Previously…

"You're too off guard lately, Amu." He quickly walked to where the shadow overwhelmed the people that dared cross the border line. He walked into the darkness and disappeared without a trace.

Ikuto finished up his talk with an actress he accidently bumped into and headed for the table covered with food. He looked around but didn't see Amu anywhere.

Where could she be?

Ikuto felt a tap on his shoulder and looked around to see who it was. All he saw was a person with a hood that hid all of their face except their mouth. A smile spread across the person's face.

"Goodnight." The man quickly hit Ikuto's pressure point with a hard blow and he fainted from the sudden attack. During that process, the man's hood had fallen off and so did his glasses. He lowered himself to reach his specs, his rusty coloured locks falling. He picked them up and placed them in his pocket. He slung the unconscious man over his shoulder and walked into the shadows.

Amu struggled to break free of the chains that bonded her hands to the wall behind her. She clenched her hands and pulled even harder but the chains were hard to break. She summoned her swords but when she did, the chains tightened around her wrist to the point where she thought her hands would break off. She forced the swords back and the chains grip loosened. The door suddenly opened with a loud creaking sound and light spilled into the dark room. Amu had to squint for a while until her eyes adjusted. At the door stood the person she hated the most.

"My, my Amu. How disappointing. I thought we trained you better than that."

"Be quiet!" Tadase moved so quickly that Amu couldn't even see him move. He lifted her chin so she looked up at him. He stared down at her with cold eyes.

"Watch your words. I can do whatever I want with you now. Don't push it." For the first time, Amu actually felt scared of Tadase. She looked down and tried to hold back the tears. Her hands started to tremble as her eyes stung from holding in the tears of fear.

"Ikuto, Ikuto, Ikuto. Help me. I'm scared." Amu kept on whimpering his name out. Tadase threw his head back and bursted into laughter.

"You've become so pathetic Amu. But since you want to see him so much, then I can show you him right now. Nikaidou, bring him in." Tadase raised his voice and a man with brown hair entered through the door. She could easily tell from the blue hair that it was Ikuto. Amu gasped at the unconscious body. Amu struggled from the chains.

"What did you do to him?"

"Nothing really. Tadase told me to bring him here. I owed him for saving my life but I was really neutral on the whole life thing. I didn't really care if I lived or died. I finished my deal so after this; you won't ever see me again." Nikaidou spat onto the ground.

"Bring him to the lab." Tadase narrowed his eyes at the spit on the floor but Nikaidou ignored his expression and left.

"Give Ikuto back!" Tadase turned around and looked at Amu. His lips slowly curved into a smile.

"If you want Ikuto back so badly, I can make a deal with you. It'll benefit for you and him."

"What deal?"

"A deal where I can remove the human weapon we fused into you since it's been contained in you long enough, it should be stable. I'll keep the weapon and you can go see Ikuto." Amu's eyes widened.

"You can really do that?"

"Of course."

"And you won't hurt Ikuto?"

"I promise."

"Okay then. Deal." Tadase walked over to the corner of the room and rummaged through materials scattered everywhere that Amu hadn't noticed. He pulled out a weird looking glove with wires attached that overlapped each other. He slipped his hand into the glove and walked over to Amu. With a wicked smile, he plunged his hand right into Amu's chest. Amu coughed up blood and started to scream. She pulled the chains and her nails dug into her clenched fists. Amu felt like she was dying a slow and painful death. Amu felt like Tadase was touching her heart and he ripped it out of her. Amu coughed up even more blood. She jerked her head upwards and screamed as loud as she could. It hurt so much in side of her and she thought she was going to die but apparently, the pain was still there and she was still well alive.

When Tadase pulled out what Amu felt like was her heart, an exact copy of Amu had come out and Tadase pulled his hand back. The Amu he had pulled out had narrowed her eyes at him but he didn't care right now. Two Amu's stood before him; one who was about to pass out and one had eyes that wanted to kill. Amu's head hung and said breathlessly "You promised you'd let me go see Ikuto. Let me go."

"I don't give a shit about what you have to say." He spat at me.

"But you promised!" Tadase looked at her with a stupid expression.

"You know me too well Amu to think that I would actually keep a promise. After all, promises are meant to be broken. You," Tadase pointed at the Amu he had retrieved "from now on, your name is going to be Claire. Get her out of here, drag her if you need to and make sure that she never comes back here. I have other business to take care of." Claire just gave a nod and watched Tadase walk out. She grabbed Amu and broke the chains off. Amu began to struggle but the human weapon silenced her by knocking her out. She brought her back to her house and laid her on her front door steps. This was going to lead to a new life for both of them.

Tadase looked down in amusement at the man strapped tightly to the chair.

"Well, time to take care of this business and head back." Tadase said quietly.

"What?" Ikuto looked at Tadase.

"What do you want?" Tadase glared menacingly at Ikuto but Ikuto didn't even flinch.

"I want to know why I'm being held captive. I want to at least know why I'm here. I was just trying to find Amu and suddenly, I was kocked unconscious. Care to explain?"

"I don't have to explain anything to you. Besides, I already got rid of her." Tadase spat out.

"Are you talking about Amu? What did you do to her?" Ikuto struggled under the straps and tried to get up but the straps didn't budge.

"That's exactly why you're here. It's your fault for even taking her in. If you just ignored her that day, you wouldn't even be here. That's why, we're going to erase you memory. You shouldn't even know about Amu so we've got to erase everything."

"My memory? All of it?"

"All of it. Begin the process!" Tadase yelled at a girl with long blonde wavy hair behind a control booth. She pushed some buttons forward and Ikuto immediately felt a tingle shoot throughout his body. His eyes widened as his life flashed before him. He saw when he first became a scientist and how excited he felt when he finally accomplished his dream. Once he saw the memory, it just disappeared and he totally forgot about it and it continued until he forgot everything. Tadase looked at the girl with a wicked smile.

