Oleanders (Part Two)

                                    

                                          
The Queen woke up the next day to find her wife sleeping peacefully in her arms.
She stroked her hair gently, careful not to wake her up.
She watched Sayaka sleep for half an hour more before her wife woke up.
"Ki......rari," Sayaka mumbled.
"Sayaka," the Queen replied. "It's really surreal, to wake up and actually find you beside me." She inhaled her wife's scent. "You're so beautiful."
Sayaka flushed, nuzzling her head against Kirari's chest. "I know."
"Are you going to go out and visit your parents?"
Sayaka shook her head as she started to tremble.
"My love, what's wrong?" the Queen asked worriedly as she stroked her wife's back reassuringly. "It's alright, I'm here."
"I'm scared," Sayaka admitted, hiccuping through sobs. "Im scared that if I go out the same thing will happen again. I don't want to leave again."
The Queen cupped her wife's face in her hands.
"My lily, you need not worry. I failed to protect you before, I won't fail again, I won't let anyone take you away from me again," the Queen promised, embarcing her fearful wife. '"I promis. And, I'm sorry that I couldn't protect you."
Sayaka nodded her head before kissing her wife's cheek. "It's not your fault."
"Hm."
After a while, Sayaka fell asleep again.
Kirari sighed as she cradled her wife in her arms lovingly.
"No harm shall come to you, my darling," she promised softly. "I won't let anyone touch you again."
*****
In the afternoon, everyone noticed that Kirari was late.
"Where is she?" Yuriko asked.
Midari, who knew that Sayaka was back, shrugeed, smiling discreetly to herself.
Mikura, who knew what happened from Sachiko, also kept to herself.
Just then. Runa gasped, her pupils turning small from shock. :T-t-t-t-t-t-that......S-s-s-s-s-sayaka......"
Everyone turned to where she was looking at.
A lock of hair fell from Kaede's head, while Yumeko dropped the expensive goblet in her hand, Ryota not even bothering to chide her for it.
Kirari came into the dining hall, her arm wrapped around Sayaka's waist.
"Good MorniKng, everyone," the Queen said, her eyes dancing with amusement.
Yumeko let out a shriek of delight, bolting forward to hug her close friend. 
"Sayaka~~~~~!!!!!" Her reaction was almost identical to Aethelsa's.
The rest rose from their seats, taking turns to embrace the Lady. 
"You're back, huh," Midari stated, smiling as she pat her friend on the back, her eye glistening with tears.
"Ew, don't touch me,"  a voice echoes throughout the hall. Midari gasped as Sayaka's right eye was red.
Her other eye turned red as well, her outfit and hair changing to black and red.
Yuriko fainted from shock.
"Why, hello there," Kanako said. "I'm Kanako Tsuki, Sayaka's alter ego, the one with the Kitsune powers, of course."
"Cool shit!" Midari exclaimed.
"Don't. Touch. Me," Kanako stated, glaring at the familiar.
"Why, Kanako-chan, seems like we both dislike being ouched by trash," Yumeko said, smiling.
"YUMEKOOOOO, YOU'RE SO MEANNNNN," Midari whined.
"Shut up, woman! You're sounding exactly like----" Kanko stared at Sachiko. "YOU."
Sachiko smirked. "Pleasure."
Kanako turned to Mary. "And this is......Ririka's mate, I see. A human," she sneered.
Suddenly she flinched, her left eye turning violet.
"Kanako, that's rude!" Sayaka's voice came from Kanako's mouth. "Let me take over, please."
"Very well, you deal with them," her alter ego mused. "You know how to summon me, or your weapon."
Kanako's hair and outfit changed back, her right eye, however, remained red.
Sayaka stumbled back into her wife's arms.
"Are you alright," Kirari said.
Her wife nodded.
"Ririka has a mate?"
Ririka flushed. "Well, yeah, I officially asked her to be my mate yesterday and she said 'yes'."
Sayaka blushed as Mary continued to stare at her.
Kirari cleared her throat, snapping her out of her thoughts.
"Sorry," Mary mumbled. "You're really pretty, and you don't even have any make-up on."
Sayaka immediately grabbed Kirari's arm as she saw her wife's eyes glow a brilliant blue. "Hitting on my wife, Saotome?"
Mary rolled her eyes and stepped back. She nodded towards Sayaka. "I'm Mary Saotome."
"I'm Sayaka Momobami," the Lady replied.
"So, is Saotome going to become Mary Momobami?" Kirari teased.
Ririka blushed as she blurted out. "Not yet!" she instantly covered her face with her hands.
"Not yet, I hope it's soon, I've had nothing to do for the past few years," Sachiko said, chuckling.