Author note: For all those people who were wondering why this story sounds so familiar. It's because this story was based on the Comic 'At the End of the Road'. Of course, this won't go into Yaoi but the plot was interesting.
I do not own Skip Beat.
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Kuon Hizuri body had been wheeled off, getting prepared for the funeral.
Who would have thought, Koun Hizuri was actually trapped in a 15-year-old boy, not that far down the hall?
When Kuon parents came, he was fast asleep so he found out when he woke up, he had missed all the buzz from the press who stalked his parents everywhere, even to the Bathroom if they could.
But from what he heard, his parents took 'his' death hard and even cried for several hours.
The next day, he was given a mental evolution, just to make sure there was nothing fiscally wrong with him, which he perfectly aced and he was finally allowed to go 'home' with his 'family' once he was declared sane.
Although the Doctor seemed to warn his 'family' because of 'he' did try to commit 'suicide', along with recommending that he come in regular for mental evolution's, in case he found himself feeling suicidal.
Nobody seemed to want to think about exactly why 'Katsu' had wanted to kill himself in the first place.
It was a miracle that 'Katsu' woke up at all, being hit that hard should have killed him or left him in a coma.
Koun was given a fresh pair of clothes, for the first time in years, Kuon saw denim jeans, a white green t-shirt and trainers.
He, Kuon Hizuri, will be dressing as a normal teenager, he couldn't help but feel awkward putting them on, he was later led to a blue small car by his 'family' who parked outside.
It was astonishing to see how small it exactly was.
Never in his life, did he think that he would ride such a small family car.
The car interior was clearly showing its age and yet nobody seemed to mind sitting in it.
They drove far away from the Hospital, just at the outskirts of Tokyo and stopped in front of a small house.
This would be his new home.
Ch 2: Kuon, unique home experience.
The inside of the house was surprisingly not as cramped as what he thought looking from the outside, the house had a total of two bedrooms, a small kitchen, a small living room and a shared bathroom.
Katsu apparent sheared a room with his little brother, Takauji, while their parents took the other room.
For the first time in years, he saw what a teenager room would look like today compared to a decade ago.
One thing was clear, teenagers could afford way more stuff, than he had over a decade ago.
He saw a phone that would cost 200 dollar on the US market and Katsu own little brother also had an equally expensive phone despite living in such a house.
There was Tablets and even a laptop in the room.
He know for a fact, that a decade ago, only rich teenagers had such luxury and yet this average house had such a thing.
The amount of books in the room was shockingly small compared to his days as a teenager and the laptop was nothing like the laptop that Yashiro carried around with him.
Seeing such technology in such an average home, really hit home how times have changed since he went to school.
However, both brother shared a carboard full of clothes, Katsu little brother was actually slightly taller than him, because this body hadn't had a growth spurt yet so you couldn't tell who's clothes or who, if not for the pen written on the labels in the clothing.
There wasn't a single suit in sight and the quality of the clothes inside were leagues lower than what he was used to wearing.
The two beds in the room where actually bunk beds, apparently Katsu slept at the bottom, nearest to the alarm clock.
That night, he was forced to come down for dinner, the phantom feeling of being a balloon who was ready to pop appeared in his mind and he honestly looked like paper when he came down, making them all worried.
But anybody who know Kuon Hizuri would know that it was a typical reaction for him and food would have to be shoved down his throat for him to eat it.
Luckily, the food on his plate had decreased because they were all worried that his stomach wouldn't be able to handle so much food.
To his shock and surprise, when the food slid down his throat, he didn't have the strong urge to throw up.
It was than he realized, the body he was in, didn't spend year's having Juliena Hizuri shove food down his throat even when he was full, giving him food trauma.
This body had been taken average portions of food for years, only occasionally asking for more.
So without the feeling of sickness, for the first time in years, Kuon enjoyed the taste of food.
And Kastu mother cooking was amazing, even though she couldn't afford to experiment like Kyoko did, she made a wonderful meal from what she got from the locals.
After they had eaten, they watched a T.V that wasn't as huge as the one, he had in his own living room, that Kyoko had told him off for buying and his kids rejoicing because of the sheer size of it.
It was obvious to him, that this family didn't make a lot of money, so naturally he couldn't go on a spending spree like he usually did, despite his wife getting mad.
He would feel what it was like to have a small sum of cash with him for the first time.
When it was nine, he was shocked to be sent to bed.
Him, a full-grown man had been sent to bed.
But people didn't see him as a fully grown adult but a child.
And because he was in a body of a child, he was bound by the rules binding a child.
By far the weirdest thing was going to bed so early, walking into an unknown smaller bathroom, using an unknown tooth brush and getting into an unknown bathtub, in another family's home.
It would be understandable if this was a hotel and he forgot to pack his tooth brush, but this just made him feel uncomfortable.
Apparently, Katsu little brother had no problems stripping to his underwear as he jumped into bed, as well.
This was illegal right?
A grown man sleeping in the same room as an underaged boy who wasn't related to him and was stripped down to his boxers.
If he was in his original body, he could just hear the police sirens.
Nobody could fault him for being uncomfortable as he climbed into a bed much smaller than his own.
