Author Note: Well it's the last chappie and it's LONG get ready for your eyes to start bleeding. I don't own anything so enjoy. Oh and if your eyes DO start bleeding, you can't sue me. I know my rights.
~RINI-CHAN~
"Soo, what's the plane?" Ikuto asked his sister as he twirled in the desk chair, head pointed up to the ceiling. He was clearly in a better mood. Kukai leaned against the desk that sat next the room's only window, which was huge, as Utau tapped a Hello Kitty pencil on the wood, thinking. She figured she couldn't trust the two "geniuses" with coming up with a plan to rescue Ikuto's so-much-beloved Amu, so she had to be the one. She still wasn't too sure about this girl. She wasn't jealous, but something else. Something that told her when this girl comes into their lives, she'd no longer be important to Ikuto…
"Don't rush me." she mumbled, eyes closed and eyebrows creased, almost on the verge of twitching.
"What was wrong with my idea?" Kukai complained.
"Because you said I should 'run up in there and start swinging'." Ikuto mocked, as he twisted in another circle.
"And what was wrong with that??" he augured.
"Are you trying to get me killed? I'm not doing that."
"But it could be effective; you'll never know unless you try-"
"Will you two be quiet!" Utau screamed, causing the boys to jump. "I'm trying to think over here!" she slammed her head on the desk and sighed. The boys became silent. Moments passed with nothing but each other's breathing filled the room. Finally, Utau lifted up and her eyes flashed with excitement.
"Ok, I got it." she hopped up and ran over to the door that sat at the end of Ikuto's bed and opened the closet. After a while of digging around the crowded floor, she finally pulled out a tattered hockey stick that Ikuto used when he was younger to pry Utau off his hip during her "I love my big brother" stage. She showed it to Ikuto and Kukai as a child does when they make a discovery that they believe will change history when in reality it's simply a rock.
"What is that suppose to be for?" Ikuto questioned.
"So you can fight off evil bad guys. Duh!" she said, shaking the hockey stick around like a baton cheerleaders would use. She hit the bed twice, making a loud clank, before finally seizing.
"Utau, you do realize that this thing has killed people right?" he asked, rhetorically and eyebrow twitching. "Something I think Kukai's the smart one." he mumbled and Kukai's face lit up.
"That's the worst thing you could ever say to me." she whispered, genuinely shocked. "And I don't see you coming up with anything."
Ikuto stood to his feet and stretched slightly. "I think I'll just go with the flow on this one." he stated simply and looked towards the window. It had just struck 5:00. 'It won't be long now.' he thought. He could already fell the heaviness of his eyes.
"What do you mean?" Kukai asked, all serious.
"I mean I'm just going to go with my instinct. If I am the…'chosen one' then I should know what to do when the time comes." he explained, throwing a glance to his buddy from over his shoulder.
"But Ikuto!" Utau whined hooked arms with his forelimb. "What if you get hurt…?"
"That's why I want you two to watch me while I sleep. If it looks like I'm dying or something, wake me up. Simple." he said with a shrug, patting his sister's head.
"How do you even know that's going to work?" Kukai questioned.
"Amu told me once that when I'm in this world, the me that's there passes out, like I'm asleep. She watches me, apparently, so I figured you two could do the same and if I squirm or something you'll know."
"She watches you?" Utau asked. "Is she a pervert like you?"
"Hey! That's even hotter, dude." Kukai boasted and patted his hand on Ikuto shoulder.
"She's not a pervert." Ikuto answered Utau, deciding it would be best not to pay attention to Kukai. "I'm still not sure if it's a full proof plan, I never tried it before, but I'm sure it'll work out."
"Ikuto…" Utau mumbled, felling tears stinging the corner of her eyes. Ikuto patted her head again before loosening her grip of him. He walked over to the bed and sat.
"I say let him run with it Utau." Kukai said and Utau turned to him, half angry, half confuse.
"W-why!" she demanded.
