I am pretty proud of myself 8D Three updates a couple weeks ago and now this :3 I am fully energized!! XD And my break is over since I had like 3 weeks to rest o.o But I have some good and bad news…
Good News: I have most of the ideas planned out for this chapter.
Bad News: School's starting which equals less time on fanfiction T.T
AND EPISODE 99 WAS FREAKIN' AWESOME!!!!! :D I kept on rewatching the part with Nadeshiko and Rima ^-^ Nagihiko/Nadeshiko definitely pwns! 8D And I was all "KYAAA!!" when Utau came to the scene :3 Utau = love ^_^ And I kept on replaying the part with the lock and key and chibi Ikuto. I was like "YAY!!! After 5-6 months, they finally animated the series in which I'm looking forward to!" That's right. Chapter 38 :D I can already imagine a lot of youtube users making Amuto AMVs 8D
Episode 100 was ABSOLUTE LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HUG WAS FREAKIN' EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Music and hug and love equals best moment ever ^_^
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I've decided to dedicate this chapter to Soccerluver04 :D She always reviews all my stories and it's not short :D and I've been a horrible reviewer for her stories T.T But I promise, promise to review your story HST after typing this chapter. The reason I couldn't review your story is because I've been lazy (stupid me…) and working on my three updates the other day. After posting up this chapter, I shall review the latest chapter of your story :3
Speaking of which, I promise to review the latest chapters of the stories I usually read. Even if it's completed a long time ago, I will review it! I just don't feel right without reviewing at least once on the stories in my favorite list D:
I'm going to dedicate my next chapter to someone else by the way… ^-^
Enjoy this chapter! :D
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X-x-Flashback of Chapter 12-x-X
"When Ami was kidnapped," I grew cold at that. "I was a part of it."
"W-What are you talking about?"
"I knew who the kidnapper was. And I saw him with Ami. And I didn't stop him."
"There is no way I will believe that." She and I know that she loves Ami. So why would she help a person hurt Ami? That doesn't make sense. "Utau, I'm not going to talk of this nonsense. If you're just going to say this, I'm leaving." I turned on my heel and started to walk away.
"And I even had a part in your parents' deaths!!"
I froze at her confession. I turned around and saw her breathing heavily. "Impossible."
"I saw who killed them! Remember, I was with them when they died. I hated your parents." Utau, why is she saying these hateful words? "I ruined Ami and killed your parents!"
A hand coming in contact with a cheek sounded through the silent night.
X-x-End of Flashback-x-X
X-x-X
Truth
Normal POV
Utau slowly rubbed her now stinging cheek. Amu was beyond furious with her hand now at her side.
"You, my best friend," Amu seethed through gritted teeth, facing the ground. "Never, in my life, have I ever though you would lie straight to my face. And it was about my family! Lies, all lies!" She brought her head up, her eyes flashing. "Don't show me your face again." She turned on her heel and stalked off.
Ikuto watched through the living room window and saw everything that occurred. When he heard their voices grow louder, he began to worry. And no, the tones of their voices weren't happy. They were angry. Ikuto noticed Amu walking away but then Utau seemed to have shouted something. He watched Amu stomp back and saw—and maybe heard—the slap so he rushed outside.
"Utau!" Ikuto sprinted towards his sister. She seemed to be in a daze but once she snapped out of it, she fell to her knees. Her slender fingers gripped the cement, as if she could somehow break the rock and crush it through her hands.
Once Ikuto reached her, he knelt down and gently placed his left hand on the idol's back. "Utau, what happened?"
She only clutched the ground harder, chipping her manicured fingernails and cutting the top layer on her fingertips.
"Utau, stop it! Your fingers are bleeding." Ikuto never saw his sister in this state before. She hasn't made one sound and she is just gripping the ground.
Ikuto pried her fingers from the blacktop and suddenly, Utau wrapped her arms around his waist.
"Ikuto." Her hold tightened, as if she was holding on for dear life. Ikuto felt his shirt become wet. He glanced down and gentle caressed the back of Utau's head with his right hand.
