Figureshipping (Ishizu Ishtar/Kawai Shizuka/Kujaku Mai/Mazaki Anzu)
. . .
Shizuka squeaked, her arms wheeling—oh noshe was going to fall—
With a graceful swooping sound over the ice, an arm scooped her up under each arm from both sides, holding her up.
"Hang in there, you've got this," Mai said from one side.
"Don't worry, we've got you too!" said Anzu from the other.
It was cold on the ice rink, but in between the two women on either side of her, Shizuka suddenly felt warm.
"A-ah...thank you," she mumbled, managing to get her ice skates underneath her again. "I'm sorry, I'm not very good at this..."
"I'm still getting the hang of it too," Ishizu called from the wall, where she was still moving slowly by pulling herself along the railing. "Don't push too hard, Shizuka-chan."
"Get out here on the ice, Nostradamus," Mai shouted at her. "Or I'll grab you myself!"
Ishizu rolled her eyes.
"I'll take my time, thank you," she said. "We can't all be prima ballerinas."
"As a prima ballerina I take offense to that," Anzu said with a laugh. "For some reason."
Shizuka couldn't help but giggle. Mai just rolled her eyes, and released Shizuka's arm to skate across to Ishizu. Anzu kept her arm tightly wound with Shizuka's, holding her like they were dancers at a ball.
"Just breathe," she said with her usual shining smile. "I won't let you fall. I promise."
Shizuka felt her cheeks grow warm despite the cool of the rink, and she tightened her grip on Anzu.
"Okay..." she whispered. "I trust you, Anzu-chan."
"See, Ishizu? Shizuka is trusting," Mai said as she returned, Ishizu's arm locked around hers.
"Shizuka is attached to Anzu," Ishizu said dryly, looking a little miffed at having been kidnaped from the wall. "Iam attached to you."
Mai snorted—and then very casually yanked a little too hard on Ishizu, making her yelp and almost lose her footing if Mai hadn't been holding her very tightly.
"This is exactly what I meant," she said as Mai roared with laughter.
"Come on desert princess, the ice isn't so bad," Mai said. "Here, I'll hook us up with the others, does that make you feel better?"
Mai hooked her arm into Shizuka's free arm again, so that all four of them were skating slowly in a line together.
"Now I'm just worried we'll get tangled up in each other," said Ishizu.
"Aw, don't be a party pooped, Ishizu!" Anzu said. "This is fun, right?"
Ishizu was smiled when Shizuka tilted her head around Mai to see her, and Shizuka had to smile too. Ishizu was just teasing with them, like always, with that warm, knowing smile of hers. Shizuka pressed in closer to Anzu and Mai sandwiching her, sighing into her scarf with a puff of steamy breath.
Right here, with the three of them, skating together...this was beautiful...this was safe.
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A/N: dfklasjf;dsaa I liked that so much more than I thought I would. Next is Fetishipping (Yami no Marik x Marik x Yami no Bakura).
