A Growing Flower
by Tsuyoshi-kun
Prologue
18 year old Hana Daiyuki (her last name meaning "big courage") was a very short girl. How short? Back in kindergarten, the black-haired, blue-eyed teenager was always 6 inches shorter than the rest of the girls in her class. When she first entered grade school, she was mistaken for a toddler. Even when she got a growth spurt at age 10, her height was a measly 3'8". At the end of 8th grade, she barely measured up to 4'1", often mistaken for girls half her age. At age 17, the poor girl barely reached 4'3".
It also lead to other problems besides an inferiority complex about her height. Although Hana loved sports, she was turned down by nearly all the sport teams in school due to her size and weak, light body. The only major exception was the swim team, and even then she eventually quit after being teased by her peers for her stature.
Fortunately, Hana had friends that did treat her like an equal and didn't make fun of her size. One such friend was Ryo, her next door neighbor who knew and protected Hana since he moved next door 5 years ago. Unlike Hana, he was tall at 5'10". His short, combed brown hair, sparkling green eyes, and fairly toned body made him popular with girls at his school, but he didn't care much for dating them. He was busy working hard to become a musician like his father. He received his first synthesizer at age 10 and has been enthralled with music since.
Hana's other friend was Chisa, a spunky girl of 5'2" who liked her petite friend like a little sister. She typically wore glasses over her big, brown eyes and kept her long, brown hair in two braids most of the time, not caring much for her appearance otherwise. She met Hana back when they were 10 when she got lost one summer night while taking a walk around the park with her parents. The helpful Chisa walked the small girl home and has been close to her since.
Hana's parents were also not on the tall side of their family tree. Her father was a short, skinny man of 5'3", looking like he could almost pass for a high school student despite being 38. He had dirty blonde hair and green eyes, and worked his days dropping off mail to the local towns nearby. Her mother was even shorter at 4'11", also looking quite youthful despite her age. She had long, beautiful black hair, crystal-like blue eyes, and a small but slender body that attracted many a man in the past to her despite her height. While she was a housewife, she also on the side wrote movie reviews for the town's local newspaper. As such, Hana got to go with her mother to see many films before they even saw general release, which she always loved to do.
As explained before, Hana was typically very short..until she came back from a trip the weekend before she entered her final year of high school. The trip, which was to a local hot springs resort her parents came to annually, featured a new area that year that was, to quote the sign, "So refreshing, it will make your body feel anew." Hana was confused by the sign, but decided to go in anyway since it looked very nice. The springs were set outside, and around the area were tall, beautiful rock sculptures of various animals and other wildlife both from and outside of Japan. The water felt just right as well, and Hana happily sat in the spring for what seemed like a day to her (it was actually about three hours).
On their last day, Hana felt a little odd as her family drove home that night. She felt like her pink t-shirt felt a little tighter around her body, as did her jeans. She paid no mind, though, thinking that the hot water on her body might be the reason why her body felt odd. Not much happened after her initial car ride worry until her first day of school that April, where she woke up to the last problem she ever expected to encounter in her life.
Chapter 1: Late Puberty?
Hana was shocked when she woke up that morning and saw herself in her full body mirror in her room. She thought her pink, kids size pajamas felt much tighter than usual, but she couldn't understand why until she walked up to the mirror. But that's when she found out why she felt so odd:
She was almost 6 feet tall now!
Hana couldn't believe it! The once petite girl was now a tall, leggy beauty of 5'11". Her hair was much longer, reaching down to her butt, her butt was rounder and more firm, and her breasts, although not the biggest out there, were not at least visible now that she was a C cup.
"What the hell!?" was her first reaction when she noticed herself in the mirror. She tried pinching herself multiple times to re-assure herself it wasn't a dream, but it seemed like it was true; she grew over a foot and a half in height in one night.
Hana had seen many kinds of these shows when growing up, both in cartoons and live-action. She was familiar with seeing small, sometimes weak characters growing in size, only to further regret their new height as they returned to normal soon after. Hana didn't think like that; she found no reason to want to go back to being a puny girl who looked at most 8 to her high school peers and teachers.
"The only downside to this is that none of my clothes fit me anymore", the girl sighed as she desperately tried putting on her school uniform.
It was no use; she was too big for it. The uniform itself, which consisted of a black shirt and dark blue skirt, had to be ordered at a special size just for her once tiny body. Of course, Hana doubted she could even fit properly in the normal sized uniform now, much less the one she had before. But she tried anyway to put it in, and it looked awkward. Her bellybutton was completely exposed, and her skirt barely covered up her butt cheeks. And for the school-approved black shoes she wore...forget it.
"How am I supposed to go to school like this!?" Hana wondered as she came out of her room barefoot, knocking on the door of her parents' bedroom. Maybe they could help her out.
"Mom! Dad! Please open the door!"
"Hana, what's wrong?" her groggy mother was first to reply.
"Um..Mom. I think I hit my growth spurt", Hana shyly told her mother.
"Your what?"
"My growth spurt!"
"Really!? How tall are you now, dear? Did you grow another inch!?" her enhusiatic mother wondered as both she and her husband got out of bed to congratulate their daughter on her recent growth.
"Um...it's a little bigger than that", Hana sheepishly explained once again as her parents opened the door.
The expressions on their faces were priceless. If it weren't for their daughter's voice, they would have assumed right then and there that it was another girl who broke into their house that morning.
"Hana!! You're...big!" Hana's father exclaimed, almost about to fall over from the shock of her daughter's height.
"My baby girl is finally grown up!" her less scared mother then yelled in joy, hugging her taller daughter.
Of course, after she did, she noticed her daughter's awkwardness in her high school uniform. She also noticed her newly enhanced figure.
"Wow! Beautiful AND tall! We're proud of you, honey! But you need to do something about your uniform", contemplated Hana's mother, wondering how her daughter could still attend school.
Fortunately, she had just the thing: several different sized high school uniforms! She ran to her closet and quickly got out the biggest pair she owned; a large.
"We never knew if you were ever going to hit a growth spurt, so we bought you several uniforms at once in case you did", she explained to Hana, who hugged her mother and then took her clothes and ran to her bedroom to change.
"Our little Hana...she's so tall now", Hana's father sniffed, a tear rolling down his eye.
"I know! She's become a lovely woman!" Hana's mother chimed in, hugging her husband.
At School
As weird as it was for Hana's parents to believe her gigantic spurt in size, Hana wondered that her friends would have an even harder time believing it when they lined up outside of school to look at the bulletin board. A new year met new room changes, and Hana hoped she would be in the same classes as her friends Ryo and Chisa.
To her surprise, she was! Hana jumped for joy at the news as she ran over to her friends to explain to them they'd be in the same homeroom again that year.
The first she told the news to was Chisa, who seemed to go through a little spurt of her own over break; she now stood 5'3". Nothing much, but her body was also a little more developed as well, and she went half a cup size as well over the break between grades.
"Chisa! Chisa! We're in the same class!" a happy Hana chirped as she hugged her friend, who was confused by the girl who was hugging her.
"Who on Earth are you!?" Chisa fumed when she finally got out of her grasp.
"I'm Hana! Hana Daiyuki!" she happily explained to her friend. "I grew during my spring break!"
"No way you're Hana-chan. Hana-chan is little, sweet, and adorable. You're tall, pretty, and..sweet.."
"Chisa, please believe me!" her friend cried. "I'm really Hana!"
