Cuteshipping (Rebecca Hopkins/Kawai Shizuka)

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"No, down special, Shizuka, down special—ah wait do the up special now, your special attack is fully charged!"

Shizuka fumbled with the video game controller, fingers mashing random buttons—which one was the up special again?

Rebecca let out a whoop as she fell backwards behind Shizuka, collapsing against the couch with a wild giggle. The video game screen flashed with the words "you won!" over and over again. Shizuka's hands sagged into her lap, feeling actual sweat on her brow.

"I...did I do it?" she said.

"You did, you did! Aaaaaaahhhhhhh!"

Rebecca flung herself forward to hug Shizuka from behind, almost toppling them both forward with a flurry of surprised giggles. Rebecca kept bouncing up and down on her knees while she hugged Shizuka ever tighter, and Shizuka couldn't help but just burst out laughing, her ponytail coming undone and her bangs getting into her eyes again.

"I can't believe it, we did it, we beat the last boss! You're so fast with the buttons ahh, thank you so much for helping me, Shizuka, thank you so much!"

Shizuka had to laugh. All she had done was mash the buttons and hope that they were the ones Rebecca was shouting for her to press but—wow! They had played through the entirety of Monster Fighter 10 in one day somehow—what time was it even?

Shizuka didn't even look for the time, she was so breathless with excitement and relief that her fingers couldn't even hold the controller anymore. She just let herself collapse forward, taking Rebecca with her. Rebecca squealed, but then they both collapsed in a pile of giggles with the screen flickering in front of them.

"Thank you so much for coming over," Rebecca said, still giggling. "I've played this game like, five times and I've never gotten to beat the last boss!"

"I've never gotten to play a game like this before," Shizuka said. Her mom didn't like fighting games, she thought they made people into delinquents. "Thank you for inviting me!"

They just laid there for a few moments, almost nose to nose, still giggling, the controlled left behind on the floor.

"We should probably click okay and see that last cutscene before something accidentally makes us lose our progress," Rebecca said.

Shizuka shuddered at the thought, but she smiled as she sat up and grabbed the controller.

"Ready?"

Rebecca popped up so that she was sitting next to Shizuka with their legs pressing against each other.

"Ready!"

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A/N: That was so cute, just like the ship name haha XD Next is Curveshipping (Rishid x Marik x Jonouchi).