Ikuto's past is based from the manga Shugo Chara!

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Eat You Alive

Secrets of a Pervert

"Ngh…where am I?" I open my eyes to gray. "Huh?"

"Welcome to Memory Enterprises! I am your Armageddon, and please stand up, it's for the safety of your precious little tailbones!"

I blink and sit up slowly, staring at a fourteen-year-old with long white hair, her teal eyes slightly narrowed. She's wearing some flight attendants uniform, holding a tiny microphone in her hands. "…You're that girl…"

"Please, stand up unless if you want your as- to be sore."

I role my eyes and push myself up, curling my hands into fists. "LISTEN ARMAGEDDON! WHERE AM-"

The floor starts to shake and she's chuckling. She hangs her face a little, the chuckling becoming giggling, and she hunches and then throws her head back, cackling. "HAVE A NICE FALL!"

Okay, I know she's a psychopath, but you'd at least think she wouldn't have awful puns. The floor cracks, then a little more, and then more until the structure below me collapses and I fall into black. "AAAAAHHHHH!"

"Mom needs to be in bed. We can't visit her because it'll tire her out."

"No!"

"Utau."

"I want to see her! I miss her!"

I finally land on something and the halo cracks. I wince and cough up a little blood. I groan and push myself up to see I'm in a hospital. There are two kids at some seats outside of a room. One is eleven with blue hair, like Ikuto's, and blue eyes. He has a white polo shirt and gray shorts, white socks going just under his knee and black loafers. The other is a blonde girl, around nine, with violet eyes filled with tears. She's wearing a poofy dress and tiny little shoes with white stockings. I can tell that this is Ikuto and Utau when they were younger.

"Daddy is gone, too," Utau continues. "What's going to happen to us?"

"Utau," Ikuto kneels down and grabs her arm gently. "We can't cry." YOU CRY ALL THE TIME YOU DUMB AS-. "Kids like us shouldn't cry. Or else, everyone will pity us."

Utau looks sad still, but she stops bawling and only lets small tears escape. "What does pity mean?"

"When people feel sorry for us."

"People can't feel sorry for us?"

Ikuto's silent. I raise a brow and scream, "OF COURSE THEY CAN YOU IDIOT! HE'S OBVIOUSLY JUST BEEN AN IDIOT ALL HIS LIFE!"

The area around the three of us flickers red once, then twice in a row five seconds later. After a few more seconds, it starts flickering like crazy and my head starts to burn. Heat rises and one big flash of red cloaks my vision. It morphs into the hospital, when I was for.

Mom crying.

The doctor apologizing for the miscarriage.

I gasp and hug my torso, looking around. "Ikuto?" I call. "IKUTO?"

He's not there. Why? Why isn't he here! Why is this so different from when I did it with Lucy (NO TIME FOR SICK JOKES YOU PERVERTS!)? "Because this is IKUTO, not LUCY…or should I say Kaede?"

I wince and clutch my head tightly, squeezing my eyes together. "SHUT UP ALREADY!"

The scene flashes again. "Onii-san!"

I blink and look up to see a tiny boy, six most like it, and he hugs young Ikuto's leg. I look around to see a house's insides. It looks a little like a modernized Feudal Era manor. A woman with brown, curly hair held with a headband and soft eyes looks at the boy. "Ikuto-kun and Utau-chan are going to be living with us, Tadase." Tadase? This midget? "I feel sorry for them. Tadase, please be nice to them."

Ikuto and Utau look at her with a little scorn. She gave them pity, the exact thing they didn't want. Everything flashes red again and the heat rises. The sound of metal clashing rings and glass breaks. I hear the scream of a little girl and I look to see the scene of my father's death. "Daddy? DADDY!"

A flash of normal light to a man with blue hair and a coat walking down a sidewalk. He's carrying a light-blue violin case. Isn't that the one Ikuto has? I mean, I see him carry it around sometimes…Is this his dad? Where is he…I gasp and cover my mouth. He…He left them?! The scene flickers once more and this time to the outside of that house Tadase apparently lives at. Ikuto's staring into his hands, staring at Yoru's egg. "A black egg?" he wonders.

"Hey Ikuto-kun!" a familiar voice calls to him. Ikuto jumps and quickly hides the egg. The chairman of Amu's school comes up. He has the violin case of Ikuto's father. What?

Ikuto takes it when it's offered to him. "Dad's violin?"

"It came into my care when Soko was hospitalized. You're father's feelings are in that violin, so you should hold onto it."

Ikuto's face hardens and turns cold. "I don't understand my father's feelings. It's because of him…Utau and Mom are unhappy."

The chairman blinks before placing his hand on Ikuto's cheek, smiling. "What's happiness? What's unhappiness?"

