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"N-no.. it's not that.."

Tsukasa looked up to her pig-tailed twin with puppy-dog; hopeful eyes. Hope that her sister changed her mind or would do so after seeing her like this.

"Why can't you just say with me... love me like I know you want to!" Love... huh... "I love you... Get Tsukasa here and answer me, okay?" Konata and Tsukasa's words kept repeating itself through her mind as she looked down into Tsukasa's eyes.

Determining herself, Kagami pushed Tsukasa away from her. "Tsukasa." The younger twin showed her shock and seemed to become paralyzed as she looked at her 'onee-chan'. "If it's fabricated love like how I feel right now. Like how you feel right now. What's the truth in that? -- I don't want that! Not now, not ever. If it's to cure us then... maybe... but we only know that when we get to Konata's... I-if.. you really want me to love you then... come with me and we'll... we'll..."

Tsukasa closed her eyes and nodded her head. If she even tried to push her sister even more, she would lose her. She would just have to be obedient, as much as she disliked it. Tsukasa walked toward her sister and clasped their hands together. Kagami showed a soft smile as Tsukasa did so; little did Tsukasa know, Kagami was resisting her urges, her lust with everything she had. The kind, obedient and shy Tsukasa was just that much cuter to her. Just that more delicious. But every time she looked at her, she reminded herself of the words that got told to her.

The road to Konata's house was never the less a long one, Tsukasa had clung herself to Kagami's arm in "fear" of robbers or scary old men, occasionally rubbing her body purposely to make sure Kagami was sure to feel it: her lust. But the enchanting voice of Konata remained within her and she managed to get there; although exhausted.

"Konata, we're here!" she shouted.

Kagami and Tsukasa found themselves creeping silently up the staircase that so many of their mutual friends had occupied only hours earlier. Kagami recalled all the chatter and banter from the late afternoon--the way she felt right now, with her heart leaping into her throat, made the current silence seem much louder.

Konata hadn't met them at the door. Rather, Kagami had looked up to notice a light, flashing in the blue-haired girl's bedroom window. The pattern was morse code for "SOS". Of course, Kagami immediately knew there was no emergency--this was a tactic Konata had derived from watching too many old war movies with her father. It was the only morse code any of the girls knew, so the message served to denote any number of things they might have wanted to communicate silently in the past. This time, it simply had to mean that the coast was clear. If it hadn't been, Konata would have signaled them by not leaving the back door unlocked. When they reached Konata's doorknob, Kagami glanced into her sister's dreamy face.

"Y-you....you're really sure you want to do this?"

Tsukasa only beamed back at her. That was enough for Kagami to swallow hard and turn the knob, stepping into the room proper.

A full moon spilled past the drawn curtains of Konata's bedroom. Of course, she'd left no other lights on--allowing the moonlight to silently kiss everything in the room, giving all if it a romantic sheen. Kagami reasoned that it couldn't have been more perfect if it were the set for a mushy 'chick flick', but then, she probably felt that way because of the continued effects the magic was having on her. She felt her heart skip a beat, this...this really is going to end tonight. I-if she pushes me...if either of them push me, I know I'm not going to be able to hold out, anymore...

Konata was standing in the corner of the room, with her back to her guests. Kagami's eyebrow twitched.

"Aren't you even going to greet us? What are you doing, any--"

Kagami's voice was cut off by the opening theme to the anime To Heart, which had begun to blare from Konata's CD player. Konata didn't turn around, but Kagami could practically feel the girl's signature grin, plastered all over her face.

"Hm? Why, mood music, of course!"

"Oh hell no, you perverted little monkey!" Kagami clenched her fist, and Tsukasa couldn't help but balk a bit, loosening her grip on her sister's arm, "Off, Konata. NOW."

Konata sighed, "Awww, Kagamin's never any fun. I mean, three high school girls in the throes of romance? Isn't that just like a big ol' shoujo/yuri party? The thought of not having a theme song for the occasion..."

"This is not the climax of your favorite yuri show, Konata, and I am not making love to you with that playing in the backg--" Kagami cut herself off and began to blush furiously, twiddling her thumbs, "I-I mean, I'm not j-just gonna hang around here while you d-do more....s-stupid....s-stuff..."

Konata fiddled with the CD player and halved the volume, until just a gentle hint of Vivaldi was humming softly from the device. She smirked audibly, "Heh, I think I'll let you off without a tease this time for that comment, Kagamin. I seem to have become quite a softie in the past few hours."

Kagami glanced back up, curiousity causing her to focus on her tiny friend through the sunglasses. It wasn't like her to just give up on such a perfect opening for sexual innuendo, "W-wait, what? What are you talking--"

Kagami and Tsukasa both gasped in unison as Konata, barefoot and dressed only in a fuzzy, sea-green bathrobe, turned around. She had a pair of sunglasses on her face, exactly the same style as the ones she had given Kagami the other day.

"Y-you don't have the book anymore," Kagami started blurting out, not waiting for an explanation, "s-stop mocking me! S-stop...stop playing with my heart like this, Konata...! D-dammit...." the thought that her best friend would make this light of her feelings was just about enough to send Kagami storming out of the room, but before she could even turn around, Konata shrugged, grinning sheepishly.

"Ah, eh heh...I wish I could say that's all I was doing, Kagamin, but I'm afraid she got me." Konata waved her arm at the circle of candles on the floor. They were all extinguished, and some of them were laying on their sides. "Little witch, she must be having a field day with my book." Konata clenched her fist, "Oh, the things I'd do to her when I get my hands on that book, again. I mean, she climbed the tree outside my window and waited for me to start cleaning up the circle! Little sniper, fragging me with my own magic! It was all I could do to go on damage control and grab my spare shades before I accidentally looked at her! I'm not even into kids!"

Pssh, Kagami couldn't help thinking, look at you, you are still just a kid.

Konata placed her thumb and index finger on the frame of her sunglasses, slowly beginning to lift them, "But, since I did manage to save myself for you, heh...I guess it's about time we got start--"

"NO!"

Both Kagami and Konata gaped in shock at Tsukasa's sudden scream. In a fraction of a second, she was between the two of them, her hand firmly on top of Konata's, blocking her from taking off the glasses.

"N-no..." Tsukasa's face was a mess of warm blush and tears, "K-kona-chan, w-why are you doing this?" Tsukasa's voice was small and meek--even Konata couldn't maintain her usual grin at the sound of that voice. "I-I'm in love with onee-chan...y-you don't have the right to her. Sh-she and I have been together since we were born! P-please..." Tsukasa began to sob, "D-don't....don't take her away from me. I won't know what to do without her..."

"Tsukasa..." Kagami took a step forward and placed her hand comfortingly on her sister's quivering shoulder. She couldn't help but smile. That was the Tsukasa Kagami had grown up with. That, right there, was the innocent, sweet, confused girl that Kagami had always stood up for. It seems she was indeed still in there, somewhere, despite all the sexual innuendo of late.

