Fyen: *bows* GO-ME-NA-SAI MIN-NA!!! DX

Kiseki: I don't think they care if you apologize or not. u_u

Fyen: I don't care! Anyways, thanks for all of your reviews and sorry for the major late update again. I've been busy with school stuff, been grounded before that and now I feel terribly sick. My head throbs, my nose won't work and--

Kiseki: Get to the point already! No one wants to hear you rant!

Fyen: Says the chibi king who gives world domination lectures. e_e

Kiseki: SILENCE! That's not the point!

Fyen: Anyways... uh OH YEAH! There is a song mentioned in here called Planetarium, I do not own it! You should try listening to it once though, ish a Korean song from a drama I heard about but never watched. u_u I came across it in a Tadamu vid on youtube once though but I don't know where it went, it was so cute though! T_T

Kiseki: Again, quit your ranting!

Fyen: *keeps ranting*

Kiseki: OI! }8O

'Ugh, how did I get myself into this?' the pink haired "housewife" thought to herself as she struggled to find extra spices and other things to help her successfully prepare two bowls of ramen. When Amu had kept on insisting to Tadase that she cooked dinner, he had finally give in and let her. Then it hit her that she didn't even know how to cook any Japanese dishes very well so she decided to just get some ramen ready for the both of them as she started boiling water in a metal teapot over the stove in the kitchen. It was, after all, the easiest meal Amu could cook up. She even had a few tips on how to make the ramen taste better from a certain idol singer that she got to know for a while because of Ikuto. But now, even ramen was seeming a little too difficult for Amu to settle with making.

Finally, Amu had everything she needed out on the counter top. She just needed to wait for the water to boil now. 'Tadase-kun's probably hungry by now too...,' she realized when her own stomach started growling quietly. When the the teapot finally let out a whistle, signaling that the water is ready for the ramen now, Amu quickly made her way to it and lifted it up. As clumsy Amu really was, she accidentally burnt herself while pouring boiling hot water into one of the bowls. She let out a sharp yelp settling down the teapot quickly and yanked her finger away, cursing under her breath. "Dang it! Why am I so clumsy?!" she said aloud out of frustration as she just stood there holding her finger, not even knowing where Tadase keeps the aid stuff in this house.

"Are you okay, Amu-chan? What happened?" the sound of Tadase's voice suddenly caused her to turn his way.

"It's nothing!" she quickly lied as she continued trying to make their dinner. Tadase eyed her with a strange look as Amu finished with pouring the water and brought the bowls to the dining table. He noticed that she winced when she settled down the bowls.

"You burnt your finger didn't you?" he suddenly said to her.

"Well, it's only a little burn, so I'm fine. Just eat already or the food'll get cold!" she said, trying to change the subject. Why was she being so stubborn? Even Amu didn't understand why.

"The food can wait," Tadase replied and left Amu to get a wet handkerchief. When he came back, he took Amu's left hand without hesitation and rubbed where her burn was gently with the handkerchief. "You should be more careful, you know," he said, keeping his focus on her finger.

Amu sweatdropped. "You don't have to act like my mom, I could've taken care of it on my own...," she said quietly. She didn't know why but she felt a tingling sensation come to her when Tadase suddenly took so much attention to her little burn. It was the same feeling that she had when their wedding ceremony was being held.

"Well, that burn looks pretty bad. You can't just leave it like that and act like nothing happened. Is it so important for you to act tough?" Tadase's eyes suddenly looked serious.

Amu found herself not able to say anything back. "Eh...?"

When Tadase finally realized how long he's been holding her hand, he finally let go and just handed Amu the handkerchief. "Uh... you can find some ointment for that in the bathroom cupboards," he finally said.

"Oh okay... thanks. And you should probably get to eating now...."

"Right...."

'This is so weird, why is it all of sudden getting awkward again?' Amu thought as she quickly made her way to the bathroom. She had found the ointment and was applying it to her burn now. A faint blush was slightly visible on her cheeks as her lips curved upwards a tiny bit as she stared at her finger. 'He's not so bad after all...,' she actually admitted unconcsiously to herself this time and without mentally slapping herself.

. . .

'Night time now. It's alright, Amu. You've slept peacefully every night before, you're gonna be alright tonight too.' the foolish young woman kept repeating to herself as she tried to sleep, her eyes tightly shut but she was still wide awake in her bedroom. She had left the curtains of her slide door wide open, so the moon was practically blaring in her face now but that wasn't the only thing that kept her awake.

Amu was afraid. Terrible afraid of mystical things such as... ghosts. She had always been a wimp but no one had ever seen that side of her or even thought she had any fears for anything much less of something that probably doesn't even exist. And so, after just that little mention that there may have been a graveyard that used to be here, she had started feeling unaturally scared. Amu normally would've never been scared just because of such a rumor but she had seen one particularly pretty scary video about ghosts once and it was pretty convincing so... she just didn't want to remember about it.