I blink and the scene freezes. "What?" I ask. "What ha-"

"Quiz~" Armageddon sings from somewhere. "What is happiness?"

I sigh and think. Might as well answer before she does something to screw this up…Besides, whatever she tries to do might hurt Ikuto, wherever he is. "Um…Is it what makes you smile? What makes you feel good inside?"

"Eh, pretty crppy definition, but I guess it works. Now, what's unhappiness?"

Oh this is a piece of cake! I take a deep breath. "Unhappiness is when you frown, when you cry, when you can't take it anymore. It's when someone just wants to disappear and morn by themselves, when they want to push everyone away and just…wait to die…"

There's silence for a few seconds before everything just starts up again. "Do you think your father was happy leaving you?"

"I don't know."

"But don't you want to know? About your father?"

The scene flashes red, and I'm at a therapist. All I can see is me on the couch, my dyed-black hair in front of my eye and only one brown-contact is showing. Everything else is dark and shadows dance by rapidly, my clothes changing constantly. I get what it means: all the times I was forced to see the therapist. Little voices fly from the right to the left.

"She's crazy."

"He died…"

"If you put her in an asylum, she will be no harm to herself or others."

"He came…"

"Maybe if you just think about the drastic change, Mrs. Kia."

"I was scared…"

"Scared of what?"

"…At first it was two girls. They kept shouting at me, saying I deserved to die. Then it was everything that was unlucky, saying I'm the reason Mommy and Daddy fought, the reason he's dead, the reason HE came…"

"Don't you see?" Armageddon's voice cackles. "There was a time you saw us, you just don't remember."

I grit my teeth. "Shut up, I never saw you two before S.O.R.R.O.W."

She cackles. "Whatever. You might want to focus on saving Ak-I mean…Ikuto...and yourself."

I raise a brow and sigh. Everything flashes and it is back to Ikuto and the chairman, but it's snowing and they're on a bench somewhere. Ikuto has the violin and has a scarf and coat on, like the Chairman, but different colors. Ikuto looks upset, making me take a step forward. "What's wrong Ikuto?" I ask. Then I slap myself. "He can't hear me, idiot."

"Father's violin…wasn't causing bad luck for everyone…"

"That's right," the chairman says. "You're a stray cat with a lot of pride." Now isn't that the pure truth? My 'insensitivity', as you little voices might call it, stops when Ikuto starts crying. "You kept all your hurt and tears inside, didn't you? Well, there's no need to anymore. Nobody has to feel sorry for you. Nobody is here to order you around. You are…"

Yoru's egg flies out into the air, just a little above Ikuto's height, and pops open, revealing Yoru in the annoying little pelt of fur. "FREE!"

"Of charge?" I chuckle. I'm about to walk away when extra footsteps sound. "Armageddon?!" I turn around swiftly. Okay…

…it's worse.

They're two men from that fcking Easter corporation. "We finally found you, Ikuto Tsukiyomi."

Yoru darts into Ikuto's hands and growls at them. The Chairman sighs. "You found us already? This boy has the right to Easter." Okay, when I find Ikuto, he is so explaining this! That, and he's going to get a cuddle because I saw younger him cry (:'(). "As long as he had be missing, the inheritance issue would've remained unsettled. But…I guess I couldn't keep this up for long. I took him because I didn't want to see a child forced into the world of power struggle amongst adults."

WHY DIDN'T MOM MARRY THIS GUY? I mean he's nice, kind, knows Ikie-koi (shut up), sees characters, is fun, and HE DOESN'T TAKE 'WEAR-MY-BRA' DARES (yes, I'm holding the Step accountable for that still)! I slap myself to get my brain to focus instead of all this side-tracking nonsense. POPCORN! *Slap*

This time, one of the douche bags talk. "Actually, the situation has changed. Ikuto-kun's mother has remarried." Fck.

"What?" the Chairman gasps.

"Easter now belongs to Mr. Ichinomiya, or Mr. Hoshina, if you will." He turns to Ikuto. "Now come with us, Ikuto-kun. Don't cause your new father any trouble."

Ikuto's eyes are wide and shocked. There are tiny tears at the corners of them. I blink. I blink. I blink. I know this is a memory…but…"I'M SORRY! HE'S MY STEP-FATHER! I HAVE TO DO WHAT HE SAYS!"

Ice slams into one guys skull. Both the Chairman and Ikuto look surprised. "Ooh~ You're p-ssed, aren't you~?" I walk forward, clutching another ball of ice. The other guy is staring. Armageddon is doing something to the memory to make it altar, I know that…

…but these fckers are going to learn a lesson, memory figment or NOT.

"Touch him, and you will get an ice halo of your own shoved up your fcking as-es!" I growl, chucking the other at the second's ribs. "HE'S NOT GOING ANYWHERE!"

