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Chapter 18

IKUTO'S POV

It had been three hours, and Amu hadn't opened her eyes yet. 'What should I do?' I kept asking myself.

The news had shocked both her and me. I had sent my prayer to God before but it had seemed that God had His own way. I couldn't blame God. He knew what was the best for us, right? Perhaps He had something great prepared for my dear pinkette.

I had been standing at the corner of her room in the hospital ever since she had fainted due to the news. My parents were helping her to arrange the funeral so she could rest more – and here I was, waiting for my favorite strawberry to wake up.

"…kuto… Ikuto…" I heard a small voice calling for me, and I recognized that voice straight away. I quickly approached Amu.

"You've woken up, huh?" I asked her while giving her a glass of water that I had prepared for her beforehand.

"Mom… Dad…" she murmured as tears slowly gathered at the corners of her beautiful eyes.

Seeing her terribly upset like that clenched my heart in agony. I hugged her, trying to comfort and calm her. I knew it was hard for her because she didn't have any relatives left. Both of her parents were the only children in their families, and not to mention, she had just learned about her little sister's death. "Amu– Amu, calm down, I'm here."

"Mom, Dad, they're gone… I'm alone…" she mumbled and her body trembled hard.

I flinched at the statement that was half true. "No, you're not alone. You still have me, Utau, my parents, Kukai, and a lot more."

To my dismay, although she hugged me back, she didn't say anything.

Mom and Dad visited us later. They informed us that they had organized everything for Amu's parents' funeral. My little pink-haired girlfriend mumbled her gratitude before looking out to the window blankly.

AMU'S POV

I knew I wasn't alone even after my parents' death, but I couldn't help myself to think like that. Ikuto was a big help for me. He was there when I needed him the most. I was glad that at least he stayed by my side.

Later Ikuto's parents visited us and told me that they had arranged a proper funeral for my parents. I said a short 'thank you' for their help. I couldn't do it alone and they were there to lend me a hand.

I focused my gaze to the window, consumed by the view outside. There stood a big tree of sakura, my favorite.

My mind recalled all memories of my family; from after the incident that had caused my amnesia until the very end – my parents' death. It seemed just like yesterday that Mom had prepared a delicious breakfast for us while Dad had gone out to work. I even remembered the last time we had had our picnic and Dad had done something crazy that had made me laugh.

How I missed them so much; Mom and Dad, and even my little sister that I had forgotten for so long. My family was gone and I was the only one left in this world.

Tomorrow would be the last day I saw them and I would try my best to smile, to let them see that I was happy so that they could rest in peace. 'Goodbye, Mom, Dad, Ami.'

The next day…

NORMAL POV

Today was the day. Amu's parents would be buried beside her late sister's grave. The pinkette was dressed in black and held two white roses. She walked towards her mom's coffin and laid one of the flowers above her clasped hands – white rose being Midori's favorite flower – before she continued towards Tsumugu's coffin and placed the other rose.

'Live happily there with Ami, Mom and Dad,' Amu prayed silently as she saw her parents' coffins being closed. She sat at the front row of the church and let the priest do his job.

Ikuto – also dressed in black – sat beside his girlfriend at the front row with his parents and sister; all of them not wanting to leave the pinkette alone. Amu couldn't hold the tears any longer, so she let them stream down her soft face. He saw it and wrapped his arm around her shoulders to comfort her.

She felt her boyfriend's arm wrapped around her shoulders and she relaxed a bit. His presence was very helpful to her already stressed body and mind.

They then left to mourn the two late Hinamoris. Most of the mourners were members of Black Lynx who knew her father so well. They were sorry for her; some even wanted to adopt her, but all of them were refused by Aruto, who told them that the pink-haired girl was his daughter-in-law. She was glad that the Tsukiyomi patriarch said what he had said; she couldn't ask for more than that.

"Amu, from now on you'll move to our house," Aruto told her when they finished mourning her parents.

She nodded her head but refused to leave her parents' and late sister's graves. Ikuto knew his lover so well, so he asked his parents and Utau to go back home first as he sat beside her and brought her hands into his larger one.

Amu laid her head on the bluenette's shoulder and cried. Both of them sat there until the sun set down. Ikuto was the first one to break the silence. "Let's go home. We'll visit them again soon."

She nodded and let him lead them to his black Bugatti Veyron before they drove home.

Once they arrived home, Ikuto brought Amu to her new room. He and Utau had managed to design the room in a short time, although it was still half done.

"Here is your room, although we're not quite finished yet," he told her when they arrived at a big room with a king-sized bed at the center and hot pink wallpaper plastered on the walls.

