.:Amuto Forget Me Not:.
.:Chapter 3:.
.:Hidden Intentions Behind Beautiful Words:.
Sarah: Hello everyone! Well, this may not be my most popular fanfic, but as long as I have at least one fan liking my stories, all is right. Well this chapter is narrated by Ikuto's beautiful and cunning sister: Utau. Now don't worry I do not hate her, it might look like shes bad but trust me the story will get better..
Amu: When are you going to start the sequel to Amuto Internet Trouble?!?! O.o
Sarah: Soon..My friend. Once I'm done with this story! Even though I'm planning for about ten chapters..
Amu: WHAT?!
Sarah: Oh nothing at all..hahahah..oh by the way sorry that I have been taking so long to update, things have come up and I haven't had time. Sorry.
Amu: Keep working on the stories slacker!
Sarah: I know I know..Well either way I hope you all enjoy Amuto Forget Me Not Chapter 3!! :)
"You asked for me?" I asked my so-called parent sitting at his large desk. His eyes looked straight at me, and I knew then he was serious. I wonder what it is now..I thought that the mission would be over once Hinamori Amu lost her memory, but..
"Utau I have a very serious mission for you." He said, interrupting my thoughts. Ugh, another mission, just what I need when I'm trying to bring out a new CD and go on tour around the area.
"Why do I have to do more tasks?! Aren't I already doing enough?" I replied, pissed off that again, they had to run to me to do something for them. I can't even find Ikuto and they are making me do more crap! Stupid Gozen..
Gozen glared at me, and grabbed a file with the title 'X Memory' on it. He flipped through the pages until he found one that from what I could see had Amu's picture on it. I flipped my long hair back a little. I wonder if Ikuto has found out yet...I hope he is alright..I looked back at Gozen, and saw him smiling.
"I have discovered a way to make Easter a much more powerful, sucessful company." What did that mean?
"What do you mean?" I asked him. What is he talking about?
He seemed to be awaiting this question. He smiled wide and replied.
"The way we have been trying to find the embryo up until now has been slow and not good enough for Easter's standards. With this new kind of X-Egg creation, we can control a person's heart egg, their would be self, and change it into what we need at the time."
My eyes widened. That was so cruel!! To change and alter a person's dreams..My lip quivered. But.. aren't I doing the same to others by destroying their heart eggs? Then the image of Ikuto hurt and bruised all because of Gozen's guards came into my mind, and I shook my head. No. I could not care about anyone else, I had to only care about my one and only love Ikuto! I looked at Gozen and asked
"Well what is my part in all of this? Amu's memory is already gone, so what now?"
He started to smile again and then said.
"Utau, you have been in the acting business before haven't you?"
I give him a weird look. Why are we talking about acting? I don't have a new acting gig coming up soon. His eyes closed in on me.
"I want you to become great friends with Hinamori Amu, best friends in fact." I shook my head there was no way I could ever be friends with her! Her remembering who I am or not!
"No way! I wont lose to her, which means I can't be best friends with my rival!" Gozen she is the enemy.
He smiled again which made me even more pissed off. What the hell was he smiling about?!
"I have a way to ensure that you get what you want, meaning Ikuto and Amu never being together, and to get what I want, which is that girl's power." My anger lessened.
"I'm listening." I said slowly.
He folded his arms around his chest and spoke again.
"Since Hinamori Amu has no memory of Ikuto, there is no possible way she could still be in love with him...unless, he meets up with her. If you, Utau, become best friends with her and earn her trust you can tell Amu that Ikuto is the enemy. And since we are telling Amu that she works for Easter trying to get the evil X-Eggs and use them for 'good', she will not disobey if it's for the greater good. We have placed our first X-Memory-Egg inside of Amu, with the power of the Humpty Lock combined with our research, Amu will be unstoppable and on our side! I think our company getting more money is definitely for the greater good, don't you think so Utau?"
I just stood there. They were testing out a new science project on Amu! I don't like her, but, no one deserves that cruelty. I clenched my fists and began to yell at Gozen.
"How dare you?! Yes, she may be our enemy but that?! She's just a little girl!! I will not have any part in this!"
As I started to walk away Gozen said the words that always kept reeling me back into Easter, words that kept me obedient to this screwed up system.
"I wonder what will happen to Ikuto if you deny this mission? You do want him to stay healthy, right Utau?"
I ran back to his desk and looked him right in the face.
"Don't you even think about hurting Ikuto!!!" I scream right at him.
He smirks and pats my head once lightly.
"Good girl, now hurry up and start befriending our latest addition to Easter, will you?"
