Chapter 51: A Halloween Chapter!
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Wait, seriously? Still no continuity? FINE THEN! I didn't want to do a smelly Halloween chapter anyway! Having the characters learning about Halloween doesn't appeal to me in the least! Feh...
Chapter 51: To be announced.
What up? See? I told you we hadn't ended quite yet! Which is good, 'cause I still have a lot of stuff to put in here. Man, for every chapter I write, I come up with a couple hundred ideas. You know how I said the festival was the half way mark? Yeah, not so much anymore (otherwise, the end of the story would be in 13 chapters. By this point, if I really wanted to, I could drag a few days out to be 13 chapters...) Doesn't really matter what happens in those chapters, short of cosmic disaster, the story is most definitely NOT ending. Geez. I had no idea this story was going to be such a massive undertaking XD I think about it at work, school, martial arts class, and the occasional video game/children's card game. I have to constantly think about it to get the kind of stuff I come up with hehe. Anyway~... So, Tsuki is confusing people even more... Great! If you guys could figure out who is was, you'd be weird. Like, really weird. Seriously, go write some poetry, it'll get really famous and people will be interpreting it a thousand years from now. Only someone with a brain as weird and twisted as mine can be sometimes could come up with her background XD Please, don't let that stop you from trying to get it. There are some pretty good ideas out there... Sqweebs, there's a good reason none of the Cataclysm Combatants showed up in a google search! They're original characters that I devised!
About where we left off...
Tony and the small crowd of people turned to meet the voice. There was a man that most everyone knew, but couldn't recognize at the moment.
"Let's take this somewhere more private, eh?" The voice said. A mass of nausea later, the crowd found themselves inside Tony's training room, it being large enough to fit them all. Now outside the eye of so many people, the spell that kept the man from being recognized lifted.
"Hey Boss!" Tony said. Tereya looked between the man and Tony.
"S-Shin?" She asked. "Y-You two k-know each other?" She asked. Tony and Hachiman chuckled.
"I'm guessing this is Tereya." Hachiman said. Tony nodded.
"Yep." He chuckled. He turned to Tereya and Mikado. "Tereya, Mikado, this is Hachiman." Tony gestured to the god.
"WHAT?" Mikado shouted.
"Um... G-God of W-War?" Tereya asked.
"Yep. The same." Tony said.
"HOW?" Mikado shouted.
"Well, I was claiming I was-"
"Not that! I don't think I ever told you my name before!" Mikado shouted. "How did you know it?" She asked.
"Tsukasa told me." He said. He looked at his girlfriend triumphantly. "See? She never told me. She admits it!" He said. Tsukasa pouted cutely.
"Hmph." She huffed.
"Anyway, I was claiming to be the god of fighting as my tournament name. Hachiman apparently found it appropriate to come down and kick my ass around to drive the point that I am not, in fact, a god." Tony chuckled.
"Hmmm..." Mikado nodded. "Did you at least make a flashy entrance?" She asked the god a little too casually.
"When I came to earth? Yeah, I came down like a shooting star." Hachiman smiled.
"..."
"..."
"..." All were silent for a moment.
"That can't be the star we all wished on." Tony said.
"No way. You hadn't even entered the tournament when we had that slumber party." Kagami said.
"I TOLD YOU IT WAS A SLUMBER PARTY!" Konata cheered.
"Gah!" Kagami was taken aback. She was caught. "What... What were we talking about before?" She asked.
"You said you had some way for us to get to Seifa Utaki?" Tony asked Hachiman. Hachiman nodded.
"Ah, yes. Quite. Well, maybe. You see, it's something YOU do." Hachiman said. "Undoubtedly, you've begun to notice a huge amount of energy that seems to pop up out of nowhere whenever you need energy."
"Usually at extremely convenient times." Tony added.
"Yes. That is called the Divine Well." Hachiman said. "You've utilized it several times, during your healing of Sojiro and when you healed Tsukasa." Hachiman said.
"Wait, even back then?" Tony asked.
"Yes, you didn't notice it until you were more attuned to energy." Hachiman said.
"It felt like it was limitless." Tony said.
"Hm. It does have limits. Very clear limits." Hachiman said. "But it is called the Divine Well, not the Divine Pool, or the Divine Puddle. It has an extreme amount of energy in it, and it even regenerates energy on it's own."
"How?" Tony asked.
"It's complicated." Hachiman said.
"Divine Well... That sounds like something that a god would have, not me." Tony said.
"It is... generally speaking. It's rare that it pops up in mortals." Hachiman said.
"How rare?" Tony asked.
"You're the only one." Hachiman said.
"The... Only one? There aren't any across any other dimensions or anything?" Tony smirked. Hachiman stared at him for a second.
"... Did I stutter?" Hachiman asked.
"...No boss." Tony mumbled.
"NO BOSS, that's right!" Hachiman repeated. "Anyway, it's power is NOT something that you should use lightly. Even as attuned to energy as you are, using too much energy from the Well will tear your body to shreds. I think you remember what happened the last time your body was wrecked with energy. Tsukasa had to come to your aid." Hachiman said. He turned to the aforementioned girl. "Which, by the way, I don't recommend using often either." He turned to Tony.
"So, this is a pool of energy that GODS draw from?" Tony asked.
"Each have their own. Compared to mine, yours is relatively small." Hachiman smirked at him.
"Is that what you used to tank Naruto's last attack?" Tony asked.
"Yup. Using it so... spur of the moment... is still tiring, even for me." Hachiman said.
"So you didn't want to be called because you were so tired from using it." Tony said.
"Correct." Hachiman said.
"So, basically you want me to use the energy from this "Divine Well" to teleport me and Konata and whoever else to Seifa Utaki, and then back again." Tony said.
"Basically. The only thing is... You can't control it. It only shows up when you absolutely need it. As it should. For a mortal, it's a defense mechanism that should only ever be used when your life is in danger. However, for you... I think you may be able to handle the stress after a while. You would still need to learn to use it at will though." Hachiman said sagely.
"By unlocking my seven chakras." Tony said matter-of-factly.
"No, by unlock... Yes." Hachiman said. "How... How did you know that? That's one hell of a guess..." Hachiman said.
"I've watched Avatar." Tony said.
"Ah... Well... Okay then... Well, the basics are the same, but it is different in some ways." Hachiman mumbled.
"Well then, when do we start?" Tony asked.
"Later. Your body is still gonna get wrecked soon because of your little stunt. Which I'm forbidding you from ever using again. No amount of focus will be able to master that technique. Not while you're still mortal." Hachiman said.
"Is there some case in which I become a god here? What do you mean while I'm still mortal?" Tony asked.
"Er... That was hypothetical. Of course, I used to be mortal as well, so who knows? Maybe if you can get a Divine to acknowledge you." Hachiman chuckled.
"I don't have much interest in becoming a god unless it's to help my friends." Tony said. Hachiman rose his eyebrow and shrugged.
"Even so, don't use that technique again by yourself. I can barely use it for the purpose of regaining energy." Hachiman said. "I don't think I could use it in an attack."
