I know i haven't updated in ages but I have a good excuse. I going to Berlin, Germany, on Monday for a school trip and we had to do some preparation before and I haven't had time. I've also begun on my the one-shot "Love Never Ends" and it has taken up mist of my time. I wasn't planing on updating before I leave but I thought that it might not be fair to you guys. You've waited so long. Oh, and guess what! Next month I'm going on another school trip... to Spain! Is my school great or what? Anyway, I will be back Thursday night so I won't be able to update again for another week. Sorry. But wish me luck in Germany.

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Chapter 9

It's been a few weeks since Ami came to live with her big sister and became a student at her high school. Word quickly spread that she was was related to Amu and Ami became really popular, specially with the guys. A lot of gossip had also spread around school about the Hinamori family. Most of them were just silly rumors, but not all of them. One day Amu heard some rumors that sounded a lot like the stuff she had written in her diary. Apparently Ami had been looking through her stuff. As you guessed, Ami got an ear full about this and was grounded for a few days. Their relationship wasn't the best right now, but it would soon pick up. Luckily, Amu managed to shake off the rumors as false but she locked her room for now on to keep any unwelcome quests away.

Amu was currently alone in the classroom and looked at the paintings that her students had just finished. She was supposed to put grades on each and every one of them. Most of them were pretty easy, but that wasn't necessarily a good thing. Right now she stared at a thing that looked like something between a flower and a three.

"Boo." a husky voice whispered in her ear while a pair of arms wrapped around her waist.

"How did you get in here without me noticing?" Amu wondered.

"I'm sneaky as a cat." Ikuto walked to stand beside her with one arm still around her waist. "Everything okay?"

"I'm trying to figure out what grade to put on this." Amu said as she examined the flower/tree thing again.

"Do you know who's it is?" Ikuto asked.

"No, but I know that who ever did this, did not do a very good job." Amu said.

"It's mine." Ikuto whispered in her ear. Amu turned to look at him with a horrified look on her face. She began to stutter for an apology, but Ikuto placed a ginger on her full lips to silence her. "Don't worry about it."

"I'm sorry. Please forgive me?" Amu pleaded. She traced small circles on his chest as she pressed her body against his. Seduction is a womans greatest weapon.

Ikuto chuckled. "I said don't worry about it, didn't I?"

"Really?" Amu asked surprised. She just insulted his work and he's laughing?

"Yeah. I don't have the teacher as a girlfriend to get good grades. Besides, if I flunk then you could be my private tutor." Ikuto said seductively and kissed her jaw.

Ikuto`s hands were back around her waist and his head rested on her shoulder. He stayed there for while and inhaled her sweet scent while Amu played with his hair and kissed his shoulder to his neck and back.

"Wait!" Ikuto pulled back to see what she had to say. "I'm your girlfriend?"

"Of course." Ikuto said with confidence but tightened his grip on her.

Amu pretended to be unsure and think about it just to tease him. He stood frozen in place, not breathing or blinking, while he waited for her answer. He looked so frightened by the silence. Like if there really was a way that she wouldn't want that. Deciding that he had suffered enough, she gave him a long loving kiss to prove him that she was his and only his. Ikuto`s breathing slowly returned to normal but he still refused to let go of her. He was so reviled that she was as serious about him as he was of her.

"Onee-chan!" a girly voice shouted from the other side of the door, making both of them jump back from each other. Amu came bursting in with a pile of books in her hands. She was a bit surprised to see Ikuto here too but gave it no further notice. "Onee-chan, I need help with my homework!"

Amu said good bye to Ikuto, in a student-teacher kind of way, and drove home with Ami on the passenger seat.

The minuet they stepped inside the apartment, Ami threw her books on the couch then grabbed the phone and began dialing a number.

"What are you doing?" Amu asked.

"Calling a friend." Ami answered and began talking on the phone with her friend like any teen idiot.

Amu had gotten tired of her sister's spoiled behavior. Ever since Ami was born, she had been treated like a star. Their mother would compliment everything she did and their father would always have the camera pointed at her. Well, she wasn't home anymore. Amu grabbed the phone away from her name and hung up.

"What do you think you're dong?" Ami asked enraged.

"I thought you needed help with your homework?" Amu said.

"Not now." Ami said and tried to call her friend back again but Amu took the phone from her again.

"I don't have time later. Either you want my help now or you can do it yourself later?" Amu crossed her arms over her chest with the phone still in her hand.

"But I have a date in 10 minuets. Can't you help me later? Pretty please?" Ami said in a sweet voice.

"That might work on the brainless idiots you go out with every night but you better think twice before you try to pull that stuff with me." Amu said in a harsh voice.

These two sisters had been fighting every single day and it looked like both of them had finally had enough. Ami ran out of the apartment and Amu didn't follow her.

To be continued....

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Don't worry! The chapters will get better once I have more time to write them. You will never guess what will happen. -evil grin-