Morg: Heyo! Happy I Killed Wednesday!

Ikuto: Somehow that just sounds wrong.

Amu: Everything she says sounds wrong.

Morg: Not everything!

Ikuto: Name one.

Amu: She's not going to be able to.

Morg: Uhhh… I don't own you?

Ikuto: That is wrong. Because if you did, Amu and I would have a lot more fun.

Amu: Nope!

~Killed With Kisses~

"About time you two came back! I don't want to see any hickies!"

Amu had known the comment, or one similar to it, had been coming and decided to just ignore it right away. There was no point in attempting to tell Kukai he was wrong. Amu and Ikuto had kissed after all. "Hey guys, sorry it took too long."

Reaching for the other's hand, Ikuto tried to reassure Amu that this was the right choice. They had to follow through with this, and he was going to be right there beside her as they told their friends. "I don't mean to cut the holiday cheer short, but there is something important that we need to tell you. Kairi, would you shut off the music?"

The annoying holiday tunes stopped instantly as Kairi moved efficiently to comply with Ikuto's request. Sending a nod back to Ikuto after he completed the task, Kairi sought out the girl he'd momentarily left to bring quiet to the small apartment.

Feeling nervous even though she'd been in several worse situations than the one she was currently in, Amu swallowed before motioning for her friends to find somewhere to sit. "Ikuto and I haven't been completely truthful with all of you. There is something that we need to come clean about since it will definitely affect all of you."

"Oh God!" Kukai flew to his feet as he pointed at the pair still standing. "You're pregnant!"

Blushing hard, Amu shook her head. "No! That's not it! I swear!"

Chuckling, Ikuto slid his smirk into place as he wrapped his arm around Amu's shoulders. "Not pregnant, though you could say that we're dating."

Sending a quick smile up at the other, Amu tried to get the thoughts of what carrying Ikuto's child would be like out of her mind. She couldn't do that anyhow. "What we are about to tell you is very serious. You can get mad, you can yell and you can definitely tell us you never want to speak to us again. However, you cannot leave."

The seriousness on Amu's face made the muscles in Rima's stomach begin to squirm. "Would you just tell us already? You're making me nervous."

A few heads nodded in agreement, though Amu suddenly couldn't find her voice. Opening and closing her mouth several times, the pinkette couldn't get her sound system to function.

Seeing the distress of the one he loved, Ikuto squeezed her to his side before delivering the news. "Amu and I aren't human. We were created by an organization bent on creating the perfect assassin."

Once she heard Ikuto start the confession, Amu had no trouble spewing forth all the facts. "Actually, that's why I was created. For a long time I killed people for them. That was, until I made my first friend and decided that that wasn't the life I wanted to lead. Ikuto and I are completely man made. We aren't human. There is not a shred of DNA in our bodies. We don't even have finger prints."

Having caught the flicker of eyes in her direction while Amu spoke, Utau couldn't help but interrupt. In a meek voice, the popstar tried to process everything she was learning. "Who was the friend?"

Letting her gaze land on Utau for more than a split second this time, Amu knew that she had to tell the truth. "The day I met you, I was in the city to kill a prominent member of the government. Do you remember how we met? I was currently evading and blending back into society. I killed the man just thirty minutes before I met you. That day you told me that what you were doing wasn't what you always wanted to do. You told me that what you were doing was what you had to do to reach your dreams. You asked me what mine were and for the first time in my short, created life, I actually thought about that. I never returned to the organization after that. I spent my time running from them and avoiding using my abilities the best I could."

Face a little pale, Utau did indeed remember that day. For having killed someone, Amu had been extremely calm.

"What were you doing?"

Turning to the boy she'd grown awfully close to, Utau blushed a little. "It was before I was discovered by a talent scout. I was performing in public places with my guitar. I would sing songs and hope that people would leave me change or small bills. Part time I worked as a waitress. The apartment I lived in was disgusting and small. Amu was the first person I ever let see where I lived."

