Alice: Sorry it took forever! I got writing block. And I had relatives coming over. And my mom wanted me to spend time with them.
Utau: Do you not like them?
Alice: They're annoying! Gosh it's bad enough I have to deal with annoying siblings.
Kukai: True that!
Utau: *rolls eyes* DriftingDreams does NOT own ANYTHING!
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Chapter 7: Deal!
A blond pigtail girl hand started to reach for a door to knock, right when she was close to it she her hand back by her body. The chestnut hair boy behind her groaned loudly, pulling his head back.
"Will you just knock already?" He said annoyed "That's like your tenth time doing that! And I'm starting to get hungry!"
"Shut up Kukai!" She hissed, blushing a bit "This is hard for me!"
Kukai groaned while rolling his eyes, "Do you just want me to do it Utau?"
"NO!" Utau snapped at him "I have to do this." She said with a serious face.
"We would be in there already if I did it!" Kukai complained.
Utau sighed, and shut her eyes tightly. Her arm slowly started to reach the door, right when she got five inches from the door she pulled back her arm.
"So close…" She muttered to herself "I got an inch closer."
"I'll do it!" Kukai patient finally reached the top, and walked up to the door and reached his hand out. Utau glared at him grabbing his hand, trying to pull him back.
"I'll told you, I'll do it!" She yelled as pushing him back.
"You said that about fifty times!" Kukai pushed her forward.
"I don't care!" She said pushing him back, holding back both of his arms so he would knock.
'Jeez, Utau is stronger than most, well all the girls I've meet!' Kukai thought, as he had a small smirk on his face. They both kept pulling each other either back against a railing or forward to the door. Utau and Kukai both struggled to hold their feet to the ground. As Utau was about push Kukai back, her foot slipped forward making her fall back. Both of their eyes widen, Utau was still holding on to Kukai, with meant he was falling with her. Utau closed her eyes knowing she would hit the door, but instead they heard the door open. Utau fell flat on the floor, Kukai landed right on top of her.
"Do you mind doing that someplace else?" A familiar male voice asked them. Kukai got up a bit and looked up; Utau leaned her head back a bit, and blushed.
"I-Ikuto!" She stuttered, than glared at Kukai. "Get off!" She yelled pushing him. She quickly got up and patted herself to get anything off of her.
"Thanks for helping me up Utau." Kukai said sarcastically, as he got up. Utau glared at him, she was about to hit him but decided not to, sense it was somewhat her fault for him falling too.
"So how did you know we were at the door?" Kukai asked Ikuto.
"It was hard not to hear you." He said.
"Then why didn't you come earlier?" Kukai asked as they sat down on Ikuto couch.
"I was trying to take a nap." Ikuto said as he yawned. Utau eyes widen.
"I'm sorry! If I knew that I wouldn't have came here." Utau apologized.
"It's ok, I guess." Ikuto said, though you could tell he was a bit mad about it.
"Oh yeah!" Kukai remembered something "Utau the question."
"Oh right!" Utau remembered, Ikuto lifted up and eyebrow.
"What question?" He asked, as he ruffles the back of his hair a bit.
"Ummm," Utau blushed a bit "Do you mind if um you play the violin when I sing during chorus?" She asked happy that she didn't stuttered.
"Hmmm," Ikuto thought as he leaned back a bit "I guess I could…"
Utau eyes widen with full of joy shining in them.
"On one condition though." He said, making both Utau and Kukai glance at each other.
"What is it?" Utau asked, not letting a condition get in her way.
"You just have to beat me in a game."
"I like games!" Kukai cheerfully said, with a big smile. Utau glared at him, but said nothing.
"What game?" She asked.
"Hide-&-Seek" Ikuto said calmly. Utau rose her eyebrows, confused on why he would pick something so childish.
"What?" Kukai started, Utau and Ikuto looked at Kukai. "When we played that last year, with some of the guys and the girls, you were the last person to be found! Heck we didn't even find you; we had to yell that we gave up, to have you come back."
