[FFML] [Azumanga/DN] The Notebook

[Jorge A Pratt]

DB Sommer wrote:
> And now my Azumanga drought has come to an end.

Yay!

> The youth snapped, “I keep telling you my name is not Moonbeam. It’s
> Light. Light Yagami.”
>
> “Oh.” Osaka considered that. “You have to admit, it’s easy to get
> confused since the names are a lot alike.”
>
> “They are nothing alike! Why don’t you write my name down so you
> remember it?”
>
> “Good idea.” Osaka pulled a notebook out from under her arm and began
> to write in it.

I made a neighbor look out the window, I was laughing so hard. It helps that 
I'm not exactly the biggest fan of Mr. Potato Chip, but the justice here is 
just indescribably funny. :)

I wonder if Osaka would take up the offer on the Shinigami Eyes. Gotta 
admit, it'd make it a hell of a lot easier to remember names --no more 
running into familiar faces on the street and having to admit you forgot 
their names.

> “—and so this shinigami comes up to me—“

I'll have to remember that line to use as an ice-breaker.

> Tomo snickered. “This is probably the best practical joke anyone’s
> pulled on me. It’s right up there with me suckering Yomi into walking
> through a bunch of poison ivy in only a swimsuit.” She looked over
> Ryuk slowly. “Hmm. Yomi’s thighs are thicker than that. Not enough
> chest for Sakaki. I’m going to guess it’s Chiyo-chan. Nice costume,
> by the way.
> Way cooler than the penguin outfit.”

...and Tomo thinking that the tiniest student in the school is disguised as 
a 7ft.-tall, lanky, monkey-like god of death is really, really out there.

Not to say that I wouldn't put it past her.

> “I hope I don’t need to take that many notes,” Osaka said worriedly,
> then asked Tomo, “Whose name did you write in it?”
>
> Tomo hummed the theme to Jeopardy as she stared at her watch. “Yours.”

Hmm. I think that would've worked a _bit_ better if Tomo had just stared at 
Osaka, huge grin and all, as she hummed the Jeopardy theme for 40 seconds. 
Maybe even tapping her pencil topass the time. When nothing happened, she'd 
look disappointed and confess.

> Tomo pointed at Osaka. “No way. I wrote her name in the book and
> nothing happened.”
>
> Ryuk picked up the book and looked to see exactly what Tomo had
> written. “It just says ‘Osaka’, in here.”
>
> “Yep.”

I half-expected to hear about the spontaneous death of everyone in Osaka on 
the next day's news. But then I remembered you need a face to go with the 
name. ;)

> “She threw it into an incinerator!” Yukari slammed her fist down on
> the desk. “She said she wouldn’t give me the power to choose between
> vanilla
> or chocolate, let alone who gets to live and die.

That line is pure gold. Into the quote file it goes!

> “I’m going to use it as a notebook for math,” Osaka said.
>
> “Go ahead and kill those numbers,” Yukari encouraged.

Knowing Osaka, she probably could.

And would.

> Ryuk began crying. He had learned a valuable lesson. Some things were
> worse than boredom. Much worse.
>
> Things like frustration.

Aww, poor little death god. Here, have an apple.

The best (worst?) of it is that, suddenly, I can see Osaka and L really 
hitting it off. o_O

Later!

-- 
Jorge A. Pratt