HELLO BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE!

Im SO SO SO SORRY for the delay! No excuses allowed I know! I had this chapter written since forever but before posting it I went in a exchange to Chile (If Any Chilean are here, HELLO WEON!") and bought a new laptot since my old one was like 8 years old and a total dinasour and so stupid me I forgot to pass all my documents to the new one. Trust me I suffered without being able to write but im back! (finally!) and hopefully we will finish this story.

Extra long chap today, if you are still reading thanks a lot! I hope I didnt lost my touch! (If there is any to begin with)

Review if you like!

"SO WRONG"

They both nodded at the same time making crosses with their arms before jumping apart, Risa onto the couch and Otani falling on his back because of his knew founded clumsiness his feet decided to stumble on everything they could find, even themselves. Risa on the other hand felt better standing on the couch, it felt more like her normal height, looking down at Otani felt right she decided.

None of them moved for the longest of time. Not a bit.

Risa finally found the guts to open her mouth to say something but stopped when they heard a ring on the door, they cringed and stared at each other in panic (like if this were indeed their fault) for a moment sweat dropping fast on their faces. What now?

They talked mentally.

Otani: Don't say anything! They will go away!

Risa: What if is someone from work?

Otani: DOESN'T MATTER

Risa: Right!

Another knock. Twice. Thrice and this time harder.

Otani: They will leave…

"Otani… Risa, you in there?"

Risa: IS KAORU-KUN!

Otani: DON'T SAY ANYTHING.

Risa opened her mouth and as quickly as he could Otani got up from the floor to silence her as she was about to reply, one hand over her mouth. Risa glared down at him and he shook his head viciously.

"We were out." Otani whispered in the lowest of voices.

Risa couldn't help it and whispered instead pushing his hand away.

"Really? After yesterday?" And even Otani could see she was making sense. For once.

"Maybe they are still sleeping?" Takashi said loudly on the other side, apparently both brothers were there. "Risa, Otani!"

Otani was holding her by the waist as he stood on the floor and she on the couch holding to his shoulders, her face was a few inches above his and he smiled a bit at the sight of her, she was still looking at the door waiting for the siblings to go, almost like if she just stared at the floor would make them go away. In pure fear and panic her hands held tighter to his shoulders every ticking second. What would they think if they saw them like this? Hell Otani couldn't even start to think of a good excuse or explanation to himself, let alone others.

"Risa?" He whispered as Kaoru said something to Takashi and they could hear their retracting footsteps leaving the door. Otani relaxed visibly. Risa was sweat dropping now and she looked down with huge eyes to meet his star. What could he possibly want at a moment like this?

"What?!" She hissed dramatically. "Oh my god! I thought they were going to just rip the door open! I thought my heart—"

Otani just pushed himself on his toes and kissed her.

-.-.-.-.-.

"So what now?" Risa asked flutered after an hour of not so much talk from either part.

"I have no idea."

"im… so confused…" Risa said touching her face and looking down at her legs. She didn't know if she wanted to glare at them or not, she was still too confused to fully think what had just happened, even register if she liked her new self. No, not new self. This… this short Risa would go away. Right?

"Me too."

Otani was looking at his longs legs too thinking deeply, before it was only Koizumi who could prop her feet on the coffee table since she always moved It further to be comfortable, he didn't mind but now that he could... They were sitting side by side on the couch after a serious session of making out. Being different heights now had its thing, he smiled sideway to Koizumi who unable to put her legs on the coffee table (like he was doing) settled to stretch her legs and then kick the floor as she moved to the end of the couch to see (and fail) if she could reach it that way.

He observed her attempts for a few seconds before he nudged her slightly.

"I have an idea." He said brightly.

Koizumi looked seriously to him as she stopped fidgeting with her own legs and instantly her hand went to his upper arm, clutching him. "Yes?"

"We can talk about this later." He said getting closer and Risa hit him the arm incredibly annoyed.

"Huh? You idiot, this is important! Have you look at yourself!"

"Yes I have!" He screamed in delight and she face palmed.

"No, think straight for a moment, lets talk about it—"

He just kissed her again with no effort and she let him. Again.

Seriously. He was so tall and as his arms encircled her she couldn't do anything besides kiss him back. He was so dead, she made a mental note to kick him the second she was back on her senses.

-.-.-.-.-.-.

"We…need to talk about this…" Risa whined desperately and panted as she lay on top of Otani, both of them on the couch clothes forgotten with only one sheet over them that Otani had the grace to pull from the upper shelve. Upper. Shelve. He had never felt in his life so more accomplished. He had even jumped in delight asking Koizumi if she had seen that and showed Koizumi like three times in a row how he could do it, how he could reach higher shelves. Koizumi had just laughed for whole five minutes at his behavior ("I do that all the time and I do not throw it in your face midget!")

