Switched (ft. Aiba) (Chapter 1-8)
Hmm..... I wrote a couple of Arashi Fanfics and I lost them once.. So in order to preserve them, I think i will post them in my own journal where i can always read them whenever i want to.. Hehehe...
Disclaimer: I do not own Arashi ( I wish i do! Hehe...)
Anyway, this is my first fic and i dreamt of it. So i decided to put it down in words. Sorry if it is terrible. Hope you enjoy it though.
Chapter 1
“Powerpuff boy! What’s with the band aid on your nose? Forget your powder?” Linda, a classmate of his taunted him.
“Oh, its you. Power Ranger girl. How about you? Forgot to bring your sword?” Aiba taunted back.
Just as Linda was about to retort back, the bell rang. If looks could kill, Aiba would have been dead by then. She glared at him and walked off from the bicycle shed to the classroom.
Linda and Aiba were two college students from a private school. Linda was a transferred student from Singapore because of her family had just moved to Japan due to her father being transferred there. Linda was a great fan of Arashi until she met Aiba who happened to be her classmate. Unfortunately, instead of being happy to know Aiba, the two of them hated each other to the core ever since they met in day 1.
It was another typical day with the sun shining brightly in the sky and birds were chirping in the sky. It was in other words, a perfect and beautiful day. Everything was perfect when suddenly a loud crash came from a classroom. “Masaki Aiba! Linda Mazuri! Go to the principal office right now!” the teacher ordered them.
Both of them trudged down to the office in deadly silence. “It’s all your fault! Now, my clean record had been tarnished by you!” Aiba complained.
“Your clean record? What about mine? If I get into trouble or detention, my parents are going to send me back to Singapore! And to think you are one of the top idols in Japan,” Linda retorted.
The principal looked at them, not surprised to see them there. “Got into a fight again? The two of you are to stay back for the whole week cleaning up the schoolyard. You are dismiss,” the principal replied.
“I hate you,” Linda hissed as they entered their classroom.
“Ok class, we will be going on an excursion tomorrow for the whole day so please bring the necessary things and be sure to take notes as there will be a project based on it,” the teacher announced.
The next day, everyone was excited to go for the excursion. They were going to visit one of the historic places in Japan. An hour later, they arrived at the destination. “Ok class, you may roam around the place. Please be back right here in 3 hours time, understand?” the teacher replied.
The class dispersed. Linda and a few classmates spotted a an old well. They hurried over. The well was old and there were algae all around it. They peered into the well and saw that there were still water inside. Beside the well was a sign, “Wishing well. Touch the well and make a wish and it will come true.”
Linda grinned. She touched the well and was about to make a wish when Aiba came. “Hey, going to make a wish? Wishing to be a power ranger?” he joked.
“Shut up. How about you? Wishing to be a powerpuff girl?” Linda retorted.
“Baka! What would you know? I wish that you know what it is like to be in my shoes!” Aiba replied, without realizing that he had placed his hand on the well.
Linda answered, “Well, I wish that you know what it’s like to be in my shoes too!”
The perfect morning sky suddenly turned dark and a huge lightning streaked across the sky. Everyone looked up and was frightened by it. The whole weird thing was gone within a few seconds.
Chapter 2
"Masaki! Get up! You are getting late for school!" a female voice shouted.
"What? Masaki? Arghh!! Don't tell me that i even have to dream of him in my sleep! Spare me!" Linda replied groggily as she sat up.
She trudged to the bathroom with her eyes closed and using her hands to guide her along to the bathroom. She yawned and stepped into the bathroom door. She opened her eyes and realized that the bathroom was different. She shrugged and stepped into the shower area to have a quick shower. Slowly, she took off her shirt. "AHHHH!!!!" she screamed.
Meanwhile,
"Sheesh! It's so noisy! Why did i ever put Yamapi's song as my alarm clock?" Aiba grumbled as he shut the alarm off.
He stood up and went to the bathroom to take a bath before going to school. Shutting the door behind him, he began to undress himself. He stared at himself. "WHAT???" he screamed.
He rushed to the mirror and to his great horror, it was not his face which was looking back at him. It was none other than his greatest enemy, Linda. "I must be dreaming. I am not in a girl's body. I am not in a girl's body," he chanted to himself and closed his eyes.
He took a deep breath and slowly opened his eyes. "NOOO!!! It must be a dream," he replied and pinched himself.
"Ouch! That hurts a like hell!" he exclaimed.
He looked at the mirror again. "NO!!! This can't be happening. My voice! What is going on? Where's the phone?" he panicked and rushed out of the bathroom, half naked.
He saw a handphone which he assumed to be Linda's. He took it and dialed Linda's number. He tried again and again but he did not get a dial tone. "What's wrong with the idiotic phone?" he grumbled, fear rising in his body.
Suddenly, the phone rang. He was so shocked that he dropped the phone. "Hello?" he greeted.
"AIBA MASAKI!!! What in world happened?" he heard his voice screaming at him.
The voice was so loud that he recoiled. "Do you think i know? I am in a girl's body! Not any girl but yours! Couldn't i get a much more prettier girl instead of yours? So flat both front and back!" Aiba retorted.
Linda fumed when she heard the insult. "You looked? You looked at my body? Pervert!" she answered.
"Pervert? What am i supposed to do? It's my body now. I can't help but look," he defended himself.
In the background, he heard his mom shouting at him that he was late for school. "Look, we will discuss this further in school. We are running late. Do whatever you have to do to get ready for school and don't look!!" Linda replied and hung up before Aiba could say anything.
After hanging up the phone, both of them trudged to the bathroom. They looked at themselves in the mirror once again. Reality started to sink in their head.A few seconds later,birds at the two different houses stared to fly off in fright. "AHHH!!!!" they screamed.
Chapter 3
"Let's see. Today is Wednesday, isn't it?" the principal asked.
Aiba and Linda nodded their heads. "So, why must you two come here again? This is the 2nd time in the week that you come here. Fight again, isn't it?" the principal asked, half amused with the two most popular visitors to his office.
"Fight? No, no. This time, we are late for school," Linda (now in Aiba's body) replied.
"Late? I understand if one of you is late. But the two of you at the same time?" the principal commented.
"I got lost," Aiba (in Linda's body) replied.
"Me too," Linda quibbed.
"Lost?" the principal asked, puzzled.
"Umm...So what is our punishment,sir?" Linda asked, cutting off the topic.
"Hmm...I ran out of punishment for the two of you. Just don't be late anymore and don't fight!" the principal dismissed them.
They went back to the classroom in silence, each not daring to talk to each other. They felt weird looking at their own body so they tried to look everywhere but each other.
"Linda, Aiba, you are at the wrong seats," their form teacher remarked.
"Eh? What?" they asked but they realized that they were no longer themselves.
They moved to the correct seats in embarrassment. As soon as Aiba sat down, Miyuki, Linda's best friend, tapped Aiba's shoulder. "Linda, I've got two tickets to go for Arashi's performance at the tv station tonight. Let's go together,
?" she offered.
"I'm not Lin... oh,
," Aiba nodded, stopping himself from saying that he was not Linda.
"I'm so excited for tonight! I can't wait to see Ohno perform. You must be looking forward to see Matsumoto Jun. You simply adore him unlike that Masaki Aiba whom you detest so much," Miyuki rambled.
Aiba thought that the information was useful. he grinned with glee. So, that power ranger girl likes Jun, he thought. Anyway, why should i be looking forward to see Jun? I see him practically every day, he thought further.
Suddenly, something struck him. "Performance? Arashi? Oh no!" he exclaimed, standing right in the middle of the class.
"Yes, Linda?" the teacher asked him.
"Huh? Nothing. Sorry," Aiba blushed and sat down.
I must tell Linda about this. This is terrible! Aiba thought in panic.
He counted the minutes to the time the bell rang. Finally when it rang, he stood up and started to make his way to Linda but he saw Linda being dragged away by his friends in class. "Linda, let's go. It's gym time," Miyuki took his arm and dragged him to the girl's locker room to change.
Aiba had long wanted to know what it was like to be in a girls' locker room,full of half nake girls. Now, he finally had the chance. He was swooning in pleasure as he looked at the girls. "Linda! What are you doing? Your locker is here!" Miyuki shouted at him.
Aiba hurried to Linda's locker and took out the clothes to change.During class, he tried to find so many ways to approach Linda about the upcoming peformance but to no avail. Time passed on and without knowing it, the school day ended.
Linda was packing her bag, or rather Aiba's bag when Aiba's handphone rang. She answered it. "Hello," she greeted.
"Masaki Aiba! Come down right now! We are waiting for you in the van," a very familiar male voice replied.
