Lucky Legacy Gaiden

A Day in the Life

The Ensemble

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"Hmm…let's see…if I attach the skateboard to the jet engine…tie it to the time machine…point it in the direction of the robot zombies and…summon Cthulhu!" Patty said happily, clicking her touch screen with the tip of her stylus. "Hey wait…don't eat the skateboard! Put the T-Rex down!! No! No! Bad Cthulhu! Bad!" Patty frantically clicked away her screen as her friends and several passersby gave her odd looks out of the corner of their eyes.

"Ummm…Is Patty-chan going to be all right?" Yutaka whispered nervously, looking worriedly at Patty, who chewing on the end of her stylus thoughtfully.

Hiyori shook her head. "Her sister sent her a new game that just came out in America. She hasn't stopped playing since Saturday."

"Yeah…but…" Minami said.

"She gets this way about video games." Hiyori said dismissively, holding the door open for her friends. "Once we were playing this guitar game and she got so in to it she performed a stage dive right on to her table."

"How was I supposed to know the table wasn't impact resistant…" Patty mumbled darkly, snapping her game shut.

"Aww…did somebody's game make her cranky?" Hiyori said, lightly bumping Patty in the side.

Patty crossed her arms in a stubborn pout. "For a game that supposedly lets you, "write anything, solve anything" it's surprisingly stingy when it comes to letting you use beings of eldritch horror."

"Well maybe if you didn't use that Cthu-thingy all the time, he wouldn't feel the need to devour your creations."

"Do not insult the Old Ones, Hiyorin." Patty said with mock sternness, holding the door to the class room open. "They take it very badly when you make fun of them."

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"…if you take into account the diagram on page 1.18 of your handout and factor in the statistics going back almost a decade," Kuroi paused as she quickly jotted a few numbers down on the blackboard. "This clearly illustrates that Chiba Lotte Marines are now, and ever shall be the greatest organization in professional baseball." Kuroi finished with a satisfied sigh, truning around to a very bewildered group of students. "Any questions?"

Before the strangeness of the situation could set in, the bell rang. "Well, that's lunch." Kuroi said, casualluy slinging her jacket over her shoulder and grabbing her bag with her free hand. "Meet back here at one." With that, she left her students to stew in their own bewilderment.

"Well…I think I speak for all of us when I say…Huh?!" Hiyori said.

"How did we go from the late restoration period to talking about baseball?" Yutaka said, genuinely confused.

"Well…I suppose you could look at it from an allegorical point of view…" Minami said, looking at her notes to try and see where the two overlapped. "I'm not sure how, but…"

"What point of view?" Hiyori asked, turning her notes around. "It's totally ridiculous!"

"I agree…" Patty said, thoughtfully. "Chiba hasn't even been to a series since 2005!"

"Exactly! I-wait, what?" Hiyori suddenly stopped.

"Well, if you want to look at it objectively, the ones with the most series would be Seibu or Yoriumi. And that's not to say Chiba isn't good; now that Iguchi was released by the Padres they might have a good…what?" Patty looked uncomfortably at her friends who were looking at her like she had sprouted mushrooms from her ears.

"Nothing…" Hiyori coughed. "Just didn't take you for a baseball fan."

"I have other interests besides manga and anime!" Patty huffed.

"We know…we just didn't expect you to be such an expert on Japanese baseball." Minami said peaceably.

Patty opened her mouth like she was about to say something but instead opened her lunch and crammed a fried egg in her mouth, chewing intently.

"Well Nee-chan did say Kuroi-sensei had her…er…oddities…" Yutaka said, picking at her rice.

"Well your cousin would know, huh?" Hiyori said, lightly. "Speaking of which, how are they settling in?"

"Well, last I heard they were doing fine. Nee-chan is pretty busy with her new job; supposedly they're releasing the second season of that show petty soon."

"And put an end to chibi shorts on the internet!" Patty said, sharing a victorious high-five with Hiyroi.

"You're telling me; if I hear one more thing about smoked cheese, I'm gonna throw up." Hiyori said darkly.

"Smoked…" Yutaka turned to Minami

"Sorry…" Minami said, scratching the back of her head, watching Hiyori and Patty go off on the pro's and con's of someone named "Haruhi-chan"

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"…and thenthey made me their club president." Patty said, crossing her arms thoughtfully. "And the rest is history."

