Hello, hello, welcome to Maki's Polyamorous Misadventures! please, enjoy your stay! This group of one-shots and multi-chapter stories will pretty much all be NozoMakiEli, but if the inspiration comes, then other poly Maki ships MIGHT be added but no promises.

So this one shot NozoMakiEli vs MakiRinPana, it also has NicoMaki friendship, also background NicoHono, TsubaHono, and KotoHonoUmi. And OOC-ness galore! also swearing. this is mostly just for fluff reasons so don't take this overly seriously.

Anyway, enjoy!

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the annoyance that there is not enough NozoMakiEli

"Nico-Nico-Nii! I'm Yazawa Nico and I'll make your heart go!"

"Nico-Nico-Nii!" Was the collective answer the young idol's prompt, the noise almost defining from the packed Tokyo dome.

"Who's ready for the first song?!" the black haired woman pointed her microphone at the audience as they shouted 'yes.'

"Then let's start Nico-Nico-Nowww!" there was more cheering and excited glowstick waving at her words.

The music started around her and she counted in her head six beats before she opened her mouth to start singing but instead of her voice and the supporting music, all sound was cut off and there was a loud sound instead.

The sound of a door being knocked on.

Jolting up from where she lay in front of her computer, Nico was confused as to where exactly she was and where all her adoring fans had gone.

"Wha? where-"

There was another loud knocking, more like bashing now, on her front door and the red eyed woman finally realized that she was at home and had been dreaming after falling asleep while watching idol videos. She glanced at the time on her laptop and saw that it was twelve AM.

"Who the... it's not...oh for fu-" her grumbling was interrupted by more bashing.

Continuing to grumble, Nico heaved herself off the couch, wobbling slightly as her legs adjusted to standing again, and made her way over to the front door to. Opening it, Nico was greeted by the sight of a redhead.

Said redhead was clad in winter appropriate pyjamas with house slippers and a thick coat on, she was also clutching and oversized tomato pillow and had a small overnight bag slung over her shoulder. Another detail that Nico didn't miss was that Maki looked to be about one wrong move from completely breaking down into tears.

"It's getting worse, isn't it."

She was answered by a silent nod and a violent wobble of the redhead's lips before she took a deep breath, managing to stop the emotional storm for a few more minutes.

Nico razed an eyebrow at her actions,'what the fuck have they done now, she's actually upset, not just angry or annoyed,'

"Geez, that's the third time this week and it's only Thursday."

"I know, I'm sorry I keep imposing on you Nico-chan bu-"

"Why are you apologizing, it's those four idiots that keep going too far with this stupid jealousy and arguing, well, come on then, it's freezing out there and you're letting the cold in."

Nico stepped back to allow Maki to enter her apartment, closing the door to block out the frigid winter night air and followed the redhead and sat back on the couch next to her. She squinted against the brightness of her laptop screen, hoping the last thing she was watching wasn't really weird before picking it up and moving it to her knees as she realized she had a notification on the Facebook tab that she also had up. She swapped over to the other tab to see if it was anything good but it was just letting her know that she had a but load if things saved that she hadn't looked at yet.

'Yes thanks, Facebook, I needed to know that.'

"Hmm...Is everyone else out tonight? It's kinda quiet."

"Yeah, Tsubasa is at some club opening and Honoka convinced Umi and Kotori to go to some weird overnight movie marathon thing, none of them will be back before tomorrow."

"Okay..."

Maki trailed off and Nico looked at her, the black haired woman could see that she was barely holding it together. Her eyes narrowed slightly.

'Screw tactfulness, they did something'

"Something happened, didn't it, you're not annoyed like the last few times, you're upset tonight, what did they do?"

"Well... It started as an argument, as usual, over who's bed I would sleep in. Because last night they all got kinda drunk and couldn't remember that I slept in my own bed, they kept saying the I slept with the other pair. So it developed into 'no you,' 'no you' fight. They, of course, didn't listen when I tried to tell them what really happened, and when I did finally get a word i-in, w-well, they started s-shouting at me and wouldn't stop, they kept on b-blaming me for the argument and that I-I should just choose a pair to d-date." The redhead had to suck in a deep breath before continuing, swallowing the sob that she could feel trying to escape and sniffling to hold back the snot, "It was really scary, I-I didn't know any of them could get that angry, and they wouldn't let up so I ended up having to lock myself in my room to keep them away and climb down from the window when they tried to get in."

