Everything I Need to
Know In Life, I Learned From Sentai Shows
A MeruPuri fic
By Jaelle
(who
blames Meg for this in its entirety. Especially for the dogs)
Rating: G, Humour
Disclaimer: MeruPuri is the creation of Matsuri Hino. No infringements
intended etc.
"Aram!" Airi exasperatedly
poked her head into the living room. "If you
want to come with me to walk the dogs, we need to leave NOW. It's
getting late."
"One moment," Aram's eyes were glued to the television. "Come on Red
Sparkle Ranger! You can do it!"
Airi
huffed out a long sigh and then found herself smiling slightly. Aram
was just so darned cute when he was in his little form, bouncing up and
down in excitement as the Sparkle Rangers battled the monster of the
week.
"Go! Go! GOOOOO!!! YAAAAAAAAAAY HE DID IT!!!"
Aram
sprang to his feet and jumped up and down, whooping loudly in triumph.
Airi found herself laughing as she was swept up by his infectious joy,
and even joined in singing some of the ending theme.
"Okay,
NOW we need to go. Get a sweater, it might get dark before we get
back." She ordered finally, and Aram scampered to obey.
Aaaah... so cute!
"So,
what was so exciting about today's show," she asked once they were
finally underway, Pochirou's leash firmly grasped in one hand, Koromi's
in the other. Usually she let Aram take one of them, but the two dogs
were clearly looking forward to a nice, LONG run in the park, and were
doing their level best to drag the slow humans there faster. Airi could
handle them, but Aram was a bit too small at the moment.
Aram
launched into a long explanation of the plot and how the dastardly Army
of Darkness had kidnapped Pink Sparkly Ranger, who was also Princess
Darlia, and so the Sparkly Rangers had been unable to form Super Mecha
Robot. Fortunately Red Sparkly Ranger had gone to the rescue of his
teammate, whom he was secretly in love with and so on.
"You
really like that show," Airi said with a smile as the plot summary
wound up, this event coinciding nicely with their arrival at the park.
"Okay, okay, I'm letting you two off the leashes now. Don't run too
far!"
This last comment was addressed to the dogs' rapidly disappearing rear
ends. Airi groaned slightly.
"Don't
worry, they'll come back," Aram grinned at her. "Just like when Blue
Sparkly Ranger came back even though the Princess rejected him in
favour of Red, because it was for the good of the team!"
Airi sighed. "Not everything in life is like a sentai
show, Aram."
"You'll see," Aram said confidently. "What are we doing tomorrow?"
"I am going to school early," Airi reminded him. "I've got a big
meeting with Nakaoji."
Aram looked faintly annoyed at this, but then was suddenly struck by a
thought. "Hey, what's Nakaoji's favourite colour?"
"Uh..." Airi thought about it for a minute, "I think he likes blue."
"Hmmm..." Aram subjected this to further consideration. "Okay then.
Hey, here come the dogs back!"
Both
dogs ran back, panting and happy and sporting that particular doggy
look that says they've done something SUPER ULTRA CUNNING that you will
NEVER EVER figure out, cos they've hid all the evidence really cleverly
uh huh yup yup. Airi winced, and hoped noone would notice the holes in
the flowerbeds.
Aram played fetch with the dogs until they
were completely exhausted, and then it was time to marshal the troops
together and head home, this time with Aram helping.
"Airi?"
"Mmm?"
"What's YOUR favourite colour?"
"Oh, violet."
Aram shot her a look. "That's like a shade of pink, right?"
"Sort of, only deeper. Closer to purple."
"But... SORT OF like pink, right?"
"Yes,
sort of," Airi said, reflecting that an eight year old boy might not be
particularly interested in the importance of subtle colour shadings.
Aram bounced gently, a tiny smile on his face. "Good."
In
spite of all her efforts to chivy them along, by the time they reached
home it was quite dark. Thus Airi was not particularly surprised to
turn at the doorway and find that Aram was now a good inch or two
taller than she was. He grinned down at her.
"Guess what MY favourite colour is."
Airi looked at his red sweater and felt a sigh coming on. "I told you,
not everything in life is like a sentai show!"
Aram stood taller and his grin got wider.
"Jeile's favourite colour is black," he said smugly.
Airi twitched and had to admit that he had a point.
End
A/N:
Yeah, kind of died on me there at the end. But Jeile so is a sentai
villain. He's got the swirly cape, and probably the same kind of laugh
and everything. Technically of course, the black ranger should be the
one who's Cooler Than the Hero, But Dies Early On, but I went with the
villain version in this one. Inspired by WAAAAAAAY too much Voltron and
similar sentai shows when I was young (*cough* Power Rangers *cough*),
as well as by Shinesman, the anime which shows why sentai characters
should always wear the same colours.
Favourite colours of the characters completely, utterly, and totally
made up.