Date: August 20, 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
Chapter 7
Super Deluxe Love-Love Date Plan
"KICK IT HERE!"
"NICE PASS!"
"GOOOOOOAL!"
It was six in the morning as loud cheers resonated throughout the school's soccer field as the team with the red jerseys jumped around the field and eventually grouped together in a massive hug. The other team in blue merely shrugged, nodding to one another in encouragement that they'll take the next point. It was a very delightful morning for all… except for one girl… well, boy actually.
Fuji Syusuke couldn't help but to wake up at an ungodly hour due to the loud cheering from outside. He let out a small growl as he unzipped his sleeping bag, rubbed the sleep from out of his eyes, and gave a gloomy good morning nod to a large stuff bear. His eyes widened and he practically jumped up in shock as something came flying into his tent, and suddenly he felt like a paratrooper who just made a crummy landing with his parachute. His eye twitching slightly, he crawled out of his distorted tent and yelled, "WHO'S FUCKING SOCCER BALL DOES THIS BELONG TO?"
He was met with silence.
He frowned.
The few students playing a friendly match of soccer remained quiet with their eyes focused on him and their mouths slightly open.
He continued to frown.
Finally Fuji spotted something glinting coming out of one of their mouths… was that drool?
Fuji frowned as he looked down at himself. Hm… To think the pink lingerie Yumiko-neesan had picked out for him turned out to be something really comfortable to wear, especially during the really hot summertime, not to mention that- Fuji paused in thought. He was standing in the middle of his school's soccer field filled with adrenaline pumped male students wearing pink lingerie, cute bear slippers, and not to mention his dishevelled bed head wig hair. Maybe it was a bad idea setting up camp at this particular location.
"Hello miss." A boy with a rather cheeky grin approached him, "Need help putting your tent back up?"
"I don't think you want his help," Another boy interrupted, "I go camping a lot, so I have a lot of experience. If you know what I mean."
"She doesn't." The first boy glared.
"Move aside weaklings." A rather muscular boy leaped forward making sure to flex his muscles and to display them from every angle, "She's looking for a guy with strength to fix her tent."
"I'm gonna go drown myself in the school lake." Fuji sighed.
And that was how Fuji Syusuke woke up that morning, with a black and white patterned ball crashing down at him and a field filled with boys offering to fix up his tent. It's amazing: the influence of a little show of skin on a male's hormone driven mind.
"So yesterday, Oishi and I were playing tennis. You know how Oishi and I play doubles a lot together nya, but this time we were playing against each other and he's really good! But I think I'm slowly getting better since Oishi barely beat me this time. You know, when Oishi and I first met in the tennis club we had a match and he beat me. So we made a promise to be a doubles team until the day I beat him. I really want to become better than him at tennis, but at the same time I don't want to beat him or else we won't have any other reason to stick together and play doubles together. Nya. You know afterwards we were in the changing room and he said to me: Eiji… You've gotten a lot better. Unya! That made me so happy! And he had this really handsome look on his face, and this really kind smile of his! Don't you think Oishi's really kind?" Kikumaru Eiji rambled on with extravagant hand gestures as he told his story.
"He's okay." Fuji shrugged.
"Yea! He's a really great guy. He's always so nice to everyone, not only me. I guess that's why I admire him so much! You know the other day he asked me about you." The redhead grinned.
"Oh?" Fuji blinked.
"Yea, he wanted to know if you're okay living in that tent all by yourself. The whole school knows what happened with Ann-san, but no one really knows how to handle it. Maybe that's why the principal and none of the teachers objected to you staying out here. He also wanted to know if you and Yuuta were doing okay." Kikumaru informed.
"Precious Yuuta." Fuji sighed as he pulled out a straw doll from out of his school bag, "I was told if I keep this voodoo doll close by, Yuuta will return to me."
"Did it work?" Kikumaru asked in interest, his eyes widening.
"No." Fuji shook his head, "I'm running out of ideas. I did that ritual in that black magic book I borrowed from the school library, you know the one with the candles. It didn't work. Then the one with sacrificial sheep blood didn't work either."
