KI23 Deleted Scene (WARNING: writen at 2am lol I have no idea what I was thinking)

"That's enough." Ikuto took hold of one of her wrists, grasp tightening until her fingers uncurled and Matt fell to the floor.

Yanking her arm back, Amulet spun on her heel, "I expect an answer by tomorrow, Amu."

I nearly jumped, momentary shock making my eyes wide. I don't think she's ever called any of us by name before.

In the doorway, she paused. Turning only her head to reveal a grand smirk, "Take better care of your friends, may I suggest one of those pregnancy tests to prevent little fox kits from running around?"

The door shut behind her as Hikaru marched away with a huff.

Matt made a half-strangled noise.

Nagehiko and Tadase may or may not have turned to stone.

My jaw became unhinged.

And Ikuto giggled. (It was short, and he coughed afterwards, but it was traumatizing nonetheless.)

My mind began to whirl into thought. Pregnancy- girls, girls, girls. Wait, I'm the only one! Rima's group doesn't count; Amulet may know Hikaru's bodyguards are here but she won't know which ones. That and I didn't exactly consider them friends. Then the rest of her sentence came back around the same time Nagehiko and Tadase unfroze.

Fox.

"Matt?" I squeaked, turning towards him.

Hold on, hold on! Our friendship may not be based on complete honesty - there have been plenty of lies - but gender is not something that can be that easily hidden!

As if sensing my thoughts, Nagehiko said in an equally squeaky voice, "Don't be dense Amu!"

Ikuto had to turn away for a moment, but I caught a glimpse of the I'm-trying-not-to-smile expression on his face that looked worse than if he had just burst out laughing.

Meanwhile, Matt himself looked like he just might die. His eyes were too moist with humiliation to be passed as not panicking. Curses involving Amulet's death and 'a thousand vending machines on you' were just loud enough to be heard as he tried to curl up into a little ball.

He looked up then, probably overhearing my thoughts with those tears now angry enough to just barely hold themselves in. "Look, this really isn't any of your business." Tadase opened his mouth to argue but was cut off by another of those painfully fake smirks. "It's not. You're probably so interested in my sex life for the lack of yours, Tase-chan!" Voice breaking and rising a few octaves too high to be convincing, Matt retreated back into curling up in a ball.

"Yuuki sucks at keeping to the outline. Bad authoress~" Ikuto tried to keep his face neutral as he turned around, lips angled too far up to achieve that look. "Neh?"

And that's as far as I got before I decided I wasn't taking the scene seriously enough, and this wasn't really what was supposed to happen anyway. This wasn't the whole chapter, a lot of stuff happened before this but this was the only part I actually deleted. Actual Chapter 23 to be posted soon~