"So you said each god has their own Divine whosiwhatsit, right?" Tony asked.
"Right." Hachiman nodded.
"Does Amaterasu?" Tony asked. Hachiman laughed loudly enough that he disturbed everyone else's conversations. On seeing that this wasn't an actual joke, calmed down a bit, though it was still very clear he found the question amusing. They listened to the conversation between the two for a bit, but were utterly confused by what they were talking about. That being the case, they all turned back to their respective conversation.
"Yes. All of us. Amaterasu, Tsukiyomi and Susanoo ARE special cases, though. Their Divine Well is so great, it manifests itself physically. Amaterasu's manifests a the sun itself, a well of power so great, it can burn for millions of years and still be no where close to running out. Tsukiyomi's is powerful enough, it became rock and took to the sky. His Divine Well and Amaterasu's are never in the sky at the same time without one eclipsing the other." Hachiman said.
"Ha." Tony laughed once humorlessly at the god's pun.
"Susanoo's Well is a bit more complicated. His encompasses the entirety of Yomi. With a constant amount of souls feeding into it, he takes the energy the person had left when they died. It feeds into his well and refills it. When he uses it, he can also take energy from the dead as well." Hachiman said.
"It sounds like he's got the best deal out of all of this." Tony said.
"It really depends on who you ask. The energy from all of the mortals to have ever lived, or the eternally refilling energy of the sun?" Hachiman said.
"And the moon?" Tony asked.
"It's always at it's maximum." Hachiman said. "I also have to recommend you never use too much of it. If the energy from the well runs out,-"
"I die, right?" Tony asked.
"Well, no. It just won't regenerate anymore. When a Divine's well runs out,-"
"They die?" Tony asked.
"No, but we turn mortal. You have to put energy into it yourself until it hits it's maximum before you can even begin to use it again. It's a hole you end up throwing energy into without knowing how close you actually are to completing it. Luckily there are very, very few instances in which it running out has been an issue. The most well known one among the Divine is from Susanoo's battle with Yamata no Orochi. Susanoo himself would tell you he won the fight without any problem, but it's pretty well known he almost used the entirety of his Divine Well. Luckily, he made it through without depleting it." Hachiman said.
"So wait, the legend of that fight says the same thing, that it was pretty much a one sided fight." Tony said. "Is that not the case?" He asked.
"Well, a lot of what really happened isn't known for sure. We know what he told us and about his use of the Divine Well." Hachiman said.
"So. What happens if a god dies? What happens to their Divine Well?" Tony asked.
"It's absorbed by the killer." Hachiman said. "If you have a Divine Well, it will add onto your maximum. If you don't, the energy will fill you up to your fullest and keep filling you until you likely explode." Hachiman said. "It's the reason no mortal should ever attempt to kill a Divine. Though, us Divine are extremely durable." Hachiman said.
"So, there's no way of coming back from something like that?" Tony asked.
"Well, if the Divine see it fit, they can deify you. You get a Divine Well along with it. Thing is, the well you get is from the person who deified you to begin with and comes off their maximum." Hachiman said.
"So if Amaterasu deified me, whatever Divine Well I would get would be shaved off hers?" Tony asked.
"Precisely." Hachiman nodded.
"This is a lot to absorb." Tony said. "Basically, the point of this conversation as I understand it, is that once I learn to control this power, I can use it to teleport me and Kon-kon to Seifa Utaki." Tony said.
"Correct." Hachiman said.
"Well then. Thank you very much for the information." Tony said.
"One other thing you should probably consider is to attune yourself to energy." Hachiman said.
"And how would I do that?" Tony asked.
"Meditating and letting energy flow through you. Your body will get "used" to the energy. In fact, that training you went through that got you all of the energy in your ring was almost perfect." Hachiman said.
"Well cool. Thank you very much Boss." Tony smiled.
"Any time kid." Hachiman smiled.
"So!" A voice interrupted them. They looked over at Mikado, the redhead looking at them. "Let me get this straight." She started.
"Yes?" Hachiman asked.
"You're the god of war. The honorable Hachiman. Right?" Mikado asked. Tereya seemed to be hiding behind her. Hachiman nodded.
"Right." He answered to the affirmative.
"You're this super powerful god that can probably kill everyone here in one blow if he wanted. Right?" Mikado asked. Hachiman nodded.
"Probably." He said.
"You also can do crazy awesome stuff like he can. Right?" Mikado asked, referring to Tony.
"That would be correct." Hachiman answered.
"And you came down to do nothing more than talk. Right?" Mikado asked.
"Right." Hachiman said.
"Can we have some proof? You can do anything you really want, right?" Mikado asked. Hachiman smirked and raised an eyebrow.
"What did you have in mind?" Hachiman asked. Mikado glanced at Tereya. She walked up to Hachiman and began whispering in his ear. He nodded, nodded again, then sighed. "Um, Mikado, there are a few addendas, some quid pro quos..." Hachiman mumbled.
"Oh, so you can't do it..." She mumbled, looking thoroughly depressed. Hachiman thought for a moment. He sighed and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"It's done. But you have to put some effort into it as well. Do your best." He said, looking in her eyes. Mikado sighed again and looked in his eyes, nodding.
"Got it... Thanks!" Mikado seemed determined and back to her bubbly self. Tony could feel that Hachiman was lying, but he seemed to betray nothing to Mikado.
"What did you do?" Tony asked as Mikado turned back to Tereya.
"I gave her confidence. Hopefully. Mikado is strong. Maybe she'll get her girl." Hachiman smiled.
"So, there's nothing you can really do for them?" Tony asked. Hachiman sighed.
"As much as I wish otherwise, my magic is not omnipotent. A little bit of courage is the real magic. If love is true, it finds a way." Hachiman said.
"Don't you know if she'll get it? I thought you could usually see the future or something?" Tony asked. Hachiman sighed. "And you tried to help her, so you must have seen something bad." Tony said.
"I'm not saying that..." Hachiman said.
"Did she fail?" Tony asked.
"I'm not saying that." Hachiman said.
"Then what are you saying?" Tony asked.
"I'm saying that I need to see a girl about a rabbit." He said as he turned away.
"You're not going to give me a straight answer on this, are you?" Tony asked.
"What do you think? No. No spoilers." Hachiman said. He walked over to Kagami, Tsukasa and Konata. Tony saw Hachiman talk to Konata and Tsukasa for a moment. The two of them nodded, looked at each other, and walked over to Tony.
"What's going on?" Tony asked.
"Not sure. Hachiman said he needed to talk to Kagami alone." Konata said.
"Huh. I wonder what about." They all turned back to the two, though couldn't hear them.
POV Kagami
"So, what did you need to talk to me about?" Kagami asked. "I'm assuming that it's really important considering you wouldn't let Tsukasa or Kona hear it." Kagami said.
"Indeed. Things are going to happen soon. These are very serious things." Hachiman said.
"So amazingly important things that it will affect everything ever?" Kagami asked with a smirk.
"Yes. You and your friends are going to change." Hachiman said. Kagami, seeing his seriousness, got serious herself.
