"Well..."
"What did he wish for? It is not that hard to say."
"Well... he wished that you and him... Taichi Yagami and Koushirou Izumi... would be together. Forever." she then turned and stalked out of the room.
Taichi stared at where Amara had stood. He had not expected that. He had expected something like him wishing to be the best Kung Fu fighter. Did Izzy really want to be with me? Forever? Why? Was he like gay... or aomething? Was he like in love with me? Ew, gross! I am not gay! Taichi tought to himself. He was so confused.
Thats only because he didn't want to believe what he knew to be true.
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That afternoon when Izzy was coming out of the building he saw Taichi sitting on a bench. Where he should have gone down the stairs he just jumped off. He stumbled on his right foot, that having been the one that was hurt. He stalked over to Taichi and leaned on his knees, "So, you want to go do something? You look so depressed. Lets go out to eat or soemthing, it'll be my treat." Izzy spoke cheerfully to Taichi to try to bring up his mood.
Taichi sat staring intently at something in the distance, and when Koushirou finished speaking got up and walked the other direction, leaving Koushirou to stare at him in worry, not daring to move after him, though, for fear of setting Tai's anger off that he already knew was boiling.
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Taichi walked into the library. He pulled out the book he desired, thankful it was there. He checked it out and went back to him room in Alpha dorm. He opened the brown leather cover of the Book of Wishing, and started to scan through it, reading what he thought was nessisary. When he got to the 120th page, he started to turn the pages much more slowly, trying with all his might to will the 125th page to appear.
He started counting mentally, going to the next page, and then the next... "124.. 125..." It looked like there was no more pages, so he just turned the last one. He stared at the 126th page that had seemed to appear there when he flipped the page over, just like all the others, except he hadn't thought it there before. Then he chanted, "Book of Wishing, please grant my wish...
"Let me win the competetion."
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For a full week Taichi avoided Koushirou. Koushirou continued to try to find out what was wrong with his best friend, and dearest, but to no avail. He really did not want to set off Taichi.
Finally, one afternoon, raining outside, but the sun shining, making it seem so very peaceful, Koushirou caught notice of his friend Taichi coming up the staircase he was heading to go down. He grabbed Taichi's shoulder when the boy acted as if he didn't know Koushirou and spinned him around to face him. The carmel eyes were dull and showed a deep anger. "Taichi... why are you avoiding me? Is it because of the competetion. Koushirou asked, not knowing what to expect.
"Koushirou Izumi, get your hands off of me. You make me feel miserable. I hate you." Taichi stated plainly, his tone low and menacing.
Koushirou stopped, mouth agape in complete surprise, his heart hurt so much now, "Wha... what?"
Taichi turned to the way he came and stared down the white tile floors. The skies had darkened outside. Koushirou's heart dropped to his stomache.
"If you leave like this then you leave our friendship, we're through!" Koushirou screamed at Taichi deperately. Taichi stopped for a few seconds but then continued down on his way. Not two steps later, though, Koushirou ran down and flung his arms around Taichi's shoulders and grasped him tightly. He felt his heart fall into his knees. "Don't leave me. You'll never know how much I love you." He was whispering into Taichi's ear, tears streaming down his red cheeks. "All I need is you."
"Get off of me! I hate you! I really fucking hate you!" Taichi screamed in a storm of rage, trying to pull the clinging Koushirou off of him. Being stronger than the much smaller red head boy, adter a few seconds he succeded in getting Koushirou off... and succeded in making the younger boy waver in his balance.
Taichi was flung to the stiarcase by Koushirou, whose bad ankle refused to help the younger boy catch his balance. That second Taichi knew that Koushirou just saved him from a broken leg or something, and he couldn't stop the shorter boy from falling backwards, tumbling down the stairs wildly, and Taichi heard a loud crack followed by a few popping noises. Then finally Koushirou landed on the first floor.
Koushirou only heard the shattering of his heart and then nothing.