Lucky Temptations
A Lucky Star Fanfiction
Episode 4 (Tense Temptations): Chapter 8
Author's Notes: First off, please don't gut me for taking so long to update. My motivation has been in the pits lately. Gomenasai. *bows respectfully* On the bright side, I've been getting good grades and I've been doing Japanese lessons for the past few days. I think I'm actually starting to make some progress too! Anyways, here's the long awaited update to Lucky Temptations!
Enjoy the crap out of it!
Hiyori's body was beginning to wake itself up, much to the violet-eyed girl's chagrin. Just as she yawned and began to fall back into her slumber, Hiyori's alarm clock began its horrifying tirade of beeps. "Ugh…" Hiyori groaned as she rolled over to shut off the alarm. In her barely awake stupor though, Hiyori must have missed the clock because she found her hand wrapped around something soft… And warm. "What the-" Hiyori began.
"Mmm, that's nice." Patty sighed as she turned off the alarm clock. "A little frisky this morning, Hiyorin?" She asked as Hiyori remembered where Patty had slept last night.
"UWAH!" Hiyori exclaimed as she fell out of her bed, recoiling from the realization that she had just tried to press the snooze button on her girlfriend's chest.
"Hiyorin, are you okay?" Patty asked as she helped her girlfriend to her feet.
"Sorry about that, Patty." Hiyori said, averting her eyes out of respect.
"Why so skittish?" Patty asked, holding the shorter girl tightly. "We've gone all the way before, so why be modest now, right?"
"It's just still kind of awkward for me." Hiyori said. "I mean, would it kill you to wear some pajamas if we're going to be sharing a bed?"
"Would it kill you not to?" Patty asked in return.
Hiyori opened her mouth to say something, but she couldn't come up with a retort.
"Did I win?" Patty asked with a smirk as she watched Hiyori try to come up with something logical.
"Well…" Hiyori said. "I guess you have a good point… At least wear something at Takara-sempai's place tonight, okay?"
"Okay, if I have to." Patty said in a cutesy mock-pouting voice.
"Just get dressed already." Hiyori said with a chuckle. "We've gotta get ready for school." She said as she began changing out of her pajamas. As she began removing the sleepwear though, she couldn't tell that Patty was sneaking up behind her.
Jirou Tamura, Hiyori's father, had just rolled out of bed and made his morning coffee. His dark green eyes were still half lidded as he lazily stumbled down the hallway. A tiny smile crept onto his otherwise lifeless face as he lifted his world's best dad mug to his face and inhaled the aroma of his coffee. He took a light sip, and anyone looking on would swear that they saw the essence of life itself passing into him from that mug. As once that coffee hit his stomach, he almost seemed to flare up for a second. "Ah, coffee." He said happily. "The most important meal of the day." He said, chuckling as he ran his free hand through his short brown hair.
As he walked past his daughter's room, he heard some commotion from within. He was about to open the door to check on Hiyori before what he heard stopped him in his tracks.
"AH! Patty, not right now! I'm trying to get dressed!" He heard his daughter exclaim through the door.
"Aw, but you got to touch mine this morning." Patty whined as Jirou correctly assumed what was going on.
"That was an accident though! I didn't mean to!" Hiyori protested.
"You mean you didn't like it?" Patty asked, sounding hurt.
"N- No… It's nothing like that." Hiyori said.
"They aren't even trying to keep it down." Jirou thought as he took another sip of his coffee.
"Then is it that you don't like it when I touch you that way?" Patty asked.
"Well, no… It's not like that either." Hiyori muttered.
"Well then you shouldn't have any problems with this!" Patty exclaimed.
"Whoa- ohhh…" Hiyori moaned.
"Yep. That's my daughter moaning in pleasure." Jirou thought, shuddering slightly at the thought. "This is the part where I take my leave." He thought as he walked away and into the kitchen.
"There you are, sleepyhead." Miyo, Jirou's wife and Hiyori's mother said as she kissed her husband on the cheek. "Did you check on the girls on your way over here."
Jirou tried to ignore the question as he took another sip.
