Chapter 8: The Pesky Stray
Amu was walking home. It was only mid-day and she found it strange that already they were starting to go their own ways. They didn't have any X-eggs to save, most people weren't really in too much danger of that happening with Easter gone. Still...she pulled up her sleeve and looked at Ikuto's necklace. It was not something she was about to wear in public...but still...did Ikuto really tie it up for her because she said she wanted a lock?
...No...let's be real he probably wanted to bug her, so she'd have a reminder that he'd invaded her window one too many times. -_-
"Ah so you kept it?"
Amu turned around to see Ikuto staring over her at his necklace.
"I...I...only didn't want my mother to find it. I didn't want your precious boy-jewelry to get lost." Amu defended with sarcasm.
"Well at least now that you took it off I can visit you again tonight..." He whispered into her ear.
Her face went blush. "I never said you could come back!"
"But you took the lock off your window...so clearly you wanted me to come back." Ikuto smiled at her.
"But...I...thats..." She stuttered for words. That hadn't been her intentions...had it?
"I mean if you want I can just go back to Europe..." He shrugged and started to turn away.
"You're going back?" Amu asked.
"I don't know. I had my claim to fame for a while...but it's not the same when you can't sneak through peoples windows at night." His sly smile widened.
"...Ahem...Maybe I will put a lock on my window..." Amu retorted trying to hide her still slightly blushing face.
"Actually Utau stayed...so I already told my father I might stay here. Get myself a place eventually..." He shrugged, satisfied with Amu's look of annoyance mixed with a blush.
"You don't have a place?" Amu asked.
"Nope. We're like Ally cats!" Yoru said, too cheerfully.
"You can't sleep out on the streets? You'll get sick! What if someone tries to mug you?" Amu looked at Ikuto like he had five heads, worried.
"Mug me? Did you forget Amu-chan? I can still character change..." Ikuto's eyes widened and he smiled. "Well then I'll have to stay with you, you don't want me to sleep on the cold hard ground do you, if you're so worried?"
"Well..." Amu started. Ikuto really was good at guilt tripping her into these slumber parties with him.
"I'll be there tonight then. You can count on it." Ikuto tapped her on the head, like she was a child.
"Who said that I you were coming tonight?" Amu defended. "And I'm not a child anymore."
Ikuto looked at her. She still had the innocence of a child, but she had grown a bit. She was a little taller, and she had filled out a small bit but still... Amu-chan was Amu-chan. She might be going into high school...maybe she had grown up a bit. In that case...
"Okay then I'll come over now...If you can't wait at least until tonight." Ikuto whispered into her ear, quickly character changed and took Amu up in his arms and pounced off in the direction of her house.
Amu looked up at him shocked. Why did Ikuto suddenly get so possessive? I mean sure it was still games and teasing, but why was he so confident that Amu didn't like Tadase. I mean she still wondered if she did herself...
Ikuto pounced through her window with ease and un-character changed. Yoru stretched and smiled widely. "Home sweet home!"
"This is not your home!" Amu jumped out of Ikuto's arms and defended her room.
"If this is where we sleep...it kind of is." Ikuto said jumping onto her bed.
"Amu!"
"My mom..." Amu's face dropped.
"Darling I..." Midori entered the room only to see a blue haired boy sitting on Amu's bed as Amu was putting away her school work. "...I didn't know you had Ikuto over..."
"I was just walking her back from school." Ikuto bowed slightly.
"Oh how nice of you! I didn't know you had a boyfriend Amu!" Midori's face lifted.
"He..He's not my boyfriend." Amu said stunned. Ikuto chuckled. "He's actually leaving right now!" Amu said pushing him through her bedroom door.
Ikuto shrugged and left the room, a little offended.
"Amu come down soon for dinner. You really shouldn't be too mean to your friends." She scolded lightly before she went downstairs. Amu sighed heavily and followed.
Yoru had stayed in the room the whole time. "Shoot now I have to go find where Ikuto went..." Yoru rised up from beside the bed. On his way out he spotted something on Amu's dresser. He took it before he left.
"Ikuto! Ikuto!" Yoru flew down the street looking for Ikuto until he found the blue hair he was looking for. "Didn't you wonder where I went?"
"You wander a lot." Ikuto shrugged.
"Are you really going to sleep outside tonight?" Yoru asked.
"Nah, I'll go back later. I'm not going to give Amu satisfaction that easily." Ikuto shrugged laying on the grass.
"Oh, oh look what I found in Amu's room!" Yoru held up a black heart clip.
"So?" Ikuto rolled over. He recalled the heart clip...it was the one Tadase had given to Amu right before he intruded and shared that ice cream with her. He laughed a bit to himself.
"Isn't this what Tadase gave to her? Maybe she still likes Tadase because he gave her a gift!" Yoru speculated playing with the clip.
Ikuto wondered for a moment. Tadase hadn't been very happy with him, even though he was the one you called him back to Japan. Tadase still did like Amu he was sure of it. Ikuto rolled over and got up.
"Where are you going Ikuto?" Yoru asked.
"Where I want to. You know your going to have to give that back to Amu-chan when we go back?" Ikuto walked away.
"But..but..." Yoru's face dropped recalling Amu's scary self she became when she chased him down.
"You did it to yourself." Ikuto smiled to himself as he toned out Yoru's protests.
Purpledancer69: So im going back to da school soon, so I might get a few more updates in. Havn't got of a lot of reviews but I'll take what I get! This is my first Shugo Chara fic so let me know how im doing? Thnxxx :)