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~—Destiny Strikes Again—~
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VHeart: ...wow...already fifteen reviews?
Ikuto: Sixteen actually, and what can I say, they love me
Amu: Have you ever got punched before?
Ikuto: Umm...no?
Amu *punches Ikuto* now you have
Ikuto: OW! *rubs face* that's an offence to my beauty
Amu: Pfft! don't make me laugh
Chimma: Do you guys wanna talk to someone?
VHeart: How did this conversation happen?
Ikuto: Well you were talking about the reviews, then I talked about why they reviewed, and—
Amu: *hits Ikuto* She meant that sarcastically!
Ikuto: Stop hitting me!
VHeart: ...Disclaimer Chimma?
Chimma: VHeart doesn't own Shugo Chara, or else Amu and Ikuto would be named the hottest couple in the world
Ikuto: ...really?
VHeart: Yes, now shut up!
A/N: Thanks for reviewing guys! I appreciate the reviews no matter how tight or loveable they are! :D
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~—Destiny Strikes Again: Amu POV—~
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We stood there, staring into each other's eyes, wandering what the other would be thinking. Ikuto was on his knee still, holding my hands into his own, while I stood and looked down at him, wandering what I should do without making it seem less hurtful.
"Marry me," He said again. He kept repeating himself for more than several times, and each time he said them, my answer became that much clearer.
I took my hands out from his hands and held them together behind my back. Breathing in and out, I bit my lip and shook my head. I watched him get up and clenched his fists. I hate to see him in pain like this.
"You lost your love for me haven't you?" His voice was holding that same husky tone. I didn't respond. "You must think that I'm not the same person I was when we last saw each other,"
"We're having a photo shoot in the next two hours. The Head Mistress asked if you wanted to be the main guy posing for our shots today, so we could pick out our three main models in two days time" I said, my voice covered in its professional tone.
"Is your career that important to you that you chose that instead of me?" I swallowed a thick lump in my throat.
"You don't have to if you don't want to, but it'll help you get the practise of taking photos." I kept ignoring his questions and focusing on the ones that I need an answer to.
"Amu—"
"Of course, I'll be there posing with you as well. I need to if I want to show the other girls the way to pose with guys like you. That is, if you don't mind me posing with you,"
I know ignoring his questions cut him deep, but I couldn't lose this opportunity in asking him. It'll be hard if I try to do so later on.
For a few minutes, he wasn't speaking, and it was either from thinking what he should do next, or it was his way to calm down. I was hoping a conversation like this in the lounge where we sit down on the couch and discuss the events today and on Monday.
And then all of a sudden, a smirk broke out and his eyes lit up to as though an idea spoke in his ear. The he said; "Guys like me huh? Why would I say no for you to demonstrate how to pose with a guy like me?"
My eyes widened. Is it possible for the atmosphere to change by ones mood? Or was he just playing with me from the start? Whatever happened, just seeing him act like this made me happy.
I gave him a curious look before continuing. "I wasn't suggesting anything bad of some sort, I-I was just saying that b-because we h-haven't been p-posing with guy's l-like you in a r-really long time s-so...I-if you want, though it be a really fun thing to do, would you agree to be in the—"
"Sure, I'll agree," My smile went up in an instant.
"Really?" I asked to see if he was bluffing.
"Really," He replied. When I smiled again and checked his face that would give away that he was faking it because of my answer to his proposal; all I saw was a smile in return that was pure and not forced.
And then I stopped smiling. "What do you want for it?" He arched a brow and turned his head to the side, indicating he wasn't following. "I'm not stupid, you want something in return for saying yes," His smile became a smirk and when he stepped forward to whisper in my ear, I knew that I was right.
"Go out with me tomorrow," My breathing became shaky.
"B-but I promised someone tomorrow," Great, I'm stuttering.
He pulled back to check my face. "Eh? And I thought you were joking,"
I crossed my arms. "W-why would I be joking about something like that?"
