Chapter 8

Akira gets her first bra, a training style bra to get girls used to wearing a bra when their breasts begin to develop.

## Features of This Chapter

### Story Setting

Doctor's office / downtown department store

### Transition Milestones

The doctor and nurse assure Akira that she is a healthy teen/tween girl. Akira buys and wears her first bra and panty set.

### Relationship Evolution

Akira's doctor and nurse continue to put Akira's wellbeing as a teen/tween girl as an important concern. Not so much with Mom, who herself is becoming unsettled with Akira being a girl.

### Lessons Learned

Akira learns that wearing a training bra isn't all that bad !

ORE GA WATASHI NI NARU MADE ( UNTIL I BECOME ME )

CHAPTER 8 OF THE STORY (Revised English Translation)

## Previously

Whether she knows it or not, Akira by her actions, or sometimes by her inaction, is slowly proving Rumi's prediction of her becoming an outstandingly cute teen/tween girl, if she would only put her mind and heart into it. Akira even told herself that she wants to become kind and gentle, like Rumi is. Akira was snookered into having her hair cut by Mom, but the way it went down was that Akira's new hairstyle, with a 'little help from my friends', namely Rumi, went down as a real attention-getting style in Akira's class. Mom nixed the whole hairstyle upgrade, but then Akira was told by her doctor that although she was doing well healthwise, she needs to begin wearing a training bra. So another milestone is set up to be embraced as Mom takes Akira shopping for her very first bra !

## This Chapter's Story

Akira has had health checkups at regular intervals since she changed sexual appearance back when she was seven years old. It is now September, just before the sixth grade. Akira is about 11 years old. She is at the health clinic with a female doctor and female nurse (Nurse Okabe, RN) tending to her. At the end of the examination, the nurse tells Akira that she has a different hairstyle, fitting for such a cute girl ! Akira can only manage a timid thank you. The Doctor adds her thoughts. She says that Akira is in good health. She further states that Akira's breasts are starting to develop. "Do they hurt when they touch or rub on your clothes ?", asks the Doctor. "A little bit.", acknowledges Akira. The Doctor goes on to tell her that she has just started to go through puberty, and with her having her first period already, her breasts are going to continue to grow and develop. As such, Akira should consider wearing a bra, even if it is just a training bra. However, the Doctor continues; if Akira doesn't want these changes, the Doctor could prescribe something that will delay those changes. Or another possibility is to consider a special type of surgery to help adolescent girls going through a difficult puberty.

    Mom now comes into the exam room to collect Akira. When they leave, the Doctor yanks on the nurse's shoulder for telling Akira how cute and pretty she is with her new hairstyle. Then the Doctor tells the nurse that Akira is very sensitive, and for her not to cause any (supposedly) unnecessary trauma. The nurse says that she is sorry. Akira says that it was the doctor that was scary and causing trauma.

Mom seems to be in a judgemental mood, commenting that she agrees that the doctor was somewhat freaky, and that the nurse was 'out of line' for commenting on Akira's innate cuteness. When Mom and Akira are outside next to the mini-van, Mom again offers 'sour grapes'. Mom says that if Akira doesn't want to look like a girl, she can go to an alternate school, like the one in Kyoto, where she doesn't have to wear the girl's school uniform or have a girl's longer hair. But Akira's mind is elsewhere. She is immersed in thinking about girl's hairstyles. Mom drones on and on in the van. Mom begins repeating everything that the school consular had said. She said that another alternate school for students questioning their sex and gender will be opening in a nearby prefecture, closer than the one in Kyoto. Students who question their perceived gender can live their own life according to their own wishes. This means that you *could attend as a boy*, although one would have to pass the entrance examination. But that would be no problem for you, as you have been getting good grades for a while now. Mom further pesters Akira telling her that others with your 'unique medical condition' will also be applying. Akira tells Mom that she will think about it, if that's okay.

Mom parks the van in front of a large downtown department store. When they both get out, Mom says that we will be getting some school and winter clothes today. Inside the store, in the teen department, a young, attractive saleslady offers a friendly. " Welcome! " Mom turns to Akira and tells her that the doctor suggested that she begin wearing a bra, so we'll get one of those, too. Akira becomes miffed at Mom's apparent hypocrisy, telling Mom that didn't she just get done telling her in the van that she didn't have to dress like a girl ? Mom's only comeback is that Akira can dress as a boy only when she begins attending that alternate school. Mom turns to the saleslady and tells her to take Akira's bra size. Akira is lead to a dressing room and ushered inside. When Akira has removed her fancy sweater top, her heart begins pounding, as she is naked from the waist up. The saleslady enters and says that she is going to measure Akira for the correct size bra. This she does. As the saleslady is handling the tape measure, she casually asks if Akira is ticklish ? Yes! Besides that cuteness, she is also a very pretty girl ! The saleslady then asks if Akira is in elementary school ? Finishing up fifth grade. Akira now states that---

" **I** (lit. *Watashi* {feminine}).......still.......well, since my breasts are not very big, this means that there is no real need to wear a bra, right ? "

