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"Are you okay Kagami?" Miki asked softly as her second to youngest daughter wiped her eyes on her sleeve and took a shaky deep breath.
"Yeah I'm just kind of tired; actually I think I'm gonna head to bed, goodnight everyone." Kagami said quietly as she fought back the tears that threatened leak from her eyes, which were already red and glassy making it obvious that she hadn't been very successful.
Kagami made it out of the living room, after a few goodnights, and she had almost made it all the way up stairs when she started to cry again. She cried silently the rest of the way up the stairs and down the hall to her room, once she had closed her door she flopped onto her bed and buried her face in her pillow.
The older twin wasn't a person who let emotion show very often so once she hit the breaking point, she broke. Kagami cried for a good twenty minutes before finally regaining some control of her feelings, she felt light headed and to uneasy to fall asleep despite being so tiered.
A soft buzzing sound alerted her that she had just received a text message. "Who would text me at this hour?" Kagami thought a little annoyed, some of her classic tsun-tsun personality returning to her.
~HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAGAMIN! You cutie you~ :3
Kagami felt a huge smile spread across her face as she read the text repeatedly; finally, she closed the phone and sat it back on the nightstand. "I knew that my family would accept my love for Konata, it was childish of me to get so worked up." The tsundere said aloud with a sigh as she lied back down onto her bed.
"Tomorrow I will tell Kona how much I care about her…" Kagami sighed as she slowly closed her eyes; with those happy thoughts dancing in her mind as she slept it was impossible for the older twin to have bad dreams…
The next morning the older twin woke up feeling extremely refreshed, she checked her phone to make sure that yesterday's events weren't all a dream; however Kagami knew something that amazing could never have been just a dream.
Miki was currently in the kitchen preparing breakfast for her family; Tadao had already left for work and since all her daughters had a pretty eventful night, she didn't expect to see any of them up and around for a while, but much to her surprise Kagami walked into the kitchen complete with one of the biggest smiles Miki had ever seen her have.
"Well it looks like you got a good night's sleep!" Miki greeted her daughter cheerfully; glad to see her daughter looking so happy.
"Yeah I feel wonderful!" Kagami said with a smile as she lightly popped her back before sitting down at the breakfast table.
"It seems you have perfect timing too, I just finished making the first batch of waffles." Miki said with a smile as she brought over a plateful of warm fluffy goodness to her 'hungriest' daughter.
"Thanks mom, you're the best!" Kagami cheered as she began to scarf down the waffles like there was no tomorrow, but who could blame her? After all Miki's waffles should have been world famous for their texture and flavor.
Miki decided to put off making the rest of the waffles for now and just enjoy the company of her second to youngest daughter; also, if she got to pry into said daughters privet life a little bit then that was all the better!
"So do you plan on telling Kona-chan how you feel today?" Miki asked in a playfully teasing tone, enjoying every second of her daughters squirming.
"Yeah I was thinking the sooner the better…" Kagami said with a blush as she looked down at her food. "Besides if she turns me down it would be better to get it over with right?" Kagami phrased her sentence as a question this time, looking into her mother's eyes, silently asking for words of encouragement and Miki knew it.
"I don't think Kona-chan will turn you down, you two are perfect for each other plus she is such a sweet girl." Miki said with a warm and caring smile, one that only a mother can give and Kagami thought how sad it must have been for Konata not to have a smile like that all her life.
"Thank you mom…" Kagami said quietly as she leaned over and hugged her mom as tightly as she could.
"Now cheer up, I'm sure Kona-chan doesn't want to see you all teary eyed and sad." Miki said with a soft smile as she hugged her daughter back, letting Kagami choose when to pull out of the embrace.
"Alright, once I am done with breakfast I will call Konata and see if she wants to do something today!" Kagami said with renewed energy as she began to scarf down her food, much to the amusement of her mother.
"I understand you are excited, but please chew your food, Konata can wait an extra few minutes." Miki said with a small giggle, but her mind was on other matters, mainly Konata. "Was it hard Konata? Not having a mother to guide you all this time..."
Inori had taken it upon herself to wake up her two lazy sisters and with a lot of pushing and pulling, a few whines and mutter curses she managed to get them up, as they all came down stairs, they saw Kagami finishing her breakfast. She greeted them, and then ran to her room.
"She is always up way to early." Matsuri said with a loud yawn as she walked over to the table and laid her head down trying to fall back asleep.