Pushing his glasses up his nose, Kairi held Yaya's hand just a little tighter. Not that he didn't completely trust the other two. Amu and Ikuto had been around them enough to have done something by now if that were their intentions. "What was Ikuto doing all this while?"

"I wasn't created yet. The moment Amu went rouge, the scientist that created us was told to find a way to bring her back. That's how he came up with me. Amu and I sort of complete each other. He didn't make it so that I'd dominate her complete, because Amu is very powerful and has a lot of abilities that I don't. However, I have some that she does not have either. The major advantage I have is taking her strongest attack and using as an advantage."

Wanting to believe that all of this was some sort of joke, Kukai tried to prove the two wrong. They had to be lying. "What would that be?"

Taking the question to be answered by herself, Amu spoke before Ikuto could. "I have several powers, I guess you could say. I can fly, run extremely fast. I can literally blend in anywhere, almost like a chameleon. I can sing. I can act. I can cook. I can clean. I am the ultimate spy. However, the attack that Ikuto is talking about is my ability to kill without leaving a mark on the body. I have several different martial arts that were programed in and I can learn new ones instantly. Killing through fighting is easy for me, though I prefer to use my kiss."

"Like the kiss of death?"

"That was the inspiration for it, yes Rima. I'm not entirely sure how it works. I believe that through the act of the kiss I can send a message to the brain telling it to shut down."

Nodding her head, Rima could somewhat understand the answer to her question. "But how does Ikuto use this as an advantage?"

Smirking like the big cat he was, Ikuto winked to the short blonde before looking down at the girl under his arm. "Where Amu's kiss would kill anyone else, it speeds up the healing process of my body."

"Not just his body, though. Kissing with Ikuto will also heal mine."

"Do I want to know how you've learned that? Not to mention, you said that Ikuto was created to bring you back. How is it that you are both standing here talking to us now if Ikuto is supposed to be taking you back?"

Leave it to Kairi to not be sidetracked by petty facts. Amu knew that she liked this boy the best. He was smart. Smiling, Amu remembered when she had considered him a threat. "I didn't know Ikuto's true identity until earlier tonight when I left to go get him. I cannot lie. I was becoming more attached to him than I should have been. Now it makes a lot more sense as to why I felt that way. Before it left me very confused. I was actually thinking about confessing my inhuman-ness to him soon."

"You were?"

"I sort of figured that even if you didn't feel the same way, I didn't have to give you the choice. I'm not human after all. Your strength would have been way less than mine. I could have easily forced you to be with me."

"Aw! I had no idea that my little Amu-koi liked me enough to kidnap me!"

Not finding the conversation all that cute, Utau once again put them back on track. "Gross, but that doesn't answer the question."

Clearing her throat, Amu ignored the sense of heat she was suddenly all too aware of against her body. Friends first, Ikuto later. "Right, I went to get him to make certain that he was safe and discovered that he was currently talking with our creator. He must of realized that I was there and sort of warned me and I fled. Unfortunately, I didn't make it far before the men that the organization had sent surrounded me. I killed a lot of them, but the damage to my body was too much to keep me going. They would have taken me into the lab and wiped my brain, returning me to my killing machine state."

Holding the girl he'd almost killed even closer, Ikuto decided to take over. "Fortunately, I decided in the moment that I sense Amu outside to warn her that I was no longer working for the organization either. Although I would have been with Amu either way, the Amu that I fell in love with is this Amu and not the Amu that they would have created once I took her back. I left my house in time to find Amu severely injured and managed to kill off a lot more of the men."

Vision flashing back to the events that had transpired not even two hours before, Amu spoke the best she could. "Ikuto stopped them from taking me, but was equally injured in the process. Regular bullets cannot harm us. However, since I ran the organization decided it would be in their best interest to find a way to incapacitate us."

"In the moment before they would have taken us in, I asked Amu to kiss me. I was aware that her kiss killed, but wanted to feel it once before we 'died'."

Blushing again, Amu forced her eyes to remain fixed on Ikuto's as he looked straight back at her. "Imagine my surprise when I kissed someone for the first time and it didn't take away the light in their eyes."

