Anime: This is my first Yu-Gi-Oh! fic, so be nice!

Disclaimer: Anime doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh! Or Oh My Goddess!, but she does own Laga.

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Goddess of the Kitchen sink

It has been three years since Yugi Muoto and the spirit of the Millennium Puzzle, the amnesiac ex-pharaoh Yami, won the Battle City Tournament, collected the seven Millennium items, and the three God cards. With the items and cards in his possession, Yugi was able to restore Yami's memory. Along the way, the two of them thwarted the plans of those who had threatened to take over the world with the dark powers of the Shadow Realm. And in time, Yugi was able to permanently seal away the Shadow Realm, so its dark forces could never wreck havoc upon the earth ever again.

With the threat of the Shadow Realm gone forever, the spirits of the Millennium items decided to move on to the next world. Some of the owners of the Millennium items, such as Bakura Ryou and Marik Ishtar, were more than happy that the dark spirits of their items were leaving for good. Yugi on the other hand, was very sad that Yami had to leave.

During the time they spent together, Yami had become one of Yugi's closest friends. Yami didn't want to leave his friend, but after being forced to remain on the earth for 5 millennia, all Yami wanted was to take his eternal rest. So with a heavy heart, Yami and the other spirits traveled through the gates to the next world, the realm of the dead. But before he stepped through the gate, Yami promised Yugi that if possible, he would try to come back and visit him. And by a stroke of luck, Yami was allowed to visit Yugi once a year for a week. He came back during the Bon festival, when the spirits of the deceased visit their loved ones.

But we should head back to the present. Today is July 7th. Yugi is now a senior at Domino High School, and is currently staring into space, while his math teacher is trying to explain why X = 7.

'It's so hot.' Yugi thought to himself, taking off his blue jacket and placing it into his backpack. Last week, there was a heat wave in Domino City. Around the same time the heat wave came, the air condition for the school had gone kaput. 'Thank God the heat wave will be over in time for the festival tonight.' Yugi thought as he unbuckled the leather strap around his neck, and stuffed it into one of his pockets. Then he propped his elbow on the desktop, resting his head in the palm of his hand.

Yugi looked around the classroom, noting how most of his fellow classmates resembled wilted plants, with their arms drooping at their sides. With the AC broken, the temperature in the classroom was at least over 98°. Everyone had taken off their jackets, stuffing them in their backpacks or leaving them on the floor.

Yugi looked to the desk to his right, and noticed that his best friend, Joey Wheeler, was asleep. Yugi also noticed that there was a puddle of drool forming near Joey's mouth, and that he was talking in his sleep.

"Pizza with barbeque sauce and vanilla ice cream………." He muttered. "Salmon sushi with chocolate sauce." He grumbled. "Fried ramen noodles with sardines, ham, and jalapenos." He groaned. "Jeez Mai, can't you cook?" Joey placed his arms on top of his head as he muttered about more inedible foods.

Joey's girlfriend, Mai Valentine, is a top duelist in Duel Monsters and the daughter of one of the richest families in Domino City. And as is typical with most rich girls, Mai didn't know how to cook. Joey's sister, Serenity, was currently giving Mai lessons and apparently, whatever Mai cooked up gave Joey nightmares!

Yugi looked to the desk to his left, and noticed that one of his other friends, Tristan Taylor, was also asleep. He too had a puddle of drool forming near his mouth, and was talking in his sleep. But it wasn't food Tristan was mumbling about.

"No! Go away!" Tristan groaned. "Ah! Evil hamster with 10-inch razor sharp blades for teeth! Leave me alone!" He wrapped his arms around his head, while his right leg began to twitch uncontrollably.

A sweat drop appeared behind Yugi's head. 'Killer……..hamsters?' He thought. He tried to imagine a hamster with Freddie Krueger's claws for teeth, chasing after Tristan, which caused Yugi to laugh hysterically.

"What's so funny, Mr. Muoto?" Yugi stopped in mid-laugh when he heard the voice of his math teacher, Ms. Yagami.

She made her way through the rows of students, the clicking of her stiletto heels against the checkered tiles of the classroom grabbing their attention. "Well? I'm waiting for an answer." Ms. Yagami said, as she tapped her foot against the black and white tiles, not noticing that the two students next to Yugi were currently asleep.



Yugi tugged on the collar of his shirt, thinking of a way to explain his outburst of laughter. Who would believe that he laughed because of the image of Tristan being chased by killer hamsters? After a few false starts, Yugi was about to tell the class as to why he broke the silence, when he was suddenly interrupted by a snore coming from Tristan.