"How so?" She asked.
"It's going to begin soon. Konata, when she finds the Spirit of the Wind." Hachiman said.
"She isn't going to change physically, is she?" Kagami asked, concerned. After all, her Kona was too cute to allow her to change so easily.
"She isn't going to look any different. But you will all need to learn your limits and stick to them." Hachiman said.
"So why are you telling me this? Why couldn't you say it in front of Kona herself? If this is about her, then you should probably let her know." Kagami said.
"This isn't about just Konata. You'll change too. I'm telling you this because you will be the one to change the most." Hachiman said.
"Hm?" Kagami perked up.
"The change you will undergo is going to be severe. With the rest, it will be something temporary. Something that can be switched off. It will not be as... easy... for you." Hachiman said.
"Anything specific?" Kagami asked.
"No." Hachiman said bluntly. Kagami huffed.
"Anyway to stop it?" Kagami asked.
"You'd have to cut ties with Tony." Hachiman said.
"So no." Kagami said. Hachiman smiled. "This change... will it help me keep Kona and Tsukasa safe?" Kagami asked. "Is that something you'll tell me?"
"I can't tell you specifically what happens. I simply don't know everything. It will probably help with that. Maybe." Hachiman said.
"If it does, then I don't care. Bring it on. I'm going to protect my Kona and my sister. I don't care what happens to me or to this body. Whatever I need to do. I'll always protect them." Kagami said.
"Whatever you say Yuno." Hachiman said. Kagami jumped and blushed. She didn't look like she regretted what she said though.
"I don't mind whatever happens to me. If they're safe, I can be happy." Kagami said. Hachiman smiled.
I'll have to let her know they're on their way. Hachiman thought. It shouldn't be too long before they can get to her. He thought.
"You look contemplative. Anything else I should know?" Kagami asked with a smirk.
"Hmph." Hachiman couldn't help but huff at how casually Kagami was talking to him. "Just be careful when you do end up going to Seifa Utaki. The Spirit of the Wind is an ancient being, but she has an odd personality." Hachiman warned.
"How would you know?" Kagami asked.
"You could say I've met her." Hachiman smiled. "Well, that's really what I wanted to say to you." He smiled. As he went to turn away, Kagami put her hand on his shoulder.
"One question." She said. Hachiman, now very surprised, turned back and looked at her.
"Alright then." He said.
"How did you know?" Kagami asked. "You said you don't know everything. What DO you know?" Kagami asked.
"You're getting pretty demanding, aren't you?" Hachiman smirked.
"Maybe, but I want to know." Kagami said. He sighed.
"Well, if you undergo THAT change, then I'll put my faith in you to go through one more. If you can do that, you'll definitely be able to protect Konata and Tsukasa from most any threat." Hachiman said. Kagami's eyes widened.
"No way... Really?" Kagami asked. Hachiman nodded.
"I've been told you'll go through one. I wasn't told what it was. Only that you'd be very changed." Hachiman said.
"Huh. Sounds fun." Kagami sighed in thought. "Who said it?" Kagami asked.
"Classified information." Hachiman said. Kagami blinked for a moment.
"You didn't." She said.
"I did." Hachiman nodded.
"You're really not going to stick to that, right? It was a joke, right?" Kagami asked.
"Nope. Not a joke. The information is classified." Hachiman said. "Well, that's about it."
"I guess I'll see you later." Kagami said.
"I'll be in touch." Hachiman smiled. He walked away. Konata came back over.
"What was that all about?" She asked.
"Much ado about nothing." Kagami smiled.
"Kagamin~, if you're keeping something from me..." Konata mumbled.
"Kona, I wanna learn Wing Chun." Kagami said.
"W-What?" Konata asked.
"Would you mind teaching me? I don't want to always be protected." Kagami said.
"But I don't mind protecting you Kagamin." Konata smiled warmly.
"I mind you having to protect me constantly." Kagami said. "I don't need to be on your level or anything, just enough to where I can do something by myself. You may not always be there when I'm threatened. As much as I'd like to pretend we'll be together for every moment of every day from now until the day we both die, I know that's just a dream." Kagami said. Konata smiled a little despite knowing the same.
"Sure. I can give it a try. I've never actually taught anyone. I had one student that was supposed to call, but I haven't heard anything from him. Then again, he was pretty badly hurt." Konata said. "When do you want to start?" Konata asked. Kagami looked around.
"We're in a training room." She said. She walked over to the closet and opened it, taking out Tony's sword. Having a sword in her hand felt very... natural, strangely enough. "Think Tony would mind if I used hi-"
"Kagami!" Konata yelled as she snatched the blade from her hand. Her yell drew the attention of the room.
"Hey, what are you doing with my sword?" Tony asked.
"Kagami, you never touch a weapon you don't know how to use." Konata said very seriously. "If you seriously want to be my student, you'll never touch a weapon I haven't trained you to use again. Understand?" Konata said in a tone that could command Haruhi Suzumiya. Kagami shrunk quite a bit.
"I..I'm sorry Kona..." She said.
"Apologize to Kan-kan as well. You don't just take someone else's weapon without their permission." Konata instructed. Kagami turned to Tony, looking like a child being scolded.
"I'm very sorry Tony. I've done something really wrong. I'll never, ever touch your sword again without your permission." Kagami said.
"Well, nothing bad happened this time, so I suppose it's okay. Where did you learn to talk like that Kon-kon?" Tony asked.
"Hm? I was trying Ms. Kuroi's voice when she scolds me." Konata said. "I thought it might make a good teacher voice."
"Thought I heard a little Haruhi in there." Tony said.
"Totally did. Tried to add a little of her in there too." Konata smiled. "So Kagamin, you really want to start now?" Konata asked.
"Yeah, if we put it out too much, it's just never going to happen, you know?" Kagami said. "This way, maybe I can even lose some weight! If I have something like Wing Chun, I can defend you guys PLUS I can totally get fit!" Kagami said.
"First of all, you don't need to get fit. You're perfect as you are." Konata said. Kagami's face lit up in a blush. "Second, you don't need to defend me. I'd like to think I can handle myself." Konata said, trying to keep Kagami from endangering herself if she could help it.
"What about Tsukasa though?" Kagami asked, shooting a glance towards her twin, who was talking Tereya and Mikado. "She'll never be a fighter. Even if we tried, she can't hurt another living thing." Kagami said.
"Well, Tsukasa IS our healer..." Konata chuckled. "Looks like my initial evaluation was all wrong..." Konata giggled.
"What do you mean?" Kagami asked.
"A while ago, I thought Tsukasa would be our clumsy mage and Miyuki would be our cleric..." Konata pointed out. Kagami thought back.
"Oh yeah~... And you said I was a barbarian." Kagami said in an annoyed, matter-of-factly way.
"I stand by what I said." Konata said. "I'm the warrior, our tank! My main feature is my avoidance instead of taking the attacks head on!" Konata said.
"And Tsukasa is the healer, huh?" Kagami asked.
"Yep! That's right!" Konata said.