Linda looked at the phone and the screen said, "Sho-chan".
"Sho-chan?" she asked.
"Yes, it's me. Come on, we are late!" he said, rushing her.
Linda looked through the window and saw a white van outside the school gates. She quickly took the bag and ran towards the van. "Hey! Wait!" she heard her voice calling her.
"Linda, you are having a performance later. What are you going to do? Can you dance?" Aiba asked.
"What? Performance? Dance?" she asked, confused.
"Aiba! Quick!" Sho called.
"Yes! In a moment," Aiba shouted back.
"You are me, remember?" Linda hissed at his mistake.
"Oops, sorry," Aiba apologized.
"I've got to go," Linda replied and ran towards the van.
Linda sat down on the seat. "What took you so long?" another voice asked.
Linda looked back. Ahh! Jun! "Err... I... Umm... Sorr...Sorrry," Linda stammered.
"Aiba-chan, your face is red. Are you
?" another voice asked in concern.
She looked up and saw Ohno looking at her in concern. Ohno? What do you expect? Aiba's a member of Arashi, she smacked herself mentally.
"I'm fine," she mumbled in shyness.
"Let's do some rehearsal first," Ohno replied after they arrived at the studio.
Linda stood by the sid not knowing what to do. "Aiba-chan! Why are you standing there? Come here!" Jun called her.
"Huh?" she looked blur.
Everytime Jun called her, she would start blushing like a tomato. She would not be able to answer properly and in proper sentence. Whenever Jun was near, her knees started to turned to jelly. This spelled troublr with the capital 'T".
She took the position and soon the music started to play. "I'm dead," she told herself.
This was in fact, just the starting of their worst nightmare ever.
Chapter 4
"Linda-chan! There you are! I've been searching all over the school for you.Come on, let's go and pick out some clothes for the performance later. You do want to look good in front of Arashi, right?" she winked, linking arms with Aiba.
Aiba looked at her, blur. "Oh
, where are we going?" he asked.
"My house, of course! I got tons of clothes at home. Let's go, we only have 5 hours to get ready," she pulled the clueless Aiba along.
Aiba sat down on the floor, looking at Miyuki who was chatting non-stop. He looked around and saw posters and pictures of Arashi pasted all over the room. He went nearer to take a closer look at them. "Linda-chan, you have seen those for like a thousand times and kept saying that I must changed the posters to newer ones," she replied.
"Ohh...Did i say that before?" he asked, looking at a picture of himself.
"I thought you hated him?" she asked, looking over Aiba's shoulders.
"Oh yeah, I hated him. But he looks so darn sexy and hot, right? See," Aiba praised himself but what do Miyuki know?
Miyuki looked at Aiba with a weird expression. She put her hand on his forehead. "No, no fever. Are you sure you are fine?" Miyuki asked.
"Of course, I'm fine. What's wrong with me saying that he's hot and sexy?" Aiba asked.
Miyuki shook her head. "Well, usually, you reserved those words for Matsujun, not Aiba. The words you used to describe him are, brat, spoilt brat, pretty boy, Powerpuff girl, rude, uncouth," she began to list down the words.
"Ok,ok. I get it, I get it," Aiba stopped her from saying anymore.
Linda, you are so going to get it from me. How dare you say those things about me! If i don't strangle you to death, my name is not Aiba! Aiba thought angrily.
As he was thinking of ways to torture Linda, he heard Yamapi's song. "Linda, your phone is ringing," Miyuki remarked.
"Oh!" he quickly picked up the phone.
"Ok, let's start. 1, 2, 3!" Ohno counted and started the music.
"Wait! Wait! I need to go to the gents!" Linda held up her hands and ran out from the studio.
"Die, die... I can't dance even if my life depends on it and now I have to dance Arashi's songs? Why must I exchange bodies with that baka Masaki? Why not any other guy who does not have to dance?" Linda mumbled as she splashed water onto her face.
"Umm...Excuse me, you are in the wrong washroom. This is the ladies," a woman tapped Linda's shoulder.
"But I am a la...." she looked herself in the mirror.
"Oh no! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I must be so tired," Linda apologized and ran out of the ladies.
She walked back to the studio woth a heavy heart. What am I going to do? she thought.
"Aiba-chan! Hurry up! We don't have much time to lose!" Nino shouted at him.
"Ok! I'm coming!" Linda hurried her steps.
Suddenly, she tripped over the radio's wire. "THUMP!" a loud noise was heard.
"Aiba-chan! Are you
?" Sho asked.
Everyone began to crowd around him. "Can you stand up?" Ohno asked.
Linda stood up but crumpled back to the floor. "Ouch! My leg!" she cried.
Jun took off her shoes and socks. "Uh oh, I think you sprained your leg," he said.
"Sprained? Then how am I going to dance?" Linda asked.
"Well, you can't dance like this. I guess you will just come out when we sing the slow songs," Ohno replied.
"Really?" Linda asked, deep in her heart, she was leaping with joy.
"Yes, of course," he nodded his head.
Jun took some bandage and started to bandage Linda's leg. Linda stared at him intently that she didn't even feel the slightest pain at all while he was bandaging it. "Ok, it's done," Jun smiled at her.
"Oh
. Arigatou gozaimasu," she thanked him, feeling a bit upset that he's going away.
While Arashi were rehearsing, she called Aiba.
"Linda! I'm going to change the ringtone of your handphone," Aiba said as soon as he answered the call.
"Oh
. Masaki-kun, I've got good news to tell you," she replied.
"Good news?" he asked.
"Yeah. I sprained my leg and doesn't have to dance! Isn't that great?" Linda told him.
"You what? You sprained your leg.Excuse me, Miss Linda. Whose leg do you think you actually sprain it? It's mine!" Aiba retorted.
"I'm sorry. But I can't dance! Do you want me to ruin your career by dancing like a dork?" she asked.
Aiba quietened. She did have a point. "Are you
?" he asked, after a few minutes of silence between them.
"I'm
. Aiba, I'm really sorry. Look, tomorrow teah me how to dance
? Just the dances that you have to perform frequently. i will try my best to memorize them," she replied.
"Hmm...Ok. I'll see you later, then," Aiba agreed and hung up.
As he hung up, Miyuki was staring at him weirdly. "Who are you talking to?" she asked.
"Oh, Linda," he answered.
"Linda? Who?" she asked, suspiciously.
Aiba smacked himself mentally. "Oh! It's my cousin back in Singapore. We have the same names. Our mothers were best friends and somehow they thought it was fun to name their daughters same names. Weird, right?" Aiba made up a ridiculous story.
Miyuki nodded, believing it. "Oh,
. I thoughtyou were talking to yourself," she replied.
Aiba breathe a sigh of relief. "Linda, what do you think of this outfit?" Miyuki asked as she held up a mini skirt and a long-sleeved top.
"Umm...Who is supposed to wear that?" he asked.
"You!" she smiled.
"What! No, no... I think i rather wear this and this," Aiba replied, picking up a pair of faded jeans and white singlet and a knitted sweater.
"Oh
... Up to you. I thought you wanted to look sexier for Jun. But i guess I can't make you wear mini skirts no matter what the reason is," she shrugged.
Miyuki began to undress right there in the room, in front of Aiba. Aiba looked at her in disbelief. "You are changing here?" he gulped.
"Yes, why not? Don't we always do that?" she asked.
"What?" he asked in disbelief.
"Come on, Linda. What you have, I have it too. What's ther to look?" she grinned.
Aiba closed his eyes. Heat began to rush up to his cheeks. Any guy would die just to be in my shoes, Aiba replied as he slowly opened his eyes. When he opened his eyes, Miyuki was right in front of his face.
"What?" he asked, stunned.
"Quick, change!" she ordered.
He looked at her. Darn, why must she dress up so quickly? he thought bitterly.
"Let's welcome, Arashi!" the announcer said.
Linda took a deep breathe and prepare herself for whatever was going to happen next.
Chapter 5
"Yeah! Go Arashi!" Miyuki shouted, after Arashi ha performed their popular song, "Jidai".
Aiba was clapping enthusiastically. This was the first time he managed to see his bandmates perform live as a viewer. He was touched to hear the fans screams especially now that he himself was among the fans. He was looking around when he heard the announcer heard his name.
"Let's welcome Masaki Aiba. Apparently, he injured his le during practice earlier. It must be hard on you, Aiba-chan," the host said.
Aiba watched Jun helped his body up the stage.He eyes the injury. Uh uh,I hope my foot will heal by he time we switched places back, Aiba thought.
After the performance, while Aiba and Miyuki were walking back to the bus station, his handphone beeped. It was a message from Linda. It said "Masaki-kun, I will be coming over tomorrow to MY own house after school. I need you to teach me some of the simple dances. Thank you."
