The great switch
Rel 1.1
By Pizzigri
Disclaimer: Urusei Yatsura and all characters (C) Rumiko Takahashi, Shogakukan/Kitty.
Things are now starting to get out of hand… I'm having a good time writing this! Watch closely how Ataru and Lum start behaving…
Please do comment, and maybe I can learn to write a bit better next time. Thank you!
Chapter 2
Ataru immediately tries to take the ring off.
The ring doesn't budge.
"What the hell!"
His hand slips, and in a fit of rage he feels mighty sparks flying around him, as a wave of pure power, heat and subtle pleasure washes over his body. He doesn't notice it.
How can it be, why can't I take this darn thing off!
Realization dawns in his mind!
Oh no! I did NOT put this ring on, Lum did! Now, she's in my body, and cannot take off the ring I put on! Oh gods, this means that we… we… have to take each other's ring off! And when that happens, I will not be able to escape! She'll kill me!
Desperation. And fear!
"Why, oh why do I always mess up so bad!"
Again, surprise, hearing his voice. It is Lum's voice. As if it was the most natural thing in the world, Ataru takes off and flies downstairs to the bathroom.
Only in front of the door he realizes that he used Lum's flight power as if he always knew how to use it.
In the bathroom, he looks at his reflected image on the mirror. Lum's beautiful eyes and face looks at him… but, it's not Lum inside this body.
His heart beats wildly; as if to calm down, he instinctively raises his hand on his left breast. He's shocked to feel the firm tenderness of his bosom! The warmness… the crown stiffening.
Mmmhhh…
He shakes his head.
"W-what the hell am I doing?"
He panics, both his hands on his head, as dim blue sparks start dancing on his skin. Again the warm wave washing over him, and the subtle vibrating pleasure in giving out energy. Startled by all these new emotions and sensations, he breathes deeply.
"Wait! Calm down, cool it, cool it, man. Breath… Yeah, cool. Take it easy, now."
Ataru closes his eyes and sighs.
"I am Lum now. I have to find a solution, I need to find… myself, and put everything back where it belongs!"
Lum finds herself blind with rage. She's unable to fly, or give out energy. Just like that time when Darling tied that darn yellow ribbon to her horns!
Bloody revenge and bodily punishment, bordering on outright torture, against Ataru, flash across her mind, clenching her fists.
Now… just where would Darling be.
Of course, at the last known location of her body; his room!
"By our Sacred and Holy Dragons, I will make him pay for this!", she exclaims loudly, her fist high to the sky.
Shock. Again Darling's voice!
That's right, I am in Darling's body, now.
She looks down to herself, feeling herself.
Wow.
There's not a single hint of fat, muscles are definite and… strong! It's like touching a statue, hard as granite, enclosed mere fractions of an inch below a soft and pliable skin.
Is it so different, to touch Darling's body, like this.
He always cringed, softened, or downright escaped her touch. Every time she pinned him down and embraced him, he would relax so much she'd have the impression of hugging a limp, boneless body.
Lum never felt Darling's body so tonic, so… incredibly hard before.
She feels full of life. A moan escapes her, patting her rippling muscles all over, and then she remembers that she's right under the clock, in the middle of the park, with lots of people passing by!
"Ops"
A few couples pass by shaking their heads. Another girl peeks at her, totally disgusted. Some kids are also watching her, highly amused.
Lum smiles back, with a dumb, wide grin.
She then takes off, running wildly, savoring the sheer vitality and stamina Ataru's body seems to be swarming with, her anger momentarily forgotten.
She heads towards home. Fast as the wind! Faster than she could have ever thought possible, and running makes her feel good. It's just like giving out her lightning… but different.
Darling loves running. Now I understand why! I never felt like this. The power, the speed… it's like flying, but on the ground!
...
Megane, standing with both his hands behind his back, in a dignified and traditional stance, watches her run.
I wonder where that pervert is going. I must investigate why he's running like that.
He drily calls Kakugari, Perm and Chibi, wolfing down beefbowl seated out of the 'Big Beef' restaurant.
"Gentlemen! I believe Ataru is up to something against our beloved Lum-sama! We must discover what it is. He just escaped from something in the park. We have to go!"
"But, Megane… we still have not finished our Gyudon…"
Megane pushes his glasses on his nose, light glinting off the lenses.
"War does not wait for trivial things such as food, Chibi. You will be the first to fall in the midst of the brawl, if you do not obey!"
Ataru, in the meanwhile, chilled off and carefully walked back upstairs, avoiding his parents. Sitting down cross legged on the floor of his room, he thinks hard on what to do.
