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Amu couldn't help but smile, Hoshina Utau and Rima her two best friends. " Alrigh girls calm down. I just got here!" suddenly Rima asked the question she'd been dreading.

"Amu what happened to your lip?!"

Chapter 2

Amu froze, she forgot that she couldn't cover up a busted lip with make up, Rima seemed to notice Amu's movements, " oh that? I walked into the fridge you know how clumbsy I am Utau!" Raising an eye brow and giving a slow nod, she wasn't fully buying. Both her and Rima had figured out a while ago that their best friend was hiding something from them. Although they couldn't figure out what.

Utau's eye's fell on Amu's favourite chocker, and gave a small smile, " any word from him yet?" Amu looked down and began playing with the bell on the chocker, but shook her head sadly, " no, I wonder how he's doing though." she sat back and looked out of the window, her thoughts drifted to her favourite blue haired neko, even though Utau had a face like she knew something about the boy.

The door opened and their teacher walked in, The girls quickly got in their seats, Utau at the side and Rima in front of Amu.

The class started off with advance calculus, before moving onto advance algebra, although throughout the whole class Amu's thoughts was kept on something else. Up until lunch time when the bell rang, the slim pop sensation gave a stretch "Gah! I thought that maths would never end! I hate that subject!" Rima rolled her eye's and moved her chair so she was facing Amu, " lets just eat I'm starving!" they pushed their desks together and pulled out their lunches apart from Amu.

"Did you forget your lunch again Amu?!" our pinkette looked to them and slapped a hand on her forehead, " Drat! I knew I was forgetting something this morning!" Utau laughed and pulled out an extra lunch from her bag. " I knew this would happen so here!" Amu took the food with a grateful smile. The three of them ate lunch and the day went by fast.

By time the end of the day rang, Amu had never left the class room no matter on how many times the girls tried, they also noticed that she winced every time someone touched her back.

When Amu left the school she didn't notice that someone was watching her from a tree.

Utau stood underneath it, " you going to go after her?" the boy in the tree jumped down and stood next to the blonde haired girl. " I'll visit her later tonight,"

When Amu picked up her sister and got home the house was empty, but it was a mess beer bottles all over the place, smashed plates. "Ami, go and start on your homework ok? Let me clean this up." Ami looked to her sister, "Are you sure? I can help you onee-chan?" Amu shook her head and began placing empty bottles in a bag, " Go up to my room 'kay? I have a lock on that door if you hear him come in while I'm cleaning lock it ok?!"

The younger Hinamori nodded and went upstairs, Amu gave a sigh as she got to work on what needed doing, rolling up her sleeves and placing rubbish in the bin, cleaning the pots and cups, laundry. Even though she knew the house would be a trash again the minute he would walk threw the door. Amu still had a thing called house pride, and she wasn't letting that man destroy that.

It took at least 45 minutes to get the lower part of the house spotless, and to look for ingrediant's for his meal that night, she knew there was no way she had time to make Ami and herself something to eat she'd have to sneak down and do that later.

Just as she was frying the vegatables and keeping an eye on the meat, the front door slammed open! Giving a slight wince knowing that it was time up. "AMU YOU LITTLE SHIT! WHERE'S MY DINNER!" he stagged into the kitchen and saw Amu finishing up dinner, "its almost ready" she didn't look him in the eye, she was afraid to, but she had to be tough for her sister. He went behind her and grabbed the scruff of her hair yanking it back. " You little shit! Didn't I tell you to make it ready before I get home!"

She winced, " it would have been if you didn't leave the house a trash!" Yanking her away from the host stove and slammed her into the wall "Don't talk back to me like that! I raised you better!" she tried not wincing from the injuries she received the night before, but he wasn't getting any satisfaction.

He pulled back his fist and threw it straight in her ribs, a sicking crack could have been heard, as pain shot up threw her whole chest, " now, are you going to treat me with the respect?" giving him a look in the eye's that was pure hatred wasn't the best of idea's, he grabbed the hot frying pan and without warning hit her in the stomach with it, flinging her head back she let out a loud agonizing scream. A sicking smile was plastered on his face,

" Now look what you made me do! You have half an hour to make me a decent meal or I will give you worse than that!" throwing her to the ground he walked to the fridge grabbing a beer and walked back out into the living room. Amu couldn't even touch her stomach from the 3rd degree burn she got, slowly standing up. Quickly she made her father a quick but simple meal that didn't even take 30 minutes. " Father its ready!" with that she ran as fast as she could upstairs before he even got into the kitchen knocking on the bedroom door gently. " Ami… it's me!"

The door opened and Ami let her older sister inside the bedroom. Amu only got 2 steps in the room before she had to lean against the wall and slide down. "Onee-chan I heard you scream! What did he do this time?" she spoke concerned after locking the door and grabbed the first aid kit. Amu bit her lip from the wound as her sister noticed the burns on the shirt. She knelt down and slowly peeled away the fabric, and widened seeing the burns.

Getting to work quickly on it and helped her sister change into a better top, was first on mind, once finished she helped her over to the bed and sat down gently cuddling up to Amu's side. "w..why don't you let me try and protect you onee-chan? H… he can't keep hurting you like this!"

Amu shook her head, " I can't, I can't let him hurt you Ami," she held her sister close stroking Ami's hair. Out of the corner of her golden eye's she could have swore she saw a blur of blue.

"Ami, tonight, how about we keep the balcony unlocked?" Ami looked confused and nodded " ok onee-chan." Ami got of the bed and unlocked the balcony door.

Outside the window

A midnight haired boy had been sitting on the tree branch looking bored he had been watching the younger Hinamori do her homework on Amu's bed, the young one had sure shot up. The house had seemed peaceful until his ears picked up a scream edmiting from the lower part of the house.

His ears perked up and the younger Hinamori rushed to the bedroom door, she wanted to unlock it but he noticed she backed up, and held her hands over her ears, the girl seemed to want to check on someone but was scared, trembling. 20 minutes later he watched as Ami let a pinkette girl into the room, from what he noticed she could barely walk before collapsing.

This got the boy concerned, until Ami took away Amu's shirt and his eye's widened, her stomach had 3rd degree burns on it. How the hell did she mange to do that? He also noticed a few other bruising against her torso and her now d-cup chest.

Once the girls had finished and Amu finally made it on the bed, he quickly jumped down from the tree before the girl caught him sitting in there. His mind was going threw all sorts of different thought's and pondering on why Ami didn't go check on her sister when she screamed.

"Amu… what's going on?" he spoke turning down a back alley and began heading home.

Once at his house, he was suddenly glomped by his overly excited sister, " Utau! Get off me!" she stood up and helped him up of the ground, " sorry you've been gone for 3 years I couldn't help it Ikuto! So you see Amu yet?" he looked to her and tilted his head, " somewhat yeah, it was mainly her sister though"

Utau raised her eye brow, " Are you becoming a child paedophile now?" Ikuto gave her a are-you-kidding-me look? "alright sorry, Ami does spend a lot of time in Amu's room, she told me, but never told me the reason on why."

Ikuto walkd over ot the sofa and sat down. " Utau, how long has it been since Amu invited you over there?" Utau thought about it, " Hmm… 2 ½ years now, it's a bit strange but why?" " she's hiding something just like you said. And I'm going to uncover what it is… "

Well that's chapter 2 poor Amu! Will her and Ami ever get out of that house?

Oooooo Ikuto's back! Will he finally confront Amu? What's he got up his sleeve?

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