Balance Policy: Chapter 9

BALANCE POLICY: CHAPTER 9 OF THE MANGA

In the downtown section of the village, the Umesato Electric Appliance store has a wide-screen TV turned on in the front window, with a sign next to the TV saying---

BIG SCREEN TV'S ON SALE

The male newscaster on the screen is script-reading the news---

"Increasing low fertility rates worldwide mean that humanity is facing extinction.......It is predicted that sometime in the future, hardly any children will be born. In addition to the low birth rate, very few girls are being born at all. Governments around the world, including Japan, have been surgically altering teenage boys into girls, so that they can become pregnant, and give birth to more female babies......."

Meanwhile, Masamoi is at his home, supposedly doing his homework. However, his mind keeps drifting away to many unrelated topics. He recalls from his memory what happened to his childhood friend, Kenji---

"Kenji, my best friend, was one such teenager who was selected to be transformed from male to female. He went to a large medical facility in Tokyo about a year ago. And when 'he' recently came back this summer, 'he' was a fully functional, anatomically correct girl, with correct internal organs capable of becoming pregnant and carrying a baby to term."

As a matter of fact, Kenji is sitting in the doorway threshold leading outside to the patio. Masamoi, for his part, is inside at a low table, with his study books open and with a paper and pencil in front of him. Masamoi glances over to where Kenji is, and notices that she is sitting in such a provocative way, with her pleated short skirt casually but unknowingly positioned to show the entire length of her bare legs. Masamoi is fixated on Kenji, but only until Kenji asks, what are you looking at ? Masamoi jerks his head back to looking down at the table, and stammers, "Nuthin'.....nothing at all!"

After a while, Kenji nonchalantly looks inside one of the two shopping bags of clothes that were given to her earlier that morning. On the top of the bag is a girl's one-piece tank style swimsuit. Kenji takes it out of the bag and holds it up to examine it closely. Stealing a glance again at Kenji, Masamoi asks where did you, Kenji, get that ? Kenji replies that these are hand-me-down clothes from Mi-Ko. Kenji wonders out loud that because Mi-Ko was born a girl, do girls usually give away all of their clothes to other girls ? Masamoi remarks that she is a friend of both of us, although she can be a little rough and coarse at times. Kenji then flips up her skirt, asking Masamoi to look. Mi-ko gave me her pineapple panties. Is it normal for girls to give away their clean but unwanted panties ? Masamoi starkly and bluntly says not to ask him......'tis something that he knows nothing about. Kenji looks at the girl's swimsuit again. Hey, Masamoi, let's go to the river, right now ! Masamoi offers that he has to stay at home and do his summer homework.

Nevertheless, within about three-quarters of an hour, both Kenji and Masamoi are at a bait shop near the river. Masamoi is buying lugworms in order to go fishing, as the owner of the shop, a beefy middle-aged man with a bandana around his head, asks Masamoi where his friend, Kenji, is ? Well......mumbles Masamoi. Then, the shop owner points to the cute, attractive girl with Masamoi, and asks if she is his girlfriend ? Well......no way ! The two ride Masamoi's bicycle down to the river, with Masamoi in the seat, and Kenji standing on the back axel. Kenji matter-of-factly asks Masamoi is he really sees her as a girl ? Well.....sorta.....but not really......! Masamoi remarks that, frankly, he doesn't know what he sees or what he thinks.

Climbing up over the rocky embankment towards the river, Kenji, wearing only flip-flops, slips on a wet rock, and begins to fall backwards. Masamoi hears the altercation, and just in time reaches back and grabs Kenji by her wrist, stopping her from the fall. Masamoi silently remarks to himself that Kenji's wrist and arm is so slender and delicate, just like a girls, and so different from what he remembers from a while ago. He advises Kenji to walk in front of him, in case she slips again. This doesn't sit well with Kenji, with her rebuking Masamoi by demanding that he 'not mishandle girls'. Masamoi is perplexed, but says nothing.

