Date: August 28, 2009
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 Masi. You've been reading Gender Bender since the very beginning and I am truly grateful. Thank you so much for reading and for every single one of your reviews! I hope you'll enjoy this chapter and the finale to come.
Chapter 13
Mr. Not THAT Big
Earthquakes weren't that uncommon in Japan. Regardless, they were still a very frightening experiences. Fuji Syusuke woke up that morning to his tent shaking. The most important thing to do during an earthquake is to protect your head. So Fuji did just that. He grabbed his trusty yellow hardhat and placed it on his head before crouching into a ball and waiting for the tremors to end. And he waited… and waited. It was a good while until he realized that it was just his tent that was shaking and not the physical soccer field the tent was planted on. And so he removed his hardhat and unzipped his tent to come face to face with a dot.
Fuji blinked. A dot?
"Are you Fuji Syusuke?" An angry looking man with a dot on his forehead and a bad haircut questioned.
"Yes?" Fuji blinked, still rather disorientated from the mock earthquake.
"You think you're so great huh? Breaking my little sister's heart like that. Who do you think you are?" He growled.
"Sorry? But, who are you?" Fuji questioned.
"Me? I'm Tachibana Kippei! And I-" Ann's older brother's face quickly changed as he stared into Fuji's blue eyes. Fuji's instincts couldn't deny the turn in atmosphere and the sparkly pastels floating around them.
"Is anything wrong Tachibana-san?" Fuji asked, noticing the change in the other's face.
"Call me Kippei-senpai." He replied in a somewhat deeper voice with a blush over his cheeks.
Fuji sighed, not another one.
"Fuji Syusuke… I heard there was a freshman lady who is exceptional in tennis. What I didn't hear that she was so… gorgeous, like an angel." Tachibana continued to blush, "Just because I'm not on the tennis team doesn't mean that I too am not good. Fuji-chan, will you have a tennis match with me?"
"I'm kind of tired." Fuji murmured and tried to zip his tent back up.
Tachibana put his finger in the way, "Yes, we will have a great tennis match. If I win will you consider going on a date with me? No! Will you consider being my girlfriend?"
Fuji let out a nervous chuckle as he tried more forcefully to zip up his tent.
"Get dressed my dear. Let's have our love match." Tachibana chuckled removing his finger.
Fuji took that opportunity to zip up his tent, and plop onto his half repaired sleeping bag that had a faint 'Mada mada dane' still imprinted on it. He looked up at the space Yuu-chan the second (may he rest in peace) used to sit, "Why are both the brother and sister mental? Ghost of Yuu-chan the second… please guide me."
And that was how Fuji Syusuke was forced into playing a tennis match with Tachibana Kippei who was making corny jokes regarding 15 to love, 30 love and so on. In fact, Tachibana was perhaps too flustered with his own cleverness regarding his lame tennis joke that he lost 6-0 just for the opportunity to say 'I 15 love you' after every round. Nevertheless, Tachibana was shocked when he lost (he's actually a really good tennis player, I swear it). He was shocked but at the same time, he felt something burning in his chest as he shook the young lady's hand over the net.
"Fuji-chan," At first he was taken by his shock of losing, but he knew what this burning was, "You beat me fair and square. Your technique, your movement… beautiful and graceful. I've fallen in love with you. No! From the moment I laid my eyes on you I've fallen in love. However, proving that you're not only just beautiful but quite skilled at the greatest sport in the entire world… I believe I've fallen deeper in love with you."
"Thanks," Fuji replied, "But I kind of have enough to deal with, including my darling brother's taste in… things."
"Don't worry, relieve your stresses and problems onto me!" Tachibana declared loudly, so loudly in fact that it caught the ears of a particularly charming young man walking by.
"If it isn't Tachibana." Atobe Keigo smirked.
"What do you want Atobe?" Tachibana frowned.
