Disclaimer: I do not own Utena or Aladdin.

Author's Note: This was an idea that came to me recently, when I was watching Aladdin with my girlfriend. I thought it might be cute, she thought it was cute too, and that it made a lot of sense, when you think about it, so I'm making it into a story. So enjoy everyone.

Until I can get another chapter up in my other story, which might be a small while again (sorry), enjoy this one. Hopefully it will hold you guys over a little. ^^'

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Utena: The Chosen of the Lamp

Chapter 1: The Beginning

"And this is for you Utena!" Wakaba excitedly exclaimed as she finished handing out presents to a few of us standing around her in the hallway.

"Hm? Oh thanks Wakaba…" I took it, and trailed, looking at it, trying to make out what it was. Or rather, what it appeared to be. "This thing looks pretty cool, but… what is it?" I asked, handling it gently in my hands.

"What? You mean you haven't seen these things around before?" She asked, crossing her arms in huffy sort of unbelievable way. As if I had been living under a rock all this time or something.

"Well.. no, I can't say I'm that familiar with it. Why don't you just tell me?" I smiled her way.

"Well, alright." She uncrossed her arms, and took a position right next to me. "It's supposed to be some kind of magic lamp. They have a bunch of these replicas in the marketplaces and gift shops over in India. I thought of you when I saw it, and I'm not entirely sure why, but I just knew you had to have it! So I picked it up for you. Do you like it?" She hyperactively hugged to my arm, and smooched her face up against my own, our cheeks pressing together, distorting our speech just a bit.

"Yeah of course I like it. I just wish I knew what to do with it. Maybe I'll put it up in my room somewhere, it'll make for a nice decoration. Or.. maybe a pencil holder or something." I laughed comically, and then my hands dropped, holding it by its handle.

"Great, I'm so happy!" She hugged even tighter. I groaned a bit, from the tight grip. And within the next moment, she let go, realizing she was squeezing a little too hard, and then instantly jumped onto my back like she normally did, wrapping her arms around my shoulders. There was a pause before she started to speak again, both of us, watching from the window, the students conversing and doing their activities down below. By now, the small crowd of friends that she had gifts for had dispersed to play with their new items.

Feeling the weight of Wakaba finally on my back, I leaned on the window, and set the lamp on the sill, as if not to fall over. I rested my chin in my hand and closed my eyes as the breeze blew by me, and throw my hair.

"So what is it supposed to do exactly? I mean… why is it so popular?" I asked, keeping my eyes closed.

"Well legend has it that a genie is contained in that lamp. If you rub it gently, it will break the seal and the genie will be set free. They will grant you three wishes, before you do not have ownership of the lamp anymore, and the genie goes back into it for the next person to rub and their next sentence of servitude to carry out. At least that's what the guy at the market told me when I was there. I don't know if it's true or not." She waved her hands a little as she told the story, which set her off balance, my legs shook just a bit as she shifted around, but I wouldn't fall.

"Ah I see. A genie." Was all I said next.

"Yep. I thought you could use it to wish for something pretty neat. Like acing your tests without studying, or maybe for something good to happen to you, or I don't know, something really cool, I guess. Just use your three wishes wisely, Utena." Wakaba tapped my head to let me know she was serious about all this. I chuckled a bit, and opened my eyes, rolling them.

"Sure, I'll make sure to do that. Come on Wakaba, you don't actually think those legends and stories about genies are true, do you? They're just some fairytale that they made up to give this thing a story. I'd say it's a real nice novelty pen holder, or paperweight. So it's still useful." I smiled, as to not show my seriousness; This was just a casual conversation.

"Well you can believe what you want to believe Utena! I'm going to believe them!" She exclaimed in her normally weird way.

"Alright." I agreed.

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Later that day…

"I wonder if the thing Wakaba was telling me about is really true or not." I thought as I played around with the lamp she had given to me.

'It was really thoughtful of her to get this for me. I'll have to remember to thank her later… I don't think I thanked her before… or did I?'

I continued to stare at it endlessly, fiddling around with it, getting lost in my thoughts. I was laying on the grasslands sloped in front of the school, enjoying the breeze and the sun on my skin. Suddenly, there was a voice, a male voice that rang through the air, coming from behind me, it seemed.

"Quite an item you've got there." He said, as she walked over carefully to where I was laying and sat down, the wind blowing through his long locks as well. I sat up just a bit and looked over at him, then I laid back down. And in that moment of silence that passed, I thought of what to say. I placed the lamp back down at my side, and began to look at my ring, playing with its affects under the different angles of sunlight hitting it.

"What do you want?" I asked calmly.

"Just to talk." He answered back directly, not taking his eyes off me.

"About what?" I threw back at him.

