Gah! I'm finally done! QAQ;; Why did this take so long?? Well, I guess for one thing it is 18 pages... But I had to cram a lot of stuff int D:
At first, I wanted to make them meet Tadase's dad again...but I changed my mind. Too much work and planning. I wanted it to be a oneshot anyways D:
So well, enjoy the 18 pages! And a happy ending instead of the other one! 8D
It's been four years now, since Amu had left Japan, had left her memories of Ikuto behind. Not that she forgot him. More like she wished it never happened. 15 years old, she now stands in her old room in Japan, staring into the mirror, getting ready for school again.
It wasn't as if the four years in England was bad or anything, but she missed Ikuto, cried whenever she was reminded of him. There were happy times with her friends, but each day ended with the same memories, the same tears.
Down the stairs and out the door, no one was awake in the house. She woke up far too early nowadays for her family to compete. Down the street she walked, all quiet and gray. The clouds blocked out the sun, threatening to rain.
At the first traffic light, while she was waiting for the light to change, the first few drops of rain fell. "…Ah…" She said, looking up for the first time on her trip to school. It was in that lucky moment that she saw a familiar flash of midnight blue. "…Eh?! I-Ikuto!" She said in a rather quiet voice. She would've spoken with a louder voice, but she wasn't that sure that it had been him. Instead, thinking about Ikuto brought her to tears again. Thinking about his last moments always ended up with her in tears.
The light changed and she walked on. The rain came down harder and by the time she arrived at the next crosswalk it had started pouring. Amu had not brought an umbrella so she looked about for a place to hide under.
Seeing a bus stop, she quickly hid under it. She suddenly remembered that day she had gotten lost when a snowstorm hit. Ikuto had saved her that time. Sighing, she tried to push the memory out of her mind before the tears would come.
It wasn't until she sat down that she noticed another person sitting there. A boy. Hood covering his eyes, clothes just as wet as Amu's, he looked as if he was asleep. She wouldn't have paid him much mind if it wasn't for the color of his hair. Midnight blue.
"...Ikuto...?" The words escaped from her mouth before she could think of anything else. She immediately regretted thinking this. This was impossible. She must be imagining things.
"What?" The boy asked, looking up.
Amu gasped, the boy looked exactly like Ikuto! And he responded to the name 'Ikuto'. "I-Ikuto? I-Is that really you?!"
"..." The boy stared at her for a moment. "Yes. My name is Ikuto. I don't know you, however. So you must have the wrong person." Ikuto said with a shrug, leaning back against the glass wall of the bus stop.
"What?! No! You're Ikuto, right? Don't you remember me?!" Amu said with a rather desperate tone of voice. "It's me! Amu!"
"...I don't know anyone named Amu." He muttered. "If you're one of those fangirls..." His voice trailed off and he looked somewhat angry. "Leave me alone...damn fans." He said before getting up and leaving, leaving Amu speechless.
"W-What the hell...?!" Was all she managed to say before the tears came pouring down as hard as the rain above.
Entering the gates to Seiyou high school, the first thing Amu noticed was a crowd of girls around someone. The rain had stopped by now.
"Go out with me, Ikuto!"
"Just one date? I promise that's all!"
"Here's my phone number!"
"Give me your phone number, Ikuto!"
"Heck, give me your address!"
Amu watched the crowd in shock. Was...Was this what he was talking about earlier...?! She thought. But even so, Amu was confused and upset at the fat that Ikuto had not remembered her. Why was that? What happened to the promises he had made? Was everything just a lie?
"...Ah. I was late...Sorry, Ikuto!" A voice behind Amu said. Quickly turning around, Amu saw a boy with chocolate brown hair and eyes about Ikuto's age, 16, standing rather close to her. In fact, any closer, and they might be hugging.
"H-Hey! Move over!" Amu yelled, flustering a bit. "You're way too close!"
The boy looked down at Amu. And the moment their eyes met, Amu remembered something. She had seen him before. When Ikuto was still a cat, he was one of those 'ghostly figures' she had seen around the town. It wasn't the girl who talked to her, however. "Sorry." The boy said with a sheepish smile.
"Oi! Kyo!" Ikuto's voice came from within the crowd. "Even if you're late, I still need your damn help!"
