I have some stuff planned but I'm not ready for it yet so have some diakko fluff in the meantime I guess. This chapters set a few days after the first one. Also since I don't want to awkwardly try to drop it in I decided Akko is an apprentice dressmaker but I probably won't go into it I was just felt like I needed to give her a job.

It was late afternoon and the sun was just about to set, the sky turning a soft orange colour around the horizon. Akko was wondering in the hilly moors just outside of town, as she often enjoyed doing after a working day, being cramped up in a small building getting pricked by needles wasn't her idea of fun, she much preferred being outside, the breeze on her face and grass under her feet just let her relax. And one of her favourite things was that with non of the other villagers around to judge her, she felt truly free, able to whatever she wanted.

And right now she wanted to run. She ran up and down hills smiling for ages until she ran out of breath and collapsed on the slope of one of the hills and, breathing heavily, she turned onto her back to face the orange glow that was beginning to crawl into the clouds. That was another great thing about the moors, it was perfect for looking at the sky, Akko had spent a lot of time lying on hills watching the sunset and sun rise, but better than that was at night when she could gaze upon the blanket of stars the decorated the black night sky. Sometimes she would lie on the ground through the night staring up at the beauty above her. But now she was distracted from that by Diana standing over her.

"Are you okay?" the blonde asked.

"Huh? Yeah, why?"

"I saw you lying here, it seemed concerning." she explained

Akko looked thoughtful for a moment.

"I never considered that before but I suppose it does."

"What are you doing anyway?"

"watching the sunset."

"are you going back to the village afterwards?"

"maybe. I was thinking of stargazing for a while."

"oh then would you mind if I joined you?"

"nope go ahead"

Diana smiles sitting beside Akko before the dim sunlight still grasping the horizon.

"So what were you doing out here, Diana?" she asked once Diana had gotten comfortable.

"oh I was… just walking, there's nothing like this around my old home, so I decided to enjoy the green pastures."

"Do you like them? I love the moors, there's so much space to run, and no one to tell you it's a waste of time"

"ah yes suppose the moorland is quite nice. I think I prefer the forest though"

"I love them both, I just love being outside."

"it is quite refreshing"

They continued chatting as the sky darkened and stars faded into view and when they ran out of things to say the conversation naturally stopped leaving them to just lay down beside each other, looking up at the sky in meaningful silence.

After what must have been hours, the crescent moon was high in the sky and Akko felt contented with the time spent there, she sat up and looked to Diana. She's fallen asleep, she thought, smiling down at Diana, who looked so peaceful in that moment. Akko knew she couldn't just leave Diana there, she was new and might get lost or something, so she considered here options:

She could stay there for the night,

She could wake Diana up and walk back together,

or she could carry Diana back.

Akko didn't want to stay any longer, and though she knew she should probably just wake Diana up, she just couldn't do that to her friend when she seemed to be sleeping so deeply. So that meant she would be carrying Diana back. That's fine, there's not really any hills on the way and they aren't that far from town, this can work. She took a lot of care sliding her arms under the sleeping friend and standing up very slowly so she doesn't wake her. Diana was quite light, though Akko wasn't surprised, she was a rather thin girl. So Akko could make it across the fields quite easily considering she was carrying a person with her. By the time they were in the village Akko was exhausted anyway and so putting Diana down on her bed was quite a relief and Akko stood for a moment to catch her breath.

Diana felt herself hit the bed and she instantly felt a little panic as she had to work out what was going on. Then she opened her eyes a little and saw Akko and anxiety shot though her like an arrow. She scanned around her room to clarify this was her room and once she had that confirmed she looked at what in her room was visible and sighed in relief seeing her room looked like any other. The sigh caught Akko's attention.

"S-sorry, did I wake you?" Akko asked before the blonde had a chance to form a question for Akko

"I suppose so, it's okay though. Might I ask you what's going on?"

"you fell asleep on the moors, you looked so peaceful and sweet, I didn't want to wake you up so I carried you home." Akko explains

"You carried me?!"

"was that bad? Should I have woken you up?"

"No, thanks for trying not to wake me, I'm just surprised you both tried and succeeded at carrying me all that way"

"I do a lot more running and such than the average girl in thie place so I suppose I'm stronger than you might expect. Though even so I was quite tired when I got you here. Speaking of which I better go get some sleep, thanks for earlier, it was fun talking to you, bye." and with that Akko left.

"goodnight Akko" Diana said then settled down to get back to sleep, with the same content smile she'd worn all night.

So that was chapter 2. I probably wrote it mostly because of fluff but that's the reason for at least 50% of fanfiction I'm pretty sure. I have quite a bit to add in, not sure if ill do it next chapter or split them up but it's coming soon either way so look forward to that I guess. Thanks for reading :)