Hey guys. I haven't gotten much of a chance to write but now that my play is done I should have some time. Unfortunately, on the 30th I'm trying out for my school's production of Le Misérables so if I get a part in that I really wont have much time either. I mean I was singing the song I need to sing during the audition while I wrote this so you know I want this part! For those who wanna know the part, I'm trying out for Javert, but I would be perfectly happy with a chorus part. Also Happy Thanksgiving, even though it's a bit late. I couldn't get this part out on Thanksgiving if I tried, I kept getting distracted and next thing you know it was midnight. So I got it done today. Anyways, I wont keep you waiting any longer. Read on!
"Ugh, sorry, the line for the bathroom was HUGE!" Misao said, a little annoyed at how crowded the Okonomiyaki restaurant was as she sat down at her and Kyon's table.
"It's fine, I don't care how long you take." Kyon said, not at all mad at the time it had taken her. "I wish I would have known this place was so crowded, we would've gone to an Ice Cream parlor if I had."
"I wouldn't, it's free Okonomiyaki! I'm happy!" Misao said making Kyon laugh.
"So you do track, right?" Kyon asked her, trying to ease the awkwardness. He had always admired the Track Team, they always had hard hours and worked extremely hard. He had been stalked multiple times about joining, but he never could get it into his schedule.
"Yeah, I got a scholarship because of it." she said "I heard from Chibi that you were pretty fast, why don't you join?"
"Chibi?" he asked confusedly, not knowing that Misao called Konata Chibi.
"Oh, Izumi, I call her Chibi." she explained, gaining a hue of red.
'So Moe!' he thought as he noticed how cute she looked when she got embarrassed, her fang showing out and her face as red as a beet. Countless tables around them noticed how they were acting and commented to themselves how cute they thought the couple was, making Misao even redder. Finally, noticing Misao couldn't stand any more, Kyon finally said "Anyways, yeah I can't do track because I'm always so busy, I mean with the Theater Group that I'm in I hardly have any time to myself when we're doing rehearsals."
"You do theater?" she asked, a little surprised. " I never saw you as a Theater kind of guy,"
"Yes, we do American Comedy and Drama, recently I was in A Christmas Story, the play adaption of some American comedy from the 80s." he said as the waiter brought their check and they were forced to pay for all the leftover that they hadn't eaten. As they finally had paid and gotten outside it was dark and the streets were clear. As the two walked home, Kyon was having a battle inside his mind trying to decide what to do.
'Oh, shit. She looks so cute in the moonlight. I want to ask her out, but what if she isn't interested? What if she rejects me and I just end up embarrassed? Wait, no! She'll make sure not to embarrass me, I think I should just take the chance.' he thought as he turned to Misao "Hey, Misao..."
"Yeah, Kyon?" she said as she thought to herself 'Is this it? Is he going to ask me out or am I imagining things?'
"Uhhh, do you, I don't know, wanna..." he said, nervous as he thought 'Shit, shit, shit! Cmon man! You can do this!'
They stood there for a while, each nervous of what would happen when Kyon finally said "Meet up again after the opening ceremony?" then he thought 'That is NOT what I wanted to say god damn it. I'm such an idiot, I can't even ask out the girl I like.'
'Ugh, I was wrong, oh well.' Misao thought, a little sad before saying "Sorry, I have a track meeting after the Ceremony."
"Oh ok. Maybe another time then." he said
'Damn it...' they thought at the same time as they continued walking home.
At the Cosplay Cafe
"Ohhhh, my head." Patty said as she got up, finding herself in the alley next to the Cafe, the memories of what had happened rushing back to her as she realized that the girl who had attacked her was the same girl who had attacked Hiyori.
"Ughh, that bitch! If I ever find out who did that I'm going to kill her!" she yelled before noticing the note that was left behind. "What's this?"
As she picked up the note and read it, her eyes grew wide with fear and hatred.
"Hello, Patricia." she read aloud. "I hope you didn't find my intrusion in your workplace too rude, but I just had to give you this note. I know about your love for your dear friend Hiyori, who, I think you know, I dealt with not a couple weeks ago. Your love that you have for her but cannot show towards her must be brought out into the light. So I have decided to help you with your relationship with her, because out of all your friends you cannot show your love for her even though she knows it. After reading this go see her in the hospital, she will know why you are there. Unfortunately, that is not the main reason I have left this note. I think you know your old Sempai, Kagami Hiiragi. Give her this message, Give up on Konata, she deserves a better partner for love. I know you won't disappoint me. Sorry for the bump."
