Idiot
Title: Idiot
Author: mpemba_effect
Characters: Rikuto/Yuzuki
Summary: Drabbles. Most are in present tense (I need to practice) and a few are in first person.
Notes: Trying to avoid using Ryuu or Kotone.
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1.) Idiot
Rikuto wonders how long Yuzuki can continue reading that paper before it starts burning under her glare. She hasn't started making comments under her breath yet - always a good sign. Once she starts, it's time to evacuate the lab.
He breathes out - she's made it past one page, and even though the embers in her eyes are smoldering, Yuzuki presses on. In about five more minutes, she's finished and glancing at Rikuto with that typical critical look.
"Whoever wrote this was an idiot."
"You're an idiot, then. Or at least you were. You wrote this two years ago."
He braces himself for a verbal beatdown. But instead, she descends on him, obviously having picked up some tactics from that owl of hers.
And even if she's pathetically weak, well, he is even more so. She has a gun, too, and unlike Rikuto, a good aim.
...Maybe I'm the idiot, after all.
* * *
2. ) Moron
"After that statement, Rikuto, I consider you a complete moron. Congratulations."
I blink. Is that supposed to be a compliment? The words indicate no, it's pure sarcasm. But she's smiling - not grinning, actually smiling - not facepalming (or saying "facepalm" out loud, for once), and her usually slow, condescending, clap has...picked up it's pace a bit. According to all of Mitsuru's psychology books (and he has plenty), she should be totally sincere.
"An idiot is a stupid person with a mental age below three years, while a moron is a stupid person with a mental age of between seven to twelve years. You've been promoted."
I don't bother to ask what you call all the other stupid people.
* * *
3.) Opera
It doesn't take me very long to realize that Rikuto hates opera. So I criticize him for not appreciating "art" - even though I don't exactly love it myself - while he asks me why I would ever want to listen to a bunch of fat ladies warbling ridiculously high notes. And, of course, why are they so fat? I point out that one of the women is quite slim.
He just raises an eyebrow and points again.
"Yuzuki, that's a man."
* * *
4.) Bad Memory (References to Takane no Hana: Chapter 14)
"Yuzuki, could you do this for a moment?"
"No."
"If you don't, I can always throw Ryuu's food out a window and fence it in so that even the birds can't eat it. Then I'll film it and have it continuously relayed to your phone...That would be a pathetic waste of nutrition, wouldn't it?"
"...Not to mention of fencing. And film. Fine."
He hands her a sheet of math homework. Pathetic stuff from elementary school - no, probably high school by now, judging by the stupidity of people these days. But since Rikuto has threatened to waste food, Yuzuki reluctantly picks up a pencil to begin it. Who gave him this thing, anyways?
A closer look.
What is 1+1?
What is -1 + -1?
Explain why the sum of any two integers can never be a decimal.
Explain why the sum of two positive integers can never be zero.
"..."
Rikuto begins to formulate a snarky comment, but she turns and glares at him. He runs.
* * *
5.) Love Triangle
"You have to fight for me. Not that I could ever love either of you, of course, but I might reward the winner's valour by deeming to talk to him or her..."
Yuzuki and Rikuto exchanged a quick glance and Kyuki felt just a little bit jealous. Not the same kind of jealous he got when Miaki talked to Dante - just the kind of jealousy that occurred naturally whenever a worshipper turned from their god to look briefly at a lesser object. He was relieved (for them, not for himself, of course, because he was invulnerable and therefore there was no danger to be relieved about) when they turned their eyes back towards him.
Even if Rikuto was muttering something about a brain experiment.
* * *
6.) Misery
Yuzuki was no longer surprised by Rikuto's breaks in professionalism. She let him yell, once in a while, without yelling back too much. And if he wanted to take a short break or eat something, that was fine, too. After all, it wasted time he could otherwise be using to get smarter than her (Paranoid? Yuzuki? Never).
But when he actually started brooding, she couldn't help but be annoyed. Rikuto was supposed to be the calm, super-focused, academic. Not some sort of moody teenager writing horrible poetry and constantly wallowing in self-pity...
She was entitled to kick him once in a while. Right?
It wasn't her fault that he insisted on doing his weeping on that unstable spinning chair.
* * *
7.) Frogs
She was the one frog in the lab that hadn't already died in one of Rikuto's experiments, mainly because she was his animal.
And now, Enyo had snatched her up and had one of those tiny little legs stuck in his mouth. The owl was perched up too high for him to reach without risking his dignity (which he would not do, not even for his precious "assistant") and angled just so that none of Rikuto's tools could reach him.
Just when he thought the frog would be swallowed, she gave a weak spasm and fell two feet to the countertop, shaken and smelling like owl, but very much alive.
So this was why Mitsuru hated Enyo so much.
...I bet there are billions of typos here. Please feel free to point them out.
I think I'm going to do drabbles on Ren, Miaki, and Dante, next, purely because I suck at writing those three characters.
Don't read, your eyes will burn.
