The following morning, a Thursday. A reoccurring event was on its best way to become a tradition.

"I could get used to that." Konata was thinking while being on Kagamis futon again. "Not that I have a choice in the first place. Is she kidnapping me out of my bed or what is going on in the night?" She genuinely couldn't understand how they always end up like that.

"…Konata, you still have some pudding on you." Kagami suddenly mumbled in her sleep. "Let me get if for you…"

"Still a bit moe, aren't we?" Konata teased. "Wednesday is over Kagamin~… well, whatever.

"Shut up, idiot."

"Wow, a comeback while sleeping, nice one Kagamin~." Konata admitted. "How about waking up for now?"

"I'm awake, idiot."

"Two idiots in a row, huh? It's also not tsun Tuesday… Wait, since when?"

"At the moe part."

"Ah, so you were talking in your sleep again, Kagamin~."

"So were you last night…" Kagami mumbled back.

"Huh?!" Konata wasn't expecting that. "What? What did I say?"

"I'm not sure, something about pudding on me. I was too sleepy to fully understand. After hearing you crashing on the floor and being silent, I went back to sleep."

"Hah, you said exactly the same a couple minutes ago. Wait a moment… you heard me crashing on the floor and didn't say something or you know, helped me?"

"It sounded funny so I decided against it." Kagami teased. Her eyes were still closed.

"You're pretty evil. I bet you just wanted me to be down there so you can hug me again." Konata teased back.

"Why should I hug you?"

"I don't know. Actually, I really would like to know the same thing. Maybe you do like it after all and yesterday wasn't just all teasing."

"Yeah, sure, that must be it." Kagami answered in a way you could even smell the sarcasm.

"By the way, Kagamin~…"

"What?"

"I'm still on your futon and you're still hugging me. I mean I'm not complaining or anything but it doesn't prove your point, not at all." Kagami finally opened her eyes after hearing those words and immediately started blushing.

"Why are you on my futon again!? Stop that already!" Kagami yelled.

"Kagamin~, you just told me you saw or rather heard me falling out of my bed and I was obviously still asleep then. It can't be my fault, you know?" Konatas reasoning was flawless for once.

"Well, I honestly still don't know what happened here. Let's just leave it at that." Kagami accepted her defeat. 'I really wonder what happens when I sleep.'

"Sure, it's a nice way to wake up so I don't mind it at all. It's just a bit odd, that's all."

"I'm hungry, let's eat something." Kagami decided to change to subject.

"Okay. After all, I can't let come anything between Kagamin~ and her food." Konata teased.

"Shut up."

….

They were sitting in the kitchen by now. Konata had quickly fixed some breakfast including the left over miso soup from yesterday. The two chatted a bit until they finally left for school.

…..

At school, lunch break as usual.

"…and the pudding was, like, everywhere." Konata was telling Tsukasa and Miyuki the incident from the last day.

"Wow, oneechan really is 'special'..." Tsukasa was amazed by the talents of her sister.

"Ehm, Izumi-san, was it by any chance vanilla pudding?" Miyuki suddenly asked.

"Huh? Yeah, why? Wait, how do you know?" Konata was a bit confused.

"You have something in your hair which looks like vanilla pudding."

"Ehh?! No way, we took a bath afterwards."

"Look." Miyuki took a tissue and cleaned Konatas hair. "Here, it looks like pudding."

"That's indeed the pudding from yesterday. Weird…"

"What's weird?" Kagami asked, she was a bit late from her class. She was standing behind Konata and had her arms resting on Konatas shoulder while leaning slightly towards her.

"Oh, still a bit clingy? I see." Konata smirked at her.

"Shut up. So, what's weird?"

"Sit down and bow your head. I want to check something." Konata said and Kagami followed the demand without much thinking.

"And now?"

"You too, that's really weird."

"What me too?" Kagami asked before Konata took a tissue and cleaned Kagamis hair.

"We both had pudding in our hair."

"Huh? "Wait, how's that possible? We took a bath afterwards."

"I know, I said the same before."

"Hmm…" Tsukasa started. "Ah, something similar happened at home before. Kona-chan, did you two clean the ceiling after onee-chans accident?"

"Uhh, have you?" Both, Konata and Kagami, faced each other and said in perfect synch.

"I guess that's a no?" Tsukasa was right with her idea.

"Yeah, looks like it." Konata added.

"Ah, I understand." Miyuki nodded. "There is still some pudding on the ceiling which dripped down earlier while you two were eating breakfast."

"That sounds logical…" Konata started.

"…and nasty" And Kagami finished.

