Here is the next chapter, sorry for the long update guys! I had sent this chapter to my beta before but she was moving out from her old house to the new one so it took time for her to sent this back to me, but I hope you will still enjoy this chapter!

Big credit for my beta reader – [kisshu-ichigo] – for your help editing this chapter. [A/N: Thank you for sending this as soon as you can, and hope you will enjoy living in the new apartment of yours! Congratulation for moving ~]

Warning : Well, this chapter content a mature stuff so if you don't like it, I suggested you to scroll the lemon part until you met a sign of [End Lemon], there would also be a sign of [Lemon starts here]! You have been warned guys!

Disclaimer : I don't own Shugo Chara!

"Another Love Story"

Chapter 8

Normal POV

'What the hell is she doing here? Where could she possibly be going?' Ikuto asked himself as they walked forward in line to board the plane. He kept staring at the pink haired girl in front of him. His inner voice telling him to run after the girl who was about to board a plane to, from the looks of it, Hong Kong! 'Why on earth would she need to go to Hong Kong? Is it to get away from me? Am I really that horrible to love? No women had ever gone to such lengths to be away from me before.' Ikuto thought to himself with despair. Deep down Ikuto was sure Amu was in love with him, but he just wasn't sure how to prove it. How do you get someone to admit that they love you?

Amu didn't know what to do; Ikuto was standing quietly behind her with his eyes burning into her back as she waited for her turn to board her plane to Hong Kong. 'I can't deal with this right now. I have a plane to catch. I'll just ignore him and pretend he is not even here.' Amu thought to herself with determination. So she began to walk toward the flight attendant who was checking tickets and letting people on the plane.

Unfortunately, just before she reached the flight attendant her wrist was grasped in an iron grip, stopping her from her taking even a step on to the plane. Amu quickly turned her head around to see what force stopped her retreat to the plane, seeing that the midnight blue haired man was the one holding her wrist, Amu sighed in annoyance. 'So much for pretending he's not here' Amu thought dryly to herself as she attempted to remover his hold. Amu couldn't seem to shake the man's hold; this caused Amu to panic a little because she could already feel her wrist starting to scream out in protest at hid tight grip. Ikuto's grip was way too tight for Amu's liking, it was starting to hurt.

"Ikuto let me go. I have to get on the plane now." The pink haired girl said as politely as she could in hopes that he would stop and free her wrist. But Ikuto didn't let her hand go, in fact he tightened his grip even more. He kept his strong grip on her wrist; afraid that if he let it go the Amu would run away like she did the other day. "No." He replied calmly as he tried to hide his anger. Ikuto could see the panic in Amu's eyes but that wasn't enough to make him let her go "Please Ikuto, you're hurting me." The Amu begged, the panic really starting to rise in her. Her heart was racing and the fear of missing her only way out of Japan increasing her panic tenfold. Ikuto still wouldn't let her go; instead, he dragged her away from the opening to the plane and back to the waiting area for the different terminals. "Ikuto, What the hell are you doing! I have plane to catch and I am going to miss it right now!" Amu yelled at him in anger. Ikuto ignored her and started to drag her through the airport until they reached the front doors to the airport. Ikuto lead the out and started hailing a taxi. After a while, Ikuto stopped a cab and forced his pink haired not so lover into the car. "Ikuto where the fuck are you taking me?! You better hope I can reschedule that flight or you are paying for a new ticket!" Amu yelled at Ikuto who was completely ignoring, he gave the taxi driver his address and paid the man. 'I needed to settle this matter and it's now or never.' Ikuto thought to himself as the taxi started to drive away from the airport and Amu's only escape.

About an hour later, they arrived at Ikuto's mansion. After tipping the driver, Ikuto pulled Amu out of the car and forced the pinkette to his front door. He then asked his butler to get his and Amu's things from the car before walking away. He dragged Amu down the halls until they reached his bedroom door. After a moment of unlocking it, he pushed Amu in and slammed the door and locked it behind him.

"Ikuto, what on earth do you think you are doing? You had not right to make me miss my plane and bring me back here, so you better have a damn good explanation. Now tell me what all this is about!" Amu shouted at the man before her. Ikuto stood there not saying a word to Amu, he didn't say a word. Instead, he walked forward and smashed his lips against hers in an angry kiss. The Amu was so shock to say the least. She couldn't do anything to stop the angry mans kiss. Ikuto slowly moved his large hands down and gripping Amu's petite waist, before tilting her head to deepen the kiss.

