Morg: Heyo! I hope you are all enjoying my birthday surprise!

Ikuto: Yes, we are.

Amu: I think you are laying on the sarcasm just a little too thickly there Ikuto.

Morg: I don't really care. As long as my readers love it!

Ikuto: Yeah, them.

Amu: If you owned us then you could make us.

Morg: Yeah, because I want that.

~Killed With Kisses~

Looking to her left, Amu noticed that Rima and Yaya had long ago fallen asleep once the sky had gone completely dark. To her right she found the same result with Utau. Apparently it was the human thing to do, so Amu settled more into the grass and closed her eyes while slowing down her breathing to a sleeping rate. Since Amu couldn't actually sleep she pretended.

Ikuto smirked as he looked at the girl beside him. She was slightly leaning against him with her eyes closed. She'd fallen asleep a little too quickly to actually be asleep. He knew that she was only faking, but he didn't know why and he definitely wasn't about to ruin her fun. "Think maybe we should get them home?"

Nagi looked down at the girl sleeping in his lap. Her chest rose and dropped as she breathed in her sleep. "I don't mind this at all."

Kukai looked at the girl resting against him. "She's going to be heavy, but I'll carry her."

Kairi pushed his glasses up his nose. "I brought Yaya so I'll take her home. I'm responsible for her after all."

Ikuto let out a chuckle before getting to his feet and lifting the pinkette into his arms. "Let's get them home since it is so late already."

The others got up as well with their respected girls in their arms. Kukai headed in the same direction as Ikuto considering that Utau was currently staying with Amu. Joking around, they talked with each other while they walked. Of course, they were careful not to wake the girls in their arms, though Ikuto knew he couldn't considering she was already awake.

The door to Amu's apartment was unlocked so the two boys just went right in. Kukai moved down the hall with Utau to put her in her bed, but Ikuto stopped. He waited until Kukai was in the bedroom before he looked down at the girl in his arms. "Are you ready to stop pretending?"

Amu had been extremely careful the entire time Ikuto had been carrying her. There was no way that the boy should know that she was awake. So playing along with the sleeping idea, Amu slowly opened her eyes to look up at the boy holding her. "Wh-what are you ta-talking about?"

The yawn was rather cute, at least Ikuto thought so but it wasn't convincing. "Save it, I know when someone is sleeping and when they aren't."

Amu began to struggle so that she could at least have her feet on the ground, but Ikuto's hands only tightened around her so that she couldn't escape them. "Not so fast, were you pretending just so I would carry you or was there a different reason behind your trick?"

Giving up just before Amu began to use her nonhuman powers, she settled for pausing in her struggles and pouting a little. "The others were sleeping. Wouldn't I be weird if I was the only one still awake?"

Ikuto shrugged while the girl was still in his arms. The move brought her closer to his chest for just a brief moment. "I don't think it matters. So what if you're different?"

Not knowing how to respond to that, Amu settled for having the conversation in his arms since he wasn't moving to put her down. "Isn't being different weird?"

Chuckling, Ikuto leaned back onto the wall. "I don't think so. Everyone is different. It's okay if you didn't fall asleep. It isn't like you can't sleep at all; you just weren't tired yet, right?"

Amu looked away. Lying to Ikuto was something she didn't want to do. Why? Why did it matter if she lied to this boy compared to the others? Lying to Utau was no problem and the few she told Kukai didn't stop her for a moment. Even thinking about lying to Ikuto made Amu feel a dreadful feeling. Without knowing why, Amu muttered her response under her breath. "Something like that."

Ikuto smirked as he finally put the girl down on her feet. However, he did not release her from his arms. "Yeah, so now that you know, no more pretending to be something you're not."

Pushing back so that Amu could put a little distance between his chest and her face, she looked up into his eyes and slowly nodded. Her heart ran at a pace faster than usual and she didn't want it to. Her face was red and it wasn't forced. Ikuto made her feel like a normal human. Maybe if she continued to spend more time around him, she'd blend in better and be normal like the others.

Reluctantly, Ikuto released the girl in his arms. Taking a small step back, Ikuto placed a very quick kiss onto the pinkette's cheek before heading towards the door. "Good night, Amu."

Kukai followed the other boy's route not a few minutes later, leaving Amu alone with the sleeping Utau. Slowly, she lifted her hand to her chest and felt her racing heart.

XXX

The doors slid open once again to allow the entrance of his boss. Turning to bow, the scientist who invented both Ikuto and Amu wasn't sure what the visit was about. All he knew was that he wasn't going to like it. "Sir."

"He is not happy with how things are progressing. As a corporation, the Guardians of Easter expect more from you and your work. You sent the second one out for the first months ago. Why hasn't there been any sort of contact? You installed a tracking device, did you not? I have orders for you to activate it. If he hasn't found her by now than he is pointless."

