Morg: Heyo! I'm updating! :D

Ikuto: You should've been updating a long time ago.

Amu: Naw, she doesn't need to update so much.

Morg: Aw, come on Amu! You know you like it!

Ikuto: She thoroughly enjoys everything I do to her.

Amu: I do not!

Morg: Don't yell at me! I don't own anything!

~Alone With You~

Amu was the first to open her eyes. Being snuggled up to Ikuto was keeping her warm, but the fact that they were snuggling in some sort of hut like building was also a huge help. Moving sluggish due to the tough shape her body was in, Amu sat up without letting go of her lover to get a better view of the place. Just as she was starting to relax, a growl sounded from outside the makeshift door.

"What's the matter, Yoru? Is someone waking up?"

Even if she'd tried, Amu couldn't have laid down fast enough to pretend like she was still sleeping. Right after the words met her ears, a girl entered the hut. Their eyes met and for a few seconds neither moved. "Um… Hello?"

A small wolf like creature entered the hut to sit at the other girl's feet. Amu let her eyes shift from the red head to the beast beside her. The redhead also looked down at the wolf at her feet. "This is Yoru. He's my maned wolf. I raised him, so you don't have to worry about him hurting you."

(AN: Check this animal out! Actually exists and they are like tall foxes! Super cute!)

"That's nice. What's your name and what are we doing here?"

A low growl sounded, but the girl ignored it. "My name is Michelle. Call me Mi-chan if you want. You're here because if I would have left you out there you would have died."

Amu felt bad for her sudden bout of rudeness, but she needed answers considering that people were after them so they could separate them. "Do you have any idea who we are?"

Mi-chan stared at the girl for several seconds, racking her memory for any reason to know anyone besides Yoru and that boat captain that wouldn't leave her alone. "No. Should I?"

The breath she let loose was one of relief. "No, you shouldn't. We're on the run and I had to ask. Thanks, by the way, for helping us."

The owner of the hut just shrugged her shoulders. "You looked like you needed it and he asked me to help you."

Looking down at the sleeping boy beside her, Amu ran her fingers through his tangled, yet deliciously ruffled blue hair. "Is he going to be alright?"
Sitting herself down on her bed so that she could see the couple, Michelle unconsciously ran her own fingers along Yoru's back. "We'll find out when he wakes up. I gave you both something to drink that would make you sleep. Do you remember?"

Amu shook her head as she watched Ikuto's chest rise and fall with his breathing. "I'm sorry! I'm being so rude! I'm Hinamori Amu and this is Tsukiyomi Ikuto."

"I knew your name was Amu."

"How?"

"He says it in his sleep."

Blushing only slightly, the pinkette looked back down to study Ikuto's sleeping face. He was unbelievably good looking, even if they had been on the run for months with no time to relax. Amu decided it was time for a slight subject change. "So do you have any questions for me?"

Michelle paused her movements and stilled her hand on the top of Yoru's head. The little maned wolf did not like the interruption as he nuzzled her hand to remind Mi-chan to keep doing what she was doing. "No."

Amu couldn't have kept the surprise off her face if she'd tried. "You don't want to know what Ikuto and I are doing in the middle of a jungle?"

Starting her hand in the familiar movements of stroking fur, Michelle shrugged her shoulders. "Not my business. Once you're feeling better, I'll take you to the coast so that you can make it back to wherever you came from."

Still in a slight daze, Amu responded without thinking about what she was saying. "Can't go home. There isn't even a point to leaving this hut, as long as they don't find us."

That piped up Michelle's interest. It was one thing to find two tourists that happened to get lost while strolling carelessly through the jungle. It was another to be hiding people that other people were after, especially when Michelle didn't enjoy any sort of people in the first place. "Hopefully you get better soon."

"Thank you."

"Not being nice, I just don't want more unwanted guests in my home. Two is enough."

Amu was about to retort with something snotty when Ikuto rolled over in his sleep and let out a sigh causing his warm breath to fan across her exposed legs. Amu shivered at the feeling before shaking herself. Michelle was right there and they were in a strange house not to mention another strange country. There would be time to think about the things that Ikuto's breath on her leg made her think about, later. For now she needed to deal with the rude comment that was just thrown in her face. "I doubt that anyone will find us here, especially since you seem to live in the middle of the jungle. How could they find us?"

Michelle shrugged her shoulders and bent forward to inspect something on Yoru's back. "People have ways to finding what they've lost. The rain yesterday washed away most of the evidence as to which way you might have gone, but I could easily track anyone through the trees."

The pinkette doubted that anyone else could, however, she didn't voice that thought as she continued to run her fingers through her lover's hair. Ikuto was still soundly asleep. This situation was very strange to the girl beside him, considering that he was always the first one to wake up. Ikuto was a light sleeper despite the fact that he was currently dead to the world. Amu was fully prepared to take advantage of the little time she could see him this way.

