So many birthdays to remember ._. *writes them all in calendar*
Oh and happy birthday to Snowwiisan, The Black Stray, xXLove'n'HateXx, Natsuya801923, and Amuto20174! May you all have a nice time being... er... older? :D
AKDJSLK. I still hate school D: I swear the world would be a better place if a certain one of my teachers died ._. Failing me because I can't right a page long explanation for why 5+3=8. T_T I want to kill her.
Just finished watching Death Note.. after stretching it out for what? Almost two months now? But it was so good :D Poor Misa-Misa though. She was freaking adorable... and then Light dies on her D: Light was hot. Very hot. Ah well. On to watching Macross Frontier! x)
Started reading the book Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen. It's really good :O Nao I demand that all of you guys get off your asses, go to a bookstore, buy the book, and read it :) I love that book~ But then again I've always been a huge fan of Sarah Dessen's books, so I might be a bit biased :P Oh well.
Chapter might have wayy too many spelling errors. I haven't had Word for a while, so I've been doing the chapters on WordPad, which you know doesn't have a spell-check program. So I used to use one online, but then they recently closed due to maintainence costs. So I've got no spell check now because I haven't had the time to go look for a new one. Just... deal with the spelling errors, onegai?
Reply time~
vampire-fetish15: March 17th... 13 days before mine :)
insulife: May 3Oth.. exactly two months after my b-day x) I was totally dissapointed with the animated hug ._. It failed. But still. Seven seas treasure was hot enough to become my new wallpaper... for my laptop, desktop, phone, other phone, and itouch xDD I'm so dorky, aren't I?
MaroonAngel of Darkness: *facepalms with you*
. '. Sympho.' . : Thank you!
bendercat: Yes yes, you knew it :)
The Black Stray: D: AWWWW. I missed it... oh well. HAPPY BIRTHDAY :D No it's not going to happen here, I've got something else planned :)
Snowiisan: Well happy birthday to you then! :D
Neji0932: Yes he does
xhappily-randomx: ... Well I've had my fair share of times being shot down ._.
darkjewl: Ohmygod. No way. Your birthday's the day after mine xDDDDD
TsukiyomiAlikutoMissaWatusi: *adds your b-day to calendar*Well I'm not turning 14 until March, so you're not the only one :)
A-shadow-of-a-doubt: Yep.
miruku-chii: Thank you!
XSaluri-ChanX: Thank you~
amuto fan: Thank you :D
MsxMisunderstood: ... Did you ever read any of the previous chapters? At all? ._.
XxxxClouDxxxX: I'm trying D:
Zakuro46: Thank you!
Zakuro46: Thanks~
ArtGrrl-Sunna Bluecat: Yeppp :)
Joker4ever: I'm trying, I'm trying :O
KremZen: Thank you :D
Zakuro46: Yes yes
Zakruo46: My school is hell. Literally.
Hakumei. xo: By "Asian" I meant Chinese ._. Yeah. Only Chinese. It's pretty pathetic, isn't it? Considering I'm contributing to that giganto number of Chinese people. If anything, the hug was cheesier than the pirate. I thought that all those scenes of Amu floating towards him were seriously unecessary ._. The pirate on the other hand was just down right sexy :)
Snowrosex3: Well I'm just following cannon plot lines ._. So if you don't like it don't read it....
xXLove'n'HateXx: ... But the plot isn't very "original". I got the idea from a phone ad, remember?
xXLove'n'HateXx: HAPPY BIRTHDAY THEN!!!!!!
miserae: lool :)
MysteryPearl: Glad you're happy :)
Miki-Chann: .______. That makes me feel so much better... knowing that I don't have the smallest feet. My birthday's on March 3Oth :D
mombo family: Ah, it'll grow. I was two up till around then too ._.
