Chapter 2

"How bout that, I hate you"

Reasons

Ani: Welcome Back! Okii sorry my post is so late, I found something horrible out and I had to take care of a few things, plus finals are coming up and I have a lot of work ahead of me. Thank you to all of my reviewers! I appreciate everything! Please continue to support me! I will try harder with my updates!

It was getting colder as the afternoon wore on. Amu was walking about with her Guardians floating lazily. It was almost time for the ceremony. "Will Mama and Papa be there? Ami?" She started to glare and the ground she was walking on "I hope that old bat doesn't show. I don't even care if she is related to me!" Amu was walking quietly still staring at the ground when she felt a light tap on her shoulder. She turned to see a taller blonde boy looking at her.

"Huh? Tadase, What are you doing here?" She asked him. But he ignored her question, his eyes were fixed on the suit case, and he started walking next to her, "Amu, what's wrong? You look so sad." His eyes looked worried and he was truly curious as to what was bothering her.

"Tadase, what would you do if someone told you how to live your life? Even if you were against what they thought?" Amu asked thinking about what her grandmother said.

"I would… go away. I wouldn't listen, leave and start my own life. Because what's the point in living if you cannot be yourself?" Tadase sounded sorrowful. Had he been through something like this? "Well, Amu, Why don't you come with me to a cake shop? Cake will always cheer people up when they are down. And we can celebrate, starting in a few days we will be in high-school." He said trying to cheer Amu up. "And while we're there you can talk to me if you want, as a Guardian, I'm always here to help you Amu." He said and didn't give Amu a chance to respond. He grabbed her by the hand and pulled her faster to a busy part of town.

He lead her to a little cake shop called 'Le Peu Gâteau*'. He pulled her inside and the sat at a little table. A young waitress, who was awful pretty, was making faces at Tadase the whole time. But he never paid attention. He just ordered two cups of hot chocolate and two slices of some fancy cake.

"Amu…" He started. "Will you tell me what's wrong, please?" He asked, his eyes looked so sad. She didn't really feel like talking about it. 'What's the point? I should just tell him; maybe he'll understand me…but…"

"Tadase…." She was staring at the white table cloth that was neatly place one the small round table. The complement the table there was a tiny white flower in a bowl of water in the center, with slightly tinted blue place mats. It was a pretty cake shop. It was probably expensive too, but nothing's too good for the 'king'. "I finally met my grandmother."

"Is that so?" Tadase said trying to sound interested.

"Yes."

"How is she?"

"A bitter old woman, I hate her." Tadase was taken back. Amu never really 'hated' anyone.

"Why do you hate her?" Amu just kept looking down at the table. She didn't want to talk about it with him afterall; it wasn't his problem at all anyways. "It's nothing really Tadase, She just isn't a good person, that's all…." Was what Amu came up with.

There was an awkward silence then. Amu felt like she was going to die, she was already having a bad day. Would the dorms even be available tonight? Where would she stay? It didn't help that the 'prince' was trying to get answers out of her.

"Amu… Amu?" Amu looked up to see Tadase with a smile. "Doesn't this cake look delicious?" He asked with a big smile trying to cheer her up. Amu looked down at the cake, it was a thick piece of chocolate cake, and the outside was frosted with a type of chocolate mousse and on top were fresh-cut strawberries topped with whipped cream and chocolate syrup. "Wow…." Amu was shocked by the look of the thing. "It looks….. Yummy….." Tadase laughed at her choice of words. "Go ahead and try it Amu!"

"Hinamori Amu." The pink haired girls name was called and she walked over to the lavish podium where the principal of the school stood. "Congratulations of your graduation." The old grey haired principal said to her while he handed her the diploma. Amu was bewildered; she looked at the, obviously small crowd that was the audience. She often imagined this moment.

Papa and Mama Yelling, "AMU! AMU! AMU! GO, AMU!" and Ami stumbling along with them. But the crowd was silent when her name was called, "Mama…. Papa….Ami…" She thought, "They didn't come to see me on my day…."

Amu walked off the stage and stood outside of the exit, she didn't bother to wait for her friends names to be called. She heard a snicker and she looked around. It was Kukai, standing a few feet away from her. "Congratulations of graduating Amu!" He said happily, "Have you decided what you are going to do yet?"

