I have had exam this past week, and I've been unable to type up a chapter. I would also like to thank everyone for reviewing my story! Here's Chapter 3.
^ Saaya's POV ^
Recap
"I think we'll become good friends." She said smirking as we made our way over to the wannabe's.
"Oh, and by the way my name is Saaya Yamabuki." I said, and she nodded.
We weaved our way through the crowd that was around the wannabe's. I scoffed at how everyone was fawning over them. I looked over at Lulu and saw she was restraining herself from doing something drastic. We continued on, to the middle of the grouping.
"Oh! Look who it is the wannabe's!" I shouted, then everyone one created a circle around the groups, Lulu, and me.
"Look who's telling!" the little blond one, who could match Lulu's ice, cold glare.
"Now, Rima let's not do anything that might get us kicked out." The girl with long, purple hair said.
"Yeah, Rima. Do anything too drastic, now." Lulu sneered. Then I heard a faint coughing noise as I looked around I saw the nervous old man, Perfect! He can observe, and get them kicked out. I thought. I told Lulu my plan while Rima was trying to get out of the purple haired- girl's hold.
"I don't think that'll work unless you want to be caught starting it." Lulu whispered franticly. I thought about what she had said and was about to respond when a booming voice came over from the stage.
"Hello! And welcome to the palace!" The man said capturing everyone's action, "I would like to apologize for the wait but, unfortunately my son hasn't come back from his walk, so if you'd all just-" The man was cut off by all the princesses' loud disappointments.
"EXCUSE ME!" The man said with extreme force. "I haven't introduced my self properly," He said as if forgetting what he was saying before, "My name is Aruto Tsyukiomi." He said loudly because no one was listening, well until they heard his name, we all gulped realizing we had cut off the King. He smiled at our re-action.
" As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted." He continued, " I apologize for the wait, my son has yet to return. If you'd all follow Kairi," he told us pointing to he boy in glasses standing beside him, " He will so you to your rooms and in the morning I will personally introduce you, individually, to my son, Ikuto." With that the King left the room briskly. I'm guessing because we were all excited to meet the prince. I looked over at the wannabe's, to see they weren't excited, but had a new group member.
"Looks like the wannabe's have a new friend." I laughed, showing Lulu. She laughed loudly, and caught everyone's action. I sighed and shoke my head.
"Why aren't you jumping for joy, like the rest of us?" Lulu asked jumping at the change to make them look bad.
"Well, actually, I'd say everyone is jumping with excitement." The purple haired one said, shrugging her shoulders.
"Whatever." Lulu scoffed.
"Who's the new pip squeak?" I asked motioning with my head toward the girl a bit taller than the Rima girl.
"Her name is Yaya and I'd appreciate it if you would call her that." A new voice joined the conversation, followed by a couple gasps. People started to move, only to reveal Utau.
"I… um…" I was at a loss of words. She only smiled In return. She then motion for them to follow her, I'm assuming because they followed suit. Then that Kairi guy told us to follow him to our rooms, which we did.
!?! Amu's POV !?!
So, I ran back to the hellhole, I guess that works, to find out what punishment awaits me there.
Once I got to there I didn't go inside because I wanted to check and make sure Ai was there. I got into the barn and quietly called her, which was followed by a series of sounds, that sounded at if she were running towards me. Once she came into view I told her to stop and go back to the cage.
"I'm sorry." I called after I heard her whine. Then I ran back to the house, I seldomly call home.
Once I was inside, I shut the door as quietly as I could, but apparently it wasn't quite quiet enough. Soon after I shut the door I heard father barreling down the stairs. I briskly placed the basket of food on the counter, and started to put it into the cabinets. When he tapped me ever so politely on my shoulder, and when I say politely I mean jabbing his sausage fingers into my shoulder until I gave in and turned around. Which didn't take long. When I turned around to face him I got a slap to the face, one you wouldn't believe how much it hurt. I struggled to keep myself from crying in front of him.
He gave me one more painful slap that sent me to the ground, but I still wouldn't cry, instead I put a hand to my cheek. When I did my cheek was burning it was so warm. I looked up at him when he stood me up, and was about to hit again.
