Nico: Y-you beautiful people are my inspiration! *sobbing*

Luchia: Nico! Get ahold of yourself!

Nico: Even after . . . like, 2 years! You wonderful children of god have continued to read and fav my stories even though I have failed to update them! It makes me feel so incredibly happy… and ashamed at the same time that I haven't continued my stories in such a long while! I appreciate every one of you supporting my stories! And as a gift to you all, I have decided not to abandon my stories while they are still going well, and as long as you continue to read, I'll try my hardest to put in time for my stories! I'll even continue my other semi popular fan-fic, 31 days! At LEAST 1 chapter a month! Maybe more once I get my new laptop! I'm not dead yet!

Luchia: We now proudly introduce to now continuing story of Confusing Love

Nico: Confusing Love: Chapter 17…

Nico & Luchia: Drama begins with… Chicken Wings!

Amu: Doki~

Ikuto's P.O.V:

(I just want to patch things up with the confusing rules of this game show. After each challenge only 1 person from each group can win and succeed to the next round, while the other is permanently eliminated. Since I'm a terrible author and totally forgot about these rules, I ignored them and pretty much let things pass with just a bunch of challenges with no affect, so here's how it goes, Hinako is now out of the game, I don't really have a reason for her to be kicked out, so let's just say she somehow did something wrong in the truth of dare challenge ehehe. Now to continue with the actual story..)

Tears welled up in Utau's eyes as she whispered, "Kukai… how could you!"

"W-wait! It's not what it looks like!" Kukai shouted, waving his arms in the air frantically.

"Not cool man," I shook my head.

"Not you too Ikuto!" Kukai yelled at me.'

Amu frowned as she looked over at her friend, "Utau..."

Then, coming from behind me, I heard a muffle of laughter. I turned around to see Nico standing near the corner with her knees bent, trying her best to hide her obvious giggling.

"Oi! This isn't funny! Have some sympathy!" Amu shouted at the TV host.

"Are you- haha –kidding me? Ha! It's hilarious!" Nico laughed, unable to hold it any longer, "You kids are so easy to fool!"

"W-what?" Utau stammered.

"Allow me to explain~," Nico said as she pulled a small, cell phone sized, yellow box out of her pocket, "You see this box?" She flipped open the box to reveal a small hidden red button, "When I press this button," She pressed the button, and suddenly, the lie detector went crazy all over again, "It gets fun," she grinned.

"You… You… you damn bitch! Ima' rip you to shreds!" Utau screeched as she lunged forwards with tears in her eyes, only to be pulled back by Amu and Rima, "How could you do that! Our relationship… could've been ruined!"

Nico shrugged, "It's in my script, don't blame me."

"I'd never cheat on you like that Utau," Kukai looked over at Utau with pain in his eyes.

"Kukai..," Utau's eyes filled with tears once again as she rushed towards him and wrapped him in a hug, "I love you so much!"

Kukai smiled, "I love you too," and gave her a kiss.

"Awwww," The audience went from the couples touching moment.

"Aint that touching!" Nico said, "Too bad Kukai is now out of the game!"

Kukai froze in his place, "What!"

"You fell for the trick," Nico shrugged, "You're reaction led to your elimination~ too bad buddy."

"That's cheap!" Kukai yelled as 2 men in suits grabbed each of his arms and began dragging him off the stage, "Really cheap!"

Nico just shrugged.

"Ok ok, now onto the next group!" Drake exclaimed, "Tadagay- whoops –I mean, TadaSE- and Amu! You're up!"

"Truth or dare?" Nico asked us.

"Dare! Tadase pronounced confidently.

Amu's P.O.V

There I and Tadase stood, in the middle of the stage… in chicken suits.

"Alrighty then!" Nico giggled, "You're dare is to walk the streets of the city, handing out chicken wings in these suits!" She said as staff members gave each of us a large bucket of chicken wings.

"Oh god.." I murmured, "What have I gotten myself into."

"And don't forget, you have to sing the traditional chicken wing song to everyone who gets some!" Nico exclaimed.