After a moment Ikuto pulled back for air, Amu took this opportunity to try and stop what was happening. Amu pushed her arms against Ikuto's chest in hope of getting him away, but this only made him pull her tighter against him. Ikuto then started to push Amu towards his bed. When Amu's legs hit the edgy, she fell back onto the bed and Ikuto proceeded climb on top of her. He pinned her arms down and looked her in the eyes before saying, "Amu, why were you trying to leave? Do you really think that badly of me? You hate me that much that you would try to leave?" Ikuto said in an angry and hurt voice.

Amu's heart was breaking at the sight in front of her. Ikuto was looking at her with those deep blue eye and all she could see in them was anger and hurt. It was killing her to see thought eye look at her like that. "Ikuto, I don't think badly of you. I jus-" She attempted to explain before both of them heard a rather loud knock on the door.

'Whoever the hell that is better have a good explanation for interrupting us right now.' Ikuto thought grudgingly as he got off of Amu and walked to open the door. When he opened it, he was surprised to see who was on the other side. His four best friends were standing right in front of his , Kukai, Nagihiko and Kairi pushed by him and let themselves slipped into the blue haired mans' bedroom, only to be shocked by what they saw. They slightly made their way to the center of the bedroom and saw a certain pink haired girl was sitting on the bed with messed hair and slightly disheveled clothes. Kukai was the first one to speak saying "Well, Tadase it looks like you lost man." Ikuto walked into their line of view, preventing them from Amu as she collected herself. "Shut up, Souma." Ikuto interrupted them. Kukai gave Ikuto a quizzical looked but kept his mouth shut, in fear of angering his friend. "Dude, did you forget? Today is your day to host the game night, we invited some of the girls over too." Nagi told the now informed host.

"What? No, I didn't remember. I am busy today guys, so why don't you all go to Kukai's house instead." Ikuto said in a rush as he tried to usher the four men out the door. "No Ikuto! You promised it would be at your house this time so no backing out now that we are here! It isn't going to hurt to have a few rounds of some games. So just hush and try to have fun." Tadase said in a wannabe king like voice. Ikuto grunted in annoyance, knowing he wouldn't get them to leave unless he let them play their games, Ikuto sighed and begrudgingly said, "Fine, just make it fast tonight, okay guys."

Soon, his bedroom was filled with the other girls that his friends brought, Ikuto didn't even recognize the girls but he knew they were just throwaway women for the guys to play with tonight. "Let's play Truth or Dare striptease mode!" Kukai exclaimed with a wink toward one of the girls. All of the people in the room cheered and nodded their heads, everyone except Amu who was still sitting on the bed staring at the people who were now sitting in a circle on the floor. "Hey, I was thinking we could change the rules a bit this time. How about if you refused the dare given to you then the penalty has to sleep with the person who dared you." Kukai said with a big cheesy grin on his face. Everyone agreed, thinking that it would just make the game all the better. All of the people in the room did find it strange that the young pink haired girl wasn't as excited as the rest but ignored it, to them it wasn't that big a deal to play such a game.

Amu just started in astonishment at the group who was mingling and chatting. 'Damn, this is not how my day was supposed to go. I should be on my way to Hong Kong right now! Not playing some dirty games with people, I don't even know. Not to mention playing a game like this is bad for me. If I have to strip then everyone will see my scars and if I refuse to do any dared then I'll have to sleep with someone, which in the end will lead to my first worry about the scars. This is not something I want right now. This is all lkuto's fault. If he hadn't dragged me here, this wouldn't be a problem. I know, I'll just refuse to play at all. Then I don't have to worry about it.' Amu contemplated with herself as everyone was getting ready to start the game.

"Okay, so the basic rules are you only get to take the truth for three time, no picking truth only because you are to chicken to do the dares, and If you refuse the first dare then you have to remove an article of clothing. If you refuse two times, then the person who dared you get's to pick two article of clothing they want you to remove and if you refuse a dare a third time then you'll have to sleep with the person that dared you, no exceptions." Kukai spoke once again.