"If you're really Hana-chan, then you won't mind a little quiz, right?"
"Sure!"
"When did we meet?"
"At the park in the middle of the city 10 years ago. I got lost and you helped me home."
"Hm...that's right. Question two! What did I break once when I played baseball?"
"You broke your arm. You had a cast for six weeks and were unable to join me and Ryo-kun on summer vacation."
"Also correct. Hmm...well here's a question only the real Hana-chan knows!
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Who was my first best friend?"
"Um...hmm, I know this...give me a minute..."
"You!" Chisa happily exclaimed as she gave her best friend a hug. "Hana-chan, you've become so tall and pretty!"
"I'm not pretty", the embarrassed girl flushed. "I'm just...taller..."
"Wait 'til Ryo-chan sees this", Chisa snickered as she then dashed off to get him, leaving Hana by herself.
It was then that Hana got something she never got before; stares. And not in the "Oh, look at the tiny girl" way, either. For the first time in her life, she was getting stares by boys. Some even walked up to her just to say hello to her. It was so weird getting used to; Hana was so small most of her life, she wasn't used to being treated like an actual teenager.
"Hana-chan!" Chisa exclaimed as she brought over Ryo, who was as confused as Chisa was the first time when he saw the tall beauty in front of him.
"Chisa, you gotta be joking! This isn't Hana!" he remarked, making Hana droop her face in response.
"Ryo...kun...", Hana sniffled before Chisa handed her a tissue.
"See, Ryo-chan? You made her cry! If you don't believe me, just ask her some questions, you unbeliever!"
"Okay, then. Hana, where did you, Chisa, and I go to last year on your 17th birthday party?"
"We went on a boat ride around the Sea of Japan. Later we went on an amusement park, where you took me on some rides and even won me a teddy bear bigger than myself."
"See? It IS her", Chisa remarked as she stared long at Ryo, who slowly approached the almost crying Hana.
"I'm sorry I didn't believe you, Hana. It's just that you're so...so..."
"Freakishly tall?" Hana sadly sighed.
"I never expected you to grow up to be this tall and pretty!" Ryo attempted to say between fairly long pauses. "You were cute before, Hana, but now you're lovely!"
"R-R-Ryo-kun! Thanks!" Hana laughed as she hugged both her friends at once, blushing red in response to Ryo's kind words.
"This is going to take a while to get used to", Chisa noted to Ryo, who nodded in reply.
After School
The actual school day itself was a very hectic one. After got over the initial "Hana grew big!?" shock, she was suddenly very popular. Volleyball teams wanted her, swim teams wanted her, track and field wanted her, and the photography wanted her even! As flattered as she was by these recommendations, Hana decided to instead study in her favorite past time; art.
Even since she was little, Hana loved to draw. It was the one thing she could do that had nothing to do with height. And although the pencils felt a little awkward to her, she would sometimes spend an entire afternoon doing nothing but doodling. She even showed it to her friends Ryo and Chisa as well as her parents, who all thought she had something special regarding her art skills.
However, she didn't attend art as an extra-cirrcular activity due to her tiring of being looked at by her fellow peers. But now that she was as tall as them, she wouldn't have to worry about that anymore, right?
"W-w-wait! A tall, beautiful girl like yourself wants to show the art club??" the president of the club, a bi-speackled junior with short, black hair and auburn-colored eyes named Mayo, wondered. "Don't you want to lead cheers or be on a sports team?"
"Nope. I came to draw. I can even bring my own art supplies if need be", Hana confidently told the president of the club.
"Then welcome aboard....who are you?"
"Hana. Hana Daiyuki."
"Eh!?!? You mean 'Chiisana' Daiyuki?"
"Please don't call me that.."
"I'm so sorry for bringing that up. But wow! You grew up really fast!"
"It's a little embarrassing, actually.."
"Well, either case, welcome aboard!" Mayo told the girl as she shook both her hands at once. She then led the girl inside to meet the art students, who were as shocked as their club president by how much Hana had grown in such a short amount of time.
That Evening
What a long day! Waking up 5'11", joining the art club, and now the object of affection of many a boy in her school, Hana was both happy and worried by her new size. One thing was certain, though; she didn't want to go back to being a tiny girl ever again.
Another surprise came when Hana came home and saw her parents throw her a mini-paty of sorts celebrating her growth spurt. If it wasn't for the cake and presents, she would have told them they were taking this a bit too far. Then again, she did like cake..
After the party finally came sleep. Before that, though, Hana took a bath. However, since it wasn't made for people quite her size, she kept bumping her legs into the wall, and one leg often stuck out of the tub. Growing, apparently, seemed to have its disadvantages.
Another disadvantage came when Hana tried to put on her pajamas. They no longer fit the girl even slightly; she could barely stick her head inside her pajama shirt. She borrowed some of her father's bigger shirts instead, but even that barely helped.
"I guess I'll go shopping tomorrow", Hana told herself as she sat on her bed. But even that was an annoying ordeal; Hana's legs stood out far from her bed, and her blanket only covered up three-fourths of her body. Even her pillow was too small now for her larger head.
At least she could still cuddle up with her stuffed animals (one phase Hana never quite grew out of). It looks like she would need a bigger bed, longer blankets, and new clothes tomorrow. For now, though, Hana drifted off to sleep, hoping she wouldn't get any taller anytime soon.
Chapter 2: Big Girl, Big Stuff
The next few days saw a lot of changes in Hana's life. For the first time in years she actually had to go clothes shopping, no longer have to wear hand-me-downs from her mother and older (and sometimes even younger) cousins. She also had to buy a bra for the first time in her life, which turned out to be a more annoying experience than she thought. She also found herself with a larger bed and sheets. And all through it her parents radiated with happiness.
"I never thought this day would come!" Hana's mother happily sighed as she put another shirt in the shopping cart for her 5'11" daughter to push behind them. "Isn't it nice, Hana?"
"Yep!" she said with a smile, though a faint one.
"Who knows? You may even have another growth spurt!" her mother continued, giggling to herself.
"Like that would ever happen", Hana assured her mother, noticing something feeling off about her clothes. Granted, it was her mother's biggest shirt, but it somehow felt even smaller than before. Her pants felt tighter as well.
"Honey, what's wrong?" her mother asked her.
"I think I grew again!" Hana said with a nervous look on the face, looking like she was going to cry.
"Then try these on first and tell me if they fit", Hana's mother told her daughter as she rushed to the newest dressing room.
Hana looked sick. She had just grown almost 2 feet in one day; she wasn't ready to handle more growth.
"It seemed like it triggered when Mom said something earlier", Hana said to her reflection in the mirror.
A nearby graph on one of the surrounding walls of the dressing room had a height bar. Hana placed her back in front of the wall to measure herself up. She was surprised to find out she had grown another three inches since she came into the store!"
"I'm 6'2" now!" she whimpered. "I just wanted to be a little taller, not the tallest girl in Japan!"
More and more she could see that those cartoons she watched growing up were right: growth isn't always awesome. Especially when you can't fit into any of your clothes.
"What did Mom say that made me bigger?!" Hana yelled at herself, wondering what triggered her growth. "It had to be something! Let's see...'you might even have another growth spurt!'.
And like last time, Hana grew just then again. Now she was 6'4".
"ACK! I'm still growing! What was the word that caused it? Was it have?"
Nope. No response.
"Another?"
