DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN LUCKY STAR. IT'S KAGAMI YOSHIMIZU'S PROPERTY. THIS IS A FANFICTION.

"Who would like to come to the board to resolve one of the homework's exercises?" Asked the teacher from the class 2 – C. Nobody moved a muscle, something that Azuma-sensei had already expected, so he picked somebody randomly.

"Patricia-san, how about you?"

Patty, who was casually trying to hide behind the classmate sitting in front of her, flinched and sweatdropped.

"S-sure, sensei…" Answered the blonde, getting up. She could hear Hiyori trying to hold a laugh. The two of them had planned a meeting at Patty's home to do their homework, but all they ended up doing was spending the afternoon watching a marathon of F*ll M*tal P*nic, so not much of their original purpose was actually done.

"Just my luck…" mumbled Patty, writing down random numbers that she had considered kind of right. When she finished, the teacher told her to sit down and asked three other students to write the next exercises on the board so then he could correct all of them at once.

Finally the board was full, and Azuma-sensei checked if they were right. But when he read the first exercise, he stopped.

"Patricia-san… Did you do this one?"

"Yes, sensei." Answered Patty, already waiting for a scolding.

The teacher looked at it with a hand on his chin. After a couple of seconds, he walked to the other side of the board, still focusing on her exercise, but from a different perspective. The students began to ask themselves what the problem was, and for the first time, many of them actually read Patty's exercise.

The result was several heads cocked to the side, trying to understand what the heck had been Patty's line of thinking. Patricia knew the answer was wrong, but she didn't know why everybody was so interested in it.

"Is something… wrong?" Asked her.

"Where did you… I mean, how did this number… Oh, I see— Wait, no…" Azuma-sensei blushed a little bit and turned to Patricia. "I'm sorry… Would you mind explaining to me how did you get to that result?"

"Oh, I know the answer is wrong—"

"No, no! The answer is correct. It's just the… the way you got to this result that is troubling me a little…"

Patty didn't know what he meant by that, but she tried to understand what was so wrong about it.

After reflecting for a moment, the blonde finally realized what the problem was.

"Oh! I got it!" She suddenly said. Blushing, Patty got up and explained, a bit embarrassed.

"It's because I wrote it backwards! I mean, I wrote it the way I normally do, which is the western way. Sorry about it…!"

Patty bowed, apologizing, and everybody sweatdropped. They couldn't believe that nobody noticed something so trivial. But Hiyori was the one who seemed to be more surprised than the rest.

That's right… I completely forgot she's not Japanese. Well, go figure, she's the one who showed me her collection of FMP DVDs yesterday!

REAL FACT: There is this guy in my class who is Chinese and he wrote this Math exercise 'backwards' on the board. Even though it was right, we took a while to understand that the calculations were written from right to left.

- TSL

EDIT: I just found out that the Japanese actually do math problems like the westerns do. And that my friend was probably teasing us. LOOK WHAT HE MADE ME DO! Damn you reality, making me lie on my fanfics! Sorry about that, folks. And thank you Zokusho, for pointing that out!