Amu's P.O.V

I knew it. I should have never even let him stay. Never let that small sliver of hope grow that maybe, just maybe he wanted me. That he had changed. It was all another one of his lies. He was a liar, and I had fallen for his trick even after I had sworn I never would.

In the end, you really cant trust anyone.

I ran through the forest, begging myself not to cry. He didn't deserve those tears. This was his loss, not our. NOT OURS.

'How could he do that? It was a mistake. We need to go talk it over with him, and get his side of the story. He wouldn't do that, he promised, he promised, Amu.' my wolf begged, hurt, betrayal and desperation laced in her voice.

'He left us for her once, why not again,' I say. She just whimpered, and let out a bitter howl.

I remember how they used to be. I remember how Saaya would sit on Ikuto's lap, chatting away with that annoying, high pitched screech of hers while he would ignore her. I remember how half the time they were sucking each others faces off. How she would brag about how she was going to be Luna. I remember him telling her he loved her. And I remember how he told me that she was his true mate.

Yet, he came crawling back to me the first chance he got.

It would have been just a little bit different if he had told people that I was his real mate and made an effort to find me, but he didn't. If, instead of just MARKING me, he begged, pleaded, and did everything in his power to show how sorry he was, but he didn't. Even if he just look me by the hands and apologizes, saying all the things that he had done wrong, but he didn't.

I wasn't worth him swallowing his pride for a single conversation.

So why should he be worth my tears?

I got to the edge of my territory, and just plopped down onto the ground.

I felt someone come from behind me, and wrap there arms around me. Imediatately, I lean against, recognizing the scent.

"Yoru," I murmur as he runs his hands through my hair.

"Hey there, princess, what cha up to?" he asks in a happy tone. My smile falls and I stare off into the distance.

"Amu, what happened?" he asks, his voice turning more serious. I look over my shoulder at the other warriors that were standing there.

"You all did a great job, go get some rest and grub, ill be there in a bit." says Yoru, taking the hint. They all nod, giving both of us grateful, tired smiles and shifting into their wolves and running off. When they were out of sight, Yoru turns back to me.

"What happened while I was gone? Your scent as shifted a little bit, and you look miserable." he says, squeezing me tight.

I let my 'Alpha toughness' melt away and whimper, tears pooling in my eyes. I move red shirt off my shoulder and push my hair onto my other shoulder. He looks down and his eyes turn into this shocked expression. He lightly traces over it, and looks into my eyes with shock and hurt.

"Did you find your new mate? Why didn't you tell me? I thought we were best friends!" he says angrily.

"It was Ikuto. At the Alpha meeting, he saw me, said that they would alliance, and he wanted to shake on it. I-I knew that if I didn't, it wouldn't be official, but I was scared. Going against my gut, I did. He yanked me to him, and marked me, Yoru, he marked me without my permission." I cry, a few tears falling.

"Hush, hush, don't cry Amu, it will be okay," he says, shifting me in his arms, and rocking me, sadness lacing his voice.

I could feel Nade hiding behind a tree, watching, wondering if she should come or not.

"Nade," I say quietly, and she comes forward, taking me from Yoru's arms.

I felt so weak. I was an Alpha, yet here I was, crying on other people because I was weak. To weak to be an Alpha, stop crying, and put my big girl panties on.

"You are not weak. You are strong and don't you ever second guess that. That mark is what is making you like this. In the last 24 hours, everything has changed and no one will blame you for that. You might not have Alpha blood in you, but you have something. You were MADE to be a leader and BUILT to be strong. It doesn't matter what," Nade whispers.

"I think that we need to have a sleepover, don't you think?" asks Yoru as he rubs my back. I give him a wide smile, and he takes out his cell phone.

"Yaya, Rima, Tadase, get ready for a party. Get all the pillows and blankets, the Escalade, and Amu's wallet so we can buy snacks. We will meet you in the cave." says Yoru, holding the phone away from his ear.

