From her watch tower, Mika can see everything that is going on at the pool. Touga is sitting on a towel by the edge of the pool, flirting with anything female that passes his way. Nanami is resting in the shade while Tsuwabuki fans her. "Faster, Tsuwabuki! I'm getting warm!" A very red Miki wearing a speedo is being dragged to the pool by his sister. "Can we please rethink this, Kozue?" His sister continues pulling him by the arm. "It's not my fault this is the only suit you have!" Utena is walking towards the 3 meter diving board, and Anthy is cheering her on. "You can do it Utena-sama!" Saionji is pouting on the steps in the shallow end. And Akio... wait! Where's Akio? He was just there a second ago...
As Utena approaches the edge of the diving board, Wakaba rushes up the ladder and runs towards her. Mika blows her whistle, but it's too late. Wakaba jumps on Utena's back, propelling the two of them off the edge of the board. The splash they make gets Touga and his towel all wet.
When they surface, thankfully unharmed, Mika motions for Wakaba to come to the lifeguard stand. "Wakaba, you know the rules. One person on the board at a time." Wakaba looks deflated. "You're going to have to take a 10 minute time out from all pool activities." Wakaba slowly nods her head and walks to the edge of the shallow end to visit Saionji.
Meanwhile, Kozue is still trying to get her brother into the water. "Come on, Miki! It's not that bad." Miki frees himself from his sister's grip and runs in the opposite direction. *whistle blast* "No running!" Miki stops and Kozue regains control over him.
Mika scans the pool for a while and discovers that Akio is back. He's in the corner of the pool with some random-yet-somehow-important-girl. Mika blinks in disbelief and mutters to herself. "Why is everyone breaking the rules today?" The whistle sounds yet again. Mika points in Akio's general direction. "Your behavior is inappropriate!" Akio looks up and glares at her. "I believe you're mistaken."
Mika pulls the rulebook from out of nowhere. "But it says right here in the rules 'Sexual activity is not permitted in the pool area'." Akio smiles. "Read the second to the last rule." Mika turns the page and starts reading. "Okay...'Akio Ohtori shall be permitted to violate any of the previous rules unless such misconduct'..." Mika stares at the page for a moment, incapable of believing that such a rule exists, and then finishes the sentence. "...'places his life in immediate danger'." Mika blinks. "Impossible..."
Akio smirks. "You seem to forget that I'm the one who wrote the rules." Akio is about to resume what he was doing when Mika suddenly recovers rational thought. "Fine! But *she* can't participate!"(I am so tempted to put a bad Clinton joke in here) Mika points at the random girl. Akio becomes terrifyingly calm and flips himself out of the pool. "You'll have to come down from that tower sometime. And I'll be waiting for you when you do." He walks off in the general direction of the chemical room.
Mika does one of those anime faces where her eyes get really big and her nose and mouth disappear. "Eeps..." Mika regains normality "All right, back to the pool..."
But she doesn't have to do this for long because someone from maintainance comes and informs her that there is a chemical imbalance in the pool and everyone has to get out. Mika nods and hurts everyone's ears with an extremely loud whistle blast. "Okay! Everyone out of the pool!"
Mika waits until everyone leaves the pool, then closes and leaves herself. "That was an interesting day..." "The day isn't over yet." Mika turns and finds herself standing in front of Akio. "Is there a problem, Akio-san?" Akio puts his arm around her shoulders. Mika shrinks back a little. "You still have to choose the pictures that will be displayed during the school's art fair." Mika looks at him. "But, why me?" Akio casually replies "It's part of your job as the event coordinator for the student council."
Akio leads Mika to the art room where several students' work has been submitted for entry in the art fair. "I guess I'll just start with these." Akio exits the art room and the door clicks shut.
Hmm, I don't have much so far, but that can be changed. If you want to see your work up here, send it to me! Otherwise, you'll just have to suffer with my own pathetic attempts at drawing Utena characters. On the bright side, now you can finally see what Mika's supposed to look like ^.^ And, uh... I'll put thumbnails up eventually, I promise! But for now I'm going to be lazy.
She looks so innocent... by Soylenkitty A nicely done picture of manga Anthy. I think I like her better in the manga anyway.
The same reason... by ker-plop Why did the Akio car explode in midair? Why are seventh-graders taking AP exams? Why did the chicken cross the road? The same reason the squid's eating Touga! (Go squid!)
Paintball Touga by ker-plop Looks like Touga learned how to play paintball the hard way. Maybe he should stick to kendo.
*blinkblink* After weeks of consideration, I finally decided to post this picture. Why? Because even though it goes against everything I've ever drawn before(For those of you who know what I'm talking about,that "other" picture does not exist, will not exist, and has never existed!), it's still my best picture so far.
Proof of exam The entire purpose of this picture is the AP number label on Kozue's neck. Yeah, I know they're not old enough to take an AP exam, but none of the high school students had hair that would work for this picture... except Ruka, but he doesn't count.
Obsessed? Me? *sweatdrop* Oh, right. Like none of you have ever thought of drawing yourself with your favorite character. Look familiar? It should. It's a redraw of this one.
Umm... ouch? Ahh, Mika fixed the background. It's much better now. This one took me forever to finish. (You have no idea how many versions of this picture I went through before deciding on this one...) It's also my first attempt at a different method of shading.
Look! It's Satan! Whose rose is that? Mika's of course. Why this color? Ummm... read here.
Lifeguard, lifeguard, la la la Yes, I really *do* have a purple whistle. Umm.... and I kinda got lazy on the inking here, so the picture isn't as nice as I'd like it to be.
Aaagh! Attack of the puffy sleeves! I really hate the Ohtori girls' uniform. But if Utena can wear it for a day...
Mika's a duelist! This is by far my favorite picture of Mika. It surprisingly didn't take that long.
Mika looks at the pictures she finally decided on. "That took awhile. All my free time from the pool closing early is gone." Mika shrugs. "Oh, well." She gets up and attempts to open the door. "Locked!?" Mika turns the handle a few more times to make sure. "That's not fair! How am I supposed to get out of here?" She starts to bang on the door. "Is anyone out there? Can you hear me? Please let me out!"
After a few minutes of futile yelling, Mika gives up and slumps against the door. "This is totally pointle--" At this point the door abruptly opens, she falls on her back and finds herself staring up at a very startled Miki. "Are you allright, Mika-sempai?" She stands up and brushes herself off. "Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks, Miki."
