Katsura: Hello earthlings, and welcome to chapter 5 of The last 10 minutes.

Ikuto: C-creepy..

Katsura: Just thought that i'd upload today, considering that schools coming up soon -boo- and I wont be able to update much with crappy school going on -,- Oh the joy of education!

Ran: Todays chapter involves lots of time traveling, spying and sneeking!

Haruhi: Time traveling?! WHERE?!

Ikuto/Katsura/Amu: WTF?!

Haruhi: Well, where is it? -taps foot-

Katsura: Ahahaha...nowhere. AMU DO THE DISCLAIMER!

Amu: Katsura does not own Shugo chara in any way, yadda yadda, or Haruhi.

~~~~~~~Amu's POV~~~~~~~

This is some messed up place I arrived at..

I walk up to chibi Ikuto on the wall across the road, and stand infront of him.

''What is it?'' He asks me, with little Utau and Tadase clinging onto his arms.

''Hey kid what's ur name?'' I ask him, smiling and looking up at him on the stone wall.

He cocks his head to the side and raises an eyebrow.

''Ikuto. What's it to you?'' He replies boredly.

Yeah that's him alright, little brat.

''Mmh, no reason. Well, bye!'' I smile, running off.

~~~~~~~Younger Ikuto's POV~~~~~~~

What a strange girl..and what strange hair.

I jump off the wall and help Utau and Tadase down, then start walking on my way home through the forest.

''Ikutoo! Play with me today!'' Tadase screams, tugging on my arm.

''No already! I told you, he's going on a date with ME!'' Utau yells, poking her tongue out at Tadase.

Tadase starts crying, and sulks by a tree.

''You really have to start being nicer to him Utau..'' I sigh, taking my violin off my back and playing one of my dads songs.

He composed it when I was born, and I've learnt it ever since.

He named it, Suteki da Ne.

As I play, Tadase's crying stops, and he sits at my feet.

Utau pouts for a bit, but sits down beside Tadase.

She sings the lyrics that my mother wrote.

Isn't it beautiful,

To walk together in each others hands

I do so want to go,

To your city, your house, into your arms.

Mum and dad, so in love. Atleast, they were..

Dad..betraying us and fleeing, leaving mum in a wreck, and me to fight off the critasizm.

The wind, its halting words are a gentle illusion

The clouds, the broken future like a distant voice

When the song finishes, Tadase is happy, and Utau is too.

We walk off again, to go home, and to my cousins birthday party.

When we arrive, lots of banners are around the house, and people are gathering with drinks in their hands and food on their plates.

''Ikuto! You finaly came home, hey, would you mind playing your violin for your cousin Aya? She says she wants nothing more then to hear you play for her 14th birthday.'' Tadase's mother asks me, pretending not to hate me.

I sigh and give her a thumbs up.

''Where is she?'' I ask, taking my violin out again for like the 5th time today.

She points to the garden.

As I go to pass her, she whispers something in my ear.

''Not Suteki da Ne..you know I can't stand that song. The song your absent minded father wrote..play another one.'' She says in a dark hushed voice.

I scowl, but push my anger aside.

I run into the garden and see Aya sitting miserably on the grass.

She looks up, her lavender hair hiding her usually bright green eyes.

''What's wrong cuz, not having a good 14th?'' I ask her, sitting beside her.

She sighs and looks at me.

''Not at all..all i've heard from all the adults is 'Where is that stupid boy?' and 'useless just like his father'..I don't like it when people talk about my favourite cousin that way'' She frowns.

''Thanks. But violinst-san is here to cheer you up with a song.'' I smile.

She ruffles my hair and smiles.

Back to her cheerful self.

I play her a song of my own, named Tsukiyo no Violinst.

She loves this one.

I look down at her, still playing.

She closes her eyes, leaning against the fence and smiling.

When i'm done, she looks over to the back door and giggles.

''What?'' I ask her, putting my violin away.

''There's a cute girl over there, I think she heard your song.'' She smiles, standing up and turning my head.

There stands a girl with pink hair and yellow orbs, walking towards me with curiosity written all over her face.

''It was good.'' She says simply, looking up at me, blushing.

''T-thanks..'' Oh my god i'm stuttering, i'm stuttering around a girl! I never do that!

I mentally slap myself, and keep cool.

''What's your name?'' I ask her.

''A-'' Before she can reply, she's spotted outside with me, and brought back inside.

She turns around while getting dragged back inside, and frowns.

''Aww, that's no fun, I was hoping to do a little matchmaking'' Aya sighs from behind.

''S-shut up Aya, I do NOT like her!'' I retort.

''Sure you don't!'' She laughs.

