The Azumanga Sleepover

A Newcomer, Some Spiders, and Revenge

Author's Note: I have no comments, really

Except that the next two paragraph both start off at the same time too and the fact I repeat:

Hope you enjoy!

Oh yeah, and I do not know my share of Japanese films in the scary or other category so I used some American ideas if that's okay.

……

"And where is our delivery guy?"

"Shush, he'll come, I'm sure of it!"

"…You've been saying that for the past hour and a half already…" Chihiro sighed.

"Well…I'm sure this time!" Kaorin replied definitely.

Chihiro groaned.

"Kaorin, I've had enough of this; I'm cold, tired, and hungry," she whined. "I'm not having fun, Kaorin!"

"Oh hush, maybe the delivery guy isn't coming," Kaorin mumbled. "Let's just go back to spying."

While she made to return to the side of the house, Chihiro remained her ground.

"No, you go back," she frowned. "I'm going where I can have real fun."

She turned, but Kaorin held her back.

"Whoa, you can't go!" she called out. "That's traitor-ship!"

"I can and I'm going," Chihiro said, pulling her arm away. "You can enjoy your little game on your own!"

She stomped away.

"Hmm…fine, be that way," Kaorin crossed her arms. "But don't come crying to me when they turn you down!"

They went both ways and Kaorin returned to the windows just after Kagura had left the room. So Kaorin had no idea what had happened during their game.

……

After Kagura had ran away, the girls stared at each other for a moment then to Tomo.

"Oh, so it's my fault and not Osaka's?" Tomo frowned.

They said nothing but you could tell they meant to say: 'Well, you are the one whom started it with the kiss in the first place.'

'And you were sort of pushy too,' they seemed to add.

Chiyo stood up and faced Tomo.

"I don't think we should play this game anymore," she said with a worried expression.

She then walked away to Kagura's direction.

Sakaki sighed, bowing her head.

……

Kagura was holed up in the bathroom, curled up between the bathtub and sink as she sobbed.

She glanced up when the door clicked open and Chiyo appeared, closing it behind her. She resumed crying into her arms as the child walked over to her.

"Kagura?" she begin timidly.

"…hi Chiyo…" Kagura sniffled, rubbing her nose.

"…Will you be ok?" Chiyo asked gently.

"…N…n-no!" Kagura wailed as she buried her face into her knees.

"W-what do I do now, Chiyo?" she then faced her, tears streaming. "I-I k-kissed Sakaki and now…I-I d-don't know what to t-think!"

"…Kagura?"

"I mean…I was cool with the dare, b-but after that…," she sniffed. "…I-I feel so weird…

"Then Osaka asked whether I liked Sakaki now…and Tomo pushed me…I-I d-didn't know how to say it s-so…I had to leave…"

"I see…" Chiyo nodded.

Kagura dried her eyes and paused for a moment then looked up to Chiyo.

"…I really do like Sakaki…"

Being as innocent as she is, Chiyo could only reply: "Of course."

'How can anybody not like Sakaki? She's so nice!'

Still, that made Kagura feel bit better about saying it officially aloud.

She stood up and washed her face and thanked Chiyo for being there. As they walked out, Kagura asked Chiyo a question.

"…Does Sakaki like me too?"

Chiyo smiled as she thought innocently: 'Of course, how could anyone not like a person like you, Kagura?'

"I'm sure she does!"

Kagura smiled at this.

……

As they returned to the circle, Tomo asked: "So, do you or not like Sakaki now?"

"SHUT UP TOMO!" Kagura and Yomi yelled at her.

"Gee, don't yell at me!" Tomo held up her hands.

Kagura frowned at her then returned to sit next to Sakaki.

"…you ok?" the tall girl asked her.

"Yeah, much better!" Kagura grinned at her.

Sakaki smiled softly and when she was looking the other way, Kagura inched closer to her.

"What do we do now?"

"Hmm…" Chiyo looked up in thought. "Well…"

Tomo then shoved her out of the way, shouting: "Let's tell scary stories!"

"Scary stories?" Chiyo sat up, rubbing her head.

"Yep, you always got to tell them in every sleepover!" Tomo nodded.

"Ooh! Ooh! I wants to go first!" Osaka waved her hand then cleared her throat.

She then turned her head menacingly. "One day…"

"WAIT!" Tomo called out and went to turn off every light in the house.

She returned minutes later, out of breath considering the house was very large and sat down in the circle.

"Ok, proceed, Osaka."

Osaka cleared her throat and turned her head at them menacingly. "One day…"

At that point, the doorbell rang, making them jump up a bit.

"Who could that be at this hour?" Chiyo wondered as she got up and walked to the main hall.

"Aw, I was just getting started!" Osaka complained.

Chiyo opened the door to see Chihiro standing on the doorsteps.

