This is my very first fanfic, so please tell me if there's anything I can do to make it better in the future.
I do NOT own Lucky Star or anything affiliated with Lucky Star, I don't even own one of those awesome Figma dolls of Konata or Kagami, even though I want one really bad.
Chapter 1 Bored!
Rain poured down again, and once again Kagami Hiragi found herself listening to the drops patter against the roof of her home, droning on, and making her sleepy even as she tried to study. She had already finished her homework for the break, but she decided slacking off too much would be setting herself up for a future failure. Even so, as she glanced at her digital clock she saw that she had studied for two hours straight without a break, and decided since it was a holiday after all, there was no need to push herself to misery.
She got up from her desk, and made sure to properly put away all of her study materials lest she forget to pack them for school before the holiday's end, and after straightening her desk left to check up on her little sister. She knew Tsukasa should be studying as well, or at least doing her homework, but she also knew that Tsukasa probably wasn't doing what she should be doing. Closing her door behind her, Kagami walked down the hall, and lightly tapped on Tsukasa's door a few times, and when she didn't receive a response she decided to open the door, and see what her sister was doing.
She was greeted by an all-too-familiar scene when the door was moved. Little Tsukasa was lying on the floor amidst scattered bits of homework fast asleep. Kagami sighed inwardly, she knew her little sister tried, but she just couldn't focus on studying for very long.
Kagami let herself into her sister's room, and decided to go ahead, and at least get her homework put up properly. Kagami wasn't much for cleaning, and household chores, but she wouldn't take a risk that her little sister's future could be negatively impacted just because she accidentally tore a sheet of homework in her sleep. After putting away Tsukasa's homework Kagami lowered herself down to her little sister, and gently began to shake her saying kindly, "Tsukasa, Tsukasa, wake up. You at least need to get in your bed."
Tsukasa groaned lightly, and whimpered as she turned away from her sister seeking refuge in her dreams from a force trying to bring reality to her eyes. Kagami sighed outwardly this time, and decided to at least get Tsukasa her pillow, and the blanket off of her bed. She raised little Tsukasa's head onto a small, fluffy, cotton pillow, and then covered her. She found herself smiling at her little sister when Tsukasa snuggled into her pillow deeply with a tiny smile. After that Kagami decided to tuck the blanket around her sister's body just to make sure she didn't end up sticking her feet out, and catching a cold.
Once done making sure her baby sister was comfortable she took a moment to look around Tsukasa's room. As far as carpet, and color scheme went, her room wasn't much different from Tsukasa's, just their decorations. Tsukasa had little stuffed animals peeking out from cute places on her bookshelves, held up by some mangas. Kagami's own bookshelf held many different light novels on a few different subjects. She wasn't a hardcore fantasy addict like a certain one of her friends, but she did sometimes enjoy reading about a romance between two people.
She stopped her thoughts from wandering once she got to that. She knew if she started getting lost in thought all the time she may end up like Tsukasa, and never find her way out again. This threat seemed particularly real for her since her, and Tsukasa were twins, even as fraternal twins from different eggs, they still shared enough of the same genes that Kagami thought she could easily become absent minded, and oblivious if she didn't monitor her thoughts and actions.
With her business in Tsukasa's room finished she left quietly, turning out Tsukasa's light, and closing her the distraction of caring for her little sister no longer present, Kagami felt her stomach grumbling, and decided to go get a little snack. Halfway to the kitchen she found herself debating whether or not she needed a snack since she was trying to lose weight. She was still deciding on this when she reached the refrigerator, and all thoughts of not eating vanished when she spotted the cookies Tsukasa had baked for them the night before to go after dinner. There were still some left, and Kagami decided that she would have two of them.
Unfortunately after the two, she decided just one more wouldn't hurt, and then one more, and before she knew it she had eaten five of the cookies. Kagami wanted more, but she disgustedly walked away grumbling about the unfairness of sweets. How could they be so good, and so bad at the same time? Even with debate though, there was no changing facts, and she decided against going back for any more of the cookies.