She was puzzled, "On what?" He gave her a big smile, "Are you gonna stay in the dorms or at home?" She blinked at him. "I'm going to stay in the dorms." She said quickly. "I don't want to be at home anymore."

"Well that's good. That means we get to hang out a lot right? So what dorm do you have?" He asked and walked to stand by her side. He glanced down at her suit case.

"What do you mean?" She was dumbfounded. "You've already applied and have gotten your dorm right, Amu?" He asked with a hint of uneasiness in his voice. "No…. I was going to apply tonight….. Why?"

Kukai froze, "Amu, you were supposed to apply a month ago, you might not be able to get one now, and the office closes in…." He looked at his phone, "15-or so minutes." Amu was stunned "What? Do you think we can get there before it closes?"

He smirked at her, " Only if we run…" the smirk became evil, "Oh no…." Amu was ready to deal with more of Kukai's 'Training'.

"Hinamori Amu? You need a room?" A young lady about 23 was at the counter in the student office. She defiantly was a complete idiot. "Well I'dunno if there are any rooms left." She said twirling her stick straight bleached hair in-between her fingers.

"Well can you check? I'm sure you have the big, fancy computer for that reason." Amu said getting annoyed, they had been there for a few minutes and this was going nowhere. Maybe if she pointed out what the lady was supposed to do she'd get it?

"This thing?" She said and pointed to the machine, "Well I'dunno… its past closing time and I have a date." She said and started to grab her things. Kukai was even getting mad at the lady.

"Listen we've been here for since before the closing time can you at least do your job and get her a room for the year?" Kukai said. She girl was dumfounded. "Did you just imply that I don't know how to do my job?" She asked and looked offended. "I didn't imply it… I said it now just sit down and get her a room." Kukai demanded and he went to go sit in a chair on the other side of the office.

The girl sighed and sat down. She took some information form Amu and gave her a room. "Since you were late you have to share a room. You get room 225 in the north hall. Here is your key." The lady said and handed Amu a small key from under her desk. "You can move in tonight if you wish. Here is a pass if any security stop you." She handed Amu a piece of paper and gathered her things. "I'm leaving now." The lady said and walked towards the door.

"Wait, what's my roommates name?" Amu asked. The Lady stopped at the door.

"Uuuummmmm… I'dunno, Like Ikue… no.. that's not it… Ikuko? I'dunno maybe Ikuyo. Something like that." She said and was scratching her head. "Never mind, don't hurt yourself." Amu said and picked up her suit-case. "Will you show me where my room is Kukai?" Amu asked he nodded and the walked out the door.

It was dark on campus now and Amu couldn't make many things out. Just lots of bushes and plants, statues too. Kukai lead her to a large building, the North Hall. "Amu, our rooms are really close. Yours is on the 2nd floor room 25and mine is on the 3rd floor room 36, so if you need help with anything you can come and find me~" He said happily. "We might get some classes together too." He smiled as the walked up the stairwell in the building. "Let me know how your roommate is okay?" Kukai asked as they stopped. Amu's door was right next to them. "Will do." She said and told him goodbye.

Amu unlocked the door quietly and went inside and it was dark. She stepped into the room and quietly closed the door behind her. She stood for a second and let her eyes adjust to the darkness. "Ano… hello?" She almost whispered to keep from waking her roommate. There was no response so she pulled her phone out from her old school uniforms jacket and flipped it open for some light. She searched around the walls near the door for the light switch. She found it and cautiously said "I'm turning the light on."

She flipped it and was able to see clearly then, "no one's here, I guess my roommate is out…" The room was large, very large at least for a dorm room. There was even a balcony! In one corner a bed lay pushed to the wall by the balcony window, a headboard attached to it with dark blue sheets and a desk placed at the foot of the bed. Notebooks and pens were skewed about on it with a pencil holder filled with a ton of pens. Books were arranged neatly on top of the desk with a desk lamp on the edge. The other bed was completely parallel to it and pushed up to the wall in the same manner; there was about four feet of space in between the beds. There was even a desk in the same way as her roommates. The door was on the same side as her new bed, she never slept so close to the door before.

