Disclaimer: Shugo Chara, Lucky Star and the characters of said shows are not mine.

Damn it.

A/N: Yes, I know. I already have two stories on the go, and I should be working on them. But this just wouldn't leave me alone ….

Also, yes. I kinda heavily ripped off the first episode of Shugo Chara for the beginning of this, especially Nobuko Saeki and her lines.

A A/N: Also, edited slightly.

Despite all outward appearances, Konata was not a happy girl, although listening to anime soundtracks whilst committing genocide against various species of monsters on her computer was pushing her mood back up.

Today had been just like every other day: Wake up, go to school, tease Kagami like she was a twelve year old boy who didn't know how to handle his crush, get shouted at, come home.

She sighed as a remarkably lucky hit sent her character back to the respawn point. She was eighteen years old, already. She should know how to handle her feelings better than this!

She enjoyed tormenting Kagami just as much as the pigtailed girl enjoyed being tormented, but … she didn't know what else to do.

At least Kagami paid her attention when she picked on her.

Mumbling as she got killed – online – yet again, Konata mumbled to herself as she hit the logout button and closed down the media player.

Why can't I just stop this and tell her?!

A glance at the clock on the computer's desktop revealed that it wasn't time for any of her animes but, deciding to give the RPGs a break until she stopped dying, she flicked the monitor off and the television on.

And immediately saw the biggest woman she'd seen outside of a specialist manga that she was never going to look at again.

"There's a guardian spirit behind you!"

Purely because of the suddenness of that line Konata immediately looked over her shoulder, seeing nothing.

Chuckling at herself, she turned back to the TV.

"That's right! No matter who they are, every person has a guardian spirit protecting them!"

"I'd like to believe that, fat lady," Konata muttered, settling down to see just what the heck this show was all about.

"Even rude girls who call people names have guardian spirits watching over their true selves!" Oddly, she sounded slightly annoyed.

"Heh. That's silly," Konata said to herself, digging an old and well-loved manga out of the pile.

"Those who call them silly will die!"

"Whoah!" Jumping back from the television, Konata suddenly found herself sweating.

Is she talking to me? This is like that episode of-

"I am talking to you!"

Slightly scared, although she'd never admit it to anyone, Konata grabbed the remote and turned the TV off.

… that was weird. Was I imagining it, or was she really talking to me?

Sitting in a little curled-up ball on her bed, Konata found herself in the novel position of thinking rather than playing on her computer – due to her recent habit of dying a lot – or watching the television, due to it apparently being possessed.

I've got to stop being so nervous around Kagami. Every time she's around I just get all worked up and … and I go too far. Way too far, sometimes. It isn't helping, and it's not what I'm really like!

Cuddling her knees, she sighed.

Heh. Guardian spirits? If you really are out there like the TV said, I could do with your help. I need to be more serious, able to say what I actually want to say to Kagamin without losing it and pushing her away with a dumb comment or dirty line…

Eggs? In her bed?

Either her father had tried - and failed - to grasp the concept of 'breakfast in bed', or ... she was a mother?

She knew that she occasionally missed things in class, but she was still pretty sure that it wasn't supposed to happen like this.

Finally glancing at her clock, she let out a little squeak of surprise before hurridly getting dressed, tucking the eggs into her bag - she didn't trust them to survive a day in this houseo n their own - and rushed off to school, hoping to get there on time.