Ikuto then started backing away and wore a look of non interest. "Then I'll take back the agreement—"
"NO! No, you don't have to do that," I laughed awkwardly. "I can always rearrange and ask them next week right?"
He observed me again, and tilts his head to the side. "Even after all those years, you still look cute," My cheeks became warm. "Not that you care of how I compliment you now and then," I folded my lips in to keep me saying anything.
"So it's a deal?" I asked, breaking his train of thought. He nodded and reached out to take my hand in his, which I didn't fight to pull away.
"Tomorrow, 7:30pm, I'll take you somewhere where movies will be named downright boring," I gave him a look before nodding at his request. I turned around to get back down the stairs, when Ikuto's hand pulled my hand back and made me turn around and land in his arms.
"I-Ikuto?" his grip on me tightened.
"Tell me something I don't know Amu,"
"Umm," What should I say? "I-I'm a virgin?" I expected a laugh or some sort of 'are you for real' type of response, but all I got was a nod.
"Not what I was expecting but, it'll do," He let me go and waved me off as he entered his room again.
I waited to see if he would come back out, but when I heard music playing, I knew better than disturbing him or waiting for him to come back out. Smiling to myself softly, I walked down the stairs and into the lounge where Rima, Rikka, Nikko and Sakura were seated watching 'America's Top Model' series. I sat down on the floor and remembered what happened not so long ago.
"So did he say yes?" Sakura asked me.
I looked up at Sakura. "Who?"
Nikko rolled her eyes. "Ikuto-sama, who else?"
I cringed back at her sudden outburst. "Y-yeah, he said he'll do it,"
"Well that was what Sakura meant," I turned to look at Sakura and saw the way she was looking at Nikko.
"Sorry Sakura," I said, trying to act sincere, but finding no reason too. She smiled at me and nodded her head, and when she indicated that we'll talk later, I had a feeling it was about Nikko. I nodded back and turned my attention back to the T.V, trying to ignore the way Nikko had spoken to me.
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~—Destiny Strikes Again: Two Hours Later: Ikuto POV—~
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I got dressed to specific clothing given to me in a box. Reading the note that was attached to the top of the lid, it said to wear it in any style I wanted, so I decided to go all out and be a complete dag.
The tie that was gold was wrapped around my head while I had the pink shirt unbuttoned with the jeans hanging bellow my ass. The blazer was wrapped around my waist, and the shoes were tied together and wrapped around my neck. I had the freshly picked out socks on my hands to represent them as mittens and my fake nerd glasses on my jean pocket.
Looking at the mirror, I chuckled at how the look turned out to be. It reminded me when I was nine and I tried dressing as my old man Aruto, while Amu and Utau dressed up as their mums.
I began posing in all different ways as I could. Some of my poses involved a position when shooting a gun. Others involved me looking like a complete dushbag. A few of them I acted like a girl while some of them I acted all gangster.
"'Sup man? Names Ikuto. You own the streets here? Well back away, 'because I'm the new gangster now," I rolled my eyes as I said that.
"Oh really now?" I turned around and faced my door as I saw Amu standing there, arms folded with a smirk plastered on her lips. I smirked back and strode my way towards her.
"Yeah, I'm the new gangster here," She lifted an eyebrow and chuckled. I dropped the gangster act and joined her. When I stopped I looked at what she was wearing;
A pair of jean shorts that stopped at her mid thighs, a red tank top that grazed her bellybutton and a small silver tie that was loose around her neck. I could have easily pulled it over her head if I wanted. She wore green chucks and an anklet that wrapped around her left chuck.
"Wow umm, you cleaned up..." she was looking for a word that would describe my look, but came out with "daggy,"
I shrugged and leaned back on the wall. "The note said to dress how I wanted right?" She rolled her eyes.
"Yes it did, but it didn't say to dress as a dushbag either," She took the gold tie off my head and handed it to me. "Wear it properly or I'll have to make you change it myself,"
"Oh, I like the sound of that," she shook her head and threw the tie to me.