"That smells great mother, let me help you." Inori said in her usual laid-back tone as she began to do little odds and ends to help her mother.
Tsukasa just stood there trying to rid her eyes of the sleepiness there, Miki just smiled all her daughters had such colorful personalities.
Once Kagami was in her room she quickly jumped over her bed to her nightstand where her phone was currently sitting. Kagami didn't know which number to call first, Konata's house phone or her cell, but since Konata had her cell last night Kagami decided that one was the best choice to start with.
Kagami nervously held her finger over the first speed dial and no matter how hard she tried she just couldn't bring herself to press it. "Why am I so nervous? It's not like I am asking her out on a date…" Kagami's face flushed at the thought and with that new thought in her mind Kagami found it even harder to puss the little button.
By some unknown stroke of luck Kagami managed to push and hold the button until she could hear Konata's ring back tone, the Tokyo Mew Mew theme.
"Hello Kagamin~ what's up?" Konata's voice quickly snapped Kagami out of any thoughts she may have been having, the tsundere did notice that this particular greeting seemed to lack Konata's usual friskiness.
"Hey I just called to see if you wanted to hang out today or something?" Kagami asked with a slight stutter, the more she thought about this being a date the redder she became.
After a few minutes of silence, which almost drove the poor twin insane, Konata finally answered. "I can't today, sorry Kagami." Konata's voice was sad, but Kagami felt the worst.
"Oh, okay…" Kagami felt like she died on the inside and didn't even try to hide the hurt and disappointment in her voice.
"It's not like that; I really want to hang out, but a relative from another town got sick and so I am visiting them." Konata said in a slightly stammering rush and Kagami couldn't help but smile slightly at the imagination of Konata waving her arms up and down to exaggerate her point.
"It's okay; I understand, so what town are you in?" Kagami asked sitting down on her bed, if she couldn't see her otaku she wanted to talk to her at least.
"[Classified Information]" Konata replied and Kagami could just see the cat like smirk.
"Okay, well what is the relative's name? Do I happen to know them?" Kagami asked getting a little annoyed at the reference, but decided not to comment on it.
"[Classified Information]" Konata said again, this time with a small muffled giggle.
"Alright Konata you win." Kagami sighed, but despite the annoyance that she was feeling she had a smile on her face. The smile didn't last long as she soon her strained breathing coming from the earpiece, almost like someone was completely out of breath.
"I got to go now, see you later." Konata said quickly as she hung up before Kagami could respond.
"I hope she is okay…" Kagami said as she slipped her phone into her pocket in case Konata called her back later. "I think I will go for a walk." Kagami thought as she made her way downstairs.
"Hey sis what are you doing?" Tsukasa asked as her twin came down and started putting her shoes on.
"I'm gonna go for a walk, you want to come with?" Kagami asked she loved it when her sister went with her; it gave her someone to talk to.
"Sure just let me get ready." Tsukasa said as she ran upstairs to get on going out clothes.
"Please make sure you do not over exert yourself Konata-san." Miyuki said with a small bow as she closed the front door to the Izumi home.
"It is such a lovely day today." The pinkette thought happily as she made her way down the street. "I wonder if Kagami-san will go over to see Konata-san today?" Miyuki mused to herself. "They were acting just like a couple yesterday…" Miyuki sighed out loud; she was such a hopeless romantic.
Miyuki was so lost in thought that she wasn't paying a bit of attention to where she was going and when she turned the corner she bumped into the Hiiragi twins; literally, both the moe goddess and the tsundere were on the ground rubbing their bottoms from such a harsh impact.
"I am so sorry Kagami-san!" Miyuki apologized as she quickly stood up and helped the elder twin up as well.
"It's no problem Miyuki." Kagami said with a slight laugh.
"I take it you two are on your way to see Konata-san?" Miyuki asked a hint of happiness and excitement in her eyes.
Kagami hadn't noticed, but during their walk her subconscious somehow brought her all the way to Konata's street without her realizing it and of course Tsukasa wasn't going to bring it up, if the airhead even knew where they were…
"No, sadly she is out of town." Kagami said with a halfhearted shrug and a sigh, she had really wanted to see the spunky otaku today…
"Is that what she told you? Actually I just returned a computer program she had let me borrow and she was very much at home, although she did have a pretty high fever…" Miyuki smirked inwardly when she saw the tsundere's facial expression.
"How could she! I am going to… Grr…." Kagami shouted as she bolted down the street in the direction of Konata's house.