Utau eyes widen, and looked at Ikuto.
"Don't worry I won't hide that hard. Besides I only did that, so no fangirls would find me. The game ends at 9:00pm if you can't find me then no violin." Ikuto explained. "I'll even let Kukai help you out. So do we have a deal?"
"Deal." Utau answer, right when he finished the sentence.
"Alright." Ikuto stood up, "Let me just get ready, Kukai you know what to do, right?"
Kukai sighed "Yeah yeah I know." Kukai stood up, and looked at Utau "Lets go."
Kukai and Utau walked out the room; Utau closed the door on the way out.
"So where are we going?" Utau asked as they were walking down the stairs.
"We'll have to hang by the main building as he goes and hide." Kukai explained. Utau nodded slowly, understanding why they would do that.
"So did Ikuto ever tell you guys where he hid?" Utau asked as she thought of where Ikuto could of hid before.
"Nope." He answered popping the 'p', "If they don't find you the first time, or even the couple of other times you're most likely not going to say where you hid. Only idiots do that!"
"So you're saying that you did that?" She asked with a smirk. Kukai faked laughed then stopped.
"No! I'm not that stupid." Kukai told her. Utau rolled her eyes in response. They continued walking; at times they stopped because fangirls started to talk to Kukai. Some were chit-chats, and others were long conversations that Utau had to interrupt and remind Kukai about the game. Almost to the building one of the teen's cell phone went off.
"Oh that my phone." Kukai said taking his cell out of his pocket. He looked at the front screen, and saw a picture of Ikuto who was holding Amu, who was of course blushing and struggling to get him off.
"Hey Ikuto!" There was a pause, "You're ready? Alright then. Get ready to be found!" Kukai warned him then hung up. He looked at Utau and smiled.
"Ready?" Kukai ask with a grin.
"Of course!" Utau answered with a smirk, and then it went down slowly. "…Where should we look first?"
"Let's get a map from the lobby and mark where we do check." Kukai suggested.
"We don't need to go to the lobby." Utau said, she opened her bag, and looked around till she took out a brochure. She opened it up which had a big map of the school.
"Why do you have that?" Kukai asked.
Utau blushed of embarrassment, "I still get don't know my way around…" There was a tiny moment of silence till Kukai burst out laughing.
"Y-You still don't your way around the school? It's easy!" Kukai said as he was laughing. Utau glared at him, and tugged hard on Kukai's ear.
"Shut up! I'm not good with directions that much!" Utau yelled.
"Ok ok I'm sorry! Ouch! Let go of my ear!" Kukai pleaded, Utau sighed and let go. Kukai rubbed his ear, "Thank you."
"How about we split up while we search for him. One searches on one side, and the other on the other side." Kukai suggested. Utau placed a hand on her hip, as she was looking at the map.
"I think it better to search with a group though. Just in case one of us misses something." Utau explained, as Kukai nodded.
"That's true." Both teens stared at the map in silence. Utau eyes widen.
"I know! How about we have a teacher or principal call him up the lobby and then we got him." Utau suggested.
"That's breaking a rule though." Kukai explained. Utau of course was confused, one eyebrow rising up.
"What rules?" She asked, a bit annoyed that Kukai didn't tell about this in the first place.
"Oh yeah forgot to tell you that!" Kukai laugh as he scratched the back of his head.
"No duh idiot" Utau muttered, sighing at the end. "Are you gonna tell me about it or are you gonna keep laughing?" she said getting his attention
Kukai stopped laughing and looked at Utau. "I'll tell you of course, well there's the one I just told you about. You can't fake any injury to make them come out. You can't follow them as they go out and hide. You have to stay in the same hiding spot. Hmm what else… uh I think that's it." Kukai finished off, Utau sweat-dropped.
'He thinks?' Utau sighed not really surprised by that. "How do you find them then?" she asked.
"We use bait!" Kukai answered.
"Bait?" Utau repeated in a confused tone.
