Looking over a brief one:

    Mystery Fusion # 28

    Disclaimer: Check the author's notes.
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    Humming to herself idly, a woman walked down the street. Her gait
was carefully measured, moving at a calm pace, not an excited run, or a
depressed crawl. A sheet of paper held in one hand rustled in a passing
breeze for a moment, before she paused, stopping before a candy store,
and held the sheet of paper flat before her.

    The letters on the sheet meant little to her -- 'minimal chance of
recovery' they said. 'Brain damage' was another phrase that they spelled
out. And 'permanent trauma'. Those she could ignore,

Heh. Tough gal

but some of them

meant something substantially more to her.

    Those letters spelled out, 'Nancy Makuhari'.

Oh ho. When I saw the girl was reading, I was going to make an ROD!
reference, but thought it tacky.

    But there was no reason to keep the paper anymore. Its purpose was
served, and the words she didn't care for outweighed the ones she did
care for.

Can drop the second 'care for'

    Perhaps... perhaps she'd simply go for a walk, then. There was time
enough to read later, after all.

Heh. Now we know this isn't Yomiko. That word doesn't exist in her
vocabulary.

"Which one?" he asked, setting the sheet back atop its stack.

    "The one on Readman-san?" she squeaked, unable to remove the
questioning tone from her speech.

    "The Paper," the man asserted. "What did you find out?"

    "Ah! Sorry, Joker-san! We, ah, we found out that you were right --
she was better with paperwork than we thought,"

Heh

    "That she's a meta?"

As long she isn't I-Jin. :)

    "She, ah, she was able to withstand large amounts of physical
trauma, and, um, speak with animals."

Dr. Hulk Doolittle?

    He blinked, not understanding. "Animals?"

    "Er... turtles specifically, Joker-san."

Prolly Love Hina reference. Should get to see the rest of that over the
course of next week.

    "And?" he prompted again. "There's more to this, isn't there?"

    "She was known to have been in contact with the, um, entities known
as the Fixer and the Fox,"

Now these I can guess from the first 5 eps

    "I've read the report," the man said quietly, sipping at his tea
again. "Were you friends with her before that, then?"

    "Yes, Joker-san. I thought she looked familiar, but I wasn't sure.
Um, you see, before... before I was changed, I used to be named Maehara
Shinobu, and Yomiko Readerman was Otohime Mutsumi."

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    Another one no one will get.

    Notes: Love Hina was created by Ken Akamatsu and Read or Die was
created by Kurata Hideyuki.

There was an idea I had for an ROD! fic. But I've got enough on my table I
don't need to be picking up where it left off. Love that series, though.
Ought to search for some fanfics on it. Didn't get the LH reference as much
since I know so little of it, though I figured out what was what.

Cute.

D.B. Sommer






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