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Chapter 10: The End of the Month
Amu sighed, using one of her arms to wipe off some sweat off her forehead from the damn summer heat.
"Do you get it yet, idiot?" The one and only bored looking Ikuto asked.
"Can't you tutor me tomorrow?" Amu asked lazily. "This is too hard."
"You idiot! How could you not get this?!" Ikuto ignored Amu's question. "And maybe you'll get it if you ACTUALLY listen for once?!"
"Did you say something?" Amu asked, turning back to Ikuto with a fan in her hand. She started using it to fan her face.
Ikuto twitched. "You are going to get this by the end of to-No, this hour! Finals are coming up! If you don't pass, then something worse will happen..I won't get that extra point for my resume!"
"Oh, stop being such a nerd…" Amu started rolling on the ground over her stomach to help cool down. "College won't come until a few years."
"Actually, two. And stop lying around, you lazyass!" Ikuto exclaimed at the still rolling Amu.
"Yeah, yeah…" Amu got up but was still fanning herself. "I can't concentrate with all this heat, anyways."
"Don't you have an air conditioner?!"
"Nope."
"If you listen and actually get this right in the next five minutes, I'll buy you a manga book." Ikuto bribed her. Well, in a way it was bribing.
Amu's ears shot up. "Really? Any volume?"
"Yeah, and speaking of manga, I need to borrow some." Ikuto put his fingers through his blue strands. "I should probably read some for my new job."
"Oh, seriously?!" Amu stood up. "Well…hehe, pick any you like!" Amu swayed her hands in front of a book shelf, which was packed with manga books.
"Just give me the ones you think are more popular." Ikuto simply waved his hand. "Or something short and easy."
"Manga is never short and easy." Amu told him. "Manga is a way of life!"
"Yeah, just hurry up so we can finish this lesson."
"Hmm…" Amu looked through her book shelf. She picked out the first Naruto volume. Of course he needed to know Naruto. "Have you ever heard of Naruto?"
"Guess I've heard of it, never watched it though." Ikuto stretched across Amu's floor.
"What? You must really not have a life then…" Amu threw him the volume.
"Me?! I'm not the one who watched and reads anime and manga twenty four seven!"
"I'm not the one who's never watched Naruto!"
Ikuto knew for a fact more than half the school have never even seen Naruto as well. "Just hurry, pick another one."
"Hmm, I'll just lend you like 10 Naruto volumes." Amu stacked all the volumes and slammed the volumes in front of him.
"What the hell? How many volumes does this manga have?!" Ikuto stared at all the books in horror.
"Just a few…." Amu sat back down. "Return those by..tomorrow?"
"Just return it." Amu adjusted her bunny hat. "Now…"
"We move onto learning again." Ikuto sighed, focusing back onto Amu's workbook.
After a few hours of tutoring…..
"Wow, you're actually getting it." Ikuto looked through Amu's answers.
"What?! I am pro at this algebra!"
"It's pre-calculus."
"Same thing!" Amu got up and stretched. "Well that means we're done for the day right?"
"Guess so." Ikuto closed the workbook.
"So…do I still get that manga book?" Amu asked him after stretching.
"Yeah right." Ikuto chuckled. "You got tricked, ba-ka."
"You liar!" Amu shouted at him. "Lying people these days..."
"Well, make sure to keep studying a bit more." Ikuto got up.
"Why?" Amu asked, clueless.
"How could you forget?! Finals are next week." Ikuto yelled at the idiot. "And today's already Friday."
"Hmm, that means I have to work tomorrow…" Amu ignored the finals part.
"That's not the point! The point is that you have finals in three days!" Ikuto yelled at her once again. He didn't know how stupid a person could get.
"Yeah, yeah…" Amu waved her hand from side to side. "Don't worry, I'll study."
"If you don't ace your finals, I'll kill you." Ikuto glared at Amu to make sure she knew he was serious.
"I-I know what I'm d-doing!" Amu was sort of intimidated by his glare.
"Good, see you tomorrow." Ikuto walked out her room.
"Huh? You're tutoring me tomorrow too?" Amu asked dumbfounded.
"You idiot." Ikuto karate-chopped her head. "I was talking about work."
"Oh, yeah…" Amu mumbled to herself while rubbind her head. That meant she was going to see Tadase-kun…..but sadly, not work with him…
"Hey, that hurt!" Amu turned to Ikuto who had already left.
