Date: July 3, 2008
When Fuji Yuuta transfers to a boarding school to be closer to the girl he likes, twin brother Fuji Syusuke tries to follow. Unfortunately there are no more boy dorms available.

Gender Bender

Chapter 4
Love Pentagon?

Fuji Syusuke did his best to avoid Tezuka Kunimitsu. He would arrive to morning lessons slightly late. Then during lunch break, he would quickly grab Kikumaru Eiji's hand and drag him off somewhere. They would then arrive back for afternoon classes exactly on the dot. Then finally once that bell rang, he would grab his pre-arranged school bag and run out of the classroom and would continue to run all the way out of the building and into the dormitories, where he would lock himself in the bathroom with Yuu-chan because being in the actual room would mean seeing the bug-eyed she-devil that took away his precious Yuuta. This routine lasted for about a week and was going on strong.

…That is until during one lunchtime when Kikumaru popped the question: "Are you avoiding Tezuka or something?"

"Why would you say something like that?" Fuji let out a small chuckle.

"Well, Oishi Syuichiro is a close friend of Tezuka's and… Oishi's really cool because he plays tennis too. But Oishi told me that Tezuka told him that Tezuka felt like you were avoiding him and wondered if kissing you was too soon." Kikumaru explained.

Fuji sighed, "If you put it like that… Then I guess I am avoiding him."

"Why? Don't you like him?" Kikumaru questioned.

"As a friend." Fuji replied.

"Then you have to tell him that. How would you like it if the boy you liked kept stringing you along?" Kikumaru informed.

"You're right…" Fuji sighed.

"Nya! Of course!" The redhead grinned, "So after afternoon class, you go tell Tezuka your feelings."

"Yes, yes…" Fuji muttered in defeat.

"I'm rooting for everything to go well!" Kikumaru cheered.

"Same." Fuji sighed.

And so with five minutes left of class Fuji found himself already stuffing his books into his bag and keeping away his writing utensils. With four minutes left of class, Fuji found himself trying to fight off Kikumaru as the redhead kept trying to disorganize and pull out his books. This continued until there was only half a minute left of class, and Fuji hastily tried his best to keep everything so that he could dart out that door. However, as the bell rang, a certain redhead grabbed his book bag, turned it upside down and ran out of the classroom laughing as all the contents spilled onto the desk and floor. Fuji could feel his heart stop. He was in deep water now.

"Here." Tezuka emerged from in front of him holding the several notepads and books that fell onto the floor.

"Thanks." Fuji muttered, stuffing them into his bag.

"Fuji-san are you…" Tezuka began.

"I need to talk to you." Fuji stated.

"Of course." Tezuka nodded as he waited for the other to get all organized before leaving the classroom together.

"Okay." Fuji took in a deep breath to calm himself down once the two of them were alone. The breath didn't help. "Tezuka-san, the thing is… You're a precious friend to me and I really like you… but not in that way. I only want Tezuka-san as a friend." With a small wince on his face, he glanced up see the other boy's reaction… from the looks of it there wasn't much expression. Fuji made a mental note never to play poker against this guy.

"I don't know what to say." Tezuka finally sighed.

"I'm sorry." Fuji hastily apologized.

"I don't know what to say." Tezuka repeated, "You led me on."

"I what? How?" Fuji blinked.

"What do you mean? You're pretty dense for a girl." Tezuka let out a dry chuckle.

"Who you calling a girl?" Fuji retorted.

"Excuse me?" Tezuka frowned.

"I'm just joking. He he." Fuji shuffled around on his feet, "Please continue."

Tezuka's frown deepened, "You sit next to me everyday in the library, you join the tennis club as well, you pretend that we have all these things in common, you physically drag me around school to chase after you twin brother, and worst of all you take me on a date and say you have no feelings for me?"

