Kira: Alrighty, so now we shall see what goes on in our friend, Ikuto's mind...Oooo...mysterious...
Ikuto: You're lame, you know that?
Kira: What was that buzzing in my ear? Hmm...must of been a bug. ANYWAYS...In this chapter, you will know why Ikuto was mad.
Amu: Oh who cares about that guy?
Ikuto: I care about that guy, thank you very much.
Amu: Kira? What was that buzzing in my ear?
Kira: Hm. That's what I thought. Amu, the honors?
Amu: Kira doesn't own Shugo Chara and she thanks you for the reviews!
It's true...*sigh* I don't own Shugo Chara...:(
Ikuto
That was the worst thing I ever did. Fake liking-no, loving her? Yea, as if. God I just hope she just forgives me and moves on to that damn bastard Kai like her mother wanted her to.
Oh how that name just disgusts me like vile in the back of my throat.
The reason I did it? Well, it went a little something like this.
Flashback
I walked out to the streets from Amu's house right after I left her alone with her sister. I felt bad, I really did and I wanted to comfort her, but she needs some room. Besides, she looked kind of relieved in a way when I left her alone. Just not in a bad way, I hope.
Anyways, as I was walking down the steps that leads to her cabin, I passed her mother. As I passed her with my usual relaxed, hands-in-pocket stance, she grabbed my arm and glared at me with those piercing icy eyes. I was confused. Amu's mom and I usually got along just fine although she would sometimes be a little tense around me. But this time, she seemed as if she was just letting out all her anger for me that she's held in all these years. Of course when I was little, and before all this marriage thing happened, she was always warm to me.
"Listen up, you Tsukiyomi kid. My daughter Amu is happily," She emphasized 'happily, "-married to a young, wealthy, good-looking man and you," She roughly poked my chest, making me stumble back, "-are not going to ruin that. Understand?"
I was about to argue but I knew better.
"Yes Ma'am." I replied curtly, not making any sort of eye contact with her.
She straightened up, fixing her hair and dress.
"Good. Now break Amu's heart and stomp on it so she will go running to Kai for his love." She said smugly. (Okay, this is not Midori. Her dad isn't Tsugumu either. That would just be MAJOR OOC)
I walked away with my fists clenched in anger. I knew I had to do it, but it's going to break my heart as much as it will break Amu's heart. I stalked off to burn off some anger. Then I heard Amu...
End of Flashback
Why does everything have to be so complicated? This is just like any old sappy love story. Romeo and Juliet. The tale of forbidden love. Of course they both die in the end, but...well...yea, I got nothing.
...
"-So we will set off at sundown!" A voice declared, snapping me from my thoughts.
Then I realized where I was.
I was walking away from Amu when a couple of men dragged me to a village meeting. All the men were there. They were making up a plan to kill the wolf. They were saying how they were sick of giving up their best livestock as a sacrifice and how the wolf has finally killed a human being, after all these years. The wolf had been stalking the village for two generations. Or who-knows how many years.
It's a full moon tonight and you know what time that is.
When the wolf is the strongest and comes out to hunt.
Normally, on any old night, the wolf would just hide in its cave, hunting the animals in the forest. But all of those animals are small and scrawny so it aims for the village's livestock. It may kill humans, but it never eats them. Just kills.
"Well maybe we should wait for Father Sanjo." A timid man suggested.
The others roared with laughter.
"We don't need Father Sanjo to help us kill a mere wolf." A buff guy laughed.
"But we must wait. He comes tomorrow!" The small man replied back.
"Psh posh. (lol. Psh posh) We can't wait. The beast must die...TONIGHT!" The crowd went back into a cheering frenzy.
I was on the indoor balcony of the meeting house, swigging whiskey in my mouth from a beer bottle when Amu burst through the doors. She had heard the plan and was shocked. No one noticed because they were cheering. She looked bewildered and mad. She looked around until she spotted me. She glared at me before finding her dad.
"Be careful, Papa." She whispered in her dad's ear and he nodded.
She ran out the door without giving me a second glance.
And somewhere in my heart, I heard a tear.
XxX
At the meeting, they decided that ten men should go. Kai, Kai's dad, Amu's dad, me, and a few other men went. Right now, we were crossing the Dark Woods. We reached a cabin where Amu's grandmother on her dad's side lived. Amu's dad went up the the cabin where Amu's grandmother was waiting.
She gave him a hug and said, "Be careful out there, son. You better come back in one piece."
He smiled.
"Don't worry. The wolf doesn't want me. I'm too scruffy for him." He joked.
She looked at him and smiled back.
"I mean it, son." She said seriously.
They hugged one last time before they parted. He waved to her before jogging back to join the waiting group.
"Have to say good-bye to mommy?" One guy joked.
"Come on guys." He grinned, punching the guy's arm playfully.
