So the second chapter has been started on the day the first chapter was uploaded! TODAY IS THE DAY THAT I SHALL REIGN VICTORIOUS AND GATHER DISCIPLES TO FOLLOW ME ALONG MY WRITING JOURNEY AND-
you know this is going a little too far
especially since this probably feels like a lie because I uploaded the first chapter like what a month ago two months ago HOW THE HELL SHOULD I REMEMBER
So, as promised, the second chapter to If Naru and Mai Switched Bodies!
Enjoy!
Chapter 2: Things Are Getting Real Awkward
Naru and Mai sat in the 'livingroom' of the main office on their usual leather chair and couch, the other workers of SPR congregated at the other side of the building. Naru occasionally ran his fingers through the soft fabric of the skirt he was now wearing and looked up at Mai, still trying to wrap his auburn head around the fact that he was sitting in the body of a woman and technically staring at himself from across the room whilst sitting on the couch, and not the chair he had claimed as his own.
"It feels kinda weird, doesn't it?" Mai spoke.
Caramel eyes flashed up at her. "No. It feels perfectly normal to be sitting in a place that I never sit in, being the host of the body of somebody else. I do this all the time."
"Geez. You don't have to be salty about it, you know." Mai's now-indigo eyes narrowed playfully, looking her now-very-feminine boss up and down. They widened suddenly. "Uhm- Naru..?"
"Yes?"
"...Go to the bathroom."
He gave her a confused look. "What? Why?" He looked down and saw blood. "Did you hurt yourself earlier?"
"No, Naru. Just-"
"Don't lie to me, Mai-"
Mai bolted up from the leather chair she was unaccustomed to sitting in and dragged Naru by his petite wrists to the bathroom of the office.
"Mai, what are you-"
"JUST GET IN THERE!" Mai shut him and herself in the bathroom, locking the door.
Monk paced slowly about the hallway, no real goal in mind. He stopped at the bathroom door to heard an odd conversation.
"Try and relax."
"How should I relax? This is a little embarrassing, if you didn't realize."
"Oh, don't act like I haven't seen it before. It's mine, you know. Now sit down and let me... help you, alright?"
Monk's eyes grew wider than saucers. What the hell are they doing? He raced through the building to find Ayako.
When he saw her, he shouted: "AYAKO! Come here!"
"What, what?! You sound distressed, what's going on?"
"JUST COME HERE!"
He led her down the hall and signalled for her to be silent. They pressed their ears up to the bathroom door.
"What am I supposed to be listening for-" Ayako was shushed once again. They heard Mai's voice after a moment of silence.
"It's everywhere."
"I know, I'm going to have to clean it up. Don't worry though, it's not like this is the first time."
Ayako's face went tomato-red. She exchanged an estranged glance with Houshou, whispering to him.
"What are they doing? What is Naru having to clean up? What about a first time?"
"I don't know, but it sounds an awful lot like-"
WHAM!
Ayako smacked Monk hard on the back of the head.
"Don't say it. We should get going anyway. If they're doing what I think they're doing, we shouldn't bother them."
Monk nodded slowly, and the two tiptoed down the hall together. A floorboard underneath Monk creaked, and he stopped in his tracks.
"What's going on out there? Is somebody there?" Mai whispered.
"I'm sure it's nothing." Naru responded. "Now can we please finish this up? I've exposed more of myself today than I have in years." He sat on the toilet, red-faced, skirt removed and legs slightly apart.
"Yeah, well, good thing it's my body I'm looking at and not yours. Eh- not that looking at yours wouldn't be bad- I MEAN-"
"Mai. Stop."
"Okay."
Silence.
"...so do you have anything to stop or at least prevent the bleeding?"
"OH - yeah. Here." She handed him a stick-like object wrapped in plastic.
"What is this?" Naru held it up and inspected it.
Mai's face flushed.
"I'm... gonna have to help you with that. Can you uhh.. sit up a bit?"
"Okay. What exactly are you going to- OHH MY GOD-"
(It was at this moment that Naru had felt something that he had never felt before.)
Monk and Ayako sat adjacent on the loveseat, whispering to eachother. It would be bad if somebody else heard what they were talking about.
"Why would they do that in the office?" Monk whispered frantically.
"I don't know? Maybe- Maybe it's not what we thought."
"OH YEAH, TOTALLY. 'Oh, don't act like you haven't seen it before.' WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?"
"SHUT UP! Somebody might hear you!" The priestess voiced hoarsely.
"Alright. I know, I see your point, but I don't think I misheard that. I can tell you one thing though, I didn't start that young. Heh, Naru's a real ladykiller and he didn't even know it-"
THWACK!
"WILL YOU STOP HITTING MY HEAD?!"