"Ikuto seriously. Fix yourself up a little,"
"And I am being serious Amu. Make me fix myself," Amu was about to say something nasty and I could see it written on her face, but when I copied her look she sighed.
"You got two minutes to clean yourself up," she closed the door and leaned on its frame.
"And you're going to watch?" She didn't respond. "And what happens if I don't? You going to tackle me down?"
She got off the door frame and walked towards my bed. "I will just simply not go tomorrow with you," She sat down on the bed and looked up at me innocently. So she wanted to play like that huh?
I sighed. "Well then I guess I won't go to your photo shoot," I sat down next to her and watched as her face fell.
"Then I won't tell you my answer to your proposal," her smile came back on when she saw my face fall.
"Oh, you're good," I said and got off the bed to fix my jeans. She watched with amusement as I got myself 'cleaned' again. I took off the blazer and threw it over me and landed on her.
"Hey!" I turned around and saw her hair messy from removing the blazer.
"Hey yourself," I continued fixing myself up and smiled slightly.
When I reached the top button of my pink shirt, I decided to leave it, knowing this look always suits me. I turned around to grab the gold tie I left on my bed, to only be wrapped around it by Amu.
"Let me do this part, you always suck at tying up ties," I watched her face as she concentrated on the tie. Her face held that focus and enjoyment. When she pushed the tie up to where the second last button ended, she let her hand stay there for a while longer. I looked down on her face, where her face was looking at the tie.
I reached up and cupped her cheek in my hand. She closed her eyes and looked down, but I pushed it back up again. "Don't bother ignoring me this time," I leaned forward and kissed her lightly on the lips, feeling the pressure returned as well.
When we broke, she whispered, "You're so impatient Ikuto," I smiled and moved down to kiss her again—
Only to kiss her on the cheek. I moved back up. "What's wrong?"
"I told you before. That would be the last time we would do that," She moved away from me and sat down on the bed. I followed her and sat down as well.
We said nothing for a while until I spoke. "So, I hear you're still a virgin?" I looked at her and she blushed. "I wondered why out of all the things you could have told me, like your fruit nicknames, which I think is a bit strange, you told me that,"
She looked at me with confused eyes. "Didn't you want to know?" I gave her a look.
"Yeah, I guess but—" I got cut off.
"Well then, why bring it up?"
"I don't know. I just wanted to start a conversation," I lied.
"Oh ok then," I breathed out slowly, thankful she was still dense. She then got off the bed and grabbed my hand to pull me up. "Come on, we need to go to the photo shoot now," I stood in place. She turned around and gave me a 'what is it now' look.
"Can I have a kiss?" And made a puppy face.
"No you can't. I'm not your girlfriend so let's go—wow," I pushed her to the nearest wall. "You got problems with pushing people to the wall," She said angrily.
"You got problems hurting people again and again as well. So we are both even," Amu looked at me then.
"I'm sorry that I didn't get told I was your girlfriend then. I mean, first day still and you're all 'marry me Amu.'"
"Isn't that what we promised?"
"When I was eighteen yeah. When we meet again after twelve years, no. We hardly know each other now,"
"Well maybe if you were my girlfriend like we were back when you were six, I would still know everything about you," My hands had moved from her shoulders and now onto the wall, blocking her from moving away from me.
"Do you know that I'm scared right now then?"
I lowered my voice and my eyes. "I'm sorry that I keep scaring you and asking for this but," Then I looked up at her. "Do you know how long I've waited for this? Do you have any idea how much I missed you?"
"Yes," She replied and lowered her head to my tie. She started playing with it. "About the missing and waiting thing, I've always known," She looked back up at me. "But right now, confessions have to wait. We need to go or else the girls will come looking. And you don't want them seeing us like this,"
I released her from the wall but she didn't move. "You're so confusing Amu," I grabbed my blazer from the bed and began walking towards the door.
"Life is confusing," She responded.
"Only if you want to make it like that," I opened the door and watched her walk out.
