Love Returned From The Ashes

Loving The Leader

Iroha pov: I had to step away from Azki-senpai, Sora-senpai, and Suisei-senpai for a little bit to see my Koyori.

"Do you want mayonnaise?" I asked

"Yeah, I would like that," Koyori told me. I tossed her the mayonnaise, and she began to guzzle it down. "Mayo is good," she sighed.

She does seem to like mayonnaise, and I'm happy she does because it is cute to see her drink it.

"Iroha, what do you need?" She asked

"You are cute, and I want to talk to you right now," I said.

Koyori laughed. "I want to talk to you too." She stated

"We are all busy lately, and I just want some time to chat one-on-one. You know, after all, I haven't really had time to talk to you about how you feel about your revenge," I said.

"Well, Iroha, I am fulfilled, but at the same time I'm empty. I don't get it fully, but I think it's because my father was a piece of sh*t that was irredeemable, so it doesn't feel as good to be able to get my revenge and then nothing after," she said.

"Oh, well, as long as you are happy!" I said

"You are my happiness queen," she told me.

Im her queen. That is true. I am that for her. She told me I would be a queen. It makes me smile.

"What are we going to do when people revolt fully?" I asked

Koyori laughed, "Nothing, we will win." She stated

She was so confident about everything. I am happy that she is so adamant about protecting all of us.

"You are my lover, and Lui-nee, Cho-tan, and Laplus are all my family; we deserve to be together," she said.

I smirked once again. She is super happy now. I don't want her to leave this headspace.

"So what are you going to do about Sora-senpai and Azki-senpai?" Koyori asked

"Suisei-senpai is also here now, but I think we are going to have to do a truce because it works that way. I guess we need strong people on our side anyway," I said.

Koyori gave it some thought. "Well, we can work with them, but if we do, then we have to come up with terms, and it's a whole thing." She sighed

"We are on equal footing; I think it'll be fine," I told her.

Koyori gave it some more thought and walked over, connecting our lips quickly. "We can't afford to lose the people's trust," she stated to me.

"I get that, and I won't let you lose trust; they will not be able to deal with anything without you," I said.

"Yes, but they need some independence," she stated.

I nodded. People need independence for sure. If we didn't, then it would be oppressive, it wouldn't be good, and people would revolt, so we need to stop that from happening. We can't let that happen.

We just have to keep going forward headstrong and fight the good fight now.

"Iroha, we should go out for yakiniku again, and maybe we should go out and have drinks," she suggested.

"Koyori, I'd enjoy that a lot," I told her.

The two of us want to bond more, and we really should do so in the near future. It'll be nice to go on dates or "family" outings, and it'll make me happy to do so.

"We need to hurry and focus on the important thing, which is us and our love," Koyori told me.

I am glad she is calling us lovers; she isn't sugarcoating it, and it is really nice.

"We do need to focus on our love; after all, we are an adorable couple," I said.

We both are into each other. Some people may say it is a bit much, but I don't think so. We are just really loving people. It is really cute, to be honest.

"Let's focus on the second most important thing, which is also us, because nothing else really matters right now other than that," she said.

"We need to do something about the others not really believing our love," I said.

"Wait, Laplus, Lui-nee, and Chlo-tan believed our love was real; it was us that denied it," Koyori said.

"Oh yeah!" I laughed

To be honest, we can focus on that later. Our relationship needs to be focused on for the time being, just us, not anything else, because if we don't, we will begin to drift apart, and we don't want that to happen since we are lovers, we are happy, and we want to get married.

"What the hell?" Koyori said as she looked at her computer screen.

"What happened?" I asked

"Nothing really, just things; it isn't important. I don't get it," she said.

I wonder what she saw, though it must not be important because I'm sure she would have told me when she saw it, so I don't know.

"Why are things odd? It is really weird, but it isn't that bad. I mean, what happens if something bad happens and someone comes to attack you? I don't like it at all. I don't want you to get hurt!" She said

"Don't worry, I'm strong!" I said

Koyori nodded and smirked.

"Just be careful. I don't want you to be injured. I want to see you and have you be perfectly fine since you are a good girl and a cute, sexy woman." Koyori said

"I'm more worried about you. It's a bodyguard's job to get hurt, but it is your job to be smart and to be a leader. You can't get hurt. You are such a sweet woman, and I don't want to see you injured because you are so important to me!" I said

"What do you mean?" She asked

I kissed her and showed her what I mean: I love her too much. She is my cute scientist.