A/N: So, will Lavender ever make her gender decision? You’ll see. Oh, and sorry for the mix up of Junko. I forgot to tell you that Junko is actually another OC who belonged to my friend. She was seemingly crazy about Nube despite him already having Yukime for a girlfriend and wanted to be with him no matter what, so in my AU doujin, I helped her created Junko and created Shinobe so that Yukime can be with him instead, but that’s another story you’ll see in later chapters. Well then, let’s get on with the story then!

Disclaimer: I do not own Jigoku Sensei Nube, but I wanna own Katsuya Kimura my love!

JIGOKU SENSEI NUBE: REANIMATED

            Throughout the days of staying in Domori and studying in Domori Private High, Lavender soon had her share of seeing how boys and girls behave. Whenever she wanted to learn more of the boys, she would pretend to be Sukito and hang out with Hiroshi and the boys, and when she wanted to observe the girls, she would pretend to be Yukito and pretend to visit together with Junko and hang out with Kyoko and the girls.

            And to her disappointment, none of them were to her satisfaction. She had discovered more and more of the boys’ vulgar side while she was under the guise of Sukito Sarashina. Being Peeping Toms were no stranger to Hiroshi and Katsuya whenever they wanted to take a peek of naked girls in their locker rooms during P.E., especially when the P.E. lesson of the day was swimming, and they sometimes invite Sukito along with them, which of course he vehemently declined. He witnessed some boys actually enjoyed bullying the weak, including terrible acts where Masaru would go around bothering the junior’s by harassing them out of their lunch money and the smarter kids for their homework. Even Hiroshi’s acts of justice towards stopping Masaru’s bullying were not justified when he had witnessed, at occasions, Hiroshi beating or scolding the crap out of people whenever he was in a bad mood. Makoto was immature and a little too old to be enjoying anime-s that are meant for grade school children, and he doesn’t seem to know how to stand up for himself sometimes and let Masaru push him around. Hanging out with Katsuya was even worse when he had seen him do things no student should ever do, like stealing money straight from the donation boxes and his own father’s wallet when the old man wasn’t looking, smoking, taking LRT rides without buying tickets, playing truant and spraying graffiti over people’s walls with blood red spray paint. His perversion towards buxom women also earned him a reputation of groping whenever he wanted on his self-proclaimed girlfriend Miki, in which she would bitch-slap him whenever he does that, and yet kept a fake straight face when he was with his little sister Manami, being the good ol’ big brother who looks out for a little sister when Sukito knew he was otherwise. He couldn’t understand what her sister sees in him that made her idolize him so much. Other boys like Shuichi (materialistic bastard) and Akira (crazy mad scientist who should be committed into La La Land) definitely did not fit his expectation profile either of a normal boy.

            Being Yukito Yamashita was no different either. Miki, even though she knew deep down inside Katsuya idolized her and had always wanted to go steady with her, treated him like a dog and would go on and off between their relationship, playing with his heart like a marionette played by the strings of her domineering attitude. She herself was a vain woman who views the material life above everyone else and always liked to get into trouble once too often, especially spreading gossips and playing pranks on people. She found out that Miki had attained the power of a rokurokubi (long-necked youkai) and mostly uses that ability for motives non-virtuous. Kyoko and Yuka had always been the tomboys of the group and flaunted attitudes that were not too different than boys, including being violent and short-tempered. Even other girls had their flaws, like Noriko who was truly a flirt at heart and would occasionally, whether intentional or not, lead men to fall for her only to break their hearts when she said she wasn’t serious, and often used the bespectacled librarian boyfriend as an excuse to reject them, even though Yukito could tell that the boyfriend occasionally would feel hurt to be treated as a rebound; or like Shizuka who likes to tattletale on her fellow classmates using her distorted sense of justice to justify her means, when it was clearly not her business to tell anything; Ayumi who prefers to be a loner and never really liked to socialize despite the fact that her powers of a youshin could prove very useful in ways other than just to be there to attend school; and Ai Shinozaki, Makoto’s girlfriend from the upper-class Class 6-5 whom she sometimes caught her shoplifting.

