Alas, the time has come! I reveal myself as the author chosen by Funari herself to parody her popular fic 'Flutter'. Indeed, she has given me the power to do this and I am going to try my best to mix my form of ridiculous humour with the original story of 'Flutter', changing pieces here and there to give it my own special flair!
Here is the first chapter (It's a lot like the original), but the dialogue is a bit different and some events are changed slightly. Even so, it will get better and I hope you enjoy!
The school's chime system went off, informing the students that yes indeed, it was time for lunch. Thusly, the students processed out of their classrooms in myriad small packages of two or three, sometimes more. They chatted idly as some went for food at the café whilst others unwrapped their bento and glowered grimly at the contents. Two girls sat with desks pushed together chewing on their curried rice.
"So, I heard your sister got in trouble last night.", said Nanoka to her friend, Rei.
Rei nodded. "Yeah, she yelled at mom. Said she was gonna kill her!"
Nanoka gasped. "Did she mean it!?"
Rei gave Nanoka a piercing look. "Sometimes…I think she does…."
That would make for an interesting story, eh? But, alas those aren't the girls we're focusing on! We, on the other hand, are entertaining the story of two girls in another classroom that go by the names Tomo Takino and Koyomi Mizuhara. They were not discussing a possible future murder, but instead having a talk about the upcoming high school entrance exams.
"So, Yomi", Tomo said, referring to the girl's nickname. "What school are you going to?"
"Oh, you know….", Yomi responded glumly, yet hiding a mischievous sneer. "The one that only accepts the best and brightest."
"WHAT!?", Tomo shouted, slamming her fists on the desk. "You're out of your mind!!"
"Maybe you're out of you're mind.", Yomi nodded, taking a bite of rice.
"Oh, no, no,no.", Tomo chided. "Not at all. In fact, I'm going to try for that same school!"
Yomi lifted her head to regard Tomo's insanity. "You, Tomo Takino, are going to try for that school? How insane are you?"
"Oh, Koyomi…", Tomo put on a false pained expression. "Are you saying that I cannot do it? That I am not smart enough? Oh, how dare you strike my heart in such a manner!?"
"Because you won't make it. I know that. Just look at your grades.", Yomi informed her.
"That's crap! We all know the teachers secretly grade based on how much they like each student!", Tomo proposed.
Yomi shook her head sadly. "Even if it was so, I bet you still wouldn't be able to make it."
"Hey! Great idea!", Tomo said, hopping on Yomi's desk and staring her in the eyes.
"Huh?", Yomi asked, a bit uncomfortable.
"A bet! We'll make a bet!", Tomo said, excited as ever.
Yomi looked at her friend with pitiful disdain. Poor girl…
"Is this another one of those bets where if you win I have to get you a ray gun or a mech or something?"
Tomo shook her head.
"Nah, it's..WAIT A SEC! You still owe me a jetpack after I ate more bread than you!"
Yomi sighed and rubbed her temples.
"Anyhow….as I was saying, If I don't get into that school, I'll do whatever you want! Anything!", Tomo said.
"Anything, eh? Even shut up for the rest of the year?", Yomi smirked.
"Even that! God, how it will pain me!", Tomo said.
"Can we just say that I win already?", Yomi chuckled.
"Oh, shhh! You party pooper!", Tomo said. "If I get accepted though, we eat lunch on the train tracks!'
Yomi sighed again. "That's a good place to get us picked up as vagrants…", she said, speaking of the abandoned train tracks that ran near the school.
"Ok, fine. How about…", Tomo grinned. "The Edge of the World?"
Yomi was taken aback. The Edge of the World was an old abandoned warehouse near the school that gained that nickname due to the bizarre and scary rumours that many students told of it. Some say it was possessed by ghosts. Others say it houses a gateway to Hell. Some just say it has lots of rats. Of course, these stories are considered just tall tales that all adolescents tell. Yet, the place was still scary…
"Tomo, what the heck?", Yomi asked.
"So, Koyomi," Tomo mocked. "Do you accept?"
"Fine, whatever.", Yomi agreed, not wanting Tomo to suggest anything more absurd.
Tomo's face looked as if she was floating in some utopian place as she spoke. "Oh, Yomi….I've always wanted to eat at The End of the World…something about it is just so….cool! We'll be able to see the whole city from the top floors and maybe we'll meet a ghost! Remember, I did offer before, but you rejected me…."
Yomi blushed in embarrassment. Now she looked like a wimp…
"anyhow, we're totally gonna eat there because I, Tomo Takino, will make it into that school, just you wait! All of a sudden, you'll be showing me with praise!", Tomo laughed raucously as Yomi just groaned.
The next week, all the final year junior high students were preparing like little armadillos for the high school entrance exams. As she waited for the exam to begin, Yomi sat in silent contemplation, wondering if Tomo, of all people, could actually make the grade. Strange thing was, since that bet they had made the previous week, Tomo had been cramming her brain full of information. Whenever Yomi saw her she was studying with a vicious intent; filling her brain with all that lost information. Yomi giggled, remembering a conversation they had recently.
"Tomo, today's the day.", Yomi pointed out.
"Quiet!", Tomo said, holding out her index finger and never removing her eyes from the book she was reading. "I'm trying to fill all the cracks in my brain here."
"Ok, but-"
"I said quiet!"
Yomi giggled as she walked away from the girl then, seeing it as a futile effort that Tomo was making. Yet, she couldn't help but feel proud of her academically challenged friend finally taking up arms; causing her to let loose a light blush.
