"I wish... No, that's not it. I wish... No, that wouldn't make any sense... I wish... Oh my, that wouldn't work at all..."
"Aaaahhrrrgg," Ranma nearly screamed. "Would you make up your mind already?"
"I'm sorry, Ranma-kun," Kasumi apologized. "But this is nothing I can just solve by making a wish out of the blue. I think I have to think of it a little more..."
Ranma sighed. Perhaps Kasumi was right. "Yeah, sure... Just tell me when you're gonna make that wish, okay?"
"Sure, Ranma!" Kasumi said with a smile. She took the lamp and carried it upstairs, into her room.
For now, Kasumi had no time to further think of a wish. The housework has to be done, after all. And while wishing that she didn't have to do the house work was a tempting wish, she didn't do it. After all, she had promised Ranma to help him out with his problems.
So she just placed the bottle on her nightstand and went back downstairs to clean, cook and do the laundry.
After a few hours, she had nearly forgotten the bottle and the promise she made.
In the evening, after dinner was over, Kasumi just cleared the table and put the dirty dishes into the sink... She would take care of them tomorrow. For today, she was tired and decided to go to bed early.
After saying good night to everyone, she went back into her room. After she was sure that everyone else had gone to bed too, she opened a drawer and pulled out a small device with a screen and several buttons.
You know, Kasumi had always a hobby that everyone was unaware of... even her own sisters. And she felt a little embarrassed when she imagined what her family would say if they found out.
Kasumi was a Pokémon fan.
Almost every evening, before she went to sleep, she pulled out her hidden Gameboy and began playing one of the famous Pokémon games. A few days ago, she had saved enough money to buy a Gameboy Advance as well and one of the newer generation of Pokémon games.
She sat down on her bed, ignoring the bottle that was still standing there and switched the little handheld console on.
After excitedly playing for a while, she sighed. Better not overdoing it, she still had much work to do the next day. So she saved her game and switched the Gameboy off. She carefully put it back into the drawer and covered it with some socks. Afterwards, she went to bed.
Once again, she sighed. "Oh well..." she murmured to herself. "Those little Pokémon sure are cute. Too bad they're just in a video game."
Her gaze fell on the lamp standing on her nightstand. "Oh my, I promised Ranma to think of a suitable wish. Oh well, I'll do it tomorrow, then..."
Suddenly, she snickered. "Would be nice if I had that wish for myself, though..." She closed her eyes. "I could easily have my own little Pokémon pal... Too bad Ranma was the one to find that bottle. I could make everyone a Pokémon... or at least half of them!"
Slowly, Kasumi drifted off to sleep while her eyes closed. "I wish... something like that would happen..."
Then she was asleep.
Coming out of the bottle, a cheerful girl's voice shouted: "Wish granted!"
Now, barring the fact that Kasumi wasn't wide awake when she made that wish, what she really meant was that everyone who would like to own his or her own Pokémon could get one.
But of course, genies are known for misinterpreting the wishes people make. And if the genie is a ditzy girl like Mihoshi... well, you get the idea...
So when Mihoshi granted Kasumi her wish, its results were totally different from what Kasumi had in mind, even if she had made that wish intentionally.
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(Posted Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:58)
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