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Notes: This was written for the five things meme at LiveJournal, so the theme is a suggested prompt. 5x100 words.

Five times the vending machine ate Osaka's money,

or

V for Vending Machine


1.
 "I can't believe we can't get anything cold on a day like this," Tomo complained, wiping the sweat off her brow with her sleeve.

"Ice tea," Yomi muttered.

"Ice cream," Chiyo said dreamily.

"Anything cold!" Kagura said.

"Chiyo-chan, you sure you haven't any money hidden away somewhere?" Tomo asked.

"Sorry," Chiyo said apologetically.

"Hey!" Osaka said, picking up and triumphantly holding up the coin she'd spotted on the ground.

Tomo pushed Osaka toward a vending machine. "Juuuice! Nooow!"

The machine ate the coin.

"Noooo! Whyyyy?" Tomo sobbed.

"There's a lesson to be learned here," Kagura sighed. "Anyone know what it is?"


2.
"I think I'll get some juice," Osaka said. She inserted her coin and waited, but nothing happened. Sighing, she took out a new coin, and was just about to try it when Chiyo grabbed her hand.

"That's not a Euro, is it?"

"Yes."

"Those won't work. Only Yen do."

"How strange. Why should everyone in Europe have to get Yen just to use vending machines? Besides, my dad said they worked when he used them."

"Was he in Europe at the time?" Sakaki asked.

"Yes, but... Oh!" Osaka looked enlightened. "How ingenious! That's so practical!"

"Amazing," Chiyo agreed. Sakaki nodded.


3.
"What's with the look, Osaka?" Tomo asked. "You look like the world's about to end."

"Save meee..." Osaka said faintly. "It ate the moneeey."

"That's not really a catastrophe, Osaka," Yomi said, glancing at the vending machine.

"Nope, not a catastrophe," Tomo agreed cheerfully. "Definitely funny, though,"

Osaka was practically shaking. "Yukari-sensei sent me to get her some juice. Her money. The last of her pay this month."

"Ooooh," Tomo said, not without a hint (and an anvil-sized one, at that) of gleeful schadenfreude.

Yomi took Osaka's hand and shook it solemnly. "It has been nice knowing you," she said.


4.
"Hold on," Osaka said. With a determined look on her face, she walked up to the machine and put in a coin.

Sakaki looked away, blushing, while the other girls watched and waited with varying degrees of interest. And waited. And waited.

Nothing.

Finally, Osaka gave up, returning to them with a dejected look on her face.

Tomo burst out laughing hysterically. "What'd you need a condom for anyway?" she finally managed.

"Nothing," Osaka admitted. "Just had a sudden irresistible urge to get one. But I think the universe is trying to tell me something."

"Subtle, universe. Subtle," Yomi said.


5.
"Aaargh! This stupid thing ate my money!"

"Don't let it defeat you, Tomo!" Kagura yelled. "Try again!"

"I don't have anymore money!" Tomo yelled back.

"I'll defeat it, then!" Kagura yelled, practically attacking the machine with her coin, but to no avail.

"My turn!" Osaka declared, stepping up to meet the challenge, but neither her coin nor her look of determination worked on the stubborn machine.

"Give it up," Yomi said.

"All right! Again!" Tomo yelled, and Kagura stepped up to attack it once more. Both of them ignored Yomi completely.

"Bonklers!" Tomo yelled.

"Banzai!" Osaka said.

"Whyyy?" Yomi sighed.