In Love and In Paris Chapter 3: Separated Once Again, a shugo chara! fanfic

Chapter 3- Seperated Once Again

"Are you sure you´ll be ok?" He asked her one more time.

"Yes Ikuto, now can you please fix your scarf?" Amu responded, her hands inside the pockets of her black coat.

"Amu..."

"What is it Ikuto?" She asked evidently annoyed.

"I´m going to miss you," Ikuto said as he stared deep in her eyes, expressing more than what his words said.

Her expression softening considerably she responded,"I´ll miss you too..."

The wind blew as they stood in front of the private airplane that Ikuto´s manager had arranged for him. In no more than a few minutes, Ikuto would be leaving Paris behind to start his world tour. Amu would not be going with him, seeing as she still had classes at her University and also had to take care of their apartment.

"Amu...I´ll try to come back before Christmas...but are you really sure that you´ll be ok?!"

"For the billionth time Ikuto, I´ll be ok! Now hold still," and she grabbed Ikuto´s scarf, fixing it for him as he paid no attention to her words.

"Ow! Amu ow! Don´t pull so hard, you´re strangling me!"

"It´ll be better this way! It´s cold so you have to cover up and get warm!" She said patting the scarf, which was now strategically placed around Ikuto´s neck.

"Yes mom," he teased.

"Stop it Ikuto," She said as she gave him a light smack on the shoulder.

"Child abuse I swear..." Ikuto grinned down at her.

"You´re an idiot. You know that right?" Amu asked him, trying to keep a straight face.

"Yes...but I´m YOUR idiot. Now give me my departure kiss you child abuser," He said before leaning to down to capture her lips for what would be the last time in these few upcoming months.

Finally after a few seconds, they pulled apart. Amu fluttering her eyes open, finally seemed to break down a bit.

"You´ll call right? I mean, you´ll try to call at least once a week right?" she asked him, grabbing the front part of Ikuto´s brown coat.

"No you baka. I won´t call you every week," He said, earning a hard smack from Amu.

"Ow Amu! I said that because I´ll call you everyday not once a week you freaking sadistic woman! Why didn´t you just bring the damn frying pan and hit me until they had to get me inside the plane unconscious?!"

"W-well, you earned it!" she said, her arms crossed and staring defiantly at him.

"Cool & Spicy..." He said before cracking up, earning yet again another smack.

Amu really is an abuser you know.

"Come here," Ikuto said to a blushed Amu, spreading his arms.

Walking into his arms, she looked up to him, "Take care ok? And you better call me everyday or I´ll follow your advice and smack you unconscious with the frying pan!"

"Yes Amu..." He whispered in her ear, as he hugged her tightly and took in her scent to remember her.

"Ikuto, it´s time to go." Alice, Ikuto´s manager called out to him from inside the airplane.

"I´ll call you when I get to America ok?" He whispered to her one more time as she nodded. After kissing her forehead, they pulled apart and waved good-bye to each other as Ikuto got on the plane.

Two months had passed since Ikuto´s world tour had begun and Christmas was now around the corner. It was only a few more days until said holiday, four days to be exact.

"What do you mean you won´t be able to come back before Christmas?" Amu said into the phone speaker.

"I´m really sorry. I´ll only be able to make it the day after, I´m really sorry Amu." Ikuto´s voice could be heard from teh other line.

"But Ikuto, can´t you do something and get here on time?" she asked him, fiddling with the hem of her skirt.

"I´m really sorry, I can´t. Apparently they´re throwing party for the end of the tour. I don´t really want to attend but Alice says its mandatory that I be there. Amu, I really am sorry."

"I-it´s ok. Don´t worry, there are more christmas' to come after this one you know." Amu responded into the speaker, gripping the phone tightly.

"Will you be ok? Who are you going to spend Christmas with anyway? After all, we had planned to pass our first Christmas alone together..."

"Well, my parents are going off to the Christmas party that the magazine is throwing so I won´t be going with them. Nat, Jacob and Joanne are celebrating with their families so yeah. I´ll just stay here in the apartment..."

"Amu..."

"Yes Ikuto, I know. You´re really sorry." Amu joked into the speaker.

Ikuto´s laughing could be heard from the other end of the line, "Yes I am, but I promise to make it up to you when I get back."

"That tone Ikuto. Watch you´re tone. Are you trying to seduce me over the phone?" Amu said lauging.

"Well, would you say yes to phone sex?"

"Ikuto!"

