Rini: Hello everyone!!!! What's going on? Gomen for the long wait; school and stuff.
Ikuto: please don't tell me what happened.
Rini: Well then, Mr. Meany! And I won't! Let's just say nothing has changed. Eighth graders are still acting immature. Sigh. Oh and guess what; my English class taught some cool stuff that-
Ikuto: Wait, did you just say that class was cool?
Rini: yes I did. Is there a problem with that?
Ikuto: I was just askin', Geek.
Rini: I am NOT a geek!
Ikuto: whatever…
Rini: anyway, my teacher taught us how to make our sentences better without using dead verbs. Sooo, if you see me use was or were and there NO possible way to make the sentence better, then review and scold me! I'll make sure I punish myself.
Ikuto: by punish, she means no anime for 30 seconds.
Rini: Shh!!! -whispers- they don't need to know things!
Ikuto: Rini doesn't own anything. Enjoy.
~Ikuto POV~
The terrain we overlooked together would have been quite breath taking to any normal person. When I say 'normal', I mean someone who wasn't on the verge of hyperventilating from the fact that a pinkette was gripping his or her hand. My face boiled as she gasped in amazement. Since when had I got this spaz-like? I would have never…blushed over a girl before I met Amu.
I glanced over at the her.
'But then again, I had never been next to someone this beautiful before.' I thought as her eyes, suddenly, locked on mine. I turned away swiftly, only to afterward wish I didn't. I heard her giggle slightly, letting go of my hand. I wave of disappointment invaded my body.
"So do you like it?" she asked, bouncing from one foot to another in excitement.
"It's ok…I guess." I replied, finally able to gain my composure and look back over her.
She pouted, briefly, before smiling again. "This is not really your thing, is it?"
"I suppose…" I looked at the view.
Green covered the entire land; flowers of different species and colors grew in certain places. Somewhere far away, you could hear the splashing of a waterfall, and chirping of birds and other animals. Yea, it was nice, but none of it compared to Amu.
"Well, come on!" she commanded eagerly as she dashed away to a nearby pool of flowers. Someone had to have planted them, because they looked to in order and neat to be naturally grown.
She leaped off the deck that connected to the hut, twirling around in circles, giggling along the way. It was clearly a sight that shouldn't be missed. I dared to blink, hating every second that I couldn't watch her.
"You act as if you haven't been outside in years." I called out to her, teasing. She suddenly stopped and turned to me.
"You could say that…." she answered, avoiding my gaze. I quickly understood; because she spent her time, almost her entire existence, waiting for me to realize my duty she couldn't leave. I felt guilty at once. I tired to hide my now glum expression but failed terribly. She rushed over to me, grabbed my hand (not to mention making me blush inwardly), and looked at me. I had no choice but to stare back.
"It is not your fault, Ikuto. I chose to wait for you to awaken." she stated, holding a soft smile on her lips.
When I didn't respond, she got concerned, one emotion I didn't want her to possess. At least not over me. She held my face in between her hands.
My eyes widened automatically. She giggled, before turning back serious.
"Do not be sad, please." she asked, eyes pleading. I covered her hand with mine, gently stroking it. "I won't" I replied. Her smiled came back, and surprisingly, I smiled back. I then noticed something. Where was the sister she raved about? I was about to ask, but I couldn't. I could tell that this dream was about to end. 'Crap!' I shouted in my head.
"See you soon." Amu whispered just before her face and our surroundings was replaced with Nikaidou-sensai goofy grin and the classroom I sat in before my slumber.
"There's no sleeping in class, Ikuto-kun." he chimed. Since when had I given him permission to call me '-kun'. I glared inwardly, cursing him for ruining my dream. I sat up, looking around to empty class. "If you don't get moving, you'll be late for your next class." he informed, walking-or stumbling- back over to his desk.
I yawned before rushing out the door. I wanted to continue the dream. No. I had to continue the dream. I thought quickly of a quiet place to nap. The rooftop came to mind as I patted my pocket, searching for my black and blue ipod. I found it and continued for the staircase. I always sleep better while listening to it.
Just as I reached to top of the stairs in front of the entrance to the roof, a sharp pain rocked though my lower ear.
"Ow!" I yelped in pain. I looked at the culprit: Utau. She held a smirk but her eyes were like a graveyard. "Let my ear go!" I growled. She simply shook her head. "I'm not letting you skip. You're going to be a good student. Just. Like. Me." she stated, singing the last words playfully.
"Since when have you been a good student?!" I demanded, really just trying to get away. I pulled away, unsuccessfully squirming out of her grip. She was stronger then I gave her credit for. She began pulling me down the stares, back to class. "Shall we go?" she asked, back facing me; I knew she was smirking though. "Like I have a chose! Oi, let me go!!!"
So much for continuing my dream.
~RINICHAN~
"Ikuto~!!!" Utau whined. We walked out the school building, well not really 'we'. I paced severely feet in front of her as Utau tried to catch. I was too irritated to stop for her; the entire day she followed me around, making sure I didn't escape to the roof. In addition, something that would have never happened before, my teachers decided to pile stacks of assignments onto desk. So that meant no sleeping in class…Really?! They had to be doing this on purpose, I just couldn't figure out how. I mean, as soon as I found something cool and new in my life, the world wants to prevent me from it. Or more like her.