"Did you two eat at least some of the pudding? It sure sound like a waste." Tsukasa innocently asked. After remembering yesterday, the two immediately started blushing.

"Well... uhm… Kagamin~ did. I didn't because was slightly distracted at this moment." Konata mumbled.

"Yeah... I-it was good, I guess." Kagami stuttered, clearly being a bit embarrassed.

"Is something wrong you two?" Miyuki asked after seeing their reaction.

"N-No no, nothing. Yesterday was, ehm, interesting. I learned a new side of Kagamin~, it was…" Konata stuttered and got interrupted.

"Come on, you clearly liked it." Kagami teased and made Konata even more nervous. 'Yep, this is still great.'

'I wonder what happened.' Miyuki was thinking. 'The two definitely seems closer now.'

"But you two seem to have fun, right?" Tsukasa asked.

"Yeah, it was a 'bit' unexpected but in a good way and yes, definitely fun." Konata nodded as she agreed with her.

"Yes, pretty funny indeed!" Kagami agreed and smirked at Konata. "Oh, and Tsukasa, I made great progress yesterday." She proudly announced.

"Really? With what?"

"I made miso soup and almost completely on my own on top of it."

"That's great, onee-chan." Tsukasa monotony answered but then. "Ehh?! You did what? No way!" She shouted afterwards.

"You really are pretty cruel when it comes to this topic, sis. I'll remember this when you need homework next time." Kagami pouted.

"I-I'm sorry oneechan." Tsukasa started fidgeting. "I don't mean to be cruel. I-It just seems pretty… well, unlikely. Especially after the pudding story from earlier. By the way, Miyuki often helps me with my homework lately after you more or less started living by Konata."

"It's true, I was surprised myself. In the end, I only helped her with the measuring stuff because she tends to use way too much but the actually cooking was more or less entirely done by her. Pretty impressive if you ask me." Konata explained while wearing a 'proud-teacher' face.

"See!" Kagami was extremely proud with herself.

"Wow, that's great!" Tsukasa cheered. "I really didn't expect that. Especially after two days. Oh, I was talking with my mom about you two yesterday and she wanted to know something, Kona-chan."

"Ha! I knew it!" Konata suddenly shouted.

"What's now wrong?" A startled Kagami asked.

"Remember the sneeze we had yesterday? I knew someone was talking about us." Konata explained. Kagami just sighed, although with a little smile.

"So what does mom wants to know, sis?" Kagami asked afterwards.

"She wanted to know if you're an alien by any chance, Kona-chan, because of your success with her cooking lessons."

"Really? Even mom? That's pretty depressing." Kagamis head hung low.

"Don't worry Kagamin~, they just don't know how to handle you." Konata teased.

"Wow, that sounds pretty…" Kagami wasn't convinced by Konatas reasoning.

"Weird but true." Both laughed a bit. "No Tsukasa, I'm not an alien. At least I think so. You can never be sure, it happens all the time in manga and anime but no, I don't think." Konata answered after hard thinking.

"But it would explain quite a lot." Kagami laughed.

"Okay, I will tell her, I sort of said already something similar." Tsukasa said.

"Tsukasa, I'm pretty sure she was just joking…" Kagami sighed again.

"Oh." Tsukasa was genuinely surprised.

"By the way..." Konata said while taking her camera out. "I took a photo from the 'incident' yesterday."

"Don't show that. It's super embarrassing." Kagami shouted.

"But onee-chan, I want to see it." Tsukasa started begging.

"Fine... But don't you dare and show it to someone else besides us four!" Kagami demanded and Konata showed the picture to the girls. The picture of the two of them in Konatas kitchen while completely covered in pudding which was also scattered all over the kitchen.

"Aww, you two are really look like you're having fun." Tsukasa cheered.

"Yeah, it's a bit exhausting but fun, except the rice incident." Konata honestly answered.

"You know we're going to try rice again, right Konata?" Kagami announced and Konata just gulped.

"Somehow you two look cute together. If it were some of Izumi-sans games I could totally see you two eating the pudding from each other afterwards." Miyuki explained, trying to imitate one of Konatas jokes she always do. However, after hearing that, Kagami turned beet red and Konata started violently coughing.

"D-Don't s-say such weird things, M-Miyuki." Kagami stuttered.

"I'm sorry Kagami-san. I wanted to try one of Izumi-sans jokes but I'm afraid it didn't turn out very well." Miyuki bowed as she apologized.

"D-Don't worry Miyuki. it was pretty good actually…" Konata answered until receiving a glare from Kagami. "But I think these kind of jokes are something only I can do." She quickly finished.