"She just better not end in any actual battles." Kagami said.
"Nope! I'm the tank, so it's my job to keep them off of her!" Konata said.
"And I'm the barbarian." Kagami said.
"Yep!" Konata nodded.
"So you have to teach me Wing Chun so that I can fight along side you." Kagami said.
"Well, if you're really that interested in learning, I'll do my best to teach you!" Konata said. She motioned to Tony. He came over.
"Hey, what's up Kon-kon?" Tony asked, Hachiman having come over too.
"Would you mind if I used your training room to teach Kagami how to fight?" Konata asked.
"I wouldn't mind at all!" Tony said. "You interested in learning, Kagami?" Tony asked.
"Yeah, I was also wondering if you could drop by once in a while and maybe see if you could add anything?" Kagami asked.
"Oh, what, I'm not enough?" Konata teased.
"No, that's not it! I just really want to learn as much as I possibly can, you know?" Kagami asked.
"Yeah, I understand." Konata said.
"I would be happy to Kagami! Whenever you like." Tony said.
"Think you could stay for my first lesson?" Kagami asked. "I was gonna ask if Kona would like to teach me now!" Kagami said.
Man she seems excited about this... Tony thought. "I can ask Tsukasa what she's doing..." Tony said.
"I wouldn't push yourself kid." Hachiman said.
"What do you mean?" Tony asked.
"You already pushed your body during that fight. It was only because of that song Tsukasa sang that your body has held out this long. Pretty soon, you're gonna crash, why bring it on any sooner than you have to?" Hachiman asked.
"Can't you do something about that?" Tony asked.
"I think it better I don't. That way, you'll learn something about restraint." Hachiman said.
"Great, so I'm going to get knocked out with pain again, huh?" Tony asked.
"Well, it might not be so bad this time. It'll still be pretty bad though." Hachiman said.
"Well if I'm going down, I might as well go out with a bang." Tony smirked. Hachiman sighed.
"Do what you want." He said. Tony nodded and walked over to Tsukasa.
"Hey Tsukasa, what are you going to do now?" Tony asked.
"Well... It depended on what you were doing..." Tsukasa said. "I didn't want to make plans without asking you first..." Tsukasa said. The shy way she said it made Tony smile.
"What were you thinking?" Tony asked.
"Well... I would like to go with Teri-chan and Mika-chan and hang out a little... You're free to come along!" Tsukasa added. "I'm sure they wouldn't mind..." Tsukasa said. Tony sneaked a glance at Mikado. She was staring at him intensely. She either really wanted him to come, or she really, really didn't. Tony used his finely honed instinct into all things female to debate it in his head. Eventually, he innie minnie minnied moed it. He chose to stay and oversee Kagami's training.
"I think I'll stick here. Kagami was going to start training in Wing Chun under Kon-kon. She asked if I wanted to stay here so that I can see if I have anything to add." Tony asked. Glancing at Mikado, she smiled warmly. Man, she really doesn't want me there... Tony chuckled in his mind.
"Onee-chan is learning to fight?" Tsukasa asked.
"Yeah, it surprised me too." Tony said. "But, she wants to learn, so I want to teach with Kon-kon!" Tony said.
"Alright then Kan-kun. Me, Teri-chan and Mikado are going to hang out then... Call me if you need me or if you want to come!" Tsukasa said. Tony smiled as she scurried off to her new friends. He turned back to see Inori and Matsuri talking to Kagami and Konata. Hachiman not visible in the room, Tony guessed that he had departed. He walked back over.
"So what are you two going to do?" Kagami asked.
"We're going to go see a movie together!" Matsuri said, putting her arm around Inori's shoulder.
"So what's going on between you two now?" Kagami asked. Matsuri cocked her head to the side.
"What do you mean Imoto?" Matsuri asked.
"Are you two dating? Is this a serious relationship?" Kagami asked. Inori averted her gaze for a moment and Matsuri turned somber.
"We'll have to talk about this later Imoto." Matsuri said seriously. She turned and led Inori out of the room following Tsukasa and her friends. Tony looked around. Tadao and Miki had been watching the spectacle from a distance before walking up.
"You hear all that?" Kagami asked.
"Yeah." Tadao said.
"What do you think Dad? Would you accept them if they were serious?" Kagami asked. Tadao crossed his arms and thought. After a few moments, he sighed.
"I don't know. I've been thinking about this as well..." Tadao said.
"Is this about religion? Or yourself?" Konata asked. Kagami gasped a little and looked at her.
"Myself, mostly. I would also have to think about it from a religious stand point, but I don't think that's the main obstacle here..." He said. "The thing is... I only just recently began seriously thinking lesbian relations as anything that could be real. To add incest onto that..." Tadao sighed. Miki put a hand on his back. "What do you think Miki?" Tadao asked.
"I think it's their life." Miki said. "If this makes them truly happy..." Miki smiled. Tadao sighed.
"I need to think about this... Tsukasa went with her friends, what are you doing Kagami?" Tadao asked.
"I'm gonna stay here for a little while if that's okay." Kagami said.
"Fine by me." Tadao smiled. "Maybe me and Miki will go on a date!" Tadao said.
"Ooooh, I'm game for that..." Miki hugged onto Tadao's arm as the two left. This entire time, Miyuki and Masuta had seemed to be in deep conversation, ignoring anything else that had been going on.
"I agree, her short hair would make for a warrior's cut, which would explain armor and weapons, but what was the thing behind her..." Masuta asked.
"And why would she be wearing plate armor?" Miyuki asked.
"What are you guys talking about?" Tony asked as the three approached.
"There was a mysterious girl we saw during your final match. We couldn't see any features because she was dressed in a full body cloak." Miyuki said.
"She was completely hidden from our view, but we could make out vague details based on educated guesses." Masuta said.
"So... You're telling me... that there was a woman observing us... with a full suit of armor... a weapon on her side... and something jutting out of her, er... tail." Tony said.
"Yes." Masuta said.
"Basically." Miyuki said. "Except it didn't look like a full suit. She moved too freely." Miyuki said.
"Uh-huh." Tony nodded. "Well, that's lovely." Tony said. "Why would there be an armored warrior watching me, Kon-kon and Tsuki?" Tony asked.
"She was more watching you than any the other two." Masuta said.
"Though she noticed Konata. You were the main focus of her attention." Miyuki said.
"Maybe someone ELSE sent to kill you?" Masuta chuckled.
"If that were the case, why wouldn't she attack during the match? Any more than what we were fighting and we would probably have been killed already." Tony said.
"That's true..." Masuta said. "You were pushed to the edge there in that last battle and mostly got you ass kicked." He chuckled.
"Hey, that's!... very true." Tony said.
"Well, then we just need to get to the Spirit of the Wind that much quicker! That way, we can get powered up before she makes her move!" Konata said. "So, you find a way to get there Kan-kan?" Konata asked.
"Kind of. It may be a little bit before we can get there. It's about that thing I did when my eyes glowed. I get access to a massive amount of energy that I can teleport us with." Tony said.