"NO! Stop eating my hair! Stupid hamsters!" Tristan began to swat imaginary hamsters off of his somewhat cone-shaped hair, while his fellow students and Ms. Yagami were laughing hysterically in the background.

"That's why I disrupted the class Ms. Yagami. I'm very sorry." Yugi lowered his head.

"It's quite all right Yugi." Ms. Yagami, wiping a tear from her eye. "You had your reasons." She grabbed a pair of textbooks belonging to Yugi and his friend Teá Gardener, and slammed them on Joey and Tristan's desk, causing them to awake from their stupor. Returning the books to their owners, She walked to the front of the classroom. "Besides, I think I've done enough teaching for today." She looked at the clock above the doorway, noticing that there were 5 minutes until the bell rang, and school would be out. "Since it is a festival night, and that I have a date, I'll let all of you out early. Class dismissed!"

With the shuffling of papers, books, and bodies, practically half of the class was gone before Ms. Yagami mentioned that there was no homework for tonight. She sighed and prepared to leave as well.

Yugi and Teá were ready to go and were waiting for Joey and Tristan, as they pulled themselves from their seats and grabbed their book bags. As the group made their way through the doorway, Ms. Yagami said to Joey and Tristan, "Be glad that there's a festival tonight and that I'm in a good mood, or I would have made you do all of the classroom chores and clean the bathrooms for a month for sleeping in my class!" The group headed towards their lockers, deciding to wait for the remainder of their friends who were still in class, while Joey and Tristan shuddered at the thought of scrubbing toilets for a month.

When they reached their lockers, the bell rang, signifying that school was officially over. After opening his locker, Yugi saw Serenity, Duke, Ryou, and Mai coming towards him. Mai went over to give Joey a peck on the cheek, while Tristan came over to talk to Serenity. Ryou was talking to Teá, while Duke was surrounded by several girls, begging him to take her to the festival tonight.

"Now that school's out, we can go prepare for the festival!" Mai exclaimed, linking arms with Joey.

"I know! I've been dying to wear the pink summer kimono I bought last month. It has cherry blossoms all over it." Teá said, joining the conversation.



"Mine's a pale green with white daisies." Serenity said soon after. The girls went off describing their kimonos to each other, while the guys tried to free Duke from the grasp of his fangirls.



"Man, that's the third shirt this week." Duke complained, looking at the remains of the left sleeve of his shirt. "Those girls were going to literary tear me apart!"

"Yes, but did you decide which one of those obsessed women would be your date tonight?" Ryou asked, leaning against the lockers lined up against the wall.

"Yeah, none of them! I already asked this girl that I met at the library. Her name's Miho and the first girl I've met that hasn't thrown herself at my feet!" Duke sighed. "She's really cute, especially with that yellow ribbon in her hair"



"What?!" Tristan exclaimed. "You were able to ask 'Ribbon' out on a date?"

"Yeah, what's it to ya?" said Duke.

"Eh, don't mind him." Said Joey. "In our sophomore year, Tristan fell in love with her and wanted to get her attention. So I went to Yug and told him about Tristan's problem, and Yug told his grandpa. Then Grandpa sold Tristan this blank puzzle, where he could write his feelings about Ribbon, break it up and send it to her. Then Tristan told Yug to write the love letter, since he was too chicken to write it himself."

"Was not!" Tristan protested.

"Jeez. Anyways, Yug did it, and the following morning we stuffed into Ribbon's desk. But the teacher that Ms. Yagami replaced, Ms. Chono, a real looker, but a total bitch, decided to do a desk check the same morning! She saw the wrapped puzzle, unwrapped it and began putting it together so as to embarrass Ribbon in front of everyone. But for some reason, she never finished it 'cause her makeup melted off of her face and she ran to the bathroom. She quit teachin' after that. Long story short, Tristan was able to ask Ribbon out, but she rejected him. It's quite funny really, after all of the trouble Tristan went through for Ribbon, she rejected him anyway!" Joey began to laugh.

"That isn't funny!" Tristan yelled, putting Joey in a headlock. A fight ensued after that, while everyone gave a sigh of exasperation.

"He's still not over being rejected by her, is he?" Ryou asked Yugi.

"Evidently not." Yugi replied, watching the white cloud containing Joey and Tristan moving back and forth.

"You guys are so childish." Mai sighed, pulling Joey away from yanking Tristan's head off.

"Please stop fighting." Serenity pleaded with Tristan, who immediately stopped at Serenity's request.