"Onee-chan, wait for me!" Tsukasa shouted as she prepped herself to give chase.
"Think fast Miyuki, you have to stop her!" Miyuki reached out and grabbed Tsukasa's sleeve out of instinct. "Why don't we let Kagami-san take care of Konata-san, in the mean time I will take you out somewhere?" Miyuki smiled happily as she began to walk down the street in the opposite direction with the airhead in tow.
"Sure! But Yuki-chan has to do something for me!" Tsukasa stated happily as she skipped around the fluffy girl so that they were standing face to face. "I want Yuki-chan to pick a cute nickname for me!" Tsukasa said happily and if Miyuki didn't know better she could have sworn that the older girl was blushing slightly.
"Oh, alright then how about Tsu-chan?" Miyuki stuttered, since the question had caught her completely off guard, luckily she had thought about it previously and knew exactly what to say…
"Yay, that is perfect I love it Yuki-chan!" Tsukasa stated happily as she interlocked her arm with the meganekko and pulled the now blushing girl to the train station.
Kagami had ran all the way to Konata's house and stopped by the front door to catch her breath before going inside, it was unlocked thanks to the forgetful moe queen and Kagami took this opportunity to quietly slip inside.
"Please honey bunny, go upstairs and rest; I will take care of the chores." Sojiro pleaded with his daughter who was currently clean up the living room.
"I'm cough, cough, cough fine." The blunette stated as she steadied herself, her head was a little cloudy and her coughing had almost knocked her down it since it was pretty violent.
"You don't look or sound fine to me little missy." Konata trembled slightly as heard this voice, she slowly turned around to see Kagami standing their arms folded and tapping one foot.
"Hey Kagamin~…" Konata said in a weak voice, a little frightened at what the younger girl was doing there.
"Why did you lie to me?" Kagami said angrily; she wasn't mad at Konata, but she was mad that Konata kept her illness a secret and Kagami knew well and good it was because she ran off into the storm last night that she got sick.
"I said I never get sick and I don't! I didn't want to worry you…" Konata said in a loud and proud voice at first, but the last part of her sentence was so soft and sincere that it almost made Kagami want to cry…
"Mr. Izumi if you would please make her some soup." Kagami asked as she grabbed Konata's hand and began to pull her towards her room.
Sojiro just nodded, walking into the kitchen as Konata began to put up a fight. "I'm not sick Kagami; let me go I don't want to stay in bed, no, NO!" Konata clung to a piece of furniture much like a child would and held on with all her might, since she was sick it wasn't that much.
"If you are going to act like this then you leave me no choice." Kagami sighed as she picked up the smaller girl and slung her over her right shoulder without much difficulty; Kagami's right arm was securely locked around Konata's legs so that the blunette wouldn't fall.
Konata was absolutely shocked at the tsundere's straightforwardness and as they passed by the hallway mirror Konata could see that she had gained a bright pink blush from the whole ordeal. The two made it to Konata's room and without much difficulty Kagami pulled the covers of Konata's bed back before placing the loli on it.
"See now that wasn't so bad and now you are all comfy." Kagami said with a caring smile as she tucked the smaller girl in, noticing Konata's blush for the first time.
"Thanks…" Konata whispered, trying hard to think of a way to embarrass Kagami so that the attention was off of her, as well as giving her the upper hand once again.
"Are you sore anywhere? Want me to give you another massage?" Kagami asked sweetly and Konata found her chance.
Konata smirked evilly, before making her face look like an innocent child's. "Do you mean it, or do you just want to strip me and take control of my weakened body?" Konata said in a cutesy yet seductive voice.
As soon as the words were out of Konata's mouth Kagami's face exploded a bright red. "No way, don't say stuff like that!" Kagami scolded almost yelling as she looked away from the smaller girl, but she couldn't deny the fact that what Konata had suggested sounded pretty good right then…
Konata flipped off most of the covers and spread her legs slightly as she put her arms above her head. Kagami got a good look at what she was wearing, a bright pink silk tank top with frill on the edges and the same color pink silk shorts that did not quite make it to her knees, and she had a faint red blush.
"Please be gentle Kagami-sama." The otaku whispered barely audible.
"She is so beautiful." Kagami thought as she stared at the older girl. "If she doesn't stop I won't be able to control myself..." Kagami's mind panicked because she could not avert her gaze from the smaller girl, as their eyes locked onto the others.
