Dis-clama-llama-lamer: Be warned you may die of massive first time fanfiction-writing cringiness or by the fact that I might misspell A LOT of things. If you cannot handle such treacheries then you are allowed to leave or look away at any time. Oh, also I do not own Sailor Moon or any characters mentioned.
Chapter 5: Gaining Confidence
Once all the girls arrived at the school Minako departed from the other two while dragging Makoto behind her. After some time, the love senshi let go of Mako. She turned to face her with her hands on her hips. "Please repeat the last thing you said in our previous conversation, I think I might've heard you wrong."
The brunette stood up rubbing her head from being dropped. "What are you talking about?"
"When we were talking about Ami-chan, what was the last thing you said?" Makoto shook her head in confusion. "I asked when will you tell her, you saaaaaid?"
"I don't know if she even likes m-"
Minako screamed scaring the taller girl. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW!?"
Makoto took a few steps back. "Am I supposed to know?"
"Kino Makoto, Ami's feelings for you should be more obvious than Usagi's stupidity." The blonde sighed when Makoto didn't respond. "Just pay attention to Ami-chan for now, okay? It shouldn't take long."
"There you are!" Both girls turned seeing an almost fuming blonde run full speed at them. "Minako-chan why did you leave?! Me and Ami-chan were looking for you!"
"Ami-chan and I." Ami corrected appearing behind her.
"Ami-chan now isn't the time!" Usagi turned her burning eyes towards her fellow blonde. "What were you two doing? Nothing important, right?"
"I guess not." Makoto responded.
"Great, then I'll just be borrowing her." With the speed that would make Haruka jealous she and her doppelganger ran off leaving the other two in silence.
"You know what that was about?" The brunette asked seeing the smaller girl smile.
"I never do with those two." Ami turned her smile to Makoto. "So are you feeling better?"
Makoto returned her smile. "Nope, I feel worse."
Ami's expression turned completely. "Mako-chan I am so sorr-" She was interrupted by the taller girl's laughter.
"I was kidding Ami-chan! Don't worry I feel so much better because of your help yesterday."
The bluenette blushed. "Yes of course. Well, I'm glad you're feeling better." She kept her gaze to the ground.
Walking towards her Makoto mulled over Minako's words. What did she mean? She studied the girl's face. Pay attention to what? After looking at the smaller girl she noticed how red it was getting. "You okay, Ami-chan? You're face is a bit red, do you have a fever?"
Ami whipped her head up to meet Mako's concerned eyes. "I-I'm ffffine!"
"No, you're not." Makoto placed her hands firmly on the smaller girl's shoulders. Ami squeaked seeing the brunette moved closer. When Mako put a hand on her forehead, Ami sighed in relief and a little bit in disappointment.
"I'm fine, Mako-chan." She replied hoping also not hoping the brunette would step away. Makoto stayed there for a few more seconds.
Just move away Makoto, you're making her uncomfortable. It's obvious that whatever this is, it's a one-sided thing. She was trying so hard to move away but Ami was looking at her with those eyes. In fact, Makoto noticed the genius hadn't made a move to step away, she continued to stare into her eyes. Makoto dropped the hand on Ami's forehead onto her shoulder. Neither dared to move even when the bell rang. That was when the brunette began to dip her head, searching for any resistance in Ami's eyes, finding none Makoto closed the gap between them.
Almost literally right next to them Minako had a hand over Usagi's mouth to prevent her from eeping. The love goddess pulled the princess into some nearby shrubbery. "I cannot believe they just kissed."
Usagi nodded still looking at the girls. "I didn't even know they liked each other!" Usagi's words were like rocks being thrown at Minako. She toppled over almost immediately sitting back up to shake the blonde.
"How didn't you notice?!" She whisper screamed at the princess. "Literally Mako-chan has liked Ami-chan for so long! It was so obvious!" Minako took advantage of the knowledge she recently learned to cover up her own shock when Makoto had told her this. After all it would've been embarrassing if the LOVE goddess didn't notice love sprout between two of her friends. Or more specifically one of her friends, she figured out Ami's crush long ago.
Usagi stared at Minako with a blank face. "EHHH!?" Minako tackled Usagi, praying to every single god that somehow the two didn't hear them.
"U-Usagi-chan?"
Usagi stayed underneath Minako with her eyes squeezed shut trying her hardest to disappear. She opened her eyes to see Minako still above her sweating profusely. Besides their uncontrollable quivering, they chose not to move. After what seemed like forever, The odango haired bunny tilted her head. "Oh, hey. Didn't see you there."
Without thinking Minako jumped off of Usagi. "I-It's not what you think!"
Shock stabbed the other blonde's heart. "Wait! Hold on! Stop! W-we wwweren't d-doing anything!"
Mentally high-fiving herself, Minako faked a blush shoving her face in her shirt. "Y-yeah, nothing….not at all."
Makoto went with the cover up. "Are you sure? That looked like something to me."
Usagi violently shook her head. "No, no, no, no! I swear Mako-chan we were spy-"
"I love Usagi!" Minako shouted interrupting the other girl from continuing. "I just...admitted it. I didn't know you guys were still there."
Ami covered her mouth letting a very silent "Oh my,"
To Minako's ultimate relief Sakurada Sensei appeared next to them almost completely red from anger. "You have two minutes." That was all they needed, every single girl zipped away in opposite directions.