"Oh, right, sorry!" Kyo yelled back. Amu just stared at him, wondering what he might do next. She was somewhat amused, if it could be put that way, by this whole situation. It almost seemed unreal to her since no one ever fought with her for Ikuto's affections. Utau didn't really count. Since, well, she never really liked Ikuto that way. "Ahem..." Kyo cleared his voice. "Girls! Ikuto's already dating someone! Leave already."
"Eh?! He is?!" Amu asked in shock.
A few girls turned to glare at Kyo and Amu.
"Yea right! Big liar!"
"Just who is it?!"
"Give us some proof!"
"Ah...I guess that won't work anymore now that she's gone..." Kyo mumbled and an exasperated sigh came from inside the crowd.
She...? Who's she...? Amu wondered.
"HEY!!" A loud voice called from the gates. "ALL OF YOU! GET AWAY FROM TSUKIYOMI BEFORE I KICK YOUR $$!!" The voice belonged to a girl with a rather angry face.
"...Hah...Who taught that girl to curse so early in the morning?" Ikuto's voice came from inside the crowd again.
"C-Chiyo?!" Kyo said in surprise. He had not expected her here. Amu looked at the girl. She seemed familiar. Then she remembered. She was another of the ghosts. The one that had appeared at the party.
The girls turned to look at Chiyo. "Oh! Crap! Its Chiyo! She was in my class last year! She doesn't hesitate to carry out her threats!" After that, the girls surrounding Ikuto disappeared.
No sooner did that happen, the girl, chiyo, ran over and latched herself onto Ikuto. "Tsukyomi-san! I'm in high school now too, aren't you happy to see me?" She asked with a giggle.
"W-Wha...?!?" Amu started pointing at the girl in shock and confusion. "W-Who is that?!" Amu asked Kyo frantically.
Chiyo turned to look at Amu. "Tsukiyomi's next door neighbor and childhood friend. Pointing is rude. Who're you?" She stated with some air of superiority. "His girlfriend or something? Cause otherwise, you have no right to point at me.
Amu was speechless. What's with this girl?!
"Chiyo! Off!" Ikuto ordered, prying the 10th grader off his back. The girl reluctantly got off.
"Aw...Sheesh. Tsukiyomi! I'm finally in the high school division! You should be happy to see me!" Chiyo said with a pout.
"I'm never happy to see a girl that can kick my $$ at any given time." Ikuto scoffed, fixing his bag. And he was wondering who taught her how to curse.
"Right..." The girl said with sarcasm. "Love you too, Tsukiyomi!" She joked with a roll of eyes as she followed him into the school.
Amu was about to follow as well when a hand grabbed her shoulder lightly and swirled her around. "...Kyo?!"
"I don't know what Ikuto means to you...but you should give up." He said, releasing her. "He already has someone he cares deeply about..." His voice seemed to falter slightly near the end.
"...Is it Chiyo...?" Amu asked as he started to walk away.
Kyo stopped and smiled sadly. "I wish." He muttered before walking away.
All of this left Amu extremely confused and she stood there for a moment, wondering what to do as the bell rang and students started running in. It was only after all the students' mad scramble in when she saw a singer white feather fall to the ground in front of her. Of course. There was still her that she could look for answers in.
"...Eru..."
School ended for the day and to Amu's shock and horror, she had multiple classes with Chiyo who continually gave her glares. And it was not unexpected that she had no classes with Ikuto. He was a grade higher than her.
Remembering that the feather had fallen from the the courtyard, she decided to try looking from the roof. Climbing up the stairs, Amu was annoyed at how many floors the high school division had in comparison to the elementary one. As she near the door, she heard voices.
"...Not that, Chiyo..." A rather familiar voice said.
"You sure, Ikuto? ...Don't lie if...I want...please...loyal to that person." A girl, Chiyo's voice.
Amu couldn't hear too clearly and she proceeded to go closer to the door, to press her ear by the metal and listen to what they were saying. But just as she was about to do that, a hand grabbed her arm and stopped her. She would've screamed if it wasn't for the other person's hand coming to cover her mouth. "Shh...."
