Red Roses: Hello, again~ this chapter is gonna follow one of the chapters from Sket Dance. If some of you think this is unoriginal then I'm sorry. Also, of some of you think I'm making too many OCs, then don't worry. There will be only 7 OCs...that does seem like a lot but they all do have a purpose. The OCs includes Shinako, Harumi, Takeshida, Hibiki and three other OCs I will introduce later in the story. Then no more random people out from my imagination.
Also to all my readers, I love you...in an author-reader sort of way. I'm secretly an overly sensitive individual who loves to give appreciation to those who I believe deserves it.
My thanks to iruyo, LightSpeed Athlete24, p3aDoS, LOVEPurururun, YamadaHikari, MystiqueSilver, pitifuldreamer666 and anonymous readers for your kind words, well-appreciated opinions and advices.
Also, to unknown guest 12/7, Hibiki will still keep an eye on Shinako, continuing her mother's training through him. He's willing to look the other way when something important happens. But, everything has its limits.
Please read and review this chapter. Am I getting better, worse? Tell me your thoughts. I'm like a walking diary to my friends, I can be a fanfic journal to you readers.
Without further delay, here is the disclaimer.
Himeko: Red Roses does not own Sket Dance. She is just a friendly fanfic writer.
Red Roses: Thank you, Himeko.
Himeko: No problem. Do you want a Pelollipop?
Red Roses: I would but I worry that I will puke out my lunch if I did.
WARNING: There will be some...well, Bunny will be appearing a lot so I think you get what I'm hinting at.
"Well, that takes care of that." Shinako uttered to herself walking while walking down the crowded hallways. Takeshida asked if she could come over to check on a patient in the infirmary. Shinako, figuring the lazy doctor wouldn't do anything unless she got there, obediently did so quickly and now was walking back to class with her bag. She sighed, slightly annoyed that Takeshida needs so much motivation to do something he being paid for.
When the brown-eyed samurai walked around the corner, she accidentally crashed into another girl. Both girls fell over, dropping their bags in the process with their belongings spilling out onto the floor.
"I'm so sorry!" Shinako said frantically as they got up on their feet. Shinako saw that she ran into the school's most clumsiest teacher (and probably the most clumsiest person anywhere), Remi.
"Ah, Oneesan is really sorry!" Remi apologized as she grabbed Shinako's hands, checking for scratches or bruises.
"It's alright, I should have looked where I was going." Shinako smiled and flinched a bit when she felt a sting on her knee. She looked down to see a small scratch on her knee. Shinako knew it wasn't serious but the brown-haired teacher was not as calm.
"Oh no, you're hurt! Don't worry, Oneesan will call the inferiority." Shinako assumed the worried teacher meant "infirmary" despite the fact those two words weren't even slightly related. Remi pulled out her phone to call someone. Except, Remi wasn't holding a cellphone to her ear.
"Remi-sensei, you're holding a pencil case to your ear." Shinako felt a sweat drop as she saw her teacher looked to the item in her hand confusedly until she realized her mistake.
"Ah, I messed up!" Then, Remi pound her fist lightly onto her palm in realization. "I remember, I have and bandage in my bag."
"Really Remi-sensei, it's alright. It's just a small scratch. I have my own band-aid."
"Nonsense~" Remi smiled when she looked around in her bag and pulled out something. "Right, show Oneesan your boo-boo."
"Remi-sensei, that's not a band-aid." Shinako pointed out to the clumsy teacher's mistake again as Remi did not pulled out a bandage but instead a blade of grass. How did Remi pulled put a blade of grass from her bag indoors, they will never know.
After all that, Shinako patched herself up and started gathering her fallen belongings on the floor. She saw two pill cases lying open on the floor. One was hers, as she worried that someone might need an aspirin or charcoal pills. Another one was a white box similar to hers but it had a skull and crossbones on the inside of the lid which sent a small shiver down her spine. A suspicious box with odd pills with skull and crossbones on the box should be a really bad omen.
Remi saw the black-haired girl eying the pill case suspiciously and smiled gleefully. "That's Chuu-san's pill case. He makes amazing creations which can do almost anything!"
"Really?" Shinako said as she recollected her things. "What does his creations do?"
