Bad guys, Bets, and Band mates Chapter 4: The Rumors, a shugo chara! fanfic

Wednesday

Amu's POV

I got up this morning rather late for school. The reason why? Ikuto. Ever since last night I have been having the image of him standing on his roof so into playing his guitar and singing so passionately. I wanted to witness it again. You would too! I mean I'm not being a perv or anything but it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life. I wanted to be able to sing like that whether I was a boy or a girl. But I also had a bet to win. So with that thought I rushed out my door to school to face the Betting Bastard himself. As I made my way down the sidewalk I overheard two girls talking.

"Hey have you heard! Some people I know think that the lead singer is a girl! I mean when his hat accidentally fell off he tried so hard to hide his face! Can you believe it!" One of the girls whispered to the other.

I didn't get the chance to hear the other girl's response because I was too busy running down the street towards my homeroom. When I got there I threw open the door and grabbed Rima dragging her to the roof to talk in private.

" How could they think that! I thought I did a great job trying to hide it without looking too suspicious!" I shouted to the sky. Good thing it was homeroom so no one could hear me.

"I don't know but look at this." Rima said holding up the school newspaper.

The headline read "Black Cat Magic could be a good magician act after all" showing a picture of me trying to hide behind Ikuto's jacket yanking on my hat. But the picture didn't show much of my head so no one could see my hair color or my face.

"What are we going to do Rima?" I asked desperately looking for an answer myself.

"I don't know, but we need to think of something fast and soon."

"I hate this, I can't believe I was so stupid to get put over by his first attempt. God why am I so stupid!"

"You're not stupid and we will think of something but first we need to just ignore it and play tonight. Maybe everyone will dismiss this idea if your singing is convincing."

" Ok." I agreed and we went back to homeroom.

In homeroom the accusations just kept getting worse and more imaginative each period. In 1st period someone thought that our band must be aliens from another planet here to take all their voices away to power our planet. In 2nd period someone thought that we could be trying to get to everyone's hearts and hypnotize the human race to do our bidding. I couldn't take it anymore by 5th period I was out of there. I just ran right out the front door and just kept running until I couldn't run anymore. Then I sat down on a bench in a park I had wandered to. I thought to myself how cowardly running away was and that I couldn't hide from this problem forever. I sat in silence until I heard a song coming from one of the pavilions near where I was sitting. The music I was hearing was coming from a I-pod that was attached to a giant speaker with some loud music pouring out. Then I heard a familiar voice singing.

Stayed awake all night toss and turnin'
Now my blood shot eyes are burnin'
Workin' out why this ain't workin'
Fight after fight after fight
And now it's killin' me

Well guess who! Yea Ikuto. This guy must hav had some weird outdoor fetish or something, but I stopped and listened to the lyrics all the same.

You were too busy to believe'in
All the run away dreams I was dreamin'
Time to pack up and go I'm leavin'
Fight after fight after fight

And now I gotta be
On My Own
And living in a world alone
Gets better every day
That I don't have to say I'm sorry I'm coming home
I'm gonna make it on my own
I'll always take the harder road
Gets better every day
That I don't have to say I'm sorry I'm coming home

How'd you end up oh so jaded?
Cynical and so sedated
Can't live in this world you created
Day after day after day

You will always be the lonely one
You will always try to swallow the Sun
Just remember you could never make it rain on everyone

On my own
And living in a world alone
Gets better every day
Cause I don't have to say
And now you're killin' me

On My Own
And living in a world alone
Gets better every day
That I don't have to say I'm sorry I'm coming home
I'm gonna make it on my own
I'll always take the harder road
Gets better every day
That I don't have to say I'm sorry I'm coming home
I'll make it on my own

I'm sorry I won't be coming home
I'll make it on my own

Again here he was with the singing but it had so much feeling to it that I'm pretty sure that there was a reason he was singing this particular song. Enough hiding and running away I told myself and walked into his view.

"H-h-hi." I managed. Dammit! Why does that always happen!

"Well look who it is. Stalking your band mates now are we?"

" Haha very funny Ikuto."

"So what brings my little stalking strawberry to the park on such a glorious school day?"