We walked down the stairs in silence, through the kitchen and out back where people in black were setting up props and the background. The once breakfast table area was now turned into a photo set. I watched Amu walk forwards.
"Hay Amu," Oh shit, I said that without thinking. She turned around. I shook my head. "I'm sorry about before," She nodded, and then I smirked. "Good luck with posing with me then yeah?"
She smirked back. "Yeah, you better watch out. I'm going to make you have a boner more than once," She sticked her tongue out and walked towards some girls who were doing the makeup.
I followed behind and got dragged to get my hair done as well. Even though Amu and I fight about stupid things, we always say something else to make each other act like that. We have a funny relationship, but that was what I get for falling for her.
When the hair was done to their preference, and my tie was loosened with my shirt and jeans, I got dragged up on stage where Nikko was waiting to pose first. She was wearing the same clothing as Amu with her silver tie, green chucks with the anklet, and jean shorts mid thigh, but her tank top was white.
The camera guy named Tadase, and you could tell he was gay, but I support them anyways, told me to act like I didn't want her to leave me, as she acted as though she did want to.
For me, this role was easy. I imagined Nikko was Amu, and I was holding onto her like I didn't want her leaving my side. My emotions as to what would happen if that did happen, took the better of me, and I wasn't just moving around for the shot, I was acting it out also.
"Please don't leave me," I whispered in Nikko's ear, even though it was Amu I was picturing. I could feel the tense rise through her body as my hands tightened around her waist from behind. She had her hands on my hands as though she was trying to pull away.
"Let go of me Ikuto," She whispered back, also acting into her role. Her head was turned towards the cameras as a flash of light came again. "I don't deserve you," I swear, this girl was making it easier for me to take these shots.
"Yes you do," I whispered back. I let go of her and grabbed her hand in both of my hands. She walked and turned around to look at me with fake sad eyes. I could tell she was enjoying this.
"One more shot guys and then that's it!" Tadase yelled. I thought of a good ending and acted quickly.
I went down on both of my knees, and placed her head on my head, like I was begging her. Before the flash came, I said one more time, "Don't leave me," A tear I knew, fell down from my eye, and when I felt it fell of my cheek, the flash came.
"GREAT JOB GUYS!" Tadase yelled. He came over and patted me on the back. "Now, now tell me. Was this your first time at photo shooting?" I nodded. "BRAVO THEN! That was some serious stuff there. You almost gave me a heart attack," He dramatically placed his hand on his heart. Then he turned to Nikko. "Just as well, well done. Great performance,"
Nikko blushed. "Oh, thank you," She gave me a smile and walked down off the other side of the stage. The makeup and hair crew came on to fix my face and hair from the wind, as the next girl came up. I turned and saw it was that little girl that looked like a midget.
"Ok ok everybody," Tadase clapped and got Rima's and mine attention. "This one is a hate relationship. I want to see the hate in your eyes, so hate each other," He positioned his camera as we got in our position. Rima was wearing the exact same thing as Nikko wore, even the white tank top.
I leaned forwards and whispered in Rima's ear, "Talk about it as though you weren't in a photo shoot, but more like a movie," I moved back and saw her nod, just before we heard Tadase scream.
"HATE! I want to see the hate in your eyes!" And when he said that, I got slapped in the face. The flash took it on the dot.
"You jackass! What type of an excuse is that?" Her hands pulled my gold tie until our noses almost touched. Her eyes held that hatred, and I got instantly scared.
And then I remembered the fight I had with Amu today. "An excuse that is true!" I pushed her hand away from my tie.
"Yes, yes! Love it love it! Keep going!" He yelled again.
"You're such a liar! I hate you!" She pulled me by the shirt and I grabbed her by the shoulders. We held a staring competition and waited until a couple of blinding shots until we broke the stair. Even though hatred it what I can see through my eyes, in Rima's eyes, I saw she was having a blast.
"I'm the liar? How many guys have you slept with this year other than me?" I pushed her to the ground, and she fell with a thumb. When she whispered ouch I thought I had crossed the line.
