School sucks. My teacher makes everything way more stressful than it needs to be, and my lack of interest in the class she teaches doesn't help much either.
ANYWAYS, I've started making vectors on Photoshop, and it is so much fun ! Even though I haven't even finished one yet… ah well. When I finish it, I'll be sure to upload it somewhere. Probably on my TUMBLR or DeviantArt or something…
Added another choice to the poll on my profile page :) Be sure to vote if you haven't already. Personally, I like the title of it the most. "Summer Butterflies". Pretty catchy :D But the actually story… I'm not so sure ._.
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miserae: Yepp.
Soccerluver04: ... I haven't said anything about deleting it in a while though... I love amutoness...ness :D
Snowrosex3: lol whatever happened to you saying that you won't review anymore? :) This story's practically AU, of course Amu's going to be OOC once in a while. But maybe I was daydreaming a bit...
Snowiisan: Thank you :D
vampire-fetish15: I don't even take chemistry :) Tiny little junior high student ftw.
Demon Cello Lilin: O_O OMG. I LOVEEEEE 2NE1. I especially love Bom and Dara, the two that get the least spotlight. CL's a bit overrated, and Minji makes me look so unaccomplished since she's so young. I'm like, two years younger than her, and look what I've done so far with my life. It's shameful.
.'.Sympho.'.: I'm not that big of a fan of running. I'm one of those people who sprints facking fast for the first ten seconds and then becomes facking slow x)
Angel of Randomnosity: The only times when I actually bother to log in are when I upload a new chapter. Other than that I mostly just go anonymous. I read your story, left a review too x3
darkjewl: Eh, I don't really trust limewire :\ Gave me a couple of trojans last time I tried it. But I PMed you my email, so I shall be awaiting that song ;D
shakugan_charaXD: I know right? D: Pucchi pucchi? What type of crap is that?!
ArtGrrl-Sunna Bluecat: My school is known for it's mass Asianness, our high school even made it onto the news once because of it.
Miruku-chii: Of course I'll update :O
liledormouse: *Translation--* "This chapter was way too horrible for me to compliment on in any way, so I'll just chat with you about your author's notes instead." jkjk! But that chapter was pretty bad. Well, I get a C- in PE xD Dance is just another unit we have to cover, I'll be out and done with that hellhole by Thanksgiving break.
A-shadow-of-a-doubt: I don't like Dia. But Yukari and Nikaidou really need to get back together D: They're one of my most favorite couples.
Myansk: Oh really? :) I felt the whole chapter was rushed.
LaharlCrazy1120: Oh yes it was.
iipinkex3: Thank you :D
cookie0monsta: *watches Amu blow up* o___o uh oh...
xhappily-randomx: ... Would you like to bet on that? :D 'Cuz I'm pretty sure that that's one bet that I'd win hands down.
Dark Midnight Dream: No for us not only do you have to "show effort", but you also have to do everything "perfectly and professionally." When they told me that, I was all WTF, since those two are complete opposites.
ClouD: Oh, but I have no life :)
Ruiko: Most of the time I'm too lazy to log in also :D
Maroon Angel of Darkness: Ehehhe :)
KremZen: HIGH FIVE! :D PE fail ftw~
Kuro Neko no Serenade: ..."Hannah Montana"? I wouldn't really know, considering I've never watched a full episode of that in my whole life. But I can kind of see what you were saying, and I swear to god my idea did not come from there. As I pointed out in the first chapter, I got the idea from a Korean phone commercial... which had nothing to do with Hannah Montana, just for the record. Well actually, I guess the reason this story isn't as good as the others is because 1.) I had more time during the other stories, and 2.) I'm not really "loving" this story. I kind of just want to finish this and be done with it :\ Oh, and happy early birthday!
Joker4ever: Too late :) Failed.
Shokara N' Strawberries: Thank you x)
MangaFanXD: Eh... I don't like cotton candy :\ Guess I'm just not that big of fan of that fluffy feeling of it. The anime sucks ass. The manga is a tiny bit better, but until Ikuto comes back I'm going to say that it sucks as well.
mombofamily: ... I drink three cups of milk a day, just finished one a few moments ago. It doesn't help you grow taller. It makes your chest bigger though :) Even though, for me, that's not really working out either...
XSaluri-ChanX: Thank you!
Monster Mads: Ahahahah; I do the same thing. Bed-time's 12:30 AM, I stay up until 2AM on my iTouch x)
MysteryPearl: Aw D: Hope it get's fixed !
candyland21: Ew. I hate miles :\
xMirrorImagex: Hm... that's pretty close :)
mysteriousblackcat: Well, because for "For His Sake", I focused mainly on getting out one chapter per day. I wanted to get the whole thing done before my big vacation, which I didn't succeed in ._. But anyways, I was already busy with Spanish classes, Piano competitions, and fanfiction, so it was already hard for me to finish writing the actual chapter, let alone reply to reviews and personalize my author's notes.