Michelle completely ignored her guests as she patted her best friend on the head. "Shall we go get supper, Yoru? I'm feeling hungry."

The dark furred fox like wolf just stared up at his owner with huge eyes. Michelle chuckled before getting on her feet and crossing her small hut to a few bags hung upon the wall.

Amu watched all of the happen without comment. Michelle proceeded to pull out some potatoes, both sweet and white, before reaching into another bag for some cobs of corn and yet another bag for some vegetables that Amu didn't recognize. "What are you making?"

Staring down at the objects in her hands and those she'd already placed on her crude table, Michelle shrugged. "I usually just throw stuff together until I think it's good enough to eat."

Eyebrows shooting up into her rather messy hair, Amu reluctantly released Ikuto's sleeping form to get to her feet. With a quick sweep of her hands, all of the pink hair was pushed out of her face. "Let me make supper then. I can put it together in ways you haven't tried and I promise it'll taste great."

Eyeing her food bags again, Michelle finally nodded. "Sure, why not. I've got plenty of food for a while so even if you do mess this up, it won't hurt too badly to throw out the bad stuff and start over."

Amu grumbled something under her breath before she moved to look over what was available for her to use. After asking the redhead what some of the eatable items were, the pinkette got to work. There were two knives that she could choose from to cut up their dinner. One rather large one or a smaller dagger like one. Amu chose the dagger like one. Michelle just shrugged.

"Do you have any meat?"

Michelle flicked a few pieces of dirt out from under her finger nails while she thought the question over. "Not anything to put in whatever it is that you're making. Everything I have is dried."

Amu nodded as she went back to putting the diced vegetables in a wooden bowl. "Is this really all you have to cook in? No pots or pans?"
Deadpanning, Michelle didn't answer.

Deciding that it would just be beneficial to ignore the strange jungle girl, Amu turned to where there was a tall jar of water. She poured some in on her vegetables before placing the bowl on the metal rack above the fire. Despite her wealthy upbringing, Amu was quite enjoying cooking in such an undomesticated way. The thought of having to use a fire to heat her food made her grin. Ikuto had promised her some new experiences and the girl had never cooked like this before.

"Tell me why you cut the corn off the cob?"

Amu spun to see Michelle actually paying attention rather than looking bored. "So that the juices will help to give flavor to the other vegetables as they boil together. That's why I didn't put much water in. I want them to steam most of it out and cook in their own juices. This way, they don't burn."

Michelle nodded as she locked the information in her mind. If this dish turned out to taste pretty good then she might want to make it again sometime in the future. That is, if the food that was sizzling away on the fire didn't taste like the dirt it was grown out of. "How do you know how much of each to put in?"

"I don't. I just base it off what I know I like and what I know Ikuto likes. I assumed that you liked the things you got out since you got them out, so I just made them in a way I knew tastes good. You can change the recipe however you want to."

Before Michelle could respond, a light groaning came from the sleeping lump that was Ikuto. He shuffled around more and Amu watched as one of his arms stretched out to where she'd been laying. His fingers rubbed around in the empty space beside him before Ikuto sat up in a hurry. His body swayed as his sleepy eyes frantically searched for his missing girlfriend. "Amu?"

Doing her best not to giggle, and thanking whatever stars had allowed her to wake up before him to see him this way, Amu moved towards the still searching Ikuto. "I'm right here."

Apparently she got too close. Ikuto's hands shot out to lock around her wrists and Amu was flung forwards into his embrace. Lanky limbs hugged her tight against a firm chest. Despite his need of a shower, Ikuto still had his usually musky scent and it filled her nostrils.

Closing his eyes now that he knew Amu was safe, Ikuto just relished in the feel of her being alive and in his arms. The worry that had plagued him in his sleep had been almost unbearable. "Don't do that to me!"

Her words came out muffled do to the fact that her face was pressed hard into his chest. "Do what? Get out of bed first?"

"Yes! Don't do that!"

Sighing might have been a mistake. Amu felt Ikuto's body tense up a little after she released her breath against his skin. Well, payback is a bitch. "Ikuto, I'm cooking supper. You have to let me go."

Reluctantly, the blue haired man let mostly go of his lover. He kept a hold of one of her hands as she moved to leave him sitting on their bed, which was just the floor. "I don't see why she can't cook the food. This is her house."

Amu sighed as she turned her head away from the pouting boy to roll her eyes. "Yes, well, Michelle might let us stay longer if we help her out with some stuff. We can't just stay here for free. Besides, she saved our lives. The least I could do would be to make her supper."

Ikuto growled lowly before pulling Amu back towards him. With her staring down into his eyes, he planted a kiss on the knuckles that he still held. "Fine, but only because I love you."

