OK! Everyone I am having a bad case of writers block so I am updating slow! I got the blackout I dea because my power went out and stuff but anyway! So, yeah! If anyone has any Ideas, please let me know!

**Flash Back**

"I. Love. You" There! I said.

"Thank you!" he said. I was blushing more.

"Let's go down to breakfast, baka..." I said. But just then, I heard a cracking noise.

"Eh?" I looked around and so an egg fall out of the basket. It floated up in front of Ikuto's face

"Eh?" he said. Then another cracked and a character popped out.

"Hey, Ikuto!" said the little character. He looked like Yoru, except he was a dog

"I'm Yori*!" we just looked at him.

"Y-Yori?" I said.

**End of Flash Back**


Baby Steps

...Silence

"Hey look, it finally hatched" said Ikuto coolly. How could he be so cool about it. I was always paranoid when I got a new egg.

"Yup!" he said, wagging his tail. He was kinda cute.

"What part of Ikuto are you?" I asked Yori, curious. I thought I saw Ikuto twitch.

"I'm the part that is open and wants to be loved and cared for! I was brought out of Ikuto by you, because he loves you and he wanted you to love him, too!" he said enthusiastically. What? Aw, that was... Sweet. I looked over at Ikuto who had his head down and was... Blushing!? I smirked.

"Not so fun when the situation gets switched around, is it?" I asked Ikuto, satisfied

(Authors note: I was going to put "Not so fun being on the other end of the-... But I couldn't think of what that thing should be! The other end of the line, no! I know there is a saying like it but I couldn't think of! Sorry!)

He looked up at me and to my satisfaction his face was, not a deep red, but it was noticeable. I started laughing.

"I thought you were more open than this" I said. Oh, this was just to good!

"He can!" said Yori. 'and will' I had an evil thought, a chara-change. Ahahahaha...

"Really? I don't think he could" I said, smirking and looking at Ikuto, he caught on immediately.

"Amu..." he said, looking cautious.

"Well, he can! Watch!" said Yori. "Chara-change!" he exclaimed.

Then there was a pop. **sparkles** and Ikuto got dog ears. They were a little rounder then his cat ears, and smaller. Then pop **sparkles** and he got a dog tail, it was shorter than his cat tail. I just kept looking at him. Then he looked at me. He looked the same, but I was a little afraid on what his personality might be like...

"Iku-to...?" I asked him to see what his personality might be like.

He started walking quickly towards me and then stopped a few feet in front of me and said:

"I love you, so much, Amu" he stated. What!? So his character was just more open... then usual right? When you wanted to say "I love you" he wants to say stuff like "so much" or "more than anything" that wasn't that bad, right?

Then, suddenly he leaned forward and kissed me on the cheek. Wha-wha-wha- WHAT!? Ah!!!!!!!!!! I was so happy but my face was turning so red. So he wanted to kiss me too! Eheheheh.... that wasn't SO bad bu-but still!!!!!! Ah!!!!!!!!!...

**POP** **SPARKLES**

And Yori was out of Ikuto.

"He wants to kiss but, he doesn't want to make you uncomfortable" Yori whispered in my ear, with out Ikuto noticing. Aw! He really did care about me... o

We were both blushing. But then the *charas started laughing loudly.

"Wha-WHAT IS SO FUNNY!?" I asked, irritated.

"You.... and Ikuto-o-o-o... are both.... tomatoes!" Ran said between fits of laughter and her "joke" made then all laugh harder, Ran, Miki, Su, and even Dia were laughing. Along with Yoru and Yori.

"Grrr..." I growled, which made them laugh harder still.

I looked over at Ikuto and sure enough, he was blushing, but he also was smiling, he looked really happy. I smiled, because, somehow, seeing him happy made me happy.

(Author's Note: Yes I know that line was cheesy! :D)

**After we are done laughing...**

My stummy growled.

"Oh!" I realized that I was really hungry.

I saw Ikuto's lip twitch. I was about to say something but he got words out of his mouth first.

"Come on everyone, fatty is hungry" he said, smirking, it took me a second to understand.

"Hey! I am not fat!" I snapped at him my mouth opened wide. Ikuto was backed into a corner and he said:

"Please! Please, don't eat me!" he said. He started laughing.

"Ah! How do you always turn my sentences around!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????" I asked.

"Because it is to easy" he stated.

"Humph!" I said.

"let's head down to breakfast already!" I said

"Oh no! She is getting angry!" Ikuto said with a false sense of fear.

"Shut up!" I said.

He just laughed more.

"Come on" he said and he grabbed my hand( o ) and we walked down to breakfast.

'Ikuto...' I thought...

**After eating breakfast, and now they are walking in the park! **

We were just walking on the side walk, I wanted to hold his hand, but there were just to many people around to do so, it would look...weird.

"You never really answered my question" said Ikuto.

"What?" I replied.

"Did you want to go back to japan?" he asked me.

"Ummm... would-" no Amu, he will turn it against you!

"What" he asked.

"Nothing... never mind..." I said.

"Come on, you can tell me" he beckoned me onward.

"Would you come back, too?" we had stopped walking. We were just standing in the middle of the side walk.

"If you wanted me to" he said. That made me perk up a little.

"But what about finding your dad?" I asked him.

"Oh! Oh my god... I actually completely forgot about my my old man..." he looked like he was thinking.

"Ikuto, you can go look for him, I will just go back to Japan, as long as you come back soon..." I said. I wanted him to be happy so I would let him choose.

"Amu..." He probably thought I was being to selfless.

"My old man..." here it comes 'Amu, I have to find him so I need to go' He was going to say that... "he will just have to wait" he said, smiling at me. I thought I might start crying.

"bu-but Ikuto-" I said.

"Your more important" he said. That, meant so much to me...

"I-Ikuto..." I couldn't hold it in anymore. I started crying. I buried my face in Ikuto's chest and cried more.

"A-Amu?" Ikuto sounded puzzled, but he hugged me back.

**After Crying! ^o^ (that moment was so cute!)

I took my face out of Ikuto's tear stained shirt and looked around and saw other people looking at us.

"Amu, why are you crying?" he asked me.

"B-because..." what was I supposed to tell him? 'I was touched that you would put me in front of your father'? No way! That was to embarrassing!

"Amu?" he asked me. "You don't have to be embarrassed, but if your that embarrassed, then let me guess?" he asked.

"Mmhmm" I said.

"You are happy because" he put his hand under my chin to make me look at him "I am picking you before my father?" he asked. He looked at me for an answer. I tried turning my head but he held it in place so I averted my eyes from his, but I started blushing, so he took it as a yes.

"Some day, though, when you are older we could look for my father" we!? "together" he said. I blushed more, and he put his hands back a his sides and let my head drop.

"So we will go back together?" I asked. I had never been so open to Ikuto before, and neither has he.

"Yes" he said.

"Okay" I replied.

We started walking back to the hotel. I looked at his hand and longed to grab it. We had just been so open to each other... in public... So I took a shot. I reached out and grabbed his hand. I saw him look at me in my peripheral. I saw him smile and then look back ahead.

'Good job Amu, you did it... baby steps...' I thought.


And there is chappy 12! I hope you liked it! So again having writer block! So please either help me or bear with until I get inspired again!

I know where I'm going through the next few chapters! YaY! I was inspired during my writing. Sorry about the slow update!

*charas= Yeah my stupid computer thinks when I type *Charas it thinks I meant to type tiaras so I have to put a star next to it sorry!