Linda kept the handphone after sending the message. "Aiba-chan! Let's go wash up," Sho replied.
“Wash up? Together?” Linda stammered.
“Yeah, we always did that. You loved it, right?” he replied and made his way to the washroom.
“What am I going to do? I’ll be freaking out looking at them half naked and I’m still not used to seeing Aiba’s body naked,” Linda mumbled to herself.
She entered the washroom and saw the boys beginning to strip. She stopped immediately and practically stood frozen there watching the whole scene. “Aiba-chan, why are you standing there? Come on,” Nino called him.
“Err…” she answered.
She scanned the whole bathroom and saw that there were showers in the cubicles. She took a deep breath and ran towards the cubicle. “Aiba-chan! Why are you so shy out of the sudden? Come out and play with us!” Ohno knocked on the door.
“Umm…I will shower first. See you guys in 5 minutes’ time!” Linda shouted and switched on the tap quickly.
“Ahh! I forgot to take off my clothes!” Linda shouted as the water drenched her.
The guys laughed. Linda looked at herself in despair. She slowly took off the shirt. Then, with trembling hands, she took of the pants. She closed her eyes and washed herself quickly without looking at anything. After the quick and embarrassing shower, she listened outside to see if the guys were in the shower. She opened the cubicle door a bit and peeped outside. No one was outside. She breathed a sigh of relief.
She stepped out and wanted to get out of the washroom quickly when she felt someone pulling her shoulder. “Why are you in a rush?” someone asked.
She turned and saw Jun. She stepped back and looked at him closely. “Eeeep!” she squeaked.
Jun was half naked with only a towel covering his part. Red hot blush began to seeped into her face. “I….I…er…need…to..go,” she stammered and ran out of there as fast as she could, not caring whether her foot was hurting her or not.
The next day, Aiba packed his bag and quickly ran out of the school. He knew that Linda would not be coming to school today because Arashi would be having a meeting that day. “Linda-chan! Why are you running off to?” Miyuki asked Aiba.
“Oh…I need to meet Lin…someone,” he replied.
Aiba wanted to get rid of Miyuki and boarded the first bus he saw. It was not that he disliked Miyuki but he wanted to see Linda. Aiba sat down and saw that Miyuki was shouting something at him. He sat down and looked outside. “Ehh? Where am I?” Aiba asked, fear poolled in his stomach.
At that time, Linda called him. “Masaki-kun, where are you? I’m outside and you are nowhere in sight,” Linda asked.
“I’m lost!” Aiba wailed.
Linda shook her head as she saw Aiba alighting from that wrong bus. “Come on. Next time, take the bus number 24. It will stop near my house. Remember that. I can’t always be rescuing you all the time,” Linda replied.
Linda opened the door and Aiba followed her. After all, this was her house. “Linda, where are your family?” Aiba asked as there was no one at home.
“My dad is working and will be back the next day. I have no siblings,” she replied quietly.
“Ohh…Ok. Then, your mom?” he asked.
Linda’s eyes looked pained. “Let’s go to my room. I want to see what you’ve done to my room,” Linda replied, changing the topic.
Aiba entered the room. Now, he observed that there were many Yamapi’s and Arashi’s posters and magazines around. But there were many Jun’s solo photos and none of Aiba’s. Linda looked around and saw that nothing was changed. “Ok, let’s see how you dance,” Linda said.
For the next few hours, Aiba thought her how to dance, ‘Jidai’. “Linda, you shouldn’t force yourself. I know you are a bad dancer so I don’t really expect much of you,” Aiba replied.
“Shut up! I know what I’m doing,” Linda snapped.
Both of their stomach rumbled. “Uh uh, I’m hungry. Are you?” Linda asked.
Aiba nodded. “Let’s order takeout,” he suggested.
“Oh, no need. I will go and cook something simple up,” Linda replied and went to the kitchen.
Aiba followed her and watched her cook. “Hmm…I didn’t know that Power Ranger Girl could cook,” Aiba remarked.
“Masaki-kun, get here and help me cut the vegetables,” Linda ignored his remarked.
“Masaki-kun,” Linda called him.
He turned to look at her. Linda took the flour and threw it at his face. “Haha…Snowman!” Linda laughed.
“Why you!” Aiba exclaimed and took the cut up vegetables and threw it at her.
“Stop!” Linda held up her hands.
They looked around. “What are we going to eat?” Aiba asked, as not a single food was fit to eat.
All the food was either on the floor or on their bodies. “Let’s order takeout,” Linda replied.
After eating, they spent the rest of the night cleaning up the kitchen. “I’ll see you tomorrow,” Linda waved at him.
Aiba smiled and nodded. “Take care,” he replied.
A few minutes later, Aiba received a call. “Masaki-kun, I’m lost,” Linda replied.
Chapter 6
"Aiba-chan! Wakey, wakey," someone patted Linda's cheek.
Linda swatted the hand and hug Aiba's stuffed animal tighter. Something tickled her nose. She groaned and opened one of her eyes. Jun was looking at her, just a few inches away from her face. She could feel his hot breathe on her face.
"Ahhh!!!" she screamed, surprising Jun that he fell backwards onto the floor.
"What are you doing here?" she asked Jun.
Jun laughed. "Why are you so shocked? The way you hold hat blanket tightly to your chest is like a girl!" Jun replied, laughing.
What does he know? I AM a girl! But I'm a guy now, Linda thought sourly.
"Get moving. We will be late because of you," Nino complained.
Linda was startled by his voice. She looked around and saw the rest of Arashi members around the room, looking at her. She widened her eyes in surprised. "Where are we going?" Linda asked.
"Hokaiddo," Ohno answered.
"Hokaiddo?Are you serious? For what? How long?" she asked, now fully wide awake.
"Aiba-chan, are you feeling all right?" Sho asked her.
"I think I'm getting short term memory. I can't remember a few things lately," Linda lied.
"We are going to shoot D no Arashi in Hokaiddo for 3 days. well, I know that you will forget about it so I've already packed your bag for you," Jun replied, pointing a haversack nearby.
Linda looked at it. "Thank you so much!" she grinned and hugged Jun.
"Ehh? No problem," Jun replied, puzzled about the reaction.
The school bell rang signalling that class was a bout to start. Aiba saw that his chair was empty. "Why is she not here today? Did something happened to her?" Aiba wondered to himself.
He was not concentrating on what the teacher was teaching in class, instead he was busy thinking of what Linda was up to. Suddenly, his handphone vibrated in his pocket. It was Linda calling him. He stood up and asked permission from the teacher to go to he washroom.
"Aiba-chan, I'm on the way to the airport to Hokaiddo," Linda told him.
"Hokaiddo? Oh yeah! I forgot to tell you about it. We are going to shoot D no Arashi there. You are going to do A no Arashi with Sho in a freezer," Aiba told her.
"With Sho in the freezer? What are we going to do there? Why not with Matsumoto Jun?" Linda asked.
"I know you like Jun but it's already been decided that I am gointo do the show with Sho. Besides, Jun has to do some other things," Aiba told her.
"Too bad. Oh yeah, later tonight you have to go and teach tuition to a 9 year-old boy. His name is Yuta Nagano. You are to teach him Maths and English. Oh yeah, I have a part-time job as a shop assistant at the nearby supermarket during weekends. so you have to go for me," Linda told him.
"What? Tuition? English? Linda, my english is horrible!" Aiba wailed but Linda took no notice of his complaints and continued to tell him the address of the little boy.
Aiba took a deep breath and held onto the assessment books he found on Linda's table tightly. "I can do it," Aiba muttered to himself.
He pressed the doorbell and a woman aswered th door. "Ah, Linda-chan is here. Yuta! Your tution teacher is here," the woman called her son.
Aiba smiled at her and looked behind her. There stood a boy who's face is very angelic and sweet. "This is going to be a breeze," Aiba smiled to himself.
1 hour later, Aiba was on the verge of pulling his hair. "Onee-chan, do you have a boyfriend? What is he like? Have you ever kissed?" the little boy asked him questions totally out of what he was supposed to learn.
"Yuta, listen. Yes, I have a boyfriend. He's name is Aiba and he is very handsome and tall. He's very nice and whether we kissed or not is none of your business!" Aiba snapped at him.
"Oh...But onee-chan, last week you said, you do not have a boyfriend," he asked again.
"Did I? Now i have so shut up and listen here. What is 5x9?" Aiba asked him as they were suppposed to sudy multiplication tables.
"Umm...Onee-chan, I need to go to the toilet," Yuta replied.