"I know." He said whispering on her hair. "I know we do…"

But he didn't want to, this is how it was supposed to be, something inside his brain told him, he had to be taller than her, life was so different… everything was different.

Everything was better.

Koizumi moved her head to look to him and moved to be at his level, they just hugged closer trying to get comfortable with each other bodies and after a while they managed. It was still weird and they still felt like they didn't quite belong but the managed.

"Otani…"

He got a strand of hair out of her face and nodded. "What is it?"

"I don't know what happened…" She said as she blinked away the tears.

"Me neither. I swear, I mean I had though of this but…"

She nodded too. "I want to go back."

Otani looked at her square in the face before he kissed her temple unable to share those feelings and feeling horrible about it.

"It will be alright. I promise."

And still Koizumi cried.

-.-..-.-.-.-.

They had spent the whole day inside after that, talking in whispers, fearing that if they talked too loud something would happen and mostly at a daze, stealing each other glances every chance they could, if it was not at each other it would be to the mirror, to actually make sure they really had changed. Occasionally they would pinch their own arms, Risa so more than ocasioanlly, Otani finally had snapped at her seeing that she was actually hurting herself and Risa stopped.

Koizumi had cried and whimpered as she spent a lot of tha afternoon in her laptop as she googled in internet about their case and obviously found nothing on the internet to help things beside fairy tails. Otani was out of sorts and ideas (A Part of him had thought that if they kissed or got in the Sin express they would go back to normal, but as it happens nothing changed).

Risa even made him run to her like in freaky Friday and after a sore head and a nasty bump they decided that it didn't matter what they would do physically it wouldn't change anything.

Finally Risa giving up for the day just took a very long shower and then stepped out and hid under the covers. Otani discarded his tshirt that didn't fit him anymore and just went to bed in boxers. They held each other tightly without moving for a long time.

"Maybe this is a dream." Risa said after a while. "Its impossible isn't it?"

"Maybe it will go away in the morning." Otani said because honestly he had no idea how to make this better for her.

-.-.-.-.-.-.

It was in the second day when they finally were up ("Still a midget" Otani had told Risa as she fumed) Koizumi was taking a shower while Otani had put on some pants and decided to make something to eat since they both were starving, apparently with him growing up the injuries were less important now, it hurt less but still he hurt so he tried to move around easily around the place trying not to trip over his long legs or kick things with his pointed elbows

That didn't work.

"Im done with the—… WHAT DID YOU DO TO OUR KITCHEN?!"

"ITS NOT ME I SWEAR THIS THINGS THINK FOR THEMSELVES." He said gesturing to his longs arms almost dropping a glass of milk on his way to the table.

"Otani! You clumsy shrimp!" She said and after a moment she chuckled getting a seat on the table to eat and the stopped. "I guess…" She made a disgusting face. "Otani sensei is finally Otani!"

Otani with the most carefulness that Koizumi had ever seen he put the plate in front of her along her milk. Almost in fear he would drop it and only responded when he could sit in front of her too with his own food.

"What do ya mean?"

"Your last name, it finally suits you… no Kotani to laugh about."

"You… little… HOW DARE YOU! Do you wanna get hit?!" Otani said red in the face but stopped at her merry laugh.

"Otani is Otani! The world stars making sense." She said with a huff and a nice smile and Otani let her have her way. It was the first time she had laughed in more than twenty four hours. For them it was a record. She moved her hand to reach the glass of milk and her hand grasped… nothing.

Air. She furrowed her eyebrows and this time she moved her hand farther until she got the glass on her hands and for protection at her clumsiness she used both to hold the glass still. She had to keep it safe. She thought seeing the mess Otani had made on the kitchen.

"I guess… finally you are Koizumi too." He said with a grin as he looked at her and she just shrugged still looking at the glass of milk and drank it in a go. She got up from the seat as she went to refill it and that's when he saw it.

"You are using my shorts!" He said accusingly and she just looked to the side with a face as she went to the refrigerator. Wow, she didn't have to bent as much as she used to do before, she took the milk and walked back to her seat. Otani's face was amused and at the same time annoying and red in the face, Koizumi rolled her eyes muttering under her breath.

"What was that?" He dead panned with an arm over the chair lazily.

"Can you please lend… lend me a pair? None of mine fit me." She said unable to look at him in the eye.

Otani laughed out loud but nodded, shrugging it off. "Sure, feel free."

Koizumi started eating and blushed amazed. "Its really good! With everything… thank you for the breakfast."

"No problem but…" He looked around the mess he did and sighed. "I just destroyed half our kitchen and our groceries."