"Utau, tell me what happened." Utau continued to cry silently, staining his shirt.
"I t-told her the truth." She sobbed and sniffed her runny nose. "And n-now, she h-hates m-me."
Ikuto hugged his sister closer to him, trying to soothe the pain she was in. He didn't know what the 'truth' was but decided to question her later. "Amu could never hate you."
"S-She does."
"Utau, I'm sure she doesn't." The blonde perdured her weeping but she wasn't making any sounds. "Utau, it's ok to cry your heart out."
And she did just that.
X-x-X
Ikuto laid Utau down on her bed in the purple room on the second floor of Ikuto's house. Her eyes were noticeably swollen and stains from her tears stayed on her cheeks.
He wove his hair with his fingers, thinking about the present situation. All he knows is that Utau and Amu were chatting and something Utau said angered Amu so much that she would slap her best friend right across the face.
All he needed now was to find out Amu's and Utau's side of the story and the 'truth'.
X-x-X
"Amu-chi!!" Yaya jumped on Amu and hung from the taken aback pinkette's neck. "Yaya was so worried!"
"Amu-chan, it's good to have you well again," Nadeshiko said.
"Of course she would get better. She's Amu after all," remarked Rima.
"Minna, arigatou." Amu smiled at the three girls. The four girls were currently in the halls of their college.
"Oi!" The group turned around at the voice and saw 5 boys walking towards the girls casually with Kukai in the middle, Tadase then Kairi on Kukai's left, and Ikuto and Nagihiko on Kukai's right.
"I'm glad to see you're alright, Amu-chan," Nagihiko said.
Tadase just smiled and said, "Glad you're feeling better, Amu-chan."
Kairi repositioned his glasses atop the bridge of his nose. "Glad you're feeling better."
"I knew you would be alright all along, Hinamori!" Kukai slung his arm around Amu's neck and grinned. "Even though I've only known you for a short amount of time, I know you always stand back up after the harshest experiences." Amu was truly touched by that statement and how they were all worried about her.
Amu closed her eyes and smiled. 'I've made so many memories since my band met this group of boys. I'm happier and I have many more friends.'
Amu felt the warmth from her shoulders vanish. She opened her eyelids and saw that Ikuto had Kukai by the shoulder.
"Hey, hands off. She's mine," Ikuto declared, snaking his right arm around the flustered girl's thin waist.
"H-Hey! Who said I was yours?!" Amu struggled but that resulted in Ikuto wrapping his other arm around her, making them in a tight embrace.
Some of the group was smirking while others were surprised. Amu couldn't help but wonder though. What exactly is Ikuto and her relationship? Are they just intimate childhood friends? Lovers? Or in between?
At that statement made by Ikuto, Nagihiko went to Rima's side quietly and held hands with her. Rima blushed slightly while Nagihiko acted as if nothing happened. This went without notice to everyone, however.
"Hey, where's Utau?" Kukai looked left, right, up, and down, trying to locate the now noticed MIA girl.
"I see Kukai has a thing for Utau-chan," commented Yaya with the evil glint in her amber orbs.
"No, it's not like that. We just like to challenge each other. We're actually meeting up today after practice for a ramen eating contest." He grinned and gave a thumbs up sign. but a light shade of pink was visible on his cheekbones.
Amu just stared straight ahead, showing no emotion in her face. Ikuto looked at Amu with a slight frown.
"Amu-chi, do you know where Utau-chan is? You two are practically best friends." Though Yaya hated to admit it, Utau and Amu are the closest out of the five girls. Rima was annoyed by the fact and would always get in to arguments with Utau about who's Amu's real best friend.
"Who knows? She didn't tell me." 'And I don't really care.' was what Amu wanted to add.
"She called me today tell me to tell all of you that she doesn't feel well enough to come to school. She's not going to be at rehearsal either today after school."
"Eh? She called you, Naddy?" Yaya asked. Nadeshiko nodded.
"That sucks," Kukai remarked, scratching the back of his head. "Guess we'll have to have our competition some other time."
"When do you think they'll start dating?" Rima whispered, nudging Yaya's arm.