"Wow…did all that really happen Patty-chan?" Yutaka asked, starry eyed.

"I'm afraid so, Yu-chan." Patty sighed, looking out the window wistfully. "The strangest thing is that I never saw the girl on the moped again. It's like she just rolled on by like tumbleweed caught in a dust storm…"

"Well, at least you had the chance to know them…" Hiyori said, doodling lazily on her notebook.

"It is strange…" Minami said quietly. "How certain people can come into your life and make such a huge impact."

"I guess it's true…" Patty said. "I guess everyone you meet touches your life in their own small way. It's just…I wish I could have given her the stencils back."

"Yeah…" Hiyori led the girls in a collective sigh as they sat for a minute, just taking everything in.

The sound of the bell shook them from their collective daydream. "Oh…time to go." Minami said, shouldering her bag.

"Yeah…wow, that got kinda heavy." Hiyori said, stretching as she stood.

"Yeah, especially for us." Patty said. "I can't remember having a conversation like that in a long time."

"Well, it was good to hear about your friends in America." Yutaka said, heading out the door.

"Yeah…but I still feel a little funky digging deep like that…" Patty said, shuffling her shoulder uncomfortably. "I think I need a hot bath and a good hour and a half of my favorite slice of life show."

"I could never get into shows like that." Hiyori said, holding the door open while they all filed out. "I don't see the appeal in watching a show about a bunch of ordinary high school girls."

"I guess shows like that would be a bit more easygoing…" Minami said.

"That's part of the appeal." Patty said. "It's a nice show to just relax to."

"Yeah…it's just that if I was in an anime, I would want it to be more…I dunno…exciting. You know; giant robots, magical girls, hot-blooded heroes, evil syndicates…basic SOS stuff" Hiyori said.

"All that could get pretty dramatic, though." Yutaka said. "I'd like a nice slow show that focuses on simple things."

"A show about nothing!" Patty said. "Just ordinary conversation can be enthralling."

"So we'd just be walking along…talking about random stuff?" Hiyori said, turning the corner and walking down the stairs.

"Not random! For instance, we could talk about school!" Patty said.

"School?"

"Yeah, like…" Patty looked around nervously before whispering, "Like Kuroi-sensei's rumored lover."

Hiyori blushed furiously. "Don't gossip!" She hissed

"But it's not gossip, its true! I heard from Ai that Yoshino told her that Masaru heard from Mimi that Sora heard from her boyfriend Taichi that his sister heard from Yamato's younger brother that Megumi and Miki saw Kuroi with a man in the park!" Patty finished, panting slightly

"So?!" Hiyori said, straightening her blouse. "A woman's entitled to a love life without every student in the school blabbing about it!"

"But everyone is already blabbing abou-"

"That's not the point!" Hiyori insisted.

Minami shared a glance with Yutaka. "Uhh…"

"Actually…robots and heroes sound a little less dramatic than real life right now." Minami said, watching her friends bicker playfully.

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Author NOOOOOOOOOOOTES!!!

Hiya-Luckies!

So in place of a normal, plot advancing chapter, I wanted to get back to the roots of the show with a little slice of lifey-ness…so yeah…

This will be one of five day in the life type pieces that give the spotlight to a few of the characters (Next is Minami!). I feel like this is a good way to explore their personalities by dropping inside their heads for a while.

I wasn't sure if I made this clear, but when someone (usually Patty) talks in bold print, they're speaking English. Once the bold goes away, they're back to Japanese again.

I have to explore Kuroi's relationship more. I was browsing through some fanart for inspiration and I found a few screenshots cobbled together that made me want to write Kuroi's romance!

A question: how is the romance coming? Should there be more overtly romantic moments? I want to keep things moving but I don't want to fix what ain't broken so your feedback would be lovely.

So Patty's game was Scribblenauts, and the kids in Patty's rumor chain were all characters in my favorite show as a kid so I'll let y'all figure that one out. Also, I'm planning an update on the older girls so let me know which ones you want by going to my page and voting in my poll!! Vote or Die!

Bye-nee!!!

DOTMW