The following day, Monday, was rather quiet. Konata tried to teach Kagami once more how to cook skewered chicken called yakitori because they were interrupted on Saturday. It went rather well and Kagami even managed to mix a rather good marinade for the meat after Konata explained what is needed and how much of each. Konata had to readjust the time proposed by Kagami to grill the chicken quite a bit though. Half-rare chicken is not a very good idea after all. Kagami made a mental note and promised to remember it next time. The night from Monday to Tuesday also was more or less normal, for their standards at least. Konata had again left her bed in a rather unpleasant way in the middle of the night and in the morning, she once more ended up in a hug from the sleeping Kagami on her futon. Konata didn't really mind it. She decided that it is a rather good way to wake up, even if she doesn't know why and Kagami still didn't had an explanation for why it's happening in the first place. She let Konata have her way and stayed silent. Kagami still was embarrassed about it but she somehow started to care less about it. By now, it was Tuesday after school. The four, Konata, Kagami, Tsukasa and Miyuki had just left the school.
"Hey Yuki-chan, can I come to your house today?" Tsukasa asked.
"Yes Tsukasa-san, I'm free today. Do you two want to come too?" Miyuki looked at Konata and Kagami.
"I'm sorry but we're busy today, Miyuki." Kagami answered for both of them.
"Oh, what are you two doing today, onee-chan?"
"Kagamin~ and I are going to akiba today to buy a new game and I also have to find something for revenge." Konata answered.
"What game?"
"Konata and I were playing an older game last week which is getting a sequel today. Konata of course wanted to have it."
"Ah, I see." Tsukasa nodded as she got her answer.
"Wait!" Kagami shouted as she remembered something she almost missed. "You were serious with getting something for revenge there?"
"Sure, when was I ever not serious?"
"Ehm…" Kagami started. Konata had a point but at the same time, she didn't
"Don't answer that, Kagamin~."
"Well, I guess I earned that kind of revenge in the end."
"Yes, you do." Konata readily agreed with her. Miyuki and Tsukasa were relatively confused because both ha not idea what they were talking about.
"Ehm… what are you two talking about?" Miyuki finally asked Konata.
"That's a bit complicated."
"I see."
"Long story short, I did something last week and went a bit overboard and now Konata wants revenge for it." Kagami explained it to her.
"You did? Not Izumi-san?"
"Oi! That's unfair, Miyuki." Konata pouted.
"Yeah, well… Konata started it but I overdid it a bit in the heat of the moment or something like that."
"It was pretty funny and I certainly didn't see that coming." Konata said. "Well there is a lot more I didn't see coming the last week, especially on that day. Crazy Kagamin~ is a good Kagamin~." Konata teased
"Shut up, they don't need to know."
"Aww, Kagamin~ is embarrassed."
"Want to go alone?" Kagami hissed.
"I'm sorry, o great Kagami-sama." Konata teased and Kagami just sighed.
"As long as you two are having fun." Miyuki said. 'They really are getting better friends day by day.'
"I'm having fun that's for sure."
"I know you do…"
"You too, Kagamin~."
"Yeah whatever, just shut up." Kagami sighed once more.
"Ah, the cute little tsundere is strong today."
Miyuki and Tsukasa said goodbye at the station because the need to take a different train. Konata and Kagami were now standing in front of gamers, one of Konatas favorite shop in akiba.
"Man, I still don't want to go in this shop." Kagami strongly hesitated.
"It's too late now anyway." Konata answered as they entered.
"Yeah, just get your game and let's go home."
"Kagamin~, when I'm here already, I have to take a look around."
"I should've known..."
"Look Kagamin~, they have a ton of light novels now."
"Oh, you're right. Why?" Her eyes fell on the rather huge looking light novel section inside the store.
"A lot of anime nowadays are based on light novels. I guess a lot of people here are interested in the source material, not me though." Konata explained.
"Yeah, I know that you are too lazy to read light novels. Anyways, I think I'll go and take a look. Don't take too much time, Konata."
"Okay." Konata answered as they walked in different corners of the store.
"If one of these guys comes near me, they'll die." Kagami quietly mumbled after reaching the light novel area.
"Hmm… new manga releases are still lacking." Konata said after browsing through the shelfs of new releases. "I hope that changes soon. Wait, what is that? Cosplay costumes, huh? Since when do they sell them here?"
"Oh, Izumi-san!" A female clerk suddenly spoke up to her. "Glad to see you again. I already thought something happened."
"Oh, hey. Yeah, I was pretty busy over the last weeks. Besides, the new manga releases are pretty bad right now."
"That's true." The clerk nodded.