"A lot of things~ It can grow your hair back, turn you younger, mixed up your facial expressions..."
Remi was so engrossed in telling her stories, she didn't notice the feared look on Shinako's face. The more stories Remi told, the more scared Shinako was. What sort of high school teacher makes these kind of things during his free time? The man is either a mad scientist or just a bored genius.
"A-Ah, I better get to class." Shinako interrupted Remi's storytelling but the teacher didn't seem to bother by it. Instead, Remi smiled as grabbed her bag.
"Alright, have a rice hay~" Remi said before leaving Shinako immensely confused.
"Have...a nice day, maybe?"
Shinako sighed as she turned her heel and walked off to her class. Students are a lot to handle but sometimes teachers can be just as difficult and definitely as weird.
When the bell rang, all the students went to their respective clubs and activities. Hibiki, in order to stay close to Shinako, joined the Health Committee, much to Shinako's joy and Takeshida's annoyance. Adding him, there are 5 students; the three original students who made up the committee, Harumi being one of them, Shinako and Hibiki with Takeshida as the faculty sponsor and mentor.
Since they are 5 members, they assign two members for each day while the other 3 may go home early (Takeshida prefers not to teach so many kids at once). That day, it was Hibiki and Harumi's shift but instead of leaving school early, Shinako gleefully walked over to the Student Council Room to meet her beloved leader.
As Shinako walked down the hallway, she noticed a familiar blonde walking down the same hallway. She smiled and she waved at the girl.
"Himeko-san." The brown-eyed girl greeted, instantly grabbing the former field hockey player's attention.
"Ah, Shinako-chan." Himeko greeted back. "Where are you going?"
"To the Student Council Room."
Himeko smiled at her junior. "Going to see Tsubaki, right?"
Shinako responded with a smile and a nod, unintentionally making Himeko squeal at the samurai's naive and easily satisfied nature.
"So, what are you doing here?" Shinako asked, looking around for Himeko's friends, Switch and Bossun, who would usually be close by.
"Ah, we're looking for Yabasawa's monkey again. He got loose and I'm here in case he might run by here." Himeko explained.
"So, everything is going well with Tsubaki, I see."
"Yes, Tsubaki-sama is everything I've ever hoped for in a master!" Shinako said sweetly.
"What about Katou Kiri?" Himeko couldn't help it. Even though Katou and Shinako could never be in the same room without throwing glares at each other since the day they met, the blonde-haired girl really wanted to know Shinako's true feelings.
"He is a jerk and he can just rot in hell." Shinako answered with little to no remorse as her smile disappeared as quickly as food when Captain is around.
"What a personality change!"
"Isn't that a little cruel?"
Shinako scoffed as she glared at the thought of that white-haired ninja. A dark aura was seeping from the samurai's veins as Shinako was muttering something under her breath.
"Hey, why not have a Pelocan treat? It's a new type of pelocan treat." Himeko offered Shinako a small wrapped candy and she smiled (yep, you read right, she "smiled").
"Thanks, I've never heard of Pelocan but maybe my father did. My father never misses his shows."
"Oh, I guess your dad watches a lot of manly period dramas, being a samurai who taught you the way of the samurai." Himeko assumed confidently but Shinako shook her head.
"No, soap operas." She corrected the blonde fighter in which she responded with a look of pure disbelief.
"WHAT!? SOAP OPERAS?"
"Yes, he especially likes 'My Brother-in-law's Son's Girlfriend is My Best Friend' and 'My Dream Diamond Glass Castle."
"WHAT SORT OF SHOWS ARE THOSE!? THAT'S NOT MANLY AT ALL!" Himeko yelled out in disbelief of those shows and Shinako's father's interests.
Shinako tilted her head innocently. "What do you mean?"
The pelocan fanatic was about to answer when a loud, familiar voice interrupted her.
"Himeko, grab him!"
Then, A small white monkey passed by them like a cheetah in heat with Bossun following behind. The two girls tried to catch him but the cheeky monkey slipped through their fingers and dashed right on through the halls. Bossun stopped in his tracks in front of the girls and yelled at his blonde friend.
"Why didn't you catch him!?"
"He was too fast!" Himeko countered, matching her volume with his.
That's when Switch joined the scene. "Did you catch him?"
