Thank you all that reviewed!I freaked out from happiness when I read some(: So anyways! Uh..I'm not sure how to describe this chapter! You guys can decide what to call this chapter!(: So since I'm in a hurry. No recap! Also, sorry if it felt like this story took longer to update then usual. It's been kinda crazy for me lately. I also know that you wonderful, beautiful, readers will see my grammar&spelling mistakes and keep on reading as if their not big of a deal. right? Right. Okay,Im done talking! One last thing, I don't own shugo chara! Peach-pit does!
Paparazzi hurts
Friday
Normal P.O.V
A sigh escaped her pink lips as she stared up at her ceiling for what felt like hours. Friday....The word lingered in her head. She twirled a strand of her pink hair around her finger as the word entered her thoughts again, Friday. That single word held endless emotions behind it. Fear. Excitement. Happiness. Sadness. She gripped the light pink bed sheets below her as she had an inner battle with herself.
"Today's the day.." Her voice ended up sounding like a scared whisper. It lacked the confidence she was hoping for. The day I leave..Her thoughts finished her sentence for her.
Good-bye Japan..She thought halfheartedly. She sucked in her bottom lip, afraid of what she was going to say next. What scared her the most was that it was the undying truth.
"Good-Bye, Ikuto.." She clutched the bed sheets harder as his name left her lips. Ikuto. Ikuto. Ikuto. One after another, images of Ikuto flashed in her head. His smirk..She thought, and watched it fade away. An image of him smiling replaced the smirk. Soon, the smile started to fade also. Eventually she was left with the beautiful image of his midnight blue eyes. So deep she could get lost in them, but filled with secrets she was afraid to uncover.
She tossed on her bed, thinking of endless things she didn't know about Ikuto. The things he's hiding, the secrets he'll never reveal.
She nearly jumped from her bed when her phone started to suddenly ring from the night stand next to her bed. Thinking it was Ikuto, she answered on the first ring, not noticing the collar ID.
"Hello?" She said frantically, eager to speak to Ikuto. At the sound of the person's voice on the other line, she felt her heart sink. She gripped her phone harder, and looked down at her bed sheets. Her lips formed into a tight straight line, thinking how stupid she was thinking that he would call her. After days without any contact, as if he would chose this day to talk to her. Stupid.. She told herself.
"Hey? Did you get all of that, Amu?" Yukari, her manager, asked her on the other line. Her voice sounded tired, but persistent.
Nodding, Amu answered with a simple, "Yes." After a few more words, her manager hanged up. Leaving Amu to sit on her bed, alone with her thoughts once again. She clutched her phone in her hand, and shot her head up. The feeling of hopelessness was gone in her eyes. Determination filled her eyes instead. The once tight straight line her lips formed earlier was now a smile. Her voice was filled with the confidence she lacked earlier;
"I'm not leaving without a goodbye."
...He walked down the busy street, hands stuffed in his pockets. Thankful that his morning shift finally ended, but not knowing what to do for the remainder of the day. I could always sleep. He thought, but he didn't feel sleepy. Not even a little bit. Instead, he felt somewhat wide awake. Had he known there would be nothing to do, he would have asked for a longer shift. He walked past a music store, at the same moment the entrance door opened, and her voice filled his ears. He froze, as if he was in a trance. He knew that voice so well, she started to fill his head.
Amu. Amu. Amu. His heart raced just at the thought of her. The sparkling honey comb eyes, the dazzling smile, the beautiful bubblegum pink hair. He was so focused on her, he didn't notice he had entered the store until he felt the air conditioned air hit him. He looked around the rather small store. Shelves, and shelves were filled with that looked liked CD's. Posters of famous singers, and bands were up on the wall. Out of instinct, he walked up to the one that caught his attention. Despite the crowd of teenagers around the poster, he managed to look above their heads and focus more on the poster.
Holding a microphone, she was winking in the picture. With the rest of her band members at her sides. Miyuki Butterfly was printed in a bright orange across the top of the poster. He smiled to himself. Without a word he exited the music store, and back into the busy street.
" Taiyaki..." He said when the scent filled his nose. He licked his lips as he walked into the near by taiyaki shop. He smiled when he entered the store, no line. Walking up to the cashier, he ordered. He thanked the old woman as she handed him the taiyaki and he handed her the money. Exiting the store, he blew on his taiyaki so he could bite it. Not wanting to take the risk to burn his tongue, he kept on blowing on his taiyaki.