There was some sort of tension in the air that Fuji really didn't want to be a part of. The truth in the matter is, when Tachibana Kippei was a freshman last year he had glorious locks of flowing golden hair that would have made Rapunzel turn green with envy. Atobe Keigo was in the same year and class as Tachibana Kippei and would absolutely hate the fact that someone else had better hair than him. So Atobe made his close friend Shishidou Ryou (who sat in the seat behind Tachibana) cut off all of Tachibana's golden locks. Shishidou of course had no objections cause he wants to be a hairdresser when he grows up, so the extra practice would be nice. Not to mention Shishidou always and still carries a pair of scissors in his pocket.
"Get away from my girlfriend." Atobe demanded as he pranced onto the tennis courts and wrapped an arm around Fuji's shoulder.
"Saa… I'm going to take a shower." Fuji attempted to excuse himself.
"With me." Atobe smirked.
"By myself." Fuji corrected.
"In my room, since the poor princess is living in not the best of conditions." Atobe smirked.
"My Kajimotousan's room, since he's my otousan and he's busy in the student council office." Fuji corrected and took this opportunity to dash.
Atobe continued to smirk, "She always plays so hard to get."
"For me." Tachibana added.
"Excuse me? Didn't you see the way my princess was looking at me?" Atobe questioned.
"What are you talking about? You're so delusional!" Tachibana retorted.
Atobe scoffed, "Whatever. She likes me better. I'm better looking, smarter, faster, better, more charming. And what about you? All you have is a bad haircut."
"Thanks to you!" Tachibana growled.
"Fuji likes me more. Face it." Atobe replied.
"I'll win her over." Tachibana crossed his arms.
"Prove me wrong." Atobe smirked.
"Nya! Look there! I wonder what they're doing." Kikumaru pointed as he dragged his best friend by the arm towards the track field. Fuji watched with a rather uninterested look upon his face as one Atobe Keigo and one Tachibana Kippei ran around in circles around the track field with no signs of slowing down. In fact, they seemed to be running faster and faster by the second all the while managing to yell at each other.
"Ah! Fuji-chan!" A girl in his class greeted, "You must feel like such a lucky girl having Atobe-sama and Tachibana-senpai competing over you."
"Excuse me?" Fuji's smile quivered.
"Weren't you dating the two of them at the same time?" The girl wondered.
"Eh?" Fuji blinked then turned his attention to his two senpai.
"Wow nya! This is kind of funny! If they knew you were a b-"
Fuji quickly covered the redhead's mouth, gave a small nervous chuckle and dragged said redhead away from the crowd. And straight onto-
"Ouch."
"Echizen?" Fuji wondered as he whipped around to see the young black haired boy who in earlier chapters went from trying to seduce his cross-dressing senpai (not that he knows about the whole cross-dressing thing) and then to killing one of his senpai's closest friends (Yuu-cha the second may you rest in peace). It all ended rather happily as Echizen was now in a very loving burger eating running into the sunset relationship with a certain Momoshiro Takeshi. And since then, Echizen had behaved as the perfect cute kouhai any cross-dressing senpai would have wanted.
"Oh, Fuji-senpai." Echizen Ryoma greeted, "Why isn't anyone playing tennis?"
"Everyone's too busy watching our upper class men fight nya!" Kikumaru replied loudly.
"Mada mada dane." Echizen shrugged, "I skipped out on class to watch my favourite Fuji-senpai play…"
"Saa… Sorry to disappoint Echizen." Fuji smiled.
"Okaaay, I guess I'm going to go back to the middle school. See you around." The capped boy waved goodbye.
"Bye, bye!" Kikumaru grinned as Fuji simply waved.
There were a bunch of thundering footsteps that just sounded louder and louder.
"Fuji-chan!" A girl in their class yelled, "Run!!!"
Fuji lifted his head up to see his Atobe-senpai and his newly introduced Tachibana-senpai running at full speed towards him. The ground started to rumble as they came closer and closer with their eyes wide and nostrils flaring.
