Chapter 1: Tengawara

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"Practice really drained me out today." Nishinosora groaned, putting a hand behind his head. The sky's warm sunset colors were now almost wholly tinted with dark ones, and it was all thanks to their additional hellish training given by none other than their sweet brunette coach. "All thanks to you. Maybe you could've stop your childish pranks and think. You know how no one wants Mizuki-kantoku's smile to ever fade away." Hayabusa retorted, fuming the latter and starting a bickering session. Well, maybe not so sweet after all. Mizuki Michiko is one of those people who masquerade berserk rage under a sweet helpless expression, which the four of them just concluded.

Another aspect of their conclusion from the unfortunate events of today was the importance of escaping when a prank is in motion, or also be accused of taking part in it and facing the same hellish consequence as the prankster behind it. And to the sarcastic midfielder, a mental note to never use a bucket of honey in any prank with a chance of the coach being the victim.

These petty quarrels between them happen on a daily basis, which eventually made face palming a bad habit of their captain. Suddenly, the blue eyed boy stopped in his tracks, an odd sight caught him off guard. It was very rare to see him suddenly so vacant-minded, he'd always have something plotted out. Though this never crossed his mind, not even once. "What's stopping you?" Hoshifuru finally broke out of silence.

Without any spoken words, he pointed at two girls from not much of a distance heading their way, moreover they were a spitting image of both Nishinosora and Kita and they wore the same track suit as them. "Are they relatives of yours, by any chance?" Hayabusa asked. "I've never seen her in my life, nor any family gatherings." Kita pondered, followed by Nishinosora's gesture of disagreement. The girl Nishinosora was of course shorter in height and had slightly longer hair and a bit of her hair was tied with multicolored beads on both sides of her head. And the girl Kita also was shorter and had hair as long as the latter, though it was left untied, and her white headband had a ribbon in the end, unlike the male Kita. As the two girls approach, they too stopped in their tracks.

Identical blue orbs were locked on one another, so were green ones. None of them could say a word with such awkwardness filling the air, not even Hayabusa nor Hoshifuru. Out of the blue, a smirk was formed on the sarcastic boy, followed by a hand placed behind the blonde girl's head and a smug smirk forming on her lips.

"Instant relating." Hoshifuru stated. Meanwhile with the two Kitas, both of them were intently staring at each other's features, until male Kita finally cleared his throat. "I apologize for rudely staring but I've never found a person this similar in appearance to me." He politely apologized, which was accepted by the girl in front of him. "Uptight and polite. Just like looking at a mirror." Hayabusa sneered.

"Well, I don't suppose we've formally introduced. The name's Nishinosora Yomi, and she's Kita Ichika." She introduced in a somewhat sarcastic tone, receiving surprised looks from the boys excluding the peach haired forward, who seemed to look unfazed by all this. "Well who knew we shared the same surnames." Yoichi said, nudging the shorter captain's elbow. "Well this was all pleasant and everything, but it's getting really late now." Ichiban reminded, marking the end of their unexpected meeting. "Besides, we have homework due tomorrow, so if you'll excuse us."

"Ah, you're right. Well, until then, male me." Ichika waved, which her male counterpart returned with a smile. And with that, they parted ways. "Hey Kita?" Yomi asked, replied by a hum from the latter. "Those two other guys we saw, they do look like Hayabusa and Hoshifuru, right?" "A spitting image."

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As the bell blared its rings, students scurried away from their classes, enjoying their fleeting freedom. Kita, however, felt ominous. The cause of sudden thoughts was yesterday's unforgettable event, their awkward encounter. Whatever was imminent, it was related to them, at least that was what he thought.

As he entered the clubroom, he was greeted by the faces of most of his teammates, though it seems some were still absent, so was their coach. But after minutes, the whole team was present and ready to practice as usual. As they entered the field, they were greeted by an unexpected sight. Their eyes shrunk in shock, not even Mizuki-kantoku could retain her default mien with such a sight. I knew it.

On the field was the exact Tengawara team, the exact members, exact positions, exact uniform, exact coach, even the exact captain, the only difference was their genders and appearances. "Well hello there. I'm Mizuki Michito and as the coach of this team, I'd like to have a friendly practice match with your team. When Kita-chan here told me what happened yesterday, I just knew I had to arrange a match. But without knowing any way to communicate, I decided that we should drop by here. So, how about it?" He explained, smiling friendly. Like everyone else, he is very similar to his counterpart, the only difference is that his hair is shorter, he wears long light blue pants and uses a blue suit instead of a cardigan, he uses dark blue men's dress shoes, and a navy watch on his right wrist to complete his look.