That didn't seem to be it, either.
"Growth?"
Surprisingly, that wasn't it.
"Spurt?"
Bingo! Hana was now 6'5"!
"That's what makes me bigger!? But wait! I didn't grow yesterday when I said it! How odd..."
At this point Hana's head almost reached the top of the dressing room. Another few inches and she'd bump her head on it.
"Guess I might as well try on these shirts", she sighed to herself as she struggled to put on the very large shirts, which didn't seem so large anymore...
After Shopping
Shopping took longer than Hana and her mother thought, especially when neither was expecting their daughter to grow another 6 inches in one day!
"Wow, you sure are getting big, dear. And yet, you still look so great", her mother commented as she ran her hands through Hana's long, skinny legs.
"Mom! Stop!" an annoyed Hana said to her mother, feeling uncomfortable at the moment. She was lucky that the store allowed her to walk home in one of her XL t-shirts she had to buy.
"The people at the store said they'll bring over the bed tomorrow. I asked them to make it 8 feet long and 5 feet wide in case you get taller!" Hana's mother told her daughter, giggling a little bit between words.
"Glad to hear it. I guess I'll be sleeping on the couch until then.."
At Dinner
Dinner was usually Hana's favorite time of the day, but not so much anymore. For one, chopsticks were much harder for her to hold; she often found herself snapping them between her fingers. Also, since her family's table was on the ground, Hana had to sit with her legs crossed, which propelled her height to several inches above her parents. And since she was so much bigger now, she had to eat nearly twice as much as she did before.
"Look at her go", commented Hana's father, who had never seen his daughter eat so much in one sitting in his life. "Eat that much and you'll definitely grow again soon."
"Please don't mention 'growth'", Hana sighed as she continued to eat rice with her broken chopsticks.
Just then, though, the front door opened up, revealing Hana's two friends; Chisa and Ryo. She had forgotten that she was hanging out with them tonight!
"Hana-chan! You almost ready?" asked Chisa, who came into the dining room to see a much bigger Hana than she did just yesterday.
"Oh my goodness!" she exclaimed as she walked up closer to her friend. "Hana-chan! You're even taller!"
Chisa lifted her friend's arm up as her way of telling her to stand up. The two then compared their heights, with Chisa having to focus her eyes upward just to see her friend.
"Wow! So this is what it was like for you all these years", said a startled Chisa.
"I g-guess so" Hana sighed as she stood up and put her plate away in the sink.
"Don't worry, we won't stay out late", Ryo informed Hana's parents as the three friends started to walk out the door.
"Have fun, sweetie!" her parents told her as their 6'4" daughter walked out the door with her friends.
I'll be home pretty soon if I grow again the unhappy girl sighed to herself as she walked out the door.
A Few Blocks from Hana's House
"Hana-chan, I heard you joined the art club! Is it true?" Chisa aske her tall friend.
"Yep! They were very surprised. They even called me 'beautiful'.."
"That's great! People are really starting to like you! It's like what you've always wanted."
"I agree", added Ryo. "Now they can see you for the special, gifted artist you are."
"Oh you guys!" Hana said as she hugged both her arms in her arms. When she was 5'11" it felt odd; when she was at 6'4", it was like being hugged by a wrestler. "I already have two people I really like! Right here!"
"Perhaps Ryo-chan might even ask you on a date now", teased Chisa as Ryo turned his head away from both girls. Hana also turned her head away, blushing at the concept of her dating her childhood friend.
"Ryo-kun is my friend. I can't date him", Hana pointed out.
"Why now? We dated for a while", said Chisa.
"If by 'while', you mean 'six weeks', then yes", corrected Ryo.
"We even kissed!" Chisa pointed out to the boy, who turned his face away once again.
"Was it romantic!?" a curious Hana wondered as she lit up in front of Chisa.
"Not really. I bought him some CDs of some of his favorite bands. And it was only a peck, on top of that."
"That's still sweet. I've never even kissed a boy", Hana admitted, blushing once again.
Before the conversation continued, Chisa took out a dime from her pocket and showed it to both of her friends.
"Then how about we play heads or tails?" suggested the bispeckled girl. "If heads, Ryo-chan has to kiss Hana-chan. If tails, you have to kiss him, Hana-chan."
"But we end up kissing either way!" gushed Hana, unprepared for something like this. "No! We're childhood friends!"
"I don't mind", Ryo said. "It sounds fun, actually. I've never kissed a girl taller than me before."
"Then let's begin!" Chisa announced as she flipped the coin in the air.
There was much tension as to what side it was to land on as it flung around in the air. Hana hoped that Ryo would be the one to kiss her (though her friend wants it to be the other way around).
Chapter 3: The Secret Word of the Day is "Spurt"
Hana, Chisa, and Ryo watched as the coin continued to twirl in the air for another second before falling to the ground. To Hana it felt much longer, though, her heart racing at the thought of kissing her childhood friend Ryo. Until her she never saw him as anything but a friend; would that change if they kissed? They were 18 now..
"Tails!" Chisa announced as she picked up the coin from the ground. "Pucker up, Hana-chan!"
"E-E-Eh...!!" Hana attempted to say, nervously approaching Ryo and quickly giving him a kiss on the cheek.
"No! No! No!" Chisa yelled, forming her arms into a X. "That's not how you kiss someone!"
"But I'm scared..", whined Hana, unfamiliar with kissing anyone but her parents and other relatives.
"Then close your eyes and move your lips close to his!" Chisa explained as she puckered up her lips next to Ryo, inches away from his own lips. "It's not hard."
"O-O-Okay..I'll try.."
The second attempt turned out to be much better; Hana successfully kissed Ryo. Granted, it was on his forehead, but still..
"Eh! Close enough", Chisa shrugged as the three headed off to the arcade. Tonight was the night you could play four hours of games for the price of one, and they weren't going to miss this opportunity.
At the Arcade
Just like at school, Hana got stares at the arcade as well; one type from guys, and the other in the "Wow, she's tall" category.
On the plus side, being tall made some games that much more fun. One example was a punching game, where you hit a plastic bag as hard as you can with your fist. Hana was able to rank up 730 points out of 1000, as opposed to her usual 300 or so at her original height.
Another advantage when it come to height was when she played Dance Dance Revolution. Although her tall legs made it slightly cumbersome at first, in no time she was getting higher grades and a higher score overall than she ever did before. She even got to play full games without failing a song once, which she had a hard time doing back then. And after she finished playing, she was given claps from some of her onlookers.
Even games she could play even when little, such as Skeeball, seemed much easier now. Her longer arms and taller body made it easier to see where to throw the ball and predict where it lands, which resulted in Hana ranking up quite a bit of points. She even won one free game!
All that came to a halt, though, when Hana overheard some people in the arcade talking about something not too far from her area of hearing. It was of two 12 year-olds; one was a boy with dirty blond hair who was wearing a black baseball cap, a t-shirt, and jeans. The other was a pink with short, pink hair who was wearing dark blue overalls.
"Hey, Kagome! How are you?" the boy asked the girl who had just recently came up to the arcade to meet him.
"Great! I think I hit my growth spurt recently!"
"Oh really? How big was your spurt?"
"My spurt was about 2 inches or so. I'm now 4'9"!"
"That's great, Kagome! And you were worried you were never going to have a growth spurt."
"Yeah..I guess it was silly of me to think that way."
