Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi characters. (I wish I did...) I only own the characters you've never heard of. Also this is based on the cartoon and not the real people. I don't know why I have to say all this before every fic...
FORWARD: Welcome back. This is ''episode'' number three of Tokyo Nights. If you haven't read the others,I suggest you do so ASAP...hehe
But for the rest of you,proceed;this will be great.
---Shaddie-chan
SUMMARY: It's Christmastime in Tokyo,and there's one present for the Oh-gals that I bet you never guessed...a puppy called Dang-Dang. But just how will this new friend affect the rest of the holiday festivites?
PART THREE: Dang And Double Dang
Things had changed. Everyone had become so used to the warm weather in the spring and summer and so,even though they knew it wouldn't last,they still found it hard to adjust to nippy winds and dead leaves littering the streets of that huge city.
For the younger ones,kicking the leaves around became a sort of new game,as did making piles out of those leaves. It was fun to just kick those things when they were stacked so high. They made that delightful ''Shff!'' sound whenever you stepped on them or kicked them,and you could always tell if someone was approaching if they were walking through them. And those leaves were just the icing on the cake;the skies were perfectly clear and blue,and it seldom rained like it did in the summer.
But after a few months passed,things got to be quite brutal. The wind was much colder and more fierce than it had been in the previous months,and everyone wore heavy coats and mittens and such trying to stay as warm as they could. Their efforts were not fruitless,but still the best place to stay warm was indoors,and even then it was still cold.
This year,however there was one thing that was different: it snowed. This proved to be quite a surprise to the three Onuki daughters,who had only seen a few years come and go and had never seen such a snowfall.
The three of them lived in a large house that looked like a mansion on the outside,but on the inside it was just like any other house over there,only somewhat roomier. Their father,Joko,owned the Shogun Hotel on the Ginza strip,and he was very rich. Their mother,Akasei,spent her days working around the house and occasionaly helping out at the hotel. On those days she took her daughters (who,in Kindergarten,earned the nickname ''Oh-gals'') along with her.
The ''Oh-gals'' were Yushi,an uptight and sometimes quite cranky girl;Gojei,a silly,sunglasses-donning (she wore them so people could tell her and Yushi apart) girl who was always one to get into some sort of mischief;and finally Ami,Akasei's favorite. Ami was the most delicate of the three and the most playful. Oh,and she loved sweets...and lots of them.
On this day,Ami,who had been watching a samurai drama that she absolutely loved for some odd reason,had noticed that something outside was different.
She went up to the window and looked around. All of Tokyo was covered in some bright-white thing,and there were also little white specks of something falling from the sky. Now,what could that possibly be?
''Mommy,look!'' Ami called out to Akasei,who was in the kitchen, ''What's all that white stuff?''
Akasei looked out the window. ''That's snow.''
''Snow?'' Ami asked,already delighted and a bit confused.
''Yes,'' Akasei said, ''It's winter,and that is snow.''
Yushi and Gojei soon joined the two of them in this. They,too,were delighted by this new sight. After Akaei left,the three of them stood by the window watching the snow fall for a long time.
Later that day,Akasei drove them to the park like she usually did,and on this day the snow made that place more fun than it had been in the summer.
When they arrived,Ami immediatly darted out on the grassplot that she loved so much...but it had changed! Ami was surprised by how different it looked when it was covered in snow. She slowly walked on,a bit intimidated. She was rather delighted by the crunching sound her footsteps made in the snow,and when she looked behind her she saw holes in the places she had been walking. Curious,she took another step,and when she did there was another hole. She cautiously tried this again and again until she found out what those holes were: they were her footprints.
Feeling absolutely giddy,she ran and leapt about the way she had done here before,looking behind her every so often. Sure enough,her footprints were everywhere. Tired of running,she and her sisters watched the snowflakes fall. Gojei tried to catch one in her hands,but every time she did it melted. Yushi just stood beside her,mezmerized by those little cold,white specks.
Ami was soon bored with them,however,and wandered about on her own. As she passed by a tree she heard something fall off of it. Curious,she bent down near the tree and examined what had fallen. It looked like some sort of white carrot. Ami picked it up and tried to bite into it,but it was hard and cold and didn't quite taste like a carrot. She ran to Akasei with the odd thing in her hand.
''Mommy,this carrot tastes terrible!'' She said,handing it to Akasei.
Akasei looked at it. ''This isn't a carrot,'' She said, ''This is an iceicle.''
''I don't care what it is,'' Ami said,waking away, ''it still tastes awful.''
She and Yushi went to go play on the monkey bars,but they noticed the bars were covered in snow,and the snow was most slippery. They couldn't play on that. They tried the slide,but it was covered in snow too. Gojei soom joined the two of them in their hunt to find something to do. There was nothing. At that moment the three of them stopped being so happy about the snow.
As the three of them walked around with a most disconsolate look on their faces,they saw someone on the other side of the park with a big brown dog on a leash. They stopped and watched as the dog and his master passed by them. Ami,as usual,thought that the dog was very cute,and it sort of made her want one of her own.
As if she could read her sister's mind,Yushi said, ''We ought to have a dog like that too.''
''We should ask for one for Christmas,'' Gojei said. Christmas was not very far away.
Ami said nothing,but she thought it was a good idea.
Akasei called for them,and they drove home. As they pulled out of the parking lot,Yushi said, ''I think we should have a pet.''
''Yeah. Hideyuki has a dog.'' Gojei said.
''And Akito has two cats,'' Ami said.
Akasei considered this. ''With Christmas coming up,'' She said, ''it's something to think about.'' Nothing else about pets was mentioned for the rest of the drive home. But it made the Oh-gals happy to know that it was a possibiltly,at least.
A/N: Well,what do you think? Ya like it so far? If you do,review me...click that little button...it won't bite you!
But that brown dog I mentioned earlier will if you flame. (Constructive criticism is fine,though)
----Shaddie-chan