"Utau," he spoke softy and placed both hands on her shoulders and she froze under his touch. "I think this is something Ikuto should do by himself. Don't worry; we'll be here if something happens." he smiled his signature grin and, for some reason, her heart fluttered.
"Alright then." she agreed and smiled along with him, not letting her character slipped, but still showing more then she normally would.
Kukai beamed his infamous smiled before releasing her shoulders. They both turned to Ikuto who smirked back in their direction.
"W-what?" Utau blushed, only a tint of pink but it was enough to widen Ikuto's smirk.
"Ohhh nothing." he stated, turning away.
"Jezz shut up, Ikuto!" she screamed and crossed her arms.
"I didn't say a thing." he chuckled.
"You were thinking it." she mumbled, the pink on her cheeks still visible.
"So now all we hade to do is wait 'till Ikuto fall asleep." Kukai blurted, really because he felt a little awkward in his friend's two-person argument.
"Yup." Ikuto agreed and flopped backwards onto the mattress.
'Just wait.' Ikuto thought.
~RINICHAN~
At around 7:48, Ikuto was knocked out, snoring silently. Utau draped a blanket over him and smile. She now knew why Amu peeked at him while he slept; he was adorable. She shifted her body to Kukai, who know sat backwards in the rolling chair.
"Do you think he'll be alright?" she asked and sat on the edge of the bed, close enough that he could hear Kukai whisper and not to close to Ikuto to disturbed him.
He rolled a little closer and placed his hand on her shoulder. "'Course he will." he assured.
She smiled at him then turned back to Ikuto. 'Patients, Utau.' she tried to calm herself, but with Kukai's hand on her shoulder blade as it was, she didn't need it.
~RINICHAN~
~Amu's POV (Seriously? Okaay…)~
Rima and I struggled in his robotic grasp, trying our hardest to break free. The evil one wasn't a robot, he just built it. That's why he hated my dad in the first place. Papa looked down on his "Talking Paper Weight" and he said Papa would suffer the consequences for shunning his idea. In the long run, it might have been better if Papa had just gone along with his psychotic and creepy invention. Then again, I wouldn't have meet Ikuto.
'Ikuto…' I thought sadly as Rima's voice interrupted my thoughts.
"Hey! Mister!" she screamed at him and he cast a smug look back. "Let me down right NOW!"
"Oh simple Rima-chan-"
"Don't call me -chan!" she interrupted at the top of her voice.
"Oh, simple Rima-chan," he continued on anyway, "you'll never get what you want by being rude. And besides, you don't have the power of a princess anymore." he hissed, grinning mischievously. His voice was high-pitched, sounding as if he had yet had his coming-of-age ceremony and his light blond hair - the lightest color I had ever seen - only furthers his appearance of a little boy. (Rini: Can you guess who he is? :}) He talked to us like we were unintelligent, like we were the disgusting peasants and he was the king, forced to provide us with health insurance.
Suddenly, his eyes fixed themselves on me. I froze and I could fell my left eye twitching.
"Are you comfortable, my Amu?" he asked, sounding as if he had so use 'my' in front of my name, but deep inside he loathed it.
"I would be if I wasn't being held hostage by a fake king." I said, rolling my eyes. "And I don't belong to you, Tadase." I used his actually name; I was the only one who ever dared.
"IT'S KING TO YOU!" he declared, he said the same thing every time. My father said one day my luck would run out with tormenting him. At the time I found it fun, but I whished I had listened to him. My backtalk, uhh, attracted him. He now claimed he was in love with me. Just my luck. "I don't care if I love you, you will call me king." he demanded and I blew raspberry; I can't always be proper, now can I?
He growled in frustration and brought the arm I stayed clamped in up to his hideous face. He wasn't ugly, but after killing my parents and trying to force me into marring him back in my world, when I was only six, it's hard to think of this person made from God as 'beautiful'.
"I would kill you now," he hissed, eyes intense. "but I want to see the person your idiot of a father sent you to come find, like he'd really show up." he chuckled a stale laugh. I felt my lips snarl up into a scowl.
