Disclaimer: I do not own Azumanga Daioh or any of the elements
that it employs that this fic does as well, or any that it employs that my fic does not, for that
matter. However, I am the writer of this fic, and I make a claim to the things that this fic employs
that aren't also in Azumanga Daioh. Additionally, I don't know what else to say here.

Chapter 1: Tomatoes, air lint, and who-knows-what!

Chiyo looked out her window. There was plenty of snow and fog, but she could see her school in the distance. It was covered in ice, just like everything else she could see out her window. She giggled as her dog, Mr. Tadakichi, crawled over to her and rubbed up against her. She smiled as she pet Tadakichi and looked out the window. It was going to be another cold day, and she had an idea of what to do with it. She was going to have a snow party with her classmates.

Chiyo Mihama was an eleven-year-old girl who stood about five feet and six inches tall and had intensely red hair with two pigtails. She went to school in some japanese grade that culturally translates to the third year of high school. She had skipped to what translates to the second year the year before. Before that, she was in what translates to fourth grade, just like everyone else her age. It was no mistake sending her to high school. The reason for this, you see, was that Chiyo was extremely talented. She could answer almost any question she was asked, and she had a very abundant wealth of knowledge about akward and unexpected topics. She also had many, many talents that she was an expert in, and she was able to almost immediately learn anything she did not know if she was told how to put it into action. She was extremely wealthy, but not spoiled at all. She seemed painfully unaware of her various and relatively abundant talents. Summing it up, she was polite, a genius, wealthy, and, at the moment, about to phone her friend, Kasuga Ayumu, who was better known as Osaka.

The loud ring of Chiyo's phone sounded hollowly throughout her entire mansion. She turned down the volume on her phone because the noise was overwhelming. Tadakichi yelped and ran off. Chiyo got up and began to reach for him, but changed her mind and sat back down.

The chair she was sitting in was a red arm chair. "Yay, red armchairs," Chiyo thought to herself. " Does their redness somehow make them comfier?." Chiyo giggled at what she had just thought to herself. "What if it were a tomato," she said aloud, beginning to giggle, "and it were still comfy?" She sat back and laughed.

Just as she sat back, a spaced-out-sounding "Hey, Chiyo-chan..." came from the phone earpiece. Chiyo's face brightened. "Hihi! Osaka-san!" She was almost jumping up and down in her seat to hear Osaka again and had to stand up to prevent from doing so. "So," said Osaka, "how's it goin'?"

"Great," said Chiyo. "How are you?"

"Great," said Osaka. "You know the little specs of dust that float around the room and that you can only see when the light's on?"

"Hmm?"

"I was watching them, and one of them flipped over practically ten times and stuck to another one..."

A shadow dropped over Chiyo's face as she blinked in disbelief. "Umm," she said, "that's great."

"And I was wondering," said Osaka, "what if they all stuck together and made a big ball of lint..."

"Yes?"

"And it got some DNA in it..."

Chiyo blinked. "Yes?"

"And the DNA grew into a freakishly huge fungus, except with a brain..."

Chiyo's eyes widened with fear. "Ye-yes?"

"And then, one by one..." Osaka whispered.

Chiyo was beginning to breathe harder and harder. "Yes?!" she whimpered.

"The ball of lint..."

"YES?!" Chiyo screamed in an extremely frightened voice.

"Oh..." Osaka said ten seconds later, after looking around her room in a spaced-out manner. "I lost my train of thought... Sorry."

"Oh..." Chiyo blinked at the irony. "Hey, I'm gonna have a snow party outside my house. Wanna come?"

"Sure," said Osaka. "When is it?"

"Any time."

"Okay."

"Okay," said Chiyo.

"Hey, Chiyo-chan?" asked Osaka as her mind drifted off to preparing for the visit.

"Yes?"

"When you say that you're taking a shower, all that you're really taking is the water..."

"Right."

"So wouldn't that make the water the true shower?"

Chiyo thought about this.

"And if it would, then wouldn't you say that you're taking a shower when you're drinking water?"

Chiyo's brain began to hurt. "I guess so..." she said.

"By the way, Chiyo-chan... Bye."

"Huh?"

"Bye."

"Why?"

"I gotta take a fungus- I mean a shower."

"Oh. Okay. Bye, Osaka-san!" Chiyo put the phone down, her mind filled with questions about air lint, fungus, DNA, showers, drinking water, and how Osaka could possibly be so random. Next on her list of people to call was Sakaki.

Osaka put the phone down and headed for the bathroom. "Say," she thought to herself. "What was it Chiyo-chan said about tomatoes?"

Alright, that's the first chapter! Please r&r&bh (read and review and BE HAPPY).