"No, apparently the slowpoke couldn't catch him." Bossun pointed rudely to Himeko who was steaming with rage.
"I told you he was too fast and don't call me a slowpoke, you idiot!"
As Bossun and Himeko yelled at each other with rage, Switch and Shinako was left in the sidelines.
"Um guys," Shinako said softly. "I believe I saw the monkey went in the direction of the girl's basketball team."
The fighting immediately stops and the Sket-Dan looked towards the basketball court.
"That's it! We got him!" Bossun exclaimed, dashing towards the basketball team with Himeko and Switch on his tail. Shinako was left behind again in confusion.
"Good luck, I guess."
Finally, Shinako reached her destination, just in time to see that the Student Council was having a little lunch break. Since they missed their lunch handling the mountain of paperwork, Tsubaki allowed the Student Council to have their break during club hours, just to recharge their energy.
Daisy had a simple bento decorated with cute plushie pictures, proudly made by herself. Unyuu was eating something which was probably worth more than everyone's allowance put together while Usami was silently but hastily eating her own bento. Probably because the idea of eating in the same room as boys was making her quickly lose her appetite. Tsubaki was munching on Shinako's homemade bento she made for him -to her delight- and Katou was only having a nutrient bar.
"That isn't healthy, you know." Shinako chastised him as she watched him take a bite of the bland bar. She can't help it. Shinako was a naturally caring nurturer and seeing someone eating that little is not good for anyone.
"I didn't ask for your opinion." Katou said brusquely, continuing to munch on his 'unhealthy' lunch.
Shinako glared at him and huffed. "Fine, what was I thinking actually caring for your well-being."
Tsubaki was displeased of Katou's rude behaviour. "Kiri, you should be more grateful."
Katou straightened his posture and faced Tsubaki. "Yes, president." Though, with an amused Shinako smirking at his expense while standing by Tsubaki's right, it was hard to feel any sort of gratitude for the modern samurai.
The amber-eyed president sighed as he tries to ignore the silent battling going behind him with his two friends. They're like children trying to compete for the title of daddy's favourite. He has to find a way to find common ground between these two aside from himself. Almost everyone who met them are wondering when will they finally snap and kill each other.
A soft groan disrupted Tsubaki's train of thought as he saw Usami slouching slightly while caressing her stomach.
"Usami-chan, are you alright?" Unyuu asked with concern laced within her tone. Daisy and Shinako held Usami's shoulders in an effort to comfort her.
"I...I feel sick." Usami answered softly. Everyone deducted that her stomach was not feeling right after eating so much so fast.
Shinako's motherly doctor instincts kicked in. "Don't worry, I got some charcoal pills in my bag."
As Shinako was quickly rummaging through her bag to find her pill case, she caught sight of the pelocan sweet Himeko gave her. She took out both the pill case and sweet and placed it on her lap. She opened her pill case to see different pills in different compartment like how she arranges it but with a small difference. Two black charcoal pills were misplaced but Shinako shrugged it off. It must have mixed up when she bumped into Remi.
The black-haired samurai gave Usami the black pill but the salmon-haired treasurer wouldn't dare to eat it unless there's water for her. With that, Daisy dashed out of the room to get water for her cute little junior.
While all this was happening, Shinako thought this was a good time to try out the treat. Tsubaki noticed the candy in Shinako's candy in her hands and raised an eyebrow.
"What's that you have there, Kikuchi?"
"Oh, it's a candy Himeko-san gave me. Wasn't that sweet of her?" Shinako smiled as she unwrapped the candy but not everyone was smiling like her. Everyone had a doomed face plastered on, Himeko carries only one type of candy.
"Wait, Kikuchi!"
Oh, too late. Shinako popped it into her mouth, through her throat and into her stomach as everyone held their breaths. A few minutes passed, nothing happened. No green face, no puking out her lunch.
"Maybe Shinako-chan has the same taste as Himeko." Unyuu said, relieved Shinako was fine. But, as luck would have it, Shinako wasn't. As Daisy came back with a glass of water, Shinako started feeling a little green and queasy like how any normal people when they taste pelocan treats.
