keep my promise. And I never planned staying up there with my parents. So now I'm staying down here with my aunt and uncle." I said.
"You still remember that promise?" He asked.
"Well actually I just remembered it because I had a dream about that day and If it weren't for the dream I probably wouldn't have remembered who you were." I said. He just kind of smiled expecting me to forget.
"Well I should be getting to my aunt and uncles house." I said. I started to stand up but he stopped me and pushed me back down.
"No you need rest. You look exhausted and I found you on the forest floor passed out. You can stay here for the night and I can take you home tomorrow." He said and pulled the covers over me.
"Okay." I said and I fell back asleep.
I woke up the next morning to the smell of eggs and bacon. I pulled the contacts out of my bag and put them in. I walked in to the kitchen to find Tadase cooking. He set two plates on the table and pulled out a chair for me. I sat down and he pushed me in. He took the seat across from me.
"Tadase didn't you say a few years ago that you lived with your grandma?" I asked.
"Yes but she's out of town right now." He said.
"Oh." I said.
"Hey did your eye color change?" He asked.
"Oh yeah I'm wearing contacts I got them a little while ago." I said.
"Oh." He said. We ate the rest of our meal in silence. It was a comfortable silence. Just the two of us enjoying each others presence.
When we were finished he took my plate and washed the dishes. I walked back to the room I was staying in and grabbed my stuff. Tadase walked up to me.
"I'll walk you home ok?" He asked.
"Ok." I said.
We walked out of his house and I pointed him in the right direction. About half way there my arms grew tired of carrying my bags.
"Here let me carry them." Tadase said noticing me struggling to hold them.
"No… You … Don't" I tried to protest but he already had them. We walked for about half an hour when the house came in to view.
"There it is!" I yelled. I began to run with Tadase at my heels. ( It's basically the house she lives in, in the anime.)
I burst through the door.
"I'm here!" I yelled. My aunt and uncle came up and hugged me.
"You here quit early me and your uncle thought it would take you a few days to get here. But it only took you one apparently." My aunt said.
"Yep." I said.
"Well let us show you to you room. We got it set up and everything and we got you some new clothes and your school uniform." My aunt said as we walked through the door to my room. It was amazing it even had a balcony. (Just the same room she has in the anime.) I had my school uniform sitting out on my bed.
"Judging by the uniform you'll be going to the same school as me." Tadase said.
"Yes!" I said. He laughed at me and set my bags down on my bed. He helped me unpack and we talked.
"So how's it been the past three years?" I asked.
"You know pretty good. Schools been good. My grandmas been well. What about you?" He asked.
"That's good. I've been ok. Nothing really changed. My parents are still bossy and my sister still annoying but cute." I said.
"It's been pretty lonely without you." I said. "You were the only friend I had outside of my house and all three of the other houses." I said. There were actually only four houses beneath the castle then a whole bunch of forest and then the city. It was great to be back here.
"It's great to be here." I said.
"Great to have you back." Tadase said. My aunt walked in.
"It's time for lunch Amu and you can join us too." My aunt said gesturing towards Tadase.
"Oh. This is my friend Hotori Tadase." I said.
"Well it's nice to meet you. You're welcome around any time." My aunt said.
We walked down to the kitchen and ate lunch. Tadase talked with my aunt and uncle and I just watched them or the TV. It was interesting to watch them talk as if they were family. I never really thought it would be so easy to talk over a meal and enjoy yourself. I should try at dinner tonight. We finished lunch and Tadase and I went back to my room to finish unpacking. We were silent as we unpack and we were done in about twenty minuets.
"Hey uh Tadase-kun. Would you like to hang out at the park the rest of the afternoon?" I asked.
"Sure." He said.
We both walked down the stairs and out the door heading towards the park.
A/N: This is the end of the chapter. So was it any good? Tell me please. Review Review Review. Find out what happens while they are at the park in the next chapter Park "Dates" and Spies? Well hope you liked it and I can't wait for your reviews! See ya!