"Maybe you need to sacrifice a human?" Kikumaru questioned.
"Maybe." Fuji mumbled.
"Though, I'm pretty sure Oishi won't agree to that. He's so nice that I think he's vegetarian, since he loves people and animals. He's so cool and we have a lot in common too, cause I love animals! When I grow up I want to be a vet and maybe own a pet store! How amazing will that be nya?" Kikumaru grinned.
"Pretty amazing." Fuji nodded.
"What do you want to be Syu-chan?" The redhead asked.
"A hunter." Fuji replied simply.
"What are you gonna hunt for?" The redhead questioned.
"Yuuta's heart." Fuji sighed as he slumped over on his desk.
"Don't worry. I'm sure Yuuta will forgive you sooner or later, you know it's a good thing he isn't yelling at you and stuff." Kikumaru tried to sympathize.
"I'd rather he yell at me. That way we'll still be talking… somewhat." Fuji replied.
Kikumaru remained quiet.
"I'm sorry, I keep bringing down the mood." Fuji apologized.
"You don't need to apologize." Kikumaru shrugged.
"Sorry." Fuji repeated.
The redhead frowned.
"This time I'm apologizing for apologizing." Fuji explained.
"Well, if you're so into apologizing, think you can do me a favour?" Kikumaru asked.
"Depends what the favour is."
"Think you can go on a double date with me?" The redhead asked.
"Double date? With who?" Fuji blinked.
"Oishi and… Tezuka?" Kikumaru tilted his head slightly.
"No!" Fuji shook his head, "It's been super awkward between Tezuka and I, especially since I cornered him in the bathroom."
"But how will I get Oishi to confess if it isn't some double date thing, but not really! Unya! You know what I mean right? Like, it's set up like a double date but isn't really, but hopefully he'll get the hint, nya!" The redhead whined.
Fuji crossed his arms and sighed, "Oishi's a really shy guy, and Tezuka's out of the question. I bet you can't even get them to agree to this double date."
The next day…
"What a fun idea Eiji!" Oishi Syuichiro commented as he walked side by side with his tennis doubles partner. Walking slightly behind the pair were both Tezuka and Fuji who made sure to take a look at every single sign, shop stand, and bizarre animals along the way, while making sure to avoid even the smallest glance at one another.
"Check out the giraffes!" Kikumaru pointed out with a large smile on his face as he dragged everyone over to the large cage.
"They're really nice to look at." Oishi nodded as they pushed past a group of around five boys to get closer to the cage.
"Syu-chan! Let's take a picture!" Kikumaru cheered as he pulled out a camera and wrapped an arm around the boy disguised as a girl's shoulder. He outstretched his arm and snapped a few pictures with his free hand.
"Eiji, I can take the picture if you want." Oishi offered.
"No you can't. Because we have to take a group picture!" The redhead cheered as he approached a group of nearby boys, "Excuse me? Unya! Do you think you can take our photo?"
"Sure! And you can shoot me if I take a bad photo. Pfft!" A teenager with orange hair and quite the serious face on replied. He was met by a swift kick in the face.
"Pardon my friends." Another teenager with bleached white hair with black underneath apologized, "They can be a bit- FUJI?! FUJI SYUSUKE?"
"Ahaha." Fuji laughed nervously, "Fancy seeing you here Kojirou."
"You certainly look different." The boy with the due-toned hair nodded as he tried to suppress his laughter.
"Thank you." Fuji nodded stiffly.
"Syu-chan? Who's this?" Kikumaru questioned as Oishi looked on with interest, and Tezuka merely fisted his hands and glared.
"Saeki Kojirou. He's my fri-"
"Boyfriend." Saeki shrugged with a large grin on his face.
The redhead widened his eyes, "Boyfriend? I thought you were single!"
"I am." Fuji corrected.
"I hope you'll say 'I do' rather than 'I am' at the ceremony." Saeki laughed as he tossed an arm around Fuji's shoulders.
"If they cantaloupe they should marry. Pfft!" The orange haired teen cracked a funny, which really wasn't all too funny for the rest who stared on in horror.
