With Amu's hand on top of her heaving chest attempting to catch her breath after the long run, it was only now, here in front of the train station, that she realized she had forgotten her wallet, with her train pass inside, back at the love hotel. And thats not all she left behind: her shoes, school bag with all its contents, and a naked pervert in the bathroom.
Crouching down with her hands on her head, flustered, Amu thinks, "Ugh. I'm so stupid. How could I forget my wallet, let alone my shoes back at the hotel. How am I supposed to get back to campus now?"
As she is crouched down on the ground, ruffling her hair with frustration, she feels the eyes of confused onlookers at the station glaring at her as they pass by. With this her face flushes out in embarrassment.
"This is all that perv's fault," Amu thought, "It was all cause he couldn't bother to at least write a damn sign saying 'lock broken' or 'occupied' and stick it on the damn door. Now cause of him I'm stuck here. And if that's not bad enough I even saw his-"
Unable to finish her sentence, Amu covered her red face with her hands and shrieked in embarrassment. "Ugh. No. I don't even want to think about it anymore. I hope I never see that perverted cat again in my entire life."
She got up and was about to walk around to see if she could at least find a train attendant to help her. When suddenly she felt a hand being placed on her shoulder.
"Amu?"
Shrieking in fright she shoved the hand away and screamed, "Ah! No. Get away from me you pervert."
She suddenly heard a thud hit the ground and when she turned around instead of seeing Ikuto she saw a girl wincing in pain and rubbing her bottom from the impact.
"Ow."
"Ah- I'm so sorry. I thought you were somebody el-"
Before Amu could finish her sentence she took a good look at the girl. She had orange-brown hair and brown eyes, tannish skin, and a big red ribbon which held a small portion of her hair from the back while the rest of it was loose.
Amu felt her mouth go agape while she shakingly pointed her finger at the girl and asked, "Yaya?"
The girl looked up now rubbing the back of her head while she winked one of her eyes and slightly stuck out her tongue in a playful child-like manner. "So it is you Amu-chi," she said, "I knew it was you! But I just had to make sure. I never would have thought you'd call me a pervert though and push me onto the ground."
Amu quickly reached out her hand and helped pull Yaya up and then gave her a big hug. Shaking gleefully with tear filled eyes.
"Ah~ Yaya," she said relieved. "I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to. It's just... You have no idea what a rough morning I've had and-"
"I can see that," Yaya said interrupting her and breaking the hug so that she could get a better look at her, "Gosh Amu, you're a mess. What happened?"
"It's a long story," Amu said.
"Well I've got all the time in the world. How about you come over to my place and tell me all about what happened?" said Yaya, "We'll even get you cleaned up."
"Really? Aw~ Yaya, you're the best." said Amu relieved.
They walked off together arm in arm back to Yaya's house.
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Amu sat in front of a small table inside Yaya's bedroom. She looked around and saw a bunch of plushie toys and posters plastered around the room. It was nice to see that Yaya still had some of that childish demeanor she was so adamant in keeping years ago. The room was a bit of a mess but this was sanctuary compared to the love hotel she was forced to sleep in last night. Amu heard footsteps coming up the stairs from outside the door as she was drying her head with a towel after the warm bath Yaya let her take. Yaya came in with a tray with two tea cups and a plate of snacks in the middle.
"Here you go, hope it's not too hot for you." She said smiling.
Amu took the tea cup into her hands, "Thank you."
"Are the clothes I lent you alright?" Yaya asked, "Not too small?"
"Well they're a little tight in the chest area but other than that their just fi-"
Amu noticed Yaya glaring at her while pouting, probably over the chest area comment, so she quickly rephrased herself, "I-I mean... they fit just fine."
She took a quick sip from her tea cup in order to ease the tension.
"Mm-hmm. Is that so?" Yaya said still slightly glaring.
After setting the table with the plate of snacks, Yaya sat down on her pillow and leaned in close to Amu. "So~ are you gonna tell me what happened?"
Amu took another sip from her tea cup and looked up blushing, "What do you want to know?"
Yaya had a playful smile on her face.
"Well let's start with why you were walking around the train station barefoot with no money, no cell phone, and as far away as possible from your school campus."
