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Split Personality.
The words hit him a hammer and he tumbled back.
"S-Split personality!?" His mother said, just as shocked as he was.
His father mouth must be open.
"I know it's shocking but it's more common than you think" Said, the man. "Usually when a personality is born, it's born from a traumatic event. The personality feels the need to protect the other from the outside world."
I see..It's close but it's slightly off. Zac thought, he had been here since the very beginning.
"Are you sure that's it?" His father said. "Can we get another doctor to look at him?"
"Mr and Mrs Hizuri. You can take your son to see a thousand doctors and they will all say the same thing" Said, the man. "However, the condition is completely treatable." getting looks of relief from the two. "However, your son must be told about the other personality and he needs to come terms with why the other personality was created in the first place and resolve it. Medication and Therapy can only get him so far."
And Koun had heard enough, he rushed to his room and shut the door loudly behind him.
There was no way he had a split personality!
Those were for people who were crazy!
But then again, why can't he remember most of yesterday?
He shook his head.
He must have passed out and Rick must have been called to take him away before calling his parents.
But then...
How do you explain the fizzy drink next to him and the feeling like his stomach was going to burst as if he had eaten way more than he capable of?
How do explain the flashy clothes he suddenly found himself in?
And Zac wisely did not dare to speak when Koun was in panic mode.
Suddenly Koun heard a knock on the door.
"Son, can we come in?" Said, his dad.
Koun tried to make himself look as casual as possible as they came in but he know full well that the servants had ratted him out.
"Mom. Dad. Can you tell me about what happened yesterday?" He said, hoping he could somehow explain it like it was the effect of special gas.
Both of them looked at each other, wondering who was going to tell him the shocking thing's he had done.
"We'll...Koun" His mother said, sitting down and putting a hand on him. "You dangled a student out of the window"
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"Huh?" Koun said, with understandably wide eyes.
However, it was only the beginning.
Ch 3: All blows miss him.
It was safe to say, Koun was still in shock after he had been told everything.
He had dangled another student out of the window.
He had blackmailed the principle of his school.
He had been planning to blackmail the family that the student, he dangled was from.
And to top it off, he kept on calling himself Zac Hizuri, he rolled on the carpet, wore flashy clothes, ate junk food and watched horror movies.
At some point, his parents started filming and he really did act and dress like a completely different person.
He thought he could explain it easily but how the hell, could he begin to explain it?
Apparently, he had talked about 'Zac' a lot in his early childhood but his parents just brushed it off as an imaginary friend.
Who know 'Zac' would develop into a split personality, after so many years?
And That's how he agreed to attend therapy and take meds.
Which explained where he now was.
However, when you're that famous and walk into a child clinic, the media would be speculating within hours.
"So, who are you, right now?" Said, a lady with a sock puppet on her head.
Zac in his mind, was speechless.
Even Koun was thinking this was ridiculous.
"E-Er, Koun?" He said, how many session's like this did he have to go to?
"Good. Now how are you feeling today?" Said, women's voice through the puppet.
"E-Er, okay?" He said, suddenly Koun was dismay to find there was no clock in the room.
When he left the room, he couldn't have left fast enough and he was prescribed with medication that he had to take every hour with water.
When he finally arrived back at school, the normal bullies stayed the hell away from him because there was a rumor that he was now crazy.
And his teachers made it their mission to always remind him to take his medication, as if without it, he would go completely nuts and pull a gun on them.
On his file, he was officially classed as crazy.
However, Koun had a terrible feeling that the medication and therapy lessons weren't doing a thing.
Unknown to him, that was actually what was happening.
The therapy and meds were designed to make sure, his brain waves don't drastically change.
Zac wasn't somebody his brain just made up, so it was doing nothing to him.
The meds just made sure his mood doesn't completely plummet and go into self-protection mode.
A week past, then two weeks.
Not a peep from Zac.
The family honestly thought it was the last time they will see 'Zac' and Koun had become normal.
However, unknown to them, Zac was actually trying to figure out how to convince them that he was a real person.
At night, was his day time.
The tapes from the school were sent by mail and he was there to quickly pick it up, early in the morning.
To avoid being found out, he combed his hair like Koun's and tried not to be so over the top.
Then he took it and stashed it, where Koun or a maid won't ever look.
The night after, he watched the tapes on silent mode.
It took him dozens of nights to look for his evidence and then as expected the Hizuri family received a law suit letter, in the post one day.
The media went crazy when they found out.
However, the law suit was mysteriously dropped the next day and none of the families who were suing, ever brought it up again as if they were afraid of something.
The media and the public, classified it as just a hoax because of this.
Koun was than confused at school when he heard how there were rumors that said, he was apparently blackmailing his bullies' families, and it was the reason why the staff was acting so strange around him.
