YES! I managed to get this done on time! Hooray! Anyway, this chapter is to make up for the long break I had from you guys. Are you ready?

seshomaru94: I havent watched Inuyasha but I might start it. I hope that it's really good like I heard!

OctoberSnow98: I haven't watched Inuyasha as I said before but I loved all the others especially Kekkaishi!

XAmuto-Lover: I've only watched Shugo Chara and Lucky Star and I wanna know, is Lilpri and Kaichou Wa Maid good animes? Because if they are, I'll watch them!

climmerbear: You asked for more Amuto-ness, you got it, kay, friend?

dribnevar: Well, I watched Shugo Chara (no duh) and I LOVED Ouran and I did watch a little Fruits Basket here and there but not all of it and I thought it was pretty good.

aznpride16xx: WHY ARE YOU READIN' AT DAMN MIDNIGHT?

alchemistlover14 : You'll see what happens in this chapter. And I like your name. It reminds me of MY favorite anime, Fullmetal Alchemist.

Anyway, now that that is over, disclaimer!

Disclaimer: -tilts head to side- Ugh.


Chapter 8~


Amu stared shocked at Utau. "Back to Seiyo?"

Utau nodded.

"No! I can't go back, everyone knows that I'm a Daughter and they all hate me!"

Utau put her hands on hips and said, "Maybe if someone hadn't put up that big poster than no one would hate you."

"Well who did it?" Amu asked, falling back to sit on the couch. "I've ruled out everyone I know."

"I knew it…" came a small voice. "I had a feeling that you were a Daughter."

Everyone turned to see Neko, her eyes narrowed as she stared down at her shoes. "Neko, it's not what you think," Amu reassured.

"It's not? Are you sure? From what I just heard, it sounds like you were pretty confident when you said that. Hiding a secret so big from your best friends, from your family. Is that the way to keep you safe? Koneko-nee, we're leaving."

"What? Why?" Koneko asked. She stuck her head out of the fridge. "I'm eating, Neks."

"I don't care. Come on. I'll see you uh, later, Amu-sempai. Uh, good luck with the Seiyo return!" She smiled nervously as she and Koneko walked out the door, Koneko yelling out, "Bye-bye!"

"That was the dumbest thing I have ever done in my life," Amu muttered. "I even knew she was there."

"That doesn't matter now. We need to find a way to get this Witch back to Seiyo," Utau said.

"Maybe, I could sneak in." Amu looked up at Utau and Ikuto sat down on the couch next to her. "Y'know? Just hop through a window. But what room barely gets inspected?"

Ikuto, with his arms stretched across the back of the couch, said, "My room. Not the whole dorm room, but my room because they know that my room is always neat."

"Sure it is," Amu told him sarcastically.

"Okay, maybe it wasn't clean that day, but it usually is."

Amu shrugged. "I have no problem staying in-!" she stopped. Ikuto's room…that'll actually be a big problem.

"Let me guess, my brother is too much of a pervert and you don't want to stay with him," Utau said, giving the 'I'm-right-so-just-admit-it' stare.

She chuckled and scratched her head. "Sometimes I get the feeling you're the one who can read minds, not me."

Utau gasped loudly. "You can read minds? What am I thinking?" she closed her eyes.

The first thing that popped into Amu's head was Utau singing a song in front of…Kukai? She just smiled nervously and said, "Uh, singing in front of Kukai-kun?"

Utau squealed loudly. "Man, I love this girl! I am definantly sneeking you back in!" she said as she hugged Amu tightly.

"Okay, but how do I get in?"

"We'll tell you that, tonight," Utau said with a wink.


"When I thought you guys had a brilliant plan," Amu began, taking low deep breaths. "I never knew it would mean that I have to walk in a sewer!"

This was true. Amu was walking ankle deep in sewage, it hitting her socks like a wave. The smell was rotten, it made her nose and eyes burn. It was dark; the only source of light was the flashlight. What's worse, Ikuto was walking with her, in front of her, holding the flashlight. What a fun day it was.

"What's the problem?" Ikuto asked, looking over his shoulder.

"Oh, I don't know. Maybe, my shoes and socks are covered with sludge. Maybe you and Utau pushed me in here. Maybe I'm stuck with a pervert and no way out!"

"You're loud."

"You're annoying."

"Yeah, you just love me inside."

Amu scoffed. "Yeah, inside my foot. This day is going just plain perfectly. You kiss me, we go on a fuckin' nightmare drive, I almost get squeezed to death by your younger sister, I almost loose a best friend, and I'm stuck in a giant pipe with you. What else can go wrong?"

Ikuto shrugged and said, "You can trip and fall in sludge."

"You're not helping this situation, you know that?"

He shrugged again. "I know."

Amu just continued to growl to herself. She stopped in her tracks when Ikuto turned around and leaned in close to her face. With the hand not holding the flashlight, he took a hold of the crystal necklace clapsed around the pinkette's neck. He began moving it back and forth between his index and middle fingers, watching it glow. "Your attitiude isn't helping this situation," he said slowly and lightly brushed his lips against her's. She made no attempt to push him away; she was too tired and too pissed.