Amu looked up to see Kyo looking down at her. "You shouldn't be eavesdropping on people..." He said with a small smile as he let her go.
"W-Wha..." Amu was startled by such an accusation, as true as it was. "W-Well, what about you?! You just snuck up behind me!"
"Oh, right. Sorry about that." He said with a short laugh. "You have my apologies."
"Hmph! You're lucky I'm nice enough to accept it then!" Amu said with a somewhat angry voice.
"Yea...Um..." There was a short silence between the two before Kyo spoke up again. "...Did you know Ikuto from before now?"
"Y-Yes I did!" Amu answered immediately.
"Do you now? And how do I know that's the truth?" He replied with a dark look in his eyes. "I've known Ikuto for a long time now. I've never seen you around him. In fact, I've never even seen you before."
"I...Its...complicated..." Amu mumered.
"If so, please explain yourself. Too many people claim that they knew Ikuto, really. I don't like it when people do that. Especially when its clear who Ikuto loves."
"Wha?? A-And who would that be?!" Amu remembered that he had said something like that earlier in the day and she really was curious as to who it might be. She also felt hurt too since Ikuto had loved her before. And while all this time, she sitll loved him, he...didn't love her back.
"...My sister. Risu..." He mumbled. And before Amu could respond, the door opened. Chiyo and Ikuto looked at the two of them in surprise.
Chiyo's stare soon turned into a glare. "...Hey! What were you doing?! Eavesdropping on us?!" She had directed the question at Amu. Apparently, she wouldn't care if Kyo heard. "Don't you have any manners?!"
"No, um, wait, I didn't...!" Amu protested as Chiyo looked ready to hit her a couple of times. She was about to brace herself for it when Kyo pulled Chiyo away.
"Hey! What are you doing, Kyo?!"
"Amu, you said that you knew Ikuto, right? I don't believe you, but that doesn't matter in the end, does it? Its just Ikuto who needs to believe you." He said as he started pulling Chiyo down the stairs who was complaining the whole way through. "Talk with him then."
"Um...Uh, thanks?" Amu said, not sure if the other was actually doing her a favor. But he must've been cause Chiyo ended up giving him a few bruises by the time the two had gotten down the building.
"Say what you have to say so I can get going already." Ikuto mumbled as he leaned by the railing and looked downward.
"Um..." Amu said and blushed. Ikuto looked really cool that way. "...Do you remember me?"
"No." The answer came with out any hesitance and Amu felt almost as if someone cut her heart with a blade. He had sounded so sure.
She couldn't stop the sobs that were coming up. Hic. Sob. Hic. And then more sobbing. After a while, the tears stopped flowing and it was near sunset now.
"Are you done now?" Ikuto asked her when she had quieted down.
"...You waited for me to stop crying? You could've left anytime and I wouldn't care." Amu said. She didn't want to show that she cared too much.
"...I wouldn't leave a girl crying all alone up here." Ikuto said as he looked up from the streets below for the first time. "I'm sorry. But I don't know you." He said as he looked down at her the moment she looked up. And for a second, his breath was caught at his throat as he seemed to recgnize something in those bright yellow eyes. No. I don't know her. I don't... Ikuto thought in order to convince himself.
"I...I understand." Amu nodded and try to break something of a smile, maybe a smirk, but her lips wouldn't move the way she wanted to. At all. It just stayed there as a frown. "Y...You can go now. I just want to be alone with myself for a little longer."
Ikuto nodded and with one last slightly concerned glance at her, he headed for the door and walked down the stairs.
Amu listened till Ikuto's footsteps were no longer audible. Then she broke down in tears again.
A few minutes later, the door opened again. "...Girls shouldn't cry in solitude. I'm sure guys would've loved to cheer up a crying girl."
It wasn't Ikuto's voice.
"I didn't know you came back until someone told me. You should've come to see us. Most of us stayed at the same school you know?"
The voice was so familiar.
"Class Prez!" Amu shouted in surprise as she turned around to find Kairi.
Kairi in return, twitched slightly and his smile faltered. "...It would do both of us good if you actually remembered my name..."
"Oh, sorry!" Amu laughed. "But it's good to see you again, Kairi."