"…M…Maki…"

I gasp and turn to young Ikuto. He's looking at me with familiarity. The Chairman starts to crack like ice and explodes into ice shards. "Oh great, our minds are one big fcking ICE WONDERLAND," I kick a pole. "Look, shrinkie-dink, I got these bstards to take care o-"

"MAKI!" he runs up, tackling me. "MAKI I WAS SO SCARED!" He's crying again now. "I DIDN'T THINK I COULD GET OUT OF HERE! I COUL-COULDN'T FIND YOU A-A-ANYWHERE!" He's sniffling and crying. "Waaaaaah!"

I blink. Okay…so Ikuto went through a major change down the meter of life. "I…kuto…" I hear groans and see the two men are starting to get up. "Look, sit on the bench, and we'll talk late-"

"NO!" he shouts. "I want to talk now! I'm scared Maki! Don't you care a little?"

I blink. "Um…Yeah. That's sort of why I want you to plant your as- on the bench and WAIT, midget."

"I'm not a midget!" he pouts.

I huff and pick him up, setting him on the bench myself. "So tedious as a child…"

"Am not!"

"Listen to yourself, midget."

He puffs out his cheeks and looks at his hands to ice shards. "I hate being eleven again…"

I roll my eyes and walk to the two guys, turning my arm into one long ice scythe. I raise it and swing, but something stops me. I turn to Armageddon. "Nuh-uh~ I'd much prefer you hate than destory~" I turn back to the guys to watch them explode in ice shards. I turn to Ikuto, as does Armageddon. "Come here, sweetie~"

He blinks and starts walking forward. With each step he grows a little until he's back to age eighteen. I sigh and he grabs my other hand, smiling at me shyly. "Bratty for a kid," I mutter. He sighs and Armageddon evaporates. The scene changes to…roofs? And not just any roofs, these were roofs from where I used to live! "Why are we here?" I ask.

He gulps. "Maki, could you try to avoid th-this memory?"

"Wh-"

"I'm bored-nya!"

"Then go talk to cats."

"But they're all busy-nya!"

I raise a brow and look to see Ikuto and Yoru, hopping roofs. "…Ikuto…"

"…Yeah?..."

"…WHAT THE FCK ARE YOU DOING THERE!" I shake him like crazy.

"Why can't you just bother people?"

Yoru slumps in the air next to a sixteen-year-old Ikuto (I can kind of tell with the whole 'SIXTEEN YEARS OLD' painted on the back of his school jacket). "Who? That girl?"

"What girl?"

Yoru points to some dancing ten-year-old with black hair, singing. "But I set fire to the rain! Watched it pour as I touched your face! Let it burn while I cry! 'Cause I heard it screaming out your name, your name!"

Past Ikuto stares at her and his jaw drops a little. "…She's cute."

"She's TEN," Yoru reminds.

"And…where's the point?"

Past Ikuto follows me by roof until I reach my school, where I pocket my IPod and rush in. I glare at my…hehe…boyfriend and he gulps. "M-Maki-koi, please, let me exp-"

It flashes to night-time. He's hoping roofs as Black Lynx and he lands on the roof of a building. "Okay…does Taki live in 256 or 255?" he mutters. He sighs and tries 255.

Ikuto blushes. "What?" I ask.

"…I actually forgot this…" he hangs his head in shame.

"Wha-"

"EEEK! PEEPER!"

"ACK! SORRY MAM!"

"GET OUT!" *crash*

I glare at Ikuto. "You really are a liar, you know?"

I try stomping away, but Ikuto grabs my shoulder. "Okay, so I lied when I said that the person in the picture wasn't me. I didn't…I…" he sighs. "I just wanted you to trust me…"

"WE COULD'VE PREVENTED A LOT OF SHT WITHOUT THAT ARGUMENT YOU STARTED!" I scold. "SO THIS IS YOUR FAULT! ALL OF IT!"

Everything goes black, and we're just standing on some form of ground. I can see tears in his eyes. "Maki…I'm sorry…"

"SORRY ISN'T GOING TO BRING MACK BACK! SORRY ISN'T GOING TO BRING THOSE GOONS BACK! SORRY ISN'T GOING TO TAKE BACK ALL THAT PAIN I FCKING SUFFERED ALL BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED BECAUSE OF THAT ARGUMENT!"

"M-Maki…" He reverts back to eleven.

"DON'T YOU REVERT NOW YOU FCKING LIAR!" I screech.

He cries and tackles my waist. "MAKI I'M SORRY! I'M SO SORRY PLEASE DON'T LEAVE! I-I'LL MAKE IT UP-"

"YOU CAN'T!" I snap. "How are you going to make this better? HUH!? AND WHO WAS THAT SLUT YOU WERE KISSING!"