"He's fast…" Amu muttered through her teeth.
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Ikuto was lying on his bed before his phone suddenly rang.
"Hello?" He asked through his cell phone.
"Ikuto, did you call me?" It was Utau.
"I needed to tell you that after this weekend, we'll have enough money to-" Ikuto started but Utau finished it for him.
"To cure mom?!" Utau asked with excitement. But with a hint of seriousness as well.
"Yeah." Ikuto replied.
"But what about Easter…?" Utau asked worriedly. "Isn't the debt due at the end of the month?"
"Guess the debt will have to wait." Ikuto answered.
"But won't they do something to us?" Utau was still worried.
"They can't, remember?" Ikuto was referring to how Easter wasn't allowed to hurt the whole Tsukyomi family. A while back, a contract was found of Easter not being able to physically hurt the Tsukyomi family. The contract was signed by Gozen and Ikuto and Utau's father. It came as a shock to the whole family, but it made Ikuto realize his father knew exactly what he was doing.
His father knew about the debt when leaving, so he had a contract prepared for his family.
"What about the people around us?" Utau still wasn't satisfied with Ikuto's words.
"If you're still worried about Kukai then-" Ikuto smirked as he said this.
"I'm not talking about Kukai!" Utau blurted out. He could tell she was blushing. "I've been noticing you've been hanging around…her lately."
"Hm? Amu?" Ikuto couldn't help but grin a little as he said her name. It was this reflex he had for some reason.
"Yes." Utau had regained her composure. "I have a feeling Easter's onto her."
"I wouldn't even care if they did." Ikuto said.
"Of course you would! I've been watching you two very closely…." Utau shouted through the phone. "And when Easter finds ou-"
Ikuto hung up on Utau. His sister could really be annoying sometimes.
He got up from his bed and grabbed his violin.
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"Damn…it…" Amu couldn't concentrate on studying when the temperature was as hot as hell in her house. She wiped some more sweat off her forehead.
Ami was out with her friends as usual, Mama was cooking something downstairs, and Papa..well she had no idea where Papa was.
Amu decided to take a walk to the park or something. She knew for a fact that outside was much cooler than inside her house. The sun had long ago set and a breeze was blowing through the summer night.
Amu got up from her chair and headed downstairs, not bothering to throw on a jacket. The woods right next to her house seemed boring at this point, so she decided to head to the park instead.
"I'm gonna go cool off." Amu hollered to Mama as she headed out.
Once Amu stepped outside a cool breeze blew the wind against her sweaty forehead. Amu felt a giddy sensation go through her. Amu grinned, letting the wind surround her even more as she skipped a bit to the park.
Amu looked up at the sky. There were few stars, but the moon was shining fully tonight. She thought this was the best part of summer. When that hot summer heat was just washed off the sky as night came, leaving few traces like the smell of summer.
Amu hummed softly to herself, walking to the park. As the humming grew louder, she began to sing softly. The more she sang, the louder her voice became.
"Mi-mi-mirakuru Mikurunrun Mi-mi-mirakuru Mikurunrun….." Amu started singing Koi no Mikuru Densetsu from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
She sang swinging her head from side to side with her eyes closed until she heard….a violin?
Amu opened her eyes and stopped singing. Somebody was playing the violin. Amu heard a sad melody coming from deeper into the park. A sad, yet gentle tune…
Amu traced the sound, and finally found the source playing the violin under the moonlit sky. The moon was in full view as the person kept playing the violin.
Amu widened her eyes…was that…Ikuto?
Amu walked closer to the person. It was Ikuto! She kept walking closer and closer.
Crack!
Amu widened her eyes and realized she stepped on a twig.
Ikuto immediately stopped playing and opened his eyes to face Amu. "Now I have my own personal stocker?" He raised his eyebrows.
"W-What?! I-I was just t-taking a walk!" Amu turned red. It was kind of weird to see Ikuto at the park unexpectedly. She did seem like a stocker….
"And following me?" Ikuto smirked, setting his violin in his violin case. "You must really be obsessed with me."
"N-No it's just a c-coincidence!" Amu crossed her arms, still blushing.
"Mhm…" Ikuto mumbled as he closed his violin case.
"You're not gonna play anymore?" Amu asked with widened eyes, uncrossing her arms.
"Guess not." Ikuto slung the violin over his shoulder.
