Rini: Okay, here it be, the first part of the two part chappie! TEEHEE I'm soo happy, I can't wait to finish this story over with!

Amu: You're sick of it already?

Rini: Nah, not really, but I got another ideal for a story and I can't start on it until this one through with. That story might have vampies in it :D

Ikuto: I should have known.

Rini: HOLA, Ikuto!

Ikuto -sigh- Hola, Rini.

Rini: TEEHEE~!!!

Amu: Ugh.

Rini: But yea, I was gonna keep both parts together as I chappie, but it's 7 pages already and I'm still not through and I know I don't even want to read all of it myself so I'm separating it.

Fiona: Let's get to the story already!

Rini: Someone just jay-lous cause no one remembers the last time she was mention in the chat.

Fiona: Watch it!

Rini: I don't own a thing so go ahead and enjoy.

~Ikuto POV~

I only had one thing on my mind, and that was to save Amu. She was my world, my everything. I still couldn't believe that I just woke up like that, in a middle of a crisis, when the moment I've been working up for finally happen. The worst part of it all was that no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't fall asleep. I tired everything, and I mean everything. I tried counting sheep, counting backwards from one hundred, and even the warm milk thing, which I never got, and they all failed. Why was faith working against me?

Eventually, I worked my way downstairs, eyes glazed over. I hopped over the back of the couch and slouched into the cushions as I stared blankly at the black television screen. I heard soft footsteps walk past me, but I didn't acknowledge then. I counted then though. Five steps to the kitchen archway, three steps to the refrigerator door, five more steps out the kitchen, and then two back steps to the couch.

"What's with you?" Utau asked; I could clearly hear the confusion in her voice.

"Nothing." I answered, animation finding no entrance to my voice box.

"Weeel, how come the TV isn't on?"

"Don't know," I answered, simply and slightly annoyed. These constant questions weren't helping my mood at all, especially because I knew which question was coming next.

"Okaay…OH, before I forget, did your girlfriend like her gift?"

I knew it. "Yea," I replied and leaped up. I wasn't going to sit here and watch her stab a knife through my heart with her questions. I dragged myself back up the steps, two at a time.

"Well, shouldn't you be spending the day with her? Ikuto?" She called from downstairs. "Jezz, don't ignore me!"

I slammed the door shut and my hair flew in front of my eyes. I peeked at digital clock, sitting on my night stand. 3:30. I slowly slide downwards and fell to the floor with a quiet thud. When will I be able to go asleep again?

~Utau POV~

'Jezz, what was with Ikuto?' I thought as I drummed my fingers on the kitchen counter. 'If she liked her gift, she should be happy, which should make Ikuto happy.' I sighed. I don't get boys at all. Then the thought hit me: I need a boy to understand a boy right? I giggled at my brilliant idea as I flipped through the contact until the right number appeared and pressed 'TALK'. After the second ring he finally picked up.

"Hello?" Kukai groaned. He was probably still asleep, in the middle of the afternoon. How… Kukai-ish.

"Hey, Kukai, this is Utau." I spoke into the receiver as I heard slight ruffles and a loud thump. He had fallen.

"U-u-Utau! W-what's up?!" he stuttered. I guess I never called him on a personally notice. Actually, up until last week, I didn't even know I had his number. Apparently, he had swiped my I-phone and put his cell number in it. I never would have guessed I would need it now.

"Nothing much, I was just wondering if you could come over. Ikuto's kinda depressed and-"

"I'll be right over!" he shouted and the line went dead. I sighed as sweat slowly rolled down my face. Why'd Ikuto have such a stupid friend?

~When Kukai got there, which was in about five minutes ^_^;~

The doorbell rang as soon as I settled into the sofa. I sighed in frustration and got right back up and skipped to the door. When I opened it, there was a breathless Kukai before my eyes.

"Uhh…" I breathed as another sweat rolled from my forehead to my collarbone.

"I…got…here…as…soon as I could…" he breathed, gasping for air.

I felt my eyebrow involuntarily twitched, but let him in.

~RINI-CHAN~

After I explained the situation to Kukai, everything from Ikuto's secret girlfriend to his weird attitude this afternoon, Kukai only nodded his head, seeming to understand.

"Well? What do we do?" I asked after moments passed and he still hade the same look on his face.

"Oh, you wanted me to come up with something?" he snapped out of it, just as surprised as ever.

"Yeees!" I yelled and slapped his arm repeatedly.

"Okay, okay, let me think." he exclaimed before going back to his 'thinking place'. I waited patently until light appeared across his face.

"Okay, I got it!" he announced, clearly pleased with his thought. He turned to me and suddenly turned serious. "We go upstairs…and talk to him."

I stared at him blankly, then realization sunk in. "WELL I COULDA' THOUGHT OF THAT!" I yelled and dragged him upstairs.

~RINI-CHAN~

~Normal POV~

Utau dragged Kukai up the stairs, by the ear, until they reached Ikuto's bedroom door.

"Well?" Utau whispered. "Knock." she commanded as Kukai's fist relentlessly came in contact with the wooden frame and knocked three times. They heard a few muffles and after a moment, Ikuto appeared in front of them. His eyes fixed themselves on Kukai and his eyebrows creased together.