Kar-Kar93: Hey Karlene :D Thanks for reviewing.. and uh, thanks for the advice, even though the whole thing is done and over with already.
iipinkex3: Arigatou, kami-sama xDD
kar-Kar93: Nah, it's fine. I do that all the time too :)
xXStrawberryVanillaXx: ... I'm not in high school. I'm still stuck in Jr. High. *adds your b-day to calendar*
Dark Midnight Dream: ... Tadase's not gay D: How many times do I have to say that?
Soccerluver04: Yeah... ._. sadly 9/11 was on a Friday this year, and Friday's practically the only day I have time to write...
Angel of Randomosity: .. ._. but you weren't supposed to... it's one of my little mistakes I hope no one ever notices...
Angel of Randomosity: Meh... I don't like Miki. I like Ran more :) So much pink adorable ness.
CharacterClover: ... Don't like. It's not good :O But how would I know if she trusts me enough to or not? She has no idea that I know that she's been lying this whole time ._.
MangaFanXD: D: Why not? Meh it's fine. Just don't expect anything from me then.
Natsuya801923: Well I replied to you :) Check your inbox. It's too long to put here.
Amuto20174: Luckyyy. For my birthday I get nothing useful ._.
kawaiimiyu-chan: Thank you!
Shokara N' Strawberries: I'm working on it D: Geez.. so hard to balance FF life wtih social life.
mabbi: *sigh* Tadase isn't gay nor fag. He's just a guy that looks rather... girly. Okay? "Soon but not too soon" o_o" So what time works for you then? Maybe I can try to fit it into my crap schedule.
1O more reviews 'till 2OO... please? :D
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Ikuto leaned forward in his hiding spot, desperately trying to hear what Amu was saying to Tadase. And yet, the farthest he could go without being caught was still not close enough to hear the most part of what they were saying. He could pick a few words here and there, but that was about it.
Yaya... why couldn't you have picked a closer bush?!
He decided to take a small risk, and lean his head out so that it was slightly visible from the other side. As long as neither of them looked in that direction he should be fine.
"...Oh. I see..." He barely heard Amu say. "Well that's.. that's wonderful! Have you told her yet?"
Ikuto frowned at the fake smile plastered on Amu's face. If Tadase took that as a genuine smile, he was even more of an idiot that Ikuto thought of him as.
... And apparently he's extremely stupid. Tadase returned the smile.
"No... not yet," He admitted. Tadase said a little more, but his voice grew softer to the point where Ikuto couldn't hear him anymore. The blue haired man sighed, leaning even more forward to try to hear more.
"Aruto!" Yaya hissed. "If you go out any further Amu-chi's going to hear you!"
Ikuto took no notice of he whining, and continued with what he was doing. A bird suddenly landed on the bush, making one of the leaves rustle as it let out a loud chirp. Tadase instinctively turned in the direction that the noise was coming from. His eyes widened.
"Aruto-san?" He asked, a bit shocked. Ikuto ignored him and stared at Amu, who was taking advantage of Tadase's diverted attention and was trying to sneak off. She turned and saw Ikuto staring straight at her.
"Don't tell him," She mouthed, eyes filled with desperation. Ikuto hesitated, but then smirked.
"What?" He asked Tadase. "It's illegal for me to sit in a bush?"
Tadase glared at him.
"But it might be illegal for you to be evesdropping on Hinamori-san and I," He pointed out.
"Might," Ikuto said slowly, eyeing Amu as she disappeared behind one of the tall trees. "Mighttttt."
Tadase frowned.
"Besides," Ikuto continued. "Just for the record, I wasn't evesdropping. In fact, I didn't know that you were talking to Amu at all. Are you sure you weren't just talking to yourself?"
"What are you talking about?" Tadase demanded. "Hinamori-san's right- HEY. Where is she?"
Ikuto raised an eyebrow.
"Amu?" He repeated. "What are you talking about? Yaya and I came over and found you standing here by yourself and talking."
"No way!" Tadase argued. "Hinamori-san was right here a second ago!"
Ikuto sighed and turned to Yaya.
