Because 8096 stomped all over 2nd Place and demanded to be my KHR OTP (+ 3396 mini-fic)!
the lion punchinist || "Punching you sounds tempting."
His face instantly dropped, jaw gaping. Him looking distinctly uncomfortable and repentant now looked like he was going to cry.
"W-wait, anata - you can't possibly mean that!" he cried after her in increasing despair, his husky voice going frighteningly high.
Kyoko shook her head at him as he ran after the violet-haired woman's retreating back. She hummed and put a hand to her cheek. "Oh dear, Onii-chan's done it now..." she murmured.
Indeed, it wasn't often that Chrome got so angry that she threatened domestic violence.
the standard of beauty || "You're pretty."
There was a pause and he blinked as she flushed lightly.
He tilted his head to one side a little and raised an eyebrow before breaking into a moment of refreshing, surprised laughter.
"Well, this is a first," he confessed, amused.
"Though men aren't usually..." he started but then changed his mind, as he reached forward to untangledher hands from clenching into her skirt and intertwined their fingers together, prompting her to look up again, biting her lip.
He grinned, glancing over her knee-length cocktail dress that matched his own pressed suit.
"I was about to say that to you though."
the point of breaking || "Please, I can't stand the lies anymore."
His laughter faded as she approached him.
She pressed a hand to his chest, directly above his beating heart, and his smile faltered.
She searched his eyes, searched his face and he was quiet, the careful pokerface beneath the cheerful exterior breaking in the stretching silence.
There was a reflective sadness in her eyes as she spoke,
"I think I already do enough of that for the both of us."