"I'm sorry. I didn't want something to upset you or something like that." Miyuki apologized. 'Wow, this was quite an interesting reaction from the two.'

"No no Miyuki, we aren't upset or anything." Kagami said afterwards.

"We were just surprised. We weren't expecting something like this coming from you." Konata added.

"Uhm Yuki-chan?" Tsukasa asked, trying to change the weird atmosphere. "Can we try to cook something together too when I come over next time? The two seem to have so much fun and I want to try it with a friend too."

"I'm afraid that I'm not very good at cooking, so I would probably just be a burden to you." Miyuki explained. After hearing that, Tsukasa and Konata immediately busted into laughter. Kagami just glared at them.

"Miyuki..." Konata said after calming down a little. "If I can handle Kagamin~, more or less at least, Tsukasa is going to have absolutely no problem with you."

"Exactly Yuki-chan, I'm sure it's going to be fun." Tsukasa was really eager.

"Okay, we can try something easy together."

"Yay!" Tsukasa happily jumped up and down on her chair.

"Does no one here has at least a bit faith in me?" Kagami pouted once more.

"I do or why else would I do it? We just like to tease each other." Konata explained.

"Thanks. Wait, we? Why we?"

"Remember yesterday? You know exactly why I said we."

"Shut up." Kagami said with a little smile. Miyuki and Tsukasa just looked at each other, a bit confused again.

A couple moments later, the lunch break was over again.

…

Later that day in Konatas home. The two were in the kitchen.

"Wow, Miyuki and Tsukasa were right, the ceiling really is full of pudding." Konata stared at said ceiling in the kitchen.

"I'm sorry Konata."

"Don't worry, you didn't do it on purpose. I think at least you didn't… I hope. Besides, I didn't check the ceiling either yesterday."

"Thanks and of course I didn't do it on purpose. I don't even know how I could do something like that."

"That's true. I still don't know how that is even possible." Konata was kind of impressed.

"Shut up!"

"But I think you have to clean the ceiling…" Konata started. "I think even if I climb on the table, I still…" Konata was interrupted.

"I see." Kagami looked down on her little friend. "Let the tall people handle the tall quests." Kagami teased.

"Oi! You aren't tall either, just taller than me!" Konata pouted.

"Whatever makes you feel better." Kagami laughed.

Kagami climbed on the table and cleaned the ceiling. Konata cleaned the floor from the stuff what dripped down.

"Kagamin~ can we take it easy today?" Konata asked after they finished the cleaning.

"What do you mean?"

"Let's skip the cooking lessons for today, order a pizza or something like that and play a game in my room. I'm pretty tired."

"Okay, well to be honest, I'm pretty tired myself. But tomorrow we'll do something again, right? Don't quit now!"

"Of course! I already told you you're going to do the miso soup on your own tomorrow. And I mean completely on your own."

"You're pretty brave!" Kagami teased.

"I'm pretty sure I proved that many times the last days already. Besides, I first have to plan some more stuff. We should try something with meat. And you have to become friends with the rice and this is going to be a huge project." Konata explained.

"Stupid rice. It's not like him at all in the first place or want him to like me at all." Kagami pouted.

"Kagamin~, it's just rice you don't need to go tsun on it!" Konata started laughing.

"Shut up, you idiot!" She said but couldn't help to smile as well.

"So, just playing a game today is fine?" Konata came back to the topic.

"Yeah, I'm in but I'm afraid to tell you that we have to do something before that."

"Don't tell me it is what it is I think." Konatas face turned pale.

"Exactly!"

"Kagamin~! Please! Let's just not do that." Konata tried negotiating as she fell down on her knees.

"Nope, no chance."

"There are some moments where I seriously don't like you…" Konata pouted.

….

A couple minutes later. The two girls were sitting at the table in Konatas room and were doing their homework. Luckily for Konata, it wasn't much this day and they finished rather quickly. Still, happy wasn't the right word to describe her state. She came up with a new plan. In fact, it was an old but working plan. She tackled Kagami in the usual surprise hug from behind.

"Kagamin~, we can stop now, right?"

"Yes, we're done. What did I tell you about the hugging thing?

"Not in public?"

"No, I mean yes but that's not what I mean right now!" Kagami hissed.

"Uhm... ah! From the front so you can hug me back?" Konata teased.

"Noo! Well, yes I also said that but that's still not what I meant and you know that!"

"Fine!" Konata released her. "You're pretty hard to please, Kagamin~."

"I... Shut up! What about food now?"

"Ah food that's always a safe bet."

"Ko-na-ta!" She was getting impatient.