"I...uh..." Konata was at a loss, much to both her own and Kagami's disbelief, "T-tsukasa...I wasn't gonna, y'know, like...steal her away from you forever or anything like that, y'know?" Konata began to chuckle dryly, trying in vain to raise the morale in the room. "I kinda figured you guys would already have, y'know...done your thing, by now," she glanced at Kagami, "Right?"

Kagami looked away. That was enough of a cue that Tsukasa, much as Konata had erroneously assumed, wasn't over the spell that had been cast on her yet, after all.

Kagami stroked Tsukasa's back, tenderly, "Shhh, hey now. I'm not going to leave you, I promise. Sisters forever, right?" She was overjoyed to see that her fears about the photo album on Tsukasa's bedroom floor appeared to be unfounded, as she watched her little sister bury her face in Konata's bathrobe, tightly gripping the fabric in both hands.

"Y-yeah, hey," Konata chuckled, petting Tsukasa's hair, "N-no more games, right? I'm not gonna do anything else to mess with anybody."

"You're right, Konata. You're NOT."

The next few seconds flashed by so fast, nobody involved would later have been able to describe exactly what had happened. Kagami was at her breaking point, and there was only one way she could let this happen without somebody in the trio hating themselves in the morning. Easily being the most athletic among them, Kagami had little trouble shoving her little sister straight off her feet and out of the way, onto Konata's bed. Konata had no time to even think about closing her eyes before Kagami grabbed her, twisted her into a classic sleeper hold, tore the glasses off her face, and forced her head in Tsukasa's direction.

"You're not gonna mess with us anymore, because now, you're in love with my little sister!! And I..." Kagami was past the point of hesitation, and adrenaline had taken complete control of her. She ripped her own glasses off and forced herself to gaze at the back of Konata's little blue head, staring at the part in her hair, just below her antennae. "And I'm in love....with you. N-now we're all...s-stuck in a circle...u-until...until we..."

Kagami couldn't finish her sentence. She wasn't a fool--she know what was happening to her. As the moments passed, everything about Konata was rapidly becoming far more alluring than anyone she'd been around earlier in the day. Konata's scent filled Kagami's nostrils, and she drank deeply of it. She sensed the smell as it changed from the typical, familar scent of her friend, into a wonderful, strawberry sweet, natural perfume.

Suddenly, Konata's hair wasn't an 'unkempt mess' anymore. It was a thick, flowing blue waterfall before Kagami's eyes, cascading perfectly down Konata's shoulders and her own arms, as she held her in place. Her skin was expertly crafted porceline, and Kagami was compelled to loosen her grip, for fear of damaging it.

"Konata, I..." Kagami shuddered, burying her face in the back of Konata's head and taking another deep, entrancing breath, "...did you change your...your shampoo, or something...?"

Konata, however, was already slipping out of Kagami's weakened grasp. She crawled along the bed on all fours until she was directly on top of Tsukasa, and cupped the exasperated girl's cheek gently in one hand, "I...I never noticed," Konata smiled down at Tsukasa, more genuinely than usual, "how that ribbon you always have in your hair just...frames your face, so perfectly." Konata felt a gentle sensation against her cheek, only to find Kagami there, on her knees beside her on the bed, brushing her lips softly against her little friend's cheek.

Tsukasa reached up and stroked Kagami's face the same way Konata was stroking hers, and all three of them looked into one another's eyes, all at the same time. It was a moebius loop of sensuality. Each girl, all at the same time, felt desperate love for the person to the left of her, and a strong desire to be kind to the person to the right of her; if only to please the one on the left. Tsukasa sat up, and the three of them found themselves all on Konata's bed on their knees, gazing into one another's eyes.

"N-now, all we have to do..." Kagami choked off her own words by filling her mouth with Konata's lips, folding her hands together and blushing as she indulged in her desire to taste her dear friend turned lover.

Konata giggled, pushing back just a bit, "Heh, yeah...it all seems pretty simple now, huh?" She glanced at Tsukasa, "I just....I never thought it would be....you..." Following suit, Konata drew Tsukasa's face close, and deeply kissed her, letting out a tense breath of air as she let her body melt into Kagami's little sister.

It was Tsukasa's turn to draw back a little bit. There was genuine affection for Konata in her eyes, and she let her stare linger for a moment before turning her attention to Kagami.

"Sister...let's all...let's all just let go now, huh?" Tsukasa drew her tongue along Kagami's cheek, who shivered, wrapping her arms around her in an embrace. "N-nobody will ever know, except...for the three of us."

Tsukasa began to slip the blushing Kagami's shirt up over her head, even as Konata bent over, and began to kiss Tsukasa tenderly along the inner thigh.

*FLUSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

Yutaka yawned as she wandered sleepily from the upstairs bathroom, on her way back to bed. It had been such a busy, exciting day, and her heart had given her quite an exhaustive scare when she'd heard about the magic book falling, as it were, into 'enemy hands'. She drew her robe tightly around herself, and would have wandered all the way back to her room, had her ear not caught a soft sound on the wind that resembled moaning.

"Huh...?" Yutaka glanced at her elder cousin, Konata's door. There were definately noises coming from the other side of it, "...two in the morning? What's she up to...?"

Yutaka gasped as she glanced through the keyhole into Konata's bedroom. As much as she knew it was wrong to do so, she couldn't tear her voyeuristic eyes away from the scene before her. Her older cousin and her two friends--her sempai at school, they were....they were...

Somebody, other than the three of them, now knew.

The three laid naked, holding one another. Tuskasa laid between the two, her head laid between Kagami's small chest, her hand gently resting on one of her breast. Kagami gently laid her hand on Konata's cheek smiling at her. Konata kept an arm wrapped around Tsukasa's waist, holding her close to her own naked body. The room smelled strongly of their mixed scents and sweat.

"Th...tha...that..was...interesting.." Kagami commented, breathing heavily. Konata let go of Tsukasa and laid on her back, looking at the blank ceiling. Her grin grew onto her face.

" That was fun, we should do it more often."

Kagami's face went red. "Sh..Shut up..idiot.." She sat up, Tsukasa moved her grip to around her waist. "We only did this to break this hex that you got us into."

"So why did you choose me to fall in love with?" Kagami turned her head, her face went redder from embarrassment. "Come on Kagamin." Konata ran a finger gently down Kagami's bare back, making her jump.

"It was the only way it would come out equal..that's all." She stood up putting her clothes back on, Tsukasa doing the same. "But remember, this stays between us." She looked at Tsukasa who nodded and than back Konata, who blew her a kiss, making the taller girl blush. "We'll see you tomorrow."

"You're not going to spend the night?" She laid back on the bed. "We can have another go around."

Kagami shook her head, as Tsukasa blushed deeply. "It's so late already. Besides, we have to get a change of clothes and everything." She took Tsukasa's hand, making her blush even more. "We'll see you tomorrow." She repeated and walked out.

The next morning Konata woke up, to someone pushing on her. "Not..yet.." She mumbled turning away from the source.