"YAAAAAAAAA PARRRRRTY!" scream Yaya, then all of them hang up.

"Thanks, Ru-Ru," I say to Yoru. He give me a teasing smile.

"No problem, Mu-Mu." he says. He looks off into the distance.

I watch as the happiness melts off his face and a blank look replaces it. His eyes are visibly on fire. He wants revenge.

"Yoru…." I say, and his attention snaps back to me.

"He should pay, Amu, he should pay for what he did to you. He doesn't deserve you after all that he has done to you and he has the nerve to mark you…." he says.

For a second, I wonder if I should tell him. Tell him the other reason…

"What else happened, Amu?" he asks.

"Then…I say him kissing the girl he rejected me for. For a split second, I had been foolish enough to believe that he changed. How stupid of me," I say. He just rubs my back, whispering soothing words in my ear.

"Its okay, you will always have me," he says.

"Always?"

"Always"

I wrap my arms around his neck and hold him tight, letting him carry me to our rendezvous point where Yaya, Rima and Tadase would be waiting. He talks to me quietly about what they did while they were on their mission. How they had caught some bad rouges and helped some good ones, or any strays, telling them they were welcome. He told me about all the souvenirs that he had gotten all of us. He just talked, making sure that there was no silence where I could think of 'Bad things'.

We arrived, and found three extra members there. Nagi was there, rubbing Rima's shoulders with a smile on his face, while she pretended to not like it. Utau was there, talking with Rima while Kukai and Tadase talked.

"Who are they?" asked Yoru.

"Who are you?" asked Utau. Yoru chuckled.

"I asked first." he said.

"That is Utau, Ikuto's brother and her mate Kukai. That's Nagi, Rima's new found mate," I say, Yoru gives Rima a wide grin.

"Short stack finally found her mate, and he isn't a Gremlin! Great job!" he says sarcastically. Nagi growled lowly, but Yoru just smiled.

"Moron," she murmured under her breath.

"Well, do you think we should let them stay?" Nade asks me. Before I could say anything, Utau steps in.

"I just want to say that none of us are happy with Ikuto. He never told us who his mate was. We never knew, Amu. We are sorry for all the things that we let happen, and we know that they were wrong. If you don't want us here, that's fine, but we want you to know that we care." says Utau. I give them all a grin.

"That's all I ever needed to hear. I forgive you. Now, if we are all going to be here, were going to need a lot of food," I say.

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Yoru's P.O.V

I was glad that this was all distracting Amu. I was glad that she would be happy, even if it was just for awhile. Lovingly, I watch as she goes through the snack isle, practically just picking up anything that looked good and throwing it into the quickly filling cart. She did this without batting an eyelash.

"Hey there, hottie, a tiny little thing like you going to eat all that food?" I say, she turns around, smiling at me with a taunting look on her face and winks.

"I may need the big, bad boy you are to help me," she says. I pick her up, throwing her into the cart and riding off with her as she squeals, laughing. We get to the checkout and the lady gives us the weirdest look ever, which makes Amu laugh even harder. After the 24 hours she has had, I was happy I could make her smile so much.

We get all the stuff and run back to the Escalade. I drive us back to The Fort, and unload all the food while Amu changes into her swimsuit. When we are both done changing, we go back into the secret place where a small waterfall flows into a natural lake. Everyone else is already in, splashing away. I put the food down and Amu drags me through the trees, so we are hidden, and up the cliff.

"Jump on the count of three," she says. "One, Two, THREE!" she yells and we jump, falling into the waters below and splashing everyone.

"NO FAIR!" yells Yaya, and we all end up splashing each other.

We play in the lake for a long time, until the sky turns dark and the lightning bugs start coming out. We catch them in jars as our flashlights and put them around the campfire we built. Amu sat on my lap as we all roasted marshmallows and I couldn't help but think how perfect today was. I was with her and she was smiling. She had forgotten about her current troubles and all her Alpha duties for long enough to enjoy the fact that she was still young.