"What do you think your doing?" A female voiced questioned him, which in turn stopped his movements almost instantly. When he turned to answer the woman, moved over and gripped to counter to steady myself. "You told me you were taking good care of her! Not BEATING her!" The woman sounded stressed and anger. I moved over more to get a better look at my savior. When I did I saw mother. I haven't seen her in years, I thought.
"Honey, please! You must understand." He begged her to agree with what he was doing.
"Why would I? Amu can barely stand on her own." She continued to disagree with him, much to my liking, "Amu, dear, please come with mother." She told me and I nodded, and went to follow. When mother turned around and started to walk away father grabbed my arm.
"We WILL finish this later!" he sneered quietly into my ear. Then he pushed me forward. I continued to follow her. When she decided to stop and peak over her shoulder.
"Don't you have any questions for me?" she asked calmly. I never even thought about thing to ask her but there were a couple, I was dieing to know about.
"Do you mind telling me your names?" I asked.
"Why of course! Why are you so shy to ask?" She seemed shocked for a second at the least.
"Well, because." I stopped and thought about whether of not I could trust her. "He, I mean, Father started to beat me after I asked his name." I decided to tell her.
"I see," She thought for a while then sighed, "Don't worry, I won't do anything. I'll just be your mother figure." She said brightly but the last word quietly. Before replying to my question I asked.
"My name is Hisae, and your father's name is Arashi." She told me after she chuckled lightly. I gave her a questioning look.
"Why do you find it funny?" I asked.
"Your father's name means storm." She told me. I was shocked, his name represented himself so well, and this scared me. I think she noticed this because the next thing I knew, she was telling me not to worry. I nodded and then we continued to walk down a hall I had never been in before. I was constantly looking around at the new surroundings I wasn't aware that mother had stopped walking and was now laughing at me. I stopped and pouted.
"Oh, don't look like that." She told me, but there was something in her voice that told me there was a surprise I may, or may not like coming.
"Come we must hurry!" She told me after, suddenly realizing we had been standing for too long.
"But where are we going, Hisae?" I asked while running. When she heard ask she stopped dead, causing me to run into her back. I looked up to see her looking down at me.
"Please call me mother." She told me before starting to run down to extremely long hallway. Once we got to a wooden door we stopped. When mother open the door I was shocked. My mouth must have been open because she put a hand under my chin and closed it shut. There were so many dresses from ball gowns, to evening gowns, to casual dresses, to beach dresses, and even a number of wedding dresses.
"Why did you show me this? And why, on earth, do you have so many dresses?" I asked while she chuckled at my expression. It was like a gigantic walk- in closet.
"Shhh, we have to be quiet. Your father doesn't know of this room." She told me. "It has to be a secret between you and me. Okay?" I could only nod. When we were finally inside the room, closet, mother shut the door.
"Now, we can talk normally," she informed me, "the room is sound- proof."
"So are you going to answer my questions from before?" I asked her. She nodded then continued through the room, towards a table at the back. When we both sat down she began to talk.
"Well, to start off, I showed you this because I'm going to help you get to the palace for that 'contest' your father told me about, accidentally, of course." She continued, " I also have the help of the princess and queen, which was quite a surprise to both myself and Utau."
"Why?" I asked not really understanding. "About the Queen part." I clarified.
"Because I thought you were banned." She told me and I shoke my head.
"No, as far as I know, I'm only banned from talking to Utau." I said shrugging my shoulders because we break that rule any way. But, when I looked at mother I saw she was smirking.
"What is it?" I asked her, obviously curious.
"The Queen dropped that rule." I grabbed her and with excited eyes asked her if it was true and she only nodded. I jumped up and down in my chair, and I can't forget to mention I was squealing. Hisae was laugh at me and then it hit me. Why haven't I seen her around the house? I stopped abruptly and thought about it.
"What is it?" she asked worriedly.
"I was just wonder, why I haven't ever seen you around the house?" I asked a little nervous, to see her reaction. But she just laughed.
"I was wondering when you were going to ask that!" she exclaimed. "Your father, oh so lovingly, locked me in my room. It was only until Utau can after he left to go find you today." She told me. Then she looked at the clock.
