Morg: Heyo!

Ikuto: No excuses!

Amu: Just write the damn thing.

Morg: I'm sorry!

Ikuto: Nope.

Amu: You own nothing.

~Alone With You~

Making their way to Spain had been fun. Running with the bulls, yeah! Unfortunately, during their little sightseeing adventure, they'd been spotted and had to hide on a large tanker. The best part was it carried them, unknowingly, to Brazil. Ikuto had never been happier in his life.

Amu on the other hand couldn't figure out what had just happened. Several weeks out at sea while hiding from the crew on the ship so they wouldn't be discovered had been fun. Eating whatever they could find was not. She was ready for some real food. Since she and Ikuto had to literally jump out of the ship and swim to shore after it finally made port, she was famished. Hungry and tired. Hungry, tired and wet. Amu was ready for a nice bed and a relaxing bath.

People scurried around them as they went about their business. Amu's eyes were practically popping out of her sockets. Not only people but all types of livestock too. Llamas and goats mostly but she could see a cow here or there. Everyone looked just as dirty as she and Ikuto were. If not for their oddly colored hair, Amu was certain that they'd blend in all too well.

Ikuto knew that his girlfriend wasn't going to like what he was about to propose. Chances were that they'd managed to get out of Spain without anyone realizing where they went, but there was always the chance that someone had seen them get on the ship. What he really wanted for them was a private island that absolutely no one else knew about. Somewhere where it could be just him and her all the time without any stupid interruptions. The boat had been fun but that was several weeks of no sex. Sure there had been some touching but it was too risky to be caught in the act.

Amu turned to her blue haired lover bent on getting him to take her to a nice hotel. The words never left her mouth as her eyes flickered from his face to where several men were shoving people out of the way as they advanced towards where she and Ikuto were standing. Amu gasped and only had to point at the advancing men before Ikuto took a hold of her arm and dragged her off through the crowd. "H-how did they find us? We only just got here!"

Ikuto didn't have an answer for that. He knew that it was likely that they figured it out sometime during the weeks that he and Amu were crossing the ocean. The small hope that he had to hide them swiftly had flown out the window the moment he saw his pinkette's mouth drop. "We were on that boat for a long time, Amu. I figured this might happen. We've got to get out of here."

Tossing her head from side to side as she searched for an escape route, Amu found none. The jungle closely boarded the small town on every side except for where the ocean sat. "Maybe we could lose them in the trees."

"We'd lose us in the trees."

"I don't mean go into the jungle! I mean, go into the trees a little way and circle back around to the other side of the town and figure out how to get the hell out of here!"

Sighing because he knew it was a good plan, Ikuto sharply yanked Amu a few feet to the right to put them behind a couple of trees. They moved further into the jungle before starting their way around the outskirts of the village. A couple of times they had to hide amongst the leaves and let their pursuers go by.

Their path through the jungle took them several hours to make it to the other side of the town whereas if they'd been free to just walk through the town it would have taken roughly thirty minutes. Either way they made it. Ikuto managed to find someone who spoke the same language and he trade for a rather beat up looking jeep, but it ran. And run they did.

Amu and Ikuto took off down the worn road as they hurried on their way. The nice hotel and bath and even food would have to wait until they got to the next town. Unfortunately, they never made it. The jeep was too old.

"This is all your fault."

"My fault! How is it my fault?"

"You're the one that traded for that piece of junk and now we have to walk."

"Stop your bitching and pick up your feet. I'm just making sure you don't get fat."

If it wouldn't take her several extra steps to make her way over to that stupid boy and slap his smug face, Amu would have done it in a heartbeat. But he was all the way over there and she was all the way not. "I'll show you bitching!"

"Amu, be careful over there."

"You be careful! I'm a big girl, Ikuto! I can take care of myself!"

Before the blue haired teen had a chance to respond, his girlfriend was gone in a blur of pink and a scream that slowly faded into the distance. His life just slipped over the edge of a very high cliff.

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"I'll show you bitching!"

Amu looked down at her feet as she stomped them a couple of times to release some of her frustration. Of course, he couldn't just let it drop. No, Ikuto had to go and make another comment to her. "Amu, be careful over there."

She wasn't some baby or toddler! She knew how to freaking walk! "You be careful! I'm a big girl, Ikuto! I can take care of myself!"

The last stomp with her words was what made the ground give way. Everything was moving so fast out from under her that all Amu had time to do was scream. Scream she did. All the down the muddy slope. There were leaves and trees and other plants that she tried to grab onto to stop her quick descent but they slipped right out of her fingers. A couple of them actually cut her. Amu didn't stop screaming though.

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Ikuto knew she was still alive. She was still screaming and that was a good sign. There was only one way after her and he hoped to God that this idea worked. Without thinking about anything else, Ikuto threw himself down the muddy slide that Amu had created.

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She didn't think that she was going to stop. There was no possible way. Amu was certain that she was going to fall forever. And if she didn't, then the bottom was sure to kill her. Maybe she was going to shoot off the muddy slope and hit a giant pile of boulders. Ikuto would eventually find a way down and find her mangled body. He'd move on, he was too beautiful not to.

