One day there was one boy named Danny. His mom said go to bed. When the mom was sleeping the boy jumped out the window and started the journey to the mountains. The next morning the mom called the koban and made them search for him. The kid was lost and hungry too and homesick. He saw a guard. When Danny got to the foot of Mount Fuji a oni jumped out and captured him. The oni put him into a cage. The oni was on a lunch break. Danny stuck his hand through the bars and grabbed the oni’s magic fan and waved it so that it made the bars open. And he ran. Just then the oni came back.

With an iron club, he swung it around. Danny took one of the oni’s swords and started to sword fight. Right then a little shout came from the floor. It was a little boy named Inch Boy. He bit the oni’s foot. The oni fell down the mountain.

"We did it!" said Danny.

We turned the cave into a house. We took the mailbox down.

It looked like a really nice house, even though it was on the top of Mt. Fuji. Just then the oni’s cousins came

"Help big brother!" said one of the oni’s cousins.

"I’m being terrorized by these ghosts!" he screamed in a loud voice.

There was lots of onis. We rolled the onis down the mountain. Danny fell backwards. He saw his mother walking up the mountain. Danny tried to hide. There was no good hiding places. His mom took him home and grounded him for one month. But he always went to the kitchen at night. One day Inch Boy decided to visit Danny. He slid under the doorway into the kitchen. Luckily Inch Boy came in at the time that Danny gets his food.

Danny's mom was going to check on Danny. He put some boxes under the covers so she would think that he was under his covers. Danny jumped into the biggest box. Inch Boy thought all the boxes were big enough for him. Danny tricked his mom. Then Danny and Inch Boy remembered about the magic fan. They pulled the magic fan and came over to Danny's mom's bed. Danny and Inch Boy gave Danny's mom amnesia (with the fan) and stole the food and got to the oni's house faster than they thought. They lived in their new house happily ever after.

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