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Come back; this is Tsukiyomi Ikuto's stage, not mine…

Come back; this is Tsukiyomi Ikuto's stage…

Come back; this is Tsukiyomi's stage…

Come back…

The words kept ringing endlessly in Amu's mind. What did that mean; "Tsukiyomi Ikuto" saying that the stage wasn't his, but it was Ikuto's stage…

The pink haired girl raised a hand up to support her spinning head. It was so confusing. But she knew one thing for sure: Aruto had been lying to her this whole time. She wasn't sure exactly what it was yet, but she knew he had been hiding something.

Right when she began to start trusting him, too. Maybe… maybe she even liked him a little bit.

Amu took a deep breath, turning back to the phone and marking the message as 'unread' before sliding it back into Ikuto's coat pocket. She would ask him about it, but not necessarily right away. The pink haired girl planned to wait it out for a little bit; maybe he would tell her about it himself.

"Boo," A voice suddenly said from behind her. Amu whipped around and saw Ikuto, standing there with a wide smirk on his face. He seemed to have been extremely satisfied to have surprised her.

Amu forced a smile on her face as she let out a laugh.

"A-Aruto…" She stammered, cheeks flushing. "So did you find anything in the store?"

Ikuto grinned and nodded.

"Yep," He told her, tossing a small bag at her. "And I even got a little something for you, too."

Amu glanced inside the bag. There was a small stuffed animal; more specifically, a stuffed cat with shades of blue fur. Its body was wrapped around a ripe red strawberry.

Despite everything that had happened in the past few minutes, the pink haired girl couldn't help but smile. It really was a cute gift; Amu had to admit to at least that. But, the person who was responsible for handing her the gift just about ruined the whole thing.

Ikuto stood there, gauging her every change in expression with his mind.

"Well…" He said slowly, cautiously. "Do you like it?"

Amu looked up at him and smiled even wider.

"Yeah!" She lied. "It's so adorable! Thanks!"

That wasn't really a lie… it really is adorable… besides, Ikuto lied about who he was to me. I'm just lying to him about how I feel about a gift… which is really common with most people… right…?

Ikuto's face brightened considerably.

"Yaya and Tadase already left to go get the car," He said. "They found the next place we're staying tonight, but it's a bit of a drive so they want us to meet them at the entrance of this place."

Amu bit her lip uncertainly, but stood up and followed Ikuto out.

So we're going to be cramped in a car for God knows how long? Then how am I going to ask Ikuto about that text?

As the two of them were walking out, a couple of girls stopped and stared at them. Ikuto noticed this, and stopped to stare right back at them.

"Can I help you?" He asked, not sounding at all polite. One of the girls laughed nervously and shook her head.

"Oh," She said. "No. We were just noticing that you looked a lot like Tsukiyomi Ikuto, the famous violinist."

Ikuto stiffened, his eyes widening for the tiniest fraction of a second.

"Well," He replied smoothly. "Isn't he on some tour right now, though?"

The other girl stepped forward and nodded vigorously.

"Well, duh!" She said, as if you would have to be an idiot to not know. "But people have been saying that this performance is well… not as great as all the other ones before this one."

"Some people think that he's slipping," The first girl added. "But some people think that that's a fake Ikuto up there!"

Ikuto prayed that no one would notice that his forehead was beginning to sweat.

"Oh really?" He asked calmly. "And what makes them think that?"

"Some people took pictures of the Ikuto performing on the stage and put them next to pictures of the real Ikuto," The girl explained. "And side by side like that, they look nothing alike!"

Oh, how Ikuto wanted to just grab Amu from behind him and just run off at that moment. He let out a nervous chuckle.

"Well… um…" He said. "Maybe he's finally slipping. I mean, he's been really famous for a while now. Maybe all that stress is finally coming down on him."

Crap… now I know why Amu hates "Ikuto" for being really arrogant. It's no fun talking about myself like that!

Both girls nodded in agreement.

"Yeah," One of them said. "That's probably it. Well it was nice talking to you!"

The two girls quickly hurried away, looking very excited to be headed towards the amusement. Ikuto looked down, taking Amu's small hand in his own.

"Come on," He said, trying to sound as calm as possible. "We should get going , too."

Amu nodded and walked out with Ikuto's hand wrapped tightly around hers, not saying a single word. Her mind was filled with the endless possibilities.

~ i S n o w X 3 ~

Amu once again sat in the back of the groups' car, only curled up on Ikuto's lap this time. Because of all of the useless items that Yaya had accumulated throughout the duration of their trip so far, there was barely any room for anything. So Ikuto suggested that they save space by making Amu… sit on him.