Patty then read the note over again before crumpling it up with rage and throwing it. Then, after leaving the alley, decided to do as the note said and walked to the hospital. Even though it was almost time for visiting hours to end she knew she could have enough time. As she entered the bedroom though the look on Hiyori's face let Patty know that something was up.
"Hiyori, what's wrong?" she said as she walked over to the girl who was still in bed with the bandage on her head. Then she noticed the note in her friend's hand. "Hiyori, what is that?"
"Patty, I..I..I didn't know." she said still a bit in shock.
"Hiyori, what does the note say?" she asked as she got closer to the girl, her head near the others.
"Patty... I'm sorry, I didn't notice." she said before she turned her head and kissed Patty full on the lips, surprising the American, though she soon kissed back.
The note, still in Hiyori's hand, read "Dear, Hiyori. I know you must be mad at me for breaking the clay pot over your head, and I do feel some remorse for doing that, but I needed to show a certain pair that I mean business. I will however help you with something I know you have been holding in for a long time, your love for Miss Martin. She will come to your room sometime tonight to see you, but do not be alarmed, she is there to see you for more than a friend seeing a friend. She also has the same feelings towards you and has also been holding it in for some time. I hope you know what to do and I hope that you trust me in this, but I speak the truth, no matter how much hatred you may feel towards me right now. Feel better soon."
2 Days Later
Kyon was on the way home from the Opening Ceremony at the college, Misao was at the track meeting about payments and equipment and couldn't go home with him. As he was walking home, he noticed someone else walking home alone, too. It was Tsukasa, who seemed in more of a cheery mood today than usual, which meant her usual sulky mood was less sulky than normal.
"Hey, Tsukasa!" he called as he ran up to her, making her instantly turn a deep shade of red. "How ya been?"
"Uh, fine" she answered in a sad tone. "How about you?"
"Fine, but you don't look very fine. Are you sure you're alright?" he asked "You know you can tell me anything."
"I..I can?" she said looking up at him finally showing her face.
'Woah, I never realized it, but she's kinda cute.' he thought before shaking himself out of it "Of course."
"I...I...I... Oh Kyon!" she said before hugging him and crying on his shoulder, making his shirt wet, but he didn't care "It's.. it's just, everything in my life stinks! Ever since Onee-chan.. and Kona-chan started dating... everything changed!"
"It's ok." he said, comforting her.
"Miyuki started dating Tony... people started getting hurt... and I feel like I'm the only person alone anymore." she continued, still crying. "I just wish... it could go back to the way it used to be."
"I know, I know. Don't worry." Kyon said before kneeling down and looking her straight in the eyes. "Tsukasa, I know a lot is going on right now, but I know that you can get through it. You're stronger now. I know you can handle it. Now please don't cry. You know you can tell me anything." he finished wiping a tear from her eye. "Now cmon, lemme take you home."
'So she finally breaks. I wasn't expecting her to crack like that, but I'm glad she finally let some of that pent up frustration out.' Kyon thought as they walked 'She's pretty cute when she isn't so down, but knowing how cute she is she'll probably get picked up by some amazingly great fighter or some rich guy, possibly one with a rich uncle or something odd like that, then she'll go on like a huge ass cruise and I'll never see her again.'
"Ya hear that Flygon? He said my character first!" Kyon heard someone say but couldn't figure out where it was coming from.
"Yeah, but he went into more description of mine, Acsuperman!" another voice said.
"Quiet you two! I think he can hear you!" a voice that Kyon recognized said.
"Shin?" Kyon called out, but got no answer.
"Huh? What about your shin?" Tsukasa said, confused.
"Oh, nothing Tsukasa, just talking to myself." he said, trying not to embarrass himself further.
Finally, after about five more minutes they had reached the Hiiragi house, Kyon had dropped Tsukasa off and left, but once she had gotten inside and had found Konata and Kagami staring at her with angry looks on their faces, she knew something was up.
