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Ikuto shook his head as he cleared Amu's voice that was resonating in his head. He was looking at Erin, not Amu. However, he started to see similarities between the two people, but a couple more shakes of his head and any thought of Amu vanished.

Erin, on the other hand, was half way between wishing he would just figure it out and terrified if he actually did.

Miki noticed how frozen Amu became and quickly brought her back to reality as she dug her heel into Amu's shin. Amu jumped with surprise, but managed to hold in her shout. She quickly glanced at Miki and sent her a grateful look. Miki nodded subtly before she brought her attention back to the man who approached.

"Ikuto." Erin smiled, but Ikuto could tell she was nervous about something.

"We have to go." He grumbled as his mood became worse by the minute. "Tell your friend good-bye."

Amu looked at him with astonishment, but then quickly said good-bye to Miki. She followed after Ikuto, who waited outside of the store.

She followed him to the car and, out of habit, almost got into the back seat.

"What are you doing?" Ikuto sighed with frustration.

"Um," Erin laughed slightly, "Just putting my bag in the back."

She recovered quickly, but Ikuto was suspicious about her nervousness.

When they were settled into the car and half-way to Utau's house, Ikuto suddenly thought of something.

"Do you have your own car?" He questioned.

"I have one coming." She responded, "Why?"

"Tomorrow, everyone will be going to school and no one will be around to give you a lift." He pointed out.

Amu had completely forgotten about school and so she thought deeply about how she was going to get to work tomorrow. Finally, Ikuto pulled up to a large house, but he didn't just stop to drop off Amu, he parked the car and got out.

"What are you doing?" Erin asked.

"I have to talk to Utau." He stated and then walked into the house.

When he was in the house, Amu gave a frustrated sigh and then smoothed her hair before she walked into the house.

Amu wasn't far behind Ikuto, and when they opened the door to Utau's house they were greeted by screams and arguing. As dark as it was outside, it was surprisingly bright inside the house, but you could still see sparks flying between the two angry blondes.

"Cameron?" Ikuto said with confusion. The blond, who was fighting with Utau, turned and Amu recognized the girl as the rich bimbo who was going out with Ikuto, but now she had a name; a very English name. It surprised Amu.

"Ikuto." She chirped happily and then she noticed Amu, "Oh, and you." She added with disgust.

"Hi." Erin responded before brushing by her. Cameron become more agitated after Erin had completely blown her off.

"Can we go?" Cameron recovered quickly.

"You can, but I need to talk to my sister." Ikuto pushed her out of the house.

Cameron didn't fight, but she stomped off like a six year old throwing a temper tantrum.

Utau quickly told Amu where her room was and Amu took off towards the room, but before she had a time to close the door she heard Ikuto ask, "I want you to invite Amu here."

Utau, who was in the process of walking towards the kitchen, froze and Amu froze with her hand on the door handle.

"What?" Utau asked.

"Invite Amu here." Ikuto said.

"Why?" Utau was completely shocked.

"If she sees me with Cameron, I will be able to get over her." Ikuto said, but his sentenced was followed by Amu's door being slammed shut.

Ikuto and Utau jumped at the sound, but then quickly resumed their discussion. Eventually, it turned into a quiet argument because Ikuto was prepared to get over Amu, but Utau didn't want it to happen. Ikuto left shortly after with no response as to whether she would be coming or not, but Utau hinted that if Ikuto wanted her to come then he would need to ask her.

Amu jumped on to her bed and pulled out her phone. She sent a quick text; Do you have school tomorrow?

She fell asleep as she waited for the response. She missed dinner, but she was glad no one woke her up.


The next morning Amu woke up to a quiet house. She felt extremely lonely, but shoved the feeling away as she turned to her phone. She had a text message.

However, before she opened the message she took a shower, got dressed, and grabbed some fruit from the kitchen. She sat at the island in the kitchen eat some raspberries and then she decided to look at her messages.

Who is this? Was the response. Amu laughed at herself as she remembered that the director gave her the numbers of the singers of their company but they didn't have her number.

Amu quickly responded and told the person who she was.

There was an instant response; No, i don't have school, but Miki does if ur looking for her.

Amu responded by telling him the she wanted to talk to him, not Miki. They agreed to meet at the studio.

Amu was walking out of the door when she noticed keys hanging from the key rake just beside the door. There was a note attached to them and Amu pulled the note off.

It read;

Erin,

Ikuto left you his car. He hopes you won't scratch his 'baby'.

