Morg: Heyo! So thanks everyone who reviewed!
Ikuto: Even though your bribe sucked it still worked.
Amu: I guess we should give you some credit.
Morg: …
Ikuto: ….
Amu: …..
Morg: …
Ikuto: That's enough.
Amu: Yep! She doesn't own anything!
~Overprotective~
Heaven was about to disappear, more like be ripped apart. Either way, Amu was ready to destroy any other angel that attempted to delay her return to earth. Tearing them limb from limb and letting the idiots heal slowly sounded delightful to the frustrated pinkette. She was on her way to the portal room to head back to earth when three more angels stepped into her path.
"Hello Amu-chan! Can we ask you some questions for a bit?"
Amu stared in disbelief at the angels before her. They weren't younger than her by any means and she seriously wanted nothing to do with them. "I have to go."
The oldest of the angels stepped forwards and became more persistent. "But Amu-chan! We haven't gotten to talk to you while you're here!"
Amu almost acted on her previously intentions about ripping the angels apart when a different angel came to her rescue. "Amu-chan has to leave. Now. Get away from her."
Amu looked over to see a cute angel she hadn't seen before. She had cute blonde pigtails and beautiful green eyes. Although only slightly taller than Amu's shortness, the angel stood with an air of superiority.
"Yes Lala-sama."
Amu hid her surprise as the other angels backed off per order of the angel referred to as Lala-sama. She wasn't familiar with the angel before her, but she'd never been more grateful in her life. With a swift nod of her head, Amu made her departure.
Just as she disappeared from Heaven, Tadase stormed into the portal room. He yelled something obscene, but the pinkette was already gone.
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Utau was in deep shit. Amu was going to return at any time and Ikuto was no where to be found. Kukai and Rima were doing their best to help the freaked out blonde find her brother without luck. The town had been scoured several times already. No sight of Ikuto and no sign of Amu's return. Utau could only hope that he'd be found before Amu came back. The chances of that happening dwindled with every passing second.
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Happy to be back on earth, Amu took a deep breath of the fresh air from the woods surrounding her. She loved the thick clump of trees she used to travel to the world without anyone catching her.
Her foot froze mid step. Amu stared in horror at the sight before her. A skinnier than usual Ikuto lay passed out on the ground before her. She knew he was alive and that he was going to be okay, but that didn't stop her heart from going into overdrive.
Scooping the sleeping boy from the ground, Amu didn't bother to turn invisible as she flew him as fast as she could to the hospital. Kairi would be able to fix him up in a jiffy. He just had to be able to.
Kairi wasn't surprised to see Amu entering his office through his window. He was, however, surprised to see Ikuto in such a state. Yaya and he had become aware of the dealings and goings on of Heaven. They knew that this was a crucial time for Amu to keep her distance from the blue haired boy, and yet, here she stood with his unconscious body in her arms.
Amu laid Ikuto on the couch in the office before turning to Kairi. "Fix him. I don't care about natural healings. Fix him!"
Kairi sighed before moving to the human's side to figure out what was wrong so he could fix it as the pinkette demanded. "Relax Amu; he just needs some food and water. Looks like he was depriving himself of sleep as well and that's what made him pass out. It's nothing to worry about. He'll be right as rain in no time."
"No time like the present."
Yaya chose that moment to enter the office. She'd known the moment Amu stepped foot in the room that she was there with the human. This fact had fascinated the childish angel so much she couldn't stay away. "Yaya thinks that Amu-chan needs to calm down. Yaya and Kairi will fix up the human."
Amu ran a hand through her pink hair. Without saying what was on her mind straight out, the two wouldn't understand. "Is this room sound proof?"
Kairi nodded, knowing that meant to Heaven as well as the rooms around it.
Amu closed her eyes before opening them to meet Kairi's hard gaze. "He isn't just some human. His name is Ikuto and I need him to be okay right now."
"Yaya wants to know why before Yaya does anything to help the human boy."
Kairi continued to hold Amu's gaze without blinking. His agreement to the pigtailed girl's demand was silent, but understood.
Amu didn't quite know what to say so she said whatever came to mind. "I'm not sure why it matters so much. I guess you could say that I'm just overprotective of him. Please just make him okay so that I can focus on more important things."
