Sorry for the late update….but seriously late update basically = my normal update so I guess this can be considered a normal update?! :DDDD Hehe. Sorry if the story seems to be going absolutely nowhere LOL I promise I will make something out of this. A lot of rambling, more or the less. But this chapter actually revolves around –gasp- SEX?! How exciting indeed~ Well just read it and you'll understand! ;D

Miki was laying under a tree, trying to sketch the sky. It was a hot day and even sitting under the shade didn't help.

She glared at the beautiful blue sky and kept glancing back from the sky to her art piece. "Tch." Without stroking her pastel any longer, Miki threw her sketchbook to the side and flopped all the way down. She continued to stare at the sky…it was really all she did nowadays. She's had quite the art block for a few weeks now.

"You're so boring…" Miki muttered, closing her eyes.

"Gwahh it's so hot!" Amu whined. Despite the fact that they were well into autumn, the weather was still stuck well into summer.

Ikuto wiped the sweat off his forehead. "We can go the library where it's air-conditioned."

Amu made a 'bleh' face to him. She was definitely hot but not THAT hot… "College is so boring."

"Let's go to the beach."

"W-What?!" Amu asked, taken aback. Was Ikuto being…spontaneous?! This is a once in a lifetime chance…!

"Utau and them actually invited me but I thought I'd be busy."

"Pfft. Oh." Amu waved her hand. Of course Ikuto wouldn't have suggested it himself. But it sounded like a rather fitting place to hang out under this weather. The air conditioner in her dorm wasn't working so well so Amu felt no need to watch any anime on her laptop. "That actually sounds kind of fun. Let's go!"

"Maybe I'll invite Miki too…" Ikuto murmured.

"Eh?! Her?" Amu twitched. Then she thought about Miki's mutant boobs and how she would definitely seduce all the boys on the beach INCLUDING IKUTO. NO SHE WILL NOT COME.

"She's been a little down…ever since…" Ikuto scratched the back of his neck.

Amu's eyes softened. Oh yeah. She didn't really understand it, but something about Miki felt different. After Yoru left anyways. Amu assumed that they were never even that close to begin with. Yoru obviously seemed annoyed of her.

"I-I guess you can invite her then." Amu crossed her arms.

Ikuto raised his eyebrow at her before pulling out his phone to invite Miki. He texted her the plans and within a few seconds she replied back with 'Sure. Is your scary girlfriend going too?'

Ikuto smirked amusedly and replied back with a yes.

"Heh? Why are you smirking like that?" Amu peered up at him suspiciously.

"No reason." He put his phone back in his pocket. They started walking towards the bus for the beach together.

"She said something about me didn't she."

The beach was crowded and they almost did not find Utau and them. But there they were near the center of it all. Rima was tanning on a giant beach towel while Nagihiko was fanning her. Utau and Kukai were both deep into the pool, fooling around. And Misa was building a giant sand castle that looked more like the dungeon of a demon.

"Oh, you guys made it!" Nagihiko saw them and waved.

Amu waved back to him and hurried over to the beach towel Rima was laying on. "It's so packed!"

"Yeah…all these college kids trying to enjoy the sun while it lasts." Nagihiko sighed.

"Nagi I need you to fan faster." Rima snapped from under her giant sunglasses.

Nagihiko sweat dropped and started to fan furiously.

"Oi! Hinamori and Tsukiyomi!" Amu and Ikuto turned around to see Kukai running to them with Utau close behind. "Come get in the water! It's nice and cool!"

"Ah…but I didn't bring a bathing suit." Amu looked down at her black t-shirt and shorts.

"It's fine! Just go in your clothes!" Utau pulled her forcibly and Amu widened her eyes.

"W-Wha-!" Amu exclaimed before she was thrust into the cool ocean waves and fell head deep in. Seconds later Amu popped her head back to the surface and spit some water out. That felt…

"WOOHOOO!" Amu jumped from the waves and started splashing water at everybody. Then she swam away into the deep end to race with Kukai.

"Did I miss anything?" A voice suddenly asked from behind Ikuto. He turned around and saw Miki. But not before seeing her enormous rack that was barely covered by her skimpy blue bikini.

