I DO NOT OWN LUCKY STAR. IT'S KAGAMI YOSHIMIZU'S PROPERTY. THIS IS A FANFICTION.

"I'm home!" Kagami Hiiragi yelled, closing the door.

She sighed, taking off her shoes and throwing her backpack on the couch, carelessly. That wasn't her usual behavior, but today she was especially tired and wasn't really paying attention to anything. The only thoughts on her head now were to take a hot bath and head right to bed.

Kagami took a step forward thinking about the water and foam of a relaxing night bath when suddenly she stopped. There was something out of order. Her tiredness was making it difficult for her to figure out what, but she just knew something was wrong.

Quiet. Way too quiet.

Her heart leaped. Where was the usual noise coming from the TV, or the telephone or any other device? Her ears were not used to that silence. Kagami walked faster and went upstairs, going two steps at a time. Then she went all the way through the hallway, which was not a long distance, and opened the door a little harsher then she'd planned to.

"AAHHHHHH!" Somebody screamed from inside the room.

"AHHHHH!" Kagami screamed too. The person who screamed first was lying on the floor, bended over like a mourner. It looked like she was protecting something more precious than life itself.

"Wha… What's going on?" Asked Kagami after the sudden fright, still breathing shakily, with her hand on her chest.

"IT IS HORRIBLE! HORRIBLE I SAY! KAGAMIN!" The girl, who was obviously Konata Izumi, said that in such a desperate voice that for a minute Kagami believed that something awful had indeed happened. But, knowing that blue-haired otaku for a long, long time, she quickly calmed down and a sudden rage built up inside her.

"Horrible… huh. What exactly happened now?"

Konata was sniffing and shaking, and it took a while for her to stand up. She had something in her hands and was hugging it against her body with all her vital strength. That's when Kagami knew she was dramatizing some stupid problem. As usual.

"I-I didn't… It wasn't… Can you… It broke when… And then I just… Fi-fix it…"

Kagami raised an eyebrow.

"Would you please form a cohesive phrase?"

"MY NI**ENDO DS IS DEAD!" Yelled Konata, collapsing once again on the floor. That was it. Kagami was too tired to take such an idiotic complaining.

"You almost make me have a heart-attack because of your stupid game?"

Konata turned her face and stared at Kagami, stunned.

"How… DARE you!"

Kagami clenched her fists with a really hard desire to punch her short friend on the face. And she would've done it if her muscles weren't so heavy for her to lift. Then she did what she normally did whenever Konata was too annoying to bear.

She turned around and ignored her.

Konata got on her feet in seconds.

"Wait, wait, Kaga—"

SLAM!

Kagami slammed the door and then locked herself in the bathroom for the so expected bath.

And that was basically what the two girl's lives became since they started college.

The older twin of Tsukasa Hiiragi happened to get a nice apartment near the metro station, so it was infinitely easier for her to get to her College. Konata on the other side couldn't find a place to live. And to make things worse, the college that happened to accept her was too far away for her to go by bicycle, and all the vacant apartments near the stations were already rented by that time of year. And, as cold-hearted as people may classify Kagami Hiiragi, she couldn't just leave her friend in a situation like that. So, hesitantly, she offered to share her brand new apartment with Konata, who accepted willingly.

Thing is: Kagami Hiiragi and Konata Izumi are the total opposite of each other. Constant fighting and arguing were basically what their lives were all about now, and Kagami was starting to regret being such a nice person. Konata on the other hand was just glad she didn't have to walk three kilometers to get to the metro station everyday.

Also, having her best friend around was too much fun.

After forty long minutes, the bathroom's door opened, and a slim fog covered the hallway. Kagami exited calmly, rubbing a towel on her wet hair and sighing with pleasure. She was feeling a whole lot better.

The girl walked towards the room, but suddenly stopped on her tracks. Maybe going in there wasn't a good idea yet. But she needed to get her hairdryer, which was forgotten inside the closet.

"Well… After so long she can't possibly be still upset…" Kagami hated to fool herself like that, but it was the only way to build up courage to get in the room. And so she did.

"I'm just going to get my hairdryer, so don't even talk to me." Was the first thing she commented after opening the door, frowning.

Konata was laid down on her stomach, reading one of her manga's. She looked up and put the manga down.

"Okay, okay. I'm sorry about doing such a drama back there."

Kagami looked over her shoulder while grabbing the object she wanted, not really convinced.

"If you're so sorry, then drop this thing already."

Konata was unconsciously still holding onto the broken DS. She laughed a bit nervously and put the game down carefully on her pillow.

"There. See? It's all good now!"

Kagami was already going back to the bathroom.

"Ok then."

"Wait, Kagamin!"

But the room's door slammed again. Konata was left in a frozen position of somebody who was trying to reach something which was far away. Then gravity made its work and the little otaku fell face-first on the floor.

"Ouch."

Pulling herself up, Konata frowned. Kagami was doing that whole ignoring thing again. This was what really annoyed Konata since they moved in together. But Konata knew she probably deserved this. Kagami did that whenever she was too tired to stand her, and Konata always pushed her to her limits. But even so, she wanted to talk to Kagami, and it was going to be hard that way.