Her descent only lasted about five minutes but it felt like a lifetime to the pinkette. It wasn't a pile of boulders that awaited her at the bottom; however, it was a quicksand trap. She flew right over it though to land on solid ground. She wouldn't have even known it was there if Ikuto hadn't come sliding down just a moment after she hit the harder ground to slip right into the trap.

Panicking is never what should happen when the one you love is in quicksand, but Amu didn't see any other option. "Oh shit! Oh Shit! How do I get you out? Ikuto! Ikuto! What should I do! Oh my God! Don't die! Don't sink! Stop sinking! Oh shit!"

"Amu, calm down. Amu. Amu. Amu!"

The pinkette froze in the middle of her frenzy to look at the boy she loved as he sunk a few inches deeper into the liquid sand. "Y-yes?"

"Do you see that tree branch over there? I want you to grab it and put it in front of me. I'm going to grab it with my hands and you are going to pull me out."

Amu looked from Ikuto to where the branch sat on the ground. It was long enough for her to get it to him but… "Aren't you too fat? I mean, won't you just pull me in? I'm not strong enough to pull you out!"

Sighing as if he was in the pit by choice, Ikuto nodded as if she was right. "No, you have a valid point. Well then you can decide. Let me pull you in here so we can die together or just watch me sink slowly until the sand fills my lungs and I suffocate."

Amu frowned as she stared at her lover. She didn't want him to die alone and she knew that if she let him then something else in the jungle was more than likely to get her. "I don't like either of those options!"

Ikuto tried to stay calm as another bubble of air came up through the sand and made his body sink just a few inches more. "Then grab the fucking branch and pull me out!"

Amu didn't waste another second as she scrambled to grab the branch and hold it out for him. Ikuto grabbed a hold and hoisted himself a little further out of the sand. It was going to take him weeks to get ride of all of it considering he could feel where it was hiding on and in his body. "Now back up so that I don't pull you in. Yep, you pull me out. I'm not going to pull at all. Good work Amu. Yep, that's it. Good girl."

She was doing it, she was rescuing him and she wasn't going to die too. Amu almost had him out. Just his ridiculously long legs were left to pull out and Ikuto was now helping her by using one of his hands to push against the solid ground. Just a little bit further and he'd be free.

Amu almost let out a shout of excitement as Ikuto got to his feet. His body was dripping with sand but she let him hug her anyways. It wasn't as if she wasn't already covered in mud and muck.

"See all the awesome stuff we get to do when we're together?"

Amu looked around the jungle. There was no way that they'd be able to go back the way they came and climb back up the hill they'd fallen all the way down. She looked at Ikuto and then at herself. Both of them covered and wet and she knew that it was more than likely going to get a little chillier as the sun went down. "Yes Ikuto, I do see. We're lost in the middle of the fucking jungle with no extra clothes and no shelter. This is definitely what I'd call a 'fun time'."

Ikuto smirked as he wrapped his arms around his girl. "But we're together."

Damn him and his closeness making her feel all warm and tingling inside and the way that he whispered that into her ear. Damn him! "Well, at least we have that going for us."

She had to say it. She had to fucking say it. Thunder sounded just as she hugged him back and rain was soon to follow. Ikuto knew right then and there that they needed to get away from where they were because it was more than likely about to turn into a river. "Come on!"

Amu allowed her lover to pull her away from the quicksand and through some trees. "Do you know where you're going?"

"No, but we have to start going in one direction or another. Why not this one?"

Amu couldn't argue with that. It wasn't as if she had a better idea, so together they stormed their way through the trees and undergrowth. Every once in a while they stopped to catch their breaths beneath a larger tree before the water broke through their shelter and they had to start moving again. At least all of the dirt was washed away.

Eventually the rain stopped, but Amu and Ikuto didn't. They pressed on until their bodies were too tired to move any further. Ikuto pulled up his pinkette so that she was snuggled to his chest as they lay on the jungle floor. Sleep was quick to take them and he prayed that they'd survive until morning.

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Something was poking him. Something rather sharp was poking him.

"They must be alive still, Yoru. They are breathing."

Was that growling that he heard? Who was the woman talking?

"I know, I know, but I can't just leave them here. If they die then they'll make this area of the forest smell and their bodies will attract animals that we don't want here."

Slowly, Ikuto managed to open on of his eyes to take in a young girl standing before him. Her hair was longer than long and braided into two braids down her back. The tips dragged several inches behind her. Instead of clothes, she wore animal hides and feathers. Her red hair and her clothes weren't what shocked him the most. The crazy jungle girl seemed to be talking to an animal. One she called Yoru.

"Please, help."

Those were the only two words that Ikuto managed to get out before his sight went dark again. Just before he lost all consciousness, he heard her speak one more time. "Well what am I going to do now?"

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Ikuto: You dork!

Amu: Who is that?

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Ikuto: You can't tell?

Amu: What?

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