Morg: Heyo! WELCOME TO THE FIRST EVER 'I KILLED WEDNESDAYS'!
Ikuto: What does that even mean?
Amu: Are you sure you want to know?
Morg: Oh I will tell you! It means that from now on, every Wednesday my beautiful readers will get a chapter of this story!
Ikuto: And we're excited?
Amu: Don't have to be. She owns nothing.
Morg: You bet I am!
~Killed With Kisses~
Ikuto had been more than accurate when he'd warned Amu that Kukai would be bringing a tree for her small apartment. Luckily, as she told Ikuto, there was room for it. With it decorated and ready to go, Amu smiled around at her friends. She was more than happy to have them over considering it was Christmas Eve and the human tradition was to spend the day with loved ones. Everyone was there. Everyone except Ikuto.
A small voice continued to nag the pinkette in the back of her mind. Ikuto was never late for any of their get-togethers. She didn't understand why the blue haired man was this time. Christmas Eve was something they'd been talking about for the last couple of weeks. School had just let out and they had plenty of their winter break left. The party was something that Kukai wouldn't shut up about. Not that the rest of their group of friends minded. They were all looking forward to it. They all also knew that Kukai didn't have the best home life and that he rarely got any Christmas cheer from that area of his life. They were more than willing to fill that void for him.
Watching as everyone admired the tree for the thousandth time before moving on to watching some old Christmas cartoons, Amu found herself focusing all of her senses once again to see if Ikuto was in the area yet. Though the created humanoid could not figure out why, the boy had become something special to her. The rest of her friends were extremely important, yes, but something about Ikuto put him just a bit above the rest. Amu actually wanted to forget that she wasn't human so that she could be with him. But that was dangerous and something she could never allow herself to have.
In fact, Amu planned to leave their small town after the break was over. She'd already spent too much time in one spot as it were. No point in allowing for the Guardians of Easter to catch up with her and harm the people she cared about. It was time to move on and protect those that didn't know her secret.
"Hey Hinamori, you seen Tsukiyomi yet?"
Returning her attention to the people within the same room, Amu shook her head and gave the energetic boy a small smile. "No, but he said he was coming. Maybe he's just running a bit late."
Frowning, Kukai let his hand drift through his spikes before letting his arm drop onto Utau's shoulders. "It isn't like him to be late. Do you think we should go check if he's all right?"
Not bothering to get out of the move that the boy was putting on her, Utau shook her hands in front of her chest. "No, Ikuto should be fine. If he takes too much longer then we'll go."
The other people seemed to agree with Utau's suggestion and returned to the festive activities they were participating in before Kukai had pulled their attention to himself by asking such a loud question. Amu, on the other hand, couldn't shake the feeling in her chest. It was the same one she usually had whenever someone was following her with ill intent. One that she'd never doubted before.
Using her inhuman capabilities, Amu slipped away from her own party. Something wasn't right and the pinkette wouldn't be able to relax with her friends until she made certain that they were all safe. This included Ikuto. It was possible that Easter somehow managed to catch him and was waiting for her to show up. This was a thought that made Amu speed up a little more as she moved down the dark street.
The fake girl had only been to Ikuto's house once. Even then, the boy didn't know that she'd followed him there. Can't blame a nonhuman girl for being curious. The boy had spent a lot of time in her house. Amu thought it was only fair that she knew where he lived as well. Though the fact that she hadn't done this to all her other friends sort of nagged at her that following Ikuto wasn't as normal as she was trying to make it seem.
' Silently, Amu approached the house. The lights were on so she figured that Ikuto as still at home. Maybe he was simply arguing with his father again. That was something he had told her about the night she listened to him play his violin. He hadn't mentioned anything else about his family life since that night, but Amu hadn't asked either.
Voices met her ears before Amu got close enough to the door. Her body froze with something akin to shock and she realized just who she heard speaking. Ikuto's voice was recognizable, yes. Amu could never mistake it for someone else's. The other voice, however, was one that Amu both loved and hated. One that she yearned to hear and at the same time cringed away from. The voice of her creator.
"I can't give you any more time, Ikuto. It has to be tonight."
"I won't do that to her!"
"Are you even listening to yourself? This isn't how I made you to act. You were made to bring Amu back and now you have to."
Memories of the night she'd found him playing floated back to her mind as Amu continued to listen. Ikuto had said that his father wanted him to do something that he wasn't ready to do. Now Amu understood. He really had been waiting for her that night. He'd known all along that Amu wasn't who she pretended to be.
Part of her felt relieved that she hadn't been lying to him the entire time. The other and stronger part of her felt betrayed. Ikuto wasn't her friend. He was another man made robot that was there to take her back and force her into the life she was desperately trying to avoid. Amu couldn't wait now for the night to end. She couldn't return to play with her friends or have a few more days with them to give herself a chance to say goodbye before she disappeared. She'd stayed far too long and now her time was up. Amu had one choice. Run.
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Ikuto hated that he was late for their party. Hated the fact that they were probably worrying about him. But the fact that he hated the most was that his time was up. They were there. Closing in around the town and there was nothing Ikuto could do to stop them. They'd found out that Amu was there and if Ikuto couldn't convince her to come with him then they were going to take her. There were simply too many well-trained men moving in for either of them to fight their way out of it.
"I know what you created me to do." In that moment, Ikuto felt it. Amu's presence. He wasn't certain how she'd managed to get so close to him without him noticing, but she was there and he knew she could hear him. "I wish it weren't true but it is."
Ikuto waited. He could feel Amu just outside of his house. She stood shock still as if waiting for something else. "I'm sorry."
With that one sentence, Ikuto felt her flee. He didn't blame her in the slightest though he truly hated himself in that moment for this being how Amu found out the truth. He had been planning to tell her, but never like this.
