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"You want some pocky?" the fiery redhead lazily shares her container of sweets with her friend.
Madoka glances at the offer, before shaking her head to decline, "You're always giving me sweets, Kyouko," a tint of blush followed her light chuckle.
"It can't be helped," Kyouko groans as she takes out a chocolate pocky from the box and tries to hover it over Madoka's mouth, "feeding you is like feeding a hamster," with that comment Madoka puffed her cheeks and turned away in embarrassment, only proving Kyouko's point at how adorable the girl is. Seeing how Madoka refuses the pocky, Kyouko shrugged as she places it between her lips and slowly munch away.
And yet, Madoka couldn't help but glance at Kyouko and just how enticing she makes the snack out to be. Biting her inner cheek, she reaches her hand out to grab Kyouko by her wrist's sleeve as she mumbles, "Maybe I do want one," she finally decides.
Kyouko laughs as she jostles around her snack pouch, "Good because I was planning to eat all of these by myself and make you watch-"
"I want the one you're already eating," Madoka blurts out.
"What?" Kyouko pauses, dumbfounded by the statement until she processed the words, causing her face to flare up.
Surprisingly, Madoka sees nothing wrong with what she said as she leans close to Kyouko with determination in her doe eyes, "The way you eat them makes them look tasty," she explains, though barely making sense to Kyouko, "so I'd like to have the one you're already eating to be a judge of how sweet it is," Madoka continues to lean close, as if ready to steal the pocky from out of Kyouko's lips in favours of hers.
Her ears burning up in the colour of her soul gem, Kyouko shuts her eyes and clenches her jaw to ready herself for what's to come as she holds her breath. A soft crunch is heard as Kyouko opens up one eye to realize she bit down on her pocky and broke it off, Madoka catching it with her small palm as the pink hair looks at Kyouko dumbfounded.
"I was just gonna bite it off, but this works too," Madoka this time blushes after seeing Kyouko's reaction, looking away.
"AaaAAAaaA," Kyouko couldn't help but stumble as she gets up, completely making a fool of herself as she scrambles for her stuff, "I'm- I'm just going to stand over there, alright?!" Kyouko points to the hallways, hand over her face as she pulls her bangs back to try to cool off her flustered face, before Madoka could ask why Kyouko already made an effort to escape the nurse rep classmate.
Watching Kyouko storm off, Madoka decides to nibble on the broken-off pocky. Madoka has never been picky with food, but when it comes to Kyouko she can't help but take up on all of Kyouko's snacky offers. She swallows the pocky and watch Kyouko through the glass of the hallways, wondering what other ways she could get Kyouko to react like that again.
"Yo! Come look at this!" Kyouko cried out to the other girls as she points at a crane machine by an arcade they've passed by, "that doll over there looks seriously weird," she cackles as she looks at a plushy which resembled a raccoon dog, though seems cheap. Madoka seems fairly amused at what the Kyouko found, but the same can't be said for the others.
Sayaka takes a gander at the machine, clearly not as entertained, "What, you want to grab it?" Sayaka looks at her roommate, wondering what's so interesting about collecting such cheap knockoff toys.
"Hell yeah, I do!" Kyouko exclaims, rummaging through her denim shorts pockets to grab out change, excited to try to win the ugly raccoon dog.
"It kind of looks like Sakura," Homura points out, Madoka jabbing her elbow into Homura for the comment.
Shaking her head, the older blonde just watched as the claw came to life, "I don't think you'll be able to grab it," Mami looks at the crane machine carefully, "the claw is far too small to grab its big head," she tries to be reasonable with the hotheaded Kyouko, but her words were dismissed as Kyouko groans when the claw barely even grabbed the plush, "just like I said," Mami shook her head.
"One more, one more!" Kyouko mutters to herself as she pushes in a few more coins, determined to grab that doll.
"You need to put sense into your roommate," Mami laughs, glancing at Sayaka to reel in Kyouko as if she's a dog.
"Ugh, fine!" Sayaka coughs as she tries to grab Kyouko's attention, the redhead squinting as she focuses on the claw, "Kyouko, I swear to Law of Cycles if you blow out your cash on this damn game," she groans, waving her hand over Kyouko's face only for Kyouko to mindlessly push her hand away, "if I see you coming home with stolen food again I am PERSONALLY beating your ass in so that you can't sit properly for a week,"
Another failure at the claw machine, causing Kyouko to sigh as she rubs her ear after hearing Sayaka blow out her eardrum but not processing anything she said, "Yeah, yeah, say Sayaka do you have any coins?"
