Hikaru's Story: Part 2

HIKARU'S STORY: PART 2

(Story Note---Part 2 is the conclusion of *Hikaru's Story*. Additional Note---At the point in the story when Hikaru wears the female school uniform for the first time, and thereafter, and is accepted at the high school as a female student, female designations will be used.)

A week or so after Hikaru went on a 'date' with Himuro, dressed as a pretty, attractive teenage girl, Hikaru is in the school's library, searching for a particular book. He is wearing the male school uniform. Soon, he finds the book that he was looking for, and opens it to scan the contents. Suddenly, a hand is laid on his shoulder, and a voice comes from behind. Hikaru begins to turn to see who it is, when the voice announces an most unique proposition---

"Would you want to become a Princess ?"

"Huh....???", mutters Hikaru.

The hand on Hikaru's shoulder turns out to be the upperclassman who is the President and Director of the Drama Club. He asks Hikaru if the two of them can go to the Handicraft Clubroom to discuss what he wants Hikaru to accomplish? This they do. Soon, Himuro walks into the clubroom, only to find Hikaru and the Director of the Drama Club talking, as well as two female students at a sewing machine, working away. Himuro becomes quite surprised when he is told what has been offered to Hikaru. The Director wants to do a school production of 'Sleeping Beauty', and he wants Hikaru to play the lead role of the Princess who is cursed and falls asleep. This because Hikaru is already so very cute and feminine, and 'he' fits the bill for a Princess perfectly. Hikaru mentions that they have already seen the script, and the play sounds so interesting that he said that he will consider it. They were a bit startled at first, but Hikaru then already agreed to do the role. Himuro objects, asking the Director if he knows that Hikaru is (supposedly) *a guy?* Of course !

The Director's next offer 'knocks Himuro for a loop' when he tells Himuro that he wants Himuro to be cast as the Prince in the play ! Himuro tries to 'beg off', saying that Hikaru and himself thought that they would end up being asked to only do the costumes for the play, nothing more. The two girls at the sewing machine immediately pick up on the implication of what the two lead roles will involve. Doesn't the Prince kiss the Princess at the end of the play to break the cruel spell put upon her? Of course ! That means that Himuro will kiss Hikaru in front of the whole school audience at the end of the play ! Right ? You bet ! As soon as this realization dawns on Himuro, he firmly says that he can't take the role of the Prince, for that reason. The Director thinks for a moment, then offers that if Himuro will take the part, he will double the pay and compensation that the Drama Club will offer the Handicraft Club for their help with the play. Himuro 'hee haws' around. but the two girls answer for the entire Handicraft Club, saying that they will take the job, and it is a 'done deal', regardless of what Himuro thinks or is saying. The Director says that this is good to hear. The two girls emphatically tell Himuro that he is in no position to kill this kind of a deal between the two clubs. Got that ? Himuro meekly 'rolls over and plays dead', thereby backhandedly agreeing.

The Director, Himuro, and Hikaru retire to a quiet and secluded place in the school building for about a half hour. Then the three head toward the Drama Club's headquarters. The Director is the first one through the door, announcing to the other members that the roles for the Prince and the Princess have been filled. Next through the door, and behind the Director, wearing the female school uniform, is a ravishingly beautiful, sweet and innocent, yet hardcore sexy and with an erotic aura, teenage high school girl. Behind the girl walks in Himuro. Who is this adorable, provocative girl? She says that her name is Hikaru Kirishima, and she will be playing the role of the Sleeping Beauty. The Director points to Himuro, and says that he will play the part of the Prince.

All the male members of the Drama Club soon fawn and swoon over this new girl. "What class are you in?" / "You look like a First Year!" / "I didn't know we had such a cute girl in our school!" / "So your are called Hikaru-chan ? Sweet!" Immediately, several of the boys in the club demand that they be cast in the role of the Prince, not Himuro ! The Director says---

"Okay ! But what if I tell you that *Hikaru is a "guy"* ???

The boys go bonkers, with tons of surprise style drama thrown in for good measure ! What does one expect from Drama Club boys ? One boy decisively states that he can't believe that Hikaru is a "guy". No freakin' way !!! Another boy tells Hikaru to twirl around a couple of times, as that will tell the story for sure if Hikaru is a boy or a girl. "You mean like this.....?", questions Hikaru, as she daintily twirls ever so feminine, yet oh, so stunningly and alluringly provocative. In fact, Hikaru twirls around a little too energetic, as her pleated mini-skirt lifts up with the centrifugal force, to show her girl's white panties. Hikaru immediately knows what happened, and therefore stops and smooths down her mini-skirt with her hands, and sticking out her tiny pink tongue, apologetically says the she spun too fast after all. The boys are frozen in awe and amazement, and the speculation of whether Hikaru is a boy or a girl was laid to rest once for all time.