"By the way, when did you start selling cosplay costumes here?"
"About three weeks ago, more or less."
"Wow, I need to come more often again."
"We would be happy if you do so, speaking of which, your preordered game is already at the checkout, so feel free to take your time."
"Thanks, I will but I have a question first."
"Sure, I will help you with anything." The clerk slightly bowed.
"Do you see the girl at the light novel stand with the purple hair and the twintails?"
"Do you mean the angry looking tsundere?"
"Exactly!" Konata laughed at the description.
"Is she a friend?"
"Yes. What size do you think she needs for these costumes?" Konata had an idea and an evil smile on her lips as she asked.
"Why do you want to know that?" The clerk asked, as she was clearly confused.
"We're playing a little game and I just had the perfect idea when I found he outfits."
"Oh, I see. Hmm… I think the right size for your friend would be... about this size." The clerk pointed at a costume for reference.
"Thanks. I'm coming later to pick up the game. This will take some time here."
"Take your time." The clerk bowed and left her alone.
"So… what do we have here? I see, they have the complete Haruhi collection. The school outfit, bunny girl, maid, waitress, cheerleader, miko and even the frog costume." Konata listed the costumes she was looking at. "Hmm… the frog costume is boring and the school outfit is no good either, that's more something for me. She already has a miko cosplay at home. The bunny girl would be epic but then she would kill me for real. I can't handle that much tsundere rage at this point. Note to myself, I need more training. The rest is also somewhat nice, Kagami as my ehm... a maid has something but that's all too much, at least for the first revenge. I think I'll have to save the Haruhi collection for later." Konata said after walking to the other costumes. "Wait, what's that?" She instantly stopped in her tracks when she something extremely interesting. "That could be nice." Konata looked at Kagami who was completely immersed in the light novels. She looked at her figure and then at twintails. "No, not nice. That would be absolutely perfect! Well okay, the hair color is wrong but I can live with that." Konata cheerfully picked a set with the size the clerk said earlier and went to the checkout.
"Oh, I see you found something." Said female clerk was sitting at the checkout now.
"Yeah, I think that's perfect." Konata giggled. The clerk looked at the cosplay set then at Kagami and lastly back to Konata who was smiling broadly.
"Yes, I can definitely see the resemblance."
"Right? This is going to be super." Konata was beyond happy already.
"I hope you two have fun tonight."
"I'm sure with that."
Konata payed and the clerk stowed the game and the costume in a rather large bag. Shortly after that Kagami, showed up at the checkout.
"Finally done, huh?" Konata just couldn't help it.
"Shut up."
"Oh, you found something, Kagamin~?"
"Yeah this book looks pretty good. What about you?"
"Yes I have everything I want, even more in fact."
"Uhm okay." Kagami tilted her head at the ambiguous sounding answer.
Kagami paid for the book and both left the store.
"So the visit wasn't for nothing, huh Kagamin~?"
"Yeah yeah, by the way, why was the clerk smiling so hard at us?" Kagami asked.
"I have absolutely no idea." Konata quickly answered.
"What are you up to, Konata? You know you can't fool me."
"Kagamin~, don't always be so negative."
"Fine. So, what is in this huge bag?" Kagami at the bag Konata was holding.
"Uhm... the game?"
"And? You don't need a bag this size for just a game."
"Kagamin~, it's a limited special edition, it's bigger and they didn't have any smaller bags right now." Konata tried her best to find an excuse.
"I see, so to summarize, you don't want to tell me, right."
"Right! Wait…" Konata turned silent.
"Ha!" Kagami was happy with herself right now. "So you in fact found something for the revenge in this store?" Kagamis voice sounded a bit worried but Konata didn't answer. She just started walking faster. "Wait Konata."
"I'm hungry, Kagamin~." Konata said after they covered quite a bit of distance.
"Nice way to change the subject. Ah, whatever, I'm hungry too."
"…" Konata was struggling on whether to say something or not.
"If you make one remark, I'm going to steal that bag."
"Where do you want to eat? The cake buffet of this shop is pretty good, although not even close to the one we were last time."
"Hmm..." Kagami mumbled. "I'm not really interested in sweets right now. I'm more up for some real food."
"WHAAT?" Konata was shocked. "Are you sick or something? You really don't want sweets?"
"Konata..." Kagami sighed. "You're on really thin ice right now. You should better watch out or it's your last day." Kagami quietly warned and Konata just gulped.
"How about this?" Konata quickly changed the subject in the moment they walked past a random restaurant. She didn't even check what food they served because she was panicking a bit. "It's my treat again." Konata added. 'Today is probably my last day anyway.'