"Well, I like you as a friend. That's a feeling… right?" Fuji replied with a bit of frustration, "And it's not like I forced you to help me catch up on my school work, you offered. And what if I like tennis?" For a second he just wanted to blurt out that the reason he didn't like Tezuka was because he was also a boy, but a boy in disguise as a girl and life as a girl was so hard... or at least life dresed up as a girl. But if he said all that, then he might get expelled along with his new founded deep respect for women everywhere… but seriously, he would get expelled and would never see Yuuta again! At the moment his friendship with Tezuka weighed less than the beautiful brotherly bond he shared with Yuuta… or the bond he once shared until the she-witch enchanted him.

"So everything's my fault, right?" Tezuka glared.

"No… Not everything… but some things…" Fuji mumbled.

"You know what? Just… Just forget everything ever happened." Tezuka let out an aggravated sigh.

"Great! Friends again?" Fuji smiled and offered a hand to shake.

"No. Let's just stop seeing each other all together." Tezuka corrected and before Fuji could reply, he started to walk off leaving the fairer of the Fuji twins to slump over on the floor.

An hour later, after one of the custodians begged Fuji to leave, he picked himself off the ground and made his way towards his dorm room… even if Ann would be there, he decided that he would just crawl into bed with Yuu-chan and bring the cover over his head ignoring everything around him. He pushed open the door and made his way outside to find to his dismay that it was raining.

Forecast: Sunny all week

"Oh wait…" Fuji corrected, "I'm just crying."

And so, with tears in his eyes he dragged his feet on the long trek to his room.

The only thing he could remember of his father who was absent most of his life was the saying: "Boy's don't cry." But at this moment, Fuji found that the only thing he could do was cry and he just couldn't stop. To hell with that saying! He was in a skirt, his nails were really polished and shiny, and with his hair this gorgeous with that brilliant icy shine he was gorgeous and being gorgeous meant he could cry all he wants!

"What a weak girl." A loud shrill voice commented.

Fuji let out a sigh. He knew he was wreck… maybe some cookies would make him feel better. Regardless, he continued on the path to the dormitories.

"Hey! I'm talking to you!" The voice growled. Fuji paused in step and glanced up at some redheaded girl with her blonde and brunette friends at either side.

"Do I know any of you?" Fuji questioned curiously.

"Duh!" The blonde jeered.

Fuji frowned.

"You know." The brunette crossed her arms.

Fuji continued to frown.

"You… You really don't know?" The blonde girl asked honestly.

"I meet new people everyday. So, who are all of you?" Fuji questioned.

"Oh… Well, we were the girls that warned you against dating Tezuka-sama." The redhead stated matter of fact.

"Hm… I think Yuuta was the one who warned me on that." Fuji murmured trying to rattle his brain for the answers.

"Well, we warned you too!" The blonde one shrieked, "I was the one who pointed out your A cup."

"A cup? What kind of cup am I?" Fuji questioned.

"I told you." The blonde girl frowned, "An A cup."

"Porcelain? Fine china? Stainless silver?" Fuji urged her to elaborate, "Regardless, right now I feel like a crummy plastic cup. Not a colourful plastic cup though. A crummy one."

"…"

The redhead sighed before saying, "Well, we've got a message for you. You may have Tezuka-sama wrapped around your finger, but stop stringing him along. You're really hurting Tezuka-sama and more importantly you're taking away the chances of him finding true love."

"I'm not fully aware of what's going on here, but I don't think this Tezuka-sama will fall for a loud, annoying and sharp tongued redhead like yourself." An equally loud (though not so annoying… more like extremely charming) voice interrupted.

"Atobe-sama!" The brunette gasped.

"Are they bothering you Fuji-hime?" Atobe Keigo questioned as he took Fuji by the hand… Well, attempted to take her by the hand.

"I'm fine… I just need a glass of milk and cookies… I remember the good old days when Yumiko-neesan would prepare milk and cookies for Yuuta and I if we had a rough day…" Fuji sighed, still depressed and wanting to crawl into bed with Yuu-chan, his Yuuta substitute.

"Cookies won't do!" Atobe announced, "A beautiful lady such as yourself shouldn't associate with their kind."

