If Wishes were Fishes Chapter 7

Its a cool number, 7. Ye-ya!

So yeah. All the paragraphs about Kouji and/or Rika were written by me, rika195, and all the paragraphs about Takuya and/or Rika were written by my sister, Tshk. In other words, we wrote every other paragraph. I wrote the first one, she wrote the second one...I wrote the third...Get it? Got it? Good.

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Disclaimer: We do not own these characters.

Tasha's Disclaimer: some people are stupid

(LOL! YOU ARE STUPID!)

(dont make fun of my disclaimer, toni)

(WHATEVER YOU DORK!)

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Summary: After conveniently getting themselves down the stairs, Takuya, Kouji, and Rika Makino all found themselves in danger of being crushed by a giant great dane. In his rush to protect everyone, Kouji did the stupidest thing he possibly could at the time. He led everyone into a crack in the steps, and into the lair of at least six giant wolf spiders. Yeah. So now, with Takuya stuck in a spider web, Kouji and Rika have to save their skins from the mess Kouji got them into. And this time, there is no pin to use as a sword.

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Kouji held himself in a martial arts position, waiting for one of the spiders to make a move. If he moved first, he knew they would all rush at him, and then he wouldn't be able to fight. No, he had to be wise. Or at least try to anyway. He glanced at Rika, and saw her standing calmly in her spot, hands on her hips. She was in no fighting stance, but a look of annoyance crossed her calm features. It was clear that six giant spiders did not scare her. She was strong. He glanced away, frustrated. Why did she have to seem cooler than him? This wasn't supposed to be happening...

"Okay... okay... it's going to be okay, guys." Takuya calmly comforted everyone. "This probably happens all the time to little people." He was working on a logical explanation that might make everyone happy. He then narrowed his eyes and tapped his chin. "Maybe they are... maybe... maybe they're like... nice spiders!" There! Takuya proudly gave a wide smile at his last comment.

"Nice?" Rika asked, so annoyed she sounded disgusted. "If you think that, maybe you deserve to be eaten. And guess what bozo? There aren't SUPPOSED to be any 'little people!' They don't exist anywhere except in your mind. And thanks to that, here I am, fighting stupid spiders at someone's house I don't even know!" She was literally exploding, but she kept her "calm" stance.

Takuya looked a little offended. "Hey now," he held up his finger. "I'll have you know that I have been a friend to spiders my whole life, and we are at peace! Just watch!" he started walking towards one of the spiders. "He looks like he's in charge, let's have a truce!" he walked over to the largest spider and started talking to it. The spider listened for a moment and then all of them walked away into the darkness.

Kouji stared at Takuya with growing rage. "If you have had a truce with spiders all this time, WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SO IN THE FIRST PLACE!" He closed his eyes and held in his anger. "And second...I thought you were stuck in a spider web. How'd you get out?" This was insane. None of this should even be happening. Maybe this was all a dream. More like a nightmare...

Takuya shook his head and chuckled. "Ah, Kouji... there are some things you will never understand!" he reached over and patted his friend on the shoulder. "You see, I wished that we would have a lot of FUN! And I didn't want out fun to get ruined with six spiders. And when the first spider attacked us, I saw a shooting star so I wished for a girl to come fight the spider! And about the web... uh... I don't know... I think I actually still have some on me." He looked down at the trailing cob webs that were stuck to him. "They're pretty old."

Kouji muttered angrily under his breath, and crossed his arms. Takuya was so annoying! All this mess, plus stuff freaking him out...only to find out that Takuya could practically do whatever he wanted because he wished to "have fun." This was getting worse and worse. He blinked. Wait...suddenly, he got an amazing idea. "Takuya!" he said excitedly--fakely of course, but Takuya couldn't tell---"I thought of the most amazing funnest game to play!"

Takuya lifted up his head to look at his dear friend. He had been trying to get all the cob webs off of himself. "Well it's about time!" he brightened. "What is it?" he crossed his arms and waited for a reply from Kouji, all the while raising his eyebrows at Rika to make sure she knew he thought she was pretty.

"Let's play a game!" Kouji said excitedly. It sounded so fake coming from him, that Rika stopped freaking out long enough to smirk a little bit. It was obvious Kouji had a plan. She completely ignored Takuya. She was really mad at him right now. "Let's play charades! In the dark! You can be the one who hides first, since you saved us from the spiders."

"I thought charades was the game where you had to act out a word or something with no sounds!" Takuya looked a bit confused. "Don't you mean sardines, silly Kouji?" he winked and nudged the black-haired kid.

Kouji blushed a deep shade of red, aware of Rika's smirk now turning on him. Okay, he felt stupid. "Whatever," he snapped. "At least you knew what I meant..." He mumbled a few other things under his breath. "Anyway, do you want to play sardines? You can hide first."

"AWESOME!" Takuya threw his fists in the air and ran out of the spider hole singing, "Let's pack up and move to California, she's got lots of friends up there! We'll never get bored cause we can go boarding! Let the sunshine take us there!" with a skip and a leap, he was out of their sight.

Kouji waited, breathless, and then sighed in relief. "He actually ran off to hide," he said, almost laughing. "Do you know what this means?" Rika looked at him blankly. "It means I can go find something that is actually fun to do so that I can turn big again!" He half-smiled, and tried to think of something fun to do. After not coming up with anything, he grimaced. "Actually, all I want to do is sleep. Maybe this is all a dream," he added hopefully.