"I'll need to discuss this matter with Kita-kun first, one moment please." She replied, a smile similar like her counterpart formed on her lips. "What does he mean by that Kita-kun? And why do they look like us?" Michiko turned to the captain, clarifying her confusion. "Well long story short, on the way home after practice, we met the girls who looked like me and Nishinosora. We had some short talks with them, but ended it due it getting later. So we said goodbye and went on our own paths, but I didn't think they had a whole team who coincidentally looks like ours." Kita explained, receiving an anticipated nod from the coach.

"Well now that we have our own versions of ourselves, why don't we have some time to talk? Surely this doesn't come every day, so let's enjoy this before it ends." She declared, which received an agreement. And by that, the two sides just merged, finding their own counterparts.

Hideki was attempting to find his female version, though being in a crowd of people made it harder for him. "Well well well, if it isn't my male self." Said a voice from his back. As he turned to the voice's source, he saw a girl with over shoulder length purple hair and gold eyes much like his, though a hint of her feather earrings were what caught his eye. He approached her, and tucked some of her hair behind her ear, making it look much more visible.

Wait, he knew that feather anywhere, and he too kept it but not in the form of an earring. "Is this the feather you kept when you first summoned Falco?" Hideki asked, holding it. "Yeah, I took it and kept it as a momentum of finally being able to escape that torture-like SEED training." Hideiri replied, as he revealed the necklace he wore under his uniform. "Whereas you wear it as an earring, I wear it as a necklace and I bet no one notices. And ha, I knew it. The prince of Tengawara has yet to be proved wrong." He replied, posing cockily in the girl's point of view.

"Well they must call you Lord Snotty you insufferable snob! I haven't even got to know you well and I already knew! Well you prince is no match for this princess." She said, flipping her hair arrogantly. "Look who's talking!" From not so far, was male and female Hoshifuru observing the two snob's interactions. "So I guess we established that anything about ourselves is similar to one another." Kagura said, earning a nod from the boy.

"You know, after everything with Fifth Sector and the Resistance, I've started to look up on soccer more than mere training to reach my ambitions of being an astronaut. I've grown to like it ever since we started to rebel, eventually involving Mannouzaka with it. Soccer really is fun." Kaguya said. "I too felt like that, but without a daily dose of astronomy, ending up as an astronaut is nearly impossible." She replied. "Which reminds me, I find the Tanabata story quite riveting, as how it relates with the Summer Triangle. On every July 7th, I'd always try to locate the Summer Triangle to see how close Altair and Vega were reunited by Deneb." "I really like how it relates in both astronomy and legends."

Meanwhile with both captains, they seem to be quite stiff, until Ichiban opened up a certain topic. "So, have you ever been so tired of being in a team with such diverse personalities?" "Almost every single day in my life, yeah. Having to mediate Hayabusa and Nishinosora, having to bear Nishinosora's childish pranks, and also the usual captain duties, but I love my team and they love me, and that's how I cope with it every day." Ichika said, glancing at her teammates. "I feel you, I'm sick of their bickering over something with the slightest importance, throwing remarks at each other, even breaking things around them, and face palming became a bad habit of mine, but without these simple things, it just doesn't feel right." He said, curving a smile.

"Yeah, and whenever the team is motivated with a will to win — without the orders from Fifth Sector, of course— it gives me a special feeling only captains could comprehend." She replied. And from not too far, both Nishinosoras observed their interactions. "Seems like they finally shook off the awkwardness." Yomi said, folding her arms. "Sure does. Anyways, let's set of the pranks like we planned." Yoichi said, sharing a sneaky gaze with his counterpart, who nodded in agreement.

Other than those four, the others seem to be enjoying each other's company. The Kashios are discussing about headphones and music in general, the Hareis are relating about how they only show up when needed, the Andous are talking about how convenient it is to possess the ability to see in the dark, etc. While the coaches, they discuss their childhood of being the fiery ace striker of their old teams, how they matured and ended up being softer than they used to.

As Michito glances at his watch, he soon realized how much time has passed. And as soon as both the coaches gather their players and discuss about their respective strategies. They lined up in the middle of the field as soon as preparations were made, and with that, their captains shook hands. "May the best team win." They said in unison.

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Well I've come up with another, but this will be a multi chapter story, unlike the other one shots I did. I've been urging to write a gender bent story for some time now, but I never could decide either the characters woke up as their gender bents or them meeting their gender bents. Well about how the characters are able to meet their counterparts is still a mystery, even to me, but I suppose it might just be like one of those parallel universe in the game events, but here, they don't know that they're actually on another dimension, or it also might be the merging of two dimensions. For now I'll be doing the Holy Road teams first, but I might do the others. And for those who aren't familiar to the characters, I'm sorry for not making a description of them, but you can always open the wiki! Welp, enjoy!

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