After a moment or two of silence, Utau realized that Amu and Ikuto weren't going to say anything else without some sort of prompt. "Which is when you realized that your kisses healed each other. Got it."

Shaking out of the place her mind had gone, Amu turned back to the rest of her friends. "Uh yeah. We quickly killed the rest of the men and came here. We would have fled town right then and there but the organization that created us knows that you are our friends. They would use you to get to us."

Kairi had been expecting this from the beginning. That did not make it any easier to hear. For the first time in his short life he had friends. Friends that wanted to hang out with him for social reasons and not academic. His relationship with Yaya was still a little unclear, though Kairi definitely understood that he liked the energetic girl more than as a friend. When she had kissed him, Kairi hadn't hesitated to kiss back. Now he was listening to two people he considered friends telling him that they had put him and his young love, not to mention other people cared about greatly, into danger. Life threatening danger. "So what now?"

Having listened quietly the whole time, Kukai finally decided it was time to speak up. His mind was trying hard to cope with the fact that two of his best friends were created to be mindless killing machines and were not, in fact, regular kids like him. It was a lot to deal with, and not something he really wanted to deal with. However, Kukai wasn't one to avoid problems. He liked facing challenges head on, which meant no skirting around this one now. "There is no 'what now'. Amu and Ikuto got us into this mess. They will get us out of it."

For one heart stopping second, Amu had thought that Kukai was going to reject any sort of help that she and Ikuto were willing to offer. Having the boy that dictated so many of their activities on their side helped the two out a lot. That and Amu had a huge soft spot in her heart for the crazy boy. "For this we are going to need Utau's help."

"Mine?"

"Yes, you will need to take everyone with you to a secure location while Amu and I fix this."

Thinking about it for a second, Utau nodded. "All right. My beach house is secluded and has high security. We should be fairly safe there. Plus, it is winter here and being there would be ideal. No questions would be asked."

Amu nodded. Things were working out in their favor so far. Hopefully this trend would continue. "Excellent. All of you will need to go. Work things out with your parents as best you can. We'll have to get you out of here tonight and on your way. If your parents don't understand, you will have to leave anyways and hope that you can make up with them another time. Your life is much more important than that relationship."

Kukai shrugged before letting his arm rest around Utau's shoulders. "My mom wouldn't notice if I didn't come home."

Rima couldn't help but agree with that. "My parents are rarely around anyhow. They're always traveling so they wouldn't notice either."

Finally being able to just blink again, Nagihiko gripped the hand in his hard. "My parents won't be as understanding."

"Yaya's won't be either."

Fixing his glasses, Kairi nodded. "Mine won't have a problem with me going."

Turning to the two that Amu knew were going to have a hard time, the humanoid tried to remain hopeful. "Try to explain that it is a trip that Utau will pay for that is just for friends. There will be plenty of supervision and you'll get to do lots of fun things. I'm sorry that we can't let you go home to get things or tell them in person."

"Why can't we go home?"

Sighing, Ikuto tried to seem sympathetic. "We can't risk anything happen to you while you go. We have to go now. The organization will have already cleaned up the mess we made and are probably trying to figure out what their next move is. We literally have to go now."

Taking out the cell phone that his parents had given him for emergency situations, Kairi dialed his home number. "You can each use my phone after me if you need to. Might as well get going now if we don't have much time."

Ignoring the phone offered to him by Utau, Kukai turned to Amu and Ikuto. "What's your plan? How are you going to fix this?"

"Not so much fix it as we are going to end it."

.

Morg: What is it with me giving you such long chapters?

Ikuto: Are you looking for more praise?

Amu: No one is going to give it to you.

Morg: I thought you were supposed to be loyal and friendly, Amu.

Ikuto: That's only to me.

Amu: Lies! I'm nice to everyone. You've just lost a bit of my respect, Morg. Maybe I'd be nicer if you didn't make me do those things with Ikuto.

Morg: I can handle you being mean to me!