Ok, so HELLO LOL. I am not dead. So I decided that I am going to try my best to finish this. Why?
Because I do check my mail often for school and such and I get a notification for my story, either this or Opposites Attract multiple times a month. This really amazes me. And I'm pretty touched that despite the fact that it's been years since I've updated, I'm still getting favorites and reviews.
I'm not sure if anybody will remember this story, because I would not be surprised if all my old fans have long left by now.
And if you are new to this story, please check out the prequel Opposites Attract.
So I lost all inspiration for this back then because Shugo Chara ended I guess and it was really saddening to me, and also I was getting into high school which was like being punched in the face. I am CRAZY busy now! But I just thought, it was very selfish to leave this story hanging, and I DO have more inspiration and motivation to finish it. I really want to finish this story, and maybe even write new ones! (I have written a number of unpublished Amuto fanfics because I never really finish-finish them, I do wish to publish them though _)
And let me just add in that this is maybe my third version of chapter two, because I've tried and tried multiple times to write this chapter and just NOTHING came through. Somehow, I was able to go on with this one.
Ok, let's hope I keep updating this! XD And without further ado, after three years, HERE IS THE SECOND CHAPTER OF FOREVER YET NEVER OTL
Amu stretched her arms and yawned after a long day of classes. First day of college and the workload was already suffocating her. And she was in desperate need of an episode of Magi.
It seemed despite the fact that she was now a young adult in college, anime had not died down inside her one bit. Despite her vigorous new studying habit that Amu had adapted in her last year of high school, she always still left a good amount of time to her precious otaku needs.
Amu giggled creepily to herself, "I'll watch an episode…uhuhu…and then maybe I'll study for an hour…"
"Did I really just hear you say you were going to study?"
Amu quickly whirled around, completely unaware that somebody was listening in on her. "I-Ikuto! Since when were you there?!"
"Since I heard you doing that creepy laugh."
She turned red. "That is for my ears only!"
Ikuto only stared at her with a confused expression.
"Anyways if you'll excuse me, I must get to my episode!" Amu crossed her arms and walked away from him.
"Is that all you're going to say to me? When just a couple days ago you were crying to me about how much you missed—"
Amu widened her eyes and slapped her hand against his mouth. "SHUT UP! This is all your fault for leaving me in the first place! Gosh how can you even bring up that so calmly. You idiot!"
"I'm sorry. Amu."
"No, I don't want to hear your—wait what?" Amu blinked at him. Did she just hear…a SINCERE IKUTO?
He did a small eye roll and then looked straight into her eyes, grabbing her arm away from his mouth. "I'm sorry for leaving you, Amu."
Amu looked up to him. She was still pretty shocked at how earnest Ikuto sounded just now. Her eyes suddenly sparkled.
"W…What's with that creepy look.."
Amu's eyes sparkled more. "Just now…you looked like the cool main lead of a shoujo manga." Her hands were clasped together.
"Tch. Is that really all you have to say?!" Ikuto looked irritated.
"Annnnnd that I guesss I forgive you." Amu grinned at him.
Despite how much Ikuto wanted to call Amu a little shit right now, he couldn't help but smile a little. He leaned down to give her a quick kiss.
Even though it was just a small innocent kiss, Amu still got embarrassed for doing it in public and in general since it was Ikuto. And a kiss.
"Are you guys done here." A flat voice responded from behind the couple. Ikuto and Amu both jumped and turned their heads back.
Miki stood there with her foot tapping on the floor, and she had probably been there for a good five minutes.
"If you need to walk just go around us! You don't need to stay there!" Amu yelled at her. She still did not like Miki very much.
"Blah blah. At least give me some tongue action. God your love life is full of fluff it makes me want to vomit." Miki gave a disgusted look and pushed through them to finally get ahead before walking off.
"…she's really your roommate?"
Yoru lay awake on his bed, looking idly up at the dull ceiling. "College is so boring, nya. No freedom. Especially when they keep us locked up in these dorms."
"Just who is the boring one?"
Yoru looked up and saw Miki entering the room. "What do you want?" He narrowed his eyes at her.
"No reason. Somebody told me to inform you that the Physics teacher's going to be absent tomorrow." Miki said with an impassive voice.
"I see, nya." Yoru guessed that was at least one good thing happening.
"Hey I got a question for you."
Her voice suddenly sounded louder than just a second ago and he turned his head quickly to be smack in front of her enormous rack.
"H-Hey-!" Yoru shouted in surprise and fell off the bed. He got up slowly, rubbing a sore part on your head. "What the hell do you want?"
This time Miki narrowed her eyes. Yoru was even surprised. It was the first time she ever looked so…serious.
Miki needed to ask. She knew that Yoru was definitely hiding something, and she was going to find out. Not necessarily because she cared about Ikuto being with Amu, but Ikuto DID help her out when she needed a room. And he wasn't a bad guy.
"Yoru…" Miki slowly asked him.
Yoru continued to lock his piercing gold eyes with her cool blue ones.
"You are gay…aren't you?"
Yoru felt his insides explode.