Yugi smiled. He knew that after the fiasco with Miho, Tristan had developed a crush on Serenity. Joey, being the protective big brother, would do everything in his power to keep guys away from his sister, especially Tristan. Even though Tristan has liked Serenity for two years now, he still hasn't screwed up enough courage to ask her out on a date.

Yugi watched Tristan pull Serenity to the side and began to sweat profusely. 'This is it!' Yugi thought. 'He's gonna ask her out!'

"Ah, Serenity?" Tristan cleared his throat.

"Yes?" She replied sweetly.

"Would you? I mean that is? Uh, doyawannagotofestivalwitme?" Tristan said quickly.

"Say that again?" Serenity looked at him with her brown eyes.

"Do you want to go to the festival with me?" Tristan asked.

"Oh, I'm sorry. But I'm already going with Ryou. He asked me at lunch. I'm so sorry." She said sadly.

The once nervous expression turned blank, as Tristan collapsed to the floor. "Shutdown again!" He cried, rivers of tears pouring down his face.

"Sorry, 'bout that mate." Ryou looked down at Tristan while wrapping his arm around Serenity. "Better luck next time?"

Tristan cried out, "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!" as his left leg twitched.

"Tristan's never gonna be the same." Mai sighed.

"You got that right." Teá replied.

"Poor, poor Tristan." said Yugi.

"So sorry my man. I'd give you some advice or something, but I gotta prepare for my date. Miho wants me to pick her up around 5." Tristan cried some more. "Whoops, my bad. Later." Duke ran off.

"And the rest of us are going to Joey's house to get ready for tonight." Said Mai. "We have to be at the park by 4:45 so we can set up the stage for the play. So we'll meet you at the Turtle Game Shop around 4:30, 'kay?" Mai asked Yugi.

"Sure." Yugi replied.

"Alright, we're outta here! Later Yug!" Joey yelled as Mai grabbed his arm while he and Ryou dragged Tristan out the entrance to the school, with Serenity close behind.

"Yugi, may I speak with you?" asked Teá.

"Sure, what is it?" The two of them followed the others.

"Do you want to go to the festival with me?" Teá blushed.

Yugi thought for a moment. "Okay." He replied.

"Really?" Teá's face brightened. "Thanks Yugi! See you at 5!" She pecked him on the cheek and ran off to catch up with the others. Yugi's cheeks were slightly red as he made his way to the Turtle Game Shop.

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"I'm home!" Yugi said to no one in particular, since his grandfather was at an archeological convention in Tokyo. Locking the door behind him, he slung his book bag upon the counter, and made his way to the kitchen. Noticing the flashing red light of the answering machine, Yugi pressed a blue button, checking to see who called while he was at school. While Yugi was making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, he heard the voice of his grandpa.

"Yugi? It's me, Grandpa. I'm having a great time here at the convention. Hope you're doing well. Please call me when you get home. The number is on the refrigerator. Bye!" The message ended with a click, and the tape began to rewind itself.

Yugi grabbed the phone and went over to the refrigerator, trying to decipher the phone number of the hotel his grandpa was staying, for it was written very messily. After deciphering most of the digits of the hotel's phone number, Yugi attempted to call the hotel.

Ring.

Ring.

Ring.

Click.

Yugi felt relieved that someone picked up from the other end.



"Hello! You have just reached the Earth Assistance Hotline." Yugi heard a feminine voice say to him.

"Err. Sorry wrong number." He replied. He was about to take a bite into his peanut butter and jelly, preparing to hang up, when the woman from the other end said:

"Someone will be sent over to grant your request."

"Wait a second!" Yugi was cut off, leaving him slightly puzzled. 'What was that about?' He thought to himself. He placed the peanut butter and jelly sandwich on the counter, seeing as he wasn't hungry anymore. Just as he put down the sandwich, Yugi heard a voice say:

"Hello!"

Taken by surprise, Yugi jumped and crashed into several chairs, knocking him and the chairs to the floor.

"Ouch, that must have hurt.."

Yugi looked up in direction the mysterious voice was coming from. He blinked. There was a young woman, well half of one in his kitchen sink. She wore a blue silk top with a matching sash tied around her head. The top had short sleeves that opened along the sides, revealing a pair of slender arms. She had several silver bracelets on her wrists and had four silver hoops in each ear. She had long black hair mixed with red and blue streaks that framed the delicate features of her face, and had eyes that were not blue, green, or gray, but contained all the colors of the spectrum. He blinked again. She was still there. This time, Yugi noticed that she had a blue dot in the center of her forehead with two slightly smaller ones at the color of her eyes. He blinked several times. She wiggled her fingers at him. "Hi!" She said.

