Chapter Text
Diana was travelling along one of the many outdoor corridors at Luna Nova when she caught sight of a familiar ponytail. A small flutter of her heart encouraged her to pick up her pace a little as she approached a seated figure on the edge of a fountain. Akko’s back was facing Diana and unlike the girl in question, Diana did not shout her name, though she felt just as eager to intercept Akko. Although, when Akko turned her head slightly in Diana’s direction, her previously beating heart did stop. What?! Akko appeared to have a cigarette in her mouth! If Diana had already taken a brisk pace, then this was an outright fast walk. Diana was simply indignant. She covered the long distance in an instant and froze once again when the alleged smoker turned around, fully facing Diana.
“Diana!”Akko exclaimed around the piece of Pocky in her mouth.
Diana would not, could not, let her shock and subsequent embarrassment show.
With a tiny scowl and a cross of her arms, Diana turned her face away from Akko,
“Akko, you should refrain from speaking with your mouth full of… what is that you are eating?”
Akko crossed her eyes to look down at the stick of Pocky in her mouth. She was about to speak again, then with a glare from Diana, Akko chewed it up quickly. Swallowing, Akko said,
“It’s Pocky! They’re a Japanese snack, sort of like a biscuit covered in chocolate. I just got a whole delivery of them from my parents back home!”
Diana decided it was safer to stay quiet, lest she further make incorrect assumptions, voiced or not. Akko patted a spot next to her on the fountain ledge, motioning for Diana to sit. She obliged as Akko was saying,
“There’s this, uh, game I used to play back home in Japan with Pocky sticks.”
A slight blush rose to her cheeks as she said this and she became uncharacteristically shy.
“Oh, is that right? How did you play this game?” Diana said easily, Akko looked surprised that Diana had shown any interest at all with a game.
“W-wwell, one person holds the Pocky in between their teeth. Here,” Akko said and put a piece of Pocky in Diana’s mouth.
Diana gave a quizzical look at Akko, raising one eyebrow.
“And then, um, we try to eat to the middle without dropping the Pocky and the first to pull away loses,” Akko rushed through the rules, deciding to just go for it.
With an incredibly red face, Akko leaned forward taking the opposite end of the Pocky in her mouth and began biting towards the middle. Diana’s eyebrows shot up and her face took on a red tint as well. Against her better judgment, Diana began eating her way towards the middle as well. In no time at all, Diana and Akko’s faces were millimeters apart, neither were sure who it was the reached the middle first, but before they knew it, their lips met. Panic quickly rose in Diana’s chest at her realization of what she had done, what she had allowed to happen. But just as quickly as it came, it melted away as her desire to kiss Akko won her over.
She just could not seem to help herself when it came to Atsuko Kagari.