Yaya and Kairi exchanged a knowing look before they moved to the sleeping boy. Holding hands, the two angels extended their free hands over the unmoving body to emit a bright white light. The light moved to cover Ikuto's entire body before dying out. "That's all we can do for him. Take him home and let him sleep."
Amu nodded and moved to pick up her charge when Kairi's hand stopped her. She tried to shake it off, but the male angel kept a firm grip. "I should get him home."
Kairi never smiled, nor did he show any emotions of hate or disappointment while speaking. "If you decide that Ikuto shall be your mate then so be it. Yaya and I will always support you, Amu-chan."
Amu blushed a light pink. Kairi was referring to something that she hoped would never happen. Not because she disliked Ikuto, because she didn't, but because that would be breaking the only law that Heaven had. She couldn't do that. "It shouldn't come to that."
"No matter what happens, we'll support you. Not Heaven, you."
Amu simply nodded before picking up the now healed, but still sleeping Ikuto. She left through the window she'd come in through.
Kairi turned to look at his better half. "Once mated, they'll be that way for eternity."
"Yaya can hardly wait!"
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Utau paced her room while continuously running her hands through her hair. It had long since come loose of its usual pigtailed style thanks to the frantic hands of the blonde. She was dead. She'd promised to take care of her brother, even it had been only in her head, and now he was gone. Amu was going to kill her. "I'm in so much trouble."
"You could say that again."
Utau froze. Her hands were halfway to her head and one of her feet was halfway in its forward step motion. She stood perfectly balanced on one foot as she waited the voice to speak again. Turning around only meant that the girl had to admit who it was that had spoke to her.
Amu wasn't about to let the want to be super star off the hook. "Take care of yourselves, I say. Sure, you respond. Of course you will. You're important to me, I say. We know that, you respond. Promise to be safe, you do."
"Now, Amu, I know that you're probably not happy with me at the moment, but let's focus on finding Ikuto before you punish me."
"Oh don't worry about your brother. He's perfectly fine. In fact, he's sleeping in his bed. You, on the other hand, are looking worse than worse. I thought I had my hands full when I found your brother passed out in the forest."
Utau finally turned to face the girl she knew to be an angel. "You found him where! I've been searching for days! I mean…"
Amu laughed before she crossed the room to take the girl before her in her arms. "You're safe and so is he. How could I be upset? Go take a shower, you reek."
Utau grumbled the whole way, but complied. After she was dressed in fresh clothes and her hair no longer stood every which way from the grease that had coated it, she sat on her bed with Amu. "So when did you get back?"
"About two hours ago. I found Ikuto the moment I got back so I took him to see some friends of mine at a local hospital so they could heal him quickly. He was just under nourished and tired. He'll be fine by morning."
Utau let out a sigh of relief before focusing her intense eyes back on the pinkette. "How did things go in Heaven?"
Amu let out a sigh of her own. "Nagi doesn't get to come back. He has to stay in Heaven until Rima dies because he fell in love with her."
Utau tried to take in the information that the purple haired boy that had been in her school was also an angel. It should have been obvious to the blonde considering that Amu had said that he was her friend, but it wasn't. "Why did you have to go?"
"The Council was told that I was having an intimate relationship with your brother so I had to appear before them. They tried to order me to not return, but I refused."
Utau's brows scrunched together to form a furry caterpillar in the middle of her forehead. "What do you mean you refused? How can you refuse The Council? I'm not even an angel and nor do I know anything about the way Heaven is run, but it's obvious that you're supposed to listen to The Council."
Amu rolled her eyes before grinning. "Not to worry, I'll be on The Council in a matter of years. The only reason I'm not on it yet is because of my age. I don't want to brag but I've got a lot of power, even for an angel. If The Council gives me an order I do not like, I don't have to follow it. I simply choose to listen most of the time because that way I'm setting a good example for the other angels. I wasn't about to stay away just because they thought I might be in a relationship with Ikuto."
Utau closed her mouth after a couple of minutes of having it open. She'd never guessed that Amu was so powerful as to defy The Council just because she wanted to. Luckily the pinkette decided to listen most of the time so that her life would be easier. "So if you didn't come back to be with Ikuto then why didn't you just follow The Council's orders?"
