Yo new chapter! Also writing this chapter I've realized how OC I've made Yoru…OTL…This one's kinda long, but I put a lot of LOVE in it! Hope you enjoy~
"Eeek!"
"Rima, are you okay?" Nagihiko asked from another part of his room.
"No…" Rima muttered. "I think I fell on something." She felt her hands around her as she sat in the carpet floor.
Nagihiko tried to walk to her and helped her up. "It seems you tripped over my laptop, haha."
Rima stomped on it in a sudden flash.
"W-WHY—"
"Goodbye laptop." Rima said scarily. "You will deceive me no more."
Nagihiko sobbed to himself quietly. He wondered how the rest of the gang were doing in this darkness.
Meanwhile…
Yoru sat quietly on the bed and Ikuto lay on the floor leaning against the bottom of the bed.
Amu sat crossed legged in the corner of the room. Nobody had really moved since the lights went out. She then sighed. This was so boring.
Ikuto would probably have made a move on Amu, but it felt oddly weird to do that while Yoru was there. It was as if he was always staring them down. But it could just be Ikuto's imagination. Either way, he decided to just sit there.
"Psst…" A voice suddenly peeked from right in front of Ikuto's face.
"W-What?!" He leaned back on bumped his head onto the hard side of the bed. "Tch, ow!"
"Oh, did I scare you?" It was Amu.
Ikuto squinted his eyes. "No. What are you doing here?" He asked her this as if she had just crossed the boundary line.
"Pfft it's not like there's a boundary line in this room. Is that you up there Yoru?"
"Yep, nya." He replied idly.
"It was just so boring and lonely in the corner of the room~" Amu put a hand on her forehead and closed her eyes dramatically. "Thus, I came here!" Her eyes sparkled and even in the darkness Ikuto and Yoru could see them.
"The light…is too much…" Yoru ached.
"Well I guess we have no choice." Ikuto picked Amu up in the air and set her in his lap.
"A-Ah, wait a minute—"
"You said you were lonely right?" Ikuto smirked.
Amu pouted. "Maybe." She awkwardly sat then on his lap, facing him. Not that she could even make out his face clearly in the dark. With nothing else to do, Amu tried to relax her body and softly put her head against his chest. Sitting on Ikuto was actually rather comfortable. She should do this more often! Amu nodded, yes, yes…
Ikuto raised his eyebrows at Amu's head bobbing up and down against him.
Yoru watched their dark shadows silently. He really needed to do something about them soon. It seemed they were already very close despite the fact that they had only recently reunited. With two fingers, Yoru rubbed his spiky hair annoyingly.
Suddenly Amu giggled.
"Hm?" Ikuto questioned her.
"I can hear your heart beating." Amu sounded amused.
Ikuto frowned, feeling slightly exposed. "Yeah it's crazy right I have a heart." He sarcastically remarked.
"Hey it shocks me too." Amu replied back with almost convincing modesty.
"Let's see of Amu has a heart now then." Ikuto said in exchange for Amu's mockery.
"What—no—" Amu started, blushing. She quickly lifted her head away from Ikuto. "That's silly you already know I have one!"
Ikuto ignored her and grabbed her arms with an iron grip, digging his ear into her chest. "Shh….if you're so loud I can't hear it." His voice deeply murmured.
Amu suddenly became silent and blushed harder. Her breathing became heavy as she waited herself to hear her heartbeat that she knew was beating all too quickly now.
"Ah, I can hear it." Ikuto said softly. Amu twitched. Right now she suddenly felt the urge to make out with Ikuto and kick Yoru out of the room. Not that she would ever do that…or admit that she wanted to. Suddenly, Amu could hear her heartbeat now too. It seemed as if it was the only thing she could hear and it filled up the entire room.
"It's beating so fast…" Ikuto said and Amu closed her eyes, embarrassed. She squirmed under his heavy head.
"Your head is heavy Ikuto…" Amu muttered.
He finally lifted his head up from her chest. Then he looked down at her face. She had on a fixed pout and averted her gaze from his. Wherever his gaze was. Slowly, Ikuto leaned into Amu. She could see him coming closer to her, the dark shapes growing bigger and bigger. Amu turned her gaze back to Ikuto quickly. She also started to reach up to him. They're lips were only a centimeter apart when—
"IKUTO FEEL MY HEART TOO, NYA!" Yoru roughly smacked Ikuto's head against his chest.