"Yeah! Like lets say you like somebody." Right when Kukai said that, Utau thought of Ikuto and blushed slightly "So you get that person to get him or her out"
"Isn't that the same as what not to do?" Utau asked remembering the rules. Kukai chuckled,
"Yes, and no. See the person hiding chooses whether or not he should or shouldn't come out and talk to that person. Using announcements or fake injury is forcing them to come out." He explained. "Now that we say that, we can use Amu!" Utau glared at him.
"I understand why we would use her." Utau said that sentence like venom "But if we ask Amu to roam around the campus, she would look around as she walking, blowing our cover."
Kukai sweet-dropped, he knew a hundred percent that would definitely happen. "Yeah….OH I know! Lets call Rima and ask for her help! Whenever we played Rima is really good, she always finds Nagi and he's hard to find too! He's like the forth hardest person to find. She always go after him first."
Utau snickered, thinking 'Oh Rima, you deny so much yet it so obvious.' "So who's the third and second one that's hard to find?"
"Well, the third is Rima, I mean she has a big advantage being small and fitting into small places. And the second is none other than me!" Kukai said with full of pride.
"I would think that they would find you first, being loud and all" Utau smiled.
Kukai flashed a smile full of confidence "That's what everyone else thought! I proved them wrong of course."
"So how does Amu do in the game?" Utau asked 'If it's not Kukai that gets find first it has to me Amu.' She thought.
"Um Amu…she's easy to find but at times she does pick some good hiding spots. She's the one that does get found first like ninety percent of the time." Kukai explained, making Utau thought right. "Now lets get our heads back into finding Ikuto!" Kukai reminded and continued with his plan, "As I was saying, Rima can ask Amu to hang out, and Rima can say if she sees anything."
"I guess that would work." Utau took out her cell phone and held on to number three till a picture of Rima came up and the words 'Calling…. Rima'.
"Hey Utau." Rima picked up, Utau could hear people talking in the making her know that she was somewhere outside.
"What are you doing?" Utau asked, than there was a pause.
"…About to meet someone. Why?" Rima answered with caution. Utau formed a smirked on her lips.
"With who…" Utau paused "Nagihiko?" she said in a teasing tone.
"N-No!" Rima stuttered, Utau could tell a blush was coming across her face. "Why are you calling? If you don't answer I'm hanging up, and I won't pick up, AT ALL!"
"Me, Ikuto, and Kukai are playing Hide-&-Seek and Kukai and I have to find Ikuto." Utau explained, but got cut off by the petite girl.
"You're not gonna find him." Rima said straight forward.
"That why I want you to help us. Please?" Utau asked. She glanced at Kukai who had his arm folded, and gave her the impatient look. She put up her index finger which meant to hold on.
"…Sure why not. I'm gonna have to tell the person I'm meeting." Rima agreed.
"Don't worry, Nagihiko will understand. Heck maybe you can ask him to help." Utau started to tease Rima again.
"It's not Nagihiko!" Rima yelled at the top of her lungs. Utau pulled the phone away from her ear; Kukai's eyes widen, moving back. The people around Rima stopped what they were doing and stared at the petite girl, people near her walked away slowly.
"We're outside the main building. See you soon!" Utau shut her phone before Rima could say more.
"Is she gonna come after you said that?" Kukai asked a bit worried.
"Trust me." Utau put her phone back into her bag and look at Kukai "She will."
Moments later Rima finally started to walk towards them. Both Kukai and Utau could swear that they could see flames around her.
"Utau, I'm kinda scared." Kukai admitted to Utau.
"Man up! Trust me I've seen worse, heck I'm even worse than her at times." Utau told Kukai as if it was nothing. Kukai eyes widen.
'Oh god, worse? Note to self NEVER make Utau nor Rima angry.' Kukai thought in a panic.
"Let's get this over with! What do you want me to do?" Rima asked irritated.
"Call Amu, ask her if she wants to walk around with you, and send a text of where you're at that where you think that Ikuto might be." Utau explained not scared of the intimidating Rima who let out a big sigh.
