Autho's Note: To all the people who read my first story, thanks you for all the kind words and praise. I know some of you were disappointed when I announced I was going to stop working on my original story, but I can only assure you that the second time round will be better. I would like to first start out by introducing Shadowfox026 as my Beta Reader for this story. I feel that part of the reason I started to feel disatisfied with my original story towards the last few chapters was because I didn't look over my chapters enough for the little errors that I realized would be problematic in the future. I hope with Shadowfox's help we will be able to make the next LS story to Lucky Future. I don't want to bore you too much, and there's a bunch of English people behind me telling me to "Get on with it". So on that note, Let's get a crackin!

Chapter 1:

Singled Out

"…Because the lights in the skies are stars. The End. "

There was nothing but silence in the classroom. Was it shock? Was it amazement? Whatever it was, all eyes were centered on the short girl with the long flowing blue hair at the front of her classroom. Her teacher, a tall slender woman with sharp green eyes and long blonde hair tied up in a ponytail raised her eyebrow at the same time her student finished.

"Well, I have to admit, Izumi, that report of yours has got to be the most interesting thing I've heard in a long time" Kuroi said with a straight face.

Konata stared back at her teacher and flashed a big grin on her face.

"Thanks Ma'am! I didn't know if I was going to pull it off myself. I mean, I had to get rid of some of the more trivial facts but even then I wasn't sure if I would make the time limit. But it just goes to show-"

"YOU LITTLE NUMBSKULL!" Kuroi threw her weight onto her foot as she reeled back and made a punching motion that was not unlike that of a pitcher in the major leagues. Her fist quickly became lost in Konata's thick blue hair.

"First off, when I gave you the assignment three weeks ago I told you that you were supposed to write a report on Tokyo, not do a word for word recap of the final episode of some anime show!"

All the positive energy that Konata had from her report was being drained by her teacher's knuckle as she felt it grind into the top of her skull. But few seconds after the initial impact, Kuroi pulled her hand out of Konata's hair. It was bad enough that Kuroi didn't sound like she thought her paper was good, but the fact she wrote about the wrong topic only added 10 gallons of fuel to the proverbial fire.

"Now Sensei, let's just settle down a little bit" Konata said softly, trying to cool off her Teacher's hot head as she rubbed the new welt on her head.

Kuroi's shoulders relaxed a bit and she took a big sigh. "So what were you doing this time, Izumi? Staying up too late watching anime? Or too busy playing games? Another relative died?" As Kuroi listed the multiple other excuses that Konata had used before, the otaku was really trying to remember what she was doing three weeks ago.

Let's see three weeks ago…Three weeks…ummm…Ah! Now I remember! I was at Gamers picking up the Challenge of Haruhi Suzumiya.

The Challenge of Haruhi Suzumiya. It didn't to be said that of all things that one could obsess in this world, Konata was to Haruhi like peanut butter was to jelly. So naturally, when it came time for the latest game to come out, she would be the front of the line. If she wasn't the first one there, she would take advantage of her size and get the people in front of her to pity her so she could move up in line. It was an effective method, as she got the last copy of the first edition set with the free Nagato Eggplant cellphone chain. Instead of working on her report like a good student, she was trying out her new game along with her normal routine of reading manga she bought a few months ago and never got around to, watching late night anime and pulling her shifts at the cosplay café. Technically, every excuse that Kuroi had listed so far was true, minus the dead relative one.

A quick snap of Ms. Kuroi's fingers brought her back into the real world, the world where now Konata looked like a fool for writing about the wrong topic.

"Done spacing out? Like I was saying, you'll never get anywhere in life if you solely devote all your free time to watching anime and reading manga. You'll either end up a NEET or become homeless at your rate."

Another bead of sweat dropped down Konata's head. "Do you have to be so blunt, Ma'am?"

"Just head back to your seat for now, Izumi. I'm done with you for now."

Giving a sigh of sadness, Konata made her way back to her desk amongst a few giggles from her classmates. She slumped into her chair and rested her head on her desk, waiting for the moment when she could go to Dream-land.

"Don't worry, Kona-chan. I thought your report sounded amazing." Konata turned her head to hear the younger of the Hiiragi twinscomplementing her on what was supposed to be her report. Her bow was a reflection of her mood, and right now it drooping a bit, meaning she was sad for her friend but tried her best to cheer her up. She gave off a faint smile then continued. "That was still better then my report, at least she didn't say your paper was too short like mine." Tsukasa had to write a report on Kyoto and it was about 2 minutes shorter then Kuroiwanted, but at least she didn't give off any angry vibes when Tsukasa finished.