"ARE YOU MAKING FUN OF ME YOU FUCKING BITCH—" He was ready to punch the crap out of Miki and beat that goddamn look of her face.
Miki held his fist in her tight hold. "Don't even try to fight me, shrimp."
Yoru squinted his eyes. S-She called me a shrimp.
"Well I'm NOT gay in case you were wondering." Yoru rolled his eyes and pulled his fist out of her hold roughly.
"It just looks like you have a thing for Ikuto."
"EVER HEARD OF FRIENDSHIP?!"
Miki laughed quickly. "You guys are a lot of things, but friends is not one of them."
Yoru suddenly got angry. "And what makes you say that?"
"Oh did I trigger something?" Miki smirked.
Yoru got up. "You're a nuisance. Go die or something."
Miki didn't move and watched as he proceeded to exit the room. But she said only this, "Whatever you think you're doing for Ikuto, think about his happiness for once, won't you."
Yoru widened his eyes and stopped. "What did you just say?"
Miki shrugged. "You heard me. Just some advice, anyways."
Yoru glared at her. "I don't need any advice. And especially not from a stupid whore." He left the room quickly.
Miki fell onto the bed, facing upwards. She hoped that she hit the mark.
"God, he is so uncute."
Amu let out a nice, calm sigh. What a nice night it was. She had just finished watching the latest Magi episode and now she was about to watch the newest Naruto: Road to Ninja movie.
"Yes, tonight is a beautiful one!" Amu cried tears of joy with a manly stance.
The door opened suddenly and Rima came in.
"Oh, Rima, you're back." Amu blinked at her friend.
"I just need to grab my jacket. I'm staying over at Nagi's dorm for the night."
Amu blinked again. "W-What?! How daring, Rima!"
Rima raised a brow. "What? I'm just going to hang out with him."
"I know…but…a whole night…alone…just the two of you.." Just thinking about it was making Amu feel hot. Her eyes couldn't stop rotating round and round.
"Unlike you and Ikuto, not all we do is make out and have sex." Rima rolled her eyes and went back out the door after retrieving her jacket.
Amu turned a crimson red. "W-We have NOT had sex y-yet!"
"Yet." A deep voice countered back to her.
Rima looked up. "Oh, it's you. One nice timing."
Amu didn't have to look at the door to know it was Ikuto.
"Where are you going at this hour?" Ikuto asked Rima curiously.
Amu widened her eyes. "S-She's just running to the market—"
"I'm staying over at Nagihiko's dorm for the night." Rima answered bluntly.
No Rima no!, Amu thought. If Ikuto found out that Amu would be alone in her dorm for the entire night he would definitely…and…
"M-MY PERFECT NIGHT!" Amu screamed suddenly, sobbing.
Ikuto and Rima both jumped. They stared at Amu in confusion.
"Well, I am going to leave her to you." Rima put on arm on Ikuto as if were telling him to defeat the rest of the enemies.
"W-Will do…" Ikuto replied back, sounding unsure of himself.
Rima left and Ikuto closed the door. Now it was just the two of them.
"Well somebody doesn't look excited to see me." Ikuto said, looking more amused than upset. He walked up to where Amu was sitting in front of her laptop. She turned her head slightly at him and pouted her cheeks.
"Come on, where's that smile…" Ikuto smirked.
Amu pouted harder.
"Smiiiilllllllleeeeee…" Ikuto put his fingers on her cheeks and dragged them up.
"Awhh! Eekudaaa!" Amu tried to complain but her words sounded like mush and her cheeks were getting stretched by his long fingers.
"There." Ikuto gave her a smile back as his fingers were able to form the creepiest looking, forced smile on Amu's face.
Amu's lips twitched. Ikuto's did too. He then quickly released his fingers from her burnt cheeks.
They both burst out laughing.
"Ahaha you should've saw your smile, it was so creepy!"
"At least I actually have to try to look creepy when I smile. Unlike you." Amu was referring to Ikuto's previous, natural smile.
"Heh? That's not a very nice thing to say to your loved one." Ikuto frowned at her with dark eyes.
Amu waved him aside. "Anyways if you don't mind now, I have a Naruto movie to watch."
"You can't just wave me away, Amu." He took her into a tight embrace and dug his face into her warm neck.
"H-Hey, Ikuto stop! That tickles!" Amu tried to sound angry but she really couldn't.
"Ah." Ikuto suddenly released her from his grips. "I should probably text Yoru to tell him I'll be spending the night here."
Amu looked at him questionably, forgetting at the moment that Ikuto had just decided to stay over.
"He gets really paranoid too easily. Might think I was abducted by aliens." Ikuto muttered these words as he quickly tapped away on his phone.
"It's weird. Yoru seems to be oddly worried about you yet he acts like such a jerk."
Ikuto closed his phone and looked at Amu.
"Yeah. He's weird." Ikuto said it loudly and without care.
Poor Yoru, Amu thought. He was getting rejected by Ikuto so fast.