"We'll have to talk about this another day. But I like to get you out of the house for the rest of the day, which is about 6 hours until the moon is a quarter of the way to midnight." She looked at me and I nodded understand, that she was going to get me outside and then I only have about 6 hours before I should come home. We exited the room and mother locked it behind us, then we ran swiftly down another hallway that led to another wooden door. Mother unlocked it and looked toward the noise of heavy footsteps. Then she pushed me into the room and before the door I whispered a quick thanks. Then headed to the park.
?!? At The Park ?!?
I thought I should probably go apologize for falling on the prince earlier, though I didn't want to something told me I should go talk to him and apparently my brain came up with that excuse. Hopefully he won't be there and I want have to talk to him. I smiled to myself as I made my way back the park. When I got to the park I looked at the clock to see how much time I still had left. I only had 4 hours left, I frowned I guess trying to get out of the house took longer than expected.
I was looked around the park, and my smile just got bigger. He's not hear, I thought. I sighed and wandered over to the taiyaki stand. I was still looking around just to make sure I wasn't getting my hopes up. But as I was walking over to the stand I had a feeling someone was staring at me, almost as if they were undressing me with their eyes, but I shoke off the feeling after Atsuo, the elderly man who looked after the taiyaki stand, started to talk to me.
"Hello, Amu. I see, you escaped your father, today." He said rather louldly and looked over the benches near the fountain.
"Um, yeah. Two please!" I smiled at him. He sighed then nodded, obviously not catching the attention of what ever he was looking at. After he gave the chocolate taiyaki, I thanked him.
"Oh, I almost forgot. If you would mind getting me in 3 and a half hours?" I asked him.
"I'm actually leaving in 2 hours but I'll let you know then, how's that sound?" I nodded, and thanked him once again before heading to the tree. When I got there I sat on the side of the tree that faces the park.
#*# Ikuto's POV #*#
Recap
Strange, Dad said that the founder's daughter was already at the palace along with all the other nobles, and princesses, I inquired to myself head to a random beach to sit down.
I was sitting down when I something very eye catching. It was a girl and she seem to be looking for something, but that not what made her eye catching. She had waist long, pink bubblegum pink, and when she walked by the fountian she looked identical to the founder statue. She looked in my direction, and I don't know why but, I hid from her. When she looked in my direction I saw two golden orbs, that looked like her eyes were actually liquid honey, they were enluring. She also had a prefect figure, I noticed when my eye started to travel down her body. When she looked away, I went bck to my spot on the bench and continued to watch her. I'm surprised she hasn't felt my eyes on her yet. I shrugged my shoulders not really caring, I don't even now why I care, I never have, so why am I starting now. I still watched her for some reason.
"Hello, Amu. I see, you escaped your father, today." He said rather louldly and looked over at me. I looked down at what was in my hand, but still listened to their conversation. So she was the girl that fell on me and the grumpy noble's daughter, I smirked at the thought. I decided to go to my tree and have a little cat- nap because there conversation isn't interesting anymore. I walked by and heard him, I guess he thinks I left. I was sitting on the side of the tree that doesn't face the park. I was just starting to fall asleep when, I got a huge smell of chocolat taiyaki in my nose. I sniffed the air and found the it was coming from the other side of the tree. I peaked around the tree slyly, and saw the Amu girl I was watching earlier. She was humming to herself and didn't even notice that I was about to take a bit of her snack. I took a bit and without think I spoke.
"Mmm, that's good." I said, not even noticing how close we were. Well, that is until she flailed her arms, screamed and through all this ended up falling on me once again.
!?! Amu's POV !?!
"Mmm, that's good." I heard someone say very close to my ear. I looked up and saw the prince. I screamed, amd flailed my arms. Then some how ended up falling on the prince, again. When I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw were two very aluring midnight blue eyes, that were so mysterious, and they looked very blocked off, as if shutting everyone out. I could say I didn't like it very much. He coughed then I realized what position we were in and blushed furiously.
"I … um… I … I'm s-sorry!" I practically yelled, while jumping off him.
"Aw, and I was have so much fun," He said, with a smirk plastered to his face.
