Lucky Temptations

A Lucky Star Fanfiction

Episode 1 (Otaku Temptations): Chapter 1

Hiyori Tamura was sitting at her desk and sighed while her teacher droned on and on about some ancient war. She on the other hand was trying desperately to come up with an idea for a new dojin, but was drawing a blank.

"UGH! I had such a great idea last night! I knew I should have written it down!" As per usual, Hiyori was mentally chastising herself for not jotting down all of her good ideas when she had the opportunity. Her friend, Patricia Martin, noticed her troubled expression and made a decision.

"Tamura-san is so tough, but I can tell that she's sad. I think I know how to cheer her up though!" Patty thought to herself as she looked at her friend with concern. After school let out for the day with little change, Patty decided that her friend needed her help. "Tamura-san!" The young blonde called. "Over here!"

"Oh, hi there Patty-chan." Hiyori said. "Sorry. I've been a bit distracted today."

"I noticed. Is everything alright?"

"Yeah, everything is fine. I've just been trying to remember this great idea for a new dojin that I had last night. It was a really good idea too."

"Don't worry Tamura-san. I'm sure it will come back to you eventually." Patty said enthusiastically. Seeing this, Hiyori couldn't help but feel refreshed.

"Hey Patty-chan, would you like to come and visit my place for a while? I remember I had some manga that you wanted to borrow."

"You bet!" Patty said, giving a big thumbs-up. "I live on my own and I'm off from work today, so I'll go with you if that's alright."

"Sure. How long can you stay?"

"Well, like I told you, I'm off from work. And since its Friday, I don't really need to be anywhere tomorrow until work, and I don't need to be there until the afternoon. I could spend the night if that isn't an issue."

"Its not a problem. My parents are out of town for a few more days, and its been pretty lonesome at my house. It'll be refreshing to have some company for the night."

"Then its settled!" Patty suddenly yelled. "C'mon Tamura-san!" She said as she grabbed the young artist's hand and ran away with it.

"Hold on a second Patty!" Hiyori pleaded a few blocks later. Patty quickly stopped and turned to her now very winded friend, tilting her head slightly. "I need to pick something up at this store here." She said, pointing to the small manga store that they had stopped in front of.

"Cool!" Patty said enthusiastically. "I never knew that this was here! And so close to the school too. I'll go in too. Maybe they'll have something interesting."

"NO!" Hiyori suddenly exclaimed, catching her friend very off guard. "Uh, sorry. I need to pick something up and then leave. No browsing. I'll only be in there for a minute. Please wait out here."

"Umm, sure." Patty said, visibly confused. After she caught her breath, Hiyori entered the store without another word. While her friend was inside, Patty began looking in the small windows of the shop, but couldn't really see much. It was very dark inside, and there were no advertisements on the windows or anything. The whole store actually looked pretty shady. The building was run down and decrepit. There were cracks in the walls, and large chips missing from the dark beige paint revealing plain bricks underneath. Patty looked harder through the window and saw a sign hanging above one of the book racks that read "Yaoi."

The sound of the front door opening prevented Patty from looking any longer, and she pretended to be politely waiting for her friend to return. "Sorry about that Patty-chan." Hiyori said, now carrying a small blue plastic bag. "Come on, or we'll be late for the train." Hiyori said, as she quickly began walking towards the train station.

Patty was following behind, looking suspiciously at the bag and wondering to herself. "Is that what's in the bag? Why wouldn't she want me to know about that? I suppose it is kind of personal, but she draws some of that stuff. I don't get why she would want to hide it so badly…" Patty was wondering these thoughts during the entire train ride, and even on the walk from the station to Hiyori's house.

Author's notes: I know this is really short, but I was having trouble with the beginning. I think it came out alright given it's length, but regardless, the other chapters are almost definitely going to be much longer than this one. I just needed something short to get it off the ground. Also, there will be some VERY adult situations (lemon) later on, but those will be submitted as separate stories in order to keep the T rating of the main storyline so that people are more likely to find them. (Damn fanfiction and their K-T default search! T_T)