Nobody dared to touch him now.
And he made friends, it was like the hell he experienced at school, was a lie.
To be honest, he was now secretly grateful that he was now classed as a little bit crazy.
But then it was PE and he took off his shirt.
Finally, somebody said something.
"Dude. Why is half of your chest red? And why is it only that?" Said, one guy next to him.
Out of everybody, Koun's was the only one who had half of a red chest.
It was like that side of him was constantly being burned, even his past PE teachers inquired about it, thinking something was going on at home.
"Don't know. I was born with this." He said, even he as a child wondered why half of his chest was red unlike all the other boy's.
Sure, it made him unique looking but he felt like he had lost something unique.
"A birth mark?" Said, the guy. "It looks like you were cut in half and were attached to a torso that wasn't yours"
And Koun blinked, it certainly was the first time, somebody described his birth mark like that.
Sewed to a torso that isn't even his...? Zac thought, it was the first time he had a good and hard thought about Koun's birthmark.
It really did not look like, that part of the torso belonged to Koun.
And for some reason, his senses were telling him not to leave the thought alone,
When people show birthmarks, it was usually something small because it doesn't grow with that person.
But Koun birthmark made up his torso and grow as he did, which was more than a bit strange.
That same night, he used the internet on Koun's phone to goggle about birthmarks.
However, what he found was just moles.
Koun's birthmark wasn't a mole and did not stretch, but that was the only type of birthmark that could do it according to the internet.
Could it be that half of Koun torso wasn't a birthmark?
Than what was it?
He googled 'What does it mean, when half of your torso is a different complexation than the other'?
He didn't expect to actually find anything.
We'll he expected to find page's telling him, he had managed to suntan a certain part of himself like a morn.
However, a word popped up and that word was 'Chimerism'.
"Huh?" He said, then he goggled the word.
'Chimerism in humans is when a person is born with two separate sets of DNA. Each set has enough genetic code to make a person. This can happen in fetal development in the womb. One fetus can absorb the other, making two people in one body'
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Silence.
Zac stared at the screen in disbelief before goggling images of it and he almost had a heart attack.
There were people out there, who had birthmarks just like Koun.
Some people's own face did not even match one side, as if you were staring at two people at once.
He couldn't help but stare at the woman was apparently a model who had one half of her torso red, just like Koun.
This was a lot more believable then a birthmark and it would explain why the hell he was trapped in this body when he know, it was Koun's.
But he and Koun mind were separate.
But the more he read, the more he learned there wasn't just one type that happened in Humans.
Sometimes the twin could affect the person in charge of the body, like invade his dreams which he could do.
Science was still trying to find other types of Chimerism out there.
But this condition was actually more common than people thought.
So what if Koun had absorbed him which explained why two souls existed in one body.
But to make sure, Koun had to do a full DNA body swipe.
So, he did something that would give his parents a heart attack and go into full worry mode.
He sent them a message.
#Bedroom#
Both Julie and Kuu slept in the bedroom, tomorrow they planned to resumed work since it looked like Koun was now totally fine.
Than both of their phones rang signifying they got a new message.
However, very few people had their personal phone numbers because when somebody wanted to contact them, it was through their managers.
So, it was weird to be messaged so late at night for them.
They really did not want to get up but had to.
Julie went to find her phone on the counter and opened it up to view the message.
However, when she saw it, all tiredness disappeared like a lie.
"K-KUU!" She said, suddenly smacking her husband awake. "KUU GET UP!"
"What's going on?" he groaned.
"KUU! IT'S ZAC! ZAC'S BACK!" She said, and just like that his eyes were open wide and all sleep vanished from him.
Their son's split personality was back!?
Both of them read the text together and were alarmed.
'I know I'm not supposed to come out but hear me out. You know that birthmark Koun has? I don't think that's a birth mark at all. Please, take Koun to the doctor to get a full body DNA scan. I want to prove to you that I exist. If you do this and it's not what I think it is, I promise that I'll never come out again and Koun can be completely normal.'
-From Zac Hizuri.
Both of them got out of bed and rushed to their son's room.
They found him fast asleep but the phone he used to write was lay on the top of the bed, the screen still displaying the sent mesage icon.
They thought they had finally gotten rid of Zac.
But Zac hadn't died, he just got smarter.
However, the real question was, where they willing to subject their child to a full DNA scan on the small hope that Zac would really leave their child alone?
Clearly the therapy and medication wasn't doing a thing.
Late at night, they called a personal doctor to come over.
And scene!
Next chapter, Koun wakes up and is horrified to find out Zac had come out when he was asleep. A full DNA scan reveals the truth about Zac and nobody expects for the Government to get involved. Review/fav and follow!