Me: Tadaa! New Chapter!

Everyone: YAY!!!!!

Yaya: So what couply chapter is this?

Me: Both! But kinda Tadase-centric (you can tell my the name of the chapter.)

Amu: 3

Rima: 2

Me: 1

Everyone: Let's roll!

Previously...

Tadase was walking home from buying more flowers for his grandmother and was walking past the wall where the old park he used to go with Ikuto was. We used to have fun here, he thought sadly. He then noticed that there seemed to be a light from the other side. He looked up confused...who could be there? Then he heard voices and he gasped. One was Ikuto, one was somebody he was sure he had met, and the last one was unmistakably the happy, laughing voice of Amu.

Chapter 4 - The King's Doubts

The clouds were dark outside, it was not raining yet, but surely it would be soon. It seemed to fit the mood of a certain blond Guardian King.

Tadase sat in his room, sulking. Amu was at that place with Ikuto. How could that be? Maybe it was someone else, he desperately thought, but he knew that he was just trying to fool himself. He could tell it was Amu's voice that he heard. She was with him. So did this mean she preferred him to Tadase? Did she love him? He might as well give up then. Rain started to fall. He watched the rain outside his window. As it fell it reflected light, but when it reached the ground, it shattered. Tadase sighed; even the weather thought he should give up.

Kiseki watched his owner as he sulked. Kiseki knew what Tadase was feeling, and he didn't like it. This was not good. If Tadase was any more depressed Kiseki might turn into an X-egg, or worse, he might fade away. Tadase was not being very much like a king at all.

"Tadase," Kiseki said sharply. Tadase was startled and turned to face Kiseki. "Kings do not sit down and sulk in their rooms! If they don't like something they will do something about it!"

Tadase stared at him for a while and he gave a slight smile and nodded. Kiseki was right. If he wanted Amu to love him then he would have to go and try his best, even though it might look like she loved Ikuto. There was always hope.

Amu walked happily to school that day. She had so much fun with Ikuto last night. A pink tint appeared on her face as she thought of Ikuto. 'Am I, maybe, in love with him?' she thought. Ikuto – he was mysterious, always teasing her, but she sort of liked it. He was older and very cute; most girls would fall for him too, but Ikuto chose to hang around Amu instead of anyone else. Did he maybe think she was special? Did he maybe like her?

A dazed look was on her face, which was out-of-character, but she didn't notice. In fact, she was so busy daydreaming about Ikuto, that she did not notice that she was crossing a road, and that the red light had not come on, and it just so happened that a truck was heading right at her.

"Amu-chan!!!!" her charas shouted. Amu turned her head and her eyes widened. She was too shocked to move. She closed her eyes and waited for the impact, but instead, she felt someone push her. She fell onto something hard.

She opened her eyes and saw that she was now on the ground on the other side of the sidewalk and Tadase was panting over her. She blushed at their position.

That was too close, Tadase thought. She had been so close to death. It was so lucky that he just happened to be there. Well actually, it wasn't really luck. Tadase purposely took that route to see if he could walk to school with Amu. He never expected that he would have to save Amu.

Then, he noticed Amu blushing and realized that they were in an awkward position. He quickly got up and brushed the dust off him.

"Sorry," he said also blushing, and offering a hand to Amu. She took it and stood up.

"You saved me Tadase-kun," she said, smiling warmly. The smile made Tadase feel warm inside. It was one of his weaknesses.

"Yes, he did," Kiseki said indignantly.

"You could have chara changed with Ran, I didn't really save you," he said modestly.

That was true, but still, Amu felt grateful towards Tadase. Tadase's smile disappeared when he saw that her hand was slightly bruised. He stared at it for a while.

"Does your hand hurt?" he asked.

"It's nothing," she said dismissively when she saw that it was only a little bruised.

She was more concerned about the fact that Tadase was still holding her hand and staring at her. His pink eyes were looking into her honey eyes and her blush reddened. She was going to say that Tadase could let go, when a man came running up to them, he was the driver of the truck.