"Yes, I feel the same." Kairi said, walking up towards her and sat down on a bench. "So why're you just standing there to cry? You could've at least sat down."
Amu didn't answer.
"...I saw Ikuto walking around the school before. Did you try to ask him out?"
"..."
"Hah, I thought so. That guy breaks girls' hearts like its nothing." Kairi said with a chuckle.
"Don't say that as if you know him..." Amu mumbled angrily.
"Ah, I'm sorry." He said with a sigh before there was a silence. "You know. That boy that you used to be around. Your cousin or something?"
"Something of that sort." Amu said quietly. She didn't remenber the whole made up title now. It had been 4 years now.
"His name. Was Ikuto as well, right? What was it?" He took out his notebook again and flipped through the pages. "Ikuto Amaterasu." He paused to look thoughtful for a momement. "...Hm. Ikuto Amaterasu. Ikuto Tsukiyomi."
"..." Amu thought back. Back then, Kairi had asked about Ikuto's last name. How long had he know Ikuto? "...You...You know Ikuto well?"
"Yes." Kairi nodded. "I've known him...for a long time now."
"...Can you tell me? About what happened while I was no longer here?" Amu asked slowly.
Kairi shrugged. "I guess its not like I have anything to hide."
-Kairi's POV-
Our families have known each other for a while. Both of them worked for the same company. But we've only ever talked or saw each other briefly. Only in those giant meetings with everyone. Utau was there those times too. She was always either really fond or really annoyed with Ikuto.
There was always a girl there. She often followed Ikuto around and fought with Utau when she was fond of him. Her name was Chiyo, I think. At first thought, I really thought that she was the one who really liked Ikuto. I've asked her about it. She's the one who told me no she didn't. Instead, her answer was always the same.
"I'm keeping him away from girls until he meets that special person of his!" She said proudly. "I'll be his bodyguard until that time comes!"
"Really? I...didn't think that she would think that way." Amu stated.
"I don't really know what she was thinking either." I said with a short laugh and a shrug. "She sure seems dedicated to it anyways."
And then, two years ago, Ikuto showed up with three people. Chiyo, Kyo, and one more. A girl with straight, greenish-hair. And I always thought I was the only one with green hair. She had seemed rather plain. Not at all someone Ikuto would be interested in.
"I can stop protecting Ikuto now!" Chiyo had told me that day. "This is the last party I'll come to because Tsukiyomi found the person he loves the most!"
That girl was Risu. She was plain, but Ikuto didn't seem to mind that.
"...Then I guess...I don't really have any hope left huh?" Amu said sadly. "If...he already had someone to love..."
"I'm not really done." Kairi said with something of a scoff.
Last year, Ikuto missed a party. He wasn't there. Nor was Chiyo, but I had expected that. She said she would no longer come. But wasn't Risu and Kyo coming?
Only the next party did I learn what happened. Ikuto came again, Kyo too. But so did Chiyo. Neither of them smiled once during the whole party.
"Oh, I'm sorry for not coming the last time." Kyo said to me. The corner of his lips seemed to twinge up a little, as if he was trying hard to smile. It didn't work and he gave up, frowning again. "My...sister died last month..." He said, his voice barely a whisper.
"I...I'm sorry to hear that!"
And then after that, Kyo broke down into tears and all three of them left with Ikuto's parents.
-Narrator's POV-
Amu was shocked by the ending of the story. She could understand a bit of what happened now. "...So. Chiyo still believes that Risu is Ikuto's true love. Is that why she doesn't want any girl close to him?"
"I would think so. I don't know what leads her to believe that though."
"Thanks for telling me what happened, Class Prez."
Kairi gave her an annoyed look.
"I meant Kairi." Amu corrected herself with an amused smirk.
The next day, she could barely wait till her 3 period class that she shared with Chiyo. She wanted to ask her about Ikuto. Although she had expected her to not cooperate, she had not expected her to be this bad.
"No! Why would I want to work with you?!" She had said harshly when Amu asked her to be my partner for the group project.
"Um...There's no more partners around?" Amu said and hoped that everyone had grouped and paired up already.
Chiyo looked around and scowled. "Fine. I'll be your partner."