The walls were painted white with too glass French doors the lead to the balcony between the beds. Amu set her bag down on her new bed and slowly opened the silver handles to the balconies door. She stepped outside onto it, it was chilly but the night air was nice, she looked over and saw that not every dorm had a balcony, "I wonder how much more I have to pay for this then!"

She walked back into the room and closed the doors behind her; she saw two more doors with mirrors mounted on them next to the front door, she opened the one on her side. "A closet! How cool! We each get our own!" She closed the door and walked to the last door next to her roommate's desk. It was their own bathroom, with a shower, toilet, and twin sinks. "How nice! I hope they don't charge too much extra for this!" She smiled for the first real time today.

She walked over to her bag and pulled out a small box and opened it, in it sat her three eggs, "If you guys are up you can come out!" Amu said and sat the box down opened. Amu could hear soft snoring from her three little chara and decided to leave them alone. Amu unpacked all her things, her bag was big enough to fit enough outfits for the next few days and her essentials. She placed all of her belongings in her closest but left a pair of pajamas out. She went into the bathroom, brushed her teeth, put her hair up and changed into her pajamas, little black sweat shorts that was above her mid-thigh, and she wore a red tank top.

She walked over to her bed after putting her old uniform into her closet. She saw her pink phone sitting on her headboard and flipped it open. "No need for this anymore." She turn it off and sat it back down.

Amu hopped into her bed, unfortunately she couldn't bring any blankets for her bed, luckily there was already a pillow and a set of sheet on it. "Hopefully I'll be warm enough." Amu said to herself and crawled under her sheets, they smelt fresh. She heard a muffled voice coming from her Chara carrying case on her headboard, it was Miki. "Amu-chan…. Are you sure you want to do this?" "Yea Amu-chi!" Su popped out from the case.

"Yes, I'm sure. I'll get out of the house for a while, things will be alright!" Amu said. "That's the spirit! Go Amu go Amu!" Ran was yelling. "Okay Quiet down, quiet down." Amu started to calm down in her bed, "Ran?" She called out, "Yes?" She asked right away, she was floating about exploring. "Can you turn the light off so I can go to sleep?"

"AW!" Ran complained.

Soft music from a Shamisen* could be heard. Amu was wearing a short geisha kimono. One sleeve hung off the shoulder and she was wearing high-heels. She carried a fan in one hand and a tea pot in the other.

She walked out from behind a curtain to find and group of men, from young to old staring at her with hungry eyes. She was uncomfortable. As she walked to serve the tea, men were pulling at her clothes and slapping her ass. She then turn and smack one with the tea pot. All the men then jumped on her, they started to attack her and do things to her that she didn't want. But she was helpless and her grandmother stood in the corner just staring and laughing at her.

It was getting later into the night. The time was passing slowly and the impervious boy was laying in the grass the was by the high school. He, along with the grass, was getting wet from the condensing moisture in the air. These nights the humidity levels had been rising, a storm may be coming in at anytime.

The listless boy just lay there. No real thought coming to mind. He was just staring up at the night's sky. One star was showing itself to him through the dense cloud cover.

"Ah, Ikuto!" the boys floating friend yelled at him annoyingly. Ikuto ignored him. "Ikuto?... Ikuto, Ikuto, Ikuto, Ikuto, Ikuto, Ikuto, Ikuto!" The little cat wined for his attention. He finally got a respond when a low 'mm' sound came from Ikuto's throat.

"Can we go home, nya? It's cold and past midnight, nya" Ikuto continued to stare up at that single star. He sighed and stood up. "Ikuzo…Yoru*." He began to walk with is hands in his pockets, while Yoru floated beside him. They walked in silence because there was no real reason to talk, plus Yoru didn't want to anger Ikuto at all. The walk across campus from the field was short but to Ikuto it was long. He had an uneasy feeling, like something bad was going to happen.

Ikuto walked in to the North Hall dormitory well after the 9:30 p.m. curfew. He walked silently up a flight of stairs and walked to his room. He pulled the small metal key out from his pocket. He put the key into the key hole and turned it. He pushed open the door, walked in, and closed it.

