Consideration
An Azumanga Daioh fanfiction by Sir Psycho Sexy
A/N: Azumanga Daioh isn't mine, yada yada. Spoilers for Episode 19 ahoy. Girls with girls, don't like, don't read!
So I got bitten with this terrible plotbunny after watching Episode 19. The Yukari/Nyamo overtones were so blatantly obvious that I had to write this. This is my first foray into the Azumanga Daioh fandom. So I'm going to give it my all.
-SPS
Yukari-sensei and Kurosawa-sensei were nestled under a cherry tree, watching the gentle breeze lift the petals in swirls down to the ground.
"I STILL can't believe you said that." Nyamo looked at Yukari indignantly. "Why would you say such a thing to a bunch of nice guys! We could have had a chance!"
"Aww, it was to spice things up." Yukari laughed nervously as she lifted yet another cup full of sake to her lips. "Besides, a lot of it was true."
"But…you don't tell GUYS that! At least the kind that you want to marry! You drove them out of the bar!"
"Listen, Nyamo, I may be drunk, but I am NOT stupid." Yukari glared right at her. "Besides, I betcha those guys have pornos like that, anyhoo."
"Yukari, it was once or twice when we were in college! No guys would date us! Besides, I was soused!"
"…But it was fun, wasn't it?" Yukari waggled her index finger suspiciously, as if she were to reel Nyamo in yet again.
An awkward silence fell over the both of them as the cherry blossoms continued to fall. Nyamo looked at her friend, the one she had had the drunken trysts with, the one she had a friendly rivalry with. She blushed a bit looking at her, and then, decided to move away from all of this talk and change the subject.
"I think I'm going to take up my mom's offer of an arranged marriage."
Yukari looked at her, knowing that this was an obligation to her family, something she had to do to save face. But there was the one niggling little doubt inside Nyamo's mind that Yukari could feel…
"Are you sure?"
"I-I don't know." Nyamo sighed and seemed to collapse into herself. Another awkward silence managed to wedge itself in between the two women.
"Well…men aren't all there is to life, yanno. We could still be swinging singles!"
"It's…not quite like that. It's more that…men aren't my thing."
Yukari nodded sagely, and half-joked, "We could still fool around behind his back. Even when we weren't drunk. And maybe you could adopt me into your family registry as your cousin or something! Think about it!"
Nyamo perked up slightly. "You mean…you'd do that? For me?"
Yukari merely nodded. She had liked Nyamo from the first day they had met, but it was not until she made the first move that the subject of a serious relationship became under consideration.
-FIN