But she noticed that every time that he was near her, her heart would just race and her face would turn red. She would become too flustered to say anything correctly, and her stuttering never helped during the time. She felt like she was in the right place, though, like she never wanted to be anywhere else.

Amu wasn't going to admit it outloud. She cursed herself to the deep, dark, depths of hell because of this. Somehow, during this whole week at her new school, Amu had already fallen for Tsukiyomi Ikuto: the school heart throb, the playboy, the popular kid.

And it just felt damn right.


Amu crawled her way out of the sewer pipe, not noticing her surroundings and quickly fell into the creek. She recognized this place; she was already on school grounds, close to the boy's dorm. She moved over a bit so Ikuto could land in it, and he shut off the light. He extended his hand out to Amu, who took it and stared at the shadowed building in front of them. Her hand never left Ikuto's, and if someone had seen them, they would really mistake them for a couple.

Ikuto found his way to his window, and opened it up. He crouched down and told Amu quietly, "Climb on my shoulders and get in, I'll be right behind you."

She nodded, and balanced her foot on his shoulder. Standing completly, she hooked her hands on the windowsill and hoisted herself up and through the window. She landed on the ground hard, and she moved to the bed and kicked off her shoes. She let her head hit the pillow. She was tired. No, that was an understatment; she was exhausted.

She didn't know what hit her, but walking through a cylinder pipe with Ikuto had just worn her out to the bone. Her eyelids were falling over her eyes, and she just wanted to curl up and go to sleep. She heard a soft thump and the sound of a window closing. She then heard the velvet like voice, "What are you doing on my bed?"

She turned around, one hand behind her head and one over her stomach. "Goin' ta sleep," she said groggily, barely able to focus her eyesight on Ikuto.

Amu heard his soft chuckling. "Well, I'll leave you to that. I'll let you borrow some clothes."

The door opened and closed, and Ikuto was out of the room. Amu slowly sat up and rubbed her eyes, then yawned. The lack of sleep was really getting to her. The door opened again, and Ikuto walked in, empty handed. He turned to his drawers and started pulling out clothes. He tossed them to Amu, who caught them, surprised. "Just borrow my stuff for now. Kukai must've hid Utau's stuff because I can't find it. Change in the bathroom over there," he said as he pointed to a door in the back of the room.

The pinkette slowly got up and walked in, closing the door behind her and turning on the lights. Just to be on the safe side, she locked the door. Taking her shirt off, she slipped on the big tee Ikuto had given her. It looked perfect as a nightgown, but Amu wouldn't wear it like that. She found the zipper on the side of her skirt and un-zipped it. It fell to the floor, and she stepped out of the puddle of clothing. She took a hold of what Ikuto wanted her to wear. She just chuckled and slipped them on.

She picked up her clothes and unlocked the door, opened it and turned off the lights. She stepped away from the bathroom. Slender arms encircled her and she almost dropped her clothes. "I have to say," a voice said in her ear. "You look very sexy in my clothes."

Amu smiled. She couldn't help the blush that had arisen to her cheeks. "It wasn't my idea to wear your boxers, Ikuto."

He just buried his face in her hair. "For some reason you're turning me on," he muttered, inhaling her strawberry scent.

"For some reason you're turning me off," Amu said, annoyed. She pulled away from Ikuto's arms and turned around. "Where can I put my clothes?"

Ikuto pointed to a random chair and told her, "There."

She placed them there and began taking the hair ties out of her hair. She was wearing her hair up today, in pigtails. It was a little uncomfortable, but it had to do, seeing as she had walked in sewage just minutes ago. Her hair fell down her shoulders and she lifted both legs up to take off her socks.

Ikuto thought he had just walked into heaven. Amu was simply stunning, her pink hair and her slender legs. He had to keep himself under control if he didn't want to just jump on her and started kissing her like a maniac.

Amu placed the socks on top of her clothes and stretched, before walking to the bed and sitting down. Ikuto sat down on the other side, and wrapped his arms around her again. "I have dreams about you, you know?" he told her quietly. "Dreams that I can't forget. I don't know. Maybe, something is just making me act like this. Who knows, maybe, I've fallen in love."

"In the sewer, you remember when you kissed me?" Amu began, her face turning red.

Ikuto nodded.

"Do you want to know why I never pushed you away or pulled away myself?"

"Why?"

Amu's face turned crimson. Come on, Amu. Confess! Remember, Hinamori's are strong-ass-kicking people! "It was because I-I actually l-liked it."

Ikuto's grip around her tightened. "Really?"

Amu only nodded.

"Then, you wouldn't mind if I did this?" Ikuto said and he turned her head and placed his lips on her's.

The kiss was pure bliss to both of them. It was sweet and innocient, because they didn't want to take it any further. But it felt like it lasted a lifetime. Neither of them wanted this feeling to end, not until they both died.

They broke apart, and began breathing heavily. Ikuto pulled the covers away and allowed Amu to slide in. he covered the both of them, and felt Amu move closer to him. He wrapped his arms around and kissed her forehead tenderly. "Goodnight, little strawberry."

And soon, they both fell asleep.

Ah, the joys of love! They never confess yet, just so you know!

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