Sighing, she got back to read her manga. Konata would try again when the door opened once more. Ten minutes passed and Kagami wasn't back yet. Getting impatient, she finally jumped out of her bed and went looking for her.

"Kagami?" She whispered, peaking inside the bathroom. No sign of her. Then she heard the familiar sound of the TV show Kagami always watched late at night. Walking carefully step by step, Konata got to the living room, where Kagami was sitting with her pajamas on, with a cereal bar on one hand and the remote control on the other.

"There you are!"

"Busy. Go away."

Konata sat down next to her.

"Are you going to ignore me forever?"

"Nope. Only until tomorrow. That's when my impatience goes away, and you know that."

Konata couldn't argue with that.

"Fine. Can I just say one tiny thing? Please?"

Kagami turned her head lazily and stared at Konata's big emerald eyes. She knew she should say no, but she wasn't in the mood of standing Konata whining all night long either. She sighed heavily, clearly annoyed.

"Fine."

"Yes! Well… Since my game broke, and tomorrow is Saturday… You think you and I could go to Akiba… And buy a new one?"

"Why can't you go alone?"

"Because, Kagamin, we need to go together! Besides, you wanted to buy the next volume of that light novel you're reading too, didn't you?"

She did have a point there. Even so, Kagami had too much work for college and she didn't want to do anything in a hurry. But… going there to buy her book didn't seem like a bad idea either. Damn, she would have to agree with Konata and they were in the middle of a fight.

"I guess… But I'll go there only to buy my book, got it? No way I'm going to wait around for you."

Konata smirked and jumped up and down on the couch.

"Thank you Kagamin! I knew I could count on you!" And with that she stormed upstairs. Kagami watched as the little otaku ran to her room and sweatdropped.

"You'll never grow up, will you…"

Kagami woke up with a start. Her bed was shaking crazily and for a second she thought an earthquake was hitting that side of Japan. Getting up quickly her face hit something hard and the something hard yelled at the same time as her. Kagami rubbed her nose and finally focused enough to understand what was going on.

"Ouch! I make sure you won't lose your precious day time and that's how you thank me? I'm hurt!" Said Konata rubbing her nose as well.

"OUT OF MY ROOM!"

"Roger." Running as fast as she could, Konata managed to duck from the alarm clock that Kagami threw a couple seconds after that.

"Ugh… Unbelievable." Looking at the other clock on the wall, Kagami realized it was way too early to wake up in a Saturday. Dropping her head lowly and moaning, there was nothing she could do now. At least the stores wouldn't be so crowded at 8:00am. Plus, now she needed to buy another alarm clock. Thanks a lot Konata.

"Care to tell me why in the world we needed to wake up so early?"

"Kagami, Kagami. Have you ever been to Akihabara on a Saturday?" Was Konata's proper answer, and Kagami decided to accept it.

The two girls walked down the streets of Akihabara calmly. Some stores were opening and others were already full of people. It was an especially hot morning and the weather was really nice to a walk outside. Kagami decided to stop being mad at Konata now and just enjoy the walk. They finally reached Kagami's store, but it was still closed.

"Oh man… Guess I'll just wait here. You can go without me, can't you?"

"Aww… You sure you don't want to go along with your friend till the next store?"

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure" Giggled her. Konata shrugged and told her that they'd meet later at one of the café's.

Kagami looked at her clock. Five minutes for her to waste. She moved some inches and looked at the newest books on the store's showcase. Trying to read one of the book's covers, Kagami took a step to the side, stumbling into another person.

"Oh, I'm sorry!"

"Oh, it's cool. Don't worry about it."

It was a guy, wearing a lazy stripped shirt and jeans, maybe the same age as her. He had black-pitched hair and green eyes. Kagami couldn't take her eyes of him, but not because he was pretty. It was because he reminded her awfully of somebody. He seemed to notice that and turned to her.

"Sorry… You wanted to check this one out?"

Taking notice of what she was doing, Kagami blushed and turned quickly.

"Oh… No, no, I'm sorry. I'm just waiting for the store to open."

"You come here often?"

Kagami was taken by surprise with that question. Was he… hitting on her, or something? Probably not. But then again, Kagami Hiiragi didn't usually talk to boys, only the ones in her class.

"Yeah… Here's the place where I usually buy my books and stuff…"

"Then how come you don't know when it opens?" Asked him, but not in a playful way. He really wanted to know the reason. And honestly, Kagami didn't know the reason either.

"I guess it never occurred to me to check that."

"And you call yourself a fan…" He mumbled. Kagami raised an eyebrow.

"I'm sorry?"

Suddenly the store's doors moved and they could finally go inside. The guy waved distractedly to her.

"Well, see ya."

Kagami sweatdropped. What was that all about?

Konata's journey till her gaming store was full of adventures along the way. Or so she liked to imagine it.