"Now that's a good apology." Kagami teased.
The two went inside, ate something and went on their way home afterwards.
'So, now I have something for revenge.' Konata was thinking inside the train. 'But how can I do it? Simply saying 'Here wear that' isn't going to work and I also can't make her wear with force. That would end badly, for me that is. Damn, I should've thought about something before. No, the outfit is too god to let it not happen. Maybe I …" Konatas thoughts suddenly were interrupted by a voice.
"Konata? Konata!" Kagami yelled.
"Oh, sorry Kagamin~, I was just thinking about something."
"You were thinking about something? That's bad." Kagami teased. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing serious."
"I bet it was something anime related." Kagami joked.
"Not quite but similar."
"Ha, I'm good."
"Yeah yeah, oh look our station is close."
…
Kagami and Konata were sitting in her room by now.
"Do you finally want me to tell what's in the bag now, besides the game?" Kagamis gaze was fixed on the bag the entire time.
"Nope."
"Fine, I have the bad feeling that I'm going to see it sooner later than anyway." Kagami sighed.
"Let's start the new game. I heard its super long so we have a lot to do."
"Yeah sure, why not."
"Yay." Konata cheered as she opened the game, inserted the disk in her console and started it and the TV. A little bit later, the two were at the character creation screen.
"Wow… so many options. It looks like we're going to need an hour or so just for creating a character." Kagami said.
"Yeah, looks like it. The online game I'm playing with Kuroi-sensei was even worse. I think I easily spent an entire night just for my character."
"Your commitment for stuff you like is pretty high." Kagami sighed.
"Yep, that's why I have no time for school."
"No you have no time for school because you don't want to have time for school."
"Kagamin~, stop with this useless nitpicking."
"Like you're one to talk."
Just as Kagami said before, the character creation took over an hour for them to finish. Both had created a character, which looked almost like themselves. Except for some 'small' details, no one dared to talk about.
"Wow that was complex. I hope the rest of the game is similar." Konata said.
"Yeah, but I feel like I need a break already."
"Really? We haven't even started yet…" Konata started pouting.
"I want to read a bit more of the novel I bought."
"Fine. Well, if we take a break I also can prepare the bath beforehand."
"Sounds good, you can go first." Kagami added.
"Kagamin~, you're the guest, you go first."
"And the guest said you go first so go." Kagami answered and her eyes were looking at Konatas bag on the floor again.
"Hmm, now I'm confused..."
"Just go."
"How about we go toge..." Konata started.
"No."
"But..."
"No."
"That's..."
"No." Kagami repeated again. "Go."
"Okay." Konata took some clothes and left the room but before she did that, she grabbed the bag on the floor and took it with her.
"Damn." Kagami mumbled.
"Ha, I may be stupid but I'm not that easy to fool." Konata teased.
"I at least had to try."
"Bad Kagamin~, bad."
"I'm not a dog."
"Hmm… What could you be then?"
"S-Shut up and go." Kagami started blushing a bit and hid her face in the book.
"Fine Kagami-sama."
Konata went in the bath and 20 minutes later, she returned to her room wearing her usual shorts and t-shirt, which she used as pajamas. Kagami was laying on Konatas bed and still reading her new light novel.
"Kagamin~." Nothing. "Kagami!" Nothing. "KAGAMI-SAMA!" Konata yelled. Kagami was completely immersed in her book. "Anyone in there?" Konata asked while she nudged Kagamis arm.
"Oh s-sorry, I was a bit distracted. And don't call me Kagami-sama."
"Wait, you were this out of it but still managed to get that, wow…"
"I wasn't that distracted." Kagami hissed.
"Sure." Konata rolled her eyes. "The book is that good, huh?"
"Yeah it's great, want to try?"
"Ehm no thanks, too many words."
"Figured as much."
"By the way, the bath is free." Konata said.
"Thanks." Kagami stood up and went to the bathroom but her mind was still fixed on her book and so she totally forgot to take some clothes with her. Unfortunately for Konata, she also missed this
"Man, how can I get Kagami to wear it?" Konata loudly was debating with herself in her room. "It can't be that hard. Maybe I should just hide every piece clothing she has… No that wouldn't work." While Konata was thinking hard, she suddenly heard something.
"K-Konata?" Kagami yelled from the bathroom.
"Yeah?"
"I uhm... kind of forgot... to bring clothes inside." Kagami muttered. Konata could almost see her blushing trough the wall.
"So?" Konata teased.
"S-So? Do I really have to say it?" Kagami made a short break to calm down. "Can you bring me some of my clothes and put them in front of the door."
