-1Azumanga Daioh Is Not Mine It Belongs To Kiyohiko Azuma
New Azumanga Christmas Tales
By Anime Rebirth
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AR: Usually kids wish they would be left alone…. But for Chiyo Mihama, it becomes a whole new meaning to being….. "HOME ALONE"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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(Chiyo's Tale)
Ah Hokaido Japan………
All decorated for the holiday season.
But what's this, why it's the Mihama's There's Chiyo's dad, who despite what Sakaki thinks is not a large Yellow Cat but a distinguished looking man and his lovely wife, now for certain reasons lets just call them Mr. and Mrs Mihama.
But someone seems to be missing, where is little Chiyo, ah she had a prior engagement at school that needed to ber taken care of so she stayed behind. Oh don't worry, her Uncle Kiza is supposed to pick her up from her house later on so everything should be okay…….
"I do wish I could have stayed behind and not leave poor Chiyo alone." Mrs. Mihama said as she and her husband entered the hotel they were going to stay in.
"But darling, we have that important engagement with my boss and his wife." Mr. Mihama responded. "And it would look inappropriate if you were not with me by my side." he added.
"I suppose." Mrs. Mihama said as she still had a motherly concern look on her face.
"And just think after today we can all spend the holidays together as a family." Mr. Mihama explained. "It will be the first time in years that we will finally have a Christmas as a family."
Mrs. Mihama smiled. Yes the past few years involved with Mr. Mihama working on the holidays thank to his boss Mr. Oroko. But this big dinner party may finally make Mr. Mihama a full partner at the office he works for. Which meant more free time.
"I still feel guilty that we asked my brother Kiza to pick her up." Mrs. Mihama said.
"Oh don't worry, I know that he doesn't have anyone to share the holidays with, and I figured it would be more fun to include him in out family festivities." Mr. Mihama said as he smiled.
Mrs. Mihama smiled as he embraced her husband. "I married the most wonderful man in the universe." She said as she rewarded him with a kiss.
"So by now little Chiyo and Kiza should be bording a plane by now." Mr. Mihama said as he looked at his watch. "Did you make sure and call Kiza with the details?"
"Wait…what?" Mrs. Mihama asked in a surprised tone. "I thought you were going to call him."
"No I figured since he was your brother you were going to call him." Mr. Mihama responded. "Well I'll just call him now." He said as he took out his cell phone. "Hmm, I don't seem to be getting a signal."
Mrs. Mihama quickly took out her cell phone. "Me neither." She said in a worried tone.
They quickly ran to the front desk. "We need to use your phone." Mr. Mihama said.
"Sorry, but due to the weather all the phone lines stopped working." The front desk clerk said.
"Then that means….." Mr. Mihama stared.
"Chiyo is….." Mrs. Mihama continued.
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Chiyo sat at the front steps of huge house waiting for her uncle Kizo. She had no idea that he was not going to come as well as not knowing that her parents have no way to contact her.
"This is sure strange." Chiyo thought. "I wonder what's keeping Uncle Kizo."
She started to get a little worried. "I wish Mr. Tadakichi was here." She thought.
Normally her faithful companion would be with her, but he was dropped of at a special kennel to be looked after while she was away with her family.
After half an hour she decided to go and call the hotel in Hokkaido, but all she got was messeage saying that the call could not go through and to try again later.
She could have called anyone of her friends, but they all seemed to be unavailable because they all had prior engagments and could not be reached.
Soon after that she tried calling her Uncle, but it seemed that at that moment the phone lines stopped working.
Chiyo slowly hung up the phone when it finally dawned on her. "I'm home alone."
Now normally a girl Chiyo's age would start to panic and start crying for her parents….
But this is Chiyo Mihama, who always thought out everything and looked at all the facts.
"I'm home alone….. I cannot contact anyone….. That means I must make sure that I have everything I need to fend for myself." She thought out.
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She headed to the kictchen. Luckily for her it was fully stacked so food was not an issue.
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After that, she went to her room and took out a small piggy bank she kept next to her autographed baseball of the Giants, her favorite team. She had pleanty to buy things that in case she needed something.
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Finally she checked the security system and it seemed to be fully operational.
Yes it seems that she would be okay until her parents returned.
"Yes I have nothing to worry about." Chiyo thought.
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Unfortuantly for Chiyo, she didn't know that outside on the street, to men were sitting in a van studying the houses in the area.
"This is sure a sweet thing you found here Trevor." the first man said.
"It sure is Lewis." The second man said. "This street is full of people that are fully loaded, just ripe for the picking." Trevor continued.
"So which house are we gonna hit first?" Lewis asked.
"You see that huge house at the end of the street with the huge gate?" Trevor asked.
"Yeah." Lewis responded.
"Well that's the mother load and we're doing it last." Trevor responded. "After all you save the best for last right?"