He licked his lips and opened his mouth, tired of waiting for his food to cool down. He was about to take a bite out of the tail when he glanced up. Dropping the taiyaki, his eyes widened as he read the build board above him.
Much like the poster from earlier, the band was in the same pose. He felt a part of his heart being ripped away from him. He re-read the words on the build board.
Miyuki Butterfly! The world famous band leaves Japan on the 8th for a 1year world tour! Good luck Miyuiki Butterfly!
At those words, he felt his world crashing down on him.
Amu's P.O.V
I held back a groan while Yukari talked to me on the phone, for the tenth time so far today. She went on and on about not forgetting anything, and what I should pack. This phone call should've ended an hour ago, but she didn't give me any chances to say that I already did those things. So here I was, in my car, waiting for Yukari to hang up so I could call Rima and tell her what I was going to do.
"Alright then. Meet at the studio around 5:30. We might be a little slow getting to the air port, we plan to have fans everywhere. Be prepared. Bye."
"Finally!" I screamed in my car, she hanged up! I wasted no time going through my contacts and calling Rima, pulling out of my drive way while doing so. I held my phone close to my ear as I drove down the road in a hurry. By the first stop sign, and the third ring, she answered.
"Hello?" Her voice sounded annoyed, tired, and like she just woke up. Pressing on the gas pedal, I replied, "Rima? Are you awake?"
I heard her sigh, "If I was asleep, I wouldn't have answered. So what do you want?" She snapped at me.
"Well. I was wondering if you can help me find Ikuto."
"What do you need Ikuto for?" By now she didn't sound like she woke up, but she still sounded annoyed.
"I'm going to tell him," I took a deep breathe,"..that we're leaving.." I listened closely, waiting for Rima's reply. A few minutes without anything being said, I thought she hanged up, but she answered.
"Uh..not to bust your bubble, but don't you think it's kinda late for telling him that we're leaving..you know, today!"
"I'll find him. So what? Are you helping me or not?" I turned a corner, and stopped in front of a house.
"Fine. Pick me up." I smiled as I saw Rima exit her house. I watched her freeze when she saw me, I couldn't help but laugh a little. Frowning at me as she walked in my car, she sat in the passenger seat next to me.
"Damn it Amu. Scared me there." She told me, and leaned back in her seat. Putting on her sunglasses.
"So where should we check first?" I asked Rima.
She sighed again, and faced me. I could tell she was staring at me like I was stupid, even if she did have sunglasses on, "I don't know. His job."
I nodded and started the car. I smiled to myself as we got closer to Ikuto.
I won't leave without a good bye.
..."HIS SHIFT IS DONE ALREADY?" I yelled in the car when Rima got back from the Cafe and told me the news. I slumped in my seat and lightly hit my head against the steering wheel.
"Thats what they told me. He left around 10." I hit my head again against my steering wheel. I was laying in my bed at 10 in the morning, but I could've been talking to him. Great. Perfect!
"..Where now?" I asked Rima, hopeless.
"Uh..his house?"
I frowned, " I don't know where he lives.." I don't even know that much about him! I told myself. I lifted my head just enough to see over the road, thinking of where he could be.
"What about..the beach?" I asked Rima. She looked at me in a weird way, of course she wouldn't get it. She wasn't the one who went on a 'date' with Ikuto on the beach. I was the one.
"Just trust me on this one..." I spoke softly, mostly to Rima then myself. Trust me..
Normal P.O.V
He walked down the shore, still in his work clothes, hands in his pockets once again. His dark sunglasses covered his midnight blue eyes, he glanced out into the ocean. Remembering a date he had on the very beach he was on, he kicked a shell and watched it fall into the water. He sighed as the waves hit his black pants, soaking then from the knees down. Though he hated the water, he didn't have the energy to get away from it. As the waves kept on hitting him, he looked up in the sky, What if she's already gone? He thought.
"Not even a good-bye.." He spoke to himself softly. His heart ached when he thought about her leaving for a year or more. He knew world tours too well, he won't be seeing her in a year, maybe more. He saw a rock a couple feet away, and picked it up before the wave could take it away. He held the rock tightly in his hand, then threw it as far as he could into the ocean.