"You...you'll...be...late.." Her smaller cousin urged. She sounded distant, but it was enough to make Konata get up and looked around. Yukata quickly got out, her face going red as the older girl got up.

"I wonder what's gotten into her?" She yawned and got up,shuffling down to the kitchen.

Kagami took in a deep breath and smiled. The air all around her no longer had the delicious flavor of human pheremones. As she glanced around the train that took them all to school every morning, she realized all she was seeing were random commuters. All she could smell was the cheap perfume of the old lady that was sleeping beside her, and all she could hear were the normal sounds of the everyday morning rush.

Free...

The banter she exchanged with Konata, Tsukasa, and Miyuki on the way to school was completely normal, boorish chatter. It might have been more, but none of the three of them, with the possible exception of Konata, were excited by the prospect of bringing up to their pink-haired friend just what they'd been up to last night. Kagami glanced at Konata as the four of them walked the halls outside class, taking note of the blue haired girl's typical, smug grin. She couldn't help but wonder if Konata felt like a teenage boy who'd finally talked his girlfriend into sleeping with him.

It doesn't matter, Kagami mused, looking away, it's over, now. No more raybands, no more ridicule, no more hiding....no more....no more lust... She placed a hand over her heart and allowed her mind to chance back to the highlights of the previous evening. She wouldn't allow herself to admit it, but now that it was all over, something just seemed to be...missing, in her heart.

"Yo, four eyes! How ya doi--eh? No shades?" Kagami blinked back to the present, jarred by Misao's voice and a hard slap on the back, "Awww, geez! I haven't run out of Shadowrun jokes yet!"

"Tch," Kagami snerked, proud of the fact that she could look Misao straight in the eye again, "I'll Shadowrun you out on the softball diamond next time, smartass. it was a....temporary prescription. Turns out my eyes aren't as sensitive as the doctor thought."

Misao shrugged, dissmissing all of Kagami's woes throughout the past few days with nothing more than a simple gesture, "Meh, oh well, whatever. That's cool, I guess. Congratz, ne?"

Kagami chuckled, genuinely pleased to be able to interact with her friends again, without the fear of accidentally grabbing one of them by the cheeks and planting a messy, wet on on them. She casually waved goodbye to the three stooges (Konata, Tsukasa, and Miyuki), and walked along to her own classroom with Misao and Ayano. Again, the subject of the banter was as nothing to her--she was merely content with the fact that she felt like a part of the group, after several days of mixed fear and confused, romantic emotions.

"Stand! Bow!"

The clock chimed noon. Time for lunch.

Kagami's morning had been as it always used to be, and she was glad to be once again catching up on her studies. There had been no room in her heart or mind for the past few days for anything but romance, and she had to wonder just what effect all of this really would have had on her grades, had it lasted any longer.

On her way to the lunchroom, Kagami came upon a male and female student, pressed up against some lockers, openly necking. Geez, she thought, as she quickly trotted by them, blushing, you guys ever heard of PDA? I mean, get a room or something. Oh well, at least they aren't both girl...girl...oh...oh my god...

Kagami's train of thought was completely derailed by the scene before her. The cafeteria was as full as anyone would expect from this time of day, but here before her were scores--no, hundreds of students, openly making out with one another! Boys had other boys pinned to the ground; girls had other girls bent over the benches. Kagami knew in an instand that whatever was going on, it had to be the result of a 'drive by magic-ing'. As with any high school, the respective genders usually sat apart from each other, and that could easily explain why less than half the couplings were heterosexual.

Hearing a familiar voice over the noisy din of lovemaking, Kagami whirled around to lay her eyes on the culprit. Hiyori was wearing the same ridiculous pointy-hat getup Konata had on days ago, and she was just putting the finishing touches on perhaps her hundreth cast of that infamous spell this afternoon. Poor, helpless Yutaka stood staring at her classmate, like a deer caught in the headlights. She must have been accosted the moment she stepped into the room.

"HEY!" Kagami screamed loud enough to distract Hiyori's attention momentarily, "Just what the HELL do you think you're doing!?"

"Oh ho!" Hiyori wrapped her silly looking black cloak around herself, striking a classic 'bad guy' pose, "And what's this? Could it be that you finally consumated incestuous acts with your sister? Or maybe it was Konata?" Laughing, Hiyori reached out and plastered a pair of the by now all too familiar goth raybands over Yutaka's eyes, "Here you go, dear. Now you keep those on until I introduce you to a certain...somebody."

Kagami rolled up her sleeve, storming towards Hiyori, "I don't care if you are an underclassman, manga-girl! Where the hell do you get off doing this to everybody! You just bought yourself the bitchslapping of a lifetime, for causing this....this..." Kagami faltered a bit as she glanced out over the throng of bodies, cavorting all around her, looking for a term to describe it all.

"An Apocalyptic zombie love-plague?? Sweet!"

Both Kagami and Hiyori turned to watch Konata, Tsukasa, and Miyuki enter the room. Konata furrowed her brow, continuing with her comment, "Granted, I can't say I wouldn't have done something like this myself, but YOU--" Konata leveled an accusatory finger on Hiyori, "YOU dare to love-snipe the Great Konata-Allakhazam with her own magic!? Turn over my book, heathen, or face the wrath of the Hiiragi beatdown machine that's bearing down on you, over there!"

Geez, Kagami sighed to herself, The blue troll is actually enjoying this! Look at that grin! It was true, Konata had a wide grin on her face, and she struck a pose that one might find quite similar to something out of Charlie's Angels. Konata began to circle Hiyori, trying to sandwich the girl between the two of them.

All the while, Tsukasa and Miyuki were glancing around the room, blushing at the scene before their eyes. Even Tsukasa wasn't naive enough to not realize how this all must have happened. Miyuki gently placed her hands on Yutaka's shoulders and guided the poor, stunned girl back to a safe spot, standing between her two sempai.

"Kagamin! Get her!"

Before Kagami even had a chance to react, a flash of white light was already heading in her direction. Instinctively she turned away, shutting her eyes tightly until the luminescence passed, "H-how the hell did you learn to cast that spell so fast! A-and for that matter, how is it even working at all, without the magic circle??"

"Practice makes perfect," Hiyori giggled, singing her words. She began to shift her gaze between Kagami and Konata, trying to keep her eyes on both of them at once. "Did you not notice the big circle of candles all around the campus this morning? Why--why no! I guess you didn't!" Hiyori began to cackle, "I guess that must be because I hid them all! After all, I can't have my nefarious plans ruined before they reach their apex! I WILL sketch naked Yuri love pictures of Yutaka-chan and Minami-chan! I WILL! They're made for each other, they just haven't realized it yet! And none of you can stop me!! AH HAA HAAAAA!"

"Th-that...that's what this is all about?" Kagami sighed, rubbing her temples, "Oh, for the love of.....geezus!" Scowling, Kagami threw up her hands and stormed away, back towards Tsukasa and Miyuki.

"Onee-chan? What about the war?"