There must be a way out of this. Or at least, a way to gain some advantage…
His nature cannot ignore that he possesses a female body, though. He cannot avoid to think about it.
Fighting off his mounting lecherousness, his… male curiosity.
On the other hand, it's Lum's body. If it was anybody else's body, like Sakura, or Shinobu's, he would not think twice to… well, take good advantage of the opportunity.
None the less, his hands slowly glide on his legs, from his knees up and back. He looks down at himself.
By the Holy Gods.
Take a look at these hands. At my breast. The skin… So soft and silky…
Ataru suckles a sharp fang in his mouth and licks his lips, as his fingers slither along the edges of the tigerstriped bikini…
Ooh… these thighs… my lap, m-m-my lower belly…
His heartbeat increases, as his breath gets shorter and faster paced. Shivering, he finds his fingers gently prying between fabric and skin.
NO! NO! I can't!
He bites his lip. In an instant, he's at the window, breathing deeply, trying to calm down.
"This is LUM's body! I… I can't!"
Damn! I don't want this body! I have to give it back to her…
Guilt and shame, for his perversion; new-found emotions, for Ataru.
Lum cannot be the object of his lust. No. Not Lum.
Any other girl, he repeats to himself, he'd be just happy to be in… Any girl… but Lum.
I resisted Lum's seduction, the urge to jump on her even if she would have gladly given herself to me since she came to Earth, I will NOT touch her body now that I'm possessing it. What's the point of… self pleasure, when, instead I could have always had… No.
There's no other way, he HAS to face Lum and her punishment in order to restore things as they were.
I was at the Park clock. Maybe Lum is still there! I… I can fly, I can be there in no time! I have to find her!
Ataru bolts out of the window and speeds towards the park, a couple minutes before Lum almost runs over Ataru's mom in the entrance corridor.
"Ataru, you baka! What the hell are you doing! Look at yourself, drenched in sweat! And take off your shoes!"
Lum looks down, heavily panting, to her feet on the Tatami. Holy Dragons, she's right! I have to take off my shoes.
"I… I'm sorry, Mother. Have you seen Darli… I mean, Lum?"
"Ataru, what's wrong with you? Gods, you're getting worse every day. I should never have had you! You are my disgrace! Lum came home earlier, she's upstairs, always waiting for you, you ass! If it wasn't for her, I'd already have thrown you out of this house. Now get out of my face, I have to slave in the kitchen!"
Lum is aghast. She never heard Ataru's mom talk like this in her presence. Insulting Darling so much.
Scared from Ataru's mother outburst, she manages to whisper "But… Mother, I…"
"Ataru! Enough already! I told you to take off your shoes! And… by the Holy Spirits, you stink! Go have a bath, you foul and filthy pig!"
As Lum walks slowly upstairs, towards Ataru's room, she can hear her Mother in Law say:
"I never should have had him. That idiot ruined our life. Why, oh why didn't I go to the hospital and have it… fixed when I had the chance, before the cursed day I delivered him?"
Father answers that question from the living room.
"Because you fainted at the invoice the Hospital quoted us to do so, that late in your pregnancy, Dear..."
"Uh! Of course I fainted! We had mortgage, and we were… are broke! It's your fault, you never had the backbone to ask for a raise! We barely manage to…"
Lum cannot stand to further bear her parent's in law bickering, and slams the door of Ataru's room shut.
Their words deeply shock her. She realizes that Ataru really has never been wanted, loved in this family.
She never, ever thought about it in these two years.
She never noticed, oh, so full of herself, crassly satisfied by the kind and loving attentions Ataru's parents always paid her. The caring and loving way she was manipulated. Oh, yes. Since Day One. And of course, she knows perfectly well about the generous flow of cash towards Ataru's family, to pay for her board here. To pay for the constant damages to the house she causes…
Why am I thinking about this? Why am I thinking this way about myself?
Her rage for Darling subsides, all she wants is to return things to normal.
And talk to darling… but, no one is in the room.
Looking around, she finds the crumpled instruction sheet of the rings and her SpaceFruit sPad abandoned on the floor.
She reads the instructions.
Ah-ha, I remember these things now… Oh. OK, so that is why I cannot remove the ring.
She sits on the floor, slightly tired from all the running. More than a couple miles, in a few minutes and in searing hot temperature. Her muscles now ache a bit, and she feels drenched in sweat all over her body.
Where the heck is Darling… what should I do.
Ataru lands some distance from the clock. He looks around, but there's no trace of Lum, now in his body.
Seconds later, most people in the park stare towards him with an amazed look in their faces. Understandable. The park borders with Nerima ward, and people from outside Tomobiki-cho are not used to see a semi naked girl with green hair that actually flies… it is the main reason he convinced Lum to dress as an Earth girl in the first place.
