Metamorphosis 3

METAMORPHOSIS 3

TENSEI SHOUJO ZUKAN / GIRL'S REINCARNATION PICTURE BOOK / てんせい しょうじょ ずかん

PART 3: METAMORPHOSIS / HENTAII / 変化

A ONESHOT SI-FI SHORT STORY BY RANCHI OKOSAMA

**Story Designation**---Canon

**Synopsis**

It’s a different world of humankind where puberty is the result of a butterfly-like metamorphosis rather than simple growing up. One's correct Sexual Appearance according to their body development, and one's correct Gender Identity already determined by the DNA code and held in reserve, are made manifest at puberty. Then it is 'set in concrete' regarding one's body, mind, heart, and spirit, by means of the metamorphosis process. Sometimes it goes as perceived and anticipated.....and sometimes there is an unplanned divergence due to unknown and unknowable factors, with unexpected results.....

A teenage boy named Tomomi is a member of the swim club at school. He is a good swimmer, so good, in fact, that he is the anchor of the boy's swim team for the high school. Lately, though, for some unexplained reason, his performance has fallen off. So much so that the boy's swim team doing well at the next swim competition may be in jeopardy. Tomomi has been feeling odd and unusual in the water lately. It takes a while, but he sorta figures out and kinda knows what may be happening. He has yet to go through his Metamorphosis, so his odd and different feelings may be a sign that his Metamorphosis is imminent. Little does Tomomi suspect or know that his Metamorphosis will be a very rare kind, called an amphibian type. The changes will be triggered by him being under water. Changes underwater to one's body is not good for a boy who loves to swim, and practices every school day. As time goes by, he can feel the changes happening slowly, one-by-one, each time when he is in or under water. But the last sequence of changes signals something that he had totally unexpected or had been completely unaware of. Tomomi never suspected what was going to happen, but now it has become so painfully obvious. He has *begun to grow breasts,* just like a teenage girl does going through puberty. Growth so much so that he now needs to begin wearing a girl's swimsuit! How will this impact his ability to stay on the boy's swim team? Indeed, will he be able to swim at all?

**Character Profiles**

TomomiKaho"Male" Tomomi

**METAMORPHOSIS 3**

**A ONESHOT SI-FI SHORT STORY BY RANCHI OKOSAMA**

Tomomi is worried. Worried big time! He is on the boy's high school swim team. He is good. Very good. Good enough to be the anchor of the boy's competitive swim team. However, for some unknown or unexplained reason, his swim time and performance has been gradually falling off. Little by little, he is seemingly losing his stamina and abilities. All he can say to himself is that his body feels 'strange' somehow. This could not have happened at a worse time, as the there is an upcoming swim competition that is soon to be held at the high school's indoor, Olympic sized swimming pool.

Why just yesterday, during the after school swim club practice, he was doing a breast stroke, when some sort of vertigo overcame him midway through the swim lane. He had to stop, because he started gasping for breath, and stayed motionless in the water until the disconcerting sensation had passed. Absolutely ruined his swim time for that event, although it was only a practice run. Another female swimmer, in the next lane over, could not help but notice how Tomomi was overcome, had to stop their breast stroke, and had to struggle just to stay afloat. She wondered, "What gives?"

Swim practice is finally over for the day. In the long hallway, between the boy's locker room and changing area, and the girl's locker room and changing area, the girl swimmer, Kaho, still in her wet one-piece girl's official school swimsuit, is waiting for Tomomi to come by. He finally does on his way to the boy's area, but he looks worn out and 'dog tired'. Tomomi, also in his wet boy's swim trunks, says, yeah, he is tired. Kaho and Tomomi have been close, intimate friends since childhood, when they both took swim lessons together in elementary school. Kaho tries to offer some encouragement, but it comes off as a little callous---

" Hang in there, Tomomi! You're the club's 'ace up the sleeve', but now it's like you're a fearful, shaky beginner all over again. " " Yeah, I noticed.....", is all that Tomomi could muster up to say.

