Christmas Day
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Timeskip: December 25th (Christmas Day)
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Sakaki called her parents and wished them a Merry Christmas. Joe called his parents all the way over in America, and wished them a Merry Christmas as well.
They both then kneeled next to each other to give each other their presents.
"Here you go, Sakaki. Merry Christmas" Joe said, as he handed his present to Sakaki.
Sakaki opened it to find a t-shirt. She unfolded the t-shirt, and gasped at it. On the t-shirt was a picture of Mayaa and Yama, curled up with Ichi, Ni, and San. And they were all sleeping.
"Thank you very much," Sakaki said, smiling and happy with her present. "When did you…?"
"Lots of connections, Sakaki," Joe said with a smile.
Sakaki then gave Joe his present. Sakaki had put the game in a box, so Joe couldn't guess what it was.
Joe opened it up, and pulled the game out of the box.
He sat there, staring at it, in a stunned silence.
"Joe?" Sakaki asked.
"W-w-w-when did you get this? The stores are still sold out, with reservations being pushed back into late January." Joe said, still staring stunned at Super Smash Bros Brawl in his hands
"I got it on the first day it came out," Sakaki said.
"How? From what I heard from the people at work, the lines were supposed to be hell." Joe said, looking over at Sakaki.
"I was 10th in line, but I waited a whole day. I knew you wanted it," Sakaki said.
Joe looked back at the game, as tears began to form in Joe's eyes as this new information was given to him. He knew precisely how cold and snowy it was on the 2nd and 3rd.
He dropped the game, and went right up and hugged Sakaki fiercely. Tears were rivering down his eyes.
"You are an awesome girlfriend!!" Joe said, as he hugged tight.
Sakaki slowly wrapped her arms around Joe.
I guess this makes up for the Mayaa documents, Sakaki thought.
Joe had never felt like this before. Someone would actually sit out in the cold…for him. Nobody had ever done so before.
At that moment, both Joe and Sakaki finally felt a true love connection between each other. (And that night, they would cuddle up with each other closer than they ever have before)
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Chiyo walked through her house after opening all her presents.
She reached her room, and saw one final present sitting on her bed.
She went over to it, and read the tag.
"To: Chiyo
From: All your friends
PS: We wanted to give you the star they always put on the tree in the square, but we figured this was better."
Chiyo opened the present, and gasped. Her eyes went wide.
"How…did they get this?" was all Chiyo could muster.
Sitting in the package was a laminated piece of paper with a frame around it. What was on the paper was the signature of every last player on the Yomiuri Giants for that year.
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Yomi saw a package sitting on the guest bed where she was sleeping (she was visiting her parents for the holiday). It read:
"To: Yomi
From: All your friends (even Tomo)
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Yomi opened it up, and gasped.
"How…?!" was all Yomi could muster as well.
Sitting inside the package were dieting pills. But there's more to them than just that.
They were the super diet pills that were guaranteed to help you lose weight within weeks, no matter what you ate (100 effective, seriously). But the pills were on backorder for about a year, and it took forever for the company to make even one more bottle (a good two weeks).
But inside the package was, not one, but two whole bottles of pills. 200 pills per bottle, which meant that one bottle would only last a person about 6 ½ months, before having to reorder again.
Which meant Yomi had a good year's supply of these super diet pills.
Yomi's stood there, completely stunned, holding the pill bottle in her shaking hand.
(Also, the diet pills came with a warning: "No side effects. Will only eliminate 90 of body fat)
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Tomo was walking up the stairs of her parent's house (after having a nice Christmas morning).
Maybe I've gone soft. Helping those guys get gifts for everybody, Tomo thought.
She went up to the guest room, and found another present.
"Ah, I missed one?!" Tomo exclaimed in surprise, and ran over to it.
Tomo read the tag (you should know what it says by now), and opened it up.
Tomo, the usually energetic Tomo, froze as she saw what was in the package.
"L-l-l-Lupin the Third, Volume 1?!" she was on the verge of tears, as she thought to her manga collection at home.
