here it is thank you for waiting and the support you all showed this story. I understand that this is not a very popular ship so the fact that I have five followers for this is awesome so thank you Cleidejam, Dash24zappshift, assasin101ist, dannibhm and Magasaurus for the support. so I won't keep you waiting please enjoy

I DON'T OWN LOVE LIVE

Chapter 3

~Flashback in the auditorium~

Nishikino Mariko watched her daughter dance and sing along to the beat in perfect synced she had never seen her daughter so happy before. It amazed her, Maki must have put so much time and effort to perfect the routine and the beat of the song sounded so familiar to her. Now she knows the reason why their family music room has recently been filled with so many tunes. Still no matter how amazing the performance was, Mariko could not help but think of the woman standing next to her Minami Kanako. Her former best friend and high school sweetheart, frankly she had no idea how to speak to the woman after many year an apology was way overdue, she had cause so much pain for the used to be innocent Kanako.

"So you're Maki-chan's mother?" Kanako asked not once looking at Mariko's direction.

Maki-chan? She addresses my daughter so casually do they know each other well? "Y… Yeah" She utter Mariko could feel the cold and intense tone in kanako's voice and she couldn't blame her. If anything Kanako should just ignore her and leave her to be swallowed up by her own guilt once more.

"You know that your daughter is in a relationship right?" Kanako asked

"What!?" Mariko was shocked she hasn't heard Maki talk about a boy before, then again Maki had always been a shy girl even towards her sometimes. Mariko never would have found out about Maki's idol actives if it wasn't for the trip at their vacation home and when she saw the recorded live performance in her daughter's laptop.

"Of course you didn't know…" Kanako mumbled under her breath that Mariko had barely heard it. "Your daughter better be different from you." That was Kanako's last words before she walked away from the stupefied woman.

W… What the hell does she mean!?

Few day after the Live

"Tadaima~~" Kotori cheerfully said as she entered her house. Today was a great day not only was she going back to school again but her Maki-chan was regularly talking to her again. What's more is that Maki seems to be a lot more affectionate towards her. She couldn't believe it her Maki-chan one of the Tsundere of U's! It started off with a simple hand holding when they walked together, then the occasional kiss on the forehead and cheeks when they part. Day after day Maki was becoming bolder and bolder! And Today Maki took it to the extreme when they we're parting ways at the school gate and Maki just suddenly pecked her lips in front of students who were still in school! Kotori didn't mind of course her mother already knew and Maki kissing her must mean Maki was ready to be open about their relationship Kotori couldn't be happier

"Ah Kotori-chan Oukairi" Kanako peeked from the kitchen and greeted Kotori. "Ara you seem rather happy, actually you've been really happy for the past few days."

Kotori only giggled at her mother she entered the kitchen and sat on one of the chairs "I am!"

"Oh? So are you going to tell me or am I going to have to get it out of you? Kanako playfully asked her daughter.

Kotori giggled at her mother. "Well Maki-chan has been super cute lately, ever since that day when I almost left she's been extra sweet and loving towards me!"

Kanako smiled at her daughter and gave her a warm loving hug. "I'm so glad you're happy" Looks like Maki-chan is really different from her mother "You should invite Maki-chan for dinner again, it could be fun"

"Really!?" Kotori looked at her mother with expecting eyes "I can really invite her again? Can she sleep over too?"

"Of course she can but make sure you're quiet I don't want to hear any of your activities" Kotori stared at her mother with her mouth wide open "but at least I don't have to worry about you getting pregnant" Kanako teased even more

"M… Mom!" Kotori flushed red "I can't believe you just said that! We…. We haven't…." Kotori covered her face with her hands and ran to her room.

Kanako giggle at her daughter's "BE DOWN IN A FEW MINUTES DINNER WILL BE READY SOON!"

"OKAY~!" was Kotori's cheerful reply.

~Nishikino house hold~

"I'm home" Maki announce when she entered the house.

"AH! Princess I'm so glad you're home!" Maki's father happily walked up to Maki and engulf her in a big hug.

"Papa are you going somewhere?" Maki asked when the man finally let go of her.

"sadly yes, I have some business arrangements at France, but don't worry I'll finish it right away and be home" Hibiki Nishikino smiled at his daughter as he tussled Maki's hair.

"Ahh! PAPA!" Maki complained as she pushed the offending hand away from her head and desperately tries to fix her now messy hair.

"ahahaha Sorry anyways I'll be home soon. I'm sorry if I can't hear the important news you wanted to tell me, but I promise I will hear you out when I return princess"

Maki nodded at her Hibiki's words and with that Mr. Nishikino has left the house.

~Somewhere~

A man in his 50s sat in a car, he was a reading an article given to him by his assistant.

"Sir what is our destination?" said the young assistant

The man threw the magazine on the car floor "Take me Mariko's house! I can't believe this is happening again! Such disgrace!"

The magazine of the floor showed a picture of Maki and Kotori inside a big heart it was titled Can we safely assume that Kotori was "DARING" enough to chase Maki.

~Text Message to Kotori~

Maki-chan333333

Goodnight Kotori sleep well tonight

I will always love you.

Ch. 3 End

done! next chapter should be interesting. anyways normally in stuff like this the dad stops the relationship or at least that's what i see on a lot of the NicoMaki stories. I didn't wanna do that though since Maki really adores her father I wanted the dad to stay as a good guy so he's not present on any of the actionXD or is he? O.o wanna take a guess? haha so thanks for reading hope this was okay and sorry for the errors.