Makoto sat quietly looking out the window. Obviously what Minako said was a lie, but she went with it, after all it helped her get out of an awkward situation. Just why did she think that was a good idea? Although…
"She didn't resist." The brunette mumbled crossing her arms on the desk. Does that mean…? No of course not, she was probably just too shocked to move. She leaned back into the chair "God this is confusing."
"Makoto-san?"
Hearing her name snapped her out of her thought bubble. "Yeah?"
"Erm...nothing, sorry." The girl looked away for a few seconds before turning back to stare.
With only a minor glare, she turned to look at the girl again. "It's rude to stare, you know." Her face went red. "You obviously want to say something, what is it?"
She shook her head frantically staring intently at her hands. "It was nothing, sorry." Now Makoto was curious. Maybe if she stared at her hard enough she'd break? ...It's worth a shit. The girl's face went an even darker shade of red realizing she was being stared at. "It's-uh-rude to stare."
Makoto held back a scoff. "Oh whatever, I don't care about being polite. What do you want? If you tell me it's nothing I will break your desk."
Weirdly the girl smiled, Makoto had meant to scare her but she seemed almost...delightful. She turned only to avert her eyes again. Before she could say anything the teacher walked in.
"Sorry for being late everyone. Let me just take attendance." He began reading off names. Just as Makoto was drifting off into her thoughts again, she paid attention to one name. "Aie Itsuko?" The girl beside her raised her hand saying 'here'. When Mako's name was called she raised her hand allowing her thoughts to take over.
Fortunately for Ami, no one was paying enough attention to her to notice she wasn't working on homework or studying. Instead she stared affectionately at the floor, only one thing in her mind. More specifically one person. That morning's events still crystal clear in her head. Of course the whole Minako-Usagi incident was a tad bit confusing, but that was the last thing she was worried about. Her mind lingered on the kiss. That wasn't an accident. Makoto can't say her head slipped or she wasn't thinking straight. When Ami stared into her eyes she saw pure need not confusion.
Does that mean…? No, it's better not to jump to conclusions, although she was almost 100% sure she was correct. Ami smiled opening her book. At least give the impression that she is doing something other than staring at the floor. One thing crossed her mind that second. What will she do? If Makoto is even remotely interested how should she handle it? When they see eachother again what are they going to say? Will they just forget it ever happened? She didn't want that. That was the very last thing she wanted.
"This is more confusing than I thought."
"Having trouble?"
The bluenette looked up. "Oh, no sorry. Just thinking about something else." She bowed her head.
"Ah. Well, don't get too distracted." The teacher continued to walk around. Ami sighed, she should just focus on her school work. At least, just for now.
Luckily, she was able to survive through the whole day without thinking of Makoto too much. The bell rang signaling the end of the day. Usagi and Minako stood outside her classroom.
"Hi Ami-chan!" Usagi greeted flinging her binder in the air. "Let's go get Mako-chan!" She happily skipped towards Makoto's classroom.
Ami went to follow her but was stopped by Minako. "Sooo you and Mako, eh?"
Blood rushed to her face with such great speed the world went white. She semi-recovered, holding onto her head just in case. "I...w-what are you t-t-talking ab-bout?"
"Ohhhh Ami-chan, Ami-chan. I hope you know that what I said about Usagi earlier was just a cover up of us watching you two." She winked at the bluenette pulling her towards Usagi.
"Mako-chaaaaan!" Usagi burst into the room dragging Makoto out with her. "Come on you guys! We're gonna go shopping!" The gleeful blonde didn't even let Mako so much as look at Ami before she yanked her away.
Both girls sighed following after the cockblocking princess. It was only when they reached the school gates did Usagi let go of Makoto. They waited patiently for the other two.
"What's with the hurry?" Minako asked panting for air. The bunny guffawed at Minako lack of knowledge.
"There's a discount in this one shop that has sooo many cute dresses that I wanted to try on! And! There's this yummy bakery that opened recently!" Her eyes had stars as she went on about her plans. Even when she started to drool the blonde continued blabbering on.
Makoto took the chance to escape. Slowly, she shuffled next to Ami. "Hey, I-"
"Makoto-san!"
Somewhere on the inside the brunette died. Why are there so many distractions!? With almost anger she turned around. There in front of her was Itsuko, completely out of breath. Makoto didn't bother to hide her irritation.
"Itsuko right? What is it?"
She smiled hearing her name. "I'm sorry for not telling you earlier." Makoto didn't respond. "What I wanted to ask you."
Makoto crossed her arms, raising an eyebrow. "Okay?" She waited expectantly.
What she didn't expect was for the girl to bow down in front of her and look up with determined yet nervous eyes. "I know this is sudden but…"
Usagi and Minako were watching now both confused, looking between the girl and Makoto.
"Please, go out with me!"
A/N: Didn't expect that? Neither did I. The thought popped up while writing Makoto's part after the kiss. Yup, yup I decided to go with it. And yes, I am making Makoto the good ol Harem protagonist that doesn't understand that everyone loves her. By everyone I mean Ami and Ikuko not every single character.
And speaking of Itsuko her name (to my knowledge) should mean break/loose. Aie should mean love/affection. Together meaning break affection/ loose love etc. That alone should give a little hint as to what may happen. Or not, depends on how I feel.