Hi everyone! I'm sorry for this late update but my pc broke down and I only got him fixed yesterday so… yeah. Hum, in this chapter Amu will prove herself to ikuto, haha he chalenged her for something stupid and she got mad. I hope you like it and please review\comment!

"Change of heart"

"Life is just one damned thing after another." E.H.

Hi there! I'm Hinamori Amu. A lot has happened in a month. My boyfriend turned out to be a cheat and I was devastated-obviously- but in the meanwhile, I met someone, someone that makes me happy (even though he might be an idiot from time to time; and get's on my nerves pretty easily). That someone's name: Tsukiyomi Ikuto. Our meting wasn't exactly «love at first sight» type, but, we got to know each other better, and grew closer. Although I don't know much about him, I get the feeling that we've known each other for years. I feel comfortable around him.

We went on a «date» last Saturday and even thought I was pretty mad at first and didn't want to be with him, I actually had a good time. Ikuto managed to make me cry –which didn't happen in years- and made me realize that it is okay to do so. On that same day I also got him to tell me a bit more about himself. He's been thru a lot. When he told me about his parents, I saw a lonely kid. It was so sad. I felt like hugging him tightly and never let go. I really did hate him at first, but now… I think I grew to cherish him very dearly.

It doesn't hurt to think of Tadase anymore… well, I don't even think about him much. Right now I want to forget about him for good. Things will have to change.

"AMU" I heard my mom call from downstairs. "BREAKFAST'S READY!"

"COMMING MOM."

I stepped outside my room and greeted Ami good morning. Looking at her face made me chuckle. Ami had been in a 2 night 2 day school trip and it seems that her class had a courage contest; she is extremely scared of ghosts so I bet she couldn't sleep at all.

"Poor thing." I mutter smirking; she glared at me.

"Girls!"

"Coming, coming…" Ami replied.

We took our seats around the table and mom grinned at me.

"W-what?" I asked.

"Ohohoh… I remembered something interesting."

My dad looked over the newspaper and raised one eyebrow. He sighed and looked at the paper again and muttered something like: «again with that». Then mom continued talking.

"So…yesterday I was busy working and couldn't find time to ask you: How did it go?"

I knew exactly what she was talking about. As I felt my cheeks getting red I started to eat trying to act cool and normal. Ami chuckled.

"I don't know what you're talking about." I said.

"Sure you do honey. But if I must, then I'll rephrase my sentence: How did you date go?"

I was dirking orange juice and hearing the work «date» coughed and almost spit most of the juice. Ami laughed and my father sighed. When I looked up I saw my mother's smirk.

"D-d-date? What d-d-ate? We were studying. STUDIYING!"

"Of course my dear, and I was not once a teenagers like you, was I?"

"Damn…" I sighed " Fine. Have it your way then. It was a date, but I didn't want to go."

She looked at me confused.

" Why? It was with Ikuto-kun and still you…"

"What? You'e not making any sence…" I glanced at my father " And… by the way, how come dad is so relaxed even thought he froze when he first saw Ikuto?"

"Well, we had a talk. And we agreed that if it is Ikuto, than it is fine for you to be with." She smiled at me. I was on a very confused state of mind.

"Just what are you saying mom? You're talking like you know him. Besides, it's not like we are going out, he just seems to enjoy mocking me."

My mother served my father tea and they exchanged looks, then my father spoke:

"Then, you're saying that you don't remember…" I waited for him to finish his sentence. He looked at the newspaper again "Never mind."

Ami and I looked at each other, I raised one eyebrow and she shrugged. Then I muttered: « You two are getting weirder and weirder.» Ami nodded in agreement.

After finishing my food I rushed upstairs to get my stuff.

"Itekimasu." I said while closing the door behind me. I heard my parents say «Itterasshai».

On my way to school I started thinking that If I wanted to get closer to Ikuto I would have to deal with the fan girls, and it wouldn't be easy. I sighed.

"Maybe I should just leave it."

"Leave what?" Someone spoke behind me; I jumped in surprise.

"Ahhh!..." I looked back and saw Ikuto laughing; I blushed "Wha-wha-wha…I-It's you… Why would you do that? YOU IDIOT! You scared me…" I was furious, but –as always- Ikuto seemed to be enjoying himself; he was still laughing. " It's not funny…hmpf" I started to walk again –furious at him- leaving Ikuto behind.

How I could I even think about getting closer to that jerk? It's impossible for me to like that idiot.

He ran to get to my side again and said trying to control his laugh:

"Morning."

I glared at him and replied as cold as I could be:

"Die."

He chuckled and then patted my head and gave me that smile that melted my heart.

"Moring" he said again.

I shook his hand and, unfortunately, giving that smile I couldn't remain in silence and said rudely «Good morning».

"So…" he started. "what did you do yesterday? Thought about me?"

I blushed

"You really need to down your self-centered personality."

"Self-centered? But all I did was to think of you."

"Yes, probably you did think of me… about ways to mock me."

He pretended to think about it for a while and then said:

"Not really, you see mocking you is too easy, it doesn't need much thought."

"Nip it."

He smirked but then said with a gently:

"I did think of you." I glanced at him. "I wondered if you were doing alright."

At the moment I did not quite understand what he was talking about, but after a while:

"Ohhh…that…yeah, it's fine." I smiled. "I'm over it."