"Ack!" Ikuto felt his whole body being thrown onto the bed.
"Awha!" Amu jumped back in surprise.
"I hear nothing." Ikuto squinted at Yoru.
"Are you calling me heartless?!"
"Perhaps."
At that moment, the lights suddenly turned back on.
All three of them jumped up at the sudden rays of light that were now blinding them after having been in darkness for about an hour.
"The power's back on!" Amu celebrated.
"Attention students, the power is now back on for the girls' and boys' dorms. Thank you for cooperating with us."
"Woot!" Amu jumped to her laptop. "See you guys later!"
She slammed the door behind her.
Ikuto and Yoru were silent then, staring at the door and the sudden change it atmosphere.
"Ok, back to physics then."
Amu yawned. What a long night that had been. She sat up in her bed and looked at the clock, blinking. Then she widened her eyes and bolted up.
"I'M LATE!" Throwing on whatever clothes she could get her hands on, Amu ran out the door. She ran through the campus and past the bystanders who gave her odd looks.
They're probably calling me a freshman, Amu thought but she didn't stop running.
Finally, she reached the art building.
Amu dashed through the heavy doors in full speed with wide eyes. "I AM HERE!" She screamed as she burst into her quiet classroom, lost in the moment. All eyes turned towards her, including the professor.
A few minutes later…
"Argh! I can't believe they kicked me out!" Amu walked back and forth outside the room. "I guess this means I at least get a free afternoon now." She stopped pacing around and put her hands behind her head.
"Maybe I should take a walk around the campus…" Amu decided to do just that. She didn't feel like going back into her dorm but she didn't have enough time to leave and go somewhere out of her school.
Humming to herself, Amu started the long journey through her enormous school campus.
It was pretty, really. The entire place seemed to be empty of any trash and was filled and filled with endless trees and flowers. It was a nice place to look at for inspiration or just to clear your head. Amu was starting to get inspired herself by walking through the peaceful buildings and trees while classes were vigorously in session but she could hear nothing of them from outside.
Soon, she reached the science department of the school.
"Hm?" Amu looked around. "I believe this is the physics building…"
She recognized it as one of Ikuto's classes but he took one level higher than Yoru so Ikuto's classroom was on the other side of the building.
"Yoru must be hard at work taking his exam inside." Amu rubbed her chin. She tried to peer through the windows but was not able to see anything.
"Eh? Hinamori? What are you doing at the physics room?"
Amu whirled around and saw Kukai. He looked like he was in the middle of his morning jog.
"Kukai? What are you doing out of class?"
"Well, my class is actually Physics 1….but class is cancelled for today. I guess something came up." Kukai scratched his head, running in place.
"What?" Amu raised an eyebrow. "Don't you guys have some sort of final today?"
Kukai stopped. "What? WE DO?!"
"W-Well I mean, that's what Yoru said—Yoru's in your class, right?"
"Yoru? Oh yeah, he is." Kukai looked confused. "But I'm pretty sure we have no final today. And everybody was notified beforehand that the professor would be absent.
Amu was dumbfounded. What if…Yoru had only purposely pretended he would have a physics final in order to drag Ikuto away from her…because he possibly felt that Amu was dragging Ikuto down…and it was his job to bring Ikuto back up by SEPERATING THEM…
"Oh it was probably just a misunderstanding." Amu giggled slowly and rubbed her head. Yoru wasn't smart enough to think that hard anyways.
Kukai laughed. "Yeah. Yoru's probably just tired or something. School's getting to him."
"Well anyways I gotta run! I'll see you later!"
"Kay, later Kukai!"
"Oh yeah, and one more thing. Why aren't you in class?" Kukai asked quickly while starting to run already.
"Ehehe…let's not talk about that…"
Kukai shrugged and proceeded with his morning jog.
"I wonder how Yoru is doing…after realizing there was no physics exam today…" Amu was suddenly curious. She decided to pay Yoru a visit. Amu felt like she could also try to get to know Yoru more, seeing as he was a supposedly good friend of Ikuto…
She skipped off to his dorm room.