"Well, she's only an A cup! I'm a C." The redhead retorted.

"At least the princess won't get saggy when she grows older." Atobe replied while rolling his eyes on queue. The redheaded girl let out a sharp gasp before running away in tears, with the blonde and brunette following. Atobe frowned, "This Tezuka should learn how to control his fan girls. Me on the other hand can command them with a snap of my fingers." (Literally!)

He waited for a reply.

Atobe frowned as he spotted Fuji 10 feet away, slowly making her way to the dormitory building.

"Wait, my sweet daffodil, you still haven't rewarded your prince charming from rescuing you from those ogres." Atobe made a giant leap towards the honey haired brunette.

"Who and the what ogres?" Fuji frowned. But before he could register just what was going on, he felt a strong pair of lips push themselves onto his own. Fuji widened his eyes and flailed his arms around frantically. He surely did not expect boarding school to be like this… He expected being by Yuuta's side, studying together, playing together, spending every single moment of every single day together, laughing together, and just plain being with each other. He hadn't expected being randomly kissed by his first male friend, then by some senpai he just met, then what's next? Kikumaru? That ugly purple thing in Yuuta's room? And was that tongue? And so, when Ore-sama was thoroughly satisfied, he pulled away licking his lips.

"Did you enjoy that?" Atobe questioned with a smirk.

"Ah… Tezuka." Fuji blinked, spotting the tall dark haired teen from behind Atobe. Before he could say anything else, Tezuka had taken off once more.

"So that's Tezuka, huh?" Atobe frowned, "He's not that great looking, unlike Ore-sama."

"I-I'm just going to go now." Fuji pushed the other boy away as he dashed at top speed towards his room. Quickly searching his school bag for his key, he pushed said object into the door and pushed it open. Flinging his bag onto his desk, he jumped into his bed and fell into Yuu-chan's fluffy arms and mumbled into Yuu-chan's fluffy chest, "I'm so sad right now Yuu-chan! This place is becoming-"

"Syu-chan…" Tachibana Ann greeted, watching as the other girl snuggled deeper into the humongous stuffed bear.

"What do you want? I'm kind of busy right now, if you can't see I'm having a conversation here." Fuji muttered dejectedly, he was in no mood to be dealing with anyone right now, especially the harpy in front of him.

"First off, are you feeling okay?" She asked.

"What do you think?" Fuji replied with a touch of sarcasm, "My closest friend Tezuka is avoiding me because I don't want to be more than just friends and now probably hates me, then I have some weird senpai following me around acting like a knight in shining armour, I almost forgot to mention that I have Tezuka's fan girls attempting to murder me every so often that I have to check before I go to the bathroom. And they just won't stop talking about drinking cups, teacups, and cups in general! Worst of all, my precious Yuuta is dating someone like you. So tell me, what do you want so badly? What do you have to tell me that is oh so much more important than the mess of problems I have right now?"

"Syu-chan… I have a confession to make." Ann muttered.

"A confession? Are you pregnant or something? Even though it's Yuuta's child, I have no problem killing babies." Fuji retorted.

"No… I'm not pregnant. It's just… I love you." Ann wrapped her arms around Fuji's waist.

"W-What?" Fuji blinked.

"The reason why I got close to your twin brother was because I wanted to get closer to you. But now I know that that was wrong and I should apologize to Yuuta-kun. But growing up, I've never been attracted much to boys. Then you appeared, and I knew that what I felt towards you was genuine because there was something special about you. There's nothing strange about a girl falling in love with another girl, especially if that girl is you. You're beautiful, charismatic, and sweet… I love you Syu-chan!" Ann explained as she leaned forward and pressed her lips onto Fuji's.

And at that moment, Fuji thought his heart stopped. He would have called the hospital; unfortunately he couldn't move his legs.

To be continued.

Note: Before anyone asks. No, Ann didn't at any way figure out that Fuji's a boy disguised as a girl. And yes, Atobe is quite charming, you agree?
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