Author: Yesterday, which was December 1st, was Ikuto's real birthday!
Amu: Oh Joy.
Ikuto: I'm not worried about my birthday right now, I wanna know if I'm gonna get killed in this chapter or not! I can't believe a 6th grader is writing this and making me die D8
Author: :D
OoOoOoOo Lost In The Wilderness And A Moment Interrupted OoOoOoOo
(Ikuto's Point Of View)
I was falling into the wilderness, air cutting at my face.
My mind was spinning around and around in a blur. The fall from the cable car down to the wilderness is roughly... 1000 feet.
There's no way I'm gonna survive this!
I have about 20 seconds more before I land...
What if I grab on to a tree branch as I'm falling? That might work, it's not as if I have anything else to do to try to survive this fall.
Whipping my head to the left, I saw Amu only a few feet away, with a horrified look on her face.
I pulled her in wrapped my arms around her as a shield.
Should I save Tadase too? I may hate him, but he could be useful in the wilderness.
"Tadase!" I called to the right, where Tadase was falling.
He looked over at me with wide eyes of fear.
"At the last second, grab onto a tree branch in the wilderness forest and then jump down!"
He somewhat nodded, and I readied myself to grab onto a tree branch as the wilderness drew closer.
At the last possible second, I grabbed onto a low tree branch, and flung myself down on the ground.
This way I would only have to fall about 10 feet, which I would be able to survive.
I landed on my feet, with Amu in my arms.
A searing pain spread throughout my left leg, and I collapsed on the snow.
I must have sprained or twisted my leg in the fall...
But seriously, how am I alive without any serious injuries? Falling from the tree should have at least broken a few bones...
I must be in a fiction story.
As I lay in the snow, wincing at the pain in my leg, Amu looked at my with deep concern. "Are you okay?"
I smiled at her weakly. "Yep."
She helped me up on my feet, and I had trouble standing up.
"Where's Tadase?" I asked.
Amu looked around, her gaze sweeping the snowy forest like how a broom sweeps dust, until her gaze finally rested on something.
"Right there." Amu said, pointing her hand to the left at something far off in the distance.
A small figure which appeared to be Tadase, was trudging through the snow.
"Tadase! We are over here!" Amu called, her voice echoing throughout the forest.
The figure lumbered towards us, and when it grew close enough, we could tell it was Tadase with his maize colored hair and large exotic cherry colored eyes.
Tadase managed a smile, while breathing heavily. "Well aren't we lucky, we somehow manged to survive a 1000 feet fall." He mused between heavy pants.
"Sure..." Amu said nonchalantly, leaning against the trunk of a brown mahogany oak tree. "We manged to survive the fall, but now we have to survive in the wilderness and find our way to the mountain."
Tadase nodded at Amu. "Yeah, we should just head left. We can see the mountain, but it will take a while to get to it, probably about 2 days walk, but we can manage that." Tadase stated optimistically.
I looked up into the sky, and noticed that the sky was changing from a sky blue, to a mixture of overlapping faint fuchsia an brilliant flame orange.
"It's getting dark out, how about we find shelter, like a cave or something." I offered.
Amu nodded at me slightly. We wandered throughout the forest for what seemed like hours, looking for a sign of shelter.
It was almost dark out now, and the sunset in the sky now only had traces of dusty orange, and a few stars were now peeking down at us.
I had trouble walking on my left leg, and a searing pain throbbed and pulsated through it like heartbeat.
My leg screamed in pain, and when my leg was about to give out and collapse, almost as if on cue, our group found a cave.
The cave was small, and nestled between two auburn oak trees. The cave walls appeared to be covert gray.
We went inside the cave.
The cave has a short rounded 7 foot ceiling, and cold, but weirdly smooth stone floors. The cave was only about the size of a small bedroom on the inside.
I sank down to the floor, and leaned against the wall, feeling a great sensation through my sore leg.
Although my leg still hurt, it felt a hell of a lot better than I was hiking out in the deep and thick snow outside.
"I'll go look for some food. I'll be back in about thirty minutes." Tadase said, and Amu waved to him as he headed out of the cave and into the snow covered forest.
(Normal Point Of View)
The cave was dark, and the moon outside cast light into the cave, which illuminated the outer walls of the cave with a faint milky glow.
When Tadase left, Amu sighed, and let herself fall against the wall next to Ikuto.
Ikuto noticed her shivering from the cold, and she would tremble over and over again.
Despite his sore aching body from falling out of the tree, he draped his left arm around Amu's shoulder to keep her warm.
Amu felt something go around her shoulder, and when she realized what it was, her face burned in the cold.
She turned to the right, and saw Ikuto, who had his arm around her shoulder, looking out into the forest, his gaze fixed up at the full moon hanging in the pitch black sky.
She noticed that he had trouble keeping his head up, and that he seemed very tired.
"Umm... Ikuto..." Amu murmured loud enough for him to hear her.
He looked over to her with a exhausted look on his face. "Yes?"
"Uh... You seem kind of... Tired... So I was thinking..." Amu was stuttering over her words now, her tomato red face burning like a fire.
"I was thinking that... You could use my lap... As a pillow or something! I mean, that's only if you want to, it doesn't matter or not or-"
Ikuto was surprised. He'd never seen Amu act like this before.
Ikuto interrupted Amu's fumbling at the end of her sentence by giving her a swift kiss on the edge of her right cheek.
Amu blushed again, and Ikuto lied his head in her lap.
She thought he was sleeping, and started to stroke his hair.
Wow... Amu thought. He's like a big cat or something.
A/N This idea has been used already in the anime, but I could resist it, it was the perfect moment XD.
Suddenly, Amu had the greatest idea.
She stuck her hands around Ikuto's neck and started to tickle him.
Ikuto made a weird animal noise, and he fell off of Amu squealing like a little girl.
Amu started to tickle him harder, and he started to make odd noises that almost sounded like a duck.
I mean, who doesn't make animal noises, or at least squeals, when they are being tickled?
"I'm back." A glum voice announced.
Amu and Ikuto turned around, and saw Tadase empty handed, with no food.
Tadase saw Ikuto and Amu's position. Ikuto was on the floor, laying on his back, with his arms stuck up, and Amu was sitting next to him, her arms around his neck.
"I'm tickling Ikuto. Wanna join, Tadase?"
Tadase grinned, and when Ikuto realized what was going on, he had a horrified expression on his face as Tadase and Amu closed in on him.
Amu and Tadase tickled his neck, and Ikuto made VERY weird animal noises while he was being tickled, ranging from a duck to a wolf.
At last, Amu and Tadase stopped tickling him, and they went over to the other side of the cave, and started to chat.
Meanwhile, Ikuto seemed like he was having a spasm on the floor, his muscles still jerking around from being tickled so much.
Amu: Lol XD
Ikuto: Grr... I can't believe a 6th grader is writing this and taking control of me... Grr...
Author: Please review :)!
Next Chapter: Chapter 23-
OoOoOoOo The Bear OoOoOoOo
It turns out the cave was a den for a bear, and when the bear comes back to its cave, it's pissed.
Tadase acts like a baby, Ikuto is being smart in the situation, and Amu is freaking out.
Just What Will Happen? Find out in chapter 23!