FIVE ⌘ Yotsuba and Running Away [Written?|Action]

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[Otonashi left yesterday. That meant that now Yotsuba was stuck in a house with that loser Naoi. The fact he was really kind a little while back at the beach but now he's really mean again is more than a little confusing to the girl. Yuri is still here but right now all Yotsuba is thinking of is the bad stuff. Namely no more Otonashi and lots more stupid, mean Naoi.

What she does next seems like a brilliant idea! This will totally bring Otonashi back and make Naoi be nice again, and if it doesn't then oh well at least she's not living in the same house as him anymore.

This badly scrawled message appears on the journals:]



[Now then! If she's running away she needs lots of important things. For one her pink fluffy coat that Jack gave her to keep warm, a ton of food from the fridge, the viking helmet and fishing pole thing that Hiccup got her, the cicada plushie Otonashi left for her...

It isn't until she tries leaving the house with all her belongings that she realises this is a bad idea. So instead she settles on the coat and the plushie. Sacrifices have to be made if you're running away! Sadly these sacrifices also include her journal so she won't be replying to her little goodbye message.

Morning
This is a great idea! Running away from home is the best thing she's ever decided to do! Otonashi will be trying to find his way back now and Naoi is probably feeling really bad about pulling her hair and telling her to shut up all the time. Yuri is probably shouting at him for it too! Haha, yes, running away has solved everything! Yotsuba happily marches around the village with a big smile on her face, more than a little proud at how she thinks her plan is going.

Midday
Hungry... Why didn't she bring some food with her? Maybe she'll wander on over to Seventh Heaven and see if she can get some food from there, they make awesome pancakes after all. Or maybe the bakery! Or she could settle for staring at passers-by with big, open eyes until they give her something to eat. Screw taking candy from strangers she's hungry!!

Afternoon
Maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all. Now she's getting cold. And hungry again. And Otonashi hasn't come back and found her yet... She wants to go home. The problem is Yotsuba has wandered so far away from home by this point that she's in a part of the village she doesn't even recognise. Now she's lost, cold, hungry and really upset. How is she going to get home now?]

Waaaaaaaah!! Yotsuba wants to go home!! Wanna go hooome!!

Comments

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[That explanation would be so much more useful if she knew what intuitive meant in the first place.

Insert long pause here.]

voice;

[menial]

Intuitive is the opposite of counterintuitive.

['Which is a rather counterintuitive definition.']

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[...That. Wasn't helpful. She still doesn't get what either word means, but she does get opposites!]

Ohhh, opposites, okay! [ :D ]

voice;

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Right.

See how that was confusing and it didn't make sense to you at first?

That's what counterintuitive means.

[Best teaching style ever.]

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[Time to apply what she has learnt to what Kyon said earlier!]

So learning to write in the forest... Is confusing. 'Cause it's an opposite. It's counterintuitive.

[...:\]

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As opposed to learning to write in, say, school, yeah, maybe.

['Or maybe not. Or maybe learning to write from me.']

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Yotsuba didn't learn to write at school or in a forest though, daddy taught me how to write my name and Yotsuba learnt lots from watching people write, lots of people write stuff.

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Congratulations are in order to Yotsuba for that display of independence, then.

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Congratulations! Here's your prize!

[Standing up and taking a bow! Even if there's no one around to see her...]

Thank you, thank you, Yotsuba would like to thank daddy, and Otonashy, and all of Yotsuba's friends... and Kyon for saying congratulations!

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Ah, I see I don't count under the category of Yotsuba's friends, huh? Too bad.

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No! No, Kyon is a friend! Yotsuba wanted to give Kyon a special mention though because Kyon is really cool for saying congratulations!! Keep up the good work being Yotsuba's friend!

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Ah. Well, thank you, Yotsuba. I'm glad our friendship is sealed.

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Let's always be friends! Yotsuba would like that, if there are lots of friends then it's really fun to play with them all.

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Well, if you don't think I'm lame in a few years, then, so be it.

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You go lame in a few years? ...Do you start tasting bad like milk after a week?

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Perhaps this is only something you'll understand when you're older.

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Will Yotsuba start going lame too in a few years, is that why I need to be older?

voice;

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Well, we all get there eventually.

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Everyone goes off?! Someone should use you before you go stale Kyon, don't get smelly!

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...

['I've got nothing.']

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...

[She may or may not be trying to sniff the journal to see if it has gone bad. Or if Kyon has gone bad.]

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[menial]

...Anyway, don't try running away again, Yotsuba.

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Everyone is saying that, is it a tread?! Don't run away, everyone is doing it! Even idols!

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[menial]

Well, I don't know if it is or not, but it's good advice for little girls who have a tendency to be constantly doing things.

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Ohhh, Yotsuba does stuff all the time! You should do stuff with me too Kyon, so then Yotsuba and Kyon can do stuff together and no one will go stale and smelly!