"…" Konata stayed silent.
"K-Konata? It's already embarrassing enough!" Kagami yelled.
"…Oh yeah, give me two minutes."
"Thanks."
"Wow, someone up there obviously likes me." Konatas prayers were answered. "That's perfect! I'm so sorry Kagamin~, it's getting a bit more embarrassing for you in a couple minutes. Konata grabbed the bag with the cosplay and was about to leave. "Hmm… maybe I should add some underwear. I mean the skirt of the outfit has many redeeming features but long is not on that list. I guess my survival chances without underwear are under 3.43%." Konata grabbed some random underwear out of Kagamis back and stuffed it at the bottom of the bag from gamers where the cosplay was in, placed it in front of the bathroom door and knocked. "Here." She said before returning to her room.
"Thank you." Kagami said with sincere words from the other side of the door.
"Great, now I feel almost bad. Good thing it's only almost." Konata giggled. "Wait! I need a camera, now!"
Konata ran back to her room and quickly fished a camera out of her desk drawer. A couple moments later, she finally heard the long awaited scream.
"KONATA!"
"Yes?" Konata acted as nothing happened.
"What is this?" Kagami was furious.
"Revenge." Konata bluntly answered.
"…" Kagami was dumbfounded.
"Good, isn't it?"
"Konata!" Kagami went back to rage. "I'm not going to wear this!"
"Fine!" Konata loudly answered.
"Fine?" Kagami asked. "So I don't have to wear it?"
"Not really but..." Konata stopped mid-sentence to build up tension.
"But?"
"Think of the alternative, it's either my revenge or you come out naked. I can live with both." Konata teased.
"…" Kagami was speechless again.
"So?" Konata slyly asked.
"Shut up, you idiot." Kagami yelled in pure anger. "That's your death."
"I'm looking forward to it, Kagamin~." Konata answered happily, although a little hint of fear was also present in her voice.
Kagami stood in the doorframe about 10 minutes later. Her face was completely red due to the embarrassment. Kagami was wearing the complete cosplay outfit. She looked like the spitting image of the vocaloid Hatsune Miku. Her hair was tied into her usual twintails but this time she was wearing some black and magenta colored ribbons. She even had a fake black headset on her head. Additionally, she was wearing a slightly greyish-white armless blouse combined with a long turquoise colored tie and a rather short black which also had turquoise highlights. Furthermore, she was wearing black boots, with the same turquoise highlights, that reached all the way up to her thighs. She was also had some black and turquoise arm sleeves. The sleeves almost covered her complete upper arms. And lastly, the skirt and the sleeves were covered with text resembling a mix of music instruments and technical terms.
Konata was looking at Kagami with her mouth wide open. Her jaw almost touched the floor. She was speechless and just continued staring for a couple moments.
"K-Ka-Kagamin~..." Konata still couldn't find any words.
"What?" Kagami angrily asked.
"…" Konata didn't answerer. Instead, a bright white light blended Kagami and afterwards she saw Konata holding a camera.
"A-Are you insane?" Kagami yelled. "Delete that. NOW!"
"But Kagamin~, it looks way too good to not take a photo." Konata had a feeling she doesn't have a chance against Kagami at the same time, so she secretly copied the photo to the internal memory of the camera and carefully, without Kagami noticing, removed the memory card, which still had a copy of her and hid it inside her pocket.
"No, it's not." Kagami hissed. "It's embarrassing and nothing else."
"I like it and so I'll keep it."
"No you won't!"
"And what if I refuse?"
"I'm deleting it myself."
"Oh, I really want to see that." Konata provoked her even though she knew it was her end.
Kagami glared at Konata and moments later, she tackled her on the floor and sat down on her stomach. Konata started to struggle but Kagami just started tickling her again until Konata released the camera. Kagami quickly grabbed it and deleted the copy of her in the cosplay.
"Kagamin~, that's unfair." Konata started to struggle harder because she was still on top of her.
"Oh, really? It's totally your fault."
"My poor photo." Konata shed a tear of regret as she sniffed. Konata tried to fight her back as strong as possible but Kagami could easily defend her position. She grabbed Konatas wrists with both hands and pressed them down on the floor. Konata was even less able to move now. Due to their position, Kagamis face got pretty close to Konatas. She looked at Kagamis face and then at her cosplay outfit. The next reaction was rather unexpected. Konata faced turned visibly red and then she quickly turned her face to the side.
"What's wrong, Konata?" Kagami asked. 'Konatas blushing, huh? That's rare."
"I… ehm… t-that's a rather embarrassing story." Konata stuttered.
