The morning light broke through the gap in Ikuto's curtains and gently woke up him and his Chara from their peaceful slumber. Ikuto got out of bed first as Yoru was definitely not a morning person. He did his usual morning things like having breakfast, brushing his teeth and having a shower. While he was sitting down in the lounge room Yoru slowly floated over still tired with a massive bruise on his head…

"Wow… You really did bump your head pretty hard… or was that from my sister?" Ikuto calmly said as he noticed Yoru trying hard to contain himself.

"Shut up Ikuto… Because of your stupid sister and the ceiling I will have a huge bruise on my head for another 2 weeks!" Yoru shouted as he flew towards the front door.

'Come on Ikuto, Didn't you want to go out today?" He said calmly when he found that shouting made his headache even worse.

"Yeah… Let's go" Ikuto murmured as he hauled himself off the couch and walked towards the front door.

As the midday sun was beating down on their faces, Ikuto and Yoru walked towards the train station and quickly hid as Ikuto spotted his pink haired nemesis, Amu Hinamori. She was mucking around with a blonde male who was around the same age as her.

'Is that… Hitori Tadase?'

Amu seemed to be having a wonderful time as she got on the train with her friend and headed towards the opposite direction of Tokyo, which was convenient for Ikuto who didn't want to be talking to her for a 20 minute train ride. Ikuto noticed something shiny on the platform that caught his eye.

"Yoru, do you see that shiny thing on the floor… could you go pick it up for me?' Ikuto asked as his eyes were still fixated on the object.

"Yeah sure but what do you want it for?" Yoru questioned as he flew over and picked up the object.

The shiny object that caught Ikuto's eye was a charm from Amu's tartan bracelet that Kairi bought her. he put it in his pocket and just as he did the train rolled up that was heading towards Tokyo Station.

The train ride seemed longer than 20 minutes as they slowly moved towards their destination. They got off and moved towards the station exit and turned down the quiet street that the barber was located. Of course Ikuto was feeling uneasy about getting his hair cut because of the bet they had made the previous night. But even though that bet was made he sat down and resisted to play with the scissors while the barber was cutting his fringe. Unfortunately his instincts cut in at the worst time and he started to play with, not the scissors, but a piece of string that was tied around the barbers arm.

'Dammit… Yoru is not going to let me forget this… But it's so fun!'

Fortunately, Yoru didn't notice that Ikuto's attention had been turned to the invading piece of string attached to the barber's arm, while Yoru's attention was fixed on some fish sticks on display in a food stall across the road. Ikuto's hair cut was completed and Yoru kept pestering Ikuto to get some of the fish sticks while Ikuto was paying the man for his trim. Ikuto gave in and headed over, not because of Yoru's nagging but because he was hungry too.

It was mid afternoon by the time Ikuto had his hair cut and done everything he usually does on a Saturday outing into town. As Yoru was getting some painkillers from the local drug store Ikuto had actually decided to go to his sister's concert.

"Hold on Yoru, we will go home, I need to pick something up." Ikuto said as he turned towards the direction of his house.

They rode the train and walked back home. They were standing outside the front door when Ikuto crawled in the window and grabbed his violin from the ledge.

"I'm surprised no one has stolen it yet…" Yoru stated as he turned towards the concert hall. Luckily their house was just down the road from the park and the concert hall where Utau was playing. They took their walk slowly and comfortably when they herd the opening of 'Black Diamond' start playing.

Ikuto sat down on a rock in the park that was close to a waterfall. Ikuto enjoyed his sisters singing and he closed his eyes to be moved by the music. He pulled out his violin and stood up. As he set himself up he could hear the parts in the music where his violin would be playing, He slowly and accurately matched up his playing with the song and eventually got lost in the music.

He enjoyed playing his violin, no matter where or what he was playing it always made him feel like himself. The song came to a finish and so did his violin, he opened his eyes to see Yoru asleep in his violin case and a pair of bright yellow eyes staring at him with a look of amazement.

"Wow! You are a brilliant violinist Ikuto!" The young girl said as she stood up and greeted Ikuto with a handshake.

"Amu! What are you doing out at this time? Shouldn't you be in bed… reading comics or dealing with Guardian stuff?' Ikuto stated as he turned his face towards the sky.

"Erm… Ikuto? We are now on school holidays…"

"Oh… Well that explains why you are out but why are you here?"

"I was dropping some stuff off at Tadase's house when I herd that violin of yours being played… It was so beautiful that I had to check it out. Believe me I was surprised when it was you."

'Thank you… But before I forget I think you may have dropped this at the train station. Is it yours?" Ikuto said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out the small silver trinket.

"Oh!~ Thank you! I thought I had lo…"

"Ikuto! What are you doing here! I knew you couldn't resist coming to my concert!"

'Oh here we go again'

"Utau what now… aren't you performing at the moment. Shouldn't you be singing and dancing and entertaining your fans?" Ikuto said as Utau again tried to attack him to the floor.

"I could hear your violin in the concert hall and I had to investigate and see if it was you! And it was!"

"Great… Not only do you physically stalk me… You mentally stalk me too." Ikuto coldly stated as he turned and walked back to his house.

'Why can't she leave me alone… I am not her boyfriend'

Ikuto was at his front door when he heard a voice calling his name…

"Ikuto! Ikuto wait!"

"Oh… Hi Amu what is it?' Ikuto turned around and noticed that Amu was holding his violin case with Yoru inside of it.

"You can't leave him behind!" Amu said trying to catch her breath

"Thanks…"

Ikuto offered Amu a drink after her long dash from the park to his house but she politely declined and started to walk off home. Ikuto stared at her walking off and lightly smiled. He picked up his violin case and walked the sleeping Yoru upstairs and placed him in his egg. Ikuto went back downstairs for a bit and watched TV.

As it was coming close to midnight Ikuto decided to head up into bed. He walked up the stairs and put on his pajamas, about a few minutes later he was in bed staring at the ceiling again.

'I wonder if Amu got home safely…'

- END CHAPTER 2 -