Callie: Hello Everyone!

Amu: Goodbye!

Callie: *grabs her arm* I don't even think so!

Ikuto: Well this sounds a bit crazy..

Kukai: Who's going to be doing the magic tricks?

Yaya: I don't care! Lead me to the candy Callie!

Callie: *points off in the distance* Over there!

Ikuto: She doesn't own us.. Enjoy!

xxx

I ran downstairs to Utau and Ikuto in the living room watching the morning news, I ran in the doorway smiling, today was the Wednesday before halloween.

"Do you know what Friday is?" I asked as they laughed,

"Yes, Amu, Everyone knows Friday is Halloween." Utau said as she smiled,

"I still haven't bought a costume!" I said freaking out, snapping my fingers I continuously changed my clothes as they watched me, "Maybe an Angel? No, Devil, no! A cat? Hmmmm…" I said swinging the tail around as Ikuto was watching, Utau noticed,

"Amu.." she spoke in a warning tone as I realized he was watching me, I snapped myself into my school clothes as he shook off his stare as Utau and I laughed at him.

"Utau will you go costume shopping with me?" I asked as she looked to me and smirked,

"Yeah, but I'm picking out three different costumes, you only get to choose from one of those three." she said as I nodded,

"Sounds fair." I said,

After school Utau, Lola, Chichi, Rima, Yaya, Callie and I went costume shopping, I was currently staring at three costumes she picked out, I looked at the blankly. Two of the costumes were two pieces of tiny clothing and the third one was a frilly pirate costume with a low cut back and came with a pair of thigh high boots and a feather pirate hat.

"I'm not wearing any of these.." I told her, she shook her head,

"You have to, you agreed to it." she smirked and I glared at her, I pick up the third one,

"Fine, I'll just go with this one." I sighed as we walked to the cash register with our costumes.

xxx Normal P.O.V. xxx

"So are you and Ikuto throwing a halloween party friday?" The guy at the cash register asked Utau, it took them a moment to realize it was Takashi.

"Yeah, I almost didn't recognize you there Takashi," Utau laughed,

Lola took her costume trying to go to another register, but it was too late, he took it from her hands as she blushed a deep red, he chuckled at her reaction, "Sexy," he said, her whole face turned red down her neck and shoulders.

"You look like a fireball.." Amu said a little concerned, Lola snapped out of her flustered appearance and glared with a slight blush across her cheeks.

"There's the Lola we all know.." he smiled as she looked to him shocked, he had just smiled, not smirked, 'What was it about this boy that makes me weak in the knees?!' Lola thought as he told Utau the total for the costumes, she was paying for all their costumes since she planned on paying for them any way.

They were all about to leave the store sitting in the cafe area, Takashi walked out in normal clothing, "You're already done with your shift?" Lola asked as he nodded, he sat next to her in the chair.

"Yeah, my shift is only from five thirty to seven thirty, and you guys got here around seven." he said and she nodded,

"Oh okay, so when did you start this job?" Utau asked, he thought,

"About a month ago, my boss is giving me Friday off, but I have to work from eleven in the morning to seven o'clock at night Saturday." he told us, Lola found it strange that he was so mature and responsible even though he's a pervert when he opens that big mouth of his.

"Oh, so you're gonna miss the barbecue?" Utau asked as he nodded,

"I totally forgot about it." he said, "Well I'll leave you girls to have fun I'm going over to hang with Ikuto and the guys," he told us as we nodded, Lola got up to follow him outside as he noticed this turned around raising a brow to her. "Did you need something Lola?" She looked to him like she was about to say something, but no words came out.

He was about to walk away until she grabbed his sleeve, "Wait!" she said, her other hand clenched in a fist against her chest, "Can we talk?" She asked as he looked to her confused,

"We are talking aren't we?" he said looking around,

"I meant in private where certain people won't see.." she said as she gestured toward the group of girls listening and watching,

"Just say it, they won't hear you," he smirked as he put up a sound barrier around them,

"I- really like you Takashi," she said blushing, he looked to her shocked,

"I was actually wondering when I should do this.." he said to her, "Lola, will you be my girlfriend?" he asked looking to her blushing like an idiot, "Yes," she said nodding and smiling, he then leaned down kissing her, his hands wrapped around her waist and hers around his neck running her fingers through his hair.

