Claraowl: Salutations to all concerned!

Amu: *watching movie*

Ikuto: *watching Amu*

Claraowl: Anyway, this is going to be a third chapter!

Miki: Wasn't this supposed to be a mere oneshot?

Claraowl: Yes, but I've decided that I'm going to continue it!

Su: Again, ~desu?

Claraowl: Yes, again!

Amu: *notices Ikuto watching her* W-what are you d-doing?

Ikuto: *smirks* Freaking you out.

Amu: *glares*

Ran and Dia: Claraowl owns none of this! Please enjoy!

When Amu entered the movie theater with her family and charas, she noticed how packed it was. "Mama," she asked, "are we going to be able to find seats?"

Midori bit her lip. "We may have to split up."

Ami chose that moment to announce, "I have to go potty!"

Amu groaned. "Really, Ami? You just said that you didn't have to go!"

"I didn't have to, then!" She pouted. "Now I do!"

Midori sighed, "Alright, Ami, I'll take you."

"No!" Ami insisted. "I want onee-chan to take me!"

After much arguing, Midori consented and allowed Amu to take Ami; Amu handed her mother her soda and popcorn and left her charas to save spots for them.

As they left the theater to locate the bathrooms, Amu grumbled, "If we don't hurry, we'll miss the movie."

Ami squealed that they had to hurry, or it would be too late.

After a few minutes without anything of interest, the sisters returned to the theater. They saw that their parents had found several spots on the end of a row. The two of them hurried into their seats, Amu taking the outermost one. One seat was left on the very end of the row.

~*Meanwhile, outside the theater*~

"Tell me again - why did I agree to come to some old, sappy movie?" Ikuto groaned to his sister.

Smirking, Utau replied, "Because my manager wanted someone to chaperone Kukai and me, to make sure that pictures don't wind up in the press anymore, and I promised you some information next time I play truth or Dare with Amu."

Kukai laughed with Utau at the expression on Ikuto's face. "Having second thoughts, Tsukiyomi?"

"Nah," Ikuto said, removing expression from his face. "Let's go find seats."

After many minutes of fruitless searching, the trio decided to split up. Utau and Kukai managed to find two seats next to each other, leaving Ikuto to find one seat for himself. He strolled down the aisle, attracting many glances due to his looks and slight notoriety. Eventually, he spotted a seat on the very end of an aisle, right next to a family… a family which included a pink-haired girl with four charas floating around her head.

He dropped unceremoniously into the seat next to Amu just as the movie began.

Next to Amu, Ami squealed as the lights dimmed. "It's starting, onee-chan!"

Amu shushed her sister and turned her eyes to the screen, oblivious to the man sitting on her other side. Quickly captured by the movie, she became oblivious to everything around her.

Ikuto watched the screen with distaste; the picture had a predictable plot: Girl meets boy. Girl runs off and into trouble. Boy catches girl. Girl winds up with idiotic hero character. Why did anyone watch this drivel?

At that moment, his theory of the plot was quickly disproved as the villain character arrived on-screen with a rather loud bang. He heard Amu gasp next to him. Glancing over at her for the fifty-seventh time in about fifteen minutes, he smirked as her face lit up. At least someone's enjoying the movie. He reached over and grabbed a piece of her popcorn. She didn't notice. Ikuto rolled his eyes and glanced back up at the screen.

The heroine was talking with the villain character, attempting to get information out of him; the villain was being most uncooperative, asking more questions than he answered. This seems somehow familiar….

~*Across the theater*~

"Okay," Utau whispered to Kukai, "he's not looking. Let's go get ramen, Soccer Boy."

Winking as they snuck out the back of the theater, he replied, "I'm going to beat you this time, Idol."

"You've got another think coming! I'm going to beat you!"

They ran the rest of the way to the ramen shop, shouting back and forth.

~*In town*~

"Yaya, we're late for the movie."

"Oops, sorry, Kairi!" Yaya shouted, immediately grabbing his hand and dragging him to the theater. Soon they managed to get tickets and find seats. Yaya, who had seen the movie ten times previously, caught Kairi up on what they had missed.

Kairi listened to her, absorbed the information, and turned his eyes to the screen, trying and failing to ignore the fact that Yaya was still holding his hand.

Yaya failed to notice his discomfort and was re-watching her favorite movie with rapt attention.

The samurai twitched slightly and attempted to pay attention to the movie - knowing Yaya, she would want to discuss it in detail with him later, exclaiming over its cuteness.

~*Smack dab in the middle of the theater*~

"I still don't believe that your mother insisted you watch this as part of your training," Rima hissed, sending her glare to her companion.

Nagi hushed her and pointed to the screen, indicating that she should watch.

Rima refused to be silenced. "Why would it be necessary for you to watch this? Romantic comedies aren't exactly illuminating."