"You can't possibly still be mad at me," she asked from behind. I was now way ahead of her now and I held no will of waiting. "I just want what's best for you!" she continued. 'What's best for me is to be with Amu.' I corrected inwardly before stopping, frozen in shocked. Utau soon bumped into me.
Had I just said that? I mean, I know I wanted to help her, more then anything. I also knew that some part of me liked her, but did I like her that much? I couldn't think straight. The only thing in my mind that made sense was…well Amu. What else would I think about?
"Ikuto…?" Utau asked, snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Huh. Oh I'm fine." I assured before continuing the walk home with her instead of against her.
~RINICHAN~
"We're home~!" Utau sang to the noise-free house. "Mommy~! Guess what?!" she continued, racing around to house, looking for our mom. I ignored her as I walked up to my room. I entered, closing the door behind me. My eyes lingered on my plain dark blue bed. I knew I wouldn't get to sleep; my parent would probably think I was on drugs or something if I fell asleep in the middle of the day. I sighed. My mind traced to my homework. After about a second of debating, I decided against it. 'Why even bother?' I thought bored.
I went back down stares to find Utau ranting to Mom about her day in the dinning room. I caught a few words of their conversation as I grabbed an apple out of the frig. The words 'cute boy' and 'date' escaped her lips. After that, I became bored.
I plopped on the couch, throwing the apple that I had no intentions on eating on the small table. I lazily turned the television on and flipped through the channels. Of course, for my own personal torture, every station was broadcasting pink things. 'Amu….' I thought, pained. Night really needed to come quicker.
~RINICHAN~
'Yes! Finally!' I continued to cheer in my head. This had been going on for about 15 minutes. I couldn't help being excited; night had finally fallen, dinner was over, and I as preparing for bed.
I forcefully scrubbed my teeth clean, as my dad, Aruto, passed by the bathroom.
"Ikuto? You're going to sleep this early?" he asked in utter shocked.
"Mess eye ham." I muffled though the paste, trying to say 'yes I am'.
"That's rare. You…ok?" she asked slowly.
"Mess…my?" I asked, again though the toothpaste, trying to say 'yes, why?'.
"Well, you woke up early, you're going to bed on time, and Utau-chan said you fell asleep in class. It's just-"
I spat the paste into the sink, whipped my mouth and walked passed my father. "I'm fine, perfectly fine." I interjected from over my shoulder. I entered my room, leaving my dad confused. I had no time to care about that, I just wanted to see the pinkette again.
I flopped onto the bed, throwing the bedspread over my body, and quickly closed my eyes.
….
Crap! I couldn't fall asleep. Of-freaking-course!
I gritted my teeth before leaping out of the covers. I raced to my school pants I had lazily thrown across the floor and searched for my Ipod. After finding it, I quickly flipped it on and hurried over to the bed. I threw the covers back over me as the first song began to play. The song was Chance by Uverworld (A/N: look up the song. It's so kawaii!!) When did I put this song on here? In addition, why? Maybe Utau did it, or maybe I just mistakenly downloaded. I mean I liked it, but not enough to put it on my Ipod.
Somewhere in between this rant (which was quite pointless, if you ask me), I drifted to sleep…
~RINICHAN~
Poke, poke
I wiped me cheek, trying to shoo away the thing that poked me.
Poke, poke
Ugh! I turned over to my side, hoping it'll go away.
Poke, poke, poke
'That's it!' I thought angered. I flew forward, ready to swig and kick or anything I had to do to stop whatever it was from poking me, but instead my forehead smacked something hard.
"Ow!" we exclaimed in harmony. Wait…we?
I turned to my left, only to see a girl, rubbing her forehead in pain. She must was the thing poking me. She looked no more then twelve, thirteen maybe. Her yellowish locks stopped just past her tiny waist as a brown head band kept it all in place. She had on a white sundress. One that looked oddly familiar.
"Ouchie, (Rini: I say that ALL the time! Teehee! Ikuto: You're such a kid. Rini: Shut it you mean, cat-eared, smexy,….tan,…muscular…-begins to drool, staring at Ikuto fan girl-ish- Ikuto: Okay…?) Onei-chan, you're boyfriend hit me!" the girl exclaimed.
"I did not- wait…boyfriend?!" I had officially become a spaz. I sigh inwardly and I tried to figure out what I had to the night before to earn me the title 'boyfriend'.
Someone entered at about the same second the word 'boyfriend' came out the girl's mouth.
"He's not my b-boyfriend!" Amu exclaimed, blushing a very bright shade of red. It was then I remember where I saw that dress the girl wore, since Amu sported the same one.
It was complete silence as Amu, probably, glared at the girl. I wasn't paying attention to their inward battle, my brain only leading me to mushy thoughts from staring at Amu. Relief entered my system, pleased just to be back in this fantasy world with the pinkette.
