A Fateful Encounter

This time I must say it was a rather quick new chapter, at least for it to me.
This chapter is rather short but I hope you will like it.


Chapter 7: Grief

"I have something sad to tell you. Yesterday, your classmate Shizuki Hitomi… was found dead by the train station." Saotome-sensei said with tears falling down her cheeks.

The class quickly fell silent and Sayaka's previous joking expression left her face in an instant. Also the one in the class who looked the most taken by this news was Kamijou Kyousuke, who had a relationship with Hitomi, and you could see tears falling down his face, and it looked like something broke inside him.

Saotome saw that mostly everyone, if not everyone burst into tears. She didn't expect anything else and she couldn't blame them since she felt exactly the same when she heard the news. And she couldn't tell them any other way and a straight forward explanation might be the best approach after all.

"*Sniff* I suggest you all go home today and sort yourself out." Saotome-sensei said in almost pleading tone, and she smiled a little when they did as they were told as some packed their things as some still sat down trying to comprehend the thought.

Sayaka sat still for a few minutes after Saotome-sensei left the room and some of the other left as well. Homura and Madoka didn't take it as harsh as Sayaka did and tried their best to make her cheer up, although they didn't succeed as Sayaka didn't listen too much. Kyouko looked at her and even though Kyouko didn't know Hitomi except for seeing her yesterday during class, she of course felt sad but she felt even sadder for seeing Sayaka suffer like this but for some reason it looked like Sayaka were keeping it in. As Kyouko had been seeing her father being drunk and kill her family, she knew how it felt to lose something that you cared about. Although she didn't know how close Sayaka were with Hitomi, it probably was a good friend since her reaction was a lot stronger than most of the others in the class or maybe it's just emotional difference.

Kyouko rose from her seat and went up next to Sayaka. "Hey Sayaka. Let's go home and take a hot bath or something. I know that I might be insensitive since I didn't know her, but it is hard to see you suffer like this and it makes my heart ache." Sayaka didn't budge from what the redhead said, so Kyouko went up in front of Sayaka and pushed her face so close up against Sayaka so their noses touched, and Kyouko gave her a large hug. After a couple seconds Sayaka made a few noises and then she hugged Kyouko back and started to cry against Kyouko's shoulder. Madoka and Homura joined in and hugged both Sayaka and Kyouko until Sayaka stopped crying.

A short while later Sayaka stopped crying and she released her grip of Kyouko and they all let up on the hug and Sayaka started wiping her tears. Her eyes were a little red but her expression looked a lot better. She was still sad but she had eased up which made Kyouko feel a lot better.

"Let's go home!" Kyouko then said with as much of a smile she could manage without making it look too forced.

Sayaka took her bag and slowly stood up they all started walking out of the classroom and through the corridors. Sayaka most probably wouldn't be over this for the whole day and it would probably follow her hard during this week. Kyouko didn't know how she would do too make Sayaka cheer up in a foolproof way or maybe it was impossible, but she would have to try her best. They walked with Madoka and Homura until their usual parting crossroad, and with a quick exchange of comforting words to each other, they continued to walk away in their respective direction.

They walked back through the rain back to the apartment since nobody had the spirit to really care about the harsh rain that fell from the sky. As soon as they came inside the door, Sayaka threw the clothes on the floor and went to her room and closed the door. With saddened eyes Kyouko looked on with displeased eyes. She picked up Sayaka's bag and her soaked raincoat and went into the bathroom to fill up the bathtub with warm water.

While she waited for the bathtub to fill she watched some television for a short while before going and tap it off. After that was done she slowly opened the door to Sayaka's room and saw that Sayaka was lying face down on the pillow and it looked that she was sleeping. Kyouko walked up next to her and checked if she really was asleep.

"What is it?" Kyouko heard Sayaka ask with still a sad voice and her voice cracked up a bit and Kyouko figured that she had been crying some more.

"I tapped up a bath so you can warm up. We were out in the cold rain and all and I don't think you would like to get a cold on top of this." Kyouko said and tried to sound as considerate as she could.

"You can enter first. I'll come in a bit." Sayaka replied and left Kyouko stand there with a faked smile to keep her own spirit in place.

"Take the time you need." The redhead said as she left the room and then rested her head against the door. She then walked into the bathroom, removed her clothes and then walked into the bathtub. The bathtub was a great thing and it is refreshing as well and it raises your spirit. Or at least, that's how it is supposed to feel when you enter it. But for some reason it didn't feel as good and refreshing as it usually does.