"You idiot! Its your turn going grocery shopping, mind you. Seriously how clumsy can you get?"

Kouzumi reached to hit him… and failed again finding air. Her arms weren't as long anymore. They both blinked. Otani moved his head into her reach and this time she did hit him.

Another time they would have laughed, but even if they were kind of happy now there were a lot of things to considerate. Besides being able to cook and hit each other more comfortably.

He sighed and then his hands fell on the table, he ogled at them as he had done all the past few hours. "I guess im not a midget anymore, huh?"

Kozumi looked at him sadly as he took this farther look. Like he was anywhere but there right now as she lowered her hand and stared at it too. He must feel bad, being this clumsy she thought, his pants she had noticed barely fit him anymore, she was terrified but he must be too, so out of place now. Probably he was putting a though face in behalf of her.

"Otani. Its alright, we are going to be alright." She said taking a huge gulp of air and nodding. "We need to relax, we… there's gotta be a way out of his, surely! Somehow! I'll find a way to come back to normal you'll see!"

Suddenly Otani stood up throwing the chair behind him with the sudden motion and Risa noticed the stars on his eyes, hands on the table, huge smile. He hadn't even been listening.

"FINALLY, FINALLY AFTER SLEEPING WITH YOU FOR YEARS THE GODESS OF GIANTS BLESSED ME WITH YOUR HEIGHT, OH THANK YOU SO MUCH GODESS OF GIANTS!" He screamed to the ceiling as he launched himself to the front and kissed her cheek, that only made her lose the fork midway and screamed at him as she got up to retaliate only to realize that he still towered above her. Grinning at her he winked. She blushed madly but she was still mad at him. Giant.

"YOU IDIOT, STOP IT. Why are you so happy anyway shrimp?!"

"Not a shrimp!" He just sang as Koizumi glared hard and he did a little dance that in anyother time Risa would have not only laughed but recorded it for future blackmail. "Im tall, im tall—oh thanks goddess of giants."

"I feel so used right now…" She said getting to her seat again and Otani leaned on the table to look at her.

"Are you really going to say you are not happy that you are finally your size? You know, normal?!"

Otani was so happy about it all, so happy that he was taller so he could bend to kiss her, even if he tripped over everything he was just so glad… so glad that he didn't notice the face Risa made when he said that.

"Yes… im glad im normal." She bit down the tears. Normal. She didn't know what to say or do so she did the second best thing. She hit him in the stomach. "Go and get dress up you idiot and a shower!"

"Right right…" He walked to the shower (he hit his knee with the sofa and he marveled at the fact that he could take the towels of the upper shelf) and he closed the door. Risa stayed behind crying silently, half sad half smiling as she cleaned up after his mess. Sometimes her arms wouldn't reach things, thinking still her arms were larger and she had to move closer.

Sometimes she couldn't put things on the upper shelves and even on her toes she was unable, for that she carried a chair and was not embarrassed to use it as Otani often was, finally she finished putting everything where it was supposed to be. She put her hands on her eyes and she noticed she had been crying almost all the time, she tried to put the tears away, she didn't want Otani to see her like this. He heard Otani getting off the bathroom and suddenly he screamed. Koizumi yelped and almost started running to help him when she stopped on her tracks.

"Koizumi! I can totally see that house green rooftop from the other street you told me about! Its amazing you were right! How they even manage to do that? Is legal?"

She didn't answer as his words pierced her a bit.

Normal.

She thought as he she looked around the now kind of clean kitchen, she had wanted her favorite cereal but she had been unable to reach it and then looked down expecting her long legs and finding only herself in the red shorts of his boyfriend because her clothes didn't fit her. She missed being able to tower over him and stare at his face.

Was this supposed to be like this?

If this was normal…

He came out of the room wearing a football t-shirt that she had given her one year ago but was too big for him, now it fitted him and some pants as he fumbled with them because they were too short.

She sighed and jumped from the chair and walked to him.

"Sit." He raised a brow but obeyed; she pulled out some scissors from her bag and cut them neatly.

"What are you doing, idiot?! You are ruining them!"

"Im fixing them!" She said as she avoided his glare, finally he stopped squirming and stood put as she cut them and them asked him to take them off to finish the edge, he did as told and refrained to say something he would surely be kicked for.

Risa didn't say anything as usual as she worked and Otani just started at her as he had discovered loved doing as she looked so concentrated even in such a small task. Risa gave them back barely twenty minutes later. His short black jeans now fit him just above his knee, it looked like those long shorts guys used and that Otani loved to wear before he became a teacher 'teachers don't wear long shorts, Risa, I would look like my students!' but it looked way better than an overgrown man in little jeans.

That was exactly what it was but still.

