Dance of Comfort
Summary: Imagine your OTP slow dancing together for the first time after one half has finally gotten used to their arm(s) or leg(s) prosthesis/can stand and walk again. .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: Kotoko, Nagisa
Pairings: Kotoko/Nagisa (Romance)
Genre: Romance, Friendship, Hurt/Comfort
Kotoko Utsugi walked through the halls of Future Foundation towards Nagisa Shingetsu's room.
The Future Foundation had found them and nursed them back to health after a lot of persuading from Komaru Naegi, her brother and Komaru's brother's friends to do so. Kotoko herself didn't need much medical treatment. Masaru Daimon and Jataro Kemuri needed quite a bit of medical treatment, the two had been covered in bruises and scratches from the Monokuma kids and in addition to that some of their limbs had been broken. Nagisa had needed lots of medical treatment, in fact he had just barely managed to survive what had happened to him, he had lost lots of blood, his right arm was broken and both of his legs had been lost, the Future Foundation had been kind enough to give him prosthesis on account of his and the rest of the former 'Warriors of Hope' extremely good behaviour (and Kotoko's, Masaru's and even Jataro's combined begging).
Nagisa had finally gotten used to his prosthetic legs the day before and after a lot of thinking over night, Kotoko had decided to put his new legs to use. Squeezing the handle of the small radio on her hand, Kotoko began to pick up the pace to Nagisa's room.
Kotoko reached the door to Nagisa's room and knocked on it a couple of times. Not the type to keep people waiting, Nagisa answered the door as fast as he possibly could.
"Kotoko-Chan...?" He said when he opened up the door to see the pink haired girl standing there and giving him a big smile.
"Good morning, Shingetsu-Kun. Can I come in?" Kotoko asked him, much to her blue haired friend's surprise.
"S-Sure." Still clearly surprised Nagisa opened the door further and stepped aside so Kotoko could enter his room, which she did swinging her arms. Once she had got in Kotoko walked straight to his desk and placed the radio down.
"What are you doing, Kotoko-Chan?" Nagisa asked, the smiling girl in front of him.
"Now, you can walk again, Shingetsu-Kun. I thought we should dance together, just like old times." Kotoko answered him. Kotoko was referring to when the Warriors of Hope (sometimes with Monaca, sometimes without) would get together and dance together.
"But it won't be like old times with only the two of us Kotoko-Chan." Nagisa told her, shifting his eyes to the side as he usually did at times like these.
"Well, no. But I have no idea where Kemuri-Kun and Daimon-Kun are and Monica-Chan's probably dead so I can't." Kotoko told him before turning around and pressing the play button on the pink radio.
Nagisa sighed as Kotoko walked over to him and grabbed a hold of his hands from there the two held hands and spun around in slow circles, both had their reasons for having such a wide birth, Kotoko because of her past and Nagisa because he didn't want to frighten her by getting to close.
"So, do you like your new legs, Shingetsu-Kun?" Kotoko asked him as they spun around.
"Honestly, they're a little bit of a pain. I much preferred my previous legs but it's better to have legs then not to, I guess." Nagisa replied to her question shifting his weight around slightly, subconsciously testing them out as he had done when people had asked him about them before.
"Yeah, I don't think I would have been able to talk it if Shingetsu-Kun could never walk again!" Kotoko exclaimed somewhat dramatically but definitely earnestly.
"You? How would my inability to walk effect you?" Nagisa asked her, his wording may have come across as somewhat rude but anyone that knew him knew he hadn't meant it in a rude way.
Kotoko laughed "Hmm, I won't be able to dance with you, of course." Kotoko told him, winking at him at the end of her sentence. As usual for Kotoko in situations like this, it was hard to tell whether she was joking or not.
"So? Why don't you just dance with Kemuri-Kun or Daimon-Kun instead?" Nagisa asked her, confused by Kotoko's answer.
"Same reason, they're not here right now. I can't find them besides I think they're still in the middle of that competition." Kotoko told him letting go of his hands and spinning around. The competition she had mentioned was something that Masaru had challenged Jataro to after he was beaten… badly at a board game, he was still trying to win and so far… there's been no such luck.
"I see." Nagisa commented as Kotoko grabbed hold of his hands and, to his surprise, placed them on her hips before wrapping her own arms around his neck. Nagisa's eyes were wide with surprise and a bright blush spread across his cheeks, Kotoko shrugged her shoulders and smiled at him. Despite having grown closer together there was still a fair bit of distance between them, for the same reasons as before.
The two swayed to the music and once the music stopped they stopped along with it and stepped away from each other. Kotoko walked towards the radio, turned it off and picked it up.
"Well, Shingetsu-Kun I had fun dancing with you." Kotoko told him beginning to walk past him and towards the door. Once she reached him "I'm glad you're all better, Shingetsu-Kun, and... I'm sorry." She told him.
"Sorry? Sorry for what?" Nagisa asked her whipping around to face her properly.
"Oh, don't worry about that! It's not that important." Kotoko told him completely dismissing her own apology with a likely fake cheery attitude. "Bye" Kotoko sang waving at Nagisa before exiting the door.
Nagisa stared at the door she had walked out of, Kotoko's actions were strange even for her, but he knew her well enough to know that the apology was genuine even though she had ended up brushing it off in such a cheery manner, but what could she possibly have to apologise to him about?
