If you're looking for something you can't find
If you give it up you'll lose your mind
There's always something in your way
What can you say...?
You're going to have a good day!
~Good Day - Click Five
"Amu." Rima poked her friend's back as she laid across her desk, her head hidden behind her arms, with her hood covering her head.
"What?!" Amu asked shooting awake up off her desk. Rima stared at Amu blankly, she thought it was strange she looked so dead.
"Class hasn't even started yet, and you're already asleep." Rima said in disbelief at Amu who looked too tired to care.
"I didn't get much sleep last night." Amu told her with a yawn rubbing her eyes roughly as a way to stay awake.
"Why?" Rima asked, she knew Amu was smart enough to realize she had school the next day. She wouldn't stay up so late knowing she'd be too exhausted to pay attention in class. Then there was only one culprit, or more like one group, "What happened?"
"I didn't get home until eight last night," Amu answered obviously to Rima's distance glare just thinking about that group, "So I didn't have much time to do my schoolwork and work on our song I somehow got stuck writing." Amu mumbled the last part in complaint.
"You're writing a song?" Rima couldn't help sounding surprised. Amu was a good friend of hers, probably her best friend at this point, but she couldn't help noticed Amu didn't have much of a creative side in art class. Rima just couldn't imagine Amu writing a song the band would perform. "When was that decided?"
"We need an original song for an audition, and coming home from the amusement park, they voted for me to write it." Amu said dropping her head to her desk in defeat, "And I'm having major writers block."
Rima stared at her for a moment before asking, "...Amusement park?"
"Yeah," Amu said with an embarrassed laugh, "We all went after practice to have fun and relax, you know?"
"You're telling me," Rima started trying to understand the situation, "That a group of high school boys, most of them upperclassmen, went to an amusement park for fun?" she emphasized the words amusement park and fun just to make sure Amu heard her correctly.
"Yeah," Amu said with an embarrassed smile, there was no way she was telling Rima she had fun there, "Go figure, huh?"
"I'll say." Rima sighed at the thought of those older guys playing in an amusement park, possible an interesting comedy situation, but Rima wasn't laughing, "They sure are interesting characters, aren't they?"
"There...something alright," Amu agreed, she knew they were all insane, but she could tolerate them enough to have a good time with them. Plus, they had their good moments.
"From what you've told me, they're always up to something with you," Rima observed, thinking back to all the times she talked with Amu over the phone after something crazy and stupid had happened, "Honestly, do they ever let you have time for your other friends?"
Amu blinked, staring at her blankly, "Uhh..." Amu started trying to figure out the best way to say it without seeming like a complete loser.
"You don't have any other friends, do you?" She had forgotten how blunt Rima was, and just dropped her head showing her response as a yes. "Amu." Rima said shaking her head at her friend.
"I don't know if you've noticed this or not, but I don't exactly have many friends," Amu explained added a hint of sarcasm, since she already knew Rima had that knowledge. Rima thought for a moment staring at Amu. Sure, Amu seemed hard approach at times, but she wasn't the type of girl she lead people to believe she was. She wasn't cool and antisocial, she was just shy and easily embarrassed by things. Amu wasn't the type of girl that liked the spotlight, and tried her best to stay out of it. Rima knew that, but no one else did.
"What do you say to a get together Friday night?" Rima asked starting to lead into the idea that came to mind. It certainly caught Amu's attention.
"A get together?"
"Like at your house. We can invite some girls over and have a sleep over." Rima suggested, without any enthusiasm in her voice. If Amu weren't so shocked by the suggestion, she would have died laughing.
"A sleep over?" Amu asked, making sure she heard correctly.
"Why not? I can get some girls together and we'll have some good quality girl time."
"Seriously?" Amu asked not sure what to think. Rima smiled at Amu's confused expression, this was just what she needed.
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"Asked anyone yet?" Amu asked Rima in regards to her get together.
"Yeah, but they're all busy that weekend." Rima answered annoyed by all the let downs, how were they suppose to have a sleep over without any girls to hang out with. "It's starting to get ridiculous."
"If you can't get any girls together," Amu suggested, both hoping she would and wouldn't, "We could just hang out."
"I guess," Rima answered like it was no big deal, although it really was to her, "That would be alright." she answered with one of her sweet smiles she rarely gave. She looked more angelic with that smile, it was almost seemed like she was glowing. Amu smiled in response, it was always something to see Rima that... friendly to be blunt.
"RIMA-TAN!!!" Then again, the down side when she looked cute, it didn't take long for her fanboys to notice. Amu was shocked by the number of boys that began to surround them, all with faces of admiration, and a few with cameras in an attempt to capture the moment. Unfortunately, they didn't have the opportunity to, Rima's face instantly becoming annoyed by all of them.
