"Just... just gimme a mirror, okay?" The girl in the hospital bed pouted calling out to the nurse who promptly vanished out the door and left the girl on her own for a while. She took the time to look over her new body, of course unable to ignore the small bumps on her chest covered by a simple white bra. A few paces down her smooth body, white panties covered a fleshy hill and behind it, nothing remained of her old, male organs. Instead, properly working female ones replaced them.
Soon the nurse came back with a full body mirror drawn behind her. "Here you go. Do you need help getting up?"
The girl waved her off. "No, I'm okay."
Carefully, she stood up, a little bit wobbly on her feet, and swayed to the mirror. "Woah, walking feels a little weird...", she muttered. "Bigger hips and smaller shoulders do that for you.", the doctor, who just had entered the room, explained. A few seconds and a girly huff later, she stood in front of the mirror staring at her figure in underwear. "Holy crap... she's cute...I mean, I'm cute... not sexy, more cute...", she uttered.
"I've talked with your mother and cleared some formalities. For one, we chose a more fitting name for you, to which you just have to agree to, as well as handled all paperwork with the school. Your new school uniform is right here, too." The doctor continued. Still, the girl fidgeted a bit when she heard the bit about changing her name.
"So, uh, doc, hit me with the... uh... name change... thing"
"Your mother and I have decided, with your approval of course, to just change a single character in your name. We have thought of 'Akina' instead of 'Akito'. Shouldn't be too big of a change, is it?"
A blush formed on her cheeks.
"It's uhh... I like it... It's okay.", the newly minted Akina muttered.
"Alright then, it's settled", the doc smiled and then put a package of clothing on the bed. "That's your school uniform, today's Friday, you'll be expected back in school on Monday. Don't worry, most of the time, the weekend should be enough to get used to how your new body works. After you get released, you should visit me once every week until I say otherwise. Now, we'll both leave and let you put on the uniform."
Both the doctor and the nurse left the room and closed the door leaving Akina all to herself.
Somehow, she had no trouble putting the new uniform on, although it contained a plaid skirt. Her mom also included a pair of yellow ribbons with whom she made her hair into two long pigtails. "This is gonna take some time getting used to..."



A couple of days later, Akina still hadn't properly adjusted to her body, although her mom had taken her out for clothes shopping and taught her a lot of things concerning hygiene and the secrets of a girl's body. She noticed, though that she won't be able to participate in the sports club she had been as a boy, since her body didn't have the strength to do heavy physical activities such as certain types of sport, so she'd have to choose another extracurricular activity.

Monday arrived way too quickly for Akina. To be honest, she was kind of scared what her classmates would say, think and otherwise, but it was unavoidable, she couldn't pass as a guy anymore at all. Wearing her new uniform, she walked to school all the while being pretty anxious. Meanwhile she did kinda like the breezy feeling around her legs donning that skirt.
Arriving in school the headmaster and her homeroom teacher handled her as if she were made out of porcelain, which really annoyed her, however she kept silent.
A while later, homeroom was about to start and her homeroom teacher decided it to be the right moment to reintroduce Akina to her class.
Waiting in front of the door, she heard her teacher tell the class:
"Guys, we have someone to introduce today, come on in, please!"
The new girl opened the door and entered eliciting murmurs and whispers from her classmates.
"I'm Akina Miyata, please treat me well."
Whispers of multiple "She's cute" emitted from both guys and girls until one asked. "Are you a relative of Akito Miyata, he hasn't been here for a while."
Akina gulped and forced a smile. "I am Akito..., I emerged a week ago..."

With a clipboard in hand and a pen in the other, Shinobu’s path eventually led him around the corridor of his classroom. He didn’t need to walk around when doing basic administrative work of the student council, but Shinobu wanted the exercise.

It was by pure chance that he passed by his own classroom when the ‘new girl’ introduced herself. Just barely out of sight and in a corner, Shinobu saw the brown-haired, green-eyed girl standing in front of class.

“Cute pigtails,” muttered Shinobu to himself.

His path led him directly to the entrance to his classroom when the bombshell dropped. The ‘new girl’ introduced herside as Akina Miyata; she had the same surname as Akito. A pair of alliterative names generally meant siblings. Shinobu guessed that.