"Coolio." Konata said. They turned to Masuta and Miyuki. "So, Kagami's parent went on a date. Her sisters went on a date. Why don't you two?" Konata asked. Masuta and Miyuki sighed in unison. They simply turned around and left together, not saying another word. "Think I annoyed them?"
"Maybe, but we can get annoyed by them not going out and constantly trying to tell us that there's nothing going on between them." Kagami said.
"A bunch of people who annoy each other. Sounds like a family to me." Tony smiled.
"If they get married and you get married and Kona gets married with me..." Kagami smiled. "Then we will literally all be family. You'll be my brother in law through Tsukasa, Miyuki will be my sister in law through Masuta." Kagami said, getting excited.
"Kon-kon will be your sister in law too." Tony said.
"Huh? What?" Kagami was surprised.
"Kon-kon is my sister, so she'll be your sister in law." Tony said.
"Konata isn't your blood sister." Kagami said. "Besides, I wouldn't care about that anyway."
"She'll be even more of my sister since she'll be my sister in law after I marry Tsukasa and you marry her." Tony said.
"It might be a while you know." Konata said. "Our marriage is still against the law." She said.
"Come on, don't be a downer!" Kagami said.
"I think we're gonna have to find out what's going on with that..." Tony said.
"Yeah! But we're gonna change that! There is one thing though Kona." Kagami said.
"Hm?" Konata hummed.
"It's something called Shudo." Kagami said.
"What's that?" Tony asked.
"Shudo is basically a relationship between a master and a student that existed in ancient Japan." Kagami said. "This kind of stuff was also in places like ancient Greece. Sparta, for example, actually encouraged you take a fellow warrior as a lover on the battle field. It inspired courage because they didn't want to be seen shrinking from a battle in front of their lover." Kagami said.
"Shudo was mostly between males though, Kagami." Konata said. "And it wasn't a permanent relationship like marriage." Konata said.
"Even so. At least for now, we could actually be interpreted as lovers." Kagami said.
"That type of relationship typically ends at the coming of age. It would only last until you were twenty." Konata said.
"Kona..." Kagami said. "You seem so adamantly against this..." She said sadly.
"That's because I don't want us to be interpreted as lovers." Konata said. Kagami was taken aback.
"Wh...What?" She asked.
"I want us to BE lovers." Konata said. "Our love is true. It doesn't end at your coming of age. It doesn't end at all. We don't need to be "interpreted" as lovers." Konata said. "We already ARE lovers."
"Kona..." Kagami could almost feel tears coming to her eyes.
"So. Shall we get started?" Konata smiled. She put her fist in her hand and bowed. Kagami stood for a moment, feeling her heart warm. She brushed away tears with a happy smile. She studied the movement and duplicated it. Konata giggled. "Kagami do you know why we do this?" Konata asked. Kagami hummed.
"I'm going to be honest, I really don't. I just saw you and that old martial artist do it in that video of the tournament in Lohan." Kagami said.
"Ah, well you see..." Konata began to describe the original reasons behind the motion, and then why it was inverted by Wing Chun practitioners, both of which have been skipped for time.
"That's interesting..." Kagami said.
"I honestly never knew what it was, but you did it before every fight, so I assumed it was just a greeting..." Tony chuckled. "That's why I tried to do it back to you when you did it." Tony said.
"I noticed that. We were kind of in a weird place for me to explain it then though." Konata smiled. "Alright, so. Let's start with a basic stance. This one is called Gee Kim Yeung Ma." Konata said. She walked over to Kagami and looked her up and down. "You're way too stiff. Just... relax. Stand naturally." Konata said. Kagami sighed and tried to relax herself.
You never realize that you have no idea how to stand naturally until someone tell you to... Kagami thought to herself. She stood as naturally as she could.
"Alright, now make a fist in both hands." Konata demonstrated. Kagami mimicked her. "And bring them to around the bottom of your ribs, but don't let them past your torso." Konata said. Kagami nodded and followed Konata's movements.
"Alright..." Kagami said.
"Now bring your feet together, heels touching." Konata said. "Keep your back straight. Now, bend your knees and swing your toes out." Konata said. Kagami replicated it once again. She's learning this pretty quickly... Konata noted. "Now do the heels as well." Konata said. Konata dropped the stance herself as Kagami did it. She moved over to her girlfriend and motioned to her knees. "There's gonna be a lot of pressure of the knees here." Konata said. "The knees are also pressing inwards. Your legs may hurt from this much, but it's normal." Konata said.
"Mm... No, not really." Kagami said.
"Hmm..." Konata looked around her student. "Usually, people who are comfortable in this stance for their first time are doing it wrong... But you're not. This is already perfect." Konata said. "Huh. Alright then, now do all of the previous movements in reverse." Konata said. Kagami followed instructions and reversed all of her movements. "End it with straightening up and breathing in and out." Konata said.
"So... How would I fight from this stance?" Kagami asked. Konata sighed.
"You don't. This isn't a fighting stance, I can't stress that enough. This is simply a stance to help you develop your balance and leg muscles." Konata said. Kagami sighed.
"I know you're doing this the right way, but is there any way I could learn something to help me in the mean time? If someone attacked me tomorrow and neither of you were there, how could I defend myself?" Kagami asked. Konata stared at her for a moment.
"Kagami, I can't teach you Wing Chun stances if you don't have good balance. I can give you certain tips and tricks that will help you in a fight, but I can't teach you legitimate Wing Chun like that." Konata said. Kagami shrugged.
"I'd love to learn Wing Chun, but I don't have an issue being a faker." Kagami said.
"Well... First off, there's one thing I can't stress enough." Konata said.
"What's that?" Kagami asked.
"There's only ever one surefire way to make it out of a fight." Konata said. Kagami's eyes perked up. "The only way to survive a fight for sure is to avoid it in the first place. Diffuse the fight through any way possible before you start a fight." Konata said.
"Oh, you mean like the way you diffused that fight with the guys at the diner on our date?" Kagami asked. Konata scratched the back of her head.
"I'll admit, I was showing off for you." Konata chuckled. She got serious again. "But in all seriousness, AVOID A FIGHT WHEN POSSIBLE."
"Talk to them, keep their mind busy. If you know for an absolute fact that a fight is completely and totally unavoidable, strike when they speak. Keep talking, keep asking them questions, keep them thinking. Then hit them with everything you've got." Tony interjected.
"That's kind of cowardly..." Kagami commented.
"Better a coward than a corpse." Tony said. "You never know what other people are capable of." He said.
"If you looked at me on the street, you'd never imagine that I know Wing Chun. You've known me for years and you only just found out about my martial arts." Konata said.
"I suppose that's right." Kagami said. "So, hit while they think and speak." Kagami said, then nodded.
"When you make a fist, make sure your thumb isn't actually past your fingers. Have it in the crook that your fingers create on the side of your first." Konata said. Kagami made another fist and looked at it. She tried both ways.
"I don't feel a difference." She said. Konata walked over and grabbed Kagami's hand and arm.
