Okay guys, something I probably should have mentioned earlier, so here goes. I've seen a few reviews and gotten some Email about Kaorin's reaction to Tomo and Yomi coming out. First of all, Kaorin is not a Lesbian to begin with. I don't have a link, but Azuma himself once proclaimed that NONE of the Characters in the Azumanga Daioh series are Lesbians. That includes Kaorin. Now, I don't know about you, but I think if the creator of the series says something about his series, then that's how it is. She looks up to Miss Sakaki, but the fact of the matter is, she's straight, and I'm writing her that way. And now that that's out of the way, enough of my rambling. Let's get on with Chapter Three! "Guys..." Yomi had a bad feeling at this point. She'd expected initial shock, followed by the comfort that she felt could always be found in her friends. Tomo felt the same too, and swallowed hard. This was the variable in the equation that they'd not accounted for, and sure enough, it changed everything. "Don't guys us, you..." Kagura clinched her teeth, not elegance stopping her from saying what she wanted to, so much as the fact that Chiyo-chan was already confused enough as it was. Kaorin just sighed and shook her head. "I thought I knew you better, Yomi." Kaorin said, no sympathy in her voice at all. Behind her, the Train Scheduled to arrive at Platform B had finally come in, and the intercom was now calling for anyone remaining to board the train to Osaka. "I wonder, if I'd known you longer than Tomo, would it be me you'd be trying to seduce right now?" Then, before Yomi could even say anything, Kaorin turned around and walked away, boarding the train. "Even ah can't pretend to be okay with this one." Osaka replied next. I'm sorry, Tomo, Yomi, but I just don't believe in that sort of thing." At that point, she too turned around and boarded the train, taking a seat by Kaorin. Tomo and Yomi could see the backs of Kaorin and Osakas' heads, as they'd taken window seats, facing away from the two. "How you two are content with yourselves is beyond me." Sakaki said. Of the very few times that any of them had ever seen Sakaki cross, this was easily identifiable as the angriest she'd ever been, as far as the girls had seen. "Come on, Chiyo-chan." Sakaki turned around, and ushered Chiyo, who was trying to ask questions, on to the train. That left only Kagura. "You dikes!" She said it, and this hit the two of them the hardest. Tomo looked on the verge of tears, and gripped Yomi even closer. It wasn't the fact that Kagura was saying it over anyone else, though that fact certainly didn't make it any easier, but the term itself, rather. The word was used as complete derogatory, nothing more. "We had something going, you two! We were a group! A cliq, one might say. And now you throw it away for each other. I don't believe in lesbianism. Guys go with girls, girls go with guys. You two are not supposed to be this way, and now we have to explain to a child why!" In the background, the train conductor could heard shouting his final calls for passengers. Kagura slowly began to back up toward the train, but her last words would hit the hardest. "You two look at what you've become, and then come to your senses. Until then, you can forget about associating with us!" With that, Kagura turned around and boarded the train, the conductor closing the door behind her. About a minute later, the train pulled out of the station, and though Tomo and Yomi both had tickets to attend this game, neither of them had moved an inch since Kagura had last spoke. At that moment, Tomo broke down, the tears only flowing slowly at first, but soon that slow flow turned into a proverbial waterfall of tears, as she stuffed her head into Yomis' chest, crying away. Yomi returned the embrace, and just looked on at the now empty train tracks, her mind a total blank. This wasn't how it was supposed to be. "Wh...what did...we...d...do wrong?" Tomo sobbed through the tears. Yomi didn't answer for what seemed like many moments. "I don't know, Tomo." Was the best she could respond. She wanted to cry, oh how at that very moment she wanted to cry. But she couldn't. The tough, strong-willed facade that Yomi had always shown would still shine, she was determined on that. She would not show a weakness, and regardless of what happened, she would always be there for Tomo, and Tomo for her. At that point, part of her didn't care about the rest of them. Part of her mind cared for Tomo and only Tomo. Nobody else. But for that other part, for the other side of the coin in her mind, as well as with Tomo's mind, the downward spiral had begun.
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