Title: Resemblance
date written: 11-09-06
"Sheep," Jiroh said, without even opening his eyes.
Gakuto stared at him blankly. The two of them were, for the moment, alone on the roof durring lunch. Jiroh had been there taking a nap when Gakuto arrived, so they had decided to eat together. Gakuto hadn't come alone, of course, but Oshitari had volunteered—that is, he had been volunteered—to get drinks for them all, so they were temporarily left to their own devices. This is why Gakuto, bored, had asked Jiroh what he saw when he looked at the huge fluffy cloud that floated directly overhead.
"That's lame, Jiroh," he complained. He thought it looked like a pirate ship being boarded by hostile elephants. Yeah. "You didn't even look."
Jiroh opened one eye and studied the cloud for a full thirty seconds.
"Sheep," he said again, and rolled over.
Clearly Jiroh suffered from a severe lack of imagination. Gakuto frowned.
"Fine," he said. "Then what about the others?"
Jiroh, realizing that Gakuto was not going to leave him alone and let him nap, sat up and yawned.
"How many are there?" he asked, seemingly at random.
A little confused, Gakuto turned to look at the horizon. The azure sky was dotted with cumulus masterpieces, each one unique and in constant motion. They in no way resembled something as boring as sheep, the acrobat thought as he began to count.
Counting clouds wasn't very easy. They kept changing and moving and morphing into one another and he kept losing track of them. The swirling mass of white was almost… hypnotic.
He had counted twenty-six before he started having trouble keeping his eyes open.
"See? Sheep," said Jiroh, smiling and patting his shoulder before lying back for another nap. It wasn't long before Gakuto was curled up right beside him.
Note: There was going to be one last chapter of the Viral Revolution, but it's giving me a lot of trouble. If my inspiration for that one ever returns, it'll show up. In the meantime, sheep. This one was written at about one thirty in the morning, so any weirdness comes from that...