"Hello? Did you check on them?" Miyo asked as she lightly knocked on the top of Jirou's head.
"Yeah, they're fine." Jirou said as he put down his mug. "Just let them get ready for school. Everything will be fine."
"Everything will be fine?" Miyo asked. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"The less I know, the better." Jirou said, taking a look at today's paper. "Do all Americans have such active libidos?" Jirou wondered.
::SECTION OMMITED FOR PATTY'S GOOD MORNING::
"Oh honey." Honoka called, waving a spiral bound notebook in her hand as she entered the living room. "We need to talk for a second."
"Oh, hey!" Guy said as he finished tightening his short, mint-green ponytail. "You found my plot book! I've been looking for that all morning. Thanks, Honoka!" He said as he reached out to grab the book.
"Not so fast, dear." Honoka said, pulling the book out of Guy's reach. "I took a quick look through here and noticed something." She said.
"What's up?" Guy asked, wondering where his wife was going with this.
"Every one of these plotlines has a lesbian couple." Honoka said, her eye twitching a little bit. "And this latest one seems a lot like what I told you before."
"But you gave me permission!" Guy whined. "You even wrote some of it!"
"But I don't see any mention of that in here." Honoka sighed. "At least give me some credit where it's due."
"That's what you're mad about?" Guy asked, sighing in relief. "I didn't think you would want to be connected to that, so I didn't credit you. I guess I'll change that now though."
"I would like that very much, thank you." Honoka said, handing the book back to Guy. "But I swear, I've got to wonder every now and again if every American has a libido like yours."
"I'm not that bad, am I?" Guy asked, scratching his head slightly.
"Mom, dad, I'm going to visit with Miyuki before school today." Minami said with a bow as she walked into the living room. "Is that okay?"
"Sure thing, Minami." Guy said.
"While you're there, say hi to Yukari for us, would you?" Honoka asked.
"Okay." Minami said as she turned to leave.
"Oh! And tell her I said thank you!" Guy called as Honoka gave him a dirty look. "What?" Guy asked, noticing his wife's glare. "You wanted to be credited, and she's involved too. I figure I shouldn't make the same mistake twice."
"You liar." Honoka sighed. "You just want more details, don't you?"
"Well, I-"
"I knew it." Honoka said. "And knowing her, she'd give them to you too." She sighed as Minami left the house and began walking across the street.
"On the subject, just how serious was your relationship with her?" Guy asked.
"Seeing our daughter with hers really brings back memories." Honoka sighed. "We were just like that when we were just a little bit older than them. We wanted to raise our own families though, so we went our separate ways."
"And yet you live across the street from each other, and neither of your husbands are home for long periods of time." Guy said, raising an eyebrow. "I can't help but feel that this was all somewhat planned."
"Planned?" Honoka asked, smiling slightly at the corners of her mouth. "Whatever could you mean by that? We're just two lovely lonely housewives with mild to severe bisexual tendencies. What could possibly make you think that we planned this?"
"Why do you torment me so?" Guy asked, not sure of how serious his wife was being.
"Oh, don't even try to tell me that the thought doesn't drive you mad. Even if we did have the occasional slumber party, you would probably have no problems with it, right?"
Guy tried to protest, but found himself inexplicably agreeing with his wife. "I never thought I would be okay with my wife cheating on me."
"Well when you put it that way it sounds bad." Honoka said, mildly irritated. "Hiro-san was so much less uptight than you about it."
"You mean he knows?" Guy asked.
"Of course he knows!" Honoka exclaimed. "Do you really think Yukari can keep a secret? The only reason he never told you was because I wanted to eventually tell you myself."
"So you and her have still been doing… That? Even though you're both married?" Guy asked.
"In my defense, you aren't home enough to complain about it."
Guy felt like an arrow had just pierced his heart. "Ow. That hurt." He whined.
"Oh, you don't really mind do you?" Honoka asked, now a bit worried that Guy might not be taking the whole thing too well.
"You know that if I was any other man that I would be furious right now, right?"
