25 Days of Christmas
Summary: Botan based romance drabbles posted every day in December until Christmas. Crossovers are with: FMA IY DBZ YGO. Rating may change.
Rating for this chapter: T
Genre: Romance/Humor
Paring: Yusuke/Botan
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho
Author's Note: I'm slowly catching up…
Chapter Twelve: Katakana
Reader's P.O.V.
Botan gave him a strange look, cocking her eyebrow at the slumped man next to her. She couldn't believe it. Sure, everyone knew Yusuke didn't have all the lights on upstairs… but not being able to read katakana? Now that was just sad… (1)
"Yusuke, you can't read katakana? Seriously?" Botan asked between giggles.
Yusuke gave her a half-hearted glare and nodded, as much as he hated it. He bit back a sigh. She wasn't going to let this go, would she? He sort of regretted all those times he made fun of her hair…
He gave her a look as she moved over next to him, writing in a pad of paper. The pen danced on the page, creating squiggles and swirls that gave Yusuke a serious headache. She shoved it in Yusuke's face.
"You can't read this then?" Yusuke gave a mock growl and took the paper, shoving it to the ground in his hissy-fit.
"No, I can't! Can you, Botan?"
Botan decided not to answer that, shoving the piece of paper back into her pad of paper, and then she put the pad of paper into her pocket. She got up, a smile on her face, a burden lifted off her shoulders. Confusion filled Yusuke as he got up, following her, asking her what the hell did it mean. She didn't answer that, the smile still prominent on her face. In truth, she was pleased that he couldn't read katakana. And what it said, she would tell never Yusuke. Never. But she would say to a random person that it involved an 'I', a 'love', and a 'you'.
And the name of the man in love with Keiko Yukimora.
(1) Katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin alphabet. The word katakana means "fragmentary kana," as they are derived from components of more complex kanji.
Katakana are characterized by short straight strokes and angular corners, and are the simplest of the Japanese scripts.
You can learn more about katakana and kanji from wikipedia.
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