Hey you guys! Sorry about the hidiously long wait. I was working on other projects and such. But I made a chapter so I hope you enjoy it, it's long over due even though it's kind of short.

Disclaimer: I dun own Azumanga Diaoh, you know?

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Picnics and Peace

By SailorofUranus

What I Would Give

"Yomi... Oh, Yomi..."

Grunt.

"Come on Yomi, I want to play!"

There's a annoying sing song voice dangerously close to my ear right now, though as much as I want to ignore it I don't think I actually can.

"Okay Yomi. I'll give you to the count of ten...One...Two."

Maybe if I keep my eyes shut really tight, and try to block it all out I can–

"Ten!"

"AH!"

I flew, literally, I flew, right out of my bed and into the ceiling I swear and then I fell on the ground with a thud so loud I'm sure it shook the entire house.

"Hahaha! Hey, Yomi? Pull down you're shirt would ya? Your butts stickin' up in the air and I can see your kitty cat print panties!"

I blushed, "Dammit, Tomo! How the hell did you get in my house?" I was going to seriously have to start double locking the doors. You always think you're safe till–

"I'm a ninja, Yomi. I think I told you that already, do you ever listen?" Tomo huffed, snatching the tangled up cover coiled around my waist from...well around my waist, which sent me sprawling out onto my back on the floor in an even weirder and more embarrassing position.

"Hey hey hey! What are you trying to do, Yomi? Seduce me?"

I blushed and decided to close my legs. "I swear if you don't get out of here right now..."

But, of course Tomo ignored me, and instead decided–just out of the blue you know–to go through my underwear drawer.

Underwear...drawer...Under..wear...Underwear drawer!

"Hey, get out of there!"

I rolled to my feet...eventually, but by the time that happened Tomo had already thrown about several -ahem- articles of my...private clothing.

"Huh?" She exclaimed, just as I grabbed her arm with a ferious and very aggressive expression on my face, "Oh don't worry about it!" Tomo said, waving about a pair of my character faced underpants in a nonchalant manner, "I'm just helping you out."

"Helping me out?" I asked, suspicious, "Helping me out for what...?"

I swear, if she said 'the closet' I was going to strangle her.

"For you to get dressed, dummy." It was then Tomo got the oddest expression on her face.

It made me shiver.

"Uh..dressed for what?"

"For the outing!"

"What outing?" I sighed, leaving Tomo to her underwear hunt and reaching for my glasses.

"The outing Chiyo-chan planned today."

I blinked. "Oh..." Well, I guess that's nice...I mean, if Tomo hadn't come to get me I wouldn't have known about the outing. The last outing I'd gone to had been an amusement park and...that hadn't gone all that well, I hoped this one went better at least.

"Where are we going?"

"On a picnic."

"A picnic? Really? Should I bring anything?"

"Oh no!" Tomo said, giggling mischievous, "We've got that covered, someone else is bringing it."

"Oh? Who?" I wondered and asked, but Tomo ignored me, finding interested in my closet suddenly. "You know I can dress myself."

"It'll go faster this way."

I just shrugged, once Tomo had her mind set on something it was nearly impossible to detour her from her task. I sighed, shaking my head still wondering just how she got in my house anyway, was mom home? She should have been to work by now...

"Well! Let's get ready!"

"Get ready...?"

"Yes, you have to take a shower."

"Alright," I answered, quirking a brow as my glasses caught the light reflecting off the lighting in my room, "and the reason you're holding my arm is...?"

"Well, I'm going to give it to you!"

"The hell you are!"

"Aw, come on"

"No way! And your calling me gay?"

"My wants to help my friend be as cleanly as possible has no sexual girl-on-girl undertones what so ever! Unlike how you're making it out to be, Yomi, my repressed friend."

A growled and hissed but Tomo still seemed hell bent on bathing me. What the hell, I could bathe myself, I didn't need Tomo to do that for me, I didn't need Tomo to...to see me naked!

"Come on, let me just scrub your back, you know to make sure you get it all?"

"The hell you will!"

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It's a beautiful day, the sort of day where you feel like taking a nap out in the shade, or reading a good book under a beautiful tree. One of those days where you just want to relax and keep cool.

Unfortunately, I was not doing that.

"What do you mean, it's not enough!"

"Yukari-sensei! We told you to bring a lot of food, that was what we agreed on correct?"

"Don't try to sound intellegent while talking to me!"

"I am intellegent!"

I sighed, "Yukari..." I groaned, pinching the bridge of my nose as a familar headache began to blossom. Why was it I always found my weekends wasted with this woman and these high school students? I wonder if it's right to be so close to them like this, then again, I do have fun...

"Yes, Mo-Mo?"

I blushed, ducking my head to cover the crimson stain. "Please...Don't call me that in public."

I was holding a basket filled with goodies Yukari had picked for this little outing, though I'm sure that, because of the simple fact Yukari had picked them–whether she'd bought them or made them I didn't know–I had a feeling they wouldn't be very 'goodie' like. The person in question was currently arguing with the loud one, Tomo, and I didn't understand why. Surely, they didn't need to eat THAT much.

"Well..." Tomo said, shrugging as she resigned from the argument, Yomi's sulking about form catching her attention, "I guess you can still come."

Yukari growled, "That or you starve..."

"Welcome to the picnic!"

Yeah...I thought so. I shoved the basket at Yukari as she returned and decided to take a seat beneath the tree I'd been eying since we got here. I drove of course, lord knows we can't have a demon on the rode this early in the morning. Children were outside playing, for goodness sake!