Hana wished she didn't hear that conversation, because even more than ever people were staring at her. The mentioning of "spurt" three times caused the girl to grow an additional 5 inches, now pushing her height up to 6'10". She was now taller than almost every machine in the arcade. Her shirt looked it like shrunk in front of her eyes, revealing her bellybutton. Her shirt felt even tighter as her breasts had grown to an E cup, poking her bra meant for a C cup. Her shorts barely covered up her butt, and her toes felt extremely uncomfortable next to her now small sandals.
I got to get out of here! Hana said to herself as she ran out of the arcade.
One advantage Hana found with being taller was that her longer legs allowed her to run faster (even if it hurt her feet to walk on cement and concrete). Her friends followed her when they noticed her bolting out of the arcade, interrupting their current games to go after here.
Hana finally stopped at a nearby bench 7 blocks down from the arcade. She did this for two reasons; she was tired, and she noticed her friends and stopped for them. Her friends soon showed up a few moments later.
"Hana, what happened?" Ryo asked, sitting down next to his friend. Hana scooted over to make room for both her friends to sit on the bench with her.
"Well...I found out there's a word that triggers my growth", Hana explained with a drooping face.
"And what's that?" a concerned Chisa wondered.
"Let's just say it's a certain word that rhymes with 'hurt'", said Hana, her sad face focusing away from her friends.
"Dirt? Bert? Shirt? Skirt? Spurt?" Chisa asked.
"No! Don't say that last word!!"
"What? Spurt?"
"Yes! Don't say it!!" Hana cried, now 7'2" in height. "It makes me grow bigger!"
"How big are we talking?" Ryo asked as Hana stood up to reveal her size to her friends.
"I'm now over 7 feet tall", Hana sighed as she cried some more. "You must think I'm a freak!"
"No we don't!" Chisa stated. "You're still Hana-chan! You're just very, very tall, is all."
"Yeah. We're your friends, Hana. We'll stand by you even if you become 100 feet tall (which you might)."
"Ryo-chan!" Chisa fumed as she hit the boy's foot with her own. "Don't say that!"
"I'm going back home", Hana said to her friends with a drooped head. "I'll see you guys tomorrow..if I can fit through my front door."
"Tomorrow will be better! I promise!" Chisa said to her friend, hoping to cheer her up.
I hope you're right, Chisa Hana sighed as she headed back home in a slow pace.
Chapter 4: Big Girl at 1-8
Waking up from the living room couch the next morning, Hana was awoken by her mother to eat breakfast and get ready for school. As the girl yawned and stretched her body, she knocked down the lamp from a nearby table, as well as trip and fall on the blanket she had slept in that fell on the floor earlier that night.
"Ouch!" went Hana.
She then got up from the floor and proceeded to stand up. She then sat down with her family at the table, once again towering over her parents. Even when she sat in a chair she towered over them, even when they stood up.
Like with dinner, breakfast turned out to be an annoying ordeal. It was pancakes, and often Hana found herself biting on the fork as she wolfed down each pancake in one gulp. It took almost 9 of them to satisfy her appetite, as well as 4 glasses of milk to wash it down with.
"Don't forget, Hana; your new bed comes today!" her mother told her before she got up to get dressed for school.
"I know. I'm glad to have a big bed!" Hana chirped as she ran up the stairs. However, she ended up nearly hitting her head on the ceiling before doing so.
Oh no, not again! she said to herself as she bolted to her room, but not before hitting her head on the door first..
At School
Now 7'4", almost three feet taller than she was a couple of days ago, Hana got even more stares at usual from her fellow classmates. Part of this was due to her skirt looking so small you could almost see her panties. Her breasts also bulged out quite a bit from her shirt, giving the guys of the school plenty of eye candy with her F-cup sized breasts.
"Maybe I can start wearing the boys' pants", Hana said to herself as she walked into the school building, again bumping her head before entering.
A few minutes later she arrived at her locker, which she now towered over by almost two feet (before she had to reach out her hands high in the air just to open it). Opening her lock was an annoying ordeal, though, as she had to use her pinky finger to put in the combination needed to open the locker. A few minutes later she finally opened it up, grabbing her books and heading to class. Hana's school books felt surprisingly light now, and some of them looked like fat cards to her now more than books. The sight of this made the tall girl giggle as well, resulting in her first genuine smile in nearly two days.
Next came class, and with its own problems. For one, Hana's butt got stuck in the chair; it took both Chisa and Ryo's combined efforts to get it off of her. Second, it barely supported her weight, which resulted in a lot of squeaking whenever she adjusted herself in the seat. And lastly, there wasn't much room for Hana to write; her hands took up nearly 40% of the desk space alone, and her hands were too big to write efficiently with a pencil or pen. She had to rely on Chisa to copy the notes for her instead.
Computer class featured similar problems; Hana's fingers were too big to hit the keys properly. Often she found herself hitting two keys instead of one, and she had to be extremely gentle with the mouse (she worried she would break it any minute). And like the regular schoolroom chairs, the one in the computer room was too small to support her weight. Hana had to spend the entire class typing on top of the teacher's own big desk, which was the only thing long and heavy enough in the room to support both Hana's weight and her butt size.
When lunch finally came about, Hana decided to eat up on the rooftop, where there was plenty of space to stretch her body. She was joined by her friends Chisa and Ryo, who had brought up their own lunches as well. They also brought up extra food from the cafeteria for their very tall friend to eat as well.
"Hana-chan, are you adjusting to being tall?" Chisa asked her friend, who looked a little worried by her friend's question.
"A little."
"Good. I just to have be careful never to say 'spurt' in front of y..oh crap!!"
"It's okay, Chisa. That word doesn't make me grow anymore."
"Really?"
"Yep. It's now 'big'...oh no!!"
The second the word came out of her mouth, Hana shot up ever bigger. She was 7'7".
"Wow! You're almost a mini-giantess!" Chisa exclaimed, smiling at the big girl.
"Don't say that! I didn't wish to be this big!"
Oops, she did it again! Hana was now 7'9".
"NO!!" she cried as she moved ever closer to the sides of the rooftop.
Hana then looked down below her; she was about 20 or so feet above the ground. Maybe at her height she would survive the jump, but she thought she wouldn't as well.
"Hana, NO!! We can talk about this!! Suicide is not the answer!!" Ryo yelled at his friend as he ran up to her and hugged her.
"Ryo-kun, I'm not going to jump!" Hana clarified to her friends. "I was wondering if I should grow and go off the top of the roof instead of go back inside the school and cause a ruckus due to my height!"
"Ooooohhhhh", said Chisa, feeling very relieved. "Oh thank goodness. I was worried for a minute."
Chisa then gave her friend a hug as well, being very worried moments ago for her friend's life.
"I can't go back inside now. I'm too big", Hana explained. "So I'm going to become bigger and bigger until I jump off the rooftop. I'm not big enough now to do so, but maybe if I say it enough time I will be."
The now 8'2" Hana then took a deep breath as she proceeded to spew out an extended usage of the word "big".
"Big! Big! Big! Big! Big! Big! Big! Big! Big! Big!"
10 utterances of the word big! Oddly enough, that's exactly how big Hana grew to; 10 feet exactly.
"Hmm, I'm not big enough!" she moaned, now 10'2". Her school clothes barely held up at this point, and her shoes were long past the point of fitting her feet.
