kodoku-actor: KanoKido swapped bodies

Anyone follow imaginekageoruproject on Tumblr? There's a post on this and I wanted to write it. Since kodoku-chan requested something similar, I decided to write this out.

Oh, and I drew a cover picture for this! Yay! :D It's in my Tumblr (under KanoKido tag) and my DA account.

Enjoy~

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Looking through your eyes

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Kido could tell there was something off today, yet she couldn't quite put a finger on it right now. She felt so tired and her body was so sluggish, refusing to budge from comfort of her bed. She knew the sun was out and the day was getting late, soon turning into noon. Yet why wasn't her internal alarm clock yelling at her to "Get up! Make breakfast for everyone! There's a lot to do today!"?

This was getting on her nerve as time flew by, so she forced herself to sit up.

Blinking away the sleepiness and rubbing her eyes, she looked around the room. Her mind wasn't awake yet, but she could tell something was different from it. But what? She looked down at her hand, blinking in confusion when she saw her arms streaked with many pale, ugly lines. What are they? She squinted at them; she brought her arm up closer to her face, only to become wide awake when she saw what they were. Scars. Why!? Without wasting another second, she threw the blanket aside and leapt bed out of bed, running towards a full length mirror she was sure was not hers.

Instead of seeing herself in her violet sleep wear, a pair of golden cat-like eyes stared back at her, looking just as appalled when they both slowly raised their hands towards their faces and identical blond hair.

No…way… Kido shook her head and looked down at her body. But it was no lie. This was not her body, it was some else's. A male's body to precise. Kano's body!Mouth wide open, her hands pulling at the short blond strands of hair, she inhaled a deep intake of air and was about to scream. But she didn't, he mind coming to a halt and told her to look in the mirror again. Because she saw something that was not meant to be anywhere on his body in the first place.

Now awake and fully aware, she inspected Kano's body. The scars were small, yet seem to indicate they were pretty deep and were inflicted in the same place multiple times many years ago. Not only were they littered across the arms, but they were all over the body too. There were a lot on the legs, and even worse on his entire torso and back. Kido raised a hand to the ones on her…his face, tracing the scar lightly. It was thick, she could feel it sticking out from the undamaged skin surrounding it.

Since when…how come I never… Kido closed her eyes and stopped her train of thought, realizing how stupid the question was. Kano had the Deceiving Eye, so of course he would hide these scars to keep anyone from questioning them. The memory was vague and buried deeply in her heart with the rest of her past, but Kido recalled the first time she met Kano in the orphanage. She was pretty much void of any emotion back then, but she did made a horrified gasp when she saw how ghastly Kano looked. He was wrapped in bandages here and there and multiple scars were shown on his bare skin. But she never bothered to ask and somehow along the way, she forgot about it when Kano began to look like as he was today.

What a lie.

What a horrible lie that fooled her to not even see through this!

In the next moment, she dashed out of Kano's room and towards her own. There was a high possibility of that was where Kano was and damn it they were going to talk about this. She slid to a halt in at the door and swiftly pushed it open, surprised that it was not locked for a second. She saw herself there, standing in front of a vanity mirror while admiring herself and doing silly poses with a frilly pink skirt. Locking the door behind her, Kido cleared her throat, loudly, causing Kano to look up and the grin wiped off his face completely.

He gulped, putting on nervous smile before stepping back and raising his hands up in complete surrender. "I am not responsible for this switch-up," he stated quickly. "I have no idea what happened. I…swear…" Kano's eyes slowly went wide when he caught sight of the scars all over his body, and the look of disbelief on his own face. He had completely forgotten about it, too caught up in seeing Kido looking cute in a skirt for once. Kido continued to stare at him in silence, not making a move, making Kano not able to predict what was going to happen. "Um…Ki-Kido, I…"

She didn't give him the time to explain. She never planned to. And when she heard Kano accidentally let out a feared stutter, she ran up and hugged him tightly, shocking him on what she did. He tried to push her away, but she wouldn't budge and just held onto him tighter. Kano watched how his face scrunched up from grief and helplessness, tears threatening to spill under the closed eyes. Never mind Kido being the one who acted strong and hold back her tears, it had been a long time since he saw himself make such a face, and was now doing the exact same thing.

Moments passed by, they stayed like that. He let out a heavy sigh and hugged Kido back, feeling her cling onto the back of the hoodie he wore. "Please don't make that face. I'm sorry."

"Why did you hide them?"

He paused, but Kano continued as natural as he could. "I think you know why, leader."

"How did you get them?"

She could feel him hesitate against her, so she opened her eyes and looked up. "Kano?"

A knock was suddenly heard from outside the door, startling the two. Seto's worried voice was heard through it, asking if Kido was alright since she hadn't been seen all morning and saw 'Kano' ran into her room in haste. Turning to back to Kano for a second, Kido turned to the door and cleared her throat.

"Hey, Seto?" Kano looked down at her when she imitated his speech pattern.

"Yeah, Kano? Is Kido okay?"

"She's kind of ill right now, so mind if you make something for all of us to while I take care of her? We haven't eaten anything yet."

There was a pause between them, but Seto gave her an okay. Kano and Kido could hear him ushering Mary to relax as they left to make some noodle soup. They sighed, turning back to each other and Kano was a bit confused. "Why?"

Kido gave him finger flick to his forehead. "I don't know how to use yours Eyes to hide these," she reminded him. Staring at her for a while, he smiled a bit.

"Thanks."

"Don't think I'm dropping the question, though," she gave him a slight glare. That wiped off the Deceiver's smile quickly, but Kido was persistent as she leaned up to him and asked again. The cat was going to get out of the bag any seconds now, and she would not permit any more delays until she had her answer. She already made it quite clear that neither of them were leaving this room until their little situation was fixed, so she had the time to wait. Resigning himself, he sighed and took themselves over to Kido's bed and they sat on it.

"Well…" he didn't know how to begin, but seeing himself looking at him in plead, and knowing Kido was with him, he might be able to open up after so long.

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Deceiver: And after not following completely and adding in my own things, "Eventually, they would go back in their original bodies by the end of the day."

I'm not sure if I should continue this. At all. What do you guys think?