Cheershipping (Kawai Shizuka/Otogi Ryuji)
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Otogi pridedhimself on his flirt status. It was a mark of pride for him to know exactly what to say to make girls swoon and blush, to be able to make them smile with just a wink and a word. He sometimes barely even had to do more than flip his hair and he was treated to his shoe locker full of Valentine's chocolates every year.
What he wasn'tused to was...well...feeling things back.
"Otogi-kun! Otogi-kun!"
Otogi hesitated, glancing over his shoulder. Shizuka's bright face greeted him, her eyes shining as she ran towards him—and he felt an uncommon heat rising over his cheeks.
"Oh, Shizu-chan," he said, trying to hide his blush with a winning smile. "What are you doing here?"
"I thought this was the way that you walked home from school, and I wanted to catch you!" Shizuka said, bending over a bit to catch her breath. She was flushed from running, but her face was bright and happy—and oh shit, his heart was jumping a little.
"What for?" Otogi said.
"Well, Katsuya said you wouldn't be able to make it to our get together tomorrow, so I wanted to make sure I got this to you!"
She straightened up, reaching into her bag and rummaging for a minute. Otogi jumped a little when she pushed the item at him all at once—and then he felt himself flushing because it was the sweetest looking box of Valentine's chocolates that he had ever seen. Heart shaped and wrapped neatly in pink paper with a red ribbon tying it shut and a nice little card attached to the front that had his name on it in curly lettering.
"Happy Valentine's Day, Otogi-kun!" she said, tilting her head and smiling—oh shit, the way that the light caught her hair like that...oh fuck.
"T-thank you, Shizuka-chan!" he said, trying to hide behind his flirtatious smile. "That was so sweet of you! You shouldn't have."
"I make some for everyone, and I didn't want you to be left out just because you weren't able to come!" Shizuka said. "I'm sorry, I have to run now, but I hope we can talk soon!"
"Of course, me too—and thank you again!"
"We're friends, so of course!" Shizuka said with that beautiful laugh of hers. "See you later, Otogi-kun!"
"See you..."
She waved widely and then scampered off, her hair swinging behind her like a tail of warm candle fire.
Otogi just stood there for a moment with the chocolate—he had a whole bunch in his bag from the other girls at school but...this one...
It's just friend chocolate, he tried to remind himself, tucking it away into the inside pocket of his jacket. Just friend chocolate.
He hated the fact that knowing that actually hurt a little...
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A/N: Nerd. Next is Cheatshipping (Jonouchi x Roba).