She thought about yesterday and how close Sayaka and Hitomi seemed to be to each other. They spoke pretty friendly and they were far past the point to need to use honorifics. Hitomi did seem like a good and sweet girl but Kyouko didn't get the chance to speak with her that much. But it might have been a good thing that Kyouko didn't got close to her.

After about 10 minutes later Sayaka entered the bathroom, much to Kyouko's surprise. She removed her clothes as well and then she joined Kyouko in the tub. As soon as she got in she looked down in the clear water. Kyouko looked at Sayaka and she looked almost as gloomy as she was in school earlier, and what irked Kyouko the most was that she didn't know how to cheer her up.

"H- How are you feeling Sayaka? I know that you are sad since she died, but is there anything I can do to make you feel better." Kyouko asked and gave her a comforting look that indicated that Sayaka could rely on her.

Sayaka still only looked down in the water. "I just want quiet, that is all. I might need some time to recover." She said and just as Kyouko was about to say something she closed again.

"For how long did you know Hitomi? I'm sorry for asking even though you want me to be quiet, but I want to know." Kyouko asked and hoped Sayaka wouldn't be angry at her for continuing to speak.

"I had known her since before middle school, since she transferred to my school in third grade. Since then we have been friends on really good terms. And now when she's gone, it will just be so empty, and she disappeared and we didn't even get to know how she died. And that is almost the thing that irks me the most. If she was murdered, I want to know who did it and I want that son of a bitch to die horribly." Sayaka said and she almost started to cry again.

Kyouko started to flail with her arms to somehow keep Sayaka from crack up again. "Aah, don't cry. I'm sorry that I asked if it brought back bad memories. Please tell me if I'm a nuisance or anything and then I won't bother more." She replied in an almost panicked tone and she would hate herself if she were to make Sayaka cry now when she is down like this.

Sayaka just shook her head at Kyouko's statement and she leaned her head against the wall. She then stayed like that for about ten more minutes while Kyouko were sitting uncomfortably and trying to break the silence without trying to bother Sayaka, which proved to be quite difficult. After those ten minutes that Sayaka was resting, she left the tub and started getting dressed.

As Kyouko had been thinking about to break the silence, she haven't noticed that the water had become Luke-warm and that it wasn't that comfortable anymore. She got out a few minutes after Sayaka and found her reading a news site on her laptop. On the front page there was a picture of Hitomi with the headliner "Middle-school girl found dead with no certain cause of death". As Sayaka read the whole thing she clenched her fist in response. Probably because there wasn't anyone she could hate and take the blame for all this. But Kyouko read on a bit herself. "The police are confused and puzzled to not find any marks or clues that could point to a murder. Further investigation is needed to find out what really happened and her body is now being checked to find out if any drugs is involved."

"How can they not have found out anything at all about what could have killed her?" Kyouko asked and looked at Sayaka, who still clenched her fist and looked at the screen with irritation. "Eerhm, Sayaka? I don't think you should look anymore into this. The more you think about this and look into it you seem to hurt yourself. And it is hard to look at you as you look as hurt as you do right now. Can we do something else to get you on other thoughts, like play a board game or something? I think that it will lift your spirits a little bit. So what do you say?" Kyouko asked in a relatively happy tone and put her hands on Sayaka's shoulders.

Sayaka closed the lid on the laptop and went to her room and closed the door. Kyouko stood still outside the door and looked down on her feet and felt really powerless to not be able to help Sayaka at all. But considering that she found out that her best friend died for unknown reasons is not an easy issue to deal with. Even though Kyouko hated to feel like she was amounted to nothing like she felt right now, she had no choice but to let this go for now.

She went to the couch and put on the television to see if there was anything that she could watch to cheer herself up with. But none of the shows on at the moment were enough to cheer her up at all so she just ended up watching some cheesy TV-drama marathon.

The day passed by in the slowest fashion that Kyouko could think of. She had been bringing Sayaka some bread and a bowl of cereals, due to her lack of cooking skills and it was all that she felt that she could eat as well. The sun has set and she looked at the watch on the wall and saw that it was almost 11 PM. Feeling there was not much left to do than making herself ready for bed she went into the bathroom and brushed her teeth and washed her face as usual. Then she quietly opened the door to Sayaka's room and noticed that she had fallen asleep and Kyouko could tell that from her facial expression she had been thinking about Hitomi's death before she fell asleep, as she didn't have the gentle and happy face she usually had. Feeling kind of bad and since Sayaka couldn't be mad at her while asleep she removed Sayaka's clothes until she had nothing but her underwear left, and then Kyouko crawled into the bed next to Sayaka and pulled the cover over them both. Kyouko then also pulled her arms around Sayaka's stomach as in a hug and hoped that she would stay like this during the night.

