Morg: Heyo! This has been a long time coming.

Ikuto: So long, in fact, that I'm sure no one wants it anymore.

Amu: So don't bother posting it.

Morg: I don't have to listen to either of you. The only people I answer to are the readers.

Ikuto: I'm pretty sure they're just going to ask for the old version back.

Amu: Please just delete the story.

Morg: Well, this new version will be much better than the old one!

Ikuto: If you say so.

Amu: Why doesn't anyone ever listen to what I want?

Morg: Well, I don't own you and you don't own me so it's whatever.

~Spark of Life~

Amu closed her bedroom door behind her as she stepped into her room. She dropped her towel and quickly changed into her pajamas before flipping the towel she had in her hair over to dry it a bit more. She hummed to herself as she crossed her room to get to the brush she kept by the mirror on her dresser.

The house was silent around her since her parents were still out with Ami. Amu hadn't been able to make it to her club performance due to the finals she had in the coming days. Ami had sworn to her that it was okay that she missed it. There would be other performances that Amu could go to.

Sighing to herself, Amu brushed her hair out as she looked at herself in the mirror. She had dark circles under her eyes from the lack of sleep she'd been getting. She really couldn't wait to be finished with school. Graduation was within her grasp. She only had to last a few more days. It was still early enough that she could study before going to bed.

Amu started humming again as she planned out her evening and the following morning. She needed to get a good night of sleep. She didn't need to be worried about dozing off in the middle of her tests.

Something thunked against the glass door behind her. Slowly, Amu put down her brush and turned to look at her balcony. Something was out there. She couldn't see well due to the reflection of her lights, but something was moving.

Then her door opened and a man dropped to his knees just inside her room.

Amu was so surprised she forgot to scream. Not that there was anyone home to hear her anyway. For a few seconds, she just stood there and blinked at him. Then it clicked in her brain that there really was a strange man sitting on her floor. "Holy shit, what are you doing?"

The man groaned as he lifted his head to look up at her. "Please, I need your help."

"Why the fuck did you come in through the second floor? Get out!"

The man groaned again before he slumped to the side. Amu stayed where she was across the room. "What do you want me to do? I'll call the hospital."

"Don't do that."

Amu jerked to a stop from where she'd been thinking about grabbing her cell phone to call the emergency line and ask for an ambulance. "You said you need help. I can't see any injuries but you should probably go to a hospital. I'm not a doctor."

The man stayed where he was on his side on the floor. "They can't help me. Please don't call them."

"Then what do you want me to do?"

"I need to feed. It's dangerous for me to be around regular humans right now. Please, you have to help me."

Amu shifted her weight before looking over to where she had her phone plugged in by her bed. "Regular humans? What do you mean by dangerous? Either you start explaining or I'm going to call the police."

The man pushed himself up enough to meet her gaze. She watched as his eyes flashed a brilliant gold in color. "My name is Tsukiyomi Ikuto and I'm not human."

Amu wanted to laugh. She wanted to kick the stranger out of her house and go back to worrying about her finals coming up in the next few days. She wanted to call the police and have the pervert on her floor thrown into jail.

She didn't do any of those things. Instead, Amu stood shock still. "What did you just do with your eyes?"

"I'm losing control of my shift," Ikuto moaned. He dropped back down to the floor. "I can't help it. If I don't feed soon then I'll lose control completely and start killing people."

Amu stiffened in surprise. She blinked a few times before she started edging toward her phone. "Why would you kill people?"

Ikuto watched her move through half-open eyes. "I'm a beast. We're an ancient race that has lived here for thousands of years in peace. As a being of supernatural ability, I must eat something that is of equal magic. Some humans have been known to carry a spark. This spark gives my kind life. It gives us the ability to control ourselves and our shifts."

"What happens if you don't get it?"

"We feast on life. If I am not fed a spark then I will start killing regular humans for their life force regardless of whether or not I want to. The beast will take over and my instincts will make me feed. Please, you can't let that happen to me."

Amu took another step away from the man on her floor and toward her phone. "What do you expect me to do about it? I can't help you."

"You're wrong," Ikuto told her without looking away from her. "You can help me. You're a spark."

Amu felt the laughter that was building inside of her earlier escape. "I'm not magical."

"I can feel it inside of you. I can feel the magic swirling through your veins. You're a spark that hasn't hit sexual maturity yet."

"Sexual… What does that have to do with anything?!"

Ikuto coughed. He felt his eyes flash again. The room took on a different light for only a few seconds before it returned to normal. "I just meant that I can tell you're a virgin. You wouldn't have the spark flowing through your veins if you weren't."

"That is highly invasive."

Ikuto grimaced where he was on the floor. He was glad that she was being cautious and keeping her distance from him. He shuddered to think what he would do if she got too close to him when his control was already slipping. "I really need your help. I don't want to hurt anyone."