Amu was starting to panic so she quickly said, "I'm sorry guys, but I am pretty busy tonight so I am going to have to skip tonight's games. Please forgive me." Amu jumped from the bed and made a beeline for the door. Just before she opened the door, Tadase grabbed her wrist and gently pulled am back to the circle of people. "Amu, I'm sure whatever you have to do can wait till tomorrow. Please play the game with us. You'll have fun, I promise." Tadase said in his kind princely voice then he flashed Amu his killer smile. Amu didn't really know how to respond to Tadase's statement so she kind of just sat the in a blur, well that is until she heard Nagi say, "So, let's begin shall we. Nagi turned to face Tadase and said, "Tadase truth or dare?"

After a moment of debating with himself he finally answered the cross dresser. "Dare!" Tadase replied as Nagi started to smirk. "I dare you to touch yourself in front of everyone." Nagi side evilly while trying not to laugh as Tadase started to blush red. "Damn you, Nagi! I'll get you for this just you wait." Tadase hissed while she slowly spilled his hand into his pants. Everyone started laughing when Tadase started getting hard. People were turning red with laughter when he finally came.

Amu being the innocent one was blushing ten shades of red, not laughing once at the man's embarrassment. 'Oh lord please don't let them pick me. Please don't let them pick me!' her inner voice screamed. "Ikuto, truth of dare?" Tadase asked once he finally recovered from his dare. Ikuto smirked, "Dare of course." Ikuto replied the blond man. "I dare you to kiss Kukai right on his lips." Tadase smirked then started to giggle like a schoolgirl. Ikuto being king of challenge wasn't going to let something like that stop him but Kukai was screaming and cursing to no end.

Ikuto crawled into Kukai and placed a peck at his lips before the man screamed in disgust. Ikuto then crawled back to his spot and let his blue eye fall upon his prey. Once Amu realized that he was looking at her, Ikuto let a big smirk spread across his face. "Amu, truth or dare?" Ikuto asked her. 'Dammit, Ikuto how cold you do this to me! You of all people should know why I can't.' Amu kept cursing inside her head while she spit out a nervous answer, "Umm…..Truth I guess.", "Will you marry me one day?" Ikuto asked and made all of the people - including Amu - gawked at him. Amu spit out the only thing in her head, "I will?" she said in as a question rather than an answer. Ikuto was satisfied enough with her answer to let her have her turn.

"Maya, truth or dare?" Amu asked to one of the girl that sat between Kukai and Kairi. Maya smiled seductively and shouted dare. "Okay, umm I dare you to kiss Kairi." Amu didn't find it all that hard a dare. In fact, she was a little disappointed it was so easy. Nonetheless, she faced Kairi and kisses him slightly on his cheek while the other men protest at the action. "Well, she didn't tell me the specific place, so get over it." Maya said in defense. Maya took her turn and they had played about three rounds of the game. Amu's three truths have now been use up, meaning she couldn't choose again between truths or dare if anyone challenged her. That with one option only, she had to play only dares. Meanwhile, Ikuto hadn't used not one of his truth chances, this cased Amu to become frustrated at his ease with such a game.

After a few more dared, it finally happened. Amu was faced with her greatest fear. "Amu. You have used all of your truths up. Now you can only play dares" Ikuto said in an amused tone. 'Damn, I lost my truth chance against Ikuto, Kukai and Nagi. Now, he is challenging me again. He really is trying to kill me isn't he? Damn him!' Amu was cursing inside her brain while her body faced the midnight haired king

"I dare you to make out with me." Ikuto finished his dare. "I decline." Amu replied as she removed her socks and placed them in Ikuto's lap. Everyone groaned at her choice of clothing but continued. About thirty minutes later of playing truth or dare games, Amu to her horror was left with only her undergarment on – but thanks god her biggest scar hasn't been exposed yet – along with Maya and Tadase. While the other two women and Kukai, Nagi, Kairi still had their pants on them and of course, the king - Tsukiyomi Ikuto - was still fully clothed. "Amu." Ikuto called her name. This shocked Amu to no end. It was bad enough she was having trouble hiding the scars on her body but he was actually going for a third time of challenging her. "What the hell! Really?! Why me? Why can't you pick some else?" Amu suddenly yelled out. "Because I want to and because I picked you." the midnight haired man replied. "I dare you to remove your bra and give me a lap dance!" Ikuto smirked right after he voiced his dare. Amu was debating with herself internally; if she removed her bra then she would be completely exposed for everyone to see. She would be embarrassed yes, but if she refused then the only option she would have is to sleep with Ikuto. 'What should I do? Hmm if I do it then I won't have to sleep with Ikuto, but in the end I'll be completely humiliated and everyone will see my scars. There will be no hiding the big ones anymore. Maybe I should just decline. If I do that then maybe I can talk Ikuto into letting me get out of the dare in private. That sounds like the better option than exposing myself.' Amu thought to herself for a bit. She didn't notice everyone staring at her waiting for a response from the pink haired beauty.