Ikuto could feel all eyes around them on Miki, will more specifically, Miki's breasts. He didn't have to turn to look because it was the same thing that happens to him except with girls.

"Uh, not much." Ikuto finally replied back.

"Ikuto get in the water it's nice and cool-" Amu came calling back bouncing from foot to foot and totally soaked from the summer waves. She froze right when she was in front of Miki and had finally noticed her presence.

Amu stared at Miki's chest and Miki stared back at Amu's chest.

Then Miki scoffed.

Amu's vein popped and she was ready to get in a serious bitch-slap fight with this stupid big-boobed slut before Ikuto held her back.

"Let's go get ice cream, Amu…" He dragged her away before Amu could do anything more.

"No! Let me go!" It's not that Amu didn't want ice cream but she seriously just felt like a little kid being pulled out of a fight by her father or something. "YOU'RE NOT MY FATHER!"

Ikuto chuckled. "We'll see about that…"

Amu squinted her eyes at her and shivered. "Gross…weirdo." Ikuto responded by dropping her halfway and face-flat into the hot sand.

"God how they can be so enthusiastic all the time?" Miki cringed at the couple that was way too lovey-dovey for her taste.

"Maybe you should learn from them." Rima rolled her eyes from under her giant umbrella.

"What'd you say to me, blondie?" Miki raised her brows at the small petite.

"You've been down right. Since Yoru left."

Miki turned red. Wait was she seriously turning red? "What?!"

"OR you've just always been a moody person." Rima smirked up at Miki who was planted above her.

"Forget you." Miki's cold voice sounded as if it could pierce glass. She needed to get back to her old self. There was nothing different anyways. She'll always be that artist slut girl.

"And I'm perfectly damn fine with that." Miki grumbled and she went to go find a pathetic looking guy to make out with.

"I'm a little worried about her…" Nagihiko watched Miki walk away from them. "Don't you think you were a little harsh on her, Rima?"

Rima shrugged and turned away from Nagihiko. "Just saying what I see."

Amu frowned. No, it was more like her mouth was arched all the way up so that her face was covered with a disgusted and disapproving gaze of everything going on around her.

How did she get stuck here?

She was currently in Miki's car. With Miki. And three other unknown men. Miki was currently in the back squished with all three men and they were seriously making weird noises and engaging in some sort of animal sex and oh god Amu wanted to vomit.

Ikuto was driving them but they had to stop at the gas station and Ikuto went inside the store. Probably to buy catnip or something. Amu didn't feel like getting out of the car because she was way too tired from today at the beach and also her clothes were still wet and she did not want to get any stares.

"Where are you Ikuto?!" Amu muttered and squinted at the store through the car window.

She sunk back into the car seat. Amu tried her best not to peek. It's not like she wanted to…it just seemed…kind of tempting, is all. But taking three guys at once. And in a CAR!

"A true slut, indeed…" Amu rubbed her chin.

"Who are you calling a slut, huh?"

Amu jumped when she heard Miki's slurred voice vibrate through the car. Man if she could actually hear Amu and reply back to her it means either that Miki is one experienced slut or that those guys don't even have the right to call themselves men.

"You!" Amu didn't hide it but without thinking she turned around to answer Miki back like any normal human being would in a conversation; although this was hardly a conversation.

But that was an awful mistake and Amu got a vision full of a half-naked Miki around three other half-naked men in positions Amu didn't know EXISTED.

Well Amu being the inexperienced girl she was blushed immediately and covered her eyes with her hands.

"What's a kid like her doing in your car huh?" One guy raised his eyebrow at a red Amu.

"You know, just babysitting. The usual." Miki rolled her eyes at exactly how inexperienced Amu was. Was she seriously with Ikuto?! Miki felt sorry for Ikuto.

"Hmph." Amu glared at the ground, careful not to see again the horrors behind her. In any other case Amu would've tried to beat the guy up or yell something back but she honestly did not want to start fire with a goddamn naked man. She shuddered at the thought.

The car door suddenly opened and Ikuto was finally back from the store. "Did anything happen while I was gone?" He peered over at Miki's passenger seat and chuckled to himself, slightly amused that Miki was messing up her own car.