Amu looked away embarrassed and mumbled under her breath, "Well you see..."
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After a while Amu finished telling Yaya everything up until before she met up with Ikuto in front of her old home. Hoping to avoid the whole story about the love hotel and seeing him naked all together.
"Wow. You've really had a rough time of it, haven't you?" said Yaya.
"Yeah. I don't think I'm ever going to have another last minute 'adventure' ever again." Amu said.
"But wait," Yaya paused before continuing, "Where did you end up staying the night then? I mean if not at your parents house or at a hotel since it was too expensive, then where?"
"Umm."
The one topic Amu wanted to avoid the most and didn't have a clear answer for was now begging to be answered.
"And you haven"t explained being barefoot or how you lost your stuff." pushed Yaya.
"Well..." Amu struggled to come up with an answer.
Yaya leaned closer and squinted her eyes with a playful grin and said, "Could it be you got yourself a boyfriend around these parts and you haven't told me yet?"
"What?" Amu said shocked.
Yaya began to laugh teasingly, "Eh~ Did you sleep over at his place for the night?"
Amu began to flush red profusely.
"Maybe you guys were up so~ late last night and when you woke up and saw how late it was you just ran out of the room without your shoes and bag?" Yaya pressed up against Amu's side and whispered in her ear, "Could it be my little Amu-chi is now a woman?"
With that Amu flushed so red and hot she could swear steam was emitting from her head.
She moved herself away from Yaya and covered her flushing face with her arm as she yelled, "Don't be ridiculous. Of course I don't have a bo- boyfriend. I've never had one before and I haven't done it with anyone. I've never even seen a guy na-naked befo-"
Before Amu could finish her sentence the image of a freshly showered nude Ikuto popped into her head.
"Ah! No," she shrieked as she ruffled her hair roughly and shook her head back and forth as if to shake the image out of her mind.
"Never again! Never! Ever! It was so gross~" she yelled shakingly.
Yaya sat away from her watching her freak out in confusion. She extended her hand and moved it up and down as if to call Amu back over to her.
"Aww come on, Amu. It was just a joke. No need to freak out so much." said Yaya.
Amu looked at her in such disarray and crawled back towards her shakingly. She -pointed at her flustered and stuttered, "Now see here. I- I don't have a boyfriend. A-and I did not sleep over at this nonexistent boyfriend's house. A-and I've never done it b-before. Nor do I plan t- to anytime soon. I slept on a random park bench and someone stole my shoes and bag while I was asleep. N-nothing unusual happened, okay? Okay?"
Amu placed extra emphasis on that last 'okay' just to ensure that Yaya understood that there was no other story other than what she had just told her.
Yaya put her hands up as if to put some distance between her and Amu who was leaning way too close to her body, as if leaning in closer would help the message sink in more.
"Okay. Okay Amu-chi, I believe you," Yaya said awkwardly, "So what should we do about your bag and shoes? Should we make a report to the police?"
Amu's face quickly went white, for she didn't think about the possibility of Yaya suggesting that they make a stolen goods report to the police.
"Ah. No. I-It's fine. Really. I didn't have anything that important in my bag anyway so let's not make a big deal out of this," Amu said as she waved one of her hands back in forth in front of her face, "Besides- it might have been some homeless guy and you know we should give to the poor every now and then, right? Ha ha." Amu added with an awkward laugh.
Yaya looked at her with a look of confusion, "Okay Amu-chi... if you say so."
Wanting to change the subject quickly Amu moved away from Yaya and began to rub the back of her head while laughing, "So umm.. Yaya."
"Yeah?" Yaya replied while making her way back to the plate of snacks on the table.
"So it must have been more than just a coincidence that we met at the train station today. I mean with it being the weekend and all it's not like you were going to school. So what were you doing there anyway? Did you have plans today?" asked Amu.
"Hmm? Plans?" With that, as Yaya was nibbling on a cookie, her eyes went wide and her face went pale. Amu could see sweat drops beginning to form on her forehead.
"Ahhhhhh~." Yaya suddenly screamed catching Amu off guard.
"Yaya? What's the matter?" Amu asked concerned.
Yaya quickly got to her feet and ran to her closet to get her coat off of the hook, "Quick, Amu," she said suddenly while struggling to shove her arm through the coat's sleeve, "What time is it?"
