Random member points into the distance "Is it a snail? Is it a turtle?" No, it´s Wolfbrother, finally back with his mediocre fics and horrendously slow update time.
So, what is my excuse?...nothing good...just that I started playing WoW...I am so shameful :(
So, I´m apologising to all you who might´ve been waiting for this, and I hope you can still forgive me :(...

Disclaimer: I don´t own any part of Azumanga Daioh, damnit

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Tomo had decided that to make her friend Osaka feel alittle better she would get her favourite type of bread for lunch, melonbread. She knew she had to hurry, because Osaka wasn´t the only one who liked melonbread.Tomo ran down the hallway, but she knew she was abit late already. Kaorin had something she had wanted to consult Yomi about, and being the busybody she is, Tomo had been interrupting to find out what it was.

When she found out it was about help with some math questions she had left pretty quickly

As she got the the queue she could see from where she was standing that there were but a few pieces of melonbread left, there were lots of people in front of her and the melonbread would probably be all gone before she got her chance to get one.

Well, if people are in my way I´ll just have to move them!´

And with that logic Tomo did what Tomo does. She ran down the queue, dodging, weaving and pushing between boys and girls. Finally as she got there there was only one piece left, so Tomo lunged for it and she flew through the air.

Only to have a tan hand reach it just as her own did. Tomo followed the hand up, and she saw straight into the face of the new girl, Kagura.

"You!" They exclaimed at the same time. They looked at eachother, then at the bread, and then at eachother again. Instantly they both started pulling at the bread´s plastic wrapping .
"What the hell are you doing? That´s my freaking bread, I´ve waited in the queue a long time for that!"
"Shut up, I got my hand on it first so back off, sides there´s lots of other kinds of bread, I need this particular one!"
"You shut up! I don´t care if you want this bread or not, it´s mine so I´m damn well gonna take it!"

And with that Kagura pulled at the bread while giving Tomo a hard shove with her other arm, sending Tomo to her bum on the floor.

"Now get outta my way before I give you a real beating!"

Tomo didn´t hear the words that came out of Kagura´s mouth, she just glared at her, in fact she didn´t hear anything at all, except for a small constant beeping that kept growing in volume. And as Kagura finished saying whatever she was saying the beeping reached a climax, and Tomo saw red.

Kagura heard the brat shift on the floor as she´d walked past and decided that she´d take no more shit from her, so she kept on walking, which was a mistake.She heard foots pace quickly and managed to turn around before she saw Tomo´s fist close up on her face.
Straight after the punch Tomo leapt up on Kagura and pushed her down on the floor, landing on top of her where she punched her once more.
"Are you gonna let me have that bread now, bitch?"

Students were standing around in a circle, cheering the two combatants on, and the amount of people watching grew rapidly.

Kagura was angry, no she was beyond angry, not only had the little brat picked on her from the second she had stepped in her new class, she had now even started a fight with her...Oh, boy was this bitch in for a beating.Kagura tumbled Tomo off her with practised ease, Tomo didn´t even have a chance to react before Kagura had reversed their places. Neither did Tomo stand a chance to fend off the incoming punches.
Kagura was alot more athletic than Tomo, thus she was also alot stronger, so her punches came faster and alot harder.
After a few seconds of pounding Tomo began to see black spots and her vision was getting blurry, she didn´t feel anything but the steady thumps on her face.
In a frantic display of adrenalin rushed madness Tomo gained enough power from anger and her own hyperactiveness to actually push Kagura off her, into a standing position. And somehow, Tomo also managed to get up.

"Have you had enough now, weakling?"

Tomo couldn´t see clear at all any more, her left eye had swollen up so much she couldn´t open it and her right eye was brimming up with tears, but she could see the shape of a girl and hear the voice so she lunged her best punch at the girl.Tomo´s punch looked like it would hit straight in Kagura´s stomach, but she easily dodged it and gave Tomo a kick in the side, right under the ribs.
Tomo collapsed like a sack of potatoes and couldn´t do anything but lie and wheese a shallow breath.

"Now before you go running off to report me or anything, remember that all these students saw that you jumped me first, and at the most I´ll get a few days suspension. Besides, it´s your own damn fault..."

Kagura looked at the beaten girl and at the bread in her hand. In an act of what might be a guilty conscience she tossed the bread to her.

"If you really want the freaking bread enough to get beaten half to death I guess I can get currybread today, but don´t do anything like that again!"

She left the threat hanging and walked away.
The students parted to let her through as she walked over to the breadstand again.
I guess I fucked up again...why do I have to get so violent all the time?...I´ll never make any friends this way.´
Kagura left the scene with the thoughts of withdrawal that had haunted her for most of her teenage life.

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Tomo finally managed to get up as she regained her breath.
The students were mostly back in place, a few of them casting looks at her, compassionate, yet still judging.
Tomo walked over to the breadstand and got a few more pieces of bread for herself and her other friends, paid and left for the roof.
She had a bit of trouble getting up the stairs , but it paid off when she saw Osaka was there, chatting with the others.

Yomi saw that Tomo stood in the doorway , abit annoyed at Tomo being so late, she yelled at her."Why did you take so damn long, Tomo? We´d like to eat before we grow old and die."

Tomo tried to smile as wide as she could and started running towards the voice, she couldn´t really see the expression on Yomi´s face , but she knew that the comment was only half-hearted, Yomi always said stuff like that.

Yomi kept her gaze on Tomo and when Tomo lifted her head to give a cheery smiled Yomi saw a perverted version of the Tomo she knew. She couldn´t help but let out a loud gasp that alerted the others, and made them follow Yomi´s gaze.

The left side on Tomo´s face had mostly swollen up, and her left eye was so bunched up they couldn´t see it anymore. Her lips had burst and were bleeding, her right side wasn´t as swollen, but it had bruises all over and that eye as well was pretty swollen, though it looked like it was open. Her nose looked broken as well and it had blood all over and under it. The only other sign of damage on Tomo was her tendency to favour her right side when she ran over, sometimes flinching and clinching her left side.

Yomi rushed over to Tomo, well ahead of the other, and put her hands around her. "What the hell happened to you , Tomo ?"
Tomo attempted to fake her usual foolish face when making excuses, rubbing her head she said. "Ah, you know, I just had to experience what would happen if I dove from the stairs towards the next set. It just got abit painful as I hit things and rolled on."

She could see that Yomi didn´t buy it, and when she shifted her gaze noone seemed to believe her, not even Osaka, who just turned her sad gaze and stared at the sky.

Tomo tried to smile and "ran" towards Osaka. " Look , Osaka, I got your melonbread, even when I was late in the line."Osaka looked at Tomo and the bread in her hand, her face cheered up alittle and she gave a little smile.
"Thanks, Tomo-chan, thanks alot." Tomo was glad she´d finally made Osaka smile again. "No, problem, any day!" she said with the biggest grin she could manage, which mean it was abit bunched up.