"I'm so sorry!" he cried frantically. "Did I hit you? Are you hurt? Do you need to go to the hospital?"

"I'm fine," Amu assured him. "It's my fault for walking across the street when the red light was still on."

After a few apologies, the man finally went back to his truck and drove off. Tadase and Amu watched him in amusement. Then they started walking to school.

"We're going to be late," Amu groaned.

"I'm sure Nikaidou-sensei will understand," Tadase said.

"Yeah I guess nearly getting hit by a truck is a good excuse," she half-joked.

"Yeah," Tadase said. "Why did you walk across when the sign was red?"

"Oh," she blushed again. "I was half-asleep I think. I slept late last night because of the homework I was doing." Well it wasn't entirely a lie; she didsleep late last night but it was actually because she was busy thinking of Ikuto.

Tadase felt a slight surge of anger. A nasty little voice in Tadase's mind said, 'You mean that you were tired since you were out with that Thieving Cat.'

"Tadase-kun?" Amu said, anxiously. "What's wrong?"

"Oh nothing," he said. Somehow Amu being worried about him made him feel better. He smiled at her. "Let's go Hinamori-san."

They started walking back to school.

"Okay," Nikaidou-sensei said after hearing what happened to Tadase and Amu. He turned to Amu. "Are you sure you are alright?" he asked. Amu nodded. "Then you two can go to your seats."

The lesson went on as usual but after that, the class attacked the two with questions. 'What exactly happened?' and 'Are you okay?'s could be heard everywhere. Amu reassured the class that she was fine and had the excuse of going to the Royal Garden to avoid any more questions.

"Amu-chi could have been hurt!" Yaya cried.

"Yeah, if it weren't for Tadase-kun," Amu said giving another grateful smile at Tadase.

"I should have been the one to save you," Rima muttered. Nagehiko and Tadase sweat-dropped.

"Well at least you're okay," Nagehiko said.

The Guardian Meeting continued as usual, papers were being signed and decisions for the student body were being made. Amu, who was the joker and didn't need to do the paper-work spent that meeting daydreaming about Ikuto. She thought it would be safer to daydream here rather than while she was walking down the road.

Tadase glanced at Amu with her face looking dazed. She looked very cute like that, he thought. He wondered what she was daydreaming about.

What if she is thinking about Ikuto? The nasty voice inside his mind said.

Would she?

Well she did lie about what she was doing last night...

Maybe Ikuto hurt her and she doesn't want to talk about it.

Or maybe they were having fun and she's very happy without you.

So what should I do?

Don't ask me! I'm you! If you don't know what to do then I don't too!

I think I'm going crazy; I'm talking to myself inside my mind.

Yes, you are.

While he was thinking to himself the other three Guardians were looking at both Tadase and Amu who were looking out of it. Nagehiko cleared his throat.

"I think our Guardian Meeting should end now Hotori-kun." he said.

Amu and Tadase both nearly jumped out of their seats at that.

"Oh," Tadase said with a small pink blush on his cheeks. "Yes. The meeting is dismissed."

Amu was the first to leave and she was skipping as she did so.

"Tadase," Kiseki whispered. "Now's your chance! Follow her!"

Tadase stared at Kiseki for a second. Kiseki was right. If he wanted to know what was going on between Ikuto and Amu he would just have to follow her. So he picked up his bag and followed Amu keeping a little behind her.

Me: Yay the chapter ended!

Amu: Ikuto~~~

Me: Oh she's daydreaming again! Anyway I think maybe the next chapter is Ikuto-centric.....~looks around~ right?

Everyone: ~nodding~

Tadase: ~bursts in to girls narrator studios~ HEY! WHY THE HECK AM I A STALKER!?!?!?!

Me: You're not a stalker. You're just following her without her knowing.

Tadase: THAT'S STALKING!!!

Me: Okay review please! p.s Tadase is stalking Amu.

Tadase: HEY!! CHANGE THAT! I'M NOT A STALKER!