"P-pervert!" I yelled at him.
"Come on, Amu, I was only kidding." He said, emphasising my name.
"Don't say my na-. Hey, how do you even know my name?" I asked him nervously. Then he leaned in closer to my face, so I could feel his breath on face. I was blushing like crazy.
"Do you really want to know?" he asked , DUH! Is what I wanted to say but I could only nod.
"Fine, but it's a secret only between me and you." He said leaning in. He was breathing in my ear. He was about to say something, or so I thought. When I screamed again.
"AH!!!!!!!!! Y-y-y-you. . . you," I was stuttering to much.
"I what Amu?" he asked me, emphasising my name again.
"You bit m-me!" I yelled trying to control my stuttering. "And I tried to tell you before don't say my name like that!"
"But I like to." He told me.
"PERVERT!!" I yelled at him. He just laughed at me.
"Your so much fun to tease." He chuckled.
"So what's your name?" I asked.
"Do you know the prince's name?" he asked me, as if he was astonished that I didn't know his name.
"I was closed off from the village since I was 13." I told him. He just nodded.
"Ikuto Tsyukiomi." I told me plainly. After awhile we were both sitting on the ground talking about our pasts, his was a lot longer then mine because I didn't remember anything before 11. Little did they know of the audience watching.
x*x Atsuo's POV x*x
It was time to pack up and leave. Once I had everything ready to leave, I was walking over to the tree when I heard laughing. When I looked up at the tree I saw the most amazing thing. Amu and the young prince were getting a long fabulously. I smiled I knew she would help him smile. I have seen him here every day since, a good friend of his moved away, and apparently he doesn't remember her, nor does she remember him. I frowned, then turned and left 'forgetting' to tell Amu the time.
?!? Amu's POV ?!?
I laughed. Ikuto can be so funny, when he let's people in to see the real him. I looked up at the sky and saw the moon was almost to where it was suppose to be when she should be at home. I looked to see if Atsuo was still there. To my surprise he wasn't. When I looked at the clock I saw I had 30 mins to get home. My delimna was that 'home' was an hour away.
I got up, only to have Ikuto grab my wrist.
"Where are you going?" He asked. I could hear the disappointment in his voice. I felt bad because I could see the glow in his eyes dull, and then he let go of my wrist roughly.
"My times up." I told him running away. I'm probably not going to see him anytime soon.
#*# Ikuto's POV #*#
Amu laughed. I smiled, her laugh was like a melody you could never get tired of, I kow what your thinking, you think I've fallen in love, but I haven't. I think of Amu as my second sister. She stopped laughing and started looking around. I was wondering she was looking for when she abruptly got up. She took a step when unconsciously grabbed her wrist.
"Where are you going?" I asked, and I let disappointment invade my voice because I was I wish she wouldn't leave. I felt my happiness drain as she pleaded with her eyes for me to let go of her. I threw her hand away roughly.
"My times up." She told before running away. I wish she wouldn't leave because I'll never see her again most likely. But I do wonder what she meant by 'her times up'. I unconscious wished it wasn't anything bad.
I was getting up to leave when I heard a russle in the bushes. I brushed it off then looked to the ground and recalled what had happen this afternoon, as I walked to the palace.
S2 Utau's POV S2
I was watching what was happening with Amu and Ikuto since early this afternoon.
Amu was laughing then stopped and looked around. Ikuto was watching her very intently and that surprised but also made me happy to know Ikuto found someone worth his time. I smiled, but it disappeared as soon as Amu stood up abuptly and took a step forward. Ikuto stopped her said something, but he looked sadden, and looked as though he may lose Amu forever. She asked him with her eye to let go. Which he did but rougher then he expected I'm sure. She said something about her time being up, but she spoke louder then Ikuto did. Then she ran off. I was watching Ikuto for a while then decided to leave I jumped out of the bushes and down the hill I was on then I ran back to the carriage.
Once I was in the carriage I gave him Amu's address. I had to tell Hisae about this.
That was Chapter 3. Hope you liked it. Please Read & Review!!!!! :D :D
The next chapter will be shorter. Sorry. :(