Again, she was hushed and directed towards the screen.

"Even if it's required, why did you have to drag me along?"

"Rima," Nagi whispered, "will you just be quiet and watch the movie?"

"No!" Rima hissed back.

"Rima, you're going to get us kicked out."

"That's the plan, idiot. I don't want to watch this."

"If you don't shut up, I'm going to make you."

"I'd like to see you try - mmph!"

Behind them, a girl whispered to her friend, "Pay up! I told you they'd kiss!"

Her friend scowled and forked over her candy bar.

~*Back with Amu's charas*~

"When do you think she'll notice Ikuto?" Ran whispered.

"He keeps eating popcorn, ~desu," Su stated.

"He's trying to get her to notice him," Ran replied.

"She probably won't notice until either the movie is over or he does something perverted," Miki guessed.

"That's likely," Ran agreed.

"He should've gotten his own popcorn, ~desu," Su pouted.

"How long he can stand being ignored?" Miki wondered.

"Well," Ran teased, "Yoru could never wait very long without hugging you, Miki, so Ikuto'll probably crack soon."

Miki blushed.

"He took another piece of her popcorn, ~desu," Su informed them.

"What is it with you and popcorn?" Ran and Miki chorused, then stared at each other. "One, two, three, jinx!"

"You owe me a coke!" Miki grinned.

"The soda machine is out of order, please insert another quarter," Ran shot back.

"The soda machine is back in shop, please give me another pop," Miki replied.

Ran pouted.

"He stole another piece, ~desu."

"ENOUGH WITH THE POPCORN ALREADY!"

"Hey, where's Dia? She hasn't said anything," Miki noted.

They found their sister sitting on Amu's head, staring as raptly as Amu at the screen.

"Shiny~"

The other three charas giggled.

~*At the ramen shop*~

"HA! I beat you, Idol!"

Utau groaned and slumped across the counter, much in the same way Kukai had earlier. "Your phone's buzzing, kid."

"Aw, not again!" Kukai exclaimed. "My brothers…. Hello?"

Utau sat up, listening to Kukai's end of the conversation.

"So what if I am? …No way. I refuse. Fine, fine," He groaned, then looked at Utau. "Are you willing to speak to Rento, Unkai, Shusui, and Kaido?"

"Will they promise never to bug the two of us during ramen again?"

"I'll ask." Kukai uncovered the speaking part of his phone. "She wants to know if you won't interrupt ramen competitions anymore…. Okay, I'll tell her." He covered the mouthpiece again. "They say they won't."

"Fine. Let's go sit under that tree and put it on speakerphone."

"Alright." The walked over and switched it.

"Okay, I'm putting you guys on speakerphone."

"What do you want?" Utau asked, before any of the brothers could say anything.

There was a speechless silence on the other end of the line.

~*With the samurai and the young one*~

"Yaya," Kairi whispered hoarsely.

"Yes, Kairi?" Yaya asked, tearing her eyes away from the screen.

"Did you want a snack or anything?"

"Yaya would like a candy bar, if you're getting something," she beamed. "Thanks."

Kairi got up and hurried off to the snack counter, still aware of where her hand had been on his.

He ordered a candy bar for Yaya and a slushie for himself at the snack counter. After paying for both of them, he grabbed a couple of straws, returned to the theater, and located Yaya.

"Here," he said, handing her the candy bar and sticking two straws into the drink. "I figured we could share if you got thirsty."

"Thank you, Kairi!" Yaya smiled. "You're always so thoughtful of Yaya."

The samurai blushed.

The movie was about halfway through by that point. Yaya giggled slightly as the heroine began to question how much time she spent with the villain character.

Kairi dipped his head to get a drink of slushie just as Yaya did the same. With their heads tilted to see the screen, neither realized what was going on until they bumped noses. Yaya giggled slightly as Kairi sat up straight rather stiffly and suddenly. After taking a sip, she handed the cup to him. He accidentally took a sip out of the same straw Yaya had used. Yaya saw this, blushed slightly, and looked back up at the screen.

~*With the two girls who had bet upon the dancer and the funny one*~

"Look, she's speechless."

"She's as white as a sheet

"She hasn't blinked in three minutes."

"Aw, look, he's getting worried about her."

"I bet they kiss again."

"I bet she slaps him when she comes to."

"You're on!"

"Deal!"

"Oh, he's waving his hand in front of her face."

"She's blinking and gaping like a fish!"

"Pay up! He's kissing her again!"

"No, you pay up! She slapped him!"

"Wait, who wins?"

"I think they do - look!" "Awww, she's holding his hand."

"Hey, look - the movie's over."

"Did you watch it at all?"

"Nah, those two were better entertainment. We can watch the movie next time"

"This happens to us every time: We go see a movie, promise to watch it, and wind up betting on whatever couple sits near us."