Sayaka were warm and she was soft to hug. She crawled a little closer and felt Sayaka's warm skin against her cheek. Kyouko then fell asleep after a while resting against Sayaka's shoulder blades with her arms around Sayaka's stomach.

The night quickly passed by and for the first time in days Sayaka woke up to the sunlight beaming right into her face. With a surprised but somewhat happy face, she brightened up a bit since she thought she would wake up to another spirit-damping gloomy morning like the one they had yesterday. When she tried to sit up she noticed she had two arms strapped around her waist. She looked down and saw a sleeping Kyouko who looked like she enjoyed resting against Sayaka's back.

Then she remembered yesterday and about Hitomi. Although she of course felt sad about it, she was cheered up a bit by the weather and by Kyouko that did her best to cheer her up yesterday. She blushed a bit and since she apparently held on to Sayaka all night. She hugged her back, but carefully as to not wake her up yet, since it was still a while until the alarm would ring.

While she walked out into the kitchen, she heard that her stomach growl. Then she realized that all she ate yesterday was the few slices of bread and the bowl of cereals that Kyouko brought into her room. If she hadn't, Sayaka probably wouldn't have eaten at all yesterday. To pay her back, and since she was hungry herself, and because she had the time, she decided that she could cook a nice meal that they could have as breakfast.

With a yawn Kyouko woke up in the warm and cozy bed. As she opened her eyes, she as well noticed the warm and bright rays of the sun that shone in from the window. Then she noticed that Sayaka was not in her arms as she was when she fell asleep. Looking around, she saw that the door out of the room was not entirely closed so apparently she had gone to the bathroom or anything like that. She hoped that Sayaka had developed a better mood, since yesterday it was a pretty bad day, and especially for Sayaka.

With lazy and tired steps she walked out of the room and was met with a really nice smell. Then she saw that Sayaka was standing by the stove with a cute apron, and today it looked like her mood has improved a lot.

"You're awake now? I'm sorry about yesterday about my behavior. But since you were so nice to me yesterday, I decided that I could give you a proper breakfast." She said and looked quite apologetic down in the boiling kettle.

Kyouko went up behind Sayaka and hanged her head on Sayaka's shoulder. "You don't have to apologize. Even though it was hard to see you suffer since someone close to you were found dead, it can't be helped. I just wanted you to cry out as much as possible so you could let most of the sorrow out. But I'm glad that you feel better today." Kyouko said with a smile and saw Sayaka blush up slightly.

"I think I should consider myself lucky to have you here to support me, even though I was acting like a douche. I think most people would give up after a good while but you were there the whole time, and I am thankful for that. And a little off note, did you notice that this is the first time that you did wake up before the alarm?" Sayaka asked with a smile and as soon as she said that, the alarm clock did ring and Sayaka removed the hot kettle from the stove and turned it off. "Could you please turn it off, Kyouko?" She then asked again.

Kyouko gave her a military salute with a cheerful smile. "Ay ay, sir!" She said and walked into the bedroom with a silly walk. As she later turned it off, she then walked out in to the kitchen again and was met by a Sayaka that looked like she was keeping herself from bursting into laughter. "What's so funny?" Kyouko asked with a confused but still amused expression on her face.

"Haha, I- It's just so silly that you would make a salute and do such a silly walk into the bedroom. It's so contradicting that it is hilarious. But that is the fun part about you. But let us eat before this gets cold." Sayaka said as she then placed the last plate on the table.

Kyouko then sat down quickly after that and she started to eat Sayaka's delicious special breakfast and she was kind of sad for the reason that she will not be able to eat this every day from now on.

Then they got all their things for school and headed out for school. The sun today was hot and they probably wouldn't need to worry about rain since it was a clear blue sky with no other clouds nearby that looked fearful.

They soon met up with Madoka and Homura who also found it to be better when Sayaka didn't were so gloomy as she was yesterday. Although the mood was a little duller than other days, they arrived in school at saw Mami and the rest of the class waited outside the school gates for something, and she waved as they got closer.

"Good morning, girls. I heard what happened to your classmate yesterday. It's a shame that something like that would happen to such a girl. But I saw a glimpse of you all as you walked home yesterday and it feels good that you feel better." Mami said with a reassured smile.

"Yeah, really is a shame and I think it will take a while before I really will come past this. But why are you and your class standing here for?" Sayaka asked while looking a little interested.

"Oh, we are going on a little trip to Okinawa for three days and four nights." She replied and gave them all a smug smile their jealous expression.