Ikuto's phone then vibrated. "Hm?" He checked to see Yoru's reply. Amu watched as his expression changed as he read the message. Then she heard Ikuto let out a sigh.
"Is something wrong?" Amu asked him.
"Yeah. Yoru said that he has this big Physics exam tomorrow and he doesn't understand anything. Basically he's asking me to teach him the entire unit tonight."
Amu's eyes sparkled, "What a reliable friend you are Ikuto."
Ikuto frowned and patted her head. "As odd as Yoru is, he still is my friend…I think..maybe.." Ikuto squinted his eyes. He really wasn't sure.
"Well guess you have to go help him~" Amu wiggled her arms with amusement. Tonight was still going to be beautiful.
"Don't look so happy, you punk." Ikuto pinched her cheeks again with both hands and dragged them downward.
"I'm sure there will be other nights for us to hang out." Amu reassured him.
Ikuto laughed it off. "Of course there will." Then he exited the room after giving Amu a quick goodbye kiss.
Amu was left in the room alone.
"NARUTO TIME!"
She clicked the play button for the video excitedly.
And that's when everything shut off.
"W-What?!" Amu shrieked, alarmed. The computer, the lights, and everything plugged in was no off. "Is this a blackout?"
A scary feeling crept upon her. No, this was not good…A blackout? Amu could not take blackouts. Because when there was a blackout….
"I CAN'T USE THE COMPUTER FOR ANIME!" Amu screamed.
Suddenly her cell phone rang. With a giant frown and tired eyes Amu picked it up. "Hm? Hello?"
"Hey, are you okay?"
"NO I'M NOT OKAY."
"W-What?! Did something happen to you?"
"YES I AM IN PAIN, A LOT OF PAIN."
"Hold on I'm—"
"Without any power I can't watch ANIME." Amu sobbed to Ikuto.
"—coming…Wait. THAT'S ALL?!"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT'S ALL?! YOU STUPID BOYFRIEND."
Ikuto twitched on the other line. This is what he gets for being worried? "Well I was just calling to see if you were…okay…since we were informed that the girls' dorms were having a power outage. But it looks like you're doing fine."
"Pfft like the darkness is going to attack me—Wait. So does the boys' dorms have power?"
"Uh yeah—"
"OK I'M COMING."
The line went dead.
"Just what…is she thinking…?" Ikuto sweatdropped with Yoru sitting next to him.
Five minutes later somebody started knocking viciously on the door.
"I'll get it, nya." Yoru got up and opened the door.
A shadow dashed in.
"What—a robber?!" Yoru swirled around fast.
"No." Ikuto squinted. "Even worse."
They both turned to see Amu clutching her laptop breathing heavily. "Power…"
"Oh, hey Amu, nya!" Yoru greeted her.
Amu paid no attention to the both of them and immediately plugged her charger in and turned on her laptop.
"Sometimes it's really hard to believe that you like her," Yoru whispered to Ikuto.
"It's ok you don't have to whisper it." Ikuto replied back impassively.
Ikuto put down the heavy physics book and walked towards the occupied Amu. He pulled off her headphones. "Oi, you can't just scare people like this."
"H-Hey! Give me back my headphones!" Amu reached up for them.
"What are you doing here?"
"Isn't that obvious?" Amu muttered at him.
"Do you understand the meaning of SELF-RESTRAINT?" Ikuto asked her.
"DON'T TELL ME HOW TO LIVE MY LIFE!"
Yoru watched the two as they continued to bicker. He looked at Amu in her pajamas and messy hair in all her otaku glory and shuttered. WHY WAS IKUTO WITH HER?! It was almost unbelievable. And Yoru did not want to believe it.
"Ah, Ikuto! I need you to help me with this problem!" Yoru called out to him.
Ikuto turned to him. "Oh, let me take a look." He left Amu, dropping her headphones on her.
"Ack!" Amu grabbed them with her hands after they fell on her head. She put them back on while sticking her tongue out at Ikuto's back.
Ok, back to my movie…, Amu clicked play finally.
And then everything shut off.
"E-Eh?!"
"Aw crap. Looks like the blackout finally reached the boys' dorm." Ikuto sighed, running his fingers through his dark blue strands.
"N-NOOOOO!" Amu cried out. Why must this happen to her?!
"What are we going to do about your physics exam?" Ikuto asked Yoru.
"I guess we can try going to the library."
"Yeah, ok, let's do that." They both picked up their stuff and were ready to head out the door.
The speakers suddenly rang through the building. "Attention, in this blackout we are asking that nobody leave the building. We are experiencing difficulties with the main door. Please remain in your rooms until the power outage is fixed. Thank you."
Ikuto and Yoru sweatdropped. Well, that left the library out of the question…
"Well, we really can't do anything for now…" Ikuto scratched his head. "We'll have to wait until the blackout gets fixed."
Ikuto, Amu, and Yoru sat there together in the dark. How long would they be stuck in this darkness?
I hoped you enjoyed it, and I hope my writing style hasn't changed TOO much xD Ok guys, tell me what you thought! Review please! Anybody here who has stuck with me since the beginning?!