Kagami decided to look out the front door, and see how the storm looked in her neighborhood, but as she approached the front door, the phone in the entrance of her home rung, and she picked it up halfway through the first ring, answering, "Hello?"
The voice on the other end sounded exuberant as usual, spouting,"Wow, that was fast, you must have been waiting on me to call all day, huh?"
Kagami hadn't talked to her little blue haired friend for even ten seconds, and she could already feel a vein in her head pulsing. She said into the receiver,"Hey Kona-"
Without even waiting for Kagami to finish her sentence her energetic friend said, "I'm soooo BOOOOORED. There's nothing to do because of the rain, and nobody is even online right now, so I called to ask what you're doing Kagami-sama."
Kagami had an urge to just put the receiver down, and act like nobody had ever called, but since she didn't have anything else important to do she decided to talk to Konata. Of course, as usual the first thing she said to Konata was, "Well, if you have nothing else to do, you could always try homework."
To which Konata exclaimed, "NO WAY! Don't be so quick to make crazy suggestions, we should try to reason our way out of boredom first."
"Well, didn't you say you just got a new one of those sims you're always playing, why can't you do that?"
"I already got all of the endings, it wasn't as hard as I thought, and besides, after managing to keep you as a friend, the average tsundere poses about as much challenge as Miyuki in a head-to-head snowboarding simulator."
"What's that supposed to mean?" said Kagami feeling that vein stick out a little more.
Konata replied, "OOOOO...you sound so scary, are you trying to frighten me away Kagamiiin?", she stretched out the last syllable in Kagamin.
Kagami could tell Konata was in a teasing mood because she only called her by her nickname when she was teasing, or she wanted something, and since she wasn't making any effort at sweet-talking, Kagami could deduce she wanted to tease. Kagami told Konata, "Look, Konata if you just called me to get your teasing fix, then just forget about having a conversation, I'm not really interested. Besides, I really should be studying right now."
Konata seemed to get that Kagami wasn't in the mood because she backed off a little, saying, "Well, why don't we go do something? I'm sure you've already studied enough for three holidays, let's go have some fun girl."
Konata often acted on whims like this with no thought about environmental factors, which is why Kagami asked, "Have you looked out your window? It's storming, what could we possibly do? You should pay more attention when you're trying to make plans with someone."
Konata sighed, and explained, as if to a child, which really irked Kagami,"Kagami when you plan everything out, you miss out on so many random encounter percentages. Honestly, how do you expect to find any of the sidequests?"
Kagami said lightly, in a fake bored voice she was sure Konata couldn't tell was fake, "That's it, I'm hanging up now."
"WAIT!" Konata yelled into the receiver,"You CAN'T just leave me like this!"
"Well," said Kagami, "Are you going to stop referencing life to video games?"
To which Konata responded, "Yes Kagamin.", then she whispered, "At least for a few minutes."
The Indigo haired girl found herself sighing once again, for which she got a tease about being in love from Konata, but even though her friend could be aggravating at times, Kagami felt the conversation was a nice distraction from studying, and rain. The two found themselves talking about upcoming holidays, and Kagami declining to let Konata copy her homework, and their friends, and a few places in town they wanted to visit, and Kagami declining to let Konata copy her homework, all the way to good foods, and wondering why they're shaped certain ways, and even Kagami declining to let Konata copy her homework.
They talked long enough for the rain to slack off, and even though it was still sprinkling a little outside the sun shone in the sky. Kagami looked at the rays of sunshine through the window on her front door, and saw as a giant rainbow arched from somewhere in the middle of the sky to somewhere in the distance. Just as she was about to comment on it, Konata said, "Wow...it's so beautiful..."
Kagami was more than a little surprised, Konata didn't seem the type to get choked up about a sight like that, and she found herself asking, "You think so?"
Konata responded, "Yeah...I finally...finally raised a golden gr*nty."
There was a pause in the conversation during which Kagami facepalmed. She thought to herself, "I should have figured it was something like , Konata probably couldn't even see the rainbow as they were only visible from certain angles."
