Robotic Heart

Chapter 12.

Me and Kiibo rushed over to the rest of the group to see what was happening. Maki had a terrifying look on her face, a shadow loomed over her face as her eyes glowed with anger. Kokichi was standing in front of her, holding his hand to his face.

A throbbing red mark was on his cheek, Maki had slapped him, really hard.

"Woah! Maki calm down!" Screamed Kaito. Maki ignored him and went straight up to Kokichi and snatched him up by his neck, holding him above the fountain. She was choking him! I could see Kokichi struggling to breathe as his face started to turn purple, sweat running down his forehead.

"Maki why are you doing this?! Put him down!" Kiibo burst out. Maki looked at him, shooting daggers at the robot.

"He doesn't know how to keep this mouth shut." She responded.

Kokichi giggled. Maki turned back to him and squeezed his neck harder.

"Maki . . . Cough . . . you know, you could kill me infront of everyone right now," he smiled as he tried to speak, "but that's not your style, is it?"

Everyone looked confused as Kokichi continued to speak, struggling more and more to breathe but still having a slight smile plastered on his face.

"You like to hide in the shadows . . . kill secretly . . . isn't that right Miss Assassin?" Kokichi finished speaking and Maki dropped him onto the ground, just barely missing the fountain.

"Assassin?!" Tenko shrieked. Everyone started to ask Maki questions, fear and disbelief in their voices. A huge commotion was now happening, this was exactly what we didn't need to happen, especially after what we just came back from. Maki gave Kokichi one last glare before she ran off to who knows where. Everyone was extremely confused, worried and scared.

"Wait, Kokichi how did you know this?" Tsumugi asked the short boy.

He giggled. "I must say, getting her motive video was pretty easy. One click and that device gave me a boat load of information about our little Maki!"

"You can't just do that!" Kaito yelled.

"Oh? I never heard Monokuma say that checking out others motive videos was against the rules so what's the problem?" He replied.

Kaito started to walk up to him but before he could I stood in front of him.

"How about we resolve this tomorrow . . . I think we're all exhausted and we don't need to take things any further from here . . . let's just go to bed." I said. The others nodded and started to walk towards the dorm building, looking around on caution. Kaito sighed and walk after them.

Kiibo sighed.
"Another problem . . . I'm exhausted, it just seems like more and more things keep piling up . . ." Kiibo looked down, a look of sadness loomed over his face. I felt sad but I knew he was right, things were only getting worse as we were going. I took his hand and squeezed it lightly.

"Come on, we should go sleep, hopefully we get this all sorted out in the morning." Kiibo nodded and we started to walk to the dorm room. The moon was shining brighter than before, it was beautiful. We entered the building and went to my room.

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We both lay there, under the sheets. The warmth of the blankets on top of us keeping us from freezing. It was still a bit chilly but it was good enough to get us through the whole night. It was nice and comfortable, once again Kiibo made my worries melt away just by being next to me. It was everything I needed at the moment, laying next to the one I loved. My thoughts were soon interrupted by Kiibo.

"Hey uhm, Shuichi? C-can we get closer . . . I'm kind of cold." He asked. My heart started to race, thumping louder and louder, was I dreaming?

"S-sure . . ." I nervously replied. I wasn't sure how close he wanted to get but I did the first thing that came to mind. I wrapped my arms around him and pulled him closer to me, snuggling him in my chest. I was panicking, worrying if I did the right thing or not. It felt like years as I waited with my arms wrapped around him waiting to see what would happen before I felt two pairs of arms wrap around me in response. I was so happy, my heart beat increased even faster as a smile crept onto my face.

I could feel the temperature rise from both of us, if I could describe what heaven felt like it would be this. This feeling of love, comfortableness, joy.

"Goodnight Shuichi." He spoke.

"Goodnight Kiibo," I said, "I love you." I quietly whispered. My face was hot, burning up as I realized what I had just whispered.

"What was that, Shuichi?" He tiredly asked.

"Oh, nothing. Sleep well, Kiibo." I spoke my last words and dozed off, arms wrapped around him and his arms wrapped around me as we slept, losing consciousness to go into our dreams.

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