Amu smiled. Mission accomplished. She thought and proceeded to find out what she wanted to know. "Um...You know Kairi, right?"
"Sanjo? Yea. I do." She stated nonchalantly. "What about him?"
"Um...He told me. About what happened between..."
Chiyo suddenly glared up at Amu from the desk. She immediately sat up straight too. "That bastard! I'll get him for this...!"
"E-Er! No! I mean, I asked him first!"
"So?! He still needn't tell everything!"
"Look! I just want to know what happened, ok!" Amu was near shouting now. "Um...I wanted to...know more about Risu..."
A pained look flashed across Chiyo's face. "I...guess it doesn't harm a dead person telling about what happened...."
-Chiyo's POV-
I met Ikuto when I was 3. We lived next to each other. I still remenber the day he moved in to the vacant house next door. He was a year older than me, but we were still able to be friends. At that time, we didn't go to the same school.
And that night when he moved in, I saw something. Outside my window, there was a girl. A girl with wings. Blonde hair and wings. It immediately registered to me that she was an angel.
"Keep Ikuto away. Keep him away from any girl that wants him. There's a girl he's destined for. Don't let him near anyone else." She had said to me.
Whenever I told anyone of this encounter, they never believed me. Well, only one person did. Risu did. We went to the same daycare, here actually. Seiyo Daycare for toddlers. She was fascinated by angels and the such and wished that she would've been able to see her.
"Wow! A mission by an angel! That's so cool!" Risu said. "Remenber to complete it! There's sure to be a reward in the end!"
I followed what she said. I made sure no girl got too close to Ikuto. At first, I was worried that Ikuto might hate me for it. But he didn't mind too much. He didn't like having girls crowd around him too much.
"Who's Risu?" Ikuto asked me one day while I was over at his house. Him and Kyo were working on a project for school while my parents were away.
"She's my younger sister." Kyo said with a smile.
"She's also my best friend!" I had said proudly.
"I see..." Ikuto muttered and didn't ask of her again.
The first time the two met was 5 years ago. I could tell that Risu had immediately fallen in love. I was a little upset about it. I wouldn't want to keep my my best friend away from the person she liked.
But she understood what I was supposed to do and never made any move on Ikuto like all other girls would.
It was two years ago when Ikuto suddenly blurted out to her. "I love you!"
Me and Kyo stared at the two. We sat a few feet away, the ice cream started melting in our hands now.
For a moment, I wanted to do my job and tear the two away, but then I realized. Could it be that Risu was the girl the angel was talking about? Ikuto was the one who told her he liked her, hadn't he? That should be enough ground for proof.
And so I started to stay away from Ikuto and watched from afar. I wasn't lonely. Kyo was there with me when those two wanted to be alone.
"...Um..." Amu mumbled.
"What?" I snapped. "Don't interrupt me when you're the one who wanted to hear!"
"I'm just curious... You didn't like Ikuto at all the whole time?"
I looked at her shocked. And here, I thought only Risu might've saw through me. Yes, I had liked Ikuto. But I knew he wouldn't like me back. That was for sure. And I had rather keep it as unrequited love. "...No. Of course not. I'm just his bodyguard!"
"Right..." Amu said suspiciously.
And then last year...We all lost someone important to us.
"Are you stupid?!" I yelled at Risu. "I can't believe you just agreed to help out with the ice cream shop! I mean, carry boxes of ice cream through the streets for them?! I'd rather eat them! Not sweat like crazy carrying them!"
"Aww, come on! They said they'd let us eat all we'd like for the summer if we help them!" Risu said with a bright smile.
"Tch..." I mumbled. The light by the street gave us the ok to walk and I started walking quickly across the street. The box weighed me down a bit but it wasn't that heavy.
"Um, wait up, Chiyo!" Risu called from behind me.
"What?" I had already made it across the street but she was still only half way across the road. The light was starting to blink. "Hurry up!" I said, waiting for her at the edge of the sidewalk.
"Yea! I'm coming!" She started picking up her pace and then she tripped. The traffic light above turned green.
"...Risu?" I heard the honk of a car. "...RISU!!"
-Narrator's POV-
"...That's how she died..." Chiyo whispered the last part and buried her head in her arms.