            All in all, Lavender was less than satisfied. Heck, she was pretty much disappointed in the whole human race. Why would people behave the way they did and still prosper in Earth? What was it that her mother saw in humans that led her to give up the life of demons to be with her human father? What is it that her brother saw in those genders that made them choose theirs so quickly? Why couldn’t she feel the same optimistic way they did about humans when all she saw was their ugly side?

            As she sat on the water tank up at the school tower in her true demon form thinking things over, she heard footsteps of someone climbing up the tank and loud heaving sounds. It was none other than her teacher and guardian Nueno “Nube” Meizuke. She, through weeks of observation, managed to tell the difference between the older and younger twin. For one thing, Nube had the black glove that covered the rumoured demon hand that she had heard so much from her mother and Kyoko from, about a failed exorcism and its sealing into his amputated left hand. The other thing was that although they were identical twins, Nube and Shinobe had distinctive characteristics that set each brother apart and made them unique, and they were about the only people besides Junko that she actually liked.

            “What’re you doing up here so high?” Nube asked as he finally reached the top.

            “Just thinking…” Lavender started, then sighed and said, “I can’t decide, sensei. There’s nothing about either genders that I find to my liking. The boys were either perverted, violent, evil or liars and the girls were either selfish, vindictive, shallow or just plain weird. There’s nothing in them that makes me want to be either gender.”

            “Oh, come on, Lavender, don’t be that way. They’re just normal human beings after all. Just give them and yourself some time and…”

            “No,” Lavender stopped him from continuing. “Stop making excuses for them. It’s been a month now. They won’t change. Not now, not ever.”

            “You just haven’t found the right time to see the good side yet. Just be patient and…”

            “I’m done being patient. I’m fine this way. Genderless. It suits me fine. I’ll just be this way forever. No harm done to you or to me.”

            “L…Lavender…”

            “I’ll do the explaining to Mom. I’m going home.”

            With that, she jumped off the water tank and took off, gliding towards the direction of her home, leaving Nube to stare after her. After hours of flying, she felt a little hungry and decided to land to get something to eat before continuing on her journey. Everyone looked at her weirdly with her dark purple eyes and her huge gargoyle-like wings, but decided to dismiss her, thinking that she was just cosplaying. Lavender couldn’t care less whether they knew she was really a demon or not. She was done pretending.

            “Now,” Lavender said to herself, “what should I buy to eat?”

            “How about a nice popsicle?”

            Lavender turned around to see a shoulder-length hair boy in school uniform greeting her. He had piercing on almost everywhere on both his ears and was sporting freckles just right under his eyes. He stood a head taller than her and she could tell from his uniform that unlike Domori Private High that allowed students to wear whatever they want, he came from a government school.

            “Ex…Excuse me…?” Lavender asked, surprised and confused to be approached by a complete stranger.

            “Dang, kid,” the boy looked at Lavender in awe. “Are you a boy or a girl? Don’t worry. I’m bi anyways. Nice cosplay though. Come on, let me take you home and I’ll show you a good time.”

            Lavender had just realized that he had unintentionally added another point to her list of “Features of Horrible Men”.

            Meanwhile, classes were over and Hiroshi and Katsuya were on their way to the arcade. Playing with his football as he went, he began grumbling about their new friend.

            “Sukito ran out on us again. He’s been absent from school too much for a new kid. Must be his crazy paranoid overprotective parents again.”

            “That Yukito girl also rarely shows up these days,” Katsuya commented with a grin at the thought of her angelic looks. “Too bad she’s already taken into holy matrimony, well, almost.”

            “We gotta toughen up that Sukito boy somehow. His family, especially his brothers, is treating him too much like a girl. He’s even sissier than 5 Makoto-s put together.”

            “Let go of me!”