"There is no 'war', Tsukasa. There's nothing but a pair of perverted old men, trapped in the bodies of high school girls. Better to just let them cancel each other out. All these people are probably completing the spell right now, so all of this will eventually go away on its own."

"Ohhh..." Tsukasa wasn't paying attention, as usual. Rather, with a deep blush on her cheeks, she was intently watching Misao and Ayano, as the two kissed passionately nearby. Misao had her hand up Ayano's shirt, and was clearly copping a feel of the other girl.

"S-stop that!" Kagami interposed herself between Tsukasa and the source of her distraction, "Geez! Let's just get out of here, and at least give these people their privacy!" She didn't even have time to finish her thought before she caught a glimpse of another flash of white light out of the corner of her eye. Terrified, she threw herself on the floor and covered her head with her arms, "Incoming! Get down!"

"CRY HAVOC! AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF LOVE!! HAVE AT YOU!"

When she was content the light had faded, Kagami was obliged to look up, after hearing such a scream emit from little Konata. Shakespeare she wasn't, but all the same, Konata had since nabbed a foldable yardstick from the bag of a random student, unfolded it, and was swinging it wildly at Hiyori.

"Is that all you've got?" Hiyori grinned, and while dodging and deflecting blows with the back of a cafeteria tray, she was again trying to snipe poor Konata with the love spell. Konata had thought ahead, and though she was being blasted in the face with white light, she had already donned a pair of the protective sunglasses. Kagami made a mental note that it seemed those shades were good for more than just delaying an already successfully cast spell.

"H-hey guys," Kagami stood up and nudged Tsukasa's shoulder, "I think we might want to get the hell out of here, before we end up as collateral damage. Guys?" Kagami glanced over at Tsukasa and Miyuki, only to find the two of them with their hands pressed together in a bridge, deeply kissing one another, right overtop of Yutaka's dazed and bewildered head.

"Tch. Fragged. Should have saw that coming." Kagami just shrugged and gently guided Yutaka's body out from between and under the two underclassmen. "You okay?"

"I...uh..." Yutaka adjusted her sunglasses a bit, "This...this is what was the matter with you the other day, right?"

"Yeah, I'm sorry, Yutaka-chan," Kagami sighed, "we'll fix you up, I promise."

Yutaka folded her hands before her and began to blush, her eyes half lidding, "Oh, sempai...that's very kind of you. You smell awfully nice, too..."

"Y-yeah, yeah...I know." Kagami gently placed one palm over Yutaka's forehead, stopping her from 'accidentally' drawing any closer, as she had begun to do for the last few seconds. She didn't want to hit the girl--she knew what the poor thing must be going through, right now.

"ACK! *gasp*....*choke*....n-no...*coughcough*...no fair..."

Kagami turned at the sound of Hiyori's suddenly labored voice, to see Konata standing over her. Hiyori was still holding the book, but she was also holding her crotch, and a tear of pain was in her eye.

"Wow, do you have nads?" Konata, smug and smirking, folded her arms and stood over Hiyori, "I guess that's your little secret, huh?"

"Konata!" Kagami growled, holding herself back due to not wanting to leave Yutaka alone, "D-did you just kick her in the--that's a low blow! That can hurt a girl, too! Didn't you ever take a softball to the groin, or something!?"

Konata only shrugged, "That hurts girls, too? I don't play softball." She glanced back at Hiyori, grabbing one end of the book, "Meh, whatever. Now, little girl--give me back my spellbook, and maybe I'll point you towards somebody you actually like, before you take your own medicine!"

Kagami sighed, We could just end all this, but noooo....the monkey just has to have her revenge...

"I...I may..." Hiyori gasped and choked, but kept a firm hold on the book, "...I may or may not be able to have children anymore, witch, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be denied my wildest Yuri fantasies!" With that, she suddenly sprung to her feet and jerked the book away. Both girls pulled hard, until the ancient binding could no longer handle the strain.

*RIIIPPPP!!!!*

Stupefied, Konata stared down at the remaining half of the tome of magic in her hands.

Hiyori was already disappearing into the crowd of lovers, making for the opposite exit. She quickly paged through her half of the book, only to grin, even as random boys and girls began to caress her thighs and kiss her cheeks, "I still have the lovespell! There's hope!" Seeming to enjoy the random attention from the horde of young lovers, she turned to flee, "Once I find Minami-chan, my genius will be complete! Oedipus Rex!!"

Kagami and Konata tried to give chase, but it was no use--Kagami didn't want to be groped by hundreds of random students while trying to make her way to the other side of the room, and Konata was already distracted, bemusedly watching Tsukasa and Miyuki helplessly make out, right there before her eyes.

Kagami held Yutaka tightly to her, protecting her, as she took in the scene. "My sister is making out with Miyuki, hundreds of underage students are shamelessly geting it on before my eyes, my perverted best friend is having wayyy too much fun with this, and miss evil genius just escaped with the cause of all the whole thing." She glanced at Konata, "I'm not letting Yutaka-chan out of my sight. So help me, Konata, if you want that book, you better get your hands on her before I do--cause I'm burning the damn thing if I ever see the rest of it again."

Konata was already leafing through the pages in her possession, "Aw, calm down, Kagamin. With all the teenage angst in the world, I'd bet money that once this is all over, our school is gonna be a less uptight, and more funloving place. Now, as soon as Miyuki is..." she glanced again at the pair of lovers, "...err, done, with that, let's see about getting her to translate some of this. There's gotta be a cool weapon in here we can use to save the day! Meanwhile..." Konata began to wander around Tsukasa and Miuyki in circles, merrily grinning, "I mean, damn, isn't that hot? C'mon, even you gotta admit, this is hot!"

The blind leading the blind... Kagami sighed. It was going to be a long rest of the day--assuming Hiyori hadn't already left the campus battleground, planning for a later strike.

If only we knew where the candles were...

Kagami walked out of the caffeteria, Yutaka in tow. they walked down the hall in silence, Kagami slowly growing annoyed with Yutaka following her. after a while she whirled on Yutaka, a look of frustration on her face."why are you following me?" she asked finally.
Yutaka stopped and, looking down at the ground, replied "after what i saw you guys doing last night..." she paused, clasping her hands together in front of her."... i would rather be with you if something happened than with konata." kagami was taken aback. she had seen last nights happenings. Kagamis face burned with embarassment... but she understood Yutaka's feelings. "fine, whatever just dont... just dont take the shades off." Kagami sputtered.

they round a corner and kagami is blinded by a flash of light. disoriented, she falls back and hits her head on the floor, her vison swimming. she closes her eyes to see stars dancing on the backs of her eyelids.
"are you alright?". kagami opens her eyes to see Yutaka kneeling next to her, concern plain on her face. Am i alright?... kagami certainly felt alright but Yutaka looked... oh damn very alluring. kagami sat up and promptly grabbed yutaka. yutaka's cry of alarm was abruptly cut off by Kagami's lips capturing her own. Yutaka had not been expecting the kiss and Kagami gained a strange pleasure at Yutaka's surprise. she is so innocent she is simply adorable, Kagami thought. she set her mouth on Yutaka's neck licking from ear to collorbone, drawing a sensuous gasp from yutaka. Yutaka's body shivered, not from fear but anticipation. all these sensations were new to her and each came as a shock to her system. jolts of pleasure shot up and down her spine as Kagami's hands roamed at will, her own gently exploring Kagami's body in turn dispite her minds command to resist. Kagami's hand moved up her thigh to... Yutaka's moan is stifled as Kagami kisses her passionately. the sunglasses are drawn off her face and Yutaka melts into the kiss as the power of the sensations is suddenly magnified by the activation of the spell.