"But why not?"
"Because you're here."
"Tch! Just keep playing, you did when you didn't know I was-"
"Following me?" Ikuto turned to face Amu while smirking, leaning in.
"I-I told y-you! I wasn't f-following y-you!" Amu leaned back, her cheeks bright red with her heart thumping in her chest. She bit her lip.
Ikuto leaned in until his eyes were right in front Amu's. It was as if he was scanning her eyes. Amu meekly looked back into his midnight blue orbs.
"It seems like you're all red, Amu." Ikuto looked straight into Amu's golden eyes. He noticed how gigantic they were.
"I-I'm not r-red!" Amu yelled with an ever redder face. She tried her hardest not to blush, but it seemed impossible right now. Even her heart wouldn't stop beating so quickly.
"I already know you're not good at lying, idiot." Ikuto smirked as he headed the opposite direction of Amu.
"Wait, you're really going to stop playing?"Amu tried her best to keep her normal composure.
"There's no reason for me to keep playing, anyways." Ikuto kept walking.
"The sound," Amu told him as Ikuto stopped in his tracks, "of your violin was sad, but it gave out a gentle tune. Almost like you were crying out through your violin silently."
Ikuto turned to Amu suddenly. He could see Amu giving a gentle and knowing smile to him as he widened his eyes.
"Just like from that one anime character that plays the violin in Flowers Over Boys!" Amu said, sparkles around her with her pointer finger up.
Ikuto stopped widening his eyes immediately. "You idiot…stop comparing everything to anime."
"Why not? Like I said, anime is a way of life!" Amu exclaimed. "Wait, it's not a way of life, anime is life!"
But Ikuto had already disappeared into the night, not wanting to hear another thing about anime.
"Eh? Where'd he go?"The sparkles around Amu disappeared and she looked around. "He always disappears…"
"Oh well!" Amu decided she had enough air. "Time to go back!"
Amu hummed her way back to her house. For some reason after seeing Ikuto, Amu felt like studying more. That resume thing seemed really important to him for some reason. She'll try to ace it as best as she could for him! Oh, and for the sake of not having to repeat the tenth grade!
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"Oh, Rima where do I put these boxes?" Amu turned her head toward Rima.
"Can't you see I'm busy?" Rima was working at the cosplay café right now. "Ask Kukai or something."
"Crappy manager…" Amu muttered through her teeth while carrying the box full of newly shipped Full Metal Panic figures.
"Kukai! Where do I put these?" Amu was about to drop the heavy box soon.
"Hold on…" Kukai was looking through a box of key chains, trying to organize them.
"TELL ME WHERE I PUT THESE DAMN BOXES ALREADY YOU F-" Amu had just about lost it with this heavy box, not to mention she was sweating like hell from the heat and lack of air condition.
"Oh, while carrying those, carry these for me too." Ikuto walked by a dropped another box and Amu's already heavy stack.
Amu glared at Ikuto, she would've started screaming at him if it weren't the heavy boxes dragging her energy away.
"I can't take it anymore!" Amu couldn't handle all the weight on her hands and dropped the box.
Ikuto caught the box before it landed on the ground easily with one hand. "You had trouble carrying these? Stupidity, flat chest, no strength, anger man-"
"SHUT UP!" Amu jumped on the boxes Ikuto was carrying with one hand to add more weight to it. Ikuto widened his eyes and dropped the box, all of the figures and posters falling out of the boxes.
"You idiot!" Ikuto rubbed his head. "Are you trying to kill me by using your fat?"
"I'm not even fat!" Amu yelled at him, turning red.
"Oh yes, another bad characteristic about you, how you're a fatty." Ikuto said, cleaning up the boxes.
Amu didn't help him. "You know, it wouldn't kill you to give me at least one compliment?!" She crossed her arms with a red face.
"Actually it would." Ikuto smirked after he got up with the boxes in his hands.
Amu gritted her teeth while glaring at him. "You…"
"Okay, you know what? Time to switch, you guys work at the café." Rima didn't like how the tension between the two were driving customers away.
"Fine with me!" Amu turned to the café.
Ikuto rolled his eyes while following behind Amu.
"H-Hey Tadase-kun! So what's the cosplay theme today?" Amu smiled at him while blushing faintly.
"Are you an idiot? You don't need to ask, just look at what he's wearing." Ikuto placed a hand on Amu's hair.