"Make a fist with your thumb past your fingers." Konata said. Kagami did so. "Now, don't let me bend your wrist." Konata said. She put some strength in her arms as she bent Kagami's wrist with ease. "Now do it the other way." Konata said. Kagami put the thumb on her finger instead of past them. "Now, same thing." Konata said. She put some more strength into her arms. Kagami's wrist stayed straight much easier.
"Wow... I feel the difference now." Kagami said. "It's much stronger." Kagami said. "Why is that?" She sounded very interested.
"Well, there's a flow of energy that flows through your hand." Konata said, tracing a half circle around the inner part of Kagami's hand. "When your thumb is past that finger, it breaks the connection." Konata said. "How to explain..." Konata thought.
"A hose?" Tony suggested.
"Right!" Konata said. "Good idea Kan-kan. When you break the flow in a hose, it's much easier to move it after the break it, right?" Konata said.
"Yeah, that makes sense." Kagami smiled. "These are cool tips." Kagami said. She looked down at the ground and thought for a moment. "If I can combine this stuff with a good posture, like you were trying to teach me..." Kagami trailed off. She began going through the movements that Konata was teaching her earlier. She went through them slowly. She stopped at one point, her knees bent. Konata raised an eyebrow, interested in where Kagami was going with this. "If I..." Kagami trailed off, talking to herself. Remembering what she had seen Konata do in the past, she kept her back straight and put a hand out. She breathed in and out, trying to make a stance. Konata raised her eyebrows in surprise.
"What on Earth... Kagami, you're a natural." She said. She walked around Kagami. "Almost perfect already." She commented. She looked at Kagami's arm, the one that wasn't still at her side. Konata tapped the elbow off of her body. "Keep the elbow from touching your body." Konata said. She looked up. "Your shoulders are too stressed." Konata said. "You need to turn off your shoulders or this becomes a contest of strength." Konata said.
"What do you mean... Turn them off?" Kagami asked.
"Well..." Konata thought. She walked in front of Kagami. "Imagine you take a nail and a hammer. You hit the nail with the hammer and it goes down." Konata said. "Now, your shoulder is the nail." Konata put her clenched hand on her shoulder. "Now, strike it with the hammer." Konata said, pretending to bring her other fist down on her shoulder, bringing the shoulder down. She dropped her other shoulder.
"Ah..." Kagami looked at her shoulder. She breathed and did her best to drop it.
"That's pretty good for your first time..." Konata said.
"Looks like Kagami is practically a genius when it comes to this stuff." Tony said. Konata looked around Kagami again.
"Your stance is amazing for someone starting out." Konata commented. She was briefly reminded of Kagami's adeptness at learning the move she showed her earlier that she used to flip Tony. It was incredibly unlikely anyone could just naturally come up and almost perfect a stance of Wing Chun by watching a video of a Wing Chun practitioner. Still, here Kagami was, using a stance she modified from a basic stance to be almost exactly like Konata's Siu Nim Tau stance.
"How is this?" Kagami asked.
"Incredible." Konata said. "Your grounding is amazing." Konata said. She came around and put a hand on top of Kagami's wrist. "Well, I guess we continue from here..." Konata said, trying to keep up. Kagami was picking it up at a pace Konata had never seen with all of the people she had seen trained.
"Am I getting it quickly?" Kagami asked.
"Much faster than I did and Master Liu said that I learned it at a crazy rate." Konata said.
"Well, I've always been quick to pick things up! Maybe this is just something like that." Kagami suggested.
"Yeah, but not this quickly... This is insane." Konata said.
"Maybe Kagami is an angel!" Tony suggested grandly. "I know her sister is." He said before laughing.
"Do angels know how to fight?" Konata asked. Tony blinked a few times.
"I was joking Konata." He said.
"I'm not... With everything that's going on, maybe Kagami has some mystic background that no one knows about." Konata said. "Maybe she IS an angel that was sent to Earth." Konata said. Kagami blushed and fidgeted a little.
"Thanks Kona..." She smiled. Konata shook her head.
"I'm not flattering you. Maybe you lost your memory?" Konata asked, looking into Kagami's eyes to assure she was serious. Kagami had to stare at her for a moment to understand that she legitimately wasn't joking.
"I remember everything perfectly, Kona." Kagami said. "I remember when we first met. I remember when Tsukasa first met you. I remember my childhood. I didn't lose any of my memories." Kagami said. "There is nothing mystic about me. I don't have some crazy origin story, I'm just me." Kagami said. "I'm the me that's a twin." Kagami said. She took Konata's hand. "I'm the me that gets lonely whenever you're not around." She said. She took Konata into a warm hug. "I'm the me that fell in love with you and will always love you." Kagami said. She could feel Konata smile cutely into stomach.
"Kagamin..." Konata chimed. "You went deredere Kagamin..." Konata mumbled.
"I'm ALWAYS deredere for you Kona." Kagami smiled.
"... Does that mean I can call you a Tsundere now?" Konata asked. Kagami couldn't help but giggle at the lovable little loli.
"There is no Tsun, only dere." Kagami giggled.
"No... There's still some tsuntsun in there. There's gotta be." Konata said. She brought her head from Kagami's stomach and looked up. Kagami looked at her girlfriend to see a long missed catgrin. "Cute Kagami is cute, but I need ya to breathe some fire at me sometimes." Konata said. "THAT'S who I fell in love with." Konata smiled at her younger lover. Kagami stared at Konata for a moment in disbelief. "Be you Kagami. If you're not, how can I be me?" Konata asked. Her question broke Kagami's from her trance. Kagami smiled and chuckled, closing her eyes for a brief moment. She planted a set of knuckles firmly on top of Konata's head.
"... Idiot..." She mumbled. "I was trying to get even with you for before..." Kagami giggled.
"Kagamin, don't keep count like that... I love you, we can't try to get each other back like that." Konata smiled. Kagami sighed with a large smile on her face.
"I love you too Kona." Kagami said, grounding her knuckles a little bit. Konata giggled.
"Now..." Konata cleared her throat and backed up. "Shall we get back to it?" Konata gave great effort to putting her professional persona back on. Konata put her hand in her fist and bowed. Kagami replicated it.
POV Miyuki (Second time she gets a POV this story. Seriously, go look. Isn't that sad?)
Miyuki and Masuta walked down the street.
"Alright, so what do you want to do?" Masuta asked.
"Tsukasa can't fight." Miyuki said suddenly. The statement was random and blunt enough that Masuta wasn't exactly sure how to respond.
"Er... What?" Masuta asked.
"Teach me. Teach me like you did Kanpeki-san. I want to learn." Miyuki said. Masuta became very serious.
"Ototo is much different from you, Miyuki." Masuta said. "No offense, but he's a little more physically fit than you are." Masuta said.
"Then give me the facts. I'll work with them." Miyuki said. "Teach it to me. I don't need to know it all, but I want to know enough to defend Tsukasa." Miyuki said.
"Don't you trust Ototo and Konata?" Masuta asked.
"Kanpeki-san and Konata-san are good, but him, her, and me are better." Miyuki said.