Honoka silently breathed a sigh of relief. "That's one of the reasons I took a liking to you. You're such a softie." Honoka said, giving Guy a kiss on the cheek.
"But hey!" Guy said. "In exchange for not being mad, I would like some pictures." Guy said, bleeding ever so slightly at the nose.
"No." Honoka said flatly. "You aren't very good at setting terms, are you?"
"It was worth a try." Guy sighed.
"Good effort." Honoka said. "Perv."
"So how did Hiro take it by the way?" Guy asked.
"Well according to Yukari, he took it really well. In fact, he said that it made her even sexier to him. Freak."
"Hey! I take offense to that!" Guy said suddenly.
"Why? I'm talking about him, not you." Honoka said just before Guy pinned her to the couch.
"Because I fit that definition of a freak too." He said, kissing Honoka passionately on the lips.
"Mm!" Honoka exclaimed, gently pushing Guy away. "Not right now." She said sternly.
"Yes ma'am." Guy said, immediately backing off.
"At least wait until the girls are at school. That way we'll know Minami didn't forget something and walk in on us." Honoka said.
"You are such a good planner." Guy said.
"Of course I am." Honoka said with a wink as she went into the kitchen.
"When the girls leave for school, can we invite Yukari over for a visit?" Guy called into the kitchen, crossing his fingers.
"Is that why you aren't angry?" Honoka responded irritatedly.
"Maybe…" Guy said, still hopeful.
"Don't push it honey."
"Sorry." Guy muttered, his hopes dashed.
"And so that's what happened between me and Honoka-chan in college." Yukari said, sighing nostalgically.
"Mother, I'm sorry to say this, but…" Miyuki said, looking as if she was becoming very ill. "Just because I'm in love with a girl doesn't mean that I want you to tell me all of your adventures."
"Oh, nonsense!" Yukari exclaimed. "I'm sure Minami-chan has inherited some of her mother's interests, so this could be very valuable information for you!"
"But mother, I already know what Minami likes." Miyuki said, shuffling her feet nervously.
"That's right, you two have already gone to town." Yukari said as if it was nothing major. "What does she like then? It is dirty?" She asked, seeming a little too interested for Miyuki's taste.
"I'm sorry, but I don't really think I should tell you that. It's kind of private." Miyuki said, averting her eyes.
"Oh come on!" Yukari exclaimed. "Please? I won't tell anyone!"
"Mother, please stop." Miyuki sighed. "It wouldn't be fair to Minami if I told you without her permission."
"Oh, fine." Yukari huffed. "I guess that's between the two of you anyways. Sorry if I freaked you out a little bit." Yukari said. "I was just feeling nostalgic about my college days after seeing you two together."
"That's okay, mother." Miyuki said. "I can understand the feeling."
"Sometimes I wonder if I made the right choice." Yukari sighed. "After all, it was me that eventually ended our relationship."
"Really?" Miyuki exclaimed. "What happened?"
"I thought you weren't interested in my stories." Yukari teased.
"I really don't mind as long as you can keep it to a PG-12 rating." Miyuki said.
"Why didn't you say so sooner?" Yukari asked. "Anyways, I really loved Honoka a lot. Even more than that though, I wanted to raise a family proper." Yukari said. "I could tell she did too, but she didn't want to hurt my feelings by coming out with it. That's when I decided to end things. Luckily we managed to remain friends. She even thanked me when we broke up!" Yukari said with a giggle. "So, after one more night of-"
"Mother!" Miyuki interrupted. "PG-12 please."
"Oh, right. Sorry." Yukari said, making a zipping motion across her mouth. "That one almost slipped out. Good catch!"
"I don't think I should be the one catching these things. Please show some restraint mother!" Miyuki thought tearfully.
"Anyways, we had one more night of fun before leaving on a good note. The men we found then are our husbands today! And we still manage to keep in touch." Yukari said, putting particular emphasis on the phrase 'in touch.'
"Do I want to know?" Miyuki asked.
"Well, both of our husbands work far away a lot." Yukari said defensively.
"I probably don't want to know after all, do I?" Miyuki asked, beginning to feel sick again.