Kyon's POV
'Tsukasa really seemed to lighten up a bit after I talked to her, maybe she just needed someone to talk to.' Kyon thought as he walked home 'She's kinda cute, I guess maybe in the future she wouldn't be too bad of a girlfriend. Wait! What the hell am I saying, I love Misao.'
The Cherry Blossoms
As he was walking he noticed that time seemed to slow down and then stop completely. Then a large flash of light and Shin instantly appeared in front of him.
"Yo, what up?" Shin asked when the light had cleared.
"Really? What the hell was that all about?" Kyon asked, still not able to move.
"What? I like cool entrances." he said before moving his hand, enabling Kyon to move freely.
"So, really. What the hell are you?" Kyon asked
"Well, as you on earth would call me, I'm a god" he said "I have the ability to move between the rifts and go to the other realities, I can heal, teleport, go through time, and cause pretty much every type of magic you can think of, and some you probably can't think of."
"Wait, what was that about Rifts and Realities?" Kyon asked confused.
"Well... let me just show you." he said before Kyon's world went dark.
"Sorry! Sorry. Most mortals can't stay awake during Rift travel!" Shin said as Kyon woke up. He was in the park near his house but it seemed oddly different. Like someone had changed it a bit.
"This is another reality, as you will probably see. It has all the same people from your reality, but what happens is different." Shin said, making Kyon confused. "Just watch."
Suddenly, Ayano came barreling out of the Kusakabe household steaming from head to toe with Misao, Kagami, and Konata following closely behind. Ayano then sat down on the sidewalk with about the angriest look on her face Kyon thought he had ever seen.
"Whats going on?" Kyon asked Shin who just shushed him and pointed to the scene making sure they were both out of sight of the girls.
"I still can't believe that ass set this whole thing up!" Misao fumed as she exited the house with Konata and Kagami close behind. "I mean, what kind of dumb ass reasoning was that? Right?"
"Well, I guess he felt threatened." Kagami said. "People can do stupid things when they're in love." Kagami said.
"Are you really defending him right now, Hiiragi?" Misao asked in disbelief.
"Of course not! I'm just saying that he probably feels legitimately bad about it all." Kagami explained.
"So you think I should have stayed with him?" Ayano asked, a tear sliding down her face.
"Of course not!" Kagami exclaimed. "You made the right decision back there, and don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise!"
"Do you feel that way too Misa-chan?" Ayano asked, beginning to sob.
"Of course I do!" Misao said, pulling Ayano into a tight hug. "I had no idea my brother was such a sleaze, and I'm sorry I didn't believe you sooner." She said, also shedding a tear. "Can you ever forgive me?"
"Man, I don't know what happened, but it looks like everyone's pissed." Kyon whispered as he grabbed a juice box he had in his pocket and started to drink it.
Ayano didn't respond to Misao's comment immediately, but after a couple of seconds, she turned around and returned the hug. "Of course I forgive you." Ayano said happily.
"Thanks Aya-chan." Misao said with a smile as the two parted.
"Nikinari was right about one thing though, Misa-chan." Ayano said quietly.
"What's that, Ayano?" Misao asked, tilting her head curiously.
Without warning, Misao's eyes widened as Ayano suddenly pulled her into a kiss, which lasted for several seconds.
Suddenly, Kyon did a spit-take and had the worst nosebleed in his life as he watched Ayano kiss the girl he had a crush on.
"WHA-" Was the response from both Konata and Kagami as they watched the scene unfold in front of them.
When the two parted, Misao couldn't bring herself to say a single word. She just stared wide-eyed at Ayano as she gauged the magnitude of what had just happened.
"You were a threat." Ayano said with a smile.
"Uh… Ayano? Are you feeling okay?" Misao asked as she stood up and backed away slowly, a bright blush spreading across her face.
"You always were more attractive to me than your brother was." Ayano said, standing up on wobbly legs. "I was lying to myself the whole time I was going out with him. All because of some heartless witches in middle school." She said, stumbling a bit.
"Ayano, you really don't look well." Kagami said cautiously as she stepped forward.
"I'm sorry for everything. I wish I was brave enough to admit this to myself before." Ayano said as she began to fall.
"Ayano!" Misao and Kagami both yelled as Kagami lunged forward and caught her. "Konata, hurry up and call an ambulance! She's out cold!" Kagami yelled as Konata took out her cell phone and the Kusakabe family began gathering at the door to check on the commotion.