"I know you´re blushing even though I can´t see you! You are, aren´t you?" Mirth could be heard in his voice, always that tone that came along with the teasing.

"S-shut up!"

Finally it was Christmas day and just as said, Amu was alone in her apartment watching tv. Well, she wasn´t really watching it, more like she just turned on the tv and was staring blankly at it.

"Argh, its so boring to be alone on Christmas!" she said as she gave up on staring at the screen and turned it off.

'I wonder what Ikuto´s doing right now. Probably thinking of new ways to tease me when he gets back,' and she smiled at the thought.

Suddenly the phone rang beside her, managing to break her from her train of thoughts.

"Hello," she greeted as she picked up the phone.

"Amu! It´s me! Utau!"

"Oh hi Utau, how are you?" Amu asked her.

"I´m good, I´m good. How are you and Ikuto doing eh? Any news on when I´ll have a cute niece?" Utau asked jokingly from the other end of the line.

"N-no! Of course not! Ikuto´s not back from the world tour yet. He says he´ll be back tomorrow."

"What?! That baka! How could he leave you alone and on Christmas!?" Utua yelled into the phone, making Amu jump.

"Honey, take it easy." Another person´s voice could be heard beside Utau.

"Hi Hinamori-san!" Tadase´s cheerful voice came accross the line.

"Oh hi Tadase-kun. How´s married life with a pregnant Utau like eh?"

"Good, good. Utau just blazes up real fast but I know how to deal with that."

"Tadase! Give me the phone...no, wait. Just put it on loud speaker, I´m still not done with calling Ikuto foul names."

Amu turned to look at the clock on the wall.

10:00 pm it read.

Sighing for what was probably the 89th time since Utau and Tadase´s call, she layed back on the couch.

All around her, there were Christmas decorations. The Christmas tree stood beautifully adorned next to the tv, the smell of cookies drifted into the living from the kitchen and the Christmas lights gave off colorful rays.

'It really is lonely here without Ikuto. I didn´t really imagine it would be this hard to be separated again. Darn it...Ikuto. I can´t wait any longer. I need you to get here already. I can´t stand being away again...not even after I managed it for five years. Now that we are finally together, two months is a billion times longer than five years.'

And she rolled over on the couch, closing her eyes and falling asleep.

"Amu, Amu...wake up. Amu...come on. Wake up you lazy woman," a voice said as Amu was shoken awake.

Opening one eye to look at her sleep breaker she said, "Ikuto! Is that you?"

Feeling suddenly awake, she stood up from the couch to see Ikuto standing right in front of her.

"The one and only," He grinned at her.

"W-wait. How? You weren´t supposed to get here until tomorrow, or is it tomorrow already?!" and she turned to look at the clock.

10: 35 pm

"Oh, its still Christmas..." she said a bit confused.

"Yes it is Amu," He flashed her a smirk.

"But...but then how are you here? I thought you weren´t supposed to be here until tomorrow!"

"Well, I had to practically beg Alice to let me skip the party and come home," Ikuto explained.

"Oh," was all Amu said as they fell into silence.

After a few minutes, Amu was the one to speak up, "I´m glad you´re here."

"So am I." And they hugged.

"Ikuto! No Ikuto! Don´t eat those cookies yet!"

"Ow! Ow! Okay, but stop hitting me with the frying pan! Ow!"

"Amuuuuuuuuu..."

"What?"

"I want cookies..."

"Not yet!"

"Hentai! I´m NOT wearing that Santa Clause outfit!"

"Come on Amu! Just to get in the Christmas mood!"

"No!"

"Amu..."

"The answer is still no Ikuto! I am not going to wear it!"

"Not that Amu..."

"What is it then?"

"Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas to you too Ikuto,"

Amu and Ikuto danced slowly to the music coming from the stereo in the corner of the living room, both enjoying each other´s company.

"Amu...I love you." Ikuto whispered to her, kissing her neck softly.

"I do too Ikuto," She answered him as they continued to sway to the music.

"Amu...I want to make love to you..."

"I-I never have..."

"Then let me show you," Ikuto said as he played with her hair.

Amu only nodded, as Ikuto pulled her towards the bedroom and closed the door behind them.

Chapter 4 title preview: Exchanging body heat. Warning: To be rated R.

A/N: Lalalalala, that was chapter 3. In case some of you didn´t get it, Utau and Tadase are married. Yes, they are. Amu and Ikuto...we´ll pick up on their actions in the next chapter.

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