"Well, Amu…? What's it going to be?" Ikuto asked impatiently. Amu looked up and gave him a glare that could kill. "I decline." Amu answered and she looked back at the floor. "You have to sleep with me then." Ikuto said triumphantly. She showed no emotion, only nodded her head in response."Well, that's it for tonight guys, thanks for coming and goodnight. Now, please do not disturb me and leave." Ikuto said suddenly as he stood up and walked to his bedroom door, opened it and led his friends out. The fourth men groaned, complaining that it was still too early but followed their friend commands anyways and walked out the door along with the girls. Ikuto then slammed his door shut, locked it and pressed the intercom on the wall. "What do you need, Young Master?" The maid, who picked up the phone, asked."I am busy right now. So if there're any phone calls or anyone looking for me tell them I am extremely busy and don't want to be disturb." Ikuto commanded the maid. "As you wish, Young Master." The maid replied and then hung up. Then Ikuto faced the pinkette that still sat on the floor. He picked her up and gently placed her on his king sized bed. He slowly crawled on top of her and looked into her golden eyes before leaned over and kissing her lightly. It was a slow and passionate kiss, but then it turned into a heavy make out session faster than Amu expected. Ikuto wasted no time in letting his hands traveling over the pinkette body, he started pulling her closer by the waist and kissing her neck, leaving little love bites everywhere.

(If you are not into Lemons then please skip ahead now)

Ikuto was gentle, each touch a promise for what was yet to come, Ikuto sucked on Amu sweet lips igniting sounds that excited his core. He was sure of one thing; Amu was going to be his. Until he made sure she knew who she belonged to, he wasn't going to stop his ministrations.

Slyly, he slipped one hand between the thick fabrics hiding her torso. He made sure to massage all accessible flesh from her belly up until he reached her soft breasts. It was a blissful feeling, especially as she leaned into his touch moaning his name.

Amu was surprised at herself when she finally noticed that she had managed to rip Ikuto's shirt off and was now lapping at his neck and suckling the soft flesh. 'I should stop this before it goes any further.' Amu thought to herself, but her actions were doing the complete opposite, instead that tongue of hers was doing wonders to the blue haired man, he couldn't wait to find out what she could do next. Straddling above her, Ikuto's impatience had him ripping her shirt from her body revealing her bountiful breasts teasing him from behind her bra.

Ikuto made haste, quickly attacking her scarred yet beautiful body. His hands quietly explored her body, kneading places that made her squirm under his touch. Amu's hands wrapped themselves around his neck as he placed kisses along her throat, groping one of her breasts in his hand. He teased her hardened nipple through the flimsy material before discarding the bra and tossing it onto his bedroom floor.

Spending some time with his new toys, Ikuto indulged himself in the melodious noises she made with each nip and sucking motion, he adorned her with. Rolling his tongue around the taut flesh, the heat from her core was readily warming. With one hand, Ikuto fumbled with the zipper of her pants, before yanking it with one go, revealing her underpants that he had all but memorized from their game previous. Her warm juices had already soaked the wimpy cotton as he kicked off his pants as well.

He brought his lips to Amu's mouth once again, muffling her cries. Ikuto kissed her with an amount of passion that was meant to tell her that he loved her and protect her. He wouldn't let her foster parents ever hurt her again.

Flicking the sides of her panties, he rolled them down her legs revealing her leaking core. Daringly, Ikuto ran his hands along the insides of her thighs, his fingers passing over her sex. His thumb casually pressed against a bundle of nerves that had her crying in pleasure that was unfamiliar to the pinkette. He carefully rubbed Amu's clit, her hips lifting slightly off the bed trying to feel more of the new pleasure.