"What? This is the 5 the time you are going," Aiba remarked.
"Please? Just 5 minutes," he begged, inching his way to the door.
"Fine, go," Aiba sighed.
After 5 minutes, Yuta still was not back. Aiba went out of the room and heard some noises in Yuta's room. He opened the door and saw Yuta playing video games. "YUTA!!! COME BACK TO THE ROOM RIGHT NOW!!! YOU ARE NOT GOING TO THE TOILET ANYMORE!!" Aiba screamed at him.
Yuta looked frightened at being caught and quickly ran to the room. "Onee-chan, don't tell mummy about just now,please?" he begged.
Aiba looked at his puppy-dog eyes. He looked at the watch. Another half an hour more to go. "This is going to be a very long day," Aiba muttered.
Chapter 7
"Arghh! My head. My poor head. Where's the medicine box?" Aiba rummaged through the closet in the bathroom for some aspirin.
Finally, after 5 minutes of searching, he found a huge pack of aspirin. "Whoa, so much? I uess Linda really needs those aspirin after teaching that brat," Aiba muttered.
He sat down on the chair, switching the computer. He laughed when he saw Linda's wallpaper. It was full of Jun! "She really likes that guy! I wonder how is she now," Aiba wondered loudly.
He was curious to know what Linda store in her computer and began to surf around. He frowned. "She's so boring. Nothing but notes and exercises for that brat," Aiba replied as he found nothing juicy in her computer.
He opened his bag and began to do his homework. He switched on the radio and did his homework peacefully. "This is so wondeful! No calls from Ohno, Sho, Nino and especially Jun to remind me of things to do, no need to practice dancing or scripts. I'm just a normal person! I could get used to this," he thought happily.
He was doing a project about the class trip earlier. He found a website about it. As he was surfing and reading up on the history, he chance upon the well. He stared at it. "That well looks familiar," he thought.
Flashback
“Hey, going to make a wish? Wishing to be a power ranger?” he joked.
“Shut up. How about you? Wishing to be a powerpuff girl?” Linda retorted.
“Baka! What would you know? I wish that you know what it is like to be in my shoes!” Aiba replied, without realizing that he had placed his hand on the well.
Linda answered, “Well, I wish that you know what it’s like to be in my shoes too!”
The perfect morning sky suddenly turned dark and a huge lightning streaked across the sky. Everyone looked up and was frightened by it. The whole weird thing was gone within a few seconds.
End of flashback
“Ahh! That well! That well was the one which switched our bodies! Why didn’t we ever think of how to revert back to our own self?” Aiba remarked.
He tried to look up on that well but there was not much info available. “Never mind. I will just make a trip there tomorrow,” Aiba told himself.
The next day, after school, he went to visit the well. He walked around the well, looking for some signs or instructions. The only thing he found was a huge sign over the well that said, “Touch the well and make a wish. It will definitely come true.”
“Yeah, it came true all right. It only caused me nothing but trouble!” Aiba scolded the well.
People around him were staring at him as if he was a mad person.
“Hello, may I help you?” someone asked.
He turned and saw an old man with a long white beard wearing a white kimono smiling at him. He nodded his head. “Umm…Who are you?” Aiba asked.
“I’m the caretaker of this place,” he answered.
“Oh, that’s great! Do you know how to reverse a wish which had been granted by this well?” Aiba asked.
“Reverse? Do your wish came true?” he asked.
“Yes, it did and I wanted to revert it back,” Aiba replied.
“May I know what did you wish for?” he asked.
Aiba looked around him and blushed. He told the caretaker briefly what happened. The caretaker laughed. “I see. It’s simple. You can’t ask the well to revert the wish that it had granted. To return back to your own self, you have to fulfill your wish that is to know what it is like to be in each other’s shoes. Once the two of you realize this, you will get back to your own body. But beware, if you two did not return back to your rightful bodies before the full moon, the two of you will remain like this forever,” the caretaker replied.
“Full moon? Forever?” Aiba repeated, shocked.
“Yes, the two of you have only a week before full moon. Good luck!” the caretaker replied.
“What does he mean to know what it is like to be in each other’s shoes? We are wearing each other’s shoes! We are in deep trouble!” Aiba exclaimed.
He looked at his watch. “Oh no! I’m late for that brat’s tuition!” he exclaimed and ran towards the bus-stop as fast he could.
Chapter 8
"Aiba-chan! Quick!" Sho called him.
"I'm here, I'm here," Linda ran towards Sho.
They were in front of a factory which manufacture ice. Linda looked at her surrounding in amazement. "Whoa! It's so one of a kind!" Linda replied, excited.
"Yeah, don't get distracted now. You have to do your show and then you can go explore," Sho told her like as if telling a small kid.
"Ok, what do I have to do?"Linda asked him.
"This! Have you totally forgotten about it?" Sho asked, shaking his head.
"Oh, let me see," Linda asked and looked at the script and the drawings.
"Oh, so basically we are going to experiment with the coldness. No problem,” Linda replied, nodding her head with confidence.
“Ready? Take 1,” the director shouted and off they went.
Sho and Linda tried to eat curry and blow bubbles in the freezer. “Aiba-chan! You are enjoying yourself way too much! It’s over, you know,” Sho pulled him towards the van after they had finished recording.
“Sho-chan! I still want to do more experiments! Why is it so short?” Linda complained, unhappy at the fact that they had to go back to the hotel early.
“We still have to record some other segments, Aiba-chan. Besides, your feet is still not heal yet and you can go off running. I’m beginning to have the idea of putting a leash on you,” Sho warned her.
“But Sho-chan! This is my first time in Hokaiddo! Not my fault that I’m excited over everything,” Linda replied.
“Your first time? But we just came here a few weeks ago,” Sho asked, feeling puzzled.
“Eh? Oh! What I mean that every time I come here, I feel like it’s my first time here,” Linda corrected her speech.
“Ohh…I can understand that. The place is just so beautiful, right?” Sho replied, looking outside the window.
Linda breathed a sigh of relief. Lucky I managed to get Sho to believe my white lie. Sorry, Sho-chan, Linda thought, feeling bad that she had to lie to him.
“Oyasuminasai, Aiba-chan! Make sure you sleep. I don’t want you to go anywhere, understand?” Sho said.
“I know, I know. I’m sleeping. If you don’t believe me, you can ask anyone of them to sleep with me,” Linda said but she knew that they would leave her alone and would not take her suggestion seriously.
“Hmm…I will sleep with him. Besides, there are two beds here,” Jun volunteered.
“WHAT?? No! I was just kidding. You better sleep in your own room. I want some space,” Linda disagreed.
“Why? You got something to hide?” Jun asked.
“No, no. But…” Linda could not think of anything to discourage him.
“So, it’s settled. I’m going to sleep here tonight,” Jun replied and sat on the spare bed.
Linda looked at him in dismay. How am I going to get out tonight? She thought. A few hours later, she was till wide-awake. She peeped at Jun and saw that he’s peacefully asleep. She smiled. It’s time! She smiled happily and took the CDs and quietly went out.
Jun heard the door closed and saw Aiba going out. He knew that Aiba had been out for the past 2 nights but he did not know where. He was concerned about him as Aiba had been behaving rather weirdly these few days. He followed him quietly and saw Aiba entering one of the rooms in the hotel that they had reserved for some recording.
He saw Aiba putting a CD in the Cd player and started to dance. “Ohh…he’s practicing his dance,” Jun smiled.
But Jun realized that Aiba’s dance was a bit off. Not Aiba’s usual style. He observed some more. Suddenly, Aiba fell. He wanted to rush forward to help but he stood put in his position. He saw Aiba stroking his injured leg. “Baka Aiba. Injured but still want to practice,” he muttered.
He heard some sniffles. He peered closer and saw Aiba was crying. “Eh?” he wondered.
He saw Aiba taking out his handphone and called someone. The conversation lasted a few minutes. After that, he saw Aiba hugging his legs and sobbed. He heard Aiba calling out his mother in between his sobs. He wanted to console him but he knew that Aiba would tell them if he wanted to talk. He quietly left the room and went to sleep.
A few minutes after Jun had left, Linda’s heard her phone rang. “Linda-chan? Are you crying?” Aiba asked, concerned.
Linda wiped her eyes. “No, nothing. There’s something in my eye,” Linda lied.
“Oh..I wanted to tell you that I went to the well this afternoon,” Aiba told her the whole story.
“One more week? But Masaki-kun, I have enough of your life. It’s tiring. I have to do so many things and not enough time to rest. I want my life back,” Linda replied.
Aiba chuckled. “Now you know how it feels like to be a super idol like me. I also want my life back,” Aiba replied.