She had every last volume of Lupin the third, except for #1, because it had gotten lost somewhere in her childhood, and she had never found it. It made her feel heartbroken every time she looked at her collection.
The Volume 1 she had lost had had a tear in the top right hand corner, with "Tomo Takino" written on the back part of the front cover. The book she now held in her hand was brand new.
She had tried going all over the Internet for them, but Volume 1 was no longer available anywhere, and Ebay had them going for well over 100,000 yen (somewhere close to $1,000 US)
"YOU GUYS ARE AWSOME!!" Tomo yelled with both her fists in the air, tears rivering down her face.
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Osaka was lying under the kotatsu when she felt something brush up against her leg. She pulled the kotatsu off her legs, and saw the package that was sitting there.
Osaka opened it up, and smiled.
A battery-powered heating blanket, so now she could take the power of the kotatsu with her anywhere (also had an A/C adapter, so you really don't need batteries if you have an outlet)
"Thanks, guys," Osaka said, as she pulled the kotatsu over her bottom half, and covered her top half with the heating blanket (without any batteries) and fell asleep.
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Kagura was walking up to her room in her parent's house. All throughout the Germany trip, and all the way home, all she and Heiko did was fight. This was beginning to get on Kagura's nerves, so she was staying with her parents for Christmas.
Kagura came up to her room, and noticed the package sitting on her bed. She checked the tag to make sure it wasn't from Heiko, then opened the package.
Kagura's eyes went wide.
Inside were training weights. Around the outer part of 5 of the weights were a protective plastic covering. The protective plastic covering was protecting the signatures (made in permanent marker) of the Swimming Olympic Champions from the past 5 Summer Olympics.
Kagura lifted the weights out of the package and stared at them, mouth open. She brought them close to her body, and shed a tear of happiness.
"Thanks, guys," Kagura said "For being such great friends."
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Yukari was sitting at her house (aka her parents house), and began walking up to her bedroom. She had gotten nothing practical for Christmas, just a few random items, along with the book "Safe driving for dummies" (to which Yukari responded "I am not a dummy, and my driving's fine!") As she reached her room, a present sat right in front of the door. Yukari lifted it up, and ran into her room with it.
She opened it to find the exact same pillow Nyamo had at her house (the 10,000 yen one)
(The girls had asked Nyamo what Yukari would want for Christmas)
Yukari slowly pulled it out of the package, and squeezed it. She could tell it was new, because it was much newer than Nyamo's was.
Yukari would have run over to Nyamo's and rubbed it in her face, but she felt really tired at that point, and fell asleep on her new pillow.
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Nyamo was also sitting at home. She reached into her closet to pull out her jacket to go for a walk, when she noticed a package sitting in her closet.
She opened it to reveal a love letter that Yukari was supposed to have (as blackmail), along with a note:
"We didn't read it. We knew Yukari had something on you, so we got it from her.
Some old students
PS: We used a PS2 game that was sold out in stores to get it from her"
Nyamo took the letter out of the small package, and this time, hid it well enough so that Yukari wouldn't get it.
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Kaorin went to her room (which was downstairs) and noticed a package. She opened it. Her heart started racing, as she lifted the present out of the package.
In it was the picture of Sakaki and Kaorin, taken all the way back in high school. Next to it was the picture of Sakaki and Kaorin, standing outside the Yamamayaa Pet Hospital. And both of them were in frames.
Kaorin quickly hung them on the wall.
This is the best Christmas ever! Kaorin thought.
And truth be told, she was probably right.
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Author's notes: In case your wondering why Osaka got what seemed to be the easiest present, running through every last one of the Azumanga Daioh episodes, the only thing she was ever found to be obsessed with was Chiyo's pigtails, and kotatsu's.
I wanted to give her Chiyo's pigtails, but I don't think that would have worked out well XP
Off-subject: Searching Wikipedia, I found that the voice actor (Japanese) for Sakaki was the same voice actor for Motoko Aoyama of Love Hina.
Creepy Part: Those are my two favorite characters from those series.
Next Chapter: The snowball fight, the final chapter in the winter saga