"The Truth About Exploding Curry (Do You Know? Do You Know? Do you know what That Is?)"
"Utena is Anthy?" exclaims A-ko.
"And Anthy is Utena?" proclaims B-ko.
"But how can this be?" they cry together with their hands clasped about their faces in alarm.
From their secret hideout they had been watching the two best friends imitate each other's personality traits all day. What could have happened that could have caused such a drastic change? Unfortunately, A-ko and B-ko missed the events that led up to this strange mind meld because, due to a runaway prairie dog that maimed them and left them horribly disfigured when they were very young, they never leave the safety of their shadowy abode.
Suddenly, a rather dorky looking young boy with blue hair and slightly bowed legs comes walking into their vicinity. He is accompanied by a skinny young girl with twitchy eyes and limp blonde hair who keeps looking over her shoulder as though afraid of being followed.
"Will you stop that Nanami?" the boy asks the girl in a sort of prissy, exasperated voice.
"I can't! I just know they're going to be after me when they find out!" the girl cries out as she takes one more hurried glance over her shoulder. A-ko and B-ko lean a little further towards the opening of their secret place to try and get a better vantagepoint.
The young boy takes Nanami by the elbow and steers her to a bench nearby. They sit down together and he takes out a stopwatch.
"Miki, what are you doing?" Nanami asks him, her eyes growing suspicious.
"Well, my dear, since you are so sure they are going to come after you, I thought it might be fun to see how long it takes." And with that he hits the button and the watch starts to tick away.
"That's all the comforting I get? After all that I have been through? I need help and all you want to do is time the last few minutes that I might be alive!" the girl yells, sounding more and more worried with each breath, and continuing to keep a close eye on her surroundings. A-ko and B-ko are very intrigued.
"What do you take me for? Your big brother? I'm not going to protect you. I don't get into all that chivalry stuff…what if I hurt my hands? I'd never be able to play the piano again…or eat parsley! All you ever think about is yourself, Nanami! You're lucky I even helped you escape after what you did to Miss Utena and Anthy back in cooking class!" Miki gives Nanami a very stern look, and continues to let his watch run.
Nanami manages to look even more alarmed and grabs Miki around the neck.
"Oh, Miki! You're so fine! You're so fine…. sometimes you just blow my mind. You're right, I should be grateful to you for helping me. I don't know why I did what I did. I just couldn't help myself. Before I knew what was happening it was over and Utena and Anthy had switched personalities! Oh, what should I do?" With another quick look around Nanami breaks down crying with her arms still clasped around Miki's neck.
Just then, from around the corner comes a voice.
"Just what do you think you're doing with my sister, Miki?"
And then into view walks the most beautiful boy ever to have walked the face of the planet. His hair is a flaming, sultry red, and his eyes are so magnetic that they shine right through the strands of hair that fall across his face. He is tall, with broad shoulders; in fact, he makes such a dashing impression that B-ko almost falls over and out of her hiding place at the sight of him. The boy continues looking at Miki with the expression of one who is truly bewildered.
"Um….Touga…I didn't see you there…." Miki stammers as he hastily pries Nanami from his shoulders ,"how long have you been standing there?"
Nanami manages to stop her crying for a moment to look up.
"Big BROTHER!!!" and with that she jumps up and runs to the god-like creature before her with a complete look of reverence upon her face. "FORGIIIIIIIIVE M-"
But before she can finish Touga sidesteps and Nanami falls flat on her face in the dirt, which succeeds in rendering her momentarily unconscious.
Miki stands up hastily.
"Touga…it wasn't what you thought…really…Nanami is cute…but you know I think YOU'RE cuter…way….WAY cuter…." He takes a hesitant step towards Touga.
"Stop right there, Miki." Touga says as he holds up his hand, "I meant what were you doing with my sister HERE when she should be in hiding? Everyone is looking for her. Ever since she switched that ancient magic spice with the one Anthy normally uses in her curry and caused all this uproar everything has been going nuts. I mean, I don't know what's going on, but I just saw Utena making shaved ice and Anthy kicking somebody's ass! And there's this elephant…"
But before Touga can finish Nanami sits up and exclaims," ELEPHANT?!" before promptly passing out again. Both boys look at her for a moment before shrugging their shoulders and carrying on with their conversations.
By now B-ko and A-ko are so entrenched in what they are listening to that they have hardly noticed that someone ELSE has appeared on the horizon. A girl with orangey, spirally, swirly hair comes walking through the trees and stands behind Touga.
"I thought I'd find you here, Mr. Student Council President," she says in a snide voice.
"Not now, Juri," Touga replies without a backward glance. "I have to get my sister out of here," he says. And with that he loads Nanami's still unconscious form onto the sled pulled by a team of beautiful, snowy white dogs that has been set up next to him the whole time (you just didn't see it, okay?) and drives away towards the dueling arena.
"Tell Utena that if she wants to get back to normal again she will have to duel me tonight!" he calls as he disappears into the darkness of the trees.
"Well," says Juri with a sneer," that was rude."
"It wasn't rude at all!" Miki cries out indifferently, and then, in a much softer, awe-struck voice, "it was….chivalrous…." In a flash, he punches the button on his watch and exclcaims,"3 minutes, forty-two seconds!"
Juri looks at Miki with a very disdainful expression on her face and says," Look, Miki, why don't you just beat it all right? I'm meeting somebody here and I don't want them to see you here and get the wrong impression okay?"
Looking indignant Miki says," Well, I can take a hint! You don't have to throw at cactus at MY head for me to tell when I'm not wanted!" and stalks off in the direction of the school.