But now, he's flashing her body around in her trademark bikini… and there's also something else.
The stares he feels locked on himself are… unsettling.
Uh. That's not curiosity… is it?
Wait a minute. They are NOT simply amazed. These guys are looking at me… with lust!
The thought hits him. He never noticed before.
Yeah, well, how could I notice anyway, I mean, I was the one always looking to every other girl with lust in the first place… I couldn't care less what other guys were doing.
A wolf call. Feeling quite embarrassed (another first, for Ataru), he quickly walks away.
That's when he feels something unpleasantly cold touch his thigh from behind. A shiver quakes him.
Ataru spins on himself to face whoever did it.
Uh? Nobody?
Then, his gaze shifts down.
A round, bald and ghoulish face, horrible in its wrinkled archaic features, with two unbelievably deep black eyes that seem to drill into his very soul and an evil grin, suddenly appears!
"Yahhhh!"
He springs clear in the air, frightened to death!
Sakurambo looks up to him.
"So, it seems that the unlucky star under which you were born, Ataru, has finally decided to unleash on you the full punishment of transfiguring your mortal spoils in the image of both your savior and nemesis?"
Ataru lands at a distance, breathing rapidly, his heart occasionally still missing beats.
"You… What the hell are you talking about!"
The Buddhist monk narrows his eyes, gazing into Ataru's blue pupils.
"Ataru, I can perceive with the eyes of the soul. Mere appearance cannot prevent me from unveiling your true nature and… uh. But, I see. It is not a simple appearance. Your conscious self is indeed within Lum-chan's Oni body. You are truly possessing her. This must be the revolting craft of sinful, corrupt and malevolent entities…"
Ataru, having finally recovered from the terrifying experience of suddenly being exposed to Sakurambo's features, feels the urge to hit the monk with something heavy, like a steel crowbar or a baseball bat. Or, maybe, he's got something better…
"In fact, I can clearly see atrocious, ill-omened and ominous signs slowly evolving, clouding and despoiling the path upon which you intend to walk, inexorably and unavoidably dooming…"
ZAAZAPT!
The smoldering and charred remains of something still painfully muttering "it's fate…" are lying on the ground, while Ataru hovers away.
…
The happiness to have given Sakurambo the zap of his life fades.
Ataru tries to think rationally.
The first impact of having switched with Lum instead of Mendo overcome, he tries to think whether he can, in any case, have some advantage from the situation.
I can't believe how wrong everything turned out. I can't do shit with Lum's female body, not even approach girls… uh, that's not entirely true actually, I could visit a public bath, and take a good look at the girls… but, then, I wouldn't be able to touch anyone. Hey, that's not true either, I could volunteer to wash the backs of the girls!
He chuckles, picturing himself lathering the beautiful backs of naked women… until one of them turns smiling with devotion to him.
It's Lum.
He feels miserable.
Ooooh… Where could Lum be now? Maybe she's confused. Maybe, something's happened to her.
Ataru sees Megane and the Stormtroopers walking towards him in the distance.
"Hi, Megane! Have you seen Lu… I mean, Ataru around here?"
Megane is surprised. He never heard Lum call Ataru other than 'Darling' before. So he was right! The dork did something groundbreakingly wrong to Lum!
He decides to gamble. This could be his occasion.
"Hello, Lum. I am sorry we cannot help you; we have no idea where Ataru is. Most probably, he's keen on sexually harassing some poor girl elsewhere."
"A-are you sure you did not see him? He was by the clock, maybe ten minutes ago. Please, it's really important…"
Chibi tries to say something but Megane blocks him.
"No, neither of us saw that depraved and lecherous lowlife today. I can only assume he mistreated you, again!"
He sighs, to pause for effect.
"Listen, Lum, I am very concerned. You really have to break free, fully live your life away from that cursed idiot; he truly does not deserve you. Why don't you consider someone more worthy to be at your side? I would gladly be your slave, if you only wanted. I believe I have more than once demonstrated my complete devotion to you, while Moroboshi has never failed to prove, beyond any reasonable doubt, he could not care less, always hurting you and turning his back, any time a half decent woman happened to be …"
Ataru runs out of patience real fast. A few sparks crackle around him.
"Uh, Megane, please spare me your 'devotion' and preaching crap. You didn't see Ataru around? OK, that's fine. Thank you. Bye."
He turns his back on his classmate. But, before Ataru can leave, Megane grabs his shoulder.
"Lum! W-Wait! Listen to me!"
"Megane… your hand. Move it, or lose it."
He lets go immediately, as the sting of high voltage bites him.