"A dream?" Rika nearly spat. "If it's all YOUR dream, than what am I doing here? I want to go to bed! I want to go home!" she huffed off and started walking back towards the stairs. She actually didn't mind Kouji so much, but just being in Takuya's house made her sick.

Kouji followed her out. It wasn't that he wanted to hang out with her, he just didn't want to be left alone, with potential spiders hiding in the dark. Besides...Poor Rika was thrust into this. He probably should stick with her to help her out. "Yeah, it stinks," he said, looking around. "You think that dog will come back?"

Rika tured around and looked at Kouji. "Let's hope not." she took a look around the house. Her eye's had adjusted to the light, so she found her way to the living room. "Well, perhaps if you sleep, you'll have fun and we'll both wake up normal in the morning, eh?"

"I wish," Kouji mumbled. He glanced around, but couldn't see the dog. Maybe it went after Takuya. He was beginning to get worried. What if Takuya stayed hidden for hours and hours, and no one came to find him? That was, of course, what Kouji had intended, but now that he thought about it...he felt guilty. But he didn't want to look stupid to Rika, so he said nothing. "You know what?" he said angrily, suddenly realizing something. "Whenever Takuya wishes for something, he gets it. That's stupid. Who's granting these wishes? And why do they have to be the dumb wishes that were granted?"

"I don't even care." Rika snapped and walked underneath the couch in the living room. Finding what appeared to be Takuya's Mother's slipper, she started to crawl inside to see if she could sleep and wake up in her own cozy bed. "Perhaps if you fall asleep, the wish will go away." she suggested to him, totally forgetting that Takuya even existed. ... "Kouji and Rika will never find me... hehehe..." Takuya thought to himself pridefully as he hid in the back of his mother's slipper. ... Rika froze, once realizing she wasn't alone... "AAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!"

Kouji froze, and then started backing up. He didn't care what was in the slipper, he didn't want to be anywhere near it. He heard the sounds of someone loudly asking Rika to be quiet, and then groaned. Rika had found Takuya. "This is stupid," he muttered under his breath. His mind stormed angrily for some time. "Everything works out for Takuya. Yeah? well how come nothing ever works out for me? I wish I could fly. But my wish isn't going to come true."

Rika and Takuya crawled out of the slipper. Well, actually Rika crawled out and Takuya followed saying, "Come on, don't you guys want to play?" Rika turned around and glared at him. "No I don't. I would rather skip Christmas." Takuya shrugged and walked over to Kouji. "I'm getting kinda tried... Maybe we should--..." Takuya cut himself off and started staring at Kouji with his mouth hanging open. Rika, getting annoyed with his stupid expressions slapped him in the back of the head. "What on earth are you staring at you... You..." Rika's words stopped coming out of her mouth as she slowly turned her head to look at Kouji. "Kouji..." she took a couple steps forward to see if what she was seeing was actually true. "Kouji... you have wings."

Kouji frowned. "Ha, ha. Not funny." He rolled his eyes, and then froze. The was a strange shadow looming over him. He whirled around, but nothing was there. Slowly, he turned his head to look behind him. Sure enough, two huge, beautiful, sparkling white wings were protruding from his back. They were amazing, and they looked soft and shiny. "WHAT?" Kouji yelled. He was too freaked to do anything else. He just stood there, shocked. Somehow...someone had granted his wish. How...was this...happening?

"Well I'll be!" Takuya smiled hugely as if he was proud of his dear friend as he stood there with his fists on his sides. "Those are awesome!" he ran up to them. "Can I touch 'em?"

Kouji recoiled, hiding his new but suddenly very precious wings from Takuya's touch. "No way...you'd...soil...them. Or something." He frowned, menacingly, and tried to find a "Takuya-logic" reason that he couldn't touch them. "I mean, you've been in that dirty slipper...and...they're new..." He was already getting attached to them! If this was a dream, he almost didn't want it to end if he had wings! Almost...

"Hmm..." Takuya twiddled his fingers. "I suppose you're right." Rika walked up to Kouji and gave kind of a sneaky grin. "Would you let me touch them?"

Kouji recoiled even further. "Er...um...no." He gave her a freaked glance. Suddenly, he was overwhelmed with the desire to fly. He turned, without saying anything to either Rika or Takuya, and then walked out. He was aware of them following him out from under the couch, but he didn't care. He spread his wings, just to test them, and smiled one of his amazing, genuine smiles, the one that kills all girls within a mile radius. And with a graceful leap, flew off into the living room. For the first time since he had agreed to spend the night, he felt excited.

"Amazing!" Takuya whistled. "Did you see that?" he nudged Rika. Rika almost said something, but by the time she had opened her mouth, she started screaming as Takuya grew a thousand times larger. "Whoah!" Takuya looked down at himself. "I'm big again!"

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Toni: What? End it here? Are you serious...lol. Rika is still small, but Kouji and Takuya are big again.

Tasha: Yeah... I am serious, you dork. Yeah, Kouji finally had some fun, and now he is big again... and poor Rika is still small. What now? We'll we have to wait to find out?

Toni: I haven't decided yet. I We'll see. Poor Rika! haha! Do you have any cool ideas for next chapter?

Tashaboo: Uh... I dunno. I pretty much make stuff up as I go along, lol. In any case, you should post this now. I LOVE AND MISS YOU!

Toni: I love you and miss you too, sis. And everyone else... you should write us reviews! Yay! What do you think? So until next time...

-----Rika195 and Tshk.