"It's okay. It still feels comfortable," she replied as she walked towards the center of the room.

"You can sleep in the guest room first or maybe in Utau's room…" he trailed down as he stared at the pinkette, perking her curiosity.

"What?" she asked, turning to face him completely.

"… or my room," Ikuto finished his sentence and flashed Amu his favorite smirk.

His favorite strawberry instantly blushed. She had to admit that it was not a bad idea, though. If she chose to sleep in Utau's room, she might interrupt anything that the blonde had planned with her soon-to-be husband, and god knew Amu didn't want to be there to witness the couple doing their 'activity'.

"Umm… can I sleep… in your… room?" she stuttered and blushed deeper when she asked Ikuto, trying her best not to feel embarrassed.

The blunette raised his eyebrows in pleasant surprise. "So, my little strawberry wants to sleep with me, huh?" he teased her with a sly smirk, darkening the blush on her already flushed face.

"No!" she exclaimed instinctively, her sadness completely forgotten. She turned her head to the opposite direction to show him that she didn't like being teased and was mad at him.

Ikuto smiled at her and was happy knowing that he had managed to comfort her somehow. 'She deserved to be happy,' he thought.

He approached the pissed pinkette and lifted her up, carrying her bridal style as she yelped. He once again flashed his trademark smirk and brought her into his room – or rather, their soon-to-be room. They bumped into Utau and Kukai in the corridor on the way to Ikuto's room; the blonde gave them a thumbs-up and winked at her before walking to the end of the corridor with Kukai towards their room.

'Well, at least I'm right about their 'activity'," Amu thought.

Ikuto opened his bedroom's door and walked in with the pinkette still in his embrace. He walked towards the center of the room where a king-sized bed was located and put her down onto the bed, before crawling in himself and yanking her underneath him.

He stared at her rich golden orbs and smiled. Her eyes were calm and the gleaming honey color was more than beautiful. He had admired her eyes ever since they had been still kids, but he hadn't admitted it back then because he had been embarrassed. Amu had cried before when he had told her that he hadn't liked her eyes in the past.

It had been their first fight, and Ikuto had lost horribly. He had been scolded by his parents and snubbed by Utau, who had refused to play with him – even when Utau and Amu hadn't gotten along too well that time. Utau had had her brother complex problem and she hadn't like that Amu had gotten along with Ikuto really well.

He leaned down until their faces were an inch apart. He was about to close their distance when suddenly the bedroom's door was being opened. Ikuto looked at the intruder and found his mother, Souko, standing at his door with a happy smile plastered on her face. He sighed and stood up, while his lover was blushing.

"My, my," Souko said, covering her mouth with her hand sheepishly, clearly not anticipating the lovebirds' private moment. "I'm sorry for the interruption. I want to see my grandchild soon, but I have an important thing to tell you."

Amu blushed deeper while Ikuto smirked.

"Next time, please knock the door, Mom!" the bluenette reprimanded his mother playfully. "Who knows that we are in the middle of making your grandchild?"

"What is the important thing?" Amu asked quickly, not able to stand the embarrassing topic anymore.

Fortunately for the pinkette, the Tsukiyomi matriarch decided not to press on the prior conversation. "Well, Aruto told me to bring all of you – including Kukai and Utau – to the dining room."

The three of them then went straight to the dining room where Aruto, Utau, and Kukai had been waiting for them. Ikuto and Amu took the empty chairs before focusing their attention to the head of the family.

"Well, I have an important announcement," the older blue-haired man began and looked around at each of the people that had gathered.

"What is it, Father?" Ikuto asked.

"We will celebrate Utau's and Kukai's wedding two days from now, and we will hold a press conference tomorrow."

"What for?" Kukai asked his soon-to-be father-in-law.

"First, to announce your wedding, and second, to announce Ikuto's and Amu's engagement," Aruto said, earning nods from the four younger people in front of him.

Aruto also told them about Tsumugu's will for Amu. She inherited her father's company, which was one of the Tsukiyomi subsidiaries, along with the money that was left on his account, and his mother's ring. The late father of hers had hoped that she wore it as her wedding ring. Ikuto agreed with the idea but he asked to redesign the ring. Amu nodded her head in approval and let Ikuto had the old piece of jewellery.

"Now, let's have a relaxing night because we have a big day tomorrow," the Tsukiyomi patriarch said as he ended their little meeting.

