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                     Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:48 pm 
 
 
                        
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			             “No, they’re done,” Ikuto shook his head. “They’ve seen the error of their ways. I think Hikaru is smitten with you.”         
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                     Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:50 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            “W…what?” Amu flushed a bit. Ikuto wasn’t telling her that another boy had a crush on her. Especially not Hikaru. He was cute, but a kid.          
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                     Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:51 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            “He was always talking about you,” Ikuto informed her, smirking lightly. “For the record, I’m not the sharing kind.”          
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                     Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:52 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            “W…what does that have to do with anything?” Amu demanded, crossing her arms stubbornly.         
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                     Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:54 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            Ikuto managed not to laugh at the huffy expression on the girl’s face. It was moments like this, when she asked such a sweetly innocent question, that he remembered how young she was. He really should ease up on her. Give her a chance to grow up a bit. Experience some things. Maybe even date other boys. He should… but he probably wouldn’t. Maybe, if he had some guarantee that she would return to his side…          
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                     Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:55 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            “Ikuto?” Amu coaxed when he was silent for awhile.          
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                     Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:56 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            “You’re such a kid,” Ikuto informed her, smiling faintly. It was one of his rare, sincere smiles. One of the ones that only Amu seemed to draw out.         
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                     Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:57 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            “I am not!” Amu protested.          
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                     Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:58 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            Ikuto just shook his head slightly and tucked his hands into his pockets as he waited for her to finish sputtering.          
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                     Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:59 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            She glared at him. “You’re doing this on purpose,” she accused. “You’re trying to distract me!”         
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                     Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:00 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            “Maybe,” he grinned at her. She was learning. Good girl.         
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                     Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:01 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            “We should figure this out, Ikuto,” Amu sighed. “Whenever weird things like this happen, it always means that something bad is going to come.”         
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                     Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:02 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            “Really?” Ikuto arched a brow, wondering where she had gotten that conclusion from.          
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                     Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:04 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            “Yep,” she nodded. “The last time you showed up in my bed, you were almost dead and really sick. Then when you were acting weird, it was because the X-egg was controlling you. Then there was when…” she could continue.         
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                     Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:05 pm 
 
 
                        
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			            “I’m not sick,” Ikuto reminded her. “Easter isn’t looking for the Embryo anymore. Neither am I.”         
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