Saeki let out a small cough to clear the awkward silence left by the horrible pun, "Well, I don't think there will be any problems with elopement. Australia anyone?"
Tezuka frowned, "Nice to meet you, but we should get going since we have to meet cur-"
"Things made in Australia are usually high koala-ty. Pfft!" The orange haired teen interrupted. There was silence once more.
"Great!" Saeki let out a small chuckle, "You're right! You guys should go ahead and check out the rest of the zoo since you have curfew and all."
"It was nice meeting you." Oishi nodded.
"Yup, yup." Saeki nodded as they began to walk away from the giraffes.
"Um… Saeki-san?" Kikumaru tilted his head.
"Yes? Can I help you? Um… sorry I don't think I caught any of your names." Saeki wondered.
"He's Kikumaru Eiji, this guy's Tezuka Kunimitsu, and I'm Oishi. But your friends are all the way back there." Oishi informed.
"Yes, they are. Bad puns are also all the way back there, Oishi-san." Saeki responded, "Besides, I haven't seen my Syu-chan in ages."
"Yours?" Tezuka questioned with a slight glare.
"Jealous? Tetsuka-san is it?" Saeki grinned as he tightened his hold around Fuji's shoulder with his arm. Tezuka continued to glare.
"Oh… um… nya! Alligators!" Kikumaru chirped nervously to break the tension.
"So Syu, how are things with Yuuta?" Saeki questioned destroying the redhead's efforts.
"Still bad." Fuji sighed.
"I'm sure it'll get better." Oishi added, "They're family after all."
"That's right nya! Family." Kikumaru nodded in agreement.
"True. I'm kind of surprised he's acting all up just because of some girl." Saeki shrugged, "I remember back in grade school where Yuuta used to bully the girls he liked. It was pretty funny to watch."
"Oh! How do you know about Ann-san?" Kikumaru wondered loudly.
"Haven't you heard of email? The benefits of living in a developed country in the twenty first century, as well with the help of internet and electricity." Saeki explained, "How do you go to the bathroom at night? With torchlight?"
"You always talk to much." Fuji sighed.
"You don't talk enough." Saeki retorted with a large grin on, "How is it you never mentioned your… new hairstyle to me in any of your emails? Well, it doesn't matter. I've seen enough of alligators where to next friends?"
Tezuka glared. Oishi let out a nervous chuckle obviously aware of the rather strong tension that seemed to be following them, "Flamingos?"
"Great idea Oishi!" Kikumaru cheered.
Saeki arched a brow, "I see… Yea, a great idea Oishi-kun. You two can go check the birds out. Syu, Tetsuka-kun, and I will go check out the bears. We'll meet you guy in a half hour at… say the aquariums?"
"Oh… uh. Sure." Kikumaru nodded unsurely with a faint blush covering his cheeks.
"Y-yea." Oishi nodded, "Have fun with the bears."
"What was that all about?" Tezuka glared as the tennis doubles pair walked away in the opposite direction.
"Come on jealous-kun, isn't it obvious?" Saeki questioned.
Tezuka frowned.
"Redhead kid has an obvious crush on shiny haired kid, who clearly likes redhead kid back, else they wouldn't have been walking side by side since I first bumped into your mighty fun group." Saeki explained, "Though, I don't blame you for not noticing. I've got pretty good eyesight, and to be honest you aren't the brightest colour in the crayon box."
"Crayons?" Tezuka questioned with a raised eyebrow, "By the way, you should remove your arm off Fuji-san's shoulders. Friends shouldn't act that way."
"She's not any friend." Saeki corrected, "Since we were in preschool she's been planning our wedding day. It's natural that Syu and I are close. And the crayons were only an analogy."
Fuji shook his head and sighed.