"Why were you gone for so long?! What did you even get?!" He turned to see Amu looking rather red and nervous.

"Catnip."

"And they were all over each other and doing this and that—It was so DISGUSTING!" Amu was safely back in Ikuto's dorm room and she was trying to relay the awful experience to Ikuto.

"There, there…" Ikuto rubbed her head while Amu looked like a traumatized patient.

"How can you be so calm?" Amu whined.

"I'm used to it." Ikuto shrugged.

"In my 18 years of watching anime this has NEVER happened!" Amu grabbed him close.

"Anime is different from the real world."

Silence. And then—

"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH," Amu started bursting into laughter, "okay that was a good one."

Ikuto sweat dropped.

"You see Ikuto, anime IS the real world." Amu turned to him with fire in her eyes.

"Anyways, it shouldn't be that big of a deal. I mean we're already in college." Ikuto told her.

Amu pouted. "It's still gross to me…"

Ikuto smirked and leaned closer to Amu. "You know…one day we're going to do things like that."

Amu jolted and turned bright red. "W-What are you t-talking about?! Pervert!"

"Well maybe not anytime soon though," Ikuto put his hand back on Amu's head, "kid."

Amu was still embarrassed because she was getting mental images and everything just made her brain go floppy. She turned away from Ikuto, removing his hand from her head. "I'm not a kid…" She muttered.

"But you act like such an innocent little girl~" Ikuto squeezed her cheeks and teased her.

Amu turned tomato red because one, Ikuto was touching her, and second, she did not particularly like being called a kid by him. Maybe it would've been okay in high school…but Amu felt like she should have matured more coming into college.

Amu shot up from her seat. She looked down at Ikuto slowly. "I…am…NOT A KID!"

Then she ran out of the room leaving a severely confused Ikuto.

Amu ran all the way back to her dorm without stopping or slowing down. She bolted through the pathways and climbed viciously up her stairs until she reached her dorm. Then she swung the door open all the way, slamming it against the wall.

"RIMA!"

Her roommate sat on her bed nonchalantly and had been enjoying a very nice hot cup of tea when Amu burst into their room.

"Wha—" Rima started, stunned.

Amu, without bothering to close their dorm door, grabbed Rima and leaned close into her.

"I NEED YOU TO TEACH ME ABOUT…"

Rima nodded slowly waiting for Amu to go on.

"A-ABOUT…"

Amu started to sweat and turn extremely red.

"A-About…"

Rima was losing her patience, "About what?!"

"A-ABOUT S-S-S-S-S-S-SEX…" Amu screamed into her face.

Rima almost dropped her cup of tea and fell off her bed. "WHAT?! WHY WOULD YOU ASK ME THAT? AND CLOSE OUR DOOR!" Even she was turning a little pink now.

"You're the only one I can come to for this type of q-question…" Amu looked into Rima with dark eyes. "I-I need you…"

"Aren't you already 18 years old?! Shouldn't you know?" Rima asked her, still bewildered.

"I don't know…it's just never come up before…" Amu looked so confused with her life at the moment.

"Don't tell me you're going to…do it…with…" Rima raised an eyebrow at Amu.

Amu's face turned into a tomato once again. "N-No! Of course n-not! I just wanted to…you know…learn about it…Since I feel I am at the proper age to know about s-s-sex. And Ikuto keeps calling me a kid and stuff…" She murmured the last part.

Rima sighed, "I guess it's probably a good idea for you to at least now about it…although why did I get stuck with this job?" She put a tired hand on her forehead.

She grabbed Amu close and for the rest of the night, Rima explained the process and details of sexual reproduction to her friend.

When morning came, Amu was not in the mood for classes. And neither was Rima, for that matter. Rima had classes earlier than Amu so she was already gone.

Amu groggily got up from her bed and pulled herself to her closet.

As she threw on her clothes and brushed her teeth, Amu thought about all the things Rima had told her last night. She thought she would feel liberated…a sense of satisfaction. Maybe a little more mature.