Amu bit her lip before she glanced back at her phone. She turned away from it to face the man on her floor. It was clear to see that he wasn't lying what with his eyes doing that freaky change they were doing. "What do I have to do to give you my spark?"

Ikuto blinked a few times before letting out a pained moan. He could feel his beast shifting beneath his skin. He wanted to let his claws out and feast. "I have to take it from you."

"How?"

"You have to orgasm and then I-"

"What the fuck!" Amu took a large step back but froze again when Ikuto let out a vicious growl. "You want me to what!?"

Ikuto did his best not to move from where he was on her floor. "What's your name?"

Amu ran her hand through her wet hair as she glanced back toward her phone once more. "Why the fuck should I tell you my name?"

"Please, I'm losing control. I need to anchor myself somehow. Tell me your name so that I can think of you as a person."

Amu only hesitated for a second longer. "It's Amu."

"Amu."

She shuddered at the way her name rolled off his tongue. "Explain this to me, Ikuto."

"I'm a beast. There is a spark inside of you that can keep me from going insane. The only way to bring it out is to orgasm. I won't touch you. I only need to kiss you as you hit that peak so that I can consume your spark. Please, Amu. I don't want to hurt anyone."

Amu chewed on her lip for another moment before she took another step toward her bed. "What happened to the person that fed you before to put you into this sort of shape?"

"She was taken from me."

Amu blinked a few more times before she looked away from his deep blue eyes. Amu was tempted to dive for her phone and call the police. She was tempted to stall until her parents came home so they could take the pressure of the decision off her shoulders. She was tempted to kick him out and let him fend for himself.

She just couldn't make herself do any of those things. Ikuto's gaze held no lie as he told her what would happen to him. He didn't want to be dangerous. "I'll do it."

"Amu."

Holding up her hand to cut him off, Amu turned so she wouldn't have to look at Ikuto. "I have a few conditions."

"Name them."

"I don't want you to look at me or touch me or speak to me or anything until you have to kiss me. I want to close my eyes and pretend that you aren't here."

"Okay."

"And! I want you to show me your full shift."

Ikuto grimaced as he fought down his beast once more. "I won't be able to do that today. Even after I feed from you I'll still be too weak to remain in control. I'll have to find a regular partner before I can come back and show you."

Nodding, Amu turned away from the man on her floor. Part of her couldn't believe that she was agreeing to this. "I swear, if you are some kind of pervert just playing a prank on me then I will destroy you. You won't have to worry about the police coming after you."

"I swear to you that I haven't lied to you once tonight."

Amu could feel her hands starting to shake. She clenched them into her shirt before turning to face Ikuto once more. "I'm going to crawl into my bed. Can you make it over here by yourself?"

Ikuto nodded before pushing himself up once more. "I don't want you to touch me. I don't know if I'll be able to stop myself from feeding if you do. Just get into your bed and start. I'll make my way over there before its time."

Amu bit at her lip as she slid into her bed. She watched as he started dragging himself toward her bed before she laid down and closed her eyes. "How do I know that this is going to work?"

"Have you touched yourself before?"

Amu slipped her hand under her blankets to rest it on her stomach. She shivered a bit at the sound of the growl in his voice. "A little."

"Then you'll be able to feel the difference. My presence is going to awaken something inside of you that you would never have known existed if you hadn't met me."

Keeping her hand on her stomach for a few more minutes, Amu listened as Ikuto just breathed as he struggled to crawl across her floor. She really couldn't believe that she had agreed to this. "This is so awkward."

"Are your eyes closed?"

"Yes."

"Then pretend that I'm not here. Think of someone that you have a crush on. Do you have a boyfriend or someone that you'd like to be intimate with?"
"I know how to get myself off, Ikuto. I told you that I've touched myself before. I just haven't done it in a life or death situation."

Ikuto chuckled at that. "You might have the spark in your veins but you have a fire in your soul. I wish we could have met under better circumstances. I think we would have been great friends."

Amu didn't respond to that. She kept her eyes closed and braced herself before finally slipping her fingers into her pants. She let out a little breath of air as she pushed against her clit. There was no way that she was going to finger herself with someone else in her room, but she could make herself come from just playing with her clit for a while. It would have to be enough.

Keeping her fingers out of her panties, Amu rubbed at that sensitive spot. She tried to picture something sexy to help turn her on. All she could think of were blue eyes that flashed gold. She could tell, despite the fact that he'd immediately collapsed onto her floor, that Ikuto was tall and well built. There was no doubt in her mind that she would have found him attractive if they had met somewhere other than her bedroom.

Amu found herself shifting her thighs apart as she continued to rub at her clit. She knew that she was getting wet. Her pleasure was building despite having a stranger in the room. One that knew what she was doing.

But she was doing it for him.

That thought turned her on more.