"Holy fuck, they actually did that? Jeez, thankfully you guys live on only the second floor," with a sigh, Nico stood and lightly grabbed Maki's arm, tugging her up till she too stood and started leading her towards the bedroom, "well, come on tomato princess, you've had a long night, you can take my bed tonight."

"Huh? What about you?"

"I'll take the couch"

"Bu-"

"But nothing," Nico halted their movement to look at the younger woman, "you just had your four girlfriends Shout at you and scare you to tear, as well as make you feel so unsafe that you had to us a window to escape from your own home, if that doesn't entitle you to sleep in a bed instead of on a couch, then I don't really want to know what would."

Nico didn't wait for a reply, not that Maki had one anyway, she just tugged on the redhead's arm again and lead her to her bedroom. Switching on the light as they entered the room, Nico lead the redhead all the way to the bed and folded back the sheets, she let go of Maki's arm and motioned towards the bed but the redhead didn't move.

"Maki-chan?"

"They have probably figured out by now that I've gone again, and Hanayo knows where I've been going... If they come, will you..."

"I'll keep them out, don't worry, they're not coming anywhere near you tonight."

"Thank you, for everything," Maki moved over to the side of the bed and placed her bag down onto the ground before getting into the bed and covering herself completely with the blankets, still tightly clutching her pillow tomato.

Nico just rolled her eyes at the younger girls actions, letting the slightest bit of a smile show and moved towards the door. Before she could turn the light off and leave, though, she could hear the redhead moving around before she spoke.

"Wait, Nico."

The black-haired woman halted her movements, turning her head to see the now uncovered purple eyes and waited for her to continue.

"Do y-you t-think that I... that I should just... j-just make a choice..."

Nico could barely hear the mumbled stutters but she understood what the younger woman was getting at.

"Well, it would certainly make things less complicated but."

She paused when Maki hid under the covers again, sighing, she walked back over to the bed and carefully pulled back the covers and crouched down so she was eye level with the teary redhead.

"But do you honestly think that you could give any one of them up?"

"No," it was neither stuttered nor mumbled and it made Nico grin.

"Then you shouldn't have to, we sure as hell didn't make Honoka choose even when we had that big fight. You just need to talk through this, because, and be honest here, when was the last time any of you had a talk about this kind of thing."

"Umm..."

"Precisely, knowing all of you, none of you are very upfront with feelings, and, all things considered, this jealousy has probably been building up and festering for quite some time but has been buried because of guilt but now it has hit a critical amount because you're all living together now, it's all coming out."

Maki sighed and buried her face in her tomato.

"You're right, we are all idiots"

"Hold on a sec, let me get that in writing," Nico gave her best shit-eating grin as the redhead glared up at her.

"All the same, though, five years of built up jealousy does not excuse their action, so, how about tomorrow, we both go back and have a very long talk with your girlfriends, does that sound okay?"

Maki's glare softened as she once again hid her face.

"Yeah, that sounds alright, thanks, Nico-chan."

"Well then, get some sleep," she pulled the covers back over Maki as she stood from her bed.

Nico walked to the bedroom door and switched off the overhead light.

"Goodnight," she just heard being mumbled from the bed.

"Night," she echoed back before exiting her room and closing the door.

Sighing, Nico wandered back to the couch and flopped back down onto it.

"Idiots, their all idiots," she grumbled as she once again moved her laptop to her lap, typing in a new search into youtube.

As it was loading, Nico felt her phone vibrate from somewhere in the couch. She hung her head and groaned.

"It could be Honoka."

Nico muttered this to herself before she placed her laptop back onto the coffee table and then started to search the couch. There were two more vibrations before she finally located the device. when she turned the screen on, she saw that she had three missed calls and six new messages.

All from Hanayo.

Nico groaned again but before she could unlock her phone to dismiss the notifications, the younger woman's caller ID popped up onto the screen and the phone vibrated in her hand.

feeling her eyebrow twitch in annoyance, Nico knew she wouldn't stop trying to call, so she slid the green answer icon across the screen and brought it up to her ear.

