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Flashback

The woman was wearing a white dress with black beads spreading from clustered together to slowly disappearing. It held on her shoulders, and she wore a black mask with white feathers and she held it in one hand. Her rosette hair was half up and the rest flowed down her back like waves. A black dahlia tied her hair.

The Guardians stopped whatever they were doing, and looked at the woman with the black mask. Through the mask, golden eyes shined through.

Normal POV

The mysterious couple glided across the room to the dance floor. They started waltzing as if no one was staring at them.

"Amu-chi!!" screamed Yaya. The others tried to stop her, but she threaded through the crowd and started hugging the woman. "Why haven't you contacted us for six years? Why did you leave?" There was no response. "Amu-chii?"

The woman forcefully unwrapped Yaya from herself. She looked around towards where the others were.

"Hello…Guardians, Easter workers, and former Easter employees," she replied. "Miss me?" The voice was hollow, but there was a sense of sarcasm behind her words. The others suddenly rushed towards her, but stopped when the man wrapped his arm around her waist. He whispered in her ear, and she whispered back. Then together, they faced the others.

"Follow us please," ordered Amu. Shrugging his shoulders, Kairi nodded for them to follow the pair. Amu and the man led them outside into the gardens. Leading them into the maze, the group finally got to the center where there was a huge lit-up fountain of gold. Amu turned around to face them, and took off her mask.

The rest of the Guardians stood shocked. They had not seen Amu's face for six years. To them, the changes were more surprising than to Ikuto. He leaned against the wall, far away from the water fountain. There was silence, and then an explosion.

"Amu-chi!" squealed Yaya, again.

"Amu!" chorused Nagihiko and Rima. They glared at each other, then started to run towards her. Kukai had beat them, and was ruffling her hair. Utau smiled gently from the background, looking more towards Ikuto. Tadase awkwardly started walking to Amu, as if in disbelief.

"Hinamori-san?" He took her hand, and reverently stroked it, to make sure she was real, and it wasn't a dream. However, after a minute of this happy reverie, Amu backed away slowly. Then, the group noticed her eyes. They were hollow. There was no joy in them at seeing their appearance. Instead, there was a look of anger, along with fear. Yaya started shivering, even though there was no wind.

"Well now, if the greetings are done," said the man. He had a deep tone that was animated. His arms were spread open, as if welcoming the group into a hug. His mask was still in place.

"I'm sorry, but who are you?" asked Kairi pushing up his glasses.

"My apologies. I am…Ushitare Kisangi. Your friend, Amu, is my girlfriend. Right, Amu?"

"…Yes."

"We came, as I invited her as a surprise. What we didn't expect was to see…people from her past, I suppose." Kisangi laughed. He directed his attention to Tadase.

"Hotori Tadase, right? Amu has told me so much about you. You plan on ruling the world, yes prince?"

"Plan? I will become king of the world, you peasant! Don't address your future king as such! Show more respect commoner!" Tadase answered in a chara-change. Kisangi merely laughed and moved on, as if it was an assembly line.

"Sanjou Kairi, Souma Kukai, Yuiki Yaya, Mashiro Rima, and Fujisaki Nagihiko, all once companions and fellow Guardians of my dear Amu. And in the back, Tsukiyomi Utau and Ikuto" He shrugged his shoulders. "Knowing Amu for four years now, I've gotten to know her pretty well." The others glanced at each other, slightly shocked.

"Well then, Kisangi-san? Will you tell us how you met our Amu-chan?" asked Nagihiko.

"Haha! Don't worry about that yet. You'll find out…eventually. It's not fun to play a game with unknowing players," Kisangi chuckled.

"What are you talking about?" asked Rima in a dismayed tone. "If you're trying to be funny, you're going to have to try harder to make me laugh."

"Ah, yes. Of course Mashiro-san," he said while bowing. "The girl who loves gag, but you only like extremely funny ones. Right?" Kusu Kusu giggled behind Rima. "Ah, yes, for your information, I can see your charas. After Amu told me about them, I was able to see the little charas. Very cute, aren't they? Ah, well. I can see you guys aren't very comfortable with me. I'll leave you alone with Amu for ten minutes." Kisangi walked towards the entrance, and looked at Amu knowingly. She nodded and he left. Almost automatically, the tension of the air popped like a bubble as Amu smiled.

"Everyone! What are you doing here?" Amu asked brightly, her personality of six years showing through.

"Amu-chii!" screamed Yaya, again. She hugged Amu around the waist, not letting go. Suddenly, everyone was around Amu, hugging her and crying. Ikuto still stayed in the shadows.

"Amu. I've missed you."

"I've missed you too, Rima. All of you. But why are you here?"

"Joker. The question is, why did you leave?" asked Kairi. The others stayed quiet and looked at her.

"Well…you see…" began Amu.

"Hurry up Amu. He only gave us ten minutes. And who is he anyways? The Kisangi man?" asked Utau.

"Kisangi is…someone I know very well by now. And right now, I cannot tell you anything. You will know the entire story soon enough," said Amu, dodging the question.

"Amu-chan…Why can't you tell us now?" said Nagihiko. He and everyone else had on the puppy-dog face, except Ikuto of course. Amu laughed at their expressions, and they followed suit.

"Hinamori-san. It's good to see you. When Ikuto said he saw you, he said you were an entirely different person. You're still the same as ever, I see," Tadase said smiling. Amu froze, and then turned her face to him.

"Not exactly the same, Tadase-kun. Not exactly…" she said quietly.

"Amu," said Ikuto suddenly.

"Hai?"

"I want to talk to you. Alone," he said for emphasis.

"Alright. Follow me. Don't worry guys, I'll be back in a few minutes. Let me just see what he wants." Kukai gave his customary thumbs-up sign. Rima all of a sudden ran up and grabbed Amu's arm.

"I'm following you," she said bluntly.

"Rima…" said Amu uncertainly.

"Little girl, I want to talk to her alone," almost threatened Ikuto.

"Fine." Then Rima started crying, and Amu started panicking. Ikuto grabbed her hand and dragged her to another passageway, where no one could see them.

"Now then. Amu, what did Kisangi tell you before he left?"

"Nothing."

"Don't lie to me," he said, grabbed the tops of her arms. "I know when you're lying." Amu stared coldly at him, the vibrant girl from moments ago gone.

"Then you should know that my personality and facial expressions a few minutes ago was a lie."

"I realized that. Now I'm wondering, why would you lie to your friends? Even after six years, don't you miss any of them?"

"I used to. But times have changed, I've changed. I cannot and should not hold on to a useless past. Right now, all that matters is the present and future," Amu said tiredly. "Now, have you any more questions? The others will get suspicious."

"Just one. Hinamori Amu, why did you leave?" Amu sighed.

"I've explained it to you, and so has Kisangi. You will soon know the story soon enough. But right now, it's too early. Nothing has come into play, yet."

"Are we a game, Amu?"

"And if I said yes, what would you do? Get out of it?" she retorted.

A/N: Hope you like this chapter! Read and review! I'm realy happy with all my reviews so far!