And in a single sentence, the ‘new girl’ dropped the bombshell. She was Akito Miyata, she said.

Shinobu’s clipboard clattered onto the floor, and his pen followed in quick succession. The homeroom teacher, Mr. Smith, looked towards him.

“Shinobu, you look pale.”

Shinobu squatted downwards to pick up his items, and found time to direct a smile upwards. “I apologise for the interruption.”

His demeanour belied his thoughts. Akito, a 15 year old boy, ended up emerging. Most emergences happened before a boy’s 10th birthday, and for Shinobu, it happened on sometime after his sixth. He eventually got used to it, just like everyone else who emerged.

10 years later, however, his mind would still remain a boy’s. If Shinobu spoke Japanese regularly, he would have used the ‘僕’ pronoun to refer to himself. It was fortunate that only his father and the headmaster knew. The doctor called it a ‘possible case of partial emergence’, and that Shinobu might ‘outgrow this tomboyish fad’.

These thoughts came bubbling to the surface of Shinobu’s mind as he rushed off into a corner of the school.

“Damn it. Damn. It. Damn. It,” Shinobu clutched his head and began to laugh. This was one of the things he could not change. His thoughts wandered to Akina, and how h—she was dealing with this.

Popping his phone out of his pocket, Shinobu shot a message to the number labelled ‘Akito Miyata’. She would have kept the phone, he reasoned.

”Hey. How’re you feeling?”

Under the stares of her classmates, Akina proceeded to her old and somewhat comforting seat in the back. She was quite relieved that she didn't have to sit in front of everybody. Of course, she'd be the target of many stares, she knew that. These stares would soon become even more as her classmates, especially the male ones, get used to the thought of her being a girl.

Careful, she sat down as she was taught by her mother and sister. Meanwhile the teacher had advised the rest of the class not to bother her too much at the moment, when her phone began to vibrate slightly.

"Hey. How're you feeling?", the message read.
It was from Shinobu, one of the classmates, she could consider a good buddy, although they didn't really talk too much.

"How do you think I'm doing? I'm wearing panties and a skirt, my crotch is flat as heck, I'm cute as fuck and to top it all of, I seem to like it... I'm really confused.", she wrote back to him. "If you want to talk properly, where can I meet you? I kinda could use someone right now.", she added as a P.S. and then she sent it.

She stared down at herself, again noticing the small tiny bumps on her chest pretending to be breasts and the skirt that flared over her smooth and slender legs.
"This is awesome and I hate it..."

”Well, it’ll be extremely awkward if you still felt like a guy after all that. Nature somehow finds a way. I’m at the council room if you need me.”

Shinobu stared at the message, his finger hovering over the ‘Send’ button. It felt opportunististic. It felt hollow. With a few angry taps, he erased his message and rewrote it.

”Council room.”

He sighed. Now it sounded like he didn’t care at all. Shinobu guessed that he sort of cared, considering how much time he was investing into a single text message with a girl. Other girls were easy-come, easy-go, but Akina was different.

”I actually emerged—”

No, this one was stupid. She’d ask so many questions, and Shinobu himself lacked answers to most of them.

Clutching his head and groaning, Shinobu grimaced and tapped out a reply, slamming his finger on the ‘Send’ button without a second glance. Slipping his phone back into his pocket, Shinobu stood up, and walked to the council room.

”I’ll be at the concil room. Reckon thattheyre beter peopel to takl to about this.”

Akina popped open her phone again and read the reply message.

What the heck? Does he actually not check what he writes? Ah, whatever... she needed to go the the student council anyway.

Akina stood up, took her bag and walked out the classroom. "Sorry, teach' gotta go do something!", she exclaimed as she left the room.

Striding through the hallways, her twin-tails bounced behind her. It felt calming and not at all bad, however the implications of her new hairdress, did feel uncomfortable.

She arrived at the student council and entered.
"Hey. I kinda need help...", she addressed Shinobu. "You see, because of... yeah... right now I'm not able to participate in my club anymore... so I kinda need a new one."

Shinobu plucked out the club register. A thin blue book, it listed down just about every club and their members. He flipped over the pages, his eyes momentarily glancing past the name 'Akito Miyata'.