As a hardcore otaku, Konata had her ways to buy limited edition things before they ran out. Also, she managed to control her wicked side for buying new material after years of experience. Konata Izumi has trained herself to not be distracted by simple objects that might be of her interest and go straight to what she wanted the most first. Ads saying "40% OFF!" and "NEVER BEFORE RELEASED!" caught her eyes, that she couldn't deny, but her brain already interpreted the message as 'enemies trying to distract you from your princess' or 'not worth of fighting, little gain of exp.'.

So when she entered the store Gamers, she didn't freeze and stopped every three seconds to check the new games and manga's released. Konata went straight to her big prize: The Nint**do DSi she so wanted to buy since the girl witnessed the commercial on TV.

Of course, the store was extremely full of people, as always. Konata only smirked and thanked Haruhi for her small size for once.

"I'm going in." She muttered to herself before diving into the crowd.

"Let's see…"

Kagami's store was a hundred times emptier, and she was glad for it. She could take a look calmly at every book she wanted, without being interrupted and without that afflicting sensation that if she didn't hurry all the books in the store would disappear as fast as a lightning.

The background song was also calm. A perfect bookstore as far as Kagami was concerned.

"Oh, there it is!" Kagami found the new volume of her light novel and walked towards it. She was about to grab the book when another hand took it. Well, the hand didn't actually take the first one. It grabbed the book at the bottom. Kagami looked up, puzzled. Where had she seen such an action before…?

"You again!" Said Kagami, louder than she expected.

The boy with whom she'd talked earlier stared back at her with the same surprised expression.

"Oh, hey!" He looked down at the book and then back at Kagami. "Oh, you wanted this one too?"

Kagami nodded, a bit embarrassed by her reaction.

"Here, let me get it for you." The boy repeated the action, taking the last book instead of the first one, and then delivering it to Kagami.

"Thanks…"

"No problem." Answered the boy, smiling. Kagami was still trying to remember where she'd seen somebody doing that same thing he did.

"Bet you're wondering why I get you the last one, huh?" Said the boy, as if he'd read Kagami's thoughts. The girl nodded, a little awkwardly.

"Well, don't you hate it when you grab a book and open it and all the pages are stained and creased? It's horrible to read! I figured that this happens because you always get the first book from the pile, and that's the one everybody put their hands on to take a look. So it only made sense that the last ones were the cleanest, and since this discovery I've only read clean and perfect books. It makes total sense, don't you think?"

"Sushi!" Kagami snapped. The boy sweatdropped.

"Uh… I'm sorry?"

Kagami then remembered where she'd seen somebody do that. Her own roommate did it. Konata always grabbed the manga's at the bottom of the pile. She even gave the same explanation as the boy at that time. Kagami remembered saying that she did the same thing on sushi restaurants.

Then she also remembered that the boy was probably thinking she was crazy.

"Oh! N-no, I mean…" Kagami stuttered, blushing furiously. "My… My friend does that too."

"With sushi…?" Asked him, raising an eyebrow.

"No! When she's buying manga and stuff like this."

The boy laughed.

"Oh, good. If she did that with sushi I'd say she was crazy."

Kagami felt a tingle of annoyance. What was wrong with doing that with sushi too? Geez…

"Yeah, heh… I mean, what weirdo would do it with food, right…?"

"Actually, my cousin does it." He said, staring at her with a serious expression. Kagami sweatdropped even more. This couldn't get any more awkward.

"T-that's not what I m-meant, either!"

The boy laughed.

"Haha, I'm kidding! You should've seen your face, it was classic!"

"Huh…?"

"Hey, you said your friend read manga, didn't you?" The boy's expression got serious again. Kagami frowned with a tingle of annoyance.

"Y-yeah, I did."

"Does she have the complete series of Elf*n Li*ed? I was trying to buy on Gamers yesterday, but some fat guy got the last one before me, and the manager said they wouldn't receive it until next month. It's really frustrating."

Kagami had no idea of what that guy was talking about, and it was starting to piss her off.

"How should I know? I'm not the one who buys it, and I'm not into that stuff either!"

The boy stopped. "Oh… I see. You are a simple-minded one." He shook his head, in disappointment. "And I here thinking you were cool…"

"Well, so sorry if I'm not a geek like you!" The words escaped from her mouth before she realized it.

The boy seemed appalled, and put a hand over his heart, backing up in shock.

"How… DARE you!"

Then Kagami widened her eyes. Those moves… That attitude… Even the way of speaking.

Even though they barely knew each other, Kagami felt the urge to scowl him. He was childish and immature. And Kagami felt a familiar aura near that guy. If it was any other boy, she wouldn't even be near him right now after all that awkwardness from before. But he wasn't like any other boy.

He was the exact copy of Konata's personality.

Hey guys! How are you? I'm doing really good.

Soo! TSL is back with another Lucky Star fic. This one is mostly about Kagami, Konata and a certain boy that will either ruin their friendship forever, or make their friendship stronger than it ever was.

All I can say is that a Love Triangle will be formed, but who's going to fall in love with who? Stay tunned!

- TSL