Honoka Kousaka x Kotori Minami
The Engine That Drives Muse Forward
Kotori got in the car, slightly worried, going to the passenger seat instead of the driver's seat, putting her seatbelt on immediately. "Honoka-chan, you have the list, right?"
Honoka, however, bounced onto the driver's seat, with her sapphire eyes super excited, looking over at worried golden ones that belonged to her wife. "Mo~, of course I do!"
Kotori giggled into her hand, fully doubting the ginger with a slight pout. "Are you sure? Could you show me the list again, Honoka-chan?"
"Of course! Let me just... um...", the leader of Muse sweat a little, as she couldn't find the paper. "Oh no, where is it?!"
Kotori chuckled again, this time catching her dear wife's attention. "Right here, silly~. Jeez, you really don't change, do you?", the ash-brunette takes a peck at her wife's cheek, teasing the even more pouting ginger.
Honoka tried to ignore her own blush creeping on her cheeks and her bird's teasing from beside her while putting her seatbelt on. "W-whatever! Don't think I forgot about that time we had to drive all the way back because you forgot your pillow!", she states, immediately apologizing right after after noticing a tear threatening to creep out of Kotori's golden eye. "W-wah! I'm sorry! I was kidding! Really~!"
After a whole half an hour of saying sorry to her dear ash-brunette, said ash-brunette blinks in realization. "Honoka-chan, shouldn't we be going to the supermarket already? It's not that far, but it's better if we can come home early, no? I still have to finish that outfit Nico-chan commissioned me...", she looks down as she said that last part, as she imagined the picky Nico judging her new idol outfit thoroughly.
"Mmph!" Honoka nodded enthusiasticly, flashing a wide, clear smile which always set her wife's heart fluttering. "Here we... go~!"
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Silence.
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More silence.
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"...Honoka-chan?" Kotori broke the silence, very much worried about the situation. "The car isn't... going?"
"Hmm~, you're right..." Honoka says, deep in thought. "Could you go check what it is for me~?"
"Anything for you, Honoka-chan. Could you go get the box with the tools I need to possibly fix it though?" Kotori asked, as she started to get up from the car.
"Mmph! Leave it to me, Kotori-chan!" Honoka said, as she bolted up from the car, going inside their house in a flash.
Kotori chuckled at the sight, as she was reminded once again on how ready her wife was for any one of her requests. She shakes her head a little in order to concentrate on what she's doing right now.
The ash-brunette assumed the problem was in the front of the car first, so she opened that part of the car.
However, she wasn't expecting to see what she saw, as her eyes widened and as she called out to her beautiful, ditzy wife. "Honoka-chan, can you come here? Without the box of tools?"
"Without the tools? Okay~!", she called out from inside the house, not taking a long time to get outside, as she was filled with adredaline 99% of the time.
"What is it, Kotori-cha- WOAH!", the ginger was taken aback, as her blue eyes landed immediately on the thing Kotori was holding.
"Honoka-chan... you know I love you, I always will... but can you explain to me why there was a nesoberi of yourself INSIDE the car?", she asked, not in a stern voice, as her voice couldn't get to that point like Umi's, but still enough to make her wife flinch slightly, as she took in the slightly dirty neso of herself.
"W-well..." Honoka scratches the back of her head, slightly ashamed. "I-I swear there's a good reason for this!"
"Well, what is it, Honoka-chan?" She asked, not in a mad way, more in a curious tone.
"Well, I was talking to Nozomi-chan yesterday, and I think I made her laugh..? I'm not sure, but she started laughing when she saw me drop a broom, along with myself, on the ground...", she continued recounting, with last part slightly muffled.
"By the time I wanted to ask why she was laughing, she turned to me and told me that "No matter how clumsy you'll be, you'll still always be "the engine that drives Muse forward"."... And I thought, if I'm the engine, then surely I can make the car start working alone, ri-woah!"
Honoka got inturrepted by her wife throwing her arms around her, neso still in hand, chuckling a little to herself. "I don't know why I was so worried. Seems like it was just another Honoka-chan moment... and you think I would get used to these~", she sighs happily at the situation she's in.
"Kotori-chan, you're not mad at m-mmph?!", the ginger's sapphires widen, as Kotori puts a finger on her lips, slightly making both of them blush.
"Nozomi-chan's right, though. You'll always be... the engine that drives Muse... that drives us..."
She presses her lips softly onto Honoka's, making a beautifully romantic kiss between the two, which lasts for a while, before Kotori pulls herself back to breathe.
"That drives me forward."
AUTHOR NOTES
Man~, can't get enough of this ship! -3-
Honoka thinking things way too literally again, which, of course, Kotori always finds endearing about her wife. ^-^
This was inspired by the loading screen in SIFAS, where the last line is "she is the engine that drives Muse forward."!
