Morg: Heyo! So I've missed a few Wednesdays, but I promise it was for good reason.

Ikuto: Probably a lame one.

Amu: We don't really want to hear it.

Morg: I'm sure you do!

Ikuto: Nope.

Amu: Not listening.

Morg: I'm still going to say.

Ikuto: Doesn't matter.

Amu: You don't own us.

Morg: Whatever.

~Killed With Kisses~

Everything was ready to go. At least, on Amu and Ikuto's end. If they had been just regular humans there was no way they would have been prepared for the battle before them. Luckily, their friends were safe and somewhere distant and far away from the bloodshed about to take place.

Blasting through the thickest wall of the entire building, Ikuto held Amu to his chest as the dust settled. As soon as she pulled her head back, Ikuto stole a kiss from her lips. "Just for good luck."

Giggling, Amu smacked the chest she was still against before pushing out of the arms holding her. "We're not the ones that are going to be the luck. It is unfortunate that they let us figure out how these kisses work."

Lifting an eyebrow, Ikuto let the way through the blown apart wall. "Yeah, unfortunate."

Amu joined her counterpart. Their demeanor changed the moment they stepped foot into the hall of the headquarters of the Guardians of Easter. The two were instantly on the alert. Even though the area they decided to enter through would have little to none guards, the two were well aware of the extensive camera system that the building possessed. Any minute now guards would be streaming through the halls towards them.

Any minute now.

"Something's wrong."

"They should've attacked by now."

Moving down the hall with their guns raised and ready, Amu and Ikuto continued to watch both ways down the hall as they moved further inside the building. It made no sense that they weren't being attacked yet. Hell, it made no sense that they hadn't even seen a guard yet.

"This isn't rig-"

Amu's sentence was cut off just as a scream filled the air. The two froze, but the liquid running through Amu's veins froze even more than her manmade body did. She knew that voice. She also knew that Ikuto knew it too. The voice was one they'd both stored and saved in their data systems. A voice that belonged to one Mashiro Rima.

"No!"

"Amu!"

The pinkette took off faster than Ikuto could grab her. He was on her heels though, which was fine with Amu since they were both going to be needed if they had really somehow managed to capture one of their friends. "We sent them away! They shouldn't be here! We sent them somewhere safe! Ikuto!"

His long strides putting him right beside the humanoid he loved, Ikuto tried to be as reassuring as he could be under the circumstances. Rima was his friend as well and the fact that they were listening to her scream like she was in the worst pain she'd ever felt wasn't easy.

The scream faded out before they could find where the source was.

"No! Ikuto! We have to find them!"

Pulling the girl to a halt, Ikuto did a mental scan of the area to see what life forms were around. "Then let's find someone to take us to them."

There were three people in the room just up ahead. Ikuto wasted no time in pulling Amu along behind him before kicking the door open and springing into the room with his gun raised.

Amu followed but gasped the moment she entered. Instead of finding three guards, they found three of their friends. Kairi, Yaya and Nagihiko were just on the other side of the room. The two robotic humans would have been more pleased to find their friends if they hadn't been in giant columns of some sort of liquid with breathing masks attached to their faces and wires connecting to various parts of their bodies.

"What have they done to them!?"

Ikuto gritted his teeth as he approached a control panel on the far side of the room. "I have no idea, but I'm rather certain the point of all this is to mess with the emotions that they now know we have which we aren't supposed to have. We can't let this stop us from accomplishing our goal."

"But we can't leave them here!"

"I never said that. Come see if you can help me figure out how to stop this thing."

Amu was on her way across the room when Rima started screaming again. The girl had to be close by. "You figure this out! I'll go save Rima!"

"Amu! No! Wait!" Ikuto's calls for his lover were in vain as the girl ran out of the room without pause. "Damn it! This is what they want!"

A chuckle sounded from across the room as a door slid open. "You got that right."

Ikuto lifted his gun and pointed it at the guards that entered the room. "Which is why I'll kill you slowly."

The man chuckled again with his hands raised. With one of his hands he motioned towards the vats that contained Ikuto's friends. "Careful now, if those aren't shut down properly your friends will die. Wouldn't want a stray bullet to hit them."

