Disclaimer: I Do not own the characters of XXXHolic. I do own the creative writing behind this amazing story lol.

Summary: Watanuki gets transformed into a girl as punishment for stepping on a fairy, and only a kiss from a certain someone can break the spell.

The Blinding Light - Chapter 1

"It's not strong enough" a whining woman with black long flowing hair sulks. Watanuki, her worker had had it up to his neck with the chores Yuuko had placed for him one after another. After everything he could do to please her, he left with dark bags forming under his eyes due to stress. It got really quiet on his walk back home from Yuuko's place. The street lights hadn't even come and it was eleven at night, something was wrong.

The crickets were louder than normal too. A dark feeling crept up in his mind that this walk would include just about every sinister guest that wanted to feed on the fear of Watanuki. He never really thought that this would be easy alone without Domeki, but little tiny glowing things helped guide him home with an easy feeling. Watanuki fastened his pace and was only a few more blocks from the complex. Running now, he pushed passed the glowing things that circled him annoyingly, and ran up the complex stairs making his way to the second floor.

He looked back only to see the dark blob was closer to him running, than it was while he was walking.

Watanuki grabbed his keys out ready to jam it in the door and escape the unwanted company, when all of a sudden he heard a 'crunch' under his footing. The little dots of lights surrounding him went crazy, blinding him. Watanuki shot his hands around, flinging the things away from him, he nearly tripped falling to the floor as they began attacking him, pulling on his clothes, his hair; they even tried to snatch his glasses away.

But he pushed through them and got the door, unlocking it just as the darkness made a grab for him. Watanuki slammed the door shut hard, not caring to wake up the people next door. He locked it, breathing heavily as he sunk down to the floor.

He took off his shoe to see that it was no firefly, but a fairy.

The next day after finishing school and walking Himawari home, Watanuki felt different somehow. It was as if he was quite not himself. He felt giggly, almost girly. And after explaining what happened last night to Yuuko she all but laughed at him, pointing a finger and grinning which he found quite offense.

"Did you kill it?" Yuuko said spinning the empty sake bottle in her right hand so Watanuki could clearly she that she needed more of it.

Watanuki ignored her, "I think I killed it, but it was still glowing after I'd stepped on it"

"Well, Watanuki …Unfortunately for you there is no mission I know of to help what's about to occur. But of one I do know….like a healing"

"Is it a cure?" Watanuki said, still guessing that what he might get would be something related to a cold.

"It's not a cure, but more or less part of a poem."

It's a poem that needs to be finished, a fairies poem. You must play the last part of it to my knowledge." Yuuko, tried best as she could to not laugh out loud again. Instead she pointed down at the empty rice pan for more onigiri.


"Did you say a little...punishment?"

Divine punishment was the last words that left Yuuko's mouth that day; well actually except for another request of sake, but 'divine punishment' was the last of the warnings that she's given him. Watanuki went home to sleep it out, maybe tomorrow would be better than today.

Mari and Moro opened the door; smoke like usually filled the room making it harder for Watanuki to do his chores. He felt weaker today.

"They may go easy on you…" Her red eyes seemed to flash as she gulped down the bottle of sake in recorded time. If they had sake drinking contest in the Olympics, Yuuko would win the gold metal, hands down.

"But I didn't do anything. This was honestly was a mistake Yuuko. I was being followed again and, errhhh that dark thingy" He shivered remember the thing that resembled an oozy creation of hell.

Just then Yuuko looked up, her eyes opened wider as if she had found a solution to their problem.

"I know what will help us" Yuuko said.

"What?" Watanuki said.

"Sake"

"Arrgghh" Watanuki could not wait for this day to end.


He woke up, and that's when it happened.

First thing Watanki noticed after getting up was the extra weight on his chest. Instantly both hands lifted to his chest only find themselves cupping a pair of 'C's' .

Startled, Watanuki yelled out in a voice that was surprisingly high pitched. He felt something tickle the back of his neck, and realized that his hair had grown past his ears. But, being as dense I he was, it to Watanuki a minute to get up to a mirror and look at himself to realize, he'd become a full fledge female.

He still thought it was a nightmare and was dying to wake up, but a knocked on his door snapped him out of his panic and into something worse.

Domeki had been asked by Yuuko, to take Watanuki to school that day.

….Yuuko was official, the devil

TBC