"S-sing?" I stuttered.

"Hell yeah! Singing!" Tadase yelled excitedly.

"Here's the song," Drake said as he motioned towards the TV.

Words began to appear on the screen as music blasted through the speakers in a loud and annoying tone.

"~With a cluck cluck cluck, and a sing sing sing, come and buy a chic-ken wing~"

I gulped.

"We'll be monitoring your every move on our outdoor camera, hidden on the streets, all you have to do is give out all your wings within 10 minutes," Nico told us, "Whoever can give out all of their wings in that amount of time, or whoever gives out the most, wins! And progresses onto the next round~"

"Oh, and one more thing," She said, "A max of only 3 wings per person…ready…GO!"

And with that, I and Tadase sprinted out the directed door, leading us out onto the streets.

"Ok, we need a strategy!" I told Tadase, looking around for some people, "You get the north side of the city, away from all the restaurants while I get the s-"I cut myself off when I realized that Tadase was gone.

"~With a cluck cluck cluck, and a sing sing sing, come on buy a chic-ken wing~"

I looked to my left to see Tadase singing to a bunch of teenagers, whom looked like they were about to crack.

"T-this kid is hilarious! We'll take 6!" A blonde girl laughed.

Tadase handed them the chicken wings, clucked once more, and scurried off to another group of people.

I sighed, "Sheesh..."

I walked up to a random family and sung, "~W-with a cluck cluck, and uh sing sing sing, come on buy a chic-ken wing~"

The mother smiled politely, obviously keeping back a laugh, "We'll have some, 3 for my husband, 2 for me, and 7 for the kids."

The tall man next to her, most likely her husband, nodded in agreement.

I handed her 12 chicken wings and murmured, "T-thanks," and quickly waddled away.

"5 minutes left!" Came Nico's giddy voice out of an earpiece given to me before the show.

"Oh joy," I mumbled as I continued to walk around to find some more people.

*5 minutes later*

"And… times up!"

I scurried back through the entrance of the building and back onstage, my bucket in my hands. Tadase followed soon after.

"Let's see whatcha got!" Drake said as official 'game masters' came over to us and check our boxes.

"Tadase: 27 given out!" One shouted.

"Amu: 28 given out!" The other shouted.

"Congratulations Amu! You're the winner!" Nico exclaimed, then telling the 'game masters' to bring Tadase off the stage.

Tadase growled in a low voice as the 'game master's took him away.

I sighed in relief, 'Thank god that's over'

"Nice job Amu," Drake winked at me and gave me a thumb up.

I smiled at him and 'blushed' a little, "Why thank you Drake~"

Ikuto growled.

"You looked pretty cute in that chicken suit," Drake smirked.

"Oh really?" I 'blushed' more, "That's so kind of you to say."

I looked over at Ikuto, he looked really pissed now.

"Next pair!" Nico shouted, "But this time, we're doing an every-man-for-themselves with 2 teams! Nagi and Yaya versus Rima and Rai!"

"You four will be doing a special dare challenge," Nico grinned, "For the first part of the challenge, one of you from each team will be placed in a glass rectangular tank, filled with water, where you will be held. You must hold your breath for as long as you can and try to last longer than your opponent."

"And just to spice it up a little bit, we'll be placing live leaches in your tanks!" Nico told them.

Rima's eyes widened, "I-I…" She looked up at Rai, "Please Rai! I don't think I could handle that! Please can you do it!"

Rai shrugged, "Alright, I've gone through worse than this. The leaches can't compare to past experiences in the army."

Rima sighed in relief, before she realized, "Nagi!"

Nagi frowned at her across from the room, "Sorry Rima-chan, I'm going to have to do it."

He looked over at Yaya, who was cowering in fear in the corner, "Yaya doesn't want to die… Yaya wants to keep all her blood in Yaya's body! Not in leaches bodies!"

Tears formed in Rima's eyes as she nodded in understanding, "Ok… just be careful."

