Chapter 49: I Like the Way You Move
Alrighty, so, new one. Woohoo. Only got four reviews on the last chapter. Makes me wonder if people really read it... Then I check the story stats and it says yes. You all continue to underestimate the power of a review! Glad to be back. And didn't I say that by the time I was done with Tsuki, you'd all be confused? Well, when I'm done for now... Maybe she'll pop up again in the future? Maybe she'll never leave like Masuta didn't? A guest review! Sorry these take so long, I can do my best to speed them up (Hell, I'm writing this at quarter past two in the morning) but I can promise nothing except that this story will continue. I think the next chapter will be out quicker, but I promise nothing else. Anyway, I'll let you get on with the chapter.
POV Konata
As everyone got out of the car at the Hiiragi house, they carried boxes they had gotten from a nearby store.
"So, how much do you want to get?" Tony asked his girlfriend.
"Just enough so that I can sleep..." Tsukasa said. "I don't want you too tired for tomorrow." Tsukasa said.
"Don't worry; I've got energy to burn!" Tony said. They entered the house.
"Hey, what's up?" Inori asked.
"We're just getting some stuff so Tsukasa can move in." Tony said.
"Good luck..." Matsuri mumbled. Tony blinked. He looked at Tsukasa, confused. She shrugged, a look of confusion on her face as well. Tony looked at Kagami, who, while she was nodding knowingly, he felt wouldn't divulge the secret. Konata obviously had no idea either. He sighed.
"Well, I suppose we should get going, huh?" Tony asked.
"Yeah!" Tsukasa cheered. The two began down the hall. Konata looked at Kagami.
"Why do we need luck?" She asked.
"You'll see..." Kagami said as she started down the hall. Konata shrugged and followed. She entered the room to see Tsukasa looking around at everything she had, trying to determine what she wanted. Konata could see her struggling with the decision.
"So, what do you need Tsukasa?" Tony asked.
"Um..." Tsukasa looked around more. She walked over and picked up her clock.
"I have an alarm clock on my house you can use if you want." Tony offered. Tsukasa blushed a bit.
"Um... I need this one... if I don't have it, I just can't get to sleep..." Tsukasa mumbled.
That's just silly. Tony thought, but wisely bit his tongue. He remembered what Kagami had said about some idiosyncrasies of Tsukasa and didn't want to start another fight. "Sure thing! Let's get that into a box then." Tony said. Kagami looked at him with a smile and nodded. He felt relieved.
"So what else do we need?" Konata asked. She looked around, but mostly saw a great many stuff animals. There was also a stack of DVDs of Disney movies and other assorted musicals. "Any particular animals you want to bring?" Konata asked. Tsukasa looked around.
"Um..." She hummed. "I definitely need Kaito-kun..." She said. Tony blinked.
"The alpaca on her bed." Kagami whispered. Tony nodded and walked over to her bed, picking out the stuffed alpaca with relative ease. He thought of putting it in the box, but thought better. He gave it directly to Tsukasa, who hugged it and smiled. She started dancing a little with the small animal, getting its fluff hugged out.
"Kaito-kun~, Kaito-kun~, Kaito-kun~!" She sang in a little sing-song voice. Tony smiled.
"She named her stuffed alpaca?" Tony asked Kagami in a whisper while Tsukasa swung her little stuffed friend around in her arms.
"After the alpaca in the local petting zoo. She has a name for each of her stuffed animals." Kagami said.
"Every one? How, there's gotta be at least a hundred of them in her bed!" Tony almost shouted in a whisper. "Who knows how many she has in her closet or put away!" Tony said. Kagami smiled a little bit.
"No, all of them are on the bed." Kagami said.
"What? Why? Isn't that uncomfortable for her?" Tony asked.
"What are you guys talking about?" Tsukasa asked, having stopped dancing. Tony jumped a little and scratched the back of his head.
"Ahehe, nothing, nothing." Tony said. Tsukasa shrugged and smiled again. "Any others?" Tony asked. Tsukasa hummed in thought.
"Umm... Tsukune-kun." She said.
"Small brown bear about two centimeters left of her pillow." Kagami said. Tony nodded and picked up the bear. He held it out to Tsukasa.
"That isn't Tsukune-kun though..." Tsukasa said as if Tony were intentionally misleading her. Tony jumped and looked at Kagami. She shook her head and held two fingers. Tony looked back and saw a near identical bear right beside the one he picked up.
How does she tell them apart? Tony wondered. He replaced the bear and picked up the other, which he handed to Tsukasa again. She hugged him along with Kaito.
"Tsukune-kun~, Tsukune-kun~, Tsukune-kun~!" Tsukasa danced around a little. Tony chuckled.
"She can be a little childish, huh?" Tony asked Kagami in a whisper.
"Of course. That's one reason we all love her." Kagami said with a smile.
"Understandable. Watching how she is now just makes me love her all the more." Tony smiled. "How many others do you think she'll want?" Tony asked. Kagami sighed.
"Hey Tsukasa, which ones do you want to carry yourself and which ones do you want to go in the boxes?" Kagami asked. Tsukasa stopped and looked at her sister.
"Well..." Tsukasa looked at the animals on her bed. She walked over and looked at them. She began to whimper a little bit. "But... But I don't want..." She began.
"Wait, are we taking all of them?" Tony asked Kagami.
"She also needs all her animals to sleep at night if she's going to be spending more than a few days away, not just her alarm clock. A school trip without bringing them is fine. Moving in to your house isn't." Kagami said.
"She can't just take a few of them? Wouldn't that be a lot easier? Plus, we didn't get a lot of boxes. This many stuffed animals will fill them all up. Then we can't bring anything else..." Tony said.
"No, she needs all of them. She doesn't want to offend any of them by taking some and not the rest. She also doesn't want them to take offense by putting some of them in a closet and the others are sleeping with her." Kagami said.
"Er... She knows that they aren't actually alive, right? They aren't sentient beings..." Tony said.
"Do you remember what I told you yesterday? She has a story for each and every one of her animals. She loves them as if they were real and she thinks of them as her friends. For a long time, they were her only friends outside the family. She was really shy, so Itsuwari was really one of her only friends. She was only really friends with him because he was outgoing and talked to her in a friendly way. She kinda shunned a lot of other friends with him. Most of them fell off and left." Kagami said.
"Most?" Tony asked.
"Well, Misao is persistent." Kagami smiled nostalgically. "She wouldn't let Tsukasa get away from her that easily." She said.
"Ya know, even though Kon-kon doesn't like her, Misao just keeps being put in a better and better light. She visits Tsukasa in the hospital, brings her flowers, and stays a friend to her even when Tsukasa doesn't associate with her much. She's actually pretty awesome." Tony said.
"Why don't you tell Kona that?" Kagami asked.
"I dunno. I have a feeling she won't go for it." Tony said. He looked over at Tsukasa to see that she was trying to find a way to pick up all of her stuffed animals at once so she could carry them with her. She was also assigning the smaller ones to Konata, apologizing to each of them for not being able to carry them and explaining that Konata would take good care of them while she wasn't with them. Tony smiled. "She's so cute." Tony said.
"Everyone thinks so." Kagami said.
"Everyone is right." Tony said. He walked over. "Can I help? I'm sure I can carry a good amount of them." Tony said. Tsukasa looked a little nervous.