"Those two have had years and years of training on their side. You can't match that with pure intelligence." Masuta said. "Don't get me wrong, you're brilliant, but even that can't make up the difference." Miyuki couldn't help but blush at the mixed praise.
"I know that I can't match them... Not yet, at least. But I can defend against small threats such as robbers and molesters." Miyuki said. Masuta sighed.
"You're not going to budge on this, are you?" He asked, sounding thoroughly exhausted.
"Not at all~." Miyuki said in a quiet, sing-song voice. Masuta was likely one of the only people to ever hear that voice from her. Even in his sour mood he couldn't help but smile at it.
"I guess it can't be helped..." Masuta sighed, shrugged, and smiled the smile of the doomed. "I'll help teach you whatever I can." Masuta said.
"Shall we start at my house?" Miyuki asked.
"That would be best." Masuta said. "I'm guessing you're wanting to keep this from the others, aren't you?" Masuta asked. Miyuki nodded.
"Namely, Tsukasa. If she knew about this, I would bet she'd want to stop me." Miyuki said. "She wouldn't want me to put myself in harms way." Miyuki said.
"And you're going to do it anyway." Masuta said. Miyuki gave Masuta a very rare, sly grin.
"If you're any good at teaching, I wouldn't be in harms way, now would I?" She said. Masuta chuckled.
"My teaching isn't something that can be doubted." He said proudly. "It's your ability to learn the physical side that would hold you back." He teased. Miyuki smiled a little wider.
"So you'll teach me?" Miyuki said.
"For self defense purposes only." Masuta said.
"But you ARE teaching me?" Miyuki asked.
"Yes. I AM teaching you." Masuta said.
"Good." Miyuki said. The two continued walking.
POV Tsukasa
Tsukasa, Mikado, and Tereya walked down the street, talking merrily about the most random of subjects. Tereya, though hiding behind Mikado for the most part, seemed a little more talkative than normal.
"So." Mikado stopped the conversation suddenly. It caused Tsukasa to look at her in surprise. "How did you and Tony meet?" Mikado asked. Tsukasa smiled.
"Onee-chan brought him into the group. I'm not sure why, but that's how we met." Tsukasa said.
"Love at first sight?" Mikado asked. Tsukasa blushed.
"I... I don't think so... He... Kind of tried to date Onee-chan first..." Tsukasa said. Mikado reeled back a little while Tereya let loose a shy gasp.
"No. Way..." Mikado chuckled. "Did he fail miserably?" Mikado asked.
"They actually did go out on a date." Tsukasa said.
"Get OUT!" Mikado shouted, laughing as she playfully shoved Tsukasa back a few feet. The action surprised Tsukasa, who ended up on her rear.
"Owie..." Tsukasa mumbled as she rubbed her rear. She pushed herself back up. "Why did you do that?" She asked Mikado, her yellow bow flat against her head. Mikado suddenly felt bad for a habit she'd had for a long time.
"Sorry..." Mikado scratched her head ruefully.
"S-She does t-that... sometimes..." Tereya smiled a small smiled from behind Mikado. Tsukasa looked at her. Tereya didn't seem to be hiding from Tsukasa so much as she was everything else around them.
This must be how she is all the time... Tsukasa thought to herself. "It's alright, you just surprised me is all." Tsukasa smiled.
"When did you fall for him?" Mikado asked. Tsukasa looked at Tereya again. She seemed interested as well. However, even greater than her nostalgia of how she and her love met, Tsukasa was curious about the two girls in front of her.
"Maybe I'll tell you..." Tsukasa said with a smile.
"Muo!" Mikado shouted.
"If you answer a few of my questions." Tsukasa said. Mikado stared at her intensely for a moment.
"What kind of questions?" Mikado asked.
"Like how did you two meet?" Tsukasa asked. Mikado and Tereya looked at each other for a moment. They both looked up with an odd unity, as if the answer were in the sky. They were thinking so hard about it, in fact, that they had stopped walking. Tereya gasped a little knowingly and smiled. Mikado looked at her.
"Did you remember?" Mikado asked. Tereya giggled a little bit and looked warmly at Mikado. The look was endearing enough that Mikado had to look away and blush a little.
"O-of course." Tereya smiled. "How c-could I forget?" She asked. Mikado suddenly felt guilty that she had forgotten. Despite that, she still couldn't seem to remember their first meeting.
"Um..." Mikado scratched her cheek sheepishly, looking higher into the sky, probably in the hope that the heavens themselves would write out the answer in the clouds.
"Hm hm." Tereya giggled a little more. "It was a long time ago." She started.
A long time ago, in a school far, far away...
"Ha! Stupid little kid!" A faceless, though rather large, kid laughed. Tereya landed on her rear with a thud. Tears poured down her cheeks as a few more kids gathered around her. She looked around, desperate for help.
"You don't have any parents~!" Another kid chanted. Tereya looked around at everyone. She had lost her parents several years ago. As bad as this all was at the moment, it was relatively tame to how she was ordinarily treated. A kid came up and kicked her in the right arm before turning tail and running like his life depended on it. Tereya gasped in pain and grabbed her arm. Ever since she had gotten the burns on the right arm, she had been an outcast. It had been years, and yet the bullying never stopped. They never tired of it. The first kid approached and drew his fist back. Tereya closed her eyes in anticipation of the attack.
"Hey you idiot!" She heard a loud voice shout. A girl with bright pink hair launched herself into the middle of the fray and pounded the bully in the face. She looked no older than Tereya, but at that moment, she seemed centuries the bullied girl's elder. She stood tall in front of everyone. "Now stop with all this stuff! How could you all do this to someone?" She yelled at everyone.
"Who's she?" One whispered.
"Isn't she that new kid?" Another answered.
"Why is she sticking up for that thing?" Yet another asked.
"If any of you idiots wanna pick on her, you're gonna have to get through me to do it!" The new girl shouted. All of the other kids looked at each other.
Present
"Ooooh, now I remember!" Mikado shouted.
"That was brave Mika-chan!" Tsukasa said. "Then they all left you alone?" Tsukasa asked. Mikado chuckled nervously.
"Well..." Mikado mumbled, scratching her cheek and averting her gaze.
Very nearly as long a time ago, but about five minutes in the future...
"Y-You didn't have to d-do that you know..." Tereya mumbled as she bandaged the girl up. The girl looked away and pouted.
"'Course I did. What, did you expect me to just leave ya there, gettin' beat up?" The girl said, wincing when Tereya touched one of the bruises. The girl was only slightly interested in the fact that Tereya seemed adept at doing such things with one hand.
"Still... T-Thank you..." Tereya mumbled. The girl looked up at her, though one eyes was forced closed by a welt just above it, and smiled.
"Any time! What's your name?" The girl asked. Tereya started fidgeting, seeming very scared all of the sudden.
"M-My name..." She mumbled.
"Yeah!" The girl said.
"T-Tereya... Tereya Hanikamiya..." Tereya said. The girl smiled widely and offered a hand.