Without warning, Ikuto inserted a finger in Amu's forbidden entrance. Her walls squeezed him tightly; this caused Ikuto to worry that he would hurt her when the time finally came for them to connect as one.

Nipping at her neck again, Ikuto trailed towards her ears, whispering words that were meant to relax and calm her. Sliding two fingers in, Amu adjusted quickly as Ikuto thrusted in and out of her slowly. Amu gasped at the new feeling and started bucking her hips onto his fingers, and as much as Ikuto enjoyed her efforts in trying to participate, he'd rather she thrust herself against his more solid muscle making itself known from his boxers. Out of all the women Ikuto had been with, Amu was the only one to ever exhibit such a hard pain from below before; he swore it would explode within minutes if he didn't hurry.

Just as Amu was about to cum, stopped his pleasurable torment, not allowing her to climax at her will. Ikuto saw the disappointment reach her eyes, and he grinned kissing her frown.

"Don't worry Amu, we are just getting started. Don't finish before the fun really starts. I am going to make you mine." Ikuto said in a raspy voice, tickling Amu's soft skin.

Amu replied with an unexpected squeeze to his elongating shaft. "Well, then," Amu licked her lips for show, "Don't keep me waiting." She said in a rather nervous voice. 'Oh god what am I doing? I want him so bad, but I shouldn't be doing this. I told him I didn't love him. This is not what people do when they don't love someone!' Amu was thinking to herself, but her thoughts were quickly changed when Ikuto positioned himself at her entrance and slowly started to rub against her opening.

Slowly edging his way into her, Ikuto couldn't help the soft moans escape from his lips. This feeling was much better than using his hands any day. It was a challenge to keep from plunging right into her, but it made it all the better knowing that he had been the first and only person to gain the right to enter her.

Ikuto suddenly stopped when he heard Amu whimper in pain. "Amu, this is going to hurt a bit, I'm going to try my best to be gentle but it will still hurt a bit, okay?" Ikuto said in a worried voice, looking down at Amu who was panting in pain. In one hard thrust, Ikuto fully entered Amu, causing her to cry out in horrible pain in her lower region.

Letting her adjust to his continuously growing shaft, Ikuto began to move slowly inside her, with every movement Amu whimpered and a few tears fell from the corners of her eyes. After a bit of gentle thrusts Amu started to notice the pain was slowly subsiding. Amu found that her body was quick to alter to Ikuto's hardness as his pumped slowly giving her absolute pain and pleasure. He was patient with her, but it seemed like patience was obviously not in her book. When Ikuto hit a certain spot Amu suddenly gripped Ikuto's hips as she propelled forwards at a quicker speed. She moved her hips, screaming his name and begging him to move faster. He wouldn't deny his woman of the pleasure she had never felt.

Gripping Amu's buttocks, Ikuto made sure to drive himself forward in an undulating pattern. His lips were everywhere on her skin, his nose engraining every one of the places and positions that gave her the sweetest scent. The music they were making with their bodies was the most beautiful thing he had ever heard in his life. He continually pumped into her forcefully as a fine sheen of sweat covered the entirety of their bodies.

Ikuto felt the tingling of his balls ignite when her vaginal walls greedily sucked him of all his juices. "Ikuto, oh I-I'm Cumming! Ahhh." Amu shouted as her walls clenched Ikuto's dick for dear life. With Amu's walls squeezing Ikuto so tight he could feel himself on the brink of release, "oh god, Amu!" He groaned before he thrusted on final time and spilled his seeds deep inside Amu's womb. With the wave of ecstasy flowing through the both of them, both collapsed on the bed in exhaustion. "Ikuto?" Amu whispered, while she panted against her lover's chest. "Hmm?" Ikuto said, trying to fight the sleep that wished to claim him. "I lied before, I do love you." Amu mumbled out just before sleep claimed her exhausted body. Ikuto kissed her forehead, moved to her ear and quietly said, "I love you too, my little liar." Ikuto then moved his arm around Amu and followed her to the land of sleep.

