Title: seeing something new
Rating: G
Fandom: 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
Relationship: Shinonome Ryoko/Takamiya Yuki
Wordcount: 255
Short summary: Yuki didn’t expect to get along with Shinonome after they had clashed often in the simulation.
When the 15 of them left the pods, Yuki figured everyone would probably get along well enough because they had survived the Deimos together and even if someone would do something irritating, they could all remember just how they all pulled through against some heavy odds.
What Yuki didn’t expect was how easy it would be to get along with certain people she had clashed with in the simulation. Namely Shinonome. When Shinonome is not fixated on Mr. Ida, she’s rather easy to get along with actually. Shinonome seems to be the only one capable of dealing easily with Gouto’s smug airs, which unfortunately did not get left behind in the simulation. She also seems to be much better than Yuki at dealing with Amiguchi as well, as if every word of flirting he speaks is beneath her like water under a bridge.
It's that level of smooth navigation along with her intelligence and beauty and kindness and… Well Yuki has found herself charmed by Shinonome more than she expected to be. She finds herself looking for the woman who used to wear bandages around her head and sighs in relief every time she doesn’t see those, doesn’t see those tired eyes or pained, tight expressions. It means Shinonome is finally happy? Yuki hopes so.
And if Shinonome isn’t, Yuki will do her damned best to help her get there. Because all Yuki sees now is someone who deserves it all.
(And if Shinonome sees something in Yuki too, well, Yuki wouldn’t mind pursuing that…)