"I really don't understand you two." Rima commented as we ate at my house again.
"What I don't understand is how you two spend so much time here and not move in. You two basically live here anyways." I stated. They both sleep here most of the month. Heck, Rima even has her own bed! Only because Ikuto hadn't really left me since I the kidnapping. I didn't mind it though. What worries me though is that Ikuto and I basically share a bed, though nothing happens in it, okay, we cuddle here and there, but that was it, and my parents still haven't said a word about it.
"Isn't that illegal?" Rima asked. I shrugged at it.
"Doubt it." I replied before stuffing some food in my mouth. I looked over at Ikuto. He was glaring down at his phone screen. He looked livid. I just leaned over a bit, since he stayed really close to me most of the time, so I could read the message.
Hinamori is mine. Leave her alone.
I didn't recognize the number. I gave Rima a quick look that told her that I needed to talk to her later. She understood what I meant.
"Why hasn't Ikuto brought in a cat yet?" Rima asked. I raised a brow at her.
"A cat?" I asked. She nodded her head.
"He's always reminded me of a cat so I thought he would get one at one point." She stated. I looked back of at the only male in the house. He wasn't listening to a word we were saying but that didn't matter at the moment. Ikuto hasn't spoken a word since we cried out in the woods either. Though, Rima did have a point. He does cat like a cat at times. His hair was soft like cats fur, he also loves fish and milk.
"You do have a point." I told Rima. I heard Ikuto's phone go off. There was a loud slam. Ikuto growled loudly. I placed my hand on his shoulder. He looked at me with a glare. I knew that glare wasn't for me though, so I smiled up at him.
"What can we do to help?" I asked. We three came to an unofficial agreement not to bring up each others issues unless we ourselves brought them up. I saw Rima nod her head in the corner of my eye. Ikuto stared at me for a few minutes and I allowed him too. I liked looking into his eyes anyways. They were this mysterious shade of blue that always seemed to send me to a different cosmos whenever I look into them. Ikuto quickly turned away and started writing on the piece of paper. Instead of handing it to me, like he usually would, he handed it over to Rima. I waited for Rima to read the paper. I raised a brow when she didn't. She looked over at Ikuto before nodding. She looked over at me.
"Do you have a crush on anyone, Amu?" She asked. What they heck were those two up to? I raised a brow at her. "Kukai? Nagi? Tadase? "Kairi?" She listed. My eye brow would've went higher if it could. "Ikuto?" I swear I saw a smirk on her face. I just tilted my head.
"A crush?" I just asked. Rima suddenly looked like she wanted to beat her head on the table. "Like the thing between you and Nagi?" I asked with a smirk on my face this time. I heard Ikuto snicker as Rima glared at me. Her ears were red.
"Don't make me burn that project thing of yours, up." She threatened. I glared at her. I've been trying to write a manga where those tiny people did exist but I had a hard time coming up for a plot and names for the tiny people.
"You do that and I'll burn your gag manga." I threatened back. She flinched slightly but we both knew that we both would hold out on our threats. "But, if you must know." Rima looked at me with a shocked expression. I glanced at Ikuto and saw that he seemed interested. "Since I was seven years old, I've had psychiatrist from all over the country say that I would never overcome my phobia of being around other people. It took me months to get over the fear of being around my own family. I just now recently got my first friends. I don't want to yenks anything but doing something like that. I might find some people attractive but it's never gotten any rather than that." I told. They both looked slightly shocked. I stood up and took my empty plate to the sink while they got over their shock.
"You have a phobia of being around other people?" Rima asked. I nodded my head as I sat back down. I really didn't like hiding things like this from them. "Then how did you stand up to those strangers for me in that alley way?" She asked. I looked back to that moment. How vulnerable she looked… How I wished I was saved way before I was. Rima's eyes widen.