"Thank you, they look good actually." Otani said. Of course, she was a clothes designer (or sort of) and then he stood up taking her hand, missing her at first, taking her upper arm and then more carefully her hand.

"Ready to go?"

"Go? Go where?"

"Outside! Lets see how the world is from this perspective now." He said with pure glee as he walked out.

Risa nodded but she didn't felt like going anywhere, she felt like staying and figure out a way back to normal. But she couldn't say it out loud, he was so happy… he felt normal, she reminded herself.

But if this was normal... She thought again as they stepped out from the apartment sneakily. They passed the lobby in a hurry and hit the street and they both marveled. Everything was different. Everything.

Figures what a few inches could do.

Otani looked around amazed at the people passing by who stared at him oddly a few girls staring more than necessary, Koizumi glared but the girls now were not threatened by her, her head hardly reached Otani's shoulder now, it wasn't like she was really that little, it was that he was incredibly tall.

She looked around the place, the street the same office post she passed every day and sighed, the world was just the same.

Then why did she felt so out of place?

She crossed her arms and looked down to talk to him… when she realized she had to look up. It had been a habit for years and suddenly looking at his elbow instead of his face made her wonder. Again he found her hand (After marveling on the fact that he could see the top of people's head) and began walking, she stumbled behind and was trying hard to keep his pace. He hasn't noticed but it was taking a lot of concentration to keep her strides as long as his.

"Since its your fault we became like this..." He was saying.

"How is this my fault shrimp?!"

Otani just scoffed. "You are the goddess so is your fault. So, as I was saying. Since this is your fault but im glad it happened we can go and do whatever you want today. Its like a holiday without being holiday."

Koizumi blushed (She was getting rewarded?) as she ran a bit too finally get in pace with him as he stopped in a corner with a red light and he nodded to her.

"Whatever you want. Its not like we have anywhere to be anyway."

The green light shined but she digged her heels on the street and clung to his arm to make him stop, he was tall now and she was short. Risa was barely aware that she had been wanting to cry for a while now, her whole body moved differently, he couldn't see that? Was he not affected like she was?! Everything was not normal! AT ALL!

"You know what I want?! I want to know what happened to us!" Koizumi screamed making him turn to look at her… so tiny, so little… and so fragile.

That's when Otani finally understood. Yes. It was amazing to be tall and yes it was amazing that Koizumi was little but suddenly the world seemed wrong to him, Koizumi was made to fit in this world… she was used to look down at him, literally. She was used to take the long strides and since he was so accustomed by now his stried had long wider and now that he was taller that habit had not died and he saw she was red on the face because she had been running to keep up with him, in his excitement he forgot to see that, honestly he was so used to her old self too wasn't he? That's why he had kissed her when she was standing on the couch.

Because it was normal for him to stand on his toes.

But…Now… now she looked terrified and everything being taller than her she just looked even smaller, when she was tall she was never afraid, she never tried to look small, neither she did apologize for being so tall. She was tall and she knew and she didn't deny it as much as he wanted it. Now the tabled had turned and she blinked.

She hid behind his back as she tried to control the tears, like she didn't want no one to see her. To notice her.

It was just a few inches but it made a huge difference, tell him about it. Something inside of him melted at her sight and grumbled. He awkwardly got to her level leaning a little taking her hand firmly in his and she looked around.

"People are staring, idiot." She said refraining from crying and he nodded.

"I don't care."

She looked down, finally being able to hide her face from the world as she hugged him, her face buried on his neck as he held her close, finally being able to put his head over her head, now the whole world could see how red he turned on the face when they hugged. It was her who had to deal with it before.

"Koizumi I know. I know this is all messed up but I promise I will find the answer but… I—I…" He looked down embarrassed and had a hard time struggling with his voice and he just managed to whisper. "I… just for today—can we—pretend?"

Koizumi turned apart slightly to see his face he was red in the face and he was looking down to realize he had to look to the side if he wanted to avoid Koizumi's stare.

Risa wanted to argue but really, since day one she had been unable to say no to him.

Yes. I will keep fighting for you. when asked.

Yes. I'll go to you basketball play.

Yes. I'll love to go the Umibozu concert with you.

Yes. I will leave Maity's sensei club.

Yes. I will make you chocolate for white day.

Yes. I will make you lemons with honey.

Yes. I will wait for you to finish university.

Yes. Im fine with you being my first.

Yes. We'll move together.

So Yes.

"Yes… just for today."

-.-.-.-.-.-.-

Poor Risa, Otani had always wanted to be tall but I never could remember Risa wanted to be shorter, she liked herself as tall as she was it was just Otani that made things difficult for her.

Well, that was it for today!

-Juliet'lovestory-