Double the Fun

Nodoka and Yue approached the door to their dorm room with caution. Haruna had skipped out on classes today. That only ever happened for two reasons: she was horribly ill, or she had been struck by some form of perverse inspiration. The scary thing was that they knew it was the second reason. That morning, Haruna had practically shoved them out the door. When Yue had questioned her about the wisdom of skipping class, Haruna's only answer had been "This is much more important that actually learning! Now get out, I have work to do!" The last time Haruna had pulled this, they had returned to their room to it full of sand, coconuts, fake palm trees, and a kiddie pool.

They drew closer. There didn't appear to be anything oozing out from under the doorway. This was a good sign. There weren't any odd smells either. There was also complete silence. This could be either very good, or very bad. Yue tapped Nodoka on the shoulder. "You know what to do."

Nodoka pulled her artifact out of her backpack, concentrating on Haruna. The dorm was small enough that if she was inside, they would be able to read her thoughts. The words began forming on the page. The two girls looked on, steeling themselves for the inevitable horror. What they got was several solid pages of " YES YES YES YES YES YES YES OH YES YES YES AMAZING YES YES YES I'M AWESOME YES YES YES". It was odd, but far from the worst thing they had seen. The worst thing they had seen from Haruna had involved themselves, a Chichigami golem with several dozen tentacles instead of hands, and a jar of Eva's magic pills which had distressingly random effects.

Yue turned the handle, and the door ominously swung open on its own. Even without the light on, the main living space looked like a tornado had hit it. With Haruna, a tornado was quite a valid explanation. But it was also par for the course. Something else had to be going on.

But now they could hear something. Heavy breathing. Coming from the corner of the room where the bed was placed. Nodoka flicked the light on. As the beds were illuminated, she clamped her hands over her mouth to stifle a gasp. Yue merely let out a sigh and rested her giant forehead in her palm.

Haruna was splayed out naked on the bed with an enormous smile on her face, breathing hard, looking for all the world like she had just finished running a marathon. That was not the odd part; it wasn't exactly uncommon for Haruna to get in one of her moods and spend a little too long indulging herself.

What was odd was that Haruna was partially covered by another, equally naked Haruna, who was currently occupying herself by nuzzling her face against the first Haruna's bare chest. The only discernible difference between the two was that the one doing the nuzzling had a rather prominent "PARU – 01" stamped in bold letters across her shoulders.

"Haruna..." Yue stared blankly at the bed. "Even for you, this seems a little excessive."

Haruna kept staring at the ceiling. "Then you don't know me well enough. That was amazing. I can't believe I never thought of this before!"

Yue sighed again. "You never cease to amaze me in how you can find ways to pervert your artifact. To each, his own, I suppose. Make sure you put some clothes on before somebody else walks in on you." She walked over to her desk and began to read.

Nodoka edged over to the bed and tapped the real Haruna on the shoulder. "Um, Paru..." Her voice wavered with a nervous excitement. "I..uh.. I have a favor to ask..." Her voice trailed off.

Haruna finally turned to face her friend, still smiling broadly. "Of course." She lazily reached out and brushed her finger against Nodoka's cheek. "I guarantee you that you won't be disappointed."

I'm not even sure what inspired me to write this; but I'm quite sure that I haven't even scratched the surface of how Haruna can (mis)use her artifact. And no, not all the stories will feature this uh...type of content, but Haruna being Haruna, it'll almost certainly pop up again at some point.