Soon, the two of them are on the rocky banks of the river, with Masamoi's fishing pole baited and thrown out, and Kenji sitting a little ways away from him with her bare feet in the cold water of the river. After a while, Masamoi begins to steal glances at Kenji. Kenji has one leg straight out into the water, but the other leg propped up, causing her skirt to retract, thereby once again showing off the entire length of her bare legs. Eventually, Kenji notices the quick peeks, and rebukes Masamoi to watch the bobber float, and not her legs ! Then in a change of heart, Kenji grins at Masamoi like a Cheshire Cat, and announces that she 'gets it'! You were sneaking peeks at me because I'm a girl now, wasn't you ? Masamoi looks away and silently pleads to the gods that he is so sorry for his indiscretion.

Kenji swiftly stands up, and barks out Masamoi's name. "Do you think that I look cute now ? **Well, do you ?"**, belts out Kenji. "Yeah!", is all that Masamoi can squeak out. But Kenji takes that comment the wrong way. She quickly pulls her sailor top over her head and drops it on the rocks. Now with a bare chest showing her tiny boobs, she yells, "THIS IS ME....KENJI ! Or have you forgotten your old friend from all these years ?" Masamoi quickly looks away, as he spits out that knows who you are. But why are you taking your clothes off ? Kenji remarks that she is changing into her swimsuit. After a while, Masamoi takes another peek, only to see Kenji wearing the one-piece tank style girl's school swimsuit that was given to her earlier. They silently stare at one another for a little while, until Kenji asks, "Is this MOE ? Do I look MOE ?" "Yeah!", Masamoi squeaks out once again. Kenji shouts, *"Me being MOE is totally forbidden !"* And with that, she takes an almighty leap, and body slams into the river's cold water.

Kenji surfaces, and lays still, floating prone on the quiet water. After a long while, Kenji stands up in the shallow water and announces that she is going to jump from the high rock outcropping above the river's edge, just like they would always do in times past. Kenji climbs up to the flat rock protrusion, as Masamoi cautions her if her body can take the shock of jumping ? Kenji tells him to shut up, that they have done this lotsa times. Once on top, Kenji merely stares down at the river. Masamoi slowly begins making his way up to the rock protrusion himself. Kenji questions herself if the rock was really this high before ? When Masamoi is beside Kenji, she tells him that the rock had been moved up higher than last year, right ? That's kinda unlikely, comments Masamoi. Kenji silently tells herself that her body is telling her not to jump. Masamoi asks if she is scared ? Shut up ! Kenji confidently states that she is going to 'go for it' just like she did as a guy ! She scrunches down into a crouched position, as if to spring up like a tiger. When she finally springs up, her body actually lurches backward, surprising Kenji something fierce. Kenji leaps backward, and when she comes down, catches her left foot in a crack in the rock surface, twists it, and goes down in a heap.

***"KENJI....."***, screams Masamoi.

Kenji is laying on her back, holding her folded up leg and grasping her left ankle, yelping in pain. Masamoi comes over to where she is, both still on the flat of the rock, and tries to calm her down. Kenji, however, plays the 'tough guy', and says that it is only a mild sprain, nothing to worry about. Masamoi kneels down next to her, and tells her to climb onto his back. He will carry you down, and back to where the bicycle was left. Kenji says that you must be kidding ? Masamoi remarks that you will hurt yourself even more if you try and walk like you are now. For some odd reason, Kenji becomes angry. She bellows out for Masamoi to quit treating her like a girl.

After a while finds Masamoi carrying Kenji on his back, and carefully making his way first up, then down the embankment. Kenji is silent, until she points out that her swimsuit is all wet. Not a problem, acknowledges Masamoi. Well, then ! Kenji already has her arms around Masamoi's shoulders, however, she squeezes herself into his backside. "Feel my wet boobs pressing onto your soaked back ? Like that ? I bet you do !", mocks Kenji. Masamoi is silent, but keeps trudging onward. Kenji again states, "Me being MOE is totally forbidden ! Remember that!" Again, Masamoi is silent. Next Kenji observes, since when has Masamoi's shoulders been so broad, strong, and manly ? No idea ! The acid comments keep coming from Kenji; Growing taller than me is also strictly forbidden ! You can say that, counters Masamoi, but........

(End Chapter 9)

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