"Why, dammit.." He cursed at himself and continued to walk down the shore. Her pink hair, her big honey comb eyes, and her amazing smile filled his thoughts. He shoved his hands back in his pockets and shook his head, trying to get rid of the thoughts of her, but to no avail. He looked up and saw the parking lot before him, he quickly got into his car and sat silently in the drivers seat.
For a few minutes he just sat there. Head against the steering wheel, hands down by his legs, eyes staring down. He looked ruined. He felt ruined.
In an instant his fist made contact with the steering wheel, a honk scared away passing bystanders. He punched the wheel again, and pulled his face away from the steering wheel. A soft, "Why?.." escaped his lips before he hit the wheel again. He stomped his knee's against the car floor, rocking the car slightly as he kept on punching the steering wheel as it made more loud honks.
His dark sunglasses fell from his face, revealing the tears that were ready to fall. He punched the wheel again, yelling, "Why?" His eyesight started to blur as his tears fell, and more formed. After a few more punches his knuckles started to go numb against the leather steering wheel. With every other numb punch he yelled an angry, "Why?" Finally, he had enough of the punches.
He held his head low, wrapped his hands around his midnight blue hair to pull his head lower, and shut it eyes shut. But that didn't stop the tears from falling.
With tears framing his face, and his eyes shut, he whispered shakily, "Why..."
...Pulling into the beach parking lot, Amu exited her car after turning of the engine. She stared out into the ocean, the same one she had the date with Ikuto. Scanning the patch of beach in front of her, she sighed when she didn't find him. Rima leaned against the hood of the car, looking out into the ocean through her sunglasses, "He wont be here..." Amu sighed, she couldn't think straight. Some physcopath was honking their car like crazy somewhere in the parking lot, destroying any thoughts before she could register it completely in her mind.
"I have to at least try..." She told Rima as she walked down towards the shore in her disguise. She glanced down at her phone 1:15. She gripped her phone harder in her hand, four more hours, she thought. Ignoring the many stared, Amu walked down the shore not going to far from her car. She scanned the people getting a tan, playing football, building sand castles, but Ikuto was not one of them.
She glanced at the water, and saw a few people in them. Though she didn't take a chance to check if it was him or not, He hates water, she told herself. She went the opposite direction, but there was no luck. He wasn't any where in sight.
Feeling defeated, she sat down on the sand closest to the waves where she wouldn't get wet. She wrapped her arms around her knees and pulled them closer to her, resting her chin against her knee as she looked out into the ocean. "Where can you be?" She whispered softly as the honking from the parking lot faded away, and images of Ikuto filled her mind once again.
The sound of Rima's voice behind her broke her thoughts of Ikuto, "Hey, obviously he's not here. Lets check somewhere else. The person honking the car is gone, thank god to that too. Whoever that was gave me a headache." She dramatically held a hand to her forehead, and sighed. Amu bit her lip.
Standing up, Amu dusted the sand off of her butt, "I guess your right," she turned to look at a smiling Rima. "Aren't I always?" Rima asked with a grin. Amu only rolled her eyes as she smiled and walked back to her car with Rima close behind her.
"I have a great idea." Rima said when she fastened her seat belt. Pulling out of the parking spot, Amu glanced at Rima, "What is it?" She asked.
"Call. Him." Rima said the answer as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, which she thought it was. She stretched her hands in front of her, " I don't get why you didn't do that before, or why I didn't think of it. You have a cell phone, you know his number. So call him and ask him where he is. Simple. As. That." Rima smiled to herself, knowing that she was, once again, right.
Amu bit her lower lip once again. Why didn't she think of that sooner instead of stressing, and wasting too much of the little time she had? She lightly stepped on the breaks at a red light, and looked at Rima once again. "I hate how I lack common sense," Amu told Rima, looked back at the road and kept on driving. Placing a hand on Amu's shoulder, Rima showed her a sympathetic look, "It's alright. Not everyone has the gift." Their laughter was drowned out by the radio blasting one of their singles.
...He glared at his phone in his hand. He hit the end call button before the beep for the voice mail could start. He sighed when he went back through his contacts and found her. Clicking on Amu's contact, he hit the call button. This was the 5th time he called her. This was also the 5th time she didn't answer. He dropped his phone on the carpeted floor of his apartment living room. Both of his hands tugged on the strands of his midnight blue hair, once again he shut his eyes.