"Maybe she just wants our friendship to last longer…", Yomi muttered, her mind returning to focusing on the test in front of her.
Two hours passed and the test ended. Cries of 'Thank friggin' God!" and "That was wicked….", echoed throughout the testing hall as the stress-released students exited. Yomi was pleased to find out that Tomo was back to being a hyper annoyance, due to her jumping on Yomi's back for a ride as they left the test hall.
"I think I did pretty darn good.", Tomo informed her friend as she jumped off her back. "Now, how about we scope out a nice place to eat at The End of the World?", she finished with a grin.
"Heck no!", Yomi said. "What if they look at our school records. Those will be the end for you.", she pointed out.
"You think they will!?", Tomo shouted then laughed the stress away. "No, no ,no! The high schools just look at the test grades!"
"Maybe they should also test your sanity….", Yomi mumbled which caused Tomo to playfully punch her arm.
Many days passed, some say it was a week, others say it was nearly a month. Let's just settle on two weeks then! Both Tomo and Yomi had received a letter from the school. Yomi was accepted which caused Tomo to laugh at her, simply for the sake of laughing. Tomo waited though, taking her letter to school the day after she had gotten it. To make matters worse for Yomi, she dragged out the moment of truth for what seemed like forever.
"Tomo! Open it! Do it; you won't do it! Do it!", Yomi was nearly jumping out of her skin in anticipation.
"Yomi….you're acting a lot like me…It's freakin' me out…", Tomo shivered a bit. It was a scary thought.'
"Just open it and I'll stop!", Yomi said.
"You wanna see what's inside?", Tomo chided, biting the envelope sensually and licking it, making it look like a terrible porno for mail carriers.
"Stop it and just open it, dammit!", Yomi exploded.
Tomo sighed. "Well, if you say so!", she grinned.
Tomo ripped open the letter, taking her sweet time pulling out the letter within. Yomi nearly gave herself a hernia holding her breath. With a small, proper cough Tomo opened the letter and read it aloud.
"Dear Miss Tomo Takino,"she read,"We are proud to announce that you have been accepted- WAHOO!! IN YOUR FACE!!", she screamed the ending, jumping up and down and spiraling about the room in glee. Yomi, on the other hand, sat with a glazed expression for a moment before rising.
"THE END IS COMING!", she screamed in her surprise-induced insanity, running and apparently not seeing that the door was closed….
"Yomi! Hey, Yomi ya awake?"
Yomi opened her eyes. Yet, all she could see was a blending of colours. One of the blobs moved and she screamed.
"Calm down, Yomi!", said the talking blob as it placed something on her face.
It was Tomo placing her glasses on her face, thusly she could now see that they were in the school nurse's office.
"What…happened?", Yomi asked, clearly confused.
"Oh, just wait until you hear this!", Tomo then told the tale of how she was accepted to the school and how Yomi's jaw had nearly struck the floor before she ran directly into the door, in an apparent effort to kill herself.
Yomi shook her head, knowing that at least some of it was exaggeration.
"But, you're ok, right?", Tomo asked quietly, strictly concerned for her friend at the moment.
"I'm fine.", Yomi said, sitting up and holding her head. "You really made it, huh?"
Tomo nodded quickly. "Yep! So tomorrow we dine at The Edge of The World!"
"You remember that!?", Yomi screamed in terror.
"Of course! Can't forget something like that!", Tomo said, laughing like a beech nut. Yes, a specific nut.
Yomi fell back onto the cot, covering her eyes with her arm. 'Damn that Tomo….', she thought.
That night, as Yomi was preparing for bed, there came a loud THUMP from her window. She jumped in shock and tiptoed toward the window to peer out. There, from the ground, rose up Tomo who was rubbing a rapidly forming bump on her head. Yomi slid the window open.
"Tomo….what the heck?"
"I thought it was open!", she said, stepping inside.
"Did I say you could come in?", Yomi said in a strangely motherly tone.
"You're the loser. I'm allowed into the loser's room.", Tomo grinned.
"That was never….", Yomi groaned, knowing the arguing would do no good.
Instead, she just climbed into bed, hoping Tomo would wander off into an incinerator somewhere. Yet, Tomo just sat on her bed kicking her feet in the air impatiently. It was only quiet for what seemed like a moment.
"You know, after we eat at The Edge of the World", Tomo said, idly fingering the hem of her pants, "there's this really neat place I want to show you."
"Oh, really?", Yomi mumbled, not noticing the slight shiver to Tomo's voice.
"Yeah, r-really….", Tomo said, moving towards the window, preparing to head home. A sigh escaped her lips.
Yomi shuffled in her bed, getting more comfortable. Tomo paused and then spoke.
"Say Yomi, have you ever looked at the stars on a clear night?"
"I've tried, but there's usually too many lights on around here. Why?", Yomi responded.
"Oh, no real reason. At least you'll get to see them better tomorrow. Unless we get eaten by a ghost or something.", Tomo said, proceeding to pull Yomi out of bed for a goodnight hug and then leaving through the window with a short hop.
The two of them prepared for bed that night, trying their best to take a gaze at the stars; yet, as was predicted, they simply could not see any due to the copious lights of the neighborhood. Regardless, they knew that the next day would be special. Yes, as special as a newborn tidal pool.
More to come and I promise it will digress more from the original and get far stranger as it progresses!