Two other boys are questioning Himuro, asking him if he is really going to kiss Hikaru ? **"The Hell I am !"** Himuro goes on to say that he will only be acting, that it is all pretend, nothing more ! Really ? Fer real ? Holding a rolled up script in his hand, the Director addresses Hikaru. He tells her that there is only about four weeks to get everything done for the play, not a lot of time. Therefore, in order for Hikaru to become thoroughly accustomed to playing the role of the Sleeping Beauty, he is asking and strongly suggesting that Hikaru present as a female student at school all during that time, starting today, starting right now ! You mean before school, at school, in class, at lunchtime, and after school, too, interjects Hikaru ? *"You got it!"* Himuro mumbles to himself, however, as that is a bit much. One of the drama boys says that the Director is going to graduate this year, as he is a senior, and he wants to wind up his term with the Drama Club with a bang ! This production will be his "High School Finale" ! Hikaru gives the Director a look of concern and trepidation, thinking silently to herself that he must really like doing the story of Sleeping Beauty. The Director sees the troubling expression on Hikaru's face, and backpedals, saying that if she really does not want to do that, present as a girl virtually 24/7, she doesn't have to do so.

Inside Hikaru's mind, heart, and spirit, something 'clicks' into place. She silently tells herself that this is an opportunity that will only come once in her life, and opportunity to be out in public as the girl that she always wanted to be. She has always thought of themselves as a girl in a boy's body, but lacked any motivation or opportunity to do anything about that. Hence she rolled with the idea that she should 'lay low' and masquerade as a boy, at least during her youth and teen years. But now is not the time to even debate this with herself. She has to seize the moment and run with it. This play with be the opportunity for her to prove to herself whether she was a boy, as she was born perceived as such, or is she a girl, born to eventually transition to her true, real self. It's now or never........sink or swim.......go or be left behind.......put up or shut up......when the tailgate drops, the bullsh\*t stops......what say you, Hikaru? Hikaru looks the Director right in his eyes, and raises her stiff hand to her forehead in a formal salute, saying---

***"I'LL DO IT!!!"***

The next morning finds a new girl walking to the high school, wearing the female school uniform. It consists of a dressy, short, puffed sleeve blouse, and a tiered mini-skirt, worn with knee-highs or over-the-knee socks. Other students whisper comments as she walks by them. "Who is this new girl?" / "I have never seen her before!" / Is she a new transfer student?" / "I don't know." / "She sure is cute!" / "She is the girl who is going to play Sleeping Beauty!" / "More like cute yet sexy all at the same time!" Hikaru is quiet and says nothing regarding the comments, and continues walking outside on the school campus.

In class that morning, the teacher calls upon Hikaru Kirishima to read a portion of the textbook. "WAIT...WHAT???" The teacher is startled when a pretty girl stands up and begins to read. "Hikaru, since when are you a girl?" "Since yesterday at the Drama Club !"

That afternoon, Hikaru is asked to carry a stack of papers over to the office. She is in the hallway when a male student, known to be an obnoxious goon and simpleton at times, comes up from behind her and places his hand on her shoulder. He says, "Hey!" and tells Hikaru that he knows that she is going to be in the play, but what is with wearing the girl's school outfit? Is cross-dressing your hobby or something? 'Cuz that would be simply hilarious ! From out of nowhere the two girls who are in the Handicraft Club appear, and one of them plants a karate chop onto the guy's arm, breaking his hold on Hikaru. The other girl loudly proclaims **hands off the merchandise**! She goes on to ask if he has a problem with Hikaru being a real girl, both now and later in the play? The other girl emphasizes that they are going through a lot of trouble to make this play happen, therefore, we would appreciate it if our star performer not be harassed at all. Hikaru, for her part, smiles so sweetly at the guy, and mentions if you get the chance, come and see the play. The would be bully shuffles off, mumbling that he will come if he as nothing better to do. A ways away, Himuro is watching this little drama play out, but does nothing.

Suddenly, with Hikaru still in the hallway, and still holding onto the stack of papers, she feels a person quickly pass by her, and a subsequent breeze fluttering her mini-skirt. What gives? Another male student, one known to be a practical joker and class clown, tells himself that he just now got to see a girl's white panties ! What he just did was a great success ! Sweet ! As the joker passes by the two Handicraft girls, one of them nonchalantly asks him if he knows that he just 'upskirted' a (supposed) "guy" who is presenting now as a girl ? What? The other girl says that "he" is "cross-dressing", and if you do that to another "guy", what kind of freak does that make you ? "NO WAY", bellows the joker. Next incident happened so fast ! It is hard to tell if the joker slipped and fell, or did someone trip him, but he unexpectedly goes down to the hallway floor with such an almighty "THUD", splattering himself all over the floor. His crotch and pelvis took the direct hit from the floor. Must have been so very painful ! One of the girls states that she didn't think that him going down would be so very spectacular. The other girl agrees, saying that she feels a little sorry for the jinxed and loser guy.

