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Rating: K+
Warnings: None come to mind.
Prompt(s): Poetry; The perfect kiss; Literature
Summary: He was actually smart, he just loved being a smartass.
Word Count: 131
"Do you understand why the haiku has such a strict word count now?" Kagome asked, ready to bang her head against her desk in frustration.
Literature was the name of the day's game, and they had spent hours on it. Partly because he seemed to hate the haiku form. When Yuusuke disliked a subject, he couldn't be bothered to learn it. He was her punishment for missing months of school at fifteen, she was sure of it.
He waved off her hours of explanations with his hand. "Whatever. It's a simple thing with no point."
She huffed and crossed her arms. "If it's so simple, then come up with one right now."
Yuusuke paused for a moment, counting syllables. "Furenchikisu - Junsei kiku masu. Shimasen desu ka."
Kagome was left speechless.
*Yuusuke's haiku is technically 5-7-6, though the "ka" can be omitted to make it 5-7-5 since it's just spoken punctuation (the question mark). Though I did the 5-7-6 in honor of something, manga readers should be able to pick it up (hint: it's in the first volume). Also, Japanese syllables don't work like English syllables - just because a sound doesn't sound like it's pronounced doesn't mean it's still not a syllable. In English, it would read:
A perfect french kiss is asked. Won't you do it?
Edited 29 April 2010