Date: July 15, 2008
When Fuji Yuuta transfers to a boarding school to be closer to the girl he likes, twin brother Fuji Syusuke tries to follow. Unfortunately there are no more boy dorms available.

Gender Bender

This chapter is dedicated to dragonmage27.

Chapter 6
Purple Leopard Print

"Yuuta! You're not being fair!" Fuji Syusuke yelled from outside of his twin brother's door, "Yuu-chan and I are homeless! Let us in! Let your beloved twin sister and her Yuu-chan sleep with you tonight!"

The door opened.

"You're too loud! Just go back to your room!" Yuuta growled.

"But that devil woman keeps trying to jump into my bed!" Fuji complained.

"Boo hoo! At least the one she wants to sleep with is you!" Yuuta shouted before slamming the door shut on his brother dressed as his sister's face.

"YUUTA!" Fuji whined, "I love you! Yuu-chan also loves you! You can't do this to us! Besides, I don't even like Ann! We're twins and sleeping together is something twins should always do! You know, girls always come and go but the bond between twins is something unbreakable! Let me in!"

…There was no reply.

"Yuuta! Stop ignoring me!" Fuji banged on the door.

…Again. No response.

Letting out a small sigh, he picked himself off the floor with Yuu-chan and the pair made their way over to another door, "Kajimotousan! Your daughter is homeless and in need of someone to talk to! Please let me spend the night in daddy's warm arms!"

The door opened.

"Sorry. Some idiot decided to see how many toilet paper rolls would flush down a toilet. I'm swamped in dealing with the flooding bills, not to mention the water piping since one of the pipes exploded." Kajimoto Takahisa explained in a monotone voice with dark rings under his eyes. He quietly shut the door behind him.

"B-But Kajimotousan! I have nowhere else to stay! I promise I'll be quiet!" Fuji banged on his door.

…There was no reply.

"Kajimotousan?" Fuji whispered.

…Again. No response.

Letting out a small whine, he settled himself outside of his papa's door with Yuu-chan next to him. It was well past midnight now and as Fuji was about to close his eyes and fall asleep onto Yuu-chan, a person appeared in front of him. Fuji squinted his eyes, "Yuuta?"

"Better." Atobe Keigo announced.

"Oh…" Fuji frowned as he buried his face into Yuu-chan, "It's only you. Goodnight."

"Wait! A princess can't sleep on the floor." Atobe lectured.

"Well, unless you know how to fix a toilet, I'm stuck out here tonight." Fuji replied.

"Tell you what: My roommate Oshitari snuck out tonight to hang out with someone he met in the city… I think his name was Mukahi Gakuto or something like that. You can sleep in his bed." Atobe suggested.

And so, Fuji let out a huge sigh as he turned around in this guy… Oshitari's bed. It wasn't very comfortable for one thing. Tiger-print covers? Not very tasteful either… But he supposed it was better than the other bed in the room belonging to one Atobe Keigo with the rich purple leopard-print… were prints in style now? He faced Yuu-chan, "It's too lumpy ne?" The bear stared back at him with profound black eyes. Fuji sighed, "You're right… it's not the bed, it's all me. I'm the lumpy one…"

The bear continued to stare.

"Atobe-senpai… I can't sleep." Fuji murmured.

He heard a small confident chuckle from across the room, "Are you usually this difficult to deal with my dear?" (Atobe's even charming in the middle of night and with lack of sleep!)

"It's just that when growing up I always shared a bed with Yuuta, and at first at Shukuen I shared a bed with Ann-chan, but she's starting to freak me out and my papa's too busy with some toilet to sleep with me." Fuji muttered.

There was silence. As Fuji was about to turn open the lights to make sure his senpai was still alive and breathing, he felt the other slip into bed with him.

"Is this better?" Atobe questioned. He was surely no Yuuta or Kajimotousan, but at least he did the job right… very charmingly too.

"Saa… I'm not sure whether coming to this school was a mistake or not." Fuji muttered.

"You met me, and we fell in love. So of course this wasn't a mistake." Atobe murmured sleepily into his ear.

"Right…" Fuji gave a slow awkward nod before turning around to give a WTF look to Yuu-chan, "What I meant was, by coming here, did I push Yuuta further away? I surely did, because he's ignoring me now… he won't even look at me."

"Don't worry. You can look at Ore-sama all you want." Atobe replied wrapping his arms around Fuji's waist.

