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"You're a what?" asked Amu.

The wind whipped around her, tossing up fallen leaves. Everything was bathed in an eerie glow from the round moon overhead.

"A vampire." She looked at Ikuto, confused. He continued with his explanation, "A blood-sucker, leech, a parasite? You know, a vampire."

Does Ikuto always have to make fun of me? "Ikuto, stop teasing me!" she whined. "S-Seriously, what were you going to tell me?"

"I am serious." She looked up at him, and he did look serious. He wasn't even wearing his usual smirk.

"Th-then I want proof!" Amu demanded. This joke had gone too far; usually his teasing was fun-loving, but this wasn't funny.

"Sure, anything you want," A smile spread across his face, but he didn't look particularly happy. Amu watched as his two canine teeth grew longer, the bottoms becoming fine tip points. She felt a chill roll down her spine. His teeth were a perfect, shiny white. They looked almost like a weapon.

She shook her head; she didn't want to believe it. But, when she looked back up, he was still standing there smiling, fangs and all. "You were serious... So, you d-drink blood? K-Kill p-people?" She felt like her blood had turned to ice. Vampires kill people, right? Is that why I'm here? Am I food? She thought it, but it just didn't seem to fit. She felt safe with him, she knew he'd never hurt her.

"I need blood, but I don't kill people. I eat animals, like the deer in the forest." He had a grave look on his face.

Amu laughed happily, she felt such a release when he answered. The tightness she'd had in her chest dissipated. "You're a good vampire, then?" It sounded funny, so contradictory to everything she'd ever heard about vampires. But it felt right describing him that way.

"No. Vampires aren't good." He paused, "Amu, you have to keep this a secret."

"Of course! I pinkie-promise," she stood up, offering him her pinkie.

"How about we hug instead?" His usual smirk slipped onto his face.

"Eh!? W-why would I want to do th-that!?" she stuttered. Amu blinked and he was already in front of her. Ikuto wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close. She could feel her face heat up.

"Ikuto!" she tried to step back, out of his arms. But he just pulled her closer, her whole body now pressed against his.

"You're not going to hug me back?" He said it teasingly, but she heard a hint of sadness in his voice. It made her want to comfort him, to heal all his pain; but there was a limited amount to what she could do right now. So she rested her head against his chest, and slipped her arms around him.

He held onto her for only minutes longer, before he dropped his arms and stepped away from her. "Goodbye, Amu."

"Goodbye? Where are you going?" She started to feel panicked. This wasn't a goodbye until tomorrow, this was a forever goodbye. It stung.

"I need to leave." He had turned away from her; all she could see was his back.

"Why? Where are you going?"

"Anywhere, it doesn't matter," he shrugged.

"Then can't you stay?" she asked, almost pleaded. "Please?"

"No." She flinched at his cold answer.

"Then-then I'll go with you!"

"No!" He said forcefully.

"But, I want to be with you..." Amu whispered.

"You shouldn't want that." He told her as he turned around.

"Why not!?"

"Because you shouldn't like me! You should be afraid of me! Do you see that branch?" He pointed up to thick branch in the tree right beside him. "That branch is at least two times stronger than any bone in your body." He grabbed it and ripped it off in one fluid motion. "And that was easy. I'm not a good person!" Ikuto yelled.

This is so confusing! Sometimes I think he likes me, but other times he just likes to tease me, or he doesn't seem to like me at all! "But you are! You don't hurt people or anything!" she insisted.

"I did hurt people before! Lots of people! I killed them and drank their blood. And I liked doing it!"

"But you changed, you don't kill people anymore..." she murmured.

"That doesn't affect what I did before! It doesn't change anything! Why don't you get it!? How are you still insisting that I'm good?!"

"Because love isn't rational! It doesn't make sense! It's the most irrational thing ever, and no matter what you did before, nothing changes it!" Amu yelled, not really realizing what she'd said.

He looked surprised, "Say that again."

"Say what? What did I say?" she asked.

"You said, because what isn't rational?"

"I-" Her face turned red as she realized what she'd said. I said that, but I didn't mean... I couldn't possibly... I can't love him, can I? "I didn't say anything..." she mumbled.

He shrugged, "Okay. Bye then." He turned, walking away from her.

"Wait!" She panicked, and did the first thing that popped into her head. She caught up to him, and swung her arms around his waist in a hug, her head against his back. "Please don't leave!"

"Amu, please don't do that," He groaned.

"Why?"

"It makes it so much harder to leave."

"Then don't." Don't leave me...!

He turned around so that he was facing her. He grabbed her chin and tilted her face up so he could look into her eyes. "And why do you want me to stay so badly?"

She blushed, not wanting to say what she had to, especially not when he was holding her face so that she had to look directly at him. "If you left, I'd miss you."

He smiled mischievously, "I like the sound of that." He pulled Amu closer to himself. "I'll stay, on a few conditions."

"Okay, anything you want!" She felt so happy; she could've burst out cheering, like Ran did so often.

"Hmm... what do I want?" He paused, thinking. Uh oh, maybe I shouldn't have said that...? "One, I get to see you every day."

She nodded vigorously. It isn't bad so far... "Two, no more dates with other guys."

"Wh-why?" she stuttered.

"I want you all to myself, that's why." He didn't wait for her to answer. "Three, I get to carry you home."

Amu sighed, "Fine." Ikuto scooped her up into his arms, cradling her. She closed her eyes. She enjoyed being held by him, but she would never say that out loud. She slipped into her sweet dreams, comforted by his presence.

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Ah, dontcha just love happy ending? ^-^ Except... this isn't the end... but, meh. :P
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