Amu laughed a little and felt her heart warm at Ikuto's kind gesture. She pulled off the key and turned to the door as someone knocked on the door. Amu pulled the door open without thinking about her appearance.

"Hello?" Amu stated in her high voice as she stared at Cameron.

Cameron on the other hand stuttered, "A-amu Hinamori."

Amu went wide eyed.

"Uh, yeah. I'm friends with Utau." Amu spoke in her normal voice.

Cameron got over her shock and looked at Amu with confusion, but she tried her best to hide it.

"I was wondering if Ikuto was here, considering his car in parked out front." Cameron tried to look around Amu, but she didn't let that happen.

"Sorry, but that's my car." Amu lied.

Cameron almost didn't believe her until Amu walked out of the house, locked the door and walked over to the car. Amu unlocked the door and got in.

Amu drove off and left Cameron in the dust, but Cameron wasn't slow with her phone. She whipped it out, but she didn't take a picture instead she texted Ikuto.

She typed; Guess who i just saw!

Ikuto was slow to respond, but he did eventually; Who?

Cameron smiled to herself and typed; Amu . . . like THE Amu Hinamori

Ikuto didn't respond after that because his world was thrown into chaos. Sure he wanted Utau to invite Amu here, but he began to doubt himself because he didn't believe Utau would actually invite Amu back to Japan. He also didn't believe she would've have been here this fast.

Meanwhile, Amu was walking into her studio. The other half to Miki's group was sitting in a chair waiting patiently. She was later then she expect because she quickly ran her idea of with the musical director.

"Sorry to keep you waiting." Amu spoke as she set her stuff down.

The boy spun to look at Amu and she noticed for the first time that he truly did look at her with hearts in his eyes. Amu wanted to gag, but she had something she wanted to do.

"I'm Amu, as you know, but who are you?" Amu asked was trying to turn him off by being rude and aggressive, but he didn't notice.

"Yoru." He responded in a dreamy state.

"I wanted to meet you to tell you I have written a duet and I want you to perform it with me." Amu cringed as she started to wonder if this was alright, but she quickly changed her idea, "Miki will be singing with me."

Yoru was about to say something, but Amu wasn't finish, "We will be filming a music video and you and Miki will be acting it out. I will make appearances, but not many."

Yoru seemed displeased with this, but he was too happy to be performing with Amu to let it bother him. Amu handed him the score and told him to get ready while she stepped out for a moment. When Amu was in the hall she sent a text to Miki and quickly told her she wrote a duet with her and Yoru in mind, but Amu excluded that fact that she would be singing with Miki and Yoru.

Amu walked back into the room and noticed the score was on the ground and Yoru was toning his guitar.

Amu pressed a button and spoke into the microphone, "You won't need that."

Yoru jumped and then set his guitar down in defeat, though he didn't put up a fight. Amu picked up the score and walked into the recording studio.

"I hate this song." Yoru stated.

"I can get someone else to sing it." Amu stated rudely, but it changed Yoru's attitude instantly. Rage built up in Amu because she realized how much Yoru didn't care about music.

A pre-recorded melody filled the room.

"Just listen through and see where your lyrics would fit." Amu said as they sat down and listened.

When it was finished Amu stood up and spoke into the microphone that was recording them, "Take one, without Miki and Yoru's first attempt."

Amu turned to Yoru, "If you can sing then do, but if you can't, try to hum."

Amu restarted the music from a button near her, but she didn't wait a couple bars to sing; she started with the music, "Do you know how it hurts, when a fairytale burns?" Amu sang gently as chimes rang and then a piano started, "Love is a refugee - Ain't that absurd?"

"You know how it feels," Yoru joined in to repeat this line, but that was all he was suppose to do as Amu continued, "When starlight and dreams slowly fade to grey - This is my independence day." She added power to the last five words of her verse."She said she'd never love again because he broke her heart," Yoru rapped his verses well and in time, "And now she's blaming him, but he told her from the start that what they had was special, but it ain't really love."

"Although he gave her everything, she never had his heart." Yoru stumbled a little as he realized the song was meant for him, but he regained composure, "But that's all that she needs, so what's tearing her apart?"