"I'll leave that up to you to decide." Yukari said with a wink as there was a knock at the door. "Oh! Sounds like your little lover is here!" Yukari exclaimed just loudly enough to be heard through the door.
"Little lover?" Minami thought, looking down sadly at her chest and patting it ever so lightly.
"Minami-chan, please come in." Yukari said, opening the door for Minami.
The tall girl quickly brought her hands back down to her sides and bowed before walking in. "Thank you Mrs. Takara."
"No problem. Miyuki is in the living room." Yukari said with her usual childish smile.
"Oh, and my parents say hello as well." Minami said before moving to the living room.
"Good morning, Minami!" Miyuki said, giving her girlfriend a polite bow.
"Good morning Miyuki." Minami said, bowing as well.
"You two are still bowing to each other?" Yukari asked, getting behind Miyuki. "Come on, loosen up a bit! Give her a kiss!" She said, gently pushing her daughter forward and into Minami's arms.
"M- mother!" Miyuki exclaimed as Minami just stood there in stunned silence.
"Um, it's alright." Minami said. "We don't need to change our usual greeting if you don't want to."
"Thank you, Minami." Miyuki said. "Hold on a second. I just need to get my bag." Miyuki said, moving quickly up the stairs to her room.
"So, Minami-chan." Yukari said, moving a bit closer to Minami. "What exactly did you and my daughter do that night?" She asked, looking more and more sinister with each passing second.
"W- what?" Minami exclaimed.
"C'mon! You don't need to skip the details on my account. I'm just a bit curious is all." Yukari pressed, making Minami feel more and more uncomfortable. "At the very least, can you give her permission to tell me?"
"Dear god…" Minami thought. "What is this woman? Miyuki, please hurry!"
As if hearing Minami's thoughts, Miyuki came walking back down the stairs at that very moment. "Mother," Miyuki sighed, "please stop harassing my girlfriend."
"Aw, fine." Yukari huffed. "I'm sorry, Minami-chan. I'm not trying to make you uncomfortable. I just want to make sure you're treating my daughter right is all." She said, making a pouty face and pressing the tips of her index fingers together.
"It's okay." Minami said. "I'm not mad."
"Just please take it easy, okay mother?" Miyuki added.
"Okay. I'll leave you two alone from now on. I'll see you both later though, right?"
"Mother, everyone is coming to spend the night tonight, remember?" Miyuki asked.
"They are?" Yukari asked. "When did that happen?"
"I asked you about it on Monday, mother. Don't tell me you forgot?"
"I think I vaguely remember now. Yes, actually. Sorry, I must have forgotten." Yukari said, scratching the back of her head.
"I suppose I should have reminded you." Miyuki said. "So I guess it's partially my fault." She said as she opened the front door and held it for Minami. "Minami and I are going to pick up the snacks and such on the way home, okay?"
"Sure thing dear." Yukari said. "Have a nice day at school you two!" She called as Miyuki left after Minami and closed the door behind her.
Once the two were a little ways down the street, Miyuki put down her tote bag and turned to face Minami. "Minami, come here for a second please."
"Uh, sure." Minami said, turning to face Miyuki as the pink-haired moe goddess pressed her lips to Minami's. "But Miyuki, why not-"
"Mother wasn't behaving herself, so I didn't want to give her the satisfaction." Miyuki said with a smile.
Minami smiled and blushed a little bit at that comment. "Okay then. Here, let me get your bag for you." Minami said, kneeling down to pick up Miyuki's tote bag.
"Oh, you don't need to do that." She said.
"Please, I insist." Minami said with an unusually warm smile for her.
"Well, okay then. Thank you." Miyuki said, giving Minami a peck on the cheek.
As Minami picked up the tote bag, she couldn't help but notice that something seemed out of place. "What's that?" Minami wondered when she noticed a small blue plastic bag sticking out of one of Miyuki's textbooks.
"Hm?" Miyuki asked, noticing the bag as well. "Oh, this must have fallen in when I was packing this morning." Miyuki admitted. "I went to grab one of my books, and a whole shelf collapsed." "For the life of me, I can't remember what was in that bag. Oh well, I'm sure it was just garbage." She thought, not noticing the yuri manga wedged underneath her textbooks.
