YURI SHIPPING OLYMPICS 2024 - BONUS ROUND 5

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FILL: Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

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Pairing: Ayase Naru/Renjouji Bell (Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live)

Words: 597

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It’s less of a sudden realisation and more of a final, concrete acknowledgment. One she knows has been a long time coming but only now does she truly, undeniably believe in. 

Performing with Ayase Naru is worth more than any trophy she has on display, more than the title she’s been fighting for all this time. Being able to be her true self, alongside this irritatingly kind and wonderful girl who has never once doubted Bell, is absolutely priceless. This feeling of true freedom is unlike anything else Bell has ever known. 

Forget her mother or Edel Rose’s praise, Naru’s sunny smile as the crowd roars below them is all she’ll ever need. It's truly a shame that it's taken her this long to realise, but Bell is particularly talented at making up for lost time. 

Bell is the first to grasp Naru’s hand, fraught over both these new emotions and her parents’ faces in the crowd. Naru is like a grounding stone, even if sometimes she feels like she’s up in the clouds. Once, Bell believed all she needed was to stand on the stage by herself. She would soon upstage June and become the face of Edel Rose. It feels a little silly, now that Bell knows that all she had really wanted was acceptance beyond her talents. Here, now, she shares the stage with Naru and it feels deserving. 

And Naru, dressed in her silly duck-esque costume, grips Bell’s hand with the same intensity. Her smile is soft, warm, but the fire in her eyes matches the one in Bell’s heart. She’s just as proud, just as happy to show the world what she and Bell can do together. Beyond Edel Rose and Prism Stone- as friends, as partners, as two people who understand each other. 

If Bell were a little more impulsive, less interested in her public image, she’d lean in and kiss that lovely smile. She’d let the whole world know that Edel Rose’s prized rose was nothing more than a homely sunflower in the face of Ayase Naru’s bright light. But there is too much at risk, and Bell isn’t sure Naru would appreciate her sudden affections. She thinks about it, though; Naru’s red cheeks and crinkled eyes, the thrum in her veins of a perfected Prism Jump. Naru’s hand in hers, damp but so warm it almost burns. 

(Bell never wants to let go. One day, she hopes she’ll never have to.)

“Bell-san,” Naru starts, eyes like crescents, “you did it!”

It might not be much to someone else, but Naru clearly has realised that this performance was important to Bell. It looked like she had put her all into it, keeping up with Bell’s rapid-fire Prism Jumps like it was nothing. Bell loves her friends, but a part of her feels like it had to be Naru together with her on this stage. Naru might not yet fully understand the significance of her being the one to be beside Bell, but it's enough that she’s still standing next to her like this. Hand in hand, heart in heart. 

Bell knows her next words are cliché, knows that Wakana will forever make fun of her if she catches wind of it, but she truly can’t help it. Naru deserves a response that comes from the heart, and Bell’s heart is, just like her, a teenage girl in love. 

She shakes her head, wondering if her smile is as wide as it feels. “We did it, Naru-san.”

Even amongst the roaring applause, Naru’s tinkling laughter is all that she can hear.