Hinazuki Miu: 20 Points for me :)
Steph: ... I have no idea o-o
TsukiyoimAlikutoMissaWatusi: I is missing my airport scene D:
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ily1910: O_O Must get cookie...
WolfCheeto: Hehe it's not even a book, but oh well :)
KittyPrincessKirara: I'm trying, I'm trying.
dittoeevee8888: o_o Oops... Ah well. Too lazy to fix my completely lame spelling mistakes :)
~The Next Day~
Amu sighed and rolled over in her sleep. Her eyes still closed, she smiled as she felt the warm figure laying next to her.
"Tadase-kun..." She whispered softly.
"Hate to break it to you," A deep voice suddenly said, interrupting her sweet dreams. "But you're talking about the wrong guy."
Amu's eyes immediately snapped open, and she sat up straight on the bed.
"What?" She asked. Almost as if she didn't want to, Amu turned her head to see who really was next to her. Her already wide, honeycomb eyes widened further.
"A…A-ARUTO?!" She screamed. Ikuto sat up next to her, yawning hugely as he nodded.
"The one and only," He said, smirking at her. Amu flushed, glaring at him.
"B-but… "She stammered. "What... who… WHY ARE YOU HERE?"
Ikuto shrugged.
"Well you didn't expect me to sleep on the floor, did you?" He asked sarcastically. Amu narrowed her eyes at him.
"Actually, yes," She replied in a hard tone. Ikuto held back a low chuckle.
"Ah," He corrected her, a wide smirk still on his face. "But from the looks of your face, it almost looks like you enjoyed it."
Amu opened her mouth to protest against that, but quickly closed it after deciding otherwise.
Well that's because I thought the whole time that it was Tadase-kun… but no. It had to be this stupid idiotic jerk…
"I did not…" She finally mumbled stubbornly.
Ikuto raised an eyebrow, almost as if he was reading her thoughts.
"Now, Amu," He said calmly. "I would've thought they taught you this back in preschool. It is very wrong to lie, so you should always tell the truth."
He frowned as he said the last part.
I shouldn't even be talking, should I? I'm the one who shouldn't be lying.
Amu only sighed as she untangled herself from the bed's sheets and climbed out. Ikuto followed right after her. He was about to follow in just as Amu was slipping into the bathroom, but the pink haired girl suddenly whipped around.
"No." She said in a stern, firm tone, and slammed the door on him. Still staring at the closed door in front of his face, Ikuto shrugged.
At least I tried.
~ i S n o w X 3 ~
Amu raised an eyebrow as she stood in front of the miles of gated land.
"So today," She said, more to herself than anyone around her. "We're going to an amusement park."
Beside her, Yaya nodded excitedly.
"Yeah!" She yelled in an enthusiastic tone. "Yaya saw a poster for it yesterday after Tsukiyomi's concert. Pretty neat, eh?"
Amu bit her lip, casting her gaze downwards. She had long since outgrown amusement parks, ever since her parents had made her give up the rides she loved to take Amu, her little sister, on the rides that she wanted to ride on. Amu wasn't sure if she knew how to have fun at a place like this anymore. She didn't even know if she knew what her favorite rides were even anymore.
Ikuto glanced at her once, and immediately noticed her down expression. He walked over to her, gently putting a hand on her shoulder.
"You know," He said. "If you don't want to go, then I could go with you to… somewhere else. I guess."
Amu looked up at him, and shook her head.
"No," She disagreed. "It's fine. Let's all just stay here."
But her eyes told a different story. Ikuto frowned. It was more than obvious to him that Amu was lying to everyone, even herself.
"Um… Okay…" Ikuto said slowly, sounding extremely unconvinced.
Guess I'll just have to wait and see…
Amu forced a smile on her face. Ikuto was staring at her in a weird way, and she didn't want him to suspect anything of her.
"Come on!" She exclaimed, reaching for Yaya's hand. "We've got an amusement park, a whole day with nothing else planned to do, and the four of us together. So let's go!"
Yaya needed no more encouraging. She immediately took off after Amu, the two of them dashing into the park at full speed.
That left Tadase and Ikuto, standing awkwardly at the entrance.
"Is it just me," Tadase suddenly asked. "Or was that really unexpected of Hinamori-san?"
Ikuto's frown deepened as he stared after Amu and her little friend.
