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Honoka had only just woken up as she heard the door closing downstairs, she stretched a little in bed, and looked at the clock, "GAH, it's this late already, I mean, I know I oversleep a little, but how come no one woke me up, school is just about to finish… I'm going to be late for practice again…"

As she pulled herself out of bed and stood up and stumbled a little, after she regained her balance she noticed something was wrong, quickly she turned around and grabbed the sheet off her bed wrapping it around herself as she made her way to the bathroom, upon entering she looked at herself in the mirror, at least she thought she was looking at herself

Her reflection showed that she was now taller, her ginger hair reaching down to her waste "so I've been small, young and now I'm older, AHHH this is more hassle than its worth, though been a kid again was fun"

"I should probably go tell the others about this, though I can't exactly go out wrapped in a sheet, wonder if my mum has anything I can borrow"

Honoka made her way downstairs, been careful not to trip over the sheet, she headed into the living room where her mother was sat watching TV, "Mum?"

"Hmm what's up Hono…" she stopped mid-sentence as she turned around to face Honoka, "so your older this time"

"Yeah… is there a chance I could borrow some clothes? It's a bit chilly" asked Honoka

"Sure, come on" replied her mother, getting up off the sofa and heading upstairs, Honoka following quickly behind

"There's not much that might suit you but this should do" said Honoka's mother handing some jeans, a t-shirt and a jumper, after Honoka finished changing into her new clothes she sat on the end of the bed "so what are you going to do now?" asked her mother

"I was thinking of visiting the others, they should probably know about this" replied Honoka

"I thought as much, your phone is downstairs on the table, want me to do anything with your hair before you go?"

"I think I'll leave it loose"

After collecting her phone from downstairs, and borrowing some shoes she stepped outside

"Honoka, what are you going to do if anyone asks who you are at school?"

"Hmm… Ah, I'll just say I'm my cousin, visiting for a couple of days and I'm just picking up something of mine from the clubroom for me because I'm ill in bed" replied Honoka

"I guess that could work… have fun" said her mother as she waved her off "oh and could you do some shopping for me afterwards" handing a list to her.


Honoka arrived at her school just as the final bell was sounding, "the moment of truth" she said to herself as she made her way towards the entrance, making sure to stop to asked someone where the idol research club room was located, there was quite a lot of whispering as she walked through the halls after been given directions, arriving at the room she knocked on the door, not getting an answer she opened it slightly and looked in, it was empty of course apart. "Guess they are already upstairs" she said closing the door again, asking another student if she knew where the members of the idol research club where.

"having to pretend not to know anything is harder than it looks" she thought to herself, walking up the stairs to the roof, standing in front of the closed door, she looked through the window "yup, there they are, guess they just started practicing, so I won't be interrupting too much, though I think I'll watch for a while" turning the handle on the door she slowly opened it and sneaked out, closing the door again "phew, they haven't noticed me yet" leaning against the wall she waited until they had finished practice the song before clapping , catching the attention of the girls.

"That was quite good, you must have practiced that a lot" said Honoka.

"Thank you" replied Eri "but if you don't mind me asking, who are you?"

"Ah, I'm Honoka's cousin, Miyoko, I'm visiting for a couple of days, and I only arrived last night, though Honoka told me about you, she asked me to tell you that she's sorry she couldn't come in today as "she feeling sick", she's been asleep in her room for most of the day"

"So she's feeling better than she was yesterday?" asked Umi.

"Yesterday? Sorry I wouldn't know, when I arrived she was already in her room asleep, her mother asked me not to disturb her, was she worse yesterday?" said Honoka.

"hm… err, it's just we visited her yesterday to drop some stuff off and she was feeling a little under the weather then, I hope she gets better soon" replied Umi.

Everyone started to talk among their selves apart from Nozomi who was starting at Honoka, obviously thinking about something, before smiling at her "did she figure it out"

"Hey everyone, I'm sure Honoka is fine, I'd even say she's feeling much better" said Nozomi to the rest of the group.

"Yup she knows alright, I hope she doesn't do anything to bad"

"What makes you so sure?" asked Nico.

"Well given that she's been here for a while" replied Nozomi.

"What do you mean? The only other person here other than us is…. Oh, I see" said Nico "so you're older now"

"Yup, my mum always said I should grow up a bit" said Honoka, causing the others to sigh "hey at least I'm not small again, as fun as it was, it was a bit of a pain to do anything"

"At least you are alright, guessing the feeling sick part was a lie?" asked Umi.

"Yeah, had to come up with a story to have some fun with you guys, also I think I have an idea of why I've been changing, so come round to my house after practice"

"Why not now?" asked Kotori.

"My mum asked me to do some shopping while 'I'm still able to go out by myself' as she put it" answered Honoka "I'll see you guys later" making her way to the door, waving on her way.


chapter 7, finished / uploaded on bonfire night and now we have an older Honoka,

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KevinCruelz : i had two options for this chapter, it was between having child honoka sneak out of her house and end up running around the school, or have honoka 'grow up' and play a mini prank on her friends, in the end the one the would have advanced the plot a bit won out, and yes lil Honoka gripping onto Maki was fun to come up with and write

30secondstoidealize :maybe i will, maybe i will...