Kuroi whipped out a ruler from underneath her desk and slammed it on top of her desk, sending a powerful shockwave throughout the room. "HIIRAGI, IZUMI, EYES AT THE TEACHER!" Both were shocked into sitting straight up and staring right at their teacher. Tsukasa's face was white with fright and looked like she was going to pee herself out of fear seeing how Kuroi-sensei never raised her voice towards her. Konata on the other hand was not scared of her teacher's wrath, but more disappointed in the misappropriation of her energy.

"Man, if Sensei could get this gung-ho about students talking in her class, I wish she could channel that same energy whenever I party with her online. It's hard to pull mobs when I keep dying because the person who should be healing me keeps falling asleep at the computer. "

She glanced across the room to see what Miyuki thought of their current situation. Kuroi would never yell at her - the teacher's straight A student - especially now since she was the only person so far to get a hundred percent on her oral report. Miyuki noticed Konata looking at her and gave her a little wave coupled with that gentle smile of hers that could melt away her troubles.

"MISS TAKARA,THAT GOES FOR YOU AS WELL!"

So much for that. Miyuki was so startled that she fell backwards out of her chair, bringing her desk with her and hit the floor with a thud. Papers that were once prim and proper on Miyuki's desk were scattered about all over the floor.

"Eto- that hurt" Miyuki said to herself looking up at the ceiling. She pushed herself up and noticed a couple of boys in her class staring in her direction with red faces.

Konata's mouth curled in a sly smile as she also picked up on what the guys saw, but for their sakes didn't say anything. To her, Miyuki looked like one of the heroines in her dating sims who seemed to be the only sane one out of a bunch of weirdos, but would end up yandere obsessive, usually leading to a bad end. Luckily for any future boyfriends she might have, Konata had never seen Miyuki do anything yandere-crazy, but then again she had never seen Miyuki mad either, so the possibility was still there.

She put her head back on her desk and couldn't help but chuckle a bit herself. Oh Miyuki-san, you make the education process moe.

After taking a few deep breaths and giving Miyuki time to get herself back up, Kuroi gave out her last speech for the day. "Okay, I know you guys have the long break coming up but I'm going to ask you to promise me one thing." At this point, Kuroi's shoulders sagged a bit and her voice became more distressed. "I don't care what you do over the break, but just please whatever you do, finish your homework and show your answers please." With that last statement, she turned her head towards Konata's direction. Konata made eye-contact with Kuroi, raised her head up from her desk and pointed at herself in a "You Mean Me?" gesture.

"While writing a zero on your paper would mean less work for me, it would reflect poorly on me as your teacher. Besides, I don't want to spend all my free time after break marking late papers and inputting grades onto the computer because you decided to be lazy. I'm still young, I wanna goof off too, ya know?"

"But Ma'am, don't you spend most of your free time on the computer anyway?"

Konata suddenly realized her poor choice of words as she heard a collective gasp from the class. She could see her teacher clench her fist and grit her teeth. Technically, corporal punishment had been banned in the Japanese classroom but that didn't stop Kuroi. None of the other teachers cared, or no one in her class was willing to speak up. Either way, she buried her head under her arms and braced for impact.

"Class dismissed."

When Konata heard those words, she thought it must have been a joke. But sure enough, it was time for school to end and everyone was starting to pack up and leave. Man, I thought she was going to give me some lumps for a second. Maybe I should take it easier on her in the future.

While Tsukasa, Miyuki and everyone else had already left the classroom, Konata was busy emptying her desk of all her important possessions.

By important, that meant her Gameboy, her DS, her PSP and a few mangas she snuck into school. She made it a habit not to bring her textbooks home until she had a test to cram for, so they sat in her locker for about 95% of the school year.

As she was making her way towards the door to go meet Miyuki and Tsukasa in the hall, she was abruptly stopped by Ms. Kuroi.

"Can I have a word with you, Konata?" Kuroi asked with a stern face. Those words signaled danger. When a teacher is on a first name basis with a student without the honorifics, it's usually not good.

Putting on a good face, she nodded her head and poked her head out into the hall. "Hey guys, I got something to take care of, so I'll see you and Kagami in a little bit, okay?" They both nodded their heads to her and started their way down the hall.

"Follow me, Izumi."

Miss Kuroi made her way to the teacher's lounge with Konata in tow. Only bad kids had to go talk to their teachers personally.

"Man, I'm really in some kind of trouble."

I think I'll keep the original story up for a few days if you guys want to make any comparisons to this and the original.

If anyone can tell me what show Konata was referencing in the beginning, I will give you a special treat.

Someone asked me if the Challenge of Haruhi Suzumiya is a real game in the last story. I hate to break it to you, but it is not. If you have a Wii that plays Japanese games, you could play the Excitement or Parallel of Haruhi Suzumiya, only if you're willing to chock up a good deal of money to import it.

Might as well get started on the rest. Later!