"What are you doing here?" he asked, his tone sounding board, but he was truly interested and confused.

"I'm um…" Kukai stuttered, but Utau jammed him in his side, her way of giving him confidence. "I'm here to check up on you." he announced, more bodily then before. "Utau told me you were depressed and I'm wanted to help out."

"Hmm…" Ikuto mumbled, his eyes narrower then a penny. "Well I don't need you help. Nothing's wrong." he tried to convince, and began to slam the door but Utau caught it before he could.

"C'mon Ikuto~!" she whined. "I want to help, and you can turn Kukai away, but I'm not that easy to get rid of. Now let me in." she commanded, her ways of getting what she want appearing.

Ikuto took a moment to deliberate this before sighing heavily. "Fine, come in." he deiced.

The two of them pranced in his room then plopped down on his bed, like they practically owed the place. A long, silent moment passed between the three. Utau tried to ease the tension by whistling a random tone, but the edginess wouldn't budge.

"So?" Ikuto finally asked, causing the pair the jump.

"Umm, how the weather?" Kukai asked. Utau's left head slammed in into his wood-hard head as he moaned a 'ow'.

"Ikuto just tell us what's bothering you. Please, we want to help…" Utau pleaded then looked over at her so-called bright idea, rubbing the back of his head. "Well, I want to anyway."

"You wouldn't understand." Ikuto mumbled, not meaning too, but there's only so much sadness and anger you can keep bottled up before it explodes.

"Of course I will, Ikuto. I'm your sister." she spoke much softer as the room grew tenser.

Ikuto paused for a long moment. His eyes transferred to his sister to his best friend. They were there to help, and he needed it. He needed Amu. Besides, they might think he's mental, but they could still help him…after they check him into the mental instruction, of course.

"Okay." he started, pulling the chair form the desk table and plopped down on it. "I'll tell you but…but you have to hear me out." he spoke, almost as a whisper. He rolled so close to the two that they could practically taste the mike on his breath from earlier.

"Sure, anything, Ikuto." Kukai assured, matching the volume of his voice. Ikuto paused for another moment, wondering if he should really go on.

"The girl…that I told you about," he started off, directed towards Utau who nodded. Perspiration dripped from his face; where did this nervousness come from? "Well…she's not, um…from here."

"Well, what, is she's from, like, Canada or something?" Kukai asked, really believing he had a good question, but he earned a glare from both Utau and Ikuto. He sunk down lower into the mattress as Ikuto continued.

"No, not Canada, but… from a fantasy land, a different world." he explained, but even to Ikuto it sounded ridiculous. Utau and her comrade just stared. "Like, ok, so, she was born in like the 1900s or something like that and when this evil sprite thingy killed her mother and her father, Amu - that's her name, Amu - and her little sister time traveled to the future, to the now, and their mission was to contact me so I could help them destroy this evil force, but I didn't realize it 'till the beginning of ninth grade and…we clicked…" he trailed off, trying his hardest to get the pinkette off his mine; their was no way he would blush in front of his remembrance-of-an-elephant-sister and his best friend who looked up to him as a god.

"And now, just when the force came for real, I woke up…and I can't get back until I fall asleep, which could be a while." he concluded, sighing deeply. "She could be half dead before I make it." he mumble to himself and hung his head low.

The room grew completely quiet. Even the birds figured it would be best not to chirp for the moment… The two just stared at his indigo locks, speechless. It's not as much as they believed his tale, but they were too shocked at how much he wanted to help this so-called 'Amu'.

"Umm…" Utau mumbled breaking the silence, Ikuto head shot up like a jack-in-a-box. "And you're sure you didn't imagine it?"

"Utau, I know she's real. I…I just know." he whispered, pleading in his voice, and sadness in his eyes.

"Then I'll help, however I can." she confirmed, lifting from her seat. She earned a weak smile from her older brother. The siblings turned their attention to the still silent Kukai. The waited for him to returned to Earth.

"Hmm…"he mumbled, closing his eyes. He opened one and said, "Is she hot?"

"What?" Ikuto asked, just making sure he heard him right.

"Come on, man! Is. She. Hot?" he asked, fully animated.

Ikuto glanced at his sister's disapproving look, almost as if she said 'don't you dare entertain him by answering!'

"Insanely!" he exclaimed and the two buds slapped hands. Utau sighed and brought her hand up to her face.

"Alright, I'm in." Kukai announced, standing up along side Utau.

Ikuto stood up too. "Thanks." he mumbled, smiling widely at his backup, his support group.

His friends.

Rini: So there. The next chappie will be out as soon as I finish it.

Ikuto: Which is in about 5 years.

Rini: NA UNN! I'm almost through with it, so serious.

Amu: That's her new catchphrase.

Ikuto: What? 'So serious'?

Amu: Yup.

Ikuto: Wow…

Rini: be patience; I promise I'll have the next chappie out soon, so serious.

Amu: please don't do that around us.

Rini: Ok, I'll stop, so serious.

Fiona: UGH!

Rini: See ya soon, so serious! :D