Smirking, Ikuto slid his gun into its holster. "I'd much rather prefer to kill you with my hands anyhow."

Several of the guards pulled guns but Ikuto was already on the attack. He jumped to miss their shots and took out the leader and a second without much effort. The others died due to the gun he snatched from the man he'd just killed. All of his bullets hit their mark.

Checking to make certain that the three in the liquid cells were still safe, Ikuto let out a sigh as he crossed back to the control panel and tried to figure out how it worked. It didn't take him long to have the system shut down and the liquid draining away. Rima's screams had stopped as well and Ikuto hoped it was because Amu had saved her.

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Amu slid to a stop in the hallway just as the second scream ended. It didn't matter any longer since she'd already found the room she was being held in, but the pinkette had heard the sound of gunfire behind her. Ikuto had had to fight off some guards. Considering she didn't receive the call that they had designed in order to let the other know if they were in great need if they got separated, Amu assumed that the guards had been the ones to get shot. Good riddance.

The door before her read 'Stand clear of sliding door'. Amu kicked it into the room. Luckily for her, the giant piece of twisted metal slammed into a guard and killed him rather than one of her friends. Yeah, sure, luck.

Walking calmly into the room to see a panting Rima strapped to a table, Amu narrowed her eyes at the other nine guards in the room. "Only ten to protect my friend? You guys must not want to live."
One of the guards pulled a girl out from behind another.

Utau. At least she now knew were five of her friends were.

"Try anything and we kill her."

Smirking as she narrowed her eyes, Amu bent forward into a fighting stance. "Bad move."

The guard went to open his mouth to yell again that any sudden movements would end the life of her fried. At least, that is what Amu thought he was going to say. She would never know considering she put a bullet through the middle of his forehead. He wasn't the only one. The four other guards near Utau all dropped, leaving the pop star to stand on unsteady feet as she tried to keep from screaming or crying.

Amu didn't hesitate to kill the two near the control panel or the one moving to threaten Utau again. The three dropped without much effort from the pinkette. Staring at the one remaining guard in the room, Amu shrugged. "You are going to do anything?"

The man seemed terrified. His eyes moved from the blonde girls to the door to Amu. He looked as though he was going to die of a heart attack all on his own. "I… I don-"

The man never got to finish speaking as a bullet entered his brain. Amu seemed shocked until she turned around to find Ikuto with three of their friends slung over one of his shoulders. "I wasn't going to let him live."

"I know, but he was annoying me."

"Are they…?"

"They're going to be just fine. I shut down the machine without complications. Have you even check Utau and Rima?"

Amu glanced back at the two girls. "Body scans show me that they will be fine physically. Mentally, we'll have to wait and see."

Ikuto nodded as he placed the three he carried carefully onto the floor. "So what's our plan now?"

Amu rushed across the room to help Utau to sit near the other three before she went back and got Rima off that damned table. "To kill everyone."

"That was the plan from the beginning, love. What are we going to do with these five as we look for Kukai and kill everyone else?"

Thinking on her feet, Amu looked at their five friends. Three were unconscious and two looked as though they would be soon. "Utau and Rima, if we left you two with guns would you be able to protect the others until we come back with Kukai?"

Still shaking incredibly badly, Rima shook her head. "I can't move my arms much right now. I'll be of now help."

Utau wasn't about to agree to something she knew she couldn't do as well. "I wouldn't be able to lift the gun either. Everything hurts."

Filling the anger inside her growing, Amu scowled at the wall. "I really wish I could kill someone right now."

"I don't know if I can help with that, but if you feel like giving up, I'll be right here."

Amu spun to find another door at the other side of the room opening. This time, around forty guards entered the room. "Oh good, I was in the mood for ruthless killing."

"Been a while, Amu. Glad to see that even if you have gone soft, you still like killing as much as you used to."

Staring down the man she used to take commands from, Amu scoffed. "Used to? I didn't use to like anything. However, now that I actually have real emotions, you fuckers better prepare yourselves."

"Ah, but you see, real emotions are going to be your downfall."