(The Lemon ends here)

Amu awoke the next morning to the sun shining through the curtains. When Amu sat up I on Ikuto large bed, she felt her body screamed in protest. She could feel that her lower region was sore and there was a dull pain in her abdomen. Amu hisses in pain when she tried to shift into a comfortable position on the bed. The room was completely empty, leaving Amu alone and a little confused as to why Ikuto wasn't in bed with her. 'Maybe he had to go to work and didn't want to disturbed Me.' the pinkette thought disappointedly.

After a while, Amu, pushing throw her pain, got up and took a long hot shower. The hot water soothed her tight muscles and helped relive some of the pain she felt from her night's activities. Once she was done with her shower, Amu wrapped a towel around her and walked back into the bedroom. It took some time but finally she found her suitcase in the closet, and took it out and set it on the bed. After some debating, Amu settled on wearing a light pink sundress, white flats and a white cardigan over the dress. She put her bubble gum hair up in a high pony tail and applied some light makeup. She wore just enough makeup to hide her scars but not so much that it looked caked on.

Once she was satisfied with her appearance, Amu walked out of the room and slowly made her way down the hall. It was hard for her walk because of the pain but Amu pushed through it and made her way down the stairs and into the dining room. "Ah, Good morning Amu-sama. Did you sleep well?" A maid greeted her when she saw the pinkette.

"Good morning, and yes I did thank you." Amu said in a cheery voice despite the pain she was in. "That's good. Would you like me to get you something for breakfast Amu-sama?" The maid smiled and asked politely. Amu shook her head and asked, "No thank you. I am not that hungry, but umm do you know where I might find Ikuto?" Amu asked the maid. "The young master is in his study room miss." The maid replied to her. Amu thanked the maid before she left and made her way to the study room.

Amu made her way down the hall, when she finally reached the study she reached for the doorknob stopped but when he heard Ikuto was speaking with someone the other side. Amu knew it was wrong to eavesdrop but the next thing she her caught her attention. "Well, it looks like you won the bet." A man spoke. "Of course I did, who do you think am I? I am Tsukiyomi Ikuto. I never lose a bet." Ikuto replied in a smug voice. "You didn't fall for her right?" The man asked in persistence. "Me? To Amu? Of course not. The almighty Ikuto doesn't fall in love." Ikuto answered cockily. When Amu heard this, it felt like her heart being stabbed by knives.

"Hm, I'm just a little curious, you said she was a virgin, so she probably isn't on the pill and you didn't use a condom, so what will you do if she turns up pregnant?" The other man spoke again. "I'd ask her to have an abortion. Plain and simple. I don't do kids, you know that. I also don't need the extra responsibility. I have enough to deal with when I come to Easter Corporation and all, so I don't have time for kids." Ikuto said simply.

Amu couldn't listen to them any further, so she quietly backed away from the door so they wouldn't hear her. When she was far enough from the door, Amu ran towards Ikuto's bedroom and slammed the door shut.

'It was all a lie. Last night, the times before, it was all a lie! And I actually believed him. How could I have ever been stupid enough to really believe he could ever love me? I'm just a girl he was using for a bet, nothing more." Amu thought to herself as she walked to the closet. She grabbed her suitcase and started folding her clothes to make them all fit back inside. 'There is no way I am going to stay here. Not after this. I need to leave and never come back.' Amu thought as she shut her suitcase and grabbed her purse that was on the nightstand.

Amu walked over to the dresser, grabbed some paper and a pen, and began to write a note to leave for Ikuto. As she wrote the note, tears escaped her eye and fell, for every word she wrote just broke her heart and made her see just how used she was. No one would ever want her. Hell, Ikuto said he wouldn't even want Amu's children. At this Amu just couldn't take it. Amu finished her note, grabbed her things, and made her way out the door and towards the stairs.

A maid saw Amu walking to the door and stopped the young women. She asked Amu where if she was leaving but Amu ignored her question and just asked her to give her note to Ikuto when she saw him. The main nodded and said goodbye to Amu when she opened the door and left the house.

Outside, Amu took out her phone and called a taxi that would be here shortly to pick her up. 'Where and I going to go? I don't have my apartment anymore and I missed my only chance to Hong Kong. I'm out of money because I spent it all on that ticket. I maybe have like twenty buck, and I'll have to use that for the taxi. I have nowhere to go….unless.' Amu thought to herself as a taxi entered through the gates of the mansion.