"Well if it's the best, why don't we do it first." Lewis asked in a confused tone.
"It's just a thing I do, I can't explain it." Trevor responded.
"Fine I don't care, just as long as we hit it eventually." Lewis said as he scratched his head.
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That evening back in Hokkaido Mr. and Mrs Mihama were at the airport trying to find a flight back to Tokyo, but since it's the holiday season, all the flights were booked.
"Well the best I can do is put you on standby." The lady at the ticket counter explained.
"You don't understand, my poor baby is back in Tokyo home all alone and all of our neighbors went out of town so there is no one to check up on her." Mrs. Mihama started.
"Calm down dear." Mr. Mihama said. "Chiyo is a very bright girl I'm sure she is just fine."
"But she's probably starving to death even as we speak." Mrs. Mihama responded….
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In the dining room, the table was covered with a small feast.
"Thank you for the food." Chiyo said as she broke the chopsticks apart.
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"Come, we must take a seat and hope they call us soon." Mr. Mihama said.
"This is your fault, if you hadn't insisted on me coming along, I would be at home with Chiyo, all you ever think is about your carrer."
"Hey I'm doing this for our family so we can spend more time together." Mr. Mihama said in an annoyed tone.
"And looked how that worked out." Mrs. Mihama said with tears in her eyes.
It was then that Mr. Mihama embraced her in a hug. "Don't worry, everything will be okay… this is Chiyo remember."
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The following day Chiyo awoke. "This is kinda fun." She thought as she gave a small giggle. "Even though she was all alone, she felt she loved the responsbilty of taking care of her home."
She got out of bed and looked out the window, it was then that she noticed it, a van parked down the street. "Odd, I thought everyone was out of town for vacation." she thought some more. "In fact I believe it was parked further down the street yesterday."
Now once again Chiyo's brain went to full function mode. "Let's see, a strange van around Christmas time in a neigborhood where almost everyone was on vacation." After a few secons she came to a conclusion. "ROBBERS!!!!"
Chiyo quickly ran to the phone to call the police.
She picked up the reciever. "Oh no the phones are still not working." She thought.
As she slowly hung up the phone she started to think about the situation. "It looks like their slowly working their way to my house." She thought. "That means they could come here as early as tonight."
Chiyo clentched her fists. Her home was in danger and she was going to make sure to protect it at all costs.
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Back in Hokkaido, Chiyo's parents were still waiting for someone who would cancel their flight.
It was than that Mr. Mihama's boss walked up with his wife. He had an upset look on his face.
"You know if you want to go up in this company, you should learn to keep your appoinments." he said.
"Appointments?" Mrs. Mihama said as she quickly stood up. "It was a dinner, not a business function."
"You should really learn to control your wife." Mihama's boss said.
Mr. Mihama slowly stood up and just stared at him. "Now I don't know why you've always been a pain in my……..side, but I'll have you know that if you treated your employess better, then maybe they would have more respect for you, now if you'll excuse us, I have a daughter at home alone and we will find a way to get back to her."
And with that, they Mihama's walked off leaving his boss with a bewildered look on his face.
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That evening back in Tokyo. Chiyo was busy setting up things all over the house, it was obvious that whoever was commiting these robberies have found away to bypass the security systems in the other houses.
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And if on cue, Lewis managed to bypass the security system at the front gate and managed to get it open.
"Whoever set this up is such an amateur." Lewis said as he adjusted his glasses.
"Well let's get going this is the big one I've been waiting for." Trevor said as he rushed towards the front door.
But as he grabbed the knob he felt his body tingle with electricity as he then flew backwards and landed hard on the ground.
"TREVOR YOU OKAY?!!!!" Lewis asked.
"What his me?" Trevor asked.
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Inside, a car battery was hooked up to the doorknob from the inside.
"Funny thing what you can do with automotive parts." Chiyo thought as she looked out the windows at her… victims.
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"What do you think this means?" Lewis asked.
"It means someone was clever enough to leave us a little surprise, but that's not gonna stop us." Trevor responded. "You take the back entrence, I'll go in through a window."
"Right." Lewis said as he took off.
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"Looks like they want to play some more." Chiyo said as she quickly ran towards the back entrence.
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Lewis reached the back enterence….
He slowly looked at the doorknob…
"I'm not going to fall for that." Lewis said as he kicked in the door, only to trigger a nail gun that was setup inside to go off as soon as the door was swung open.
"HOLY SH…..!!!!" Lewis said as he dived out of the way, but not before some of the nails hit him in his… well…. posterior.
"AHHHHHGH!!!!" Lewis screamed in pain.
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Chiyo saw at the work she had done. "Bet it's going to be hard to go to the restroom for a while." she thought as she gave a small giggle.
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Trevor made his way to a window and broke it.