"Sorry for what? Never mind, just get her and bring her in."
Smirking a bit, Ikuto sat up a bit straighter. If Amu knew the truth about him now then he had a chance to make things right. "I can't."
"Yes you can. You are the only one that can."
"Nope. Amu knows."
"Wh-what!?"
Moving up from his seat to look out the window, Ikuto let a real smile slip onto his face. "She was just standing outside and heard everything. Now she's running for it. I don't blame her."
"What was she doing here!?"
"I was supposed to be at her place tonight. I told you that, remember? She was probably coming to make sure I was okay. That's what friends do. She's probably long gone now, though. The girl can fly."
Sinking further into his chair with his hands in his hair, the scientist groaned. "Don't remind me."
Turning back to the man he had mixed feelings about, Ikuto crossed his room to place his hand on his creator's shoulder. "I would suggest staying away from headquarters for a while. If everything works out the way I think it might, it would be good for you to stay away."
"What are you saying? What are you planning?"
Smirking again, Ikuto headed for his front door. "Nothing yet, that all depends on if I can catch her."
Without having the chance to ask further, the scientist of the two humanoid beings watched as his second took off into the night. What a mess he had created.
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Amu berated herself again and again as she snuck through the darkness of the night. How could she have been so blind to so many men moving in around her? How could she have been worrying about Ikuto instead of paying proper attention? How could she not bring herself to hate the man that she'd recently discovered was not a man even though he'd betrayed her?
The words that she'd heard. The last words that she'd heard. The 'I'm sorry'. Amu knew that was for her. Ikuto had known that she was there and hadn't tried to cover up his discussion. He'd spared her the insult by just coming clean. She hadn't expected him to apologize and now she hated the fact that it mattered to her that he had.
Coming across several men armed with special guns that contained bullets that could harm her, Amu quietly put an end to their lives. Though she had the ability to steal their souls with a single kiss, Amu killed them in other ways. Snapping their necks, stealing a blade and slipping it into their lungs, anything that would prevent her from using her real power. She had the ability to fight this way, which is why she did. For some reason, Amu felt that a kiss was too special for these men to receive.
She could feel them, though. The men moving in around her. It explained the feeling she had earlier that she'd tried to tell herself was just worry for Ikuto. That feeling was so intense that Amu knew she was going to have one hell of a fight on her hands. Not only could she not use some of her powers to fly away, due to the fact that she'd be more than likely shot down if she tried, but she couldn't do anything more than she was already doing.
Entering into a small field, Amu could feel them everywhere. She wasn't certain how they seemed to be able to close in on her or how they knew where she was, but they did know. Just as she knew that she wasn't going to make it across the field before she was surrounded. That didn't stop the pinkette from trying anyways.
Just as she'd predicted, halfway through the field, a spotlight shone on her, causing Amu to freeze within the beam of light.
"Hinamori Amu, come quietly and no one will get hurt."
So basically they were threatening to take out her friends if she didn't comply. Like she would let them do that. "I would like to see even one of you make it away from here tonight."
"You have been warned."
Diving to the ground, Amu avoided several of the bullets that had been aimed at her. Of course, they weren't going to kill her. Their plan was to damage her into submission and return her to the lab so they could 'fix' her.
Rolling through the grass, Amu pulled the first man she came across and pulled him to the ground. Within seconds her fingers were squeezing his throat and crushing his windpipe. She relieved that man of his gun and shot several other people closing in on her once again.
The second time she attempted to avoid the bullets that were trained on her, Amu wasn't so lucky. She took a hit to her shoulder and leg. Without crying out or indicating that she'd been hit, Amu continued to fight back. There was no way that she was just going to just give up quietly now. Not when she'd been fight for her freedom for so long.
Another round of shots put three more bullets into her body. They had to have men that were simply aiming and shooting at her without doing anything else or the bullets would have never hit her. Despite being injured, Amu continued to fight them off. One by one, she killed them.
Just after the fifth round of bullets with far too many within her body, Amu began to slowly give in. She hadn't made it easy, but she couldn't keep on like she was. Their plan to weaken her was working. They were overpowering her with numbers.
Dropping to her knees, Amu set another round of shots towards where she knew several men where. She heard them die before answering shots came from a different direction. Several more bullets made homes in her back.
Falling forward, Amu decided that she'd make one last stance when they came for her. She'd kill anyone that got too close and then she'd give in.
Footsteps approached and Amu readied herself to kill some more when they suddenly stopped and a gurgling noise reached her ears.
"You will not harm her!"
That voice, that presence. Amu both loved and hated it now. How could she trust him? For all she knew, Ikuto could just be playing some angle in order to bring her back on his own. Still, she couldn't help but feel happy that he'd come.
"I don't think you heard what I said."
More sounds of people dying.
"Don't touch her."
Lifting her head and slumping into a position that could be counted as sitting, Amu let her eyes catch sight of Ikuto killing another man that had approached. Though his style was a bit different, the outcome was the same. Amu couldn't help the smile that found its way onto her face. "Ikuto."
Hearing his name, Ikuto glanced back to see a pitiful sight. Amu looked truly terrible. If he didn't get the bullets out of her soon, she wouldn't be able to regenerate. He shouldn't have taken so long in finding her. "Don't worry, Amu. I'm going to protect you."
His words brought hope to her chest along with another round of bullets flying through the air. This time, not only at her but at Ikuto as well.
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Morg: So there's a nice long chapter to make up for my laziness.
Ikuto: Great.
Amu: Wonderful.
Morg: I'm sorry I left it there, but you guys only have to wait until next Wednesday to find out what happens next!
Ikuto: You still suck.
Amu: Why would you leave it there!?
Morg: Just love me~