"He will too come!" I defended before being swished back to my original spot, force to listen to Tadase Hotori's still, over-the-top laughter.
"Onei-chan," Rima called voice softer. I turned my head in her direction.
"Yes, Rima."
"Why don't you just give up on Ikuto coming back? That way…you won't be totally disappointed." she murmured, loud enough for only me to here. I stared at her, understanding very well where all this came from. Rima understood Papa would never come back, but she didn't exactly see Mama die, so maybe a small part of her hoped she would return to her one day. It seemed like she'd had already given up on that.
"Rima…" I started off, lost in words. When I gathered my strength, I whispered back in the same voice. "Rima, I love him. I can't just give up and forget about him. And besides, he promised me."
She stared at me for a long moment. "Fine Onei-chan, but just know what you're doing."
I nodded and mouthed a thank you.
"UGH!" Tadase shouted, interrupting our moment. "This is so BORING!" he slouched over the edge of his robot monster. I secretly hoped he'll fall off and Rima and I would drop down next to him, and began to kick our hatred out onto his side. He, again, pulled me up to his face.
"Look, Amu, if this guy doesn't get here soon, I'm just gonna go ahead and kill you both." can you believe he sounded disappointed?
"You won't dare touch my Amu." a voice called. It seemed so far away, but at the same time so close. 'Ikuto!' I cheered inwardly and my eyes lit up. When he came into view, he smiled at me. I could practically feel my heart jump out of my chest. I turned back to Tadase, coming up with a smug look of my own. Tadase lip twitched as his eyes danced with anger. I smiled harder.
"T-this is who you brought. Pfft." he spat and dropped me back to my spot hanging in mid-air with force. The impact shocked me and I gasped. I regained my breath and looked over at Rima.
"You'll never defeat him with that." she stated nonchalantly, directed to his wooden 'L' shaped board. (Rini: It's the hockey stick (:) Ikuto looked down at it, and then smiled sheepishly.
"I guess not." he stated shyly.
"Ikuto, in the basement of the tree house, there's equipment you can use." Rima informed.
"If you make it there alive!" Tadase shouted suddenly, and just as quickly, he sung the arm I was strapped in towards Ikuto. Just before it made contact with Ikuto's body, he leaped out the way and dashed for the tree house. Tadase continued to swing, now me and Rima, towards Ikuto until he disappeared into the house.
"Damn!" Tadase shouted and banged his fist against the control panel for the robot. I felt nauseous and I could tell Rima did too. I didn't care for the spinning of my head; I hoped Ikuto would be okay. If only he hadn't agreed.
~Normal POV~
After Ikuto was all dressed (he wore a old style armor suit, seeing how that was the only option in the cave-like room) he strolled out of the tree house, metal clanking. It wasn't all that uncomfortable as people made it out to be. Ikuto spotted the robot-gone-stupid pacing around the grass, trampling flowers as he went along. He studied his movements when he suddenly became uncomfortable in the suit of armor. He ripped both of the arms off and threw them on the ground, leaving only the shoulder support. Next, he undid the…stomach protector, he guess that what it was call, and let it fall to the floor, not forgetting to take off the metal shoes too. He only stayed left in the shoulder blades, shin guards and his regular shoes he came in.
'Much better.' he thought and looked for the robot. The person controlling it still trampled the flowers. Amu and Rima sat in each of the arms, looking rather bored. If only he could get their attention; they had to know more about this guy then he did. He looked around for something the toss at them and under his chucks, he spotted a few pebbles. He picked a few up and aimed them, almost perfectly. After a few seconds, he tossed the first pebble and it hit the arm Amu swayed in. she seemed to noticed, she looked around for a moment, but soon turned back to memorizing her bare feet.
Ikuto groaned and threw another, this time it made a louder noise and Amu turned to him and smiled. He jerked his head upwards and pointed towards Rima. Amu understood and whispered to Rima to 'look over there'. she didn't quite understand, but turned to the direction Amu pointed to and finally understood.
