Chapter 8 – Kikumaru Saga part 3 – section 1
In a dark room filled with stuffed toys and bears, and a reasonable sized glass cabinet filled with different kind of toothpastes, lay teenage Kikumaru Eiji. The red head was bound by such deep sleep he had tangled himself thoroughly in his blankets, his pyjamas rising up to reveal his stomach to the cold air, and yet, his face was filled with a deliciously cute smile that would have earned him a thousand kisses.
"Eiji, breakfast is ready! Come down and get it."
Eiji shifted around in his bed and groaned and rolled over on his side and scratched his stomach.
"Eh? Why are my scratches ticklish? Did I cut my fingernails?? He thought sleepily. He decided to ignore it and reached for his teddy. He moved his arms around and felt for the big toy and he became impatient and still he refused to open his eyes.
Finally he sighed and opened his eyes.
"HUH?!!!" His eyes nearly popped out. Where is this place? Why is it so big and spacious?! He sat up and looked around.
It's my room…but what happened? He looked down, he was sitting on his pillow…but it seemed to have gotten fifty times larger. He scratched his head, then his heart lurched. He pulled his arm down and looked at it.
"NANYA!!!!" his arm was gone, his fingers were too! What was there was a doll's arm. I've turned into a doll! A little plushie doll that doesn't have proper arms and legs!
"Eiji! I told you—" his sister came into the room and stopped short when she spotted the doll on the pillow.
"Nee-chan." Little Eiji looked up at her his eyes watering and began sliding down and soaking his soft cushiony face.
"E-eiji?" she squeaked.
"What's happened to me? What am I going to do?" he asked tearfully.
"I—I don't know." She still had her hand covering her mouth.
"Maybe someone put a curse on me." His sister couldn't believe it. There sat on her precious little brother's bed…was her little brother as a plush doll. She admitted he looked adorable as always, his little red hair sticking out, his face features "chibi-ied" and simplified, and those arms, legs, fingers and feet were little lumps of meat. Meat? Stuffing? It was just too adorable.
"Neh…nee-chan..can I go brush my teeth?" he wiped his eyes.
She laughed and sighed and sigh of relief that he was still himself. They'd work it out somehow. She picked him up and took him to the bathroom. She settled him on the sink and was surprised how unbelievably small he was. He climbed up water faucet knobs (?) to get a look at himself in the mirror.
When he saw himself he just stared. He pushed his little plushie hands up against his cheek.
"Well the person who put a curse on me…at least made me cute." He grinned suddenly. "But I wished I was more cool. They should have turned me into a samurai, or a gundam or a ninja!" he crossed his arms while sitting cross legged on the tap his face twisting in disappointment.
He stood up and tried a few cool poses and slipped off –pichyu- and landed in the basin.
"Eiji daijoubu?" his sister ran to him and looked in at him sprawling in the sink, the water soaking into his cotton body.
"Nya…can you make me some cool outfits nee-chan?" he asked hopefully. She smiled and picked him, relieved he wasn't hurt.
"I think you shouldn't brush your teeth" She brought him back into his room and settled him on the pillow.
"Neh can you call everyone over? I wanna see them." Eiji said.
"Are you sure?" he nodded. "Okay…but stay there." He nodded again. She left the room and he looked around. Minutes later he spotted his teddy bear toy house in the corner of his room. He smiled mischieviously and crawled along his bed and used his quilt as a climbing wall to get to the ground. When he was halfway to the ground, clinging desperately to his quilt his little hands (that couldn't hold on without fingers) he slipped and tumbled to the ground.
But he still got up and ran or rather trotted happily to the house in the corner, with his tongue curled up onto his upper lip.
Maybe this is going to be fun after all!
tbc