31_days | [11-Feb-2008] [Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei] Cure For Optimism

Title: Cure For Optimism
Challenge: 11-Feb-2008 "confess and be hanged"
Based on: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
Characters: Kafuka, Nozomu
Type: Humor; 100 words
Warnings: None.

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei © Kouji Kumeta / Kodansha / Shaft.
"Cure For Optimism" by Porcupine Tree.

"Is something wrong, Kafuka?" asked Nozomu.

"I had a difficult morning," an unusually subdued Kafuka said. "First, I forgot one of my books, and I had to run back for it..."

"Oh, really?" Nozomu said. Suddenly hoping to convert Kafuka to his despairing world-view, he pulled out his favorite hanging rope.

"And then," Kafuka said, "I stepped right in the middle of a big puddle!"

Nozomu knotted a noose for Kafuka's height. "Go on," he said eagerly.

Kafuka beamed. "But that's OK! That just means, tomorrow will be a better day!"

Nozomu quickly retied the noose for his own height.