"Eh? Umm... I'm not sure. I don't really have a watch or anything on me. Why?"
"Umm. Well... it's just that I was so caught up in seeing you again today out of the blue at the train station that I completely forgot that I had to meet up with someone else today," she said as she was geting all her things together, "Oh no. She's gonna be so mad."
"Who is-" Yaya interupted her before she could finish her question, "Amu-chi do you mind waiting her for a little bit while I go out to get-"
Suddenly there was the sound of the door bell buzzer ringing repeatedly non stop downstairs.
Yaya jumped up with a jolt and fear came over her.
"Oh no. She's here. And she sounds really mad." she said nervously.
"Who's here?" Amu asked starting to get a little scared herself.
"Wait here, Amu-chi," Yaya said as she left out her bedroom door.
"Hey wait-" she closed the door behind her and Amu, being curious, went up to the door and pressed her ear up against it and heard the door bell ringing cease and the front door being opened from downstairs. She heard a muffled conversation.
"What are- Yuiki Yaya? Keeping me waiting- over an hour - at home?" the female voice yelled.
"I'm sorry- chan -lost track of time and- happened and-"
Amu couldn't really make out the entire conversation very well since through the door everything sounded so muffled. However, the muffled voice did sound very familiar to her. Familiar and very angry.
"Aw. Poor Yaya. I feel so bad. I didn't mean to get her in trouble," Amu thought.
However, the guilt she was feeling was short lived when she was suddenly rattled by the sound of the stranger screaming, "Who is here?!"
The sudden loud voice made Amu jolt and she suddenly heard large thumping sounds running up the staircase coming towards Yaya's room.
"Wait! Hold on." she heard Yaya say.
Amu quickly backed away from the door and as she did the voice and person it belonged clicked within her mind. The voice belonged to the one person, other than Ikuto, that she never expected to see again.
As soon as she put the person's identity together, the door swung open quickly nearly hitting Amu.
Amu's eyes immediately met with those of the person whose hand was holding the doorknob so tightly that her knuckles went white. Her chest was heaving from the sudden run up the stairs and her eyes met Amu's, but with a look that could only be described as one of piercing hate and disgust.
"So it is you, Hinamori Amu." She said starting to shake with rage.
With that, right behind her ran up Yaya who was desperate to keep the situation from escalating any further. So she managed to slip past her and put herself in front of her and Amu.
"Ah~ Calm down, okay? Are you still mad about what happened all those years ago? Come on. It wasn't her fault." Yaya said attemtpting to calm down the enraged girl.
"Like hell it isn't," the girl snapped, "It's all because of her that Ikuto left the way he did." She stared back at Amu and asked, "Well? Don't you have anything to say? Hinamori Amu."
Amu sat there looking up at the familar figure. With a shocked and dumbfounded face she sat their quietly; attempting to process everything that was happening. There was no mistake. With that porceline white skin, piercing amethyst eyes, and platinum blonde hair; Amu knew exactly who she was up against and understood, with good reason, why she was so pissed. Through her slightly agape mouth, all Amu could muster as a response was the girl's name, "Utau?"
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Yes. Yes, I know. "Well. Well. Well. Look who finally came back? How many times has she said she would attempt to update 'as soon as possible'?" Too many times, I know. Again, I am so sorry for always updating so late. But the last semester I was in was the most difficult and time consuming semester I have ever gone through, bar none. I had to dedicate my entire spring to ensuring I got good grades since it was my last semester before transferring. I've been off school for a few weeks now and I have been filing a lot of paperwork to the school I am transferring to so that has also been time consuming. Not to mention I have been suffering from serious writer's block so that only weighed me down even more. However, that's no excuse for always making the people kind enough to come back and read my stories wait. So what I am gonna do is say the exact opposite of what I usually do and say "Don't expect an update anytime soon." Hopefully the opposite effect will happen and I can start uploading more often. I know this one is pretty short in comparison to the others, but I hope this chapter was worth the wait and please feel free to leave comments, suggestions, or critiques. Thanks again for all the nice comments and I hope to not* see you anytime soon. *wink wink* (Hope I do see you soon.)