G-chan: HAPPY BIRTHDAY JapanLover4ever! It took blood, sweat and tears but I managed to update on your actual birthday!
Amu: yay!
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JapanLover4ever: thank youuuuuu! It'll be about their future! Uuuu thank you! And thanks for all the AT info! You're like an expert OvO yup I can watch it on cartoon network. Aaww haha! Let's hope she got it from Amu... Or maybe she's a vampire in disguise... She does look like Miki the shugo chara, only way bigger . I'll start with those eps :) *creepy face back* I updated in time! My b-day present for you~ hope you had a great day!
thank you! 15 reviews! Too much! Well, let's get on with the story. It's kind of a filler, no wedding yet ;D
Hayato: Ohayahho! G-chan does not own Shugo Chara! Or any of its characters-nyan~!
Ikuto: wait-you're not even in this anime!
Unconsciously, I mumbled something back. "You..too..."
I felt something warm and slightly wet against my cheek, but even now I'm not quite sure if that was reality or a dream.
Ikuto's POV
"So, you nervous?" Kukai, my brother- in-law, asked. "Why on earth would I be nervous?" "Well, getting married is a big deal to some people, okay!" He faked an overly dramatic voice. I sighed at his stupidity.
The wedding was going to be on new years eve. Amu thought that would be 'romantic' or something. But I'm glad it's gonna be sooner rather than later. Though it also means my birthday will come first, which I'll probably comletely forget about during all this commotion.
Anyway, since Kukai is already married, he insists on planning everything for me. Says he's my senpai in life now, whatever that means. Like right now, he dragged me out of my apartment so I could get fitted for tuxes. Isn't that something you should leave till last? Well, in my book it was.
I was quite uncomfortable with all these women measuring me and putting safety pins in the tux I already had on. But Kukai seemed amused with this.
"So, Utau is gonna be Amu's maid of honour..." he started, trailing of slightly at the end, "and since I'm helping you plan most of this..." His emerald eyes seemed to grow even bigger as he stared at me through his brown bangs, rocking back and forth on the couch he had claimed as his own for the last hour or so. I sighed. I knew there had to be some kind of catch, even though I never really expected this.
"Look, Kukai, if you wanna be MY maid of honour all you have to do is say so," I smirked, even wider when Kukai looked at me in confusion. I decided to go just a bit further. "I'm sure these nice ladies here wouldn't mind fitting you for a dress, oh but it'll have to be blue, okay? I'm sure it'd suit you." Kukai's face reddened and I started laughing. "Y-you know that's not what I meant!" he sputtered, "ah, damn you, Tsukiyomi."
My laughter faded after a while and I made sure I wouldn't burst into laughter again before I spoke. "Sorry, sorry. I'm kidding. Of course you can be my best man."
Kukai's face lit up and he fist-pumped the air. "Get in!" He really was a big kid, wasn't he? "Y'know, it took me ten years, but I've finally discovered that you're not such a bad guy, Tsukiyomi." Kukai grinned and gave his signature 'thumbs up'. That statement really pissed me off for some reason, but I decided to remain calm. "Ah...well, I already knew from the beginning that you were an idiot, and in these ten years you haven't proved me wrong yet."
"...You're a cruel, heartless man, Tsukiyomi, Ikuto." "I'm so glad you finally noticed." Kukai grabbed a pillow from the couch he was sitting on, buried his face into it and started screaming. Oh, how fun it was to tease my sister's husband.
Finally, we left the store, though not before Kukai forced me to buy a white tux with a black tie. The thing is, I don't really feel comfortable in white... Guess this was his revenge.
"It's noon, should we go grab something to eat?" Kukai suggested while glancing at the digital clock on his phone. "Only if it's your treat." "I really hate you sometimes, Tsukiyomi," Kukai muttered, but loud enough for me to hear.
After debating about where to go eat for a couple of minutes, we decided to go to Kukai's favourite ramen shop, well, in stead of listening to my opinion he just grabbed my arm and started dragging me away.
Oh well, so be it, I didn't hate ramen, anyway. Kukai practically ran towards the bar and ordered as soon as the man behind the bar turned his attention towards the brunette. "One pork bone ramen, please!" He ordered.
I walked over slowly and sat down. "And you, sir?" The man behind the bar asked. "Oh, same," I answered. Both of us also ordered a beer-well, why not?- and occasionally took sips while we waited for our food.
"What's Amu up to today? I didn't see her when I went to pick you up," Kukai asked me out of the blue. I took another sip of my beer before answering. "Utau dragged her and Miki off somewhere, said that she should enjoy her life as a single lady while she still can."
"Oh! That gives me an idea! You could hold a stag party, or something! Y'know, on the last day of you being a bachelor," he suggested. "I've been living with Miki, MY DAUGHTER, for all these years, so I don't really think you can call me that."