“Hmm….will we return back to our own bodies tomorrow?” Linda asked.
“I don’t know. Let’s hope we will,” Aiba replied
Disclaimer: I do not own Arashi ( I wish i do! Hehe...)
Anyway, this is my first fic and i dreamt of it. So i decided to put it down in words. Sorry if it is terrible. Hope you enjoy it though.
Chapter 1
“Powerpuff boy! What’s with the band aid on your nose? Forget your powder?” Linda, a classmate of his taunted him.
“Oh, its you. Power Ranger girl. How about you? Forgot to bring your sword?” Aiba taunted back.
Just as Linda was about to retort back, the bell rang. If looks could kill, Aiba would have been dead by then. She glared at him and walked off from the bicycle shed to the classroom.
Linda and Aiba were two college students from a private school. Linda was a transferred student from Singapore because of her family had just moved to Japan due to her father being transferred there. Linda was a great fan of Arashi until she met Aiba who happened to be her classmate. Unfortunately, instead of being happy to know Aiba, the two of them hated each other to the core ever since they met in day 1.
It was another typical day with the sun shining brightly in the sky and birds were chirping in the sky. It was in other words, a perfect and beautiful day. Everything was perfect when suddenly a loud crash came from a classroom. “Masaki Aiba! Linda Mazuri! Go to the principal office right now!” the teacher ordered them.
Both of them trudged down to the office in deadly silence. “It’s all your fault! Now, my clean record had been tarnished by you!” Aiba complained.
“Your clean record? What about mine? If I get into trouble or detention, my parents are going to send me back to Singapore! And to think you are one of the top idols in Japan,” Linda retorted.
The principal looked at them, not surprised to see them there. “Got into a fight again? The two of you are to stay back for the whole week cleaning up the schoolyard. You are dismiss,” the principal replied.
“I hate you,” Linda hissed as they entered their classroom.
“Ok class, we will be going on an excursion tomorrow for the whole day so please bring the necessary things and be sure to take notes as there will be a project based on it,” the teacher announced.
The next day, everyone was excited to go for the excursion. They were going to visit one of the historic places in Japan. An hour later, they arrived at the destination. “Ok class, you may roam around the place. Please be back right here in 3 hours time, understand?” the teacher replied.
The class dispersed. Linda and a few classmates spotted a an old well. They hurried over. The well was old and there were algae all around it. They peered into the well and saw that there were still water inside. Beside the well was a sign, “Wishing well. Touch the well and make a wish and it will come true.”
Linda grinned. She touched the well and was about to make a wish when Aiba came. “Hey, going to make a wish? Wishing to be a power ranger?” he joked.
“Shut up. How about you? Wishing to be a powerpuff girl?” Linda retorted.
“Baka! What would you know? I wish that you know what it is like to be in my shoes!” Aiba replied, without realizing that he had placed his hand on the well.
Linda answered, “Well, I wish that you know what it’s like to be in my shoes too!”
The perfect morning sky suddenly turned dark and a huge lightning streaked across the sky. Everyone looked up and was frightened by it. The whole weird thing was gone within a few seconds.
Chapter 2
"Masaki! Get up! You are getting late for school!" a female voice shouted.
"What? Masaki? Arghh!! Don't tell me that i even have to dream of him in my sleep! Spare me!" Linda replied groggily as she sat up.
She trudged to the bathroom with her eyes closed and using her hands to guide her along to the bathroom. She yawned and stepped into the bathroom door. She opened her eyes and realized that the bathroom was different. She shrugged and stepped into the shower area to have a quick shower. Slowly, she took off her shirt. "AHHHH!!!!" she screamed.
Meanwhile,
"Sheesh! It's so noisy! Why did i ever put Yamapi's song as my alarm clock?" Aiba grumbled as he shut the alarm off.
He stood up and went to the bathroom to take a bath before going to school. Shutting the door behind him, he began to undress himself. He stared at himself. "WHAT???" he screamed.
He rushed to the mirror and to his great horror, it was not his face which was looking back at him. It was none other than his greatest enemy, Linda. "I must be dreaming. I am not in a girl's body. I am not in a girl's body," he chanted to himself and closed his eyes.
He took a deep breath and slowly opened his eyes. "NOOO!!! It must be a dream," he replied and pinched himself.
"Ouch! That hurts a like hell!" he exclaimed.
He looked at the mirror again. "NO!!! This can't be happening. My voice! What is going on? Where's the phone?" he panicked and rushed out of the bathroom, half naked.
He saw a handphone which he assumed to be Linda's. He took it and dialed Linda's number. He tried again and again but he did not get a dial tone. "What's wrong with the idiotic phone?" he grumbled, fear rising in his body.
Suddenly, the phone rang. He was so shocked that he dropped the phone. "Hello?" he greeted.
"AIBA MASAKI!!! What in world happened?" he heard his voice screaming at him.
The voice was so loud that he recoiled. "Do you think i know? I am in a girl's body! Not any girl but yours! Couldn't i get a much more prettier girl instead of yours? So flat both front and back!" Aiba retorted.
Linda fumed when she heard the insult. "You looked? You looked at my body? Pervert!" she answered.
"Pervert? What am i supposed to do? It's my body now. I can't help but look," he defended himself.
In the background, he heard his mom shouting at him that he was late for school. "Look, we will discuss this further in school. We are running late. Do whatever you have to do to get ready for school and don't look!!" Linda replied and hung up before Aiba could say anything.
After hanging up the phone, both of them trudged to the bathroom. They looked at themselves in the mirror once again. Reality started to sink in their head.A few seconds later,birds at the two different houses stared to fly off in fright. "AHHH!!!!" they screamed.
Chapter 3
"Let's see. Today is Wednesday, isn't it?" the principal asked.
Aiba and Linda nodded their heads. "So, why must you two come here again? This is the 2nd time in the week that you come here. Fight again, isn't it?" the principal asked, half amused with the two most popular visitors to his office.
"Fight? No, no. This time, we are late for school," Linda (now in Aiba's body) replied.
"Late? I understand if one of you is late. But the two of you at the same time?" the principal commented.
"I got lost," Aiba (in Linda's body) replied.
"Me too," Linda quibbed.
"Lost?" the principal asked, puzzled.
"Umm...So what is our punishment,sir?" Linda asked, cutting off the topic.
"Hmm...I ran out of punishment for the two of you. Just don't be late anymore and don't fight!" the principal dismissed them.
They went back to the classroom in silence, each not daring to talk to each other. They felt weird looking at their own body so they tried to look everywhere but each other.
"Linda, Aiba, you are at the wrong seats," their form teacher remarked.
"Eh? What?" they asked but they realized that they were no longer themselves.
They moved to the correct seats in embarrassment. As soon as Aiba sat down, Miyuki, Linda's best friend, tapped Aiba's shoulder. "Linda, I've got two tickets to go for Arashi's performance at the tv station tonight. Let's go together,
?" she offered.
"I'm not Lin... oh,
," Aiba nodded, stopping himself from saying that he was not Linda.
"I'm so excited for tonight! I can't wait to see Ohno perform. You must be looking forward to see Matsumoto Jun. You simply adore him unlike that Masaki Aiba whom you detest so much," Miyuki rambled.
Aiba thought that the information was useful. he grinned with glee. So, that power ranger girl likes Jun, he thought. Anyway, why should i be looking forward to see Jun? I see him practically every day, he thought further.
Suddenly, something struck him. "Performance? Arashi? Oh no!" he exclaimed, standing right in the middle of the class.
"Yes, Linda?" the teacher asked him.
"Huh? Nothing. Sorry," Aiba blushed and sat down.
I must tell Linda about this. This is terrible! Aiba thought in panic.
He counted the minutes to the time the bell rang. Finally when it rang, he stood up and started to make his way to Linda but he saw Linda being dragged away by his friends in class. "Linda, let's go. It's gym time," Miyuki took his arm and dragged him to the girl's locker room to change.
Aiba had long wanted to know what it was like to be in a girls' locker room,full of half nake girls. Now, he finally had the chance. He was swooning in pleasure as he looked at the girls. "Linda! What are you doing? Your locker is here!" Miyuki shouted at him.
Aiba hurried to Linda's locker and took out the clothes to change.During class, he tried to find so many ways to approach Linda about the upcoming peformance but to no avail. Time passed on and without knowing it, the school day ended.
Linda was packing her bag, or rather Aiba's bag when Aiba's handphone rang. She answered it. "Hello," she greeted.
"Masaki Aiba! Come down right now! We are waiting for you in the van," a very familiar male voice replied.
Linda looked at the phone and the screen said, "Sho-chan".
"Sho-chan?" she asked.