"I...I'm sorry for making you repeat it." Amu said softly.
"Naw...Its not that bad. I just...regret not being able to do anything."
"...Is that why you don't want any girls near him? Because you believe that she's the one Ikuto's destined to be with?"
Chiyo nodded and then sat up again. "Yes. Now more than ever, I don't want Ikuto to forget her. Because to her, he was the most important."
"...I see." Amu said softly.
Right then, there was a knock on the door. "I'm looking for Amu?" A male voice said.
"A student council member?"
"Did she get in trouble?"
"On her second day?"
Amu turned to see Nagihiko standing there. "...Nagi...?!"
Nagihiko grinned at her surprise. "Yup, I'm sorry Miss! But I need to borrow Amu for a bit." Getting the teacher's permission, Amu left the room with Nagihiko.
"Its good to see you again!" Nagihiko said with a smile. "I had heard from Kairi."
"Ah...I see..." Amu said, still a little hard to muster a smile after what she had heard. "...Oh yea, Kairi said to me yesterday. Most of you were still here." Were there some friends that were no longer here?
"Oh...What he meant was that some of the people who knew you well have moved away." He said with a small smile. "They moved kind of far so I doubt that you'd be able to see them again... The ones still here are me, Kairi, Rima, Yaya, Ran, Miki, and Suu..."
"Oh...That's too bad. I would've loved to see them again."Amu mumered.
"Yea..." Nagihiko agreed. "Oh, that's right...The reason I came to get you. There's someone who wanted to talk to you..."
At the school gate, Amu saw the last person she would've expected to be in a school uniform. It was not the Seiyo uniform, but of another schools. Not that it made much of a difference. She was shocked none the less. "...Eru!"
"Amu! Its good to see you again!" She said with a smile. She looked like she wanted a hug. Amu did not feel like giving her one. It was way too out of character for her.
"About time you showed up!" Amu said in her normal tsudere way. "Where were you?! ...And, what happened here while I was gone...?" From what she heard, it sounded like Ikuto had existed as a human from way before she had met him as a cat.
"Well..." Eru started. "Remember what I said? That normally ghosts just gets reborn as a baby? It was...different in Ikuto's case. There...needed to be a revision of history, I guess you can say."
"...Revision of history...? I guess...that makes sense." Amu mumbled. It did sound like from what Kairi and Chiyo had said that the past had been slightly revised.
"Also..." Eru poked her fingers together in both embarrassment and shame. "I...uh...I was the one who told Chiyo to keep Ikuto away from girls... But the girl I mean for him to be 'destined' for was you...But she appeared to have taken it in the wrong way..." She said with a sigh.
"Eh?!? T-Then can't you tell her that now?!" Amu said with a voice that was annoyed. There was also a tinge of annoyance there.
"I...uh...I can't..." Eru said slowly. "...Remember? Not only did Chihana get in trouble with God. I did too..."
Amu stared at her in disbelief.
"So...uh...Do your best to win Ikuto over!" Eru said before running away so Amu wouldn't get the chance to slap her once or twice from that.
"She...She makes it sound so easy!" Amu cried angrily as she walked down the hall back to the classroom. Maybe she was a little too loud since the hall monitor caught her and gave her detention. Apparently, she had needed a pass to go meet Eru. Even if she was escorted by Nagihiko.
Amu walked into the detention room annoyed. She was surprised to see only one other person there and no teachers. "...Ikuto!"
The blue haired boy turned to look at Amu. "...Yes?" He said, raising an eyebrow. "You're not going to cry again are you?"
"Er...no..." Amu said as she sat down a seat or two away from him. Great. So that's his impression of me now, isn't it? She thought. That really...didn't make her feel very good about herself.
There was an akward silence as they waited for their teacher. At least 15 minutes had past and no one else had entered the room.
"...Hey. Your name."
"Huh? Yes??"
"What was your name again?"
"Y...You don't remember it?! I just told you yesterday!"
"Yesterday was a long time ago."
Amu growled slightly in anoyance. "Amu. Amu Hinamori. Remenber it."
Ikuto nodded and went back to whatever he was doing. Doodling on his notebook, it appeared. "...Hey."
"Yes?" Amu was a bit annoyed that he didn't address her with his name. He did just ask for it after all.
