You know that poll on my profile? Yeah, well I decided to turn it into a fic, because it wasn't getting many votes. But now I'm in my evil mood, and ready to wreck some Mekakushi-dan with EACH OTHER'S Eye Abilities.
They'll hate me.
Azami lay on the bed in Marry's room, holding a box of tissues on her lap.
She had a bag of ice on her head, which slid back as she gave a girly little sneeze.
She was told she had what the Humans called "a cold."
If I'm cold, why did they give me this?
She threw the ice weakly across the room.
"Azami... Here's this for you!"
Marry walked in, holding a thermometer.
"What do I-Achiiw!- D-do with it?"
Azami took the glass rod and sized it up.
"It goes in your mouth..."
Marry guided Azami's hand to her mouth, letting the thermometer slide in.
Azami began to chew on it.
"No!" Marry tried to stop Azami from eating the mercury-filled glass.
She turned into a white kitten.
"Why am I-?"
Marry wasn't the only one having trouble with her eye ability.
Momo, the idol who usually can't keep eyes off her, was nowhere to be seen.
But yet, she was there.
Kido, on the other hand, was trying, for once in her life, to keep everyone from staring.
"I have a concert today! How do I perform when I'm a ghost!?"
Momo paced around, ignoring (as best as she now could) Kido's disgust at her word choice.
"This is bad! My manager is calling!"
The phone in Momo's hand chirped out Kisaragi Attention's chorus as a ringtone.
Aa, nandaka ike sou da! Shinzou ga hajikechau hodo...
"I can't answer like this! Kido, you pick it up!"
"Moshi moshi. Kido Tsubomi here. Kisaragi-chan isn't here right now."
"When will she be back? We need her for her concert this afternoon!"
Kido sighed. When would Momo have her own eye ability back?
Why were they even switched?
Azami's fragile sneeze from upstairs answered the latter question.
"How long does it take to get rid of a cold?"
Kido had to hold the phone away from her when the manager shouted his reply.
"YOU LET HER GET SICK?!"
How could Kido explain that Momo was invisible because her friend's Medusa grandmother got a cold?
"Come by my office later. We'll discuss what do do."
Kido knew it was going to be a long day.
Hibiya had been sent to get groceries when his eye ability acted up for the first time.
He tried to use it to find the ice-cream aisle (they ran out of ice-cream quite recently, along with every other snack food they had), when he heard voices.
Out of my way, brat!
Watch where you're going, hick boy!
Hibiya glared at them.
"Keep your comments to yourself!"
Country rat's got a mouth on him, too. Some people's children!
"Stop saying those things!"
People stared at the boy who seemed to be talking to himself.
Hibiya searched for a place without the voices...
Until he heard Hiyori's.
Was that Hibiya I heard back there?
I wish he wouldn't be so annoying.
Oh well. He comes with few benefits.
Konoha likes his cooking, so I'll keep him around.
Konoha...
He's just so sweet and hot!
I wish I could get him to-
Hibiya dropped his carton of eggs.
He ran to the sugar and flour aisle, hiding among a 2 kilogram bag of whole wheat flour.
And he cried.
Hiyori didn't seem to care for him...
But he liked her.
But she liked that amnesiac guy instead.
Shintaro woke up in a new place.
"Hey, I've seen this..."
He looked around, confused.
And then something clicked.
"ENE! YOU DIDN'T! I'M A CYBER GUY?!"
Ene was nowhere to be found.
Shin-kun sat among his own files.
The password on the screen proved where he was.
4510471.
His secret folder.
Then he heard Momo's desperate cries of "Why do I have Kido's ability?! Anyone else's! Anyone's!"
Of course, he thought Ene might have his, but he was wrong.
Shintaro realized that he had locked himself in with his password that stated "I do not work"...
"Eh, someone? Someone?! SOMEONE?!"
No one heard his yelling.
He unplugged his own speakers earlier to avoid the super annoying cyber-girl Ene.
He had condemned himself.
And he wasn't sure how to re-enter his body.
"DAMMIT, ENE! TELL ME HOW TO GO BACK INTO MYSELF!"
Silence.
"Is there a cyber cord that I can't see? One that connects me to myself?"
No reply.
"Come on, Ene! Tell me! Is this like some sort of cyber version of astral projection?"
Shintaro knew he was doomed to stay among his embarassing poems, unfinished songs, and "Master's Secret Folder" forever, or at least it seemed that long to him.
" 4510471! I do not work! Come on, computer! Let me out!"
Azami sneezed a couple more kitten sneezes.
"H-how am I cold? It's t-to w-warm in here..."
She still didn't understand the concept of being sick.
The thermometer, laying in a puddle of soaked tissues, was broken into shards.
The mercury globbed up in lumps.
"Marry. Get Tsukihiko.'
Marry, now a baby fox, looked up at Azami.
'He's been gone for-"
"Get Tsukihiko for me."
Marry knew that it'd be a while before her grandmother was okay again.
Did she really think Tsukihiko had returned?
Marry knew there was only one thing to do.
She left Azami alone.
...
"Azami! I'm here!"
Yes, Marry had used Kano's eye ability to become Tsukihiko...
Now she just had to avoid getting hurt.
That's the first chapter!
I wanted to give you guys something as a Heat Haze gift, so this one will be split up into a few chapters!
I hope all of you make it to the next chapter!
Thanks to animefreak1980 for advice on this fic! You really helped me a lot! :D