"They're... a little uncomfortable around guys..." Tsukasa said.
"But... they're coming to live with me along with you, right? So they're gonna be around me a lot, aren't they?" Tony asked.
"I guess..." Tsukasa looked at her animals.
"So I should at least get to know some of them on the way, right?" Tony asked. Tsukasa smiled and nodded.
"Yeah!" She said. She turned to her animals and started whispering. After a moment, she turned back around and nodded. "Let's get as many as we can carry!" She cheered. Tony smiled and nodded.
"Alright!" He said. He looked over at Kagami, who was nodding in approval. They began to gather as many stuffed animals as they could. Even though she said as many as they could carry, everyone knew she meant all of them. Kagami began collecting as many as she could hold in her arms. After a few minutes and much delegating of animals, they somehow held every animal in their hands.
"Yay! We can get them all!" Tsukasa cheered.
"Yeah, let's put them all down for the moment so we can pack up the rest of the boxes." Tony said. He was about to drop them, but thought better and followed Tsukasa to her bed and, very softly, placed them down. The rest following, Tony turned to Tsukasa. "So, anything else you'd like?" Tony asked.
"Umm..." Tsukasa began to look around. Everyone could see she was really caught this time.
Ten Minutes Later
"Oh, I know!" Tsukasa said. Konata, Kagami, and Tony had all ended up finding somewhere to sit or lay as they waited for Tsukasa to make up her mind between her possessions. "Can we get my Disney movies?" Tsukasa asked.
It took her that long to think of that? They all seemed to wonder.
"Sure thing." Tony said. He walked over and grabbed the relatively large stack of movies. He gave them to Kagami. "To the Tetris master." He smirked.
"Ah, you saw all that, did you?" Kagami asked.
"Huh? What?" Konata asked, looking between the two. "Saw what?"
Come to think of it, not only does Konata not know about what I did, but I did leave her stuff just lying around... Kagami thought to herself. She smiled to ruffled Konata's hair, much to the little Otaku's chagrin. "You'll see later~." She said.
"Kagamin~!" Konata whined. Giggling, she took the movies from Tony's hand and began to put them in the box in the best possible way for there to be the most room at the end. The movies placed, she looked back at her sister.
"So, we have plenty of room left Tsukasa, what would you like to bring next?" Kagami asked. Tsukasa began to look around the room, humming.
"Hmmm..." She looked around.
Twenty Minutes Later
"That's it!" Tsukasa tried to snap her fingers. Her skin just rubbed against itself and made no sound, however, leading her to try again several times.
"What is it?" Tony asked, trying not to sound impatient.
"My card book!" Tsukasa said. She walked over to the closet. Konata and Tony both looked confusedly at Kagami.
"Card book?" They mouthed. She shrugged.
"First I've heard of it." She mouthed back. "What card book, Tsukasa?" Tsukasa rooted around the closet for a bit longer until she finally found a huge book. She grunted as she picked it up and brought it out.
"This... card... book..." She struggled to say. Konata was the first to make it to her and grab it. She put it down on the bed.
"Mind if I take a look at it?" Konata asked.
"Go ahead!" Tsukasa chimed.
"Thank you~." Konata chimed. She opened it up to reveal a huge amount of Pokemon cards. She began flipping through them.
"I never knew you had a collection this extensive Tsukasa..." Kagami mumbled.
"Ahehe..." Tsukasa giggled a bit nervously.
"You must be one heck of a player." Tony commented.
"I didn't really know how to play. I just liked the pretty pictures..." Tsukasa mumbled.
"You spent all this money for cards that you just liked the pictures on?" Kagami asked, in disbelief of her sister's wanton waste of money. "That could have gone to college, ya know?" Kagami said as more of a statement than a question.
"Kagamin, colleges are closed." Konata reminded.
"That's enough from the peanut gallery." Kagami teased. "You know what I mean. It hasn't been closed since she started collecting."
"Well..." Tsukasa started. She was swiftly cut off by a gasp from Konata.
"Kona?" Kagami asked. Konata pulled the book and pointed to a specific card. It had a Pikachu with a couple of tools and a Charmander card on it.
"This is a Pikachu Illustrator card..." Konata said very seriously. Tsukasa giggled.
"It's one of my favorites. Pikachu looks so cute!" She chimed.
"To the right people, this card is extremely valuable." Konata said.
"Really?" Kagami asked.
"It's one of the only Pokémon cards that has some real value. Even some of the rarer cards don't sell for much." Konata said.
"So, how much are we talking about here?" Kagami asked.
"Several million yen, probably." Konata said. There was a moment when nobody spoke.
"WHAT?" Kagami shouted.
"It was on the Internet for about 3.2 million yen about three years ago." Konata said.
"Holy CRAP!" Kagami shouted. "I take it all back Tsukasa, you did great buying these cards!" Kagami said.
"But..." Tsukasa mumbled.
"How rare is this card?" Kagami asked.
"There are only six of them that were made. They were given away to the prize winners of a contest a long time ago, back when Pokémon was new." Konata said.
"Wow, I didn't even know you entered that contest Tsukasa!" Kagami said.
"I didn't!" Tsukasa said. Another moment past.
"Then how do you have this?" Kagami asked.
"It... Itsuwari-kun gave it to me..." Tsukasa blushed a little bit. She smiled lightly and reminisced for a moment.
"I had no idea Itsuwari was a Pokémon fan..." Kagami said. Tony shifted uncomfortably with Tsukasa having nostalgic thoughts about her first crush, but again bit his tongue.
"O-Okay, let's just get it into the box..." Tony said. Konata looked back at him, confused. She could see right through his tenuous facade. She sighed and gave him the book. He placed it in a box. "What else we got Tsukasa?" Tony asked. She sat there without moving for a moment.
"Tsukasa?" Konata asked. She jumped and looked around.
"Huh?" She asked.
"Is there anything else?" Konata asked.
"Oh..." She looked around again.
Thirty Minutes Later
"That's right!" She snapped her finger. Everyone was almost asleep by this point, and so were startled awake when Tsukasa suddenly snapped.
"Hm?" Tony hummed.
"What's up?" Konata asked.
"This..." Tsukasa smiled again. She walked over to her futon and reached across the bed. After digging a little bit, she seemed to find what she had been looking for. She brought out a small, almost plain looking box.
"Huh?" Kagami asked.
"What's that Tsukasa?" Konata asked.
"Mom gave me the box... It's a jewelry box..." She smiled.
"A jewelry box? When did she give you that?" Kagami asked.
"In Junior High. It was around..." She sniffled a little bit.
"Yeah... So what do you use it for?" Kagami asked.
"Jewelry." Tsukasa said.
"But... You don't have any jewelry that isn't around your neck, do you?" Kagami asked.
"With her luck with the Pokémon card, she probably has something worth a hundred million yen..." Konata commented to Tony, who only chuckled at the irony.
"I do though..." Tsukasa said. She opened the box to reveal a single pearl ring.
"Wow Tsukasa, that's really pretty." Kagami said. "Where did you get that?" Kagami asked. "Did Mom give it to you with the box?"
"No... Itsuwari-kun gave it to me before... He said it was a Promise Ring, but he never said what the promise actually was!" Tsukasa said. "When I took it home, Mom gave me her old jewelry box. It belonged to Grandma..." Tsukasa said. Tony groaned under his breath. Konata glanced at him.