"Two weeks!" Yaya grinned. She then became aware of Rima and Nagihiko holding hands. "Rima-tan, are you and Nagi going out or something?"
Nagihiko looked at Rima while the short blonde nodded. The purple haired male glanced up and said, "Yes, Rima-chan and I are officially a couple."
It was silent before Yaya broke it with a "HEEH?!?!"
"Since when?" Amu asked, surprised and a bit hurt at this revelation. Rima almost always told Amu anything first before anyone else.
"A few days ago," Rima explained. Amu was even more hurt. "We were waiting for the right time and this past few days were definitely a bad time to tell you guys. We were planning on telling you people a couple days later once Amu was fully recovered and everything has calmed down. But then Yaya had to blurt out we were holding hands." Rima glared at Yaya for a good two seconds. The scared auburn haired girl cowered behind Kairi, who blushed immensely.
'So that's why.' Amu feels comforted at this reason. Rima smiled at Amu and she earned once back.
X-x-X
"Utau, are you ok?"
"Ikuto, please just leave me alone."
"I can't. Now tell me what you told Amu or I'm not leaving."
"Yes, you are."
"No, I'm not."
"You have rehearsal."
"You do, too."
"I'm not going. I already told Iori-san that."
"Then I'll tell Satoru that I'm not going either."
"You can't do that! They're focusing on you today."
"I can ditch if I want. I'll do it any time without hesitation if it involves seeing people close to me in pain and I can't do anything about it except listen."
The door slowly creaked open. Ikuto stood at the doorway of Utau's room and the pigtailed blonde was still in her pajamas.
"Fine. Come in, then."
X-x-X
Amu was strolling down the streets of the city, munching on a sandwich she bought. She just finished practice and it was around seven at night. The cloud was dark with some of the sun setting in the west. It was getting closer and closer to summer.
She was a bit mad at the moment because Ikuto didn't come for practice until an hour later, making their schedule a bit behind. They have to hurry too because whenever they have practice, some members are ready and some aren't. Or in some cases, the singers can't make it.
Amu past an alleyway and tossed the paper bag into the trashcan, dusting her hands off.
"You think you're so high and mighty when you're just like the rest of us. Don't think you're the king of the world."
"I'm nothing like you."
"What'd you say?!"
Amu halted her steps. She walked back a little, peering around the side of the wall. There were four guys. Three of them, who were all muscular and tall, were surrounding a shorter man who looked strangely familiar to Amu.
"You heard what I said!"
"You're just jealous since the people of Easter Productions didn't like your voice and they accepted mine." The curious pinkette recognized that voice in a heartbeat.
"That's because you were in a group! You don't even sing that much."
"I can sing well enough. And I chose not to sing the main leads. Just background and instruments."
"That's because you're such a wimpy boy, Hotori," one of the men taunted.
"Yea, and you're a gay guy who loves pink." Tadase pointed at the pink shirt of the man in the middle of the three men.
"Why you…!!" The guy wearing a pink shirt pushed Tadase to the wall and bunched up some of Tadase's shirt in his right hand. "You're going to go down from your pedestal sooner or later. And I'll help you resign from your job sooner and give the position to me." The man grinned wickedly and the other two lackeys helped the leader of the group beat up Tadase.
Amu saw all this happened. And she was doing nothing to help. Why?
Because part of her thought that Tadase deserved this. Not for the same reason of the three men, however.
But she wants to stop this. After all, she had a crush on Tadase and even went out with him! But she broke up with him once she found him cheating on her.
But was that really the case?
Tadase said that he dated Mitsuki for a few months and it hasn't even been a month since they went out and broke up. Wouldn't Tadase really be cheating on Mitsuki and not Amu?
And she has another question in her mind that she never asked.
Amu walked into the dark alleyway on the whim, seeing Tadase all beaten up.
"Hey." Her voice echoed through the narrow aisle, attracting the attention of the four men. The leader immediately stepped closer to Amu with brightness in his eyes.
"Hinamori-san? Is that you?"
"Who else?" Amu said, putting on a fake smile. By the looks of it, it seems that this man is a fan of Catching Hearts.