"I meant Yuuta! My twin brother! He's probably disgusted with me." Fuji sighed miserably.

"No one can ever be disgusted with you." Atobe yawned, "Because I love you, so the whole world must too."

"… You're no help senpai." Fuji frowned, "But did you forget how crazy kissed me? She was dating Yuuta, and all of a sudden… This is all such a mess."

"You want to make a mess?" Atobe suddenly sat up, and despite it being dark and all; Fuji would spot the smirk on his senpai's face.

"I… I'm just going to go to sleep now." Fuji replied. And so Fuji eventually drifted off to sleep… of course, only to be woken up hours later as a certain navy haired boy climb into the room through the window and loudly observed, "Why is there a threesome going on in my bed? And why wasn't I invited?"

Fuji blinked his eyes open.

"Oh… That's only a really huge stuffed bear… Weird sex toy." The navy haired teen concluded.

"What time is it?" Fuji asked.

"Almost six in the morning. And might I say that you have amazingly sexy legs… Atobe always has good taste in women." He grinned in a flirtatious way before crawling into Atobe's bed since there was some weird threesome happening in his own.

Fuji frowned for more reasons other than that guy's comments. Now that he was awake, he really couldn't get back to sleep. So he spent the next ten minutes prying himself away from his sleeping senpai, another ten minutes trying to pry Yuu-chan away, before slowly making his way out of this room. He quietly snuck down the hallway to stop in front of the first door he was initially at. Grabbing a bobby pin from his wig, he easily unlocked the door and slid into Yuuta and… that purple thing's room. He knew that Yuuta was probably still mad at him for taking away his girlfriend who came out of the closet. But for now, while Yuuta was unconscious and deep asleep, he settled on spending the rest of the night sitting by his beloved twin brother's side and wondering just how things went wrong.


It seemed as though the roles had reversed between Fuji Syusuke and one Tezuka Kunimitsu. Tezuka would arrive slightly late for class, would dart out of the classroom during lunch break with some dark haired kid with a shiny head (Kikumaru said his name was Oishi Syuichiro his roommate or something rather), then would arrive back on the dot to start afternoon lessons. Once the bell rang, Tezuka had already packed his bag and would run as fast as he could out of the classroom and off to further pastures… and Tezuka could really run, since he played tennis and all.

"Tezuka's avoiding me." Fuji muttered.

"N-No… Nya… No!" Kikumaru tied his best to act shocked, but it didn't really work, "Why would you think that?"

"He's doing exactly the same thing I did when I was trying to avoid him." Fuji answered.

"Keep a secret?" Kikumaru clasped his hands together as though in prayer.

"Of course!"

"Oishi told me that Tezuka told him that Tezuka's avoiding you not because he's angry at you, but because of something related to Tachibana Ann." Kikumaru whispered.

"The witch?" Fuji blinked, "What did she do this time? And it's not like she's interested in Tezuka-san or anything like that, since she so clearly and publicly stated her sexual preference to the world."

"All you have to do is corner Tezuka and make him do the explaining this time." Kikumaru shrugged.

"Sounds like the perfect plan!" Fuji nodded and pumped his fist in joy.

The next day…

"Fuji-san. Can you please pass back that roll of toilet paper?" Tezuka practically growled from inside the bathroom stall.

"Not until you give me some answers." Fuji replied.

The door to the men's bathroom swung open as some boy who's bladder was about to explode walked in, didn't want to be involved with some crazy girl with rolls of toilet paper beside her and that poor guy stuck in the bathroom stall, and despite bladder failure in the near future, decided to test his luck and see if he could run up to the third floor bathroom in time.

"You're not even supposed to be here Fuji-san." Tezuka retorted.

"That doesn't matter." Fuji replied.

"I should have never let down my guard." Tezuka cursed, "Fine. What do you want to know?"

"Saa… Why are you avoiding me lately?" Fuji questioned.

"This is extremely awkward." Tezuka muttered.

"Please answer me! This is really important! Why are you avoiding me? Did I do anything wrong? Please tell me!" Fuji urged.

Tezuka sighed in defeat, "I'm really trying my best to get over you Fuji-san, but it isn't so easy. No matter what, I still like you. If there were the slightest chance you could return these feelings, it would mean everything to me. But now that your roommate Tachibana-san is interested, I just feel like I can't compete against her."

"Eh?" Fuji blinked, "That's all?"