Shinako groaned as her stomach disagree with the sweet and the queasy samurai rushed to grab a charcoal pill for herself. Like how she did with the nasty treat, Shinako popped it into her mouth as Usami swallowed hers follow by water.
Then, simultaneously, both girls felt a huge burst of electricity throughout their bodies and both passed out. Usami dropped the glass of water, smashing into pieces when it hit the floor and she slumped in her chair. Shinako's legs gave out under her and she would have fell to the ground if it weren't for Katou catching her.
"Usami-chan/Kikuchi!" Unyu and Daisy rushed to their younger member as Tsubaki went to Shinako's side. Both girls were unconscious and everyone was getting worried. After a few tense minutes, Usami was the first to wake up.
She groggily rubbed her eyes and she immediately noticed all the eyes on her. She saw their eyes waved with relief and Unyuu hugged her tightly.
"Usami-chan, I'm so glad you're alright!" Unyuu cried with joy but instead of Usami's usually deadpan expression, she had shock and confusion written all over her pale face.
"Unyuu-senpai, I'm not Usami-san," The maroon-eyed girl said, lightly pushing the well-endowed girl from her. "I'm Shinako."
The newly awoken girl rubbed her neck to feel hair tickling her neck and fingers which is a new feeling for her. She hasn't felt her hair like this since she was 8 when she grown out her hair. The confusion girl to her right to see something that would almost pop her eyes out. Katou, her hated rival, holding onto her body in his arms. She abruptly stood up and pointed at the white-haired ninja.
"What on Earth are you doing!? Get your hands off me!"
Now, everyone was definitely confused. Shinako has apparently switch bodies with Usami who should be in Shinako's body right now. Everyone was confused to how this could have happened but Tsubaki knew who to blame.
"Darn those Sket Dan fools! It has to be them."
"But how could this have happened?" Unyuu questioned.
"This can only be done by Chuuma-sensei's swap-up pill. But how did it end up with Shinako?" Tsubaki pondered a bit until Shinako recalled an event earlier.
"I ran into Remi-sensei earlier today and our pill cases fell out. She said the pill case belonged to Chuuma-sensei and she was bringing it to him."
"Some of his ridiculous creations must have mixed in with yours." Daisy concluded.
Unyuu was curious. "Would Shinako-chan change into Bunny-chan like Usami-chan?"
Everyone stared at Shinako curiously. Daisy asked (more like demanded) Tsubaki to touch Shinako's wrist and Tsubaki nervously did so. After touching her, Shinako tried to feel any changes but nothing happened.
"So, Shinako doesn't changes," Daisy said, noting no changes "So that means..."
"Oh, am I in heaven?~" a sweet, sultry voice was heard in the room and everyone knew it was Bunny but that wasn't her voice as it sounded eerily like Shinako's.
Every pair of eyes immediately went to Usami, who was in Shinako's body, was awake and seeing that she was still being held by Katou, she wasn't the normal boy-hating Usami. She wrapped her arms around Katou's neck and smiled sensually at him. Truthfully, everyone was shocked at the action. The image of pure, chaste maiden Shinako acting like sexual devil was like a car accident; horrific and terrifying yet why can't you look away?
"Eh, does it feel hot in here?~" Bunny commented when she finally noticed her body and her original body standing in front of her. "What's going on?"
While explaining everything to Bunny, she was examining her new body and she was displeased to say the least.
"Why do you wear so much clothing?" She questioned, irritated. "What's with this long skirt? Are you a nun?"
"No, I just believe I didn't need to show all that much skin." Shinako replied.
"This is enough, we'll get those pills to change them back to normal. So, Asahina..." Tsubaki ushered the stoic secretary and she quickly rushed to Bunny to revert back to Usami.
"Lewd woman, return my cute Usami." Bunny avoided Daisy like a plague, refusing to turn back. Normally, Bunny would give a good chase but in the end Daisy would catch her but it wasn't the case this time. Since Shinako's stamina and speed was better than Daisy's, it was easier for Bunny to evade the brown-haired secretary.
"Stay still, you uncute woman." Daisy demanded but Bunny ignored her and instead headed towards the door. She looked to the two shocked boys and smiled flirtatious.
"Bye bye, cuties." Bunny giggled before disappearing behind the door.