"Wow, I've always admired you and your singing is beautiful."
"Why thank you. I see you know Tadase over there." She gestured to the slumped blonde who looked up with curious, yet confused eyes.
"Of course we know each other. We're the best of friends." He grinned, putting up an act.
"I see." Amu waltzed over to Tadase and peered at his face.
'What are you doing?' he mouthed. Amu replied with a silent, 'Shh.'
The pinkette turned back to the man. "I don't think best friends beat each other up. Don't you agree?" Amu asked, her innocent golden eyes smoldering into man's orbs. The leader fidgeted under his idol's gaze.
"I-It's what guys do when they haven't seen each other in a while. Sorry, but I have to go now. See you around, Hinamori-san."
Amu nodded. The group fled as quickly as they can.
"Why?" Tadase's voice came out as nothing more than a whisper.
"Because I felt like it," Amu answered, dropping her fake smile. "And I also have some questions for you."
"I'm not obligated to answer them."
"I just saved you so I think I deserve some answers." Tadase didn't answer. Amu knelt down next to him and took out her handkerchief. She began wiping some of the blood from his face. The blonde tried to avoid her touch but Amu placed both of her hands on the sides of his face. "Stop moving," she ordered with fierceness in her words. A bit taken aback at her force, he did as he was told. "Who were those guys and why did they hit you?" Amu reached into her bag and pulled out some ointment and band aids.
"Before our group was created, we had to go through this audition. Only the one group or artist could be picked. That guy was in a group with the two other guys and they were pretty good, I guess. But our turn was right after them and the last of the audition. We were a bit late but since Ikuto knew one of the judges, they let us in. We amazed them and accepted us as the new band of Easter Productions. If we hadn't come to the auditions, that man and his group would've been in our place."
"Ah, so that's why. It was just a grudge against you. Why can't he just try out again?"
"He's already in another company but it's just that that company isn't as big as Easter so not a lot of people have heard of his group."
"I see." Amu ripped open the seal of the band aid and gently pressed it onto the injured skin of Tadase's cheeks. She asked him to lift up his shirt and he did so. Amu shook her head. "You're coming home with me so I can fix you up."
X-x-X
"It should be alright now." She closed the first aid kit and stretched her arms. After they came to Amu's apartment, she told him to go to the guest room and take his shirt off and lay on the bed. The pinkette slightly blushed at the exposed skin but went to work immediately. She wiped the blood away with a warm wet towel and applied the usual stuff to a wound. Then, she wrapped his chest in some bandages and finished her work. She placed some bandages on his arms. His legs were fine though. Amu lent him a giant T-shirt of hers that she never wore before.
"Thank you…Amu-chan."
Amu's face flushed slightly. "You're welcome."
Tadase sat up. "I shouldn't intrude any longer so I'll take my leave." He stood up and gathered his stuff.
Before he walked out the door, Amu called out, "Wait." He paused, waiting for her to continue. "I still have one more question."
"Go on."
"I may be a bit late asking you this but I never really got the chance to ask you this earlier."
"Ok."
"When we were…going out, did you really love me?"
Tadase turned back around and faced his ex-girlfriend. "I liked you at some point but I love Mitsuki. Amu-chan, I really do like you as a person. I'm sorry for what I've done. I regret it now but there's no going back."
"I…see." Amu put on her smile. "W-Well, see you."
"Amu-chan, I have a question for you, if you don't mind."
"Shoot."
"Why did you take care of me just now? Why didn't you just leave me there? I could've taken care of myself."
Amu's blood went cold. She didn't exactly know the answer to that herself. Maybe it was the spur-of-the-moment type of situation. But she knew one thing.
"Maybe it's because you were one of my first crushes."
She still had some feelings for Tadase.
X-x-X
:O Shocker~ But don't worry, this will be Amuto ^-^ And sorry for the shortness T.T
I was gonna upload this on the 10th since it was my birthday (yes, September 10th is my birthday!! :D) but I got lazy and I'm like "Screw this. It's my birthday so I should be able to relax XD"
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