After he let himself into the room he didn't bother turning on the lights. This was going to be his third year with this room and he knew it by heart. He started to undress him self, taking off his shirt and his pants, leaving him in just his boxers. He walked over to his bed in the corner and pulled the covers back. Yoru tried to say something but Ikuto cut him off saying, "Quiet Yoru, I'm going to bed." Yoru panicked, "But it's important!" Ikuto shook his head and lied down to relax or perhaps go to sleep.

He closed his eyes and listened to the room around him. He could hear breathing and this annoyed him. "Quiet Yoru, you don't need to breath so hard." He said with his eyes closed. "But Ikuto It's not me." He explained, "There is someone sleeping in the other bed!" Ikuto sighed. "They must have assigned me a roommate finally." He thought. Ikuto opened his eyes, sat up and scanned the room.

He looked around, there was a lump in his neighbors bed. He did really care all too much and turned to face the wall. "Well then again that girl that assigns rooms is pretty stupid…." Ikuto shut his eyes and soon his eyes were too heavy to open and he was consumed by sleep.

Amu opened her eyes to the new day. The sun was shining in the room and hitting her bed perfectly making her feel warm and comfortable. She would like this. Waking up with out her parents there telling her what to do, or her little sister always wanting her attention. Now she could take her time in the morning.

Amu stretched and rolled over. She was going to enjoy this morning. Well… That all changed when she rolled over to face the rest of the room. She found two midnight eyes at the edge of her bed staring at her. This startled her and she sat up and pushed herself against to wall.

"W-who are you?" Amu asked. Ikuto started back at her with a blank look on his face. "Who are you?" She asked again. "Tsukiyomi Ikuto." He said plainly. "Why are you in my room?" He asked the pink haired girl. "What are you talking about?" Amu said. "I was assigned this room last night." "I see." was his reply. "Well this won't work so I will go to the office when it opens and have this sorted out." He said and stood up.

Amu could get a good look at him now and a small blush came to her face. He was a tall man with dark blue hair and midnight eyes. He was also very skinny, but somehow muscular. He wore the boys school uniform which were black pants, that were somewhat tight on him and a black blazer that was also considerably tight. She found him attractive, extremely attractive which shocked her because that has never happened before.

"What time does it open?" Amu asked. Ikuto looked at the clock that was on his desk. "In about 20 minutes." He said. "Okay I'll go with you." Amu got out of bed and now Ikuto could see what she looked like. She was extremely skinny. And had a nice figure too, He didn't like her pajama's too much though. He thought she was cute. She walked over to her closet and pulled out some of her clothes then walked to the bathroom.

Ikuto sat on his bed waiting for Amu to finish getting ready. Yoru was bored and laying on the bed next to him. "Hey let's go through her stuff, Nya!" he said. Ikuto sighed, "No Yoru." Yoru didn't listen he floated over to Amu's side of the room He first found her wallet and pushed it open. Inside was her I.D. Card. "Her name is Hinamori Amu Nya." Yoru said and floated to the next a little case that was sitting on her headboard. "What's this?" Yoru wondered and pushed it open. Inside he found three eggs.

"Ikuto! Look!" Yoru yelled. Ikuto got up and walked over to see what Yoru was so excited about. Then he saw. Amu had three eggs. "She has them too, Nya." Yoru said. "Yoru you shouldn't be going through her stuff." Ikuto said and walked back to his bed.

Amu came out of the bathroom ready to go 15 minutes later. She didn't have the school uniform yet so she just put on a pair of jeans that Ikuto liked a lot. It made her look good, and she put on a pink plain t-shirt. Her hair was brushed now.

She was looking better than before and Ikuto liked it. "You ready to go, Amu?" Ikuto asked. "Sure… wait… how do you know my name?" Amu asked him. "and it's Hinamori to you!" She said and went to stand in front of him. Then she noticed the Shugo Chara that was by his side. "He was curious, and His name is Yoru." Ikuto said and stood up. He was a full foot or so taller than Amu. "Yoru, Stay here and keep an eye on her three." Ikuto said and began to walk to the door.

"Why would you let him go though my stuff?" Amu complained.

The Bleached haired lady just stared at them. "Well…." She sighed, "I was about to go to breakfast so you caught me at a bad time." She said. "I don't care." Was all Ikuto said. "Will you please fix this?" Amu asked.

