Waiting for Setsuna
by DDFA (Mark A Page)

Naoko Takeuchi owns these characters. I sincerely doubt she'd want
to have anything to do with the way I persistently bastardise them.
^_^

Part Eight - The Intelligentia

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Scene: Haruka and Michiru, sitting on a brick wall in an empty park,
somewhere in Tokyo. In the background are the sounds of distant
explosions and various emergency vehicles. There is smoke blowing
across the sky from somewhere in another part of town. Haruka is
staring off into space whilst Michiru is looking up at her with an
air of suggestive mischievousness.


Haruka: She's late.

Michiru: Yes, she's late.

Haruka: Very very late.

Michiru: Yes, she's very very late.

Michiru looks away.

Haruka: .....

Michiru: .....

Haruka: .....

Michiru: .....

Haruka: We're really not doing much better than that pair at
waiting, are we?

Michiru: We do seem to have reached a form of impasse in our
conversational capacities.

Haruka: One would have expected somewhat more from two stylish
individuals, like ourselves.

Michiru: Oh, most definitely.... We are FAR more interesting
than the pair of feeble-minded cretins we replaced.

Haruka: I couldn't agree with you more.

Michiru: So, what is stopping us from the usual form of witty
repartee that we usually have?

Haruka: Probably a case of afterglow....

Michiru: .....

Haruka: What are you looking at me like that, for?

Michiru: Afterglow?

Haruka: Eheh.... Sorry.... I can't help it with the suggestive
comments, sometimes.

Michiru: Mou.... Haruka....

Haruka: Eheh.

Michiru: Mind you, you could be right.

Haruka: Hmm?

Michiru: With that apparatus we used, I'm just aching all over.

Haruka: Ge!

Michiru: It took such a long time to put together, after it
arrived in the post.

Haruka: Michiru....

Michiru: What?

Haruka: You don't have to go into specifics about what we get up
to in public.

Michiru: Why not? It's public knowledge, anyway.

Haruka: Because there might be some poor, misguided SOS newbie
reading this.... It'll damage them for life.

Michiru: Hmph. I care not for such individuals. They lack
class. And they make up lots of stuff about us....

Haruka: Hmm....

Michiru: .....

Haruka: .....

Michiru: .....

Haruka: .....

Michiru: You know, she's probably been and gone.

Haruka: Who?

Michiru: You know. Setsuna.

Haruka: What do you mean?

Michiru: She would have known, beforehand, that she had to be
here, now.

Haruka: Of course she would have.... I told her.

Michiru: No, I mean BEFORE you told her.

Haruka: Oh, right.

Michiru: Yes, she's probably been and gone.... Got sick of
waiting for us to get here.

Haruka: Or she arranged this, behind our backs, all along, like
some devious, Machiavellian plan.

Michiru: She's probably hiding around here, somewhere, having a
good laugh at our expense.

Both look at each other, then peer behind the wall for a moment.
They shrug and turn away.

Haruka: That would just be silly.

Michiru: Yes. Rather paranoid of us.

Haruka: But with Setsuna, you never really know, do you?

Michiru: She MIGHT just do it, to catch us off our guard.

Haruka: She's a sneaky one, I tell you.

Michiru: Setting us up, here, to wait in place of that other pair
might have been her plan, all along.

Haruka: Yes.... Something of vital importance might happen
here, something that will affect the future of Crystal
Tokyo.

Michiru: We might be called upon to use our powers to defeat
another hideous enemy.

Haruka: .....

Michiru: .....

Haruka: Do I see smoke over there?

Michiru: Where?

Haruka: Over there.

Michiru: You mean where the plane came down?

Haruka: Oh, that's what it was. I was wondering.

Michiru: Must have been hundreds on that plane.

Haruka: Yeah, lots of bodies.

Michiru: Those poor people.

Haruka: Still, it's better than dropping a space colony on
someone.

Michiru: Ouch.... There goes Sydney again.

Haruka: Some people will consider anything to stop Australia
winning medals in the Commonwealth Games.... Especially
those Canadians.

Michiru: Only if they're from Edmonton.

Haruka: Where?

Michiru: Edmonton.

Haruka: Never heard of it.

Michiru: Nobody's heard of Adelaide, either.

Haruka: All the better, I say.

Michiru: Hmm.... Whatever.

Haruka: .....

Michiru: .....

Haruka: .....

Michiru: .....

Haruka: She's late.

Michiru: Yes, she's late.

Haruka: Very very late.

Michiru: Yes, she's very very late.

Haruka: .....

Michiru: Probably off having an illicit affair with Mamoru-
san....

Haruka: MICHIRU!

Michiru: Teehee.


END OF PART 8

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Will Setsuna ever arrive? Is there really a place such as Edmonton,
or is it all a figment of their imaginations? Stay tuned for the
next exciting installment of the enthralling wait by Haruka and
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