"Good job Rima. You're dismissed." Rima looked at Ikuto with pity for a moment and walked out quickly so Tadase could do what he wanted.

Ikuto looked up at the ceiling but couldn't gather up his thoughts. He felt so empty inside.

"Sleep." Tadase put a hand over Ikuto's eyes and blocked out the light. Ikuto felt sleep overcome him and fell into a deep slumber.

Ikuto woke up and found out he was lying down on the cold floor on the streets. He was in a back alley way where everyone in the neighborhood kept their garbage. Ikuto was curious what the trash heap since he had never seen anything like it in his life or what he could recall. He rummaged through the garbage and one thing caught his eye. A violin was placed on of the alley ways wall and was glistening when the moonlight shone on it. He picked up the violin and the bow and placed the violin on his shoulder. The movement felt natural as he pulled the bow across the strings. It felt like he was born to play the violin. The melody that came out of the violin enchanted him and he just kept on playing and playing. A soft smile spread across his lips as he closed his eyes and continued to play.

Amu woke up to find herself staring at the starry sky. She had got what she had always wanted; freedom. But then how come she felt sad? In the vast sky, Ikuto was under the very same sky yet she couldn't reach him. She even saw him yet she couldn't do anything to help him. Who knows where he is now. She didn't even know where he was now. Amu felt something wet fall down her cheeks. She touched her check and looked at her hand. She was crying.

Amu woke up to the birds chirping outside. Amu sat up and looked around the room. She was distressed when she didn't find Ikuto anywhere in sight but then last night's memories flooded back to her like an on coming storm and hit her hard. Amu felt lost and was honestly confused on what she would do now. Amu got up and changed but whenever she tried to think of something else other than what happened last night, her mind kept on thinking of Ikuto. She felt a pang of guilt as it was her fault that Ikuto was captured. It was probably the same reason that her friends were held captive as well. It was her fault that she had even gotten close to them. If she didn't become friends with them, everything would be alright. If Amu had only refused that hand the day Ikuto took her in, he wouldn't be caught up in this mess. At that moment, Amu's mind cleared. It felt so simple all of a sudden. Amu quickly got up and found any empty suitcases she could use. She started to pack a small variety of needed things and quickly walked out the mansion. She felt determined.

Where ever you are Ikuto, I'm going to find you and bring you back!

I could feel the fire around me as the heat started to get to me but on the outside, I was unfazed. It was just like how Amu's parents had died but that doesn't matter to me. I had my own life. I wasn't a person trapped within a person anymore. I was free. And I went by the name Claire.

I walked around the fire to look for any survivors. Tadase ordered me to kill anyone that was still alive in this burnt down town. I did as I was told but was this close to slice his head off because I just hated him so much. He kept on telling me what to do. Do this, do that. That was all he ever said to me. It was my life yet he was in charge of it. I just hated being treated that way.

I looked around and saw a man with midnight blue hair barely standing up. I summoned my swords and walked up to the man. I was about to kill him until he looked up at me. I froze. I had seen this man somewhere. I recalled that this was a violinist from a poster I burnt down not to long a go. Then I remembered something else, Amu knew this person. He went by the name of Tsukiyomi Ikuto.

Even thought I didn't care about that girl one bit, she had grown fond of this man and some of it had rubbed off on me when we were split apart. I shared some of the same attributes as her.

I felt my face heat up a little but it must have been the heat from the fire. I stared into the man's eyes as he didn't remember me or my outer appearance since I looked like Amu. I was hesitant on killing this man when I heard a command from behind.

"Claire! Kill him! What are you waiting for you useless piece of trash!" I gritted my teeth when I heard the voice I hated the most. Tadase. Another attribute I shared with Amu and I hated him tens times more that she hated him. I turned around and faced him.

"Stop telling me what to do."

"You belong to me so I can do whatever I want with you." Tadase said darkly.

"Well your not the boss of my lifeand I'm going to live it how I want it to be. Without you in it." I glared at Tadase.

"And how are you going to do that? You are forever bound by chains."

"Just watch me." I spun around on my heel and picked up Ikuto and slung him over my shoulder. I turned my head back and looked at Tadase.

"See ya." And I sprang into the darkness, bringing Ikuto along with me.

I was in a alley way at night in the city and the shadows of the buildings hovered over us. I had lost Tadase on the way here but there were more important matters to take care of right now. I took a piece of my shirt and ripped off the sleeve. I wrapped it around his arm as it was bleeding the most. He must've woken up in the process because I saw him writher in pain when I was bandaging him.

"Just hold still." I told him calmly. He closed his eyes.

"You smell like strawberries. It smells so familiar. Why?" He murmured softly. I just focused on his arm.

"How should I know?" I replied but in fact, I did know. I smelled like Amu. I laughed bitterly. Whatever I did, I always compared myself to Amu even though I didn't care about her anymore. How ironic. I was supposed to be living the life I always wanted but it seemed like I would never actually be separated from Amu. Suddenly, I heard a whistle come from him.

"What?" I looked him. I never noticed how close we were and backed away a little.

"You wear such revealing clothing." He pointed at my chest. I wore a black top that showed a little too much of my cleavage and the top stopped right below my chest. My shorts were just as bad. They were so short, it looked like I wasn't even wearing any pants. My knee high black high heels finished the whole look. I blushed as I got up. I turned around to hide my beet red face.

"Anyways, Bye." I started to walk away when I was suddenly pulled back. I felt lips planted on mine. My eyes widened as I found out who was kissing me. Tsukiyomi Ikuto.

Yea… Sorry it took me so long to get this up. Was so lazy =P I didn't read over this so if you catch any mistakes, forgive me. Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Ciao~