"We need to get her!" Shinako panicked. What's going to happen? Bunny is obviously a very flirtatious girl and her entire reputation could be ruined in five seconds.
"Ok, we need to split into groups, I'll go get the swap-up pills. Kiri, you and Daisy go and find Bunny."
"No," Daisy rejected immediately. "I'm not going close to that lewd woman anymore."
"This is not the time to be difficult!" Tsubaki yelled but Daisy was not budging. Shinako, though honestly not liking the idea of being partnered up with Katou, volunteered herself in Daisy's place. She needed to find her body and quick (of course, she's worried about Usami too but come on, if your body was on the loose, if there anything else more important?).
So, Katou and Shinako were going to search for Usami or Bunny, Tsubaki is going to Chuuma-sensei to get the pills while Daisy and Unyuu was staying behind in the Student Council Room.
"Ok, get to it." With Tsubaki's order, the three of them dashed out from the room.
-With Tsubaki-
"You Sket Dan idiots are always up to no good!" Tsubaki yelled at his older brother.
"How is this my fault!?" Bossun yelled back at him while Himeko, Switch, Chuuma and Remi were in the room.
"Oh, they get along so well!~" Remi said, while blushing at the 'cute' image of brotherly love. Chuuma, other the other hand, could not see it. At all.
"Because of you and your faculty adviser, Kikuchi and Usami are in a mess!"
"Calm down, this can all be fixed very easily," Chuuma sighed, grabbing two black pills. "Get those two to eat this at the same time. They'll feel like lightning struck them, passed out and when they wake up, they'll be in their own bodies."
Tsubaki sighed heavily and took the pills from Chuuma's hands and was about to leave the room. But then, if Bossun let Tsubaki go off without having the last word, it wouldn't be Bossun, wouldn't it?
"All of this happened at your watch, huh Tsubaki? Guess you're not such a great president." Bossun taunted him with a sly smiled on his face. Tsubaki immediately fumed.
"How dare you! At least, I'm doing something unlike your club."
"What are you talking about!?"
"You heard me, your club does nothing but laze around the room, reading manga."
"Hey, we get tons of clients and requests and manga are good books to read. Have you ever read manga?"
"No, I use my time wisely, like reading novels and such."
"Dude, that's lame!"
As the brothers quarreled, the two girls were squealing at the sight of those two having quality family time, Switch was videotaping this for future blackmail, and Chuuma was grumbling under his breath somewhere along the lines of how immature both brothers could be.
-With Katou and Shinako-
"Oi, woman hurry up." Katou called Shinako who was walking behind him. He could have covered more ground if he didn't have to wait for her.
"Don't rush me, you idiot." Shinako panted, not used to her new body. Usami's body was smaller and more fragile than Shinako's. "Honestly, you would think stuff like this can only happen in manga or something."
Katou clicked his tongue in annoyance as he slowed down a bit for Shinako. They'll never find Bunny at this rate.
"Hey there, cutie~"
Or maybe it was easier than they thought.
Katou and Shinako turned to the source of the voice and the face Shinako made could make Edvard Munch so proud.
Bunny must have stop in a bathroom first because what she was wearing was definitely not what Shinako picked out in the morning. Bunny took off Shinako's navy turtleneck and left her white blouse with a few buttons unbuttoned and her red tie loose. She also decided to change her long skirt with something that did absolutely nothing to hide her long legs and discarded her bokuto. Her hair was let down and was luring boys and otakus with her seductive smile.
"AHHH! Quit staring at me!" Shinako cried with a heavy blush and a few tears falling out. This day will never be forgotten for the poor chaste samurai. Unfortunately, no one was listening to her as everyone was too busy paying attention the scantily dressed student.
Katou, annoyed beyond comparison right now, quickly rushed to grab Bunny's wrist but Bunny was quick to evade him.
"Aren't you a feisty one?~" Bunny smiled flirtatiously. "If you wanted me, you could have just said so~"
"Bunny-san, please come with us so we could turn back to normal." Shinako pleaded, her blush still visible.
Bunny pouted. "Why? I'm just getting used to this body and I'm having so much fun."
"Do you not notice how insane this is!?"
Katou was getting impatient. "Let's just drag her back into the Student Council Room." Katou pulled out a long piece of rope from who-knows-where but Shinako stopped him while glaring viciously at him.