"HII-YA!!!" Amu heard someone scream before a few boys went flying in the air, and the rest backing up. Right in front of them Kukai seemed to have flown in on top his skateboard, facing the boys with a serious face, "Move along boys, nothing to see here." With that they all took off, practically running away.
"Kukai?" Amu asked more shocked than she was before.
"Whimp, ha." he said in a regular voice with a fake laugh, before yelling with triumph, "Whimp my unmooned ass!"
"Huh?" Amu asked, both girls staring at Kukai with confused expressions.
"Uhh... I'll tell you later." Kukai answered with nervous laughter, "This a friend of yours?" he asked focusing in on Rima.
"Yeah," Amu nodded looking between the two, "Kukai, this is Rima, Rima, Kukai." Amu gave the introductions.
"I see," Kukai said before putting on his signature grin, "Nice to meet cha!" he told Rima, rubbing the top of her head messing up her hair. She glared at him while she raked her hands through her hair to fix the damage.
"Amu! Kukai! Hurry up you two!" Tadase called for them from the van, gesturing them to come over.
"I'll see you tomorrow Rima." Amu said goodbye to her friend before going over to Kukai to head to the van.
"Don't forget to ask your dad about Friday." Rima reminded her before Amu took off with Kukai.
"I won't." she yelled back before turning her attention to Kukai
"What's going on Friday?" he asked by the time they were within earshot of the rest of the group.
"Rima and I are having a get together," answered more to everyone than just Kukai, "You guys want to come?"
"Woohoo!" Kukai said with excitement giving Tadase a high five, because he was the closest person to him, "Party at Amu's!"
"No." Rima stated firmly, making Amu and Kukai jump.
"Where'd you come from?!" Kukai asked, freaked out about how she was just walking the other direction a few moments ago, and suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
"First rule of sleep overs," Rima continued, ignoring Kukai and speaking directly to Amu, "No boys allowed."
"Why not?" Amu asked, not really bothered by them coming to a party they were having, she was planning to kick them out that night anyway.
"Because," Rima answered in a neutral tone, she knew Amu would make them leave before the sleeping part of the sleep over but still, this was to help her make girl friends, "We're going to talk about them behind their backs."
"Way to be blunt." Nagihiko commented on the girl that stood before them. She sent a swift glare in his direction before turning back to Amu.
"My bad," Amu offered rubbing the back of her head with a nervous laugh.
"Geez." Rima said with a sigh, she could be so oblivious at times, "I'll see you tomorrow Amu."
"Bye." Amu called to her as she went walking off to meet her mother out front. "Let's get a move on guys." Amu said to the guys, all of them staring blankly at her. "What?"
"You're having a sleep over?" Kukai asked in disbelief, when she said get together he thought she meant going out somewhere, not a sleep over.
"Yeah, why?" They all looked away, some whistling, from her. None of them dared to mention their thoughts over Amu being the host of a girl's only sleep over. Not that they wouldn't love to see her attempt that. Which might have been the reason why their thoughts shifted to another matter.
"Oh yeah," Kukai added just remembering what he needed to tell them, "We can't use my garage today. My brothers are doing something in their that's off limits to us."
"And you choose to tell us now?" Ikuto asked annoyed by Kukai's impeccable timing.
"What are they doing?" Tadase asked what the rest of them were wondering, aside from everyone being annoyed that they didn't have a place to practice now.
"I... don't feel comfortable repeating." Kukai answered, making them all shudder with their own imaginations.
"Alright.." Ikuto said shaking that off, "Who's place is available?" he asked looking around at everyone.
"There are people over at my house," Tadase answered to get him out, "Plus, my grandmother's sensitive to sound still."
"My mom's having classes at my place." Nagihiko added making them all look over at Amu.
"My dad's asleep." Amu said losing hope for Amu's place. Then all stared at the only person left. Ikuto stared back at all of them before sighing in defeat.
"Fine, no one's at my place, so I guess we can use the garage."
"Yes!" Kukai couldn't help getting excited about it.
"What's with the extra enthusiasm?" Amu asked, he wasn't usually this hyped up about practice.
"I love going to Ikuto's place! It's like a freaking mansion!" Kukai spoke the truth, Easter brought in a good profit to the owners.
"Call Kairi and tell him we'll pick him up at his bus stop." Ikuto told Nagihiko who was as usual, calmer about these sort of events. While he was making the call the Kairi, and everyone huddled into the van, Amu couldn't help wondering what it would look like.
