Through Thick and Thin

Kel: Hey~! One-shot! I actually wrote this story for my composition exam in school but I think it would be really nice as a one-shot even though it is really very short! My friend actually suggested I upload it on FF and write a sequel for it! I think I'm going to follow her suggestion! I have to finish the rest of the stories first though! HAHA~! REVIEW!

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Amu Pov

When I was twelve, I had a best friend, his name was Tsukiyomi Ikuto. He had a mop of shaggy dark blue hair that always covered his eyes, eyes the colour of the ocean, a deep azure blue that made you feel like you were drowning in them, filling you up to the brim, when you stared into them. His voice was velvety yet husky, very calming to the ears. He was really tall and skinny but not in a sickly way. He was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Ikuto helped me through my parents' messy divorce, my irresponsible father remarrying and the constant shifting of houses. He was always there for me, never a metre away.

Ikuto always tricked the older girls in school that teased me, making fun of my big round glasses, my tangled hair, mismatched clothes. He would hide behind a bush and trip them and even take their homework away from them when they were not looking, but who cares? I did the work for them anyway.

Ikuto liked the lean against the railings of balcony, which I requested I have at each new house, staring into the night sky, lost in thought. I asked him what was wrong but he perpetually would just shrug and continue looking intently at the sky as though he was searching for something.

One starry night, I questioned him, asking what he was trying to find. He looked me straight in the eyes. I was drowning, suffocating in them, the rich blue overwhelming me. He just sighed tiredly and told me about, his father.

Ikuto told me, with a sorrowful expression plastered on his face that his father had abused him. Using all his strength, he would beat Ikuto senseless everyday. Then one day, his father vanished into thin air. Ikuto's mother said to him that if you searched the night sky and it so happened that the one you were looking for was searching for you too, you would find each other.

Ikuto had searched for his father every night, longing to meet him. Forgive him. But, he could never find him. Maybe his father was not looking for him, which is why it would not work. Just maybe, that was the reason.

Ikuto comforted me, and I comforted him. We were always there for each other but suddenly, out of the blue, my parents had made up, everything was alright again. I did not need Ikuto anymore.

The final night at my house was something I will never forget. Ikuto was staring into the sky like he usually did but somehow the stars seemed brighter and the moon was covered by the clouds.

"I found him! I found him! He was there all along!" were Ikuto's last words to me as he began to disappear, slowly vanishing into nothingness, once a ghost trapped on Earth, now a spirit roaming freely in the moonless night with his father. An important friend of mine who stood by me through thick and thin and now just a memory kept deep in my heart.

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Kel: KAY KAY! REVIEW PLEASE! Love you all, my awesome reviewers and readers! MUACKS!