"No. Learn your place, Takigawa. Besides. What they do is none of our business. It does worry me a bit, but I trust that those two - especially Naru - will be safe about it."
"Safe about what?"
Ayako whipped around to see John standing behind them. He had apparently just got there, so he didn't hear any of the conversation up until the very end.
"UHH- NOTHING! They had somewhere to go and uhh-" She motioned to Monk and mouthed 'help me out here.'
"OH- Yeah. They went out for a little drive, haha, we just checked in with eachother to see if they were being safe, you know, seatbelts and such, didn't we, Ayako?"
"Yes. Yes we did. Just now."
John's brows raised. "...Alright, then. I'll be in the bathroom if you need me." The blonde man started down the hall.
"JOHN WAIT!" Monk shouted.
"What?" He turned around to look at the man.
Just in time, Naru and Mai came out. Fortunately, John didn't see them leave the bathroom, and turned around as they dashed into a different room. He went into the restroom and closed the door.
"That was close." Mai whispered.
"Yeah."
"...What room are we in, anyway? I've never seen it before."
"Just an old storage room." He pointed at the many boxes and containers stacked on shelves along the walls.
"Ohh." Mai walked around for a bit, reading the labels on the boxes. "We should probably head back to the livingroom. The rest of the crew might be waiting for us."
"Alright."
The two entered the spacious room where the rest of the team sat (apart from Lin and Madoka - this meant John, Yasu, Masako, Ayako and Houshou). While they sat down, they noticed a few strange glances exchanged by the monk and priestess.
"Is... something wrong?" Naru spoke, channeling his best impression of Mai.
Monk cleared his throat. "Oh, nothing. But uh.. Mai... you might want to fix your hair." He pointed up at Naru without looking him in the hazelnut eye. He glanced up, realizing that his hair was standing up very noticeably in the back, and patted it down feverishly.
Mai suppressed a laugh at his actions. Wow, he really does act like me, doesn't he.
"Why are you laughing, Naru?" Ayako teased. "Something funny going on here that we're being left out on?"
"What? Oh, no. We were just-"
"-Sorting out some financial issues." Naru interrupted her, giving her a sharp glance. 'Don't tell them what happened.' She seemed to understand, and fell silent.
"...In the bathroom?" Monk was trying very hard not to laugh.
"...Why not?" Naru replied, giving a sheepish smile that was very characteristic of Mai. Yasu giggled at the odd response.
Ayako and Monk fell silent, stared at eachother, and then at the other two. Ayako began to turn red at the ears. She stood swiftly and grabbed Monk by the arm.
"We're going home."
Mai looked up, trying to seem uninterested, but it was very hard.
Oh my god. How long will I have to do this..? I don't think I can take much more. Naru is too stoic for my liking. She glanced over at him. I wonder if he feels the same way about trying to act like me?
Mai was so zoned out that she didn't realize what was going on until she came-to and saw Naru waving goodbye to John, Yasu and Masako. They were the only other people in the building apart from Lin and Madoka, but those two were across the building at this point. These three didn't seem to be upset about 'nonsense' like Monk and Ayako were.
Once everyone was gone, Naru leaned backwards and placed a pale hand on his stomach.
"Nhh... I hope this ends soon." His eyes closed tightly.
"Something wrong, Naru?"
"I'm experiencing a very uncomfortable, stabbing sensation in my lower abdomen."
"Oh, yeah, you'll get that. Heh. Sounds like you're almost done with this bet of ours. Give up yet?"
"No."
"Good. I still have things I want to do."
"What?"
"-NOTHING."
Naru chuckled lowly. "That's what I thought." He removed his hand from his stomach and crossed his arms while laying back on the couch. "Just so I know, when and how do I change this... this thing inside of me?"
"Every once in a while. Don't leave it in for more than 8 hours, or you'll get something called Toxic Shock Syndrome. That's when your-"
"-I don't want to hear it, Mai."
"Okay."
oh my god im dying
I WAS LITERALLY GOING WITH THE FLOW. ALL I KNEW ABOUT WHAT I WAS GONNA DO WITH THIS CHAPTER WAS THAT IT INVOLVED NARU REEEALLY GETTING A TASTE OF WOMANHOOD. Special thanks to Puff the Evil Dragon for suggesting the 'period talk' in a review. You had no idea I would take it this far, did you, hahah.
As a side note, I've never really written anything even close to smutty with Naru and Mai than 'This Song Is For Us' and I honestly think that story was really out of character, but anyways- This was really my first actual attempt at making these two really close, if you know what I mean.
Mai literally saw Naru half naked. Uh- despite the fact that it was her own body. It contained his 'soul', essentially, so that should count for something XD
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See you in the next (horridly amusing) chapter!
-xXxNaru-LovexXx