Thank you for the nice reviews. I have been a bit disappointed - although not surprised - that this story has not attracted more readers. I was concerned that I might scare off some of my regulars, but don't be alarmed, Jonouchi will NOT be falling in love with Kaiba and becoming his little puppy lover. But as far as puppyshipping is concerned, let me explain: Kaiba has no idea that Katsu 'was' Jonouchi. Feelings do start to become conflicted though, because Jonouchi's soul is starting to be locked away by the shadow magic, allowing Katsu's own soul to grow. It will actually be quite sad at times.

Warnings: Some swearing and smut.


Chapter 5

The Mall.

Jonouchi, or rather, Katsu as she was now known, woke up at five in the morning, desperate for a pee. She hopped out of bed and rushed to the bathroom.

One of the things she had been quick to discover, was that girls really did have smaller bladders than men! And she found it irritating that could not hold onto it for anywhere near as long as she could when she had been Jonouchi. She vowed to never again tease Anzu for always needing the 'little girls room'.

Jonouchi never thought twice about leaving the bathroom door open to take a leak, but Katsu felt the need for privacy. With the door closed and locked, she pulled her pyjama shorts down and sat on the toilet. She still felt self conscious about her vastly different genitalia, but it made a pleasant change to sit down and go with ease, instead of struggling to pee through a semi boner, while half asleep, and ending up peeing all down his leg or all over the back of the toilet seat.

Dabbing herself dry was still a novelty too. At first, she had tried to shake herself dry like Jonouchi always did, but that had not worked too well and she quickly discovered that wet knickers were unpleasant.

Flushing the toilet, she washed her hands and tiptoed back to bed. It was still only five fifteen and since Anzu had said they usually got up around eight thirty to nine on a Sunday morning, she decided to go back to sleep.

Luxuriating in the spotless room, with its clean furnishings and fresh bed linen, she snuggled back down. She was beginning to feel surprisingly content in her new body and wondered if it was because her hormones were adjusting to make her feel more feminine.

Whenever Jonouchi woke up in the night, he often felt restless and in need of some pleasurable release. Even as Katsu, that need still remained. She curiously wondered what sort of pleasure women felt when touched intimately. It must feel different to how Jonouchi felt whenever he had the urge to knock one off. Sliding her hand inside her silky shorts, she decided to find out.

She was woken again at eight forty by a knock on the door. "Katsu? It's Anzu. Are you awake?"

"Huh! Yeah, you can come in! I'm decent."

Pushing the door open, Anzu stepped inside and went over to the bed. The first thing she noticed was that the room did not smell of 'teenage boy' like it sometimes did whenever she went into Yugi's room, or like it had when she had gone into the boys rooms to wake them up when they had all stayed the night in Pegasus' castle. Teenage boy seemed to be a unique smell, all of its own!

She shook her head to clear the thought and then moved to sit down on the bed. "how are you this morning?" She cautiously asked.

Katsu eased herself into a sitting position. "Tell ya the truth, I dunno. I've been through every emotion I can think of and now I'm just kinda meh.."

"Kinda meh?"

"Yeah, it's like I don't really mind. I think my hormones are changing or something, because I'm getting used to it. I hope I don't start thinking too much like a girl."

"Well, I suppose that is good... sort of. Maybe it will make the next month a bit easier to handle."

Katsu let out a sigh. "Man, a whole month of having to put up with myself as a hormonal girl. I hope I don't start going all silly and giggly when guys look at me!"

"Hey!" Anzu playfully slapped her. "When have you seen me do that?"

"You're different, you hang out with guys. You know how guys think."

Anzu folded her arms. "I will never know how guys think!" She raised a thoughtful eyebrow. "But you are in the unique position of being able to understand both sexes."

Katsu rolled her eyes. "Yeah, lucky me," she said, sarcastically.

"I'm wondering," Anzu felt embarrassed about asking."But now that you're female, do you still prefer girls? Or, do you like boys now?"

"What?!" At first, Katsu looked a bit freaked out, but then looked thoughtful. "I think I still like girls, but not as much. I thought it would be fun to be in bed with a female body and touch myself up." The lewd expression on her face suddenly made her look more like Jonouchi, but it quickly faded and was replaced by worry. "But it didn't make me feel like I thought it would."

At first, Anzu looked confused, but she quickly cottoned on to what Katsu was referring to and pulled an appalled face. "That's just disturbing. Maybe we should change the subject."