Konata rounds the corner to find kagami and her cousin on the floor, both in a state of undress. Her attention is captured by a flurry of movement. farther down the hall, Hiyori pushes herself off the wall she was leaning on while watching and upon seeing konata's expression bursts out laughing. Konata bellows a cry of rage and charges at Hiyori. hiyori charges as well issuing her own battle cry weilding a chalkboard eraser. Kagami and yutaka, slaves to their shared passion, are only dimly aware of the battle raging on behind them. konata manages to tackle hiyori but hiyori throws her off. Konata gets up slowly, recovering sluggishly after being thrown against a wall. hiyori, on her feet, makes a few quick gestures with her hands and mumbles something under her breath.

Konata sees a flash of blue light. she makes to attack hiyori again but her body refuses. she cannot move. she tries to talk, to roar some threat at Hiyori but her mouth wont move.
she is paralysed.

hiyori starts laughing and walks toward Konata. she grabs Konata by the shoulders and turns her body toward the two cavorting half-clad bodies on the floor."i owe you for earlier Konata." she places her head next to Konatas and aims konata's head toward Yutaka. oh no. no. no. no. no. she slowly drags the sunglasses off Konatas face. "watch them, Konata. look how they enjoy eachother." frozen in place, Konata is forced to look on as yutaka enjoys the pleasures of Kagami's body. she feels a twinge of jealousy regarding kagami. jealosy and betrayal. and need. need rapidly building inside her as she watched them. "yes you should be feeling it soon. if not, it is no matter. you wont be able to move for the next hour." she placed herself so her eyes are level with Konata's..."enjoy yourself while im gone." with that she walks around and behind konata, her laughter receding into the distance.

im gonna go insane...was konata's only rational though as both need and jealousy grew inside her by the second. one hour. her sanity wasnt going to last that long.

Her eyes burning with both desire and rage, she could only watch helplessly the scene before her. Thinking of Hiyori, her outrage flared. Despite having been the initial cause of all of this, Konata couldn't stand being the victim. She was overcome with emotions and could do nothing about it.

She could only wait there watching Kagami and Yutaka wrapped around one another. Her eyes were burning for what seemed to her to be an eternity, but was probably only a few minutes. Konata began to go into despair as she felt her sanity slipping away. The objects of her desire stood before her, yet she lacked the capability to do anything more than watch. It was utter torture.

Suddenly behind her she heard chanting and then felt water being poured over her head. She quickly came to her senses.

"Hey, what was that for!?" Konata was surprised to see herself standing and shouting. She could move! Looking up she saw that it was Miyuki who had said the inantations. Tsukasa stood beside her holding the bucket that had been used to pour water on Konata.

"Miyuki, Tsukasa, how did you dispel the paralysis spell?"

"Back when we were trying to find a cure for the love spell I looked through the book, remember? I was able to make out one passage that described a cure for physical ailments. Of course that wouldn't help with the love spell, but I thought it might be useful to commit the spell to memory." Miyuki responded.

Tsukasa had been blushing and averting her eyes from Miyuki the entire time. Miyuki hadn't so much as glanced at Tsukasa either. The two had suffered the same fate as countless other students at the school after all.

Overcoming her shock at being freed from her paralysis, Konata's feelings of desired resurged. She turned around to face Kagami and Yutaka whose hands were roaming over each other. Tsukasa, upon seeing her sister, blushed and looked away. Konata, unable to control her feelings any more, rushed over to the scene, leaving behind her half of the magic book.

Miyuki picked up the book and, casting a sympathetic glance towards her friends, walked off the scene, unable to watch any further. Tsukasa likewise followed Miyuki out.

Now that the book was in her possession, Miyuki was determined to carry on the battle against Hiyori for the sake of her friends and school. She began leafing through the book as she walked. Surely there must be something that can stop Hiyori...

Miyuki sat in the school library, pouring over the remaining half of the ancient tome of magic as best she could. Thankfully, it appeared that none of the cavorting student body was studious enough to have been in this room at the time Hiyori went on her love rampage.

Blush was hot on Miyuki's cheeks, and sweat was forming on her brow. The latter was from her depth of concentration--granted, she was a smart girl, but translating ancient Aramaic was something really best left to professionals. She was lucky if she could understand a tenth of what she was reading, but it still put her farther ahead than anyone else in the school.

The blush was from the multitude of copulation scenes the pink-haired girl had witnessed on the way to this part of the school. Apparently, Hiyori hadn't stopped with the cafeteria. Miyuki glanced down at her shirt and gave a light sigh, wondering how much of her youthful innocence had been destroyed this day.

"D-does it say anything about the candles?" Tsukasa had been sitting so patiently beside her for the past hour, that Miyuki had nearly forgotten the softer of the two Hiiragis was there at all, "like, maybe they have to be positioned in certain places? Maybe we could find them..."

Miyuki was impressed--she wasn't expecting Tsukasa to come up with something so...logical. Apparently, her desire to put this queer little chapter of their lives to an end was such that her normally flacid mental faculties were being forced to stand up and be counted.

"I....I don't think it's that easy, Tsukasa-chan," Miyuki sighed. "If what I'm reading is correct, then once the magic circle is complete, its effects won't end until all the candles are extinguished. It doesn't say how large the circle can be, and it says the shape doesn't have to be perfectly round, so long as it's at least somewhat so. Even if we found one of the candles--we don't know how many she used, and we won't be able to extrapolate exactly where the other ones are just through simple geometry."

Tsukasa wore a blank, clueless expression.

"A-ano," Miyuki faltered, "I meant to say that I don't think that's our best option. It would take to long."

"S-so....so what do we do? I-I'm....I'm s-sore, don't you know...?"

Both of the girls blushed deeply, and Miyuki did her best to dismiss that particular complaint. She snapped the book closed and rose from her chair then, closing her eyes and grinning a bit.

"It's fight or flight, I guess," Miyuki blew a strand of her bangs out of her eye, suddenly adopting a cool look that would have been excellently complimented by rain, a trench coat, and a cigarette, had she any of those.

"We can't just leave--we know what she's going to do with Minami-chan, if and when she finds her. W-we....we need to find her first. Or..." Miyuki swallowed, "...we need to find Hiyori first."

