Azumanga Daioh does not belong to me it belongs to Kiyohiko Azuma

Azumanga Daioh Gets Real
By Anime Rebirth

Part 3

Kassie woke up early the next morning. She snuck out of the room quietly so that she wouldn't disturb Piper. As she made her way into the hallway she heard a noise. "Who's there." nobody answered. :I guess I might be losing it." she thought.
She made her way towards the kitchen. As she got nearer she could hear somebody...singing?
"Cooking is so fun, cooking is so fun, now it's time to take a break and see what we have done."
Kassie's eyes grew wide. "Pigtails?" she asked. Chiyo turned to face her. "Oh good morning, the other's were getting hungry so I made ourselves a little breakfast."
Kassie stared at the breakfast dishes Chiyo made, everything from pancakes, to poached eggs. "You can cook...at your age?" she asked.
Chiyo just closed her eyes and smiled. "Yes, I really enjoy it." Kassie just scratched her head. "You sure made a lot of food. But this seems like it could feed more than seven people, why'd you make so much?"
"Well you don't know Tomo and Kagura's appetite...oh and you'd probably have to watch out for Yomi, she tries to control her eating habits, but whenever she sees delicious food like this well...she can go a little overboard." Chiyo continued to sing as she started to clean up.
"Who's in the kitchen?" someone asked. "Oh no, it's my Mom, you've gotta get back into the..." Kassie started, but Doris came in, causing Chiyo to hide to hide in one of the kitchen cabinets.
Doris saw all the food. "Kassie did you do all of this." Kassie just stared at her mom and then gave a huge smile. "Uh, yeah I wanted to surprise you all with a big buffet breakfast." Doris smiled. "It all looks so good...but I thought you hated to cook."
"Well you know me Mom, I'm always ready to try anything new." Chiyo opened the cabinet a little and gave Kassie an annoyed look. Kassie quickly closed it. "OW!!!!" Chiyo yelled.
"Did you say something dear?" Doris asked.
"Uh no, I was just hoping that everyone will like this breakfast I made with my own hands." she told her.
Inside the cabinet, Chiyo was getting annoyed. "How could she?" she thought.
Piper and Warren came into the kitchen. "Wow something smells terrific." Warren said. "Your daughter made us breakfast." Doris responded.
"You did something for us...willingly?" Piper added. "Okay who are you and what have you done with the real Kassie Lynn." Kassie gave her an annoyed look.
"Stop it Piper, I think it's nice that Kassie would go out of her way to do this." Doris scolded.
So everyone started to eat the breakfast that Kassie 'made' while Chiyo just stayed in the cabinet annoyed. After everyone had eaten Doris grabbed some food containers from the top cabinets. "I just gotta take some of these muffins to the travel agency with me." Warren smiled as well. "Hey and I think Ill take some of those biscuits and eggs for the boys, It was my turn to buy breakfast anyway, but this will be a real treat."
Kassie just gave a goofy smile while Piper stared at her suspiciously. After Doris, Warren, and Piper left the room, Kassie opened the cabinet. She could see that Chiyo was upset.
"Kassie-Chan, I worked so hard on that." she told her. "I'm sorry pigtails, but I couldn't let them know that a fictional character had made breakfast." Kassie then sighed. "Look, it's still a little early, I'll just go down to the local McDonalds and get you something, let's just go ask the others what they want."
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"I WANNA A BIG STACK OF PANCAKES WITH LOTS OF SYRUP!!!!!!" Tomo yelled as she pumped her fist in the air.
"Don't be such a hog." Yomi scolded. "We are Miss Kassie's guest and we should not be so greedy."
"But her family ate our breakfast, she owes us." Tomo responded. Kassie just stared at them. "Look, I'll just get each of you a Big Breakfast Platter okay." She turned to Chiyo. "And you, pigtails, you gotta be careful, suppose it wasn't me who was coming into the kitchen."
Chiyo just crossed her arms and looked away. "My name is Chiyo, not pigtails okay?"
'Yeah, you have to be careful or they may take over your mind." Osaka added.
"What?" Kassie asked. "The pigtails, they might get control of you." Kassie just rubbed her face. "Okay, I'll be right back." She then left, still trying to figure out what Osaka said.
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Kassie was on her way back to the house, she was carrying a big bag from McDonalds in one hand and her cell phone in the other...she was trying to call her Grandmother but all she got was a message.
"This is Maggie Lynn, I'm unavailable at the moment, but if you leave a message I'll be sure to get back to you...BEEP!!!!"
"Grandma, it's me Kassie, look could you call me back, I've got to ask you something about the locket you gave me okay." She hung up and looked at the time in her phone. "Oh geez, I gotta hurry up and drop this off and then get to School."
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She went straight to the garage but the girls were nowhere to be seen. "Terrific." Kassie thought. She went into the house and found them in the living room watching TV. "Hey you guys have got to be careful, what if you get spotted." She then noticed that they seemed horrified about something. "Hey what's wrong." she turned to see the TV...
"Another suicide bomber made an attack today attacking an Army Unit killing everyone in it..."
"This brings the total of Solders killed in Iraq to nearly 5000..." Chiyo changed the channel.
"And it seems that both sides are heading for a Civil War..." Kassie could see the tears forming in all of their eyes. Osaka turned to her. "Miss Kassie, why is all this bad stuff happening?" Kassie just covered her mouth and stared at them. "I wish I could give you a simple answer, but there really isn't any."
"And what happened on September 11th?" Kaorin asked. Kassie then sat down... "It was the most tragic thing to ever happen to this country..."
She told them everything, about the World Trade Center and the Pentagon attacks, and about the people who gave thier lives on United Flight 93 so that others would be safe.
"I don't think I like this world." Sakaki said as tears ran down her cheeks.
"I wanna go back home." Chiyo said as she cried.
Kassie turned of the TV. "Look, I know you're all scared but I will promise you one thing...I will send you home okay." The Azugirls just stared at her. "You mean it?" Chiyo sniffed.
"You have my word...Chiyo."

TO BE CONTINUED...

This was a little hard for me to do talking about September 11th, but we must never forget...

'till next time...