Episode 2: Discovered

"Can you believe it?" Higashida asked Natsuru who yawned, scratching the top of his head. "There's apparently a girl who looks like she's thirteen running around school. Funny thing is that no one has ever seen her before." He then dropped a school newspaper in front of him. "See? Green highlights, wearing our school uniform."

Natsuru opened a eye to look down at the picture. It was of Suiryuu, in the park. She looked nervous, almost as if the sniper had already started to track her. Natsuru wondered how Masumi actually got the picture, maybe it had been earlier.

"No one even knows her name, she's a mystery, just like the female Natsuru," Higashida continued. "Apparently, she's starting school tomorrow."

Behind them sat a boy with light brown hair, wearing the exact same uniform as Natsuru and Higashida.

"Excuse me? A thirteen year old girl, joining our school?" he asked with an eyebrow raised. "Isn't that unusual?"

"Nah, she must either be underdeveloped or really smart. I'm going with underdeveloped, hey, want some pictures Ryu?"

"Of who?" 'Ryu' asked.

"I have a few people. Take your pick."

"Thanks, but no thanks," Ryu shook his head and leaned back in his chair to close his eyes.

"Your loss." Ryu opened a eye to stare at Higashida.

"Hey, Higashida. Who's your new friend?" Natsuru asked, glancing behind him at 'Ryu'.

"Him? He's Suiryuu Hikaru. Don't tell me you've already forgotten your classmates names. Natsuru, this is going to be a horrible year for you if you have!" Higashida smacked his forehead in embarrassment for his friend.

Suiryuu glanced up at his name being said, looking between the two. Emerald green eyes seemingly planning some trouble. The classroom they were in was just a standard classroom, desks and a chalkboard. He and Natsuru both sat next to the windows.

"What? Is there a problem with my name being Suiryuu? It means, Water Dragon, if you're wondering." Suiryuu opened both eyes this time.

"No, but yesterday I talked to a girl who had the same name as you," Natsuru said to which Suiryuu frowned at.

"Really? A girl with the same name as me? Oh snap," Suiryuu said, shrugging. "But I don't see what it has to do with you finding my name strange, Natsuru."

"I don't think I told you my name," Natsuru retorted.

"Unless your friend calls you Natsuru for another reason, I believe he has said your name?" Suiryuu countered. "What are you trying to get at, that I somehow can transform magically into a girl?"

Natsuru shook his head, mentally kicking himself. He had figured that this Suiryuu was related somehow to the Suiryuu that he met at his house. They had the same name, the same eye colour and the same hair colour, but he didn't have green highlights. Something was up…

"Hey! Natsuru, Suiryuu, a GIRL wants to see you both," a male student called out from the hallway. Snickers and smart comments were made as the two got up and walked to the door.

Suiryuu folded his arms and looked down at the orange haired, glasses wearing girl.

"Hey, Akane. What's going on?" Natsuru asked.

"S-shizuku asked me to bring both you and Suiryuu…to her office," Akane replied, casting a glance at Suiryuu who returned it half heartedly.

"Why would she ask for me? Unless she figured out about-never mind," Suiryuu shrugged. "Lead the way."

Natsuru shrugged and let Akane lead the two of them to the office of Shizuku. She brought them by the library. Then, past a barrier of some sort. Which, obviously would seriously harm the two males. Since the school was strictly separated into the two genders. The only safe zone was the library. And even that was barely safe.

The girls that they passed watched as the two male side students walked behind Akane, snickering at them silently. They knew that if two men were on their side, it was a bad sign for them.

Not long after, they reached the office. Akane told them to wait outside while she went in.

"This isn't good!" Natsuru said, pacing behind the light brunette. Suiryuu looked at him with a frown before shrugging and leaning against the wall. "What could she want with me…and you."

"I could say something perverted here, but I wont. Just relax Natsuru. Geeze, you're really starting to put me on edge now…heh." Suiryuu chuckled slightly at his wording for some reason.

Akane came out after a few minutes and gestured for Suiryuu to go inside, he went into the office, hearing the door close behind him. The room was bleak with only large windows lighting it, behind the large chair that President sat on was a large yellow sun with a S on it. Shizuku sat behind a desk with two chairs in front of it. She seemed busy writing some sort of document

Suiryuu went to sit down without even being asked to. Shizuku glanced up, giving him the same look that Akane did before going back to her papers. To Suiryuu, the look was like they were judging him. He just shrugged and leaned back in the chair, staring at the ceiling.

"Do you know why I called you here?" Shizuku asked and Suiryuu shook his head. "The park. Yesterday, I understand you were not at school."

Suiryuu nodded. "I was feeling ill. Puki-"

"Liar."

Wow…like a lie detector… Suiryuu thought. "Wha?"

"Did you hear about the park?"