But she just felt weird! Amu looked at the dark circles under her eyes in the mirror. Everything just seemed so intimate..and EMBARASSING to say the most! Oh god, yes embarrassing…

Without any control, her mind automatically made her imagine..engaging in s-sex with I-I-Ikuto—

Amu's toothbrush broke in half and she was breathing heavily into her reflection. Her face was red again. She couldn't face Ikuto like this…

With uneven feet Amu stumbled her way to her first class.

"You look tired, Rima." Nagihiko noticed the slight dark circles under Rima's eyes and it was the first time he ever saw anything other than her porcelain smooth skin on her face.

"I am…" Rima muttered and laid herself against Nagihiko's chest. She rested her head there.

"Did something happen last night?"

"Yeah." Rima said with her eyes closed. "Sex."

"W-What?!" Nagihiko jumped up and started to panic. Rima wouldn't…she wouldn't…r-right?!

"Shut up you're too loud." Rima scolded him but she smirked slightly after hearing Nagihiko's heart beat get faster and faster.

"W-What d-do you m-mean by sex?" Nagihiko asked his girlfriend. Well. He guessed they were never officially together, but they were always hanging out…together. He tried to ask Rima how she felt about him a while ago but all she did was blink at him. Maybe Rima never really liked him all this time. He started to sweat.

"Stop getting so overworked. I just taught Amu about it." Rima said calmly to him.

"Oh.." Nagihiko felt slightly relieved.

"What are you getting all nervous for?" Rima asked him with her eyebrow raised.

"It's just that…" Nagihiko wondered if he should bring it up again. Asking Rima what exactly they were.

"Like I would ever do something like that when I have a boyfriend." Rima muttered softly, hiding her face from Nagihiko.

"Y-You do?!" Nagihiko asked her, panicked again.

Rima glared at him and armed him in his ribs. Her cheeks were shades of cherry pink.

"O-Ow!"

"I'm gonna go now, idiot." Rima got up, not wanting Nagihiko to see her blush like this.

Nagihiko was still bewildered and rubbing his sore rib cage when it finally hit him. "Oh wait…when you said boyfriend…d-did you mean me—"

Rima turned her back sharply at him to glare once more at Nagihiko. Nagihiko remained silent but scared.

Then Rima went out the door, but not before saying, "yes you idiot."

Nagihiko still sat there, looking surprised. So they were really together…

"Ah, she's so cute…"

Amu walked slowly and awkwardly back to her dorm after class ended. It was another uneventful day inside her class. She guessed even college life wasn't all very exciting.

She turned her focus to the trees around her that were slowly starting to become bare. The ground was filled with endless orange, dead leaves just waiting to be stepped on and rolled around in. Amu thought it was actually a rather beautiful sight, despite that she was indeed more of a winter person. She was glad that summer was finally starting to wither away though.

Summer…., Amu thought to herself.

It was only two summers ago that Amu had met Ikuto. She had never really thought about it, but that summer was probably her most memorable memory. That stupid summer class, having Ikuto as her stupid tutor, the bogus school field trip to the water park, going to that summer festival with him, sharing that scary job with Rima as their boss, and then when she really found out who Ikuto was…

"W-What am I thinking about now?!" Amu exclaimed out loud. She turned red. The changing season was doing wonders to her mind right now.

In an attempt to rid herself of these terribly emotion-filled thoughts, Amu knocked her head against her drawing board numerous times.

"Uh…" Amu froze when she heard a voice in front of her.

Ikuto always seemed to catch her at the most inconvenient moments. He was on his way to his dorm, on the opposite side of the girls' when he had stumbled upon his girlfriend hitting herself with a piece of wood.

Amu threw her drawing board behind her and cleared her throat. "I-Ikuto…what a surprise to see you here…" She still stuttered.

Ikuto raised an eyebrow at Amu suspiciously. "Just walking back to my room…"

"I see…"

Ikuto cautiously took a step closer towards Amu. She quickly took two steps back.

Oh god I can't look Ikuto in the eye…If I do..I'll just th-think of…, Amu's gaze shifted straight towards a rusty orange leaf on the ground.

Ikuto only looked at her, slightly amused but even more curious.

When nobody really made any movement, Amu broke the silence.

"WELL I have to run now, I've got to watch th-this new episode..th-THAT came out today!" Amu started a dash past Ikuto.