Amu let out a soft moan as she changed the angle of her fingers to switch up the stimulation she was giving to herself. She was really tempted to slip her fingers into her panties and find out just how wet she was but stopped herself. It was bad enough that she'd agreed to do this for him in the first place. She wasn't going to become more perverted because of him.

Gasping again, Amu felt her stomach starting to tighten. "Ikuto."

Ikuto leaned against the side of the bed and shushed her as he watched Amu. She wasn't aware that he was breaking one of her rules, but he couldn't force himself to look away. Not when she was so beautiful laid out like she was. Her blanket did little to hide from him the way her hand was moving. "You can do it. Be a good girl and come for me."

Moaning, Amu's eyes fluttered open just as her thighs clenched. She barely had a chance to see Ikuto leaning toward her as she started to come. He'd been right, it was a completely different feeling than the other times she'd gotten off. Everything about it felt more intense.

Ikuto moaned into the kiss as he ate the spark that she released. It was her first one and thus a powerful one. He felt his sanity returning to him as he moved his lips against hers.

Pulling away, Ikuto watched as her golden eyes fluttered open to look at him once more. "Hey, you did great. I don't think I could thank you enough."

Amu shuddered as she pulled her hand away from herself. She clutched at her blanket as she blinked up at him. "Are you feeling better?"

"Much."

"What happens now?"

"Now, I'm going to leave through your balcony and you're going to lock the doors. I'm going to go back to my home before attempting to find someone to replace my old spark. I can't begin to explain it to you, Amu, but you saved a lot of people and me."

Amu wasn't sure why she didn't want Ikuto to leave right away. She should have told him to get out and not come back. Instead, she found herself shifting a little so that she could better look up at him. "What happened to your spark? You said she was taken from you. Who took her?"

Ikuto sighed before settling down on the side of Amu's bed. He made sure not to touch her as he looked back at her doors. He needed to leave. He shouldn't spend any extra time with her. "When a beast claims a spark, they are a virgin. A spark can only feed one beast throughout their life. It's a first come first served deal."

"Well then."

Smiling at her attitude, Ikuto looked back down at Amu. "I don't know why that is. I just know that it is."

"So she left you?"

"There is another beast that doesn't like me. He seduced her."

Amu had to stop herself from sitting up. She settled for clenching her blankets tighter. "He purposefully made her cheat on you so that you couldn't have her anymore, even though he couldn't gain anything from it?"

"Yes."

"But why!?"

Ikuto had to bite back a laugh at the outraged expression on Amu's face. "He really doesn't like me."

"That's so stupid. He put you in a position where you could have hurt people. What an idiot!"

Shaking his head, Ikuto couldn't help but agree. "I think so, too. But while a spark is bound to their beast, the beast is not bound to the spark."

"So he can sleep about but his spark cannot."

"Yes."

"The more you tell me about this the stupider I think it is."

Ikuto did laugh at that. "I can't say that I disagree. However, I swore to her that while we were together that I would be faithful to her if she was faithful to me."

"And then she wasn't."

"And then she wasn't," Ikuto confirmed.

Amu pulled one of her hands out from under her blanket to rest it against Ikuto's shoulder. "I'm really sorry that that happened to you. Do you think you'll be able to find another one?"

"The same beast that seduced her away is making it difficult for me to go to the usual families. It doesn't help that sparks are very rare."

"But you found me."

"That was by chance."

Amu couldn't help but raise an eyebrow as she let her hand fall away from his shoulder. "You accidentally fell through my balcony doors?"

Chuckling, Ikuto shook his head. "I said that I found you by chance, not by accident. I was looking for a spark and my beast tracked you to here."

Amu sighed as she looked away from him and up at her ceiling. "So you're going to have to keep looking for one then?"

Ikuto studied her for a moment before nodding his head. "Yes, that's my best bet."

"That sucks. I hope you find someone."

Ikuto smiled at that before moving to stand up. "I'm going to do my best."

Amu yawned as she watched him move to her door. "Hey, Ikuto?"

"Yes?"

"If you can't find anyone and you get bad like that again, it's okay to come back here."

"You will have to make sure to stay a virgin if you want to be able to help me again in the future."

Amu shrugged as she felt her eyelids getting heavy. "I don't think that's going to be a problem. I don't exactly have men lining up around the block."

Ikuto chuckled again before he moved to shut off her lights. He could tell that he'd worn the girl out. The first time a spark fed a beast was hard on them. "Good night, Amu. I hope you have pleasant dreams."

She mumbled something in return, but Ikuto didn't hear what it was despite his higher senses. He did make sure to close her doors and stand guard until her parents returned home with their younger daughter. Amu was precious. Ikuto didn't want anything to happen to her.

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Morg: So there you go. Some big changes and some not-so-big changes.

Ikuto: This might actually be interesting.

Amu: Or not.

Morg: We'll let the readers decide!