"Thanks, Yoru," she says, pushing my long, shaggy blue hair out of my eyes and putting a cookies in my mouth. I lean down, letting her take the other end, and we share.

"No problem, princess," I say as our eyes bore into each others, clashing colors of gold.

She smiles up and breaks our eyes contact, staring into the flames.

"I want to hear a story." says Rima, breaking the comfortable silence.

"I think its about time you guys hear my story, for my 'new friends' and my old 'family'. I don't think I should just keep you all in the dark. It was a long time ago, or so it seemed. I was a straight A student, and I had never really given any second thought to my mate. All I was concerned about was the student counsel, and other things like that. I walked down the halls of school, lost in thought, when I ran into someone. Immediately, I felt sparks fly. When I looked up, I was looking into the face of one of the 'popular kids' and a football player, named Daichi and ill be the first one to tell you that his ego was his only flaw. He was devilishly handsome, athletic, but he bragged WHENEVER he got the chance. When he saw that I was nothing but a high ranked book worm, he was disgusted, and rejected me. Not even an hour later, he had marked and mated his short time girlfriend, Temari. I became so love sick. Nagi took such good care of me. But when he finally left to sleep, I slipped away. I knew I couldn't be around the man that had rejected me. Then I met Tadase…and Rima and Yaya. They accepted me. They loved me. And well, everything grew. I never did regret leaving, though I did regret not saying goodbye. I made something of myself and I love where I am today." she says.

We all listened with rapt attention. We couldn't believe that they very locked up Nade would be sharing something with us. We knew she loved us, but she loved her privacy even more sometimes.

"Oh, Nade!" yells Utau and Yaya simultaneously, throwing there arms around her neck. She just laughs.

"Im happy you finally told them, Nade," Amu says happily. We all are quiet, for a while, until I get up, and spread a blanket out on the top of the cliff where we usually dive off. It's a huge rock that we lay on to get a perfect view of the sky. All of us make ourselves comfortable, and stare up at the full moon and the millions of stars.

I look over to see Amu looking up, the moon and the stars shimmering in her eyes in a way that I didn't even know could happen. Its like she locked them inside there. She has this expression filled with hope, like maybe, just maybe if she wishes on the moon and all the stars she might, just might get her wish.

And I cant help but hope that wish is me, or something that I can do for her.

"I think we should held back home, so we can sleep," says Nagi, as a sleeping Rima slumbers on his lap.

"Come with us," says Nade. she leads them to the side of a cliff where there are lots of rocks. She moves a medium sized one away, and it shows an opening.

"Get in," she tells him. He looks hesitant, but he does and we all follow him.

"I can see anything," says Kukai as we all stand in the dark cave. I feel the wall, and find the switch to the small generator and the whole place lights up. The walls are made of pink and blue quartz, and the whole room has small Japanese lanterns lighting it. There are four, king size mattresses all put together, with lots of multi colored blankets covering it. There are mounds of pillows all on the bed and around it, making it look so comfortable. We all jump on the bed, well, except for Nagi as he gets yelled at by a now wide-awake Rima claiming that she was woken because of him.

I pull Amu to my chest, and she snuggles into me.

"I think that this is the start to a new friendship," says Utau. Amu laughs.

"Goodnight, everyone," I say. They all chorus their goodnights back and I dim the lights. They are low, but not off completely.

Amu, whose head is on my stomach, turns so she is facing me.

"Love you, Yoru," she mumbles, eyes closing.

"Love you too, Princess," I say. Then im swept away into a world of dreams.

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Ikuto's P.O.V

I drove. I drove with absolutely no destination in mind. I drove until finally, I could see the moon shining above me and I had reached a dead end in the middle of no where.

"Why doesn't she just take me back!" I yell out loud.

"You haven't proven it, even once." my wolf says.

"Proven it, what the hell are you talking about?" I ask.

"There is something that you are too stupid to understand. She doesn't just want you for a while, she wants you forever," he says.

"Yeah, im willing to give her that," I say.