Fuji let out a small squeak as his red headed best friend gave him a small push for a head start. He began to run as fast as his legs could carry him, ignoring the throbbing feeling of the sudden lactic acid build up in his thighs.
"Oh look! There appears to be a little cute rabbit running in front of us." Atobe said loudly as he gasped for breath, all the while very charmingly (he's very, very charming).
"Well, isn't that the case!" Tachibana laughed rather harshly as he too was gasping for air their speed never slowing.
Fuji leaped into the main school building running with full force down the hallways, jumping over garbage cans. How the heck did he get into this situation? He could feel his wig slip off… This was bad! He ran up a couple flights of stairs.
"It's like an obstacle course!" Tachibana pointed out in glee while following the honey haired brunet up the steps.
"Leave me out of this!" Fuji gasped for air as he ran down another corridor, pushed open a few doors and ran by a set of lockers.
"She's quite fast. I should know." Atobe smirked as sweat poured down his face.
Fuji continued to run, feeling his lungs start to squeeze. He pushed over a garbage can hoping to slow them down as he lunged up another set of stairs. He could finally see his destination: the student council office! He pushed the door open and locked it behind him, wheezing for air.
"Lucky! Fuji-chan!" Sengoku greeted, "I'll treat you for ice cream, ne? Unfortunately Kajimoto-senpai's in a bad mood, so everyone's avoiding his office today."
Fuji looked up frantically at his orange haired senpai, "I, I'm… in danger."
"Eh?" Sengoku blinked watching as Fuji bolted into the student council president's office. Seconds later the student council office's door broke open and the panting Atobe and Tachibana pushed their way through, sweat covering every inch of their bodies. They ran towards the place they knew Fuji would be hiding kicking the door open much to the horrified shock of everyone in the room: Sengoku, Inui, Jirou (he woke up!), Marui and Jackal, and Tezuka (the freshman rep who was actually doing his assigned duties today and was at the photocopying machine instead of playing tennis). Fortunately for Akutsu, he got arrested again for throwing rocks at some under class men, Yukimura was still in the hospital, and Niou was off most likely stalking Yagyuu-sensei.
It was dead silent.
The surroundings of the student council office started to darken.
Seconds later, Fuji, Atobe, and Tachibana solemnly tiptoed out of the room.
"Scary…" Tachibana sighed grasping his chest. Everyone in the room couldn't help but to nod their heads in agreement (except for Inui who was jotting something down in his green notebook).
"Ah! Tezuka! What are you doing here?" Fuji asked.
"I have to make and deliver these photocopies to Ryuzaki-sensei." Tezuka replied.
"I see. I'll help you!" Fuji took this opportunity to flee to his classmate's side.
"She's such a helpful girl. Very good qualities in a woman." Tachibana nodded his head with a growing smile on his face.
"Back off." Atobe crossed his arms, "She's mine. She did after all give me her first kiss."
Tezuka coughed.
Everyone in the room turned towards the bespectacled brunet. Jirou snored.
"Lucky!" Sengoku trotted around the room, while both Atobe and Tachibana looked horrified.
"Ah…" Fuji interrupted and confessed, "Tezuka didn't take my first kiss."
Inui arched an eyebrow, his glasses flashing as his writing speed increased.
Atobe, Tachibana and now Tezuka were staring at her intently.
"Was it that Saeki kid?" Tezuka asked darkly.
"Who's this Saeki-supporting-character person?" Atobe frowned in questioning.
"PURI!" A student with bleached white hair pranced into the room unaware of the current rather tense atmosphere the room held, "Ya-gy-uu-sama is taking the great master of love Niou Masaharu to the golf course tomorrow! I will be the best caddy boy he'll ever experience that he'll want to have me around forever!"
Everyone in the room glared darkly at him.
"Eh?" Niou blinked, "What's going on here?"
Marui bounced to his side, whispered something in his ear and flipped back to his seat beside Jackal. Niou could only smirk and take a seat to watch the show.
