"Hm...fruits, veggies, meats, and milk, there. Got it all...Oh! Right!" A young girl walked through the grocery store in search of a specific item. She scanned the shelves and smiled as she found it. "There, Sensei's special item...huh...Oh!" The girl turned and saw a young man watching her.
She knew the man and slightly backed away. He wasn't a bad guy or anything like that, but she'd sworn not to see him again. Course she thought, she couldn't control whether or not they ran into each other in the store, that'd just be coinsidence. She sighed and noticed that the man held her shopping basket.
"Ah...can I have that back please?" "Nope." "Give it...mmm!" She backed right up, after that. "Coming?" She was wide eyed, but nodded timidly, worry seeping through her. They went to the check out, and then left. He got into her car. "No, no, out, please." "No." "You stubborn!" It was not use, the man would not get out of the car. "Fine."
They arrived at the girl's apartment. "So, got your own place, huh?" "Yes, can I have my...Hey!" "Nice and roomy." "Give me the groceries and please leave!" "Hm..." He approached her until she was backed up against the counter. "Why do you want me to leave?" "I...I just do, thats all..." "Aww, thats not nice at all." "Please, go...I can't have you here..." "Why not?" "I...I can't tell you...I'm sorry, please go..." "No." "Ikuto!" "Not until you tell me why you've been missing for 4 years." "I went..." "Uh uh, thats a lie. You didn't go with Utau to Europe, cause there wasn't even a tour there." "No, but I did go to Europe." "For what?" "To escape..." "Huh?" "Nothing, but I was in Europe." "Why so long?" "I...I can't say, I'm sorry...now please, you have to go..." Suddenly a large boom was heard and both could see from the living room window that it was pouring rain. "I that?" "Ha, no, stay until it dies down at least." She said and went to put the things away.
"So who lives here with you?" "No one, why?" "You live here alone?" "Mhm, its better that way." "Why?" "Please stop asking why, cause its just going to be the same answer, that I can't tell you." "Ha, fine."
"Hrm..." Amu was busy chopping veggies for dinner, and Ikuto was begining to get very annoying, by constantly looking over her shoulder. She tried hard to ignore him, but he was very annoying. "Hm..." "Can you stop hovering over me, please?" She asked firmly, swinging her hand with the knife in it, which accidently cut his cheek.
"Oh! Shit, sorry, are you alright?" She asked worried like. "Hm?" "I didn't mean to...ah..." He pulled her into his arms and hugged her. "It's alright, no harm done." "Ah...but your..." "It will go away." Amu felt happy. She hadn't seen this guy for 4 years and at that time it hadn't been the best time that she'd seen him.
He'd been locked in that cage and used as a barganing tool to get her to join Easter. She had joined and was actually still working for them. For about two years, she'd been off in Europe, with another girl who worked for Easter, who turned out to be Lulu. They'd been over there scouting out heart eggs. Easter as it seemed was still searching for the Embryo, and had believed that by using Amu's new character, Death Angel, they'd find it easier. They hadn't yet.
As he held her, Amu looked at her arm, where the needle filled with X solution had been injected into her body. She still transformed into Death Angel, sometimes even when she didn't have to. She hadn't been able to control her transformations and at first the scientists that developed the solution thought that she wasn't taking to it at all and were afraid that it would destroy her, but she learned to control it and got used to it, now everything was in the clear.
"Why so silent?" "No reason, just thinking." "So, why have you been gone for so long?" "I..." "Hm...hey, whats that?" Ikuto asked about the letter E on her arm that was in the place where the needle had been inserted. "Just a tatoo..." "Huh, looks like Easter's E symbol." "Really? I never..." "So you didn't start working for them?" "What..." "You didn't start working for them... did you?" "I..." "You did!" "I had to." "Okay...why?" "I...I can't say..." "Amu, why'd you agree to work for them?" "I have a good reason..." "No reason is good enough to explain why you'd work there." "It was a life or death situation!" "For who?" "A good friend of mine..." "Go on." "Ha, I hd refused them already and they'd guessed that I wouldn't agree to work for them, so they brought my friend in, in this cage," "Cage?" "Mhm, I was forced to watch as they tortured him." "Oh." "They said that if I were to agree to work for them, they would stop and let the boy go. So I agreed." "Just like that?" "I couldn't let them hurt him anymore, not when I was able to end it, by saying the words they wanted me to." "Who was it?" "..." "Amu?" "Hm...freedom." "Huh?" "They told me that my friend would be granted full freedom...never having to work or step through Easter's doors again...full freedom." "..." A look of realization crossed his face. "I see now..." "Mhm."
He hugged her tighter, "Even though you shouldn't have, thank you." "Hm...even though I had to work for them, I'm glad I was able to set you free from them." She said, and smiled, "I'd do it all over again too, infact if I could turn back the hands of time to that day, I'd have said yes to working there again, before all the..." "You don't have to say anymore." "Thanks...mmm!Mmmm."