"I'm Mikado! You're gonna be my new friend!" Mikado shouted. Tereya blushed at the determination in the young girl's voice. Had she not just gotten beaten badly to defend her, Tereya would be extremely weary of this girl.
"Are... Are you s-sure?" Tereya asked. Mikado smiled with teeth showing this time.
"Absolutely! We're gonna be the very best friends Teri-chan!" She shouted. Tereya looked extremely shocked at the nickname, something Mikado took note of.
"Teri...chan...?" Tereya repeated. Mikado looked a little sheepish.
"Er... Too much? Guess I did over do it a little..." She chuckled. Tereya shook her head and smiled.
"N-No... I l-like it... Thank you..." Tereya smiled. Mikado smiled widely again.
"Teri-chan it is! Let's be great friends from here on!" Mikado shouted. Tereya smiled a very small smile, tears coming to her eyes as she nodded.
"Yeah... Let's..." She smiled.
Present
"And that's that!" Mikado said. "We met that day, and we've been together ever since!" Mikado said loudly. Tereya smiled in nostalgia. Mikado had to smile at seeing the girl's smile, knowing that simply her presence had turned that horrific experience into something worth smiling over.
"Ah..." Tsukasa smiled. "That sounds really cool... Almost like when I met Kona-chan..." Tsukasa commented to herself, though nothing intentionally making the comparison out loud.
"Oh? Who's that?" Mikado asked. Tsukasa smiled.
"She's one of my best friends!" She said with a smiled. "You saw her on the train the day you met Kan-kun. She fought in the tournament! She was the girl with blue hair!" Tsukasa said. Mikado and Tereya nodded.
"So how did you two meet?" Mikado asked. Tsukasa smiled at the happy memory, though it had been scary at the time.
Not so long ago, on a street not an unfair distance away... Tsukasa was under an attack!
Tsukasa walked along. She didn't particularly care for going quickly, there wasn't much point in going home. Homework and then sleep were all that ever seemed to await her, so she had gotten in the habit of ditching her older twin to walk around. She was now walking down the street, heading lazily home to fail on her homework, as per usual. She sighed and looked up as she suddenly ran into someone. It was a large man with blonde hair.
"For me, but can you help me find the reason, listed on this page?" He asked. Tsukasa backed up a step and stared, fear in her eyes. He looked confused as well. He then cleared his throat.
"A-mer-i-can..." He said. "Many people believe that rose." He seemed to ask. Tsukasa was frozen in place when suddenly, there was a flash of blue.
"Don't worry Akira, I'll save you!" The girl, even shorter than Tsukasa herself, flashed in front of her. "Round one: Fight!" She shouted.
"Huh?" The American cocked his head to the side. Konata walked up and punched him in the gut ten times quickly.
"Senpuukyaku!" Konata shouted as she released a beautiful hurricane kick. The American was thrown onto his back. "Yatta!" Konata cheered.
Back at the present once more
"So she saved you from some dangerous American?" Mikado asked. Tsukasa chuckled nervously.
"Not exactly... He was just trying to ask for directions, but I didn't understand him when he was asking, so I got scared. She showed up and helped then..." Tsukasa said. Both Mikado and Tereya nodded.
"That's cool. She's a really good fighter." Mikado said. "Even though she doesn't look like it at all." Mikado added as an after thought. Tsukasa giggled again.
"Yeah, she doesn't look like she can really do that kind of stuff, especially not when you first meet her like that..." Tsukasa said.
"I can understand that... So where are we going, anyway?" Mikado asked. She looked around as they had been unconsciously walking the entire time after they had begun sharing stories. They seemed to be outside a mall.
"Ooooh! Let's go watch a movie!" Tsukasa said.
"What's playing?" Mikado looked up. "Oh! Avengers!" Mikado said. She felt a tug and looked down at Tereya, shaking her head almost pitifully. "Er..." She looked back up to see the other options. None of them seemed particularly appealing. There was one, one she knew Tereya would enjoy, but she wasn't altogether sure if Tsukasa was. It was a child's movie, after all, and even when someone liked it, they wouldn't generally tell their new friends something like that. However, both Tsukasa and Tereya seemed to have their hearts set on watching a movie, so Mikado figured she could at least suggest it.
"U-Ummm..." Tereya mumbled.
"We... We could watch Lion King in 3D..." Mikado suggested. Tsukasa looked at Mikado with a smile. Mikado had to reel back. Tsukasa's smile was almost literally beaming. It was almost as if divine light was radiating from her.
"Yes." Tsukasa said simply. She grabbed Mikado and Tereya as the three practically ran into the theater.
Luckier Channel
"Luckier~! Channel~!" Akira shouted. "Hiya Luckies~! I'm Akira Kogami, your navigator~!"
"And I'm Minoru Shiraishi, the assistant!"
"Hey." Akira shifted personalities almost instantly. Minoru got a chill down his back.
"Y-...Yes?" Minoru asked.
"Why aren't we in any of the new projects?" Akira asked.
"Well... I'm sure there was just not a good way to fit us in! Maybe there wasn't enough money to pay us?" Minoru suggested.
"I want some damn parts. Just because I'm rich now doesn't mean I don't enjoy acting." Akira said.
"Does anyone even know about the other projects?" Minoru asked. Akira brightened up.
"Oh, I dunno!" She said. She looked back at the camera. "Everyone, it's been three long months. We missed you soooo~ MUCH!" Akira shouted, flailing her arms to emphasis exactly how much you all were missed. "However, there are reasons! Actually GOOD ones this time~!" Akira shouted.
"Acsuperman is announcing that they're working on even more stories than this one." Minoru said.
"Which is why this story has been slow recently! There are two main ones being written, and a few smaller ones that are being done on the side! Finally, a reason for being late that you all can actually SEE!" Akira restated.
"Brainstorming for other stories on the side of this one has been taking a lot of time, not to mention all of the other excus- reasons that have been given in the past that are consuming even MORE time." Minoru said.
"Luckily for us, we're under CONTRACT~! So this story can't end any time soon, or we get a butt load of money!" Akira shouted. "And he hasn't got the dough to cough up." Akira chuckled.
"That being the case, we're all hoping these speed up once again as other stories are written." Minoru said.
*Music Tone*
"Oh, I guess that's all the time we have for the day! We'll see you all next time! Bye-nii~!" Akira shouted, waving.
"..."
"So, any chance we're getting in the other ones Minoru?"
"I don't think there's much of one... The others don't really have room for us."
"Feh. Lazy writers..."
"Akira!"
*End*
Aftersection
Yeah, that took a while. However, I did manage to get out a new chapter of It's a Lucky Life! For everyone who hasn't read it... Well... It's up. It is early, it's not Christmas, but aren't things coming earlier every year? That's one of the main ones I'm working on. The other is another idea that I've had for a very, VERY long time. Like since early Luckier Star. But now I have a new take on it, so it's gonna be easier to write! Hopefully I can get that out quickly as well! Of course, I have at least four ideas for other stories that I've been exploring. Anyway I'm gonna cut this short. Have a good one everyone, let me know what you think!