"Help him." Amu whispered. She knew for a fact that Rima understood more about Tadase and his weaknesses. While Amu stayed locked in the shack, Rima waited out the days studying the history and Tadase's past threats.
Rima nodded and turned back to her sister's boyfriend. She peaked at Tadase, he had grown bored and now just slumped in the recliner chair he placed at the top. Rima turned back to Ikuto and mouthed something, he didn't understand at first. She did it again, mouthing 'behind him'. he caught it that time, but still didn't understand. Rima locked her hands together over her head and did a stabbing motion, which he got. Then she pointed to her neck and jabbed her finger into it. She wanted him stab the neck of the robot.
Ikuto soon understood and nodded his head to the girls; Amu beamed as Rima shot him a 'duh' look. The question now seemed to be where he'd get the sword from?
'Wait…' he thought and retreated back down the stairs to the basement. He had seen a sword somewhere down there. He looked around franticly until his eyes landed on a sword leaned against one of the corners of the room. He walked over to it and picked it up with care. 'I'm seriously going to use this?' he thought as he admired to long-ago piece of art. He noticed a spot of dust and wiped it off. Under the smug was the inscription , written in an elegant print.
"Hinmori…" Ikuto read aloud. 'It's Amu's name, but why's it on here?' he thought 'And what's the 'T' stand for?' Ikuto decide not to stress over it, strapped the piece of metal to it's holder and bolted out the door. He peeked, again, out the door before dashing across the lawn and stopped under the robo's leg. The scrap of metal strength so tall in the air, he wouldn't be able to noticed Ikuto. The girls looked to their savor, who motioned them to remained quiet. They comprehended and looked everywhere else but at Ikuto. Tadase still slouched in his La-Z Boy, half asleep as he ripped apart the wings of a butterfly that floated too close. It only wanted to brighten his day…
Ikuto decided to make his move. He sprinted underneath the robot and stopped by some trees on the other side, right behind Tadase. He was glad he had took the extra metal off of the uniform, or else he would have clanked the entire way. He disappeared behind the trunk and checked to see if Tadase had noticed anything. From the back, it didn't seem so. Ikuto figured it was the best to attack now. He climbed the tree until he sat on the third from last branch at the top. By this point he let his body react on its own. He backed up until his back hit the trunk. He sucked in a breath and took a running start and leaped into the air. His sword already drawn, ready to jerk the knife in the robot's neck, he soared through the air almost bird like.
Suddenly, Tadase commanded his machine to turn around and with the robot arm holding Rima, he sung, knocking Ikuto backwards. His back slammed into the tree back, knocking the breathe out of him.
"Ikuto!" Amu screamed, her struggles to get free becoming more desperate.
"What a swell attempt to defeat me," Tadase boasted as Ikuto propped himself up, needing the tree for support. "but you do realize I'm smarter then you right?"
"Thanks for the tip." Ikuto grunted, straitening himself out. He cast a glance toward Amu, who seemed just about near tears. He smiled a small smile at her just to let her know he was alright. She didn't seem convinced, but she pushed her bottom lip inward. Ikuto turned back to Tadase and showed him his sword.
"Oooh I'm soo scared." Tadase shivered in false fear.
"You would be if you'd ever actually fight, instead of hiding in that piece of crap you call a robot." Ikuto shot back, a smirk playing on his lips. "If you're so great, why don't you fight me without that thing?" he challenged.
"Hmm, thanks but, no thanks." Tadase said, cleaning the dirt out of his nails. He then switched a knob, turning the robot on auto and let the futurist machine do his dirty work. The metal robot walked on its own, using the arm Rima occupied and swung at Ikuto. He leaped into the air and landed on the tree branch. He took a moment to praise his self on the amount of atheism he was performing. The robot, sensing his movements, used Amu's arm and sliced the branch. Ikuto had jumped just before the bark went down, ending up landing inside the opening where Tadase sat. He shot up from his seat, utterly shocked as Ikuto stood his self up. Tadase hide this fear when Ikuto shot a smug look towards him. He overlooked Tadase from head to toe.