"Well, I noticed you were all alone over here. And since you were, I thought you must be lonely, so I came over to keep you some company. After all, a girl of your age and beauty should never be by herself." He smirked and looked forward, ahead, down the sloped hill of grass in front of him to the flat trail beneath, with some students still walking along it.

It was after school, and the sun was beginning to lose its height in the sky, which made the scenery look a little faded in color.

"Oh shut up." I sighed and sat up, placing both my hands behind me for balance. I sighed.

"Wherever did you get a genie's lamp in the first place, Miss Tenjou? Such a rare and mysterious item, and how curious that it should fall into your hands." He started.

"Wakaba recently took a trip to India, and a few other places in Asia. It was an educational program of some sort for a few weeks, so while she was there, she made sure to get me something, I guess. She told me that these things have a legend to them, but there's a lot of them in like every marketplace over there. So it's nothing special, still, I think it's rather neat." I looked at it glimmering in the setting sunlight.

"Yes, they are quite amazing." He agreed. Then he continued his thought. "But you know, if I were you, I would be very careful with what you say about those things. They may hold more power than you think." He warned, I looked at him, and he smirked, closing his eyes and stroking his chin, thoughtfully.

"What do you mean? That this weird thing actually has some kind of magic power?" I asked.

"Well, it's certainly possible." He thought, but then opened his eyes to look at me, with a smile. "But, what I meant was that genies are known for twisting people's words. You wish for something you think is straightforward and they end up twisting it around in such a way that makes the wish almost seem evil." He explained. "For example, say you wished for a million bucks. You obviously mean money right?" I nodded, following along. "Well, they could grant you the wish of a million bucks, only in deer. It's the same thing, so you have to watch what you say. And if you disrespect a genie, he will be sure to make your worst nightmares come true." He crossed his arms and nodded, feeling satisfied with his explanation.

"So you're telling me, that all I have to do is rub this stupid old lamp, and a magical genie will pop out and grant me three wishes, any three wishes I want? And that if I don't watch what I say that he will twist my words into something I didn't mean?" I tried recounting the story so far.

"Mhm, that's precisely right. So I'd be careful with that thing you got from your friend." He looked at it, warily.

"Please, Mr. Student Council President, it's just a paperweight or a pen holder or something." I started. "It doesn't have a genie that's going to come out and grant me wishes, it doesn't have a legend to it, and it doesn't have any magic powers, I just wish everyone would stop saying so. I bet so many other people around the world have souvenirs like this, so can we all just..stop making this into a big deal?" I sighed and laid back down, playing with my ring.

"Well alright, I guess I really can't convince you." He shook his head. "Beauty and brains… quite the combination. I must say." He smirked and moved closer.

I rolled my eyes at him as well. Then I stood up and stretched, he followed, only he didn't stretch. He simply watched me, and when I realized he was staring, I stopped and looked directly at him.

"What are you looking at?"

"Just a wonderful girl, with an excellent smile." He moved a little closer again.

I couldn't help but blush a little at the compliment, but I looked away, and as he reached for my hand, I gently slapped it away.

"Look, I don't know what you're after here, Touga.. but…" I slowly started that sentence.

"Then at least let me buy you some dinner, I promise it will be exquisite." He leaned down and tried to get to the side of my face, but my eyes were closed and I wasn't going to open them to look at him. The blush had faded.

"No thank you Touga. As good as that sounds, I don't think I'm really interested in getting dinner with you sometime. There's no one really for me right now.. I'm just after my dreams." I looked down at the grass and caught a fuzzy image of him out of my periphery.

"To be a prince, and that prince is the only one for you, I see." He smirked and stood up again, smelling a flower he seemed to have pulled from his back pocket. I wasn't aware that he even had the flower, or that he was carrying it around. He closed his eyes and cherished the scent of the blood red rose in his hand. Then he held it out to me gently, and I slowly turned my head to look at him and the flower he was offering to me. I blinked in confusion. "For my ambitious girl then, chasing after her dreams."

I blushed again. "I'm not yours, Touga." Though I didn't want to accept the rose, I did anyway, out of kindness. Even though he was a bit of a playboy, I couldn't deny that he was a pretty nice guy on the inside. The truth is, I saw right through his charming facade; The act he put on usually worked on the other girls of this school - The compliments, the roses, the charming smile, and the overly-chivalrous attitude, kissing their hands and bowing to them and everything - It was gross, but give Touga chance and he could be a really good friend with some really good insight.

I wasn't after the guy myself, there was more of a friendship between us than anything else,and over the course of my time here at Ohtori, he would come to talk to me quite often. That's how we became such good friends, even if we didn't seem like it and thew banter back and forth. That just made our friendship stronger, and made conversation more fun.

"Well, I should be going. I have an awful lot of math homework tonight and if I don't start now, I'm never going to get it done." I yawned and stretched once more beginning to head past Touga and towards my dorm.