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Author: mpemba_effect
Characters: Rikuto/Yuzuki
Summary: Drabbles. Most are in present tense (I need to practice) and a few are in first person.
Notes: Trying to avoid using Ryuu or Kotone.
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1.) Idiot
Rikuto wonders how long Yuzuki can continue reading that paper before it starts burning under her glare. She hasn't started making comments under her breath yet - always a good sign. Once she starts, it's time to evacuate the lab.
He breathes out - she's made it past one page, and even though the embers in her eyes are smoldering, Yuzuki presses on. In about five more minutes, she's finished and glancing at Rikuto with that typical critical look.
"Whoever wrote this was an idiot."
"You're an idiot, then. Or at least you were. You wrote this two years ago."
He braces himself for a verbal beatdown. But instead, she descends on him, obviously having picked up some tactics from that owl of hers.
And even if she's pathetically weak, well, he is even more so. She has a gun, too, and unlike Rikuto, a good aim.
...Maybe I'm the idiot, after all.
* * *
2. ) Moron
"After that statement, Rikuto, I consider you a complete moron. Congratulations."
I blink. Is that supposed to be a compliment? The words indicate no, it's pure sarcasm. But she's smiling - not grinning, actually smiling - not facepalming (or saying "facepalm" out loud, for once), and her usually slow, condescending, clap has...picked up it's pace a bit. According to all of Mitsuru's psychology books (and he has plenty), she should be totally sincere.
"An idiot is a stupid person with a mental age below three years, while a moron is a stupid person with a mental age of between seven to twelve years. You've been promoted."
I don't bother to ask what you call all the other stupid people.
* * *
3.) Opera
It doesn't take me very long to realize that Rikuto hates opera. So I criticize him for not appreciating "art" - even though I don't exactly love it myself - while he asks me why I would ever want to listen to a bunch of fat ladies warbling ridiculously high notes. And, of course, why are they so fat? I point out that one of the women is quite slim.
He just raises an eyebrow and points again.
"Yuzuki, that's a man."
* * *
4.) Bad Memory (References to Takane no Hana: Chapter 14)
"Yuzuki, could you do this for a moment?"
"No."
"If you don't, I can always throw Ryuu's food out a window and fence it in so that even the birds can't eat it. Then I'll film it and have it continuously relayed to your phone...That would be a pathetic waste of nutrition, wouldn't it?"
"...Not to mention of fencing. And film. Fine."
He hands her a sheet of math homework. Pathetic stuff from elementary school - no, probably high school by now, judging by the stupidity of people these days. But since Rikuto has threatened to waste food, Yuzuki reluctantly picks up a pencil to begin it. Who gave him this thing, anyways?
A closer look.
What is 1+1?
What is -1 + -1?
Explain why the sum of any two integers can never be a decimal.
Explain why the sum of two positive integers can never be zero.
"..."
Rikuto begins to formulate a snarky comment, but she turns and glares at him. He runs.
* * *
5.) Love Triangle
"You have to fight for me. Not that I could ever love either of you, of course, but I might reward the winner's valour by deeming to talk to him or her..."
Yuzuki and Rikuto exchanged a quick glance and Kyuki felt just a little bit jealous. Not the same kind of jealous he got when Miaki talked to Dante - just the kind of jealousy that occurred naturally whenever a worshipper turned from their god to look briefly at a lesser object. He was relieved (for them, not for himself, of course, because he was invulnerable and therefore there was no danger to be relieved about) when they turned their eyes back towards him.
Even if Rikuto was muttering something about a brain experiment.
* * *
6.) Misery
Yuzuki was no longer surprised by Rikuto's breaks in professionalism. She let him yell, once in a while, without yelling back too much. And if he wanted to take a short break or eat something, that was fine, too. After all, it wasted time he could otherwise be using to get smarter than her (Paranoid? Yuzuki? Never).
But when he actually started brooding, she couldn't help but be annoyed. Rikuto was supposed to be the calm, super-focused, academic. Not some sort of moody teenager writing horrible poetry and constantly wallowing in self-pity...
She was entitled to kick him once in a while. Right?
It wasn't her fault that he insisted on doing his weeping on that unstable spinning chair.
* * *
7.) Frogs
She was the one frog in the lab that hadn't already died in one of Rikuto's experiments, mainly because she was his animal.
And now, Enyo had snatched her up and had one of those tiny little legs stuck in his mouth. The owl was perched up too high for him to reach without risking his dignity (which he would not do, not even for his precious "assistant") and angled just so that none of Rikuto's tools could reach him.
Just when he thought the frog would be swallowed, she gave a weak spasm and fell two feet to the countertop, shaken and smelling like owl, but very much alive.
So this was why Mitsuru hated Enyo so much.
...I bet there are billions of typos here. Please feel free to point them out.
I think I'm going to do drabbles on Ren, Miaki, and Dante, next, purely because I suck at writing those three characters.
Don't read, your eyes will burn.
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