"You could have at least been taller, so I would have some type of challenge." he blurted out. Tadase looked ready to blow a fuse, but Ikuto was completely serious. 'The blond hair and kiddy features doesn't help his case either.' he thought, almost laughing. That's what he was: a Kiddy King.
"Silence!" Tadase demanded, Ikuto yawned. He decided to at least put on a show to impress Amu; girls loved the knight-in-shinning-armor thing. He showed his sword again and pointed it towards Tadase and he quivered.
"Wait!" he pleaded as Ikuto placed the sword under his neck.
"Why should I?" Ikuto asked, tone icy.
Tadase looked around for a quick fix, eyeing the surrounding in a hast. He then thought of a solution, so brilliant that his eyes lit up.
"Okay," he said, sticking his hands up, as if to surrender. "You win, I guess," he let his arm, not forgetting to activate a switch. Ikuto didn't notice. "Go ahead; kill me." he said, no source of sarcasm. Ikuto couldn't believe it; he knew it couldn't be this easy. In fact, a part of him basically screamed at him to not fall for it. Yet, he drew his sword higher, about slice his neck, until he heard a heart stopping scream. Ikuto dropped the sword and ran to the edge. His eyes almost fell from it's socket due to how wide they had opened.
The scream came from Amu; the robot hand was pinching her torso, threatening to break her in half. Ikuto heard Tadase's sick laughter behind him as he shivered.
"As you can see we have reached a agreement. You have two options, but they both work out in my favor." he stated, letting the words hang in the air, letting Ikuto fully grasp the horror that seemed to be unfolding before his eyes.
"Which are?" he managed to mumbled, by this point the was shaking vigorously.
"Well, one, let me finish my job and kill these useless brats, or" he coughed a laugh. "watch her die. Don't worry, she isn't all that special, I'm sure you'll be over her."
Suddenly, something snapped inside Ikuto. It was like when your best friend, who you'll never yell at, breaks your most favorite possession, and you find yourself yelling at the top of your lunges at him or her. You didn't even realize you did it until it was too late.
Ikuto launched himself at Tadase in a blur, so fast Tadase didn't even noticed, him being so caught up in his filthy finger nails, and locked his hands onto his neck and pressed hard against it, making it difficult for Tadase to breathe. He was in such a awkward position that he couldn't even reach the first control button he had press, but instead pressed another button that release the tight grip of both Amu and Rima. They both fell to the ground; Rima owed while Amu gasped for air.
"Onei-chan…" Rima breathed, trying to inch her way over to her sister.
Back on top of the robot, Tadase breathe slowly died down as Ikuto head bowed down.
"Don't you dare," he finally hissed out, voice icier then the coldest crack of the North Pole. "lower Amu like that." he got out, pressing harder on his throat. You couldn't blame him for being pushed so far over the edge, right?
Tadase, now desperate, fumbled around the control panel, looking for something, anything, that would save him. He pressed hundreds of buttons, turning one and off lights and wires of all sorts until his hand flickered a switch and the robot tip the two backward over the edge. The impact gave Tadase the help he needed; Ikuto released his neck and came in contact with the ground. His now free hands help him comfort the blow, but Tadase wasn't as lucky. With no to time to prepare, he simply fell on his side. It didn't hurt much.
Amu, although out of breathe, ran to her lover and hugged his shoulder, buried he face in his neck. She was crying.
"Oh, Ikuto…I thought…and I was so….Ikuto!" he sobbed out, hugging him tighter. Ikuto sighed a happy sigh and pulled the pinkette into his arms, using one hand to support her and the other then tangle in her hair.
"Shhh, it's ok, I'm here, I'm so sorry." he soothed rubbing her back, feeling like crying himself, but reseated. She continued to soak his t-shirt with her tears. Every few seconds, she would gasp or sniffle.
