You're Under Arrest Fan Fiction ❯ One Week of Summer ❯ Car Drive ( Chapter 2 )

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!

DAY TWO: CAR DRIVE

Little Natsumi and Miyuki were strolling along, hand in hand, when Miyuki suddenly stopped as something caught her attention. "Hey, Natsumi," she said excitedly. "Let's drive!"

"What?!" Natsumi looked at the car Miyuki was pointing at. "We can't do that!"

"Why not?" Miyuki ran towards the car and sat on the driver's seat. "C'mon! It'll be fun!"

Natsumi hesitantly sat beside her. "But we can't start the car!"

"I'll take care of that!" Miyuki fished something out from her pants pocket.

Natsumi stared at it. "Wh-where did you get that?"

"My daddy." Miyuki leaned over from the seat. "I took it from him."

Within minutes, the car was running. Miyuki climbed back up on the seat. "Now what?" Natsumi asked. "We can't even reach the pedals!"

"I'll take care of the driving and . . . what was that . . . clutch! You push the pedal when I tell you to!"

Natsumi pouted at Miyuki. "But I won't be able to see a thing!"

"Then we switch places later!"

"Are you sure you want to do this?"

"Yup! It's already on anyway."

Natsumi sighed. "Okay, okay." She kneeled down under the steering wheel. "Which one do I push?"

"Uh . . ." Miyuki glanced at the rearview mirror. "The . . . right one, I think."

Natsumi pressed the right pedal. "It's not working . . ."

"Uhh . . . the left one!" Natsumi transferred her weight to the other pedal. "Now what?"

"Hmm . . ." Miyuki looked thoughtfully at the clutch. She pushed it upwards, absentmindedly saying at the same time, "Try the right one again."

As soon as Natsumi pressed the right pedal, Miyuki cheered. "We're moving!!"

"Really?!" Natsumi shifted her weight, about to stand up so she could see.

"No, don't stand up! We'll stop moving!" Miyuki said.

Natsumi sighed again. "Promise we'll change places later, okay?" She pressed the pedal harder.

"The car is going faster . . ." Miyuki said nervously, carefully steering the vehicle.

"What are you two girls doing?" Miyuki's father asked them from the back.

Miyuki and Natsumi jumped in surprise and looked guiltily at the older man. "Da-daddy!" Miyuki squeeked.

"How long have you been there, mister?" Natsumi asked.

"Long enough to see you run the car."

Miyuki took her hands off the steering wheel to face her father completely. "I-I'm sorry! I just wanted . . ."

"Never mind that now, dear! Look out!!"

"Huh?" Miyuki turned her attention back on the road, where she could see an obstacle right in front of them!

"Natsumi! Natsumi, breaks!!" Miyuki shouted frantically, trying to steer the car to safety.

"What breaks?! Which one is it?!!"

"P-press anything! Hurry!"

Natsumi shifted from the right pedal to another pedal. Just when Miyuki thought they were going to ram into the obstacle, the car came into a complete stop. She slumped down the seat, where she had been standing as she drove. "Whew!"

"Did we hit anything?" Natsumi asked.

"No." Miyuki looked at the windshield. "Aww."

"What's wrong, dear?" Her father asked.

"The car is not running anymore."

"Awww!" Natsumi whined, upset that she was not able to drive.

Miyuki turned around and looked at her father with innocent, puppy dog eyes.

"Do you have any more coins, Daddy?"

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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"