It took a scolding from Su to make Ikuto get up. He was just as lost at what to do as Amu was, but the yelling prompted him to escape the living room with couch pillows covering his front and backside. Amu kept her eyes focused on the ceiling as he left, closing them when she heard his door slam closed and lock. It was really over.
Amu didn't know how to process what all just happened. Even though he was gone, she was still both highly aroused and disturbed at the same time. Her charas immediately sensed the mood and didn't dare to talk to Amu. To be honest, they didn't know what to say and were equally disturbed. She would just have to pull herself together.
For the first few minutes alone, Amu just took deep breaths through her nose and laid her head in her hands. She occasionally groaned and growled indignantly to somewhat release whatever jumbled thoughts her mind had conjectured related to her sexual and emotional frustrations, but her hands muffled the sound. She didn't want to make any noises that would prompt Ikuto to check on her prematurely. He couldn't see her freaking out like this-- anything but that.
The next several minutes were spent contemplating her next confrontation with Ikuto. How would she react when he returned? She wasn't necessarily mad at him for his sexual behavior, though glancing at her ripped shirt hinted that perhaps she should be. Could she blame him at all since she was the one to pull out the toys?... She couldn't justify his behavior completely with that. She teased him out of his right mind with the toys, sure. However, both Ikuto and Yoru had enough sense to know when enough was enough-- or so she previously assumed.
Then again, what was "enough"? She touched her neck gingerly, tracing where Ikuto kissed and nipped at her neck just minutes ago. She closed her eyes and sighed, recalling how good Ikuto's lips felt on her skin. Although his lips were soft, they could kiss her roughly and leave her feeling ragged. She wouldn't mind if he did something like that while he was not transformed. In fact, she might really enjoy it and try it on him if she felt ambitious.
These opposing thoughts occupied her mind until she decided that thinking about it all was just stressing her out more. Every time she came to a possible conclusion on how to respond, she had to replay the last several minutes in her head, which prompted her to blush and feel either excited or mortified again and again. By the time she heard Ikuto's door unlock, she felt more feverish and uncomfortable than she did before. She accomplished nothing productive in fifteen minutes and only made herself feel worse.
Great. In fact, she felt slightly nauseous all of a sudden when she heard Ikuto's door unlock and open.
She glanced down at his feet when he walked into the area to make sure that he was dressed this time. She released a breath that she didn't know she was holding when she confirmed that he was dressed. While he scanned the disheveled room, the charas glared and stared at him expectantly. They were none too pleased with him, and a few of them were ready to give him a piece of Amu's mind. They would chastise Yoru later when he awoke from his trance. Ikuto didn't move closer to Amu and leaned against a wall before he spoke.
"Hey..." Amu swallowed deeply and raised her gaze to meet his eyes before chickening out and opting to look at his feet.
"You're blushing..." he said with lackluster humor.
When Amu thought that her last straw had snapped, she was unpleasantly surprised that she had one more straw waiting to be snapped by Ikuto.
"The bet," Amu told herself in a squeaky whisper of panic, and a wave of utter despair washed over her as she gritted her teeth. Her hands flew to her hair, and she grabbed it as if she was going to rip it out.
'No way. This can't be...After all of my work to keep my composure and to turn Ikuto's tricks-- WAIT!' Then a final thought of hope told her to look up. She whipped her head upward and looked Ikuto in the face, her eyes wild and her mouth in a frown. She saw it; Ikuto was blushing and couldn't even look her in the eye. After all of the panic that built up in her from three seconds ago-- Amu just curled up into a ball with her head tucked between her knees and said in an exhausted sigh,
"So are you... Girls." The charas, who were already looking at him in differing levels of outrage, grumbled in confirmation while Su added an angry "desu".
So now what would they do? Ran raised a tiny fist to her mouth and cleared her throat.
"As the unofficial creator of this bet, I now declare... a draw!" she said with no lack of enthusiasm. Amu was beyond done. Utau's plan failed. She didn't win the bet. Then again, she didn't have to be Ikuto's slave. It could have been wo-- no... it couldn't have been
any worse than what just transpired over the last half hour.
Su was next to speak up. She raised a tiny fist to her mouth and cleared her throat for the chance to speak.
"Just so you know, Ikuto-san, I will not be cleaning this mess up. You can work it out with Amu-chan, desu," leaving it up to Amu to decide if she would partake in cleaning up the room or making Ikuto do it all. With that, the charas floated past Ikuto and into Amu's room, deciding that there was no longer a need for them to be in this tense situation.
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"...And I can be whoever I want to be!"