"Chihiro?"

"Um…yeah…" Chihiro lowered her head awkwardly as she wringed her cap. "I heard you were having a sleepover and…"

"You want to join in?" Tomo asked, appearing suddenly at the door.

"Y-yeah…" Chihiro gulped. "Would that be okay? I-I don't want to feel like I'm intruding anything…"

"Actually…" Chiyo begin, smiling, but Tomo cut in with the answer.

"Course not, the more, the merrier!" she shouted happily and dragged Chihiro inside, slamming the door shut.

Tomo then pulled her over to the group.

"We have a newcomer, say hello to Chihiro!" Tomo introduced her.

The girls greeted her with light clapping.

"This is very nice to be part of your party," Chihiro smiled. "Thank you, girls!"

She bowed politely then turned to Chiyo.

"Do you have any food? I'm starving."

"Sure, we still have some pizza left over in the kitchen," Chiyo nodded, pointing the way.

She thanked her and left the room.

"All right, let the party resume!" Tomo raised her arm then sat down. "Go on, Osaka."

Osaka cleared her throat then turned her head at them menacingly.

"One day…I was just sittin' there in the classroom when suddenly…out of nowhere came the smell of a fart that wasn't mine!"

There was silence.

Chihiro reappeared, munching on a bowl of popcorn. "Did I miss anything?"

"Trust me, you missed nothing," Yomi replied.

"All right, it's my turn!" Tomo shouted out then pulled out a flashlight, shining her face.

"One particular day like this, in a place like this, with people like us," Tomo begin darkly. "They were having a sleepover like us and they thought they would have fun but-"

"Hey, we're having a sleepover too!" Osaka interrupted, looking around.

"Then…terrible things happened…" Tomo sighed, adding.

Sakaki gave a quiet whimper and went to leave but Kagura pulled her back.

"Hey, stick with us, this is going to be good!"

Sakaki swallowed nervously, sitting down.

"At first, it was pretty normal then things happened," Tomo continued. "They were small things though, like flickering lights and weird sounds which the girls dismissed…

"That's where things started getting more bolder, first…the spiders appeared…"

"Spiders?" the girls' eyes widened at this, Sakaki trembled.

"Yes…spiders…" Tomo smirked. "They would find a couple of them just crawling around so they killed them then they started finding them everywhere…even on themselves…"

Sakaki gave a squeak, grabbing a hold of Kagura's hand as a reflex action. Kagura looked down to it, blushed shyly, and returned to the tale unveiling before them.

"That wasn't all…sometimes the shadows looked alive…things were moved about…and soon the girls begin disappearing by one by one…"

Tomo then looked at Sakaki's now pale face and thought up an evil idea.

"The first to go was the spacey girl…then the munchkin…the jock…the kid who nobody cares about…the four-eyes…the pretty one…until…"

"They sure sound a lot like us, I wonder why?" Osaka tilted her head.

"I think they ARE us," Yomi muttered.

"Oh…" Osaka nodded. "…Who's the spacey girl?"

"…The last one living was the tall, quiet girl!" Tomo added, ignoring her.

Sakaki looked down at herself and shivered even more.

"Yes…this girl was no much more different than you…her name started with 'S' I think…and she was very much alone in the dark house…oh! I forgot to add, it was stormy and rainy outside too."

Sakaki gulped, gripping Kagura's hand tighter which made her friend blush even more.

"As her friends were gone, she thought she would try and escape…but the doors were locked…she was trapped inside!"

The girls gasped, Sakaki squeaked again.

"Then…she heard some skittering," Tomo wiggled her hands like a spider.

"And some clicking," she clicked then help up two fingers to her mouth like fangs. "Like fangs.

"They kept coming closer…no matter how much she ran…"

Sakaki went white, shaking even more.

"You ok?" Kagura turned to her.

"Soon she was cornered…all began to dark…then a large being appeared from the shadows and descended itself onto her and…

"That was the end of her."

The girls oohed.

"That's it, nobody makes it out alive?" Chiyo whimpered.

"None at all," Tomo said bluntly. "That's that."

"Ooh, scary!" Osaka commented.

"Yeah, I know, right…" Tomo nodded then came a thundering sound from the outside.

They turn to see rain slapping against the window with some flashes of lighting.

"Hey, it's stormy and rainy just like the story!" Osaka exclaimed.

If possible, Sakaki went even paler.

"Oh no, Kaorin!" Chihiro gasped.

"What?" Tomo turned to her suspiciously.

"Um…nothing…" Chihiro giggled nervously.

Chiyo gulped then stood up. "I think we should watch a movie now, it'll help us take our mind off the scary weather."

"Great idea!" Tomo approved. "We can watch a suspense horror!"

Chiyo and Sakaki stared at her with shock.