That evening at home, Tomomi is in the bathroom, taking a shower. As the water runs, he thinks to himself about all that as been happening to him lately. He thinks to himself that he sorta knows what he is going through. The cause of his water borne discomfort is his soon to be manifested Metamorphosis. However, he suspects that his particular metamorphosis is going to be an "Amphibian" style transformation, a rare occurrence indeed. This would explain the subtle changes that he feels inside his body, but only when he is in the pool. The changes are small, and come only one at a time, but add up over time. What he has heard is that the small changes are triggered when you get soaked in water, or are under water. He ponders, specifically what is all of this leading up to? What is going to happen next? For that last question, he does not need to wait very long.

The warm water coming out of the shower head has been soaking him for a while. All of a sudden, he again feels the vertigo, the 'out-of-it', the disconnect between mind and body that leaves him feeling foreign and unnatural. Waves of a combination of unfathomable pleasure and piercing pain ripple all throughout his body. He somehow manages to turn off the water coming out of the shower head, but then sinks down to the floor of the shower stall, and curls his body up into a wet, quivering ball. He tries to stay lucid by concentrating on watching the water swirl around and drip into the drain grid. An undiscernible amount of time passes by before he can contemplate getting up from the shower floor. When he finally does, he stands, but braces himself by leaning against the shower wall with his outstretched arms and hands. Water is still dripping from his wet, naked body. He then slowly and carefully runs his hands across his entire body. The changes to his body are becoming more and more obvious, as he feels his chest, and cups his hands over his now slightly larger breasts. Most of the dizziness and
bewilderedness has passed from him by now, as he leaves the shower stall. He stares at himself in the full-length mirror in the bathroom. Silently, as drips of water fall to the floor, he tries to think cognitively about his situation.

A deep, dark, carefully guarded secret that he has kept close to his heart, that he many times would deny to himself, but would always 'come back with a vengeance', was that he knew that he should have been born as a girl. His mind, heart, soul, and spirit has cried out to him from the earliest part of his life that he was a girl in a boy's body. Thousands of times he told himself that no way that this could ever be true. But that did not change the truthfulness of it. As a young boy, he tried the ploy of telling himself repeatedly that he would turn out to be a real 'manly man'. All this time, that didn't phase the girl inside one little bit! Now with the metamorphosis soon to come to a climax, the girl inside is going to get her revenge for having this "boy" ignore her, and always trying to be a vibrant young man, pretending, but never fulfilling such an unreachable goal. His body is slowly becoming female, and there is nothing that he can do to stop it! The girl part of his heart is cheering him on, as the boy part of his heart is crying crocodile tears.

Next day after school, Tomomi was not found at club swim practice. At the end of practice, Kaho, still wearing her swim suit, but with a sports jacket over it, goes looking for Tomomi. She finds him it the weight training and cardo machines room. He is laying on his back, on a narrow bench, and pumping hand dumbbells up and down with his arms. Kaho address him---

" So this is where you've been hiding from me! You're really hitting the weight training kinda hard, *ain't cha*?

" Can't do all of my training in the pool, ya know! ", replies Tomomi.

" I see. ", offers Kaho, as she continues, " The big swim tournament is coming up, so don't neglect your swimming practice! "

" I hear you. ", mutters Tomomi. But as Kaho turns to leave, suddenly he makes an impassioned plea to her. "Uhhh... Kaho? Can I talk to you privately before we go home tonight?"

"Yeah! Not a problem!"

"Thank you."

Tomomi returns to his personal training, as Kaho leaves to go back to the swimming pool. This afternoon, she is to help with a children's "Learn to Swim" program that happens twice a week.

Late that afternoon, Tomomi, dressed in the military style male school uniform, is at poolside, talking to Kaho. She is still wearing her swim suit, but now with a t-shirt over her damp suit. Tomomi begins by saying that he wanted to talk to her about the Metamorphosis. Kaho comments that it has not happened to him yet, has it? With a blank expression on his face, Tomomi states that something is wrong with his body, and that he might never actually change to that of a teenage boy. Kaho asks if he is sure that he may not grow any more? He is positive about that. Talking of growing up, Tomomi wants to know what Kaho's height is? After all, she looks tall for a girl. She says that she is 173cm (5 feet, 8 inches). Tomomi thinks that is so cool. Kaho bemoans the fact that she feels that her arms and legs are too long. They make her body look out of proportion. Tomomi says that his problem is a lot worse. What problem? To tell the truth, Tomomi says that there is a lot more concerning his problem. He asks Kaho if he can walk with her to her home, and if he can join her in her bedroom. This she agrees to.