Later at Yoru's dorm…
Yoru sat idly scrolling through his laptop and yawned a little. Most students from his physics class were probably having fun and going out since class was cancelled. So why was he still here in this empty dorm room?
Well for one he didn't want to accidentally bump into Amu or Ikuto, not that the chance of that seemed very likely. And second…well, Yoru didn't really now.
"Am I really that boring, nya?" Yoru's eyes remained dull as they stayed fixed on the screen.
Suddenly there was a light knock on his door. Yoru wondered who that could be. It was probably his neighbor asking to borrow his toothbrush again…Yoru sighed as he casually opened the door up.
It was not his neighbor but instead, Amu. Yoru widened his eyes, cursing.
"Ah, Yoru! So I guess you found out that your class was cancelled!"
Yoru blinked. Then he gave out a half-hearted laugh. "Uh, yeah…sucks…"
"Shouldn't you be happy?" Amu raised an eyebrow at him. Then she stepped in his room, despite not being invited. Yoru squinted his eyes and he was pushed aside by Amu. She plopped onto his chair.
Can she not read atmosphere or something?, Yoru glared at Amu who looked like an airhead as she pursed her lips together and looked at his empty walls and ceiling.
"You should try to decorate."
"What?"
"You should try to decorate. You know…your room."
"Uh…oh."
Yoru didn't really do things like that and for the first time he realized just how plain his room looked.
"You're room looks even more boring than Ikuto's…and that is saying something!" Amu laughed.
"Well I don't really have a lot of stuff to put up." Yoru scratched his head.
"I can help you!" Amu jumped up from her seat. "Just tell me what you'd like your room to have."
"Wait, what no—"
"I know, I know. You think that you're bothering me and putting too much work on me. But fear not! Decorating is something, as an artist, enjoy!" Amu pointed a finger to the sky. "…and also your room seriously reminds me of a prison cell."
"Just who is bothering who, nya…" Yoru muttered to himself.
"Hn? Did you say something?"
"No." Yoru crossed his arms. "A-Anyways, it's really fine. This is how I envision my room to be."
"Seriously?" Amu looked disappointed. She sat back down on his chair, which bothered Yoru a bit more because he was sure she would leave then.
"Well what are some thing you're interested in…"
"Not really much…"
Amu frowned. "There has to be something…well, what about the things you like about Ikuto? You like him, don't you?"
Only hearing his name coming from her mouth ticked Yoru off. As if she knew him so well. Yoru looked Amu straight in the eye. "I like how he's hardworking. I admire Ikuto for his natural selflessness and how he handles everything with intelligence and grace." Everything opposite of you…
Amu laughed though. "You make Ikuto sound like some kind of god, or something! You don't really mean that do you?"
Yoru narrowed his eyes at her. Now he was really ticked off. Who did she think she was?! She knew nothing about Ikuto! She appreciated nothing…nothing at all. "Well aren't you dating him?! Shouldn't his girlfriend maybe have a higher vision of him?!"
Amu looked at Yoru, slightly taken aback by his abruptness. "U-Uh, are you okay Yoru?"
Yoru looked back at her. He blinked. He needed to keep his cool.
Clearing his throat, Yoru looked back at his blank walls. "Sorry."
"I think it's great." Amu said suddenly.
"What?" Yoru asked, confused.
"I think it's really great that Ikuto has someone that looks up to him so much." Amu smiled softly.
"I-I mean," Amu went on, "I can't say I'm not surprised…But of course I understand what you mean about Ikuto. Although Ikuto can be…a jerk…he really looks out for others. And I think that it's really nice of you to take notice in that."
Yoru didn't say anything but continued to watch Amu speak him words that have never been spoken to him before.
"I think Ikuto is very lucky to have someone like you in his life." Amu finished. Her eyes were shifted to his desk though because it was also slightly embarrassing for her to say these words aloud. But she meant everything she said.
Yoru didn't say anything and finally Amu decided to look at him again to try and read his expression—
"A-Are you CRYING?!" Amu asked.
Yoru blinked. Was he crying? He reached up to his face and sure enough there were tears. "I-I'm crying..?"
Amu's mind jumped from thought to thought. Did she say something wrong? What should she do? She didn't know guys cried this easily! Amu didn't think she had ever seen Ikuto cry before!