"H-H-Hana-chan..", Chisa whimpered as she saw her once short friend now at the size of a mini-giantess. Both she and Ryo could only watch as Hana continued to say "big" aloud several more times until she was now 12 feet tall.
Now over half the height of the school itself, Hana slowly placed her legs near the edge of the rooftop and jumped off, landing safely on her feet on the ground below. She also caused a small earthquake as she did so, which shook the entire school.
"Hana, you're huge!" Ryo gulped as she saw her gigantic face looking at his as she grabbed both of her friend in her arms.
"I can't stay here!" Hana told them as she gently placed them on the ground. "I have to talk to my parents about the hot spring that caused this!"
"Hot spring?" Ryo and Chisa both asked in unison.
"Yes. I think this might have something to do with it.."
Hana then explained to the two about how she and her family visited a hot springs resort a few days before she started her final year of high school. She told them that its relaxing waters might have caused her to grow.
"But if your parents joined you, how come they didn't grow?" asked Ryo.
"Maybe they didn't wish as far for it", Chisa answered. "Come to think of it, Hana-chan, I've never seen your parents once complain about their height. Perhaps since you had that problem for 18 years, your wish to became taller came true?"
"That might be it", Hana agreed. "I can't think of anything else.."
"Stay here, Hana-chan! I have to talk to our teachers about this!" Chisa said to her friend as she ran back into the school, hoping that her friend turning into a mini-giantess would allow the three of them to leave school early.
There was a long pause of silence between Hana and Ryo. Her tattered school uniform barely covering up her breasts and privates, the worried giantess slowly sat down on the ground, hoping to see her friend more eye-to-eye.
"Ryo-kun...thank you for supporting me."
"No biggie. We'll get you back to normal size in no time!"
"NO!"
Hana's earlier sad expression turned to that of an angry one as she pouted in front of Ryo.
"What do you mean, 'NO!'?!" he asked, annoyed by Hana's childish attitude.
"I don't want to be a giant, but I also don't want to go to being the size of a first grader! I'd rather be a giant than a midget!"
"That's not what midgets ar...oh never mind."
The air continued to be awkward between the two after that exchange, even when Chisa came back with news that they all had permission to leave school early.
Chapter 5: Big Question, Big Answer
Hana spent the rest of her walk home with her friends with her fingers in her hands, worried about hearing the word "big" to describe the mini-giantess. It wasn't until she got home (and Ryo and Chisa warned her parents about not saying the word "big") that she finally opened up her ears again. Even then, though, there were calls of the word "big" echoing across town, causing the girl to grow each time she heard it.
"Wow, she's big!"
"She certainly has big hair, big feet...big everything."
"Look at that chest! Has to be the biggest girl I've seen in a while!"
Comments like these only worried Hana all the more, her height now pinned at about 14 feet or so in height. She had long surpassed the height of her own home; she had to sit on her legs just to see her bedroom from one side of the house now, her hands almost the size of her bedroom window.
"I guess I have to sleep out here like a dog", Hana sighed as she sat her head down on the grass of her backyard, the neighbor's dog next door barking away at the mini-giantess next door.
"Don't take it like that, Hana-chan! We'll stay with you! It'll be like a sleepover!" said Chisa as she patted her friend's left foot.
"I'll stay with you until this is over", assured Ryo.
"And tomorrow we're going back to the hot springs", noted Hana's father. "I'll call a truck for you to travel in."
He paused after saying that, thinking about how weird that sounded.
"Wow, that does sound weird, doesn't it?"
"I never thought our daughter would grow this tall", Hana's mother said, more shocked than worried about her daughter's size. "I guess I'll knit you a dress make out of various sheets until we get you more clothes."
"Thanks, Mom", said Hana as she gave her mother a large hug. She then hugged her father and friends soon after, giving the both of them kisses for staying with her overnight.
The next morning
Sleeping was harder than Hana thought. Her pillows were too small for her head, and she had to use both her new mattress and her parents' mattress just to not sit on the grass all night. She had to wear separate blankets for her each part of her body, and her dress (made up of several bed sheets) was a technicolor nightmare. She didn't grow any further than night, at least: that was good. The new morning brought about a new experience for Hana (or at least she hoped). It will also hopefully bring about the answer as to how she grew in the first place. At around 10 a.m. her father with the truck to hold her in, which he would personally drive. His wife, as well as Ryo and Chisa, would ride in the car.
"It's too bad this isn't a casual trip: I haven't been to a hot spring in a looooong time", frowned Chisa.
"I've never even been to one", admitted Ryo.
"Really!?!" Hana exclaimed. "Never?!"
"Nope. Never", he replied.
"I didn't know those kind of people existed in Japan", a somewhat sarcastic Chisa responded with.
One looooong car trip later
It took at least an hour for the five to get to the hot springs. Hana had to slowly get off the truck one foot at a time, watching it shake as she jumped off of it.
Next came the problem of entering the darn place. Hana had to crawl on her legs just to get her front half in the door, her parents and friends pushing her through the entrance and to the locker room.
"Um....hello. Can I help you?" the confused manager of the hot springs asked Hana's mother. She stood at about 5'2" or so, around 50 or so years old. She had short, black hair tied back behind her head, and she was wearing white robes.
"W-w-we're a group of five entering the hot spring. We also have a question about our daughter's..um..size."
The manager turned around to see Hana's embarrassed face, hiding her with her hands to prevent her from seeing her.
"She is quite big. What happened?"
"Well...we think it may have something to do with one of your springs. My daughter Hana mentioned something about a spring that makes you feel anew.."
"Ah, yes! That one! Well we had that water shipped over from a jungle somewhere in South America. Its water is said to be among the most pure and refreshing in the world."
"Well, we think our daughter wished to be taller and might have grown as a result", said Hana's father.
The manager nodded her head and came over to the giant girl, noticing her immense size in comparison to her. Despite that, though, she showed no fear. Instead, she tapped the girl on the head.
"I see. Well, luckily for you I'm familiar with this kind of incident", assured the manager to the worried family. "We have a special, ice-cold fountain that can restore your daughter's original size."
"Oh, thank you!" Hana's parents both cheered as they hugged the manager. Hana then hugged her with her giant hands as well.
"However!!"
"However?" gulped Hana. She didn't like the sound of that.
"It will take a week for the effects to fully rid of her size curse. Until then, Hana must avoid eating or drinking anything hot. If she does, she'll grow in size. And only by taking a cold shower or bath will her size be restored. She may also still grow from hearing certain words involving her size."
"I understand", Hana said to the manager. "I'll do whatever it takes to stop growing in size."
Hana shot up another few inches of height just then, shooting up to 14'6"!
"Quick! Into the cold water!" pressured the manager, pushing the mini-giantess Hana's butt with a broom.
"Okay! Okay!" Hana cried as she moved forward to her destination outside.
A lot of pushing later
There it was: the ice-cold fountain. And like Hana predicted, it was indeed cold: she barely put her left foot in before pulling it away. It certainly didn't help that she was almost naked aside from a towel wrapped around her body..
"Hana-chan, get in the water!" demanded Chisa, pushing her friend's butt.
"NO! It's too cold!" Hana whined, pushing back with much greater force than her friend.
"Oh, for Pete's sake...", the manager said as she started splashing Hana with buckets of the cold water from the fountain.
"Okay, okay! I'll get in!" said Hana as she dunked here body into the water, taking extremely slow baby steps as she put in one body part at a time. The more she placed her body in the water, the colder she felt: it felt like winter to her.