Amu and the girls shared giggles as Lola came back to the table sitting down, "Why didn't you run off with Romeo?" Amu smirked as Lola glared,

"She ran after him that's for sure." Utau smiled as Lola blushed,

"We're dating now-" Lola was cut off by squeals,

"Wahhh!" they all said in unison, Lola just nodded blushing, she took a sip of her smoothie,

They spent the rest of the night at the house, Utau put everyones costumes together upstairs, all the girls and guys sat scattered in the living room, Rima and Yaya were playing go fish in the chairs next to the end table, sitting at the end of the couch Takashi and Lola were talking, Chichi cuddle Lyon as he and Kukai played a video game Utau sitting on the couch behind him, Kairi read a book sitting next to Yaya's chair and Nagi was sitting against Rima's chair listening to some music, Ami was on her laptop, Amu and Utau were working on party supply list and Ikuto was helping them.

xxx Amu's P.O.V. xxx

Utau and I went back to the store Thursday to get party supplies, Friday after school Ikuto and I went to go grab food, while Utau decorated the house in dark and spooky haunted house. Ikuto and I walk in with the food, in shock, Utau comes out from the kitchen, "What do you think?" she asked them,

"It's amazing," I said as she took the food from us, going into the kitchen,

"If it wasn't for the fact that I've seen your house a million times I would've sworn I'd just walked through a portal to some other dimension." I told her as they laughed, "So what are your parents doing for Halloween?" I asked,

"They are here, they ask me to plan the parties, plus they know about our random parties we plan when they're out of town, that's why they tell us to clean up afterwards," I looked to them,

"You guys have random parties?" I asked as they looked to each other,

"Yeah, we haven't had one in a while, I don't think we've had one since last school year for the end of the year." she said looking to Ikuto as he nodded in agreement,

"Oh, well I think it'd probably best for us to go get ready for the party," I said as I we went upstairs to get ready,

I walked into Utau's room in my ruffled sleeved and bottom hem lined ruffle cream colored dress that reached mid-thigh, light brown gold embroidered vest and light brown boots that reached my knees that tied up the front side with three straps with gold buckles at my knee, I had on black thigh high stockings. I sat on her bed looking in the mirror of her closet door as I put on gold earrings and a few gold chains around my neck, I heard Utau's bathroom door open as she walked out of the closet, seeing blue out of the corner of my eye to see Ikuto, but I looked to Utau's costume since she wanted my opinion on it.

"So what do you think?" she asked spinning around, she wore a strapless white cropped top and a high-waisted white skirt with thigh high white leather boots that tied up the sides of her thighs, she had silver wings strapped to her back and and a halo hanging above her head.

"It's really cute, I like it, so what's Kukai for Halloween?" I asked her as she smiled,

"He's going to be an angel as well.." she said looking to me, I looked to her confused,

"Why? Isn't everyone's costumes supposed to be unique?" I asked,

"Yeah, but it's different when you are dating someone." she told me, I nodded looking to see Ikuto.

He wore a cream colored loose shirt with baggy sleeves and a stomach low v-neck tie-up neckline, black skinny jeans and tie-up dark brown leather boots that reached mid-calf. You could see his muscle through the tied up neckline, I looked to see he was staring me up and down, he looked me in the eyes as I blushed dark red he smirked at me.

"I like your costume, Amu." he said my name in a way that made me squirm,

"Thanks, Utau is the one who found it." I admitted, he made his way looking to me,

He kissed me, then pulling away slowly while he teased my now wanting lips,

"Meanie.." I grumbled as he chuckled at me, which caused me to turn even more red.

Utau came back in the room to see Ikuto sitting next to me on her bed, we looked at her while she looked at us, a moment later we all started laughing. She continued fixing up all of the guys and girls, adding any final touches to their costumes before they'd come put it on, since everyone knew she was the one with the most fashion wisdom in our group.

"So when is everyone else going to get here?" I asked her, she shrugged,

"A half hour to an hour, I told them to be here by six-thirty." Utau said as I looked to my phone,

"It's five minutes after six," I told her as she picked up her phone, she called Lola,

"Hey, I'm with Takashi, Rima, Yaya, Chichi, Kairi, Nagi, Lyon and Kukai, we are teleporting there now." Lola told her over speaker,

"Alright see you in a few." Utau nodded hanging up the phone,

A few seconds later Lola walked through Utau's door with everyone else, "Alright, we're here." she told Utau,

"Girl's take this rack and head to Amu's room to get dressed," Utau said pushing a rack towards them,

"And all guys go to Ikuto's room to get dressed, your names are on the hanger," she told the guys as Kukai rolled the rack to Ikuto's room while the guys followed him through the bathroom,

Utau, Ikuto and I were sitting on the couch waiting for them to come down, Kukai came down first, he wore a long sleeve white shirt and skinny jeans, white vans and matching wings and halo to Utau's. Takashi and Lola came in at the same time, Takashi wore black leather pants, black boots that reached half way to his knee and a black tank top, Lola had on a teal tank style cropped top, black leather pants, black high heel booties, black wrist bands, and a metal spiked collar necklace.

