Interesting title:

Disclaimers at the end of the fic.


"Cats, and other bad influences"

....Other Bad Influences

By Steven Scott

It was a beautiful and warm spring morning. The sun beat down on Sakaki's
shoulders, but it was complimented by a calm breeze that made the heat
bearable. The girl walked briskly, as she would be a little late for

school

otherwise. Normally Sakaki would ensure that she left home in

home with

 more then enough

time to walk to school, but she had become quite distracted today when

she'd

seen a girl playing with a puppy in the park. That had been enough to

fascinate

her for at least ten minutes.
Although she was by far the tallest, coolest and strongest in her class,

Sakaki

had a soft spot for the cute and adorable that could border on obsession
sometimes.

'sometimes'? Try 'all the time' :)

She'd reluctantly torn herself away from the scene when she realised

she would be running late soon if she didn't move.

Sakaki turned into a narrower street. It didn't take long for her to

notice the

cat.

It slept peacefully on top of a wall, dangling it's

its

She felt horribly tempted to try and pet this cat.
This was a problem because as much as Sakaki loved cats, cats seemed to

hate

her much more. For as long as she could remember, her attempts to pet the

cats

around here had resulted in her getting her fingers bit at the last

moment. It

never seemed to fail. No matter how happy and relaxed they looked, or how

long

they followed her seemingly begging to be petted, any time she tried would
usually end with her wrapping her fingers in bandages. It was really

starting

to depress Sakaki. She was starting to think that maybe her hulking size

scared

them, or that maybe if she was a bit smaller and cuter they might like her
more. It was something wrong with her.

Probably spent one thousand previous lifetimes as a fish, and she's simpy
tasty to them. :)

Sakaki shook her head, trying to put the thoughts behind her. She was sure

it

was just something she was doing wrong after all.

I'd drop the 'after all' as being unneccesary

A younger girl with long black hair stood on the other side of the wall.

She

wore a heavy dress in shades of white and grey and carried a long staff

with a

green orb on the end.
The cat bounded down from the top of the wall, a self-satisfied and smug

grin

on its face. It stopped on a crate and addressed its prot�g�.
"I hope you were paying attention, Shia-chan. This is one of the more

advanced,

yet safer techniques a demon can use for destroying a human's life." It

closed

its eyes and started to gloat. "Normally a tall, strong and beautiful

physique

like that would be an asset to a human, but this technique destroys the
subject's self-confidence though a protracted period of complete

rejection!

Well, only when it comes to cats. Otherwise, Sakaki is self-assured

Eventually the subject will become completely obsessed with cats, but will

be

so fearful of them that any kind of contact will be immensely traumatic!

And it

will blame it's

its

unusual appearance for it's

its

"Beautiful? Me? You... think so?"
Nyaa fumed to himself. "Damnit Shia, stop undoing all my hard work!"

Not familiar with what its fused with, though

(A!)



AUTHORS NOTES
Wow, I completely forgot I had this! Even the recent rush of Azumanga fics
didn't remind me until a friend asked if I was expanding this. Just a

strange

idea I had. Was originally going to label it a spamfic, but it didn't turn

out

that funny I guess. So it's just a very short story. Idea was an idle

thought

about "what if the biting cat was another anime cat?" One of the more

surreal

ideas was Luna needing to vent after dealing with Usagi...

Heh

I said I had requests - as this short fic probably reveals, I'd like some

beta

readers.

I'm not much good for prereading as I take forever, but if it's Azumanga,
I'll probably C+C it at some point afterwards.

Omake :
Osaka tried to resist, but it was impossible. So she just closed her eyes,
reached out for either side of the little girl's head, grabbed what she

caught

and pulled... causing a short, shrill scream from the unsuspecting child

as her

hair got pulled.
The older girl slowly opened her eyes and looked at her prizes.

"Waaaooowww!

They really are detachable!"
Koboshi just felt around the sides of her head. "Hey, my cat-ear clips!" -

she

turned to Osaka, who was already obliviously putting the fluffy white

clips on

and thinking of trying to fly - "Hey, give them back! Do you hear me? Give

them

back! I can't be seen without my clips!"

Drawing a blank there as well. Pity, since it sounds like it would be a good
punchline for an omake.

Nice work. I enjoyed it, despite not being familiar with the fused series.

DB Sommer

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