"O… only a moment more, please, Lum! I am only speaking the truth, can't you see? Ataru is a damn loser, he'll have his way with you in the end, drag you down to living hell! He's the worst choice you-"
Ataru spins towards Megane and holds menacingly his index finger up in front of his face. Megane never realized how freezing cold Lum's eyes are.
"Shut the fuck up, asshole, one more word and… !"
Then, fiercely glaring the Stormtroopers, he sidesteps Megane and walks away, fuming.
Megane's words offended Ataru. Not for the insults he indirectly received, he's used to that, but because of his classmate's annoying determination to have Lum leave him. He never bothered before, but being in Lum's body changed perspective.
Strange, Ataru thinks. How very strange. I never really cared what Megane told Lum. Why did I go ballistic like that?
The whole group of teens watch him take off and fly away, stunned.
"Gentlemen, did you see our beloved Lum-sama? Did you hear her enraged words, and the unprecedented change in title referring to that subhuman? He must have done something of unspeakable atrocity to her. We must capture Ataru Moroboshi and pry out of him the truth, with any means!"
Megane is shivering from fear and rage. Never has Lum treated him like this. Making him lose his face in front of his subordinates…! And, it's all Ataru's fault! Time to call Mendo…
Lum decides to stay home and wait for her Darling. He can fly and possesses all her powers now. He even could have access to her spaceship… well, provided he knew how to use the remote in the bra. Sooner or later, Darling will have to come home.
What to tell him? How to handle the situation?
Maybe he's afraid to face her.
She is still angry, right?
Something inside her head keeps telling her forget it, who cares, just take it easy…
Lum stands up from the desk chair. Only five minutes passed since she came home.
She feels terrible, all sweaty and sticky, in serious need of a bath. And, she badly has to go to the bathroom!
Lum feels incredibly embarrassed.
But, nature calls. It's no use trying to ignore it…
Lum comes out of the WC deeply blushing. She undresses very awkwardly and prepares to wash herself in the bathroom. Ataru's naked body is well proportioned, lean and sculpted; undoubtedly because of all the exercise and workout in running away from herself and chasing after the girls.
She can't help but chuckle watching herself in the mirror… Her hands feel her manly muscles, as she flexes them, admiring the rippling effect on her skin.
Wow.
At the same time, she notices the very subtle and almost invisible scars. Pale evidence of adventures that, literally, left a mark on him. More than she can count.
She sits on the stool, and starts to lather herself everywhere.
She tries not to think at what she's doing, but the idea that this is Darling's body…shoots fire in her veins.
A totally new, yet familiar, feeling of warm pleasure builds up in her, and she feels something stirring… Again, she tries to ignore it, biting her lips.
She uses a shower of cold water to rinse herself on purpose.
Immersing in the hot Ofuro, she thinks at what could be Darling doing to her body now… and she finds herself fantasizing about it.
She actually hopes he's enjoying himself… discovering her body, exploring it! Maybe, trying to find what pleases it and what does not.
Oddly, something she cannot imagine of herself in her present situation.
All of a sudden, a particular thought hits her.
What… what would it feel like, to make love… as a man?
She blushes again, picturing the fantasy, feeling herself tensing and stiffening.
Yeah! Making love to Darling… as a girl, inside her body.
An image of herself, naked, opening her arms to… herself, from Darling's perspective.
Uuuh…
Then other fantasies. Images of other naked women conceding themselves, briefly flash in her mind, including Oyuki, Ran and Benten. Yeah… Benten.
Hey, is it this… big?
She immediately takes another bucket of cold water and splashes her face.
"Darling, all this is your fault! I never felt so ashamedly embarrassed in my life!"
Could this be… his lecherousness? Remaining in this body?
Lum shakes her head, trying hard to think about something else.
She recalls her brief conversation with her mother in law. What she learned from her… is really unsettling. They never loved him. No wonder he behaves like he does.
Flying over the park, Ataru concludes that Lum most probably has had his same idea, so while he darted to the park, she must have run towards his house!
It makes perfect sense, and he quietly curses to himself. So obvious! He's about to head home, when Mendo catches his eye, walking out of his personal Mercedes, heading to the park. He slows down and decides to talk to him.
"Hey Mendo. Have you seen… well, 'Darling'?"
"Oh! Good afternoon, Lum-san. I, uh, yes, met him earlier today, I'd say maybe twenty minutes ago. He was being the usual idiot, made me come all the way to the park clock for nothing. I left him there, blabbering about a ring, or something he'd lost. I am sorry that I cannot help you more than this; however, I received a phone call from Megane-san, informing me that he witnessed Moroboshi behaving very suspiciously, and that he may have done something… very inappropriate to you, so I came back. If…"
Again the rage. Stronger than before. His face twisted in an expression of feral fury, fangs bared and static crackling over his body.