            The boys stopped their conversation when they were alerted by a loud scream. They immediately rushed to the scene and saw a young teenager trying to harass someone with overgrown bat-like wings. Their experiences in Nube’s class told them that the creature the teenager was harassing was no other than a youkai, and judging by the looks of it, it was one of the docile harmless kind.

            “Come on, don’t struggle,” the boy said, ripping Lavender’s Roman-style garment, revealing her flat chest (she is transgender when she is in demon form). “See? You made me tear your clothes off.”

            “STOP RIGHT THERE, YOU IDIOT!”

            Disgusted at the passers-by that refused to help Lavender, Hiroshi aimed his football at the boy’s head, forcing him to let Lavender go. Lavender was afraid that they would recognize her as the Sukito/Yukito they’ve been accustomed to, but fortunately they didn’t under her real demon form.

            “What the hell are you doing? Aren’t you ashamed, bullying a little harmless youkai that way? Pervert!”

            “C-Careful, Hiroshi,” Katsuya hesitated. “That kid’s from a government school…”

            “I don’t give a fuck if he’s from military or monarchy school. No one bullies the weak around here.”

            “You little shit!” the boy shouted as he nursed his bruising head. “You think you’re so high and mighty, doing whatever you want because you’re from a private school?”

            Without warning, the boy landed a fast one on Hiroshi, hitting him squarely in the midsection, causing Hiroshi to lose air. He fell back nursing his stomach, coughing and struggling to breathe properly. Katsuya, seeing his friend hurt, was obviously pissed, giving the boy a vengeful death glare.

            “What? You want some of this, pal?” the boy challenged. “Come and get it, boy! Come and have a taste of the old right hook, ass!”

            So saying, the boy lunged forward to give him a punch. Katsuya, through his experience in delinquent fights and being street-smart, avoided the punch and grabbed the offending wrist before he could retract it back. He then pushed him down onto the floor and subdued him, subsequently dislocating the boy’s arm from its sockets, earning an agonized scream from him.

            Lavender watched the entire fight from where she stood and couldn’t helped but feel a deep admiration and awe towards Katsuya’s feat. He had always been the juvenile delinquent in class, so it was not surprising that he must know how to fight as well. She knew he was the bad seed of the group. She knew he was the scum of society. She knew he was a liar and a fake in front of his sister. She knew all that. But somehow, at that very moment, none of that mattered. All that mattered that Katsuya had saved her life and that a small realization as to why his sister idolize him so much surfaced inside her. It was overwhelming and heart-pounding to see him move like that, and the way he smirked at the boy who quickly escaped to wherever medical treatment he could get for his dislocated arm was too cool for words.

            “You alright, kid?” Katsuya asked as he came over to help Lavender don back her half-torn garment.

            “Y…Yes, I’m alright…”

            That was so cool! So cool! The words kept ringing in her mind as she stared at Katsuya looking about her to see if she was unharmed. That’s right! That’s the feeling I’ve been looking all along! That sheer awesomeness I have never felt in my whole life! This is it! I’ve made my choice! I’m going to be a boy! I must become a boy!

            “Hey, kid. You sure you’re alright there?” Katsuya asked, seeing that Lavender was grinning like an idiot. “He didn’t bang your head or something, did he?”

            “I…I’m perfectly sane, thanks to you…” Lavender said, not realizing that a certain change was forming on her body. Without her knowing—totally deafened by the loud beating of her heart and blinded by the sight of her courageous hero in front of her—her chest was beginning to expand and her body began to show more womanly features. Even her face, which looks a little androgynous at first, started showing more female qualities despite being in her demon form. Katsuya, who wasn’t as distracted as her, noticed the sudden change and backed away a little, blushing.

            “Hey, kid, you got allergies or something? You seemed to be…a little swollen around the edges.”

            “Huh?” Lavender snapped from her muse to see her breasts sticking out of her half torn garment. Embarrassed, she quickly took flight, leaving a very confused Hiroshi and Katsuya behind.

            “Geez, at least thank us properly,” Katsuya muttered, helping Hiroshi up.