"Hm." She looked through some papers on her desk then looked up at them. "Nope." She smiled. "We were over booked and you took the last open spot last night Hinamori-san. So there is nothing I can do about this unless on of you switch out of the dormitories all together." The lady said sounding somewhat please with the problem she created. "So what will it be?" she asked. Ikuto looked angry. "I'm not leaving." He said.

"Neither am I!" Amu said too. Ikuto looked at her with disbelief. "Well then you two should get to know each other." The lady said and got up. "Now I have to go. Bye." She walked down a hall that was behind her desk.

"What the hell." Ikuto thought. "This girl is making a mistake, taking a room with a guy. What the hell is she thinking? But then again, this could be fun to mess with her…" Ikuto gave himself a little smile as the two started walked back to their room.

"That stupid bitch." Amu wined to herself. Ikuto just thought of ways to make her feel uncomfortable and eventually move out of the dorm. Things would be complicated if he lived with a girl.

"Amu?" A recognizable voice called. It was Kukai. He was walking with a stack of books in front of her and Ikuto. "Oh, Hi Kukai." Amu said. "What are you doing?" She asked. "Oh, I'm just getting all of my books for classes." He said and eyed the man standing next to her. Ikuto was looking off not very interested in what was going on.

"Maybe I can embarrass her a tiny bit?" Ikuto thought to himself. Amu and Kukai were lost in conversation and Kukai kept giving Ikuto 'the eye' every one in a while. Ikuto didn't like it, so he was going to leave.

"When Will the others st-" Amu was talking but stopped when a hand started rubbing the top of her head. A blush came across her face. Kukai gasped a tiny bit at the words that came from the older man. "I'm going back to our room. Bye Kawaiko-Chan.*" With that he walked away. Amu turned and watched him walk away with a certain grace. She was also blushing madly.

Kukai stared at her. "Who is he?" Kukai asked. Amu sighed try to get ride of the blush and hide it at the same time. "He's Tsukiyomi Ikuto. He's my roommate."

Kukai stared at her. "What?"

"That stupid lady assigned us together and now we can't get out of it."

"Why did he call you Kawaiko-chan?" Kukai didn't like this situation. He didn't like the idea of a stranger call Amu something seen as so intimate to him. "I don't think Tadase will like this." "I have no idea…" Amu said. "I've gotta go Kukai. I'll talk to you later okay?" Amu said and ran in the direction that the mystery man ran into.

"I wonder if anything is going on between those too?" Kukai thought. "Should I tell Tadase? Because he has liked Amu for some time now. How would he feel about this? Plus that name... Tsukiyomi Ikuto. I've heard it before…"

Kukai made his way back to his room debating on whether or not to tell Tadase. When he got to his dorm he opened his door and sat his stuff down. He pulled his cell phone out and dialed a number. After a few short rings someone answered on the other line.

"Hello?"

"Hi Tadase" Kukai sounded somewhat down. "Would you like to come on to campus tomorrow?"

"Sure, What is it though?" Ha asked.

"Oh, Nothing I'll let you know tomorrow."

"Oh, Okay, See you tomorrow then." They hung up the phones.

1- Le Peu Gâteau: can be translated as 'the little cake' or 'the little cupcake'

2- Shamisen: a three stringed Japanese instrument. They are about the same size as a guitar. They are pretty cool you can see what they sound like on YouTube if you type in "Shamisen".

3- "Ikuzo…Yoru.": Ikuto basically said "let's go… Yoru." I couldn't help myself from typing that~ I just imagine him being all cool and what not and in a deep voice all like "Ikuzo, Yoru"

4- Kawaiko-chan: popsy, cutie, sweetie. Ikuto was just trying to give Kukai the wrong idea here and make Amu feel uncomfortable. Plus, he just wanted to be a jerk :D

Ani: phew that took a long time to type. I hope you all enjoyed reading! The next chapter will be up next weekend prolly because I have finals and stuff for the next two weeks so that is the only time I can work. Please Review and tell me what you though. In this chapter we get a little view with Ikuto's 'other side'. I wonder how he will be in the next chapter? *wink* So please what for it! I'll have it up soon!

Chapter 3 preview: Tadase comes to visit! Yay! But then he finds Ikuto and Amu… together? In an awkward way. How will he take it?