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I don't own shugo chara or any characters. But I do own what happens to them. :D
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Five Years Later
Chapter 4: Good Old Times...Sorta
Utau looked out the window of the plane for a moment. They had landed and people were starting to get up but yet she was stuck looking outside. True it was beautiful but that wasn't why she couldn't look away. She was zoning out more then anything.
Suddenly she felt someone touch her arm. "Utau, we have to go." Kukai whispered gently. He probably thought she had been sleeping.
She looked over at him but hadn't expected his face to be so close to hers. They stayed like that for a moment, just looking at eachother with wide eyes before Kukai pulled away and grabbed their bags from above them. Utau blushed for a moment but wanted to smack herself for the reflex. Why should she be blushing?
They got off the plane and went into the food court. They got some food and sat down.
"So where are we suppose to stay?" She asked him.
"I have a place. My cousin stayed there. It's cheap and clean."
She lifted an eyebrow. "Cheap? Please don't tell me it's a dirty little motel."
He scratched the back of his head. "I never saw the place but my cousin said it was nice enough to sleep in. It's not like we're on vacation here."
She shrugged but was still a little unsure. "I guess."
They finished eating and as Utau got up to throw out her garbage Kukai smiled and handed her his.
She frowned but took it anyway. She threw the stuff out but as she was going back to the table she hit into someone. Hard. She had practically been shoved.
"Hey! Would you look where your going!" She yelled only to find a young guy looking at her with a scared expression on.
"I-I'm sorry!" He said quickly as he began to pick up some books on the floor.
Utau suddenly felt bad as she watched the boy, probably around her age, bending down to pick up the books she had knocked out of his hands.
"Hey, I'm sorry. It was probably my fault. Let me help you." She began to pick up some of the books and he looked over at her.
"I'm James." He smiled at her and Utau couldn't help but think the boy was, in a way, kinda cute. He had brown hair that was cleanly cut and nice looking clothes on. He was in a dress shirt and some dress pants.
"I'm Utau." She told him as she held out her hand to him. He smiled and shook it.
She looked down at the books. Advanced Chemistry? Calculus? Modern Literature?
"What brings you to Italy?" She asked.
He smiled. "You couldn't tell?" he said gesturing to the books as he took them out of her hands. "I'm studying abroad. I'm from America." He told her.
She smiled. "Oh. That makes sense." She said.
"Yeah I-"
"Utau? I thought you were just throwing out garbage?"
She turned around and looked at Kukai. He seemed a bit…distraught.
"Oh, um, Kukai, this is James. He's from America studying abroad." She told him.
Kukai smiled at him half heartedly. "Nice to meet you." Although his tone didn't imply so.
"Kukai, what's the matt-"
"Come on. We have to go. We have to check in by two." He told her as he pulled her arm towards the door.
"Bye James!" She yelled to him.
He waved to her as she went with a frown on his face.
Utau was pulled through the crowd and when they made it outside she frowned at Kukai.
"What was that all about?" She asked angrily.
"What was what all about?"
"You know. You seemed angry about something." She told him.
"I'm not angry. Why would I be angry?" He asked in a calmer manner then before.
She frowned. "Whatever. Your weird."
At that a car pulled up in front of them. A guy opened the window and looked at them.
"Need a…um ride?" He was clearly having trouble speaking English. ((A/N: Yeah, they're all speaking English. I know they're from Japan but…Uhh just get over it. XD))
Kukai nodded. "Yeah. We need a ride."
The man smiled. "Get in! Get in!"
Kukai opened the door and let Utau get in the back first before joining her quickly. He pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket and handed it to the man.
"Can you take us here?" He asked. The man nodded and began to drive.
It was a quiet drive because neither of them wanted to say anything. Utau occupied the time by looking out the window. The city was truly beautiful. For one thing, there was water everywhere! And boats going through the waterways. A lot of the roads and walkways were made of stone and the buildings were old and the architecture was amazing.
They reached a small stone building with the same style as the others but clearly was a lot newer and didn't quite have the same sense about it.
They got out of the car and paid the driver who thanked them a lot before leaving.
Kukai opened the front door and held it for Utau. She walked inside and Kukai came in behind her with the bags. She walked up to the counter and rang the small bell sitting there.
No one came.
She rang it again.
Still no one came.
Utau was not a patient person and so she began to ring it a few more times until Kukai grabbed the bell from the counter and she realized she was hitting wood instead of a bell.
"Calm down. I think I hear someone in the back." He placed the bell on the counter just as a burly, older man with graying hair came out from the back.
He looked at Kukai who just took his hand off the bell and frowned. "You could have patience." He mumbled and Kukai looked at him with disbelieve. Utau laughed.
"I told him to give you a moment." She shrugged and the man laughed. She looked over at Kukai who was frowning at her and gave him a wink.
"So how can I help you young lady?" The man asked nicely.
Utau smiled. "We need a room for a little while. Money isn't a problem but we're just not sure how long we'll be staying quite yet." The man nodded.
"I have just the thing." He reached under the counter and pulled out a key with the number 8 on it.
He put it on the counter. "Here's a nice sweet that'll give you two plenty of room." He said with a smile.
"And don't worry about the bill. I'll bill you at the end. The rates are 100 a night." Utau nodded. That was pretty cheap. When she had gone on tour she remembered staying at places that cost a hundred times that much a night.