"Hey! You were the one that asked! It's just... that when I was Jonouchi, I would have done anything to touch a female body. But now I am female, I find the pleasant thoughts that used to fill my head, a bit dirty. I feel terrible about the way I behaved. No wonder all the girls at school call me a pervert."

Anzu tried her best to be supportive. But having been on the receiving end of the 'panty tank' on more than one occasion, she found it difficult. Jonouchi had done many things that made him deserve being called a pervert! She set out a small huff. "Maybe spending the next month as a girl will do you good."

"I guess you will never forgive me for lifting up your skirt. But I did say sorry and you got your own back with that right hook."

Anzu could not help but smile. "Sorry about that. Did it really hurt that much? I thought you were supposed to be a tough guy!"

Katsu chuckled. "You hit harder than some guys I know! And those guys are real hard bastards."

"I needed to be good at fighting! When Yugi and I used to go to the park as children, there were these awful kids who would always pick on us. Yugi wouldn't fight back so I had to do all the fighting."

"Yeah, but Yugi ain't the weak kid he used to be, is he?"

"No, he isn't," Anzu smiled, pleased that her timid friend was gaining so much confidence. "Talking of Yugi, I have just spoken to him and he is coming shopping for clothing with us. We need to get you some underwear, shoes, and maybe a couple of outfits."

"Who's gonna pay for that stuff? I ain't got any money," Katsu frowned.

"Don't worry. We're all going to chip in. Ryou messaged me. He feels really guilty and has transferred 10,000yen into my bank account to help pay for the stuff you will need."

Katsu pushed the covers back and slipped her long slender legs over the side of the bed. While her shape had changed, she still had hair under her arms and on her legs. Yesterday, she had been happy that at least something masculine remained, but this morning it looked gross. "Ugh! Look at my pits?!" She lifted up her arms for Anzu to see. "I really need to get rid of my pit and leg hair!" She lowered her arms and ran her hands over her hairy shins.

Anzu tried not to grimace. "Have you got hair growing on your face at all?"

Katsu instinctively rubbed her hand over her chin, remembering how Jonouchi had been really proud of the small amount of downy facial hair he had recently started to grow. But just as it was last night when she checked, her face was soft and smooth. "I don't get it! How come my face hair has gone but my leg and pit hair hasn't?!"

Anzu winked. "I will let you into a secret. Most girls have to shave their armpits and legs. I will lend you my lady shaver. It's kind of like a man shaver but pink."

With Katsu's legs and armpits de-fuzzed, they had breakfast and then went back upstairs to get ready and wait for Yugi to arrive.

But the closer it go to going out in public, the more nervous Katsu became. "I don't know if I can go out," she shuddered at the thought. "I know so many people."

"It will be alright, they won't recognise you. If I didn't know who you really were, I wouldn't have a clue you were originally a boy."

"You're just saying that."

"I'm not! Promise."

"Really? You're just saying that to make me go out."

"Am not! I actually think you look pretty stunning," said Anzu, putting the finishing touches to Katsu's hair.

Katsu checked herself in the mirror. Anzu was right, she was pretty dam hot.

Just as she was admiring herself, the doorbell rang. Anzu rushed downstairs to let Yugi in. He followed Anzu up to her room and his chin nearly hit the floor when he saw Katsu in a pair of Anzu's leggings and a pink top that showed off her neat curves and tiny waist. "Jonouchi?!" He gasped unsure what to say.

"That does it!" Katsu fumed. "Yugi thinks I look like some fucked up drag queen. I ain't going to the mall. Fuck it!"

"Shh... Keep your voice down! I don't want my parents to hear you swearing like that!" Anzu hissed. Her parents were downstairs in the kitchen. Luckily, they had the radio on quite loud and did not hear.

"Sorry..." Katsu sagged and sat down on the bed. "Be honest Yugi, I look like a drag queen, don't I?"

With his face bright red, Yugi shook his head and stammered. "N.. no! You look amazing! You're, you're..."

"You can't say it, can you Yugi?" Katsu stood up and stuck her arms out like a scarecrow and did a slightly ungainly twirl in front of him. Yugi was so embarrassed that he tried not to make eye contact with her. "You think I'm ugly, don't you Yugi?" She pressed, making the poor boy cringe.

"No! You're not ugly! You... you're beautiful! Okay?!" Yugi finally blurted, scrunching up his eyes and shaking his head. "I shouldn't think that!"

Katsu suddenly felt guilty for getting in his face and forcing an opinion from him. "Hey! I'm sorry Yuge... You're my pal and you're upset about what happened. I get that!" She placed her hand on Yugi's shoulder but felt him flinch and tense up, so she withdrew her hand. "But I'm female now – at least for the time being. So I guess it's okay for you to have strange feelings about me." It worried her to think that it might damage their friendship and she needed to show him that inside she was still the same Jonouchi.