"Holy crap!" Kyon said as he pulled out his phone to call for an ambulance.
"Wait, you can't interfere with other realities!" Shin said grabbing the phone "It can destroy the rifts between them and cause a major reality merge."
"Sorry, I didn't know." Kyon said as he continued watching the scene before everything went dark again.
"Damn it, tell me before you do that next time!" Kyon yelled as he woke up again.
This time he was in a stadium and was sitting in a front row seat next to Shin, inside the pit were two fighters, both with their shirts off. Then suddenly Kyon realized who the one was.
"That's... Tony!" he said turning to Shin who nodded and continued watching
"Ready?" Kyon heard the exited Akira Kogami shouted.
"Ready!" Tony and his opponent, JC, both shouted.
"Fight!" Akira shouted as she sprinted off. Neither fighter moved, however.
"You ain't got wires to help you now pretty boy!" They heard from the crowd as laughter erupted from the man and his friends. JC just snickered as he took a fighting stance.
"Fans think my moves are all wire work and special effects. Truth is..." JC smirked as he swiped the bridge of his nose with his hand. "I AM the special effects." He said as he started glowing green. The next thing Kyon knew, Tony was slammed into the wall twenty feet away, JC's foot raised in the air where Tony's head had been only a second ago.
'I didn't even see him!' Kyon thought in amazement to JC's speed. Resounding gasps were heard from the audience as a green ball formed in his hand. 'Oh my god, Tony's gonna get murdered out there!' Kyon thought as the green ball was sent hurdling towards Tony. He evaded it, but the wall behind him was now cracked, not only from the force of his impact, but by the Force of the Ball.
"I'm gonna get that prize money AND show the world that I'm not faking in my movies!" JC shouted, forming another ball.
Tony picked himself up as he ran towards the actor, sidestepping another blast. Tony threw a punch to have it caught in the hand of JC. Tony used his forward momentum and pushed off the ground, grabbing his opponent by the arm before doing so. Tony was now behind JC with the actor's arm stretched over his shoulder, and pulling.
"Kan-Chan, look out!" Kyon heard Tsukasa yell, causing Tony to get distracted long enough for JC to hit him, sprawling him on the ground for an instant before jumping back up. He looked at JC to see him rolling the arm that had been practically torn off.
Tony rushed JC and faked another punch, instead ducking down and sweeping JC's legs out from under him. Tony kept spinning and straightened his leg slightly, catching JC on the cheek. Everything suddenly went slow-mo as a picture of JC's skull appeared, the effects of the knee's bone-shattering force looking prominent until they seemed to vanish with the picture. JC was propelled away, but not faster than Tony as he leaped up and caught him in the stomach, slamming him into the ground. Everything slow-moed again as a picture of JC's stomach exploding appeared. However, due to the in-continuity of the combat, JC wouldn't die from his injuries. JC got up dazedly, looking around and seeming like he was going to pass out at any moment.
"Finish him!" Kyon heard Konata yell from her seat, front row and elevated over the wall. Tony looked at her.
"Fine." Tony said as he walked over. As he did, JC started to fall, but was caught by his former opponent. The boy helped JC to his feet and helped him walk out of the pit.
"Friendship! FRIENDSHIP!" Konata shouted.
"Winner! Ryū Tora No Kami!" Akira shouted. "The next round will be held after the fighting in this round is over! It will be fought with weapons chosen by the fighters!"
"Ok, we better get going." Shin said as Kyon went dark again.
"Ugh, what is the point of knocking me out to do that?" Kyon asked, starting to feel sick.
"Lets just say, I don't think you want your eyes to bleed." Shin said as Kyon got up again. This time they were in front of a huge house and it was obvious by the thousands of lights and blasting music that there was a pretty sweet party going on in there.
"Shall we go in?" Shin asked opening the door. As Kyon walked in, he couldn't find anybody that he recognized, there had to be over 50 people packed into the one room alone and the house was huge, who knew how many people were there.
"What happens if I run into anybody I know?" Kyon asked as they were slowly pushed apart.
"They probably wont recognize you, just don't do anything that could change the future completely, like getting someone pregnant." Shin said, his voice getting lower over the music.
"You really think I would do that?" Kyon yelled.
"Yes!" Shin said before disappearing completely.
