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Curious Cats Can Fall in Love

Chapter 7

Ikuto's POV

Amu, my Amu, had just told Utau that we are boyfriend and girlfriend. I felt like my heart was going to leap out of my chest. I couldn't help but smile widely.

Utau and Amu had a glaring contest.

I, on the otherhand, continued to grin from ear to ear.

Utau let out a huff before turning on her heels and heading back to her seat.

Amu let out a sigh of relief as she plopped herself into her chair. Then she turned her head towards me, glaring. "Why are you grinning?"

"Amu is my girlfriend, no?" I ask smiling still.

She puckered her lips and glared at her desk, crossing her arms across her chest. "I don't know what came over me to say that. That was totally out of my character. Besides, I love Tadase, not you."

"Oh." I say looking at the floor, my happiness fading.

"But, I did tell Utau that I was dating you, and rumors have probably reached half of the school already, so..."

I perk up slightly. "So...?"

"So I guess, just at school, we can... fake date." Amu's face turned slightly pink.

I smiled widely. "Fake... date."

"Yeah, pretend. So we wouldn't actually be a couple, just look like one."

I nodded my head in understanding. Fake dating huh? So its not exactly what I wanted, but that does mean I get to be closer to Amu and I find it one step closer to winning her over.

"Amu, Ikuto, could you please stop flirting for one second to pay attention to class?" The teacher asked.

Amu's face turned a darker shade of red as she turned slowly back to face the board.

I smirked, turning to the board, resting my chin on my hand.

Kukai's POV

Class had ended and I was heading to soccer practice.

That was when I saw her, the new girl.

She walked with a bounce to her step. Her long golden curls boucing along with her. She looked over at me, our eyes met for a milisecond, before she headed over to the soccer field and sat down on the metal bleachers.

I jogged over to the field and lined up with the rest of the team, next to Ikuto.

I would look over ever so often at her during practice.

Ikuto's POV

I arrived at soccer practice and stood next to my team.

Kukai arrives not long after me.

I notice him glance off to the side. I follow his gaze to see Utau.

Then Coach starts to talk to us and I readjust my gaze to him.

Soon we are doing drills, running around cones, kicking soccer balls at eachother, practicing making goals, more running, etc.

Coach decides to make us run laps as a way of training and torture.

As we run around the track on the football field I notice that Kukai had been staring an aweful lot at Utau.

"Kukai... like Utau...?" I ask between breaths.

Kukai looked at me wide eyed. "Me...? Her...? NOooOo! I don't like her... just wondering... why she is... here."

"Sure. Okay." I say and then speed off lapping everyone.

"Ikuto!" Kukai shouts after me. "I don't like her like that! Really!"

After Soccer practice ended I headed straight to tennis practice.

I noticed Utau watching from behind the gate.

We drilled for a bit before practicing matches against each other. We will be going up against another school soon so he had us practice matches by going against each other. This is also how he decided how to rank us.

"Guys, huddle up!" He called.

We all stopped what we were doing and jogged over to him.

"I have decided our ranks. Ikuto, you will be our first singles player..." He listed off everyone else's rank too.

After Tennis I went to my last sport, Basketball.

There, I met up with Kukai again.

Also, Utau sat in the wooden gym bleachers, watching. It was starting to weird me out.

"Okay guys, we have a match tomorow so we have to practice hard today." Coach threw the ball to me. "Ikuto, you are our main shooting guard and Nagihiko, our main point Guard. Kukai, you will be our small foreward." He gave everyone else their positions as the other forewards and centers.

Kukai high-fived me. "Yeah dude!" He exclaimed.

I smirked proudly. "Yeah, cool."

So we get going, practicing for tomorows game.

That's when I hear a small cry, slowly getting louder.

Soon all the boys look at each other confused.

"WAHHHH!" The gym doors swing open and in comes a flying Amu, her arms flailing about her. "Stop!" She yelled.

Soon she starts to fall.

"AMU!" I run towards her and then leap foreward, catching Amu in my arms as we fall to the ground.

I shake my head, readjusting my focus, and then find Amu sitting on my stomach, confused.

A small pink figure floats out from behind Amu. It looked a lot like Yoru. It was as small as him and it floated too. This one was a girl though with pink hair like Amu's and sporting a tennis outfit. "Amu-chan!" She exclaimed.

Kukai jogged over to us. "Amu! Dude! You have a chara!"

Then we hear something rolling on the floor. We look over to see two more eggs.

