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Author's Notes: This is it. Don't expect anything epic, this is just a cute little epilogue thingy that's for fun, and to maybe give hope for future fun in a sequel. Sorry it took so long again, but I bet you're sick of hearing that aren't you?

Level Up! Love!

Epilogue

"And that's how me and my Kagamin finally leveled up," Konata said with no small dose of pride.

Hiyori nodded attentively, giving Konata the focus that a soldier would give to her sergeant. Anizawa would have been weeping with a burning pride in her passion, had he been there to see her. She brought her notepad up to her face and began furiously scribbling.

"A-amazing story..."

"It is, it is," Konata nodded sagely from behind folded arms.

"Are there any other details you'd give me the privilege of hearing, Izumi-senpai?" Hiyori looked up from her seat, the lights in Konata's room reflecting brightly off of her glasses.

"Well..." Konata lead her on.

The dark-haired artist gulped. "W-well...?"

"For a little free M00 H-me doujinshi, I might consider letting you hear the audio recording of the final event," Konata muttered, as if she was trying to move a drug deal along.

"Deal!" Hiyori clenched a fist. "To draw inspiration from the real-life secret love-stories of my two senpai...there is no price too high!"

"Also, a free copy of whatever comes of this inspiration."

"Of course!" The artist flashed the otaku a thumbs up.

"Konata, I'm here!" A cheerful announcement sounded with the opening of Konata's door, Kagami allowing herself in.

It took about 10 seconds of dead silence before the pigtailed girl caught a glimpse of what was being drawn by Hiyori and fully assessed the situation.

"What, WHAT the hell are you doing?!" Kagami exploded, her neatly brushed hair frazzling. She fumed in her girlfriend's direction. "Konata!! Y-you promised not to tell anyone!!"

Konata's hands seemed to multiply as she franticly waved them in front of herself, "Well, Hiyorin doesn't count, right? She likes this kind of thing, so she'd never judge! Right, Hiyorin!?"

"Nn! Right!" Hiyori nodded vigorously. Her face was still red with excitement. "Your secret is one-hundred-percent safe with me!"

"So what is that that you're drawing??"

"Drawing?" Fast as lightning, Hiyori's arms whipped the pad to the seat of her chair, upon which she sat on it. "I saw no drawing." She adjusted her glasses so that her eyes couldn't be seen behind a bright reflected light.

Konata held her fists up in little balls and exclaimed, "That was so COOL! Like the 'ku-ru type-o!"

Kagami shot Konata a death glare that immediately shut her up. She then turned her attention to Hiyori.

"Konata and I need to talk."

"Don't worry, just think of me as a fly on the wa--"

"OUT."

"Eep!" Hiyori stood up straight in an instant, somehow causing the notepad she was sitting on to disappear. She seemed to give 15 repetitive bows to Kagami in the span of 10 seconds. "Yes, of course senpai! Forgive me!! Thank you so much for the opportu-- for your time, Hiiragi-sama!! And I'm off!" With that, she was gone in a cloud of dust.

"'Hiiragi-sama', is it?" Kagami twitched.

"You are the goddess of her inspiration."

"Did I say you could talk?"

Konata saluted, grinned, and bit her lower lip with an exaggerated obedience.

Kagami sighed out her immediate anger. "Look, you aren't going to start blabbing to everyone, are you? You promised me about this."

Konata made a few noises through her sealed lips and gesticulated energetically.

"...you can talk now."

"I had to talk to SOMEBODY about it. It's not fair! I'm just soooo happy I have to share it. Would you want me to explode? Don't worry, she's very open-minded, and she won't tell (directly.)"

"I guess telling all of your friends online last week wasn't enough?"

"I didn't tell sensei."

"Consider yourself lucky for that. I'm serious now... don't go breaking promises you make right away, especially to me."

"I won't tell anybody that might judge--but don't blame me if it slips to 'my kind.' They're all open-minded and you don't care what they think anyway, right?"

"Keep it to the internet, or it'll be more than homework that you won't get from me." Kagami pointed a semi-casual finger toward Konata's nose.

Konata conceded with a disgruntled, "Puuu."

There was a moment's silence.

"...Why are you here, anyway?" Konata finally asked.

Kagami's eyes widened, her eyebrows turned downward and her lip twitched. "...you forgot?"

Konata looked away with a blue smile.

"You forgot!! It's our two week anniversary and it was YOUR idea to go out on a date tonight, you idiot!!" Kagami fumed before shushing herself, remembering that there were other members in the household.

"What was that about secrecy?" Konata grinned.

"Sh-shut up." Kagami looked away, embarrassed. "Look," she blushed, "do you want to take me out or not?"

"I thought you were taking me out."

"You offered."

"Well, since you came over as if to pick me up, it seemed like it was you taking me out."

"I could turn around and go home right now." Kagami's eyebrow twitched, indicating that her impatient threat was no bluff.

"I'll treat you," Konata reassured with a kiss on the cheek. "You're broke, anyway."

Kagami instinctively reached up and touched the increasingly red cheek that Konata had pecked, her heart skipping. "O-okay..." she answered softly. "You...you should change your clothes. You're dressed like your dad..."

"Kay."

"Hey, Konata?" Kagami asked as the two of them stepped out of Konata's room and toward her front door, doing their best to look like a couple of just-friends on their way to hang out.

"Yeah?"

"Back when you..." her voice hushed to a near whisper, "...when you k-kissed me on the train that time..."

"Nn?"

"Right as the doors closed, you said something that I couldn't hear. It's been bugging me forever...what was it you said?"

Konata raised a finger and opened her mouth with a smile. Nothing came out. The area around her eyes grayed as moments of silence passed.

"...well?"

"I forgot."

"What?! How could you forget that??"

Konata whined a little bit. "Well, you know how when you're doing something so important and exciting, you can't quite think about all the details because you're so nervous? You just get swept up in the feeling! It's like defeating the final boss in a pinch, you don't know how you did it. And then if you have to do it again, you forget how and don't know if you can repeat!"

"And all this translates too...?"

"I was just so wrapped up in the moment, I don't remember now. Don't you hate it when that happens?"

"That just sounds like some excuse that a forgetful person would make!" Kagami exclaimed as they shut the door behind them. "From the same person who forgot about tonight, too!"

Konata grabbed Kagami's hand reproachfully, "Jeez, don't make such a big deal. We'll have lots of time to make more memories." And I have that recording...

"Ah..." Kagami pinkened as Konata's fingers intertwined with hers. She couldn't help but smile a little. "H-hey...maybe we shouldn't hold hands where we can be seen..."

"You worry too much, Kagamin." Konata waved casually with her free hand. "Let's go have fun tonight."

As the two of them walked down the road together, neither noticed some shutters of the blinds bent back in one of Konata's windows; nor did they notice a hopeful Soujirou peeking through, a twinkle in his eye.

The End

Author's Notes: That was fun, wasn't it? I dunno when we'll get to writing the sequel, but it's going to be a bunch of little anecdotes from the lives of Kagami and Konata together, no real plot. That sounds awesome, I know. In other good news! We, the two members of weluvgirlswithglasses, who brought you this lovely story, are now engaged! I proposed on Thursday. Ooh, it's girl love all around. Doesn't that just make you happy inside? Thanks for reading and thanks for reviewing. We hope to keep giving you guys more Konami love in the future. :)