"Aaww, c'mon, it's like a tradition! I had one, wasn't it awesome?" Kukai whined. I glared at him over the rim of my glass. "I wouldn't know, cause I wasn't invited." My brother-in-law froze completely and started laughing nervously. "Oh...you...must've slipped my mind... Oh hey! Our food's here!" Kukai quickly grabbed his bowl and started eating- much like how a pig would.
I decided to be polite and quickly thanked the person who gave me my food and started eating as well. I had to admit that it good. So Kukai's taste wasn't all that bad, huh.
We ate the rest of our food in silence. The only sound coming from a group of older men sitting a few seats away from us, chatting loudly while they ate. I ordered another beer, just because I could.
"Tsukiyomi, you shouldn't drink too much, y'know. Weren't you already drunk after two glasses last time?" I heard Kukai warn me. For some reason his voice sounded very far away.
"What are you talking about, Kuuuukaii?" I started chuckling and then noticed something strange. "Neeeeeeeee, Kuuuukaiii? Since when were there two of you?" Both of the Kukai's gave me a confused expression.
"...The hell are you talking about, Tsukiyomi?" I started tasting around with both of my hands until they finally rested on one of the faces. I proceeded with moving my hands down his face while I patted it, then started pulling his cheeks.
"Oohhh, you have really stretchy cheeks, Kukai~!" I giggled. "Oh mai Ghod, Tshukiyhomi, you're drunk ahlrheady?" Kukai's voice was muffled due to my hands stretching his mouth.
"Ahaha~! You sound funny, Kuuukaaaaii~!" I started laughing even harder, earning several looks from other customers.
Kukai grabbed my hands and pulled them from his cheeks. "You SERIOUSLY can't hold your liquor, can you?" I continued giggling, occasionally letting a hiccup escape from my mouth.
"C'mon, Tsukiyomi, let's get you outta here." Kukai got up and draped one of my arms over his shoulder, hoisting me up. As I stood up, everything started spinning. I stumbled and nearly fell, but Kukai caught me before I hit the ground.
"Aaah, what a weak boy you are! When you can drink endlessly without getting drunk, that's when you know you're a real man!" One of the older men sitting next to us called out.
"Oh crap," Kukai muttered, suddenly gripping me tighter, trying to drag me away. "Haaaaaahh?! What was that, old maaaan?!" I yelled. "You heard me, you ain't no man!" He retorted. That's when I snapped.
"Whaaaaaattt?! Shaddup you old guy! What do you know, huuuhhh?" As I walked over to him, the man got from his stool. I towered over the man, smirking crookedly. "Say that again, you tiny bastard?!" I started laughing, almost psychotically, occasionally hiccuping.
"Let it GO Tsukiyomi," Kukai grunted as he began dragging me out of the shop, though not before putting money for our food on the bar counter, mouthing something that looked like 'I'm sorry.' Either that or 'marry me', but since he's already married and I never heard anything about him being drawn to men I decided to go with the first one.
"You are no fun, Kuuukaaaiiii!" I complained. "It's your fault for getting drunk!" With every step I took I started swaying more. It actually felt kinda nice. I started humming a song. I think it was a theme tune from an anime Miki watches.
"Why aren't you always like this, Tsukiyomi?" Kukai muttered. "Hmmmmm? What are ya talkin' abouuuuut?" "Never mind."
I was dragged through the city, still humming, until I saw my apartment complex. "Ah~ look, Kukai~ it's my home~!" I pointed towards the large building. Kukai sighed. "Yup..."
We climbed the stairs and Kukai rang the doorbell. "It's open!" a voice called from inside. Supporting me with both his hands, he kicked the door open and practically threw me inside.
"Whoa!" A female voice yelped as I fell face-first onto the floor. I looked up and saw a shocked Amu. Amu...
"Amu~~!" I called out as I jumped up and tackled her in a hug. "Eh? Ikuto, what's wrong?" I nuzzled my face in her neck. "A~mu~" I purred. Said pink-head's face turned a thousand shaded of red.
"Kukai, what..."
"He's drunk."
"Oh."
"A~mu~ don't ignore meeee!" I moaned, hugging her tighter. "Aaah, Ikuto, don't do that!" Instead of doing as she asked, I just hugged her even tighter.
"Amu... I like you... No, I loooooove you! This much!" I spread my arms out as far as I could manage, indicating just how big my love for her was. A big grin was stretched across my face as I watched Amu burst into a fit of laughter.
"Um...what's wrong with papa?" Miki suddenly appeared from under our recently set up kotatsu and gave me a worried look. I ran up to her and bent down, so our eyes were level.