Kukai sat next to Utau, Lola and Takashi took the seats that were apart from the couch, Yaya and Chichi came in, Yaya had picked out her costume, it was a dress covered in candy with candy designed jewelry and hair accessories, Chichi got the diva singer costume, a metallic sliver dress with a microphone and wig, Utau however switched out the wig and gave her pig tail holders for her hair to go into high ponytails and the microphone for bracelets, then added white stockings with silver knee high boots. Rima had on a sexy ring leader costume, holding a leather whip and wearing boots that reached the middle of her thigh and pointed up on the outside of her thighs, Nagihiko was dressed up a lion, then Kairi came down dressed up like a samurai.

They all sat down as Lyon walked in dressed as a warrior with black long sleeve shirt that was held to together by a black ribbon down the front and baggy black pants, he had a metal shoulder pad and brown leather strap across his chest holding a sword on his back, Callie was a sexy nurse and Nigel was a sexy firefighter, wearing the pants with suspenders and no shirt. Ami was dressed up as a cat, she wore a black short sleeve cropped top and flared skirt with thigh high stockings, ankle boots, cat ears in her hair and sharp fake nails, she also painted her nose tip black and black whiskers painted on her cheeks.

"Where's Chichi?" Utau asked losing her smiling as they sat down on the couch,

"She's coming, but for some parts of the costume she didn't know what to do with," Callie told her,

"Ah, I see, I'll go help her, Amu come with me, I may need your help." Utau said as she walked out of the room I followed her,

We went up the stairs, Utau told me to get everyone and wait in the foyer, I could see how everyone was watching the top of the stairs for her to come down. I keep on thinking, 'What is her costume?' seeing that is what everyone else was thinking, except for the boy behind me who keeps staring me up and down.

'Why do you keep staring at me?' I asked him,

'Cause you look incredibly sexy in this costume.' Ikuto told me as I blushed dark red, 'Am I supposed to not look at my girlfriend?' he smirked at me,

I opened my mouth to speak, but Utau shouted from top of the stairs, "Chichi Gold," Utau announced as her white hair was curled, across her forehead, around her neck, wrists and ankles were gold bands with ice blue crystals. When she brought out her leg you could see gold strapped high heels, she wore a floor length dress that had a slit down both thighs on the sides with gold embroidery along the hem lines and seams on the slits and bodice. "Goddess of Purity!" Utau finished announced smiling at everyone's astonished faces, everyone was captivated by her in the costume and how it suited her so well.

I turned to Ikuto, even he was stunned by her, I smiled as he turned to me, he smirked at me which caused me to glare at him,

'Why do you keep looking at me like that!?' I kept my glare asking him, he kept his eyes on mine moving closer,

'Amu~' he smirked, I looked to Utau helping Chichi down the stairs, I went to go help her as he pouted,

'I-Ikuto! I'm not doing that,' I told him blushing while keeping a straight face in front of everybody else,

'We didn't do anything before, did we?' I asked him, my blush became darker and there was physical worry as Chichi reached the bottom of the staircase,

'No, Amu, we didn't do any of that freshman year, but now is a lot different than back then, we're older and more mature,' he explained smiling as I looked to him, grabbing his hand I walked back the hall next to the stairs and into the study room.

"What are you doing?" he asked, I looked to him blushing dark red,

"Ikuto, I understand we aren't kids anymore, but I don't wanna move too fast, we've only been dating for two months." I told him as he moved closer to me, he pulled me into his arms I felt my heart beat faster, he pulled back placing a finger under my chin making me face up to him while he leaned forward and kissed me on the lips, then breaking the kiss he held me in his arms,

"Amu, I would never take advantage of you, only when you're ready and want to, I'd never hurt you like that by going against what you want," he said smiling as I looked to his face, "I love you, Amu." he told me, I was in shock,

"I love you too, Ikuto." I told him smiling, after my face softened from the shock, he was shocked, but then he smiled leaning in kissing me, his arms around my waist and I put my arms around his neck.

A few moments later we broke apart to breath, Utau knocked on the door before opening it, she looked at us as we looked at her, she smirked at us, "I see, I'll just leave you two alone.." I glared at her with a dark blush spread across my face,

"Utau, it's not like that, why is it always you that comes in when we're alone?" I asked as she laughed,

"Well the parties about to start in an half hour, I wanted to get all of the lights off and turn on the blacklights and strobe lights, also get the DJ booth and speakers set up, but Ikuto's the only one who knows how to do that." she told me.