"They wanted me to stay in Heaven until you died. I promised Nagi that I would talk to Rima. I couldn't possibly stay away."
"Why Amu?"
"What do you mean why? I just told you."
Utau narrowed her eyes at the angel before her. "No, you gave me an excuse. I want to know the real reason you came back."
Amu shifted on the bed before she stood up and moved towards the window. "Go to sleep Utau. Maybe tomorrow you'll just be happy that I'm back rather than asking me pointless questions."
Utau was about to retaliate when she noticed the look on the pinkette's face changed. She was no longer focusing most of her attention on where she was, but rather something else. Possibly someone else.
Amu spun towards the window. "Rima!"
Utau watched her disappear.
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He was gone and it looked as though he wasn't coming back. Rima should have known that he was going to abandon her too. Now she was alone. No one cared about her so why should she? With a razor blade in one hand, the blonde contemplated her own demise. On shift swipe and it'd all be over. No more pain or suffering. No more being alone. Just black bliss. Just eternal sleep.
The blade came down to meet her arm. It pushed against her skin without breaking it. The feel of the cool metal made millions of goose bumps rise upon Rima's petite body. This was supposed to be exhilarating. Why was it that all she could think of was Nagi's face?
"Rima! Rima, where are you!"
"Amu?"
The pinkette burst through the doors. Rima yelped as she tumbled backwards off her bed. The razor blade slid safely away from her as she hit the floor. "What the!"
Amu's feet were not touching the ground as her wings held her two feet up in the air. "Rima! Don't be rash! Nagi wouldn't have wanted this! He doesn't want this! He wants to be with you, but he can't be."
Rima's eyes peeked over the edge of her bed to stare at the flying Amu in her room. "What the hell is going on?"
Amu sighed as she landed on her feet and tucked her wings behind her. "This was the only way to convince you of the truth! Nagihiko is also an angel. His job is to protect suicidal people from themselves. He works with someone until they can handle life on their own and live it without wanting to die."
Rima slowly got to her feet but stayed on the other side of the bed. It wasn't as though she didn't trust the angelic Amu, although she was rather shocked at the moment to find that the boy she liked and thought liked her was only spending time with her because she was a nut case. "So everything was a lie? It was only his job to be with me?"
Amu stared in wonder. Since when did Rima sound so meek? "No. Nagi isn't allowed to return to earth until you die because he loves you. An angel may not love one human over another. Nagi loves you Rima and he's being held prisoner in Heaven to make sure that he doesn't give you the gift of immortality."
"Immortality? Why would I want that?"
"Because angels are immortal, at least they can live forever as long as they aren't purposely killed. It takes a lot of power and the right reasons to kill an angel."
Rima finally sat down on the edge of her bed as she took in the information being offered to her. Nagi loved her but couldn't be there with her because he loved her. She loved him. She hadn't told him so, but she loved him. "Amu, can you speak with Nagi for me?"
"I can try. What is it that you want me to say?"
"Tell him that I love him. Tell him that I won't kill myself because I know that he loves me. I'll live for him."
Amu smiled but slowly shook her head. "No Rima. He wants you to live for you."
Rima nodded once before the tears began to fall. Amu didn't hesitate to take the sobbing girl into her arms and Rima let herself be held. "Why did they have to take him away? The first and only boy I will ever love!"
Amu patted the girl's back before she leaned slightly back to look into Rima's face. "How do you know that you love him?"
Rima sniffled before smiling slightly. "I guess you could say that despite everything I do or say, I always feel a little overprotective of him, no matter where he is."
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Morg: Oh snap!
Ikuto: So what. Rima confessed. Big freaking deal. It wasn't Amu confessing her love for me so it doesn't matter.
Amu: Of course it matters! This is important to the story!
Morg: If you're a good reader, you should be able to connect the dots.
Ikuto: What dots?
Amu: I guess that means that Ikuto's a bad reader.
Ikuto: I'm the best at reading some things.
Morg: Like what?
Ikuto: Amu's body.
Amu: What!
Morg: Cheese and Rice! Just review quickly so we can get out of here!
