"Hey Kamui, do you want to come round today?" Azura asked. It was break time and Kamui may or may not have been sulking as she watched Niles tease her little brother. Her skin still crawled slightly at the way he looked at Corrin, but her brother said he was happy and she wasn't going to interrupt that for the world.

"Yeah, sure!" She smiled at her best friend who would hopefully maybe one day be her girlfriend. She hoped. "Did you want to do more song writing again?" She loved it when Azura wrote and tested songs with her because her voice was so beautiful and she was just so god damned talented it made Kamui want to cry.

"Definitely," Azura said, smiling back. Kamui felt like her heart was about to burst. She needed to stop with this crush thing. It would come back to bite her eventually and she never, ever wanted to come on the wrong end of Azura's cold indifference. Azura meant the world to her, and if she ever lost her...she didn't know what she would do.

After that, they lapsed into their usual comfortable silence, where Kamui alternated between hoping that Azura couldn't tell that she was madly in love with her and hoping that Niles was blind enough that he couldn't see her glaring at him. Just in case. If he ever did hurt Corrin, she was watching.

"I'm not sure about this line," Azura said, pointing to a section of the final verse. "It feels like too much of a dark turn." They were sitting next to each other on Azura's sofa, positioned as they usually were with drinks and snacks. Azura's parents were out, again. Kamui didn't think she'd ever seen either of them in the same place at the same time and she definitely hadn't seen them outside of concerts. They didn't even pick Azura up after their trips, she just got a taxi home most of the time. Azura said she didn't mind and it had always been that way, but Kamui knew that she would never be happy if her mother wasn't at home most of the time. With her father, she didn't care because she didn't remember him, but having constantly absent parents must be awful. It did, however, mean that she could go to Azura's whenever she wanted and they could practise choir stuff all they liked.

"It could definitely work," she said, looking over the line again. "Maybe change the word 'savage' to something more mysterious? When that word is used it feels like you're talking about cannibals."

Azura laughed. It was a beautiful tinkling sound and she loved it deeply. "I sort of imagined that it was about dragons," she said, and Kamui almost let out a loving sigh. Azura was so creative and...dragons. She never would have thought of it, but now she'd been told, it was almost obvious.

"How about 'ancient'?" She suggested. She wasn't quite the poet that Azura was, but she had a basic grasp on the kind of prose that her lyrics turned out to be. Azura could honestly just read them out as poems and they'd be just as impressive as lyrics.

"Within my ancient heart dwells..." Azura read it out, seemingly thinking about the new word choice. "Yes, yes, it definitely works." She smiled and Kamui just fell in love all over again.

"Always glad to be of service," she said, reaching for another handful of crisps. "Sing it to me again?"

"Again?" She laughed, but relented when she caught sight of Kamui's face. Hopefully because she was putting on a hopeful expression. She loved hearing Azura sing and she could honestly listen to her all day. She may have saved every single clip of singing Azura ever sent her to her phone, but that was irrelevant and she would never admit it to anyone. "Fine, I'll sing it with the new words." She cleared her throat and started to sing.

Here was when Kamui usually stopped breathing or pretending that she wasn't in love with Azura. She couldn't just sit by and not be there with a loving look on her face while Azura sang, because everything was just so perfect. Her voice was so smooth and soft and every note she sang was perfectly pitched and her breath control was amazing and every moment that passed without her singing was timed just right so it dragged on just long enough to add feeling and meaning and everything and Kamui just loved it. And her, mostly her.

"How was it?" Azura asked when she was done, and she had that hopeful look on her face like she didn't know she was perfect. Maybe she didn't.

"I love you," Kamui said, and then blushed and realised what she said and ugh. "I mean, ah, I love it. It was great, it sounded really good, um. Um." Azura was smiling and blushing and oh lord above she had really, really fucked up now hadn't she. She'd done everything all wrong and this was it. Azura was going to be too embarrassed to ever speak to her again.

"Do you mean it?" Her voice was quiet and this was her chance. She could confess everything or she could shrug it off and hope that Azura dismissed it for a slip of the tongue in the heat of the moment. Surely it was a compliment that someone would forget how to speak properly after you sang?

"Yes, yeah, of course!" She smiled. "Your voice is great, it makes the song sound really good!" She tried not to laugh awkwardly and then burst into tears. She could do this. Azura would be okay with her now she'd denied everything.

"Can I kiss you, Kamui?" Azura asked, and Kamui very nearly choked on nothing.

"I, ah, um, sure!" She laughed awkwardly this time. "Um, do you want to? Because you don't have to pity me, it's okay."

Azura shook her head. "I think you're beautiful, Kamui, in every way, and I really, really like you in a way I've never felt before. Please, I'd love to kiss you."

And they kissed. And everything was perfect and Kamui could not stop smiling for hours. Azura liked her back. Azura. Beautiful, wonderful, talented Azura loved her back and cared for her and wanted to kiss her and it was wonderful it was amazing.

Kamui giggled as she pulled away from their first and very slightly clumsy kiss. "I think the ocean's grey waves are a bit more like the ocean's gay waves," she said, and Azura sang it that way for her through a fit of laughter. It was the best thing Kamui had ever heard in her life.