"'Cause loving him is hard, but that's all she really wants." Yoru took a breath, "She treats him like a king and he treats her like a queen, but when he don't come home; he don't tell her where he's been, but she already knows -"

"He got lipstick in his clothes, it's the message in his phone, and the smell of his cologne," Yoru didn't understand why Amu felt the need to write this song, but he continued messily, "But she don't say a tone or even moan; she don't stress, fight or fuss, she just keeps it to her own.""When she cries, she dries her eyes," Amu stared to 'ah-ah' in the background, "She never lied in her life, so his lies sound like knives every night. In the morning she's all right 'Cause she don't wanna fight, But tonight she'll be gone forever." "Do you know how it hurts when a fairytale burns?" Amu didn't wait until Yoru had finished singing because as he sung 'forever', she had already started. "Love is a refugee, ain't that absurd?"

"You know how it feels when starlight and dreams slowly fade to grey," Amu took a breath; "This is my independence day."

Instruments filled the space in the song and Amu looked over at Yoru. Yoru was bobbing along to the song clearly enjoying himself and Amu wanted to take back what she thought about his feelings towards music. "He said he'd never love again, 'cause he don't want the pain of having someone special do that shit to him again," Yoru entered right on cue and for this verse he seemed to put more emotion into it. Amu started thinking about Miki's role as Yoru continued, "And though it ain't his fault there ain't no-one else to blamefor all those sunny days, when all you see is rain."

"All you got are memories, but that just ain't the same." This line was sung the strongest so far and the instruments cut out.

"'Cause the woman that he loved must have simply gone away," Yoru backed off for this lyric and Amu made note, "And everyday he wakes up feeling like he's up in chains, and now her sweetest touch is like a shot to his brain and this is just a shame, 'cause she don't say a thing, except to break his heart like she's in a wicked game that he ain't trying to play, but he's stuck trying to win 'cause he's stuck loving someonewho just ain't in love with him.""But he's in love with her and this is where it hurts," He took a breath, "No but she don't give a damn or even know his worth, she treats him like he's dirt that she can throw away, but he ain't going away 'cause today's gonna be the day."

No one noticed someone had entered the recording portion of the room until the girl was standing in front of Yoru with a microphone in her hands."Do you know how it hurts when a fairytale burns?" Miki sang with power directly at Yoru, and he stepped back in surprise, "Love is a refugee, ain't that absurd?" It felt like Miki was actually asking Yoru.

"You know how it feels when starlight and dreams slowly fade to grey," Miki looked away as she finished her lyric, "This is my independence day." She looked at Amu with close to pure hatred in her eyes."So forgive me but I'm gone now, 'cause I'm free and I'm never coming home now," Yoru stepped back up to the microphone and started singing in time. Amu started singing little 'oh' and 'ah' in the background, "I'll find hope in forever 'cause I'm thrown now and I'm flying and I ain't gonna go down."

"I used to think we were magic but slow down you didn't know what you had when you had it," Yoru glanced towards Miki who had moved to stand near Amu, "And now you realise that it's gone like magic and I guess you really want me back, right?"

"Well, forget it." Yoru looked away from Miki.

"Do you know how it hurts when a fairytale burns?" Miki sang with passion, "Love is a refugee, ain't that absurd?"

"You know how it feels when starlight and dreams slowly fade to grey," Miki took a breath, but Yoru finished her line, "This is my independence day.""Do you know how it hurts when a fairytale burns?" Miki jumped back in with Amu repeating some lines in the background, "Love is a refugee, ain't that absurd?"

"You know how it feels when starlight and dreams slowly fade to grey," Miki finished with strength, "This is my independence day."

Miki stepped out of the room as quickly as she came, but Yoru followed right after her. Amu, wanted to follow, but she knew better as she ejected the recording and, walked to the musical director's office. She gave the recording to the secretary and then left the office. She was half way back to the studio when she phone buzzed.

She pulled out the phone and looked at the text message her mother sent her.

It read; Hun, come quick, i have news!

Amu was in the studio and worried about what the message meant, but she gathered her things and quickly left without thinking twice about Miki and Yoru.

She jumped into Ikuto's car and sped to her mother's house.

When she was parked and walking up to the house, she realized that she didn't know who was going to be in the house. It really worried her, but then she remembered what happened this morning and slammed her hand to her forehead. She was screwed.

"Mom." Amu called into the house.

A dog barked, but no dog appeared.

"In the backyard, honey." She heard her mom's voice.

Amu carefully walked through the kitchen to the backdoor and stepped outside. The sun blinded her for a moment, but as her eyes refocused she saw who was sitting with her parents.

There were some people who could very well destroy her step-father's whole point of sending her to Japan.

Reporters.

"So much for laying low." Amu growled to her mom.


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