Since this got a good reaction, decided to look it over myself.

Here's a bit of silliness that I've been working on since the beginning
of the year. It's a bit long for a "spamfic", I think.

Yep. Shortfic would probably be best

What Color Is Your Revolution?
by Laurie Gerholz
March 2003

      Miki Kaoru watched the snowflakes drift lazily down.  It had
just begun to snow, and the ground was slowly whitening.  He glanced
from the window to the wall clock across the atrium.  It indicated
there were still ten minutes to meeting time.

'until' instead of 'to' perhaps?

 A moment later

treasurer Juri Arisugawa came in, shaking the snowflakes off of

drop 'of'

      "You're so accommodating," she said teasingly.  Miki could feel
himself blushing a bit under the older girl's fond regard.

      The outer door opened again and a tall young man stepped inside.
The door, as it swung shut, blew off some of the snow that dusted
his long wavy hair and wool coat.  Kyouichi Saionji removed his
gloves and stuck them in his coat pockets, watching Miki and Juri
with a stony regard.

Aw, give him one with earflaps, like a reject from 'Fargo' :)

      "I haven't seen him for a bit," explained Saionji.  "Had other
things to do, and then the summons showed up in my mailbox."  He
glanced up at the clock and scowled.  "Just watch, now he'll be late
and make us wait on him."

wait 'for' him. Waiting on him would be something servants do.

      But Saionji was proved

proven (I think)

      Touga groaned and turned to his sister.  "Nanami, you didn't..."

      "I did," she declared.  "My announcement concerns them, too, so
they should be present to hear it."

That settles that.

      "Yeah, no silly speeches in the elevator for once," drawled
Saionji.

Heh

      Touga managed to glare at him without losing an ounce of his
famed composure.  "So to avoid further wasting anyone's valuable
time, I'll ask Nanami to share her news with us."

      Nanami popped up out of her chair before Touga was even seated.
"Thank you, big brother."

Big Brother

      "Exactly," confirmed Nanami.  "The CMC is the source of those
colors."  Miki dutifully noted this down in the minutes.

Heh

      "Oh, you don't have to worry, big brother,"

and here

 Nanami hastened to

add against the possibility of raising Touga's ire.  "These aren't
any big departure from all your current colors.  I've just selected
suitable shades of each for this year.  I think you'll like your new
red."  She swiftly held out the folder with Touga's name to him.
Still watching his sister carefully, Touga took the folder from her.

      Touga opened the folder and brought out a card, colored a bright
red.  He held the card next to the red trim of his sleeve.  "It's
different?"

Nanami: It's Fuschia. :)

      "They *named* the colors?" asked Utena.

      "How else could we keep straight which ones we were talking
about?" demanded Nanami.

True.

      "Oh, of course," said Utena.  "What was I thinking?"  Miki
thought Utena wasn't doing a very good a job of swallowing her smile.

      "Don't you think my color is fitting, Utena?" asked Touga.

Utena; No, it's not gay enough.

Touga; I'm bishonen, thank you. Not gay.

      As Miki noted down Nanami's new color, he heard Juri mutter,
"Hers would just *have* to involve dairy products."  He wrote that
down too.

Heh

      Miki spotted Juri rolling her eyes at that, but if Nanami caught
the gesture, she gave no sign.  Miki made a mental note to himself
to make an appointment at the tailor's shop for a new fitting.  He
was in another growth spurt and the measurements on file for him
probably were already obsolete.

I like his business like nature.

      "How ... pretty," Touga commented.  There was that rich,
seductive undertone in his voice that Touga usually reserved for
whichever girl had caught his attention for the day.  Miki felt the
heat flush in his cheeks as he sat down, and *knew* he didn't dare
look Touga's way, or say anything to the Student Council President.

Utena; See. I told you 'Passion' wasn't gay enough.

Touga: Just because I can appreciate manly beauty does not mean I'm gay.

      Utena stiffened.  "Hey, *I* didn't pick those fussy Dueling
clothes, they were assigned to me.  My regular uniform would've been
just fine..."  She stopped as Anthy gently touched her sleeve.

She should have gotten the movie outfit garb. :)

      "Please don't worry about it, Miss Utena, I'm sure I can work
with the new colors," she said.  "Why don't you read your cards?"

      Utena glanced over the back of the black card.  "Oh, for..." she
burst out, "this is called 'Asphalt'.  What the heck kind of color
is 'Asphalt'?"

Heh. Cute.

      "--color of green I have ever laid eyes on," finished Touga.

hehehe

      Miki wrote everyone's comments in the minutes, and observed that
the card seemed to emanate faintly with an unhealthy, fungal glow.

Nice choice of words, 'fungal' is.

      "What could it possibly be called?" Anthy mused, staring at the
card apprehensively as if she suspected it might start skittering
about under its own power.

      "How about 'nuked puke'?" suggested Juri.

and that's good too.

      "No!  Never!" cried Saionji, slamming the table with his fists
in fury.  "I'll duel naked before I'll wear that!"

      "Ooh, I'd like to see that," chimed in Touga, eyes bright.

Utena; I told you!

Touga: It takes a man very confident in his heterosexuality to sleep with
another man. I am NOT GAY!

      "So she can prepare our coordinating Duel roses.  As mistress of
the rose garden, that is obviously her job."

      Utena turned to her roommate, "So have you ever dyed flowers
before?"

      Before Anthy could respond, Nanami snapped, "She's not going to
dye them!"

Heh.

      Touga looked up, alarmed.  "Nanami, the Ends Of The World is not
going to like that one bit.  He--"

Akio suddenly appeared, "No, it's all right. I'm going with teal and just a
touch of butterscotch myself."

      "Don't worry, big brother.  You'll help me draft a letter
explaining it all to him.  He'll certainly see that we can't
*possibly* continue in last year's colors."

paragraph break.

      "You are making absolutely no sense," said Mikage, but he took
the proffered card.  The dim violet illumination from the grow lamps
wasn't enough to read the lettering, let alone determine anything
interesting about the dark side of the card, so Mikage took it to
the desk and turned on the brighter lamp there.

      The one side of the card still appeared simply ... black, to
Mikage.  He read the other side of the card.  He frowned at Mamiya.
"What the heck kind of color is 'Asphalt'?"

Heh. Cute.

Well, I liked it. Very amusing.

DB Sommer



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