"Because… I refused to have someone become like me." I stated. "I refused to let you get hurt like that…" My eyes were watering up with all the memories that popped up. "I had to give you what I used to pray for, for the longest time." The tears were flowing now but I refused to let my emotions go any farther. I felt something wrap around my waist. I already knew that Ikuto was hugging me, just like he did in the woods. My face was to his chest but he kept his head up this time as he stroked my hair. Feeling the comfort Ikuto was giving me only made the tears come stronger. I turned in Ikuto's arms though, so I could see Rima. "I have to thank you both though." I felt Ikuto moved back as Rima's eyes widen even more. "I have a sever case of Post traumatic stress disorder. You both are the first people that make me feel comfortable enough to over come it. Whenever everyone gathered around to argue rather or not I was on a team, I would've freaked out and would've yelled before running away. Ikuto protected me while you defended me when I know told you I've never been on a team. I felt save. Then when everyone got together on the roof, just knowing you two were there to protect me if anything happened kept me grounded even when Kukai touched me. A total stranger touched me and I didn't freak out for the first time in my life." I knew I was grinning like an idiot but my face was just soaking wet from my tears. I must have looked really stupid. I didn't care though. I needed to tell them this. "I could never thank you two enough. I have no idea what I would do if I lost you two." I confessed. Ikuto pulled me in tighter. This time I turned back to him and sobbed. I was sobbing because I was happy. I was moving forward with my life, and I was happy. I clinged onto Ikuto's shirt as if it was my life line. They let me cry out my emotions, which I was thankful for until it was over. I had gotten tears and snot all over Ikuto's shirt, I probably looked like crap. I was now embarrassed.
"The day Amu helped me out with those creeps was the first time anyone had willingly helped me." I looked up at her with wide eyes. "My parents don't help me with anything since they are so busy arguing with each other." Tears were filling Rima's eyes this time. "If I wasn't so scared, I probably would've been really happy. When Ikuto listened to me about what had happened, I was extremely relieved. He wasn't anything like the rumors had told. You two made me feel like I was actually wanted for the first time in my life." Tears were rolling down Rima's eyes now. My older sister instinct kicked in and I was at the other side of the table hugging Rima before I could even blink. She flinched at first but hesitantly hugged me back. Now I understood why Rima was like what she was around everyone else. If they didn't want her, she'd give them a reason not to want her. I started humming one of the songs Ami played all the time. I looked over at Ikuto, who was staring at me now with wide eyes. I raised a brow at him. He just shook his head before looking at Rima with concern. Sometime I swear these two were siblings. They like the scheme things together to use on me. Apparently, I was their perfect target. When Rima calmed down, I slowly pulled away before getting back to my seat across from her. Rima kept her eyes down towards the table. I frowned at this. I needed to do something about it.
"Hey, Rima—." A shiver went down my spine as I literally jumped back out of the chair in shock. Something just bit my ear! I held my hand up to my bitten ear to protect it. Ikuto was chuckling as Rima started laughing. I looked over at Ikuto. He smirked at me. He bit my ear. He freakin' bit my ear. I felt my face getting warm. Rima was still laughing. I am going to get my revenge this time. An idea popped into my head, making my face redder. I slowly made my way to Ikuto. His smirk widen a bit as I came down a bit to be level with him. He seemed really amused by this. Rima was calming down a bit but I could feel her eyes on us. I grabbed his hands and just held them. Ikuto looked down at our hands in confusion. That's when I leaned next to his ear and licked the outter part of it. Apparently, I hit a certain spot I didn't mean to hit. He moaned like we were have sex moaned. Rima was laughing really loudly now as a shiver went up Ikuto's back. I smirked before I bit his ear like he did mine. This time he yelped. He yelped like a dog. I leaned back to get away from his ear as I started laughing. Rima started laughing louder before she fell out of her seat. I had to hold my gut from all this laughing. Ikuto was glaring at me. A glare I knew well enough meaning he was going to get back at me. I smirked at him this time. He pounced up at me before pinning me down to the ground. An evil smirk was on his face now. As I started to glare as him, his fingers stared tickling me on my sides.
"Hahahahahaha~!" I tried to rolling around to get away from him but he was sitting on my legs so I couldn't move. His fingers danced around, somehow finding every single on of my tickle spots.
"We're home!" I heard Kukai yell. I couldn't reply though since I was still laughing. Ikuto stopped tickling me as he leaned down next to my ear.
"Liked how I touched you, Amu-koi~?" He purred in my ear. I shivered up my spine and I knew that he felt it. I stopped laughing as soon as I processed what he just said. He just made a perverted joke while calling me 'koi'. I swear steam was coming out of my ears. Rima was chuckling. I was soon standing up but I didn't move.
"Amu-chan, are you alright? Your face is really red." Nagi asked but I couldn't process a single word they were saying. I didn't feel disgusted with the pervert joke and he called me koi.
"Yaya thinks that someone broke Amu!" Yaya declared but all I could hear was the words that Ikuto just teased me. What the heck is going on..?