The saleslady kindly offers the thought that even though her breast buds are small, using a bra will help them to take a proper shape and develop nicely. The saleslady says that her breasts were small in middle school, but got big and really nicely shaped in high school. She goes on to say that you are still growing. Sooner or later you will have a full, attractive bust. (Akira now imagines herself as she will look like when she is about 21, now with hair below her wing bones, a big, plump bust, wearing only a bra and panties, and smiling into the mirror at how attractive and sexy she now looks !) Soon, inside the dressing room, Akira is looking at herself in the mirror. The only things she has on are a matched set of a training bra and panties. " Too tight? " "No, it's fine!" She is somewhat embarrassed, but tells herself that her 'muffin tops' don't hurt now. The saleslady peeks in to tell Akira that she is glad that Akira liked what she selected. At the checkout counter, Akira can't believe what just happened. She bought her first bra !!! The saleslady offers her goodby wishes by saying that if Akira needs anything more, come back right away. " Alright, I will ! " Now in a somewhat better mood, Akira thinks to herself that she felt happy when the nurse told her that she had pretty hair. And she was happy when the saleslady told her that she was so cute. What exactly do ***I*** (lit. *Ore* {masculine}) want to be ??? And now she feels the same happiness, this because she is wearing her first bra. She wonders why that is so ? Why the happy feeling ?

As Mom and Akira are walking through the department store, Akira takes notice of something. The saleslady was wearing a pretty bra herself. And that couple of the high school girls over there by the display counter right now are wearing bras. Actually, every female in the store, regardless of fashion or style, is wearing a bra ! So .......... if I'm wearing one (my first bra), what does that make ***me*** (lit. *Ore* {masculine}) ??? Walking across departments, Akira walks past a display of teen/tween fashions, mainly shirt and mini-skirt combinations. *Such a pretty mini-skirt*, she thinks to herself, as she sees one with diagonal stripes and a bow on the front. Akira continues to comment to herself that her pretty hairstyle doesn't go with the boy pants that she is now wearing !

" If only skirts were an option for me to wear . . . . . . . . . " , muses Akira.

Akira now sees a pretty striped dress.

     She holds it up to take a closer look.

" This is a dress, but maybe this would work just as well with my hairstyle ? "

Mom comes up to Akira and asks her if she found anything that she wants to wear ? You wanted to try that dress on ? Akira only says that she just wanted to check it out, and returns the dress to the display table. Mom bluntly (but incorrectly) states that she figured that Akira would hate to wear skirts. Akira sheepishly says yeah, and silently tells herself that it would kinda weird for ***me*** (lit. *Ore* {masculine}) to wear a skirt, wouldn't it ?

After shopping for a while, Mom says that she bought some things for grandma, so it's time to go home. Mom asks Akira if she is forgetting to buy something ? Akira thinks, *"Yeah, that pretty mini-skirt that was on display !!!"* Akira thinks to herself that if she told Mom that she wanted to buy that mini-skirt, there would be nothing but trouble from Mom. Faking a smile, Akira only states that no, nothing has been forgotten. Mom tells Akira to wait here, near the front door to the store.

Afterwards, in the van, Mom tells Akira that this is for you, as she hands over a small package. In the package is a starter pack set of Duel-Oh! cards, plus 5 booster packs. Mom says that *wanting something in the store* was written all over Akira's face (yea, the mini-skirt or dress). Mom further says that if Akira ever wants something, to let her know. By the time that Mom and Akira was walking through the front door of home, Akira was screaming inside her mind---

**" THAT** (Duel-Oh cards) **WASN'T WHAT I WANTED . . . . . . . . . . !!!!!!!**

## Chapter Lookback, Commentary, and Opinion

Akira briefly considered buying and wearing a mini-skirt or a pretty dress all on her own. Fashion progress. Slow but sure progress.

## What Manga Fans Are Saying About This Chapter

**AncientWatcher / 4 months ago**

Akira's imagination is rather optimistic [about what she will look like when she is 21].

**Renew Returner / 4 months ago**

[Training bras,] it's protection while the breast is budding. At the start it can be almost painful to the touch and such, training bras are used for protection, shape as well. [Growing breasts are] very, very sensitive until it starts to even out a bit more later.

**subliminal / 4 months ago**

Yeah it's worrying, kids and teens are so vulnerable. They should be allowed to develop healthily. The hyper conceitedness and vacuous attention seeking social media are doing a real number on mental health, not even considering all the porn.

**Xaelath / 4 months ago**

Teenage years will affect a person's future the most. The future including how their mind works or how they act, social, etc.

**imhikarucat / 4 months ago**

It's Okabe-san [the nurse], too good and too kind toward Akira. Combining with Rumi, I think these two will help Akira in shaping her woman side.

**Tiny Anvil / 4 months ago**

A rare sight---usually the gender bender stories skip over this bra buying bit or reduce it to 1 or 2 panels.

**Jmas / 4 months ago / edited**

What's with her left arm? There's a bite mark.

( see Chapter 6, MANGA version---Akira bit herself to keep from crying when she saw that she was having her very first period, and to keep from having Rumi hear her distress---Wiki Admin. )

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