"Hey, what's up with the sudden awkward silence?", said Konata, interrupting Kagami's thoughts.
"Yeah, sorry, I kind of spaced out."answered Kagami.
Konata answered proudly, and excitedly,"Oh yeah! That's my Kagamin, I bet if you tried, you could be as big an airhead as Tsukasa."
Kagami felt her vein pulse out one more time which resulted in a sudden returning of the receiver to it's place on the phone base. She immediately realized she shouldn't have done that since now Konata would have confirmation that she had discovered another one of Kagami's secret fears, and would probably terrorize her with it later. It was already bad enough that Konata knew Kagami tended to get lonely easily, and it made her blush when Konata called her, "My Kagamin," or anything like that. She'd have to find a way to break her little friend of that habit, but thus far, she had managed to find only a few of Konata's little fears.
She knew she could always get on Konata's nerves by leaning on top of her, and emphasizing her shortness, even if Konata had tried to hide her dislike of that lately, Kagami knew her well enough to know it was still working. She was afraid of overly teasing Konata though, she didn't want to push the smaller girl away or anything, just teach her a lesson about all the teasing. Kagami would never hurt any of her friends if she could help it.
Sighing that the conversation hadn't ended as pleasantly as it was for most of it's duration, she was still glad she had talked to her friend for a while. She began to walk back towards her room, when there was a vibration from her pocket. She reached into her pocket, and pulled out her cell phone which let her know she had just gotten a text message from Konata. She smirked as she pictured her short friend scrambling all over trying to find her cell phone to text Kagami because she knew she wouldn't get an answer if she called right back.
The message said, "No fair Kagamin! You didn't even say goodbye! Oh well, it was nice talking to you for a bit, hopefully we'll get a chance to meet up later. Tell Tsukasa I said, "Hi.," and make sure to tuck her in if she falls asleep on the floor again, we don't need her catching a cold."
Kagami couldn't help but smile at the confirmation that Kona actually cared about her friends, and could be sweet when she wanted to be. She was about to return her cell phone to her pocket when it vibrated once more. The new message said, "We don't need her getting sick, and ruining our fun when we go out somewhere! Anyways, see ya later Kagamin, Love ya girl! 3"
Kagami once again removed her palm from her face, although since she had become friends with Kona-chan she felt like she might as well leave it there to save her the effort of raising it to her forehead the next time she spoke to Konata. Even so, the last line made her feel a little happy. She knew Konata didn't get overly emotional, and that little, "Love ya girl! 3," was the equivalent of Tsukasa hugging her. Even if Kagami was the only one, she could tell that her Konata cared.
She went back to her room before before texting Konata back, sending, "Yeah, she's already asleep, and yes, she is on the floor just to save you another text. Sorry for hanging up on you so suddenly, but you shouldn't tease people like that. Learn some tact, and it'll go a long way. Anyways, I think I'll go read, talk to you later Konata, bye."
Kagami sighed once more, and fell back onto her bed feeling the softness of her mattress and pillows. She smiled, and thought fondly, "That girl's going to be the death of me, or maybe I'll be the death of her if she doesn't stop teasing me. Either way one thing's for sure, you never have an ordinary day with her around."
Her phone buzzed again, and she checked it to see a message from Kona, but she didn't read it. She was sure it was some obligatory statement saying goodbye or something anyways, it could wait until later. She knew she should be studying, or at least reading like she told Konata she was going to, but now that she was in bed, and feeling the warmth of the sun coming through her window after the storm had slacked off, she couldn't find the strength to leave her bed, and quickly fell asleep.
Konata waited patiently for a reply to her text message for about five minutes before deciding that Kagami was ignoring her. That girl could be so hard headed sometimes. She didn't understand how a girl with that kind of intellect couldn't get caught up in all the interesting subjects she could learn about if she just put forth a little effort.