"Yes, it's me. Come on, we are late!" he said, rushing her.
Linda looked through the window and saw a white van outside the school gates. She quickly took the bag and ran towards the van. "Hey! Wait!" she heard her voice calling her.
"Linda, you are having a performance later. What are you going to do? Can you dance?" Aiba asked.
"What? Performance? Dance?" she asked, confused.
"Aiba! Quick!" Sho called.
"Yes! In a moment," Aiba shouted back.
"You are me, remember?" Linda hissed at his mistake.
"Oops, sorry," Aiba apologized.
"I've got to go," Linda replied and ran towards the van.
Linda sat down on the seat. "What took you so long?" another voice asked.
Linda looked back. Ahh! Jun! "Err... I... Umm... Sorr...Sorrry," Linda stammered.
"Aiba-chan, your face is red. Are you
?" another voice asked in concern.
She looked up and saw Ohno looking at her in concern. Ohno? What do you expect? Aiba's a member of Arashi, she smacked herself mentally.
"I'm fine," she mumbled in shyness.
"Let's do some rehearsal first," Ohno replied after they arrived at the studio.
Linda stood by the sid not knowing what to do. "Aiba-chan! Why are you standing there? Come here!" Jun called her.
"Huh?" she looked blur.
Everytime Jun called her, she would start blushing like a tomato. She would not be able to answer properly and in proper sentence. Whenever Jun was near, her knees started to turned to jelly. This spelled troublr with the capital 'T".
She took the position and soon the music started to play. "I'm dead," she told herself.
This was in fact, just the starting of their worst nightmare ever.
Chapter 4
"Linda-chan! There you are! I've been searching all over the school for you.Come on, let's go and pick out some clothes for the performance later. You do want to look good in front of Arashi, right?" she winked, linking arms with Aiba.
Aiba looked at her, blur. "Oh
, where are we going?" he asked.
"My house, of course! I got tons of clothes at home. Let's go, we only have 5 hours to get ready," she pulled the clueless Aiba along.
Aiba sat down on the floor, looking at Miyuki who was chatting non-stop. He looked around and saw posters and pictures of Arashi pasted all over the room. He went nearer to take a closer look at them. "Linda-chan, you have seen those for like a thousand times and kept saying that I must changed the posters to newer ones," she replied.
"Ohh...Did i say that before?" he asked, looking at a picture of himself.
"I thought you hated him?" she asked, looking over Aiba's shoulders.
"Oh yeah, I hated him. But he looks so darn sexy and hot, right? See," Aiba praised himself but what do Miyuki know?
Miyuki looked at Aiba with a weird expression. She put her hand on his forehead. "No, no fever. Are you sure you are fine?" Miyuki asked.
"Of course, I'm fine. What's wrong with me saying that he's hot and sexy?" Aiba asked.
Miyuki shook her head. "Well, usually, you reserved those words for Matsujun, not Aiba. The words you used to describe him are, brat, spoilt brat, pretty boy, Powerpuff girl, rude, uncouth," she began to list down the words.
"Ok,ok. I get it, I get it," Aiba stopped her from saying anymore.
Linda, you are so going to get it from me. How dare you say those things about me! If i don't strangle you to death, my name is not Aiba! Aiba thought angrily.
As he was thinking of ways to torture Linda, he heard Yamapi's song. "Linda, your phone is ringing," Miyuki remarked.
"Oh!" he quickly picked up the phone.
"Ok, let's start. 1, 2, 3!" Ohno counted and started the music.
"Wait! Wait! I need to go to the gents!" Linda held up her hands and ran out from the studio.
"Die, die... I can't dance even if my life depends on it and now I have to dance Arashi's songs? Why must I exchange bodies with that baka Masaki? Why not any other guy who does not have to dance?" Linda mumbled as she splashed water onto her face.
"Umm...Excuse me, you are in the wrong washroom. This is the ladies," a woman tapped Linda's shoulder.
"But I am a la...." she looked herself in the mirror.
"Oh no! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I must be so tired," Linda apologized and ran out of the ladies.
She walked back to the studio woth a heavy heart. What am I going to do? she thought.
"Aiba-chan! Hurry up! We don't have much time to lose!" Nino shouted at him.
"Ok! I'm coming!" Linda hurried her steps.
Suddenly, she tripped over the radio's wire. "THUMP!" a loud noise was heard.
"Aiba-chan! Are you
?" Sho asked.
Everyone began to crowd around him. "Can you stand up?" Ohno asked.
Linda stood up but crumpled back to the floor. "Ouch! My leg!" she cried.
Jun took off her shoes and socks. "Uh oh, I think you sprained your leg," he said.
"Sprained? Then how am I going to dance?" Linda asked.
"Well, you can't dance like this. I guess you will just come out when we sing the slow songs," Ohno replied.
"Really?" Linda asked, deep in her heart, she was leaping with joy.
"Yes, of course," he nodded his head.
Jun took some bandage and started to bandage Linda's leg. Linda stared at him intently that she didn't even feel the slightest pain at all while he was bandaging it. "Ok, it's done," Jun smiled at her.
"Oh
. Arigatou gozaimasu," she thanked him, feeling a bit upset that he's going away.
While Arashi were rehearsing, she called Aiba.
"Linda! I'm going to change the ringtone of your handphone," Aiba said as soon as he answered the call.
"Oh
. Masaki-kun, I've got good news to tell you," she replied.
"Good news?" he asked.
"Yeah. I sprained my leg and doesn't have to dance! Isn't that great?" Linda told him.
"You what? You sprained your leg.Excuse me, Miss Linda. Whose leg do you think you actually sprain it? It's mine!" Aiba retorted.
"I'm sorry. But I can't dance! Do you want me to ruin your career by dancing like a dork?" she asked.
Aiba quietened. She did have a point. "Are you
?" he asked, after a few minutes of silence between them.
"I'm
. Aiba, I'm really sorry. Look, tomorrow teah me how to dance
? Just the dances that you have to perform frequently. i will try my best to memorize them," she replied.
"Hmm...Ok. I'll see you later, then," Aiba agreed and hung up.
As he hung up, Miyuki was staring at him weirdly. "Who are you talking to?" she asked.
"Oh, Linda," he answered.
"Linda? Who?" she asked, suspiciously.
Aiba smacked himself mentally. "Oh! It's my cousin back in Singapore. We have the same names. Our mothers were best friends and somehow they thought it was fun to name their daughters same names. Weird, right?" Aiba made up a ridiculous story.
Miyuki nodded, believing it. "Oh,
. I thoughtyou were talking to yourself," she replied.
Aiba breathe a sigh of relief. "Linda, what do you think of this outfit?" Miyuki asked as she held up a mini skirt and a long-sleeved top.
"Umm...Who is supposed to wear that?" he asked.
"You!" she smiled.
"What! No, no... I think i rather wear this and this," Aiba replied, picking up a pair of faded jeans and white singlet and a knitted sweater.
"Oh
... Up to you. I thought you wanted to look sexier for Jun. But i guess I can't make you wear mini skirts no matter what the reason is," she shrugged.
Miyuki began to undress right there in the room, in front of Aiba. Aiba looked at her in disbelief. "You are changing here?" he gulped.
"Yes, why not? Don't we always do that?" she asked.
"What?" he asked in disbelief.
"Come on, Linda. What you have, I have it too. What's ther to look?" she grinned.
Aiba closed his eyes. Heat began to rush up to his cheeks. Any guy would die just to be in my shoes, Aiba replied as he slowly opened his eyes. When he opened his eyes, Miyuki was right in front of his face.
"What?" he asked, stunned.
"Quick, change!" she ordered.
He looked at her. Darn, why must she dress up so quickly? he thought bitterly.
"Let's welcome, Arashi!" the announcer said.
Linda took a deep breathe and prepare herself for whatever was going to happen next.
Chapter 5
"Yeah! Go Arashi!" Miyuki shouted, after Arashi ha performed their popular song, "Jidai".
Aiba was clapping enthusiastically. This was the first time he managed to see his bandmates perform live as a viewer. He was touched to hear the fans screams especially now that he himself was among the fans. He was looking around when he heard the announcer heard his name.
"Let's welcome Masaki Aiba. Apparently, he injured his le during practice earlier. It must be hard on you, Aiba-chan," the host said.
Aiba watched Jun helped his body up the stage.He eyes the injury. Uh uh,I hope my foot will heal by he time we switched places back, Aiba thought.
After the performance, while Aiba and Miyuki were walking back to the bus station, his handphone beeped. It was a message from Linda. It said "Masaki-kun, I will be coming over tomorrow to MY own house after school. I need you to teach me some of the simple dances. Thank you."