Not that either of them were complaining. Out loud, at least. It was obvious that Ikuto enjoyed the small warm mass sitting on his lap, and Amu tried to match up her expression with his "I'm not going to say anything but I totally love this!" look. But, she couldn't get that one sentence out of her head.

Come back; this is Tsukiyomi Ikuto's stage, not mine…

Amu frowned as she curled up into a tighter ball on top of Ikuto. Her mind wandered back to when she and Ikuto were leaving the amusement park, and their conversation with those girls.

She would be lying if she said that she didn't believe everything they said. If what they said was true, then that meant that the famous Ikuto she met wasn't really Ikuto. And that the one who's lap she was sitting on was the real one.

Though, a small part of her still hoped that that wasn't true. That the person she had just begun to like was actually a big fake.

If she was right, that meant Ikuto was a really good lying. And that meant, for all she know, he might not even give a damn about her. That was what scared Amu the most.

This whole thing is so confusing…

She risked a glance up at Ikuto, and was surprised when she saw that he was looking at her as well. One of his hands was supporting Amu's back, his fingers gently playing around with the ends of a couple of the pink locks cascading down her back. His other hand was on her lap, covering both of her hand with one of his own. He looked quite calm, quite satisfied with the way they were sitting.

But his mind was in completely turmoil.

Those two girls they talked two didn't even look like die-hard fans of him; they just looked like one of those people who would listen to the music, but not exactly be jumping over or fantasizing about any celebrities. If someone like them could have easily figured out about the performing Ikuto being a fake, then it was obvious that anyone could.

That wasn't good.

If word got out about it, Ikuto would never hear the end of it. People would be following him around endlessly to make sure he couldn't pull something like this off again.

But most of all, hoped that Amu wouldn't know. Or at least get mad about it. She already hated the famous Ikuto more than enough; how would she react if she had fallen in love with the same person she hated.

Amu would probably hate him as well. And Ikuto didn't want that.

He glanced back down at Amu, smiling slightly as he saw her fast asleep in his arms. She looked so cute that away, not at all like the furious person that Ikuto imagined she would be once she found out. He switched his focus to the window, and he felt his own eyelids beginning to droop.

"Hey Tadase," Ikuto called out sleepily, but not loud enough to wake up the sleeping Amu. "How much longer?"

"Well…" Tadase replied, sounding a bit tired himself. "A while, I guess…"

Ikuto shrugged. Falling asleep for a bit wouldn't hurt anybody, would it?

~ i S n o w X 3 ~

"Hey, Aruto!"

Ikuto woke up with a start, blinking as his world suddenly came into focus again. Amu was still fast asleep on his lap, and the car door next to him was open. Yaya and Tadase were peering in over them, smiles on both of their faces.

"We ran out of gas," Yaya explained. "So we're gonna stop here really quickly before continuing on."

"And we've been trying to get Hinamori-san up for a while," Tadase added. "But she keeps pushing us away and saying something about how she 'didn't want to hear anymore lies from us'. Any ideas on that?"

Ikuto tried not to think about what that could be.

"Um… I don't know," He quickly lied. "Look, how about you guys go and get everything you need first? I'll stay here and wake up Amu. We'll come in after you once she wakes up.

Yaya needed no more encouragement from the blue haired man.

"Then come on, Tadase!" She said, tugging on the blonde's arm. "They sell sweets in that store over there!"

Tadase chuckled lightly, shaking his head as he followed the younger girl away from the car. As soon as they were gone, Ikuto stared at Amu.

She can't know… can she? But how?

He prodded the pink haired girl gently.

"Amu…" He whispered gently. "Amu, get up."

Amu mumbled something incoherent in her sleep before slowly sitting up, rubbing her eyes sleepily.

"What?" She asked in utter confusion as she looked around. "Where'd everybody else go?"

Ikuto smirked.

"They all went to go get some more gas… and Yaya's getting some more treats," He said. Amu's eyes widened, and she was instantly wide awake.

"So they're all gone?" She asked. Ikuto nodded.

"I guess…." He answered slowly, wondering where this conversation. Amu sat up on Ikuto's lap, staring him straight in the eye. It took everything inside of Ikuto to not flinch away from her gaze. Her honeycomb eyes were filled with a mix of emotions; anger, frustration, sadness, betrayal, even a hint of challenging.

"So," She said, her eyes narrowing as she spoke. "Tsukiyomi Ikuto, huh? How could I have not figured that out?"


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