Trapped

Guilty Crown

After 4 hours:
At royal garden

Rima, along with the other Guardians, suddenly, Tadase's gasp drew hper attention in a direction, and she, her eyes widened at the scene before her as was rest of the guardians.

Lying sprawled beneath a tree, not far from them, was Utau, lying as if she'd just fallen.

Her eyes immediately narrowed.

"Tsukiyomi Utau!" Tadase hissed, anger and hatred filled his voice. "Were you spying on us?!" He demanded.

Utau looked at them blankly, a guilty, worried look flashed across her features. It was gone so fast it was almost impossible to tell if she imagined it or if it was really there. Rima was positive it was. As was keen after all.

She blinked, and when her eyes opened again, they were back to the cold, hard eyes Rima was now accustomed to. She stood, brushing herself off. "What if I was?" She challenged. "But thats not the prblem now, Anyways, she is in trouble. They are after her.. Well, about am-" She trief to explain but was cut off by tadase.

"Holy crown!"

Utau quickly tried to jump out of the way, but the attack caught her leg, sending her sprawling. She crashed to the ground, her head banging into the tree. Rima let out a quiet gasp. She hated utau but she admitted she wanted to be her friend even if it was for moment or something. She didn't like the feeling of seeing her getting hurt.

"Get lost, you good for nothing traitor like her! The only thing you cause is pain and suffering to everyone."

Utau didn't get up.

Tadase turned around. "Come along. We're leaving."

They followed him, continuing to their original destination: Nagihiko's house for an extended Guardian meeting.

As she passed, Rima slipped behind a tree. She watched as utau laid there, unmoving gazing in the sky as if deeply thinking about something.

A angel chara appeared, floating above utau's head followed by devil one. She brushed a hand on the girl's forehead.

"Utau-chan, we have to leave. You don't want to be late for concert now do you?." Her quiet voice barely reached Rima's ears.

At this, Utau slowly sat up, her eyes empty and dull. A cut had appeared on her forehead, and blood trickled down her face. Utau paid it no heed.
She suddenly made a unreadable expression which indicated many emotions - anger, guilt and......grief? She slowly got up, but then lost her balance, crashing into the tree, where she stayed for a few moments.
She murmured something that I didn't understand quite well what she said was "she will soon return but as broken shards of mirror filled with darkness..only certain people can save her but what if they lost their faith in her..? Who will take her..to..'sigh' nevertheless I should return now..

She finally righted herself, though Rima couldn't see her face anymore, as it was covered by her bangs.

She slowly walked away, her head down. The whole sight was heartbreakingly pathetic. Even Kusukusu looked solemn. Who was she talking about? Maybe...? No, can't be..

Rima sighed as utau disappeared around the corner. No matter what they all said, no matter what happened, she knew Amu couldn't be evil. She knew Amu. Amu was a loving, caring person. She couldn't just show up to school one day, completely changed, as a dark and sadistic person. No, I'm not going to believe whst they say all she knew was Amu was not evil and will never be one. She just wondered why she was the only one who saw it.

As she turned to leave, Rima noticed something white on the ground where utau had fallen. She slowly walked towards it, and slowly bent to pick it up.

It was a sketchpad, and by having seen it before, Rima knew she had seen it before. She saw it few times but where...? Then it hit her... Amu. Her house, she saw it there when that incident happened. But what was Utah doing with this when it belonged to amu? But placing the thought aside she slowly opened that book. The first thing she was a....painting of a flower made in the style she knew too well..it was amu's..awe how she loved her drawings...she turned the page only to her widened in shock.

Trapped. The title read.

A butterfly was depicted, flying in a field of roses.

A glass cage rested upon a stand in the field. The butterfly was trapped inside, longingly trying to free itself, to get back to the world outside.

She knew how art helped her in expressing her emotions. Amu had a quite close relationship with Niki from the beginning.

Roma's POV

I felt A tear dripped down from my eyes, landing on the paper. I couldnt help but to feel shocked as well as pain...as realization hit me hard as thunder. So the pain filled eyes and by trapped you meant this, amu?

No. It can't be..

Amu wasn't evil...she just can't be. She never changed.. So all this time She was yearnibg for what seemed is freedom.. To shine again like was in past..but...now..don't worry amu, I'll take you to light like you did in the past. This is my time to return what I owed from you. My best friend.
I'll open you up, amu. just wait. For me. I'll soon find you.