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"I said I'm working on it! Would you get off my back!" Amu explained to the hundredth time, to Kukai's continuous complaints on how inconvenient practice was since they couldn't practice their new song.
"You had all night to work on it!"
"It takes awhile to write stupid!"
"You're the one that said it was easy!"
"Yeah, when I'm given more than one night to do it!" They glared at each other, both of them grinding their teeth with raised fists as if they about to start throwing punches at one another.
"Maybe we should take a break," Nagihiko suggested with a sweat drop at the two, "You know, before they kill each other," he added to Tadase, Ikuto, and Kairi who were all staring at the two sweat dropping as well.
"Good idea." Ikuto said putting down his guitar and taking a seat on a lawn chair by Kairi and Tadase. "Would you two cool it?" Ikuto asked Amu and Kukai who seemed to be oblivious to everything around them. Until they suddenly looked away from each other with a humph. Amu walked over to a stool close to Tadase, Ikuto, and Kairi and sat down ignoring Kukai who sat on the ground in front of Nagihiko's chair.
"Well," Kairi said trying to get them to focus on him, "If you could get the song done by Friday, we could spend that day practicing it, and during the weekend."
"Friday's bad for me." Amu told him, forgetting he wasn't there when she told the other's.
"Yeah, she's having a sleep over." Tadase told him watching him try to him the shocked expression on his face.
"Really?" Kairi asked her, adjusting his glasses to hide his surprise.
"Yeah, if Rima can get some girls together," Amu answered thinking about what the girls were talking about before they were interrupted by obsessed fanboys.
"Well, if you need more girls, I can ask my girlfriend if you want. I'm sure she wouldn't mind." Kairi answered, but before Amu could say thanks, she froze, along with everyone else.
Kukai bursted out laughing, while everyone else remained frozen, just staring at Kairi, "That's a good one. You had us going there for a minute with the "girlfriend" thing." Kairi stared at him as his laughter died down and he was struck by realization, "Holy cramp, he's serious."
"You, have a girlfriend?" Tadase couldn't help but ask again to confirm it.
"Yeah...," Kairi answered, not sure what they were all worked up about.
"But, you're only in middle school!" Kukai complained, none of this seeming right.
"My girlfriend's in middle school as well." Kairi countered, still not sure what was up with them.
"Oh, is she one of your computer friends or something? You guys just going out because?" Kukai wanted these answers for a logical explanation, but Kairi couldn't give them too him. He didn't bother hiding the shock on his face. His girlfriend being thought of as a computer friend of his was just too unbelievable.
"Not exactly..." Kairi answered taking out his wallet to find a picture of her. He handed it to Kukai and the rest of them left their seats in order to get a better look at the picture. All of their eyes became wide looking at the girl in the picture. She was a cute girl, with a light shade of copper hair color pulled into pig tails, with bright hazel eyes. The picture was taken while she was jumping in mid air, her hands up high holding a pair of pom-poms and wearing a cheerleading uniform, "Her name's Yaya. She's on the cheerleading squad at my school, and I doubt she knows anything about computers or anything like that. She nice though, if you can put up with Kukai, I'm sure you could put up with her." Kairi told Amu, who was the first one to overcome the shock of it all, also in regards to her sleep over.
"That'd be great Kairi. Give her my cellphone number, and tell her she can call if she wants to come," Amu told him, excited that she had someone to invite. Not to mention she could get some information on Kairi at the party. Kairi nodded taking the picture back from Kukai, who continued to stare at his hands, where the picture had been, for a few moments.
"He's dating a cheerleader." he mumbled still in disbelief. "I want to know how that works."
"I think you need to cool off." Nagihiko commented on Kukai's condition, not that he wasn't surprised himself.
"Drinks?" Tadase suggested looking over at Ikuto, their "host" who was at his guitar at the moment.
"I'm a little busy," he commented sitting on the ground beginning to put his guitar back into tune.
"I'll get them." Amu volunteered seeing how everyone else was too shocked or in Kairi's case too harassed. Plus, Amu wanted to see what the house looked like on the inside. Coming up the drive, her eyes got wide and her mouth nearly fell open. The place was like a mansion! Three stories, classic white paint, with those big clean windows, and a large front lawn. Of course they only went into the garage, which was bigger than half her apartment, but she wanted to see if it looked that big on the inside.
Boy did it! Once she went inside she felt her eyes get wide again, "Wow." she muttered to herself noticing the sleek taste in the design. She could defiantly tell the Tsukiyomi's were a rather wealthy family. Once she started looking around, she figured out, she had no idea where the kitchen was. Amu began wandering around the house in search for the kitchen. She went through a living room, a dining room (which wasn't anywhere near a kitchen for some odd reason), a private study, and stopped at a door that lead to the front. Amu wondered how Ikuto managed to get through this place without getting lost.