Tsukasa clenched her fist, forcing herself to adopt a determined look as she followed Miyuki out of the room. She was shaking like a leaf on the inside, but even she knew that these two, these intrepid two, might be the only thing protecting the virtue of the remaining students in their Alma Mater.



Kagami sat in the hallway, her back propped up against a few lockers. She was in a bit of a daze since the effects of the latest spell she was put under came to an end. She felt around her own body weakly--her bow was untied, but other than that, the rest of her modesty appeared to be intact, though she couldn't remember how she'd managed to return it to that state.

"So, was it good for you, too?"

Konata was standing above her, leaning coyly against the same lockers. She had a stick of almond crush pocky in her mouth, and she was puffing on it as if it were a cigarette. It was one of the few times Kagami had ever seen the girl with a crisper looking uniform than she herself had on.

"Y-you damned, blue troll," Kagami gritted her teeth and rose to her feet, "...you did that on purpose. Don't even try to tell me she fragged you with the love spell."

"That makes two times, in...hmmm..." Konata checked her wrist, despite the fact that she wasn't wearing a watch, and took another 'puff' of the pocky stick, "...as many days? Keep that up, Kagamin, and 'love magic' is going to start becoming a poor excuse."

Kagami blushed furiously, looking away. There wasn't anything she could say in response to that, so she preferred to say nothing at all. She glanced at Yutaka, who was standing nearby--her uniform intact and the glasses no longer on her face.

"You alright?"

"I....I guess so...." Yutaka let the words come off her lips with a lion's share of embarassed hesitation, as she clenched one fist over her chest. Kagami felt as though she had somehow violated the underclassman, despite the fact that the magic had left her with no choice.

When this is all over...will our groups of friends change? Who will be spending time with....who...? Yutaka...she kinda reminds me of Tsukasa, the way she acts when she--

Kagami shook her head, trying to dismiss the thought. Narrowing her eyes, she turned back to Konata, forcing herself to get down to business.

"Anybody know where either half of the book went?"

Konata and Yutaka shook their heads in unison.

"Anybody know how long we spent in...uhmm...coitus?"

Again, mutual head shaking, though while Konata grinned, Yutaka blushed.

"Right, fine then." Kagami clenched her fist, "We need to get the hell out of here and regroup. Maybe we can figure out where the candles are, at least, if we do that. Objections?"

"Lead the way, Kapitan," while Yutaka was too busy trying to look invisible to say anything, Konata merely shrugged and grinned. "That witch owes me the six hundred yen I spent on that book, for ruining it. I could have bought two more packs of Haruhi cards with that money! I still don't have the whole set! Nobody starts a zombie love apocalypse in my town...except for me!!"

"S-six hundred....?" Kagami sputtered, "....that's it? From a bargain bin? Perhaps the greatest find in human archaeology to ever exist, and an otaku girl buys it from the bargain bin at Gamers for six hundred yen? Where did they print these things? A two thousand year old Quickie Mart in Aramathea?" Kagami sighed, waving her hand dismissively, "L-look, forget about that. Let's just get someplace where we can be relatively sure we're safe, and work out our plans."

The trio wandered the empty halls for a time, making their way towards the main entrance. Oddly, there wasn't a sound at all nearby...no copulating students, no resting students....only the patient hum of the occasional flourescent bulb overhead that was in need of replacement.

Kagami shuddered a bit--the silence was much more unnerving, even than the scene in the cafeteria had been. She felt like she was in the middle of a survival horror game, and was half expecting some twisted, mutated creatue to come salivating out of the next classroom they passed to make lunch out of the three of them. Around the next bend was the main entrance though, and the realization that they would be soon free of this place was enough to make her breathe a sigh of relief.

"Ho ho!! Four-eyes no more! Fancy meeting you here!"

Kagami froze in place as she rounded the bend, to the point that Yutaka and Konata nearly ran into her. Misao was standing between them and the main entrance. The girl had on her softball uniform, straight down to the cleats, and was carrying an aluminum bat in her hands that could only have come from the gymnasium supply room.

"Misao? H-hey, good to see you," Kagami chuckled as she began to approach the dark-skinned girl, "...what's hangin', eh? You okay and all?"

Misao leveled the bat in Kagami's direction. "Sorry, Kagamin. Can't let you leave."

The three girls still in their normal school uniforms exchanged confused glances. It was only then that Kagami and Konata mutually noticed that Misao's flesh (what little was showing from under her clothes) was covered in red, tatoo-like sigils. The marks were similar to kanji, but they were constructed of wavier lines, such that they looked as though they had some kind of Arabic descent, as well.

"Uh, look, Misao," Kagami chuckled again, "seriously, you know I want to blow a few more by you out on the pitcher's mound later, but really--right now I need to get outside. I'm sure you've been at school today long enough to get the idea that something's...screwy around here, right?"

Konata stifled a chuckle at Kagami's choice of words, causing the pigtailed girl to blush.

"See, about that," Misao rested the bat on her shoulder and her opposite hand on her hip, smirking, "not gonna work for me. Nobody goes outside until we find Minami, savvy? Plus," Misao gestured at Yutaka, "You've got the other one with you, right there. Nope, 'fraid you're gonna have to hand her over."

"M-misao, this isn't funny--"

Kagami's words were cut off by a sudden swing from Misao's bat. It wasn't close enough to make contact, but the gesture made the athletic, playful girl's intentions deadly serious. Misao adopted a batter's box pose, as if she planned to knock one out of the park.

"C'mon. You want to leave? Come get some of this, Morpheus!"

"Kagamin," Konata suddenly stepped out in front of Kagami and held her arms akimbo, blocking the two of them from getting any closer. Her chest was puffed up with excitement, causing Kagami to sigh again as she realized Konata was once again enjoying this. "Get my cousin out of here. This has to be a spell. I started it....so I need to finish it."

Kagami glanced between the two of them. Misao was stronger, faster, more athletic--and not to mentioned armed. Konata didn't have the magic book, and from what Kagami could tell, lacked any other tricks up her sleeve, as well. Her blue-haired friend was as good as ground beef, up against opposition like this. Despite a yelping protest to the contrary, Kagami shoved Konata out of the way, stepping in front of her.

"Alright then, so be it, tomboy!" Kagami grinned, bending over at the waist into a classic pitcher's stance, "Your opponent is me. I know you have a sense of fair play in there, so I look at it this way--I blow three by you, and you get out of the way. You get one solid hit off me, as in not a foul tip, and you get the redhead. That 'savvy' enough for you?"

Yutaka opened her mouth as if to protest being used as a bargaining chip, but Konata quickly put a finger over her mouth, grinning at her and beckoning her to keep quiet for the moment.

"Shhhhhh," Konata whispered softly, "...Kagamin's the best pitcher the softball team has."

Misao cackled, test swinging the bat a few times, "Bring it on, sister! Oh, but what's this?" Misao's cackle melted into a chuckle, "...you don't seem to have the balls, kid, if you know what I mean!"