"You know? Papa also loves Miki thiiiiiis much!" Again, I spread my arms wide, not being able to go much further than when I showed Amu. "Ehe, papa, you're acting weird." "Hmmm? I'm not acting weird at aaaal! Ah! I know, let's sing that opening song together! From that anime that was on this morning!"
Before Miki could say anything I started singing, earning even more laughter from Amu and Kukai. But instead of laughing as well, Miki started singing along, occasionally giggling.
The room started spinning and spinning even more than it already was. Heeeh, how weird. I laughed before falling onto my stomach and passing out.
The day after my little... 'incident' was a blur. I can faintly remember toilets and throwing up, but nothing more than that. I tried to forget about it and just get on with planning the wedding.
We had a chapel booked, since Amu wanted to get married in a church-again; cause it's 'romantic'. But who am I to complain? Utau insisted on singing as our entertainment, and since both Amu and me know she has a really good voice, we agreed.
Yup, we had nearly everything planned already, even though it's still a few weeks away (which I was very relieved about seeing as it would save a lot of panicking later on). But... I couldn't help but feel like I was forgetting something.
"...up... Wake up..." Someone was calling for me? No, I was still tired, let me sleep. I turned to lie on my side, snuggling even more underneath the warm blanket. "Wake up~..." The same voice sang. This time I pulled the covers over my head. Ahhh, so warm...
"For Gods sake, Ikuto, WAKE THE HELL UP!" The voice started yelling, startling me, and if that wasn't enough, the person who the voice belonged to kicked me in the side.
"What the HELL was that for?!" I shouted as I shot up out of my warm, cozy futon. But the sight in front of me surprised me. Amu had Miki on her lap, grinning widely, presents surrounding them. The whole apartment was decorated with balloons and flags and banners saying 'happy birthday!'. Birthday... Who's birthday...?
I glanced at our cat calendar ( Miki chose it, okay, and cats are kinda cute anyhow) which read December 1st. Oh, that's my birthday. I really did forget. I had a feeling I would all along.
I returned my gaze to my fiancee and my daughter, who, know seeing my enlightened face, yelled : "Happy birthday, papa!"
Miki jumped from Amu's lap to hug me and Amu herself joined in as well. "Th-thanks," I muttered. Amu laughed. "You forgot all about your birthday, didn't you?" I joined in with her laughter. "Yeah, kinda."
"Ne, papa, I made you a present!" Miki started jumping up and down. "Ooh, let me see it." She released me from her iron grip and started looking through the pile of presents, her face lighting up after she locked her eyes on her wanted present.
Her petite hands wrapped around a box and she picked it up with utmost care. Then she handed it to me. "I made it...in school," she mumbled shyly, her face flushed red from embarrassment.
I accepted the present with a smile on my face. "Thanks, Miki." I started tearing the wrapping paper from the box, chuckling inwardly at Miki's anticipated expression. When All the paper was removed, I moved in to open the box and pulled out...a wooden picture frame.
It was painted a light blue and it had all kinds of stickers and glitter on it. On the bottom edge it read 'To the best papa in the world!' which made me kinda emotional. The frame was actually holding a picture as well. It was a picture of Miki, Amu and me, none of us were looking at the camera, but all of us were smiling. It was a candid photo that Amu's little sister Ami must've taken at the amusement park.
I looked up from my present and tackled Miki in a bone-crushing hug. "Thank you, Miki, I love it," I said into her hair. "Really?!" I nodded.
They continued showering me with presents. I got pyjamas (no idea why, maybe cause I just sleep in my underwear, was it a sign?), a keyring (again, in the form of a cat...), a book about violins (that was nice), a shirt (which was actually pretty cool) some cookie cutters (so... I guess they wanted me to bake cookies?), some music pieces for the violin (which I'll definitely be playing) and some birthday cards.
One from Utau and Kukai, Nagi and Rima, my boss from work and of course from Amu and Miki. Miki's was a hand-made one, drawn on some A-4 paper and folded in half to make it look like a card. She had drawn the main characters from her favourite anime, which was called Shugo Chara, I think. They actually looked like real people, much better than the stick people she had drawn a couple of months back. I thanked her by kissing her cheek.
Last, but not least came Amu's card. It was gigantic and the front read 'to a special husband', making me blush slightly in embarrassment. I thanked Amu by kissing her too, only straight on the mouth, causing her to blush immensely.
She struggled to break free but did eventually. "Um... I have one more present for you," she mumbled. "No, no, no, this is way too much already," I tried to stop her. I didn't deserve all this.
"Just accept it, stupid." She put het hand in het pocket and moved it around, like she was searching for something. Then she pulled it out and moved her hand towards me. "Hold out your hand," she ordered. I did as told and held my hand out. She then placed something metallic on it.