She got up and tried to put a hand on Yoru's shoulder. But the moment she did Yoru leaned back away from her.
"Did I say something wrong?"
"No," Yoru answered her. In fact, it was quite the opposite. Yoru still didn't understand why he was crying though. Was he really crying because of this girl? He peered up at Amu, who blinked with her radiant golden eyes. "I…I just need to gather my thoughts."
Amu understood. "Okay." She walked towards his door. "Just…give me a call if you need to talk..or anything in general." She tried to sound reassuring because Amu honestly did not know what was going through Yoru's mind right now. If anything, it looked serious and Amu would like to try and help if she could.
Yoru nodded silently in response.
Amu opened the door and stepped out. And then she leaned her head back into Yoru's room. "I'm glad that Ikuto and I both have you as a friend, Yoru." Those were her last words before she closed the door and left.
Yoru never called her. In fact, Amu hadn't heard from him in a week. And right now, Ikuto and her were in a taxi driving to a place that was unknown to her.
Amu switched her gaze from the car window to Ikuto. "Just tell me where we're going already, Ikuto!"
"Nope." Ikuto leaned back in his seat. "And stop asking already. We're almost there."
Amu pouted. They couldn't be going on a date because Ikuto only liked going on dates to places near their school. If they were using a taxi, the place had to be far. But it was raining on this certain day and even Amu wanted to she couldn't quite clearly make out what their surroundings were.
She also never asked or talked to Ikuto about Yoru. Amu felt what happened between her and Yoru was solely between them. And whatever Yoru needed to tell Ikuto he would do it himself. Ikuto certainly did not act any differently.
The taxi stopped suddenly, and Amu opened up her umbrella to get it with Ikuto following her. Once under the rain, Amu looked at where their destination was.
"The airport?"
"Yep." Ikuto nodded. "Just follow me."
Confused, Amu followed him into the much warmer airport. They walked up the escalator onto the second floor and the whole time Ikuto told her nothing.
But soon, Amu realized that he didn't need to say anything.
Standing there, with a single black luggage, was Yoru.
"Yoru?" Amu asked. "What are you doing here?"
"I've decided to return back to my hometown, nya." Yoru grinned softly.
"But why?"
"I don't need to be here anymore." Yoru looked Amu straight in the eye. "Originally I came back because I wanted to protect something. But it doesn't need protection. Not anymore."
Amu furrowed her eyebrows slowly. "That doesn't mean you have to go."
"No, I want to. This is a decision that I'm making for myself." Yoru laughed a little. "The first time in a while that I am, anyways."
Although Amu felt like Yoru was leaving just when she had finally got to understand who he was, she also knew that Yoru was really making this choice knowing it was for the best.
Without another thought, Amu reached out and gave him a hug. "Come back soon."
"Maybe, nya." Yoru said back.
When they let go, it was finally Ikuto's turn to say farewell.
"Thanks Yoru. For everything." Ikuto said. His lips curved upwards slightly.
"Thank you, as well Ikuto."
"All passengers boarding please head to Gate 7 now. I repeat, please head to Gate 7 now."
All three looked up at the speakers. It was time for Yoru to take his leave now.
"Ok, nya! That's me!" Yoru took a deep breath and grabbed his luggage.
"Goodbye Yoru! I hope we can meet again!" Amu said to him.
"We'll keep in contact, okay?" Ikuto asked him.
"Of course." Yoru smiled. "Thanks for everything, guys. I'll be off now." He turned and walked towards Gate 7.
The two of them watched him walk off before Ikuto suddenly ran ahead. He pulled Yoru by the shoulder.
Yoru widened his eyes at Ikuto's sudden actions. "What—"
"You better do whatever the hell you want to do."
Yoru froze for a second before smirking slightly. "You better bet I will."
Then Ikuto fist-pumped Yoru. Yoru finally went on his way to Gate 7 after.
Amu and Ikuto remained there until his figure could no longer be seen. And soon then they disappeared back into the rain.
HUFF HUFF EMOTIONAL STUFF. Going to be honest…the hardest part to write in this chapter was what Ikuto was going to say to Yoru and I actually seriously contemplated him just saying 'YOLO' but yeah…opted for the other one LOL. Hoped you enjoyed this chappy! Please review bbyssss!