"You...keep insisting that I know you. Why is that?"
"...Because...Um..."
"You can't explain it?" Ikuto asked. If she can't explain it, then she might as well be making it up. He sighed. Why do girls do that? Risu was the only one who never seemed to want to do that.
"...If I told you. I don't think you'd believe me." Amu continued.
"Oh?" Well, he's never heard that one before. "Well, try me. I just might believe you."
"We knew each other in a past life..." Amu stated slowly. Ikuto gave her a skeptical look. "I mean! Um...It wasn't my past life. I was still living this life... Your past life."
"Mine?" Ikuto continued to give her a skeptical look. Seems like this girl has read too many romance novels. "...And how do you know that we're one and the same?"
"You look the same. You have the same name. The same voice."
"...Then show me some proof." Ikuto said as he leaned back in his chair. "You must've taken pictures or something, right?"
"Its...complicated." Amu mumbled. "All traces of 'you' disappeared when you 'died'."
"Really? You're making this hard to believe. You know, you could've just went and photoshopped something to show me tomorrow, right?"
"...Then I'd be lying. I don't want to lie!"
"...So I can assume that you're not lying now?"
"I'm not lying!"
"Then...tell me, how did you know this?"
"An angel told me. blond hair and wings."
Ikuto laughed. "Chiyo must've told you too many stories then! Did you just get this from her?" Some anger was evident in his voice now.
"...We both saw the same angel." Amu insisted. "Ask her. Cause she didn't tell me this for sure, what her eyes were like. They were always closed for me. But I think...if she opened them, they wouldn't be blue."
"And what color do you think?"
"Purple."
"Why?"
"Just a speculation." Amu said with a smirk.
"That's amusing." Ikuto said with a smirk. "I like you. You're fun to talk to. Tell me more about my past life."
"You won't believe me." Amu said with a smirk of her own.
"Try me."
"Fine. In your past life, you were a cat that can turn into a human."
"Now you're just making stuff up!"
"I'm not! You don't have to believe me if you don't want to!"
And the afternoon past just like that. The teacher didn't come in and interrupt at all. The bell rang and they were free to go.
"I'll walk you home."
"Eh? I don't want to bother you. I'll be fine."
"No. I want to."
"U...Um...Ok then." Amu muttered and started walking in the direction of her house. So it turns out that they only lived a block away from each other.
"Amu." Ikuto said when they reached her house. "I...you know about Risu, right?"
Amu nodded. She told Ikuto that she had asked around.
"I...before she died. I wanted to give her something." He reached into his pocket and took out a small box. Amu felt as though she's seen it before. "I never got the chance." There was a hint of melancholy there. "So...I want you to hang on to it for me."
He tossed the box to Amu who caught it and held it up gently, afraid that she would break it. "Can I look inside?" She asked. When Ikuto nodded, she proceeded to open it. Inside, she found the same ring that he had shown her that day. " A-A-A-A RING?!?!" Her expression was the same as it was 4 years ago.
"S-Shut up! Its not for you!" Ikuto yelled at her, but Amu could see a faint trace of a blush there. "Look! I just wanted you to hold on to it for me, ok?! Sheesh! I won't give that to anyone but Risu!"
"..." My face twisted to an angry pout. "Then why give it to me to hang on?!"
"Because! It takes up space in my pocket. And its heavy!" He said quickly. "And it seems that you'd be around me a lot more often now, right?! So if I ever wanted to see it, you can show me it!"
The two glared at each other for a moment before breaking off in laughter.
"Fine, Mr. I'm-too-lazy-to-carry-a-ring!" Amu teased. "I'll keep it safe."
"That's all I ask for." Ikuto said, waving goodbye to her as Amu walked up the porch steps. He continued on his way as Amu entered her own house.
Amu let out a breath that she was holding as she sat down against the door. She opened the box to look at the ring agian. Sure he had said it wasn't for her, but...
Ikuto ended up keeping all the promises he made that day. She thought with a smile.
THE END
By the way, after this, I think I'll stick with writing one shots ;A; This has taught me that much Dx;;
And if I ever write multi-chapter fanfics, I'll write it all ahead of time first.