Chapter 1: The Repercussions of a Dream
I don't own Lucky Star. I'm just a fan, and this is just a fanfic. KagamixKonata
This is my first attempt at fan fiction, and really the first time I've done any creative writing that wasn't a high school homework assignment, so please read and let me know what you think!
This story is set immediately after Kagami's dream segment from the Lucky Star OVA, so If you haven't, please check it out before you read. Its definitely worth the watch.
The Repercussions of a Dream
What a dream I had last night. That girl is always getting into my head when I least expect it. Still, that witch costume sure was adorable...
The bell signaling the lunch break tore Hiiragi Kagami from her inner monologue. Uncharacteristically, she'd been unable to focus during morning classes. Sakuraba-sensei had actually had to repeat her name several times during roll call before she'd been able to respond. For some reason, the strange dream she'd had the previous night refused to get out of her head.
Oh well, I'm just having an off day, maybe I'll feel more alert after I get some lunch.
"Oy Hiiragi!Forget the squirt and eat with us today!" She vaguely recognized her fanged classmate Misao's loud voice as she exited the classroom, still in a daze.
Kagami walked her typical path down the hall and into her friends classroom, barely paying attention to her surroundings. Just before she entered, she paused to gather her thoughts and put on a cheerful front.
"Osu! How's it go-oof!"
"Kagamiiiiin~!" squealed her tiny, blue-haired friend as Kagami received an enthusiastic glomping not three seconds after entering the room.
It was, of course, Izumi Konata. She was in high spirits today, and apparently even more enthusiastic than usual about drawing out what she constantly referred to as Kagami's 'Tsun-Tsun' side.
Kagami's face reddened as every eye in the room was drawn to the pair of girls wrestling in the classroom doorway. She managed to regain her balance, Konata still attached to her waist, and began to berate her annoying new appendage.
"Get the hell off of me you damn midget! We're at school! This is totally inappropriate!"
"But Kagamin! I got a very interesting mail from Tsukasa last night! Exactly who was it that you wanted to 'join bodies' with?"
"Tsukasa you blabbermouth! And after I made you promise not to tell her!"
Tsukasa cowered in fear as Kagami rounded on her with a beet-red face and bared fangs, and began stammering an apology.
"s-sorry, Onee-chan! I.. I couldn't help it, it just... sort of... sorry..." her voice withered away under her twins angry glare.
"A blushing Kagami is so cute... So who's the unfortunate guy, tsundere-san?" Konata quipped from her position still securely fastened around Kagami's waist.
Kagami sighed and resigned herself to explaining. "It wasn't a guy, I-"
"OH! So you do roll that way! I've always had a sneaking suspicion, Kagamin!"
"What the HELL are you talking about! Just shut up and listen, ok? I wasn't actually saying it to anyone, It was a magical spell, and YOU'RE the one who made me say it! Geez, I can't even dream without you bombarding me with weirdness."
"Kagamin likes me enough to resort to that kind of magic? And that's some spellbook you've got, girl! Seduction magic isn't available until level thirty, right?"
Kagami let out a long sigh as she started to regain her composure. "You have absolutely no intention of listening to my explanation, do you? And I will never understand your taste in games."
Konata just grinned her catlike grin, stared up at Kagami through her long eyelashes, and stayed firmly attached to her twin-tailed friend.
"Are you at least planning on letting go of me sometime today?"
Over the course of their lunch break, and through many interruptions, Kagami managed to get out her entire story.
"You know who Hatsune Miku is, Kagami? And you even had a leek! Hanging out with me is having more of an effect on you than you realize!"
Takara Miyuki, the gentle, pink haired girl who had remained quietly listening during Kagamis story, now spoke up in her defense.
"Konata-san, You may be reading too much into this. While dream analysis was formerly quite popular in the realm of clinical psychology, recent schools of thought tend to downplay the significance of dreams as a reliable source of information about the psyche. Why, I recently had a very silly dream in which my mother married a dentist and I was assigned the task of being a test subject for new dental equipment."
Konata and Kagami stared blankly at Miyuki, neither willing to point out the obvious contradiction in what she'd just said.
Of course Konata had to get in one more gag before the end of the break:
"Here's a little tip, Kagamin. If you get a bad end, work through your choices backwards to figure out where you went wrong. My best guess is the cosplay. I'm not really into the Vocaloid girls, so next time, maybe you could try Yoko from Gurr0n La00en. That bikini is guaranteed to raise the Konata flag!"
Kagami lost her cool.
"I GIVE UP! You little pervert,You're obviously not listening to anything I'm saying! I absolutely hate how you refuse to take me seriously! Until you grow up a little, just stay the hell away from me!"
A shocked silence fell over the classroom after Kagami's extraordinarily loud outburst.
After a few long, silent seconds, Konata replied in a very quiet and slightly depressed undertone, "I listen to every word Kagamin says..."
Her unexpected response caused Kagami's face to once again turn a deep shade of red, and she was unable to think of a response before the bell signaling the end of lunch break forced her to return to her own classroom.
There's no way she likes me that way... Wait... What way? What am I thinking?There's no reason to jump to that conclusion. That had to be another one of Konata's attempts to get a rise out of me... Even if she was serious, we are good friends. Just because she listens when I talk, that doesn't mean anything more than that she respects me... Or maybe... I did get pretty mad back there, maybe she was trying to apologize? Ugh, I'm just over-thinking this... I got mad and Konata apologized, there isn't anything deeper to it than that... Right?
Kagami's focus during her afternoon lessons was even worse than it had been in the morning.