"What," she bit out into the phone, scowling.

"Is Maki with you?"

Nico could hear how worried Hanayo sincerely was. She honestly couldn't stop the scowl from softening to a light frown.

"Yes, she is, thanks to you lot."

"I know, w-we went too far-"

"Jeez, understatement much? why the hell are you even calling, Hanayo? it's not like I'll let her on the phone with any of you."

"I-I know b-but-" Hanayo's voice cracked, there were some shuffling noises before Nozomi continued for Hanayo.

"Eli and Rin forced Hanayo to tell them where Maki went-"

"Oh, and you didn't force her to with your stupid boob grabbing?"

There was more shuffling

"N-Nozomi tried to stop them b-but."

"They trapped me in another room when I tried to help, they're both overly pissed off, this stupid jealousy" Nico could hear Nozomi muttering to herself before she continued "they're on their way to you right now, please, keep them away from Maki."

"Well, I wasn't exactly planning to let any of you in if you turned up, but still, thanks for the warning."

"Yeah... Um, i-is Maki okay?"

"Scared shitless and almost in tears before but a little better now I think, she's asleep right now."

"Do you think she will... forgive us?" Hanayo mumbled

"Forgive you? I think so, she is certainly willing to come talk with you tomorrow when I said I would accompany her."

"That's all we can hope for after what we did, thank you, Nicocchi."

"Yeah, whatever."

Once again, Nico heard a bashing on the door. She knew exactly who it was.

"I have to go."

Nico didn't wait for a reply, she just moved the phone from her ear and tapped the 'end call' icon. Slipping it into the pocket of her pants, she moved to the door that was still being bashed against.

"Nico! We know Maki in there! Let us in or send her out! She can't keep avoiding this!" Eli yelled from the other side of the door.

"Not a chance blonde! Go home, you have scared Maki enough for tonight."

"W-what are you talking about, Nico?" It was Rin's voice that came through after the bashing had stopped, she sounded upset and confused.

Nico stared at the door before reaching it open to see the pair behind it sharing a half confused, half horrified expressions.

"You have got to be kidding me! It didn't occur to you that four people ganging up on someone would scare them?"

"Errrr..." was the only answer she got out of them as they looked at each other.

"Grrrr, you fucking idiots!" she chopped them both in the head with her hands, causing protests of pain from the pair.

"How can the either of you be so dense that you don't even realize that you're scaring your girlfriend? Wait, actually, I don't even care, you both can honestly just fuck off and go talk to your slightly less idiotic girlfriends and sort this stupid jealousy before I bring Maki back tomorrow because if there is even a hint of hostility between you four I will not be leaving her with any of you. You got that?"

Nico didn't give them a chance to answer, she just slammed the door and stalked away towards the couch, grabbing a pillow and screaming into it before throwing it across the room with an unsatisfying 'wump' noise against the wall. After sucking in a deep breath through her mouth and slowly letting it out her nose, Nico flopped face down onto the couch, slowly calming down.

'Idiots, they're all dense fucking idiots.'

Lb

"Are you ever going to get out?"

"Yes of course I am!" came the agitated reply from the redhead that was sitting next to her in her car.

"In a bit," she continued as the annoyance quickly left and Maki felt uncertainty creep back up and doubt crowded her thoughts.

"Maki-chan, come on, I told you-"

"Yeah, you told me and you keep reminding me, that they weren't trying to scare me, that they didn't even realize that they were, but I-I just..."

"your trust in them has been affected, hasn't it."

Nico didn't get an answer, Maki just looked away, thought the black-haired woman could still see the redness that covered Maki's face and ears.

"Don't feel bad, as horrible as it sounds, I think it's normal, in a way, for this kind of thing to create some sort of doubt, to effect your trust in them."

"Well, how do I stop it? I hate this feeling, I hate not trusting them completely."

"I can't really tell you that, your girlfriend and you will have to talk it through together," that got her a groan from the redhead which she mockingly groaned back before speaking, " come on then, let get this over with."