"Yaya," He said. "Next stop we make we get Tadase to a doctor, got it? I think there's something wrong with his brain..."
But his eyes said, "Play along or you're dead."
Thankfully, Yaya got both messages.
"Yep," She agreed, nodding. "Tadase needs to go see a doctor for his messed up head."
Tadase only continued glaring at both of them.
"I'm serious," He insisted. "I was here talking with Amu! And then she just... left while I was talking to you two!"
Yaya giggled as Ikuto shook his head in mock shame.
"Well if you're sure," He said, sounding as if he didn't believe Tadase at all. "If you really think so, then maybe I should go look for Amu. If I find her out somewhere then you were telling the truth."
Tadase opened his mouth to say something else, but Ikuto didn't care to hear what it was. He had already turned around and set off to look for the little pink-haired girl.
~ i S n o w X 3 ~
... And fear the cheeesiness xD
Amu took a deep breath, shifting her position on the tree branch and tightening her arms around the tree's wide trunk. She had been sitting here for... who knows how long... and watching the still nature around her.
"Hey."
Amu jumped at the sound of the voice, which obviously wasn't hers. She looked down and saw Ikuto, climbing up the tree. He sat on a branch nearby to the one Amu was on.
"Oh," Amu said flatly. "It's you."
Ikuto smirked.
"Yes," He told her. "It's me."
Amu frowned and didn't say anything. Ikuto sighed.
"So what happened back there?" He asked. Amu stared at him.
"You should know," She muttered accusingly. "You were listening in to the whole thing.
"Not the whole thing," Ikuto corrected her. "I listened to what I could hear from the bush Yaya and I were hiding in."
Amu's frown deepened.
"Yaya was there too?" She asked softly. "So maybe she probably knows then...."
Ikuto straightened up.
"Knows what?" He asked. Amu shook her head and looked away. Ikuto sighed, carefully climbing over so that he was sitting on the same branch as the pink-haired girl. He scooted over so that their arms were touching.
"Now tell me," He instructed. Again, Amu shook her head, only this time she continued staring at him. Ikuto frowned.
"Fine then," He said frustratedly. "Don't tell me."
No response from Amu. She just continued staring blankly in front of her. Ikuto smirked. There was still one way to get her to talk.
Ikuto looked at her for a moment then, moving carefully so that neither of them would fall from the tree, slid his hands out. He began moving them up Amu's thighs to her waist. Then he ducked his head down, resting it in the pink-haired girl's lap, and Amu subconsciously smoothed her hands over his hair, running it through her fingers. Ikuto grinned when he felt Amu relax into him, the silence continuing.
After a long while, Amu blinked a couple times and she finally realized what she was doing... and who's head was in her lap. She let out a small scream, jumping slightly. Ikuto finally sat up too, patting the spot of hair on his head that Amu had been petting. He smirked.
"Don't jump up like that," He teased. "Unless you want both of us to fall of this tree and reallly die."
Amu glared at him.
"I wouldn't mind if a pervert like you died!" She spat. Ikuto's smirk softened.
"Now there's the Amu I know," He said. Amu's eyes widened. Ikuto wasn't lying. It took him only a few seconds to make her back to her normal, Ikuto the pervert hating self.
Ikuto grinned.
"So are you going to tell me now?" He asked. "Or are you going to let me do that again?"
Amu hesitated for a moment.
"Fine." She said quietly. "T-Tadase said no... because... he said that he liked.... Yaya instead..."
Ikuto was shocked into a moment of silence. He had no way of expecting something like that.
"It's kind of sad," Amu continued. "When you love someone, yet you know for a fact that they don't love you back. It feels like a huge slap in the face... a giant slap back into reality..."
Ikuto frowned. To be honest, what she was saying wasn't so far off from what he was feeling at the moment. Besides, Amu's not so great mood was beginning to spread around, and Ikuto wasn't so eager for it to get to him too anytime soon.