"You never did give me that frog."

"What frog?"

"Oh, never mind."

~*With the cat and the strawberry*~

"Hey, where'd all my popcorn go?"

She glanced over to Ami, who had her own bucket. She glanced the other way and her jaw dropped.

"Ikuto?"

"Yo."

"You ate all my popcorn!"

"How about I make it up to you - we can come back here some other time and you can eat all of my popcorn."

"Fine," she huffed.

He bid her farewell, kissed her cheek, and went off to the park to look for his sister, whom he had noticed sneaking out.

~*With the soccer player's brothers*~

"So this is actually Hoshina Utau?" asked Rento.

"Yes," Utau replied, "as I've said fifteen times in the past few minutes."

After a quick game of rock, paper, scissors, Unkai, the winner, asked, "Are you available?"

"Well," came the rather blunt reply, "seeing as I suck face with your brother - no."

"Would you have been available otherwise?" Shusui asked.

"Nope," she replied, "my manager doesn't want me dating people."

"Then why are you with the brat?" Kaido questioned.

"That's classified, sorry," Utau said with a smirk in her voice.

Suddenly, Kukai whispered, "Idol, here comes your brother. Run!"

The line went dead.

The four brothers stared at each other, then exchanged evil grins. Kukai was so going to be forced to tell them everything when he got home….

~*With the charas of the youngest ones*~

"I cannot comprehend the attraction of people to that type of movie," Musashi stated.

Pepe, tired from explaining what was going on during the movie, changed the subject. "Don't you think that the two of them make a good couple?" Musashi blinked, then said, "The red string of fate chooses for reasons only it can say."

"You make no sense."

"Observe as the pot calls the kettle black."

Pepe was about to respond, but was diverted by the sight of Yaya leaning over and planting a kiss on Kairi's cheek. "Look, he's blushing."

"Springtime has past, the fancies have long since turned to love, yet the dance continues."

"So you agree that they make a good couple?"

"To fail to deny is as good as to agree."

Pepe pouted and sat on Yaya's shoulder.

~*With the (somewhat) reluctant lovers*~

"I still fail to see why it was necessary to take me along," Rima muttered.

"Did you hear those girls betting on us?" Nagi asked cheerfully.

"Be quiet, Nagi."

"So I'm still Nagi, eh, Rima?"

"Yes, So?"

"It just seems a bit empty without an honorific."

"Fine, Nagi-koi."

Momentarily stunned, Nagi stared at Rima.

"You got a problem?" Rima huffed.

Breaking into a wide grin, Nagi replied, "None at all, Rima-koi."

Rima blushed slightly as she gripped his hand. She then turned and glared at the two girls who had followed them out of the theater, still betting. "Scram!"

The girls ran off, giggling.

Nagi grinned again and shouted a thank-you to the girls, who waved back at him.

Rima glared.

Kusukusu laughed.

Temari smiled, happy with the outcome of the movie viewing.

Rhythm grinned, pleased with the trick Nagi had pulled.

The (slightly less) reluctant lovers set off down the street.

~*Now, to wrap things up with some chocolate-covered strawberries*~

Amu collapsed, smiling, onto her bed later that night. She'd had a crazy day: She'd been kissed by a certain cat far too many times to count in the park that morning, showered with rose petals by El (Il lagging slightly behind, kicking El every chance she got), gone to the movies with her family, and had all of her popcorn eaten by Ikuto. From the looks of it, this was going to be one crazy vacation.

"Yo." Ikuto walked in and sat down on the end of her bed. "You -"

"I know," Amu smiled, "I really should lock my balcony door."

Ikuto smirked. "Yet, you don't."

Amu pretended to pout. "If I did, my kitty couldn't visit me!"

"So I'm yours, am I?" Ikuto teased, expecting Amu to turn red.

"Yup," Amu said without a trace of a blush. She sat up and looked at him. "What's with the bag?"

Ikuto said, "I really didn't want to have to see that movie again, so I brought a D. V. D. player, some movies, and your favorite snack over here, instead."

"Alright," Amu smiled, picking out - to Ikuto's displeasure - a different romantic comedy.

"Really?" he groaned, getting it set up.

"Mm-hmm," Amu smiled, grabbing a chocolate-covered strawberry and snuggling up against her kitty to watch the movie.

Claraowl: What do you think? Like? Love? Hate?

Ikuto: Her kitty. *smirks*

Amu: *fighting not to blush*

Kukai: *arguing with brothers* I can't tell you! It's strictly confidential!

Utau: *grins* I kind of feel bad for the guy.

Yaya: *humming happily*

Kairi: And never was there such a happy day, except for the first creation.

Nagi: *still beaming*

Rima: What are you so happy about?

Claraowl: *sweatdrops* Review, please!