"Saeki Kojirou's my childhood friend." Fuji shrugged dismissing the matter.
"Oh." Tachibana nodded, "And your first kiss then?"
Fuji sighed, "It happened a long time ago when I was still in primary school… He was really cute and I couldn't help myself…"
"Interesting…" Inui mumbled.
"We were playing in the sandbox together in the playground and the moment just felt right… So it couldn't be helped when I kissed Yuuta. He looked so cute!" Fuji cheered blushing at the fond memory. Everyone in the room let out groans of disappoint, while a certain three could only sigh in relief (another love rival would make the game tougher). Atobe feeling rather sticky from the run, decided to retreat to his dorm room for a much needed shower. Tachibana decided to do similar as he exited the room as well. Fuji and Tezuka exchanged glances.
"What's going on with Atobe-senpai and Tachibana-senpai?" Tezuka questioned as they walked down the hallway side by side with a stack of papers in their hands. It felt just like the old days…
"Oh. Nothing, they're just playing." Fuji smiled and chuckled nervously.
"Aa…" Tezuka nodded.
"Ne Tezuka?" Fuji questioned.
"Yes?"
"What do you think of me?" Fuji asked.
Tezuka blinked and paused in step for a second, "I told you a long time ago. I like you Fuji. You've always caught my attention."
"Um… Earlier in the year when we went on that date with Yuuta and Ann…" Fuji began.
"I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to harp on the past." Tezuka replied curtly.
"I was just wondering… cause a lot of things happened and I just wanted to know what you think of me now." Fuji tried his best to smile.
"You like me as a friend, so we'll be friends." Tezuka shrugged.
"The other day you told Echizen that you didn't like boys, what do you mean?" Fuji asked, it was something on his mind that was bothering him.
"I'm not interested in dating other men." Tezuka replied straight forward.
"Oh." Fuji nodded, for some reason that feeling he felt the other day didn't go away. He felt… kind of disappointed.
"We're here. Thanks for the help." Tezuka nodded as they stopped in front of one of their classrooms.
"Oh, Tezuka-kun, Fuji-chan come in." Ryuzaki-sensei greeted, "Are those what I asked for?"
"Aa." Tezuka nodded.
"Good work." Ryuzaki-sensei sighed.
"Is something wrong sensei?" Fuji questioned.
"My granddaughter Sakuno… she seems to have fallen in love again… love is so much trouble." Ryuzaki-sensei explained.
"Tell me about it." Fuji sighed.
"Syu-chan!" Kikumaru Eiji bounced into the room; his big blue eyes wide open in fright.
"What's wrong?" Fuji asked as Tezuka and Ryuzaki-sensei turned their attention onto the redhead.
"Y-Your tent!" Kikumaru gasped for breath, clearly having ran here.
"What about my tent?" Fuji blinked.
"A-Atobe-senpai and New-senpai…" Kikumaru breathed, "They-"
"No." Fuji's eyes widened.
"What's going on?" Tezuka questioned.
Fuji and Tezuka followed Kikumaru out towards the soccer field, and surely enough Fuji's tent laid there in pieces. Completely destroyed as Atobe and Tachibana were now competing in a rather violent soccer match as the soccer team stood back and watched in awe.
"I'm homeless!" Fuji shrieked.
Fuji Syusuke sat down in home economics class; his shoulders were slumped, as he was running a needle and thread through large pieces of fluffy brown fabric. The skill of sowing required a lot of concentration… though it was hard cause he didn't know where he'd be sleeping tonight. He poked the needle through the material (and his finger), before pulling the needle out and repeating the same actions. He momentarily paused on his construction of Yuu-chan the Third as loud shouts could be heard from down the hallway. The entire class sat silently listening as the shouts came closer and closer.
Fuji closed his eyes. He knew what was coming, but if he closed his eyes and wished hard enough maybe… just maybe it would all go away.