Nagi nodded as he was directed towards the rectangular glass box near the middle of the stage. Rai followed him to the middle and stood next to the first box while Nagi stood next to the second.

"Be careful Rai," Luchia said, looking at Rai worriedly.

"I'll be fine don't worry," He told her.

Drake walked over to Rai and Nagi and explained more of the challenge to them, "If you guys feel like you can't hold it any longer, press the button on the side of the tank and you'll be released immediately. We also have doctors on standby in case something happens," he explained, "Good luck."

Rai and Nagi were both told to take off their shirts and get into the tanks. They were empty when they were getting in, but once they were both in and lying down with their arms down, the tank fully enclosed them, trapping them inside, and water began pouring in, starting the clock.

Soon after the water was poured in, the leaches where added in with the water until there was about 1000 in each tank, and they almost immediately began sticking to both Nagi and Rai.

Rima and Luchia waited in anticipation and fear as the water soon filled up to their boyfriend's shoulders, their necks, and then their noses.

2 minutes and 30 seconds had passed and both of them were still in it. The tension grew stronger.

Soon enough, bubbles began pouring out of Nagi's nose, and Nagi slammed on the button inside the tank, and he was released.

Rai pressed his button soon after, and both of them where gasping for air on the ground.

The medic's ran over to them and checked for any problems, but they both seemed fine.

The audience clapped.

"Too bad Nagi, you were so close too," Nico shook her head as Nagi was taken away by the medics.

Rai was also taken away, but reappeared after a few minutes, all the leaches removed from his body, and new clothes on.

"Now for the second part of the challenge," Drake looked at Rima and Yaya, "You two will be faced with a special balance challenge."

Drake looked up towards the ceiling, everyone followed his gaze up to a think tightrope running across from one wall to another, about half way up to the roof.

"You two will have to walk across that, without falling," Drake looked back at the girls, "Oh and there will be giant man eating sharks below you so you might now want to fall."

In the middle of the stage, where the tanks where, a giant glass bowl came up from the floor, and inside it, were two giant great white sharks.

Yaya, who was still trembling in the corner, shrieked at the sight of the sharks and immediately ran out of the room, dozens of guards following her out.

Nico blinked as we all waited a few minutes for them to return.

A couple minutes later, one of the men walked into the room and shook his head, "She's long gone."

Nico, "Alright then that gives Rima an automatic win! Congratz!"

"Thank goodness I didn't have to do that," Rima sighed.

"Onto the final challenge of this round!" Drake announced, "Utau and Azaka!"

"Truth or dare?"

"Dare," Utau said.

"Ok, you're dare is…" Nico looked up at the TV, "A Medieval Battle!"

Azaka and Utau blinked in confusion, "Huh?"

"Both of you will riding on what we like to call 'Modern Day Horses', while carrying long poles," Drake explained, "You'll charge at each other from each opposite end of the room with the poles, and whoever knocks over the other off their 'horse' wins!"

"Well that sounds simple enough… I've seen a bunch of Medieval movies before!" Azaka exclaimed.

"Pfft this'll be a piece of cake," Utau crossed her arms.

Stage crew employees ran out onstage and handed Utau a knight's helmet with a purple feather sticking out the back, and Azaka a knight's helmet with a yellow feather sticking out the back. Two mores employees handed them both long yellow and purple poles.

They both walked to opposite sides of the room from each other to their 'Modern Day Horses'.

"… These are our horses?" Utau asked as she stared at the tricycle in front of her.

"Of course!" Nico giggled, "Cute, huh?"

"Talk about small…" Azaka murmured as he squished onto the tricycle.

Utau also squished onto her purple tricycle, "How are we supposed to ride on these?"

"Just do what you have to~" Nico told her.

Drake stood midway between both Utau and Azaka holding a green flag, "Ready… GO!"

"Go Utau!" I shouted.

"Kick her ass Azaka!" Ikuto shouted.

We both glared at each other.

Both Utau and Azaka slowly rode towards each other in what seems like days. Then finally, their tricycles reached each other.