"No! That's my body and that's Usami, you can't just treat her like a common prisoner!"
"Don't order me around, woman." Katou growled at her in which Shinako replied with a roll of her eyes. Katou and Shinako have been around each other to know not much aside from glaring and arguing were ever going to be exchanged from each other.
Shinako turned her attention to the flirtatious girl. "Please, we need to get back to normal."
Bunny went into deep thought, first looking at her original body, then to all the boys oggling her then back to her friends (if she could really say that).
"Fine," Bunny said, to Shinako's joy but Bunny continued. "But on one condition~"
Shinako, too happy to care, immediately agreed. "Yes, yes!"
Bunny smiled slyly and dived right into Katou's arms, slightly surprising him. During his surprise, Katou didn't react fast enough when Bunny pulled him closer and landed her lips against his own. Needless to say, everyone was shocked.
To describe Shinako's feelings, let's imagine a cocktail drink; you add in a lot of emotions, mix it up real good and you make one hell of a face. If Shinako thought she was going to faint of the embarrassment of seeing Bunny's attire, she would think she could have die when she saw the lips of her body touching Katou's.
Now, Katou was always the stoic and serious guy but even when something like this happens, his eyebrows raised to his hairline. He did not expect Bunny to dive to him and as a reflex, he pulled out his arms to catch her. He definitely did not expect her to wrap her arms around his neck and kiss him on the lips.
Everyone else knew good enough that the General Affairs manager and the new female samurai did not get along with each other but after seeing that stunt, they don't know what to think right now.
Finally, after what seems to be years, Bunny released her grip on the stunned ninja and smirked slyly at Shinako before grabbing her wrist, reverting her to the timid Usami.
"Eh, what's going on?" Usami noticed the heavy blush on Shinako who was in her body. "Why is my body over here?"
Shinako quickly snapped out of it and she pulled Usami in the direction of the Student Council Room, telling the confused treasurer she will explain everything with Katou following behind. Shinako paused for a while, turned to the white-haired ninja with a glare and a deep red blush.
"That never happened." She hissed, but with the blush on her face, she wasn't too intimidating.
"Hm." For once, those two agreed on something.
"Did something happen?" Unyuu asked worriedly, seeing how red Shinako was and how silent Katou was near her. Shinako shook her head in response.
"Ok...well here are the pills," Tsubaki handed Shinako and Usami a pill (careful not to directly touch Usami) "Now, eat the pill at the same time."
Through coordination, the two took the pill simultaneously and waited for a reaction.
"Although, it was quite fun when Shinako-chan acted like Bunny-chan." Unyuu commented happily, probably the only one enjoying the day.
Shinako fainted after feeling like lightning struck on her but Usami didn't feel a thing.
"What's wrong?" Tsubaki asked.
"...Unyuu-senpai, tell him nothing happened and he should mind his own business."
Unyuu nodded and she turned to the black-haired president about to relay Usami's message when Tsubaki stopped her.
"I heard her, why can't you say it like a normal person!?"
"If some Swap-up pills ended up in Shinako's pill case, who's to say her charcoal pills didn't end up in Chuuma-sensei's pill case?" Unyuu may not seem like she's paying attention, but she picks up something once in awhile.
"So, if Usami got a charcoal pill, what did Shinako-" a voice interrupted Tsubaki's pondering and someone wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Tsubaki-sama~" Shinako woke up and started getting really close to her proclaimed master. Real close. Even for Shinako and Tsubaki.
"S-SHINAKO!"
"How fun~"
"UNYUU!"
Red Roses: Finally, I'm done. My newest longest chapter. If anyone can guess what pill did Shinako take, you get a "You're smart" badge.
Just so you know, Bunny does not have a crush on Katou. She just did that for the fun of it.
Also, Edvard Munch is the talented Norwegian artist who made the famous painting "The Scream" for anyone who was confused.
Anyway, since my last update, more readers have took the time to read my story and of course I want to show my gratitude by listing down your beautiful country.
My thanks to my beloved readers from USA, Malaysia, Philippines, Canada, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, Greece, Iceland, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UK and Taiwan.
Well, I'm headed off to my relative's wedding dinner. Ja ne!
