Greetings and Salutations to everybody! I wrote this in about a half an hour after I got home from work, so it's short and I'm tired, but here it is! I had to get it in on time for it to be on the first day of Christmas! Anywho, everybody knows I don't own Spiral, etc etc, I'm tired, and if I did own it, Hizumi wouldn't be evil and Ayumu would wake up and smell the mistletoe already(with his Newshound standing under it)! Read on and be happy! Merry First Day of Christmas!!
Nothing but a little Christmas cheer, that's how it started. It wasn't much, just a normal Christmas with friends and family, until Senior newspaper reporter Hiyono Yuizaki got involved.
Ayumu Narumi slept under cover of a magazine in the newspaper room while Hiyono rattled away typing. Occasionally she stopped on account of her stomach's complaints, but she never stayed away for long. She was on a MISSION!
She had talked to the only real girl friends she had earlier that day, concocting a master plan that seemed utterly and totally devious. Hiyono knew that if she revealed her plan to her sleeping colleague anytime soon, her plan would go KABOOM! Hiyono attacked the computer keyboard and mouse with every idea she could possibly come up with.
She didn't plan to save the document at all, lest certain snoopy detectives figure out what she was up to. She had to be secret. She had to be cunning. She had to keep this as quiet as she possibly could. No one but her partners in crime could know about it until they had it ready. The reporter occasionally glanced back at her best friend, still snoozing under the magazine. She HAD to make sure he stayed asleep.
Hiyono shook her caramel bangs out of her face, her hands busy typing as fast as she could. As she typed, her mind wandered. It was so close to Christmas, only twelve days away. She hadn't even BEGUN to shop for Christmas presents for anyone, and she knew that she had better start soon if she actually planned to find one for Ayumu Narumi, possibly the hardest person in the world for her to shop for. Hiyono knew quite well that Ayumu did not expect a gift from her, only torment while she made him go shopping to get something for Madoka, his ever-so-expressive sister-in-law.
This time however, Ayumu wouldn't be going with her this time. Nope, he wouldn't know a thing about it. That is, until it was too late. Hiyono mentally gave an evil laugh, careful not to awake the sleeping mental, musical, and culinary genius.
Hiyono stopped typing to tap her chin. What if he suspects? What would she do? Maybe she could play along and make him go shopping for Madoka while, little did he know...
After about ten more minutes of brainstorming on Hiyono's part, she decided that it was time to retire her mind for now, print out the document, and make sure Ayumu didn't wake up before then.
The printer churned and spit out the printed paper as Ayumu took the magazine off his face. Hiyono quickly stuffed the paper into her coat pocket and clicked out of the document, deleting it.
Ayumu studied his way-too-innocent-looking sidekick, his eyebrow raised. Hiyono mentally slapped herself. Oh phooey, he suspected!
Hiyono pouted, "Narumi-san! You've been asleep almost the whole period! I'm hungry!"
Ayumu shrugged and looked at the clock before replacing the magazine over his face, "Well, since there's still fifteen minutes, I think I'll continue where I left off while you continue making those fliers for the Christmas party you, Rio, and Ryoko are so 'secretly' planning."
Hiyono held in a gasp and gave an indignant angry growl, "Mou!!! Grrr!! Narumi-san! You weren't supposed to know about that!"
Ayumu mumbled through the pages of the magazine, "Well, looks like you're not the only one who has sources for secret information, huh?"
Hiyono, with a bear puppet on hand, punched her friend's shoulder, "Hiyono Punch! Narumi-san is an all-knowing evil dictator!"
Ayumu took the magazine off his face and looked at her blandly, "No, I just get my information elsewhere when my Info Hound is keeping secrets."
The reporter gave Ayumu what would be classified as the Hiyono Stare of Death. She would get him back for this. Because of his stupid all-knowing...all-knowingness, her plan had to be re-planned. This whole time she thought she had arrived at the perfect plan that no one would suspect and there would be no way whatsoever that Ayumu could get out of it. Now that he knew, there were so many ways that, being the super-detective that he is, he could figure out how to skip out of this ultimate super extreme climactic event that she'd thought up, with some help. He ruined her perfect plan...
Oh yeah. She would get him back good. She could barely hide the Grinch grin that threatened to spread across her face. Oh yes. There were many ways to skin a cat.
End of First Chapter, I HAVE to get the second one in tomorrow, because tomorrow's the SECOND day of Christmas, so expect more incredibly soon! It isn't going to be very long, I don't think, just twelve chapters, one for each day. I HIGHLY doubt it will even COMPARE to the length of Kiss the Cook, because the length of that, I will admit, is a bit ridiculous, but at least Kiss the Cook only has three more chapters. So anywho, I love you guys and I'll be in touch tomorrow! Tootles!