"I couldn't have put it better myself," He muttered quietly to himself.
~ i S n o w X 3 ~
"Come on!" Yaya exclaimed, pointing to five rides simultaneously. "Let's go on this one!"
Standing behind her, Tadase let out a laugh.
"Which one?" He asked good-naturedly. Yaya stared at him disbelievingly.
"All of them, of course, you baka!" She said loudly.
"Yaya…" Amu told her friend. "I think he means which one first."
Yaya's eyes widened in understanding.
"Ooohh," She trailed off. "I get it now. Well let's go on that one then!"
She pointed to a small teacup ride. There were a few children with their parents waiting in line, but it was mostly teenage couples, wanting a few minutes alone together in a giant cup.
Without waiting for an answer or agreement from anyone else, Yaya turned to the sign in front of the ride.
"Small children must ride with an adult or chaperone," She read aloud to herself. " No climbing or standing in the teacup while it's in motion… no food or drinks on the ride… only two people per teacup-"
"Then I'm with Aruto!" Amu announced, grabbing Ikuto's arm in her two small hands. Ikuto, as much as he had always wanted this, looked mildly shocked at her bold action.
"Um… okay?" His reply sounded more like a question. Yaya and Tadase glanced at each other for a brief moment. Tadase shrugged, and Yaya just smiled.
"Perfect!" She said, as they walked towards the line. "So you two, go find a teacup to sit in together, then. I'll go with Tadase."
The line went by fairly quickly; Yaya's enthusiastic and talktative personality made sure of that. Before Amu knew it, she was following Ikuto around, looking for a suitable teacup.
"How about this one?" Ikuto asked, stopping in front of one of the teacups. It was a pale yellow color, with a pink and orange design flying across it.
Amu only nodded her head, slowly climbing into the ride. Ikuto eyed her suspiciously the whole time.
"What's the matter?" He asked, looking as if he wasn't going down without an answer. "The whole time we've been here you look like you've seen a ghost or something."
Amu only stared at him disbelievingly. Ikuto took her silence as an agreement.
"So I was right?" He asked incredulously. "You did see a ghost?!"
Amu laughed.
"No," She said. "It's just that… I've never been on one of these before…"
Ikuto's eyes were wide with amazement.
"You've never been on a teacup ride before," He repeated. "Come on! I mean, everyone's been on one at least once before."
Amu shook her head.
"No," She said softly. "I mean, my parents always made me take my sister onto the rides that she wanted to ride, and she didn't like the teacup. It always made her feel sick. So, I never got to ride this…"
Ikuto still found the whole thing pretty hard to believe, he nodded.
"Okay," He explained. "So basically, you just sit like you are now, and then you turn this thing."
He placed his hand on the wheel in the middle of the teacup. Amu followed, putting her hands next to Ikuto's and holding the wheel the same way he was.
"The faster you turn this," Ikuto continued. "The faster the teacup spins. So how fast do you want it to go?"
Amu smiled.
"As fast as it can go," She answered. Ikuto smirked back at her.
"Okay then," He told her. "Just don't fly out of the teacup."
Amu's smile widened just as the ride as starting up.
~ i S n o w X 3 ~
Amu let out a small scream as the ride came to a halting stop. They were going so fast that when the ride ended she had actually slid onto Ikuto's lap. Ikuto grinned as he picked her up so that he could also stand up.
"Aruto…" Amu mumbled, still giggling with a huge smile on her face. "Put me down…"
Ikuto playfully shook his head, but put the pink haired girl down.
"So how was that for your first time in a teacup?" He teased, but deep down, he really was curious. Amu blushed lightly.
"It was…" She said slowly, as if trying to think of the perfect words to describe it. "It was something that I wish I could've tried out ages ago."
Ikuto's grin softened into a smile.
"Well then," He told her. "I guess you'll have to thank me for this then."
Amu stared at him quizzically.
"Why would I thank you?" She asked. "I mean, it was Yaya's idea to ride this, wasn't it?"
Ikuto shook his head again.
"Yeah," He agreed. "But, I was the one that showed you how to ride it."
Amu thought for a moment; Ikuto did have a point. If it wasn't for him, she would have just sat there dumbly on the ride while Yaya or Tadase or maybe some complete stranger had all the fun without her.
"I guess so…" Amu admitted. "So thanks."
Ikuto smirked.
"Anytime, Strawberry," He said cheerfully, ruffling Amu's hair a little bit. "And, not to sound rude or anything, but why did you want to ride with me on this?"
Amu stared at him.
"Why?" She repeated, her cheeks slowly reddening to a redder degree. "I-Isn't that what you wanted?"