I chase her around the garden for what seems like hours.

~~~~~~~Older Amu's POV~~~~~~~

HOLY F- Ok..so I found out a few things over the last hour..

Ikuto knew Suteki Da ne when he was younger, hmm.

He has a cousin called Aya.

He should really lock his treehouse so stalkers like me can't get in and watch everything going on.

And that I met Ikuto when I was 9!!

AAAAHHHH! How could I not remember that?!

Maybe because I don't have such good memory.

But what the hell!?

Ikuto was stuttering when he talked to the little me, STUTTERING!

The big ass playboy who seduces every girl within a 10 metre radias, blushed and stuttered while talking to ME!

How I wish I could hold that against him..

I wonder if he knows that we met before?

I'm still thinking things over, and a voice from earlier rings through my ears.

''That's the first bit of information, Amu-chan. Ready for the second stop?'' Dia asks me.

I turn around a few times, still not seeing her.

''Sure..but will I ever get to see who you are?'' I reply, looking out the treehouse window.

''Maybe another time. But for now..'' She whispers.

Everything around me is sucked into a hole, and i'm dropped into the black abyss again.

''This place again? Hmm..still no lightbulbs.'' I mumble.

As quickly as I arrived here, I'm thrown out and onto a garden.

It looks traditional japanese, lots of flowers, ponds and wooden decking.

I sneak up to the back door, peek inside and see no one around.

''Where am I now Dia?'' I ask, walking inside and into the halls decorated with bamboo plants and japanese paintings.

Silence.

''Again? I hate it when she leaves me to find things out on my own..'' I murmur, looking around for anything that might have a date on it.

I come into the kitchen and look around. My golden orbs set upon a calender hanging on the fridge.

''July 13th huh? So why this date?'' I mumble, completely cool about the current situation i'm in.

Speaking of situations, I wonder how Ikuto is holding up with my unconcious body in the present time?

~~~~~~~Ikuto's POV Present time~~~~~~~

She's been like this for hours! Just laying on my bed, unconcious!

When she knocked out cold a few hours ago in my garden, I thought that my violin really did kill people!

I had to pull her into another firemans lift and take her to my room. When my mum saw me with her, the conversation went like this.

''Ikuto-san, your not going to do anything perverted or irrational to that girl on your back, are you?'' She questions, eyeing me up and down from the sofa.

''No. Just go back to watching wife swap.'' I reply, pulling Amu closer over my shoulder and hauling her up the stairs and into my room.

And here we are.

She seems to stir ever now and then, mumbling things in her sleep like 'June 20th', 'July 13th' and 'Lightbulbs'.

I'll have to get her some therapy when she wakes up..

I sigh and pull out some of Utau's shoujo manga that I snuck away from her room.

Skip Beat.

It's so amazingly awesome that I can't tear my eyes away from the black and white pages.

So fluffy wuffy, and lovey dovey with a hint of demonic revenge on Kyoko's part.