"Let me show you to your room." He said as he began to walk down a hallway.
They followed him down the hallway until they reached door number eight. He handed Utau the key and smiled. "Hope you have a nice stay here." He said before going back to his spot by the counter.
Utau took the key and unlocked the door. When she looked inside she froze.
"What?" Kukai asked, who wasn't able to see into the room from the hallway.
She turned around and glared at him. "Your sleeping on the floor." She growled.
Kukai reached his head around and saw that the room only had one bed in it.
She walked inside and he followed her, putting their bags on the floor.
"What, you don't want to snuggle?" He asked with a laugh.
Suddenly a pillow hit him in the head.
She sat down on the bed and sighed. She was tired out from the trip. She also wondered what was going on at home. She knew her step father would be pissed at this point. She just hoped her mother was ok.
She turned her attention to the room. It wasn't too bad. It smelt like cleaning supplies which meant it was at least clean. It was a small room with four doors in it. One led to the hallway and Utau assumed that one was a bathroom.
Kukai opened one of the doors and found that it was a closet with an ironing board that of course came down and smacked him in the head. At this Utau could not help but burst out into fits of laughter.
Kukai rubbed his head and smiled at her. "Hey, that's not funny. That hurt." Although he was laughing as he said this. Her laughter seemed to be contagious because now they were both laughing.
She got up and walked over to him. "Oh you poor thing. Now your brains going to be worse then it already was."
He laughed and rolled his eyes. "Whatever you say, miss smart ass."
She laughed and began to investigate the rest of the doors. The next one she opened was yet again a closet. It didn't have anything dangerous that flew out at her so she closed it and went towards the last door which indeed led to a bathroom. The bathroom was pretty clean too and for that, Utau was grateful.
"I have to hand it to you, it's a good place. Cheap, and most importantly clean. Plus Easter can't easily track us in a small family owned place like this."
He nodded. "Wow, I actually did something right?" he asked her. She smiled and rolled her eyes.
"Surprisingly."
They began to unpack their things a bit each using one of the closets that way there would be more room.
Once that was done they both sat down on the bed.
Kukai sighed. "So what do we do now?"
Utau laughed. "I don't know." She turned to him. "Well you could start off by telling me what your problem was earlier." she asked.
He frowned. "I didn't have a problem."
"Yes you did! Stop denying it. I thought we were going to be honest with each other?" She asked.
He frowned at her. "I didn't like that guy." He said, still frowning.
"James?" She asked.
"Yeah."
She looked at him curiously. "Why? What was wrong with him?"
Kukai shrugged. "I don't know. I just didn't like him."
Utau laughed. "You didn't even talk to him! There has to be a reason."
"Well besides the fact that he was all over you, he just didn't rub me the right way."
She looked at him a moment with a knowing smile on her face. "You were jealous!" She accused him.
"What?! No! I wasn't jealous!" He yelled.
She burst out laughing. "You were jealous of him!"
"No I wasn't."
"Then why do you hate him?"
"You don't know him! For all you know he could be part of Easter."
She frowned. "Uh huh. I'm sure the American coming to Italy to study is really a secret Easter spy. You know, maybe the cab driver is too! And the owner here!" She gave him a mock horrified face but he didn't laugh.
"Lighten up. You shouldn't be mad."
He smiled. "True. It's not like you liked him or anything."
She frowned. "Why does it matter anyway. I mean, I could like whoever I wanted to." She said defiantly. It wasn't that she really liked James or anything but it was annoying her how he was acting about it. "I mean, you have your precious Izumi back home. What would it matter if I liked someone?!" She yelled.
"That's totally different!"
"How so? I don't see how it is! I mean what, I'm not allowed to move on? Why'd you even have to come back in my life and mess everything up! I was doing fine without you!"
"Oh yeah. You looked like you were doing real well when I found you in that park." He mumbled.
"I can take care of myself!"
"Sure looks like you can't." She said with a frown.
He was making her so angry at this point that she wanted to punch him in the face.
"What is your problem?! Look I don't know what was wrong with your perfect life but why did you have to bother trying to fix mine!"
"It's called help! You know maybe if you'd take some once in awhile you wouldn't be all alone!" He yelled.
For once Utau was speechless. Maybe it was her fault she was all alone. A tear slid down her face and she turned away from him.
He looked at her out of the corner of his eye and turned around completely when he saw she was crying.
"Hey…I-I didn't mean-"
But before he could finish she ran for the door and down the hallway until she made it outside.
It was dark out at this point but she kept running. She could hear him behind her yelling for her to stop but she didn't listen. After awhile his yells got quieter until she couldn't hear him at all. That was when she finally stopped running.
She sat down on a bench by one of the many waterways, hugged her knees to her chest and buried her head in her knees.
How could he say that to her? Especially after knowing how she felt about that. But was he right?
Suddenly someone tapped her arm and she smiled a bit. Of course he didn't mean what he said. He had been screaming that he didn't mean it as he was chasing her.
She picked her head up. "I'm sor-" But stopped talking when she saw that the person before her wasn't Kukai.
"James?" She said slowly.
Ohhh, cliff hanger. :o I really hope I get some reviews this time around. I mean, it makes me want to write more and-and-and it makes me very upset when I wait like a month to write and get no reviews. D: If you don't want to review it's cool but it'd just make me kinda happy to hear your thoughts.