However, the water was kicking in. Hana's family watched in awe as their once mini-giantess daughter shrunk in size, her towel looking bigger and bigger on her until it covered up her entire body, falling on top of the water. It took almost 5 minutes for Hana's size to be restored, and when it did she ran out like a shot from the water, naked as the day she was born. (Chisa covered her friend Ryo's face with a towel to prevent him from seeing her, as did Hana's mother with her husband.)
"I'm puny again", sighed Hana, now back to her original 4'3" stature. "I hate being small.."
"At least you can fit into rooms again", noted Chisa as she handed her friend a dark blue t-shirt that was too big on her. She then gave her friend a big, warm hug.
"But best of all, I can hug you tight again!"
"Ch-Chisa!" an embarrassed Hana cried out, watching her parents and friends giggle in response.
"Now don't forget", reminded the manager. "No hot foods, and no mentioning of anything involving...size."
"I won't!" Hana assured the manager, who planned to keep hold her advice..eventually. She wanted to get a little bigger first before the week was up.
Chapter 6: Looking for the "perfect" height
Now sitting in the front of the tow truck inside of riding in it, Hana recalled once again the warning from the manager of the hot springs:
"It will take a week for the effects to fully rid of her size curse. Until then, Hana must avoid eating or drinking anything hot. If she does, she'll grow in size. And only by taking a cold shower or bath will her size be restored. She may also still grow from hearing certain words involving her size."
But what words were these? And if Hana grew from eating/drinking things that were hot, would eating ice cream or drinking cold water make her shrink? Hana was already small enough for her age: she didn't want to shrink down further than her already puny 4'3" in height.
"Hana, be careful!" said Hana's father. "I really don't want what happened before to happen again, and I bet you don't, either."
"I will, Dad", Hana responded. "But still, if I were just a little bit bigger.."
"NO!" he yelled again. "Don't think about it! Just stay as you are for one week and you'll be fine! Please, Hana!"
"Okay..", sighed Hana, looking at the road as her father zoomed by at a fairly fast speed. "But if YOU had the power to change your height simply by eating, would you?"
"That's quite a rthetorical question, o daughter of mine. You know what? Maybe I would."
Hana's father then patted his duaghter's head with his open left hand, using the other to control the wheel.
"Well, I suppose a little bit of growth wouldn't hurt..." he paused before saying.
"Thanks, Daddy", Hana replied, flashing a smile at her father.
"Let's get something at Kentucky Fried Chicken, something hot and spicy", said Hana's father as he pulled over at a local KFC just then. Hana's mother, who was driving behind her husband, realized what was going on.
"He didn't! He couldn't! He wouldn't!" she yelled as she honked her car in front of her husband.
"What's up, Mrs. Daiyuki?" wondered Chisa.
"It's my husband! He's going to pull over to buy Hana something hot to eat, no doubt!"
"B-B-But...she's so huggable.."
"We have to stop them! Chisa, Ryo, let's go!"
Inside KFC
As Hana's mother detected, she saw both her husband and her daughter each walking away with a bucket of the warmest and spiciest chicken wings they had at the restaurant.
"Ichiro Daiyuki! What the hell is wrong with you?!" yelled Hana's mother as she slapped him in the face and took the buckets from both her husband and daughter at once.
"I-I-I can explain, Minami!" whimpered Ichiro. "You see, Hana wanted to grow a little bit, so we thought.."
"So you were going to ignore the manager's words, right?" the grumpy mother asked. "God I can't believe you two would do such a thing.."
"M-M-Mommy.." Hana tried to squeeze in.
"Stop it, Hana!" said Minami. "You're as guilty as he is! You really wanted to go back to being a gigantic freak that much?!"
"W-W-Well, no..but.."
"Fine! You want to eat this chicken and go back to being an Amazon? HERE you go, Hana!"
Minami then stuck one of the wings right into Hana's mouth, watching her spit it out really quickly as it was still extremely warm.
"Ow! My tongue!" whimpered Hana as she ran to the bathroom to rinse her mouth out with some water from the sink.
It was in the bathroom that Hana noticed something: she was taller than earlier. Her shoes felt much smaller on her feet, and her shirt and skirt were tighter as well. She was at about 4'8" or so now, 5 inches taller than before.
"Yes! It's working again!" a cheerful Hana said to herself in the bathroom mirror. "Thanks, Mom!"
A much happier Hana ran out of the bathroom to spread the good news. By the time she did, though, she noticed the two buckets were gone..
"Where'd all the food go?" wondered Hana, her father pointing at her friends.
"We kinda ate it all", a sheepish Chisa replied.
"Your mother made us", explained Ryo, who looked both full and disgusted.
"That was our dinner!" Ichiro whined, he himself not getting the chance to eat a single one of the wings.
"Oh suck it up! We can have dinner at home!" Minami informed her husband, the five of them all leaving KFC.
That night, at (proper) dinner
Not eating hot foods was harder for Hana to adjust to than she thought it would. She liked peppers and pizza and french fries and a lot of other hot foods; but now she was deprived of all of them. So what was she eating instead? Cereal, as she refused to eat carrots and most other cold vegetables.
"At least I can still eat Rice Krispies", Hana said to herself as she poured herself a bowl and started eating some, watching with a glare her father eating the warm food put out before him. She stared long and hard at the food before he changed direction and ate standing up, away from his daughter.
"Oh, who am I kidding?! This sucks", Hana said aloud, finishing up her cereal and putting the bowl in the sink. "I'm going to bed."
"But it's only 7:23 p.m.", said Minami.
"Then I'm going to study until I fall asleep then, I suppose."
"Okay then. Good night!" said both of Hana's parents in unison.
She never did study, though: Hana just simply fell asleep, thinking of all the warm foods she loved eating. That's when she decided something; if she couldn't obtain warm foods in front of her parents, she would use her friends to sneak her in some! Hana quickly called Chisa to see if she would follow along.
"No can do, Hana-chan! Your mother already paid Ryo-kun and I 2,000 yen to prevent you from eating any warm foods for the next week, and we're sticking to it!"
"But Chiiiiisa, I'm hungry!"
"There are plenty of foods that taste good without being warm, Hana-chan! Why don't you try some?"
Chisa then hung up on her friend, who sighed as she turned off her cell phone and placed it on the ground next to her bed. Hana curled up her body, placed blankets over her head, and began to go to sleep..
..well, almost. Then she remembered something: hot water from the sink! That counts as a warm liquid, right?
The not-so-sneaky Hana then creeped out of her bedroom and to the bathroom, where she poured herself a large glass of warm water. She drank it down, commenting to herself how nasty it tasted, but it proved effective: Hana grew nearly another foot just then. She was now a fairly tall 5'7", which she figured was good enough now for her to be comfortable with. Now content by her new size, Hana went to bed and began to finally fall asleep, excited by now having what she considered the "perfect" height. She was unaware of her weird the rest of her week was going to get.
Countdown to height restoration: 6 days, 14 hours
Chapter 7: Growth gone wrong
Now at a decent 5'7" height, Hana thought that her day would go pretty smoothly as long as she didn't drink or eat anything warm for the rest of the day. She was content with her height for now, and although she got yelled at by her parents for growing some more, they couldn't blame her for wanting to be taller still. Still, they warned her not to grow anymore.
"I really don't feel like changing around the structure of the house for the next week to suit your Amazon-sized body!" her mother especially noted. Hana promised not to grow any more as she got her school books and headed out the door.
