Iris

Salty- Please Enjoy. Don't own Pot and I probably won't by the time this story ends so...Can I not say it anymore? I don't wanna!

Thanks Coco96. You said soon so~...TADAH!

Chapter 11. Justin Timberlake came to my house!

Kikumaru pov-

OMG. OMG. OMG! This morning, I got a message from Kazuki-chan. Something really really bad happened to Tsumi-chan. He didn't tell me what but he said that it was an emergency. I had to get to their house right away. Unfortunately, those dang trains didn't move fast enough!

Why did I have to live on the other side of town? Ugh! I hoped that Kazuki-chan could handle whatever what was happening!

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"You liar!"

Kazuki-chan's a liar! Tsumi-chan just had a little cold!

"I'm not a liar," he sighed. There were dark circles under his eyes and there were tons of band-aids on his fingers. "Kata-chan becomes a vegetable when she gets a cold. It's like taking care of a frigging two month old." He pointed to a large heap of colorful blankets that I hadn't seen before, which was weird because it was in the middle of the floor in front of me and almost reached my hips! "If you dig into those for a bit, you'll see what I mean, so shut the heck up."

I raised my arms in defense before pulling the(shivering)blankets apart. After a while, I saw bits of light brown hair. It was chestnut, like Tsumi-chan's!

I explored further and found an eye and an ear and a chin. So far, it was only half of Tsumi-chan's face.

"Tsumi-chan!" The eye stared at me, or through me, blankly.

"Justin...Timberlake?" Her voice was high, and happy, like a child's. "Hello...Wait till I tell Ren-chan...that Justin's here..." After a while, I uncovered her entire face, which smiled widely at me. What was wrong with her? She never smiled like that before!

"Hey, Kazuki-chan-" I looked up, but Kazuki-chan was asleep on the couch, snoring like a whale. How did I not notice him snoring? That was truly the bestest question ever... But, now he was asleep...I couldn't just leave and have sick Tsumi-chan all by herself...

"Justin-kun?" I looked to Tsumi-chan, guessing that Justin was now my name. "Can you get me some...water?" I nodded.

"Sure, Tsumi-chan!" I filled a glass with some tap and set it down next to her. She stared at it.

"I...can't move my arms..." She grinned at me sheepishly.

"Ah, yeah." With every muscle I had gained from tennis, I pulled up the heap of blankets and Tsumi-chan and set her-sitting-against the wall so she wouldn't choke on the water. When I was successful, I raised the glass of tap to her mouth and slowly let the water drip into her dry mouth so she didn't, like, have a bad water experience or something.

"Thanks," she smiled again once she finished, then frowned. "My heads...spinning..." I nodded and attempted to set her down without hurting her. Talk about impossible! I was almost sweating by the time she was settled down on the floor!

After a while, I thought she fell asleep so I grabbed a chair from the kitchen not too far away-about a foot from the bathroom-and set it down near Tsumi-chan so I could hear or see if anything happened to her. When all that was settled, I grabbed a blanket that was left over from Tsumi-chan and covered Kazuki-chan-he looked cold. He mumbled and smiled when I did. It made me grin!

"Hey, hey, Justin-kun," she looked at me dazed and apparently not asleep. "I'm hungry. Make ramen. I want...ramen!"

"Okay!" I nodded and three to four minutes later I came back with a steaming cup of ramen. "Tsumi-chan! I'm done!" There was no reply. I looked at the heap of blankets-which was surprisingly flat...and she was gone! I set down the ramen, unnerved. The door was open! I was a failure! What if she was dead? Like, like she tried to cross the street? No. No. No. No. No. No. NO!

"Justin...kun?" I sighed at the voice from behind me, extremely relieved.

"What is it?" I asked glancing over my shou-"Tsumi-chan?" She-she was only wearing a really thin tank top and underwear! W-why wasn't she wearing warmer clothes? Summer vacation just started but...she was sick!

I closed my eyes, put my hand over them as a shade and turned away.

"Um, please put some clothes on, Tsumi-chan..."

"Okay!" I heard her feet skip away and sat down, not believing what I just saw. Who knew that just-I glanced at my leather wrist watch-an hour could make me so tired! And Captain Tezuka's wasn't even there! "I'm dressed, Justin-kun!" Slowly, slowly, I turned back and saw her in a large brown coat and dark gray sweats. She twirled around and around. I laughed a little, until she stopped suddenly...and swayed...

"Oh no!" I managed to prevent her from not falling grabbing onto her arms so that she was just a little off from the ground. Then, I very gently placed her on the ground, without making her hit her head on the wall.

She grinned widely at me.

"You saved my life Justin!" Her face was reddened from the cold. Suddenly, she sat up and patted the floor next to her. "Sit with me!"

I did so, right across from her. And she...started leaning—was she gonna fall?—and she got really close to my face-and she was too fast for me to do anything about-And she. Kissed. Me.

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"I love you Justin Timberlake!" Tsumi-chan smiled widely at me, and then her eyes suddenly shut and she hit her head on a chair leg and passed out on the floor.

I was frozen. Tsumi-chan...one of my buddies just stole my first kiss...I glanced at her happy face and for the first time, I saw her differently. Not romantically or anything but as a girl. Usually, I'd never think about people's gender but...it was weird. Tsumi-chan was a girl.

Her skin was softer, her chestnut brown hair was longer and shinier and she was short and her lips were pinker and really soft-I blushed so hard that I stopped thinking, stood up and walked around the apartment, eating the ramen without trying.

Why did I have to think like this? Tsumi-chan was a girl, but I shouldn't have thought of her like that! I wanted to go back to when people didn't have genders! Why did she have to kiss me? Why did I have to look like Justin Timberlake-whoever that was? Why did Kazuki have to say there was an emergency?

Dang teen angst!

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Salty- OW! My ear started making weird sounds whenever it's silent or something is too high pitched and loud. Oh, and whoa! Is Eiji finally going through fanfic puberty?