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the story of my and nakuru-chans discovery of tsubasa!
okay. if i remember correctly, it was ariel(thats her real name, by the way) who discovered it first. she told nakuru-chan(in real life) at the teen center, who, naturally, told me. to put it simply, we...went insane. i remember lani was there too. we were in the woods(theres a bunch of trees behind the teen center), i think...yes, in the woods. me and nakuru-chan were all screamin our brains out...squealing, really. anyways, i felt..really floaty, to put it in sakura-chan terms.
i think it was that day, that we started our great tsubasa research. we went on the computer, as always, but we didnt go to do some ccs research. we did tsubasa research. wow...i can really remember it. we found some site with all those pictures....among them, i remember some mokona pics. me and nakuru-chan were like"...? are those kero and suppy?(of course its not!)". also, i remember this..kurogane picture. i think it was that one...that one with kurogane with the read moon in the backround...maybe. anyways, i said something that i think was really stupid of me. i said to nakuru-chan something about "who cares about that guy!" or something. i didnt care about him then, because i didnt read it yet or anything, but that still makes me really sad when i think about it. i was really impatient and wanted to see the rest of the pics, but still...
anyways, that was the very beginning of my jouney to tsubasa insanity and obsession.
i think..was it a few days later, or was it the same day? oh well. it doesnt matter. some day nakuru-chan had found the scans of 15 pages of the first manga(i hadnt read it yet at that time.). it wasnt the exactly the first 15(it skipped the colored pages, i think.). me and nakuru..we were so excited...and i was so happy.
then..it came..the day that nakuru-chan bought tsubasa. was it a monday? no...wednesday..?i cant remember. but i remember nakuru-chan taking it out of her backpack and showing it to me...i was so eager to read it, but i couldnt(nakuru-chan said i couldnt. yet.). i got to read a lot i think at lunch or something, but sometime in teen center, nakuru-chan said again, that i couldnt. then she put it in her backpack. but i really wanted to read it. i so wanted to read it, that i..i sorta...stoal it from her backpack, and started reading. nakuru noticed, but she let me in the end. when i'd almost finished it, my mom came to pick me up, i was at the "preview for xxxholic" thing. i was at the "where do you get off with calling this a treasure?! what the hell is it?!" part. but i had to go. so i packed up my things..and found out my brothers were playing in the field(theres a field and park near teen center.). that meant i could run back into the teen center and
reace the remaining pages. so i did. i remember nakuru being startled, and then laughing...and then i read the final pages, and left.
those were the days..:dream:
..!:end dream:
oh, thats right..
then, i think..over a month later, i was desparete to buy it for myself. i wanted it. but in those days, i didnt want to ask my mom and dad for one. i think i was sort of embarressed that i liked manga(im not, now!). but when my family wanted to go to this little mall thing, i asked them if i could go to barnes and noble. they said yes, but when they were almost there, they were like, "wait a second. isnt there a barnes and nobles at _________?" and so i went with them to that mall. i remember going in there, and after not finding it in the store, asking a lady in the information counter thingy if they had "tsubasa". she asked me to spell it for her. i remember being really nervous as i spelled it for her. then she said that it was in the teen section. i went there, and sure enough, there was tsubasa, volume one. i remember hugging it, and then covering it with my jacket. then i settled down to read some yugioh mangas. soon enough, my dad came to tell me that we were leaving. i put away the books, and then grabbed my jacket(that had tsubasa in it). my dad saw it, and asked about it. he asked if i bought it, and what it was. i said yes, but didnt tell him what it was. i remember going down to old navy, where the rest of my family were, and they asked what it was. i didnt tell them. eventually, though, they found out...oh well.
anyways, something thats reallyn special about tsubas(other than the fact that its by CLAMP and has kurogane in it, etc.) is that it was my first manga i'd ever bought by myself, and the first english manga i'd ever owned. i love it alot.
theres alot more to the story, but ill end up typing forever if i do. so ha. im not going to.
-sakura