"You and embarrassed?" Kagami said in disbelief. "I just have to hear that."
"Well, I once had a dream about the original Hatsune Miku." Konata started explaining. "The dream almost started exactly the same as…" Kagami was silent and she looked at the scene Konata gestured at, namely the scene the two were in now. She suddenly she blushing even harder than Konata. She immediately crawled off from Konata.
"B-But…" Kagami mumbled.
"And then she…" Konata was about to continue.
"W-Wait you don't have to tell me." Kagami already had a good idea.
"Okay." Konata was more than fine with it.
"B-But isn't this person a g-girl?" Kagami asked.
"Well... yeah, more or less but it's not that you can control your dreams, right?"
"That's true." Kagami nodded. "Besides, you dreaming about anime and manga stuff isn't that off."
"Yeah, but Miku isn't anime or manga related, she's a voc..."
"I don't really care what exactly she is, Konata."
"Fine." She pouted. "You're really no fun at all."
"I'm just not that interested in vocaloid and st…" Kagami stopped as she realized her mistake by looking Konata who was grinning widely.
"Kagamiiin~!" Konata immediately forgot about the slightly embarrassing from 10 seconds ago.
"S-Shut up, okay?"
"Ha! Okay fine." She did give her the favor to stay silent, for now.
"Thank you." Kagami sighed.
"But I never would've guessed that you actually like cosplay."
"W-What?"
"Well… just look at you." Konata looked up and down at Kagami once more.
"You stupid idiot forced me! That's why I look like that!"
"Sure but you know, you could've just worn the skirt and the blouse and you would be decent enough to leave the bath." Konata explained.
"I-I…" Kagami hadn't thought of that possibility just started blushing a bit in return.
"But no, you are wearing everything. The boots, the arm sleeves. Heck, you're even wearing the right ribbons and the headset." Konata continued her observation.
"B-But..." Kagami just started blushing harder as she was driven into a corner.
"To be exact, you didn't even have to wear it in the first place."
"Like hell I would come out naked." Anger replaced Kagamis embarrassment, at least shortly.
"You didn't have to. You could've just worn your underwear and a big towel wrapped around you. The way you acted before, it should be less embarrassing for you than the cosplay, right?" Konata finished her explanation.
"…" Anger was again replaced with embarrassment.
"K-Kagamin~?" Konata felt like she had missed something.
"U-Underwear?" Kagami quietly mumbled.
"W-What?" Even Konata was a bit shocked now. "I-I put some in the bag." She added for her own safety. Steam was raising from Kagamis head by now.
"I-I… excuse me for a second." Kagami said as she carefully stood up while pushing down her skirt and quickly left the room.
"S-Sure." Konata nodded. She was almost as embarrassed as Kagami. 'Wow… that maybe was a bit too much even it wasn't my fault. Good thing the subject didn't came up when she was still on top of me…'
Kagami didn't need long to come back but she couldn't look Konata in the eyes right now.
"I guess it's because you're already used to cosplay." Konata said as Kagami sat down again.
"Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why are you wearing the cosplay?" Konata decided to completely ignore the underwear accident and asked again.
"B-Because I didn't saw the u-underwear first. I had no choice, did I?"
"Okay, I can understand that. Then let me rephrase my question. Why are you wearing the complete set even including the headset?" Konata kept digging.
"I-I…"
"Kagamin~..." Konata had her.
"O-Okay fine." Kagami answered as she finally gave up. "I was a tiny bit curious, okay?"
"I can't believe it. My little tsundere actually likes cosplay and I was just teasing her before!" Konata had just achieved the greatest victory in her live.
"I-I... shut up already." Kagami yelled. "I never said I like it!"
"Are you sure, Kagamin~? Because you look really good in it!"
"Huh? T-Thanks…"
"See!" Konata teased. "Just admit it and get over it."
"Shut up, Konata." Kagami answered with her usual line. "But to be honest…"
"Yeah?"
"I-I really expected it to be more... uhm... embarrassing." Kagami mumbled. "I mean I almost died but…"
"That's probably because I thought really hard about the right one."
"That means?"
"Well, I obviously wanted to embarrass you but I didn't want to overdo it… for now at least. There were some really good cosplay sets but you probably just would've killed through the bathroom door."
"Like?" Kagami was still beyond embarrassed but she still was a bit curious.
"They had the entire Haruhi collection."
"And that means? Wait…" Kagami remembered the light novel series she red. "Y-You mean…"
"Yep, maid, waitress, nurse, frog costume, cheerleader, miko and bunny-girl." Konata listed the outfits and Kagamis face turned redder with almost every name. "They had them all."