XxX
It was getting dark when we reached the cave. We weaved around bones and slid across narrow passageways with our backs to the wall.
Then, we reached a fork in the road.
A fork. Great...
"We should split up and search." I told the rest before stepping down a steep hill.
"No we should not." Kai argued but everyone had already split.
Kai's dad put a hand on his son's should.
"Let's go."
Kai sighed before following his dad.
After searching a while, Kai saw a shadow flicker. He whipped his torch around, trying to locate the beast but found nothing. This time he smelled it and heard it. It was right next to him, right in front of his dad. His dad waved his torch around, trying to scare it away, but the fire went out and Kai heard a blood-curling scream.
I spun around, hearing the loud scream that echoed through the maze. I ran over to where the sound had come from and saw Kai's dad on the floor dead and bleeding.
"It's still here!" One guys shouted, shining his torch on a large wolf.
But it just didn't look right to me. And that was the only thing that was bothering me the whole way back to the village.
XxX
"Here we are. With the beast's head!" The leader of the hunting group declared, raising the stick with the supposed 'werewolf's head on top.
Nonetheless, everyone cheered.
"We must celebrate this accomplishment!" Amu's dad cried.
But everyone immediately quieted down when a death cart passed. The death cart that contained Kai's dad. The priest looked at the rowdy crowd with sad eyes before continuing.
We stayed silent.
"To Naifun, (Kai's dad) who sacrificed himself." Amu's dad said, raising his cup.
"To Naifun." Everyone else copied the move.
Amu
"I heard about your father, Kai. I'm sorry." I whispered to the working man.
He was a blacksmith and he right now, he was hammering at a hot metal bar which was going to be made into a sword later on.
"I know. But could you please leave? I don't want my future wife to see me like this." He muttered, still hammering.
"Your father was a brave man." I continued.
"Yes. I know." He growled, shoving the metal into the burning coal pit, which resulted in hot sparks flying.
"Just...just go. Please." He sighed, wiping the sweat off his forehead with the back of his hands.
I quietly excused myself and went to the village's meeting house where everyone was cheering loudly. There, I saw them shake the 'werewolf's head and dance wildly.
But something seemed really off about that head. It looked too small to be the vicious beast that plagues this huge village.
Then I saw Ikuto leaning against the wall, smirking at the crowd.
A pain went through my heart as I thought about what had happened the day before.
I shook it off and went to my father and hugged him.
"Papa. Are you okay?" I murmured against his chest.
"I'm fine. Now go see your mother, sweetheart" He replied, messing up my hair.
I smiled and went to find my mom. She was at Kai's house, crying over Naifun, Kai's dad. A horrible thought struck me as my gaze met my mother's. She quickly wiped up her tears and ran out of the house.
"Mother...what was that all about?" I asked wearily, although I already knew the answer.
"I know that you know." She muttered.
"Yes, but I want YOU to say it."
She sighed before sitting down on a large boulder, patting the empty space beside her, motioning for me to come sit with her. So I did.
"When I was engaged with your father, I loved another man. Kai's dad. I had learned to love your father but not before..."
"Getting pregnant with Kai's dad." I finished.
She nodded, sniffing and wiping away fresh tears.
"So Keiko was actually Kai's half-sister. That's why I couldn't let Keiko be with Kai."
I scoffed.
"And yet you still force me..." I muttered, chuckling darkly.
She looked at me, confused.
"What if the same happens with Ikuto and Kai. You know I would be willing to do ANYTHING with and for Ikuto and yet you still force me onto some guy that I've known for like an hour. Why? Because of your damn greed. Money. That's all the hell you want. Damn money." I spat.
She got angry.
"AND THAT'S WHY I TOLD IKUTO TO NEVER LOVE YOU AND JUST BREAK YOUR HEART SO YOU WOULD GO RUNNING TO KAI!" She screamed before realizing what she had just said.
"I-I mean-"
"You did what?" I snarled, shooting up and glaring down at her.
"N-no. I didn-"
"Didn't what? You just screamed out the whole story. Good thing I'm not like who you think I am because I was never mad at Ikuto. I've known him long enough to see through his lies. Unlike Kai." Was all I said before turning on my heels, stalking to find Ikuto and demand to know what had happened.
But the sound of horses' hoofs on the cobblestone road stopped me. Meanwhile, a large crowd, made up of all the villagers had gathered around. The horse-drawn carriage in front of me lurched to a stop as two twin knights pulled opened the door and put out a stand in front of it.
Then, one of them announced, "Presenting, Father Sanjo!"
Amu: Father. Sanjo? As in Kairi? Chairman?
Kira: Yea, why not. By the way, most of these character WILL be OOC.
Ikuto: I can tell...
Kira: Oh shut up, cat. You don't belong in this WEREWOLF story.
Ikuto: *hisses and runs away*
Kira: *dusts hands off* Okay, now that that's taken care of...
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