"What?" Konata asked in a whisper.
"She's so happy about it. It makes me feel insecure." Tony said.
"Don't forget, she's dating YOU. Not this other guy." Konata said.
"Yeah, but who knows what would have happened if he was still with us... He gave her a promise ring Konata! He was basically asking her out, but she was too innocent to think of it that way!" Tony whispered back.
"You don't know that! Promise rings can be worn kind of like chastity rings too!" Konata tried to defend the late boy.
"Which would have worse implications! 'Tsukasa, wait for me for when we get married, I want you virginity for myself!'!" Tony whispered.
"Come on, she's only going through this stuff because she's moving IN with you! Did you forget about that?" Konata asked. Tony sighed.
"Still! She doesn't have to look so wistful..." Tony commented.
"What, are you on YOUR period now?" Konata asked.
"MEN CAN GET THOSE?" Tony shouted. Kagami and Tsukasa both spun to look at him to see what the commotion was about.
"What?" Tsukasa asked.
"Men can get what?" Kagami asked. Konata and Tony jumped and raised their arms, waving in unison.
"Nothing, nothing at all! Don't worry about it!" The both of them said in perfect unison. Kagami and Tsukasa looked at each other and shrugged.
"Sheesh Kan-kan." Konata said.
"Hey, that's a scary thought! Men can't get those... right? Right? You were just kidding with me, right?" Tony practically pleaded with his sister.
"Geez, you've fought sword masters, ninjas, and a god, but the thought of having a period scares the hell out of you..." Konata giggled a bit.
"You're not taking this seriously, are you?" Tony asked, almost in a panic.
"No I'm not, why are you?" Konata asked. "No, men can't get periods." Konata said. Tony let out a sigh of relief.
"That was scary... Hey Kon-kon..." Tony whispered again.
"Yes~?" She answered.
"I've seen Tsukasa get super moody. Kagami is always moody so it's hard to tell. I never really see Miyuki enough to tell, but I've been around you a lot. You never get like that. You don't seem to get that whole 'super emotional, vicious as Kagami' aura about you. What's up with that? You said that every girl gets it, but do you just put on a really, really good front?" Tony asked. Konata smiled a bit, almost melancholically.
"Funny story, that. First of all, never ask a girl that again or she'll tear your eyes out and eat them for lunch. Second... Well... I don't have them." Konata said.
"Huh? But you said..." Tony began.
"I'm a... Well, a bit of a special case... You see-" Konata began.
"What are you two whispering about over there?" Kagami asked. "You've been chatting among yourselves for quite a while." Kagami put her hands on her hips.
"Hey, I didn't interrupt you when you were talking to Kan-kan. Maybe we were talking about something important." Konata said.
"Something so important, I can't be a part of it?" Kagami asked.
"Maybe I was discussing plans for my proposal~." Konata teased. Kagami jerked back a bit, a light blush on her cheeks.
"Wh-what kind of proposal?" She asked. Konata cleared her throat overdramatically and gestured widely before taking a knee. She swooped her arms around to grab Kagami's hand.
"Kagami Francesca Consuela Maria Gonzalez de Masso Garcia Lucia Greenburg Ramon Gomez Hiiragi, will you marry me?" She asked grandly. Kagami blushed, even despite Konata's attempts to make it light. She averted her eyes as her face continued darkening.
"A-Another anime reference...?" She mumbled, trying to switch topics.
"No, not really." Konata shook her head, never losing her wide smile.
"Kona..." Kagami said.
"Yes~, Kagamin~?" Konata chimed.
"When you propose for real, you better make it better than that..." Kagami mumbled.
"I promise it's gonna be suite!" Konata cheered. "But... maybe I am proposing for real this time..." Konata mumbled timidly and averted her eyes. Kagami practically blew steam from her ears.
*Cute!* "Bu-but! So suddenly like this? I-I don't think I'm ready for something like this!" Kagami said. Konata began giggling. Kagami sighed. "Why would you joke around about something like that? I should have known, it's not even legal for us to get married here..." Kagami sighed.
"Don't worry, Imma make sure it will be legal by the time you're ready!" Konata cheered. Kagami smiled, blushed and nodded.
"Sounds like a deal." She said sweetly. She breathed deeply and looked into what seemed to be space. Konata recognized it as her going into her own little fantasy world, probably picturing the perfect way she was to be proposed to.
"So Tsukasa, any more things you would like to get?" Konata asked. Tsukasa looked around.
Forty Minutes Later
"Um..." She hummed.
Fifty Minutes Later
"Maybe... No..." She mumbled.
So much longer later that the old narrator got tired of waiting and they had to hire a new one
"There's nothing I can really think of... I think this is all I really need." Tsukasa smiled.
Thank... God... Tony mumbled in his head.
She took so long to decide that, Kagami came out of her fantasy on her own... Konata thought.
No wonder Matsuri wished us luck... Tony sighed in his head.
I figured it would take a while, but that was just ridiculous... Kagami sighed. She took out her phone and looked at the time. The day was already mostly gone. She sighed as she closed the phone. Geez. And here I was hoping that we would also get to move Kona in. And we still have to set the room up at Tony's. Kagami thought to herself.
"Well, let's get going, or we're not going to have enough time to even set up the room." Tony said.
"Alright!" Tsukasa chimed. They each began to pick up the same animals they had before so that they could carry all of them in the car. They called in Tadao, as they couldn't get the box and carry the animals.
"Hm? There's another box, why don't you..." Tadao looked at the stuffed animals, and then at Tsukasa. He nodded and grabbed up the full box and the empty box. He looked in out of curiosity and smiled once he saw the jewelry box. "So, is this all we're taking over there?" He asked. Tsukasa nodded behind her animals. "Alright, let's head out." Tadao nodded. They all began to walk out of the house, albeit a bit cautiously so as not to drop any of their precious stock. Once outside, though, they found that to be a behemoth of a task. The wind had picked up considerably and stuffed animals are not the heaviest of cargo, especially when they're just piled on and not actually being held in place by anything but gravity. Kagami's hair, in particular, was flailing around from just the wind while Tsukasa and Tony's got in their eyes.
"What is up with this wind?" Kagami shouted.
"I dunno, but it's really irritating!" Tony shouted back.
"What are you talking about?" Konata asked. Tony looked at her, questioning her sanity until he saw her standing still without any problem. Her hair was laid perfectly in place, as if there were no wind at all. Tony was momentarily bewildered, but shook it off as the wind began to blow a few animals off. Tsukasa began to shout. Tony growled and commanded the wind cease. At a large cost of energy, it did. He sighed as the wind died down, but he began to breathe a bit heavily.
"Kan-kun, you didn't have to do that." Tsukasa said sternly. "The whole point of doing it like was so you didn't get tired!" She whined.
"Tsukasa, they were going to get blown onto the ground. I didn't think you would want that either." Tony said.
"I don't mind washing them! And if you lose in the fight tomorrow, it'll be all my fault!" She said.
"No it won't. Don't worry so much about it Tsu-chan. I'm gonna be fine. I have a master martial artist sister and a super powered girl at my side. The whole fight doesn't just hinge on me. I bet even if I got my rear kicked, those two would be able to knock out the opponent themselves!" Tony said proudly of his teammates. Konata chuckled a bit as they loaded the box into the Hiiragi van and hopped in. Tony sat beside Konata while Kagami sat beside Tsukasa.