Nico got out of the semi-warm car into the cold morning air, sighing as she glanced back at Maki who hadn't moved and walked around the car, opening the door and dragged the redhead out into the cold. After locking the car, Nico continued to drag Maki towards her apartment, the redhead following without resistance. Soon enough, they were at Maki's front door, the redhead went to knock but at the last second hesitated, looking at her still slippered feet and lowering her arm, her confidence slipping significantly now that she was so close to her girlfriends again.

Nico just groaned and knocked on the door instead.

Immediately, the pair could hear shuffling, Rin yelling "I got it" and some crashing from behind the door before it was wrenched open, behind it was said excitable ginger still in her pyjamas. when she saw who was at the door, her grin widened and her excitement doubled.

"Maki! You're back!" she yelled, which brought out the other three.

After her outburst, Rin all but jumped towards Maki and would have tackled her in a hug if she hadn't moved away and partially behind Nico, giving all of her girlfriends a wary look.

The ginger woman instantly froze, arms still extended for a hug, staring at Maki, confusion replacing the grin.

"Maki-chan? wha- oh, right..." the confusion morphed into a sad and guilty expression as she lowered her arms and took a step back.

After glancing at the others, Nico saw that they shared Rin's expression and sighed.

"Let's get this started, we have a lot to talk about."

Lb

"And just so we are clear, I am dead serious on not letting Maki back with you guys if anything like this happens again."

"Nicocchi, that the third time you have said that, you don't need to keep repeating it."

"Well. you obviously you idiots need to be reminded because this shouldn't have happened in the first place" the short woman took a breath before continuing to speak, "anyway, I'll see you guys later, bye."

"bye, Nicocchi," Nozomi sighed as she closed the door behind the black-haired woman.

After locking the door, the purple- haired woman wandered back to the lounge room where the other four sat and took a seat next to Eli. once down, Nozomi glanced around at the others. Rin was sulking still and had buried her face into Hanayo's shoulder and said brunet was quietly trying to talk her out of her hiding spot. Eli was intensely staring at the ground like she had for the last twenty minutes, and Maki looked like she was about to fall asleep, which Nozomi could understand, considering the night she's had.

"Hey Nozomi," the teal eyes darted from the redhead to the two younger women that were now standing near where she was sitting.

"W-what are we gonna do now?" Hanayo continued to speak to Nozomi in a hushed tone.

"I-I don't know."

"We need to do something, we've fucked up real bad," Eli added this to the conversation.

"Well, Maki-chan looks really tired nya~ maybe we can convince her to go have a nap and set something up for her?"

"That would buy us some time to prepare something, we can at least try this and see if it works."

"Okay, I'll try to get her to bed and you three think up some ideas, is that okay?" Nozomi was answered with three silent nods before she stood and moved over to Maki.

"Hey Makicchi, you look like you're about to fall asleep, why don't you go have a nap."

"Huh? I'm fine, I don't need a-" she interrupted herself with a yawn, "a nap."

Nozomi only had to raise an eyebrow before Maki sighed and stood. unfortunately, the redhead had underestimated her exhaustion and her legs gave out as soon as she was standing. Nozomi moved quick enough to catch her before she fell too far but the purple head still felt the unmistakable flinch from the redhead at her touch.

"Carful Makicchi."

"Y-yeah," Maki said as she all but jumped away from Nozomi, her cheeks bright red.

"Maki-" Nozomi's attempt to speak and touch Maki was interrupted when the redhead took a step away so she was out of reach of her girlfriend.

"Please don't," the red head said this then ducked her head so her face was hidden and rushed passed the purple haired woman towards her bedroom.

Nozomi froze with her hand still outstretched as Maki left, only moving again a few seconds later to turn and stare at where the redhead had left. Her expression turned downcast and she sighed before turning back to the others who also shared her expression.

"Whatever we do, we better make it good, W-we got to get her to trust us again."

"I think that might take a while Eli-chan, so we might just need to focus on getting her comfortable around us again."

"Kayo-chin's right, we got get her comfortable, but what should we do?"

A silly idea came to Nozomi.

"Haven't the three of you been wanting to build a pillow fort for some time now?" she asked, looking at Rin and Hanayo.

"Well, um, yeah, but we just haven't had the time."

"Yeah, and Maki was really looking forward to it, or at least really disappointed when we couldn't do it."

