The fans did not understand. Within minutes of the interview airing Sivir's building was absolutely swarmed with rabid K/DA fans, frantically trying to gain access to the building to discern Kai'Sa's mystery date. The only thing that kept the rabid hordes at bay was the sudden appearance of very, very intimidating security guards.
Meanwhile back at the K/DA house, Kai'Sa was sat on the couch in their living room with Evelynn and Akali trying to comfort her as Ahri was pacing up and down in front of the couch. Kai'Sa's phone laid upon the coffee table, the screen going absolutely crazy with the backlog of social media notifications still lighting up the screen despite the dancers forcing off the notification feature near instantly as soon as she left the stage. If the phone was in vibrate it probably would have vibrated itself off the table, looking like it was trying to commit suicide as it tried handling the immense processor load of thousands upon thousands of questions flooding the dancer's social media.
"What are we gonna do?" The dancer asked as she held her head in her hands.
The woman to her sides remained silent as they elected to allow their leader to deal with the situation.
"We have that collaboration with Seraphine we were going to reveal next week. We could say you went to meet her in the building." Ahri said as she stroked her chin thoughtfully, her tails betraying her stress.
Kai'Sa shook her head, lightly disagreeing. "Someone dug up a building manifest, our story will be blown out the water when people see Sera is not on that list." Kai'Sa sat up as she reached for her phone. "Although it seems like it's an old manifest since Sivir isn't on it, despite her father being there."
The mention of Sivir's father stopped the vixen in her tracks, her bandmates seeing the gears turn in her head. A sly smile crept upon the fox's face, a plan forming in her mind. "Kai'Sa, Do you think Sivir's father would like to become an official sponsor of K/DA?"
The plan that Ahri formed soon became clear to the rest of the team, realization washing over them. "I could certainly ask him." the dancer said sheepishly.
Kai'Sa stood in front of Sivir's door, briefly relaxing after using her void-given gifts to sneak past the roving hordes currently interviewing each and every person entering and leaving the building. Kai'Sa raked her knuckles over the wooden door, the door cracking open a sliver as the occupant inside glared at the unexpected visitor.
The door slammed shut, several latches and locks clicking in sequence before the door swung open, Sivir yanking the dancer into the apartment before slamming the door close behind them.
"Quite the shit-show down there huh?" The Shuriman quirked from her position leaning on the door.
The dancer looked sheepishly at her feet, kicking at the floor. "Yeah~, sorry about that. I didn't expect someone to see us."
"Luckily my dad and I were watching the interview at the time, so we had more than enough time to arrange a security crew to protect the building," Sivir said, moving from her position against the door to cradle the nervous dancer. Kai'Sa did not resist the hug, allowing the shorter girl to pull her into a tight hug. "I won't even ask you how you sneaked past both them and the 'adoring' fans out there. I'm just happy to have you here."
"Speaking about your dad, do you know when he's getting back?" the dancer asked, lowering her head to rest her head in the crook of Sivir's neck.
"He'll be home soon, actually. Why do you ask?" the Shuriman said as she placed her lips to Kai'Sa's temple.
"I actually have some questions to ask him. Ahri devised a way for us to solve our issue without outing... 'this'" the dancer said, a slight blush creeping up her skin.
The Shuriman simply pulled back to look the dancer in her stressed violets, keeping her close by wrapping her arms around the dancer's waist. "I wouldn't mind outing 'this'." Sivir's lips quirked up in a sly smirk, suddenly leaning forward to place a light kiss on the dancer's lips. Sivir's smirk grew as she stared at the dancers shocked expression, her hand raising from the dancer's hip to caress her cheek.
"You've seen the rabid hordes down there. The moment our relationship becomes public we'll be subject to extreme scrutiny." The dancer said as she leaned her head into the tanned hand. "I don't want to subject you to that just yet."
The dancer looked into Sivir's shimmering sapphires, seeing steely determination shift to soft kindness. "Fine... I'll play along for now." The Shuriman placed a teasing kiss on the side of the dancer's mouth, giggling as Kai'Sa's cheeks coloured pink. "So~ What is this master plan of yours?" The Shuriman asked in a singsong voice.
The dancer giggled lightly, trying to regain her composure. "Ahri wants to ask your dad to sponsor K/DA, it would give us a rock-solid alibi-" Kai'Sa captured the Shuriman's lips, retreating from the quick kiss with a playful smirk. "- and it would give me more reason to visit."
Sivir couldn't stop herself from giggling at the dancer's attempt to look sexy, her smirk making her look cuter than intended. With a slight groan of disappointment, the Shuriman retreated from cradling the dancer, moving towards the small kitchen of the apartment to retrieve her phone. With quick taps of her fingers, Sivir had the device up to her ear, waiting for the person on the other end to pick up.
Kai'Sa moved to sit on the couch, silently waiting for the Shuriman to begin her conversation. The dancer flushing as Sivir moved to place herself snugly on the dancer's lap, wrapping her free arm around Kai'Sa's neck. The dancer heard the other end of the line click as the person answered, a slightly deep voice ringing through the device.