"If you say so Kan-kun." Tsukasa sighed. Tony turned his attention to Konata.
"Speaking of my sister..." He said. Konata gulped. "What was up with the no wind?" He asked.
"I still don't know what you guys were talking about. I didn't feel any wind." Konata shrugged.
"Why not?" Kagami asked.
"Well if I knew that, would I be sitting here, wondering what you guys are talking about?" Konata asked.
"I suppose not. That's weird, Kona." Kagami said. Konata shrugged.
"When have I ever not been?" She asked.
"You do have a point there..." Kagami said affectionately. "You idiot." She added.
"Hey, what did I do to deserve that?" Konata asked.
"Well, aren't you?" Kagami giggled.
"I may be an idiot, but you're the one who fell for an idiot. Who's the idiot now?" Konata teased.
"Kona, if you weren't so good in the kitchen, I don't think I could even tolerate you sometimes." Kagami said. Tony and Tsukasa exchanged a bit of a panicked look.
"So that's what I am, huh? Just some chef?" Konata asked.
"My personal chef! That's better!" Kagami said.
"Hardly." Konata said. "Maybe I'll just not cook again. Maybe never!" Konata said. They arrived at their destination.
"Come on Kona, stop it! You're being a child!" Kagami shouted at her.
"Careful what you say Kagamin. If I'm a child, that makes you a pedophile, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna stay here and be lectured by a pervert!" Konata said as she exited the car. While her exit was dramatic, the stuffed animals in her arms took away a great portion of the drama. Tony and Tsukasa looked at each other and nodded, a silent understanding passing between them. They would both do their best to get their respective sister to talk to the other about whatever problem had suddenly arisen. Tony jumped out of the car and caught up with his sister while Tsukasa looked over Kagami. What wasn't expected was what was said next. They both said the exact same thing in unison.
"I love her so much..." They both sighed contently.
"Onee-chan?" Tsukasa asked.
"Yeah Tsukasa?" Kagami asked as the two got out of the car.
"What was that?" Tsukasa asked.
"Well, me and Kona have to fight sometimes. I figure we should do it when it's controlled, ya know?" Kagami said. "I mean, it's probably good for the relationship if we can let out some steam, and we'll be closer for it!" Kagami reasoned.
"That sounds good!" Tsukasa chimed.
POV Tony
"So what was all that about?" Tony asked his sister.
"I dunno. Kagami's fun to tease." Konata shrugged.
"Ah, makes sense." Tony nodded. He somehow got the door open, though his arms were full of animals. As the two looked in to his living room, they were almost so surprised by what they saw, they almost dropped their cargo. They walked in and set the animals on the clean chair, looking around.
"What... What the hell happened in here?" Konata asked.
"I don't know..."
"Kan-kan... Someone came in here and committed a neatness! All the filth is gone!" Konata said.
"All of the dust I worked so hard not to disturb! Just... vanished!" Tony said in despair.
"Who's responsible for this?" Konata asked. They saw Tsuki, as if on cue, run down the hallway bent over, her hands on a cloth that was cleaning the hallway floor.
"Tsuki, did you clean my house?" Tony asked.
"Run..." She mumbled almost hollowly.
"Wh-what?" Tony asked. Tsukasa and Kagami entered the room and looked around.
"Wow, you finally cleaned this place, huh?" Kagami asked.
"What's wrong Tsuki?" Konata asked.
"I've created a monster..." She mumbled hollowly.
"Hey, do we have any..." Yutaka walked out of the hallway. On seeing the four people in the living room, she smiled sweetly. "Hi Onee-chan! Onii-chan! Kagami-senpai! Tsukasa-senpai!" Yutaka chimed happily.
"Run." Tsuki mouthed silently from behind the innocent looking Yutaka.
"Oh~..." Yutaka looked at the stuffed animals. "Are these all for me?" She asked. Her face suddenly changed. Tony knew it well. Suddenly, however, before Yutaka's "Glitter Attack" could take effect, Tsukasa stepped in and countered.
"No." She said with an uncommonly stern tone. The two locked gazed for a moment.
This is a little ridiculous... It's like a battle of the cute... Tony thought. Everyone know that even Tsukasa may be in over her head here. She was cute, sure, but Yutaka had been honing her cute look. Yutaka sighed.
"Okay..." She eventually gave and walked back down the hall. Everyone looked at Tsukasa in wonder. When she turned back around, they all saw her face was red with blush.
"She was so cute..." She put both hands on her cheeks as a if she were a girl with a crush.
She only won because her animals were at stake. Kagami smiled.
"So, while you guys go get her room set up, Kan-kan is gonna cook!" Konata said. Tony looked at her blankly.
"Ah, I've never had your cooking before!" Kagami said.
"I really look forward to it!" Tsukasa chimed.
"And no peeking Tony. You don't get to see the room until we're done." Kagami said.
"Come on Tsu-chan!" Tsukasa said.
"Sorry, I can't. Yu-sama is calling..." Tsuki mumbled as she walked down the hall. The sister shrugged and started grabbing stuff. As they walked down to the room Tsukasa was to reside in, Konata finally turned to meet Tony's blank stare.
"Yes?" She asked.
"Kagami's right. You're an idiot." He said.
"What do you mean?" Konata asked.
"Do you have any idea what my cooking is like? Any? At all?" Tony asked.
"Is it not good?" Konata asked.
"It's the healthiest stuff you'll ever eat. But it tastes absolutely horrible." Tony said.
"Come on, it's not that bad." Konata smiled.
"I wouldn't even blame Tsukasa for leaving me if she tasted my cooking." Tony said.
"You're overreacting." Konata said.
"Am I? Am I Konata? I don't think I am!" He said. He groaned. "Why would you throw me under the bus like that?" He asked.
"I figured you'd love to cook for us! I mean, it's almost always either me or Tsukasa cooking around here, I thought you might want a chance to strut your stuff!" Konata said.
"My stuff is so bad, it still struts on it's own." Tony said. "It's inedible." He said simply.
"Hey now, I've eaten Kagami's cooking myself. If I can eat THAT, I can consume your food as if it were a delicacy." Konata said. Tony sighed.
"I'll... just have to try my best, I suppose." Tony said. "Unless you want to cook?" Tony asked.
"Nope. Not gonna happen. You volunteered for this job, you have to see it through." She said.
"Like hell I did..." Tony mumbled as he walked into the kitchen.
"What's the eta, you think?" Konata asked. Tadao sort of walked in with the box of stuff in his hand and, on seeing that he had been completely forgotten and dismissed without so much as a thank you, left.
"It'll be ready later..." He sighed.
"Mind if I go look at the training room?" Konata asked.
"Right, I remember you were asking about using it. Yeah, go and check it out. See if it'll suit your needs." Tony said.