"THREE CHARAS! Tadase needs to know about this! Come on!" Kukai lifted Amu off of me and pulled us to the gym doors.

"AND WHERE DO YOU TWO THINK YOU ARE GOING?" Coach yelled.

"Its an emergency! Don't worry we will be ready for tomorow!" Kukai yelled on the way out.

"...They better be.... Well? What are you doing standing around? Get back to practice!"

Amu's POV

Kukai drags us through a garden to a large glass house.

I stared in awe, the closer we got the more I found it amazingly beautiful.

The doors to the glass house opened and we were blinded by a white light.

I covered my eyes with my arm that was not currently being pulled. When my eyes adjusted I let out a small, "Wow." The place was more beautiful on the inside than on the outside. Flowers were everywhere, all different kinds too. A small stream circled the place and in the center of it all was a large table under a gazebo. Sitting at the table, wearing plaid capes that matched our school uniforms was Tadase, Yaya, Rima, and Nagihiko.

"Tadase! I think I have found you your new Joker!" Kukai pushed me foreward.

"Amu!" Tadase said smiling. "You have a chara? That's wonderful!"

"Not just one, show him Amu." Kukai motioned for me to pull out my eggs and I did as told.

"Amu, do you know what this means?" He asked.

I shook my head no.

"It is said that a person who wields three charas will be the one to bring us peace."

Ikuto and I looked at him confused. "Peace?"

"We are the Guardians and we bring people's eggs back to them and turn x eggs back to regular. Sadly, we have not been able to turn the eggs back to normal, until now, here take this." He hands me a lock.

"What do I do with this?" I ask confused.

"Trust me, when the time comes, you will know." He then reached for something around his neck and pulled out a matching key. "This is mine, and when the time is right, with the right pair, they will fit together."

"What happens when they fit?" I ask.

"No one is sure because it has yet to happen, but now that you are here Amu I am sure we can figure it out." He smiled his pricely smile at me.

I melt at his smile, Ikuto catching me with his hands. "So princely..."

"PRINCE?" He yelled. That threw Ikuto and I off. "I'm no meer prince! I'm king I tell you! KING! BUAHAHAHA!"

"Lets get out of here before he does something stupid." Kukai said sneaking towards the door.

"You! Peasant!" Tadase yelled pointing at Kukai. "Where do you think you are going? You are to serve me! BUAHAHAHA!"

Soon Kukai and Nagihiko were massaging his feet and shoulders while Yaya was feeding him grapes.

Rima sat off to the side, taking no part in it, drinking tea and reading a gag-book.

Ikuto and I stared in confusion. Tadase was like a totally different person.

Then, he went back to normal and Kukai, Nagihiko, and Yaya went back to their chairs.

"What was that?" I exclaim.

"That was Tadase's chara, Kiseki. Tadase is the King, the leader of our group." Kukai explained. A small chara came out and started demanding things. He looked a lot like a king.

Soon five other charas flew in from different areas and next to their owners.

"This is Pepe-chan!" Yaya exclimed happily as she gestured to her chara that looked like a baby.

"Hi i'm Temari." The female chara said in a very polite manor.

"Yo! I'm Rhythm!" The other was a boy, similar to the female, but wore more sportsy clothes and had headphones around his neck.

"Those are my charas." Nagihiko said, slightly embarassed.

"Kukukuku!" I looked over to see a chara that looked like a clown next to Rima, laughing at something. "I'm Kusukusu! Rima's chara!"

A sportsy one with spikey hair floated next to Kukai. "This is Daichi he's my chara, obviously. Haha."

"Yo!" Daichi said giving a thumbs up.

"So what do you say Amu? Will you join the guardians?" Tadase asked.

They all looked at me expectantly. "Um... can I have a day to think about it?"

"Sure Amu. Meet here tomorow, same time."

Ikuto's POV

The day had ended, Amu and the others went home. When I knew eveyone was gone, I blew the whistle and turned back to my original self. I ran back to the house and entered through the way I left.

"Welcome home Ikuto." Amu's mother greeted me with a stroke of her hand on my back.

I ran upstairs to Amu's room who was yelling into her pillow, frustrated.

"Mrow." I try to get her attention, and it works. Amu looks up from her pillow and down on the ground at me.

"Hey Ikuto." She lets out an exasperated sigh. Then she pulls out the lock from under her pillow and turns onto her back, staring the lock over.

I jump onto her bed and paw at the lock.

She lets out a small giggle.

Ran flys over to us. "Amu! I had so much fun today! So, are you going to join them?"

"I don't know Ran, I just don't know..."

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