The next day Shizuma Hanazono felt like she was walking on water. She smiled and greeted a few people on her way towards Yaya's room, she had been thinking about the cute, irritable Spican the whole night, and almost couldn't sleep after finally getting a confession from the girl. She knew better than to push someone like Yaya though, the girl could be passionate, but there was something holding her back, Shizuma didn't know what it was, but she thought maybe the new reigning Etoiles had something to do with it. She had seen the strange looks Hikari-san gave Yaya that day under the tree, and how her newfound love had frozen them out, letting Shizuma do the talking, but her eyes betrayed her. There was pain in them, that no doubt her pride would never let her voice out loud. Shizuma never wanted to see Yaya like that ever again, she would wait for her, she would be patient, she wouldn't rush Yaya into anything the girl wasn't ready for. The last thing Shizuma wanted to do was destroy their budding relationship before they even had a chance to be together, not like what happened with Nagisa. 'Then again, it's different with Yaya, she makes me feel excited, I can never wait to see her, to talk to her. She never makes me feel like I need to pretend. It was never like that with Nagisa, or any one of those other girls.'

Shizuma found Yaya's room, and upon finding it unlocked, slipped inside, closing the door quietly behind her. The sight of her Yaya-chan sprawled across the bed, one arm dangling off the side, with the other under her head, mouth slightly open was one of the cutest, funniest things she had ever seen. The raven haired beauty was a sight to behold in her innocent slumber, one leg was crooked at an odd angle, causing her bare foot to hang over the edge, while her blankets were only half covering her prone form. Shizuma had a delightful view of Yaya's slender yet athletic legs from this angle, actually, she noted as she looked Yaya's lean body up and down, she has quite firm muscles all over, especially her arms, and even her stomach seemed slightly muscled and toned, 'she really is nothing like any of the delicate flowers I'm accustomed to, she's a lover and a fighter. And now she's mine.'

Shizuma smiled and sat on the edge of her new girlfriend's bed, admiring briefly for a moment the girl's dark "short" shorts that were exposed in a tantalising way, and the close fitting black tank top that hugged the girl's figure in the best way, showing off the curve of Yaya' hips and well rounded breasts. Shizuma tore her vision away from the sensitive skin at the small of the girl's back, visible under the tank top which was riding up slightly. She resisted the urge to run her hand along Yaya's bare skin, and opted for gently stroking the girl's hair, then her face.

'Yaya.' Shizuma called to her gently, 'It's time to wake up now.' She lightly pecked the dark haired girl's cheek.

'Urghh nooo… Tsubomi-chan come back again, like never… I wanna sleeeep….'

'Wrong guess, Yaya-chan.' Shizuma smiled as she gently ran a finger down the side of the sleepy girl's face.

'Huh? Ss-zuma-chinn?' Ah! She was being intolerably cute right now! Shizuma had to resist the urge to jump the gorgeous girl, as she pushed herself slowly into a sitting position, eyes half closed, rubbing one eye with the cutest frown ever adorning her magnificent features. 'Whattaya doin'?' Her words were still slurring a bit from her sleep deprivation.

'I came to see my Yaya-chan and give her a much needed wake up call. Honestly, Yaya, why were you still asleep? Have you not been sleeping properly?'

'Well, actually not really. Sorry for making you worry, I was just thinking about too much stuff.' Yaya yawned and stretched her muscles.

'About what?' Shizuma was interested to know if she featured in any of the Spican girl's troubles.

'Uh, well, I- um…' Her cute Yaya-chan fidgeted with the blanket and looked away before answering. 'About you, a bit… I was thinking about how much a pain in the ass you used to be, but now I really like that about you, how you'd just go for it and do what you wanted, and, that I think I might love you, even though you're such a stalker, you make me act stupid all the time, and tease me all the time, and I don't know what to think anymore. It's your fault I can't think anymore, my brain just switches off when you're around.' Yaya blurted this all out at once, which Shizuma found quite amusing, and well, she could've taken some of those statements the wrong way, but she knew Yaya well enough now to take any seemingly rude words in stride, because, that was just her Yaya-chan. Anyway, she was sure she had distinctly heard the word "love" somewhere amongst all of that, and held onto it. 'She said "Love" this time, not "like".'

Shizuma beamed with unsuppressed happiness at Yaya's somewhat odd second confession to her. She really was the luckiest woman to find another girl who could captivate her with every word, every movement, every expression that flickered across her angelic face, no matter how blunt, rude, stubborn, or "Tsundere" they were. She reached out and took the girl in her arms, kissing her gently, first the cheek, then her lips. The kiss was short and sweet.

'I'm happy you have such strong feelings for me. And I'm glad you love how persistent I am because I really had to be what with you being so stubborn and all, my little rebel.'

'Hmmph. I think I've had a bad influence on you, you're usually not too quick with the comebacks.' Shizuma smiled and squeezed Yaya in response, making her struggle a bit and gasp for air, before letting the girl slump in her embrace. Then running her hand up Yaya's bare leg, she smirked. 'Shouldn't you be getting dressed Yaya?'

Yaya visibly jumped and squirmed somewhat under Shizuma's touch, 'Uh yeah, I do, I mean, I should.' Her ears were reddening, colour rising in her cheeks, as she looked down, obviously just realising how little clothing she was actually wearing at that moment, still pressed against Shizuma.

'Don't be shy Yaya, theres no one here but me.' She let her voice drop to a husky tone. She noticed her Yaya shiver in response.

'Yeah but you're the problem! I can't get dressed with you watching me!'

Shizuma feigned a hurt expression, Yaya was right, she really was bad for teasing the girl, but right now she just couldn't help herself, not when she had to hold back from doing all the other things she wanted to with Yaya.

'Theres no need to be so shy around your girlfriend, isn't that what we are now? Together? You know I won't do anything to upset you Yaya, I am prepared to wait for you to be ready, as long as you need, so long as I know that you still want me.' Shizuma sealed the promise with a kiss.

Yaya stared into her eyes as she struggled with her internal conflict, then a beautiful smile broke across her face, lighting it up completely and stealing Shizuma's breath away. 'Okay, Shizuma. I trust you. And I will be yours, if you'll be mine?'

'Deal.'

After some more tender kisses between them, Yaya got up to put her uniform on, she had her back turned to Shizuma as she stripped off the tank top and shorts that she had slept in, revealing some eye-popping lingerie. Shizuma was sure her nose was going to start bleeding at any second as she branded the image of Yaya's curvy yet muscular form sporting matching red bra and lace panties, into the back of her eyeballs. She groaned out loud, 'SO not fair Yaya, wearing something like that and showing it off in front of me, after I just promised no funny business too.' Shizuma frowned and pouted at her Yaya.

The raven haired beauty smirked at her, 'Well that's what you get for being an omega huge hentai.'

'Yayaaaaaa! Don't be mean! I would never go so far as to tease you in such a way.' She stared as the Spican girl slipped into the white uniform, smirking at Shizuma's rather obvious struggle for self control.

'Okay, I'm done. Let's get some food, I'll bet you're just as hungry as I am now.' She almost let Yaya make it across the room before she pulled her unsuspecting new girlfriend hard against her and brought her mouth to hers.

'You have no idea.'