[FFML] [fanfic][Yotsuba&!][one-shot] Jumbo & Patience (complete)

[Adrian Tymes]

Oh my, oh my.  So many fics, only so much time to C&C.
You're making a backlog for me to get through...eventually.  ;)

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Mythril Moth
<mythrilmoth at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Fuuka shook her head. "Oneechan is *here*, she just isn't *HERE*."

She's over there too.

> "Or even rented him," Fuuka added.
>
> Ena stared hard at Fuuka, cheeks pink. "That was so wrong on SO many
> levels."

Rent-a-Jumbo.  Yours for the low, low price of one thousand yen a day.
Renter assumes responsibility for catching and maintaining Jumbo.
Another fine product of Tendo Industries.

> Asagi smirked. "No, I just felt like some cake and ice cream. I could care
> less about Takeda-san not wanting to go out with me; I only even asked
> because I was bored..."

People keep telling themselves things they desperately wish to be true.

> Miura jumped back in surprise, eyes wide. "EH?!" she exclaimed. "You're
> kidding, right? That missing link is a florist?"

She didn't already know?

> "Asagi-san is very pretty, but I'm patient enough to wait for Miura-chan to
> be even prettier!" Jumbo exclaimed. "Love is like fishing, it's all about
> patience! If you catch a runty little minnow, throw it back! Sooner or
> later, you'll hook koi!"

Unless, of course, the koi wants nothing to do with you, in part due to age
difference (that doesn't go down, in absolute years, over time - even if it
matters less).

> Torako, smoke curling from her cigarette and from her nostrils, observed the
> depressed, listless Asagi. "In that case, there's only one thing to do."
>
> "What's that?" Ena asked.
>
> "We eat her cake before the ice cream completely melts."

A woman who has her priorities straight.

> "I lost it all," Asagi said listlessly. "My cake...my giant...even my
> 'bi'...I've lost everything..." She slumped flat against the table.

Her 'bi'?

> As they walked up the aisle together, leaving the chapel amidst a shower of
> thrown rice and streamers, Miura craned her neck to look up at her husband.
> "I still can't believe you actually waited all this time," she said.
>
> "I always keep my promises," Jumbo said. "And like I said that day ten years
> ago, patience is everything."

How Miura came to accept it, is a story in itself.  And no other pretty lady
turned his head in the mean time.