Ikuto and Amu headed back to his room. Once they were inside, Amu laid down on the bed beside him. She was happy – it was true that her parents had left her, but she had other people she could call her parents, even if they were only her in-laws. She loved them so much already. She also had a sister in Utau and a brother in Kukai. Amu was more than happy and couldn't ask for more than this.

The bluenette had called her name for the third time, but she didn't reply. He stood up and gazed at her direction. He saw her poker face and he knew that she was thinking about something deeply.

"…mu... Amu."

She snapped from her train of thoughts and looked at her boyfriend. She then sat up on the bed beside him. Ikuto was smiling at her and she smiled back. She was that happy that words couldn't describe it precisely. "What?" she asked him.

"Nothing. What were you so deep in thought about?" he asked her back, curious of what she had been thinking before.

"Nothing; I was thinking about your family – our family – and I am happy," she said as she let the pictures of their happy life flood into her mind.

Ikuto sighed and drew her against his chest, wrapping her in a hug. "We will be happy," he told her in confidence. "Dad, Mom, Utau, Kukai, you and I will be happy."

She nodded and snuggled deeper into his broad chest, inhaling his cool and fresh scent that she loved. This was her heaven and no one could have him but her. Yes, only her; he was hers as she was his.

Ikuto began to ask some questions to the pinkette but when he didn't get any reply, he had the urge to shake her before he heard a soft snore. He looked down to find her asleep.

He smiled. God, how long had it been since the last time he had smiled this much? Even his conscience couldn't count it out.

He laid his fiancée down onto the bed before lying himself down beside her and wrapping his arms around her small waist. He brought her small body against him. Well, it was his nature to be protective over his properties.

The next day,

Aruto and his family had arrived at the hotel where he was holding the press conference at. He had informed the media that he wanted to announce something important. The press rejoiced that they had another hot stuff to post on the front page of the business or gossip magazines tomorrow.

They had arrived an hour earlier than the actual time set for the press conference. The hotel was Tsukiyomi's subsidiary that Tsumugu had managed. Today, Aruto wanted to introduce Amu as the new head of the company, so they were here inside the meeting room. He told them about the incident, and all of them were sorry for Amu.

The pinkette was a strong girl; she didn't cry like she had thought she would. Her head was high up with pride, showing them that she wasn't a miserable girl that needed to be pitied. Her late father's employees bowed to her to show their respect, and Ikuto was more than proud of her.

She obviously still needed to learn a lot about the hotel, and Ikuto was more than willing to help her. He let his father handle the Tsukiyomi Enterprise's main branch and focused on teaching the pinkette.

An hour later, they were sitting on the chairs that had been prepared for them at the stage. The master of ceremony opened the press conference and invited Aruto to the podium to begin his speech.

"Thank you for coming to this press conference," he said. "I, Tsukiyomi Aruto, the head of Tsukiyomi family and the former president of Tsukiyomi Enterprise, am glad to announce that my daughter, Tsukiyomi Utau, and the heir of Souma Enterprise, Souma Kukai, will have their wedding held tomorrow."

The news was greeted by cheery applause from the press. Happy with the positive response, Aruto continued, "Together with that, I am also announcing the official engagement between my son, Tsukiyomi Ikuto, and Hinamori Amu." After that, he walked away from the podium and back to his seat.

The reporters raised their hands to ask some questions related to his announcements when the master of ceremony allowed them to do so.

"Ikuto, please tell us your opinion about this matter!" a reporter asked.

"I'm happy of course," Ikuto answered.

"What about Saaya?" another reporter asked.

"Well, as a matter of fact, we have informed you that Saaya and I are divorced."

"What makes Amu special?" another question popped up.

The young bluenette smirked. "She's my first love," he said, making the reporters awed.

"Do you have any comment on your relationship?" a young journalist asked.

"Now that you asked," Ikuto rubbed his chin playfully before continuing, "I have a rather personal warning. Dear all men out there, she's mine. Touch her are gaze at her and you'll pay."

With that, he locked his lips with hers.

The cameras flashed wildly over them, trying to catch the best and rarest moment they had witnessed. The press was satisfied with this, and tomorrow, people all around the world would know about this.

Amu blushed ten shades of red when her lover kissed her in front of the public. Well, this was short of an announcement that he was hers and she wouldn't let any woman lay her eyes on him. He was hers and hers only.

The reporters congratulated them for their engagement and left the venue, while the members of Tsukiyomi household remained at the hotel. Well, they deserved to be happy, just like an old fairy tale about a princess that found her beloved prince and lived happily ever after. Amu had found her prince, who turned out to be Ikuto, the man that held many secrets which she learned about one by one, including his darkest secret.

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