"A-A slut, like you said!" Ikuto bawls. "S-S-She was d-drunk and sh-she just…WAAAAH!" He falls onto his knees, bawling and gripping at my skirt. "MAKI I'M S-S-SORRY!"

"Ah, nothing like seeing a child cry, is there?" Armageddon laughs.

I sigh and glare at Ikuto, eleven, sobbing. Once I stare at the tears for a time, my expression softens. "…Now why would I leave you?"

"B-B-Because you hate me!" he bawls.

"Since when?" I ask. "Sure, we have fights, but that's normal, right? Like now."

He shakes his head furiously and looks at me with tear-soaked eyes, trying to suck it up I can tell. "You said 'oh so they roughed you up a little, so what'!" he sniffs a little. "Yet I-I would protect you! I wouldn't let them hurt you! I don't want you to get hurt anymore, wheth-whether by me or someone e-else!" He's letting some sobs through. "YET YOU DON'T CARE IF I GET HURT!"

I gasp. Oh…"You REALLY didn't get this before?"…Nope…Not. At. All. I sigh sadly and walk over, wrapping my arms around Ikuto and doing a very Rosario + Vampire like thing.

I stuff his face in my chest.

He turns still. I look down to see he's blushing, eyes wide. I rub the back of his head and kiss the top of his blue hair. "I do care Ikuto, I was just playing a front."

He ages a little. I guess he's fourteen. I let him go and he sits up, sniffling and rubbing his eyes. "R-Really?" I nod. He ages again, eighteen. He's smiling now, and he hugs me. "Well…I'm glad we got this out. I'm sorry Maki-koi."

"And I'm sorry to, Ikie-koi~" I sing, hugging him in return.

I hear a sigh and someone starts clapping. Ikuto hugs me tighter and growls. "How touching. I was even moved, and I'm a demon. Okay, I'll let you go, but be warned…seeing that I screwed with this, sorry for that by the way…Ikuto here is gonna' have some issues, seeing he's never had X-Negative in his blood, unlike Lucy."

"Dmn it," Ikuto mutters.

"Wait…why?" I ask.

"Because, I have been genuinely entertained!" she cheers."The lies, the truth, the tears, all one big collection of FUN!"

The structure around us starts cracking. Ikuto hugs me tighter and I sigh, hugging him as well. "And all this time I wasn't a pervert," he chuckles.

I roll my eyes and pat his head. "Good kitty."

Everything breaks, and everything starts to burn. I squeeze my eyes tight together. Ow…

"Hey, look!" Yuki's voice cheers. "She's waking up!"

"Maki!" Lucy shakes me. "Wake up!"

I grab someone's nose and yank it. "OW!" Kaki shrieks. "WHAT THE HLL?"

"Where's 'me snooze button?" I yawn, rubbing on eye. "Uh…" I look around at the trees. "Where…"

Moka points to Ikuto, who looks a bit red in his sleep. "Remember, he turned into a vampire and chased you."

I look around to account for those here. Kurumu, Marilyn, Me, Mizore, Yuki, Mina, Annie, Proserpine, Yoru, Ikuto (duh), Kaki, Hidu, Cassie, Lucy, Calli, Moka, Collide, Nana, and Quartz. "Where's everyone else?" I ask.

"They came, don't worry," Kurumu smiles softly. "We told them that they should go back."

Mizore walks over and checks my halo. "Her halo's fine, perfect shape."

I turn to Ikuto. "He's going to be a little off," I inform. "He was never related to someone with X-Negative."

Lucy smiles and pumps her fist a little. "Yeah! Beat the perv for a millionth time!"

I roll my eyes and yawn, grabbing a branch and yanking myself up. "So, you need sleep?" Yuki asks. I glare at her, dark aura obvious. She laughs nervously and says, "OF COURSE YOU DO!"

She grabs Kaki and I and drags us to the dorms as we're kicking and screaming our butts off. "Maki-chan!" Nana and Quartz sit on my head. "Did you learn anything?"

I sigh and pause. "A little, but I need Ikuto to explain a little further. I also learned…THAT YUKI NEEDS TO LET ME GO!"

"Ugh, Proserpine?" Yuki chuckles.

Proserpine grows to full height and grabs out ankles, keeping them still. Kaki and I puff out our cheeks before exchanging glances. "You thinking what I'm thinking?" she smirks. I nod. "Okay, one…two…three!"

I use ice to get away as Kaki is writing something. We look at each other. "Uh…" I blink. "What are you doing?"

"Writing a stern letter stating my complaints," she shrugs.

I blink before running off screaming with Yuki to the dorm, leaving Kaki sitting on the ground with a sweat-drop on her head.

Next Chapter: Nurse Maki!