Being Together: First Wish
Ch. 9: Painful Love
Amu goes toward the park looking for Ikuto after encountering the strange enemy, Kaito.
As Amu reaches the park, she runs across the grass shouting: "Ikuto! Are you there?",
She looks around and spots a girl with a pink ribboned straw hat standing there beside a rotten and shriveled oak tree. The straw hat casts a shadow covering the girl's eyes. She was wearing green sleeved, black dress. The peculiar girl seemed to be looking in Amu's direction.
"Ummm, excuse me but have you seen a guy with cat ears? ...or at least gives you the impression of a cat?" Amu asks.
The girl does nothing but stand in silence. Amu is creeped out, but slowly walks toward her as curious as she is scared.
Suddenly the girl grins and Amu jolts back in shock. "My name is Kirie. Nice to meet you...Amu."
The girl smiles and lifts up her straw hat. She reveals her brilliant, green eyes.
[Wow, she's gorgeous! and how pretty her eyes look.] She thought. "Nice to meet you too, ...huh? How do you know my name? Who are you?" Amu questions her with a confused look.
"I am Ikuto's girlfriend." Kirie claims.
"Huh? I didn't know he had a girlfriend." Amu doesn't believe the mysterious Kirie.
"Ikuto likes me and only me. You're just an idiot who doesn't know your place." says Kirie, "To put it simple, you're in my way!"
[O...kay, but I'm the one who Ikuto likes so shove it, ***** (but I don't think pissing her off and saying that is such a good idea)], she thought: "So you're the one I saw with Ikuto at this park yesterday. I'm here for Ikuto. Where is he?" Amu demands.
Ran, Miki, Dia, and Saya all popped out of their eggs from within Amu's pockets. "We can sense the dark egg around here somewhere!" cries Dia.
"Dark egg? Does that mean Suu is here too?" asks Amu.
Kirie points at Ran, Miki, Dia, and Saya: "Oh, are those your shugo charas? They look a lot like the one I have with me."
"You can see the shugo...? ("Amu!" shouts Ran.)", Amu's question is cut off.
"We also sense Suu here too!" Miki exclaims.
"So she is here!" Amu's expression becomes serious.
"Do you mean this shugo chara right here?" Kirie grins.
Amu turns away from Miki and looks atop Kirie's hand: "Suu!"
The sitting positioned Suu gets up on her feet and starts floating on Kirie's palm with a dark aura emanating around her.
Without a second's waste, Amu dashes toward Kirie and reaches for Suu: "Why do you have Suu? Give her back!"
All of a sudden, Ikuto jumps in between her and Kirie, and kicks Amu down to the ground.
Amu slides into the dirt and is terribly bruised. "Ouch!" Amu lifts herself up a bit from the ground with her arm, "Unhh!" Amu raises her head and sees Ikuto's emotionless face. "Ikuto, is...is that you?" ["His eyes look strangely dark and empty"], she thought. He was in his Black Lynx form.
["It looks like he's being controlled. What did she do to him?"], Amu wonders.
As Suu floats away from Kirie's hand, Kirie hugs Ikuto: "Ikuto, finish her off so that no one can come in between us."
The stiff looking Ikuto reacts and turns toward Amu. As both of kirie's hands let go of him, Ikuto dashes up to Amu in a flash and raises his claws in attempt to cut lose and dig deep into Amu's chest.
Unable to get up and dodge in time, Amu closes her eyes. A teardrop trickles down her face. Ikuto begins to strike with his claws. But, as soon as his claws made contact with her flesh, Ikuto hesitates. A drop of blood drips onto the ground.
Kirie panics: "Why did you stop? I ordered you to slay her! Slay those who dare to come between us!"
Ikuto regains a bit of consciousness: "A...Amu? (cough-cough)" chokes Ikuto as he slowly pulls his claws away from Amu's chest.
From a distance, two people Chara transforms. Charanari: "Sky Jack!" and Charnari: "Beat Jumper!"
Two soccer balls are kicked directly at him, but both from opposite angles.
With instinct, Ikuto jumps up to avoid getting hit. The soccer balls made an explosion on impact and bounced off. Ikuto lands on both of his feet and one hand on the ground to support his landing.
Yaya comes running to Amu: "A...Are you alright, Aaammu-chiiiiii? (She faces Ikuto) I can't believe you of all people would hurt Amu-chii. Isn't Amu-chii important to you anymore?"
Ikuto's eyes slowly flourished back to normal: "What...was I doing?" All of a sudden, Ikuto screams in pain, "Unh, my...my head hurts! Gggaaa!" After a while, he feels still unsure whether if he is better or not), ["unh, must be after effects of Kirie's ability...what the! It...It's still hurting!"], thought Ikuto.
Yaya is freaked out: "Huh? Ar...Are you ok? I didn't mean to say...", she steps closer to Ikuto.
Amu wakes up and sees Yaya. She reaches forward and grabs her. "Wait! Don't touch him." she stands up on her legs, "Ikuto! What's happening?" asks Amu.
"Ikuto, it's me, Amu. Is your head in pain?" she tries to reach out for Ikuto.
With a swing, he slashes his arm out at Amu, "Don't come near me!"
Amu's fashionable clothes are ripped from her right shoulder down to the side of her waist. Ikuto's claws had cut deep down into her flesh, forcing her blood to drip out unceasingly.
"No Amu, don't go any closer." cries yaya with tears gushing out.
(Rain begins to fall)
Amu did not listen. With the courage and faith she never thought she had, Amu walked closer and closer. Her tears were dried and her heart stricken with grief. Her motions were terribly slow and weak, as she becomes even weaker from the blood loss. And the blood leaking down on the ground vanishes as it is washed away by the rain.
Limping as she held her injured shoulder, and her hair in a mess: "Ikuto, calm down, please. It's me Amu." she felt it harder to hear herself as the rain fell harder.
Ikuto's movement stops as if he had paused in time and space. Even closer she got, until she reached Ikuto. She laid her head on his chest and leaned her shoulder on his arm. Tears seem to be visible again, dripping with sadness from the bottom of Amu's heart.
Ikuto's right claw is held up, readying for the final strike.
To Be Continued...
