Azumanga Daioh Gets Real Pt16

Azumanga Daioh is not mine it belongs to Kiyohiko Azuma

Azumanga Daioh Gets Real
By Anime Rebirth

Part 16   

It was a gorgeous sunny day. Kassie had decided to take the girls to the beach in Malibu. Everyone there was staring at them as the walked down the beach. Well mainly at Sakaki, if she looked good in a swimsuit in the anime, in real life she was a knockout.

“Hey beautiful how ya doing.” A guy said to her.

“How long are you in town.” said another. Sakaki just crossed her arms in front of her.

The Azu-girls stared at Kaorin. They could see she was getting upset.  “Um Sakaki-san, are these boys bothering you.” she asked.

“No it’s okay.” Sakaki said. But Kaorin could tell that she was uncomfortable. “Just ignore those jerks Sakaki-san.”

Sakaki just smiled at her. “Arigato Kaorin-san.”

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As they sat down on the beach, Tomo noticed something. “Look at that.”

Yomi just looked in the direction Tomo was facing.

“Those boys, they all such knockouts.” Tomo said as she almost appeared to be drooling.

“Um Tomo?” Yomi asked. “Are you okay?”

“I’ve never been better.” She turned her best friend. “Come on let’s go talk to them.” She grabbed Tomo’s arm and they ran off.

“Don’t you think it’s odd for Tomo to go and hit on a boy?” Piper asked.

“Well can you blame them, I mean look at their bodies.” Kassie replied.
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Kagura decided to get some drinks. As she was heading to a vending machine, she noticed a group of teens with a cooler. One of the girls in the group saw her. “Hey I’ve never seen you around here.” she asked.

“Well that’s because I’m not from around here, I’m here to see my cousin.” she answered.

“Nice tan.” A boy told her .

“Oh it’s because I’m on the swim team back home.” Kagura replied.

“No kidding you’re a swimmer.” Another girl answered. “Come hang out with us for a while.”

“Well you see I gotta go get some drinks for my friends and….” Kagura tried to explain.

“Come on only for a sec, were swimmers to.” Another boy replied.

“Really?” Kagura answered. “Well maybe just for a sec.”
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“So are you from around here?” Tomo asked one of the boys.

“Uh, yeah.” One of the boys answered.

“The name’s Tomo, this here is my friend Yomi” she told them.

“Hi.” Yomi said nervously.

“I’m Alex, and this here is my best bud Britt. We’re surfers.” he responded.

“Oh that sounds exciting.” Tomo answered. “So could you teach us how to surf?” She said as she closed her eyes and smiled.

The two surfers just stared at each other. “Um, we gotta go now to…..water our plants.” And then they quickly ran off.

“Oh great Yomi you scared them off with that fat body of yours.” Tomo told her.

“Don’t make me give you another cooking accident.” Yomi warned.
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“And then I won that race too, it was a breeze.” Kagura told her new friends.

“That was amazing.” The girl responded.

The four teens were Daniela, Kent, Marco, and Bethany. They were all members of their high school swim team. Kagura was also impressed by their stories of their past swim meets.

“So have you ever thought of moving here to California.” Marco asked.

“Actually, I’m hoping to go home soon.” Kagura responded.

“Why, don’t you like it here?” Daniela asked.

“It’s nice, but to be honest I am kinda homesick.” Kagura responded as she just looked at the sky.

“So where are you from?” Marco asked.

“Tokyo.” Kagura responded as she realized she made a mistake.

“Tokyo? Wow, that’s pretty cool.” Kent replied.

“So what’s it like over there?” Daniela asked.

Kagura just sighed and decided to tell them about her hometown. “It’s so awesome, there’s a lot of places to eat, and fun places to go, in fact there’s this amusement park called Wonderland, it’s so freaking incredible.” Kagura kept talking everything she could think of about Tokyo.

It was then that Bethany noticed something. “Wonderland?” she proceeded to ask one more question. “By the way we didn’t get your name.”

“It’s Kagura.” the athlete replied. Bethany just stared at her. “Kagura what?” she asked.

Kagura thought for a moment, as much as she thought she couldn’t think of another name…..in fact Kagura is all she had gone by. “I…..”

Bethany just laughed. “Guys I think she’s been playing us, Kagura is a character from Azumanga Daioh, and Kagura is one of the characters on the show.” Bethany knew everything about Anime. “Come on really who are you.”

Kagura decided to quickly play along. “Okay you got me, I’m really from Iowa.” she lied

“And what’s your real name then?” Kent asked.

“It’s……Kagura.” Kagura tried to lie about her name, but for some reason she couldn’t. “I mean……Kagura.” The other’s just stared at her. “Come on why can’t I lie about my name.” she thought.

“Look if your not gonna be serious then just leave us alone okay.” Daniela told her.