She's gone. She's gone. She left. She left. He thought to himself. He waited for the tears to fall, but when he felt nothing, he opened his eyes once again. He lifted one of his hands to touch his cheek, nothing, it was dry. Ikuto, you emotionless ass. He thought to himself. Yes, he was pained and hurting on the inside. He'd cry if he could right now. Then, one question came to mind.
How can you cry, when you cried all your tears?
He thought about it for a little bit. When an answer came to mind, he stood up from his sitting position on his couch, and walked towards his bedroom. Putting his violin case on his back, and pulling the strap over his shoulder he headed towards the door. The moment he closed the door behind him, his phone started to ring from the floor.
...Amu frowned as she stared down at her phone. She looked up from her phone, and straight at Rima in the couch in front of her. "He didn't pick up," She told Rima and looked back down at her phone. "How am I supposed to say goodbye now?" Amu mumbled the words into her arm, looking out the window.
"How many times did you try to call him?" Rima asked, not knowing what to say to her friend sitting in front of her.
Amu looked back at Rima, "I tried 8 times. I left 2 voice mails saying I need to tell him something. sent 10 text messages...Nothing.." Amu pulled her knees to her chest, and buried her face into her knees. At this point, she felt defeated.
"Tell my why you won't just tell him good-bye through a voice mail?" Rima asked.
Amu lifted her head just enough so Rima could see her eyes. Tears brimming around the sides, and it was starting to get red. "It won't feel right if I do that," Amu let her head drop back onto her knees. For a few minutes it was silent in the living room. As Amu's silent tears slid down her face, Rima tried to think of something to say to her.
Not wanting the silence get to her head, Rima sighed, "Look. He might be there in front of the studio before we leave with the other hundreds of fans that will most likely be there. Me, Utau, and Nagihiko will find some way for you to get to him. You do your business, and then bye bye. Bye Japan, hello Paris!"
Without moving, Amu mumbled into her legs loud enough for Rima to hear, "How am I supposed to find him?That's hundreds of fans. And what if he's not there? What am I supposed to do then Rima?" Towards the end, Amu's words turned into shouting and she glared at Rima. Exhaling calmly, Rima answered in a calm voice, "Then you call him. Tell him what ever you want to tell him. If he's mad, he's mad." Rima shrugged, not knowing what else to say to her friend.
Amu once again looked out the window, as silent as a mouse. Another wave of silence fell onto Rima's living room, that is, until a cell phone started to ring. Thankful that the silence was broken, Rima dug around her bag for her cell phone. Once having it in her hands, she answered on the third ring.
"Hello?" She answered.
"Uh-huh...Okay... Alright. See you soon."With that Rima hanged up and stood up from her seat on her couch while tossing her phone back in her bag.
"Utau needs us for something, or needs to ask us something. I dunno, something like that." Rima shrugged as she walked out the front door and towards Amu's car. Amu, following silently behind her.
"I hope she packed already. I do not want to help her decide what to pick from her giant closet." Rima tried to start a conversation with Amu, but it only made the awkward silence between them grow even more awkward.
"...I can't even imagine what that cross dresser packed." Rima chuckled to herself when she mentioned Nagihiko as a cross dresser.
"He won't cross dress on tour..I hope."Amu told Rima, but kept her eyes on the road. A small smile was on her lips.
"You never know what that guy might do." Rima shook her head, and smiled also. Oh Nagihiko. She thought.
"So what do you think Utau wanted?" Rima sent a silent thank you the moment Amu started to interact more in the conversation. Rima shrugged.
"I dunno. We have to find out once we get there."
"Well then. Lets find out." Not even realizing they already reached Utau's house, Rima stilled stayed in her seat. Only when Amu shut off the engine when she quickly got out of the car and walked towards the front door.
Before they bothered to ring the door bell the front door swung open, with a frantic Utau. Without wasting another second, Utau pulled her friends inside her living room and slammed the front door behind them. She spun around to face all of her friends in her living room, Rima, Amu, and Nagihiko.
"Alright guys. The secret conference starts now."
...Ikuto walked around the nearly empty park with his violin case over his shoulder. He had his hands was stuffed deep into the front of his jean pocket as he walked. He stared up into the sky above him as he walked, occasionally looking down to not bump into anyone or trip. Once again he stared into the clear blue sky. The perfect weather....On the worst day, Ikuto thought, feeling even more smug.