"Thanks! I'll be back in a few." Konata waved. She walked through the house, remembering where it was from their first visit. She walked in the training room and looked around. It was a very dojo-ish looking room. It almost looked like it had come right out of a school kendo class. There was a large closet that Konata remembered from when Tony got the training dummies out. She opened it up to take a look at the supplies he had. She saw a good amount of training dummies in various positions and a couple of swords crossed. She recognized one as the sword Tony used to fight against her, but the other, a metallic white one, wasn't one she remembered. She briefly considered whether Tony would hate her for checking it out. Oddly, she felt almost... compelled to take it. She sighed, the urge overpowering her concern. She grabbed it as a green flash blinded her for a moment. It had erupted from her green stone, and when it subsided, the sword in her hand was gone. It was weird, she still felt it in her hand, but she couldn't see it. It felt extremely light. Like the wind itself was holding it up. Normally, the mere fact that the sword disappeared would have caused her to drop it, but enough weird things had happened that she felt almost conditioned to it. She stared at the empty space in her hand with an odd sense of attachment. She almost couldn't bring herself to return the blade. Still the blade wasn't her's so she put the blade back where it had been. The second it left her hand, the blade reappeared, as if nothing had ever happened to it. She made a fist in excitement. Something interesting was happening to her again! She ran out of the room and back to the kitchen.
"What's up Kon-kon?" Tony asked, having felt her excited aura coming from the hall.
"Hey Kan-kan, what's up with the new sword? Where did you get it?" Konata asked. Tony smiled.
"Ah, now that's a story. That happened after what happened with Tereya." Tony said. "Second day of Oban if I remember correctly..." Tony thought back and smiled while he told Konata about his encounter with his mother. As the story progressed, Konata smiled and began thinking of her own experience with Kanata. When Tony ended with the sword and it being his father's, Konata huffed.
"So it belonged to your Dad, huh?" Konata asked. Tony nodded.
"I haven't really gotten to use it though. Kinda sucks." Tony said.
"We could spar after dinner if you want." Konata offered.
"But wait, we have a match tomorrow. Tsukasa wouldn't want us using our energy like that. Besides, I fight so often, I'd like a day without it. Don't get me wrong, I love fighting, but still..." Tony said.
"I understand." Konata sighed. She had really wanted to see about using that sword. "But if we're practicing for our fight tomorrow, then Tsukasa's sure to say yes, right?" Konata asked.
"Well aren't you insistent? What's up Kon-kon, anxious to beat my ass again?" Tony asked.
"No! I just kind of wanted to try out those swords myself..." Konata said. Tony nodded.
"I see. I suppose it can't be helped. I still think Tsukasa will be VERY opposed to the idea though. And with her living here, it'd be kind of hard to sneak something like sparing in." Tony said.
"Well, we can always try." Konata said.
"I think we should wait until after dinner to ask though. Maybe she'll feel bad for me and want me to stick with what she knows I know." Tony said.
"Eta on dinner?" Konata asked.
"Later." Tony said.
Later
"Man, you got done with this food quick Tony! We barely managed to get the animals settled in a comfortable position." Kagami said.
"Comfortable position?" Tony mouthed. Kagami nodded. Tony shrugged. He began to pass out food.
"Thank you for the food!" The three of them said, Yutaka and Tsuki declining the offer as they had dined on Oden earlier. As the three girls got a mouthful, they all paused, a simultaneous shutter running down their entire body. Tsukasa was the first to chew and swallow.
"Kan-kun, I think if you used the name brand soy sauce and not the store brand, it might taste better. And the store brand salt would actually compliment the dish better than the foreign stuff you used." Tsukasa offered her advice. Tony blinked for a few beats.
"What?" He asked.
"The soy sauce. And salt." Tsukasa said. "Also, the vegetables you get from a package would have actually been a better choice for this meal than the locally grown ones." She said.
"How... How could you possibly know what kind of salt I used? Or what kind of soy sauce, or vegetables?" Tony asked.
"Tsukasa is an S-ranked Kitchenmancer, what do you expect?" Konata asked.
"A what now? Kitchenmancer? You're telling me she can use some sort of magic?" Tony asked.
"She's just that good at cooking." Kagami said proudly.
"Well dang. Tsukasa, would you mind cooking now that you'll live here?" Tony asked.
"Not at all!" Tsukasa chimed. "Besides, I know your food is just really, really healthy, and that's why you cooked it like this." Tsukasa said.
"How do you know that?" Tony asked.
"Just that good." Konata said matter-of-factly. Tony huffed.
"Well then. That's..." Tony mumbled. "I'm humbled again at your skill in the kitchen."
"You think you're humbled now? Tell them Tsukasa." Kagami seemed ecstatic at something or another. As if her very meaning in life were about to be in front of her.
"Ehehe... I'm just going to make my Ama-Ama Dangos..." Tsukasa said, a bit embarrassed at her sister's euphoric face on her mentioning the name of the dessert.
"Ama.." Konata began.
"Ama..." Tony said.
"Dangos?" They both kicked their heads to the sides in confusion. Kagami gasped.
"Kona! Have you never had her Ama-Ama Dangos?" Kagami asked in sheer concern.
"No, I haven't..." Konata said.
"I've never even heard of them..." Tony said.
"I understand you not knowing them Tony, but Kona's known us for years!" Kagami shouted.
"I only really make them for special occasions, so I kind of understand, ya know Onee-chan?" Tsukasa said. Kagami sighed.
"I guess so..." Kagami sighed. "You have to make a bunch. I BUNCH! It's a moral imperative that you make a hundred!" Kagami said to her twin. Konata and Tony looked at each other, both confused at what they were witnessing.
"Do I even have the ingredients for making Ama-Ama Dangos?" Tony asked.
"And that's kind of a weird name. Ama-Ama Dango..." Konata mumbled to herself.
"You don't Tony. We have to go buy them." Kagami said.
"What about the name then?" Tony asked.
"When you taste them, you go "Aaaaaaam! Aaaaa..." a bunch!" Tsukasa chimed.
"Well then. I suppose we're going to go shopping then." Tony said.
"Um-!..." Tsukasa chirped.
"Yes?" Tony asked.
"The ingredients... are kind of a secret..." Tsukasa said.
"Afraid I'll reproduce it? After what you just tasted?" Tony asked. Tsukasa scratched her head for a moment, giggling nervously.
"Ahehe... No, it's just the point of it..." Tsukasa said.
"I suppose I kinda, sorta understand." Tony said.
"Well then, I can't wait to try it out! You guys should get going!" Konata said hastily. Tony shot her a glance.
"You seem very eager to have us leave..." Kagami said.
"After your description, can you blame me? Go, go!" Konata shooed. Kagami got an annoyed look, even more so because her little brat had a point.
"Alright then. I guess we'll take our leave then, won't we Tsukasa?" Kagami asked her twin. Tsukasa looked around at everyone suddenly staring at her, and nodded.
"I-I guess!" She said.
"Come back with yummy stuff!" Konata waved as the two Hiiragis left. After they were out of ear shot, Tony addressed his sister.
"Do you really want to spar that badly?" He asked.
"Yeah! Yeah! Just a little!" Konata said. Ever since she held the sword earlier, she had an incredible urge to do so again. Tony shrugged and got up.
