Jun & Karou Chapter 9

JUN AND KAROU, PURE AND FRAGRANT

CHAPTER 9 OF THE MANGA

It is the night before the school exams. Jun(+M) is banging away on the railing of the balcony of Karou's(+F) house with a long, wooden ruler. Karou appears with her usual smug expression on her face, but says nothing. Jun hands over the male school uniform, as the day of the exams will find both Jun and Karou masquerading as their perceived birth genders.

Next day in the homeroom class, the test assignments, rooms, and times are clearly spelled out on the blackboard. Jun(xF), dressed in the female school uniform, is in the classroom wherein the exams have already started. She is doing okay, but she keeps hearing a crackling noise emmenating from her mini-skirt, or from the seat that she is sitting upon. She can't figure it out! Karou(xM) is elsewhere in the classroom, trudging through his exams with a sour look on his face. In the afternoon, at the end of the school day, and the end of the banks of exams, several of the guys want to go do karaoke. Karou is invited to come with them, but he has to think it over for a moment. Meanwhile, Jun, along with a male classmate, Satou, is carrying a box with a lab specimen in it, some sort of big, ugly bug. Jun arrives in the storage area, but nobody seems to be there. Suddenly, another female student, with a bandage across her nose, calls out their names, then makes her appearance. Her name is Hana-chan, and she is sort of a weirdo. First thing that Hana-chan asks is where is Karou ? Jun doesn't know. Hana next asks the plainly obvious, is Jun a woman today (Duh, Jun is wearing the female school uniform)? Hana-chan comes up to Jun, and fondles her breasts! Yes, they are real! Hana point blank asks Jun a mysterious, cryptic question---

" Huh? Have you grown up? "

Karou decided to go with the guys to karaoke. He right about now is singing his heart out. However, the other guys are complaining about the karaoke booth that they were assigned to. Soon, Karou leaves, and goes outside. He is still in the male school uniform as he begins walking the long sidewalk through the shopping district of the city. Several blocks later, who should he come upon ? Jun(xF), of course! However, she has changed out of her school uniform, and is wearing a white shirt, and over that a covertly sexy, exceedingly cute, and very juvenile little girls' styled black romper . Karou blandly asks where she is going ? To the library. She finished her exams hours ago, so she has some free time. Karou turns to go, and dryly remarks that today, after school ended, started the summer break. Jun absentmindedly follows him. She begins by saying, " This summer breeze.........", but doesn't finish her thought. Instead, she says---

" By the way.......this thing here......it's yours, right ?"

Jun pulls a crumpled up piece of paper from the pocket of her romper. " This piece of paper was inside the pocket of the school's uniform mini-skirt. Did you try and cheat ? "

Karou explodes! " ***IT WAS THERE ?*** I had to leave three questions blank because I didn't have that !!! "

Jun bluntly and unemotionally says that he would not have been able to use it anyway. It got wet and unintelligible from being in the washing machine. Both silently stare at each other, motionless, for quite some time. Finally, Karou turns to go. As he leaves, Jun shouts his name, and then repeats the cryptic message that was given to her earlier in the day---

" **KAROU !!!** You've......grown up, too...........?"

" HUH.........?"

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