His eyes turned to his own arm. It was not easy to maintain physical strength close to a guy's with his body, but Shinobu managed. It involved a lot more exercise, and a few protein shakes. But it paid off; Shinobu was often the first to volunteer for any sort of heavy duty work, and no one ever suspected anything off about the contents of Shinobu's pants.

With an inward sigh, Shinobu looked towards Akina. And he realised he had nothing to say, and the nervous expression etched on his face said it better than the silence.

"Uh... I don't know..." muttered Shinobu sheepishly. "It's fortunate that no one else is going to be entering here for some time. The President's sick, and the vice president is probably chewing out someone for leaving gum at the school elevator. Or something."

He giggled. "Maybe you could just decide later. Something not so physical. Or the girl's version of it."

Shinobu winked. It was time to mess with Akina, if just a little. He leaned back on his chair, staring at the ceiling. "What does your girlfriend think?" asked Shinobu.

He didn't actually know if Akito had a girlfriend.

A red colour spread over Akina's face. "I don't have a girlfriend right now... I broke up with my last one right before emergence..." She fumbled around deciding she needed to be a bit more confident in herself. "Also, I doubt I'd find a girl who'd like me at the moment and I'm not even sure I like girls anymore..."

The sad look on her face vanished a bit later as she quickly changed the topic. "Anyway. Lemme take a look in the club lists."
Without further asking Shinubu, she simply grabbed the list and browsed through it.
"I don't have any strength at all anymore to do some kind of sports club, so... uhhhhhhhh" The last sounds she uttered while thinking and staring at the list.

"Do you think the school paper club still has a place open? I always wanted to try that." Her mood started to get better significantly and she almost seemed a bit bubbly, over all pretty weird considering she had been on the verge of tears just a few moments ago.

Shinobu twiddled his fingers. The vice president of the school paper club had a crush on him.

"I could talk to Melissa. She may. Or you might want to do so yourself."

He scrutinised Akina, the best he could, from his seated position. She was definitely shorter. A lot cuter, too.

He knew the answer to the next question he was going to ask. But he did so, anyway. "How's the emergence? Do you still think like a guy sometimes? I hear sometimes, that people don't 'emerge' completely."

"I'm positive I fully emerged... I might want to consider myself as a boy, but I know it won't work out for me... ever. I heard of the not-fully emerged ones. Some of them manage to still live as boys because they don't end up looking as girly and cute as I did. It's impressive, I think. Still... I don't know what will happen next... I'm kinda scared of what might happen to my personality. Maybe you have already noticed, but I'm becoming waaaay more bubbly and bouncy than before. It won't be long until I have lost all of my calm personality."

A loooooong sigh erupted from her, then she smiled again.

"I guess, I have to make the most of it, am I right? Get a nice boyfriend, enjoy high school life and stuff..."

"Make the most of it, huh?"

Shinobu leaned back on his chair, his eyes glancing down narrowly to the edge of his phone. Right after he sent a message to Melissa, his phone thronged with vibration. A simple message and she was calling back. With a cheeky grin, he slid his phone towards Akina.

"Melissa's calling. You should make your case yourself."

Akina raised her eyebrows and took the phone from Shinobu.

"Uh, yeah?"
"You're Akina?", Melissa asked via phone.
"Uh, yeah", Akina repeated.
"Shinobu told me, you'd be interested in joining the school newspaper? Why would you join so late? I mean, this school year has already started for two months now. Aren't you supposed to already be in a club?", Melissa inquired suspecting.
"Ah, well... it's...complicated. I... uh... had my emergence last week... and I can't take part in my old club anymore. Sports, you know...", Akina explained awkwardly while twiddling with her hair.
A longer silence from the other end just made Akina more insecure, although she didn't really want to feel that way.
"Oh..." Another batch of silence on the line. "I'm sorry.", Melissa continued. "It makes sense, though."
The person on the other end coughed a bit. "Anyway, I surely need more people in the club, so feel free to come by as soon as you can so I can evaluate you skills and everything. You know, find out where you belong and everything. Don't worry, I'm not gonna pick on you just because you're a newly minted girl."
Akina could hear the reassuring smile coming from Melissa through the phone which made her smile as well.
"Alright, I'll see you as soon as I'm done here!", Akina exclaimed excitedly and a little bubbly as well as she handed back the phone to Shinobu.