"TAKE THAT!" Atobe yelled as his tennis racquet met with Tachibana's tennis racquet. They continued to duel throughout the room, standing on tables, kicking chairs at one another, all the while using their tennis racquets as swords.
Fuji could feel the heat rise up in his cheeks. 1: They made him run like mad today. 2. Kajimotousan got really angry. 3. Tezuka doesn't like the thought of dating another boy. 4. He was homeless! Homeless! 5. They were disrupting his quiet time as he tried to construct Yuu-chan the third!
"Hiya!" Tachibana growled. There was a large rip. The classroom was dead silent.
"Yuu-chan… the third…" Fuji's eyes widened.
Yuu-chan the third under construction fell from Tachibana's racquet onto the floor.
"Don't worry my princess." Atobe smiled charmingly, "I'll fix it."
"Yuu-chan…" Fuji gasped.
"Let me do it!" Tachibana tore the brown fluffy fabric from Atobe, the stuffing flying everywhere. Everywhere.
"No! I'm better!" Atobe retorted tearing it away from Tachibana as he grabbed a pair of scissors and attempted to make it better.
Fuji's eyes widened as small pieces of brown fabric hit the floor… the stuffing wouldn't stop flowing from the large wounds in Yuu-chan the third's fur.
"He…"
"Did you say something princess?" Atobe asked as they turned to face Fuji who had his face down turned.
"He didn't even have a chance to experience life yet… And… He never had a chance to be held… hugged…" Fuji muttered.
"Well, don't worry, he's better see?" Atobe replied with all the charm he could muster (so much charm!) as he placed the shredded fabric and what's left of the stuffing in front of Fuji.
"Can you both come with me?" Fuji requested darkly.
"S-Sure…" Both boys stuttered.
The three of them stood under a stairwell with a very tense feeling in the air. Atobe and Tachibana exchanged looks before turning their attention back onto the small brunet.
Fuji pulled the zipper on his skirt.
"No! You mustn't do that! It's improper for a lady." Atobe informed, but couldn't help but to feel a hot feeling down in his pants. It seemed Tachibana was the same as his mouth was wide open in anticipation.
Fuji pulled down his skirt.
Atobe and Tachibana froze in place.
"I'm a boy."
"A very… well endowed boy." Atobe coughed his mouth still slightly open. A suddenly memory flashed in front of is eyes: car ride, camping trip, setting up a tent, talking to some nameless bleached haired boy about muscles, Tezuka was there somewhat joining in, pulling down his pants… Atobe's eyes widened as he looked down on his own Mr. Big who compared to Fuji's Mr. Big seemed so much more like a Mr. Not THAT Big.
"Yes. Very well endowed." Tachibana blinked, unconsciously placing his hands over his own private part. It wasn't that he was small… it was just that Fuji's was just really big.
"When Yuuta left to this school, I felt like he was abandoning me. It was horrible. I needed to do everything in my power to come here. Just to be with him. I know he's going to grow up one day, but we're twins. Isn't that special? I just wanted everything to be like it was when we were growing up. The only way I could come to this school was as a girl. And it's a small price to pay to spend time with Yuuta." Fuji explained.
"Y-You're a boy?"
Fuji gasped as he looked up. Atobe and Tachibana also turned around to see Tezuka up the steps looking down at them with a shocked look on his face. Fuji locked his eyes with Tezuka's bronze ones a bad feeling shivered through his spine and his stomach dropped. Tezuka bolted up the stairs.
"Wait… Tezuka!" Fuji shouted.
He pulled up his skirt and started to chase after him… if it weren't for something tugging onto his arm. He looked back to see both Atobe and Tachibana holding onto him.
"Fuji-chan… I don't care if you're a girl or a boy. You're still beautiful." Tachibana's eyes shone.
Fuji could see a very charming almost predator like smile forming on his Atobe-senpai's lips, "And I thought you couldn't be even more attractive."
To be continued.
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