When she got into the cab, the man in the front asked her for the address she would like to be taken too. Amu could only come up with one answer. She would have to go back to the one place she promised herself she would never go back too. The one place that she swore would always be a very last resort in life. Unfortunately, this place was her only option. She'd have to go back to her foster parent's house.

Amu gave the man the address and closed her eye as the car started to move. About thirty minutes later Amu was woken up by the taxi driver telling her they had reached their destination. With a sigh, Amu grabbed her stuff and slowly stepped out of the cab. After Amu paid the cab driver, the taxi drove away, leaving Amu alone. She turned toward the house and just stared. She looked at the large two-story house. It had changed a bit since the last time she saw it. The white paint on the house was dulled to an eggshell color and the grass was a little over grown, but other than that it looked like the same house she remembered. It was a house, which you would never expect to have such horrible secrets. It looked like a normal house that you would think everything is perfect.

With one last sigh, Amu walked up the path to the house, walked up the few steps and knocked on the door. After a moment of waiting Amu's foster mom opened the door with a big fake smile on her face. "Oh Amu dear, we have been looking for you everywhere! I am so happy to see you. Please come in." Amu's foster mom said in a cheese fake love voice. Amu shivered slightly, knowing that as soon as she entered the house her foster mom was likely to punish her for running away. Finally, Amu sighed and submitted to her fate. She walked through the doorway as her foster mom shut the door closed behind her.

Maybe coming back here is better than being used and tossed away. As if her foster parents had always told her, she was the abandon child that no one wanted, she would never be loved and wasn't worth anything. Having been told this for years, Amu was just now really starting to believe it to be true. Welcome back to hell Amu.

Ikuto started humming on his way back from leading his friend out. When he walking into his living room he was stopped by one of his maids. Excuse me Master, but the Amu-sama asked me to give this to you." The maid said politely before leaving. Ikuto was curious as to why Amu would send him a note when she could just walk down and talk to him in person. Ikuto opened the note and started to read.

Ikuto,

There is no rose without thorns; still I let myself touch one of the beautiful roses. When I did this, I tried to ignore the thorns that cut me and caused me to bleed. I was so mesmerized by the beauty that It took me a while to realize that the more I watched the beautiful rose, the more I bleed and the more I bleed it never occurred to me that the loss of blood was slowly starting to kills me.' "What the hell was she trying to say" Ikuto asked himself. He might be a romantic guy and all but, he hated poems, especially something that sounds as morbid as this. "I'll ask Kairi. He'll know what it means." Ikuto said to himself as he texted his friend the poem and waited for his reply. He was shock when Kairi texted back and he saw the meaning."She is leaving; she regrets everything she has done with you. From the poem, I am guessing the rose is you. You might have done something wrong to her. She left and she may try to kill herself in a slowly and painful way. Personally to me it sounded like she trust you before with her secrets but she somehow feels betrayed by you." Ikuto snapped his phone shut. He couldn't look at the text message anymore.

'What the hell? I don't even know what I could have done to make her that upset.' Ikuto thought to himself. Ikuto called the maid who gave him the note before and asked her what Amu had done this morning before she left his mansion. "Amu-sama was looking for you earlier this morning so I told her that you were in your study room. Amu-sama left and walked toward the study room and was gone for a while but not longer after that I saw her run up the stairs crying. She didn't come down for a while but when she did, she had all of the things with her. I asked where she was going but she wouldn't tell me. She just gave me a note to give to you. That's all I know." The maid explained to her boss who was looking paler by the second.

Ikuto thanked the maid for her help, walked back to the living room and sat on the couch to go over things in his head. 'Damn, she probably heard what Kukai and I were talking about! If she did then this is bad. I said a whole lot I didn't mean. Half of that wasn't even true!' Ikuto cursed himself. He didn't mean to say any of that, but how was he supposed to admit to his best friend that he had actually lots a bet. He was king Ikuto, he never lost bets and he never fell in love. How was he going to admit to his friend that he had fallen for this girl when it was hard enough admitting it to himself?

The longest chapter in this story so far, what do you think? Please R&R! Also, I'm proudly announce my other Amuto's story called "The Dark Secret" only has one chapter left. If you haven't check it out, do check it out now.

I hope you like it, have a great and wonderful day guys! Ja~