In Kaho's bedroom, he 'spills the beans' to her---

" Amphibian Transformation Style of Metamorphosis! "

Both friends are sitting on Kaho's bed. Tomomi is still in his school uniform. Kaho is still wearing her swimsuit with the t-shirt over it. Tomomi begins by pointing out that in a normal metamorphosis, one changes from the inside out. This can be gradual, or done quickly. It is different with each individual, but all go through some sort of metamorphosis. Tomomi says that he has already started changing, but it took some time for him to realize that his change is going to be different from the norm. He says that he feels like a tadpole changing into a frog. Kaho comments that sounds weird. Tomomi confides in Kaho, revealing to her something that he has never told anyone at all. However, he feels a special closeness and intimate friendship to Kaho, therefore she will be trusted with his deeply personal revelation about himself. His big problem is that he is certain now that he is changing into the opposite sex.

"You're what...."

Tomomi gets up from the bed, faces Kaho, and slowly removes his uniform shirt.....

" ......*Tomomi.*......", gasps Kaho!

Kaho can see Tomomi's bare chest. He has already grown breasts, that already look like they are a large 'B' cup. Tomomi says that he wondered why his chest started to swell, and he gradually came to understand what was happening. This happening to him was mildly disconcerting, but given his closely held secret of knowing that deep down he was a girl, he is not going to go bananas over it. He goes on to say that he, at that time, began to skip select swim practices, and to go to the weight training room to work out. He was trying to hide what he knew was happening, and was trying to mitigate the effects of the change. But he knew he could not keep it a secret, that is, becoming a girl, for very long. He also now knows that he must do a 'coming out' to himself, knowing that he will transform into a girl, and will pledge not to fight it. Tomomi goes on to relate that since he has known Kaho for such a long time, he wanted her to be the first to know his secret, and he had hoped that she would understand what he is going through. Kaho fervently tells Tomomi that she will keep his secret. She then teases Tomomi by saying that once he becomes a girl, that the two of them can become both romantic Yuri friends, and competitive swim rivals!

Tomomi thanks Kaho, telling her that he feels so much better now that she knows. He goes to put his shirt back on, when Kaho tells him to hold up for a moment. Kaho gets up from the bed, and pulls open a drawer from her dresser. She selects a garment, and hands it to Tomomi. It is a girl's one-piece tank style swimsuit. She relates that this was her competitive girl's swimsuit from when she was in middle school. She even won a gold medal wearing it. It should be about the right size for Tomomi's changing body right now, if she is not mistaken. She lovingly invites him to try it on. Tomomi reluctantly accepts, but alas, thinks to himself that the first girl's swimsuit that he is going to wear, happens to be Kaho's hand-me-down swimsuit. What a supreme irony !

In a while, Tomomi is standing in front of the full-length mirror in Kaho's bedroom. He is red with embarrassment, but otherwise somewhat pleased at his feminine appearance. The way his changed body fills out the swimsuit is pleasingly acceptable. Kaho chimes in with the comment that the fit and style of the swimsuit 'really suits you well'! "Really? Fer Real?", a mortified Tomomi manages to squeak out. Kaho teases by telling Tomomi that the girl's swimsuit unabashedly shows off the shapely cheeks of his booty. Tomomi turns so that his behind is facing the mirror. Damn! It looks good, just like she said. Kaho then, without thinking of the unintended consequences, candidly asks what the slight bulge is between his legs? Tomomi bends down to have a look for himself, then turns about 50 shades of red, with even more mortification and disconcertment. He humbly but awkwardly admits to her---

"I have not finished transforming yet......so......uh......down there......you see......ah......it's like.......this frog still has a nub of a tail.....sorta......you know......."