Removing the tension between them by making the whole thing into one big joke seemed like the right thing to do, so she gave him a lewd wink and purred. "Just don't go getting any ideas with me. Okay?"

The joke backfired somewhat and Yugi backed away, looking a bit afraid. "No! Of course I won't! I promise!" He shuddered. This was so wrong! But as hard as he tried not to think about it, he could still not shake off the image of her stripping off her top in front of him, revealing her voluptuous breasts.

He had even had her breasts on his mind when he went to bed last night and had experienced a restless night sleep as a result. It was too embarrassing to even think about, let alone admit to anyone.

Anzu found herself starting to feel jealous. Was Yugi actually attracted to Katsu? Judging by how uncomfortable and flushed he was, Anzu guessed that he did find her attractive and was deeply troubled by his feelings. It had been a similar story yesterday, with Honda; when he had also been embarrassed by his own reaction and physical response to her.

It was quite understandable that they should feel so disturbed about finding a female version of Jonouchi attractive. The boys were good friends and did typical guy things together. It must be very strange for them – far stranger than it was for Anzu to deal with.

Would Katsu have the same effect on every man she met?

Anzu had to admit, she was slightly envious of Katsu's beauty. It was mind boggling to think that this attractive young woman had actually been their rough, tough, loud mouthed, fist fighting friend.

"Come on, we should get going." Anzu made a point of holding Yugi by the hand as she lead them downstairs and outside.

There were two elderly ladies at the bus stop. They were neighbours of Anzu. But apart from exchanging polite good mornings, they barely paid Katsu any attention, which made the trio relax slightly.

Arriving at the mall, they got off and headed towards the entrance. There were quite a few people out and about and Katsu noticed that most did not even look at her. But she did notice that a gang of rough looking teenage boys were hanging about, right where they were heading. It put her senses on high alert.

As they passed by, one of the boys stepped forward. "Hey! Why don't you two lovelies ditch that little runt and hang out with us today?"

"Just ignore them," Anzu hissed. But just like Jonouchi, Katsu was ready for a fight.

"Say that again moron and I will smash your face in!"

"Woo...! Feisty... I like my girls feisty. How about we go back to my place and I can put that feisty attitude to good use?" The four boys all laughed at their leaders' joke.

"Why you..." Katsu was ready to punch the stupid smirk off his face when Anzu grabbed her arm.

"They are not worth it Katsu. Come on, we will be late meeting your boyfriend." With that, she took both Yugi and Katsu by hand, stuck her nose in the air and dragged them away.

"Boyfriend?!" Katsu screeched, as she was pulled along by Anzu. Behind her, she could hear the group of boys calling out perverted obscenities at her. Pulling herself free from Anzu's grip, she turned around and gave them the middle finger sign.

The group of boys had actually made her feel humiliated and vulnerable. Was this what women had to put up with every time they went out?

Shuddering at the memory of Jonouchi hanging out with Hirutani and behaving in a very similar way towards women, she fell back into step with her friends.

"You okay Jo..." Yugi quickly checked himself, "Katsu?" Katsu was still too busy raging and seemed not to notice his near slip-up.

"Yeah, thanks for your concern Yuge. I just don't like guys that think they can treat girls like that."

"I didn't recognise them," Yugi added. "They must be from out of town."

"Yeah, they definitely ain't a local gang," Katsu agreed, before addressing Anzu. "Does that sort of thing happen a lot?"

"Not that often, but sometimes!" Anzu huffed. "The best way to deal with guys like those is to ignore them."

"Makes me feel kinda bad about my own behaviour in the past. There should be a law against harassing women like that."

"It would be nice, but I don't think it is that easy to stop it," Anzu sighed. She felt genuine sympathy for Katsu. She was only just skimming the surface of what life as a woman was like in a man's world.

"There's Honda!" Yugi raised his arm to attract their friend's attention as they walked towards him. Honda nodded his head in acknowledgement.

Honda seldom blushed, but his face turned pink as they approached. His old pal sure was a beautiful woman. If he did not know who she really was, he would be tempted to try and date her.

He shifted awkwardly and ran his hand through his hair as they approached. "Hey guys!" It came out slightly higher pitched than he would have liked. Boy, was he flustered.

"Wosup dude? Is that a rocket in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?" Katsu snickered.

"Shut up!" Honda's face was now very red. One or two people close by gave them funny looks.

