CHAPTER 1
"Why does he always show up out of nowhere?" Amu asked her guardian charas Ran, Miki, and Su.
"Maybe he's a stalker!" Miki exclaimed, she quickly took out her sketch pad and drew a picture of Ikuto hiding behind the corner watching them.
"No, that can't be right! You guys would have felt the presence of Yoru! Unless you didn't tell me!!" Amu suddenly turned on her charas.
Miki blushed and drew a picture of Yoru into her picture of Ikuto hiding behind the corner. Amu made a grab for the sketch book but Miki was quicker and hid it into her bag. "Haha now you can't get it!" Miki teased.
Ran and Su started giggling.
"I'm ganna get you one day." Amu looked down at her new watch. Her parents had got it for her because she was always late. "Oh well great now I'm ganna be late to the guardian meeting." Amu sprinted off in the direction of the Royal Garden.
"Sorry I'm late, these three started getting on her nerves." Amu motioned to Ran, Miki, and Su. "Mostly Miki."
"It's ok Hinamori, we hadn't started yet." Kukai explained.
Of course you didn't start yet, I wasn't here. Amu thought as she sat down in her usual spot at the round table.
"Ok now that everyone is here lets get started." Tadase said as he pulled out a folder full of paperwork.
"Ugh………" Yaya and Pepe's heads dropped.
"Oh come on Yaya. Ok how about this, after we finish we'll all go get some ice-cream." Kukai bribed.
"Ok!" Yaya grabbed a bunch of papers and started filling them out the way that was necessary.
Tadase evenly handed out the rest of the papers. "Hinamori-san, since you aren't a real guardian why don't you water the plants?" He suggested.
"Of course Tadase-kun." Amu got up and unrolled the hose in the corner of the room. She began watering a small pot of daisies.
Miki got out her drawing pad and drew a picture of a different pot of flowers.
Su looked over Miki's shoulder and said, "Oh that's pretty Miki."
"Thanks Su." Miki said as she continued to draw.
"Ow! Daichi I'm going to kill you!" Ran suddenly screamed, "How dare you hit me with your soccer ball!?" Ran started chasing Daichi around the flower beds.
Later that day when all the work had been done the five guardians walked to the ice-cream parlor with their charas. The door of the tea-shop next door to it opened and they saw Nikaidou sensei walk out. "Nikaidou sensei what are you doing?" Nadeshiko asked.
"Can't a human get some nice tea every once in a while?" He answered her question with a question. "Where are you off to?"
"We're going to get some ice-cream." Yaya blurted out happily.
"Well then I won't keep you." Nikaidou sensei walked away humming to himself.
"Come on guys." Yaya ran into the ice-cream shop closely followed by her friends.
After they ordered the ice-cream they sat outside eating contently. Yaya had ordered a fifty scope cone and she and Pepe were wolfing it sown speedily.
Amu sat next to Yaya and stared at her a little scared. She licked her single scope mint chocolate-chip ice-cream cone before finally asking, "Umm Yaya……?"
"What Amu-chi?" Yaya asked in between licks.
"Aren't you eating a little much?"
"No!!" Yaya growled, her eyes blazing angrily.
"Ok, ok." Amu said, scooting away from the crazed girl. "I'll be back in a few minutes." Amu got up to leave and as she left she heard Kukai mutter, "Where is she going?" Then Amu heard a slap and Nadeshiko say, "You idiot she's going to the bathroom, that's why she didn't say." Amu giggled because she wasn't going to the bathroom she was actually going for a walk in the foresty area across the street. After about two minutes of walking Amu stopped and leaned against a large oak tree. She closed her eyes, lifted her head, and listened to all the sounds around her.
A voice startled her, "Hmmm…. That was good."
Amu looked over to where the voice was coming from and she saw that it was coming from Ikuto. "What are you doing here?" she asked as she noticed a small hole in her ice-cream cone.
"I saw you, alone, with ice-cream so I decided to drop in." Ikuto said plainly.
"You idiot how dare you sneak up on me." Amu practically yelled.
Ikuto leaned over and whispered in her ear. "Hush, you talk too much." He then bit her ear and walked away, Yoru at his side.
Miki watched Yoru, her eyes glistening, her cheeks blushing, and her heart thumping.
That hurt. Amu thought as she and her charas headed back to the ice-cream place.
As the walked Amu began thinking about Ikuto. Why am I thinking about him? I love Tadase-kun! Amu thought angrily.
"Oh wow." Ran exclaimed.
"What Ran?" Su asked.
"Umm… Amu you might want to take a look." Miki said.
"Wha— Oh man Yaya what happened?" Amu asked.
"She got excited about her ice-cream and went kind of crazy." Kukai sighed.
Yaya nodded, seeing as neither she nor Pepe could speak with ice-cream all over their faces.
Nadeshiko got up from her chair and said, "Yaya lets go get cleaned up in the bathroom." Then Nadeshiko, Yaya and Pepe all headed towards the bathroom.
"So what happened to you?" Tadase asked.
"I just went for a walk." Amu purposefully left out the whole Ikuto scene.
"Oh, ok Hinamori-san." Tadase didn't suspect a think.
"I'm ganna go help Nadeshiko out with Yaya and Pepe." Amu got up to leave but Tadase grabbed her sleeve.
"Tell them that Kukai and I have to leave." He didn't wait for an answer and the two of them walked away before Amu could respond.