My teeth clenched down hard so my hateful words could not escape my mouth. I walked out of the is for Ikuto I had to keep telling myself. This is for Ikuto. I take a bus ride down a block by the hospital,where my soon-to-be 'best friend' is attending. I climbed off the crowded bus onto the even more busy side walk. As I am walking towards the hospital, I kept remembering Ikuto's face when he found Amu injured like she was. His eyes filled with tears, his whole body shaking, my eyes looked down at the side walk. Those beautiful navy blue eyes. When I heard the nurse calling out to me I finally realized that I was at the hospital.
"Miss? Miss? Are you alright Miss?"
I looked over to her and smiled politely.
"Yes I am. Sorry I dozed off."
Translation in Utau language: No I'm not fine, nothing is okay and I was thinking about my brother in a way that no sister should.
But I cant help it, it may be a bit sick but I'm in love with my older brother Ikuto. Not that I care what others think, because he is my world. I may love singing, but if I had to choose between not being able to sing or not to see Ikuto again, I would definitely choose losing my voice. I walked to the front desk and asked where Amu's room was.
"Second floor, first room to your right. You can't miss it. She is awake now, if you want to visit her." The nurse replied to me kindly.
I put on my usual fake smile.
"Thank you very much." I said and pressed the button for the elevator.
As I saw the doors close, I sighed. I need to relax, remember you are Utau. You need to get yourself together and be as nice to Amu as possible. Don't think of all the bad reasoning behind this, don't think about how they are doing a horrible experiment on a little girl. Ikuto will be safe if you do this. No matter what, do not give in to your conscience. He needs protection from Gozen, he needs to get away from all of Easter! The elevator door opened, and I strolled out. And until the day comes that I can free him from this curse. I will protect him in anyway I can! I walked a few steps until I was in front of Amu's room. Even if it means dirtying my own hands...
I opened the door to find Amu, staring out her window, looking totally distant from the reality she was facing. It must be hard to not remember anything..Nothing about your past life, your friends, your love....I clenched my fists. I won't lose. I took a seat by her bed and put on a smile and said:
"Hello Amu-chan."
Her eyes stayed focused on that small hospital window, with cheap white curtains doing a bad job covering the sunlight. I have to try harder. I bent over from my seat and put a hand on her shoulder.
"Amu-chan? Are you okay?"
As if she was surprised she shook my hand off and stared at me in confusion. Poor thing..she looks so frail. I didn't have to pretend to be caring at this point. I pulled my hand back slowly and smiled gently at her.
"Amu-chan? It's me, Utau."
She seemed to look past me, as if she was trying to see something. Then she relaxed a little, and said
"I'm sorry, I don't remember anything about my life before the accident. You seem like a very kind person, but, I do not remember ever meeting you."
I pretended to be surprised: I widened my eyes and put a hand over my mouth as to cover a gasp. I then closed my eyes slowly, as if about to cry, and I looked at her right in the eyes.
"You really do not remember your best friend?"
Her eyes showed that she was in pain, but her mouth expression stayed at a strict line. She then said:
"No, I don't. Sorry."
Then she pulled on her sheets, and looked down at her bedspread. Her hands are shaking. She really is scared..
Instinctively, I put my hand over her trembling ones. She looked up at me, and I pulled her into a hug.
"It's okay if you do not remember me," I whispered, the guilt taking a part of me with every word "No matter what happens I will always be your best friend. I will always be there for you."
I pulled back to be surprised to see her crying face. The guilt was really hurting me now.
"Tha-thank you..." She said softly through her sobbing. This time it was her who took my hand.
"Out of all the people that have visited me..I feel that I can really trust you! We must have been very close before the accident."
My heart hurt. Respond with something nice I encouraged myself.
"Y-Yeah" I managed to get out "We..we were very close...and we still are.."
For the first time during this visit I saw her smile.
"Is it okay if I call you Utau-chan?"
The question surprised me a little, but I answered quickly.
"Of course! Why wouldn't you?"
We both laughed a little, and a nurse with short blonde hair and big blue eyes came into the room. I looked at her I.D. tag, her name was Rena, Rena Maki. (Um just for a note if Maki means anything weird or mean in japanese or another language, I'm sorry I just thought it suited the name.) She walked over to us with a huge smiled plastered to her face.
"My,My, it's good to see you smiling Amu."
Amu wiped away her tears and nodded.
"It's all because my best friend came to see me."
Crap.
"Well, since this is a special occasion that you are happy, why don't the two of you go to the pastry shop a store down from here? It will still be technically on hospital grounds, and their cream puffs are extraordinary!"
Amu's smile widened.
Double crap.
Amu turned to me her eyes brighter then when I had first saw them, and said:
"Do you want to go Utau-chan? It sounds like fun! I haven't been out of my room very much since I first got here!"
I laughed uneasily.
"I don't know...even though the hospital is so close it still worries me.."
Her expression saddened.
"Do you not want to go with me Utau-chan?"
