Asking Advice

Knock, knock.

"Hmm, come in," Konata called out over the clashing of on-screen swords.

Yutaka pushed the door open a crack and slipped in, shutting it carefully behind her.

Konata seemed to up her efforts, the smooth black controller jerking about as if possessed by a demon on drugs until the figure with the red headband on the left of the screen collapsed. Konata was wearing Denham jeans and a light and dark blue striped jumper; her room as ever an untidy jumble of manga, games and drawings. Yutaka sighed. Konata had gone to an Art and Graphic College following her graduation, but it didn't seem her work ethic had changed; if anything it had dropped. But Konata was the only one she felt she could talk to about, well this.

Konata looked over her shoulder with a welcoming grin.

"Ah Yuu-chan, what brings you here?"

It had been an awful lot easier to talk about this with Konata in her imagination...

"Ah, um, eh, well...you see I have a question."

Konata sweat dropped and glanced about for an escape route.

"Not a homework question," she clarified; Konata seemed to have a general allergy towards work. Konata relaxed and put down the controller, spinning on the floor with legs crossed and a welcoming grin on her face.

"Well then?"

Yutaka sat down as well, on the opposite side of the square table currently stationed in Konata's room, as it was easier than standing. But she found herself unable to look up, as though the gravity around her head had suddenly doubled. The fingers on her right hand took to drumming against her left hand, which rested nervously upon her lap.

"Well you see there's this, this friend who I like a lot."

"Are?" That would be Minami right?

"And well, another friend suggested I should just ask her out, before someone else does."

She glanced up to see Konata's eyebrows slightly raised and if anything her grin had grown slightly; the fingers on Yuraka's right hand beat a little faster against her left and she glanced down to her right at nothing in particular.

"But we're both girls and I'm a little nervous. I mean what would dating mean?"

"Have you been out shopping together?"

She nodded.

"Cinema?"

A nod.

"Fireworks…oh of course you did. Shared an umbrella?"

Another nod.

"Hmm."

Konata assumed a more serious look.

"Then it sounds like you and Minami-san have tripped most of the couple flags already."

Yutaka gasped and her eyes widened.

"Eh? You knew?"

Konata nodded and just about resisted rolling her eyes. Yutaka is quite moe. She definitely has some of Miyuki's air-headedness. And Minami-san is the strong silent type but quite caring underneath. It's definitely a good pairing.

"So what would dating mean?" Yutaka insisted. "I mean if we're already, well, like a couple."

"Hmmm. Well you would have to make it official by the confession moment. Then doing the above would become dates rather than trips. Then…" Konata started to struggle as she reached the gap between dating and eroge. "Then you level up on the dates by say holding hands, hugging in the scary movie at the cinema and so on until you feel comfortable enough to kiss."

Konata just about avoided adding in a few more far fetched and more adult situations involving changing rooms and showers.

"Ah," Yutaka said. "That sounds so simple when you put it like that."

Konata nodded. "Things in life are simple, but it's about seizing the moment. If it's what you want you should go for it!" She glanced warily at the clock, painfully conscious it was almost time for the latest episode of ******.

Yutaka noticed the anxious glance and nodded, rising to leave. "Thanks Konata. You don't think its strange then, us dating?"

Konata shook her head and gave her a mischievous smile.

"No. Why would I? I've been progressing down the Kagami route for some time now."

"Oh." Yutaka's eyes shone in recognition of a kindred spirit. That explains her more frequent visits. And why she looked so flushed after studying, and the moan I heard a few weeks ago when she was staying over. I bet they were watching scary movies! "Okay, thanks onee-chan."

"Mmm. Mmm." Konata replied nodding her head vigorously and implying a certain urgency that only the danger of missing an anime show could bring.

Yutaka shut the door gently behind her and clenched her left fist, filled with courage and determination.

Ous! Tomorrow I shall definitely try to confess to her!

I think I will probably finish on the third Chapter with this fanfic as I don't want to overstretch myself - and my aim was to provide at least one good tale for this pair, which is clearly the most canon yuri pairing in the series - and so sweet together XD I may at some point come back to them and try and write something set a little further on though.

Hope you enjoyed this Chapter, and will try to provide it with a fitting conclusion to follow *nod* Thanks to for all the reviews :)