Chapter 18
Recap for people with short-term memory (Like Tina). Ikuto pissed Ayaka (*cough* Tina*cough*) and she gave him the death stare and he backed up and walked off the building.
"IKUTO!" I screamed, and crawled over to the edge. Ikuto was Chara Transformed and he jumped off the side of the building, slowing down his fall.
Thinking quickly, I Chara Transformed with Asuna and quickly drew rope that was like 500 ft long. I tied the end of the rope to something that would hold my weight and Ikuto's. Then I jumped down and held onto the rope at the last second. I caught Ikuto with my free hand.
"Y-You idiot! Hold onto the rope yourself! I-I can't really hold us here much longer!" I said, struggling to hold onto the rope.
With that he climbed onto the rope himself and grabbed me by my waist with one arm.
"O-Oi! What do you think you're doing!" I said.
"You have a fear of heights so you might fall." Ikuto said, casually.
"That's not gonna…" I looked down, "Oh, boy. I'm gonna die right now, goodbye world." I said, and kept muttering stuff like that.
After a while I heard Ikuto scream 'Ayaka' and I snapped outta my thoughts.
"Wait, what?"
Ignoring that, Ikuto said, "Ayaka, can you climb up by youself?"
"BAKA, Course i can. *sees the height outta the corner of my eye* you know what? I can't."
"Of course." Ikuto said, smirking.
Then he started to pull us up. After about what felt an hour we finally reached the top. I un-Chara Transformed and the rope disappeared. I breathed a sigh of relief then I remembered we were still pretty high up.
"Can we go back now?" I asked.
"Of course, Princess." Ikuto said, picking me up, bridal style and jumped back to his house.
~Atsuko's POV~
~When Ikuto Dragged Ayaka Away~
"Well that was unexpected." Nagihiko said.
"Little chat huh? It's been awhile since one of those happened." Kairi said.
"Nonetheless this Christmas was full of surprises." I said.
"Aya-chii is stuck in a dilemma now." Yaya said.
"So is Mahiru." Kukai pointed out.
"This is not fun." Rima said, pouting.
"Ikuto-nii-chan is really serious this time huh?" Tadagay said.
Utau looked like she was about to explode out of joy and Lulu was glancing between Kaori and Mahiru, along with Makoto and Sebastian. Kaori was just smiling at Mahiru and Mahiru was staring at her like, "Really? You tell me this now?"
"Okay Mahiru spill everything." I said, walking up to him. "Who do you actually like?"
"I think he used to like Kaori and probably still does." Utau said.
"Uhmm, well….. You see…. I did like Kaori but I honestly thought she didn't like me back so I gave up."
"What about Ayaka?" Tadagay asked.
"Well I want to spoil her and I guess protect her. But it doesn't really go past that." Mahiru said, looking down and playing with his fingers. "I thought I could actually fall for her if I spent more time with her."
"Okay then it's decided. You think of Ayaka as a sister, obviously. Get together with Kaori, Ayaka gets together with Ikuto, no more problems." Utau said.
"Ayaka with Ikuto?" everyone besides Utau and Kaori said.
"Well she does seem quite fond of him." Kaori said.
"She personally told me that she liked Ikuto so I see no problems. But at that time she was confused. Now we don't have to deal with it." Utau said happily.
"Ehhh?! She didn't tell me?!" I said.
"She tells no one anything unless you tell her something." Utau and Mahiru said.
They looked at each other and then looked away.
"Weird. Shouldn't they be back yet?" Kairi asked.
"Class Prez is right. It's been a while." Yaya said.
"A bit too long. Even for a little chat." Amu said.
"And we have to tell them the new decision." Sebastian said. (AN: God the older people don't seem to fit in this mess. Besides Utau and Kaori. Sorry for no lines for them. ~Eve)
"Ikuto will agree immediately." Rima said.
"Ayaka probably will think for a minute before giving her answer." Nagihiko said.
At that moment, Ayaka and Ikuto came back.
"Welcome back! How was your trip?" I asked. "We have news for you guys."
Both of them cocked their heads to the side in confusion.
~3 Months Later~
~Ikuto, Makoto, and Sebi's Graduation~
~Ayaka's POV~
I sat in the audience along with Mahiru, Atsuko, Kaori, Kukai, Utau, Tadagay, Lulu, Nagihiko, Rima, and Amu. Ikuto, Makoto, and Sebastian were one of the graduates for this year. Teachers clapped, Makoto's siblings clapped, and everyone's parents clapped. We clapped as well of course.
When it was the after party, we hung out with Ikuto, Makoto, and Sebastian.
"Who would've thunk that Ikuto would've graduated?" I teased.
"Just because I was absent for a couple months didn't mean I didn't do the homework." Ikuto said.
"Congrats guys!" Tadagay said.
"Congrats!" Kaori said, then grabbing a pudding cup from the dessert table.
"Time flew by didn't it?" Kukai said.
"Mmm. Sebastian's going off to college, Ikuto's going to tour with Utau the day after tomorrow, and Makoto is going to start being a pool coach." Nagihiko said.
"Make sure you call every chance you get and come back for vacations." Atsuko said to Sebastian.
"Hai, hai." Sebastian said.
"Don't overwork yourself and be nice to the kids." Amu teased Makoto.
"Hey! I'm not mean am I?" Makoto asked, offended.
"And you better call me after each concert. I don't care if it's 3 AM here in Japan you're still going to call me." I threatened Ikuto.
"Such a demanding girlfriend." Ikuto said, rolling his eyes.
"But you fell for me first." I teased.
"And you almost broke me. I'm lucky Kaori was there so I didn't feel alone." Ikuto said.(FYI, The person that wrote this cheesy and sappy stuff is Kat. No, Eve. Whatever. ~Tina)
"Speaking of which where are Mahiru and Kaori?" I asked.
"Probably somewhere that Kaori fanboys won't be able to find them." Ikuto answered.
"Mahiru has it hard." I said.
"So do you. Half the school wants to kill you." Ikuto said.
"Right. I forgot." I said, remembering when Ikuto kissed my cheek in front of his fangirls.
I looked around and saw a bunch of girls glaring at me with eyes that said, "GO TO HELL YOU LITTLE BASTARD."
Feeling amused that someone actually had the nerve to do that to me, I glared right back at them but with an aura that made Ikuto shiver even though it wasn't directed at him. Anyways, in like.01 seconds the girls that were glaring at me were either looking away or running away.
"Well, being around you is sure helpful. And scary." Ikuto said.
"You're Welcome." I said, smiling.
Ikuto leaned down and gave me a quick peck on the lips. This bastard. He promised not to do that in public. I thought, while blushing.
"Bastard." I mumbled.
"What was that?" he said.
"Nothing." I said.
~Narrator POV~
And so they lived happily ever after because the authors have gotten lazy to write what happens after this. We leave it up to your wonderful imaginations. Kaori and Mahiru are of course together, Ayaka with Ikuto, and everyone else with their other respective ships.
~Fin~
Eve: And done! Tina is at Tae Kwon Doe so I'll be the one saying bye to all of you. Bye? You'll see me in my other fanfics I love so much. I might write a short one short epilogue if I'm not feeling lazy. Or if I just remember some time in the year. But yeah. It's been an... interesting ride, but this is the end. It is sh*tty I know but like come on. I'm running dry on ideas and that's rare for me. Even Tina's running dry on ideas! My co-writer! She is, like, my backbone through this. But anyways yea. I hope you somewhat enjoyed this story (most likely not. That's how low my self-esteem is. You can tell I have great parents) and I love you. I'm sure Tina loves you guys too! Mwah~!