"Kagami, are you almost done in there or what?" Matsuri asked, knocking impatiently on the bathroom door.
"Yeah, yeah. Just give me a minute, okay?" Kagami said, having to take her toothbrush out of her mouth to talk.
"Can't you go any faster? I want to get in the shower before I have to go to classes today!"
"The more times you interrupt me, the longer this is going to take!" Kagami snapped.
"Man, you're such a pain sometimes." Matsuri sighed as she turned around in defeat and headed downstairs. "Why does it take girls such a long time to get ready for the day?" She asked as she flopped down on the couch next to Inori.
"Uh, Matsuri? Last time I checked, you're a girl too." Inori said, looking away from her book.
"That's where you're wrong. I'm a woman, not a girl like Kagami." Matsuri huffed. "I can actually get ready in the morning in a reasonable amount of time."
"Really?" Inori asked, putting her book down. "Then what were you doing in there for forty-five minutes yesterday morning?"
"Th- that was a special circumstance!" Matsuri exclaimed.
"Terrible bed-head, right?" Inori teased.
"And some static too." Matsuri conceded. "But that was just yesterday!"
"You were in the bathroom for an hour the morning before that." Miki said as she walked into the living room.
"Mom? You too?" Matsuri groaned.
"I tend to notice when you spend half an hour using the shower."
"No way." Inori said. "You were in the shower for thirty minutes? What on earth were you doing in there for so long?"
"N- nothing!" Matsuri exclaimed, going red in the face.
"That's weird." Kagami said, coming down the stairs. "Most people clean up when they're in the shower. It gets a lot more done than nothing." She said with a grin.
"You know what I meant!" Matsuri exclaimed.
"You weren't doing something weird in there, were you?" Kagami asked teasingly.
"Kagami, I think that's enough for now." Miki said, raising her hands to calm her hotheaded daughters down.
"Oh, all right. Sorry Matsuri." Kagami grumbled.
"Whatever. If you're down here then that means the bathroom is open." Matsuri said, standing and heading up the stairs.
"Guess that means it'll be closed for the next hour or so." Kagami joked.
"I heard that!" Matsuri exclaimed, causing everyone to laugh.
"What's going on out here?" Tsukasa asked, stepping out of her room and rubbing her eyes as she yawned the sleep away.
"Tsukasa, you're just getting up?" Matsuri asked, stopping right in front of the bathroom door and looking at the young twin in amazement.
"Yeah. My alarm just got me up." Tsukasa said with another yawn.
"What time did you set that thing for?" Matsuri asked, wondering why it would have gone off this late.
"I set it for six o' clock so that I could have enough time to get ready and everything. Why?" Tsukasa asked, rubbing more sleepies out of her eyes.
"Tsukasa, it's way after six." Matsuri stated flatly. "Has her alarm really been going off this whole time and she just slept through it?" She wondered.
"Huh?" Tsukasa exclaimed, running back into her room. "OH NOOO!" She yelled upon realizing that it was in fact well beyond the time that her alarm had started going off.
"Sounds like Tsukasa's up." Kagami sighed. As if on cue, Tsukasa came sulking down the stairs in her pajamas.
"G'morning everyone." She sighed. "Maybe I should get a new alarm clock."
"Tsukasa, are you still waking up this late on school days?" Her father Tadao asked as he entered the living room.
"Sorry daddy." Tsukasa mumbled.
"You don't have to apologize." Tadao said. "Just try to get up a bit sooner, and you shouldn't have this problem anymore."
"I know. My alarm is really loud though, so I don't know why it doesn't wake me up."
"Maybe it isn't irritating enough." Inori suggested.
"What do you mean?" Tsukasa asked.
"Well, some people can sleep through any loud noise with no problem." Inori said. "If you make them listen to something really annoying on the other hand, they'll get right up just to make it stop."
"Where did you learn that, Inori?" Miki asked.