Kaho only now realizes how much she 'put her foot in her mouth', and likewise turns 50 shades of red from her own embarrassment and abashment. She grabs a big, stuffed plushie of a porpoise, and hugs it as she sits down on her bed. Empathically, Kaho tells Tomomi that if he has any more problems she will be only too glad to help him out with them. Becoming a girl ain't gonna be easy, ya know. Tomomi apologizes about the concern over his metamorphosis, and thanks her for her understanding and compassion. Kaho nonchalantly states that this concerns the 'love of her life', after all! Tomomi gags, and about falls over, thinking that she is referring to himself as the 'love of her life'! Kaho clarifies---Swimming, that is! "......right......", echos Tomomi. Off the cuff, and to lighten the mood, Tomomi states that maybe he should go practice his swim routines, since he is correctly and properly dressed as a girl for such an occasion now. Surprisingly, Kaho says what a good idea that is, and wants to know if Tomomi wants to come along? " Sure! " Unknown to Tomomi, Kaho had reserved an hour of private swim time and practice at the swimming pool for this evening, as an extra boost to her own abilities, what with the upcoming swim competition. (This is probably why she had been wearing her swimsuit all afternoon and into the early evening.)

That evening at the swimming pool, it is just the two friends with the whole pool to themselves. There was a lifeguard there, but he was busy texting on his iphone, and was not paying much attention to the 'two girls' who came in for some extra practice time. Kaho tells Tomomi that she sometimes reserves the pool for herself, especially this evening, so that she can swim freely without anyone gawking at her, especially the errant boys. Tomomi remarks that it is especially convenient, since this is the first time that he will be practicing wearing a girl's swimsuit. Likewise with avoiding all the gawking and ogling that would be going on, what with his debut dressed as a girl!

**KER-SPLASH !!!**  Both hit the water of the pool at once, and so this fun time practice begins. As both resurface from the water, Kaho asks Tomomi if he is worried about further transforming during this practice? He replies that his body feels light and carefree now, so that must mean that he is done transforming for a while now. For the first half hour or so, the two friends spend time practicing their own individual routines. Just past the half hour mark, Tomomi shouts to Kaho---

" HEY KAHO, LET'S RACE ! "

Despite his weight and strength training, Tomomi has come to realize that his gradual metamorphosis is reconfiguring his muscle / body mass and strength, such that his male performance is becoming compromised, so much so that now it is probably not possible to compete with other boy swimmers. But what about with girls? Let's find out, with admittedly one of the best girls on the girl's swim team right here, Kaho! A regular style and a longer length swim is agreed upon. Both line up at the end of the pool, and with the mutual signal, both jump off to hit the water. Both are in adjacent lanes, and begin swift and strong. In the first quarter of the distance, Kaho takes an early lead. But by the half way point, Tomomi had caught up with her, with both running side-by-side. Slowly, Tomomi takes the lead by a half a body length. With only a quarter of the distance to go, Tomomi is still holding on to a narrow lead. However, his destiny is about to change his life forever----

At this moment of supreme exertion, when he is trying to pull ahead in the race, one final transformation is triggered by his almighty physical efforts. This transformation hits him like a lightening bolt, electrifying his entire body. That severe shock to Tomomi's body causes him to double up in cramps, and fold himself up in a ball, with his arms grasping his stomach, and his legs curled up so that his knees are near his mouth. His mind begins silently screaming at him, telling him that this practice race has apparently instituted one final transformation! And this last one is going to be *the big one, the long one, the strong one!* He is under water now, slowly sinking to the bottom of the pool. Kaho goes on in the race, until she suddenly realizes that Tomomi is no longer beside her in the next lane. What is going on ???

Tomomi feels like his mind is disconnecting from his body, and entering a alternate dimension all it's own. He can feel, but does not know where the sensations are coming from. He begins to alternate the experience of the pleasures of Paradise, and the painfulness of Hell. His body seems to be alternating between frozen in a block of ice, and being immersed in boiling water. Each second that went by seems like dark, empty hours. How long will it be before he has to breathe, and certainly drown in an instant? Waves of psychedelic images and undecipherable sounds began stream through his mind, blanking out all senses and feelings. His body now feels like it was made out of quivering jelly. An unbelievable, unfathomable paradox comes over him---a metamorphosis transformation to another living form, that in the process kills that living form! Tomomi begins to black out, as he tells himself that he has to breath now, therefore, his next breath will fill his lungs with water, and therefore The End is imminent.....his mind goes blank and everything goes dark......