I lean back onto the bed headboard and swing my legs onto the matress, and start reading some more.

~~~~~~~Amu's POV~~~~~~~

I'm about to look through the calender for anything specific like a birthday, a time or date for anything..suspicious, but I'm interupted by a smashing noise coming from the hall.

''Oh no!'' A tiny voice calls.

I peek round the corner and find Tadase and Utau looking guilty and shifty.

I can see some shards of a vase on the floor, surrounded by water.

''What do I do?'' Whailed little Tadase.

''It's my fault, I pushed you!'' Utau reassures Tadase by blaming herself.

8 inch heels are heard stomping their way across the hall.

I hide back in the kitchen, while Tadase's mother asesses the scene infront of her.

''Who did this!?'' She demandes, pointing a finger accusingly at the vase.

Utau and Tadase stand there mercifully.

''Who did it?! Tell me!'' She yells.

I peek my head out of the kitchen again to watch the drama unfold.

''Oh, I get it now, it was you, huh!'' She bellows. ''Ikuto!''

I turn my head further down the hall and see Ikuto standing innocently.

What?! He only just got here! Man if I wasn't such a stalker and in this circumstances I would have kicked her a-butt!

''Yeah, I did it, sorry.'' Ikuto replies, looking down.

No way...He'd just take the blame like that??

I turn my attention back to Tadase's mother, she stands with a disapointed and disguisted look on her features.

''I'm not suprised. Don't be such a shy and shameless child. I wonder if you inherited your lack of common sense from your father.'' She sighs, with her hands on her hips.

''Tadase wouldn't do this. He's a good boy.''

I couldn't take anymore of this. I rushed to the kitchen window, pulled it open and climbed my way out.

I breathed in a sigh of relief.

''Stupid bitch, I swear If I ever meet her, i'll rip her neck off!'' I ramble, strangling thin air and cursing.

''Stop number three coming right up..'' Dia calls from above.

The same happenes as last time, but i'm dropped not far from where I was last standing.

I land in a bush with a thud.

''Ouch..'' I moan, rubbing my back.

I peek up from the bushes and see two familiar figures sitting on the decking not far from me.

Tsukasa and Ikuto.

What's with this..situation? Why is Tsukasa here?

Ikuto looks about the same as last time, So i'm guessing it wasnt much further on.

''You're not pitiful at all'' Tsukasa says to Ikuto.

Ikuto looks at him, suprised.

''Look at it this way. Everyone at some time in their lives, have to leave their parents and be independant''. Tsukasa smiles, pointing to Tadase and Utau further back in the garden frolicking with the birds.

''Oh Tsukasa, to hang out with these little kids...don't you think it's a little pathetic?'' Tadase's mum smiles weakly, walking into the garden carrying a tray of drinks.

''Really?'' Tsukasa replies ''Even though i'm taking good care of them, I can't smile..their not innocent or charming at all..that's what your thinking, right sister?''

Ack! Sister?! This is messed up! So Tsukasa is Tadase's..uncle?!

That's one bitch of a sister he's got there.

''Wha, wha are you saying?'' She replies, rather caught off guard.

She rushes back in after resting the drinks on the decking.

Ikuto stares at Tsukasa with awe.

''You're thinking 'How did he knows that? I've never met a grown-up whos said those sort of weird things before' right?'' Tsukasa smiles.

''That's because..i'm not a grown up'' Tsukasa winks.

Tsukasa really scares me sometimes.

After Tsukasa hands Ikuto his fathers violin, saying that his mother wanted him to have it, Ikuto says he didn't like his father because he abandoned his sister and his mother.

Tsukasa asks him ''Don't you want to know..about your father?''.

Tsukasa whispers something in his ear, and runs off.

Ikuto, left clutching the violin twice his size, debates something mentally.

He runs out of the garden.

''Ah!'' I mumble outloud.

I scramble out of the bushes and follow him out into the drive way, but stay hidden.

Tadase comes running out to catch him, stumbling and hurting himself in the process.

Ikuto looks back, with a hurt and pained expression on his face.

He turns back and continues running away.

''What..why?'' I mumble, grabbing onto the fence.

''One more stop to go.'' Dia whispers again.

Again the sequence is repeated, and i'm dropped into the very same garden into yet another bush..

''GOD DAMMIT!'' I shout outloud.

I look up and see Ikuto, looking around for the sound.

A teenage Ikuto.

This was what, a year ago?

He has his violin on his shoulder, and is looking down at a mop of fur.

''B-betty?'' I whisper, looking at the dog laying on the grass.

The dog that Tadase grew up with, is...dead?

''Good night'' Ikuto says to Betty.

He didn't kill her, I know that. Theres no way he'd do it. He really cares for Tadase, besides, he's not that sort of person.

''I'm home'' A voice calls from inside.

Ikuto, not hearing his arrival, starts to play the violin to Betty. Sort of like a farewell gift.

Footsteps are heard hitting the wooden floors, and the door swishes open to reveal Tadase, stunned and shocked at seeing his long lost 'onnii-tan', and his dog Betty, dead.

I hold my breath, not wanting to move.

If i'm caught like this by Tadase, it could alter the future, and mess things up further.

''Time to go home Amu..'' The voice whispers.

I look up, and diamonds fly across the sky, and i'm sucked, yet again, into the darkness.

''I hope you understand it all now Amu. The situation between Ikuto and Tadase is a very sensitive subject.'' She calls.

I just nod and look at the dark ground.

''Time to go back..''

The darkness engulfs me and i'm drifting through a tunnel for a while.

My eyes start to twitch, and I flutter them open.

Where am I? Ikuto's..room...ROOM?! What did he do to me while I was asleep?!

I look to my side to see Ikuto flicking excitidley through a manga book.

I grin.

He hears me moving, so I pretend to still be asleep.

''Still asleep huh..'' He mumbles, putting the book down and facing me.

''She looks like sleeping beauty when she's like this. One little..kiss can't hurt?'' He murmurs, closing the space between us and kissing me softly on the lips.

Wait...WHAT?!

Katsura: Woohoo! First kiss! And it only took me 5 chapters!

Ikuto: Took you a while! You should have made me smooch attack Amu on the first sentance of the first chapter!

Amu: I-Ikuto!

Ikuto: Yes darling?

Katsura/Amu: ....

Katsura: Hey Amu wanna go get some pocky?

Amu: Sounds good -walks off with Katsura.

Ikuto: Wait, nooo! Don't ditch me! -falls to knees- Well atleast she didn't get taken away by Spongebob in Katsura's other story..

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