Woosh. Amu's eyes rapidly fluttered open, her heart pounding. She quickly sat up, looking around for something-- anything that had made that creepy sound. She suddenly felt chilly and could feel the goosebumps on her bare arms. 'That's just because you're wearing a short sleeved shirt, no big deal...' she told herself, trying to convince herself that she wasn't scared. Woooosh. There it was again, except this time Amu actually felt cold air blow around her. She turned to look at her slide doors leading to her low balcony-like platform that gave a beautiful view of the garden that Tadase took care of. The slide door was actually open a crack.

She raised her eyebrows in confusion. Sure she remembered she went out there for fresh air a few hours ago but she could've sworn she shut and even locked the door when she came back inside. Oh well. 'See, Amu? There was nothing to worry about, just close the door now,' her conscious told her. As Amu got up to shut the door, she suddenly froze. She couldn't move. Her eyes were wide with unspeakable fear and mouth hung open, as if she wanted to say something but her voice had left her momentarily. A vision of a hollow-like person was standing just outside her balcony doors. The body was all a blur and you could see through it except for the face and dark-looking hair hung from it's sides. It looked familiar but horrifyingly ugly at the same time. It had hollow eyes staring back at Amu and its mouth was hung slightly open but it was actually moaning. A sound really unpleasant for anyone as afraid of Amu to hear.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Tadase nearly fell out of his bed at the sound of a scream. He looked around warily, slowly being alert of who screamed that. He suddenly thought of Amu. There must be something wrong. He quickly headed out of his room and across to Amu's room, just swinging the door open and flipped on the lights.

"Amu-chan?! What's wrong?" he asked worriedly as he saw Amu cuddled into a ball on her bed with the covers thrown off and a horrified look on her face as she was shaking slightly. Tadase walked closer to her and asked her again, "Amu-chan, what happened?!"

She finally came to her senses that it was Tadase in her room. "N-Nothing. I'm fine now..." But of course Tadase wasn't going to buy that and stared intensely at her, trying to force the truth out.

Amu's face suddenly flushed in major embarrassment as she curled tighter into a ball and hid her face in between her knees. "I had a nightmare, okay?! And it's all your fault!" Amu had never had such a horrid nightmare in her life before, and to think it was all because of what she heard and her being paranoid.

Tadase looked taken aback as he just stood there, not knowing what to think or say to her. He never even thought that Hinamori Amu could have nightmares and suddenly scream in the middle of the night like that. "W-Wait, my fault?!" he finally asked, confused.

The embarrassed woman peeked out from under her elbows as she continued to hug her knees and mumbled, "You told me there used to be a freaking graveyard here..."

Tadase sweatdropped at her response. "S-So that was what all this was about? Gomen... but that really was a rumor," he said, trying to make her mood lighten at least a little bit but it didn't seem like he was giving much help.

Amu now lifted her head all the way up now and narrowed her eyes at Tadase as if she noticed something. "Hey,... you entered my room without permission," she said twitching a little.

Tadase finched. "Oh! Well,... I had to see if you were okay, I mean your scream was pretty loud and it woke me up and everything--"

Amu sighed loudly before resting her chin back behind her knees again. Her face had lost some of it's red color now. "But now you've seen how I'm really like now.... You're shocked, aren't you?" she asked, almost young man in his plain pale blue pajamas looked a little surprise at Amu now but stayed silent.

"I know... I know I'm a real wuss and get scared of everything easily... I hate that about myself. I'm never really like how I appear to be in front of everyone, I've realized.... You really shouldn't worry about me," she continued quietly, her eyes shifting downwards in embarrassment. It wasn't normal for Amu to have another person see her cower like that. If only she really was who she thought she was.

The so-called husband had listened in silence, his eyes softened. "I understand," he finally said.

Amu lifted her head all the way up again and looked at Tadase, "Huh?"

"It's just like you said about yourself, not everyone is who everyone thinks they are...," he said, seeming to remember some distant memory as his gaze drifted to the outside of the glass slide door in Amu's room.

"Wh...What do you mean?"

"Um, well," the young man before Amu seemed to hesitate a bit while scratching the side of his head sheepishly, "When I was younger, I appeared to be mature and polite to everyone all the time when... I used to want world domination?"

Silence. Tadase stood there feeling uneasy as Amu's face never changed expression for a few moments. Her eye twitched once, then her lips started trembling as her mouth wickedly started curving upwards, revealing a huge smile on her face. 'Oh great,' Tadase thought meekly. Almost right after he had thought that, the pinkette had exploded into stifles of laughter.

"A-Are you serious?! You having world domination?! AHAHAHA! Th-That's--heheh-- hilarious!" Amu said in between laughs as she wiped a tear from her eye. Tadase had started chuckling himself when he saw Amu laugh that hard. She looked pretty cute laughing like that too. 'Wonder why she hides her smile a lot?' he wondered before he stopped and realized maybe Amu was laughing a little too hard. Her face was as red as it had been again when she first woke up screaming from her nightmare.