They stayed like that staring into each other's eyes until Konata's dad started coming up the stairs snapping Kagami out of her trance. "Konata hurry and cover up." She quickly whispered not wanting Konata's dad to get the wrong idea.
Konata weakly did as she was told, wishing her dad would have taken longer to make the soup; Kagami was making such a cute face.
"I brought the soup!" Sojiro said happily, but once he felt the atmosphere in the room he quickly sat the bowl down and let, not wanting to disturb them anymore.
"Thanks Daddy!" Konata called after him, but her voice had become horse so the sound didn't travel far enough for him to hear her, the adrenaline in her system was now gone and she could barely move she was so worn out.
Kagami handed Konata the bowl of soup, but she quickly noticed how much trouble Konata was having and how shaky she was holding the spoon, decided to save Konata from spilling it on herself Kagami took the utensils away from the sickly girl.
"Kagamin~ what are you doing?" Konata asked wondering why Kagami took her food away, just at that moment Konata's stomach growled alerting them both to just how hungry the blunette was.
Kagami didn't answer instead she got a spoonful of soup and gently blew on it to cool it down; she then looked up at Konata with a smile. "Say ahh Konata." Kagami cooed.
"I am not a baby; I can eat on my own!" Konata folded her arms and pouted, looking away from the younger girl, her faint blush returning.
"Come on now Konata say ahh." Kagami cooed again.
Konata made the mistake of looking back at Kagami and was soon captivated by the smile she had. "I can't resist that smile!" Konata thought in horror and she gave in to the bigger girls' pleas and obediently let Kagami feed her.
"There all done now." Kagami said with a soft giggle as she wiped off Konata's face. "Now go to sleep, you hear me?" Kagami said sternly, but not in a mean way.
"Will you stay with me tonight Kagami?" Konata asked with her cat like grin, already starting to fall asleep.
"Yeah, I will call and let my mom know; now you sleep." Kagami said with another soft giggle as she watched her beloved little Kona nod off and fall asleep.
After calling her mom and getting an okay to staying Kagami drug the Izumi's guest futon into Konata's room and placed it on the floor beside the tiny girl's bed, Kagami gently sat on the bed beside Konata and began to lightly stoke her hair.
Konata's hair was so soft; the blunette must take very good care of it, but upon further stoking Kagami found a bundle of knots and tangles near the center of the back.
"She must not be able to reach…" Kagami couldn't help but smile at the thought of little Kona trying to comb the mass of hair she had. Kagami's hand never stopped its ministrations, but Kagami's eyes began to scan the room and she felt it looked a bit different, maybe less cluttered?
"Yutaka suddenly popped her head into the room to see if her cousin needed anything, knowing what it was like to be sick and not able to get up and get what you need. The littlest girl was a little surprised to see Kagami, but was happy none the less.
"Hello Kagami-sempai, thank you for taking care of Onee-chan." Yutaka bowed, coming into the room completely to do so.
"Hello Yu-chan, is it ok if I call you that?" Kagami asked. "If I am going to be with Konata her family will be my family so better start treating them as such." The tsundere thought with an inward nod.
"Oh, yes that is perfectly fine with me." Yutaka smiled happily and Kagami couldn't help but think she would make the cutest figurine…
"Was there something you needed Yu-chan?" Kagami asked sweetly, still slowly stroking Konata's hair getting a content sigh from the sleeping girl.
"Oh no, I just came to see if Onee-chan needed something, since she has you I will go help uncle with dinner." Yutaka bowed again and turned to leave, but was stopped by a question from Kagami.
"Does Konata's room seem a little different to you?" Kagami asked as she looked around for the second time, still unsure about what was different.
"Oh, yes Onee-chan sold some of her things to get your birthday presents." Yutaka said with a smile, not knowing that Konata had wanted to keep that a secret or how it might make Kagami feel, but Kagami couldn't blame the tiny girl she was just a little airheaded and Kagami defiantly knew all about that.
After Yutaka left Kagami sighed looking down at Konata's sleeping face. "She even sold her anime stuff for me… Thank you…" Kagami whispered as she kissed Konata on the cheek lightly.
"If you get better, tomorrow I will tell you…" Kagami whispered as she lay down beside her love and wrapped the smaller girl in a caring embrace…
Ending Notes: The reference is from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, as if you guys didn't know that.
I don't catch colds often, but when I do my coughing is insanely violent; almost like I'm trying to cough up a lung! This is what I based Konata's sickness after…