"Nyaaaamoo..." Yukari whined and I paused in my walk, a familiar feeling of foreboding coming over me. I had to get to the tree, the tree would be my safety!

"Um...yes, Yukari?"

"Come share a drink of me, just alittle drinkie-poo."

"What? It's not even noon yet! Didn't we go through this once before?"

Of course, then she started pouting at me, and I could literally feel my resolve melting from her expression...

And something else I'd rather not think about.

"Okay," I sighed, ignoring the little grin of triumph that erased the pouting. She reached into the basket and pulled out a bottle of no brand sake, the worse kind there had to be, and linked arms with me.

"That tree, I want to drink there. That way those annoying brats won't catch us, eh?"

I only nodded in agreement, I'd go anywhere with her either way.

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This was actually fun, you know, when I got past the whole mild molestation attempt of earlier this morning and the fact that Tomo and Kagura were wresting on the ground and all.

I caught the blue flying frisbee that had been thrown by Osaka and casually threw it toward Chiyo, whose little body had to leap up to catch it from such a height. Watching her throw it to Sakaki I turned my head to catch the wrestling idiots getting dirty on the ground.

"Hey, are you guys done yet?" I asked, keeping track of where the frisbee was as it was thrown to a staring and blushing Kaorin.

Tomo responded first, lifting up her heard from beneath Kagura's arm. "Almost!"

"We will be when she's dead," Kagura growled, deciding that tightening the grip of her arm around Tomo's neck brought on the nicest sounds of strangulation from Tomo's blue face.

"I give, I give!"

I laughed slightly, watching Kagura release Tomo with a satisfied smirk and wander off toward Sakaki. "Hah, that's what you get."

Tomo only blinked for a moment, before pointing behind me with a blank expression. "Hey!"

CLONK.

I yowled as I held my head, the frisbee falling uselessly at my feet. It'd smacked dead center in the back of my skull.

"Watch out."

"!"

"Ah! I tried to warn you!"

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"Azumanga Diaoh!"

"Shutup, Tomo!"

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"Ya know, Mo-Mo..."

"Yukari..."

"I've been dinkin'."

"Dinkin'? Drinking?"

"No, no! Dinkin'!" An intoxicated Yukari mumbled, hicupping in my face.

Hoo-boy, not again...

"How much did you drink?" I could have sworn we'd only had one bottle, I'd only had two cups myself.

"Oooh...justa little..."

"As in the entire bottle..."

"Yup!"

I groaned, this was beginning to feel like a familiar path we were taking. With I sigh I turned my head to watch the kids play around with a frisbee, that was all up until Yomi got hit with it and started yelling disrespectful language toward Tomo while beating her with said frisbee. I felt a bead of sweat roll down the side of my face.

"Mo-mo..."

I jumped, going bone still. "Um..yes, Yukari?" I squeeked, mostly because her hand was on my thigh and her nose was burried in the side of my neck. Now just how had this happened?

"Like I said...I been dinkin'..."

"Drinking or thinking?"

"Mmm...dat dun matter...You know, yer a good friend, Mo-Mo."

"Um, thank you Yukari..." Now if you would ever so kindly remove your hand before...

Before what?

"We been friends fer a long time too, yeah?"

"Um...yeah...we have."

She rested her head against my shoulder soon enough, before she slid off and collasped onto my lap, grinning all the while.

I don't know what was wrong with me, but why did it feel as if I was going to have a nosebleed?

"Mmm, Mo-mo...thanks for that...I think I may just luv ya."

"L-l-love me!"

"Yup...joo stole my heart wit all da sake and steak joo buy me!"

I sighed in relief then, I don't know why either. She's drunk, that's all...why did a small part of me feel upset over that?

Focus, focus.

"One day...one day joo should let mah make it up to ya..."

"Yeah, one day, like...when you can actually keep a check without blowing it all?"

"Hey!"

I shrugged but noticed how Yukari had oddly when silent.

"Hey, Yukari?"

No answer...I leaned over to check on her but her eyes were closed...was she asleep?

"Yukari?"

Still nothing, I guess she was.

I lifted my hand and rested it against her head, and after awhile, I gently toyed with her hair. Yukari was sorta cute when she was knocked out.

The sounds of the kids echo'd faintly in the distance in my mind, but I didn't care.

If I could have, I guess, I'd of made this moment last forever.

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"Hey, Yomi?"

"Yeah."

"Where's Yukari and Nyamo! Don't they have the food?"

"Hell if I'd know." I mumbled, rubbing at the large knot on the back of my head.

"Hey!" Osaka exclaimed, waving toward Tomi and myself. "There they are, they over by that tree."

While Osaka pointed towards the tree and peered as well, catching an odd site...

"Whoa...what's going on over there?"

"Looks like Yukari-sensei is taking a nap, think she's tired, eh Yomi?"

"Maybe," I responded before shaking my head with a shrug. "Well, don't interrupt them with your idiotic statements and loud mouth."

"Hey, I'm not idiotic nor do I have a loud mouth!"

I frowned, "The fact that you even responded to that means that you are."

I grabbed the back of Tomo's shirt and began to pull her away, back toward the restarted frisbee game and with my other hand I shoved Osaka infront of me.

No need to interrupt whatever was going on over there.

It was the first time I'd ever seen Nyamo and Yukari look so peaceful together.

I sure as in hell wasn't going to mess up that rare moment, and besides, if anything it looked like Nyamo needed it.

"Hey, watch out!"

"Huh?"

BAM.

"Hah! Sorry, Yomi!"

Damn, what I would give for one of those peaceful moments too.

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To be continued...