Tadase propped his self upward and turned to the two. He watched in aw as the weirdest thought crossed his mind. He wanted someone to fell that strongly towards him. To bad that wasn't enough to soften his heart. He turned to his left and spotted Ikuto's sword lying still, lifeless. He picked it up and got to his feet. He pointed it to Ikuto, who had finally noticed Tadase get up and turned to him. He clutched Amu tighter and she clenched his drenched shirt.
"This is very sweet, and if this were a bad anime, I would have let you go. Thank God it isn't." he chuckled and pressed the flat part of the blade on his skin. Amu quivered as Tadase slowly sliced Ikuto's cheek, leaving a small cut. He was just about to stab it fully through his cheek when Amu yelled, "Stop!"
He looked over at her with a annoyed glare. Ikuto stared at her, purely shocked.
"Don't do it, please." she begged. "Ikuto isn't from here, if you kill him in this world, he'd die there too. Please." she looked over at Ikuto, his eyebrows her creased together, as her eyes were lit with sadness and something else that Ikuto seemed to catch.
"Fine, if you're going to beg me," he started off and shifted the blade to Amu's neck. "I'll just kill you instead. Be lucky I'm killing you with a sword; the death will be slower for you. Aren't you happy?" he smiled evilly. Just when he was about to pierce the knife inside of her, he fell to the ground sideways. Blood oozed out of his head. Amu and Ikuto looked up and saw a grinning Rima standing over his dead body. They raised a eyebrow.
"I told him not to call me -chan." she sighed, innocently and dropped the stomach protector Ikuto had on earlier.
Ikuto stood, helped Amu up - she clutched his waist as she was on her feet - and looked towards Rima. "Pretty impressive, but you do know I was suppose to get ride of him, right?"
"Well you weren't delivering, so I stepped in." she looked up to her big sister. "I do good?" she asked, as innocently as she could.
Amu thought for a moment. "You were…okay." she praised and ruffled Rima's hair before turning to Ikuto.
"So that's it?" he asked, smiling as he pushed a strand of hair form her eyes.
"I guess, I don't really know how it works." she confessed, bashfully. "Papa said when I was all over, I'd go to your world, but I'm not really-" she didn't get a chance to finish her sentence. Ikuto was going back to his world. In the back of his head, he heard Utau crying out his name.
"See you soon. This time for sure." she beamed, hugging his fading body.
~Ikuto POV~
I woke with a start, frighten out of my trance by Utau shacking my shoulder. When I looked over to her - her eyes were red and puffy like she had been crying - she stopped dead in her tracks.
"Ikuto?" she whispered, before attacking me, hugging me like there were no tomorrow. "Ikuto! I thought you were…" she trailed off, sobbing like crazy. I rolled my eyes and patted her on the back.
"Welcome back, man." he greeted, rubbing his right eye with the back of his hand. I nodded to him before asking, "What time is it?"
He glanced over at the alarm clock. "About 6:30 in the moring" he informed and yawned. I paid my attention back to Utau who still sobbed.
"Why are you crying so hard? Jezz…"
"Because we fell asleep…and I woke up…and you were bleeding...and I panicked…oh Ikuto!" she attacked me again. 'Bleeding?' I thought and felt around my face and found the cut that guy gave me. You know, I never learned his name. I wiped the trace of blood off my cheek and pushed Utau off of me. She wiped her face off then looked back at me.
"So?" she breathed. "Where is she?" she asked. I froze.
"Ikuto?" Kukai called to me.
"Huh, oh hold on." I murmured and jumped over Utau and ran out the door. I ran almost all across the house, looking for the pinkette, thinking she'd be admiring Utau's room or flipping through the channels on the television. She wasn't in any of those places. The last place I ran to was the front door and opened it roughly. No Amu. I sighed as the sun cast rays across the lawn.
"Amu…." I murmured, sighed and made my way back in the house, getting ready to explained what had happened, while Utau fixed my wound.
