Amu: 18
Ikuto: 23
Saaya: 18
Kukai: 21
Tadase: 20
Utau: 19
Disclaimer: I don't own Shugo Chara Peach Pit does.
.::. Straight In His Direction .::.
"Can I say goodbye one last time?" I asked once I was seated in front of a mirror. Tadase had decided to go all extreme on me changing into a dude. He hired his best people; gays, bi's straights even, to decided whether I was ready to step into the field. If one decides I look like I girl, we work on me more.
My hair had taken a good three years to get it to the length I have right now, no products included. To watch it all snip down before my eyes, is going to make me regret such an idea.
But this is for Ikuto, I said to myself. Desperate times calls for desperate measures.
Tadase Hotori has magical fingers. Once he sets them upon an item, it glows. That was what was happening to me right now. The second his pale slender fingers brushed through my layers of pink hair, I felt the tingling sensation of magic. And I had to admit, it felt good.
"How about this? We do the snip-snip, then the chop-chop and we save the hair in the bag for extensions when you want to transform into a girl."
I bit my lip as I watched he flick his blond fringe across as he smiled to himself in the mirror. Why couldn't I go with the wig instead? Oh that's right! 'Cause when I have a wig and Ikuto just happens to want and curl his fingers around the strands, the whole thing would pop off.
Yes, right, we shall go with cutting my hair!
But that was easier said than done.
"You ready?" Tadase asked. I sighed, and nodded, watching from the corner of my eye some of the assistance he brought with him, handing him a pair the pair of scissors I bought and a comb. Swallowing, I watched as Tadase aligned the layers together before applying the scissors up towards the end of my head. I waited for that sound, that snip. His pink eyes locked with my honey orbs as the scissors closed against one another.
Snip!
The bandages were so tight against my chest, I knew breathing was going to be difficult. I guess we could have let the bandage idea go, since my boobs weren't exactly big, but I had to make this look real. Bandages were no exception.
Saaya came home the moment my hair got snipped off. She was completely shocked and repulsed at the idea that I am agreeing with her idea. Although, it didn't take a lot of convincing for her to see eye to eye. Besides, it will be fun, she said before helping out the stylers with my wardrobe.
I slipped on a blue button up shirt before tugging on some jeans with a men's designers belt, of course. I let a dramatic tear fall as I waved goodbye to my gorgeous shoes before they got replaced by runners over black shoes over sandals. Cologne was applied to my skin as the sweet yet strong aroma of strawberries hit me. God, men's perfumes are amazing!
I was seated back on the seat that I was instructed to sit on when Tadase cut my hair. On the table, I saw my once luscious pink hair transform to extensions in a bag with my name on it. I knew I would still be able to apply it to my hair when needed, but now having the length gone, felt like some part of me vanished along with it.
Of course, my womanhood.
Every person, including Kukai who just now came in with sweat coating his skin, walked up to me as I waited for the final results on the hair. Yes, the hair that determines all. Tadase had applies a bit of blond on the tip, hardly noticeable of course. He told me it was a washout so Ikuto doesn't expect any bit of reorganization once I transformed into a girl again.
Suddenly, Tadase's fingers began to massage through my hair. With that kind of smell in the air, I'd say he was applying some sort of gel. I bit the inside of my cheek once that was done before turning around to face everyone.
They all gasped. I swallowed.
"May I present you," Tadase said suddenly, "the new and improved Amu Hinamori."
A girl about my age suddenly jumped in. "Her name is going to be Amu? May as well write 'I'm a girl trying to turn a gay straight' across her t-shirt."
Tadase sighed. "Rima, you need to understand something here, ya? We haven't figured out what her name is going to be."
Rima, who had amazing long, luscious blond hair with a doll face, frowned. "Then how about we name her Yuki. It's a girl and boy name."
Tadase shook his head. "Too feminine for her. We are looking for something that screams 'I am gay'."
"Then how about Tadase." This earned a few laughs and giggles, including one from Tadase himself.
"That's my name, thank you. But no, too unsophisticated." He began pacing in that sharp walk of his. "It's gotta have a ring to it; something a gay man can never forget."
"Why doesn't she use her own name?" Someone said.
"Do you want her plan to fail?" Replied someone else.
"How about Ikuto?"
"That's a bit creepy, now." Said person one.
"Ikuma?" Asked said person two.
"Amuto?" All around girl after boy after boy and after girl shout out names that could be used, and of course, neither was perfect as Tadase would say.
And so, I did the dramatic thing. I told them my idea of a name. "Yoru." Which of course, made everyone stop and grin with very enthusiastic faces at the suggestion.
Typical.
Once my name was settled, we all left to help do the final touches. Contacts were indeed needed, but blue had seemed to be the one that struck me the most. I don't know what was up with me and the colour blue but it seemed to have made a mental change within me.
I clipped a pair of silver earrings on each side of my ears, an obvious sign that I was gay, as Tadase pointed out. A men's cross that hung outside of my shirt and two rings. Unfortunately, I had to clip my fingers nails short and add a little stubble to my cheeks, which surprised me to have realised Tadase's assistance went all out to make this work.
A picture or two were taken and immediately printed off. They compared it to a picture of me before I had done this, and I must say, I do look different.
No more long pink hair, Amu. No skirts or dresses too. You are out to make him change his mind about girls, and who else would he have done that other than a gay guy he may like?
My head was already revising the plan that had slipped in my head when I went out to buy the scissors; Devious and creative was all I could manage to do. I just really hoped it paid off.
Once everyone got to saw the before and now shots, I stood with my hands in my pockets waiting for them to say anything about my transformation. No one said a word. Their eyes couldn't seem to get distracted with anything else. It must be positive, I thought. I had to keep my grin in from spreading too wide which only made me smirk.
And then I heard a gasp as Saaya was the first to speak. "I totally screw you right now." And by that look on her face, I'd say she wasn't kidding.
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