"Even the frog costume, huh?" Kagami suddenly asked.
"Yeah, it's rather silly. I excluded it in my list and so I did with the miko costume because well… you already have one of those." Konata nodded. "Wait a bit... You're concerned about the frog costume in the list?"
"No no, don't mind me. I definitely would've killed you with the other outfits, I think." Kagami answered.
"I-I think?" Konata wasn't sure if she just had a heart attack. 'Jackpot!' Her inner self cheered.
"N-No, that doesn't mean anything, anything at all." Kagami turned even redder.
"Sure Kagamin~." The sarcasm was strong in that answer.
"Can we stop it for now please? It's incredibly embarrassing."
"Okay, we can stop it for now, Kagamin~." She was beyond happy with everything what had happened in the last hour.
"S-Shut up and don't think my revenge on you for that is going to be a light one."
"Wait, that attack from earlier wasn't?" She remembered the second pinning down and tickling earlier.
"Ha!" Kagami laughed heartily. "Not even close. At max it was a tiny little foretaste for what is coming."
"I… ehm... okay. Whatever, I feel like I won today too much anyway so hit me with everything ou have when you're ready."
"With pleasure but it may take some time."
"No problem, take your time. I have many cosplay sets to choose now. I don't need to think too long anymore." Konata teased. "You can have my extra time."
"…" Kagami was again at a loss for words again.
"So… how about we continue or rather start our game now." Konata said because she finally wanted to play the game and she wanted to change the subject because she got the feeling that it's going to end bad for her if she continued now.
"Oh yeah, sure." Kagami nodded. She had totally forgot about it over the incident.
Both sat down on Konatas bed and returned to the game, which was still at the character selection screen. The two selected their recently created characters and finally started.
"What do we have to do now? It looks quite a bit different than its sequel." Kagami said.
"It looks like it's some kind of an open world shooter RPG thing so I guess we first have to find a better weapon, I think." Konata answered.
"Well then let's go."
The two played the game for about an hour. Both killed some low level enemies and soon leveled up and found some good weapon to defeat the first, out of many, bosses. After some time, Kagami noticed that Konata was repeatedly glancing over to her with her usual grin.
"What is it?" Kagami was getting distracted because she didn't know why Konata was doing this.
"Nothing Kagamin~." Konata answered. "I'm a bit hungry. Want some snacks?"
"Sure." Kagami simply answered.
"What was I thinking?" Konata teased. "Like I have to ask Kagamin~ if she wants snacks." Konata quickly said before leaving the room.
"Oi! You stupid midget, want to die?" Kagami yelled after her. Konata just laughed loudly.
"I can't believe that she's still wearing the cosplay and is acting like nothing is wrong." Konata mumbled to herself as she was looking for some snacks downstairs.
"I wonder what was wrong with her." Kagami was talking to herself until she looked down. "Oh, I see." She started blushing. "I totally forgot what I was wearing. Konatas influence is destroying me from the inside, I guess. I can't even change now." Kagami continued. "She would just tease me to death if I would do that now. At least I got to delete that photo earlier so nobody has gets chance to see it." Kagami finished to monologue. 'Although… I wouldn't mind if I had a copy…' Kagami was thinking, shook her head and blushed a bit more.
"I found something!" Konata yelled as she entered the room. "Oh, what happened, Kagamin~?" She noticed Kagamis red face.
"N-Nothing, absolutely nothing."
"Kagamin~, you can't even fool this chocolate box I'm holding here." Konata teased. "Now, what's wrong?"
"Nothing important, I was just thinking about something stupid but it's already over so it's fine again." Kagami said, Konata just looked at and her cosplay It was enough for her to calm down and ignore the matter.
"Okay Kagamin~. Anyway, I found some snacks. I think it's even enough for you."
"Oi!" Kagami shouted. "Shut up! You really want to die, don't you?"
"Not really but uhm it's too hard to resist so I probably have to accept my fate." Konata answered.
"How about some restraint?"
"Nah, restraint is for weak people."
"Konata..." Kagami sighed. "I think you misunderstood something there."
"Kagamin~, don't come up with these useless details again." Konata teased and Kagami gave up and just sighed.
They continued the game for some time until Kagami simply felt asleep.
"Hmm, I guess we should stop for today." Konata said while she looked at Kagami sleeping beside her. "And still in cosplay..." She giggled. Konata turned the TV off, switched the light and pushed Kagami to one side of the bed so she had some place for herself. "As if I would sleep on the futon." She said before falling asleep as well.
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The next morning.
