Cautionary Tales for Young Girls

Kaede Akamatsu's Christmas

(I put the video of the story I'm basing this story on up there. That way you can read and watch and compare the two stories. Think this as an audiobook. For the best experience please wear headphones and turn it all the way up.)
It's a common misconception that Santa Claus is a nice man who brings gifts on Christmas Eve of toys and candy to well-behaved children, and coal to naughty children. But this couldn't be far further from the truth.

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For years, Kaede's prestigious and privileged family had believed in the spirit of Christmas.  But not Kaede. Kaede did not like Christmas one bit.

To this girl, Christmas was like this horrible holiday where torture prevailed! And it all started and ended with Himiko.

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Himiko was a pure hearted, good soul who lived in the nearby country and believed in the spirit of Christmas.  She loved Christmas. Her family were also penniless. Kaede and Himiko were frenemies.

Her parents told Kaede, "Christmas won't kill you."

How ironic it was when this holiday nearly did.

"You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not pout
I'm telling you why
Santa Claus is coming to town."

It was a rather rainy Christmas Eve, and Kaede was angry. She hated Christmas.

Suddenly, her mother, Mrs Akamatsu, got her a wrapped gift.

"This gift was sent to you by Himiko." said her mother.

"A gift?! I cannot believe it!" She said.

The cynical girl unwrapped the gift and saw a paper sheet. A figure of a man she'd never seen before was on the paper. There were dotted lines were on the figure.

"Who is this?" Kaede asked.

"It's Santa Claus!" said her mother.

"There are two ways that you can bring him to life. One, you can cut him out. Two, you can get him wet. Then he makes sure you believe in the spirit of Christmas, whether you're willing or otherwise."

Then her father burst in.

"Santa isn't what he claims he is." He said cryptically. "He's a wicked man who punishes naughty children!"
That's true!
"I don't believe any of that," said Kaede as she threw the paper outside.

"He's making a list,
He's checking it twice,
He's gonna find out who's naughty or nice
Santa Claus is coming to town."

That night, Kaede went to bed still in her clothes. She slept angrily.

Unaware that the paper had gotten wet and Santa was now alive, and he was going to get her. Because Santa can climb up anywhere, and Kaede always slept with the window open!

That will be the final nail in Kaede's coffin!
"He sees you when you're sleeping
And he knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake."
Kaede had awoken up, and she was standing up, now playing the stand up piano in her personal Piano Room.

When suddenly, a red fat man appeared.

"Who are you?" Kaede asked as she folded up her piano into a white and black pad and put it under her shoulder.

"I am Santa," said the man.

"You don't bieleve in the spirit of Christmas, so now I shall be sending a human gift with you in."

And with that, he rushed Kaede, wrapped her from top to bottom in wrapping paper, stuck sticky tape all over it, and tied a massive red bow on top of it.

He then addressed it to Himiko in the next country, and wrote "NOT FRAGILE: TREAT AS ROUGHLY AS YOU LIKE" underneath.

Before Kaede's parents could rush in, he pushed the gift out of the window, rolled it down the hill to the postbox and shoved it straight in.
That's my Santa!
After the initial posting, Kaede was hurled into the back of a van, sorted on a conveyer belt, stamped and flattened by a huge dispatching machine, chucked into a sack, winched into the sky, dropped into the hold of a boat, jiggled about until she was violently sick, scooped onto the deck by a mechanical digger, crushed into a muddy pigeon hole, and then bumped along a stony road in the basket of a rickety bike until finally she arrived at Himiko's house. Where she was delivered through the post box by a mallet.

Ouch. That gotta hurt.

It had taken a whole week to get there, and Kaede was a little the worse for wear. Her clothes were in bloody tatters. Her hair was disheveled. Her teeth had been knocked out and she was black and blue and badly bleeding, cut, grazed... she wasn't merely hurt, she was very injured. One could probably have deduced how painful the delivery had been by examining the many wounds on her body.

Himiko opened her present under the tree, and she was surprised when she saw her injured frenemy!

"Kaede?! What happened to you?" She said, as she helped Kaede up.

"I think I've broken every bone in my body." said Kaede.

"And why are you here?"

"Well," explained Kaede. "I didn't believe in the spirit of Christmas, so Santa came and said I had to come here to say sorry to you in person."

"Are you okay?" asked Himiko.

"No," said Kaede.  "It has been such a horrible punishment. I am in such pain from being a human parcel. I'm sorry."

"Oh good." said Himiko. "That's exactly what I wanted to hear."