All of a sudden the blue-haired man heard his phone ring. Sighing, he fished it out of his pocket. It was... another text from Yoru.
Just as Ikuto was about to read the text though, he felt the phone being yanked out of his hands. A moment later, he saw it in Amu's hold. The pink haired girl held the phone close to her face as she looked at the text.
"From Tsukiyomi Ikuto," She read aloud. "Long time no talk-"
Ikuto quickly snatched the phone back before Amu could read anything else. Who knew how much of the truth she could squeeze out of whatever it is that Yoru said.
Amu frowned at him.
"It's not nice, you know," She pouted. "To grab something away from someone when they're in the middle of reading it."
Ikuto raised an eyebrow.
"It's also rude," He pointed out. "To take someone's phone when they get a text."
Amu ignored that comment.
"Anyways," She said. "Why are you talking to a famous jerkface like him anyways?"
"... Jerkface?"
Amu grinned and nodded.
"Seriously," She said. "I hate him. I hate him and how perfect he thinks he is."
Ikuto frowned. Did Amu realize that the guy she was criticizing was sitting right next to her?
Probably not.
Ikuto sighed.
"Why do you think he's such a bad person anyways?" He asked, trying to defend himself. Amu rolled her eyes.
"I thought I told you all the reasons why on that first day you came with us," She muttered. "You forgot already?"
Ikuto shook his head. Of course he hadn't forgotten, but he had however shoved it all into a corner of his brain to be forever forgotten. Amu sighed.
"Basically," She said. "I don't hate him. I hate people like him. They think that they're so much better than everyone else just because they're drop dead sexy or something stupid like that."
Ikuto grinned, forgetting that he wasn't supposed to be Tsukiyomi Ikuto at the moment.
"So you think I'm sexy, eh?" He asked slyly. Amu raised an eyebrow.
"You're Tsukiyomi Ikuto?" She asked sarcastically. Ikuto frowned.
"Nooo," He said slowly. "It's just that... uh... that first day we met you said I looked a lot like him. So if you think Tsukiyomi Ikuto is sexy, doesn't that mean you think that I'm sexy?"
Amu glared at him, cheeks bright, bright red.
"No way!" She shouted. "You know what? Now I wish you really did die when we feel earlier! Stupid idiot!"
Ikuto looked away and tried to hold in his grin. She didn't realize what she was saying. If she thought Ikuto the famous violinist was hot, then she had to think that Ikuto sitting next to her was hot also. Only she didn't know that the two of them were the same person.
But she did think that he ws a 'jerkface'.
Guess he'd have to fix that, wouldn't he?
"Well then," Ikuto suddenly said, sitting up. "I think you're close enough to being back to your old self again. How about going back then?"
Amu nodded. She even managed a small smile in Ikuto's direction.
"Yeah," She agreed. "How long have we been up here anyways?"
Ikuto shrugged.
"I dunno," He replied. "Maybe a couple hours? Not sure."
Amu looked down at the ground below them and let out a small gasp. Ikuto frowned at her.
"What?"
"Aruto..." Amu whispered in a small voice. "What if I told you that... that I'm scared of heights?"
Ikuto frowned.
"You're scared of heights." He said flatly. "So how'd you manage to get up here in the first place?"
Amu stared at him with wide, scared eyes.
"I don't know!" She said. "Maybe I hadn't looked down until now...?"
Ikuto let out a frustrated sigh.
"So what you're trying to tell me is that you're too scared to try to climb down." He said. Amu nodded.
"Which means we're.... or rather you're stuck here."
"Yep."
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O_O alkdfjalkdsjflksaj OHMYGOD I HATE THIS CHAPTER.
Yeah... I really do. I've been kind of 'meh' about it and just writing a few sentences a day. For some reason I doubt it even makes any sense.... oh wells.
Well now to watch a bit of Macross Frontier, wait impatiently for Shugo Chara to come out, color some manga, do my math hw, and emo over this chapter's craptastic-ness.
... Care to review? x)