Elevator Bonding

Summary: Two main protagonists get stuck in an elevator together. Confessions are confessed (hence the word confessions). 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: Kyouko, Makoto, Shizuka (Mother Naegi), Komaru

Pairings: Makoto/Kyouko (Romance)

Genre: Romance, Friendship

Makoto Naegi and Kyouko Kirigiri were in an elevator, they had both gone shopping in the mall and had coincidentally run into each other on the bus ride there and from there decided to shop together, once they had realised they were going to the same place.

They were going down in the elevator when it suddenly came to a halt, Makoto had almost fallen over and Kyouko had widened her eyes in surprise, neither of them had expected that to happen at all. Kyouko sighed showing a slight hint of irritation at the situation before pressing the emergency button to inform the people of the elevator problem.

"We might end up stuck in here for a while." Makoto commented sitting down on the elevator floor; he had figured that if they were going to be there for a while he may as well make himself comfortable.

"Indeed, depending on the problem with the elevator it could end up taking hours to get us out." Kyouko agreed walking over to him and sitting down beside him. Then there was silence, neither talked, they just sat in the elevator, after a few minutes of this Makoto spoke up.

"I've been stuck in an elevator before." Makoto commented, rather out of the blue, he thought that even Kyouko would get bored if they just sat around doing nothing for who knows how long so he decided to strike up a conversation with the lavender haired detective.

"Have you? What was it like?" Kyouko asked him, apparently having taken an interest in the topic, even if it did pretty much come out of nowhere.

"Well, it wasn't very pleasant." Makoto told her in response, he was about to say more when Kyouko spoke up.

"I don't think many instances of being trapped are." Kyouko commented on his answer.

"I guess not, but there were allot of people in the elevator, 10 in total, and due to all the people in a tight space shoved so tightly together the temperature in the elevator was quickly rising, there were some people freaking out, allot of noise, 3 people fainted and 3 more ended up getting injured due to it all." Makoto explained to her.

"I see and how long were you stuck in there?" Kyouko asked him.

"I think it was around an hour." Makoto said answering his friend's question.

"...Well, there's only two of us this time, there's more than enough room for us both." Kyouko said to him, giving him a small smile.

"Yeah, we'd probably have the opposite problem if anything." Makoto agreed, chuckling slightly. He was pretty sure they weren't going to get too cold, it was a warm day, so the elevator temperature shouldn't drop that much if it dropped at all.

"Well, I don't think that's going to happen, but if it does we should easily be able to warm ourselves up with the things we brought." Kyouko said going along with his joke, her smile widening slightly.

"True." Makoto agreed with her before a ringing noise reverberated through the elevator. Makoto took his phone out his back pocket and checked the caller ID 'Okaa-San'. His mother, Shizuka Naegi was calling him. "Okaa-San?"

"Ah, Makoto, I called to ask you if you could pick up some washing-up liquid for me. We've run out." Shizuka told her son, who was surprised he could hear her so clearly. Didn't elevators usually have really bad reception?

"Sure, I can get some but it might take a while." Makoto told his mother, due to being stuck in an elevator Shizuka may end up having to wait quite some time before she could get her washing-up liquid.

"How come?" Shizuka asked her son.

"I'm stuck in an elevator again." Makoto informed Shizuka mentioning the last time he had been stuck in an elevator in the process of doing so.

"Again, huh? Is it packed again too?" Shizuka asked her son, feeling sorry for his misfortune of getting stuck in an elevator again.

"No, I'm stuck with a friend of mine and that's it." Makoto told Shizuka, much to her relief.

"That's good at least; it won't be crowded in there so there shouldn't be any injuries this time around." Shizuka said to Makoto relaxing considerably.

"Yeah, there's plenty of room in here both Kirigiri-San and I will be fine." Makoto agreed with her.

"Kirigiri-San? Oh Kyouko-Chan! She's with you?" Shizuka asked her son, she had met Kyouko once before, when she went over to Makoto's house for a partner project, the two had only met once but had seemed to get along fairly well.

"Yeah she is; would you like to talk to her?" Makoto asked his mum looking over towards the girl beside him, who hadn't taken her eyes of him for the whole conversation.

"Please." Shizuka replied and Makoto handed the phone to his friend, she took the phone of him and put it to her ear.

"Hello, Shizuka-San." Kyouko greeted her friend's mum.

"It's nice to talk to you again, Kyouko-Chan. How have you been doing?" Shizuka asked Kyouko.

