Morg: Heyo! I just want to make something clear.

Ikuto: Here we go.

Amu: Just sit quietly.

Morg: Unless my story says 'complete' it isn't complete. I won't leave one unfinished.

Ikuto: Your readers aren't stupid.

Amu: You'd be surprised.

Morg: It might take me a while to update a story or two, but that doesn't mean I'll never update it. Sometimes I'm rethinking the plot and other times I'm just more focused on another story.

Ikuto: Excuses.

Amu: It's why she doesn't own us.

Morg: So please understand that I'll finish everything!

~Guardian of Light~

Begrudgingly, Tadase had to admit that Tsukasa's plan of using the owls to spy was a good one. The birds brought more intel than they'd been able to gather through any other means. Apparently the Angel of Darkness was taking humans down to his castle, but all of them were returned without injury. The knight couldn't figure it out until one of the owls spotted a mark on one of the girls that made Tadase's heart stop. Amu was using magic. Amu was in danger.

Being that they needed to act soon so that they could rescue Amu before Ikuto became aware, Tadase had been readying his troops. Creatures that had spent so long in hiding were suddenly sparing with each other and attempting to learn fighting techniques that some of them had never known and others had used in centuries.

Tadase, being the Knight of Light, monitored everyone's progress and gave pointers where he thought they were needed. The things he pointed out were mostly simple things. Like how the sphinx, Dia, could use not only her claws and her teeth but her foreboding manner to make whoever was attacking her to pause their movements so she would have the upper hand.

Without his nephew knowing, Tsukasa met with each and every creature to reassure them that they were doing well and that their efforts would not be in vain. Tadase was rather good at pointing out what they could work on, but not so much what they were doing right.

One nymph, Pepe, had almost burst out crying when Tadase had informed her that everything she was doing was childish and would be no help to the Guardian. Tsukasa had thought that that had been going a little too far. Hence, he'd gone after the nymph and calmed her down.

However, their time for preparing was quickly coming to an end. If Amu was using some of her magic, which they knew she was since they saw her mark on a human girl returned from the castle, then it would only be a matter of time before the Angel realized who she was. Be it her hair returning to its pink color or her using too much magic in front of him, Ikuto would soon know that the Guardian he searched for was already in his castle. If he knew then the Creatures had no hope of saving her.

This being the case, Tadase called everyone once more into a meeting. All the main creatures were there to pass the word along to those in their groups. Tadase prayed they were all ready; he was ready to have his Guardian back.

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Ikuto sat at his desk with his head in his hands. Since he'd kissed Amu, any of the girls that he'd brought back hadn't even appealed to him. He'd had every intention of using them how he used to, but they did nothing for him. This fact frustrated the Angel beyond his usual gloom. One thing after another seemed to stack against him.

Sighing, Ikuto looked up as his door opened. A Griffin, Musashi, entered his office. "What is it?"

"That human, Amu, brought the other girl in to meet with me. She's still doing her tours. Send the human back. This is getting annoying and out of hand."

Crossing his arms over his chest, Ikuto leaned back in his chair. "Send for them. I'll return her now then. I don't have any more of a use for her here anyhow."

Musashi bowed before he ducked back out of the room. His wing tips and lion's tail dragging on the floor behind him as he padded out.

Ikuto braced himself for the energy he knew he was going to use in a short amount of time. Being near Amu seemed to take a lot out of him, though he couldn't really figure out why. The girl was only human. Maybe it was the dragon protecting her. Either way, Ikuto still readied himself.

Just as he predicted, Amu flew into the room with the other human girl just a bit behind her. "What did Musashi mean when he said you were sending Kira back already?!"

"You don't want her to go back to her family?"

"But I thought you were going to make her stay longer."

Snapping his fingers, Ikuto made the other human girl disappear. He knew that she'd reappear in her home, but his action caused him and Amu to be left alone. "Changed my mind."

Amu narrowed her eyes before moving closer to the Angel of Darkness. She poked him hard in the chest. "You better have actually sent her home! That girl was scared enough!"

Chuckling, Ikuto grabbed the girl's wrist and dragged her even closer. "Maybe I did."

"Ikuto!"

Turning his smile into a smirk, Ikuto placed a small kiss on the side of Amu's mouth. "Maybe I didn't."

Pushing away so that she could cross her arms, Amu tried to act angry towards the other. She was almost more than certain that Ikuto really had returned the other to her home, but there was a tiny voice nagging in the back of her mind to remind her that Ikuto didn't actually care about any of the girls that he brought here. "Don't lie to me!"

Sighing, Ikuto sat back down at his desk. "I sent her home. I may be the Angel of Darkness but I'm no liar."

Grinning, Amu spun to face the other. She gave him a wink before bowing and heading for the door. "Which is why I think you're way better than any of the other Angels that came before you!"

Ikuto sat stunned in his seat as the girl left. There Amu went again, saying stuff to make him feel good about himself. Why? Why did she have that effect on him? Why did he care so much that she thought he was better than any of the Angels before him? It shouldn't have mattered. It shouldn't have made him happy. It shouldn't have made him smile. But it did. It did and that scared Ikuto. This human girl should never have had such a power over him. None of the others had written about it. Ikuto knew they hadn't. He'd read their journals so many times over. This shouldn't have been happening, and the Angel of Darkness didn't know what to do about it.

Leaving his office and the confused air that was trapped in there, Ikuto headed for his throne room. It had been a while since he sat on his throne and the ruler of the underworld thought it was about time he did so. He liked the sense of power and authority he felt while he sat in his rightful place.

Some of his creatures passed before him. They all bowed respectfully to him as they went on their way. Something that made Ikuto sit just a little straighter. He had to stop thinking about the blonde girl running amuck in his castle because of some stupid dragon. There were more important things for him to be thinking about. Like finding the Guardian and discovering why there were reports of Creatures of the Light gathering in places.

