Yotsuba!&..

[sunflowerfairy]

Characters: Yotsuba Koiwai and you!
Setting: The nineteenth floor on June 19th.
Format: I'm starting in prose, but I'll match you!
Summary: After getting a note from Enoch, Yotsuba decides to search the library for more treasure: information about 'romeance'.
Warnings: None so far!

Yotsuba was always happy to get mail, especially from good friends..but her recent letter inspired her to search the library, since it seemed like it was a huuge beach where seashells and other cool things hid. So, after putting the letter in her pocket, Yotsuba ran down the stairs, careful to avoid any monsters she saw. While she was wearing her sling and sash-pouch, it was still best to avoid any trouble. When she saw the first elevator she found, she pressed the call button and waited, singing to herself to pass the time.

When she finally got onto the elevator, arrived at the meadow, and dashed into the nineteenth floor, her eyes got wide, and she couldn't help but cry out to herself. "There are a lot of gems here! They're really colurful!" Nonfiction books, of course, still looked quite nice, especially to a young child. While Yotsuba was looking for a book to explain 'romentic love', she wasn't the best reader, which resulted in her pulling the first book she found off the shelf and expecting it to have all the answers..when it was just a thin book on psychology.

As Yotsuba tried to read it, her face scrunched up a she tried to make sense of what she was reading. "F..Fruied was..de..deflunked by modern.." After trying to say 'psychologists' and not getting it, Yotsuba glared at the words, as if they were the ones responsible for not having what she was looking for. "That doesn't sound nice!! This isn't a good gem!" Yotsuba closed the book and put it back on the shelf-not in the same spot she had found it in-and kept wandering around, hoping she could find something about what she was looking for.

Comments

[brbtalkingtogod]

They would have to see about that. But at the time being nothing opposed the idea so far.

"The third floor has a library as well." A shocking revelation to Yotsuba, she might have been looking at the wrong section the entire time.

[sunflowerfairy]

While that was shocking to her, it didn't make her sad or upset that she had missed it. Quite the opposite, really.

"Oh! I didn't know! Let's check there too, Lu..Lucifel!"

..Not that she would climb down from him anytime soon. She was expecting him to walk there and take her with him on his shoulders.

[brbtalkingtogod]

At least she got his name right this time. And this meant that Lucibell wouldn't end up being his nickname. He's glad about that.

... Is he supposed to carry her around now? From the sound if it she apparently wants him to.

"Alright." Oh well, sometimes it wasn't bad to do things humans did. That and he had no idea what he should do and the last thing he wanted to risk was to make her cry. With his hands having a good hold on her legs the archangel walked to the elevator with Yotsuba.

[sunflowerfairy]

Not that Lucifel really needed to put his hands on her legs. Yotsuba was an experienced shoulder-rider, so it was hard for her to fall off when she jumped around and spoke. Even if she could sometimes hurt other people if she had an object in her hand. Nor would he really have made her cry either.

While they walked and waited for the elevator, Yotsuba sang to pass the time.

"Tons of gems on the shelf~
Even though there's no beach!~
If we keep on digging!~
We'll find the right one soon!~"

[brbtalkingtogod]

Better get sure she won't fall than risk that the might. Everything to avoid dealing with someone being upset.

Speaking of books, there was still one resting against his neck.

"You didn't put the book away."

[sunflowerfairy]

Yes, yes there was. Yotsuba didn't think that there was anything wrong with it.

"I didn't! It's a library, so we can return it later!"

[brbtalkingtogod]

"It's pressing against my neck."

If it's any indication. Given that she can understand a hint like that.

[sunflowerfairy]

While Yotsuba wouldn't reply to that, she would move the book...so that it was on top of Lucifel's head. Yotsuba didn't really think about how his spikes would suffer for it.

[brbtalkingtogod]

"..." Oh no. She didn't do that just now. Keep calm Lucifel. Just. Keep calm. And step into the elevator.

[sunflowerfairy]

Oh, she had, Lucifel. She didn't know how important the Angel's appearance was to him, so she just sat there, smiling and making sure the book didn't slide off. As they got into the elevator, she spoke, a bit puzzled.