Linda kept the handphone after sending the message. "Aiba-chan! Let's go wash up," Sho replied.
“Wash up? Together?” Linda stammered.
“Yeah, we always did that. You loved it, right?” he replied and made his way to the washroom.
“What am I going to do? I’ll be freaking out looking at them half naked and I’m still not used to seeing Aiba’s body naked,” Linda mumbled to herself.
She entered the washroom and saw the boys beginning to strip. She stopped immediately and practically stood frozen there watching the whole scene. “Aiba-chan, why are you standing there? Come on,” Nino called him.
“Err…” she answered.
She scanned the whole bathroom and saw that there were showers in the cubicles. She took a deep breath and ran towards the cubicle. “Aiba-chan! Why are you so shy out of the sudden? Come out and play with us!” Ohno knocked on the door.
“Umm…I will shower first. See you guys in 5 minutes’ time!” Linda shouted and switched on the tap quickly.
“Ahh! I forgot to take off my clothes!” Linda shouted as the water drenched her.
The guys laughed. Linda looked at herself in despair. She slowly took off the shirt. Then, with trembling hands, she took of the pants. She closed her eyes and washed herself quickly without looking at anything. After the quick and embarrassing shower, she listened outside to see if the guys were in the shower. She opened the cubicle door a bit and peeped outside. No one was outside. She breathed a sigh of relief.
She stepped out and wanted to get out of the washroom quickly when she felt someone pulling her shoulder. “Why are you in a rush?” someone asked.
She turned and saw Jun. She stepped back and looked at him closely. “Eeeep!” she squeaked.
Jun was half naked with only a towel covering his part. Red hot blush began to seeped into her face. “I….I…er…need…to..go,” she stammered and ran out of there as fast as she could, not caring whether her foot was hurting her or not.
The next day, Aiba packed his bag and quickly ran out of the school. He knew that Linda would not be coming to school today because Arashi would be having a meeting that day. “Linda-chan! Why are you running off to?” Miyuki asked Aiba.
“Oh…I need to meet Lin…someone,” he replied.
Aiba wanted to get rid of Miyuki and boarded the first bus he saw. It was not that he disliked Miyuki but he wanted to see Linda. Aiba sat down and saw that Miyuki was shouting something at him. He sat down and looked outside. “Ehh? Where am I?” Aiba asked, fear poolled in his stomach.
At that time, Linda called him. “Masaki-kun, where are you? I’m outside and you are nowhere in sight,” Linda asked.
“I’m lost!” Aiba wailed.
Linda shook her head as she saw Aiba alighting from that wrong bus. “Come on. Next time, take the bus number 24. It will stop near my house. Remember that. I can’t always be rescuing you all the time,” Linda replied.
Linda opened the door and Aiba followed her. After all, this was her house. “Linda, where are your family?” Aiba asked as there was no one at home.
“My dad is working and will be back the next day. I have no siblings,” she replied quietly.
“Ohh…Ok. Then, your mom?” he asked.
Linda’s eyes looked pained. “Let’s go to my room. I want to see what you’ve done to my room,” Linda replied, changing the topic.
Aiba entered the room. Now, he observed that there were many Yamapi’s and Arashi’s posters and magazines around. But there were many Jun’s solo photos and none of Aiba’s. Linda looked around and saw that nothing was changed. “Ok, let’s see how you dance,” Linda said.
For the next few hours, Aiba thought her how to dance, ‘Jidai’. “Linda, you shouldn’t force yourself. I know you are a bad dancer so I don’t really expect much of you,” Aiba replied.
“Shut up! I know what I’m doing,” Linda snapped.
Both of their stomach rumbled. “Uh uh, I’m hungry. Are you?” Linda asked.
Aiba nodded. “Let’s order takeout,” he suggested.
“Oh, no need. I will go and cook something simple up,” Linda replied and went to the kitchen.
Aiba followed her and watched her cook. “Hmm…I didn’t know that Power Ranger Girl could cook,” Aiba remarked.
“Masaki-kun, get here and help me cut the vegetables,” Linda ignored his remarked.
“Masaki-kun,” Linda called him.
He turned to look at her. Linda took the flour and threw it at his face. “Haha…Snowman!” Linda laughed.
“Why you!” Aiba exclaimed and took the cut up vegetables and threw it at her.
“Stop!” Linda held up her hands.
They looked around. “What are we going to eat?” Aiba asked, as not a single food was fit to eat.
All the food was either on the floor or on their bodies. “Let’s order takeout,” Linda replied.
After eating, they spent the rest of the night cleaning up the kitchen. “I’ll see you tomorrow,” Linda waved at him.
Aiba smiled and nodded. “Take care,” he replied.
A few minutes later, Aiba received a call. “Masaki-kun, I’m lost,” Linda replied.
Chapter 6
"Aiba-chan! Wakey, wakey," someone patted Linda's cheek.
Linda swatted the hand and hug Aiba's stuffed animal tighter. Something tickled her nose. She groaned and opened one of her eyes. Jun was looking at her, just a few inches away from her face. She could feel his hot breathe on her face.
"Ahhh!!!" she screamed, surprising Jun that he fell backwards onto the floor.
"What are you doing here?" she asked Jun.
Jun laughed. "Why are you so shocked? The way you hold hat blanket tightly to your chest is like a girl!" Jun replied, laughing.
What does he know? I AM a girl! But I'm a guy now, Linda thought sourly.
"Get moving. We will be late because of you," Nino complained.
Linda was startled by his voice. She looked around and saw the rest of Arashi members around the room, looking at her. She widened her eyes in surprised. "Where are we going?" Linda asked.
"Hokaiddo," Ohno answered.
"Hokaiddo?Are you serious? For what? How long?" she asked, now fully wide awake.
"Aiba-chan, are you feeling all right?" Sho asked her.
"I think I'm getting short term memory. I can't remember a few things lately," Linda lied.
"We are going to shoot D no Arashi in Hokaiddo for 3 days. well, I know that you will forget about it so I've already packed your bag for you," Jun replied, pointing a haversack nearby.
Linda looked at it. "Thank you so much!" she grinned and hugged Jun.
"Ehh? No problem," Jun replied, puzzled about the reaction.
The school bell rang signalling that class was a bout to start. Aiba saw that his chair was empty. "Why is she not here today? Did something happened to her?" Aiba wondered to himself.
He was not concentrating on what the teacher was teaching in class, instead he was busy thinking of what Linda was up to. Suddenly, his handphone vibrated in his pocket. It was Linda calling him. He stood up and asked permission from the teacher to go to he washroom.
"Aiba-chan, I'm on the way to the airport to Hokaiddo," Linda told him.
"Hokaiddo? Oh yeah! I forgot to tell you about it. We are going to shoot D no Arashi there. You are going to do A no Arashi with Sho in a freezer," Aiba told her.
"With Sho in the freezer? What are we going to do there? Why not with Matsumoto Jun?" Linda asked.
"I know you like Jun but it's already been decided that I am gointo do the show with Sho. Besides, Jun has to do some other things," Aiba told her.
"Too bad. Oh yeah, later tonight you have to go and teach tuition to a 9 year-old boy. His name is Yuta Nagano. You are to teach him Maths and English. Oh yeah, I have a part-time job as a shop assistant at the nearby supermarket during weekends. so you have to go for me," Linda told him.
"What? Tuition? English? Linda, my english is horrible!" Aiba wailed but Linda took no notice of his complaints and continued to tell him the address of the little boy.
Aiba took a deep breath and held onto the assessment books he found on Linda's table tightly. "I can do it," Aiba muttered to himself.
He pressed the doorbell and a woman aswered th door. "Ah, Linda-chan is here. Yuta! Your tution teacher is here," the woman called her son.
Aiba smiled at her and looked behind her. There stood a boy who's face is very angelic and sweet. "This is going to be a breeze," Aiba smiled to himself.
1 hour later, Aiba was on the verge of pulling his hair. "Onee-chan, do you have a boyfriend? What is he like? Have you ever kissed?" the little boy asked him questions totally out of what he was supposed to learn.
"Yuta, listen. Yes, I have a boyfriend. He's name is Aiba and he is very handsome and tall. He's very nice and whether we kissed or not is none of your business!" Aiba snapped at him.
"Oh...But onee-chan, last week you said, you do not have a boyfriend," he asked again.
"Did I? Now i have so shut up and listen here. What is 5x9?" Aiba asked him as they were suppposed to sudy multiplication tables.
"Umm...Onee-chan, I need to go to the toilet," Yuta replied.
"What? This is the 5 the time you are going," Aiba remarked.
"Please? Just 5 minutes," he begged, inching his way to the door.