"Sorry 'bout this sweetheart but this may hurt," Azaka smirked as he swung his pole at Utau, hard and fast.

"I should be the one saying that," Utau grinned as she leaped up into the air with her tricycle, dodging Azaka's pole.

She spun in the air and landed right behind Azaka, "Sorry sweetheart, this may hurt," and with that she swung at the side of his chest, knocking the wind out of him, and forcing him to fall to the ground.

The audience erupted in applause as Utau bowed with a smirk.

"Nice job Utau!" I shouted to her.

Luchia, Rima, and Nagi all clapped for Utau, while Ikuto just crossed his arms.

'Why is he in such a bad mood? Sheesh he's been such an ass today..'

"And that concludes the first round!" Drake announced, "We'll be right back after this commercial break!"

The red lights in the corner blinked from 'On Air' to 'Commercial Break', and we all went backstage to relax for a couple minutes while the stage crew set up the events for the next round.

"So who's left?" Utau asked as she slumped down on the couch.

"You, Me, Ikuto, Rai, Luchia, and Rima," I told her as I looked at all the familiar faces around the room.

Rima was sitting in front of one of the makeup mirrors, fixing her hair. Rai and Luchia were sitting together and cuddling on a love seat. And Ikuto was sitting alone in the corner of the room, reading a random magazine.

I frowned at Ikuto, then looked away.

Utau looked at me suspiciously, "There something going on between the two of you? Cuz something seems odd, you've both been acting weird ever since the show started."

"I don't know.." I sighed, "We're both…. Annoyed."

"Annoyed?" She asked.

"Well I guess-" I was cut off when one of the stage crew employees walked in and ordered us to get onstage fast, the commercials were almost over.

We were all pushed out onstage where 6 large wooden chairs stood. We were each told to sit in a chair, then, unexpectedly, iron shackles wrapped around our wrists and ankles, tying us to the chairs.

"What the heck is going on!" Utau yelled.

Nico walked onstage with Drake and giggled, "You'll see."

The red light in the corner went from 'Commercial Break' to 'On Air'.

"Welcome back everyone!" Nico exclaimed to the camera in English, "It's now time for us to move onto round two of Can You Handle That!"

"This is a very special round, because our contestants will still be doing their challenges, but they'll be given to them by each other!" Drake told the crowd.

"They can choose whomever they want to do whatever dare they want! As long as it isn't deadly!" Nico continued the explanation.

"But they can only dare one person, and each person can only be dared once!" Drake continued, "If they fail to complete the dare, or chicken out, they lose!"

"Now let's see who gets to dare first!" Nico said, gesturing towards a large wheel in the front of the stage. The wheel had the face of all the remaining contestants on it. But for some reason it seemed like Ikuto's section was bigger than everyone else's.

She walked over towards it and spun it.

'Please don't be me, Please don't be me.'

The wheel slowed down and finally landed on a section.

"And the first one to pick the person to dare is…" Nico said, "Ikuto!"

Ikuto smirked, his shackles automatically unlocked and he stood up.

"Pick your person~" Nico told him.

"Hmmm…" Ikuto surveyed all of us in our chair's walking back and forth between all of us, the stopping in front of my chair, "Amu."

Nico: Just for all of you I made an abnormally long chapter! I hope you liked it! I worked so hard TT_TT

Luchia: She's not very used to writing fan-fic's since she hasn't updated in so long ^^;;

Nico: But I'm glad I could write it! It makes me happy to know that my fan-fic's may become more popular again

Luchia: Well Good luck with that~

Nico: Once again thanks you all so much for your support!

Luchia: Question time!

Nico: What will Ikuto dare Amu?

Luchia: Where did Yaya run off to?

Nico: Will Nagi survive the leaches?

Luchia: Who will win the competition?

Nico: Did I just type over 3,038 words!

Luchia: Find out in the next chapter of..

Nico & Luchia: Confusing Love~!

Luchia: And stay tuned for the newest chapter of 31 days! Coming out Soon!

Nico: Doki~