"I-I know that!" Amu glared at Ikuto for entering her conversation with Tadase-kun. He just simply looked away.
"Well, Hinamori-san, today the theme is Vampire Knight." Tadase was wearing the Night Class uniform.
"Oh, so you're Kaname?" Amu asked. Amu thought the uniform gleamed on him.
"Yeah, but my shift's over so I have to go change now. Rima already changed out of her Yuki Day Class uniform so you can change into Yuki right now." Tadase pointed to the uniform that was messily thrown onto a chair. Rima was sure careless…
"Thanks, Tadase-kun." Amu took the cosplay and walked into the storage room. Like hell she'd risk changing in the kitchen again.
After changing, Amu went to take orders from many people. Ikuto did most of the serving and got very large tips, from girls mostly. Of course Ikuto teased Amu on how she never got any tips, and she of course got mad and started yelling at him.
"Well guess I'll see you tomorrow." Ikuto said, walking out of the café.
"Mhmm." Amu was busy reading a manga book that was on sale in the anime shop.
"You're not gonna just buy it?" Ikuto raised an eyebrow at Amu, walking towards her.
"Nah…I'm saving up for a new figure." Amu said, eyes still fixed on the manga book. Ikuto took the manga book from above with his hands.
"H-Hey, I was reading that!" Amu turned to Ikuto quickly to retrieve her precious manga book.
Ikuto read the title. Kamichama Karin Chu. Volume 5.
"Are you listening to me?!" Amu turned red, not being able to reach the manga book Ikuto had over her head.
"I'll buy it….for you." Ikuto said, looking at Amu.
"Heh? Seriously?!" Amu asked him, unconsciously leaning into him.
For once, Ikuto backed away a little. "Sure.." Her face leaning into his…it felt different then when he did it to her.
"Oh," That reminded Ikuto. "Here's the volumes you lent me." Ikuto handed Amu a paper bag filled with the manga books Amu lent him.
"What?! If you didn't want to read them you co-"
"I finished them." Ikuto told her.
"W-What? All of them?" Amu asked, widening her eyes.
"Yeah. And I still don't know why you worship this stuff." As Amu took the bag Ikuto opened up the cash register himself and placed a twenty dollar bill in there, taking the right amount of change without having to calculate it on the register.
"Wait, why are you buying the book for me?" Amu asked him, still taking the Kamichama Karin Chu manga book.
"I told you I'd buy one for you, right?" Ikuto gave a smirk to her.
"W-Well, yeah…B-But, I didn't think you'd really do it…" Amu said, placing her new manga book in the bag Ikuto gave her.
"Whatever, just felt like it." Ikuto rubbed one of his eyes with his hand. "Later." And he left.
Hmm, Amu thought Ikuto seemed less perverted today. And less playful and that kind of stuff. Was it because he stayed up late reading all those mangas….?
He really must be dedicated to this job…, Amu thought.
"Oh, Hinamori-san? You're still here?" Amu whipped her head around to see Tadase-kun.
"Y-Yeah!" Tadase sort of scared Amu a little. It felt sort of weird, just her and Tadase-kun, alone…
"Do you need a ride?" Tadase asked her.
"Sure!" Amu blushed while smiling at him.
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"Remember, the finals will last for three days, starting today. The last day for the finals is the last day of summer school. We will mail in your grade as well as if you're going to pass or not. No cheating, no getting up, no talking, no looking up, no eating, no drinking, no whispering, no noises at all." The teacher straightened her collared shirt. "You guys got that?!"
"Hai!" Everybody exclaimed in unison.
"Make any noise and I rip your exam in half." A few people shivered. The teacher glared at each student.
Why do I have the feeling she's only glaring at me…=.=', Amu thought.
"Begin!" The teacher commanded.
Amu could do this…she stayed up the whole night studying. Amu flipped to the first page. What the hell is all this?! Amu couldn't remember a single thing. She closed her eyes and concentrated. Ok….what was it that Ikuto taught her that other week?
Now she remembered! Amu quickly scribbled down the answer. This is easy…I just have to get through these three days, and it'll be all over!
Many hours later….
"Time is up, class! Turn in your papers to the front!" The teacher was relieved to not hear anything the whole few hours during testing.