"Hello." Yugi replied. 'Okay, she isn't a hallucination.' He determined. "Excuse me, but what are you doing in my sink?"

"To grant you a wish." Sink lady answered.

"Huh?" Yugi wondered if the heat did something to his brain.

"Don't worry, your brain is still functioning properly." She said.

Yugi's eyes nearly bulged out of his head. 'She can read my thoughts?!'

"It isn't that hard, but yeah, I can read your mind. Like I said, I'm here to grant you a wish." She pushed herself out of the sink and flipped onto the counter. She smoothed down her long blue skirt that had a slit running up to her knee. Crossing her legs, she said, "But before I do, let me introduce myself. I am the goddess Laga, pleased to meet you!" Laga extended her hand to Yugi.

Suddenly, Yugi was pulled away from the pile of toppled chairs and was floating above them. The chairs were pulled into an upright position, while Yugi shook Laga's hand. "I'm Yugi."

"I know." Laga said. With a wave of Laga's hand, Yugi floated down onto the dinner table. "Now, let's get down to business. Here's my card." Reaching into a fold of her dress, Laga pulled out a small index card bearing her name, office, address, phone number and purpose.

Yugi looked at the card. Reading the slogan engraved near the edge of the card aloud, he said, "Granting happiness is what we do best." He looked up at Laga. "Granting happiness? How?"

"By granting you a wish," Laga said for the fourth time.

Yugi stared incredulously at her. "A wish? For anything at all?"

"Uh-huh!" Laga nodded in emphasis. "If you want to be a billionaire, you'll become one. If you want to become a movie star, it's done. If you want to take over the world, we can do that too. Although we try to avoid those who would wish for that. The point is we can grant you anything your heart desires! Anything at all! "

'It's a good thing Yami Bakura and Yami Malik are no longer possessing Ryou and Marik. Who knows what chaos would ensure if someone like Laga came along and granted their wish of world domination? Wait, how do I know she's telling the truth? She probably is. I mean she did come out of my sink. But for all I know, a bunch of weirdoes are probably gonna come through the back door and scream, "Surprise! You're on Candid Camera!"'

"Of course I'm telling the truth." Laga said, interrupting Yugi's thoughts. "Since I'm a goddess, I can't lie. And no one is going to come through the back door screaming, 'Surprise! You're on Candid Camera!' First of all, there's no one outside and second of all, what's Candid Camera?"

"Err, it's this TV show where they play practical jokes on someone and secretly video tape them. The person being tricked doesn't know he or she is being tricked or video taped until the host of the show says to them, 'Surprise! You're on Candid Camera!'" Yugi explained to Laga.

"That's mean." Laga said. "Why would anyone want to trick and humiliate others in front of thousands?"

"Because it's funny to see the shocked look on their faces when they find out that they've been tricked?" Yugi reasoned.

"I still think it's mean. Would you want someone to pull a prank on you and embarrass you in front of others?" said Laga.

"No." Yugi answered.

"My point exactly." Laga said. "Anyways, I'm not here to trick you. I'm here to grant you a wish. So what is it?"

"What?" Yugi asked.

"Your wish." said Laga. Yugi sat in silence. "Don't tell my you don't have one."

"Ah," Yugi scratched the back of his head. "I had one. A while back, I wished that I had friends. Friends who would always be there for me, friends who I could count on an who could count on me no matter what." Yugi said, remembering the wish he made when he completed the Millennium Puzzle. He smiled as he pictured the faces of his friends and the friends he made in the past two years. "It was granted to me and I've been happier ever since. I've been very blessed. I have friends who care about me and who would stand by my side no matter what. I have a grandpa who loves me very much. We may not be rich, but we're financially stable. I'm in perfect health and I get three square meals a day. There's nothing more I could possibly want."

Laga looked at him in disbelief. "But there has to be something you want. There just has to be!"

"Why? What's wrong?" Yugi asked.

"If you don't have a wish, then I shouldn't be here! But I am, so you must have a wish!" Laga reasoned.

"I'm sorry, but I don't have a wish." Yugi apologized. He looked at the small index card in his hand. "Maybe your agency made a mistake." Laga glared at Yugi. 'Okay, bad thing to say.' He thought. "Or not."

Laga sighed. "Then I will have to stay here until you have made your wish."

Yugi fell from the table and banged his head against a chair, knocking him unconscious.

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Anime: End of Chapter 1. Please review. Arigato!