"Hmm, I still don't know why but I really could get used to this sort of waking up. Though I really want to know why she is doing that. Maybe I should ask Tsukasa one day, I bet she has an answer." Konata quietly said while she was looking at Kagami who was again clinging to her while sleeping.
"What... are... you talking... about?" Kagami yawned as she slowly started waking up.
"Nothing, I was just thinking about something." Konata said. "Wait a minute…" Konatas face suddenly showed a complete different expression as her face turned a little red. "M-My dream..." Konata stuttered.
"Your dream?" Kagami asked.
"The dream about Miku... it ended more or less the same as with the situation right now."
"W-What?" Kagami looked at herself and how she was still wearing the Miku cosplay and holding Konata. "Ahem." She said as she quickly stood up. "I guess I can finally change."
"Kagamin~, you say 'finally' but you spent over 12 hours in it and 5 minutes was all I wanted and expected."
"S-Shut up idiot." Not it was Kagamis turn to blush.
"Besides, it loosely resembles a school uniform. I bet you could go to school like this."
"You would really like to see that, wouldn't you?"
"Of course I would, so?"
"You little otaku devil, no chance in hell." Kagami yelled.
"I somehow saw that coming." While Konata saw it coming, she still was a bit sad.
"I wonder why."
"Well I had enough, for now at least that is. Man, if I would tell my guild in my online game that I spent the night with Hatsune Miku and even shared the bed with her, I would be the king." Konata teased.
"W-What?" Kagami gasped. "No, you wouldn't be the king. You would be dead if you tell that anyone, dead as like 3m below the surface in a grave dead." Kagami shouted and Konata gulped.
"Kagamin~, of course I'm not going to tell anyone. It's our little secret that you like cosplay. Besides, no one would believe me anyway."
"Yeah, I'm too awesome to believe." Kagami teased. "Wait… I never... shut up."
"Yep, you definitely are. A cosplay loving tsundere with a moe side. You belong in a museum."
"S-Shut up… I get the urge to attack you again." Kagami hissed.
"Okay fine, you can go to the bathroom first. I have to check my PC first anyway. I haven't used that thing like a whole week or so."
"So I really am good for something, huh? Wait… if you post that from earlier somewhere…"
"Yeah Kagamin~. I'm not that stupid."
"I'm not so sure about that." Kagami said as she left the room.
Konata quickly rushed to the computer, turned it on and inserted the memory card from her camera, which she had hidden yesterday.
"Yes, the photo is still there!" Konata grinned.
She copied the photo to the PC, made multiple copies and hid it different folders all over her hard drive. In this case, even if Kagami insists on deleting the other copies, she would never find every copy. At last, she did send an e-mail with the photo to her phone and left the PC again. Later, after breakfast, the two girls went to school.
….
Lunchtime at the school.
Konata, Tsukasa and Miyuki were chatting until Kagami entered the classroom and sat down on the table where the other three girls were sitting und greeted them. Konata looked at her und shook her head.
"What is it now?" Kagami hissed at Konata.
"Nope, as expected, it's no good after all, your other outfit definitely was better." Konata answered.
"Shut up, I told you it's not happening."
"I know, I just said it was better, nothing more."
"Sure."
"What other outfit, oneechan?" Tsukasa asked.
"Nothing Tsukasa, Konata is just talking random stuff as usual."
"But..."
"Stay silent, Konata!" Kagami warned Konata once more.
"Okay."
"Oh Izumi-san, did you get your new game you were talking about yesterday?" Miyuki suddenly asked.
"New game…game... game..." Konata scratched her chin as she tried to remember.
"Kona-chan, you told us yesterday you and onee-chan were going to your anime shop to buy a new game didn't you?" Tsukasa added.
"Ah yeah, right. Sorry, I had more than one game running yesterday so I was a bit confused." The cosplay incident left a way bigger impact on that day.
"Oh, what other game did you play?" Miyuki asked.
"Uhm..." Konata started. "Well… it involved Kagamin~ and I promised her not to tell anyone outside my home so I better stay silent or I'll die." Konata nervously added.
"Wow, I didn't expect you to hold it in. Good for you." Kagamis tone send a chill down her spine.
"See? I'm not that stupid. Just like I said, Miyuki."
"Yeah yeah."
"I see." Miyuki nodded. 'I'm even more curios now...'
"But now that we're talking about…" Konata started and pulled her phone out and pressed some buttons.
"Wow, you actually brought your phone for once, I'm impressed."
"It's important today, Kagamin~. Check your mail, I send you something from yesterday."
"Oh, I want to see it too, onee-chan." Tsukasa added while she was leaning towards her sister.
"Ehm... Tsukasa, I really don't think Kagamin~ wants you to see it." Konata had a bad feeling about it.