"Let's just say that I know someone who is the same way. He can sleep through just about anything except his alarm clock. And that's only because he has one of those really high-pitched beeping ones and it drives him up the wall." Inori said, laughing a little bit at my- I mean her friend's expense.
"Thanks Inori." Tsukasa said with a smile and a nod. "I'll keep that in mind. Also, I want to tell you all something while you're all here." She said, gaining concerned looks from Kagami and Miki. Tsukasa simply responded to their concern with another nod before she took a deep breath. "Mom, dad, Inori." Tsukasa said, pausing for a bit.
"It's okay Tsukasa." Miki said, putting her hand on Tsukasa's shoulder.
"Thanks mom." Tsukasa sighed. "Dad, Inori, I need to tell you something."
"Well, what is it Tsukasa?" Inori asked.
"Whatever it is, you can tell us." Tadao reassured her.
Tsukasa took another deep breath before finally letting it loose. "I have a girlfriend!" She exclaimed before quickly covering her mouth with her hands. Kagami and Miki both tensed up a bit as they both mostly watched Tadao's expression.
As expected, Inori didn't seem to have any objection. She simply got up and gave Tsukasa a quick kiss on the forehead. "That took guts to admit." Inori said. "You should be proud."
"Thanks onee-san!" Tsukasa chirped, happy tears in the corners of her eyes.
"What about you, honey?" Miki asked, snapping Tadao out of his slight stupor.
"Well, I can't really say that this is what I expected to hear, but I'm glad it's not any kind of bad news." Tadao sighed. "You had me scared Tsukasa. I thought you were going to say your grades had dropped or something." He said with a chuckle.
"Dad!" Tsukasa whined.
"It's just a joke, Tsukasa." Tadao said with a laugh. "You didn't have to keep that from us. I'm happy for you." He said. "So tell us more. Do we know her?"
Kagami, satisfied that things seemed to be going well for Tsukasa, pulled out her cell phone as she started back up the stairs. Once in her room, Kagami scrolled down to Ayano's number in her contacts list and hit the call button "I should apologize for the way I acted last night. I can't just make baseless assumptions like that." She thought as she listened to the phone ring a few times. Kagami was about to give up and just talk to her at school when there was finally an answer.
"Hiya Hiiragi!" Came Misao's voice through the receiver. "G'mornin to ya!"
"M- Misao?" Kagami exclaimed. "Where's Ayano?"
"Oh, Minegishi's in the bathroom right now, so here I am! How ya feelin this morning?"
"O- okay I guess." Kagami said, feeling more irritated with each passing second. "Why are you answering Ayano's phone?"
"Like I already said, Minegishi's in the bathroom. I saw that it was you on the caller ID and just barely managed to catch it before it went to voicemail. Weren't you listening?"
"I got that much!" Kagami yelled. "What I mean is why are you at Ayano's place this early?"
"Well, how else? I spent the night here, duh." Misao explained. "We had a bit of a heart to heart conversation too. I know she can't wait to see you today!" Unfortunately, Kagami had hung up before Misao could finish talking. "Hello? Hiiragi? You there?"
"Who was that, Misao?" Ayano asked as she walked into her room, all fresh and clean.
"It was Hiiragi, but she hung up on me." Misao said, tossing the phone onto the bed angrily. "Why would she do that? It's so rude!"
"Kagami?" Ayano asked.
"Yeah, I guess she's still in a bad mood for whatever reason." Misao sighed. "I guess we'll see later on, right?"
"I hope everything is okay." Ayano said, looking down at the phone.
"Hey, don't sweat it!" Misao said, patting Ayano on the back. "I'm sure your confession will go fine! Come on, let's get going."
"Right." Ayano said as the two girls left Ayano's house.
"Minegishi and Kusakabe." Kagami muttered as she sat down on her bed. "Dammit! Why the hell do I even bother?" She yelled. "I guess Ayano's already got someone to make up for Nikinari. Not like I have a chance with her anyways. She and Misao have been friends longer after all." She said as she let herself fall onto her side on her bed. "Besides, she's another girl. Not even guys have ever shown any legitimate interest in me." Kagami said, sobbing a little bit. "And to think I actually considered confessing to her today." She sobbed as she curled up on her bed.