"Then I bid you farewell, till next we meet Utena." He bowed, just a bit and I rolled my eyes again, heading for my dorm. He turned away swiftly as well, and began walking in the opposite direction, off to wherever he was off to as well.

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I sighed as I approached my dorm. The room I was staying in was so dirty, filled with cobwebs and spiders; And even though I cleaned up the place a little bit, it still looked like it hadn't been touched yet alone lived in for years. And it was a single, so I was staying by myself - but it was a dorm, and I was in no position to pass up a place to stay after all.

So I returned what place I came to know as home as long as I was attending Ohtori Academy. The long walk along the path to my dorm sometimes wasn't worth it, I thought, but I always ended up making it anyway. Besides, I guess it was good exercise.

Placing my hand on the dusty handle, I gently turned it and opened the door, turning the lights on, which flickered for a moment, but then remained on. They shined on the dust-ridden place as I walked in and slopped my bag down on the floor by the table. I took my shoes off by my bed and proceeded into the kitchen area to get something to drink. A simple water bottle that was somewhat cold from the fridge was my drink of choice. I opened it, as the fridge closed and headed back over to the table with my bag next to it. I placed the water bottle on the table and tediously began to unpack my things, all my books, then tiredly placing the ones I needed in front of me on the table.

I placed the lamp in the center of the table I was working off of, and then picked up a pencil and pressed it to the page of the workbook. As I read the problems, and worked on them, my eyes began to droop, and my vision began to blur. I found my head falling, and myself going in and out of consciousness a few times. Eventually, I couldn't take it anymore and my head almost floated down to the table, resting on it sideways, with my pencil still in my hands, my eyes closed, I fell asleep.

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A couple hours later…

I felt some movement by my hair, almost tugging on a few strands of it, and heard some munching and chewing sounds a little ways by my ear. Hearing that and feeling that, I began to stir, and gently wake up, my eyes opening slowly. As I was starting to wake up, I registered those feelings, and my eyes opened wide in a little bit of fear.

I jumped up.

"Ah!" I stumbled back and hit my back on the bed lightly. "Ow.." I mumbled, looking at what was causing those feelings, the thing on the table. It froze and went rigid, staring at me as well with half a cookie in its mouth.

It seemed a little afraid as well.

It looked to be some kind of… rat.

Then it slowly turned around, and finished eating the cookie, stuffing it in its mouth, and cheeks bursting with food, it turned back around to face me.

'Great there's rats in my dorm now…'

I thought to myself, as it tried to swallow it all at once, and then began to choke. His face turned blue as the food got lodged in his throat and he fell over. I quickly got up and ran to get a spoon, placing some water on it, and holding it to his mouth, helping him to stand up again so he could drink it.

He sipped it down and the food went down alright, his color returning to normal.

He smiled, his stomach poking out after the big cookie he just ate.

"I hope you're alright little guy. I don't know how you got in here, but I don't need you dying." I smiled nervously, placing the spoon down on the table next to the bottle of water.

"Chu." It made a positive noise, with a smile.

"I guess that means you're fine now." I smiled.

"Chu chu." He nodded.

'I'm talking to a rat…' I sighed. Really? I was talking to animals now? How weird was this?

The rat then walked over and grabbed one of my fingers, using both of his tiny hands to shake it. I smiled and shook back.

"Well hello there." I smiled at him. "What's your name?"

"Chu chu." He spoke again.

"I guess your name is Chu chu, then." He nodded.

"Well nice to meet you Chu chu, my name is Utena." I smiled, again. What a friendly little guy. He shook my finger again excitedly, before letting it go and catching sight of a molded piece of bread on the floor. Albeit it was a small crumb, but it was still big enough to have visible mold on it. His eyes lit up and he rushed over to it, picking it up and opening his mouth.

"Ah I wouldn't eat that if I were you. It'll make you sick, Chu chu." I watched him warily. Slowly, he put the small piece of bread back down on the floor and stepped away from it.

"Boy, you sure do like food don't you?" He nodded and climbed back onto the table with me. "Well, then I guess I'm going to have to get some more after school tomorrow. If you're going to be living with me that is. How would you like to be friends and stay here with me, hm? We could keep each other company." I smiled again.

"Chu.. chu chu!" He agreed happily.

"Alright." The atmosphere came to an exciting, happy one, from the dark and boring one it was before. But, in the middle of the moment between Chu chu and I, the light above me flickered a little again and a sudden realization hit me.

"Oh right! My math homework!" I picked up my pencil and began at it again, while Chu chu went scouring for more food.

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Author's Note: I know not too exciting, but I hope you think it's definitely interesting and cute as it's supposed to be. :D

Stick around, there's more to come!