Kagami's grin didn't flinch in the slightest. Still bent over far enough to be giving her comrades a gratuitous pantyshot, she reached her hand behind her and waved her fingers at Konata and Yutaka. "Cellphones," she ordered.

"W-what??" Konata was taken aback, "My lifeline to the internet when away from my computer? My Hare Hare Yukai ringtone? My Kyon cellphone strap? Take my cousin, please! H-hey!!"

Yutaka had already slipped Konata's gaudy cellphone out of her blouse while she was on her tirade. Planting a kiss on her own phone, she planted both of them in Kagami's waiting grasp. "We don't have anything else to use, though. Godspeed, little cellphones." Yutaka tapped each of the small devices once before she closed Kagami's fingers around them, as if she were offering them each a blessing."

"No worries," Kagami grinned, slipping out her own phone, "what she doesn't hit, she can't damage. And Konata," she began to whisper, "stay the hell away from my butt, if you ever want to hear your precious Hare Hare Yukai ringtone again." Despite the warning, Kagami had to wonder if Konata really would be able to keep her grubby hands off of the backside she was exposing to her out of necessity.

"Three up, three down!" Kagami yelled in challenge to Misao, who was also grinning, "Batter up!"

As Misao took one last test swing and readied her stance, Kagami spat non-existant chewing tobacco out of her mouth, and ran her fingers along her forehead, as if she were adjusting the brim of a ballcap that wasn't there.



"There's only one logical place remaining..."

Miyuki and Tsukasa, sighing with exhaustion, had spent the last several minutes sprinting up the stairs towards the roof. Every exit was being defended by students from any number of grades, all of their bodies covered in weird red sigils. Miyuki and Tsukasa were no match for them physically, but at least the search had funneled them to the most likely remaining locale for Hiyori.

Flipping the book open, Miyuki placed her hand on the entrance door to the roof, ready to depress the bar. She flashed Tsukasa a determined glance through her panting. "I don't know what exactly this one does, but I think it's either designed to put the target to sleep, or make them cry profusely. That would be enough of a distraction, either way. You ready, Tsukasa-chan?"

Tsukasa bravely nodded, and Miyuki thrust open the door and charged out on the roof, book in hand, hoping to take 'the target' by surprise.

A sudden flash of red light caught Miyuki square in the face the moment she stepped out on the roof, and she yelped as she was temporarily blinded by it. Thankfully for Tsukasa, the door hadn't been opened far enough for her, yet, and she was able to look away in the nick of time.

"Oh, what a pleasant surprise! The bustiest girl in school!"

Hiyori was standing several yards away, her cape and hat flapping in the wind; her half of the book lying open in one hand.

"Not exactly who I was looking for, but you'll do!" Hiyori noticed the other half of the book in Miyuki's grasp, "Oh, you brought the rest of my toy for me, too. Gee, I appreciate that! You weren't expecting me to just be sitting up here waiting to be assaulted or something, were you? Tch, that's pretty amateur, really. Come here a bit so I can see you better, kay?"

Miyuki's eyes opened wide when she tried to take a step back, realizing she couldn't. Without her consent, her arms dropped to her sides and she took several steps out onto the roof proper. Nothing below her neck was responding to her commands, leaving her able to do nothing other than gasp as she glanced down at herself. Wherever there was exposed flesh, little swathes of light were appearing and fading, each leaving a red sigil on her skin in its wake.

"Th-the paralysis spell from before...?" Miyuki stared at Hiyori, mentally cursing herself for being so foolish as to just charge up here, with no plan and no sunglasses, to boot.

"That old thing?" Hiyori laughed, "that one was pretty boring, if you ask me. This one is much more fun!" The dark-haired manga artist gestured at Miyuki with her free hand, beckoning the girl to come closer, "Now, be a dear and give me the rest of the book, kay?"

"Miyuki-chan!? What are you--" Tsukasa's protests came too late. As if it were nothing at all, Miyuki merely walked over to Hiyori and calmly presented her with the other half of the magic book.

"This...this doesn't make any sense," Miyuki grimaced, uselessly trying to fight her own muscles from responding to Hiyori's commands. "If this is w-what this spell does...th-then why isn't it taking over my mind, as well? What about all the other students with sigils all over them?"

Hiyori only shrugged as she absently plucked the book out of Miyuki's open palms, "Don't ask me, I don't speak Arameic. Besides, it's fun to figure it out as I go." She had to chuckle as she lazily wandered around Miyuki, doing perverted things like lifting her skirt and slapping her rump. "Far as I can tell, this one doesn't have any effect on anything above the neck."

Miyuku blushed furiously, being unable to stop her underclassman from fondling her as she pleased, while Hiyori continued. "You know, you guys really bother me. What are you, some kind of free-love, resistance splinter cell? Didn't you ever consider the fact that in one day, I completely removed all the childish, high schooler inhibitions from this school? Do you have any idea how free all of these people feel now? People who had crushes on other people can now freely admit it. People who had no idea they even liked each other, and might otherwise have never hooked up, now get to enjoy that companionship. I'm doing them all a favor, here!"

"Y-you," Miyuki gritted her teeth as Hiyori's wandering hand began to fondle one of her breasts, "...what about tomorrow? What about the next day? Did you consider that some people might be forced into relationships they don't want? Did you think about the fact that some people might have just 'hooked up' with someone other than the object of their affections? What about teenage pregnancy? Did you consider that?"

Hiyori scowled at that last remark, "Stop making this out to be a thing of evil. I'm being careful about stuff like that--I'm not an ogre, you know. This spell has nothing to do with their minds. They'd be defending the exits I told them to defend either way, but you know from the experience of encountering them, that most of them are on my side now, anyway. The others will come around." Hiyori grinned, "For your punishment, why don't you go ahead and show me the most ample chest in all the school?"

Tsukasa gaped in disbelief, cowering there in the doorway. Again, as if it were nothing, Miyuki began to strip herself, right there in the cool breeze on top of the roof. In a few seconds, she was standing before Hiyori with nothing on her body but her glasses and her black, thigh high stockings. Neatly folded, her uniform and her underwear rested in her arms. Miyuki's cheeks blushed a hot crimson, as she glanced down and realized the cold she was feeling was being aptly reflected by the state of her body.

"Good girl!" Hiyori shamelessly groped Miyuki once, smiling, "these are just fantastic, really! I'm gonna have a lot of fun sketching these, later. After I get hold of Minami and Yutaka again, of course." She waved dismissively at Miyuki's clothes, "Get rid of those for me, will ya?"

Sighing deeply, Miyuki watched herself as her cold, shoeless feet merely plodded over to the edge of the roof and dropped all of her clothes over the side. She watched as her modestly went fluttering away on the breeze.

Hiyori was already trying to cast the spell on Tsukasa this time, but the remaining Hiiragi sister wasn't going to be taken so easily. It turned out she actually did have a pair of the sunglasses on her person, and she stood her ground, defiantly shouting some noble words Miyuki couldn't hear on the wind from her vantage. To Miyuki's amazement, her body began to move again.