"I was running away from the rumors at school." I admitted like I had just told him I committed murder.

His face became serious and he looked straight into my eyes and said" Well we all have to run away from some things sometimes."

"So what's your story?" I asked him quizzically.

" Well, my mother is in the hospital because she has a weak heart, my father ran away from all his problems and left us with this bastard that I am forced to call my step father. My father ran away from us the day he found out he had to work for my moms side's business that I will soon inherit. It's a horrible corporation that once you begin to work for them they will manipulate you into doing anything for them." He sighed.

"Well whatever you do or where ever you go you should just be yourself and whatever you want to do. Kinda like an ally cat. Free to go wherever and do whatever like the swish of its tail." I advised sounding a bit like an old lady.

"Yea that's why I sing it helps me get away from it all and just be who I am."

He turned towards me and looked deep into my eyes and I could see a strong emotion of sadness in his eyes.

"W-w-well school should be over soon we should just hang out until its time for practice." I suggested. He nodded and we just started walking. No particular place to go just walking. We walked, talked, I blushed, we laughed, and for a split second I saw him truly smile and there was no more sadness in his eyes as we continued walking down the street. I saw he was not paying attention to me. And for some reason I wanted to reach out and hold his hand. I began reaching for his hand, noticing how much bigger his hand was than mine and as my fingers were almost to his pal-DING DING DING!!!!! The school bell chimed letting kids know it was time to head home. And all of a sudden Ikuto's head whipped around and he asked, "Ready for practice?"

Wednesday Night

After Practice At That Nights Concert~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I held my hand over my heart and trying to breath deeply to slow it down. Sadly, didn't work. That's when an idea hit me. Two words. The Vest.

The announcer stood out on the stage as the final band took their bows and left.

"Well that was great! And now for our final performance this evening, the band that has kept everyone on their toes for the past few days and still has many rumors going around, Black Cat Magic!!!"

I walked brusquely onto the stage and grabbed the mic of the stand and took another deep breath. "Ok before we start our performance tonight I would like to clear up a misunderstanding. I'm not a girl." And I walked towards a confused looking Ikuto. And grabbed his wrist. Placing his hand where my boobs would be and taking another deep breath spoke again. "See, if I was a girl I would be bothered by this but I'm not so can we please get on with the program?"

Ikuto put on a blank face and said," Wow he's right. Its flat as a board."

Soon the crowds astonished faces returned to normal and we started playing.

I Don't believe in miracles
I never did
Nothing ever happens here
So sick of it

I-I-I told you
I-I-I need to
Get - get myself into something new
I'm for something mystical, hysterical,
Dark, intantric, sexual

I'm not gonna live forever
Said I'm not gonna live forever
Better make it now or never
( ever, ever )
I'm not gonna live forever
Said I'm not gonna live forever
Gotta make it now or never
( forever or never )

I don't believe in fairytales
Too cynical
Everybody stop and stare
I let it go

I-I-I told you
I-I-I need to
Stick - stick - stick out
Just can't be like you

Sent myself to out of space
A better place
Gotta win the human race

For my love
For my love
For my love, it's forever, forever

With that the crowd erupted with applause and I felt relieved to know that everyone believed that I was a guy. I bowed and waved, still being careful of my hats whereabouts on my head. Then I took great strides and walked off stage. Boy was I glad that's over. There's only so much you can take on a Thursday night. The week was almost over and I had major vocal training to do for our final performance on Saturday night. It was so close yet so far. I took another deep breath. No more thinking for me tonight my brain might explode.

"Hey are you the lead singer for Black Cat Magic?" I heard a guy ask as I made my way from the back stage.

"Uh yea."

"One of your bandmates asked me to give this to you." And he held out a glass of water to me.

"Oh thanks!" Wow did my bandmates know me or what! How could they possible know I was so thirsty after a performance! I took it and drank all of it as I made my way to one of the dressing rooms in the back to change into some comfy girl clothes. But as soon as I made it to the door I felt wozzy and the world became blurred and fuzzy. Then the last thing I saw was the floor and I blacked out. Yup deffinatly no more thinking for my tonight.

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