It was a few days later, when Ikuto came to call on Amu, but found the entire apartment to be empty. It was as if she'd never lived there at all. "Where..." He noticed a little piece of paper hidden slightly under a table leg. Curious as cats are, he picked it up and read what it had to say.
I'm sorry, Easter has ordered me once again to go overseas and finish my work there. They've probably moved most of my things out, and have only left a few items. I most likely wont be living in that apartment anymore, when and if I am able to come back this time. But, this isn't the end, no, far from it, instead this is...well, a new begining. I am trying to put together enough evidence in hopes to possibly bring Easter down, but there is still alot that I need to get accomplished first. So, I guess I'll see you when I can, but it may not be for quite sometime. Bye, now.
Amu.
P.S
Theres a little party happening at the location on the back of this letter, hope you like and enjoy it.
"Hm...Easter must have found out somehow, that we'd met up recently...but how?" He wondered to himself then looked up in the corner of the room. "Huh?" There was a small hole that looked like it had been recently made and something had been taken out from the ceiling. "Security cameras huh, thats how they found out." Ikuto said, and after looking at the location on the back of Amu's letter, stuffed it into his pocket and walked away.
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"Hey, Amu," "Hm? Yeah Lulu?" "Why're you so out of it today?" "Huh?" "Ever since you got back here, its like you've been in a rut, whats the deal? We're in Paris! You should be happy! Not moppy." "Hm, yeah, well, I'm not really into being here right now." "Oh?" "It's nothing, lets change the subject, alright?" "Ah...sure, thing...hey!" "Hm?" "Lets have some ice cream," Amu sighed and nodded, "K, my treat, don't worry about it." "Really? Are you sure? I can pay for my own, you know." "I know, but whats the point of having the access code for Easter's account, if you can't spend a bit of the money in it." "You have the code!" "Mhm, you don't?" "No, neither did that boy either...I don't think that is." "Boy?" "You know him, the one with the cat ears, during character change." "Oh, Ikuto." "Yeah, never really got to know his name, didn't care to, but yeah, I don't think he knows it either." "Huh?" "What?" Amu just looked at Lulu, "You said you don't think he knows it...wouldn't they have changed it? when they freed him?" "Freed? What do you mean?" "I...I thought..." "You can't be free of Easter once you start working for them!" "What! They agreed to free him though..." "Who? Ikuto?" "Yes, it was part of our arrangement, that I would work for them, if they gave Ikuto full freedom." "Well, you were fed a bunch of lies." "..." Amu was silent as could be.
After all they'd done to get her to join in the first place, the only real thing she'd wanted was for them to let Ikuto go. "Amu?" "Hm?" "You know though, I havent been back there since we left the first time, so maybe they have held to their end of the agreement, you never know, right?" "Yeah, I guess so...but I think you were right about them never letting anyone of their workers go free." Amu said, as the two girls headed towards an ice cream shop.
"So, Amu," "Yeah?" "Do you like him?" "Who?" "Ikuto of course, he's the ony guy we've been talking about, right?" "Yeah, right, and yes, I do. A lot." "Hm...interesting, and here I thought you liked that blond boy from your guardian group." "Tadase? Yeah, I like him alot too, and a few others, but I think I know the one that my heart wants me to be with." "Who?" "I myself am not sure of that one yet." "Ah. Hey," "Hm?" "Lets go shopping!" "Ah...hm, okay." They headed to do some shopping, "Oh, by the way, here, I got what you asked me to get while I was back in Japan." "EEEK! You are so awsome!" "Whoa, now girl, let go, please." "Sorry."