Neko-chan: OKAY PEOPLES! I normally add these kind of things at the end, but I just saw this and got kind of annoyed.

POSSIBLE SPOILER!!!! DO NOT READ IF YOU GET PISSED OFF WHEN PEOPLE TELL YOU WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN!!

Okay, so I read on this fansite that this would happen.

Ikuto gets a dog chara, and then tells Amu he loves her. I have two things that kinda make me mad about this.

1. Where the hell did this person get this information? Let me know so I can see for myself, cause it sounds like a load of bull to me.

2. I can live with Ikuto being a pirate since I had one of my reviewers tell me what it means. (Also, I had to agree. He is a smexy *as some of you put it,* pirate! XD), but Ikuto with dog ears does NOT fit! HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE A KITTY!!

SPOILER OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do not own Shugo Chara

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Chapter 9

Meet me in my Dreams

*flashback*

"Ugh... j-just stay here..." I said as I somehow manged to force myself to sleep. The only things I had thought about then was

1. Ask him to stay at least one more time

2. Sleep to keep from saying those words

Why didn't I remember three?

*end flashback*

~Amu's POV~

My eyes opened what seemed moments after falling a sleep.

I didn't really remember waking up, but nothing seemed out of place. Somewhere near I could hear a fountain's gurgle. The sturdy bench below me sat on a nicely made sidewalk, creaking with every movement I made, and across the road stood a lone little ice cream cart with no one guarding it.

"Hm?" I murmured as I stood up, making the bench squeak once more.

My feet guided me towards it. Thank god no cars were on the road today, because I wasn't really watching for any when I crossed the road.

"I remember this place, this is where Ikuto took me- wait, I mean where Tadase took me that one time. Ikuto just came and interrupted it..." Even as I spoke the words, I was frowning as I thought about it. "I was kind of happy, though.... even if he did do some perverted things and cause that awkward transformation with El (AN: To some of you, you may know her as Eru. In my copy of the manga at least, it's El, but with some anime subbings they put it as Eru)

"I also had an indirect kiss with Tadase from the ice cream.." My face turned a light pink... "Wait... Ikuto licked that ice cream too...." ... to mild red.... " SO DOES THAT MEAN THAT I KISSED IKUTO AS WELL?!" ... and finally, dark, strawberry red.

"Took you long enough. It's only been, like, more than 3 months since then and your just now realizing this?" Ran asked with a bored expression on her face.

"Hey! I just realized that I even lo- .. liked him in the first place! Before he was just some enemy!" I snapped back, careful not to say the big 'L' word.

"Was he?" Miki questioned. Out of nowhere, I was filled with doubts.

"Did I still like him back then?" My mouth wasn't forming the words. Instead, they seemed to echo all around me. "How did I feel about him? What about that time I let him stay with me when Easter was going after him... Did I like him then?"did say he liked me, but that was just a little joke... right?" The entire world seemed to spin around me.

"He

"Face it Amu. You love Ikuto! ~desu," Suu exclaimed from somewhere. I was too dizzy to tell where from.

"I.... No I don't.. I.. we're just friends!" I tried to lie back.

"You love him..." The spinning continued, but a black darkness began to creep in towards me, echoing the same three words over and over.

"You love Ikuto.... You love Ikuto...."

"OKAY!!!!! I KNOW!!!" I yelled angrily, tears stinging my eyes as I was forced to face what I had been avoiding all along..

"Say it." The voice changed, sounding just like his voice. Stupid darkness-thingy! It can even imitate his voice?!

"WHY!?!"

"Just say it..."

"FINE!!!! I LOVE IKUTO!!! I ADMIT IT!! I AM COMPLETELY AND MADLY IN LOVE WITH IKUTO!!!!!"

~Ikuto's POV~

I had been watching the entire dream.

"You love Ikuto..." My entire body froze. "You love Ikuto... You love Ikuto..."

"What?" I couldn't help but say. "Is Amu dreaming that someone is trying to possess her into believing she loves me?"

"OKAY!! I KNOW!!!!"

She... Wait... She's not being possessed.. She practically admitted it was true just now....

As much as I knew I should be happy, I just couldn't hold back this bit of anger nagging at me. That time when I confessed to her.... She blew it off, but she loved me as well? How much did that hurt her? (AN Realistically: none, but let's just say it caused her great anguish.)

Do I really tease her so much she even blew away her own feelings just to say that?

I couldn't believe it. "Say it," I spoke through her dream. For some reason, this seemed to maker her angry.

"WHY?!?""

"Just say it..." I barely managed to whisper out.

"FINE!!!" she exploded, "I ADMIT IT!! I AM COMPLETELY AND MADLY IN LOVE WITH IKUTO!!!!!!"

That was enough for me.

~Amu's POV~

What apparently was a dream, ended abruptly. My eyes flashed open to see Ikuto's face right in front of me, and that was when I realized that we were sharing yet another kiss.

He pulled away slowly with his eyes opening at the same sluggish pace. "Amu... I... I'm sorry... I know I shouldn't have been eavesdropping... Your dream.. I saw it.."

My body froze with shock. "You.. you saw my dream?" It came out as a high-pitched sqeak.

"Y-..Yeah... I'm sorry... Amu?"

Warm, salty water droplets were falling down my cheeks. "You.. you probably hate me now, don't you..." I sobbed with a smile, trying to hide the part of me that wanted to scream out in emotional pain.

"Amu! I would never hate you!" His tight hug surprised me as I stared past his shoulder at the ceiling. "Amu... I ... I love you, too!"

My arms wrapped around him. The tears continued to fall, but this time the feelings they carried were no longer of sadness and pain, but feelings of joy, happiness...

And love.

"Thank you...."

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Neko-chan: SOOOOO? How was it? Sorry if the ending was kind of like my 'An Amuto Story' (Not mad, but was a bit surprised when I saw the same title as one of the latley updated stories.

At first I was like, "WTF? I DIDN'T UPDATE THAT!" Then I read the author and was like, "oh...." lol.

Anyways, I hoped you liked this! This may be the last chapter depending on if I can come up with something to do with the next chapter.


Please Review! ^-^

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Btw, I made this in about 1 hour! So I apologize if you think it was short.

To those of you who do think it was too short, I just added another kiss + confessions! Give me a break!