"Nope. What happened? Someone die, someone decided to try and take the park down?" he asked, looking right at Shizuku. She still was writing in her papers. He was trying to keep his guard up in case she was up to something. His gut was starting to tell him to get the hell out of there.

That's when he noticed something about Shizuku's wrist. It started to glow, red. The inside of her hair turned silver.

"Uh…Miss President…you're hair turned silver…" Suiryuu said, pointing out the obvious. WAIT! CRAP IN A BUCKET!

He looked down at his wrist, which started to glow blue. "You bitch," he said before turning into the girl Suiryuu. "And…now I'm stuck like this for god knows how long."

"I knew it," Shizuku didn't even look up. "It wasn't even that hard to figure it out, Sui."

"Duh? I mean, I said my real name before I knew what I was saying. Sniper scared the shit out of me," she replied defensively, folding her arms Shizuku put her pen down, interlocking her fingers and leaning her chin on them.

Shizuku's gaze kept hers, like she was emitting authority and demanding that Suiryuu not look away. Then Shizuku leaned back, bringing her left hand underneath the desk. Then, she brought out a paper and slid it across the desk. It stopped in front of Suiryuu.

"What's this?" Suiryuu asked, unfolding the newspaper and looking at the front page. "You have got to be shitting me…" the picture was of her, with the title, 'Another new classmate?' She read through the article, her expression getting more and more worried with each word. "You're kidding me…You enrolled this side of me!"

"Indeed." Shizuku pulled out the paper that she had finished writing on and presented it to Suiryuu. She took it and read through it. "T-this is the…"

"Starting today, Miss Hikaru," Shizuku said, pulling another page and writing on it. "Oh, and try not to get raped."

Outside of the office, the female Natsuru and Akane stood, listening into the conversation.

"Why did she say that?" Natsuru asked. Akane sighed.

"Never mind that…" Akane shook her head.

Back inside the office, Suiryuu started to get annoyed.

"So, basically, you're telling me that I have no choice in this…All because somehow, someone freaking saw me in my Kampfer form, in the school uniform!" Suiryuu nearly screamed.

Shizuku didn't respond, instead she seemed more intent on writing in the document.

"Answer me! Why do I have to do this!" she demanded, standing up and slamming her hands onto the desk. The air seemed to grow colder.

Shizuku looked up before calling for Natsuru and Akane in. With the two others in the room, Suiryuu shrank back down into her seat.

"It would be a good idea for you to calm down, Miss Hikaru. After all, not only are there three of us to restrain you if need be, you don't even know what type of Kampfer you are," Shizuku said, returning to her document.

"I think we should go easier on the kid," Natsuru suggested, almost regretting it instantly.

"Who, the fuck are you calling a kid!" Suiryuu jumped up onto the chair, turning right around to face the person who had called her a kid. Natsuru brought her hands up to defend herself with a light chuckle.

"I see. Not only does your body change, but your personality somewhat does," Suiryuu shot Shizuku a glare. "You are much more sensitive about your age, and perhaps, some other things?" Suiryuu became silent, sliding back down into her chair.

"Worst day of my life…" she muttered folding her arms, shrinking to be as small as she could.

"Natsuru, would you mind taking Miss Hikaru to her class?"

"Yes, Miss President…" Natsuru sighed.

Shizuku looked up and over at Natsuru.

"I mean…Shizuku," Natsuru sighed again. "Uh…where's her classroom?"

Shizuku tossed over a piece of paper. Natsuru took a look at it, her eyes went wide open…

(~)

"Class, this is Miss Suiryuu Hikaru," a female teacher said, gesturing to the thirteen year old girl, who was fumbling around, her face bright red. Akane gave her a look of pure hatred while Natsuru looked out the window, completely uninterested.

One of the girls that sat beside him with brown hair and small, oval glasses looked like she was planning on manipulating Suiryuu.

"Why don't you tell the class a bit about yourself?"

"Uh…" Suiryuu blinked and looked up at the teacher. "I like to sing…I'm fairly good a-" she never got to finish before girls started to swarm her.

'Oh my god! You can sing!'

'How old are you!'

Those were a few questions that Suiryuu heard clearly. She did her best to hold back her temper, to not explode at the comments about her height, her chest size (Which she didn't get why it aggravated her…but it did) and how well she sang. Some were comparing her size(Not chest) to Natsuru's and decided, that she was obviously the smallest. They also decided that she did seem a bit spunky.

The teacher sighed, mentally wondering if she would actually get any teaching done.

Unlike when Natsuru came in, the girls left her alone after a few minutes or so…which to Suiryuu felt like hours.

"Now…you can take a seat by…" the teacher said in surprise when the class sat back down. "Akane Mishima." she gestured to the orange haired, glasses wearing girl.