After school in the Handicraft clubroom, Himuro is busy at the sewing machine, making something for the play. Hikaru is over at a table, sitting down and trying to eat a shredded beef and hard boiled egg submarine sandwich, and memorize her lines for the play, both at the same time. "Dear old lady, whatever might you be doing here?", recites Hikaru. Himuro is not getting much work done, as he keeps looking over at Hikaru, who is not only looking so erotic and desirable as a girl wearing the school uniform, but Himuro notices how she eats her sub, also so very erotic and desirable. He silently but repeatedly asks himself why can't he take his eyes off of Hikaru's lips ?

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Preparations for the play are coming along rather well. However, there is only about a week left before the performance. Hikaru and Himuro are in the Handicraft clubroom. Hikaru is holding up the Sleeping Beauty costume dress that she will be wearing for the play, asking Himuro-sempai how she looks? She also asks Himuro what kind of ribbon she should wear in her long hair? Plaid or solid color? Himuro says that she should go with a lacy lolita style headband. Hikaru says that she forgot about that option, but let's go with it. How to make it? Glue it together? You have never done one before? No! Himuro says that he will whip one up right now, and seats himself at the sewing machine.

During a subsequent period of silence, Himuro is pelted with his own thoughts. He reasons within himself about all that has happened with Hikaru, but does not yet know the depth or vast extent of Hikaru's mind and heart's motivation to be a girl. He somewhat incorrectly deduces that---No matter how cute the clothes "he" wears....or how many ribbons "he" wears, 'a guy is still a guy'. Hikaru in her girl's school uniform, watches intently. In a while, she asks Himuro if he has properly memorized his script to play the Prince? Not yet, but it won't take long. Another somewhat long period of silence ensues, with Himuro working away, and Hikaru silently sitting next to the sewing machine table, dutifully watching. Eventually, Himuro questions Hikaru, asking why "he" decided to take the part of Sleeping Beauty? Himuro was thinking that agreeing to "cross-dress" 24/7 as a girl for about three weeks now, just because you were a little bit interested in the script, somehow does not add up ! Hikaru says that didn't she tell him one time before? No, not really !

"Alrighty then, I will tell you the truth.", begins Hikaru, as she with an unperceptive mood change, turns deadly serious. "The story of Sleeping Beauty is such that she falls asleep due to a wicked witch's curse put upon her. Right? And she wakes up, and the curse is lifted, only when she gets a kiss from the Prince ! In the meantime, a hundred years go by......one hundred years......In a way, being asleep for that long of a time is like being reborn ! Now just suppose, for the sake of argument, that I was born with a curse put upon me. After all, I was born perceived as a male. It seems as if a hundred years have already gone by in my life. But now is the time for the curse to be lifted, and it will be done by a kiss, this for me to be reborn. Who knows, maybe even reborn as a different sex than my birth sex ! "

This takes Himuro completely be surprise, enough so that he stops with the construction of the lolita bow, and with himself becoming serious, asks Hikaru---

"Hold on.....Are you telling me that *you want to be a girl?*"

A sad and melancholic mood sweeps across Hikaru's face, as if she was going to burst out crying. She continues on in abject honesty and deadly earnest---

"Himuro-sempai, haven't you ever wondered or yearned as to *what it would be like to **actually be a girl?***"

Hikaru is already standing, but Himuro stops what he was doing, and gets up from the sewing machine to address Hikaru face-to-face. "Huh.....", he begins. Hikaru immediately discerns that not only is she ever so deep into her personal and private heart's intimate desires, but Himuro is so shocked and rattled, that he is almost speechless and likely to go nonsensical and wacky any second now. Therefore, with quick thinking, Hikaru loudly proclaims---

"JUST KIDDING ! I'm just fooling around with you !", as she flashes a sweet, innocent, yet incendiary smile at him.

"Fooling with me? Really? Fer real?", counters Himuro.

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The night of the first and only performance of The Sleeping Beauty finds the school theater auditorium packed with every seat taken, and with standing room only. Hikaru is on stage, wearing her ornate period costume dress. She has just pricked her finger, and blood is oozing out of the wound. She cries out---

"Dear old lady, the spindle has slipped from my grasp, and has pricked my finger. OOOOH ! HOW IT HURTS !!! Ah ! The light......the light is fading......my limbs feel as heavy as lead......I feel myself slipping.......into the deepest of slumber. (The Sleeping Beauty heads for the bed before she collapses.) My consciousness is slipping away.......I'm being spirited away........!!!"

