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Makoto sobbed as he curled up harder into his bed, clutching his stomach and whining softly.
“Ngh.” He groaned, starting to shiver.
His chest hurt, his stomach hurt, his legs hurt, basically everything hurt. His body ached horribly, and he just wanted to fall back asleep.
His girlfriend, Kyoko, still lied fast asleep beside him, she was stoic still when she slept, and looked fairly peaceful.
Basically, the complete opposite of Makoto at the moment, who was still laying there, trying to hide how much pain he was in.
Eventually he thrashed around a little bit as a pain shot through his left leg, causing him to cry out a little too. Which unfortunately, caused Kyoko to stir around a little bit, before waking up.
“Ngh... Hm?” She turned to face her boyfriend, who was still whining silently.
“Mako, Mako are you okay?” She asked.
“H-huh!? O-oh yeah K-Kiri!! I- I’m fine!!” He tried to fake his smile, but it faltered as the pain sent another sharp pang through his small body.
“Kyh!”
Kyoko gently wrapped her arm underneath his neck, hoisting him up so she could look at him.
“Does something hurt?”
He didn’t wanna lie anymore. And he nodded as he laid his head against her chest, wrapping his arms around her stomach.
“Tell me what.” The silver haired girl instructed as she held him close.
“C-chest.. Legs.. stomach..”
“Okay, does this help?” Kyoko tenderly started to rub his back, it felt nice, and he sighed in delight.
“..... A little...”
“That’s good... I think... if you’d like I could... cuddle you..” She couldn’t help but say this with a slight blush.
“Y-yeah that’d be nice..” Makoto replied.
The detective carefully wrapped her arms around his stomach, pulling him towards her so she could spoon him in a hug. The brunet laid his head back against her, exhaling in pleasure.
“..Ready to go back to sleep now?” Kyoko asked, yawning.
“Y-yeah.. Thanks, Kiri..” Makoto said sleepily.
It only took about three minutes for the both of them to fall back asleep, The Ultimate Hope still let out a small cry every now and than, but his lover would plant a kiss on his neck every time he did.
It made it a bit more bearable.
———
The next night, the couple were both laying in their shared bed again, Kyoko reading a book, whilst Makoto was already fast asleep.
But than, he felt it again. Pain started creeping up the inside of his legs, and a little moan escaped his lips.
It took the other off guard, so she turned to face him to see what was wrong, however, she had already guessed.
“Are you still having those pains from last night?” She questioned, reaching her hand out to hold his.
“Y-yeah..” He admitted. “B-but it’s only legs this time..” He added.
“C’mere.”
The olive eyed male nodded, and climbed onto Kyoko’s side of the bed, were she proceeded to gingerly lift him and sit him on her knees. “Lie down.” She instructed. “I’m gonna rub your legs a bit and see if that helps.”
“A-alright t-than..”
Makoto already slept in an old school gym uniform, so he was only wearing basketball shorts, which made massaging his legs easy, thankfully.
She lightly placed a gloved hand on the calf of his leg, which she than started to knead tenderly and cautiously like he was a porcelain doll that could crack as easily as an egg. However, due to how tensed and uneasy Makoto was, it didn’t help as much as it should of.
The lavender eyed girl than decided that the best way to ease him was to talk to him, so she began to tell him stories of random things, like things she had done in the past, how she had had similar pains when she was about thirteen to fourteen.
“They could just be growing pains, we have to work a lot in the day now, and your body’s probably just not used to it yet.” Kyoko explained.
“Probably..” Makoto agreed. By now, Kyoko had moved on from his calf and to his upper leg, trying her hardest to get the pain out.
It must have took about forty minutes, but Makoto was finally looking more calm and relaxed, and was happily climbing back into his side of the bed.
“Thanks, Kiri.” He said, smiling in relief.
“You’re welcome.”
The silver haired girl rubbed at her eyes sleepily, she turned her lamp that she had using to read off, before getting comfy so that she could sleep. She than felt Makoto nudge himself closer to her, basically asking her to cuddle him.
So that’s what she did. She yawned sleepily before saying goodnight, and her eyes finally shut.
It had been an eventful night, that was for sure.