I glanced down and saw what my present was. "A...necklace?" I gave her a questioning look. Wasn't that, well a bit girly? "N-not just any necklace!" She stuttered. She opened her other hand, revealing the same necklace, only smaller, and grabbed mine in the process.
After fiddling around for a while a satisfactionary expression graced her features. Pleased, she held up the necklace, that now, instead of having the form of just a vertical line, looked like a cross. "It's a pair," she explained, "they fit together. It's for couples." "So, in other words, isn't it just an excuse for you to buy yourself a necklace, claiming it's mine?"
"Wha... No! Of course not!" Amu yelled offended. "I was only kidding," I chuckled, "thank you." I leaned forward and kissed her on her mouth again, resisting the urge to do more since Miki was right beside us.
"Papa! We made breakfast! Are you gonna eat it?" Miki asked excitedly. "Oohh, I will." I felt happy that the person who had to cook breakfast wasn't me this time.
Amu walked over to the kitchen and came back holding a plate filled with eggs, bacon, croissants and all sorts of delicious stuff. My mouth started watering at the sight of all that food. "Itadakimasu," I gladly said, before digging in. It actually was good, which caught me by surprise since I thought Amu made me cook for a reason. She was probably too lazy now that I think about it.
Both Miki and Amu ate as well and we talked about random stuff. Apparently, I wasn't allowed to do anything today and they were going to treat me. Not that I minded.
After breakfast I changed into my new shirt, much to Miki's pleasure. Since they were going to treat me, we were gonna go somewhere. And I had no idea where, which actually scared me a bit.
"You ready, Ikuto?" Amu asked. "Ready as I'll ever be." Miki grabbed my hand and dragged me out of the apartment, clearly eager. They dragged me through town and through the park, into a part of town I had never been to before.
Miki stopped dead in her tracks in front of a rather normal sized building. This didn't help me guess where there were planning on bringing me. "This is..." I began, hoping for an answer, which I eventually did get. "A concert house," Amu stated. I raised an eyebrow.
"We're gonna take you to a violin concert!" Miki explained happily. My eyes widened. I hadn't been to one of those for ages, not since college, I think. Again, Miki grabbed my hand and started pulling me and Amu started pushing me inside.
They showed three tickets at the entrance and continued walking. We entered a music hall with a big stage. Most of the seats were filled and that actually surprised me.
I was dragged and then pushed into a front-row seat, Amu and Miki taking a seat on either side of me. We had barely sat down and the lights went off, signalling the beginning.
It was a pretty well-known violinist and I enjoyed listening to a professional in real life. I sat back and closed my eyes, being completely taken by the music.
The concert ended after an hour or two and everyone stood to clap, as did I. "That was really good, right, Amu-" I stopped mid-sentence when I noticed Amu was sleeping. I turned to Miki and also found her asleep. I couldn't help but laugh. But well, I guess that if you weren't interested in this kind of thing...
I shook both of them awake and they apologised for not bring able to stay awake. "It's fine, I saw it and isn't that why brought me here? Thank you." I patted Miki's head, making her giggle.
"Well, we're not done just yet," Amu smirked. "Huh?"
I had never expected them to do so much for me. They took me to a fancy sushi restaurant for lunch, made me walk through the entire mall (that one was probably for the girls) where we spent most of our time in either clothes or toy stores.
Finally, we went to another big restaurant for dinner. It was really good, though everything that you don't have to cook tastes nice.
I really wasn't used to this. For the past years the only remotely special thing I did was take a day off from work and just stay home with Miki, so doing all these things...
I couldn't begin to say how grateful I was. For everything. This was the happiest I had been in ages. "Ikuto?" Amu's voice brought me back to reality. "What's wrong? You don't like the food?" "No! That's not it! It's just that... I'm not used to this sort of thing."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I've never celebrated my birthday like this before, so..."
"Papa? You're not happy...?" Miki asked worriedly.
Gaah... Why is everyone misunderstanding me?! I sighed. "I'm really happy, seriously, thank you." Amu and Miki smiled. "It's creepy for you to be so thankful. Let's just say this is for all the birthdays I missed, 'kay?"
A gentle smile graced my features and I kissed Miki on her cheek and Amu on her mouth.
"I love you two."
"We love you too," they said in tune.
And I swear, that was the best birthday I've ever had.
G-chan: fuck yeah, 3655 words! Don't you dare complain about this being short ):(
So, next chapter, another filler (to enjoy this story longer :) ) or wedding? Cause I have NO idea... Well, you know the drill:
Hayato: R&R to make G-chan update-nyan! And who else is sad that I wasn't in 2000%?!
Ikuto: like I said; YOU'RE NOT IN THIS ANIME! OR THE MANGA!
G-chan: *whispers* Don't worry... I still love you
Amu&Ikuto: O.o