This girl - Hinamori Amu - was actually a very funny girl to be around. Sometimes she would be completely calm and just be content. But at other times, she would suddenly be bursting with energy and hopping all over the place. I found her to be quite amusing.

"So...what about her?" Amu asked snacking on an Oreo. A pretty redhead passed by. She looked up at me and winked.

"I'm not really fond of redheads," I replied.

"Hmm..." she nodded. "What about...her?"

I followed her gaze to a blond sitting across the room. Wait...that was Kūkai's roommate! I frowned at her while she laughed. Ever since we began hanging out, she liked to pick at the fact that I hadn't one girlfriend this year. Oddly enough, I began growing attached to her as the first few weeks flew by.

"Amu..." I growled. We had switched to a first name basis after the first week. I propped my head on the table. "It's not like you've had a fantastic love life yourself."

She finished her Oreo and grabbed another one. "So? I'm ugly and you're hot. There's a difference dummy." She flicked her napkin at me.

I batted it away and leaned towards her. "You're not too bad yourself."

Amu rolled her eyes. "Pfft, whatever."

I inwardly groaned in frustration. Usually when I got that close to a girl they would blush or lose their speech or do something! This entire time I'd been trying to get some sort of reaction out of her but it was like she completely immune to my charm. Well, I'd just try later anyhow. "So, are you going on that trip in the biology class?"

"Biology?" Amu thought for a moment. "Probably not."

"Hmm?" I raised an eyebrow. "Why not?"

"Well...I've got some..." she began fidgeting. Something she did when she was about to lie. "...erm, I've got to practice and stuff."

i exhaled sharply. "You're lying."

"W-what? No, I'm going to be busy..."

"Stop trailing off and just tell me already." I gave her a fierce stare.

She sighed. "Fine. I'm not going because I'll have the chance to finally skate during the day without being judged. There. I said it."

I blinked. Then laughed. "Seriously? That's it?" She crossed her arms and blushed. "Come on, Amu. You can't be that afraid."

She kept silent while I guffawed. "Finished?"

"Alright, alright," I snickered. "I'll stop."

"Ikuto!"

"Alright already!" I said as she flicked an Oreo at me. I caught it in my mouth and winked at her. "I said I'll stop."

"Hmph!" She pouted. I finished the sweet sugar oreo and swallowed. She was just a bit ticked off.

"Gomen...hime-sama." I added in for good measure. She frowned then sighed.

"You're forgiven..." she muttered.

"I'll make it up to you."

Amu rolled her eyes and returned to her usual self. "You don't have to baka."

"Oh, so now you're calling me stupid?" I feigned hurt. "Come now, no need to call names."

"Bleh!" She stuck out her tongue.

"And such childish antics," I tsked. "You're so immature."

"It keeps me out of trouble," she smirked.

"And you're full of it." I started thinking about to get her on that trip. Then an idea popped into my head.

"Today is the last day you may confirm the trip." Mr. Kiyoteru announced to the class. "The trip is on Friday and we'll be gone for about a week. For those who've forgotten, we will be going to a special chemical lab and we can look at their special specimens."

The girls fawned over him in a daze already having confirmed on the first day the trip was announced. He was probably one of the best looking teachers in the entire building. He had dark chestnut brown hair and deep blue eyes framed by wire glasses. But he was extremely handsome and had a wife, Miki. I found it weird for them to be crushing on an incredibly hot married teacher. He focused his eyes on me.

"Miss Hinamori, will you bring going on the trip?"

"M-me? Uh-um...ano..." Was I going? Ikuto confused me on whether I should go or not. I thought I could think about it for a little while longer.

"Well?"

I suddenly felt the strong urge to say yes. "Erm...yes?"

"You sure?" He raised his eyebrow. "You don't sound like it."

"Yes, Mr. Kiyoteru, I will be going." I replied formally. My eyes widened. Since when did I ever say anything like that?

"Good," he nodded and resumed talking to the rest of the class. "Now that this entire class will be going, we'll have to go over the safety rules and whatnot."

I put a hand over my mouth and wrinkled my forehead in confusion. Now I had to go. I didn't want to cancel after class and be surrounded by his weird fangirls. They would probably skin me alive or make me go through some weird ritual to even speak to him. But...I still don't understand why I said yes.

It almost felt like someone pushed that thought into my head or something...but that was impossible! Argh...I've gotta stop staying up all night. I'm sure I must've thought about this before I went to sleep last night. And I've got to stop reading those vampire novels.

"Amu~" I jumped swiveling my head to the side. Ikuto had whispered in my ear sending tingles down my spine. "Class is over."

I shoved his face away with a book. "Oh my god! Don't do that!"

He chuckled. "I did call your name a few times."

"So? Don't try and be all sexual with me!" I started gathering my things and stood to leave.

"I can't help it..." he leaned over again. "If you weren't so attractive, I might be able to stop myself."

We both started out In the hall. "Stop with the flattery." I warned him. Ever since we began hanging out, I quickly realized he liked to refer to my wonderful physique a lot. "It won't work on me."

He harrumphed in defeat. "You're such a blockhead."

"And you're annoying," I retorted.