"Fine, go," Aiba sighed.
After 5 minutes, Yuta still was not back. Aiba went out of the room and heard some noises in Yuta's room. He opened the door and saw Yuta playing video games. "YUTA!!! COME BACK TO THE ROOM RIGHT NOW!!! YOU ARE NOT GOING TO THE TOILET ANYMORE!!" Aiba screamed at him.
Yuta looked frightened at being caught and quickly ran to the room. "Onee-chan, don't tell mummy about just now,please?" he begged.
Aiba looked at his puppy-dog eyes. He looked at the watch. Another half an hour more to go. "This is going to be a very long day," Aiba muttered.
Chapter 7
"Arghh! My head. My poor head. Where's the medicine box?" Aiba rummaged through the closet in the bathroom for some aspirin.
Finally, after 5 minutes of searching, he found a huge pack of aspirin. "Whoa, so much? I uess Linda really needs those aspirin after teaching that brat," Aiba muttered.
He sat down on the chair, switching the computer. He laughed when he saw Linda's wallpaper. It was full of Jun! "She really likes that guy! I wonder how is she now," Aiba wondered loudly.
He was curious to know what Linda store in her computer and began to surf around. He frowned. "She's so boring. Nothing but notes and exercises for that brat," Aiba replied as he found nothing juicy in her computer.
He opened his bag and began to do his homework. He switched on the radio and did his homework peacefully. "This is so wondeful! No calls from Ohno, Sho, Nino and especially Jun to remind me of things to do, no need to practice dancing or scripts. I'm just a normal person! I could get used to this," he thought happily.
He was doing a project about the class trip earlier. He found a website about it. As he was surfing and reading up on the history, he chance upon the well. He stared at it. "That well looks familiar," he thought.
Flashback
“Hey, going to make a wish? Wishing to be a power ranger?” he joked.
“Shut up. How about you? Wishing to be a powerpuff girl?” Linda retorted.
“Baka! What would you know? I wish that you know what it is like to be in my shoes!” Aiba replied, without realizing that he had placed his hand on the well.
Linda answered, “Well, I wish that you know what it’s like to be in my shoes too!”
The perfect morning sky suddenly turned dark and a huge lightning streaked across the sky. Everyone looked up and was frightened by it. The whole weird thing was gone within a few seconds.
End of flashback
“Ahh! That well! That well was the one which switched our bodies! Why didn’t we ever think of how to revert back to our own self?” Aiba remarked.
He tried to look up on that well but there was not much info available. “Never mind. I will just make a trip there tomorrow,” Aiba told himself.
The next day, after school, he went to visit the well. He walked around the well, looking for some signs or instructions. The only thing he found was a huge sign over the well that said, “Touch the well and make a wish. It will definitely come true.”
“Yeah, it came true all right. It only caused me nothing but trouble!” Aiba scolded the well.
People around him were staring at him as if he was a mad person.
“Hello, may I help you?” someone asked.
He turned and saw an old man with a long white beard wearing a white kimono smiling at him. He nodded his head. “Umm…Who are you?” Aiba asked.
“I’m the caretaker of this place,” he answered.
“Oh, that’s great! Do you know how to reverse a wish which had been granted by this well?” Aiba asked.
“Reverse? Do your wish came true?” he asked.
“Yes, it did and I wanted to revert it back,” Aiba replied.
“May I know what did you wish for?” he asked.
Aiba looked around him and blushed. He told the caretaker briefly what happened. The caretaker laughed. “I see. It’s simple. You can’t ask the well to revert the wish that it had granted. To return back to your own self, you have to fulfill your wish that is to know what it is like to be in each other’s shoes. Once the two of you realize this, you will get back to your own body. But beware, if you two did not return back to your rightful bodies before the full moon, the two of you will remain like this forever,” the caretaker replied.
“Full moon? Forever?” Aiba repeated, shocked.
“Yes, the two of you have only a week before full moon. Good luck!” the caretaker replied.
“What does he mean to know what it is like to be in each other’s shoes? We are wearing each other’s shoes! We are in deep trouble!” Aiba exclaimed.
He looked at his watch. “Oh no! I’m late for that brat’s tuition!” he exclaimed and ran towards the bus-stop as fast he could.
Chapter 8
"Aiba-chan! Quick!" Sho called him.
"I'm here, I'm here," Linda ran towards Sho.
They were in front of a factory which manufacture ice. Linda looked at her surrounding in amazement. "Whoa! It's so one of a kind!" Linda replied, excited.
"Yeah, don't get distracted now. You have to do your show and then you can go explore," Sho told her like as if telling a small kid.
"Ok, what do I have to do?"Linda asked him.
"This! Have you totally forgotten about it?" Sho asked, shaking his head.
"Oh, let me see," Linda asked and looked at the script and the drawings.
"Oh, so basically we are going to experiment with the coldness. No problem,” Linda replied, nodding her head with confidence.
“Ready? Take 1,” the director shouted and off they went.
Sho and Linda tried to eat curry and blow bubbles in the freezer. “Aiba-chan! You are enjoying yourself way too much! It’s over, you know,” Sho pulled him towards the van after they had finished recording.
“Sho-chan! I still want to do more experiments! Why is it so short?” Linda complained, unhappy at the fact that they had to go back to the hotel early.
“We still have to record some other segments, Aiba-chan. Besides, your feet is still not heal yet and you can go off running. I’m beginning to have the idea of putting a leash on you,” Sho warned her.
“But Sho-chan! This is my first time in Hokaiddo! Not my fault that I’m excited over everything,” Linda replied.
“Your first time? But we just came here a few weeks ago,” Sho asked, feeling puzzled.
“Eh? Oh! What I mean that every time I come here, I feel like it’s my first time here,” Linda corrected her speech.
“Ohh…I can understand that. The place is just so beautiful, right?” Sho replied, looking outside the window.
Linda breathed a sigh of relief. Lucky I managed to get Sho to believe my white lie. Sorry, Sho-chan, Linda thought, feeling bad that she had to lie to him.
“Oyasuminasai, Aiba-chan! Make sure you sleep. I don’t want you to go anywhere, understand?” Sho said.
“I know, I know. I’m sleeping. If you don’t believe me, you can ask anyone of them to sleep with me,” Linda said but she knew that they would leave her alone and would not take her suggestion seriously.
“Hmm…I will sleep with him. Besides, there are two beds here,” Jun volunteered.
“WHAT?? No! I was just kidding. You better sleep in your own room. I want some space,” Linda disagreed.
“Why? You got something to hide?” Jun asked.
“No, no. But…” Linda could not think of anything to discourage him.
“So, it’s settled. I’m going to sleep here tonight,” Jun replied and sat on the spare bed.
Linda looked at him in dismay. How am I going to get out tonight? She thought. A few hours later, she was till wide-awake. She peeped at Jun and saw that he’s peacefully asleep. She smiled. It’s time! She smiled happily and took the CDs and quietly went out.
Jun heard the door closed and saw Aiba going out. He knew that Aiba had been out for the past 2 nights but he did not know where. He was concerned about him as Aiba had been behaving rather weirdly these few days. He followed him quietly and saw Aiba entering one of the rooms in the hotel that they had reserved for some recording.
He saw Aiba putting a CD in the Cd player and started to dance. “Ohh…he’s practicing his dance,” Jun smiled.
But Jun realized that Aiba’s dance was a bit off. Not Aiba’s usual style. He observed some more. Suddenly, Aiba fell. He wanted to rush forward to help but he stood put in his position. He saw Aiba stroking his injured leg. “Baka Aiba. Injured but still want to practice,” he muttered.
He heard some sniffles. He peered closer and saw Aiba was crying. “Eh?” he wondered.
He saw Aiba taking out his handphone and called someone. The conversation lasted a few minutes. After that, he saw Aiba hugging his legs and sobbed. He heard Aiba calling out his mother in between his sobs. He wanted to console him but he knew that Aiba would tell them if he wanted to talk. He quietly left the room and went to sleep.
A few minutes after Jun had left, Linda’s heard her phone rang. “Linda-chan? Are you crying?” Aiba asked, concerned.
Linda wiped her eyes. “No, nothing. There’s something in my eye,” Linda lied.
“Oh..I wanted to tell you that I went to the well this afternoon,” Aiba told her the whole story.
“One more week? But Masaki-kun, I have enough of your life. It’s tiring. I have to do so many things and not enough time to rest. I want my life back,” Linda replied.
Aiba chuckled. “Now you know how it feels like to be a super idol like me. I also want my life back,” Aiba replied.
“Hmm….will we return back to our own bodies tomorrow?” Linda asked.
“I don’t know. Let’s hope we will,” Aiba replied