"…Won't that only get us more nervous?" Yomi muttered.

"But that's the best part!" Tomo retorted.

"True!" Kagura nodded agreeably.

"Yay, horror!" Osaka smiled, raising her hand.

"Oh dear…" Chiyo said timidly.

……

They went over to the couch where a large screen TV faced and Tomo began searching through the movie cases.

"Hey, let's watch this!" Tomo held up a DVD case entitled 'Amittyville Horror'.

"Uh…okay…" Chiyo swallowed and took the case.

'Why do my parents keep stuff like this?' she wondered as she put the DVD in.

As the movie started, they went to sit on the couch and waited for the title screen to come up.

Sakaki trembled, afraid of the outcome then broke into a small smile when the title screen revealed.

"What the heck is that?" Tomo frowned.

"Oh! My parents must've gotten the DVDs mixed up," Chiyo said, nearly unable to restrain a smile. "This is 'Beauty and the Beast'!"

"Ugh…take it off!" Tomo groaned then reached for the remote on the coffee table, but Sakaki grabbed it away.

Tomo looked at her then scoffed and crossed her arms grumpily. "Fine…be that way…"

Chihiro thought of her friend. 'I wonder if she'll be all right…'

……

Meanwhile, before the rain started; Kaorin had been watching her friend.

"Traitor…" she muttered under her breath. "…So they accepted you all right, but soon you'll be missing me and want to be out here with me so we can spy on them and Sakaki together!"

She sighed dreamily then yelled out.

"Do you hear me? I'm still having a good time regardless the conditions!" she said boldly. "Not even a storm could stop me from enjoying this!"

At that sentence, it began to rain and the clouds thundered with lightning. Kaorin squeaked and climbed up a tree (which is actually a bad choice in this sort of a weather) where she could be dry under the branches.

"What's the harm in a little rain? I am just fine!" she challenged the storm. "Come on, give me your worst, Mother Nature!"

The clouds boomed louder. The rain splashed against her tree.

"I wonder how Chihiro's doing…" she mumbled, soaking wet.

The clouds flashed dangerously with light and wind rushed all around her. Kaorin screamed.

"Chihiro!!!!!"

……

As they were coming to a slightly suspenseful scene where Belle's father walks through the scary part of the forest and enters the Beast's castle; Tomo looked around then slipped away.

"Where are you going?" Yomi asked, catching her with her suspicious glare.

"Bathroom," Tomo shrugged casually.

"Hmph…" Yomi stared at her then returned to the movie.

As soon as she was out of their earshot, Tomo chuckled mischievously and went to her bag which she had left in the hall instead.

She dug through it and found the item she was looking for.

"Nice."

……

The girls watched the movie, the light from the TV flickering on them. They shared Chihiro's popcorn as they sat huddled together on the couch. Sakaki took a handful and ate some when she felt something brush against her cheek.

'Hmm?'

She shook her head, waving away some possible stray hairs and resumed her snacking.

The brushing returned, Sakaki froze. She glanced back, seeing nothing, and hesitantly returned to the film.

The bristly feeling returned, this time she felt it down her neck.

She looked down.

She shrieked.

It was the largest hairiest spider she had ever seen.

Popcorn went flying as she screamed and jumped off the couch, waving her arms. Still screaming, she backed up against a wall. Then there was laughter.

She gasped, opening her eyes to see the girls sprawled on the floor and couch with the popcorn scattered everywhere as result of her freak out. And there was Tomo with the spider, laughing crazily.

Sakaki could feel the tears well up in her eyes and she ran away.

"You jerk!" Kagura yelled at the wildcat then went after her.

"That was really mean!" Chiyo said.

"Come on, lighten up, it's a joke," Tomo mumbled.

"Joke or not, that was just wrong," Yomi scowled at her then followed after Kagura.

"Guys?" Tomo turned to Chihiro and Osaka.

They could only stare at her wordlessly.

"Oh man…" Tomo sighed.

……

Sakaki sat in a corner with her hands up to her face. Kagura appeared beside her, sitting next to her.

"…Sakaki?"

Sakaki lowered her hands and frowned. "That was a very mean thing she did…"

"Which is why we must get back at her," said a new voice and Yomi appeared.

"Yeah!" Kagura nodded. "She's done enough pranks on Sakaki, she made you eat that…err…ice cream and she…"

She paused, blushing slightly and lowered her head.

"…you know…"

"Kagura?" Sakaki asked.

Kagura smiled at her then frowned. "She pushed me…"

Sakaki nodded.

Yomi sat down before them, crossing her legs and arms.

"Which brings us to this, Tomo has done too much and this is time for to take action against her."

"What'll we do?" Kagura asked.

Yomi's glasses glinted with light impishly and she called for a huddle up.

"Here's what we'll do…"