            “Who the heck was that youkai?” Hiroshi asked, wincing when his midsection throbbed. “Damn, it’s gonna bruise.”

            “I have no idea. Come on, let’s get the hell outta here.”

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            “This is rather odd.”

            Lavender had flew all the way back to school and was practically panicking when she came to the staff lounge, looking as if she wanted to just hide in a deep dark hole and cover it with a big fat rock. Nube quickly got her a spare P.E. jersey and pants to wear to replace the torn garments, and made the necessary call to Lavender’s mother but was rather baffled as to the sudden irreversible change on Lavender.

            “Go back! Go back!” Lavender commanded her breasts to shrink but it was not working. “It can’t go back! What’s wrong? I decided to be a boy, not a girl! What went wrong?”

            “So, my little baby has already made the gender decision?”

            Lavender’s mother, Mrs. Suzuki, came in, looking all happy to see Lavender all changed into the permanent gender. Lavender timidly huddled beside her mother, feeling awkward and out of place.

            “Ma’am, you seem to know what the case is. Do tell us what’s going on.”

            “First off, tell me what happened that led you to this, Lavender,” Mrs. Suzuki asked, in which Lavender told her the whole story. Mrs. Suzuki smiled knowingly and turned to Nube, “Is this Katsuya person a boy?”

            “Yes. In fact he’s our class resident self-proclaimed juvenile delinquent,” Nube replied.

            “And my Lavender got emotionally excited after Katsuya saved her. What does that tell you?”

            “What does…” Nube thought for a while before coming to a conclusion. “You mean a succubus/incubus can only decide their gender if they felt a certain chemistry or attraction to a particular sex?!”

            “That’s right,” Mrs. Suzuki smiled and put a victory sign, “Which means that since my little Lavender here has fallen in love with a boy, her body would automatically change into a girl according to the chemistry attraction she had for your Katsuya boy. If she had fallen in love with a girl, I would’ve gained another son. I’ve always wanted a girl. Thanks for your Katsuya friend!”

            “And you failed to tell me this earlier, ma’am, because…?” Nube tried hard to fight the urge not to bitch-slap her for the trouble she had put him through.

            “If I told you, you wouldn’t agree now, would you? Having lovey-dovey at school publicly is troublesome to you teachers, is it not? Besides, I don’t want my baby and whoever it is having to force themselves to love each other just for the sake of our rituals. Better let it flow naturally, don’t you think?”

            “I suppose…” Nube sighed, knowing that she was right in a way. Mrs. Suzuki gave her newly turned daughter a bear hug and a kiss on the forehead and some encouraging words before preparing to leave.

            “Well then, I shall take my leave and let the family know the good news then. I trust you can take care of my kid for the rest of the semester then?”

            “Yes, ma’am,” Nube replied, and after sending Mrs. Suzuki home, mused to himself, “Now how am I going to explain to my class about you…”

            “No, don’t worry about me, sensei. I’ve decided,” Lavender said in a determined voice. “I want to be in a different class.”

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            Indigo was at the front porch, looking up at the moon, seemingly contemplating things as he took a long drag on his cigarette. Violet came out to join him at the porch as well.

            “Can’t sleep, oni-chan?” Indigo asked as he offered a cigarette to him.

            “Likewise to you, ottota,” Violet replied, taking a cigarette and let his brother light it.

            “I can’t believe our Lavender is our sister now. She really grows up so fast.”

            “Yeah. To think she used to be a toddler in our arms 15 years ago.”

            A long comfortable silence ensued as the two brothers enjoyed the light of the pale crescent moon high in the sky.

            “I wish Lavender didn’t have to change,” Indigo said. “I wish she would stay the way she is. Then we could have her with us forever.”

            “We can’t. You know we can’t. Changing is in our blood.”

            “I know, oni-chan. I know.”

A/N: Oh! The plot thickens! Yay for Lavender’s new (and permanent) gender! What happens next? You’ll see soon. Reviews plz!