Unfortunately for Hana, one thing the inn manager didn't mention days ago was that heat would make her grow in size as well! And while the day started off normal enough at around 70 or so degrees outside, by lunchtime it got bad. How bad?
It all started when Hana ate on the room with her friends. At first everything was fine; Chisa and Ryo remembered not to give their friend warm foods, and Hana herself was eating some cold foods to cool herself off from the increasingly warmer heat. Smart idea, since it was now 90 degrees out!
"I don't feel so good", Hana whined as she used one of her school books to fan her face. Sweat rolled down the girl's face as she started to pant from the heat, her clothes soaked in sweat.
"Hana-chan, you don't look so good!" Chisa noted as she lifted her friend up on her feet. "We should be back insiiiiiaiaiai!!"
"Hmm?" Hana wondered, the sweat running down her face making it hard to see her friends. Ryo stood up in response as well to Hana's growth as a result of the heat.
"What's wrong, you guys?" Hana asked once more, her eyes still shut.
"Hana-chan...you're...you're...big!"
"Yeah, I know! I made myself taller this morning!"
"No! Not like that! I mean you're like 9 feet tall!"
"What?!"
Hana finally opened her eyes as she saw her friends a few feet below her. Chisa and Ryo stood perfectly still at the sight of their friend.
"ACK! What's going on?! I didn't eat anything warm recently!!"
"Hana-chan, we got to get you inside!" Chisa said to her growing friend, now pushing the 9'6" mark as she tried to get back inside. The door was too short for her to reach, so she had to crawl back indoors. By the time she got back inside along with her friends, she was over 10 feet tall! She was now barefoot, her shoes long since falling off from her growing size.
Getting down the stairs was a pain, too. Since the steps were now designed for people that tall, Hana had to jump down whole steps just to make it down without tripping, which she had to repeat several times more until they got back down to the first floor. When they got down to the first floor, Hana had to once more crawl into the door on her knees, now almost 10'4".
Hana soon found out that she coudn't even stand up straight in the hallways, her head hitting the ceiling. Not only that, but since the hallway was filled with so many students, the heat around the school was just as strong as the heat from outside. Hana continued to grow still, now almost 12 feet tall as she and her friends headed to the school nurse. When they finally got there the mini-giantess was nearly 13 feet tall, quickly entering the office and closing the door. Thankfully the room had air conditioning, temporarily putting a stop to Hana's growing stature.
The school nurse was a young woman, no more than 27 or so. She had long, black hair, green eyes, and a short, skinny body. Her uniform consisted of a plain white shirt and white khaki pants, and she wore on her feet a plain pair of black high heels.
"H-H-Hello. I-I'm the school n-n-nurse...Hinako Sominawa..." the woman slowly told Hana, whose gigantic size caused her to nearly hyperventilate.
"Sominawa-san, I need help!!" Hana whined to the stressed woman. "I keep growing and I can't stop! Do you have anything cold that can help me?!"
"'Cold'? What do you mean?"
"Like cold water or a really big bowl of ice cream?! Drinking cold liquids or taking a cold bath makes me shrink, and warm things make me bigger!"
"I've never heard of anything like this before in my life", Hinako said to herself as she flipped through one of her nursing manuals. "Shouldn't I be calling a hospital or something?"
"No! I just need something cold!" Hana explained once again, the school nurse nodding her head.
"You might want to try the gym showers. You could shrink there."
"That's right!" Hana chirped happily, hugging the school nurse in a tight embrace. "I forgot about those! Thank you, sensei!"
"You're w-welcome...but p-please stop hugging me...!"
One shower trip later
With some help from Chisa, Hana managed to squeeze her way into the showers, looking at the scared/terrified faces of the other cheerleaders around her as she squeezed her way into the locker room showers. Since she was over 15 feet tall at this point, she took up nearly the entire area around her. It wouldn't be too bad if the slippery floors didn't cause her near-naked body to skid around like she was in an ice rink. Hana had to press her legs on a wall in front of her just to stop slipping.
"Okay, Hana-chan, I'm going to unleash some preeeety cold water. Please don't be scared by it", Chisa informed her friend as she started to turn on several shower heads, which squirted water on various parts of her body.
"I won't, Chisa. I promis-AAAHHH!! That's cold!!"
As unhappy as she was, though, Hana had to grin and bear it. Her body slowly shrunk in size as every part of her body got wet from the cold, cold water trickling down it. Soon enough she was small again..though maybe too small.
"Oops!" Chisa gasped as she picked up her pint sized friend, who was barely 5 inches tall.
"What did you do to me?!" Hana yelled in a high-pitched squeal, surprised by her voice. "Look at me! I'm not short anymore; I'm microscopic!"
"I'm so sorry, Hana-chan!" Chisa apologized as she lowered in friend in front of her friend. "I didn't think a cold shower would make you this tiny!"
"Well hurry up and make me big again!"
"But how?"
"Don't you worry about that. I know a place that's always warm, even in the winter!"
"Really? Where would that be, Hana-chan...?"
"Oh, you'll see.."
Countdown to height restoration: 6 days, 1 hour
Chapter 8: Heat wave or blizzard?
The doll-sized Hana explained to her friend a place where she could not only grow back to her original 4’3” stature, but well beyond that. She was referring, of course, to her bedroom, which was always room due to her not opening up any windows and dressing up warmly even in summer.
“I have a hard time sleeping if I’m cold”, Hana explained to her friend, standing on her right shoulder.
“I don’t think it’s weird, Hana-chan”, Chisa replied. “I don’t like being cold when sleeping, either.”
“I don’t think you understand just how much I bundle up..”
“A warm blanket or two, right?”
“I wear waaaaay more blankets than that, actually. Sometimes I place 3 or 4 blankets on top of each other, as well as place a heating fan next to my bed.”
“That’s overdoing it, isn’t it?”
“Maybe, but I really don’t like being cold. That’s part of the reason I wasn’t so happy by the news of eating cold foods and drinking cold beverages for the next week.”
Chisa paused for a moment as she stared blankly at her friend, smiling at her pocket-sized companion.
“What are you looking at?!” Hana asked, looking quite annoyed.
“Eek! You sound so cute when you’re angry!” Chisa said, giggling at her friend’s high-pitched yells. The tiny girl, however, simply sighed.
Back at Hana’s home
Chisa hid Hana in her school bag as they left school early that day. Fortunately they had permission to do so by the principal himself, who was quite dumbfounded by Chisa’s explanation. She told him that Hana had come down with a weird cough that made her sick, as well as made her voice high and squeaky. He was skeptical at first as Hana wasn’t there beside Chisa when she tried to get out of class, but she managed to pull it off when she explained that Hana didn’t feel well and was currently resting in the school nurse’s office. When he asked again why Hana’s parents wouldn’t just pick up their daughter, she explained that they personally told her to take their daughter home. Although Chisa wasn’t fond of lying to get the two of them out of school, she knew as well as Hana’s parents that bad things would happen if they stayed in the school. Even if Hana could grow back to her original size at school, her uniform was ripped to shreds as the result of her earlier growth. She might as well go home and get clothed again.