"Fine fine! So pizza is okay, right? Which one do you want?" Konata asked, pulling out a card from a delivery service.

"Ehm... Small tuna is fine." Kagami answered after looking a couple seconds at it.

"Really? Are you sure you don't want a large?"

"You know I want to lose weight so just stay silent here."

"Yeah yeah, your weird plans on losing weight. So a small tuna and a big salami. I'm going to call the place now."

"Wait, you eat a big one?" Kagami asked perplexed.

"Well probably not at one time but with all my night gaming I began to like cold pizza which I eat later."

"You're pretty weird… Cold pizza… sounds gross." Kagami shivered.

"It's actually pretty nice. Don't judge food before you try it Kagamin~!"

"I have this distinct feeling you're mocking me right now…"

"No, of course not." Konata smirked.

"Someday I'm going to kill you for sure."

"Probably with your food!" Konata yelled after exiting the room.

"Oh! You're so dead later." Kagamis face got a really evil look on it as she planned something.

….

5 minutes later, Konata finished ordering and came back. Kagami was hiding herself.

"Kagamin~, they said it took about 40 minutes until it's ready. Pretty lazy people if you ask me."

"Kagami?" Konata asked after seeing her not in the room.

Kagami left her hiding place behind the door. She sneaked up behind Konata who was still wondering where she went. Kagami then jumped at her little friend and tackled her down. She was sitting on top if the blue haired girl, pinning her down on the floor. Konata was unable to move, not that she was looking like she wants to move in the first place. Kagami could swear she saw a slight blush on Konata.

"K-Kagamin~ what are you..." Konata was stuttering, until she had an idea at least. "Kagamin~, please be gentle." Konata teased with an almost seductive voice and it had an immediate effect.

"K-K-Konata... s-shut up." It worked, Kagamis face could probably glow in the dark right now. "I-It's n-nothing like you're thinking right now." Kagami stuttered.

"Oh my, Kagamin~ is having perverted thoughts, huh?"

"N-No, I'm not. I'm not you, idiot!"

"Really? And still, you're sitting on top of me, pinning me down on the ground and making me unable to escape or even defend myself." Konata continued her teasing.

"N-Nothing like that! Why should I in the first place? I'm just going to kill you. Like I promised you earlier!" She managed to calm down a bit... sort of.

"Oh! Death by tsundere rage, not my first choice as you know but to be honest, I saw that one coming one day."

"Shut up, I'm still not a tsundere in the first place!"

"Yeah, of course you not." Konata said in a jokingly manner. "So, how am I going to die?"

"Hmm." Kagami looked down at Konata beneath her. "I don't know why but I feel this huge urge to tickle you. I think I will go with this." Kagami added with a devious smile.

"K-Kaga…" Konata had no time to finish.

Kagami, who was still sitting on top of Konata, began tickling her. Konata tried her best to resist but she never had a chance in the first place. She started laughing immediately. With that, Kagami got even more motivated because she just learned that her little friend was indeed ticklish and a lot on top of it. Kagami tickled her all over and Konata was practically dying of laughter.

Later, in Konatas point of view much later, Kagami finally stopped. Konata still laid on the floor. She was heavily panting for air because she was completely exhausted by the punishment she received from the bigger girl. Kagami wasn't on top of her anymore. She was lying right next to her on the floor because she also was a bit exhausted. Despite the exhaustion, Kagami was still laughing and so was Konata.

"Man, that was great." Kagami said. "I would've never expected you to be that ticklish."

"I-It's... not... that... I had a... chance in the... first place..." Konata was still panting between her words. "Even... a chair... would be ticklish after such an attack." She added after getting some more air.

"Yeah, I may have gone a bit overboard..." Kagami added while blushing a bit.

"Nah, I uhm... somehow… even had fun, Kagamin~." She said. "But..."

"But?" Kagami asked.

"My revenge will be written down in history books." Konata answered in the most serious tone she could manage right now.

"Oh, really? Maybe I should finish you off right now?" Kagami teased while raising her head.

"Oh no please spare me for now, o great Kagami-sama!"

"Oi! What did I tell you about this name? You're only digging your own grave there." She warned. "Besides, as if you ever going to open a history book on your own."

"That's true… But wow, I've never expected you to be the aggressive one between the two of us..." Konata said.

"Shut up, idiot."

The two looked a second or two at each other and busted into laughter again because of that stupid conversation they had until they heard the doorbell ringing.

"Wait, didn't you say something about 40 minutes later?" Kagami asked.

"Kagamin~, by the way you assaulted me… it was easily 30 minutes. Anyway, we should open the door."

"Wow, that didn't sound wrong at all or something."

