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"Hey, you never said you could possess bodies!"
Hanako lifted a finger to his lips, his wide golden eyes blinking at him, deceptively innocent. "Hm? I mean there's a lot I can do, I just don't have time to go through them all with you, kid."
Nene covered her face with both hands, cheeks flaming red from the experience. Wound up like a tightly-coiled spring, she was just a nudge away from screaming into her palms. She pleaded tensely, "Can we just not talk about this anymore?"
But neither Kou nor Hanako even acknowledged what she said.
"It's just really weird to keep something like that to yourself," Kou said, crossing his arms. "Is it because you guys are bonded then?"
A high-pitched noise caught in the back of Nene's throat. "Don't say it like that."
"Nope!" Hanako chirped, wearing a grin that split from ear to ear. "I can do it with any ol' human."
He drifted forward, reaching for Kou with wiggling fingers. His smile grew darker, more mischievous.
"Why? You wanna try it out for yourself, kid?"
"Of course not!" Kou protested. As Hanako drew even closer, he leaned back, holding an arm up defensively. "Knock it off!"
Nene couldn't take the mortification any longer. She let out a strangled scream, flinging her hands from her face. Her palms slapped against Kou's shoulder blades. "Enough! Quit talking about it!"
"Woah, hey!" Kou stumbled forward, straight into the unprepared Hanako, who squeaked his surprise.
Then, suddenly, Hanako vanished.
Before Nene could blink, she caught a quick orange blur launch from Kou's back. It hit her chest, and everything turned dark, like a light switch suddenly flipped off.
It lasted only a moment. When she could see again, Nene stared right at the back of her own head.
"H-huh...?" Nene glanced down, lifting her hands. The light filtered faintly through; she saw the bathroom floor beneath. She threw her head back, flailing in the air. "No, no, not again! Hanako-kun!"
"I didn't mean to, honest!" Kou turned, poking his head around Nene's body. His eyes looked rounder than normal, wide-open with faux-innocence. "You pushed him into me and I did it on accident!"
"Wait..."
"Wh-what--? Am I in senpai's body?" Nene's body exclaimed, but of course it wasn't Nene inside of it. Hands gathered up her hair, staring down at them. "How did this happen?!"
Nene--the real one, currently in ghostly form--raised a hand to her forehead. "Wait, wait, wait a second here."
She pointed to Kou. "Hanako-kun?"
Kou's head bobbed affirmative. "Right."
Nene shifted her finger to her own body. "Then... Kou-kun?"
Her body turned to face her. "Yeah, that's right." Then Kou swung around to face Hanako again, grabbing the front of his own baby-blue uniform. "Hey! Explain this, Hanako! I get you can possess people, but why am I in senpai's body, too? I'm not a ghost."
Hanako shrugged, sticking out his tongue and shaking his head dismissively. The tag dangling from his ear danced from the movement. "Dunno! This is my first time, too. Maybe it's because of your family, so when I accidentally knocked you out of your body, you knocked Yashiro out of hers?"
Kou released Hanako with a shove, stepping back to stare down at his hands. "This feels messed up..."
Nene chewed her lip, shifting to hover between the both of them. Finding it too weird to look into her own features, she instead focused mostly on Kou--or rather, Hanako, in Kou's body.
"You can get us back to normal, right?" she asked, anxiety tightening her voice so that it came out with a pathetic whimper at the tail end of it.
Hanako winced. He turned his face away, bringing a finger to his lips. It was strange to see Kou's face wrinkled so deeply in thought. "Maybe... I could leave the kid's body just fine, but... I don't know if that'll suck him in, or suck Yashiro in, or suck you both into the same body. And then I'd be sucked back into Yashiro's which..."
A wide, uncharacteristic distorted Kou's face, Hanako using it to give a lecherous grin that didn't belong there.
"I mean, I'd be ok with that outcome."
Nene slapped his shoulder. "No! We would not be ok with that!"
"Theeen..." Hanako drawled the word out for an unnecessarily long time. Blue eyes flickered between Kou--in Nene's body--and Nene--without any body--before he said, throwing up double 'V's, "We could ask Teru-nii for help!"
"Hey." Hanako had spoken in such an overly-cutesy tone, using Kou's voice, that Kou took a step forward in protest, looking as if he'd whack him over the head for it. However, he stopped short. His voice died in his throat. Nene could see why.
Although he joked and teased, there was a tremor in Hanako's shoulders. Faint though it was, he couldn't hide it with his now-physical form. Nene had no idea why, but Hanako seemed afraid of Minamoto.
Kou's strike turned into a gentle touch to Hanako's shivering shoulder instead.
"I'll ask my brother, don't worry about it," he said. "I'm sure he'll understand you didn't mean anything bad by it, and he'll help if he can."
The tremors all but vanished. Hanako's expression broke into wide, smiling relief. "Phew! That settles that then."
He grabbed Kou's shoulders. It was too strange for Nene to watch Kou manhandling her own body, spinning her around, the skirt of her dress twirling.
"Go get 'em, Tiger!" he chirped. "I hope you don't plan on doing any naughty pervy things while you've got Yashiro's body all to yourself, alright?"
Nene's jaw dropped open. She began to object--.
"Of course not! You're the one who's the pervert ghost here!" Kou exclaimed, his face--Nene's cheeks--a brilliant fiery red. He seemed even more vehemently against the idea than Nene was. "So don't put that on me!"
It was, in part, a relief that he said that. Still, the swiftness of his protests made her frown. She looked down at herself, smoothing her palms over her transparent dress.
Too quiet for either of the boys to hear, she murmured, "Is my body really that unappealing though?"