Haruko: All things will be answered in due time... wait patiently please!
arisa03: I do hope you read it!
But yeah, Gender Bender! I've always wanted to try one LOL
BlackRockAnon: Gender Bender indeed! I don't really consider Jurina dead, not even physically. Because you'll see why later on.
saeseki: Update is here~
kahem: Yup, yup~ Nice to see you're enjoying things so far!
caghaunt: It's actually not amnesia. She remembers everything! I'm sorry if I came across that way. But yeah, no amnesia.
Kiri-el: Sequel? If you mean the next chapter, it's here~
RenaChii: Now you'll see how Rena's doing...
HashirePomeranian: Thank you very much! I hope by the end of this story, you'll be converted into a WMatsui lover.
I know that I originally wasn't an Atsumina or Mayuki fan before I read a lot of the fics on here.
Nyanoha: Hey! I love my angst. Angst defines my life, Mama~ Third chapter just for youuuuu~
Thanks to everyone who read, left a thank you, and/or commented!
Without further ado, I present Chapter 3. Finally, some WMatsui moments LOL
Two Roses Chapter 3“Alright, Jun-kun. Your official documents and release papers are here,” the doctor said, handing a paper bag to the boy who was lounging idly on his bed. Jun took it and gratefully smiled.
“Thank you very much, doctor. I owe you a lot,” he replied, rising up out of the bed.
The doctor smiled in return. “It’s just my job. Oh, and there’s also a change of street clothes in the bag. Don’t worry about the money. Let’s just say it was factored into the hospital bill. Now go on and take a shower, son. You smell.”
Jun broke out into a wide grin and bowed down. “I’ll never forget your kindness, doctor. Thank you very, very much.”
The man cleared his throat, clearly embarrassed by the amount of thanks he had just recieved. He turned around and headed out the door. Over his shoulder, he called, “You are free to leave once you shower and change, Jun-kun. There are papers in the bag telling you where you are going and where you are staying according to your parent’s will.”
“Okay!”
The door clicked shut.
Letting the grin slip off his face, Jun sighed wearily and reached into the bag, pulling out the stack of papers inside. He shuffled past the release documents and looked at his profile information. There was a lot the doctor didn’t tell him during the past day, and he was determined to find out more.
“Matsui Jun... eh? This is too weird to be a coincidence...” he muttered. He looked past the name and at his birthday. “Birthday’s the same... except 4 years earlier? I’m 18? Wow. Explains why they’re just letting me go to wherever I need to be on my own and without an escort. Now where am I going?”
He shuffled through the papers and stopped when he found what he was looking for.
“I’m staying with... Kojima Haruna?” he exclaimed, squinting at the text. “No way. This can’t be the same Haruna...”
He leafed through the papers and found a picture of her. “This... there’s no mistaking it. Kojima Haruna is my cousin...”
He sighed again and buried his face in his hands. “My hands are too big...” he groaned, voice muffled.
Indeed. Everything felt awkward and off. When he had gone to the bathroom last night, it was... quite the experience, to say the least.
He had also spent most of the night agonizing over his situation and trying to figure out how he had ended up this way. Jun refused to believe that his life as Matsui Jurina was all a lie or that it was all a hallucination.
And that darned piece of bright paper.
He turned to his bedside table and picked it up.
This is your second chance. Don’t be afraid to attain happiness.It couldn’t mean what he thought it meant, right? The meaning seemed really obvious, but he didn’t want to jump to conclusions. At least he had the first part figured out: this body of his was the second chance the note was talking about.
But how had this happened? There was no logical explanation. Unless a god had somehow deemed Jurina not ready to die yet and given her a second chance as a man, this was all absurd.
Right?
Jun groaned and slapped himself on the cheeks. “Enough thinking. I’m just going to shower,” he muttered to himself. Reaching inside the paper bag, he pulled out a nice pair of blue jeans, a classy black belt, a black polo shirt, a pair of white socks, and a pair of plaid boxers. Besides that, he felt something hard at the bottom of the bag. It turned out to be a shoebox with nice white sneakers inside.
He whistled. “Dang, this all must’ve been at least 200 dollars. That doctor is too nice of a guy. Though he must think I need to look well-dressed for my new relative...”
With that, he went to shower. Jun tried not to think about the awkwardness involved with showering in a man’s body.
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“That... will take some getting used to...” Jun grimaced as he toweled his hair dry. Already dressed in his clothes, he quickly dried his short hair and glanced n the mirror.
“Looking fine,” he joked. While laughing at himself, he noticed that his face was still similar to Jurina’s. In fact, if he wasn’t mistaken, he kind of looked like Jurina when she had dressed as a male for a picture, though he was still slightly more masculine.
Shaking his head, he went over to put his nice new sneakers on. Once that was settled, he picked up the bright note, folded it, and then placed it into his pants pocket.
“There. Anything else?” he asked himself, looking over the room. “Nothing. Thought so.”
Grabbing the paper bag, he left the hospital room.
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For some reason, the train station seemed to be overwhelming for Jun, and he hurriedly went back outside into the warm weather. As the door shut behind him, he took a deep breath in and steadied his head.
It must’ve been the after-effects of staying in the hospital, connected to those machines.
Feeling weak, he realized his stomach was roaring at him and telling him to go get something to eat. He patted it.
“Alright, alright. Let’s go get you filled.”
So Jun wandered around the streets, looking for a place that caught his fancy. He had some money in his pocket (no doubt again from the doctor) and before he realized it, he was distracted from his original goal.
