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Oneshot Eighteen

Some Mornings

Upon awaking, Shinichi grumbled as he groggily rolled out of bed, stumbling as he landed on his feet. Balance feeling off, he rubbed his eyes as he stumbled to the full-length mirror hanging on the door of the hotel room that he and Heiji were sharing. Only instead of showing a teenage boy, Shinichi was apparently now a teenage girl.

". . . Huh," he remarked intelligently when he saw his appearance, taking note that perhaps this was the cause of his lack of grace. Just to confirm, Shinichi pulled the collar of his pajama top forward and peered down. Yep, his – or rather, her – suspicions were correct.

"Oi, Kudo, is that you?" Heiji asked as he stared at his roommate, squinting in the watery dawn light.

"Yeah."

The darker-skinned teen's gaze remained on Shinichi, brows furrowed as he sorted out his thoughts.

"So, how long have ya been a girl?" he finally inquired.

"Since this morning, apparently." Was the dry response.

"Ah . . ."

Moments of silence passed in which Shinichi continued staring at his (or was it her? Xyr?) reflection, taking note of the feminized features and how they compared to xyr original masculine ones. Slighter build, fuller cheeks, wider eyes, and hair with more volume and a touch of his mother's curls. Still recognizably Shinichi, for which xe was thankful.

"You think my parents can still get refunds on those 'it's a boy' balloons and other similar miscellanea from my birth?" was what xe finally asked when xe broke the awkward silence. Heiji rolled over in disbelief and ended up falling out of bed with a loud thud and the issuing of not-so polite words.

"After what, seventeen years? I doubt they even still have the receipts."

"Yeah, you're right."

"Seriously, what is wrong with ya? Yer takin' this whole spontaneous gender change a bit too well."

"It's early in the morning and I am just done with this sort of crap. I figure this is the universe messing with me again."

"It really hates keepin' ya in one shape for long, doesn't it?"

"At this point I'm just thankful that I'm still human."

"Well, let's go get breakfast." Heiji suggested after accepting his eastern counterpart's reasoning with the aloof air of one accustomed to such bizarre happenings. It really was too early to make a big deal about these things.

Shinichi shrugged.

"Sounds good."

A/N: My first genderbender. I should write a real one sooner or later. Actually, I need to. Xe and xyr are gender-neutral pronouns, meaning he/she/one and his/her/theirs respectively.

I was actually considering turning starting a collection of short oneshots set in this universe off of this one. What do you guys think? Yes or no? It'd just be a side-project, but would help from keeping Collection cluttered.