After a while of the party going on Kyon ended up at the mini-bar with a Vanilla Coke. The party had been going on for at least an hour already and Kyon was already wiped out from the rift traveling and the party wasn't helping. He always hated parties and could only get going when he was energized, but this was too crowded for him. Suddenly, a body knocked into him causing him to spill his Coke.
"Ohh, I'm so sorry!" the girl said as she turned around.
"Oh, it's fine." Kyon said before he realized who was standing in front of him. Misao was there red faced at her mess up.
"I don't usually go to parties like this so I'm a bit nervous." she said showing her fang as she sweat dropped.
"Like getting someone pregnant." rang inside Kyon's head as he thought 'I'm not gonna get her freaking pregnant Shin, get the hell outta my head!'
"I got separated from the guy I was hanging out with when I bumped into you, sorry." she said before a guy about Kyon's age started to speak into the loudspeaker.
"Okay everyone we have a special treat, we have some of the best music videos for you, thanks to Miss Konata Izumi!" Mikeru said over the sound system as everyone clapped for Konata who was currently in the biggest room of the house.
"Thank you, thank you." Konata said as she bowed getting even more claps.
"You just love hamming it up don't you?" Kagami asked as she hit her girlfriend in the head slightly, only getting a laugh as a response.
"Okay people here is the first one 'Purple Butterfly'." Mikeru said as the TV screens went black…
Video Start
"Alright Kagami here is the deal you have to do three things for me and I will let you use my notes."
"What are the three things?"
"First off flash your bra for the camera."
As soon as Kyon heard this he did his second spit-take in one day. Still watching the tape, he couldn't seem to take his eyes away hoping to see what happened.
"What! If you think that I'm doing that then you're nuts!"
"Then you will fail the pop test tomorrow and that will be on your collage application."
"What do you mean pop test?"
"I called Kuroi-sensei and got her all riled up and she promised a pop test tomorrow."
…
"F-f-fine are you ready?"
"Yeah at least six seconds."
"You pervert what do you want that for?"
"This is in case you don't do the other two requirements."
"If you dare put that online…"
The video ended with a huge round of applauds, people were yelling for a replay until they saw the real deal.
"Hey flash for me too!" One girl shouted.
"You have some sexy lumps there Kagami!" One guy shouted as he groped the air.
"Kagami I swear I didn't…" Konata tried to explain, but was silence along with the rest of the crowd as a fist made contact with her skull. "Ouch, hey that really hurt you didn't have to go that far…" Konata started to say again, but again was cut short.
"Just shut the hell up!" Kagami screamed at the smaller girl. "What was going through your freaking mind? You idiot!" Kagami yelled in pure rage.
"If you would give me a minute I would have told you I didn't give them the video!" Konata shouted back trying to keep her cool.
"Oh my God you think I'm as stupid as you… Tell me how did they get it then?" Kagami asked in a sarcastic voice.
"Oh, shit. Don't tell me that's Konata and Kagami fighting." Misao said, trying to see what was happening.
"…" Konata opened her mouth to speak, but was instantly silenced.
"And if you say one of your stupid anime quotes I will personally kill you right now." Kagami threatened with a glare, causing Konata's anger to flare up.
"Why the hell would you expect an anime reference? I know when things need to be serious." Konata yelled as she got in the tsundere's face.
"Oh, do you? You are really stupid if you could forget… I don't know every F***ing time you used an anime reference." Kagami yelled as she pushed the blunette back.
"Shit, I gotta go. Sorry bout your drink!" Misao said as she pushed herself away trying to get to the two who were fighting.
"You once said it was cute you know, maybe you should tone down your tsundere rage just a bit!" Konata said as she walked back up to the tsundere and got back into her face.
"There you go with your stupid anime crap, I put up with it all the time and I don't say a word, same for your stupid little 'tricks', but this was going too far!" Kagami yelled directly in the otaku's face.
"I told you I didn't do it, maybe it was Misao she has wanted to break us up for a while now." Konata yelled back anger flaring through her eyes.
"How dare you! Misao is one of my closest friends, since we were little kids, she would never go that low! That's something you would do!" Kagami spat in Konata's face.
"Oh, here we go listen to the shrine maiden preach…" Konata said as she lifted her hands in the air in mocking…
"We are through you little bitch!" Kagami shrieked as her fist made contact with Konata's cheek, sending the tiny girl to the floor
"Holy shit, I gotta do something!" Kyon said as he pushed his way through the crowd, suddenly as he had reached the center where the two were, everything once again went black.
