Sorry this a day late. Inspiration didn't come till today.
Kotori walked around the stores on December 3rd looking for presents to buy her friends. Things were pretty easy to find for most of them. For Tetsuo she found some items to take care of his skateboard, for Cathy she found an adorable cat related outfit that came with a plushy of a cat, for Todoroki she found some items to help take care of clothes on the go in case he ever got his dirty, for Tokunosuke she got some things with flip sides, and for Yuma well she hadn't found anything yet. More than anything she wanted to get him something that he'd love. Especially considering she knew Cathy would try to upstage her. She walked around for a little longer before noticing something that would do. She went in the store to grab it only to have someone else grab it as well. It also was the last one.
"We'll duel for it," the other person said to her.
"I don't duel," Kotori told them. At this the whole store laughed at her and made comments. Kotori's face went beet red at this as she ran from the store embarrassed. She went to many other stores but the pattern kept on repeating. Every time she found something. She decided on one last store looking around. She grabbed a keychain of Gagaga Magician and bought it. There were plenty others so she didn't have problems this time. She then left the store and walked until she was alone. She sat on a bench looking at the keychain before crying to herself, tears streaming down her face. All she wanted was to get a good gift for Yuma, not because of her crush on him, but to show how much she appreciated his friendship. How much she enjoyed his optimism. But in the end all she could manage to get was a keychain of one of his cards because she doesn't duel.
"Kotori?" she heard her name asked. She whipped her head around to see Yuma looking at her concerned. "Are you okay?" he asked her.
"I-I-" she started to lie and say she was fine but what was the point when her face was red and stained with tears. "I wanted to get you a nice gift for Christmas but whenever I found something, someone else always had their eye on it and wanted to duel to settle everything, but I don't duel and everyone kept laughing at me. In the end all I got you was a keychain," she explained to him showing the keychain. Yuma didn't reply, instead he walked off leaving her alone again. Kotori went back to looking at the keychain, tears still flowing down her face. A few minutes later she noticed someone sit down next to her. Upon looking up she saw that it was Yuma smiling and holding up a keychain of Gagaga Girl.
"Guess we're trading gifts early this year," he said to her "and our gifts match each other." He gave her the Gagaga Girl and took the Gagaga Magician.
Kotori wiped the tears from her face. "Do you actually like it?" she asked him.
"I love it! Best gift ever!" he said genuinely.
Kotori smiled as the two sat on the bench together with their matching key chains. She thought the day had been a bad day of shopping at first, but it turned out to be a wonderful day as it ended with snow falling upon the two.