“I’ll bet you’re not even a real swimmer.” Marco added.

Kagura clenched her fists. Nobody was going to tell her that she was no swimmer. “I am so a swimmer, I’ll be I could swim circles around you.” Kagura said.

“Then prove it.” Daniela challenged.
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More and more boys kept passing by the other Azu-Girls just to get a quick glimpse at Sakaki. As they did Kaorin could feel more and more angry about it. “Why are they staring at her like she was a side of beef or something.” she complained.

“Because she’s an American.” Osaka answered.

It was then that they noticed Kagura and the four teens heading towards the water. “Kassie?” Piper told her.
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“Kagura-san, what are you doing?” Chiyo asked her.

“I’m gonna teach these chumps that I’m the best swimmer around.” She replied.

“Kagura don’t.” Kassie warned.

“It’s too late, I’m taking their challenge and that’s that.” Kagura seemed determined.

Bethany had decided to be the one to challenge her since she was the anime expert among them. “Okay you see that rock over there, first one to swim to it and come back to shore it the winner got it?” she explained.

“No problem.” Kagura said. Suddenly Kagura began to stretch. “1,2,3,4.…..1,2,3,4.……..”

“What are you doing?” Marco asked.

“She’s stretching.” Yomi explained. “Kurosawa-sensei always makes sure we do them before we start to swim.”

Bethany just stared at the girls with specs. “Kurosawa-sensei?” She started to laugh as she kept looking at each of the girls. “Let me guess your Yomi and the cute little one is Chiyo.” She pointed at Kaorin. “And you must be that minor character Kaorin who has a crush on MISS SAKKKKAAAAAAKIIIIII!!!!!”

Kaorin whispered into Sakaki’s ear. “She’s not all there I think.”

“Mmmmmm” Sakaki said as she nodded.

“You’d better do your stretches too.” Kagura warned.

“I’m not at practice, I don’t have to do them if I don’t want to.” Bethany said in an annoyed tone.

“I’d listen to her.” Piper warned.

“Will you just shut up.” Bethany told her.

“Well you know she’s only doing what her teacher taught her.” Piper added.

“Oh and which character are you, Yuka, or maybe Miruchi, those two little brats hardly came out.” Bethany said in a mocked tone.

“HEY DON’T TALK MEAN ABOUT THEM, THEY USED TO ME MY CLASSMATES!!!!!” Chiyo yelled.

Daniela, Kent and Marco just stared at each other. “Um, Bethany maybe you’d better do your stretches.” Kent said.  

“You guys worry too much I’ll be fine.” she told them.

The two girls got into position…..and then they ran into the water. Bethany took an early lead as she swam with all of her might. Suddenly, she some swim my her at an alarming speed. “Impossible.” she though.


Kagura reached the rock easily and started her way back to shore. “Piece of Cake.” she thought.

Bethany started to swim faster. “I can’t lose.” she thought when suddenly she started to fell her leg cramping up. “NO!!!!” she yelled as she started to struggle.

Kagura could see everyone up ahead, at first she thought they were cheering her on, but then she noticed that they were actually pointing behind her. She turned to look around at she just saw Bethany go under. “Oh my God.” She thought as she quickly swam where she saw her go down and then dove under to look for her.

“I’ll go get a lifeguard.” Kassie quickly said as she ran off.

“Kagura-san?” Chiyo said in a worried tone.

They had been under for quite a while.

“I am going in.” Sakaki said, but then Kagura popped out id the water holding Bethany and swam to sure.

Bethany was unresponsive.

“She needs CPR.” Piper said.

“Come on Osaka-san.” Chiyo quickly said.

Chiyo made sure the airway was opened and the she started breathing into her.

Osaka began doing the chest compressions. They kept repeating the process as a crowd started to form around them.

“Please do not crowd them.” Sakaki said as she and the remaining Azu-girls kept everyone back.

“Bethany….” Daniela said softly.

Suddenly Bethany spat out the water in her lungs and started to cough, everyone around them cheered as the seven Azu-Girls stared at the rescued victim.

Bethany just stared at the seven blurry figures, after watching them for a few seconds, it had suddenly dawned on her. “My God….” she said softly. “You really are them aren’t you?”
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Some time later an ambulance had come to take Bethany to the hospital. Everyone at the beach started to talk about the heroes who had saved that girls life.

“Where did you learn CPR anyway?” Piper asked.

“At school.” Chiyo said. “I thought it  was good idea to learn it when they offered a special class in it.”

“I liked it cause ya get shove someone in their chest and they wont get mad at ya.” Osaka said as she smiled.

“Well I guess we all have are reasons.” Kassie answered as she scratched her head.
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The girls were entering a carnival. Kagura seemed confused. “Kassie-chan, I tried to lie about what my name was earlier, but I couldn’t.” she said.

