31_days | [3-Nov-2006] [Ai Yori Aoshi] Futowned

Title: Futowned
Challenge: 3-Nov-2006 "my pillow won't tell me where he has gone"
Based on: Ai Yori Aoshi
Characters: Aoi, Kaoru (mentioned), Miyabi
Type: Humor; 100 words
Warnings: None.
Notes: This takes place after the similar scene in episode 10 of the anime ("Place Of Learning").

Ai Yori Aoshi © Kou Fumizuki / Hakusensha / J. C. Staff / Pioneer / Geneon.

Aoi had gathered up all of the bedding for an airing out. She suddenly hugged one futon tightly. Oh, Kaoru, she thought, just smelling your futon—

But then, she sweat-dropped. This futon smells, she thought. Has Kaoru not been bathing? Maybe he fell into a sewer... or maybe he's been shoveling fertilizer...

Miyabi suddenly walked up. "What are you doing, Lady Aoi?" she asked.

An embarrassed Aoi was nevertheless completely honest. "I couldn't help myself," she said, "because it's Kaoru's futon, and—"

"That isn't Kaoru's futon," Miyabi said. "That's Tina's futon."

"Eww," said Aoi, for two or three different reasons.