The men stepped to the side to reveal a boy with reddish brown hair standing amongst them. Amu and Ikuto stood stunned as they stared at their sixth friend. Kukai was standing there amongst the guards with his head down so they could not see his face. His entire body was tensed as if he was waiting to be unleashed.

Sliding her gaze to meet with Ikuto's eyes for a moment, Amu looked back towards their commander. "What did you do to him?"

"Upgrades."

Ikuto refused to let his disgust show. Somehow he repressed his shudder. Upgrades were something he knew that both he and Amu had gone through several times while they'd been in the early stages of being created. Even if he hadn't been completely finished at the time of them, Ikuto could still remember the discomfort and pain of his systems being ripped open and rebuilt. It was nothing like being shot. He could handle that sort of pain. Upgrades started from the inside though and spread throughout the body. There was no place left untouched.

"Fucking bastards! We were going to kill you nicely. You just lost that privilege!"

With Amu back into her fighting stance, Ikuto lined up behind her. He would attack as well, but he wouldn't leave the five behind him unguarded. Emotions really sucked in moments like these. "Kukai, you okay there?"

"Uh, yeah, except I can't move my body. They tell it what to do and it does it."

Amu didn't let her surprise show on her face. "But you can still talk normally?"

"My thoughts are my own, I guess. They're suppressing my pain though. If I, uh, try to hurt the others, please just kill me. I wouldn't be able to live with myself anyhow."

Closing his eyes to breathe for just a second, Ikuto reopened them to shoot daggers at the others in the room. "That isn't going to happen."

Having enough of this little reunion session, the commander stepped forwards to disrupt all the reassurances going on. "Right, as you can see we have a few bugs left to work out, but we'll be changing more and more humans now that we know we can. Enjoy killing your friend."

Amu wasn't entirely certain how it happened. One moment she was standing on one side of the room ready to kill the forty idiots that had dared to experiment on her friends, and the next she was actually killing them. Five died before she came back to her senses. It was lucky that she had considering that the guard she'd been just about to throw into the wall was pushed out of the way and Kukai was suddenly in his place.

Changing direction midair, Amu used her power of flight to miss her friend. From her high point, Amu threw six daggers. All ended lives. Not that Amu would have let them do otherwise.

Ikuto, being that he was using his body as a shield for the others the moment his lover attacked, pulled his own guns and began taking guards down. He moved swiftly back and forth before his friends, taking the bullets he knew would hit one of them into his body instead and returning bullets back to the guards. Easily, he killed half of them.

Being that most of her attacks were now diverted because of Kukai, Amu did her best to kill the remaining nine guards, one being the commander. She wasn't certain how Kukai was being controlled, but she figured it had to do something with that man.

Expecting her next attack to be deflected as well, Amu didn't put her strength into it. Surprise flooded through her when she actually killed the guard she'd been going through. Moving quickly, she looked around the room to spot Kukai moving towards a bleeding Ikuto and their injured friends. "No!"

Amu left herself open for attack as she ran across the room. One of the remaining eight men managed to hit her with a couple bullets, though Amu barely felt them. Ikuto killed the man anyhow.

Slamming Kukai into the wall, Amu pulled a knife and pinned his sleeves to the smooth service. "I promised I wouldn't let you hurt them."

Kukai smiled at her while his body began to fight against the restraints. "Thanks Hinamori."

"Just hang in there, Souma."

While standing in front of her brown haired friend, Amu felt three bullets enter her back. She heard returning shots fired from her lover. It was no surprise when she turned around to find only four men left standing. "I hope that you didn't bring everyone in here for this one little fight. That is going to make the rest of our visit rather boring."

Ikuto had to agree with his damaged lover. If this was really it, he was going to go home frustrated. At least he could think of a few things to do with Amu to get rid of his pent up energy. "Please tell me there are more."

The commander smirked as he lifted his hand to show the device connected to it. "I'm mentally linked with your friend there. His body does what my mind tells it to. Kill me and he might just die as well."

"Not going to happen."

"Amu! Ikuto! Please stop me! No! No!"