We followed her out into the foyer, I looked back at Ikuto for a moment to see him in concentration, every light in the house went out, blacklights began lighting up across the ceiling and stair railing, the DJ booth was at the top of the stairs, speakers were put along every wall. Strobe light flashed across the foyer floor like lightning strikes and there were a few creepy tree shadows being shined on the wall where the fog machine was covering the floor with fog. Laser lights danced across the floor with the fog and there were color spotlights that shined down into the fog and up the stairs to the DJ booth and from the booth.

"Wow! It looks amazing Ikuto!" Utau smiled as I looked around astonished, "And perfect timing here comes everyone else for the party now!" Utau said as her parents, their co-workers, friends and classmates started pouring in, the DJ got set up and it wasn't long before everyone started dancing.

I walked into the living room dragging Ikuto along with me, I looked to my arm where the mark was, it started to burn and bright red light surged through the lines I fell to my knees as Ikuto crouched next to me, "It hurts," I told him through gritted teeth,

"Just focus on something else, I'm staying right here, I'll inform my dad about him," He told me helping me onto the couch behind us, he used telepathy to tell him, Ikuto grabbed my other hand, "Just squeeze my hand to ease the pain a little,"

I did as he said, but then I could sense another presence in the room, "Mitchell," I said into the darkness of the blacklights and noise of people dancing to loud music,

"Ah, Amu, you know my presence so well, how ever could you have known I was here?" I could see his red eyes shine through the darkness, as he came closer to me in the red lighting of the mark I could see a smirk across his face, I glared at him, he was standing in front of me as the mark burned and shined bright red, I couldn't move or even breath. He placed his hand over the mark and guided his hand over the mark to my wrist, I was wondering why Ikuto wasn't moving to stop him, but then fear struck I saw that Mitchell was holding a Magic Death Gun that not only steals someone's magic, it could kill you in five seconds, all you had to do was pull the trigger. I looked to my arm the mark was gone and so was Mitchell, I looked to see Ikuto losing the shock and snapped back into reality, looking to my arm then to my face.

"Are you okay?" he asked, I looked to him and began crying, he held me to his chest and rub my back in circles to calm me down, "He could of-" I started to say,

"He didn't though, but the mark on your arm is gone," he told me, I held my arm up, the mark was still there burning softly,

"Yeah," I said frowning, but I quickly smiled when he leaned back smiling at me, he leaned forward kissing me,

We went out into the foyer to enjoy the party, Aruto found me in the kitchen, "Ikuto just told me that Mitchell took the mark away," I shook my head,

"He covered it with a spell that made it only visible to me, Callie couldn't see it either," I told him,

"Sounds like something he would do, does anyone know?" he asked,

"I don't want another scene like what just happened in the living room, so I didn't saying anything to Ikuto, Callie just noticed it was gone," I spoke as I took a drink of water, "I need some air, I'll be outside in the back, don't tell anyone where I am please." I teleported myself into the center of the lazy river maze in the back yard, I laid out on one of the lounge chairs falling asleep.

xxx The Next Morning xxx

I woke up to warmth and arms around me laying on someone's chest, I looking up to see midnight blue hair and eyes that were hidden by his eyelids, he looked down to me smiling, "Good Morning, Strawberry." he said groaning as he sat up with an arm around my waist, I was sitting on his lap with my hands on his bare chest.

"Why don't you have a shirt on?" I asked as he pointed to me, I looked down, I was wearing it over my costume, "Oh, thanks," I blushed smiling,

"I think we should get inside, it's pretty chilly out here." he said as I again realize he was shirtless, I leaned against him,

"Are you cold?" I asked as he shook his head,

"No, not really," he told me, "Are you cold?" he asked as I shook my head,

"No," I said wrapping my arms around him and his other arm went around my waist,

I looked into his eyes, he watched me as I leaned in toward his lips, being hesitant, he closed the space between the two of us, I felt the electricity running through my body, then remembering the kiss between Mitchell and I, it was so different from Ikuto's, Mitchell's kiss was cold and without a spark, it felt as if I were kissing death's lips.

xxx

Callie: OH-MY-GOSHH.. I love this chapter.. Amu's gotta say something about that last part to Ikuto eventually… btw, Sparklybutterflies1 it's not at all bad to put the two together.. I'm guilty of it as well, he's an immortal dark warlock so he stays in his twenties for the rest of his existence.

Lola: You're Hopeless..

Callie: Shush!

Lola: So Defensive!

Callie: I am not- Oh nevermind! Hope you liked this chapter! 3 Thanks for reading!