"Stop it you two. You are attracting weird looks so behave like sensible adults," Anzu hissed.

"Don't forget her name is Katsu now," Yugi quickly reminded Honda, before he had chance to slip up on the name in public.

Honda offered a handshake and pretended not to have met her before. "You must be Anzu's exchange student? Nice to meet you Katsu." There was a slightly pointed edge to his voice.

"The privilege is all mine." Smirking, Katsu held out her hand, with the back of her hand held in front of Honda's face. "Are you gonna kiss it or just look at it like it bites?" She teased.

"You gotta be kidding, right?" Honda grimaced. Yugi and Anzu leaned against each other as they tried not to laugh too loudly.

"They're like an old married couple," Anzu whispered to Yugi in amusement.

Before hitting the shops, they decided to go and get some coffee.

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Seto Kaiba usually avoided public places. They were usually crawling with irritating people who kept pointing at him in awe and muttering his name. Thankfully, none of them had the guts to come up and talk to him because his body language frightened them away.

He particularly hated shopping malls. They reeked of fast food and stale bodies and were claustrophobic and noisy. But since Mokuba had been complaining about him putting in long hours to perfect the new duel disk and solid vision holographic system he had been working on since Duelist Kingdom, he had been forced to promise the boy a treat.

And Mokuba had demanded they go to the mall for pancakes.

Just as they rounded a corner and headed towards the pancake bar, he spotted Yugi Mutou and the nerd herd coming towards them. How the hell such a squirt could stand out so boldly in a crowd was always a source of amusement to him – must be the ridiculous hair!

"Quick Mokuba! In here." Without looking to see what sort of shop they were entering, he grabbed his younger brother's arm and pulled him inside a fashion boutique.

"Ladies clothing?!" Mokuba gave his brother a strange look. "Why do you want to go in here?"

"It's Yugi and his band of dweebs. I'm hiding."

"But why? Yugi and his friends are nice. They helped save our company from Pegasus. Or have you forgotten?"

"I don't care what they did. I can't stand them," Seto hissed.

"Can I help you Sir?" Seto turned round and glared down at a smiling shop assistant, who was looking up at him, expectantly.

She suddenly gasped and shrieked so loudly when she realised who her customer was, that Seto thought she would combust.

"Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!" She squealed, hopping up and down, "Mister Kaiba!" Her colleague heard the shrieks of delight – even over the hideous pop music that was playing – and came running out of the stock room.

Outside, Yugi and his friends were just approaching the shop. "This is a good place! I get quite a lot of my clothing in here." Anzu explained, completely unaware that Seto Kaiba was trying to hide inside.

They stepped inside to see Seto Kaiba standing in the middle of the store looking irritated, while two female shop assistants fawned over him. Mokuba was standing behind him, laughing in amusement at his brother's inability to know quite what to say to them.

"Kaiba?!" Yugi exclaimed, in surprise.

At the sound of Yugi's voice, Seto spun round and instantly voiced his displeasure. "Oh great! Just when I didn't think things could get worse, the dweeb patrol turns up."

Hearing Kaiba's voice, the other Yugi forgot that he disliked shopping and was trying to avoid being involved, and materialised next to Yugi's shoulder. "Would you like me to take over?"

"No, it's okay. I don't think he will challenge me to a duel here." Yugi responded through their link.

"Are you trying to choose a gift for a lady Kaiba? Would you like some help?" Anzu asked, with a hint of teasing in her voice.

"If I needed help, do you honestly think I would ask someone with your taste in fashion?"

Normally, Jonouchi would have rounded on him for talking to Anzu with such disregard, but desperate not to be seen by Kaiba, she hid behind her friends and slowly slunk between the racks of clothing.

"Maybe he's not buying for a lady. Maybe he's a cross dresser," Honda bit back, using the exact comment he knew that Jonouchi would make. Seto was unimpressed by the remark.

"Hmph! Come on Mokuba, were leaving." He marched towards the door and then stopped to do a double take. "What happened to the mutt today? Isn't he usually with you?" His eyes fell on Katsu, hiding behind the rails. She looked vaguely familiar.

Katsu cringed. Oh.. shit! This was not happening! Nerves jangling, she slowly edged her way into better view. "I erm... He's... not..."

Before she could finish saying something that might make Kaiba suspicious, Anzu stepped forward. "Jonouchi has too work today, so he's not here."

"Who's she?" Kaiba pointed straight at Katsu.

Katsu wanted to throw up. Resigned to her fate, she stepped boldly out from between the rail of dresses that she had been attempting to hide behind. "Okay, might as well..."