Swallowing hard, the nervous man scrambled to think of a reason to give for them to not turn it on. "She will sense the device long before he can get close to her if you do this. He was created to beat all of her defenses! Just give him a little more time!"

The more powerful man let out a sigh before turning back to the doors. "I suggest you contact him. He has two weeks before we send all of our men to his location."

Collapsing to his knees the moment the doors slid shut, the scientists scrambled to find the information he needed in order to contact the male version of his nonhuman creations.

XXX

Seeing as how the girls hadn't hung out for a while without the smelly, stupid boys being around, they decided to have a sleepover. Amu was hosting of course. Utau got everything ready while Yaya and Rima just had to show up. Show up they did, with plenty of unhealthy snacks and sleeping bags in tow.

Utau had ordered for all of her makeup to be delivered to Amu's place so that they could give each other makeovers. Three hours into said slumber party, the talk turned from favorite foods and drinks to favorite boys.

"So Rima, you and Nagi just flirting or what?"

"Wouldn't you like to know, Utau?"

Yaya laughed ridiculously hard at their conversation, her rolling caused her to send chips flying all over the floor. Amu had to hold herself back from cleaning them up right away. Things were definitely getting messy.

"Whatever, Rima. I know you enjoyed the fact that he let you sleep in his arms at the park the other day!"

Smirking, Rima looked down at her nails as if checking for dirt. "I don't know what you are talking about, but if I remember correctly, Kukai was complaining about how heavy someone was that night."

Utau's face turned red but not from embarrassment. "You know, now that I think about it I understand why Nagihiko didn't mind you sleeping on him. You're so tiny I doubt he noticed anything at all."

"See, that's what surprises me. You can think?"

Yaya's laughter continued to escalate out of control and Amu didn't think she could handle another spill of any kind and decided to step in. "Guys, be nice. We're friends and we're having fun, right?"

Turning to face Amu, both Rima and Utau wore matching smirks. "As for you, Amu."

"What's going on between you and Ikuto?"

"Wh-what are you talking about?"

They looked sideways at each other before switching smirks. "Are you two dating?"

"Spill it, Amu."

Swallowing hard and doing her best to be human, Amu pulled off the perfect nervous look. "We're just friends."

"Yeah right!"

"Friends that spend a lot of time alone together."

"Utau! You and Kukai set us up that night! I didn't even know that Ikuto was coming over!"

"But from what I heard, you didn't send him away. You could have just told him that Kukai had the wrong day. Why let him in and cook with him?"

Rima and Utau had their arms crossed in similar styles as they ignored the ever laughing Yaya and concentrated on Amu.

Seeing as how she wasn't getting much attention, Yaya stopped her rolling to push herself up onto her elbows while lying on her stomach, feet kicking up in the air. "Yaya and Kairi kissed after watching the fireflies. Yaya really liked Kairi's kisses. Yaya thinks that they are better than candy!"

All three girls turned to the childish one in awe. How had the baby of the group managed to get her first kiss before they had?

Rima was close. She knew it too from the way Nagi placed soft kisses on her nose, forehead and cheeks. Her lips were dying to feel his, but she'd never actually admit it.

Utau didn't quite know what she felt for the loud mouthed Souma kid, but he was different and treated her normal and she rather liked that about him.

Amu was shocked for an entirely different reason. The sign for Yaya liking Kairi were all there, but for Kairi to make a move on Yaya was just odd. The boy was so in control of everything that it didn't make sense. He was too smart to just do something without thinking it through. "Wait… Yaya, did he kiss you or did you kiss him?"

Yaya grinned before winking and giving a thumbs up. "Yaya knows that Kairi is too shy so Yaya did it first!"

The other girls stared again before bursting out into laughter. They shouldn't have been so surprised considering it was Yaya they were talking about, but the situation was too funny. Poor Kairi, they couldn't help but wonder how he was doing now.

XXX

He hung up the small device and slipped it back into the depths of his belongings. There weren't many considering his mission was to bring her back without alerting her to his presence before he was ready. His master and creator had told him that he had two weeks before the others would be sent.

Stupid humans were ruining his fun. Amu was going to be his. Things were moving and it was only a matter of time before the pinkette, nonhuman fell into his arms. His orders were clear, but he had a new plan. He wanted to make her fall in love with him so that she'd willingly go wherever he asked her to. The plan was perfect. She was perfect and he was created to be perfect for her. Now if only he could eliminate the stupid humans attempting to get in his way.

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Morg: I hope you enjoyed it!

Ikuto: Could have been better.

Amu: I don't know.

Morg: Leave a review as a present please!