"I-Ikuto, this is my sister…Rima." she began, knocking me out of my thoughts.
"Eh!?" I exclaimed, very spazy, as my gaze transferred from Amu and back to her…sister? They looked nothing alike. Amu had pink hair, and the girl was yellow. You defiantly couldn't see the difference in the face either. How was that possible?
"I take after Papa, Onei-chan after Mama." the girl-Rima- responded, answering my unspoken question. Could being in this world given them freaky powers of mind reading?
"No I didn't read your mind. I just guessed that was what you were thinking of. Was I right?" her high voice sang, again before I could even ask.
"Yea…" I replied slowly.
"Rima, stop scaring him and help me finish the room." Amu said, attention on her sister. "Hai!" she cheered happily and ran toward the room Amu had come out of, with the pinkette following behind.
I took this chance to actually notice where I was. No, not the shack this time. Instead, it looked quite woodland themed; everything in the small living room(I guessed that because a small entertainment center sat in front of the long couch I was sitting on) was made out of wood. Wooden coffee table, wooden couch(which was oddly comfortable), you name it. To the back where the girls escaped to seems to lead to a hallway. I wouldn't pry though; they would have asked me to follow if they wanted to.
I would, on the other hand, search the tiny room. I leaped of the couch and paced to the open window, just beside the couch. Looking over the window seal, to discover that this wasn't just some house. It was a tree house! Birds flew past the window as everything slowly came together in my head.
"Ikuto?" a voice called from behind me. I turned around to face Amu, but hadn't expected her to be so close. A small blush creped on to my face as she giggled. Something told me that she enjoyed my blush. "Could you follow me?" she asked, taking my hand and leading me to a long hallway.
Perverted thoughts entered my head, wondering where she was taking me. She looked back at me and I turned away quickly. She only giggled as her attention went back ahead of us. Man, why does she make me like this? I pounded over the question for a short minute as she led me into a dark room.
Again, another perverted thought.
All too soon, she flickered to lights on, revealing a large bedroom. There was a bed, oddly matching my bed back home, a small desk close beside it(again identical to my table in the real world), but the thing that mad it better then my plain room was the many painting hanging from different places on the wall. They seemed to tell some type of story, but I couldn't be sure.
"This will be your room. I hope it is to your liking." she informed, letting my hand go.
"It's perfect, but how-" I turned to her as she interjected. "Well I have been watching you since you were born, Ikuto, meaning I would know how your room looked. The paintings were Rima decision. I could take them down if you like."
"That's alright." I assured. I thought came to mind as a smirk curved unto my lips.
"Hey, Amu?"
"Yes?"
"You say you've been watching me since I was born, right?" I pressed on.
"That is correct."
"So you've seen me go to different places and such." I continued.
"Just about."
"Meaning, you've also seen me in the shower." I finished as her face became flustered.
"O-o-of course not! I wouldn't -I-invade your privacy like that! Never!" she defended, shacking her head rapidly, probably trying to get rid of the fire-red blush on her face.
"Hmm…of course I wouldn't mind, though." I teased, still smirking.
"N-no thank you!" she cried out, still blushing.
I laughed briefly, as she pouted.
"Anyway, would you like a tour of the house?" she asked.
"Not now. I wanna know something." I had been thinking about this for quite sometime. Now seemed like the best time to ask.
"Oh, what is it?"
"What happens to me when I wake up? What happens to this body?" I asked, pointing to myself.
"The you here passes out; almost as if you're dead." she started. "But of course, you aren't. Have you noticed that every time you come back here you are in a different place? We try to lay you somewhere comfortable. At least now, we came sat you on your bed, now." she ended, giggling slightly.
"Hmm…one other thing."
"Anything."
"When…we first met, you called me 'love'….Why?" I asked as sweat rolled down my face. Maybe I was nervous because I thought she'd take me question the wrong way. However, she didn't. She only smiled before answering.
"That's simple. It's because I'm in love with you."
Rini: And that's it! Sorry for the cliffy. I promised myself I wouldn't but I couldn't resist. And I'm soooo sleepy. T.T So Ikuto, are you liking the story so far?
Ikuto: will the Kiddy Kind be in this story?
Rini: he might…but I was planning on -whispers the rest to Ikuto-
Ikuto: then I love it!
Rini: it doesn't take much to please you does it?
Ikuto: hey, you're the same!
Rini: I am not!
Ikuto: Sigh -holds up Twilight DVD-
Rini: OHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! IT'SAFRIGGENTWILIGHTDVD!!!!!!OMG!!!! -snatches DVD away from Ikuto and put it into DVD player-
Ikuto: See? So easy.
Rini: -still staring that the movie- Whatever, you very hot loser.
Ikuto: all I heard was 'very hot'
Rini: Oh before I forget. I want every one to say this really fast. "The pen is in her mouth." Tell me what it sound like in a review. I learned it today. Haha.
Ikuto: Can I go now?
Rini: Fine, fine. Close us O-U-T!
Ikuto: Thanks for reading the second chapter. Don't forget to review.
Rini: Peace out, home-dwags!!!!