Yugi did not let her finish her sentence. "This is Jonouchi's cousin, Katsu. She is staying with Anzu because there isn't room at Jonouchi's place."

Kaiba blinked. "Oh! Now that you mention it, I can see a resemblance." He looked her up and down. She was hot! How could anyone related to the mutt be this hot?!

Katsu did not know how to react. It felt as though Kaiba was undressing her with his eyes. Instinct was telling her to threaten him with a right hook and tell him to back off, but the fear of giving the game away, made her keep quiet.

Their eyes met and Katsu could have sworn she saw the hint of appreciation on Kaiba's face – how disturbing. She quickly looked away and could feel the embarrassment creeping up her neck and onto her cheeks.

Kaiba cleared his throat. "Well, I guess I will leave you to it. Until next time." He turned and marched out with Mokuba hot on his heels.

As he reached the doors, Mokuba turned around with a big grin on his face. "See ya later guys!"

The moment they had gone, Katsu let out a huge sigh and slumped against a rail for support. "Man.., that was a close one. For a moment there, I thought he knew..."

"I thought he looked at you like he thought you were a real babe." Honda sounded serious and Katsu wanted to tell him it was bullshit. Only... Honda was right.

"I don't think I have ever seen Kaiba look at any girl in that way before," Anzu mused.

"Except his Blue Eyes White Dragon," Yugi added.

"Yeah, well he can stick to his dragons, cuz he doesn't have a hope in hell. No way I would date money bags."

"Not even if he offered to take you on a luxury cruise?" Honda smirked, but the smirk died away when Katsu grabbed him by the collar.

"That does it! I'm through with this crap!"

Honda threw his hands up in a placating gesture. "Hey! Don't get so riled up! You should be flattered that you are so beautiful that every guy likes you."

Katsu let go of Honda's collar. "Yeah, well. I already told Yugi not to get ideas, so don't you go getting any either, cuz there's no way I would ever even consider dating my two best buds. So, you can stop drooling over me." She turned her ire into mirth, by winking at him.

Honda fidgeted awkwardly on the spot. "I don't think you realise how hot you are," he admitted, candidly.

Katsu pulled a strange face that was somewhere between repulsed and intrigued. "You mean? I make you wanna..."

"DON'T," Anzu raised her voice... "even finish that sentence," she grimaced.

They heard the shop assistant cough. "Erm... excuse me? Can I be of assistance?"

Anzu spun round with a neatly fixed smile. "Yes please! We need to buy a few things for my friend."

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Seto kaiba stomped towards the nearest exit doors that would lead him away from this god awful, claustrophobic hell hole. How could people spend their entire day in here?!

"Seto?! Where are you going? We haven't had our pancakes yet!"

"I will get the chef to make some for you when we get home."

"But it's Sunday! The staff are off today."

For a brief moment, Seto paused in mid stride. "Then I will make you pancakes."

Mokuba grabbed his sleeve and managed to stand between his brother and the doors. "I'm not letting you go back on your word. Your cooking sucks! I want to go to The Original Pancake House." Mokuba knew he sounded petulant but there was no way he was going to be let down, yet again.

Seto's shoulders sagged slightly but not enough that anyone but Mokuba would notice. "Very well."

Grinning, Mokuba dragged his brother to get pancakes.

Perusing the menu with excitement, Mokuba ordered the Super Banoffi Special, which consisted of a large crepe, filled with vanilla, chocolate and toffee ice cream, bananas, caramel and copious amounts of whipped cream, Seto did not bother looking at the menu, but ordered a large black coffee with two sugars.

When Mokuba's pancake arrived, he licked his lips and clutched his knife and fork in anticipation. Seto gave it an unimpressed glare. "You will never be able to eat all that," he remarked, blandly.

Tucking in, Mokuba grinned. "Wanna bet? Just watch me?"

Ten minutes later, Mokuba finished his last, triumphant mouthful. Even though he was starting to feel a bit sick, he was not going to be defeated and have Seto say 'I told you so'.

While Mokuba was busy eating, Seto sipped his coffee, deep in thought. He could have sworn that he had seen the blond girl before somewhere. Even the name Katsu rang a bell, but he could not place her. He came to the conclusion that since she as related to Jonouchi, it was the family resemblance. How could someone as disgusting and moronic as Jonouchi have a cousin who was hot. For some reason, he could not get her out of his head.

Mokuba placed his cutlery down and sat back in his chair. Seto was not paying attention to him and was staring at his half drunk coffee, deep in thought.


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