[FFML] [Azumanga/DN] The Notebook

[DB Sommer]

Jorge A Pratt wrote:
> DB Sommer wrote:
>   
>> And now my Azumanga drought has come to an end.
>>     
>
> Yay!
>   

% I can't say why nothing really came to me for a while regarding it. 
Not like I was going to try and force anything. Still it was nice to get 
back to the girls, though this was all I had come up with at the moment. 
I do have another Haruhi ficlet in mind, one that might have been 
commision some artwork for it since I kind of like the image it puts in 
my mind.

% And no, it's not Haruhi 'tentacling' Asahina, either.

>   
>> 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. :)
>   

% While I did leave it a touch vague, it does imply Light ended up the 
first victim of his own "Kira'ness. :)

> 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.
>   

% Heh. Although maybe she'd be concerned about which kanataka (sp?) it's 
written in.

>   
>> “—and so this shinigami comes up to me—“
>>     
>
> I'll have to remember that line to use as an ice-breaker.
>   

% Heh.
>   
>> 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.
>   

% And is it really all that impossible. She's just think the legs were 
stilts, or something.

>   
>> “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.
>   

% I already kind of used that grinning with Yomi later. I really need it 
there, so I think it would be redundent to use it again. Also liked the 
fact Tomo came up with a damn good reason for using Osaka as the test 
subject. Light would have approved.

>   
>> 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. ;)
>   

% Nah. Not that grim.

>   
>> “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!
>   

% Yeah, I was really satisfied with the way that one came out. And I 
don't think I'd let Yukari have the power over vanilla or chocolate 
either. ^_^

>   
>> “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.
>   

% Heh.
>   
>> 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
>   

% She'd have one of the few minds no one could anticipate.

% It also occurs to me this is my fourth use of DN, though never in a 
standalone story. But not in a Fusion That Should Never Be either. But i 
guess when a story ends as conclusively as DN did, there isn't too much 
standalone things you can do that don't contradict what happened anyway.

% Hmm. Perhaps a Dragonball, Death Note xover.

% Light: (looking over past pages in the DN) Hey, this Goku guy's name 
keep appearing in this.

% Ryuk: Yeah, we keep killing the bastard, but he keeps coming back to 
life. You'd get writer's cramp trying to keep the guy down.

% Anyway, thanks for the comments. They are appreciated.

DB Sommer

> Later!
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