"Can you believe it? Miyuki Butterfly will be leaving their studio in 5 minutes!" At the sound of the girls talking about the band, Ikuto instantly slowed down to keep a steady pace with the two girls walking next to him. Not close enough to look like a rapist/ creeper, but close enough to hear what they were saying.
"I know! What air port are they going to? What if their taking their private jet instead?" One of the young school girl asked, looking into the sky as if she would find her answer.
Shaking her head, the other girl answered, "No. Their going to Seiyo Airport. I saw in a magazine that their taking off in their private jet there! Isn't that cool!"
Ikuto's breathe caught in the back of his throat. Seiyo airport, thats only 20 minutes away. I still have time! Ikuto thought, smiling to himself.
"It's so cool! Hey, do you think we can see them at the airport?"
"I do-" The young girls words faded as Ikuto ran back towards his car, the smile still plastered on his face as he ran. He quickly unlocked his car, got in the drivers seat, carefully put his violin case down, and started the car. He slammed his foot on the gas pedal the second he got on the street.
I don't care if it's useless. Your not leaving without me telling you . . . . . . .
...Amu exited the studio last, and was nearly blinded the second she stepped foot outside. Camera's were every where, and the screaming of hundreds of fans filled her ears. She managed to smile, and walk forward slowly. On her left were fans screaming her name as she passed them. On her right were also fans, along with the paparazzi taking pictures as if their life depended on it. She felt as though the walk to the limo was miles away, that was until Yukari came from behind her and grabbed hold of her arm.
"It's alright Amu. We're almost there. Just smile." Yukari whispered quickly into her ear and walked along side with Amu towards the limo. Amu smiled as Yukari instructed her. She let Yukari guide her towards the limo as she smiled and nodded to her left and right. After a few minutes Yukari stopped her, and she finally saw the limo before her.
"Don't forget to say good-bye." Yukari whispered into Amu's ear before slipping into the limo herself. Amu turned around to face the hundreds of fans. She searched through the crowd for Ikuto, but she didn't see any blue hair. She felt her heart ache, but managed to smile.
"Minasan sayōnara! Subete o arigatō! Watashi wa anata no subete ga daisuki!" Amu yelled to the crowd while waving at them then entered the limo.
"Was he there?" Rima asked Amu the second she got inside the limo. At first she didn't answer. She hung her lead low as she looked at the hands in her lap. The first tear fell as she looked at Rima. The pain and sadness in them was enough for Rima to know the answer, and to feel the pain herself.
"It'll feel like forever until I see him again.." Amu whispered to herself. And so the feeling of endless tears started.
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...Ikuto ran. He ran as fast as his legs could carry him. Gate 27. Gate 27. He repeated those words in his head as he ran. He mentally thanked the group of fans he got the information from as he ran. He pushed past crowds of people, mostly fans that want to say farewell to their favorite band. Then finally, he saw pink. Amu! His mind screamed when he saw her giving her plane ticket to the airplane attendant. With only a couple of people in his way, he felt the adrenealine pump in his body. Closer. Closer. He got ever so close.
"Amu!" He called out to her. He was so close to reaching her, so close. He broke past the line of body guards and got ever so close to her. She turned around by the sound of someone calling her name. When she turned around she saw his face, his midnight blue hair, his piercing midnight blue eyes filled with so many emotions. Her eyes widened, and so did his. NO! Their voices echoed together, yet it was too late.
The gate had closed. Separating the two at the last second.
Ok so I rushed at the end because it took me forever to right this and i was get restless. So, excuse the mistakes and what not. When Amu says goodbye to her fans she speaks in japanases, I used google translate:) Super sorry for the wait, it took a while to write this long. ass. chapter. So anyways, thanks for all of you that reviewed. I hope you all liked this chapter that i worked hard on! DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY DAMN WORDS THIS IS? it says 5,085 on my word count. GAH THIS IS TOO MANY WORDS to look over. I know what you guys are thinking. 'After all of that YOU TELL ME THIS? SCREW YOU!' yeah i know, oh well. So..school is coming, so this may be the last story i will write until..i dunno the next summer vacation. lol i suck, huh. This is mostly in normal P.O.V so..yeah.. :D thanks again for everything you guys! love all you ta' death!
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