"What were you thinking?" Shin said as Kyon woke up "If you would have interfered the two realities would have practically exploded! It was bad enough you ran into the Kusakabe girl and didn't go away, but having shown your face would have doomed us all!"
"I..I'm sorry." Kyon said. This time he and Shin were in a metallic hallway, there was an odd noise coming from what seemed like a vent, but Kyon couldn't tell.
"Tony, are you there?" Kyon heard Miyuki ask as she rounded the corner into the hallway, luckily Kyon and Shin hid around another corner or she might have seen them. "Tony?" She asked again when she didn't see him at the end of a holographic trail she had set up. All that was there was a broken air vent and an engineering helmet. She was dressed fully in an outfit that Kyon found not only really fitting to her body structure, but a little creepy at how futuristic it looked. As Miyuki approached a vent Kyon noticed it looked like it had been smashed outwards and into the hallway, where pieces of the fan and grating were lying about.
"What happened here?" She asked herself as she looked into the vent and saw nothing out of the ordinary. "And why would he leave his helmet here like this?" She asked as she bent over to pick up the helmet. As Miyuki turned the faceplate towards herself, she felt the helmet suddenly get lighter and heard a dull plop at her feet. What Kyon saw made him throw up immediately onto the floor.
At Miyuki's feet lay Tony's severed head, a look of absolute terror frozen on his otherwise lifeless face.
As Miyuki dropped the helmet and backed away in shock, a metallic scraping noise came from the open vent. Before Kyon could watch any more, though, everything went black again and he woke up to find himself back where he was before he and Shin started their adventure.
"Next time you need to puke, tell me so we can go back to your reality, you almost gave us away." Shin said
"Did you not see that? Tony's lifeless head just came outta that freaking helmet!" Kyon yelled, still puking a bit.
"I'm a god, I have much better control then you mortals do." he said "Now I suggest you get a lot of rest. That much rift traveling could knock a man out for a day."
"Wait, what was the point of that?" Kyon said.
"Because, I'm considering having you become more than a regular mortal, but I must test you first. Such as I have tested Tony from the one reality you saw, I just tested you." he said before disappearing completely.
Finally, time started again as everyone that was frozen around Kyon started moving as if nothing had happened.
"Why didn't you give that test to my character? This test was easy, that test put Tony into the hospital!" Kyon heard a voice saw from nowhere
"Because, Acsuperman, Tony is more of a fighter, I think this one is more of the "Brains" part of it." Kyon heard Shin's voice say.
Finally, giving up on trying to find where the voices were coming from Kyon finally walked home, exhausted by his adventure of the day.
Dat... was... epic. Yep, that happened, lol. Those were four stories from the site. The first and last one was Lucky Temptations and UnLucky Space by Smusher6, the second one was from Luckier Star by Acsuperman, and the 3rd one was Lucky Life: We're in College, Oh Joy! Hmmm, let's see, did I forget to mention any names? Ummm... nope! Lol Lucky Life was written by FlygonMaster. Some other stories I considered using was Otaku and the Dumb Character, by Yuri Fan A, Prince Iwasaki's Adventure, by Yutaka Kobayakawa (Yes, THE Yutaka. Lol), and Tsukasa's Lucky Star, by M.J.W 2011. I wanna thank everyone who allowed me to use their story and even gave me some tips on which scene would be best and I wanna thank all of the honorable mentions. It did get confusing but hey, I worked hard to make sure I didn't &%^$ with any of the writers stories. I actually had to re-write my own side of Lucky Life because the party was almost completely in Konata and Kagami's POV and I couldn't make it like Kyon was stalking them. Also other issues with that was at first I thought I couldn't use Misao because it said she went off with Sanjo (If you've read Lucky Life you would get this.) and I wanted him to run into Misao somehow, but thank GOD Flygon gave a time break saying about Konata and Kagami doing other stuff or else I don't know what I would have done! So thanks for reading and this one was a big one. Over 5000 words without A/N's and also the scene breaking lines add even MORE words. Then it got too large for even Lucky Channel to show up, but hey Akira made an entrance! Ok well I'm done talking see ya later. Bye-niiii!