Cherry Knot

Summary: Imagine person A of your OTP demonstrates to person B that they are capable of tying a cherry stem in a knot with their tongue. Person B now suffers from terrible (or beautiful) thoughts of whatever else person A can do with their tongue every time they see a cherry. Prompt from .com

Extra Info: I wrote this a while ago, I believe it was posted on AO3 once upon a time but I ended up deleting it. I still had this so I decided to repost it.

Characters: Makoto, Celestia

Pairings: Makoto/Celestia (Romance)

Genre: Romance

Makoto watched as Celes used her tongue to tie a cherry stem to prove to him that she could in fact do something like that. Once she was done Celes showed him the cherry stem which had indeed been tied with nothing but the use of her tongue.

Makoto stared at the cherry stem in surprise, sure he knew that doing that was possible but he didn't think that Celes would be the type of person to actually try it as he'd also heard that you'd need practice to do it especially in order to do it that fast.

"I told you I could do it Naegi-Kun. Now that you've seen the proof for yourself, never doubt me when I say I can do something again." Celes told the boy standing in front of her.

"Amazing, Celes-San. That was amazing." Makoto told her, he had appeared to have completely ignored her previous sentence, though that was probably unintentional.

"Yes, I'm good with my tongue." Celes said in response, clasping her hands together, tilting her head and smiling.

"...! O-Oh, I see." Makoto said in response, once she had said that his mind went to places it probably shouldn't, leading to a rather flustered response to her sentence.

"Hm? You seem rather flustered Naegi-Kun." Celes stated looking at the boy who was avoiding making eye contact with her and was blushing a bright red.

"I... I have to go!" Makoto exclaimed backing away from her slightly before turning around and running back into Hope's Peak Academy.

"...?" Celes watched after him, confused. The idea of Makoto having been turned on by her display had crossed her mind but the thought had quickly been dismissed due to Makoto's all around personality, while there was no doubt in Celes' mind that Makoto had sexual thoughts, Celes had always thought they would only be about someone he liked in a romantic sense and since she was pretty sure he didn't like her like that... The thought had been thrown out almost as soon as it had come.

At that thought Celes felt a pang in her chest "Why did I have to fall in love with someone that wouldn't like a girl like me?" Celes wondered aloud, Makoto was usually easy to read however when it came to crushes it was really rather difficult to see who he liked that since he treated everyone the same.

*/*/*/*

Makoto leaned against his closed dorm room door; he had run all the way from the roof to his dorm room that was situated on the very first floor of the building.

"This... might be bad." Makoto stated, shaking his head, once he had caught his breath. Celes was a scary woman, caught having those kinds of feelings about her and she'd probably rip him to pieces. Or at least that's what Makoto believed she would do if she found out, which she probably would because Celes, as a gambler, was observant especially so when it came to emotions and Makoto wasn't exactly good at hiding his thoughts and feelings.

*/*/*/*

A few days had passed since the day Celes had shown him that she could tie a cherry stem with her tongue and Makoto couldn't stop thinking about what else she could do with her tongue whenever he saw her (and sometimes even when he couldn't see her).

It was lunch time now and Celes had asked him to sit with her, unable to refuse her he agreed and admittedly regretted doing so, as it meant he could easily see her eat, which would definitely bring up sexual thoughts.

As he ate, slowly, across from her, Makoto watched the gambler eat her own food, watching her mouth intently as she chewed. He probably looked like quite the pervert to anyone that had noticed what he was doing but he couldn't help it, he was a teenage boy and hormones were taking over.

"Naegi-Kun, are you alright? You've barely eaten anything." Celes asked him looking down at the food on his plate, which was still pretty full.

"Ah, yeah, I'm fine." Makoto told her, taking a large amount of food of his plate to prove it to her. The statement hadn't necessarily been a lie but he supposed it could be close enough to one to make Celes more suspicious.

"Are you sure? You've been acting strange for a few days. Is something bothering you?" Celes asked him looking up at him and narrowing her eyes.

"No, nothing's bothering me, per se." Makoto told her, deciding that he may as well come clean and tell her now if he didn't then Celes would probably continue questioning him until she got her answer.

"What do you mean by that?" Celes asked him knowing she was getting close to her answer. She hated it when people kept something from her, and she especially hated it when Makoto kept something from her although since it was Makoto she didn't use intimidation with him, not because she liked him, but because she knew she didn't have to.

"..." Without answering her Makoto got up from his seat and walked around to her side of the table. He picked up her hand and pulled her gently to indicate her to follow him. Celes gave him a sour look, not liking to be ordered around, but nonetheless got up and followed him.

*/*/*/*

Makoto took her to the roof and turned around to face her again. While she wasn't necessarily glaring at him she was giving him a stern look, likely to tell him 'this better be good'.

"Well, why did you take me here? Does it have something to do with why you've been acting strange?" Celes asked him looking around the roof trying to remain calm; she wasn't angry with him now, as soon as the thought of the roof having to do with Makoto's strange behaviour her anger dispersed and gave way to excitement that Makoto was going to confess to her.

"I... well yes... it does have something to do with... my behaviour." Makoto told her blushing brightly, Celes was bound to know what had been the cause now, there's almost no way she couldn't.

Celes smiled "Does it have something to do with me?" She asked him, already knowing the answer.

Makoto simply nodded in response.

"Do you want to know what else my tongue can do?" Celes asked him giving him a somewhat mischievous smirk, an action rare for her.

This time Makoto didn't nod at her but he did look up at her with his entire face bright red and a slightly hopeful look in his eyes and that was enough for Celes. She leaned down and pressed her lips against the smaller boys, he gasped in surprise and she used that opportunity to put her tongue in his mouth to let him know firsthand what else her tongue could do.

I feel Celes was out of character in this one and Makoto too for that matter. If so I promise I'll try to make it better the next time they show up.