He was surprised to find, half an hour later the lights automatically turn off sensing no movement in the room.
He couldn't help but pray that tomorrow, he would wake up and find that this was all a dream.
The body he was in had apparently reached its limits and he was overcome with the sudden urge to sleep, something that wouldn't have happened in his original, adult, body.
When morning came, he was shocked to find something loud beeping his ear, maybe it was because of this body that he suddenly felt the urge to find the sound without opening his eyes and smash it.
The upper bunk moved and Katsu little brother 'Takauji' soon appeared with sleep driven eyes and a deep moan.
Kuon watched him as he sleepily got down, went to wardrobe to grab a towel before slowly make his way to the bathroom where he heard the rushing of water, an hour later, the boy came back with the towel wrapped around his waist, looking more alive than he did an hour ago and got out a pair of clothes.
That Kuon recognized on the spot.
A school uniforms.
Years ago, he remembered going to school in normal clothes, it was only recently when he and his wife was searching for a school for their kids, that they found out schools without a dress codes no longer existed in Japan.
The school uniform Takauji brought out was a white t-shirt, dark blue jumper and black school jean's, none of it look ironed and it was all just thrown together.
Watching Takauji lack of care, made him shocked that somebody could care so little about their appearance, even the black shoes the boy wore had mud at the bottom of them and were pretty much slapped onto his feet.
What would have taken him an hour to get ready, had taken the young boy six minutes to do so, even grabbing a hold of a bag, that was clearly designed to be more fashionable than useful for school.
Takauji grabbed something from the kitchen before running out of the door, saying a quick goodbye to the family.
Kuon was left in the room, the subject of school pushed out of his mind.
After all, it was naturally for children to go to school.
But what should he do now?
For the first time in years, it was a week day and he found himself out of work.
He couldn't vigorously go over lines with his wife or drive his kids to school.
He had nothing to do and it clearly showed, for a workaholic like him, he wasn't prepared for this.
So instead of going completely crazy, he tried to keep himself busy by helping out around the house, which was a pleasant surprise to Katsu parents.
The usual Katsu would spend his free time in his room playing video games or watching anime.
It was welcoming to have him help.
Koun hung up the clothes, washed the plates and even help out with cleaning the house.
Koun had done all this all with a charming smile on his face.
If Katsu parents didn't know any better, they would think 'Katsu' was a completely different person.
By the time it was 3: 15 in the afternoon, the door opened and a tired 13 year old walked through only to be shocked.
The house was sparkling!
And what was more shocking was the sight of his older brother cleaning!
Takauji was tempted to ask his older brother "Who the hell are, you!?", he was half tempted to believe there really was somebody else in the body of his lazy brother.
His parents looked overjoyed with Katsu apparent new change.
Katsu was cleaning all the way to dinner time and would have gone on longer if not for Takauji who dragged him away from his work to eat.
It was at dinner time that Katsu parents thought it was finally time to bring it up.
The matter of School.
"Son, what do you think about going back to school?" Katsu father said, his 'son' looked surprised to find out he was addressing him, making him frown.
Did Amnesia do that somebody?
"School?" 'Katsu' said, with a strange expression on his face.
Katsu mother tried to chip in.
"We, were told that you were having 'problems' with school, previously" Katsu mother said, while her youngest child snorted at the word.
"You're still only fifteen, so you're required by the law to attend some form of education" Katsu father said. "We can delay this for one or two days but eventually-"
"Okay" 'Katsu' said, making them all look at him in surprise.
'Katsu' than smiled with that bright smile he had from the hospital and said. "Don't worry Mother, Father. Your child is much tougher than you think"
Seriously, who is this person!? Takauji thought, could amnesia change his brother this much?
His parents looked relieved.
And then, dinner just continued from there.
The next morning, the house woke up to the shocking sight of 'Katsu' up early ironing his school uniform and polishing his shoes!
He even looked at his reflection and tempered with his hair for half an hour!
You would think he was going for a job interview with how he was behaving.
Takauji was shocked to see his older brother neatly tuck in his shirt, wear a belt, tie his tie perfectly and even his sleeveless jumper was looking brand new, now it was ironed and given some much-needed love.
Where they even wearing the same uniform!?
Why did it suddenly look so different when he had it on!?
His brother didn't look like a student!
He looked like what you would expect from one of those high school sitcoms where everybody was good-looking!
His brother had cleaned himself up, well.
There was no longer bags under his eyes, his usual pale skin and dead eyes were nowhere to be found instead they were vibrant and if Takauji didn't know anybody, he would think he was looking at a celebrity!
There was just this vibrate and magical aura around him that made him think so.
"Are you coming, Takauji?" 'Katsu' said, turning to his brother who hadn't walked out of the door and seemed to be staring at him.
"Ah, yeah. Nii-san" Takauji said, walking next to join his brother.
Will his brother be okay, today? He just to wonder.
And scene!
Next chapter, Kuon arrives at school and tackles bulling with an adult mind set. His shines brightly in all field to the point's it scary, changing everybody's opinion about him in a span of a day. Review/fav and follow!