Meanwhile by the flamingos, Oishi Syuichiro and Kikumaru Eiji watched as the pink birds walked about in ankle deep water, not really doing much. Their actions were very similar to that of the tennis pair who hadn't spoken a word since they left the rest of the group. They just stood in awkward silence in front of the flamingos for ten… now fifteen minutes. Kikumaru shuffled around nervously on his feet. Despite given this chance to be alone with Oishi thanks to Syu-chan's childhood friend, Kikumaru couldn't help but to stand by and wait. And despite being a boy, he made the effort of going into bookstores and buying those A Girl's Handbook Must Haves regardless of the strange looks the cashiers would give him. And despite how all those books encouraged him that it's ok to take risks and make the first move, he just… couldn't.
Oishi let out small cough startling him.
"W-We should start heading to the aquariums." Oishi suggested.
"Ah… yea." Kikumaru offered a slow nod.
"I think it's that way." Oishi pointed as he began to walk in said direction.
"Wait!" Kikumaru shouted out. Now was the moment of truth he was going to take love by the horns and face it, "I really like you!"
"I… I like you too Eiji-kun." Oishi blinked.
"No!" Kikumaru protested, "I really, really, really like you!"
"Oh…" Oishi blinked.
Kikumaru waited before offering a weak smile, "As I thought? Well, it's normal I guess cause you're a boy and I'm a boy and…"
"Eiji…" Oishi said softly, "You being a boy doesn't really matter to me, because I really like you too."
"You… Really?" The redhead blinked.
"Yea… I really like you, since the moment we played doubles together." Oishi explained.
"Oh… So, me being a boy doesn't really matter?" Kikumaru asked.
"Not at all." Oishi smiled.
"Unya!" Kikumaru cheered as he wrapped his arms around his double partner's neck, "Oishi is so great!"
"Hey Eiji, we should really head over to the aquariums." Oishi interrupted.
"Right! We wouldn't want to leave them waiting!" Kikumaru grinned.
"And so I want to introduce to everyone my boyfriend!" Kikumaru Eiji announced loudly as they were reunited with a lopsided smiling Fuji, a positively glowing Saeki, and Tezuka with a rather angrily twitching eye.
"Congratulations!" Saeki and Fuji cheered. Even the beluga whales seemed to be cheering, then again it was their feeding time so they were naturally very happy.
"So are you two planning on getting married yet?" Saeki questioned.
"Married?" Oishi stuttered and blushed.
"Unya! Too soon to be talking about that!" The redhead squealed.
"Marriage is a nice thing to think about… ne Tetsuka-kun?" Saeki grinned to the positively crossed teen next to him.
Tezuka remained silent and livid.
Saeki shrugged as he turned his attention onto the person still tucked under his arm, "He's quite the jealous little guy isn't he? He should learn not to take things too seriously."
"Well, you can be quite the smart alec at times." Fuji retorted.
"Syu." Saeki sighed loudly properly gaining the full attention of everyone in the aquarium if Kikumaru's announcement of his new boyfriend hadn't yet already, "We've been so close since forever. Since we were little I've always been the one to look out for you, and don't get me wrong because I still am. To be honest, I can only think of you as a younger… sister, of sorts. So, I'm sorry if I may have led you on and gave you false hope of a relationship with me. But you don't have to worry about incestuous whatever we're only brother and sister in soul and spirit, we can still have sex if you really want since you always get so excited around me."
The entire aquarium remained silent, everyone with similar open mouthed and wide-eyed expressions on their faces. Even the seals didn't have the decency to bark.
Kikumaru (being the first to recover) managed to weakly remark, "Wow. I think you just got publicly dumped Syu-chan."
Oishi sighed, "I don't think she heard you. She's still in shock."
Later that night, Tezuka, Oishi, Kikumaru and Fuji will be explaining to their homeroom teacher Ryuzaki Sumire-sensei that the reason why they didn't meet curfew was due to Fuji's late return into consciousness.
To be continued.
Note: Hope you all enjoyed his chapter! I've always imagined Saeki's character to be very similar Fuji's because they enjoy seeing people's reactions and enjoy being in awkward situations, which is why they get along so well except he's more outspoken (he's basically a shit disturber). Which is why (for me anyways) it felt really natural to type out the name game of Tetsuka instead of Tezuka as Fuji calls Mizuki by various forms.
Thanks for reading! Thanks multiplied by infinity to those who review! And I'll try my best to update quickly!
