Hello! This my first attempt at fanfiction (which incidentally will hopefully be a series) so I hope you can enjoy it.

Atsuko Kagari has very little going for her in terms of magic. It's a wonder she is in Luna Nova at all, and despite her extremely loud and outgoing personality she's well aware of the fact but that isn't enough to stop her, on the contrary, Akko is always doing her best, or always that she paid attention to that particular class at least.

One of those classes was the flying brooms one. Akko had failed it, big time too. Everyone else was able to lift their brooms with ease, and fly on them just as easily, to her, it looked like it was something that came naturally to everyone but her.

And that's why today she was practicing it so hard by her lonesome self. It was a free day, and for once, neither her nor Lotte Yanson mor Sucy Manbavaran had gotten in trouble with any of the teachers either, so far, so good.

Except on the actual flying itself, she was yelling, running with her broomstick between her legs and pleading with it all at the same time to not avail. She had been doing this for 30 minutes, until eventually her blue hat went flying because of a gust of wind,, and her running had only made it fly away faster and farther.

Mrs. Finnelan would be less than pleased if she saw Akko without her hat during any of the practical classes.

So naturally, Akko chased after it as fast as her legs would allow her, her broomstick still in hand but now to her side.

-Come back!- She yelled, as if that would make it come floating back to her. Maybe if she was a better witch it would, but alas, that not being the case, it was rather futile.

She kept following it for a bit until she crashed onto someone, Diana Cavendish, the most popular and talented witch in all of Luna Nova, or in other words, Akko's exact opposite.

-What exactly are you doing, running around like a child?- Diana asked, dusting herself off after getting up, her eyes scanning and piercing Akko at the same time.

-I'm not acting like a kid! I'm busy! Move! Move!-, Akko didn't want to waste time on one of her less than favorite people so she keep running towards her hat, that was now way higher than before.

Diana, on the other hand started following, displeased by her fellow student's rudeness, she hadn't noticed the hat but was intent on repreming Akko about her manners nonetheless so she chased her, eventually catching up to her. And now running side by side with her.

-Akko.-, said Diana, but it fell to deaf ears, still Diana won't give up. -Akko!-

But it was too late, Akko was on her own world, too focused on her hat, running much faster than she thought possible. Sadly, it turned out to be for nothing as some giant flying bird Akko hadn't seen before just straight up ate it.

Diana too had witnessed this. Both of the girls' mouths hung open for a moment. Diana collected herself first.

-Akko….-, started Diana, but she was immediately cut off

-Are you going to make fun of me?-, Akko asked, sighing in defeat. lowering her broomstick and sitting on the grass.

Diana walked up close to her, -I can help you.-

Akko stood up much faster than she had sat down -I don't need your help!-, and sticking out her tongue in the same way a child would, she stormed off back to her room.

Back in her room, she fell on her bed not even noticing how Sucy was there, probably testing some new dangerous poison.

-What's wrong?- Asked Sucy, putting a frog and a mushroom onto her cauldron as it started letting a greenish smoke out.

-My hat…-, Akko pointed to her head, even if Sucy wasn't looking.

-Just get another one. There's a shop in town.-

-Take meee…-, said Akko, getting up and shaking the other witch by the shoulders.

-Sure. But drink this first.-, and with that, Sucy took a small sample of what she was preparing inside her cauldron. Even the little flask had green smoke coming out from it, and the liquid, whatever it was, looked like an unnatural purple.

Well, whatever, Akko told herself while snatching the flask out of Sucy's pale hands, it wasn't the first time she'd be using her as a guinea pig, might as well get it over with fast so she could return to practicing her broomstick skills, if one could even call them that.

It tasted as bad as it seemed, probably even worse, and Akko immediately felt strange, right away her nose grew a tiny, pink flower on it and the area around it became grass-like, making her sneeze, which in turn, made the flowers' petals scatter, though Sucy caught them and put them on her table.

-Very good. Let's go.-

And off they went, from the school to the leyline to the city.

Quickly, they headed to the hat and wardrobe shop, stopping along the way whenever Sucy wanted to pick something that would work as an ingredient for her experiments.

When they finally made it, they saw the shop had already closed for the day.