It took Chisa about 20 minutes to get Hana back to her house, hiding her in her school bag most of the time. It became harder and harder to do so, though, as Hana slowly kept growing in the sweaty bag, constantly sucking on ice cubes and eating bits of ice cream her friend bought to cool her body down. Despite this, though, Hana grew nearly thrice her current size before arriving to home; Chisa was forced to wrap her up like a baby in her arms with her tattered school uniform when she got too big for the school bag.
The two then rushed upstairs to Hana’s bedroom, wrapping the tiny girl up in her layers of blankets. She happily sighed as she sat in her comfortable bed with her comfortable pillows and blankets, which felt even more comfortable at her tiny stature. She wasn’t small for long, though, as Hana grew to nearly 7 feet tall in a manner of minutes! The once large blankets looked like baby blankets to her now, and her bed started to creak from her weight. Hana was forced to retreat from her blanket wrappings and proceed outside via her window, standing at nearly 8 feet tall outside her house. However, she was still naked, so Chisa grabbed for her friend the biggest shirt she could find (which barely covered her chest), as well as the biggest shorts she could find (which barely covered her butt cheeks).
“We’re back to where we started!” angrily sighed Hana, annoyed by her large size once more. “What was the point?”
“Well, it was either that, or the whole school would have seen you in your birthday suit”, Chisa pointed out.
“Oh yeah”, said Hana, nodding in agreement. “Good thing we got out when we did, then.”
“Hana-chan, I’m going to have to squirt you with the hose..”
“Oh no!” yelled Hana, knowing what was coming up next.
“Water fight!!!” a teasing Chisa yelled as she squirted her friend with cold water, shrinking her down to a little more than 4 and a half feet tall.
“Chisa, that was really, really cold!” whined Hana, shivering a little despite the warm weather. “And I mean that in more ways than one!”
“But at least you’re small again!” a relieved Chisa said to her friend, hugging her. “I like the small Hana-chan much better than the giantess sized one!”
“I’m sorry, Chisa”, apologized Hana, feeling like a jerk for yelling at her friend so much over the last couple of hours.
“Don’t worry about that, it! I’m your best friend! Of course I’ll help you out in situations like these; that’s what friends are for!”
“Yeah. As long as you can squirt me with water, I’ll be just fine!”
A few hours later, now night time in Hana's room...
Everything was finally looking up for Hana and her growing/shrinking problems until she turned on the news that night;
“There is currently a drought in the county area. Please don’t water any plants with water hoses until the next time it rains. If you must water your gardens or lawns, reserve as much as you can and only do so at night.”
“Damn it!” yelled Chisa at the television, shaking it violently with her hands. “I KNEW this would happen!”
“Well, there’s still the bath tub”, reminded Hana, who was looking forward to the opportunity of a nice, warm bath once this week was over. “Still, this is going to be an annoying series of days, isn’t it?”
“Indded. At least there's not going to be a blizzard any time soon."
Just then, the news switched over to the weatherman, who then explained;
“Expect extreme weather changes over the next couple of days due to some cold winds rising up from the north.”
“Ugh”, groaned both Hana and Chisa at the same time. This was going to be an annoying week after all, it seemed.
Countdown time: 5 days, 20 hours
Chapter 9: Some girls like it hot
The place that Hana was talking about was the library. For some reason the school's library always seemed hot and steamy even in the winter. One reason for this supposed heat is because the librarians who run the place think better in a warm climate.
But where to hide while growing back to normal (or somewhat close to it)? Hana decided to guide Chisa to the section on autobiographies. It was an empty a section as you could get, considering that it was after school and no one hung around the library except when cramming for exams.
"I can feel myself growing!" Hana told her "giant" friend, slowly growing in size. "Quick! Hand me your warm soda I asked you to save from lunch!"
"But it's really gross", Chisa reminded her friend, sticking her toungue out in disgust as her friend drank it up. Soon enough she was growing some more, now almost 2 feet tall.
"I'm growing back to normal!" a happy Hana chirped, now almost 2'3". Chisa handed back her friend's clothes, which progressively started to fit her friend's small body.
"I have some hot sauce in my bag, too!" said Chisa as she pulled it out. Hana soon enough drank that down as well. Now her height was roughly 4'2".
"Hmm...I could still be bigger", Hana sighed, drinking a little more of the warm soda. Her height then ballooned to almost 5 feet.
"Okay, Hana-chan, that's enough! Let's get out of here!"
"Agreed!"
Hana and Chisa ran out the library and down the hall. By this point Hana was 5'2", her clothes fitting her somewhat comfortably now. She had to buy a new pair of clothes after her last growth spurt, and these were a little too big for her.
"Just need to adjust a little more", the growing girl told Chisa as she drank a little more hot sauce, growing to 5'7". "There we go!"
"Don't get carried away, Hana-chan", Chisa warned her friend. "I don't want to read the papers tomorrow and find out a 50 foot tall naked girl is living in our city."
"Don't worry, Chisa. I've got everything under control now", Hana assured her friend. "However, I can't go outside just yet..it's too warm still.."
"Then we'll just have to stay in the school until night time", Chisa said, contemplating how to do such a thing.
"I think I know how!" Hana chimed. "Quick! Let's get to the principal's office!"
One trip later
"'Shoe bandits'? That's the best story you could come up with, Hana-chan?" Chisa snickered.
"Oh like your idea was so much better. 'Animals come in at night and steal pencils'. I can't go outside now. It will be too warm, and I'll just bigger."
"Hey girls", went a familiar voice behind Hana and Chisa.
"Ryo-kun!!" Hana smiled. "What are you doing here?"
"I was asked by your mother to take care of you tonight while you look for some crooks who have apparently been 'stealing shoes' around the school", he snickered. "Seriously, Hana? THAT'S the best you can come up with?"
"Stop making fun of me!" Hana whined. "You know I grow in the heat!"
"Okay, okay. I'm sorry, Hana. So where are we doing our 'patrol'?"
"I was hoping we can do it in the coolest classroom in the school", Hana suggested. "Room 1-A."
"Oh yeah. That was the class we were in in 10th grade, wasn't it, Chisa?" Hana asked, smiling.
"Yep", she replied, hugging her friend. "My how things have changed since then! You're soooooo tall, yet still as adorable as a button. My 'growing flower' best friend!"
"Ch-Chisa!!" an exasperated Hana said.
A couple of hours later
Since Hana, Chisa, and Ryo were staying after school, they decided to make the best of it and clean up their individual classrooms in place of the other students, as well as Room 1-A's. This took them quite a while to do together, but eventually the job got done..and Hana hadn't changed so much as an inch in size during this time.
"Chisa, what time is it?" Hana asked as she put away the last of the chairs.
"About 5:20 P.M.", she replied, staring at the clock above them. "Guess it's still not late enough yet to leave."
It was at this time that all three friends' stomaches rumbled almost instantaneously.
"Growing and shrinking makes me hungry", Hana noted. "I can't wait for the sunset to turn into night."
"Well, we still have another hour or so left before that happens", Ryo said as he dusted the teacher's desk. "I could go get us something to eat."
"Cool! Why don't we eat early dinner, then?" Chisa asked as she pulled out her wallet. "I'll pay for you, Hana-chan!"
"Thank you!" Hana replied as she hugged her friend in a fairly tight grip. "You're the best friends a growing/shrinking girl could have!"
"Then I'll get us some fast food, if that's okay with you two girls.."
"Yep!" Hana and Chisa nodded at the same time. "Good luck, Ryo-kun!"
Countdown to height restoration: 5 days, 16 hours, 39 minutes
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