W-wait...did she...? She must have ordered me to do something just now. I guess I don't actually have to hear it, to...

"Hiiragi girl! You really think you can handle me?" Hiyori was in full combat mode as she continued to blast ineffective spells at Tsukasa. They were useless, but at least they were keeping the girl from closing the distance quickly.

"I-I....y-you're upsetting my sister! I-I...I can't let you do that!" Tsukasa narrowed her eyes and forced herself to stand her ground. It almost brought a tear to Miyuki's eye, as she marvelled at the fact that of all the things Tsukasa could have said, she chose that.

Giggling a bit, Hiyori suddenly stopped her assault, and held out the two halves of the book to Tsukasa. "Wow, that's pretty bold. You want this? Here then, come and take it."

"W-wha...?" Tsukasa was taken aback, but shrugging, she began to walk closer to her quarry, "...uhh, okay, s-sure....?"

Sighing again, Miyuki finally realized what Hiyori's intentions really were. Coming up behind her partner, Miyuki grabbed Tsukasa around the waist with one arm, pinning her arms to her sides and pressing her breasts against the shorter girl's back. With a yelp from poor Tsukasa, Miyuki set about tearing the sunglasses off of her face. Tsukasa shut her eyes tightly.

"Hah! Now all I need is Kagami-sempai, and I can sketch twincest!" Hiyori gestured at Miyuki, who held Tsukasa firmly in place, "Can you fix that for me, please?"

Miyuki reached around with her free arm and pried one of Tsukasa's eyes open with her fingers, forcing her face to point in Hiyori's direction.

"M-miyuki-chan..." a tear came to Tsukasa's eye, "...p-please..."

"I-I'm....I'm so sorry, Tsukasa-chan....p-please...please believe me..." Miyuki whispered into Tsukasa's ear, cooing, trying her best to comfort her friend.

Miyuki realized what Hiyori had been saying all this time. The young manga artist really did believe in what she was doing. Would she stop when she found Minami and Yutaka? Several students had already flocked to her banner, god only knew how many.

Kagami, Tsukasa, and Konata...did they...? Come to think of it, why weren't either of the sisters wearing the sunglasses this morning? When it comes right down to it, will they....whose side will they all end up on?

Kagami stood across from Misao, cellphone in hand. Despite all the madness occurring around her, her only focus now was this pitch. Her world was now secluded to herself and Misao. These 3 pitches could very well decide the fate of the entire school.

As Misao took her last practice swing, Kagami noticed Misao's arm brush against the wall. Part of the red markings was brushed off and colored part of the wall. Misao just looked back at Kagami with the same look of confidence.

"The markings are most likely what is controlling Misao's mind. If, perhaps, I can remove the markings, then we would be able to pass by freely. The markings can be easily removed, so maybe if I use enough force and aim for one of the central marks..." Kagami thought to herself.

Kagami continued to look forward at Misao while using her fingers to count down behind her back. Konata noticed the signal, and on 0 Konata through the cell phone as hard as she could at Misao's chest. Both Kagami and Konata then rushed at Misao before she had time to recover.

Misao was tackled by Kagami and Konata, and then the two brushed the markings off of her skin. The shock of the spell's effect dissipating caused her to gasp for air and then faint in shock.

"She'll probably be alright if we just leave her here, right?" Kagami asked.

"Ehh, probably" Kagami responded.

Just as they exited the building, they heard a stampede of footsteps resounding behind them. A group of marked students were rushing towards them. They drew closer to their target, Yutaka, who was still in the building.

"Hurry Yutaka!" Kagami shouted, but to no avail. The poor girl was paralyzed with fear.

"I'm going in after her!" Konata shouted as she charged in towards the dazed Yutaka. Kagami opened her mouth to say something, but then stopped and dashed in after Konata and Yutaka.

The horde of enthralled students had finally closed in on Yutaka. The members in the front began to grab for Yutaka's arms and legs to drag her away. Before this could happen, Konata jumped in and did an aerial kick knocking the students backwards. She shouted for Yutaka to run as she tried to repel the horde of students.

Kagami had finally reached the point of conflict. The students had now grabbed Konata and dragged her into their midst. Some students once again made a move to capture Yutaka, but Konata reached forward and pulled them back. "Take Yutaka and run!"

Kagami was surprised by Konata's selfless words. There was nothing that could be done to save Konata, so Kagami took Yutaka's hand and ran out. Konata did her best to slow down the students before she was finally pinned by the horde. Yutaka was crying for her sister's sacrifice. Kagami shed a tear for her friend, but did not look back. There was nothing to do now, but continue moving.

The two continued to run from their pursuers. The exit to the school grounds was blocked, and they couldn't go back the way they came. They could only continue running in hopes of finding safety. As she rounded a corner, Kagami was grabbed by a cloaked stranger. She gasped and struggled to break free.

"Shh. We are not your enemies. We can talk, but first we must escape your pursuers."

Kagami had no choice but to follow the figure. She and Yutaka were lead by the one who had spoken and the rear was brought up by two more cloaked figures. They passed along outside the building for a while until they came to another entrance into the school. They deftly made their way through the corridors avoiding any marked students.

This school feels eerily silent, Kagami thought to herself as they marched. That stampede that had arrived earlier seemed to have been alerted to their presence somehow. Perhaps they noticed that Misao's markings had been removed?

The group rounded another corner and came before classroom 2-B. The cloaked figure in the lead stood before the door and knocked four times, paused, and then knocked twice more. The door opened and they entered the room.

"Well, now that we're safe here, allow us to introduce ourselves."

Kagami recognized the voice. This voice was.... Kuroi Sensei's!

Nanoko Kuroi unveiled her hood and smiled at Kagami. Kagami then looked at the other two figures who revealed themselves to be Patricia Martin and Minami. There were also several other students and teachers in the room.

"Welcome to the resistance!" Kuroi-sensei continued, "we are the survivors of the curse that has befouled our school. We are working to fight off the infection and restore peace to this academy!"

"That being said, we have no idea where to start" Patricia interrupted.

"We've been biding our time and recruiting allies!" Nanoko defended with an annoyed look on her face.

Kagami sighed to herself. "So, what's with the cloaks?"

"We've attributed the source of this disaster to Hiyori's magical attacks. If we cover our bodies and our faces, we can't be affected by her assault" Nanoko said triumphantly.

"And they look cool!" Patricia added.

"Now then, let's get these two some cloaks"

Minami went and brought the two a pair of dark black cloaks with hoods. Kagami sighed and put one on. Yutaka followed suit.

"Now we need to devise a plan of action" Nanoko pointed out. "Do you two still have your cellphones for communication purposes?"

Kagami groaned inwardly for having thrown her cellphone at Misao. It was broken.

"... You don't have yours?" Kuroi-sensei must have noticed the look on Kagami's face.

"I still have mine" Yutaka piped up.

"Well at least one of you still has one." Kagami looked down dejectedly. This day just keep getting crazier and crazier.