"It's certainly a place to start, so let's get to it shall we."

Lb

Despite her best attempts, Maki had only been able to stay sleep for a little under two hours out of the five and a half hours she lay in her bed. The time spent not sleeping was spent either staring at the ceiling or wall and mentally berating herself for the lack of trust and how uncomfortable she felt around her girlfriends.

'Come on, it's not like they would ever hurt me.'

"But the were so close, so loud and so angry last night, I thought that they would."

'And the regret what they did so much.'

"So what."

'They made a mistake, give them a chance to make up for it.'

"Yeah I will, but like Nico told them, they fuck up like this again, this badly, then we are done. Why am I even talking to myself? Maybe I've been here long enough, I should go see what the others are doing."

With a sigh, the redhead rolled out of her bed and stood. She only stumbled slightly before she stretched her arms above her head and then slowly made her way to and out the door. As she moved towards the lounge room, muffled sounds became louder and clearer until she could recognize it as a TV show that she may or may not be slightly obsessed with that she had tried to show her girlfriends a few times but they, unfortunately, lost interest quickly.

'Are they...'

Her sluggish footsteps sped up and she quickly entered what the lounge room that now had waist high canopy of sheets and blankets that created a sort of maze leading to where the lounge should have been. the entrance to this structure was right in the doorway to the room.

Maki could hear that the sounds were coming from within the fort so she crouched down and crawled through the entrance. she could see that the ground had been covered in more blankets and pillows and that the canopy was being held up by various bits of furniture and larger pillows.

It was only a sort crawl till she got to the center of the fort. Well, it looked to be more like a nest of even more pillows and blankets, topped with her four girlfriends that were laying on the pillows and each other, eating various foods that were in front of them and watching the laptop that was playing Maki's favorite show intently.

Not that Maki was particularly trying to fight it but she couldn't stop the loving smile forming on her face.

This scene she saw, all her girlfriends getting along, was too cute.

the redhead really didn't want to break their concentration but she really did want to join them, they were on one of her favorite episodes she noticed. An object to the side caught suddenly caught her attention and with a closer look, she realized that it was a giant bowl of mini tomatoes sitting in front of her tomato pillow that she had accidentally left in the lounge room.

'That must be my spot, they really trying hard for me, heh, so I'll try hard for them.'

Quietly as she could, Maki crawled over to tomato pillow and sat on it, facing the lap to and quickly became engrossed with the cartoon that was playing and munched on the tiny tomatoes.

Two episodes when by and the third was loading before Maki finally looked over at the others to see if they had noticed she was there.

Though what she did see was where she had a sudden and strong urge to sit.

in the pillow blanket nest, Eli was sitting in the middle, Nozomi was to her right, closest to Maki, leaning on the blonde. Rin was sitting to Eli's left, also leaning on the blonde and Hanayo was mostly laying across Rin's lap but her head was resting on Eli's left thigh.

Despite everything that had happened and how she was feeling not that long ago, she really wanted to be sitting on Eli's lap and just be surrounded by her girlfriends.

It was only when she heard a laugh that she realized that not only had the cartoon been paused but all four of them were staring at her, Nozomi had an amused expression and the other three had hopeful ones.

"Would you like to join us Makicchi?"

Despite the dimness of the fort, Maki still looked down to hide her blush but she did nod her head and started to move over to the nest, of course bringing the tomatoes with her.

Hanayo sat up slightly so Maki was able to sit on Eli's lap, shuffling down so the blonde could still see the screen. Hanayo lay back down, her head now on Maki's thigh and Rin moved so she was now leaning against the redhead's shoulder. Maki could feel as Nozomi settled back onto Eli's shoulder but gently grasped Maki's right with her left, the redhead also felt as Eli slowly place and arm around her waist.

Maki could feel how tense they were, obviously cautious of becoming too comfortable and overstepping boundaries, but this felt right to the redhead, she felt alright with the closeness.

"Is this alright?"

"Yeah, this is alright."

At her words, Rin skilfully tapped the touch pad with her foot to restart the cartoon and then the four relax around the redhead, all five enjoying the closeness more than the cartoon.

Love? Hate? Brain bleach? Let me know! And no, I have no idea what that ending was or what this story is at all.