"Shouldn't Ikuto-san be doing something to fix this?" Kairi asked. The next thing I knew was that I was being lifted up in the air. That's when I saw blonde standing at my door. Blonde and pink. What was he doing in my house? He was looking down on his phone, texting I think. The corner covered the door way now as I noticed I was moving upward. I looked down and saw the stair way. I knew Ikuto was the one carrying me, otherwise Ikuto would've taken me away from them by now. Ikuto's phone went off but he didn't answer it. Was Hotori texting Ikuto? Was he the one who sent that text? And how the heck did Ikuto walk everywhere without making a frickin' sound?! I'm getting him a cat costume for Christmas. I watched the pictures on the wall so I knew where we were going. The last picture on the wall was the last one Papa took of me when I was six. We must be going to my room. I heard him opening the door before we were moving again. This is really getting annoying. I wonder if it's all the blood that's rushing to my head is what's giving me a headache.? I was being lifted into the air by my waist. I watched as he gently placed me on the bed. I raised a brow at him as he grabbed a pen and paper off the desk.
You alright?
"Yeah, I just… I don't know how to react is all." I admitted. He raised a brow at me this time.
How to react to what?
"The teasing. If something was even remotely perverted, everyone tried to keep it away from me at all cost. So I don't know how to react to it." I said. Ikuto looked confused for a moment. It then donned on me… I haven't told Ikuto anything… Ikuto started smirking at me.
So you freezing up like that was because of me?
"N-n-no! I-i-I me-mean-uhhhhh…." I stuttered. Ikuto was chuckling at me. I crossed my arms as I pouted. I can't believe I fell for that. I'll run for an extra ten minutes for punishment. I felt his arms wrap around me again and his face against my bare neck. I was brought to his chest again. I was able to free my arms to wrap them around his neck. For some reason, I feel as though all these hugs he gives me were for reassurance for himself. I don't know why, but that's just what I feel. I heard Ikuto's phone going off again. Ikuto just brought me closer to him.
"Don't leave me." Ikuto begged again. I just smiled even though he couldn't see me. Those texts were silently eating away at him and he didn't show it.
"Never." I replied softly as I hugged him just a bit tighter. I heard laughter coming from down stairs. Why was there laughing coming from down stairs? Mama and Papa were at work and Ami had choir practice today. Rima was usually reading her gag manga by now.
"Get your hands off of me Woman!" I heard Rima shout. Nagi was here? Wait a second… I could feel Ikuto smirking against my neck but I just ignored it. There was something else I had to deal with.
"I totally forgot they were here!" I almost shouted. Ikuto was laughing this time as I jumped out of his arms and raced out of the room. I knew he would follow me; he usually does anyways. I skipped a few stairs as I went down the stairs. Man, I bet Kukai ate most of our food again. I paused at the kitchen door, Rima was glaring at Nagi as usual, Hotori was doing something with his phone again, Yaya and Kairi were talking about something that I couldn't hear. Kukai and Utau, Utau showed up to school a few days after I met everyone, were eating the rest of our supper. Kukai looked over at me.
"There's my sister!" Kukai shouted, gaining everyone's attention. Utau glared at me.
"What were you and my brother doing?" she questioned. She is really possessive over her brother. I raised a brow at her.
"He was teasing me again." I answered. She just narrowed her eyes at me. Kukai suddenly got all excited and jumped up into his seat.
"Ooh! I know! You two had your first kiss and you missed!" Kukai declared as if he just solved one of the world's greatest mysteries. I rolled my eyes at him. If only they knew what I went through. I noticed Hotori was texting on his phone again where no one would notice he was texting before putting his phone in his pocket. Ikuto's phone went off again. Hotori was texting Ikuto…
"Okay, challenge excepted." I smirked at Kukai. The room went silent and I felt everyone staring at me.
"When you kiss Utau, your aim will be right but you end up kissing her teeth." I told Kukai. They both started to blush. Everyone else snickered. "When Rima and Nagi kiss, they'll be too shy they'll barely notice they had even kiss." That quickly shut them up. Nagi was trying to hide his blush as Rima decided to glare at me. "Yaya would get too excited to kiss Kairi and miss. Yaya probably wouldn't mind it all that much though. Kairi would want to do it right though and do it right." Everyone in the room was blushing now. I could hear Ikuto behind me snickering. I looked over my shoulder and smirked at him. He started chuckling this time before smirking back at me. Ikuto's phone went off again. Ikuto suddenly got irritated and got out his phone. I turned away so no one would watch him. Hotori looked like he was proud about something. I looked over at Rima and gave her the same look as before. I really need to talk to her about this before it got out of hand. I heard Ikuto growling behind me. I took a deep breath. He was going to hug me to death tonight….