You're Under Arrest Fan Fiction ❯ One Week of Summer ❯ First Contact ( Chapter 1 )

ONE WEEK OF SUMMER
Jay Pantig
[chanel_jay@mailcity.com]

STANDARD DISCLAIMER:
Taiho Shichauzo/You're Under Arrest is owned by Kosuke Fujishima and is presented by TBS, Kodansha Ltd., Bandai Visual Co. Ltd., and Marubani Corporation. Japanese manga presented by Kodansha Morning Party Extra, English adaptation brought by Dark Horse and Studio Proteus. I own nothing, zip, wala, nada, (except this fic) so please don't sue me!

AUTHOR'S NOTES:
I got inspired to work on this fic when I saw the first page of this YUA doujinshi I saved somewhere on the net. As only the first page was scanned (frown) I just *had* to think of something to continue it! I actually used that scene in the first part of this fic to get it going.

I'm assuming that Miyuki once lived at Katsuura City, Chiba Preferecture, where they held their high school reunion in OAV 3.

Umm, one other note. You may notice that I refer to them last name first. Sorry - I'm more used to watching YUA in Japanese than in English (as my cable doesn't have AXN and I am heavily dependent on my subtitled VCDs and the recorded episodes my friend manages to catch).

Again, it's not edited, but I hope you guys like this one!

DAY ONE: FIRST CONTACT

Four-year-old Tsujimoto Natsumi swerved her tricycle as she followed the concrete path in the park she and her parents were visiting. It was the middle of summer, and her family had decided to take a small vacation at Katsuura City, Chiba Preferecture in Tokyo, a few miles away from home. The day was so beautiful, her parents decided to have a small picnic at the park near their hotel. So while her mother was preparing the food, Natsumi set out on her trike - her present the previous Christmas - to work on her appetite before lunch.

She was happily pedaling along when she suddenly found her road blocked by a small car, its occupant a small girl whose age was the same as hers. Natsumi moved to the left, but the other girl also moved to the left. Natsumi tried the other direction, but the girl also moved the same way.

"Mou ~ ~ Why are you blocking my way?" the little girl asked.

"I should be asking you that!" Natsumi replied.

Kobayakawa Miyuki pouted. She always rode this path ever since she got her pedal car for her birthday, and she had never encountered anyone head-to-head on the path before. "I don't really mean to. Please move your bike so I can move."

Natsumi frowned. "Why should I move? I was here first! You and your big ugly car only came now!"

"Hey! I was here first, and my car is not ugly!" Miyuki argued. "My car is way better than your little bike!"

"It may be little, but it's faster than yours ever will!" Natsumi boasted proudly.

"Is not!"

"Is, too!"

"Is not!"

"Is, too! That car is so heavy, it would be hard to pedal!" Natsumi pointed out.

Miyuki was at the verge of crying, but she wouldn't let the newcomer get the upper hand. "You wanna race?"

"Ha! You'll lose!"

"We'll see!"

"All right." Natsumi moved her bike to the grass, Miyuki following suit.

Both girls placed their vehicles side by side. Miyuki pointed to a tree a few meters away from them. "First one to reach the tree wins."

"Okay." Natsumi leaned forward, a smirk on her face. "Ready? Set?"

"GO!" Both girls shouted.

Natsumi knew that she would win, but she still pedaled furiously anyway so that she could boast that she won by a huge margin. But to her surprise, no matter how hard she tried, the young girl she met had the lead, and that she couldn't keep up.

Miyuki was smiling widely as Natsumi finally reached the tree, panting. "Wow, you are good!" Natsumi admitted.

"Thank you!" Miyuki said. "You were good, too!"

"Friends?" Natsumi asked, extending her hand, which Miyuki accepted.

"Friends!"

The two little girls continued to ride on their vehicles, this time traveling together.

"By the way . . ." Natsumi started. "I know you know that that car is heavy, but you were still so fast! How'd you do it?"

"Easy!" Miyuki smiled at her. "My car has a motor."

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"One week of summer, that was fulfilling as a year, seemed as short as a day . . ."

-Morisato Keiichi Ah! Megami-sama OAV 5: "For the Love of Goddess"