"Was it hurting your neck? Yotsuba's sorry! I didn't know!"

[brbtalkingtogod]

"It's... okay. Really." He didn't sound upset, even though he was. All that's missing is that she rests her head on the book on his head.

[sunflowerfairy]

"Okay then!" Thankfully, Yotsuba wasn't the type to rest unless she really was tired-or until someone got her to take a nap-so she didn't rest her head on the book that was on his head. But as they were in the elevator, a thought came into her head.

"Do they have elevators in Heaven?"

[brbtalkingtogod]

Good distraction, it gave him something to tell her.

"There aren't. Angels would be surprised to see these. I've seen them before though."

[sunflowerfairy]

"But you're an Angel! Why wouldn't you be surprised?!"

[brbtalkingtogod]

"Because He gave me the power to travel through time and space."

[sunflowerfairy]

Even though Lucifel probably couldn't see how happy and excited Yotsuba looked, he could probably feel her hands squishing that book down hard as she spoke.

"Really?! That's awesome! Will there ever be flying cars?! And will Yotsuba ever have a cow?"

[brbtalkingtogod]

Yeah, he could feel it just too well. But he wouldn't start complaining. Not now. Not here.

"Sadly I can't tell Yotsuba so, if I do then it would change the future. It could have horrible consequences, no matter how harmless the topic."

[sunflowerfairy]

Well..he could, technically, but the concequences might be nothing to sneeze at.

"But..how come? I promise to not tell anyone!"

..A promise that, while true, couldn't really be trusted. Yotsuba's memory could be rather sketchy sometimes, and promises sometimes flitted from it.

[brbtalkingtogod]

"Has Yotsuba ever heard of the butterfly effect? It says that a butterfly flapping with it's wings can cause a heavy storm on the other end of the world. It's about the same with time."

There wasn't any way he could know about it anyways, since Yotsuba didn't exist in his world. Or in a different way.

"So something that Yotsuba has in the future could change into something else if I told the Yotsuba who's with me now."

[sunflowerfairy]

"I haven't..but that isn't bad! Storms are lots of fun! The rain is really nice!"

Yotsuba enjoyed almost everything in a normal world. The Tower was a different story though.

"But..couldn't it change into something better?"

[brbtalkingtogod]

"... Rain is nice, huh? That sounds like someone I know."

Not that he didn't like standing under an umbrella once and now, but that wasn't the point.

"It could. But the chance of something bad to happen is just as high.

[sunflowerfairy]

"Oh! Does it sound like Enoch?! A lot of grown-ups don't like to splash in puddles, so it's good that he does! The sun is nice too! Do you like them?"

Yotsuba had an umbrella, raincoat, and rain boots back home, but she was more than happy to just hop in the boots and run around in the rain whenever she felt it.

"Oh..but what bad things could happen by telling Yotsuba about cars and cows?"

[brbtalkingtogod]

"It does. Enoch is from a place where it didn't rain often, so he likes it a lot when it rains. For it to rain there meant to live. As for me... I'd say I like them too."

If he knew then he would wonder if Yotsuba would drag him around once it started raining, both equipped with umbrellas.

"Maybe Yotsuba would not get a cow but something else."

[sunflowerfairy]

"It's good that it rained then! Everything would be able to keep living then! It's good that you like it too! The rain is nice and cold! Does it rain a lot in Heaven?"

..Yotsuba wouldn't even bother with umbrella's normally, but she would be more than happy to splash around with Lucifel and her friends, getting everyone soaked in the process.

"Oh..like what? Cows are super cool! They can make yummy milk!"

I am a very busy mun... orz

[brbtalkingtogod]

"It's heaven, so take a guess at how often it's raining there."

Either way, it would be a very odd thing for him to do, splashing in puddles in the rain. But sometimes it was fun, doing human things that is.

"Goats and Sheep can make milk too. But in addition to that you get wool from sheep too. Or... a lioness." Would she want a scary lion in her living room? Probably not.