"Well, let's go then." He said. They went into the training room. Before Konata could get to the closet, Tony picked up the sword she wanted. Tony looked at the sword in his hand. It felt weird. Konata grunted and picked up the remaining one. She began to think in her head. She decided to use her best technique. Maybe she could get the sword from him with that. She breathed in preparation. "Ready?" Tony asked. Konata nodded, her eyes closed. She... Did she just close her eyes against me? He wondered. "Are you ready?" Tony asked. Konata nodded again. He shrugged. "I'm going to cast a spell that stops us from being being actually hit by these blades, okay?" Tony said. Konata nodded again. Tony got the distinct impression that she wasn't actually paying attention to what he said. It actually annoyed him. He began casting his spell, but as it was almost completed, he didn't feel the usual energy drain. He inspected the both of them with his mind. His enchantment from the tournament. It was still effecting the both of them. Tony chuckled. Maybe that's why the knife was halted before it got her... Tony thought. This entire time, Konata hadn't really moved much. Tony sighed. He put his sword up and swung it at Konata. She moved out of the way easily. Tony slashed again. She moved again. Again, it seemed easy enough. Konata swung her sword and caught Tony's barrier around his currently unguarded midsection. based on the energy drain, Tony could tell it was a very powerful strike, especially with how little Konata looked like she put into the strike. Tony stabbed at her chest. She spun out of the way fluidly. She slashed up weirdly. Again, her blade found an unguarded area of Tony's barrier. Another hit to his energy. Irritated, he began slashing wildly. Swaying from side to side, Konata evaded every strike. The two continued like this for a while, Tony striking out and trying to hit her, yet Konata always had some odd movement she could take to evade. She took her blade up again. Tony moved grandly to guard every possible opening. Regardless, her blade found somewhere that Tony had somehow missed. Damn it! He shouted in his head. He gripped his blade with both hands and began a downward slash. Konata opened her eyes and stepped forward. She put her hand above her, palm up. The bottom of the sword's hilt hit her open palm. The sword slid out of Tony's hands with frightening ease. A green light blinded him for a moment the instant her hand touched the blade. He heard a clang as the sword hit the ground a few feet away from him. He looked into Konata's emerald eyes for a moment. Until now, she had looked like she was concentrating intensely. She was now looking warmly. She kicked her head to the side, her eyes closed with a smile.
"Wanna switch swords?" Konata asked.
"... Would that help...?" Tony asked. He was in awe. "How... did you DO that?" Tony asked.
"It took me years to perfect that technique." Konata said. She put Tony's handmade sword on the ground for him to take up. Tony huffed and grabbed his sword. It felt much more familiar in his grip than did the other one. He turned around. Konata was at the place his father's sword was. She bent down and grabbed it. In a green flash, the sword disappeared. Tony inhaled sharply in surprise, but otherwise tried to keep his reaction to himself. Konata seemed much more relaxed now. The blade simply felt comfortable in her grip. She could kind of see a faint outline of the blade, though she was the only one to see it.
"What the hell happened to the sword?" Tony asked.
"Dunno, it just does that when I hold it." Konata shrugged. Tony tried to remember the proportions on the blade. He raised his sword. Konata flew at a scarily quickly speed and slashed. Tony raised his blade and found it forced down but the strength behind Konata's slash.
The hell? He growled in his head. Konata's sword arm, kicked as the wind, swung around to Tony's midsection again. Tony, aggravated enough already, stabbed energy at the seal he had put in the room only recently. He appeared behind Konata and swung his blade. Konata's head whipped around in surprise as Tony's blade caught a barrier near her neck. He was breathing pretty heavily by the point.
"Whoa... What was that?" Konata asked. Tony stepped to the side, allowing Konata to see the seal on the wall behind him. "Ah, teleporting to that?"
"Yeah. You completely won this. Usually the rule is no magic." Tony said.
"Well... What do you think this is?" Konata asked, holding up the invisible sword.
"But you're not doing that consciously, are you? So it doesn't count. What the hell was that earlier anyway?" Tony asked.
"What do you mean?" Konata asked.
"Before, when you had this sword. I kept slashing at you, but I didn't once hit you. So, how did you dodge every swing? With your eyes CLOSED nonetheless?" Tony asked.
"Well, I wouldn't really call it... "dodging"..." Konata mumbled.
"Kona~!" They heard Kagami's voice chimed. They heard the Tsundere walking down the hall.
"Crap! Kan-kan, we need to clean this place up!" Konata said in almost a panic. "If they find out we were sparring, we're gonna get in trouble!" Konata said.
"We might lose our dango privileges..." Tony chuckled sarcastically. The two put the swords back where they belong. Tony put his sword on the holder without hesitation, but looked over Konata. Despite the impending death that awaited them if they failed to cover what they were doing, she seemed extremely hesitant to replace the sword. "Konata?" Tony asked. Konata shook her head and put the sword up. They closed the door to the closet just as Kagami swung the door open.
"There you are!" Kagami said accusingly. "You know how long I was looking for you?" She asked.
"I know what you mean darling, I've been looking for you my whole life as well!" Konata said grandly. Kagami jumped back a little and blushed, averting her gaze the next second.
"Geez... Why are you in here anyway?" Kagami asked. "The Dangos are almost done..." She commented.
"I'm surprised you're not out there, trying to learn it." Tony said.
"Well..." Kagami scratched the back of her head. "The Ama-Ama Dango is a really closely guarded secret... I don't even know how it's made..." Kagami said.
"Wow, something so secret that Tsukasa won't even share it with her sister..." Konata commented.
"Yeah, it really is a crazy dango though." Kagami sighed. "She buys all the ingredients to MAKE it the ingredients. I can't even imagine how long it would take a normal person to make." Kagami said.
"You know, you keep praising this, but how good can it really be? I mean, I know it's Tsukasa, but can't it only be so good?" Tony asked. Kagami began giggling.
"You'll see." She said. "But anyway, what are you doing in here anyway? You weren't fighting or anything, were you?" Kagami asked.
"Alright, you caught us!" Konata shouted. "We were having an affair!" Konata shouted, putting her arms out as if to surrender and be handcuffed. Tony chuckled nervously as Kagami giggled weirdly. Konata slunk out of the room dejectedly. Kagami's giggle only got weirder as she began approaching Tony.
"Tony..." Kagami began. The air suddenly a lot more... dark. "Try to take what is mine and I shall ensure that your suffering will be the stuff of legends," She told him bluntly. "They will whisper tales of the agony I shall put you through, and both angels and devils alike will weep in horror at the fate which you befell."
"Ahehe..." Tony's chuckle turned a great deal more nervous. Kagami was at her scariest at the moment and Tony was afraid for his life. "It's alright Kagami... She's my sister, ya know?... She was just looking at the room to see if she could use it for training..." Tony put his hands up. Kagami glared darkly at him for a moment more. She sighed and retreated back, closing her eyes and crossing her arms, huffing.
"Yeah, yeah. I know. Just remember it." Kagami glared at him before exiting the room. Tony shuddered.
"Did someone replace her with a monster or something?" Tony shuddered to himself again. He exited the room. He rushed and saw Konata push her way into the kitchen. As the door closed, Konata was pushed back out.
"No one in the kitchen!" Tsukasa shouted. Konata looked at Tony deviously. It unsettled him.
"Oh no, darling, what are we ever to do?" She cried, falling on Tony. He looked up at Kagami, fear in his eyes, to catch her glare. If looks could kill, Tony would be a very, VERY dead man. No God or Goddess would possibly have been able to rescue him if that had been the case. Tony could almost see darkness coalescing around the girl, her eyes practically turning red. For a moment, she looked like she even had fangs. Tony shuddered.