“Huh... I should probably get a backpack,” he said to himself as he stared through a shop window. Knowing it was a good idea to do so, he went in and bought a dark-blue messenger bag, placing his important documents inside so they wouldn’t get lost.
Once he left the store, he noticed a bar across the street. Deciding that he might as well get some food before he fainted, he crossed the street and entered the place, the bell ringing to signal his entrance.
Inside was a dimly lit area with a murmur of conversation filling the air. It looked almost identical to a restaurant, except there was a rather well-furnished bar in the center of the room. Jun turned to the waiter to his right and spoke.
“Excuse me, could I get a place to sit and eat?” he asked, gesturing towards the non-bar area.
The waiter bowed. “If you would follow me, sir.”
I’ll never get used to that “sir”.The waiter led Jun to a table rather close to the bar, pulled a chair out, and handed him a menu. Before he left, however, Jun called for his attention.
“Ah! If it’s alright, I already know what I’m going to order,” Jun said, trying to hand the menu back. The waiter raised his eyebrows, but nonetheless took the menu back and pulled out his pen and pad.
“I’d just like a hamburger and fries, please,” Jun ordered hoping that they had some. Thankfully, the waiter nodded, jotted the order down, and left.
“Eh heh, since I’m not an idol anymore, I can afford to eat this just once,” Jun grinned to himself.
Soon enough, the burger was set down and the heavenly scent wafted into Jun’s nose. He drooled.
“Itadakimasu~”
He wolfed the burger and fries down at an impossible speed, finishing in 5 minutes. Other patrons in the restaurants looked warily over at him as he did so, some disgusted while others were heavily amused.
Once the last of the fries went down his throat, he chugged his water down and burped.
So maybe being a guy ain’t all that bad.
Jun paid the bill and was about to leave, humming happily to himself, when something caught his eye.
No way...Sitting at the bar, drink in hand, was a very tipsy thin girl who looked far too familiar to be true. She was silently crying like there was no tomorrow, and the bartender looked at a lost as to what to do.
“Uhh, Miss, I think you’ve had enough to drink...”
She continued to sob and ignored the man.
Jun gulped, hesitantly walked over to the crying girl, and tapped her shoulder. “Rena... chan?” he asked.
Much to his shock and surprise, the thin girl whipped her body around and latched herself on Jun, sobbing into his chest now while he awkwardly wrapped his arms around her and patted her back. As he held her, he thought he might have heard her cry “Jurina... Jurina...”
Giant daggers of guilt stabbed him in the chest.
“Uhhh, sir? Do you know this young lady?”
“Yes, I do,” Jun hesitantly answered. Technically, he did, but Rena only knew him as Jurina, who was dead and gone.
The bartender debated with himself before letting out a sigh. “Listen, I’m not supposed to just let drunks out with men who didn’t come in with them, but you seem to know her and she seems to know you. I think.” He looked at the clinging lady. “Can you get her home?”
Jun reluctantly nodded.
And so he found himself carrying Rena Matsui on his back as he went through the train station, got on the train to Rena’s home area, and trudged through the now-dark streets. Somewhere along the way, the girl had fallen asleep on Jun’s warm back and so her crying had stopped.
Rena’s warm breath tickled Jun’s neck as he fought to keep his blush under control.
So on day 2 of being dead, he had already met the person he loved and was now carrying her home. Jun was now very suspicious of a higher power messing with his life.
“Jurina...” Rena gently sleep-talked, shifting her head slightly around on Jun’s shoulder.
Again, guilt hit Jun hard as he heard the girl say his old name and he stopped moving. He...
He had reduced Rena into a drunken mess. The Rena he knew would never drink, even though she was legal because she hated the smell and taste of it, similar to her extreme dislike of meat.
He swallowed hard.
Looking around, he found the familiar Matsui house and quietly slipped past the front gate and to the doorway. The door-light lit up above his head as he reached into the soil of the potted plant beneath the doorbell and pulled out the spare key.
“Good thing I still remember where that was...” he sighed. He brushed some dirt off the key and then inserted it into the door. With a click and twist, he unlocked the door and nudged it open, setting Rena gently down at the entrance and removing her shoes.
His face glowed red as he touched her feet, his eyes wandering up her smooth legs to her thighs and...
He slapped himself. “Bad Jun...” he frowned.
Focusing his eyes solely on Rena’s shoes, he finally took them both off and then removed his own. He winced as he felt a twinge of pain run through his back from carrying Rena for so long, so he took off his messenger bag and placed it by the door.
“Here we go,” he said, hoisting Rena up in his arms and carrying her bridal-style up the stairs.
He turned the knob to Rena’s door open and walked inside. It seemed like nothing much had changed from the last time he, or rather, Jurina was in here. He laid Rena gently down on her bed and went to the bathroom, wet a towel, and walked back to the sleeping girl. Carefully, he wiped her face off, cleaning the dried tears off her face while gazing at her peaceful beauty.
You know... even if it kind of sucks to lose my other life... I’m grateful for being able to see her again...Once finished, he pulled the covers over the girl and tucked her in lovingly, brushing some hair out of her face. He hesitated.
Ah, why not. She’s not going to remember any of this anyways...With that, he leaned down and placed a gentle, lingering kiss on her forehead.
“Good night, Rena-chan.”
He slipped out of the bedroom, down the stairs, picked up his bag, and left the house, locking the door behind him.
All of this was done so quickly that he never even realized a slip of paper had escaped his bag when he lifted it up, and it was now laying innocently on Rena’s shoes...
A/N: There you have it. Bam. WMatsui moment. But Rena's not actually awake for it 8D
Next update should be very soon.... since it's more of a set up chapter than anything.
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