"Are you?" he asks. I stop. Would I be willing to give up all the parties, the girls, the constant boosts to my ego for her? My resolution wavers, just a bit.

"See. You don't realize she isn't another one-night-stand. She isn't one of those month-3 month relationships. She is a forever kind of girl. She wants nothing less than all of you. She want to know that if she dies, that you will follow, not because she is selfish, but because she needs to know that your sole survival is based on her well being. She wants to be yours forever. She wants your dedication to her to be for forever, then some. Do you get it? Can I force it down into your thick skull that she needs more than you are giving right now? And let me tell you this, if she cant get all those things from you, then she will sure as hell find someone who can give them to her." he says. I was shocked that my wolf could be so serious about something. He was usually just a big, idiot pervert, not serious like this.

"I'm trying." I say.

"Try harder. Grow up, Ikuto. And do it fast before you lose what's ours," he says, and then he goes silent. I get back into the car, all those thoughts whirling through my head.

Am I really willing to give up everything for her?

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Im actually pretty content with this chapter! Its pretty long! Thanks for reading and telling me what you think! Feel free to comment!

RESPONSE TO REVIEWS

PrincessSkylar- thanks so much! I really hope you like this chapter!

black neko hime- When does Saaya NOT cause trouble…never! Amu WILL tell Saaya off, but for this chapter, I thought we needed a break from the violence and hello to some honesty and a new character! Thanks for reading!

MissXAmulet- I KNOW RIGHT! I HATE SAAYA! All my reviews, follows and favs are from my wonderful readers like you! And I would be glad to check out your stories! I hope I can give you all you ask for in this story! Thanks for reading!

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Burakkurozu-Black Rose- you have no idea how flattered I am that im going on your project! It makes me beyond happy to hear that! I hope you get an A+! in this chapter, I tried to make Amu a little more human. She is strong, but when you bottle up emotions, there bound to overflow eventually. Why would he pull someone closer when he was half asleep, because he is a moron…and he was probably dreaming of Amu LOL. It would suck for him if it were Tadase…that would be hilarious. Have a good whatever time of day it is! Thanks for reading and enjoy!

XxChopSueyxX- thanks! I feel bad for Amu too! Enjoy the chapter!

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AmuxIkutolover- I always love to read my wonderful views stories! And ill be sure to check out your long term story! 9 CATS! OMG THAT'S A LOT OF KITTIES! I have friends who have like 7, and that's hard enough! Make sure to love them for me! Im glad you could get an account! Ugg, I so hate Saaya! Rima and Nagi are together! Im a Rima+Nagi fan! I have so many reviews cuz I have so many stories! Lol, all but one are long term, so its just more area to cover. The more you make, the more you get! If you believe in your stories, and love them then it shouldn't matter what they think! Thanks for reading!

Kidd13- Saaya, and another mystery person that will cause trouble will be around for awhile….. Tehe! He does feel guilty, but is still so indecisive! No violence in this chapter, thought I might be overdoing it a bit…tehehe!

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Spunky Kitten- Yes, yes, but I think that will soon change. Thanks for reading.

AnimeLover261- I think Saaya should just get zapped by lightning! I try to make all my chapters super emotional so the reader gets sucked in! OMG YOU LIKE ADVENTURE TIME TOO! I LOVE THAT SHOW AND I LOVE MARSHALL LEE! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ! LOL I love Rima and Nagi together! Thanks for reading!

Deathly Jester- Lol, yeah, it's the bad people that make the story have conflict. And otherwise it would just be Amu constantly kicking Ikuto's butt cuz he never changed. and that would get boring….somewhat! I get how hard it is to balance all the stories! Trust me! This is the only one I update regularly…iv neglected on for 23 days! Im an awful person….thanks for reading!

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XXTheRedStrawberriesBestXX-oh, Saaya's punishment will come eventually! Amu will kick her butt! I think its Ikuto that needs to get off his butt and fight for Amu because now it's a LOVE TRIANGLE! Thanks for reading!