"Another girl?" Matsuri wondered, her ear pressed up against Kagami's bedroom door. "So I was right after all! If only I could do something about it." She thought as she began walking back towards the bathroom. "Well, the water should be ready by now." Matsuri said dreamily to herself as she walked into the closed bathroom door. "What the hell?"
"Matsuri? Is that you?" Came Tsukasa's voice from inside the bathroom.
"Tsukasa?"
"Yeah. Thanks for warming up the bath for me!" Tsukasa chirped happily. "I just told my secret to the rest of the family, so I really needed this bath after all that stress. Plus, sis and I have to leave soon, so thanks for being so considerate and getting the bath ready for me."
"But I-"
"You're so thoughtful sometimes. I'm glad you were so nice to do this once you saw that I was getting up so late."
"Y- yeah. That's why I was headed to the bathroom when you got up." Matsuri said rather dismally. "Enjoy my bath." She muttered.
"Huh? I didn't hear that last part." Tsukasa said.
"Don't worry about it." Matsuri said, heading back downstairs in defeat.
"Konata, get up or you're gonna be late for school!" Sojiro called as he slid Konata's bedroom door open. "Konata? Are you asleep at your computer again?" He asked, knowing the answer full well as he took a few steps toward his daughter. On the way however, he managed to trip over the sleeping form of Yui Narumi who was sprawled out on the floor. "UWAAH!" Sojiro screamed as he fell forward and into Konata, knocking her out of her chair and out of her slumber simultaneously.
"Whoa! What the heck?" Konata cried as she picked herself up off the floor.
"Freeze! Police!" Yui yelled, springing to her feet and holding her hands out as if she were holding a gun. "Huh? Uncle Sojiro?"
"Yui, why were you sleeping on the floor?" Sojiro asked, standing back up. "Sorry about that, Konata."
"It's okay I guess." Konata sighed. "What time is it?"
"It's pretty late. I came to wake you up because you'll be late for school if you don't hurry." Sojiro said.
"Oh crap!" Konata exclaimed as she started fumbling through the papers scattered by her fall, quickly stuffing them all into her bag. "Good thing I'm still in my school uniform from yesterday!" Konata said with a wink.
"Ew." Yui thought. "Sure you don't at least have time to change?" She suggested.
"Nope, I gotta go!" Konata exclaimed as she rushed out of her room and towards the exit.
Yutaka was standing by the front door already and was ready to leave. "Good morning onee-chan." She said with a smile as Konata hurtled towards her. "Are you ready to- WAAH!" Yutaka exclaimed as Konata dashed by, grabbing Yutaka in her arms and literally carrying her out the door.
"What was that all about?" Sojiro asked as he stared out the window and watched the two girls disappear.
"She said something about her teacher helping her out with something if she did all her homework before we passed out last night." Yui said through a yawn. "She seemed really fired up about it too." She said, rubbing her eyes.
"Yui, your eyes are all red." Sojiro said with concern, taking a step towards his niece. "Were you crying in your sleep or something?"
"Huh?" Yui asked, remembering some of her dreams from last night. "Well, m- maybe a little." She said, looking at her feet.
"You're really that worried about him, huh?" Sojiro asked.
"I know I shouldn't be worried, but I just can't shake this bad feeling I've got." Yui sighed, wiping her eyes. "I mean, he's been acting strangely on the phone, almost like he's nervous talking to me. I don't know what else to think."
"I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for however Kiyotaka might be acting." Sojiro said, putting one hand on Yui's shoulder and giving her a thumbs-up with the other.
"I wish I was as sure of that as you." Yui sighed. Just then, something under Konata's desk caught her eye. "Hey, I think Konata might have forgotten something." She said, pointing the paper out to Sojiro.
"Huh. The last question isn't answered yet." Sojiro said as he picked up the paper.
"Yeah, she said she was trying to figure it out and that it was the last thing she had to do."