Ikuto was in the middle of running through a list of possible reasons for the creatures to be gathering when Amu went skipping through the throne room. While the others under his control bowed to him out of respect, Amu just sent him a small wave.

Frowning, Ikuto stood and followed the blonde as she went on her way down the hall. "Amu."

"Oh hey Ikuto."

"Why didn't you bow to me?"

"I don't know. I never have before so I figured I didn't have to."

Wanting to bang his head against the wall, Ikuto held himself firm. "I'm the Angel of Darkness, Amu. You should be terrified of me. You should drop to your knees whenever I'm in your presence."

Scrunching up her forehead, Amu moved closer to the blue haired boy. "Are you feeling all right?"

Scowling, Ikuto pushed the hand that was moving for his forehead away from him. "I'm just fine so stop that! Why aren't you afraid of me?"

"Because you are Ikuto. Even if you are the Angel of Darkness, you aren't evil. You aren't going to hurt me just because I smile at you instead of cry. You're a good person, Ikuto, even if those before you weren't."

Once again, Ikuto felt pleased by those words. It made him angry to feel that way. "You have no idea who I am! Stop acting like you know who I am and what I would and wouldn't do! You know nothing! Nothing!"

Amu stared at the Angel as he screamed at her before turning and stalking away. She watched him go without being able to call out for him to stop. Ikuto was beyond angry and she didn't really understand why. She hadn't insulted him. In fact, Amu had thought she'd been complimenting him. Maybe Rima would understand. With that, Amu went to find her dragon friend.

Ikuto stalked down the hallway while trying to suppress his feelings of joy and accomplishment. He shouldn't have felt them. He shouldn't have been pleased by a mere human's words. Humans were nothing to him but play things. A way for him to pass his time while he searched for the Guardian. They were nothing but moments of pleasure in his long existence. Though they received none of that pleasure, Ikuto didn't care. He was the Angel of Darkness. He was to bring fear and destruction to the world.

With that thought firmly in mind, Ikuto teleported himself to the human world. His senses told him that a girl of the right age would be nearby. He found her easily and took her screaming back to his castle. Amu was nowhere to be seen, which was what Ikuto wanted. Throwing the crying girl onto his bed, Ikuto crawled on top of her. "You will not enjoy this. You should be afraid of me. I am the Angel of Darkness."

The girl began to sob so hard that she barely made a sound. Ikuto wanted to feel the same sense of power he'd felt in the past when he'd done this to other girls like this one, but he felt nothing. Nothing but a bit of pity for the girl and not at all aroused as he should have been.

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Amu sucked in a sharp breath before suddenly standing. Rima was still speaking to her, but she was no longer listening. Somehow she knew. Amu knew that Ikuto had just gone for another girl. She was already in the castle and more afraid than any of the others had ever been. "I-I have to go! Ik-Ikuto! No!"

Rima didn't know what to do as the almost pink haired girl ran from the room. The Guardian didn't even stop to apologize to Nagihiko as the dark elf was shoved out of her way. The dragon and the elf exchanged shocked expressions as they watched her go.

Praying that she wouldn't be too late, Amu skidded around a corner and continued to run as fast as she could down the hall. Ikuto was better than this. Ikuto was different from how he used to be since she came to stay in the castle. He wouldn't hurt the girl. Even if he was mad at Amu, he wouldn't do anything to her.

Continuing to tell herself that, Amu flew down the halls until she was certain that Ikuto and the girl were in Ikuto's private room. Flinging the door open, Amu was met with the sight of two naked bodies on the bed. Ripped clothes lay around them and on the floor. The cry struggled and cried while Ikuto only frowned down at her. The look on his face told Amu that he was confused and angry. "Ikuto! No!"

Glancing up, Ikuto locked eyes with Amu. In that moment, need and arousal raced through him. His previous problem of feeling nothing for the human was suddenly gone and all he needed was to look at the human he already had as his prisoner. Smirking, Ikuto leaned down to lick up the crying girl's neck. "I think maybe it is time to show you just what I really do with the humans that come here. This is something you should be looking forward to, Amu."

Gasping, Amu's eyes went wide as she watched Ikuto rape the girl on the bed. Amu had thought that he wouldn't do it. She had thought that he was much better than that. She had thought that he was a good person. She had been wrong. Not entirely, but enough so that this girl got hurt. Ikuto was a good person, but Amu had thought that Ikuto was aware of that fact. He wasn't. He thought he was evil and had to do evil things even if that wasn't true. "N-no!"

Ikuto wanted to feel pleasure from the sex he was having, but he didn't. The girl below him was tight and that stimulated him on a physical level, but his mind couldn't remove the image of the disappointed and crying Amu. The fact that she looked so broken only made him thrust harder. It shouldn't matter what she thought of what he did. He was the Angel of Darkness and she was nothing. "This is how I treat nothing."

Amu couldn't stand there any longer. Covering her mouth with one hand, she stumbled backwards out of the room and down the hall. Her tears blurred her vision as the screams of the girl Ikuto was raping echoed down the hallway after her. This was not what she wanted.

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Morg: So this is a rather dark chapter.

Ikuto: I wouldn't do another girl when Amu was right there.

Amu: So you're saying you'd wait until I was somewhere else?

Morg: Oh snap!

Ikuto: I meant that I'd be doing you.

Amu: Yeah right! Not happening.

Morg: Maybe later.

Ikuto: There better be a damn good reason for this to be happening.

Amu: I hope so as well. Rape isn't a good thing.

Morg: Amu has to realize her powers somehow, right?

Ikuto: Lame.

Amu: We'll see.

Morg: Review my dear readers! I love you lots!