We continued calling each other names as we went down the hall. I even came to the point of jabbing him in the chest with my finger for emphasis. He kept rolling his eyes then smirking when I paused. He flicked my forehead a few times like I was a child too. I may be a whole head shorter than he was but we were the same age!

"You're so childish," he muttered.

"You did not just say that!" I defended myself. "I am so not childish!"

"Yes, you are!"

"No, I'm not!"

"The fact that you're arguing with me says you are!"

"Ha! The fact that you're retaliating means your childish too!"

"Aha! You just admitted you're childish!"

"I AM NOT CHILDISH!"

And so on and so forth...

By the time we got to our splitting point, he followed me back to my dorm and we continued our pleasant conversation. I don't know how we got so heated but the next thing I know is that we're both glaring at each other silently on the opposite sides of my room. He seems eerily calm, however.

"Hey...Ikuto?"

"Hmm?"

"Do you...ever get the feeling that someone's watching you?"

"All the time."

"Ikuto..."

"What?" He stretched his arms. "When you've got a guy this good-looking..."

"I'm serious!" Though I laughed.

He grinned. "Amu...would you like to go out later?"

"Out?" I repeated. "As in..."

"Friends?" He raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms.

I felt a blush creep up on my cheeks. Of course as friends! What was I thinking? "A-ah...yes."

"What are you thinking about, Hinamori Amu?" He asked softly.

"N-nothing!" I stammered quickly. "Definitely nothing!"

He got up from his side and crossed to mine, leaning towards me. "Did you - " he twirled a strand of my hair, " - have something else in mind?"

I focused on my hair in his hand for a moment then swallowed a few times. "N-no."

He smirked and kissed my hair. I squeezed my eyes shut and pushed him away, not liking where this was going. He stood quietly near the end of the bed as I gathered my wits. My heart sped up a little making blood rush to my face. I pulled a pillow to my chest.

"Stop that." I mumbled, muffled by the cotton. He gently let my hair fall and smiled at me.

"So was that a yes?" He asked with a happy lilt to his voice.

I determined on what to reply. I found him to be quite irritating and even a bit ridiculous at times but...he started to grow on me. His annoyingly sick pervert jokes and (I hated to admit this) dazzling good figure. If only he were butt-ugly I might just consider him to be a good friend. But noooo I just had to pick out the hottest - erm, meanest tease in the whole campus. And he just so happened to want to be my friend. I can't even remember how the hell this happened to me. One moment I was shy as ever then suddenly he plucked me from the ground and began slowly nursing me into some sort of attractive flower. Hell, now I'm going all poetic. Well, now guys are beginning to notice me now at least. I might even get a boyfriend by the end of this term! My sister Ami loves picking on that fact. Much like my habit of picking on Ikuto's love life. Anyway, Ami likes to point out the fact that I don't have a boyfriend and she's had like ten. She's too freakin' young for that type of relationship!

"Amu...?"

Makes me jealous of her cuteness!

"Amu."

I just...grr! It wasn't fair I was raised the way I was! Why did they have to go and call me 'cool 'n spicy' through my years of youthful innocence. It was only my lack of communication and socializing skills! How did they point that to making me a ruthless reputation?

"H-hey..."

"Makes me wanna boil!" I snapped clenching the pillow even tighter. "Arrrggghhh!"

"...no comment."

I flushed. How could I not realize I was acting stupid? Um, excuse...excuse...aha! "You need to leave."

"'Scuse me?" He blinked a few times as if he heard wrong.

"We're not supposed to have guys in our dorms and I don't want my dear old uncle getting pissed off at me so..." I jumped up and gestured to the door. "You should probably get going before someone sees you."

He wrinkled his forehead. "Since when do you play by the rules, Hinamori?"

"I don't," I winked and shoved him out the door, shutting it in his face.

"You didn't answer me," he said through the door. "My question from earlier."

Shoot. And here I'd thought he forgot.

"U-um...yeah." I admitted I sorta wanted to go and spend some relaxing time out. Maybe go see a movie in our theatre near the west end or play games at the arcade at the east end.

Or maybe I just wanted to see him again.

"Good." I could practically see him smile. "The festival's coming up and I can't wait to see you in your yukata."

His chuckles faded as he went down the hall. I gasped in horror. No way! There's a festival? Since when? I ran to my calendar and checked it, immediately noticing the giant red circle marked in two weeks. I clapped my hands to my cheeks.

"Two weeks?"

Oh god, mom please tell me you didn't secretly pack my yukatas...

"Ma-ma!" I whined as I found them hidden and neatly folded in my stowed away suitcase. The cotton and silk sat in my suitcase as if planted by an evil demon.

My winter yukata had dark blue streaks running up and down next to the other white and light blue ones. A small pink and white obi had been tucked away with care along with a metal lotus hair accessory. My summer one was a fiery red silk covered with colorful cherry blossoms and small dragons flying around. It was lined with smooth black silk that matched the white and lavender bow tied around the waist. You get the picture, right?

"How could I forget?"

[A/N] So I understand people are confused. The first chapter is like a prologue or a prequel if you must. It happened before the present time and now he's met her descendant. Then I introduced Amu and Ikuto as well as his friend Kūkai. (I'm in love with Ikuto and Kūkai if you haven't noticed XD) but I hope I cleared things up. Sorry to be confusing! Sayonara! Thanks for reading!

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