"Fine." Rima took out her cell, punching in Amu's number. There was a pause, till the Amu picked up.
"Amu would you like to have a walk with me?" Rima asked in somewhat a demanding tone. Of course Amu agreed.
"Alright meet me at the fountain, see you soon." Rima ended the conversation, than glared at Kukai and Utau.
"You two owe me." Rima pointed her index finger at them swaying at both of them. Kukai opened his mouth; Rima cut him off before Kukai could say anything.
"Say anything about Nagihiko, and you WILL go down." She threaten, then walked off.
"While she's going to meet Amu, lets start get looking! And I know a fast way to start" Kukai looked at Utau with a big smile.
"And how would that be?" Utau asked with a bit of curiosity.
"Super Dash!" He grabbed Utau hand and ran, going to search for Ikuto.
. . Couple Hours Later . .
Utau limped to a bench, than fell on it panting, the same as Kukai who was on ground having no strength to walk to the bench.
"We've search everywhere!" Utau panted "How can we not find him?"
"He's probably watching us laughing at our state right now. Even Rima never say anything" Kukai covered his eyes with his arm. "What time is it?" Kukai asked.
"You have a cell check" Utau told him.
"I can't move though." Kukai pleaded. Utau sighed, moving her aching arms taking out her phone. "Seven fifty-ni…eight o' clock, we only have an hour left."
"Where haven't we checked yet?" Kukai ask.
"Don't know. We, I mean, YOU, dropped the map when you made me run for the third time." Utau answered. "Let's just go to the lobby and get another." She said slowly getting up. Kukai groaned.
"Do we have to?" Kukai asked moving his arm away from his face and lifted his head up looking at Utau.
Utau nodded, making Kukai head hit the ground. He let out a big sigh, "Can you at least help me up?" as he asked he lifted his arm up. Utau put her bag on her shoulder, and walk towards Kukai grabbing his hand helping him get up.
"I can't wait to get out of my uniform." Kukai said as they both walked slowly to the lobby.
"We should have gotten out of our uniforms before we as Ikuto." Utau suggested a 'little'
too late. Kukai stomach growled loudly begging for food.
"And we should have gotten more than just Granola Bars." Kukai held his stomach, Utau nodded agreeing with him.
As they reached to the main building, which took thirty minutes because they took breaks almost every eight minutes. They entered the building people by the sliding door looked at them oddly wondering why they were so tired and sweaty. They looked around the lobby looking for the brochures, then at the same time they both spotted blue hair person reading the newspaper, though they could see the person face.
"Oh god if that's him I'm gonna be sooo pissed off!" Utau growled, Kukai nodded.
"Ikuto!" Kukai yelled out his name. Hoping it was him and it wasn't. The blue hair person looked up, showing his face. Both teen had their mouth wide open, and collapse the ground.
"So you guys finally found me." Ikuto smirked getting up and walking towards them.
"Were you here the whole time?" Kukai asked.
"Yeah I was. You'd think you guy would look here first. I'm glad Rima didn't tell you guys where I was." Ikuto told them. Both teens had glares on their faces.
"That bitch." Utau muttered.
"She got us good." Kukai said to Utau.
Meanwhile Rima was lying in her comfy bed reading a magazine, drinking cold ice tea with a big smile on her face.
"But you guys win. Barley though." Ikuto chuckled at Utau and Kukai at the state they were in.
"No that were done I'm going home." Ikuto said "Want me to walk you to your rooms?"
Utau and Kukai both looked at Ikuto "Please!" they said at the same time.
. . Next Day . .
The gang always meet before class start, Amu looked around.
"No Utau or Kukai today?" She ask. Rima and Ikuto both chuckled, Amu and Nagihiko gave them a strange look. Both Utau and Kukai were in their rooms lying in their bed in a very deep sleep.
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Alice: I hate this chapter, yet I like parts. And yes I was lazy at the part where they went off to look for Ikuto.
Rima: That's what they deserve!
Utau and Kukai: *sleeping*
Alice: So cute!
Rima: Review if you like it!