The day after the dream incident, Saturday, Konata never showed up for school. When classes ended for the day, Miyuki excused herself for another attempt at a dental appointment, and the Hiiragi twins decided to visit Konata's place to check up on her. They met Kobayakawa Yutaka, Konata's younger cousin, at the train platform.
"Your going to visit Onee-chan?" the tiny girl squeaked. "That's wonderful! She seemed really down yesterday, and this morning she said she had a fever. I'm sure a visit would cheer her up!"
They arrived at the Izumi residence, and with a chorus of "pardon the intrusion" the twins headed up the stairs to Konata's room, where they found her... gaming away at her PC.
"Yutaka told us you were sick, but you look pretty healthy to me..." grumbled Kagami as she and Tsukasa seated themselves at the table In the center of the room.
"Tsukasa. Kagami-sama. Thanks for visiting. Yea, I said I had a bit of a fever, but really its really more like... May sickness."
Kagami stared at Konata in disbelief. "Its October..."
Tsukasa excused herself to use the bathroom, leaving Kagami to sit in silence as Konata continued to kick ass and take names in the virtual world.
Kagami stood up and walked around the table to stand over Konata's shoulder, intent on breaking the frosty silence.
"What, exactly, is so interesting about these... MMO's, right?"
Konata's reply was... so very Konata: "Well, I can accomplish so much more as a level seventy tank than as a level three high-school girl."
"So, as this 'Tank', you can do more than better yourself, gain knowledge of the real world and contribute to society?"
"I did recently learned how to dual-wield two-handed weapons. That's bettering myself, right? And my clan often tells me that no one has greater knowledge of the world of Azaneroth than I do. As for contributing to society, my party recently rescued an entire town of dwarves from the clutches of a massive, fire-breathing dragon, so I'd say I'm doing alright."
"Dwarves..." mumbled Kagami
Then Konata added, in a small voice, "I can actually be useful to people in this world. Here I'm not just an annoyance."
Kagami suddenly realized the actual reason behind Konata's absence that day.
"Um... you know, Konata, I'm really sorry about yesterday. I got a little carried away. I know you didn't mean any harm, and... um..."
Kagami's voice dropped to barely a whisper
"I don't really think all that. What I said about you needing to grow up. Sure, sometimes you get on my nerves, but I... I think your great... just as you are."
By the time she was finished, Kagami's face was so red that, had she been a manga character, there would have been a plume of steam coming from her head.
Konata's previously gloomy attitude underwent a complete reversal.
She stood up, held out her arms, and shouted "Awww Kagamiiin~, I knew you cared!" She then proceeded to provide Kagami with her second serious glomping in as many days.
Kagami's muffled voice could be heard from somewhere under the vast sea of blue hair that engulfed her as Konata brought her to the ground."That recovery didn't take long"
"Hey, Kagamin...?" Konata asked in her sweetest voice
"Wh... What is it?"
"Wanna give this game a try?"
"NO" Kagami quickly extricated herself from the smaller girls clutches.
"But you might like it!"
"NO"
"I have a free triiiaaal!"
"I'm not interested. Wait, you pay to play that crap?"
Soon after, Tsukasa reentered the room and returned to her spot at the table.
"Ok, Konata, Tsukasa, lets get down to business. We're going to get some studying done today.
"Oh, excuse me for a minute," came Tsukasa's reply. "I think I need to use the restroom"
"OH no you don't!" Kagami grabbed the waistband of her sister's skirt as she started her bid for freedom, and dragged her back to the floor.
Several hours later, Konata had reached her limit.
"My brain hurts... I Just can't get my math to work out. No matter how many times I leap back and try again, I just can't find a time line where I get the answer right. Kagamin! This plane isn't doing it for me! What do I need to do to bring the divergence beyond 1%?"
"...I have no idea what that means."
Just then, there was a light knock on the bedroom door.
"Onee-chan, Kagami-Senpai, Tsukasa-Senpai, Dinner is ready!"
As the girls entered the kitchen to the smell of curry, Konata's father Sojiro looked up from the pot he was stirring. When he realized who he'd be dining with, his eyes lit up and tears began pouring down his cheeks.
"Sojiro is crying twin waterfalls!"
"I give that reference a four out of ten, dad."
"Really? I thought it was alright. "But still! Dinner with FOUR high school girls!"
Sojiro struck what he imagined was a dramatic victory pose, fists on his hips and eyes brimming with joy. "I can die... a happy man!"
"Your creepiness is palpable," his daughter replied.
Kagami just looked disgusted, as Tsukasa cowered in a corner of the room.
As the twins prepared to leave after dinner, Konata spoke up with an invitation.
"You know Yu-chan's classmate Hiyorin, right? She's part of a doujinshi circle, and they're hosting an event in Akiba tomorrow. I was thinking of checking it out, but I need someone to go with. Pleeease? I know you'd be interested, Kagamin! They specialize in yuri! I know you're into that type of thing!"
Tsukasa declined the offer, saying she needed to study, but probably planning on sleeping in. Surprisingly, Kagami agreed.
"Well, there is a new light novel I wanted to buy, and I'm free tomorrow. I have no idea what you mean by yuri, but I don't mind hanging out with you for the day. Just try to keep the nerdery to a minimum, ok?"
"It's Akiba, Kagamin! Nerdery is its lifeblood! I start work at five, so if we meet around noon, we can hang out for a while at the event and eat at the cafe for free before my shift! The chef there makes a mean super spicy parfait."
Kagami wasn't about to question why anyone would eat something bearing that title. "Whatever... just meet me at the station. And don't be late this time!"
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