Just when she was about to start searching again, she heard the door click open. Freezing dead in her tracks, she turned around to see a girl, not much older than she was, begin to walk in. When she noticed Amu staring at her, she stopped as well, just as shocked to see Amu as Amu was to see her. "Who the hell are you?" she asked shaking off the surprise and glaring at the intruder.
Amu could hear the venom she put into her words that demanded an answer, but she was too stunned to reply. She just stared at this amazingly beautiful girl in front of her. She was wearing a black dress that showed she had a nice figure, but covered enough that added her own sophistication to her look. She somehow managed to make her long blonde hair look good in pig tails. Her most beautiful feature, which at the moment was also her deadliest, were her blazing sapphire eyes.
"I asked you a question." she said dropping her bag on the ground with a loud thud moving her hands to her hips, all while never taking her glare off Amu, "Who the hell are you and what the hell are you doing in my house?!"
"Th-that's two questions." Amu replied feeling the pressure her eyes were putting on her at the moment.
"And yet, I'm not hearing any answers." she pressed on making her eyes like daggers on Amu that sent a chill up Amu's spine. Amu just continued to stare, unable to answer any of them, "Are you stupid?" she asked added a splash of her attitude along taking a step forward.
"I-I'm confused," Amu told her overwhelmed by the interrogation, "What question am I answering?"
The girl sneered with anger before taking a few steps forward, making Amu back up against the handle that lead up the stairs. "Get the hell out!" the girl commanded with a powerful, echoing voice that could be heard through out the empty house.
Along with the not so empty garage. All the boys looked at the door with Ikuto setting down his guitar, "Oh no."
"What?" Kukai asked, not liking whatever voice he just heard.
"She's back early." Ikuto said before making his way to the door, with the rest following.
"Who?" Nagihiko asked, not liking the voice anymore than Kukai.
"My sister." Ikuto answered heading following the sound of the raging voice that belonged to his younger sister.
"I-I'm sorry," Amu tried to apologize for whatever she did, "I was just looking for the kitchen."
"Well, you can stop looking!" she told her annoyed by her little innocent act, she knew why that girl was in her house, and she want her the hell away from the place if she had to take her out by force. "Just get out!" she commanded the last "nice" time.
Just then, an idea it Amu that had bothered her since she noticed the girl's eyes. They had seemed somewhat familiar to her, except without the blazing rage, but with a light gleam of arrogance and smug triumphant, and... concern, and laughter, and... she shook the thoughts from her head enough to focus back and dare to ask her, "Are you related to Ikuto?"
That seemed to trigger something inside the girl, as she gritted her teeth with anger, "Why would you ask? What's it to you?"
"You have the same eyes." Amu answered the first question, seeing her reaction before she dared answer the second one. She didn't have a chance before the girl replied though.
"I know who you are." she stated plainly with disgust.
"Huh?" Amu asked, confused about the statement and why she had been asking her all those questions if she knew who she was.
"You're the type of girl that thinks she can get on good terms with a rich family by using Ikuto," she answered accusingly.
"HUH?" Amu asked even more confused than before, what the heck was she talking about.
"Don't play dumb! You know what I'm talking about." she told her not buying the dumbfounded look on Amu's face, "So I'll give you fair warning. Stay. Away. From. Ikuto!"
"Utau." both girls turned their attention to the five boys that had just come around the corner, "Stop harassing my friends, would you?" Ikuto continued, not having heard the conversation, but having gone through this routine enough to know the usual subject.
Utua stared at her brother for a long time, her eyes softer now, "Ikuto." she said in a whisper as if she were shocked to see him, Amu thought she was hurt by what he said, until, "Ikuto!" she yelled with a loving voice, jumping in the air, glomping him to the ground, "I missed you so much!" she said in high pitched excited voice hugging her brother.
"Get off!" Ikuto grunted trying to ply his sister off of him. All of them were staring at the siblings, the guys confused on how that scary sounding voice could be this girl, and Amu just in shock. Her eyes were wide with disbelief and her mouth was open.
"What kind of mood swing is that?" she muttered in disbelief of this girl who had wanted to kill her, was related to Ikuto, and was actually sweet to him. Something told Amu that she would have a hard time falling asleep that night.
A/N:
Finally! I got a chance to write! Sorry for taking so long to update! My dad was hogging the computer all week! Well, that and my stupid schoolwork! Well anyway, here it is! Enjoy... I'm tired and sleep deprived so I'm making this short! With a lot of exclamation marks!!! Bye!!!