Michelle watched the whole exchange with a strange look on her face. It was partly indifference and partly amusement. As if she couldn't decide whether she wanted to laugh or just gag. "I'm Michelle. This is Yoru. You're Ikuto and she's Amu. Is the food done yet?"

With both of her hands at her disposal, and her head feeling slightly lighter due to Ikuto's recent profession of love, Amu pulled the cooked vegetables off the fire and moved to set the hot bowl down on the table. "Yes. Let them cool for a few minutes and dig in."

With her job done, Amu did the only thing she could think to do. She practically jumped into Ikuto's lap and snuggled up into his chest with his arms wrapped tight around her lithe body. He chuckled as she settled in, but didn't move to make a comment. Though he didn't say it, Ikuto was just as content to have her in his arms as she was to be in them.

Michelle ignored everything and grabbed a slightly smaller bowl to pull some vegetables out for herself and Yoru. They moved to sit outside of the hut to eat in peace and to give the newly awakened couple some time to be together without an audience. The first thing Ikuto did when the blanket was more covering the doorway was crush his lips to Amu's. She kissed him back with just as much vigor until they couldn't breathe and had to pull apart for oxygen.

With her lips now bruised and a look of want on her face, Amu pushed away from the grip that held her so tightly. "We can't do that right now. Not in Michelle's house. We've been able to make it this long since Spain. What are a few more hours?"

"Hell. That's what they are. Every moment since I was last able to hold you has been hell."

Ikuto released a breath that sent his bangs flying up from his face so that the girl he wanted nothing more than to ravish could see his pained look. Amu giggled a little before leaning in to place a light kiss on his lips. "I know. It isn't like it's any easier for me. I feel just as tormented about this as you do."

The look on his face was one of disbelief. "If that were true then you'd be raping me."

Amu swatted his shoulder before pushing out of his arms. "Come on, let's eat and then see if Michelle can show us where a lake or stream or something is to get cleaned up."

"I like the sound of that."

Squealing as Ikuto pinched her ass, Amu hurried to grab some of the remaining food and left to join Michelle outside. The redhead was sitting not too far away and sharing her food with her tall fox like animal. "Michelle, is there anywhere nearby that Ikuto and I can rinse off and wash our clothes?"

The happily munching girl paused her movements to think over the question. "Sure, but don't pee in the water. In fact, do release any bodily fluids into it unless you want the bacteria to enter your bodies that way and kill you."

The lovers just stared at the girl that didn't show any emotion as she told them that they could die by being in the water. She just waited patiently for one of them to say something before Amu finally nodded that she understood.

Ikuto shook his head before looking to the side. The jungle was quick to meet circle in on the hut, so Michelle didn't live in a meadow or a clearing. She literally just lived in the middle of the jungle. "So what made you decide on this lovely location to live?"

Michelle stared down at Yoru before looking back up at Ikuto and Amu. "I don't like people."

If they thought that she was going to continue, they were sadly mistaken. That's all Michelle had to say about that subject and there was nothing that they could do to make her continue on with it. Amu just nodded her head and sat down. She pulled Ikuto down with her so that they could share the food left in the bowl. After munching in silence for a few moments, Ikuto decided to ask another question. "So how many people do you actually know?"

Michelle stared at him for a moment and he thought she was actually counting off her acquaintances. "Counting you two?" She waited for Ikuto to nod his head before she continued. "Three."

Amu's hand paused on the way to her mouth. "Three? You only know three people and we're two of them?"

"That's what I said."

Ikuto started chuckling before putting a soothing hand on Amu's shoulder. "It's okay Amu, its not like she has a lot of neighbors to socialize with. Who's the third?"

Michelle shrugged like she didn't care to know the third person. "Some boat captain that can't seem to leave me alone whenever I'm in town."

Amu calmed down a little at that. "So you know people. Like store owners and whatnot."

Michelle scrunched up her forehead as she thought it over. "No, I don't go into any stores or anything like that. Sometimes I just happen to wander too close to town and he's seen me so he knows I exist and so one time he decided to start talking to me. The man has a lot of energy. Took me forever to shake him off."

Ikuto full out started laughing. "I can't believe that we're on the run and ended up with such a nonsocialable person! This is better than a deserted island!"

Amu smacked her lover before turning back to Michelle. "Well you have me as a friend now, so don't worry."

Michelle looked down at Yoru in confusion before glancing back up at the pinkette smiling warmly at her. "I wasn't worried."

Amu deadpanned again.

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Morg: There ya go! A long chapter to make up for the fact that I haven't updated in a while.

Ikuto: Could have been longer!

Amu: I think it was just fine!

Morg: Don't worry! The next chapter is already planned out so I should be updating it hopefully later this weekend. Depends on how much Mi-chan begs me.

Ikuto: That's evil. I like it.

Amu: You're both stupid. Reviews will make you update sooner.

Morg: No they don't. Though, they are highly appreciated!