Suiryuu nodded, picking her bag up and walked towards the desk, taking her seat, waving at Akane. She ignored her, much to the displeasure of Suiryuu.

A few hours of learning later brought lunch. Suiryuu was lost in the cafeteria of the girls side. It was much more organized than the boys side, the place was much more colourful, and the tables looked like they were made from marble.

"Hey, Akane!" Suiryuu saw said girl, but she ignored her. "Wha? How rude…" she huffed, folding her arms. Then, she saw Natsuru getting a tray, so she quickly followed behind her. "Natsuru…"

"Whoa! You scared me there, Sui!"

"Eheh…sorry…But, do you know why Akane's giving me the…cold shoulder?" Natsuru shrugged, holding her tray up for the lunch lady to drop food onto it. Suiryuu did the same, shuffling down the line. "I haven't seen Mikoto around," she then said, trying to keep up a conversation.

"Oh, she'll show up," Natsuru responded.

"Wanna eat lunch together?" Suiryuu thought for sure that she would say no. But she nodded.

"As long as you don't mind people watching."

"Huh?" Suiryuu was confused. That is, until they sat down. Pretty much every head in the cafeteria turned to watch them, or rather, Natsuru eat. "What the hell?"

Natsuru shrugged, looking about. "it's hard being me sometimes."

"Oh right, you're one of the three beauties of Seitetsu, along with the President and Sakura…" Suiryuu looked down. "Suddenly, I'm glad I'm like this." Natsuru smiled, and Suiryuu looked away. Figuring that it must have been hard for her to settle into this sort of thing. She took a grape and ate it.

"Still getting used to being…you?"

"Rather hard…to listen to myself and find myself talking in a different voice. See myself smaller."

"Almost like a dream, or a nightmare?" Suiryuu nodded. "I remember waking up like this…it was hard to believe."

"I know…"

"And now, there's you with a even more dramatic change then mine…cause you're younger and not only that, but your body and personality changed."

"I know…You can stop telling me this…" Suiryuu sighed.

(~)

After lunch and a few classes, Suiryuu found herself in gym class in a strange uniform. She wasn't quite sure what she wore were called, but they showed a lot of the leg skin. She also wore a white t-shirt.

"Alright, we're doing gymnastics today," the gym teacher called out in a rough voice. "Or rather, climbing things." She looked amongst the students, pointing at Suiryuu. "You, new girl. Come forward."

Suiryuu gulped, and walked forwards. Her bullet wound had healed when she turned back into her male form. But it still stung, like the wound was still there.

"You are to climb these bars to the top, climb down, hop onto that bar and walk across it then climb the rope and come back down. Finally, vault over that log and then use the spring board to jump and land on the mat. Do I make myself clear?"

Suiryuu looked amongst the obstacles that lay in her way and smirked.

"Crystal." It wasn't that hard. So, she'd make it harder on herself.

"Go then."

Suiryuu sprung into action, running at the bar like ladder. When she reached them she jumped up, bringing her right arm higher up. She climbed the bars like a monkey, only faster. When she made it to the top, she grabbed the top bar with both hands, pushing off with her legs and flipping herself over onto the other side. Feet on the bars as if she climbed over normally.

Then she descended just as quickly as when she climbed the bars. The next bar was a gymnast's bar. She jumped onto it landing backwards. A few steps in, she jumped again, back flipping through the air and landing on the other side, where she turned around and front flipped off of the beam.

The rope came next, and Suiryuu climbed it even faster than when she climbed the ladder bars. She then climbed half-way down after touching the roof and jumped off. Spinning several times in the air before landing on her feet. She then brought her arms up, taking in a deep breath.

She then ran at the next bar, flipping over it with her hands and landing on her feet again. Again, she ran at the spring board, taking flight and spinning around in the air, landing on the mats with a whoosh.

Suiryuu pushed herself off the mats and was met with applause from the teacher, and the rest of her class.

"That was beautiful! I have never seen anyone, in all my years of teaching, do crazy things like that!" the teacher exclaimed, making Suiryuu blush in embarrassment and rub the back of her neck.

"I sorta…do this most of the time…" she responded. She saw Natsuru giving her a thumbs up, and Akane, the cold shoulder again.

(~)

Suiryuu: Well, that's the end of that…Whew…Though, I still wonder why Akane's giving me the cold shoulder.

Shizuku: We still have to figure out what kind of Kampfer you are.

Suiryuu: True, true. Maybe we'll figure it out in the next chapter? Wait! I'm going to get attacked again!

Shizuku: Apparently.

Suiryuu: Why am I the main focus of these chapters!

Shizuku: Perhaps, to draw out your character? I doubt you will last much longer as the true focus of chapters.

Suiryuu: I hope so..

Shizuku: You do realise that little stunt you pulled in the gym will be news the next day.

Suiryuu: WHHHAAAAAAAAAAA!