"I'd better call her and let her know she forgot it." Sojiro said, scrolling down to Konata's name in his phone's contact list and hitting the call button. Unfortunately, Sojiro and Yui almost immediately heard the theme to The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya begin playing from one of Konata's desk drawers. "You're kidding me." Sojiro said, opening the drawer and finding Konata's cell phone.
"Uh oh." Yui said. "Here, give me the paper and I'll go and bring it to her."
"No, you stay here and rest some more." Sojiro said. "You've got a lot on your plate right now. Why don't you just relax for today. You know, play some games or something. I'll be back later." Sojiro said, quickly changing into some street clothes and hoping to catch Konata before she got to the train station.
"O- okay." Yui said. "I'll wait here for you." She said, sitting back down on the floor in Konata's room. She sighed to herself when she heard the front door open and close. "Great. Now I'm alone." She sighed as she half-heartedly picked up the Nintendo DS she was playing with the previous night.
"Man." Nanako thought as she got off the train at her stop, still half-asleep. "I keep getting the feeling like I'm being watched." She thought as she walked towards the school. As she continued walking, she swore she could hear another set of footfalls behind her. It sounded as if they were just a little bit out of synch with her own steps. Nanako turned around quickly, but nobody was there when she looked. "My mind must be playing tricks on me." She said with a yawn as Kanata decided that walking right behind Ms. Kuroi in her 'just rolled out of bed' condition might not have been the best of ideas.
"I'm sorry." Kanata said with a bow as she returned to her usual method of floating. Nanako immediately tensed up as if frightened. "Could she hear me just now?"
"Oyashiro-sama?" Nanako asked, now fully awake, alert and looking around nervously while walking a little more slowly.
"Who?" Kanata asked, wondering just what Ms. Kuroi was talking about.
"I swear if I get to the school and the windows are smashed out, I'm never going there again." Nanako said, visibly shivering.
"What on earth is the talking about?" Kanata asked herself as she followed Ms. Kuroi at a bit of a greater distance. Before long, they had arrived at the school with no further complications. "So this is where my daughter goes to school." Kanata said, looking around Ms. Kuroi's classroom. "I wonder where she sits." She pondered as Ms. Kuroi began preparing for the students to arrive.
#Lucky Channel#
"Hiya luckies!" Akira chirped as she waved frantically. "It's so great to see you all again! I'm Akira Kogami, and I'll be your navigator!"
"And I'm Minoru Shiraishi, the co-host." Minoru said cheerfully.
"Assistant." Akira snarled.
"Bite me." Minoru said through a smile.
"Anyways, It's been too long since the last update!" Akira said. "I bet it's because Smusher's been too busy with all the new games and stuff that he got. So lazy."
"Akira, don't you think that's a little harsh?" Minoru asked.
"Please, it's about time someone gave him a swift kick in the pants. He told a bunch of people that he was going to update a week ago! Seriously, who does that?"
"Akira, maybe you shouldn't taunt the author so much." Minoru warned, seeing me sit down next to Akira, who was too busy ranting to notice me.
"Please, what's he gonna do? Demote me? HA!" Akira laughed as I tapped her on the shoulder. "What?" She snapped as she turned and saw the malice in my eyes. "Oh, Smusher! I- it's good to see you." She said with a nervous chuckle.
"You know that my next update is going to be to UnLucky Space, don't you?" I asked, venom dripping from my voice.
"R- really now?" Akira asked. "What does that mean?"
"It means keep all your ducks in a row, or suffer the consequences." I said, narrowing my eyes at Akira.
"R- right." Akira stuttered. "Gomen."
"That's all for today." I said with a bright smile. "Thanks for reading. Bye nii!" I chimed as the closing card dropped on the set.
"You're looking well today Smusher-sama." Minoru said.
"Don't try flattery Shiraishi." I said. "With me, it'll get you nowhere."
"Yes sir." Minoru said as the video feed cut out.
Author's Notes: Well, not much else to say. I hope you liked it, and I hope to see you all next time! Next update to this will be after my updates to 'UnLucky Space' and 'A New Hunt.'
Look forward to it!