~RINI-CHAN~
School had started back and it was colder then it was before the break. At least I was warmer then last time, one of my Christmas present was a leather coat, way thicker then my last one. Apparently, my mom was sick of watching me shivered, so it was either that or she'd come up to my school everyday and wrap me up in a blanket.
I chose the jacket above all.
I still waited for Amu to come to my world, some sign that told me that she was here, or something, but everyday, nothing. I wasn't depressed, like last time when all hope seemed lost (now looking back, I may have been a tad melodramatic), but more anxious. Deep inside though, I knew I'd see her soon, I just wasn't sure when.
I paced alone on the sidewalk - Utau had decided to walk with Kukai to school, it had been like this for a while… - so I was flying solo. I didn't really care, but still it would have been nice to have someone to talk to. I walked through the gates of the high school and glanced around slightly. My favorite past time had been New Comers Watching. It's when on the first day back to something, you look for all the new faces, but there hadn't seem like many. There were a few looking at the school map beside the main building. One of them had a red plaid hooded coat on, so I couldn't see their face.
"Welcome back, Tsukiyomi-kun." I voice called out to me, I turned to her and greeted Nadeshiko Fujisaki, the class president - and class suck up- with a half a smile. (Rini: Don't get excited, she's not as important to the plot, I haven't decided yet.) "How was your break?" she asked, looking ready to write down everything I said on her over-sized clipboard.
"It was…interesting…" I gave her that, and only that, much.
"Oh, well that's good. Mine was fine too." she gushed, saying back and forth. I looked off in another direction, looking for a excuse to flee. "Yea, we visited France and found this boy who dances amazingly. I mean I don't get excited about too many things, but wow. He looked just like me too…" by this point I had zoned out, focusing on the new students standing in front of the map. Most of them had cleared out except for that one with the plaid, thigh-high, coat.
I could tell now she was a girl from the way the coat hugged her. Something inside me to want to go over there, just to get a closer look, even with Nadeshiko calling me back to earth.
The girl turned slightly to the side, giving me a small glimpse of her face, her hair. Her pink hair. 'Amu!' I thought as my heart speed up.
"Ikuto, did you hear what I said?" she asked, tugging on m arm. What was with these girls and my arm? I didn't think about that too long.
"Yea, um I'll be right back." I said in a rush and dashed off to the girl. She was just about to walk off before I grabbed her gently by the arm. She didn't turn at first.
"Excuse me…are you…" I trialed off, suddenly feeling stupid. I released her arm, even though that annoying voice in my head screamed at me to hold on to her. I was just about to walk off, but stopped. "Amu? I was going to ask; are you Amu Hinamori?"
The girl stifled a giggle, by this point I had confirmed that she wasn't my Amu. I stepped to turn away but she reached out and grabbed my arm. I turned back and stared in shock.
"Well," Amu giggled, "It took you long enough." she continued to laugh and hugged my arm tighter. I stood speechless, unable to comprehend anything. Amu took a step back and released my limb.
"Could it be that…you're not interested in me anymore…?" she asked, looking hurt.
"No! I mean…I just…" I couldn't get my words out. I sighed before taking her in my arms. "I've missed you." I felt her arms wrapped around me.
"I missed you too… my love."
Rini: Gah! I love it! I think I even blushed!
Ikuto: Rini that wasn't a blush, you just have the heat on too high.
Rini: Oh same thing! Expect a sequel, but not right away.
Amu: Well, I liked it. It wasn't too perverted.
Rini: Well, it's just the beginning of you two relationship. But don't worry, it'll get WAY more perverted in the sequel :D
Amu: WHAT?!
Ikuto: :D
Rini: Yup, but I'm tired-
Fiona: When are you not tired?
Rini: Fi-chan, bitterness is not a good color on you. I'm tired so later my homey. Sigh, if only I could have got Edward Cullen to come and be a guest for the final chappie.
Amu: Maybe next time.
Rini: Oh Amu-chan you always pull me out of my lowest time, unlike someone. -looks at Fiona-
Fiona: HEY!
Rini: Later. :D