That is when I came looking up at the sky.
Rima had gotten on top of me and was shaking me nonstop. I on the other hand, tried to get her off of me. One, because that is what people do, and two, because she was scaring the fuck out of me. "How dare you say I'm the dirty one than yourself you selfish dick!"
"Yes, yes, YES!" the last few shots came and gone, and soon, we could hear everyone clapping, even from Nikko. Rima's expression turned into a happy look as she got off of me and offered her hand. I took it and stood up. "BRAVO once again!" Tadase said, coming up to me. "Oh, I felt the hatred there. You guys almost made me scream in glory," He twirled around and faced Rima. "Yes, yes LOVE the hatred. You could become 'Tokyo's and American Bad Ass' if there was a name," Tadase left us and began looking through the pictures he just took.
I turned towards Rima. "How do you feel?"
"This is the best experience for a photo shoot ever done in my life," She threw herself on me and jumped up and down. "Never have I been this happy. Thank you, thank you and thank you!" She then ran to where Nikko was.
"You're welcome," I said to no one in particular.
"Ok, next model, up we go," Tadase yelled. The next person was Saaya. I smiled at her and she smiled back. "Ok guys, this one is a one side love. Saaya, you're going to be the person in love. Ikuto, you need to try and find a way to convince her that you don't love her back,"
I nodded and we got in our positions. "Do you know what to do?" I asked her. She nodded and grabbed hold of my hand, her face already mixed with convincing me to love her.
"Please, accept my feelings," she whispered, as she moved closer behind me. Tadase took the picture, and we were up to the next stance.
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~—Destiny Strikes Again: Ikuto POV: Three Girls later—~
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So far, I have taken shots with Nikko, Rima, Saaya, Rikka, Sakura and Yaya.
Saaya was really good. She acted like she really wanted me to give her a chance...which was pretty scary because she basically convinced me nonstop.
Rikka and I had to act as though we were best friends. That had to be one of the funniest. We were too busy making funny faces at each other to know when we had to stop for the next person.
Sakura and I acted like we were drunk. It involved some touches here and there, but she did remind me after her turn that touching me was kind of weird. I laughed full on when she said that. All she did was rolled her eyes and chuckled back.
Yaya and I acted like brother and sister. She would give me puppy dog eyes and hit me when I said no to some things. She acted like what Utau has been doing to me for years. After her turn, she said I would have made the best brother to her. I pattered her head and said thanks, even though she gave me a death glare for ruining her hair.
The last person I have to shoot with today was Amu. Even though Tadase didn't tell us what we had to pose as yet, I had a good inner feeling it was something I already know what to.
It was already six o'clock, and all of us, especially me, were really tired.
"Ok, ok we are almost done, so stop whining my little Sunshine's," I gave Tadase a look. He sweetdroped and ordered someone to fix me up. "Ok, Amu darling, up, up, up!" He clapped.
Amu came on stage with her hair let down and wavy. She had some clip on ribbons in her hair, but also some parts braded. I smiled when she came next to me.
"Now, now darlings. Since you two were too busy looking at yourselves than paying attention to what's around you, you are now in 'Valentine's Day Land.' Which means, I want to see the love blooming, got it?" We both nodded neither one of us surprised by his request.
The background was a nice lawn of flowers with the sun beginning to set. They had the fan going and some leaves and petals floating on the floor before us.
I looked at her. "You know what to do?" She nodded. "Remember act—"
"Act as though I'm in a movie," I nodded but then she continued. "Or better yet, act like this did happen in our lives," I wasn't sure if it was her talking, her professional side, but neither did it mattered when Tadase said to start. We got into our positions ready for the first picture. "Remember, I'm going to give you a boner or two," and just from her breath tickling my cheek, I was already started one.
The next thing I knew, Amu has one leg on my hip with her hand that was facing the camera, on my cheek. The fan was going softly, and her hair was lightly being blowed, when the petals and leaves started to fly passed us.