Megane… lied to me!
"That bastard… why did he lie? Gods, I'll make him suffer… !"
Mendo gleefully caresses the grip of his sword.
"Lum, please tell me, did Moroboshi really do something despicable to you? I'll take good care of him!"
Ataru turns again to Mendo, glaring him.
"No, Mendo! He is NOT to be touched! I hold you responsible for any harm done to him!"
Ataru takes off again, while Mendo, shocked by Lum's reaction, misunderstands completely the reason of her rage!
"Moroboshi! It is true, then! You hurt Lum-san! Uuuh, but this time…"
In doubt whether to go and zap Megane or return home to find Lum, Ataru hovers above the edge of the park, when all of a sudden a spacebike coasts him. "Hey Lum! Whatcha doing here! We were supposed to meet at Oyuki's place, don't you remember? She told me you came back to Tomobiki couple hours ago!"
"Benten? Eh, actually, I…"
Oh Gods! If she finds out I'm not Lum, it'll be double trouble!
"Come on! We're going to be late for the party! And don't you dare say nay!"
"Party? But… but… ehm, I don't remember where I parked my UFO and…"
Benten reaches for his bosom, extracts from his bra the remote and instantly Lum's spaceship appears above them.
She teases her: "Lame excuse, Lum dear…"
Ataru is flabbergasted: Where the hell did I keep that!
A large hatch opens in the side of the craft following impossible geometries and Benten enters it with the whole spacebike. A totally surprised Ataru mechanically follows her inside.
Benten parks her vehicle in a cargo space within the airlock, where it is automatically swallowed inside the guts of the spaceship, and hurries to the controls in the piloting cabin.
"Hey, honey! Can I drive your toy?"
"Uh, s-sure…"
The spacecraft shoots upwards at incredible speed, with no care whatsoever for air traffic, causing untold panic in both civilian airliners and some military flights, not mentioning a DEFCON alarm!
"Now Lum honey, what is going on! Why did you come back here? That idiot still being finicky with you? I really don't understand, here you are, the dream sex toy any male in this quadrant hopes to play with, and he still does not want to make out with you? Way I see it, he's not worth it! And, you're not bound to be tied to him!"
Ataru is totally shocked. His jaw hits the floor. Benten has always been quite blunt, but he never imagined she'd be so direct talking to Lum!
"What?"
Benten turns to Lum.
"Come on! Baby girl, you're behaving strange, are you all right? You know what I mean, I threw a mixer party at my place just for you, to have fun with the boys!"
"Fun with the boys?"
"Yeah! You have suffered enough at the hands of that lowlife, buried in that grave you call home! You need to LIVE! Forget about Darling the Loser, just let him die alone, break your, uh, abstinence and have real fun with us! I invited la crème de la crème, I'm sure we'll find a gorgeous and… well endowed boy that can replace that asshole!
Now shuddup, or we'll collide with something and end up as cosmic dust! Enjoy the ride!"
The stars visible from the wall sized screen suddenly streak out in a Star Wars effect.
Benten is trying to make Lum leave me? TAKE LUM AWAY FROM ME?
A sudden furious rage makes him shiver. He bares his fangs and clenches his fists. Sure enough, a surge of powerful energy send hot waves through his body, sparks fly around him and again he feels intense pleasure from it. This time he notices it.
Slow, steady vibrating and warm, fuzzy waves of physical pleasure, in tune with the energy and the tickling of the electric sparks arcing on her bare skin!
It shocks him… which is what probably saves a totally oblivious Benten, focused on piloting the ship, whistling some alien tune, from being electrocuted.
So… Lum feels pleasure giving out energy? When she electrocutes me, she… likes it? Oh, Gods!
Ataru realizes that since he's been in Lum's body he's become extremely touchy and irritable, getting furious just too often; it's like he sort of inherited her fierce, short fused temper. And that's not all! Many of her abilities just come natural to use. There's also something else…
Utter confusion in his head.
What should I do? I need time to think.
He wearily floats towards Lum's quarters in the ship, to drop in the large bed. He lies on the tigerstriped blanket staring at the steel ceiling. Worry and remorse bite hard, while he tries to think a way out.
How can I pull it off with Benten. She caught me by surprise, now I can't just tell her 'no', I need to play along for a little while and then find a way to quietly walk out of her party and return to Earth…To Lum… hey, wait a minute!
Shit! Who's going to pilot this thing?
"Why in the name of the Gods did I have to get these damned rings…"
…
-Continues
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