…..

They opened the door and the delivery guy was simply staring at the two for some reason.

"Ehm... I'm sorry to interrupt you girls, you two look like you were kinda… uhm, busy… but... I have your pizzas here." The delivery guy nervously said after looking at the two.

The two looked at each other because of the confused delivery guy and realized something. Konatas hair was a complete mess, her clothes were wrinkled and even a little bit undone and her face was still a bit red due to the exhaustion and laughing dealt by Kagamis 'attack'. Kagami didn't look much better. One of her twintails were loose, her clothes also wrinkled and her face was red due to the constant laughter before just like Konata. On top of that, both were a bit sweaty.

"I... uhm we..." Kagami stuttered.

"Ehm... anyway, here's your money." Konata said to the delivery guy.

The delivery guy handed over the pizzas with a smile on his face and left.

"I wonder what he was thinking." Kagami, completely oblivious, asked.

"Y-Yeah, well he was weird since the first time I met him but the pizzas of his place are nice so…"

They ate their pizzas in the kitchen and went back to Konatas room, sitting on her bed. Konata loaded a game from her console and handed Kagami one of her controllers over.

"Hey, I think I know this game... wasn't there a sequel coming next week?" Kagami said after seeing the title screen of the game on the TV.

"For someone who supposedly doesn't care about that kind of things, you sure know your stuff." Konata remarked.

"S-Shut up, I don't. I just saw a commercial of it last week. Nothing more! Knowing you, I bet you on the other hand probably preordered it already, am I right?"

"My Kagamin~ sure knows me well. I preordered the limited edition ages ago." Konata proudly answered.

"Even the limited edition… you sure are week when it comes to that." Kagami sighed.

"A collector has to do what a collector has to do."

"So is the first game any good?"

"Uhm, actually this is the first time I'm playing it." Konata awkwardly scratched her head.

"Wait, so you are buying a limited edition of a game you don't even know the prequel of?" Kagami looked in disbelief at the other girl.

"Kagamin~, you look like you wouldn't have expected that… and I thought you know me…" She faked a sob.

"Yeah, sorry I was thinking of you as a normal person for a second, won't happen again." Kagami jokingly said.

The two played the game for a couple hours. As usual, they were making an almost unbelievable progress as a team.

"That game is pretty good." Kagami admitted.

"And that's why I preordered the sequel!"

"Haven't you said earlier that you never played the game before?"

"Kagamin~, don't always cling to such small and unimportant details!"

"I seriously wouldn't call that a small detail…" Kagami mumbled.

"Kagamin~, you're doing it again."

"Man, you really are driving me insane sometimes."

"Sometimes it is, huh? Great, so I still have room to improve." Konata cheered.

"You don't have to, idiot." Kagami hissed.

"Cute as always."

"Grr." Kagami growled. "But the game is pretty straight forward. It would be cool to have something to do besides the main story like collecting some weapons and stuff." She added to change the subject.

"I bet you're going to like the sequel then. They say it has a lot of RPG elements, which means tons of side quest and collecting weapons and stuff." Konata advertised.

"Doesn't sound bad. I may have to check it out when you have it."

"Sure thing, I even heard you can use your savegame from the first game and continue were you left it." Konata said.

"That's pretty cool. Anyway, I think we should stop for today it's already really late and I'm quite tired."

"Kagamin~, I can already smell the next checkpoint. It's right after the next corner. After that, we can stop."

"Man, you really need to learn when you should stop."

"Don't be like that Kagamin~, I know you also want to reach it."

"I think I'm around you too much." Kagami sighed as she grabbed the controller harder again.

"See? Besides, there is no such thing as too much when it comes to that." Konata teased.

…..

They reached the checkpoint after 20 minutes.

"So much about right after the next corner…" Kagami started. "It's bedtime now and don't even argue with that. Your movement the last 5 minutes were pretty bad. You're clearly as tired as me, if not even more."

No reaction.

"Konata, did you hear me? Konata?" Kagami looked to her side and saw Konata sleeping on the bed, leaning her back against the wall. "Wait, what? You were sleeping *yawn* how the hell were you sleeping and gaming at the same time? *yawn* This shouldn't even be possible. Even for you…"

Kagami fell asleep seconds later as well.

.

Poor Konata, no cooking lessons but still gets almost killed. Well... you maybe could argue if that's a bad thing... probably not.

Next time she'll have to fear for her live the normal way as it gets back to the kitchen again.

Upcoming chapters maybe (or maybe not) coming a bit later because of less time available irl but I'll try my best... Maybe nothing even changes but whatever... Just to be informed.