"Ahh, why can't we go on such trips? It must be great to be a third-grader, isn't it, Mami?" Madoka asked and was almost jumping for wanting to go to Okinawa herself.

Homura put a hand on Madoka's shoulder and gave her a warm smile. "We can go anytime you want. I don't have enough money for us both but if you could get from your parents we could travel there and spend a few days there." Homura said and rubbed her cheek against Madoka's cheek.

Kyouko was standing and looked like she was a little lost. "What's so special about Okinawa? I've heard the name of it a few times but I don't know anything about it." Kyouko said and was met with faces that looked like she said something heretic against a group of fanatics.

"How can you not know anything about Okinawa? It is THE summer paradise of Japan. It is a Mekka to all girls since there is lots of shopping and the beaches are among the best in Asia. And the ocean is so beautiful and blue so I almost can't hold myself as I see a picture of it. I'm just saying that you are gonna go there sometime and I am sure that you will fall in love with that place." Sayaka said and looked like she was on fire, rambling on and on about Okinawa to a Kyouko who looked slightly apologetic, since Sayaka almost looked creepy when she was that excited.

After a while the busses arrived and Mami and her class went off and the others waved at her before they went into the school building. Again at the shoe locker Kyouko's was filled with more love letters and a lot of the other girls looked in awe and in jealousy at the vast amount of letters and a lot of boys that looked hopeful that she would read the letters right there. But Sayaka looked at some of the letters and she was surprised that she saw that a lot of the letters were from other girls.

"You sure are popular to even make other girls give you love letters. You are by far the most popular transfer student in this school, and by saying that the last popular girl were Homura, means that it is impressive. Are you interested in a relationship?" Sayaka asked and gave Kyouko a mischievous smile.

"Not really. None of the ones I've met gave me a really good impression. The most reasonable are the girls since they aren't as pushy as the guys are." Kyouko replied and tried to dig out her shoes that were buried under the pile of letters.

"I see. Well, neither am I, although if I find the perfect one I wouldn't mind unlike the girls who try to have a boyfriend just to have a boyfriend. I'm glad that you aren't one of those." Sayaka said and put on her shoes and after Kyouko did the same and jammed in her shoes in the locker.

Today there were a few people that were not supposed to come due to depression. One of those people was Kamijou Kyousuke and the others were two girls. Other than that, the classes went smoothly and the English-class they had today went much better than it did two days ago thanks to Sayaka's tutoring although she of course had not learned everything in one evening.

"It's finally lunch break. I'm starving even though Sayaka's breakfast was the best ever. Not to mention that we could keep some for lunch in school too." Kyouko said happily as she held her lunchbox like it was a holy relic sent from god.

"Come on, now you're just over-exaggerating. Well, let go up on the roof then." Sayaka replied and she and Kyouko started to walk.

"Sayaka-chan, me and Homura cannot eat there today. Saotome-sensei asked us to help her out with a few things during lunch so we're just going to take a quick meal in the cafeteria then go and help her out. So today you two will have to eat without us." Madoka said and she and Homura went out of the classroom and proceeded down towards the cafeteria.

Soon after Sayaka and Kyouko were sitting on the roof with their lunches. "Now this is pretty lonely actually without anyone else up here. Why isn't anyone else up here on the roof except for when we have lunch? I mean, this place is perfect." Kyouko asked while looking over Mitakihara City.

"I really don't know but I'm not complaining. It is because no one else here that we are sitting here, or it is maybe because we are sitting here that no one else wants to sit here."

Suddenly, in the light of the bright sun they saw in the shadow of the gate in front of them, they saw a shadow of something small appear behind them. When they turned around they saw a small white creature with big ears that hanged down and had some rings at the end of them. They looked a while at the creature that looked like a stuffed animal that apparently looked at them.

"I've sensed a great potential in the both of you for a while, Sakura Kyouko and Miki Sayaka." Some voice said in both of their head and the little creature began to move. Though the voice come might have come from the small thing but they couldn't see its apparent mouth move at all.

"W- Was that you who said that? What and who are you?" Sayaka asked and walked closer to it. "How do you know who we are? And what about that potential? What is that potential about?" She then continued to ask and looked both confused and irritated.

"I am Kyuubey and I am a moderator. And never mind how I know who you are but I have a proposal for you two? Ask for any wish you have and I shall grant it, but in return, make a contract with me and become magical girls."

Chapter 7: End


"Now the moderator have appeared, and with a wish in store, how will they answer to this?"

I always find it funny to write these fanfictions since I improvise everything that will happen,
I'm not sure myself what is going to happen next. So every new chapter is a new adventure.