“Why would you want to lie about your name.” Kassie responded.

“Well, you see Bethany was an anime expert just like Piper-san… What if we run into another Anime-expert and we can’t like about our names.” Kagura explained.

Piper just started at them. “Tomo, tell me your name is Roger.” she ordered.

Tomo seemed confused. “Why?” she asked.

“Just try it.” Piper told her.

“Sure okay….my name is R…R…..Tomo.” Tomo was confused.

Piper told the others to try and lie about their names….

“C…Chiyo….”

“S…S…Sakaki….”

“K.K..Ka….Kaorin.”

“Y…Y..Yomi.”

“A……Ayumu…..O…..Osaka.”

“Piper, what is going on?” Kassie asked.

“I guess since those were the names that were given to them when they were created, it’s the only thing that they can’t lie about.” Piper responded.

“Well I guess we can always hope we don’t run into anymore anime experts then.” Kassie said.

“Well that’s gonna be a problem, the anime convention is next weekend so a lot of them will probably show up during the week.” She turned to the Azu-Girls. “You’ll have to try to avoid to talking to anyone you don’t know.”

“Well that’s no problem.” Yomi said. “We hardly know anyone here to begin with.”

Piper just scratched her head. “I guess you’re right.” She looked around and noticed that Chiyo, Osaka, Sakaki, and Kaorin were gone. “Oh no now where did they go?”
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The four Azu-Girls where standing in line for a brand new roller coaster ride called. The Death Giver.

A voice came out on a speaker. “Yes ladies and Gents, I guarantee that this will be the most intense Ride you’ll ever experience, you will scream your lungs out.”

The four of them just kept staring at the ride. Waiting for their turn to get on.
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The rest of the girls spotted them from a distance. “I don’t get it, why on Earth would they want to get on that thing?” Kassie asked.

“I’m telling you, they’re changing.” Piper answered.

“Man why didn’t they wait for me.” Tomo complained.
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They had managed to reach the coaster, but it was too late, the other four Azu-Girls had already boarded it. They looked in horror as they saw the coaster start up. They turned to face them and waved as they took off.

“This is not like them at all.” Yomi said. “Unless…..” Yomi. Tomo, and Kagura just stared at each other. “It’s okay.” Yomi said. “Everything Is gonna be okay.” Yomi explained.

“How do you know?” Kassie asked.

“Trust us.” Tomo said as she smiled.
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Everyone in the coaster was screaming, everyone except the four azu-girls, in fact, Chiyo yawned during the ride.

A camera mounted on the ride was taking pictures of the riders so that hey could have once the ride was over. It took a quick shot of the girls as they passed by, they smiled as they gave okay symbols.
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As the ride ended, people got off quickly, they couldn’t wait to get away from that frighten ride, but then four figures calmly walked by them all.

The Roller coaster operating was handing out the pictures to the riders when she noticed one taken of four girls who didn’t seemed frightened at all. “Huh?” he thought.

“Is that our picture.” A small girl asked.

He looked down and saw Chiyo smiling at him. “Uh, yeah here you go.” And proceeded to hand her the picture.

“Arigato.” Chiyo said as she walked off.
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“Did ya get it?” Osaka asked.

“Yes I did.” Chiyo said as they saw the picture and smiled.

The rest of the girls walked up to them. “Are you guys okay?” Kassie asked.

“Yes we are fine.” Sakaki assured them.

“Why in the world would you get on that dreadful thing.” Piper asked.

“Because it had a camera.” Kaorin responded.

Kassie and Piper just stared at each other in confusion. “Huh?” Piper asked.

“Well Sakaki-san wanted to have her picture taken with me, and Osaka-san wanted hers taken with Chiyo-chan.” Kaorin started. “And since you seemed to be busy, we didn’t want to bother you about getting a camera.”

“And when we saw that they were having their picture taken on the coaster, we got on so we could have one taken of all four of us.” Chiyo continued.

“Weren’t you scared?” Kassie asked.

“Not a bit.” Karoin told them. “After you had been on the Yukarimobile, every coaster is a piece of cake.” She said as she closed her eyes and smiled.

Yomi, Tomo, and Kagura nodded their heads, as they had already figured it out. Piper was quiet for a few seconds and then started to laugh. Kassie was still the only one who was confused.

“What, I don’t get it.” Kassie complained.

“You’d have to see the series to understand.” Piper explained.

Kassie just sighed. “Well if were all done here, could we enjoy the rest of the day.” she said.
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I guess if I ever got on the Yukarimobile, I wouldn’t be afraid of roller coasters either lol. This day is not over yet, I’m about to do something serious and emotional in the next chapter so stay tuned, until then, take care.

‘TILL NEXT TIME