Amu spun to find that Kukai was free from where she'd pinned him and the knife she used was in his hands, placed against his neck. Turning back, Amu pulled her gun and killed the other men besides the commander. "Just getting them out of the way. Now, how about we settle this? Make him drop the knife."

"So demanding for one with no real power over this situation. How about you tell her how it feels, Kukai?"

"He's pressing harder! Please! Amu! I know I said that you should kill me if I hurt the others, but I don't want to die!"

Ikuto moved closer but was yelled out to stop by the commander. His eyes met Amu's and he gave her a slight nod. In the same instance, he lunged for Kukai. The knife was knocked from the boy's hand before he could harm himself and he was pinned. Amu did the same to the commander, just as Ikuto had motioned for her to do.

Seeing the wires go into the man's head, Amu pulled them. "You will not hurt my friends."

Kukai screamed as the man died, but he continued breathing after the other had stopped. With his chest heaving, Kukai was leaned against the wall by the other five. Utau and Rima had at some point fallen asleep like the others. "Thanks guys."

Amu wasted no time rushing to her friend's side. "Are you okay?"

"I think I will be."

Nodding her head, Amu watched as the boy tested out his limbs. "At least you can move on your own now."

"Yeah."

Getting to her feet, Amu turned to Ikuto. "Let's finish this."

Smiling at his lover, Ikuto pulled the girl in for a kiss. Their systems healed and any injuries that either had disappeared. "I'd love to."

Leaving Kukai with a gun and plenty of ammo, Ikuto and Amu tore out of the room. A mental scan showed them that there were close to a hundred other guards in the building. It didn't take long for them to kill them all. At least the scientist that had created them had heeded Ikuto's warning and had stayed away. They both knew that they couldn't kill him.

Returning to their friends, Amu and Ikuto were happy to see that Kukai was able to raise the gun at them when they walked in. It meant that he was still coherent enough to protect the ones they'd left him with.

"Did you get them all?"

Smiling, Amu nodded. "We got them all."

Kukai sighed as he leaned back against the wall. The hand holding the gun dropped into his lap. "Good. So what now?"

Smirking, Ikuto moved to pull a cart with them into the room. It was supposed to be used as some sort of laundry bin, but they had other plans for it. "We placed explosives around the building and grounds that will destroy everything here. Any research, any experiments, anything. It'll all be lost. As soon as we are safe, I'll detonate it."

Eyeing the bin, Kukai nodded his head. "What's that for?"

"Getting everyone away safely."

Kukai was about to respond when Amu carefully picked up Kairi like he weighed nothing and set him in a sitting position within the bin. Yaya, Nagihiko and Rima were quick to follow. Seeing that there was no room left, Kukai eyed his two robotic friends. "And Utau and I?"

Ikuto took a step forward to motion to himself. "You'll have to hang onto my back and I'll just carry Utau. We need to get out of here quickly."

"I thought you killed everyone?"

"It isn't a good idea for us to loiter."

Sighing, Kukai forced himself to his feet using the wall as support. "We better still be going on that fucking vacation after this."

Chuckling, Ikuto helped the injured boy onto his back before he scooped up the last girl on the floor. "I hope so, too."

Amu giggled as she pushed the bin containing their other four friends out of the room and down the hall. This time, they left through the front door. The ride for the four in the bin was rough once they left the drive of the compound and she pushed it over the grassy ground. Just at the top of the next hill, Amu stopped with Ikuto beside her. "Do it. I want to watch."

Ikuto obliged and hit the detonator, causing the many explosives he placed to blow. Together, he and Amu watched as the placed they were created in went up in flames. Other explosions happened as the fire spread. He and Amu didn't move until they were certain that everything was destroyed.

Kukai sighed as he laid his head against Ikuto's back. He was exhausted mentally and physically and was really looking forward to that vacation now. The rest of his life be damned.

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Morg: So yeah, this was the last chapter. Only the epilogue is left.

Ikuto: What!?

Amu: Don't just spring that stuff on us!

Morg: What!? I could have split this chapter but that would have been cruel! It is almost twice as long as I usually write! Besides, it'll be a good epilogue! If you guys want then I'll throw in smut for everyone! Jeez! Just tell me!