With Sleeping Beauty's last step, she falls into the bed, sound asleep, as if in the throes of death. And so the Sleeping Beauty has been in deep slumber for one hundred years. In the meantime, vines, weeds, and overgrowth cover over the castle and adjacent lands. Finally, one day, the Prince has come to fulfill his personal knightly quest. He finds the almost hidden castle, and drawing his sword, begins hacking away at the overgrown foliage. Such determination ! Yet he wonders if the legend of the Sleeping Beauty really and truly exists? Little by little, he cuts a slender path through the briars and thorns, up to the castle entrance. The Prince enters, and continues his search. Eventually, he makes his way to the royal bed chambers. Opening the door, he sees a beautiful young woman, the Princess, asleep and dead to the world. He makes it to her bedside. Ho, ho, ho !!! She must be the Princess, displayed as she is in her finest royal dress, and laying in her bed so peaceful and quiet. The Prince calls out to her, "Princess", but of course she does not answer.

For a long time the Prince gazes upon the beauty and attractiveness of the Princess (Himuro silently thinks to himself that Hikaru, as the Princess, truly would be asleep for an actual hundred years if it were not for the Prince's kiss. Himuro then recalls what Hikaru implied to him earlier, that she was under some sort of curse after all ! What did Hikaru say.....born a male.....could that be the truth regarding the curse she is under ?). The Prince remarks to himself that he must concede that her dress and style is most outdated. Even my grandmother would balk at wearing such out-of-date clothing ! The Prince next notices the pursed and slightly open, full, luscious lips of the Princess. He tells himself that her features are most certainly the image of perfection.....no doubt a reflection of the sterling truth of the purity of her spirit. *Never before have I encountered a maiden so fair and lovely.*  The Prince removes his feathered cap, and bows deeply and respectively to the Princess. He softly intones, almost a whisper---

"To this Sleeping Beauty, I offer my honest and sincere greeting, a token of my utmost saintly respect......."

And with that proclamation, the Prince gently bends down and over the Princess. Slowly, carefully, and deliberately, he brings his face toward her face. He closes his eyes, and ever so tenderly, yet ever so passionately and erotically, touches his lips to hers, and offers a long, slow, moist, emotional, and profoundly passionate kiss to the Princess. (As he reluctantly disengages from the kiss, loud cheers and congratulations break froth in peals from the crowd. That 'brings down the house!')

Ever so slowly and delicately, the Princess gradually opens her eyes. She looks earnestly only at the Prince, without saying a word. Soon, the Prince says, "Princess?" And with that acknowledgement, the Princess regally raises her small hand and offers it to the Prince. The Prince cautiously takes her weak and pale hand into his, and carefully assists the Princess to sit upright in the bed. The Princess is still silent, but offers a shy, innocent smile to her noble rescuer.

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The entire cast is assembled on stage, with everyone standing in a row holding hands. In the audience all hell breaks loose, as applause, cheers, well wishes, shouts of joy and triumph, and all manor of noise and banter is heard in deafening waves of sounds repeated over and over. Curtain call after curtain call ! Finally, after quite a while of audience reaction, the entire cast takes one final bow, and the curtain comes down !

As the various crew members, actors, and actresses head back stage, the Prince and Princess are standing next to each other on stage, romantically holding hands. One boy, dressed as a knight in shining armor, approaches the couple. He addresses Himuro, loudly stating---

"YO ! HIMURO ! What was that all about ? You go on about how you were going to be just acting, then you cut loose with the most passionate and provocative kiss that I have ever seen, zeroed right onto the Princess !"

Himuro is somewhat taken aback, and spits out the first thing that comes to his mind---He was just 'going with the flow' of the play. The knight then retorts---

"If you put it that way, then ......."

The knight is cut off by one of the Handicraft girls interjecting her response, "THEN WHAT.....???" She continues, questioning if he is seriously telling her that he is quite jealous of Himuro ? You wanted to be in Himuro's shoes, didn't you ? I'm sure that Hikaru's brilliant acting has made you forget, but.......

The knight cuts her off with his dubious and not really accurate exclamation that hits him like a ton of bricks---

"That's right ! Hikaru's a "guy" ! **I WOULD HAVE BEEN KISSING ANOTHER GUY !!!"**

Hearty peals of laughter break out among all the cast members and players still on the stage. The knight turns several shades of red with embarrassment and regret for 'putting his foot in his mouth' in front of everyone !

Hikaru as the Princess, and Himuro as the Prince are still standing close to one another, but are not now holding hands. Hikaru turns toward Himuro, and softly tells him, almost a whisper---

".......looks like the spell has been broken, and the curse has been lifted, in more ways than one. The curse of maleness and manhood is gone; dissipated and banished with a kiss......that kiss means that I was reborn.......from now on I am a *real, authentic girl for the rest of my life !!!*"

Himuro silently thinks to himself---

"I got the feeling that Hikaru was acting out the role of the Princess up until that very instant of the kiss......then after the kiss she was no longer acting........she was now a girl for real.......!!!"

(THE END)