Inch Boy and Peach Boy loved each other. Inch Boy always had his adventures in the garden and Peach Boy just helped Inch Boy when he couldn’t get down from the branches. And Peach Boy went practicing his fight lessons at his home. And then Peach Boy asked if Inch Boy wanted to go to a real forest and Inch Boy said yes. So they went on their journey to the forest. And when they got there they saw a oni and it swallowed Inch Boy and Peach Boy ran away. And the oni followed him. He used his sharp claws to cut the trees down so there was enough room to eat Peach Boy. And Peach Boy stopped and turned around to fight.

The oni raised his axe and swinged it down at Peach Boy but he missed Peach Boy. Peach Boy took out his sword and he chased the oni and the oni was so frightened that he spit out Inch Boy and ran away. Inch Boy thanked Peach Boy for saving his life from the oni. They saw a magic hammer on the ground and Inch Boy said that might be the oni’s magic hammer so Peach Boy picked it up and made him as big as Inch Boy and they went home to feel what it looked like to be little in the garden.

And they had fun in the branches and Peach Boy had to tell his Grandpa and Grandma that he was little and he went in the door. When he was walking in the house he heard a loud noise. A hand came out of the ground and Peach Boy saw that it was the oni that they saw before. The oni swallowed Peach Boy and Inch Boy heard the swallowing of the oni. Inch Boy rushed in the door and got swallowed by the oni. He saw Peach Boy in the oni’s stomach and Inch Boy had a plan. He walked towards Peach Boy.

When he got to Peach Boy he told him that plan and they both worked together and they got out of the oni's stomach. The oni was scared so he ran away and Peach Boy and Inch Boy lived happily ever after.

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