Ano, yakari fan - why the hell not? I can see Hikari and Yamato dating secretly, so let them. This is officially Yakari!
I'm terribly late again, although I must admit your reviews compelled me to write this story and didn't let me sleep at night. I was about to give it up but for Kara. Thanks for kicking my ass in gear. (don't do it anymore, it hurts)
All Daiken fans, I hear you. I'm going to think about. ^_-
I repeat, this is a depression story, it won't be actually pretty and maybe there is no sense in it at all.
Chapter Eleven in Which Ken Meets His Destiny And Is Not Happy...
It was like a still shot in a play or when you hit pause button on the VCR. Everyone froze.
Jyou's eyes slightly bulged and the expensive highlighter fell out of his numb hands and drew a broad line on his beige trousers. Hikari gasped and leant on the wall as if about to faint. Yamato made a harsh move and finally saw the new girl's shape over Taichi's hair. His jaw dropped.
Taichi turned into a sort of a Greek statue of drunken wine god except he had clothes on. Miyako crouched protecting her head with her hands and obediently waited for the wrath of the Kaiser. Mimi and Sora squeezed their eyes shut and held hands. Koushiro with a pitiful expression on his face and a red bruise over his eye froze behind Yasashiiko. Yasashiiko suddenly realised that everybody was staring at her and cautiously held her breath.
Takeru was plastered against the door making miserable eyes at everyone. He thought he was the focus of attention and decided to admit his mistake by kissing Ken and take punishment like a man.
The shinai (kendo stick) fell out of Iori's hands and hit Daisuke over the goggles.
"Holy shit..." Daisuke whimpered when the end of the shinai bumped on his nose. "ITAI!"
"Taichi, it's a girl!" said the blonde Teenage Wolf in shock.
"No shit. It's a girl," Taichi said.
"She's very pretty, ne?" Daisuke added.
"Ken is a girl?!" Jyou asked in disbelief.
"Is it Ken?!" Hikari gasped.
"Is it a girl?" Iori said weakly.
"It has breasts... It must be a girl," Jyou gulped.
"Give me the stick, Iori, I'll push the skirt up and see if it's really a girl," Yamato said. Ken straightened his back and glared at the blonde, blushing all over. Suddenly Yamato's grimace of wonder turned into a silly smile and he broke down laughing. "He's a girl!!!"
Koushirou sweatdropped. "Oh my..."
Ken was breathing heavily. "You..." he started but his voice was not intimidating - it came out as a squeaky whimper. At that, Yamato bend in two howling with laughter like a madman, and grabbed Taichi's shoulder to keep himself from falling over.
"Remind me what I'm doing here," Yasashiiko turned to Koushirou.
"You were going to kill Miyako," he said helpfully. But seeing the evil smirk that grazed the lips of the beautiful girl he paled. "Wait!" he cried, "You can't kill Miyako! She is you!"
Yasashiiko blinked. The rest of the Chosen gave a puzzled glance to the Child of Knowledge and Miyako readily nodded. Yamato was moaning with laughter. Taichi felt rather ashamed of his friend's indignant behaviour.
"Forgive him," he said, "He's evil sometimes."
"Miyako gave a part of herself to complete the transformation," Koushirou rambled quickly, "Magic requires a part of the enchanter in exchange. This is an irreversible process, we can't turn you back to boy, you can't get free of Miyako, you are going to be linked until the spell's effect wears out. Of course, Miyako won't become a boy. But I must point out that messing up ingredients was a silly thing to do, Inoue-san. I think Ken is going to be a girl for a year with that much garlic in the potion," he finished. Daisuke was half-asleep by that time.
Everyone in the room looked at the poor indigo-haired girl who had terror written across her face. Then, Yamato broke into laughter.
"How can you!" Sora rounded on him.
"But he's.. he's..." Yamato gasped.
"It's not funny."
Yamato doubled on the bed and shook, laughing soundlessly.
"Imagine you woke up as a girl. What would you do?" Mimi asked fiercely. He has no idea how close to becoming a girl he was, she thought.
This only provoked a new collapsing fit of laughter from Yamato.
"Ah, he's hopeless..." Sora muttered.
"I'm... going to be a girl... " Yasashiiko whispered. "And I can't even kill Miyako?!"
"But... imagine the possibilities!" Sora said mildly. "Look at the positive side! There wasn't a boy who had a chance to experience a girl's life."
"Oh, this is inimitable!" Yamato moaned and sniggered into his fist. The new girl looked around, until her heated stare stopped on Koushirou's laptop. She picked it up and hurled at the Child of Friendship.
"There!" she yelled. The owner of the laptop dashed after his precious, giving an awful screech.
The hottest Odaiba star yelped and ducked behind Taichi, who calmly caught the laptop, handed it down to Iori and proceeded to drag the madly giggling star out of the room. Everybody sighed in relief.
"Cheer up, 'sashiko-chan," Hikari placed a hand on her shoulder, "It's going be alright. We are always there for you, and you can ask us anything. Remember, that we love you." She half-embraced the poor girl and went out of the room.
"Where are you going, Hikari-chan?" Taichi frowned.
"I have a lot of homework," his sister said sweetly.
"Don't worry, I'll take her home," Yamato poked her head into the room and cracked at the sight of the indigo-haired girl. Ken decided that he hated the blonde and that earned him the top position of his Those People Must Die list.
Daisuke facefaulted. "Homework!" he cried. "What time is it?"
It was already dark.
"I missed my Pokemon!" he rushed into the living room and switched TV on. "YES! Pokemon!" he shouted. "OH NO! The end!"
The Chosen filed out of the room, Miyako guarded by Sora and Mimi, and after some sulking Ken decided to join them before TV. He was tired. He couldn't believe that this horrible day was going to end.
Daisuke and Takeru burst out laughing at the TV screen.
"Go for it, Ryoga!" they shouted. "Look, it's Ranma-girl again! Yes, Nabiki is coming with hot water! Mwahaha!"
Daisuke turned to Yasashiiko, still grinning. "Ryoga turned Ranma into a girl!" he informed his former best friend.
"Not funny," the girl said darkly.
"Err.. Sashiko-chan," Mimi tapped her shoulder and jerked her hand away at once, "You want to stay here for some time? In that case Miyako is going to move to the couch here, and you take her room, kay?"
"Fine," Ken inclined his head. Kaiser in his head whispered tips on how to send Miyako headfirst into a nuthouse. Ken squashed that voice or maybe it was Yasashiiko who did this - he didn't know anymore.
tsuzuku...
Next chapter: Yasashiiko finds a boyfriend... sort of. Some Taichi bastardization.