"Um... Kon-kon?" Tony asked, a scared tone in his voice. Konata sneaked a glance at Kagami. Her hair was practically floating in darkness. Konata, even as conditioned as she was to Kagami's Tsun-tsun rage, was a little scared herself.
This is more than rage... This is advanced rage... She thought. "Too far?" Konata asked.
"Way too far." Kagami said darkly.
"Gotcha..." Konata mumbled, getting off of Tony. She ground her ball of her foot against the floor and looked down as if she were being scolded. Kagami, though a bit angry with her little girlfriend's antics, couldn't stay so as Konata looked almost as cute as Yutaka. "Sorry Kagamin~..." She said sadly. Kagami swooned.
"It's okay Kona~!" Kagami hugged the little loli. Konata's face was pressed into Kagami's chest so hard, Konata initially feared suffocation. Then, she opened her mouth a little wider and found breath again. "What are you doing Kona?"
"Your chest isn't appropriate Marshmallow Hell size!" Konata complained. Kagami hugged harder.
"What was that?" She asked angrily.
"Your boobs are small!" Konata said, though muffled. Kagami shifted her hug and moved Konata lower, into her stomach. She began pulling with all her might.
"Haha! That isn't too small, is it?" Kagami shouted triumphantly. They stayed that way for a moment, to where Tony honestly worried about Konata. Suddenly, Kagami blushed deeply and let go, an embarrassed moan escaping. "Yo-yo-you-!..." She mumbled.
"Your belly button is a weakness I see..." Konata looked at Kagami seductively.
"Well I-..." Kagami began, having her arms folded over her stomach.
"It's ready~!" They heard from the kitchen. They all looked, and Kagami perked up a great deal.
"Ama-Ama Dangos, here I come!" She shouted and burst through the door. Tony and Konata looked at each other and chuckled. They entered after her. The two entered the kitchen to see Kagami already seated with a plate full of dangos. Konata approached her and smiled, seeing Kagami happily munching on the food. Konata, her curiosity getting the better of her, reached out to grab a dango.
*SCHING*
Konata withdrew her hand quickly before it was impaled by the fork that now left four little holes in the table. Kagami glared at her girlfriend evilly.
"Kagamin... Did you just... Did you just hiss at me?" Konata asked.
"No." Kagami said.
"I think you did." Konata said.
"These are mine." Kagami moved the dangos away. "You have yours. I have mine."
"And I gave you my yakitori..." Konata said.
"That was that, this is this. Ama-Ama Dangos are completely different from Yakitori." Kagami said.
"Alright, let's give it a try..." Tony said, sitting down to a plate of them. Konata took a seat between him and Kagami, a plate in front of her. The both of them took a bite of the dango. They froze.
"My god..." Konata mumbled.
"It's... it's full of stars!" Tony said.
"It's like all of the ingredients are singing in a perfect harmony of beautiful flavor!" Konata said.
"That flavor is singing in a way that somehow describes the interworking's of the very universe itself!" Tony said.
"The very heavens themselves are being recreated on our tongues!" Konata said. She looked at Tsukasa VERY seriously. "Recipe. You must give me the recipe." Konata said.
"Um..." Tsukasa scratched her head.
"Not even Mom knows how she makes it." Kagami said. Konata got up and walked over to the sink to inspect the dishes, maybe getting some sort of clue. There were none except for one big pot. She opened the lid to see a green, gummy substance.
"Is this the sauce for the dango?" Konata asked. Tsukasa shook her head.
"No, that was there before I got here." Tsukasa said.
"Ah, that's the dengen." Tony said. Tsukasa seemed to shudder. "I take it you took a taste of it?" Tony asked. Tsukasa nodded a fearful nod.
The Theater of Tsukasa's Mind
Tsukasa walked into the kitchen with the ingredients to make her signature dish. As she approached the counter, she looked at the stove to see a large pot that already appeared to have something in it. She walked over and looked into after lifting the lid. There was a red substance in there of questionable consistency. She dipped her finger in it to find it almost jellybean-ish. She smiled, jellybeans being on of her favorite treats. She grabbed a small glob and popped it in her mouth. She was sadly, sadly mistaken. She cringed, her entire mouth crying out in horror and disgust as if a thousand souls were clawing their way out of the very pit of hell itself to rewrite her taste buds. She almost felt it coming up again.
Wow... Who would ever mix ingredients like this? Berries, honey, lard... liver? Powdered, probably from its consistency. But what's that last thing? That last ingredient... I've never tasted it before. Tsukasa wondered. She shuddered in horror of the terrible taste still in her mouth. She looked around. I bought a little much for this batch of dangos... She thought. She looked back at the pot. I guess a few ingredients couldn't hurt... She thought. She took out a few of her ingredients and began mixing as she turned the burner on again. As she mixed in her ingredients to the dengen, she noticed it was turning a light, if lime looking, green. As she was working, she noticed she was getting a little jittery with how much energy she suddenly was getting. She began going as fast as she could just to burn off all of the energy she had. It wasn't very long at all before the mixture was done. It was lime green in color and actually looked appetizing. However, Tsukasa knew better than to simply eat some. She turned the burner off and let it cool while she began on her dangos.
Back to the present
"Huh... So you added stuff to the dengen..." Tony said. I hope it still works how it's supposed to...
"So where are all of the dishes?" Konata asked.
"Yeah, she washes the dishes as she goes to protect the secret. And we only buy enough ingredients to make that set of dangos, so there's none left." Kagami said. Tsukasa giggled nervously.
"Sorry Kona-chan... I can't tell you that. If I told you, you'd have to go away for a long time..." Tsukasa mumbled.
Did Tsukasa just threaten to kill me? Konata's mouth dropped. Well, in her own way...
"Tsukasa. You will have to make this more often." Tony said. "No debating. This needs to be a daily thing." Tony said. He took another bite. "Twice a day." He said. He took the last bite of his first dango. "This is the only thing you should be doing at this house. You should begin cooking another batch as soon as you finish one." Tony said. "The best part is in the aftertaste..."
"It's sweet!" Konata chirped.
"Tsukasa, this puts everything else that I've ever tasted to absolute shame. I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to eat my dengen again." Tony chuckled. He took another bite, cherishing each moment of the precious dessert. He smiled happily.
"I can't do it every day, Kan-kun... Then it isn't special..." Tsukasa said.
"It will always be special Tsukasa." Tony said. Tsukasa made a sound of minor discontent with his comment, but otherwise fell silent. Without saying anything more, the four of them eating the rest of the dessert. Kagami, the only of the people who didn't cook the meal not to be in a stupor of critical ecstasy, took another look at the time. It was already late at night. Kagami yawned. Konata followed along with Tsukasa.
"Man, it's gotten late, hasn't it?" Kagami asked.
"Yeah..." Konata yawned.
"How are we gonna get home?" Kagami asked Tsukasa. Tsukasa fidgeted a bit.
"I... am home..." Tsukasa smiled a small, shy smile. Kagami smacked herself on the head.
"Duh. I forgot, sorry. Force of habit." She smiled.
"How are we gonna get home Kagamin?" Konata asked. "After all, I am gonna live with you now, right?" Konata asked. Kagami smiled even wider.
"Of course!" She said happily.
"You guys could just stay here for the night." Tony offered.