"Good afternoon Nasus, I just have a quick question. What is my father's schedule for the rest of the week?" Sivir asked into the device, idly running her fingers through the dancer's hair. Kai'Sa heard the voice on the other end of the hum thoughtfully, followed by a light grumbling as the person riffled about to answer Sivir's question. Kai'Sa heard the voice answer but couldn't quite make out what was being said. "So you're saying he is busy for the rest of the day, but Friday is entirely clear." Sivir looked over towards the dancer, asking a silent question, a question she answered with a quick nod. "Could you ask him to keep it clear?" The voice hummed in acknowledgement, the line beeping as the voice hung up.
Sivir placed her phone on the coffee table, looking towards the dancer with an expectant gaze, her now free hand wrapping itself around the dancer's neck.
"Friday works great, more than great actually."
Sivir quirked an eyebrow at the dancer's statement, silently asking her to elaborate.
"My parents are visiting for the weekend to celebrate a holiday, I was planning to ask if you wanted to meet them." the dancer said with a slight smirk. "I'm hosting a little barbeque at the K/DA house, you and your dad are welcome to pop by."
Sivir couldn't help but giggle, a smirk forming on her face. "My girlfriend would have me meet her parents before publicly acknowledging our relationship, makes sense."
If Kai'Sa was blushing before, now she was an absolute beacon radiating warmth. Sivir saw Kai'Sa rival the reddest of tomatoes, her position allowing her to feel the woman beneath her warming considerably.
"What?"
Kai'Sa was stuttering like a madman, trying to form a single cohesive sentence. "I... it's j... just... we haven't really talked about what 'this' is yet." The dancer tried her best to avoid the curious gaze of the Shuriman in her lap. "I... was caught off guard is all."
"What would you call 'this'?" If the Sivir held any concern, her voice didn't show it. Her soft gaze focusing on the red-faced dancer cradled in her arms.
"I'm comfortable making this official, It's just that I have this lingering sense of fear nagging at the back of my mind. I just thi-" Kai'Sa was silenced as the Shuriman in her lap captured her lips, a hand resting on her neck worming into the dancer's hair as Sivir deepened the kiss.
"You think too much," Sivir said as she pulled back, keeping barely an inch between them.
A buzz drew both women's attention, Kai'Sa worming around to retrieve her phone from her pocket. "While I would love nothing more than to stay, we're getting our make-overs for our new album soon and Ahri will have my head if I'm late." Kai'Sa moved to remove the woman from her lap, a slight grunt leaving her lips as the Shuriman suddenly straddled her, pushing the dancer into the cushions and capturing her lips in a hungry kiss.
Kai'Sa felt a tongue run across her bottom lip, silently begging for entry. A request the dancer answered wordlessly as she allowed Sivir to explore her mouth. Both women breaking apart for single breaths before reigniting the fiery kiss.
The buzzing from Kai'Sa's phone broke the silence of the heated make-out again. Reluctantly the dancer pulled away. "I really need to go now, think on my offer, please?"
"I'll bring it up to him when he gets home," Sivir said as she stood, moving to the door to let her girlfriend out. "Will I get a sneak peek at the new look? Or do I have to wait like the rest of the fans?" The Shuriman quirked as Kai'Sa entered the hall.
A mischievous grin spread across the dancers face. "I'm pretty sure my girlfriend gets extra privileges."
Kai'Sa was currently waiting in the living room with about as much patience as she could muster, waiting for her guests to arrive. Having already picked up her parents from the airport in the early hours of the morning, Kai'Sa busied herself preparing for the afternoon while catching up with her parents.
"How's everything at The Firefly Collective?" the dancer asked her father, the raven-haired man busy preparing a fire.
"The students keep asking when you'll visit again." the man said as he packed wood into a neat tower. "Although some of them have been asking about the recent incident."
"I said it in the interview and I'll say it again, I'm not quite comfortable revealing what happened to the public just yet." The dancer said defensively, running a hand through her newly coloured highlighted raven hair.
The man moved behind his daughter, his task finished for now, resting his hands on her shoulders. "Skatlam, I'm your father, you know you can always confide in me."
Kai'Sa sighed, resting her head in her hands. "I know. I know."
At that moment the doorbell rang out, the dancer all but flying to the door to open for her guests. Kai'Sa opened the door to find both Sivir and Azir waiting patiently, Sivir wearing a beautifully simple white sundress with gold highlights that hung down to her thighs, a simple pair of flats keeping their height difference noticeable. Azir was dressed in a simple white dress shirt and black slacks, still looking fairly formal.
While Sivir already knew of the dancer's new appearance, her father showed only in a hint of surprise. If he had an opinion he didn't share it. Kai'Sa directed her guest towards their living room, gesturing for them to sit as she moved towards the patio door leading towards the back yard.
"Dad, there is someone I want you to meet."
"Just a second Skatlam, I'm just trying to get this wood to light." The man said as he placed a gas burner underneath the wooden stack.
"You can ask any of the girls just how much time I spent trying to find decent braai wood, most of the woods commercially available just burned away without forming proper coals." The dancer smirked as she thought on the countless weekends she spent experimenting with different types of wood.