Ikuto shrugged.
"Yeah," He said. "I did want that, but it wasn't what you want."
"At first," Amu explained. "I was going to ride with Yaya, but considering I didn't even know how to ride this, I figured that Yaya would make a huge deal out of the whole thing. And Tadase would probably want to ride with Yaya, so I thought that they should be able to ride it together."
Ikuto couldn't help but frown. So the choice had nothing to do with him at all in the end.
"And," Amu continued, ignoring Ikuto's change in facial expression. "I figured I wasn't going to have much fun here anyways, so I thought I might as well try my best to give everyone else a fun day instead of having them all feel like me. But, you obviously proved me wrong. Aruto, that was really a lot of fun."
Ikuto's frown disappeared almost instantly, and was replaced by a huge grin.
"So I'm not really the horrible, disgusting pervert you thought I was in the beginning?" He asked. Amu giggled one last time.
"Well," She answered thoughtfully. "You are still perverted… but I guess there really is a good side to you, too..."
Ikuto couldn't have been happier to hear those final eleven words.
She finally gets it…
~ i S n o w X 3 ~
"Yuki-san," Tadase chided lightly. "It's getting dark, so we should get going soon."
Yaya turned around to look at the blonde haired boy.
"B-but," She pouted. "We still haven't hit the gift shops yet!"
Amu took another sip of her soda and giggled.
"Then how about we just go to the gift shops, huh?" She suggested. "Then Yaya gets to go to a shop, like she wanted; and Tadase can leave, like he wants."
Beside her, Ikuto smirked. Amu had been so happy, so easy to get along with for the whole day, and Ikuto like to think of the reason behind that to be his doing back at the teacup ride.
Yaya smiled, seemingly happy with Amu's idea.
"Okay then!" She exclaimed happily. "Let's go to that one first!"
She pointed towards one of the stores with many colorful souvenir items in the display windows. But, there was also a huge sign, reading "NO FOOD OR DRINKS ALLOWED".
The group sheepishly glanced down at all the snacks and useless treats they had bought, and opened, throughout their day in the amusement park.
"Maybe we should finish this all before going in…" Ikuto said slowly. Amu shook her head.
"No," She disagreed. "We have so much, it would take us forever to finish it all. Why don't you guys go inside? I'll wait out here with all our food and stuff."
Yaya probably didn't hear the last part; she was already running full speed into the shop. Tadase sighed, shaking his head and hurrying after her before she could cause some sort of destruction to the small store.
Amu glanced at Ikuto, who hadn't moved an inch from her side.
"Well," She asked. "Aren't you going in?"
Ikuto shook his head.
"I don't want you to be by yourself," He said. "I'm not a big fan of souvenir shopping anyways."
Amu couldn't help but smile again. Ikuto's good side had really done a good job of showing itself today, and she had no idea why.
The two of them walked to a nearby bench, setting down themselves and all of their things.
"Neh, Aruto…" Amu said softly after a prolonged silence. "I know I said that I would be your girlfriend a little bit back, but I guess I wasn't… really taking you seriously. So, do you think we could start now?"
Ikuto was taken aback for a moment. Just as he was about to open his mouth to answer, he was interrupted by someone else.
"Aruto!" Tadase called out, running towards Amu and Ikuto's spot on the bench. "Yaya… Yay saw something that she thought you might like, and she wants you to go see it…"
Ikuto nodded, glancing at Amu once. She seemed a bit shocked that something that might have been important to her was interrupted by something so pointless, but other than that she looked pretty regular.
"Amu," He said. "Do you think you can watch all of this stuff by yourself?"
Amu nodded slowly. Ikuto grinned at her.
"And about your question," He answered. "Sure."
Amu's face split into a huge smile.
"Thanks… "She whispered, just as Ikuto was walking away with Tadase. With a content smile on her face, Amu leaned back on the bench and closed her eyes.
Suddenly, there was a noise and a vibrating sound coming out of the pocket of Ikuto's jacket, which he had left laying next to Amu.
Curious, Amu reached for the jacket and pulled out the phone. She knew it was wrong, she knew she shouldn't be doing this, but she couldn't help it.
It couldn't hurt for just one tiny peak, right?
After checking over her shoulder to see if Ikuto was behind her, she eagerly flipped open the phone. A voice message… from "Tsukiyomi Ikuto."
"Come back," The recording said. "This is Tsukiyomi Ikuto's stage; not mine."
Amu's eyes widened.
:O I tired. Got up, went to Chinese school; finished all my Thanksgiving break hw; wrote the chapter; and then now. Yeah...
Review please ! :D