More randomness! I don't own Yugioh Zexal or Poptarts. I would, however, accept money given to sponsor Poptarts. Just saying, I wouldn't say no. Written for a "challenge" my brother gave me to write a story about something incredibly boring and normal, namely, a character eating a poptart. Here ya go, bro. :) Takes place reeeallly early season 1.
Yuma was, once again, running late for school. And, to make matters worse, his grandmother was out visiting old friends, and wasn't there to make him even his usual breakfast. Plus, Akari was out working on a story, and Yuma had neither the time nor skill to make his own breakfast. And so that rushed morning found Yuma sprinting out of the door with nothing more than a hastily grabbed Poptart in his mouth, focusing intensely on not dropping his quick breakfast while pulling on his shoes and buttoning the shirt of his school uniform before taking off at a breakneck pace to get to school if not necessarily on time, but at least not detention-worthy late.
Naturally, this inconvenient time was when Astral decided to materialize from the key-floating alongside Yuma as he continued to sprint his way towards school, taking large bites out of the pastries in his hand. Astral quietly observed the human he was stuck with for a moment, before noticing something different than what had started to become routine. "You are not eating your usual duel fuel" observed the dimensional alien mundanely.
"Hrrmf?" Yuma attempted to ask around a mouthful of breakfast, before swallowing and explaining-slightly exasperated at his unwanted constant companion's pointless comment-
"Yeah, well, grandma's out visiting friends, and Kari is working on somethin' or other" Yuma's expression then grew sheepish, as he added "Plus, I'm running even later than usual, so there wasn't time for much more than grabbing some poptarts and running for it".
" I'm lucky I even had time for that" he ended under his breath.
Astral cocked his head to the side, regarding the young duelist and appear to consider his words. "What is a 'pop tart'?"
Raising an eyebrow in confusion-seriously, the things he had to explain to this guy!- Yuma attempted to swivel his body around to look at his ghost-like friend while maintaining his pace, and held up the half-eaten pastry for the astral being to observe. "It's just like- a food".
"But why is it called a 'pop tart'? Does it explode?"
The late student resisted the urge to facepalm while running-which would more likely than not end with him faceplanting on the ground and he was late enough as it was- and settled instead for rolling his eyes dramatically and replying, "Noooo, they're called that cause you're supposed to stick them in the toaster. Then when they're done toasting they pop out of the toaster. See?"
"But you did not put yours into a toaster" Astral passively observed.
"It's not like I had time to! Anyway, I like them better untoasted".
"But toasting is the purpose of it being called a 'pop' tart, is it not? How is it a 'pop tart' if it has no toaster to pop out of?"
Yuma groaned, sticking the rest of the troublesome pastry that started all of this into his mouth, and said around his full mouth, "You're seriously over complicating this. Poptart is just a name, like any other name. It's still a poptart even if you don't put it in a toaster".
"Hmmph" was all Astral said in reply, appearing to not really buy his companion's statement. However, he did add in his head: Observation number 1a: Yuma understands 'poptarts' about as well as he understands dueling.
Would you believe that I actually have a second chapter for this? Apparently I find poptarts very inspiring. Anyway, thanks for reading, reviews welcome!