"Nothing beats Karoo Doringboom." The man said with a quirked smile, stepping back to admire his handiwork.
"Come on~ We don't want to keep them waiting ." Kai'Sa grabbed her fathers hand, dragging the man into the home. They found Sivir and Azir discussing something under their breath, quirking up as Kai'Sa forcibly flopped her father onto the couch opposite of the father-daughter pair.
"Dad, this is Sivir and her father Azir. Sivir, Sir, this is my father."
"Kassadin," he said as he offered a hand, one that Azir shook.
"I'm going to go get us some drinks, anybody want something?" The dancer said as she moved towards the kitchen, a slight scuffling being heard within.
"What will you be making?" Kassadin asked, his daughter just lifting a yellow box with red writing on it. Kassadin nodded thoughtfully. "I'll have a coffee then. What about our esteemed guests?"
"I'll follow you up on that coffee if you don't mind." Azir said as he turned to his daughter "What about you?"
"I'll have what Kai'Sa is having." The Shuriman said, watching the dancer light up.
"You'll love it!" the dancer exclaimed before disappearing into the kitchen.
"What did I get myself into?" the Shuriman said with a sigh as she realized she never asked what it was she would be drinking.
Kassadin chuckled, the same realisation washing over him. "No need to worry, it's a tea from our homeland. Kai'Sa just gets excited when we bring her a box because it's so hard to find." The man sat back, his eye's falling on the pair in front of him. "I have to say though, I don't remember the great Azir having a daughter."
The pair looked at each other, silently debating how they should tell their story.
Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Kai'Sa placed four cups in front of her. While she was waiting for the kettle to boil she turned to see how the rest of their preparations were coming along. The dancer saw each bandmember busy with a task of their own, Akali and Evelynn off to one side of the kitchen assembling multiple sandwiches, layering grated cheese, tomato and onion on bread lightly spread with a South African fruit chutney, while Ahri was busy lining two oven pans with a crumb layer as directed by the fairly tall brunette currently stirring a large pot on the stove.
"Liefie, could you hand me six bowls and the cinnamon please?" the dancer heard the women ask, immediately moving to fulfil her mother's request.
The woman scooped some of the white oatmeal-like slurry into the bowls, finishing it off with a dash of cinnamon, before handing out three bowls to her helpers who accepted with muted 'thank you's'. She loaded the other three bowls onto the tray with Kai'Sa's now prepared pots of tea and coffee. Kai'Sa gestured for her mother to follow her, leaving her bandmates to sigh contently as the ate from their treat.
"Sivir, I'd like for you to meet my mother," Kai'Sa said as she placed her tray on the coffee table, pouring the several drinks and handing a bowl to her father.
"I'm Zayaan, but you can call me Zay." the brunette said with a smile, subtly wiping her hands on her apron.
"I can really see the family resemblance," Sivir commented as she took an experimental sip of her mystery tea. The tea held a sweat honey-like taste, lingering pleasantly for a short while. Sivir hummed wistfully. "This is great! What's it called?"
"Rooibos, I knew you would like it." Kai'Sa beamed happily "Try the Melkos," she said as she gestured towards the bowl.
"Melkos?" Sivir asked as she brought a spoon up to her lips.
"The filling of a milk tart straight from the pot." the dancer hummed as she took a spoonful of her own bowl, both women sighed contently as the light vanilla taste tickled their tastebuds.
"Honey I just found out from Azir here, the reason we've never heard of his daughter was because he left her in the care of an orphanage until recently." Kai'Sa's father turned to his wife, the mentioned women quirking her brow as she moved to stand behind her husband.
"Sadly my wife passed shortly after Sivir's birth, and with the turbulence in my business at the time I couldn't trust myself to be able to provide sufficient care for her." Azir lamented the man clasped his hands together. "Enough about me, I've been told we are here to celebrate."
"Sir, could I speak to you for a minute?" Ahri asked as she exited the kitchen. "Also your linings are ready M'am." At the mention, Kai'Sa's mother retreated back into the kitchen. All the while Ahri beckoned for Azir to follow her into the room they use as an office.
With Ahri and Azir talking business and Kai'Sa's mother busy in the kitchen Kassadin stood to attend to the fire, Kai'Sa moving to sit next to Sivir, Evelynn and Akali grouping round to shower the couple in questions.
Kai'Sa answered most of the questions with a smile, drawing the woman to her side closer as she basked in glow radiating off Sivir, her worries about the public reaction forgotten for the moment.
An*
Thank you for reading this new chapter, I tried to get it out sooner but I was Ironically celebrating the same holiday as mentioned in this chapter. Also, many of the things mentioned in this chapter are actual things we do on this holiday in South Africa.
Here are the translations for some of the things I wrote.
Skatlam - A nickname that roughly translates to treasured lamb
Liefie - A nickname based on the word love
Also I know in the lore Kai'Sa's mother is possibly deceased, I just didn't have the heart to keep it cannon.
I would also Like to wish a belated happy birthday to Ichiro art, their art was a major driving force behind me deciding to write this.
Stay save and peace