"You can stop laughing now... It really wasn't that funny," he said, sweatdropping when Amu finally calmed down.

"Hey, that's revenge for laughing at me earlier today," she countered, wearing that usual stubborn look on her face again.

Tadase brought his hand up to his mouth and yawned, "Looks like you'll be okay now. You should get some rest now, good night then, Amu-chan." As he started walking towards Amu's bedroom door, Amu called his name.

"W-Wait... I don't think I can sleep now...," she said quietly, her stubborn look turning into a look of shame as she played with her fingers nervously.

'She can't mean... she wants me to stay here until she sleeps or anything, does she?' Tadase thought, disbelieving the thought though as he just looked at Amu.

"Wh-Why aren't you saying anything? I'm just spooked okay?! Don't look at me like that!"

"Oh it's nothing... What was in your nightmare that made you so scared though?"

"Ik-- I mean! Uh, it's just a very creepy-looking ghost I saw...," Amu said, almost saying Ikuto's name. Shortly after she had woken up screaming, she had then realized that figure in her dream had looked like Ikuto. It was definitely weird seeing him as a ghost and well, moaning creepily as well. She shivered at the memory. Too scary indeed. She was pretty sure Tadase wouldn't know Ikuto or anything and so she wouldn't want to bother explaining either.

Tadase sighed, seeming to give in to whatever Amu was trying to get at but he had a better idea. "Follow me then if you don't want to be alone and scared again," Tadase said gently as he made his way out of Amu's room. Amu, who was wondering why she should follow him, didn't bother to ask and just followed.

They went past a few doorways and finally, Tadase came into room that had moonlight literally lighting up almost the whole room from it's only big window. Amu saw this room just earlier before she discoverd the garden. "It's this room...," she silently said as they both walked in without turning on the lights since the moonlight made their surroundings visible enough.

"Hm? So you've seen my piano already?" Tadase seemed to be amused now as he slowly walked over to the black-glossed instrument that still had some dust on it.

"Yeah... I never knew you played the piano either. Do you play it a lot?" she asked as she watched Tadase blow the dust off of the piano and sat down on the piano chair. His eyes seemed to soften a little as he lifted the cover off of the piano keys.

"Not really, sad to say. I'm not really that good at it either. Plus, I haven't really had time..., but maybe this could help take your mind off of your nightmare?" he offered with a smile to Amu as she took a seat, with a blanket from he room wrapped around her shoulders, on a cushioned chair with arm rests that was near the window. Amu nodded eagerly in reply as her eyes already started to glitter with anticipation. She had always thought it fascinating whenever someone would play some kind of instrument since she didn't have such a skill herself. Besides, it really would help her soothe her mind a little.

Tadase just smiled and took a deep breath. He didn't have any music to look at but he had a song memorized by heart already in his mind. A song called "Planetarium." He played a few stray notes on the keys just to start getting the feel of playing the piano again before he started playing slow gentle notes right after each other until the song changed into a bit more lively-sounding melody but still gentle and sweet to Amu. She watched Tadase play in the moonlight in awe. Tadase's eyes seemed to glitter with excitement as he played but only a soft smile showed on his fair face making his princely features seem all the more charming even if he was only in a long sleeved, pale blue, buttoned-up pajama shirt and dark blue, plaid pajama pants. After all, a prince can look dashing in anything, right? Amu slowly closed her eyes as she laid her head back, bathing herself in the moonlight that had been shining like fairy dust at the moment as she enjoyed the soothing soft melody of the song.

After seven minutes of playing, Tadase finally finished off with quieter notes and stood up. He looked over at Amu and smiled to himself. The pinkette had fallen asleep in the chair to the sound of his playing the piano, her head tilted slightly to one side as she breathed softly and evenly with the blanket still around her shoulders.

The princely husband of the sleeping beauty sighed as he walked over to Amu and picked her up bridal style. "How troublesome...," he muttered with a small smile as he continued carrying her out of the room and into her own room. When he finally layed her on her own bed and started to pull the covers over her, he paused and smiled to himself again as he stared at Amu's peacefully sleeping face. "What a silly girl," he said softly as he unconcsiously slowly touched her face with the back of his fingers gently. He then realized what he was doing and yanked his hand back then stood up quickly, face reddening althought not visible in the darkness.

'Wh-What am I doing?!' he asked himself, almost mortified and mentally pinched himself. 'It's alright, you guys are just becoming friends, that's all,' Tadase assured himself before closing Amu's curtains at her glass doors and headed out of her room back to sleep. He realized it was 3:47 am before he had actually went to sleep. 'She really is troublesome, huh?'

Fyen: Okay that's it! Please review if you can and wish me luck with killing my sickness! XD

Kiseki: And wish me luck with world domination too! :D

Fyen: Yesh! ^-^