Great another guilt trip to add to my list.
"No, that's not it, sure let's go."
Amu got out of her bed and went over to a small white cabinet to get what I saw were clothes. She turned to me and said
"I'll be ready in a few minutes!"
Then with that she went into the bathroom. I slumped into my chair. This was so troublesome.
The nurse interrupted my thoughts
"I'm very happy that you decided to visit Utau-chan. In all of my time of helping out Amu I have never seen her that happy before."
I had to agree with that. If I had lost the memories of everything that was important to me, I honestly don't know if I could be as strong as Amu is. To reply to the nurse I nodded.
"Thank you for letting me take Amu out. It seems like she really needs it."
The nurse just smiled at me, and Amu came out of the bathroom. Amu even to me, looked really cute. She was wearing her hair down with her original and unique cross hair clips on each side, and was wearing a red top with a black bunny design in the middle, with a short black vest over it. With that she was wearing a red see through petticoat with black skinny jeans underneath it with black flats on her feet. She grabbed my hand and said
"Ready to go Utau-chan?"
The nurse replied for me saying
"Not yet. Wait here for a second."
A few minutes later the nurse came back pushing a wheel chair.
"Amu, I know you feel healthy, but I need you to sit in this for your outdoor visit. Sorry, but I' m going on a limb to even let you go out that far."
Amu was so happy that she did not seem to care, she happily plopped into the wheel chair and looked at me with eyes filled with excitement.
"Let's go, Utau-chan!"
I mentally sighed and started to push the wheel chair towards the elevator. I then realized, that us being out of the hospital, completely alone, is exactly the time I could tell her about Easter and Ikuto! Smiling to myself I got the wheel chair inside the elevator and watched as the numbers slowly ticked down. I have to bring this up gently..I have to make sure it's all said correctly. Stupid Gozen giving me this kind of job..I pushed little Amu outside the elevator and out the big hospital sliding doors. With the nurse waving good bye to us we strolled carefully down to the pastry shop. Amu was not talking, just was looking at everything. She was so excited for going a few steps..Jeez, it's like she has never been out in the world before. When we finally got into the pastry shop, I was surprised to find a table already set up for a wheelchair.
The waitress came over to us with a smile and said
"Here, please make yourselves comfterble."
Amu just smiled and I nodded. This was a bit suspicious...
A minute or two later the waitress came back and whispered into my ear
"A message from Gozen: I hope that the friendship act is going well."
My eyes widened. Gozen did plan this! I tried to calm myself and looked her straight in the eyes.
"Tell him to back off and he will see the advancements himself."
She laughed softly and said:
"Remember, Easter is a huge company. You never know who is working for them."
When Amu looked at the two of us weirdly, the waitress just laughed and smiled at Amu handing her a menu.
"Please choose anything you like! It's a free all you can eat day! Enjoy yourselves."
Amu looked up at her with a grin
"Really?!"
The waitress nodded and Amu started reading all of the options. I stared at my menu. The nurse letting us out, everything..It was all a set-up! Did he think I was going to back-out?! We are being watched..he is going to know everything I say to her. He probably had that nurse listening in earlier as well..I felt a gaze and I looked up to find Amu staring at me looking worried.
"Are you alright Utau-chan?"
Fake being happy Utau. You can't have her worrying about you!
"I'm fine! I was just day dreaming a bit! What do you want to get Amu, the Strawberry Parfait looks delicious!"
She stared at me for a minute and then smiled
"It does look good! Let's order two of those!"
The waitress appeared out of nowhere.
"So, two Strawberry Parfaits then?"
Amu grinning replied
"Yes!"
As the waitress was taking down the order she threw a small wad of paper onto my lap. She smirked and walked off to the chief.
The note read:
Get on with the plan. We don't have a whole year you know?! Remember, I am watching you're moves, so choose what you are going to tell her wisely.
-Gozen.
I crumpled the paper up in my fist. Stupid Stupid Stupid! He is horrible! The waitress came back with our two parfaits which Amu replied to
"Let's eat them all up Utau-chan!"
I picked up my spoon and started eating. He's pressuring me to get this all done so fast..I looked up at Amu. She was scarfing down her parfait like there is no tomorrow.
"Hey Amu-chan."
She looked up from eating.
"What is it, Utau-chan?"
My stomach churned.
"I need to talk to you about something important."
She looked me straight in the eyes.
"Have you seen a man with blue cat ears?"
Amu dropped her spoon and put two fingers to her lips. Her cheeks went red and her eyes saddened.
She slowly responded with "Yes..I've seen him.."
I kept looking at her eyes.
"That man name is Ikuto, and he is our enemy."
Amu's eyes widened.
"Eh?"
To Be Continued..
Hope you like it!!! :)