Unknown to Konata, Kagami often thought the exact same thing in reverse. Konata wasn't the type to read very far into people's feelings though. It wasn't that she didn't care, she cared more about her friends than anything else, it was just that she never really understood feelings very well. A lot of the time she didn't even know what she was feeling if it was a feeling she didn't feel very often.
Her inability to decipher many different feelings is what lead her to not have a large amount of friends, and be, for the most part socially awkward, except during her internet time, when she was playing her game character. While she was a character in her MMO she always felt in control, she always knew what she wanted, and could easily make friends because she was never worried about emotions getting in the way of adventuring or even just random trolling for fun.
She never really wondered about her lack of friends. She knew she was different as soon as she started Junior high, and all the other kids grew up, and she didn't. During the period where she lacked almost any friends during Junior high, her father's like of games, and manga started to rub off even more on her since she spent more time around him, and then she just got in deep like her dad did. So much so that he was able to bribe her into getting into a high grade high school where she finally made real friends.
She had Tsukasa, Kagami's little twin sister although Tsukasa was much sweeter than her older sister, and a great cook. Tsukasa had introduced Konata to Kagami, as well as Miyuki. Miyuki was their Class Rep, and the most intelligent person Konata had ever met, although she tended to space out, and be incredibly clumsy.
Then there was Kagami. Kagami was different from the other two since hers and Konata's personalities clashed, and often resulted in arguments, but at the same time Kagami was also closer to Konata than the other two because they were familiar enough to tease each other, and still be friends. They understood that the teasing was friendly, and whenever one took it too far an apology had always been able to mend things.
It was because of the making up process that Konata learned that Kagami had a sweet side as well. Kagami was Tsundere to the core. It was way hard for her to admit she cared about something out loud, but Konata, and Tsukasa both knew that once Kagami decided to care about someone she would do everything she could to make sure they were happy. She genuinely cared about Konata even when they were arguing, and she hardly ever pushed as hard as Konata did because she was afraid of losing a friend.
That caring is partially what sparked arguments between Kona and Kagami since Konata felt that Kagami should be more open with her feelings she often teased in order to get Kagami to admit her feelings in anger. Konata thought Kagami could be a really happy person if she would be a little more honest with herself, and care a little less about her appearance. Konata already knew Kagami was prettier than Konata would ever be, so she didn't see why Kagami should fuss over something like that.
After thinking for a bit about why Kagami and her were friends Konata also remembered another person she considered a friend. Ms. Kuroi was another important person to Konata. When Konata had first started high school, she hadn't had a single friend, and was always lonely. Ms. Kuroi had been able to get Konata to open up to her though, and they began to find that they had much in common. Ms. Kuroi was actually the reason Konata had decided to give an airhead like Tsukasa a chance at being her friend. Once she learned how much fun it was to talk with your real friends online and play games Konata was willing to work harder to keep the friends that took interest in her like Tsukasa, and because of that Konata now had many people who were close to her.
Suddenly Kona realized this train of thought was making her way serious. If she kept down that path she might be like Kagami, and she had a feeling she wouldn't be as likeable as Kagami even if she had the exact same personality, so she decided to watch some T*ig*n, and see if she could get a little seriousness out by laughing at the main character's antics. It worked, and she got caught up in the story all over again with Mi**y and her child-like nature, and W*lfw**d as his personality conflicted just perfectly with the main characters to ensure they had a unique friendship.
It wasn't long at all before she felt herself growing sleepy as the rain started back up though. She wondered if Kagami would read her last text message, and respond. She also wondered for a very brief moment if she should do her homework just to see the look on Kagami's face if she showed up. As well as proving that Konata could do it herself. She decided against it though, as that would give her one less reason to go see her friend.
Her pillow seemed to be sucking her in as she fought sleep, enjoying her half-conscious train of thought. She wondered why Kagami always wore pigtails, what if Tsukasa had long hair and Kagami short. She smiled as she pictured Miyuki's large bust on her own little body, and that was the though she conked out on. Her little sleep giggles were confirmation that her amusing thoughts didn't end with sleep.