"I guess. I'd feel bad calling Dad at this time of night." Kagami said.
"So, where are we going to sleep?" Konata asked.
"Tsukasa's sleeping in the guest room." Kagami said adamantly.
"Don't blame you." Tony said.
"There are three futons." Konata thought.
"So there are enough and more!" Kagami said.
"Yutaka and Tsuki." Konata said.
"Damn, that's right..." Kagami mumbled. "Then we need one more..." Kagami thought.
"Well..." Tony began to think.
"You're sleeping in your bed and Tsukasa's sleeping in the guest bed. That's nonnegotiable." Kagami said.
"What?" Tony asked. "I understand Tsukasa sleeping in her bed, but why do I have to sleep in mine? I was planning to let someone sleep in it." Tony said. "I don't mind the floor." Tony said.
"At any time of night, you could just waltz out and into the guest room and-" Kagami began.
"Kagami, first of all, stop calling it the guest room. It's Tsukasa's room. Second of all, you're gonna have to trust me. I'll still sleep in my room. You're not gonna be here every night. I thought you already told me that you'd be trusting me." Tony said. Kagami sighed.
"It's just really hard..." Kagami said.
"Excuse me?" Tsukasa asked. Everyone looked towards her.
"Hm?" Kagami hummed inquisitively. Upon seeing her, she had an indignant look on her face.
"You say that like you think I'd just sit there and let that happen." Tsukasa said.
"Oh, well..." Kagami scratched the back of her head. She blushed a little bit in embarrassment.
"I have an opinion. Me and Kan-kun... I don't think we're there yet." Tsukasa said.
"You don't think? You mean you don't know?" Kagami crossed her arms and glared at her younger twin. Tsukasa shook her head.
"You know what I mean." Tsukasa said. "That's not going to happen. I already explained it to Mom and Dad. They both approve and trust me." Tsukasa said.
"Kagami, I understand you're protective over Tsukasa. Maybe even more so than your parents. And I'm going to be counting on that in the unlikely case I need to leave or disappear for a while. But your concern is misplaced here. Besides, what's the difference where I sleep as long is it's not in Tsukasa's room?" Tony asked. "Besides, I have magic. If I wanted to, I could sneak into the room even from my bed, do what I wanted, and leave without even so much as a whisper or a glimpse." Tony said.
"I guess that's true..." Kagami said.
"So then it's decided. I'll sleep in my room on the floor. Tsukasa sleeps in her room on the bed." Tony said. "I'm assuming you'll be sleeping in there with her Kagami?" Tony asked.
"Naturally. Yutaka can sleep with us too." Kagami said.
"So that's two futons in there." Konata said. "It was really uncomfortable in there with the three of us last time. I'll sleep in Kan-kan's room." Konata said. "Tsuki should probably be in there with us too."
"Good, all the perverts can be in the same room at the same time..." Kagami smirked. Then, a realization dawned on her. "All the perverts... in the same room..." Her eyes widened. She put her arms in a big X. "No no no! Absolutely not!" Kagami said. "Tsuki will sleep with us!" Kagami said.
"Damn right she will..." Konata cat grinned. Kagami blushed.
"No! That's not what I meant..." She squeaked a little at the end. Likely imagining it.
"Come on Kagamin, don't you want a threesome with your twin and a girl who looks almost exactly like her?" Konata giggled.
"I-..." Kagami's blush deepened.
"Kagamin's a pervert too~." Konata chimed.
"Shut up!" Kagami shouted. At that moment, Yutaka and Tsuki came out of the hallway.
"Hey Tsuki, where do you wanna sleep? Tsukasa's room or Tony's room?" Konata asked.
"Where's Yu-sama sleeping?" Tsuki asked.
"Yu-chan is sleeping in Tsukasa's room." Konata said.
"Then I'll sleep there." Tsuki said. The two left.
"Alright, I guess it's time to go to bed." Kagami said.
"Yeah, let's head out." Tony said.
"Good night Kan-kun!" Tsukasa bade.
"Night Kagamin~!" Konata said.
"Night Tsu-chan!" Tony said.
"Night Kona!" Kagami said.
"Night Elizabeth." Konata said.
"Good night Jim Bob." Tony said.
"Good night John Boy." Konata said. Kagami rolled her eyes and smiled.
"Good night you two." She said as she can Tsukasa went into Tsukasa's room.
"Well, let's go." Konata smiled as her and Tony left for his room. Tony immediately laid down on the ground, practically forcing Konata to sleep in his bed. Tony turned the lights off.
"Kon-kon?" Tony asked a few moments after the lights went off.
"Yeah Kan-kan?" Konata asked.
"We're moving in with our girls." Tony said.
"I'm moving in it my girl. You're girl moved in with you." Konata corrected.
"I know. I'm so happy though." Tony said. Konata sighed.
"Yeah. Me too. I can't wait to live with Kagami." Konata said. There was another moment where neither spoke.
"Kon-kon?" Tony asked.
"Yeah Kan-kan?" Konata asked.
"Thank you for wishing on that star." Tony said. Konata giggled sleepily.
"You're welcome." She said.
Luckier Channel
"Luckier~! Channel~!" Akira shouted. "Hiya Luckies~! I'm your navigator, Akira Kogami~!"
"And I'm the assistant, Minoru Shiraishi!
"So, who got sick of waiting for this chapter and never thought it was coming out? I know I was!" Akira shoute- wait, hey!
"Well now, there's good reasons!" Minoru said.
"Yeah yeah, there's always good reasons... Nephew born, martial arts to teach, work to work. It's all the same excuses." Akira sighed, looking away from the camera with an extremely bored expression on her face.
"Not to mention-" Minoru began.
"Yeah yeah, not to mention a new laptop so the progress on the chapter was lost, since the old one couldn't hold a charge worth a damn." Akira droned on as if from a script.
"Right, so the least we can do is be supportive!" Minoru said.
"Sucking up to the boss, huh?" Akira looked over at him.
"I am not! I'm just saying, every writer goes through mental blocks!" Minoru said.
"You get the feeling we're not actually having a legitimate conversation? It's all about our damn boss..." Akira said, catching wind of my ruse. Better end this quick...
*Music Tone*
"Oh, I guess that's all the time we have for today! I'll see you guys later! Bye-nii~!"
"..."
"I feel like words were being put into our mouth..."
"Well, maybe that was by design?"
"...Nah."
*End*
After Section
Holy Haruhi. Again with the two months. This time, other than what those two said, it was also because I found a couple of new games that really caught my attention and the fact that I was having a bad block (I didn't exactly use everything I was going to to begin with...) but half of the next chapter is written. I just really, really hope that I don't get so sidetracked again. Oh yeah, one thing that I jut realized... So I'm writing about Itsuwari, a character whose name and most of his background come from a story by the name of Lucky Star Z. Every time I use his name, it's meant to count as a reference to this awesome story. Except I just thought of something... That story was taken down to be rewritten... Soooo... I'm making references to a story that doesn't even really exist anymore, or at least at the moment. This may be the first time I've ever done that, and I've made a LOT of references to a LOT of obscure things before. Anyway, thought that was pretty funny. Lucky Star Z DOES still exist on an obscure website that shall remain nameless for a the sake of the original being kept up, but as of right now, it doesn't exist on this site. Anyway, have a good one. See ya next chapter.