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Rin already felt something off about himself as soon as he woke up: the fabric against his skin was a bit too rough, the air was a little too fresh and there was a faint unrecognisable smell lingering around the room.
It was like he was in a body that wasn’t his.
It is when the teenager opened his eyes and got up from his bed that he truly realised how oddly different he was. He blinked before looking at his arms, although the difference wasn’t blatant, they were less muscular and his skin tone was slightly different.
The green haired boy wiped his eyes, chasing this weird idea out of his head. Why would his body get so different overnight? Rin probably just slept so well that he finally managed to get rid of the tiredness that had been weighing on his shoulders for months or even years, and this change was so sudden that it felt unreal. The young man instinctively took a few steps to the bathroom while brushing his scalp with his fingers, trying to ignore how oddly soft his hair were and how different he still felt, even though he already had an hypothetical explanation for this change.
The teenager yawned as he stepped into the bathroom, freezing to his position as he saw the reflection on the mirror. Rin blinked once, then twice, then rubbed his eyes and blinked again. He took a few steps towards the mirror, staring at the reflection it gaves him while poking his skin to make sure he wasn’t dreaming.
The mirror wasn’t reflecting Rin’s face at all. Instead, it gave him an image of a boy who had been a little too annoyingly present lately, not only as an element of his life, but also as the heart of his mind and preoccupations.
The teal eyed boy turned around and walked back with a hurried step towards his room. As soon as he got in, he found someone who looked exactly like his actual self, sleeping in a fetal position.
“Wake up, Bob cut.”He said as he shakes his clone’s shoulder
“Pass… “
“Hey, wake up!”
The other man mumbled some unintelligible words as a reply.
Rin frowned at Bachira before shaking his shoulders again, finally making him rub his eyes before opening them. The older man gasped and instinctively pulled himself away.
“I am not you, I’m Rin. We exchanged bodies” said the young man before Bachira could even talk.
Bachira stared at him with a confused smile.
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“It’s really unbelievable, isn’t it?” Bachira said as he poked Rin’s cheeks, a huge grin covering his face, “I swapped bodies with Rin-chan and now I’m tall and super hot!”
“Stop touching my face. Instead of being so happy for being in my body, why not trying to fix the issue? I don’t want to stay this way any longer.”
“And why not? It would be nice to spend at least a day in each other’s lives, it would make us even closer than we already are!”
“i wouldn’t be able to achieve my goal in your body.”
Rin sighed.
If he stays like that, he wouldn’t be able to defeat his older brother. Sae would definitely not take it seriously if a stranger pretended to be his little brother and wanted a revenge against him.
The safest thing to do would be to fix everything before it’s too late.
“Mhhh… Maybe we could simply ask someone for help?” Bachira suggested.
“No one would believe us, those types of situations only happen in fairy tales.”
The older boy caressed his own chin, seemingly thinking of a solution.
“Well getting out of the toilet stall would definitely be the first step” Rin said as he putted his hand on the door’s lock.
“You’re the one who wanted us to be somewhere no one else could see us!”
“Yes but staying here all day wouldn’t fix the problem at all. Let’s go eat first, we will think of a solution later.”
The two teenagers got out of the toilets, leading towards the cafeteria. The sound of their steps resonated across the hallway as they were thinking about a way to return to their original bodies.
Rin’s mind couldn’t stop spinning. The fact that he doesn’t remember anything from the previous night, the fact that he can’t find a way to win back his original body and his worry about Bachira doing weird things in his body took too much space in tis brain for him to be able to think about anything else. If he doesn’t find a solution soon, he’ll have to forget about his revenge and his status as the best player of Blue Lock. He’ll also have to pretend to be cheerful every days, and it will surely be exhausting.
“Ah! Here you are!” Said a familiar voice behind them. “I was seeking you!”
Bachira and Rin turned back, discovering that their interlocutor is Tokimitsu.