Amu sighed a breath of relief. It was surprisingly pretty easy. Other than a few hard questions, Amu had pretty much aced it. She needed to thank Ikuto later. She looked around the classroom. Ikuto had already left. The only other person that was gone was Utau.
Where did that idiot go?! Amu sighed. He probably wasn't going to tutor her anymore. But she wondered why he was in such a hurry to leave….
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"So she'll be ok?" Utau asked the doctor.
"Fortunately, yes. All we need to do is the surgery, which will be held in a few days. In a few weeks, she'll be able to walk again." The doctor smiled at Utau.
Utau gave out a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness." She looked through the window at her sick mother on the hospital bed.
"I'm so glad Ikuto!" Utau turned to Ikuto and smiled happily.
"Me too." Ikuto replied back.
"But, now that I think about it, the deadline for Easter was today..wasn't it?" Utau had the same worried expression across her face again.
"And?" Ikuto had a careless expression written across her face.
"Do you think they'll do anything to us?" Utau asked him.
"No. We'll pay them back later, Utau. Stop worrying." Ikuto assured Utau. He was almost sure there was no evidence of his relationship with Amu. Their relationship wasn't even that close…right?
"I know, it's just that…." Utau muttered to herself.
"Oh, we need you to sign some paperwork for us." The doctor came in the room.
"Sure." Ikuto followed the doctor behind. Utau meekly followed behind Ikuto.
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"Gozen. I am here to report that the Tsukiyomi's have used their money for their mother's health."
"Well, it was to be suspected from this kind of kid." Gozen glared at a picture of Ikuto on his desk.
"What are your orders, sir?"
Gozen smirked. "Kidnap."
"Right away, sir." And the man rushed off.
"Ikuto, I will teach you not to ignore your duties. You will pay back the debt." Gozen used a nearby envelope opener to stab his picture.
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It's been a while since Amu skated slowly through the forest. Every time she would have to chase after Ikuto who would always steal her skateboard.
Ikuto…she wondered if she'll ever see him after summer school. Other then work, of course. Just thinking about Ikuto made Amu blush. She frowned. Why did she always blush around him?! I mean, he always pisses her off! And the way he's really perverted and stuff I just…
She sort of liked it. Which was the most embarrassing thing to admit. Even if it wasn't out loud. Her heart just always seemed to pound ten times faster whenever she was near him.
Was this how it felt to fall in love? It was never in really of the animes she's watched. Or was it? Amu could never compare her relationship to Ikuto anyways…
Amu sighed out loud. "I need to stop thinking about Ikuto."
Amu then heard a nearby bush shake. She turned her head around, alarmed. It was no one, right? She heard it again.
Amu stopped skating. She looked around once more. Was someone here? What if it was…a rapist?! Ok, she had to stop thinking weird thoughts. Was it…Ikuto? Yeah, right…
She saw a shadow appear behind her. Amu gasped, whirling around with widened her eyes.
A man in a black suit dosed her with some kind of medicine right away. Amu slowly closed her eyes, before falling onto the ground. The man carried Amu to a black car, driving to the Easter building.
"Gozen, we have the girl."
"Good, now to deliver the good news." Gozen hung up and awaited this Hinamori Amu girl's arrival.
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"If you're asking for the debt, we don't have the money. Maybe next year." Ikuto smirked through the phone. Clueless to Gozen's plan.
"Actually, you're going to give me the money you owe Easter. And you're going to wipe that smirk I know you have on your face." Gozen informed Ikuto.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Ikuto's voice was now serious.
"Well let me just show you. Sometimes pictures speak for themselves." Ikuto could hear Gozen smirking on the other line.
"Wh-" Ikuto started but Gozen had already hung up.
His phone vibrated. He was given a text from a private caller.
Ikuto cautiously opened up the picture Gozen had sent him. And widened his eyes.
Gozen sent him a picture of a girl with her eyes closed, tied to a chair with chains. And that girl was Amu.
"Bastard…" Ikuto gritted his teeth while dashing to the Easter building. He had no clue what he was going to do. He wasn't paying the debt, that was for sure. But he wasn't going to leave Amu there as well.
"Damn, I don't tutor her for one day and she gets herself kidnapped…." Ikuto sped up to the bus station and ran inside.
Why did he have to fall for such an idiot?
Yesssire! Here is the moment everybody's been waiting for, when Amu gets kidnapped! Which is kind of ironic in a sad way….Yup, hope you enjoyed the chappy! Please review!