"What do you mean?" Tezuka growled, "Wouldn't you feel slightly threatened if you were in my situation? And can you please hand me that toilet paper now?"

"Oh right… Here." Fuji passed said roll under the bathroom stall to the awaiting hand. He waited awhile for the stall door to open, following the taller boy to the sink area. Fuji smiled, "You know, I don't like Ann-san like that. So there's nothing to worry about."

"That's very good to know?" Tezuka replied unsurely as he dried off his hands.

"I'm not attracted to girls like that." Fuji felt the need to explain further.

"But… You're attracted to a different type of girl?" Tezuka questioned with an arched brow.

Fuji paused to consider his next words. Now that he thought about it, growing up he was never interested and that aware of genders. The person he fell in love with was the person he fell in love with. He had to admit to himself that pre-Shukuen he felt a little something for his childhood friend Saeki Kojirou, who was in no doubt a boy. He also knew that in preschool, he had a small crush on that female teacher who used to read the naptime stories… Fuji frowned, "I just love who I end up falling in love with."

"But not Ann." Tezuka concluded.

"I told you, she isn't my type." Fuji let a wide smile make its way onto his face as he moved into a hug Tezuka, a rather instinctual move that he thought would feel right given the situation despite the fact that they were standing in the middle of a bathroom. In fact, it felt rather warm and fuzzy… and as Fuji let go, the warm and fuzzy feelings didn't leave. Fuji could feel the heat rise to his cheeks, and he didn't dare look at the other boy standing in front of him. He let out a nervous chuckle, "Well, I think I should go. Girls aren't allowed here after all. Haha."

It was a full minute later that Fuji arrived in the student council office, out of breath and gasping for air. Ignoring the orange haired student secretary, Fuji made his way into his otousan's office. "Kajimotousan!"

"Oh… Syu-chan. Think you can make me a cup of coffee?" Kajimoto questioned, "I was up most of the night with the whole broken toilet issue… and it looks like the school barely has enough funds to spare since my aunt decided to take a trip to the country. And then couldn't get my hour of sleep because something kept scratching at my door."

Fuji totally ignoring the older teenager's request made his way around the large desk and wrapped his arms around his Kajimotousan's neck.

"What are you doing?" Kajimoto questioned.

"This feels like the loving embrace of a father!" Fuji muttered burrowing his head into his appointed father's shoulder.

"What were you expecting?" Kajimoto frowned watching as Fuji stood up and took a seat on the chair on the other side of his desk.

Fuji explained, "Something really weird happened. I thought I did something wrong because Tezuka was avoiding me all of a sudden, but when I cornered him in the bathroom he told me that he was only threatened because of Ann-san. And here's the really weird part. I gave him a hug because… I don't know, I felt like a hug would reconcile things between us. But when we hugged, it was unlike anything I've ever experienced. And right now I can't stop thinking about Tezuka-san."

"And so?" Kajimoto urged him to continue.

"I don't know! But when I hugged Tezuka…" Fuji mumbled.

"Yes?" Kajimoto questioned, while overlooking the plumber's bill once more and sighing.

"And… we hugged in the boy's bathroom… and…"

"I'll ignore that part. But go on, you're getting there." Kajimoto encouraged.

"I… I think I've fallen in love with Tezuka." Fuji explained with a horrified expression on his face.

"That's right." Kajimoto nodded, returning to the large pile of papers he was sorting through before Fuji arrived.

"… How did this happen?" Fuji frowned, "I thought I only liked him as a friend… But when I was close to losing him… Maybe that's when my feelings changed? Does it work that way?"

"You always loved Tezuka." Kajimoto explained not bothering to look up from his work.

"I did?" Fuji questioned.

"From the moment you two met, you were attracted to him. He was reliable, someone you can always turn to. Easy to talk to, similar hobbies, complimentary personalities. It's realizing that you love him, which took so long." Kajimoto explained.

"I see… But… Wow. I love Tezuka." Fuji blinked.

"Mm Hm."

To be continued.

Note: So… Turns out Fuji likes Tezuka after all… what will the oh so charming Atobe say about this? What do you all say about that? Yay! Quick update, but is the grammar good? The title for chapter 7 will be Super Deluxe Love-Love Date Plan, so feel free to imagine what's to come… if not, then you're going to have to wait mid August for the update. Thank you all so much for reading and thanks again to those who review! :D