Sayaka was ready to charge straight into Kyouko until Homura pulled the girl back, aware that this is pretty much a useless battle. "How about we use the extra money in the arcade instead and abandon Kyouko here?" Homura gives an idea, Sayaka tries to grab at the redhead but quickly gave up.
"You know, I don't think I've been to an arcade with friends before," Mami talks to herself as she shakes her head, "that wouldn't be so bad," she accepts the idea, the girls deciding to head into the arcade without Kyouko.
Moments passed and the redhead still could not get the blasted doll, nearly ready to punch in the glass just to grab it for herself. "This shouldn't be as hard!" Kyouko exclaims, slamming her head against the glass to feel the cool pane against her forehead.
"You really shouldn't do that," Madoka comments, Kyouko sitting up straight as Madoka walked out of the arcade. Trying to rub the red mark from her forehead, Madoka couldn't help but laugh, "it's already been 15 minutes, I was starting to get worried,"
"There's nothing to worry about! I'm going to get that doll if it's the last thing I do," Kyouko huffs, patting her pockets again until she realized she has finally run dry.
"You know, there's a trick I've learned with crane machines," Madoka hums, having some knowledge of cranes with her massive empire of stuffed animals in her bedroom.
Kyouko's eyes widen, "Really?!" She almost sounded desperate, "Then show me!" clearly she was losing her composure in favour of finally winning that ugly ass dog.
"A-Alright," Madoka stumbles, going to grab a few changes herself to slot inside the machine, "um, put your hands on the lever and button," Madoka points out, Kyouko is confused expecting Madoka to show her but does as she's told anyway. "Alright, so if you don't mind..." Madoka huddles up behind Kyouko as she clasps her hands atop the other's, "this will make it easier for me to show you how it's done," she explains.
This time Madoka was close, but there was no time to complain about it, "U-Uhuh?!" Kyouko squeaks out, grinning awkwardly as she glances at their hands.
"So instead of trying to grab the doll directly," Madoka leaned close, almost resting her head atop Kyouko's shoulder to get a better view. Madoka's hand grabs ahold of Kyouko's as she drags the lever right, forcing the claw to move, "let's try grabbing this doll instead," Madoka murmurs, hand atop of Kyouko's as she lightly pushes it down to make Kyouko push a button.
The claw does grab a smaller doll by the raccoon dog, but it's not what Kyouko wanted, "Yeah but that's not-" Kyouko tries to complain, but Madoka squeezes her hands as if trying to say 'just believe me here' causing Kyouko to flush. The claw rises with the winning doll, but as it moves to place in the prize box the doll itself knocked and dragged the raccoon dog with it, tipping into the hole as well.
Kyouko was in disbelief for a moment that it worked, before becoming ecstatic that not only did she win a plush, she won two instead. Madoka grinned as she let go of Kyouko to take the plushies out of the trapdoor, "Tada!~" Madoka hums, revealing the raccoon dog and a pink red-eyed rabbit.
"Holy smokes, Madoka! I didn't know you were that skilled with crane machines," Kyouko jumps excitedly before feeling a soft 'poomf' on her face, seeing as Madoka raised the rabbit plush over Kyouko's mouth.
"It would be pretty lame if I said all that and failed, though," Madoka blushes, lowering the rabbit as she hands the stuffed doll that Kyouko has been eyeing the whole time. Before Kyouko could grab her prize, Madoka raises the plush and also gives it a kiss, "There, so that it's even," Madoka laughs to herself, finally handing the toy.
Kyouko's ears brighten at the small notion, "You trying to show off your cool side or something?" Kyouko smirks, though her voice cracks dangerously which Madoka couldn't help but respond with a laugh.
"Not that I was trying to," Madoka shyly shakes her head, before realizing something, "Ah! I should go back with the others, Homura and Mami were playing laser tag while I left," Madoka moved away from Kyouko as she frantically makes her way back to the arcade, holding her new stuffed rabbit to her chest.
Kyouko watched Madoka getaway, looking at her now prized possession as she couldn't help but remember Madoka kissing it just earlier. As if a hint of jealousy, Kyouko goes to kiss the doll, blushing as she recalls Madoka's hands wrapped around hers moments ago. "Geez, I'm being so childish right now," Kyouko sighed, before deciding to follow the girls into the arcade to see what madness they've brought upon themselves.