"Hm…that's good."

"Yeah."

He stopped walking and when I noticed, I turned and asked:

"What? Why did you stop walking?"

"Around that corner" and he pointed his finger to the corner. " you'll get sight of the school."

I was confused again.

"Y-eah…so?"

He blinked twice and then replied:

"I promised that I wouldn't bother you at school."

"Oh…right" I said. Then I faced the other way again and stared at the ground felling my cheeks getting warmer. After a few seconds I finally managed to say in a whisper:

"It's fine."

"Did you say anything?" Ikuto asked behind me. I knew he was just mocking me because –even thought I said it in a whisper, it was loud enough so he could hear it. So I looked over my shoulder and I tried to give him an angry expression – even though I'm pretty sure that with me blushing so hard, I probably wasn't looking as angry as I wanted. Seeing my face he blinked a few time and then looked to the left with a hand over his mouth. I couldn't see his face because the hair was covering it, but the sun was hitting him and I think he was slightly blushing.

What's wrong with him? I though.

I took a few steps towards him.

"Hey Ikuto? Are you—"

"…kawaii" my eyes went wide open. He was still covering his mouth with his hand so I couldn't be sure if I heard him right, but it still made me bush pretty hard. I turned my back to him and placed one hand over my heart instinctively because it was pounding so much.

"Le-let's just get going or we're... going to be late." I muttered and started walking without making sure he was following- thought after a while I could hear footsteps behind me and could see from the corner of my eye his blue hair covering his face.

When we turned the corner I took a deep breath and muttered:

"God help me…"

"What?" Ikuto asked

"You're fan girls are going to kill me" outside the school gates we could get sight of a group of about 20-25 girls, and it was not hard to guess who they were looking for.

Ikuto sighed.

"They're annoying…come with me." Ikuto grabbed my hand and pulled me on the opposite direction from the gate.

"Hey, where are you taking me?!"

"Our school haves more than one gate that we can use." He said.

"What?"

"You'll see."

We walked for about 10 minutes and then he stopped in front of a rusty old gate- that was closed.

I looked at me with one eyebrow raised.

"What is this?" I asked.

"Hm... it was supposed to be opened." He said.

I gasped.

"You've got to be kidding me." He was getting on my nerves again. I sighed. "let's just go back."

I started to walk but Ikuto pulled me near him and said:

"We'll jump." I looked at him gaping.

"You can't be serious."

"What?"

"I'm not climbing any walls so early in the morning." The first bell rang. "Oh great!"

I glared at him.

"you know, you see that building?" I looked up.

"Yeah? So?"

"So, that is the building where you take your classes. We can go back and be late, or, we can jump ad get to classes in time."

I was so furious but, he was right. I sighed and said:

"Alright, we'll jump."

He smirked. "What?" I asked.

"I wonder if a girl like you can do such thing."

I gasped. Was he challenging me?

"Oh you're on." He chuckled.

"Sure. Let's see who wins." He said.

"Hmpf."

"Ladies first."

"You're only a gentleman at times like thins huh? Tsk."

He shrugged and smirked.

I used to climb trees and do all kind of crazy stuff when I was younger so getting to the other side of that wall was no problem, but….

I glared at Ikuto.

"What?"

"You, don't look."

"Why?"

"Because…" I blushed. " This stupid uniform is a dress and I am not wearing shorts underneath it so… face the other way."

"Pff… ok." He turned around and I said: "No peeking"

"I wouldn't."

"You better."

Like I said, climbing that wall was as easy as breathing, but I ripped one of my stockings.

"Oh dammit."

"What?" Ikuto asked. "can I look now?"

I hadn't jump to the floor yet, and the wall was quite thin so I couldn't stand on it, but it's not like he could see anything from where he was.

"Hum…yeah. Well I kind of ripped one of my stockings."

"Pff… so not agile."

"What? Let's see you do better then."

"Hmm…" He smirked and then got to where I was quite fast, and instead of sitting like I was he stood up.

"Hey… don't fall from there get down!" I said worried.

"What? I'm used to this kind of thing. I won't fall."

Then I remembered that he told me during our questions game that people usually say that he's like a cat.

"Oh yeah, cat-like. I get it."

He chuckled and said:

"You're not so bad yourself. You can just take off the stockings, some girls don't wear them."

"Fine." I jumped to the floor with a muted sound. Ikuto followed and managed to be even more gracious then I was – he even jumped with his hands on his pockets. "Tsk, showoff."

He smirked and replied: "Jealous are we?"

"Hmpf… sure NOT!"

I hurried and took off my stockings. Then we rushed to the building. Somehow we managed to get to our classes in time, Or at least I did. Ikuto's classroom is on the right side of the school so we had to go on separated ways.

I was puffy, and when gt near my classroom I slowed down and started to mutter angrily:

"That jerk, he sure likes trouble. And I had to tag along of course. UGH I'm going to kill him." I sighed.

The door of the classroom was open and there was someone I had never seen staring outside of the window. When he turned I felt a sharp pain over my heart.

"Tadase?"

So? How was it? Hehe, hope you forgive me for the long waiting! I'll be updating a side story featuring a 4-year-old Amu and a 7-year-old somebody, hihihi ^^ Look forward to it!

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Au revoir!