"I missed you," She whispered, and kissed my cheek, just when the flash came and went.
I held her closer and helped her leg go higher on my hip. I pressed my forehead on hers when the flash came and went. "I missed you more," and I meant it. I kissed her on her forehead just when the flash came.
"She started playing with my tie, and pulling it towards her. "Tell me what you think of me," She whispered seductively. Something painful on my lower area started to hurt. I breathed in and began talking. Then she shook her head. "Show me what you think of me,"
I don't know where it came from, but suddenly I pushed her to a wall, and squeezed her between it and me. I saw Tadase coming up and taking the photo's up close. He said something about more, but I didn't listen. Everything around me blurred: the settings, the people, the stares and the flashes. Everything but Amu.
"Ikuto," She whispered," I couldn't take it anymore. I kissed her.
She had her arms wrapped around my neck, my arms wrapped around her waist, and our bodies pressed together, as I pulled her up until she was on the edge of her tippy toes.
I trailed my hands around her waist, and my lips around her neck and cheek, while she moaned softly but audible.
"More Ikuto," she said in my ear. She moved her hands around my back, and bit my ear, earning a groan from me. Her tank was hanging from one shoulder as the other was tipped to her elbow.
"I thought you said never again," I reminded her, and kissed her collarbone.
"This is different," She pulled back and stared into my eyes, full of lots of lust and love.
"You're right, it is," I guided her hands to my top buttons, as she slowly peeled them off one by one, until the fan blew my pink shirt back, so my chest was exposed. The tie was now wrapped around my neck.
I pulled her leg up on my hip, and began leaning forward when, "EXCELLENT! PERFECT JOB DARLINGS!" It was like a slap form left to right was printed on my face. The same must have been with Amu. We pulled away from each other, and smiled at everyone when they all clapped with mouths opened.
I looked at Amu and gave her a thumb up, indicating nothing of the sort of affection. "Great job Hinamori. It almost felt real to me," She gave me a look as to say she dared me to go on. "Almost made me believe you were in love with me," Of course, I accepted.
"Ha-ha, I could say the same for you. Going all over me and giving me a hicky. You sure you were just acting?" She looked at me with an innocent expression.
"DOES IT MATTER DARLINGS? Your pictures were sp memorizing to capture, this must be on the front cover of 'Juicy Sweets,'" Amu gapped when she heard him say the name. She looked back at me and mouthed a 'thank you.'
I smirked and walked up to her. "Oh, you will be showing me your thank you tonight Amu-koi," I whispered to her ear.
"Fine," She whispered back. Wait a second, she agreed. "Tomorrow on our 'date.' Make me feel like this again, and I'll make an exception," she pulled away and began walking to where the others were.
I looked down at the ground, moving my feet so no one would see me looking at me friend. If I was stupid enough not to know what didn't happened, I'd say she was just playing. But no, she wasn't playing.
I saw a piece of paper on the end of my jean pocket. Amu must have slipped it in there. Taking it out I read what was on there. I looked up at Amu, and briefly met her eyes before turning towards Rikka and Sakura.
I smiled to myself and folded it and placed it back in my pocket before heading over to the girls. I read what was on the note again and again.
'Maybe. First accept to be my boyfriend.'
I'm so close,
but so far away,
we are almost there,
so please, just stay.
I feel the love
burning with in me
Is this feeling alright
for you to see?
Let's get to know each other
Just the little more
I'm sure that through time
It'll be the beginning of us all.
VHeart: How was it? Please review!
Ikuto: ...why the poems?
Amu: Shut up, they are nice!
Ikuto: I love you too, but why?
Chimma: because VHeart is awesome!
VHeart: Yeah! I'll update when I have 30 reviews. Please don't be mad. I got school and my other story to update too.
Ikuto: Hey that rhymed.
Amu: No kidding Sherlock.
Ikuto: Thank you Bimbo
Amu: ...bimbo is it? *twitch*
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