I DON'T OWN SHUGO CHARA

Pain & Hurt

Amu threw the empty icecream tub in the bin. She had taken to comfort eating. She didn't care if she got fat. Nothing mattered anymore. Amu was about to reach for a huge bar of chocolate when Ran stopped her.

"PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER! Binge eating isn't going to help, it's not going to bring Ikuto back!"

Amu winced at the sound of Ikuto's name.

"Ran's right. There has to be a reasonable explanation why Ikuto's dumped you," Miki said.

"Yeah so put that bar of chocolate down!" Su said.

"Yeah but..." Amu said.

"Ikuto wouldn't just dump you," Ran said.

"Yeah," Miki said.

"So pull yourself together!" Su said.

Amu buried herself up her bed covers.

"If only it was that easy," Amu mumbled under her covers.

"It is, so go and have a shower and sort yourself out!" Ran cheered, waving her pom poms around.

Amu thought about this for a while. She can't lay in her bed forever and she was certainly not going to let Ikuto have the satisfaction of leaving her heart-broken.

So Amu dragged herself out her bed and headed towards the bathroom. She got undressed and stepped into the shower, under the hot water.

"I might as well just let out all my emotion now where no one can hear me," Amu said to herself.

She cried for a long time until she managed to pull herself together. She then reached for her strawberry shampoo and massaged it into her hair. She hadn't washed her hair for a few days out of the fact that she couldn't be bothered to do anything apart for eat junk food.

When Amu was done, she moisturised herself and dried her sopping wet hair and then brushed it out and got changed.

Amu decided to got out for a bit after staying in all week.

"See you later mum!" Amu called as she swapped her slippers for her shoes.

"Don't stay out too long!" Amu's mother called back, happy that her daughter had gotten out of her depression.

Today was the day she was going to get over Ikuto.

Meanwhile...

Ikuto wandered around town, no sense of direction. He just wanted to distract himself from his broken heart. Distract himself from Amu.

"Ikuto."

Ikuto looked up, it was Utau.

"Whats wrong Ikuto?" Utau said.

They went and bought coffees and sat on a park bench. Ikuto explained why he was so depressed

"OK, so you're deppressed becuase you dumped Amu. Why did you dump her in the first place?" Utau said, draining her coffee.

"because our step-dad told me to. I need to protect you and mum. Family comes first right?" Ikuto said, hands wrapped around the coffee cup, not drinking it.

"Does Amu know this?"

"She knows that I need to protect you and mum but not why I dumped her."

"You need to tell her."

"I can't."

"Why?"

"I can't let her get hurt."

"She's not exactly going to march up to Easter is she?"

"Well, yeah, it's the kind thing she would do."

Utau laughed. "Really? Amu must really care about you."

Ikuto smiled to himself. "Yeah." Painful memories came back to Ikuto. His heart ached so much.

"Tell her not to."

"She probably hates me."

"I don't blame her."

"What do I do, Utau?"

"I don't know, it's up to you to sort out the mess you created."

Utau got up and threw her coffee in the bin and left.

Ikuto stayed where he was for a while figuring out what to do. He still had no idea.

Ikuto finally got up and left. He wandered back through town and saw Amu.

Amu saw him. And walked straight past him. Ikuto turned around.

"Amu!" Ikuto shouted after her.

She ignored him. Ikuto resorted to chasing after her. He catched up to Amu and grabbed her wrist. She pulled it away.

"What do you want?" Amu yelled at him. "You told me not to talk to you."

"I need to talk to you," Ikuto said.

"About what?"

"About why I left you."

"No."

"Please." A single tear dripped from Ikuto's midnight blue eye.

And by instinct Amu wiped it away.

"OK."

And so they walked and Ikuto explained why he left her.

Amu couldn't say anything. So she put her arms around him and Ikuto put his arms around her. They stayed in this embrace for a while until Amu got up on her tip-toes and kissed Ikuto.

"I love you Ikuto," Amu said.

"I love you too Amu," Ikuto said.

The End

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