"I don't have any secrets towards my sister." Kagami hissed.
"Kagamin~, just trust me, okay?"
"Fine." Kagami looked at her sister and she turned back. She opened her mail and saw the photo and instantly turned beet red.
"See? You probably don't want that Tsukasa see it, right?"
"K-K-Konata..." Kagami stuttered.
"Wow, I know you wanted the photo but I didn't expect you to be this happy."
"I-I... how?" Kagami was completely shocked. 'How did she know that I somehow wanted the photo? Was I that obvious? Wait… that's not the issue here!' She thought.
"Kagamin~, did you think I just give up just because you attacked me and pinned me on the floor? I already copied the photo and removed the memory card from the camera before we two even hit the floor." Konata bragged and made a small victory pose.
"Kagami-san tackled you down?" Miyuki suddenly asked.
"Yeah." Konata nodded. "To be precise, that wasn't even the first time..."
"You two really look like you have a lot of fun." Tsukasa was a little envious.
"Kagamin~ sure is interesting." Konata teased.
"You! You little… argh, I don't even find a word for it." Kagami was starting to loose it.
"Kagamin~, don't be upset, nobody is going to see it."
"Yes, mainly because we're going to delete it once we're at your house!"
"I don't think so. I made so many copies and hide them in so many different places… you're never going to find every copy. Besides..." Konata stopped.
"Besides?" Kagami gulped.
"If you're going to, I just have to press one button and Tsukasa sees it."
"Yes, I want to see it!" Tsukasa interrupted.
"No."
"Besides, Kagamin~, it would be unfair if you can keep the photo and I don't."
"Who said I'm not deleting it and who said I want it in the first place?" Kagami asked.
"Your face." Konata bluntly said which caused Kagami to blush even more.
"I-I just shut up."
"Kagamin~."
"F-Fine, we can keep it. BUT if someone else besides us sees it, I'm going to make my promise from yesterday true." Kagami answered with a serious and serious side. Konata turned a bit pale.
"Ehmm." Miyuki tried to change the subject despite the fact she wanted to know what is going on. "Are you free today? It feels like we sort of split, you two are always doing something and Tsukasa-san and I are doing something."
"That's true." Tsukasa hastily nodded. "I want to do something as the whole group together again."
"Hmm, we wanted to continue the game but not until evening..."
"And do our homework!" Kagami added causing Konata to sigh.
"Yeah yeah, I have the feeling that would happen... I guess I have to cooperate today."
"You should cooperate on this subject every day." Kagami angrily stared at her.
"Except these two things we are free, I guess. What do you want to do, Miyuki?"
"Well, normally you're the one who comes up with the ideas, Izumi-san." Miyuki said.
"Miyuki!" Kagami gasped. "You can't just give Konata a permission to choose an activity."
"Kagamin~, I feel insulted." Konata pouted. "You said it yourself that I had some decent ideas."
"Fine, you're kind of right. So, what's the plan?"
"Hmm... Oh, I have an idea! We totally forgot to take Miyuki and Tsukasa to the cake buffet I found two weeks or so ago."
"Oh, right, now that you mention it. And it was so awesome…" Kagami nodded.
"Cake buffet it is." Konata concluded.
"Sounds great Izumi-san and I didn't need to go to a dentist for a while so it should be fine."
"Ehm Miyuki… a cake buffet may be not… a whatever."
"Yay!" Tsukasa cheered and ended their discussion.
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I totally forgot about the Lucky Star OVA when I wrote the chapter. Kind of a missed opportunity here to be more creative but… well Miku Kagami is always nice.
I kind of want my own Kagami at home but I guess that's a no for various reasons.
I also got a little (or medium) depressed while rereading and preparing the chapter for release… I'm currently still working on chapter 16. (looks like it's going to be a long one.) Due to it being a new chapter two years later after I temporary stopped this story, my writing style in ch.16 (and onwards) greatly changed. It more or less means far less actual dialogue and way more descriptive writing. Especially the latter is missing quite a bit right now. I thought of rewriting the upcoming chapters until I catch up but it's a bit much work, especially because there are some pretty long chapters coming. I think it's better to catch up as quick as possible and make a clean cut, although I think it gets at least a little better if I remember right (or not… I should better reread them again…). Please try to bear with it until then. It's only 30-35k more words until ch.16...
It's also quite confusing to edit one chapter and work on another way in the future because, without spoiling too much, after one or two 'progress-chapters', their relationship changed quite a bit.
Man, ranting feels good.
Next time: Cakes, cooking, teasing and misunderstandings.