"Okay then, time to get to work." he thought as he went into the house. "Now I wonder where they keep all the jewelry."
It was then that he saw a jewelry box on a table. "Funny place to keep it." He thought as he made his way towards it.
He then felt something on his foot. Trevor looked down and saw he had triggered a tripwire. He heard a noise and looked behind him as he a sledgehammer on a rope swinging towards him. "This is gonna hurt." he said softly as it hit him knocked him to the ground.
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Meanwhile Lewis was busy taking the last of the nails out of his but. "Who lives here an army guy?"
He slowly made his way into the house making sure to look out for any other traps. "I guess that was it." he thought as he made his way into the kicthen. "I've heard that some of these people leave valubles in the fridge."
And so he opened the fridge and it triggered a can of pepper spray hitting him dead on in his eyes.
"CRAP!!!!!" he said as he ran out screaming which caused him to run into a wall.
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Trevor slowly stood up as the wind was knocked out him….
"This guy is good, but it's not stop me from getting the goods."
He made his way up the stairs.
"Gotta keep on my toes." He thought which was really ironic…….
Because they were jawbreakers layed out on the stairs at the top which caused him to slip and tumble all the way to the bottom.
Trevor was groaning as Lewis made his way towards him still stinging from the pepper spray.
"Lets give it up, this house is obviously protected." Lewis begged.
"NOT A CHANCE!!!!" Trevor responed as he stood up.
"Hey do you mind leaving my house." Someone said from behind.
Trevor and Lewis turned around and was surprised to see a little pigtailed girl standing in front of a rug.
"A GIRL?!!!!!!" They both yelled in unison.
"When I get my hands on you I'm gonna strangle you." Lewis said.
"Then I'm gonna finish whatever is left." Trevor added.
"NO STAY BACK!!!!!" Chiyo pleaded.
"Too late." Trevor said as he and Lewis ran towards her.
But when they reached the middle of the rug, they fell thorugh a hole and they landed in the basement with a loud thud.
"I told you to stay back." Chiyo said as she giggled and ran off.
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"She's good." Lewis said.
"Oh shut up and get off me." Trevor said as he shoved him off. "That little brat isn't gonna make a monkey out of me.
"Good because we sure don't have the balance to be one." Lewis said which caused Trevor to give him an annoyed look.
"Excuse me sirs, but would you please leave my house now." Chiyo said from a window.
"OVER OUR DEAD BODIES!!!!!" Trevor screamed.
"OH DEAR GOD DON'T SAY THAT IT COULD GIVE HER IDEAS!!!!!!" Lewis screamed.
"She's just a little girl, we are grown men, we can take her." Trevor said. "I'M NEVER GONNA GIVE UP!!!!!"
So the two men ran out of the basement and out the door leading outside where they saw Chiyo standing under a tree.
"We have you now… LET'S GET HER!!!!" Trevor yelled as they ran towards her.
"Silly rabbits tricks are for kids." Chiyo said.
And in seemed that was the case as the two thugs were caught in a net that was set up.
"I can't believe it, defeated by a small little pigtailed girl." Trevor said in disbelief.
"Well look at the bright side, this was a learning experience." Lewis added.
"Don't you ever stop talking." Trevor said as he sweat dropped.
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And so some time later the phone lines started working again and Chiyo called the police.
After they took them away, she made sure to take down all the remaining traps that were still set up.
"There." she said as she yawned. "This was a tiring experience."
And with that…she went to bed.
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The following morning, the doors swung open and Mr. and Mrs Mihama entered the house.
"CHIYO!!!!!" Mrs. Mihama yelled.
Chiyo slowly came out of her room and saw her parents. Her eyes grew wide as she ran towards them and embraced them in a tight hug.
"We're so sorry." Mrs. Mihama said as tears came out of her eyes.
"This will never happen again." Mr. Mihama added. "Well it won't anyway because… I'm out of a job but who cares, I'm with my family."
At that point his cell phone rang.
"Oh sure now it works." Mr. Mihama said as he answered it. "Hello…..what….. You're kidding…. YES I WILL!!!!!!….. THANK YOU SIR!!!!!" he then hung up his cell phone.
"Who was that?" Mrs. Mihama asked.
"That was my boss, turns out that he was impressed after all that I stood up to him so we could come here with Chiyo, he gave me the promotion because he needs more men like me."
"That's good news daddy." Chiyo said as she giggled.
"Well, I guess we'd better get Mr. Tadakichi." Mr. Mihama said. "I'll bet he misses you."
"By the way what exactly did you do while we were gone." Mrs. Mihama asked.
"Oh, some men came over and 'hung out'." Chiyo said which caused her parents to get a confused look
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Well I hoped you enjoyed Chiyo's Tale, but the fun is not over, stay tuned for more.
So unitl then, take care……AR
'TILL NEXT TIME!!!!!