He looked at Rin — or rather at Bachira, since they switched bodies — and smiled nervously, his hand anxiously holding his other arm’s wrist.
“Can I talk with Bachira please?” he mumbled nervously, his expression directly switching to panic as he finished his sentence “I-I won’t make fun of you I promise! I just want to talk with him!”.
“Sure” the tall man answered, trying to stay as cold as possible to not confuse his teammate.
“Thank you so much! He’ll be back soon!!” he yelled as he dragged the other teenager away, without knowing that he took the wrong person.
With a hurried step, he brought the yellow eyed man into a calm corner, not too far away from the teal eyed one.
“So Bachira, I wanted to ask you something… I am not trying to get into your personal life or anything, don’t get the wrong idea! I’ve just heard some rumors about you and Rin and I’ve been wondering if they were true..”
Rin raised an eyebrow. “Huh? What rumours?”
“Well….. I’ve heard that you and Rin kissed on the lips yesterday. It’s not that I mind if you did or anything! I just wanted to know if you are dating him!” he said, instantly folding in half “I AM SORRY, I DIDNT WANT TO OVERSTEP! AHGG I PROBABLY MADE YOU FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE RIGHT NOW!”
“Tell me more about those rumours, who said them?”
“Uh? Well I’ve been hearing it from almost everywhere. Even strangers had been talking about how the scary number one is dating his cute teammate.”
The teenager stared at him for a second before turning around and walking away without answering Tokimitsu, too busy trying this best to remember what happened the previous night. Why is there such a rumour about them? Was this rumour a lie, or did it actually happen?
As soon as he came near Bachira, Rin massaged his own head, frowning.
“Do you remember anything that happened yesterday?”
“Uh? Mhhh honestly I only remember the first half of it. I can’t really remember anything that happened after lunch.”
Rin frowned harder.
“There is a rumour circulating about us. Apparently we kissed yesterday and now many people think we are dating.”
“What?!” Bachira exclaimed with a surprised smile “I didn’t know people viewed us this way!”
“What do you mean by that?”
“Well we most likely didn’t kiss, Rin-chan. I really doubt you would kiss me out of everyone.”
Bachira was wrong, and Rin knew it really well. Kissing him was not an unrealistic scenario at all, actually all it would take him to do it is a little more free will.
“I think the best would be to focus on returning to our original bodies, stories like that can wait.”
The room went silent for a moment.
“What if the solution is to just to kiss?” Bachira suggested “You know, since we apparently kissed the day right before swiping bodies. Maybe it is the kiss who triggered the swipe? And maybe the way to get back our original form would be to kiss again?”
“Didn’t you just say that it is impossible that we kissed yesterday?”
“Well we never know!”
Rin stared at him, trying to make a decision about Bachira’s proposal.
“Ok, we’re going to kiss, but only because I want to get my body back.”
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Before they could even notice it, the two teenagers were in their 4 men room.
Thankfully, since their teammates are usually training around this time, they’ll most likely not get interrupted during their kiss. Rin silently gulped as Bachira put his hands on his shoulders.
“Are you ready?” Asked the older man with a smile on his face.
Rin nodded, shutting his eyes as soon as he heard the question.
Almost immediately, he felt warm and soft lips brushing against his. The kiss was brief, so brief that Rin wasn’t sure if he should open his eyes. However, even such a simple gesture managed to make his heart race and leave a sweet feeling in him.
“What wrong? Why are your eyes still closed?”
“I expected it be longer.”
Bachira didn’t answer, pushing the younger man to open his eyes.
The man he just kissed was staring at him with a huge grin.
“Did you expect it to be longer or did you want it to be?”
Rin stepped back instantly.
“What? Why the hell would I even want to kiss you? The only reason why I did is to get my body back.”He said as he turned back and went away angrily under Bachira’s amused look.
And then the next day they’ll wake up in their own bodies and the world is sunshine and rainbows.