-Oh well… that's that.-, Sucy said, shrugging. -I could make you a new one…. but it might chop your head off.-

Akko shook her head, she liked it being at the top of her neck, thank you. She sighed, nothing was right today.

Just when they were about to head to another, Lotte appeared, carrying a thick book and looking content with herself, then she spotted Akko looking not-so-happy.

-What's wrong, Akko?-

-Hat… lost…. bad day…-

Lotte pet her friend's shoulder awkwardly: -And the store is closed? Why not make a new one?-

That was a better idea than leaving it to Diana the smug, or Sucy the possible murderer, Akko regained her burning eyes, dragged her friends to the nearest alley and from god who knows where, took out a scrap of clothing, the Shiny Rod and started casting. Nope, it was not working.

-Akko… I didn't, uh, mean it like that., Lotte said, trying to, as gently as possible. stop the pointless wand-waving.

-Then what did you mean?-, Akko ased, a bit settled down.

-We could sew it. Normally, with our hands, no our wands.-

-But that's so mundate, we're witches! If we sew it it'll never be ready tomorrow and Finnelan will have my head.-

-If she's going to do that…. let my hat do it inst-, Sucy started to say but was cut in the middle of her sentence by a big "no!" from Akko.

As all three of them sat by the sidewalk, Diana appeared. Unlike her usual arrogant, snotty self, she still seemed as stone faced as always however.

-If you'd let me, I can help you.-, her voice was softer than usual, she almost sounded nice, Akko thought but that was it, almost.

To avoid her friend from saying anything too mind, Lotte spoke first: -What do you have in mind, Diana? It should be easy for someone as talented as you.-

-Of course.-, Diana smiled, and from her robes took some white cloth and a blue ribbon. -It won't be the right color because this is all I have but here you got.-, she continued while tapping the materials with her wand and with a sudden sparkle, the cloth twisted, pointed up and turned into a white hat, after which the ribbon magically wrapped itself nearly around it.

Akko immediately realized that hat had a striking resemblance to Shiny Chariot's, so she couldn't help her eyes lighting up in still spoke (or, rather, tried to) in an annoyed voice.

-W-well, thank you.-, she muttered, taking the hat a Diana handled it to her. -But I still didn't need your help you know….-

-I know. Once you get one with the right colors by the end of the week you can throw that away.-, said Diana and turned around to leave, before Akko or friends could say anything else to her.

-Ah… maybe you should be nicer to her…-, finally Lotte said after Diana left as suddenly as she had arrived.

Akko had furrowed brows painted on her face but whispered a weak "maybe…", putting her new hat on, and starting the travel back to Luna Nova, all three of them were quiet.

Akko thought long and hard after returning to her room, it really didn't seem like Diana had meant any harm in hindsight, and hindsight is always 20/20.

She sighed, rolled in her bed for a while with Lotte throwing glances at her every now and then. Finally, Sucy, having had enough of the noise Akko was making spoke: -If you're so trouble by it, just go thank her properly.-

Lotted agreed with a few nods that Akko caught from the corner of her eyes.

They both were right, if she didn't thanked her more properly and apologize for storming off when she was trying to help, it'd bug her for a long time. With that in mind, she got up and went to look for Diana.

Once she found her, she got all nervous, she was completely unsure as to why, though.

-Hey!-, she started while approaching her, Diana sitting in a bench in a small garden in the school. -I-, she noticed her voice shaking, her own body shaking as well but after coming this far, she didn't want to stop, -I just wanted to say, ah, thank you again for today…. and sorry I just ran away from you at first.-

Diana hadn't been looking to her, too worried twirling her hair around her finger, but when Akko apologized, she actually smiled a little at her, and not a smirk or something hinting at a sense of superiority, it was a genuine smile, however small it was, and for reasons unknown, it was immensely satisfying to Akko, who felt brave enough to sit next to Diana that evening, and for the first time, they had started talking more normally.

Atsuko Kagari had failed at flying that day yet again. But it was okay because she felt success in a different, perhaps even better, way.

As you can see in the tags and the note at the start this is a Akko/Diana centered series, probably deviating from the anime at points as it's ongoing at the time of the writing. Anyway, thank you very much for reading.

Oh, please do feel free to comment on any mistakes and suggestions, all and any comments are welcome. (Especially because my English is probably bad at its best as its not my first language.)