But with some inhumanly speed Ikuto matched up to her speed and stood in front of her, blocking her path once again. He smirked and lead towards Amu who simply looked away, still red. "Hmm, what episode?"

"Y-You know the new episode f-for…uh…," Amu rummaged through her mind for the first anime she could think of. "For A-Attack on Titan! Of course! Ahahaha!"

"The new episode for that came out yesterday." Ikuto smirked and leaned closer in to a shaky Amu.

Amu opened her mouth to think of an excuse, but nothing really came. How did Ikuto always seem to know absolutely everything?!

"Are you hiding something for me, Amu?" His voice drawled on her name, melting Amu's thoughts.

He reached out to grab her arm and the second his fingers glided over her skin Amu jolted and jumped away, as if he were on fire. Ikuto was surprised himself at Amu's reaction and saw her eyes widening with something that looked a lot like fear. She was starting to breathe hard.

"Seriously, is…everything okay?" Ikuto all of a sudden sounded genuinely concerned and it made Amu feel extremely joyful yet guilty at the same time.

Amu swallowed before speaking. "I…I-uh, y-yeah…I'm fine…" To be honest she was scared. Amu was scared as to how she would see Ikuto after everything she had learned now. Would she view him differently? Probably. Would things change between them forever? Obviously she couldn't keep hiding away from him forever…but still, Amu could not bring herself to look into Ikuto's eyes. She also feared never acting normal around her boyfriend ever again.

Ah, why couldn't I have a less attractive-looking boyfriend?, Amu whined inside her head. Then maybe she wouldn't be so worried over this entire situation.

"I just gotta run!" Amu shouted before anything else and she ran straight past Ikuto towards her dorm room, not looking back or slowing down once.

Ikuto was left with nothing but dead orange leaves and a worried look.

Amu finally reached her dorm room and tore open the door, flopping straight into her mattress. She needed some time to think…and plan about what she should do…

She felt bad for running away from the scene, but Amu decided it was better to be safe and careful about how she should react.

After a few seconds of just staring into nothing, Ikuto finally decided it was best to leave Amu alone for a bit. Whatever was happening with her, it looked like it was something she needed to do herself. But even with that being said, Ikuto was still dangerously curious about what exactly was bothering Amu. She usually wasn't the type to worry so much.

He sighed as he walked through the dead leaves towards his own dorm. When he finally arrived at the boys side of the dorms, he saw a certain blonde midget coming out.

"Did you come to make out with your boyfriend again?" Ikuto called out to her.

Rima glared at Ikuto. "He's not my boyfriend." Okay, she lied about that part but with all honesty she did it involuntarily.

"Poor guy has so much on his hands," Ikuto sighed.

"Hmph. I could say the same to you." Rima huffed at Ikuto wand walked past the annoying guy.

Ikuto's ears twitched. "Hm? And what do you mean by that?"

"Nothing." Rima flipped her long golden curls over her shoulders. "I just had a long talk with Amu last night."

"What?" Ikuto turned towards Rima. "What did you say to her?"

"Chill out." Rima snapped at Ikuto and he started to get pissed off at this mood-swinging diva.

"Just tell me already you goddamn midget." Ikuto snapped back at her.

"Do you want to know or not?" Rima amused herself by taunting him.

Ikuto tried not to roll his eyes but gave out a disgruntled sound before sighing. "Yes, so what did you tell her?"

"Oh, I don't hear a please~"

"PLEASE FUCKING. TELL ME. WHAT YOU. TOLD. HER." Ikuto shouted, losing his patience.

"Taught her everything about the birds and the bees." Rima gave him a cheeky grin.

Ikuto blinked at her. "What?"

"It means—"

"No I know what it means." Ikuto cut Rima off quickly. He ran his fingers through his navy blue strands. "I didn't think she was that clueless to it though."

Rima rolled her eyes and flipped her hair again. "You should've seen the look on her face when I told her what got inserted into what. Anyways, she's probably just a little shaken, not having known any of this until yesterday."

But what is she so scared about?, Ikuto wondered to himself.

He decided to leave it alone for a few days. Or until Amu chose to come back herself.

Welp, hope you enjoyed this fourth chapter! Will try to update faster! And as always, please review~