"I've been fine." Kyouko replied.

"That's good. Say when you and Makoto-Kun get out of that elevator would you like to come over and join us for dinner?" Shizuka asked her, taking this chance to try and get the girl her son was so infatuated with to come over again.

"Join you for dinner?" Kyouko asked and Shizuka simply hummed in response "...Sure why not? I'll come over for dinner." Makoto looked at her in surprise, he didn't think Kyouko would actually agree but he was happy she'd join them for dinner none the less.

"Great, I'll see you later then." Shizuka said to her.

"Yeah see you later." Kyouko replied and then Shizuka hung up the phone. "She hung up." Kyouko told Makoto handing the phone back to him; Makoto took the phone back from her and put it back into his pocket.

"You're going to come over for dinner, huh?" Makoto asked her.

"Yes, is that so weird?" Kyouko asked him in response to his question.

"No, I didn't... It's just I thought you didn't like eating at another person's house." Makoto told her.

"Under the usual circumstances that is true, but I trust you so I'm sure it will be fine." Kyouko told him, her pale face getting slightly redder. Makoto wasn't as surprised by this, he knew Kyouko trusted him 'to an extent' she'd told him that already but what he wasn't expecting was for her to blush.

"Are you... blushing?" Makoto asked her, Kyouko looked slightly surprised by his question, she was pretty sure she had blushed in his presence before and he never seemed to notice, unless he had just never mentioned it before.

"...Yes." Kyouko confessed, she had been caught out so she didn't see any point in denying it, after all if she did Makoto probably wouldn't believe her.

"How come you're blushing?" Makoto asked her, he really wanted to know her answer, he had briefly thought she liked him back but that couldn't possibly be the case could it?

"..." Silence, Kyouko didn't speak trying to pull together her thoughts on what to do, whether she should confess her feelings to him now or lie and tell him it was something else. After a couple minutes of awkward silence she decided it would be for the best if she confessed now, "I like you."

Makoto widened his eyes and a bright blush covered his face. "As in you like me in that way?" Makoto asked her just to make sure she meant what he thought she did. Kyouko slowly nodded her head in response, her own cheeks getting brighter. "That's great! I like you too, Kirigiri-San!" Makoto exclaimed happily, he was still bright red but he looked so happy, Kyouko too had a bigger smile on her face then Makoto had ever seen from her before.

"...So does that mean we're dating now?" Kyouko asked, she was always the type to just get straight to it so this didn't surprise Makoto at all.

"Um-hmm." Makoto replied giving her a bright smile before leaning towards her slightly and hesitantly kissed her cheek, he didn't think she'd be comfortable with anymore than that so after he had done that he immediately backed away from her again. Kyouko looked surprised by his action, Makoto was rarely so bold, but she didn't look uncomfortable much to Makoto's relief.

"W-What was that for?" Kyouko asked him.

"Well, we're dating now right?" Makoto answered, Kyouko seemed to get what that meant and nodded in response once again.

"Okay, then we should call each other by our first names as well. Hmm, Makoto-Kun?" Kyouko told him calling him by his first name much to his surprise.

"Alright, Kyouko-San." Makoto agreed.

A while later the elevator door opened and Makoto and Kyouko walked out of the elevator in order to continue shopping, once they'd done that the two went to Makoto's house to eat dinner there like planned.

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"You two are dating now?" Shizuka asked the two after they told her what had happened.

"An elevator is an odd place to get together." Komaru commented.

"True but I think it's pretty sweet." Shizuka said to her daughter.

"Yeah, I was wondering when you and Kyouko-San would get together Onii-Chan." Komaru told her brother.

"And I was the one who got you to get together. I'm glad to have you in the family Kyouko-Chan." Shizuka told Kyouko smiling happily.

"We're dating not married!" Makoto exclaimed.

"...If we ever do get married, I'll be glad to be a part of the family, Shizuka-San." Kyouko told Makoto's mother, she was being as blunt as ever.

"Eh?" Makoto asked blushing brightly at the thought of getting married to Kyouko.

"Please, call me 'Okaa-San'. You're dating my son, and you'll probably get married someday, so..." Shizuka told her.

"Okay, Okaa-Sama." Kyouko replied she used a different suffix but she still called her 'mother' as Shizuka had wished. Makoto blushed even brighter; he was blushing so brightly you could practically see smoke, his sister gave him an amused grin, Makoto glared at her and Komaru laughed.