tvklogs | Time for Tanabata!

WHO: Haruhi and whoever else is around!
WHEN: July 7th, early evening.
WHERE: Roof of the Bayview Hotel
SUMMARY: It's Tanabata~ will Hikoboshi and Orihime meet tonight?
RATING: PG.
WARNINGS: None.

Even though she was now in America, Haruhi wasn't going to let one of her favorite holidays go by without notice! The high schooler had gathered all the necessary items for her own tanabata celebration on the roof of the hotel. Earlier in the day she had hunted down bamboo potted plants (or what appeared to be bamboo; if it wasn't perfect that was fine), and gathered colored pieces of paper and string. The weather had managed to cooperate with the holiday as well; the skies were clear, and though they were a bit dimmer due to the city lights, the stars could be clearly seen.

"So I figured out last year that it would take 25 years for my wish to get to one star and 16 years to the other," Haruhi mumbled to herself. "But if they're coming from America would it be different? Maybe a little faster since Americans are so speedy and impatient." She flopped down on the ground and pulled a magic marker's cap off with her mouth.

"Wish time!" Ignoring everything around her, Haruhi began scribbling her wishes on two different pieces of paper.

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Haruhi raises her eyebrows. "You're not Japanese are you? Today's Tanabata, the star festival! Part of the festival is making a wish to send to Hikoboshi and Orihime."

She jumps up and runs over to the newcomer. Part of the duties of the SOS Brigade were informing the ignorant masses! In this case, a single mass would do.

"Come here, I'll show you!" She grabs his hand and pulls him over to her supplies.

"No, I'm n--"

What. Lancer was used to women acting impulsively around him, but this was something very unexpected. But he didn't really protest when Haruhi started pulling him, no matter how startled he was.

"Right over here..." Haruhi sits down on the ground, pulling the guy down with her.

"So all you need to do is take one of these pieces of paper and write your wish on it!" She thrusts an orange rectangular paper over, along with a marker. "Anything is fine, but you better make it good! This only happens once a year you know, and they're not gonna be able to read it for 19 or 25 years!"

"...why nineteen or twenty-five?"

One thing at a time, Lancer. The rather dumbfounded Servant wasn't even remotely sure what to make of this situation just yet.

"Well the stars are really far away, right?" Haruhi explained, grabbing another piece of paper for herself. "Hikoboshi and Orihime are really the stars Altair and Vega, and they're light-years away. So it'll take that long for them to read your wishes and respond."

Putting her pen to her lips, Haruhi continued. "At least I think that's how long it will take. You won't know until 19 years have passed. My wishes from my first tanabata wouldn't have been answered yet!" This is when having a time traveler would be handy.

"I...see." Sort of. it was a strange tradition, but Lancer supposed there were stranger things.

"So we write down whatever we wish for, and then what?"

"You hang them on bamboo when you're done!" Haruhi pointed to the two plants she had brought up. "One for Altair, and one for Vega! Bamboo is hard to find around here though, so those will have to do."

"More importantly, what are you going to wish for?"

"I'm afraid I'm not sure."

The only wish he had wasn't something that could be fulfilled in a place like this. Least of all by asking the stars for assistance.

"Hmmm... Well you should think hard about it. Ah, here..." Haruhi pulled out one of her wishes. She held it up. "Take mine for example!"

In neat script, the paper read "Make portals appear all over the world."

...now that was something strange to wish for.

"Portals? What for, exactly?"

"To make things exciting of course!" Really, wasn't it obvious. Sighing, Haruhi explained.

"If a portal randomly appeared in front of you, you'd like to walk through it, right? They could lead anywhere all over the world! Like a portal could appear right here, and suddenly we could be in the middle of Beijing! It would be so exciting! Plus it would save on transportation costs if you had portals between two places you'd really want to go."

"How on earth would you be able to tell which portal led where?"

"You'd be able to see in a little bit, but you really wouldn't know," Haruhi explained, walking in a circle, nodding to herself. She was in full professor-esque mode. "But part of the fun is the spontaneity of it! One moment you're in Paris, next India, Shibuya, Thailand, the North Pole- the possibilities are endless! And someone could make a lucrative career selling maps of the different portal locations, but there could also be counterfeit versions running around to confuse people."

She stopped suddenly, and turned directly towards the guy. "It'd be exciting!"

Time for Tanabata!

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Late tag is late D:

s'all good. =3=b

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I couldn't resist.

now you're thinking with portals, haruhi

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