The next thing that Tomomi can recall is that he is hanging onto the edge of the pool, with his head above the water. Soon, with uncanny effort, tosses himself up over the edge onto the floor next to the pool's edge. There he rests for a moment, trying to catch his breath. Kaho is calling to him from somewhere far behind him, somewhere from in the pool. With extraordinary effort, he raises himself up onto his knees, into a kneeling position. Dazed and confused, and for some unknown or unfathomable reason, with his hands he reaches down to feel his lower torso, between his legs, this part so eloquently formed into shape by the stretch fabric of the girl's swimsuit---

***" IT'S GONE !!! THERE'S NOTHING THERE !!! "***

Kaho is still in the water, but now only a couple of feet away from the edge of the pool where Tomomi is. Tomomi's back is toward Kaho, but Tomomi seems to be okay. Kaho looks intently at her, trying to figure out why she is rubbing her hands up and down on her lower torso ??? For just surviving a near-death experience, Kaho can't help herself in thinking that what Tomomi is doing right now, is down-right comical! Kaho comes up to the edge of the pool, and hoists herself up over the edge. Tomomi looks behind, and sees Kaho. However, Tomomi gets up and begins to run in the opposite direction. Kaho follows, shouting---

"**WHAT'S GONE ?** C'mon, show me !"

**"NO WAY !!! Why do you wanna see what's missing?"**, implores Tomomi!

"I wanna see....I wanna see...."

Kaho catches up to the weakened Tomomi. Both girls are now facing one another, and holding hands up in front of themselves, grasping the hands of the other, tussling with one another. Both break out into uncontrollable laughter, of the absurdity of it all. They let go of each other's hands, as Kaho, only a couple of feet away from Tomomi, begins looking at her up and down. Real scrutiny! The clingy, tight-fitting girl's swimsuit shows all and doesn't lie!

".....Kaho......?", questions Tomomi.

".......you really are a girl now.........we're going to have so much fun together........", whispers Kaho, her face now so close to Tomomi's face.

Kaho then tenderly places her head on Tomomi's shoulder. She earnestly says that the swim meet will be here soon, and that she is not going to lose to her. Tomomi says not to be so sure about that! Kaho then deftly turns and kisses Tomomi on the cheek, again whispering---

"......welcome to the wonderful world of girlhood......."

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The day of the All Prefecture High School Swim Competition has finally arrived. In the afternoon was the girl's 200M Butterfly Preliminary Heat. A huge crowd of spectators is in the stands, waiting for the event to begin. The electronic billboard has lit up with the names of the contestants, and the lane numbers that they will be in. A new girl, who has just been accepted into the local high school all girl's swim team, sees her name lit up on the board. All the girls are now lined up by their starting pads, all wearing their official school's girl's swimsuits in the various color combinations, their swim caps, and their goggles. Kaho is ready, as she glances over to the next lane to see who is there. Why, it's the new girl, the newest member of the girl's swim team! It's Tomomi, wearing the very same girl's swimsuit that Kaho gave her that special evening, the very same swimsuit that Tomomi was wearing when she had her last transformation sequence of her male to female metamorphosis. Tomomi looks back at Kaho, with a smile on her face for her being such a good friend and companion to Tomomi during her transformation. But now the two girls are competition swim rivals, who wish each the best performance possible.

All the girls are on their starting blocks, bent over, and waiting for the starting gun to signal the beginning of the competition. And the timer goes off with a "BEEEEEP" !!! Tomomi, as well as all the other girls, spring into action, leaping off of the starting block, and aiming for the slide into the water. However, for Tomomi, this particular starting is of special significance. As Tomomi leaps off into the air, she reminds herself of the tremendous symbolic action she is going through. Tomomi has agreed with herself that when she hits the water, this will be her special, private, personal, water baptism. She starts life afresh; a new beginning. She will be baptized as an actual, authentic, genuine teenage girl. When she arises out of the water to take her first strokes of the butterfly, this is her acceptance of herself in her mind, heart, and spirit, as the girl that she was always meant to be! This is also her official entrance into being on the school's girl's swim team, the fun and exciting world of girl-with-girl friendship, and such a memorable teenage girlhood!

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(THE END)