Balance Policy: Chapter 5

BALANCE POLICY: CHAPTER 5

(Chapter Note---Most of this chapter is a flashback to the time that Kenji was in the hospital for about a year, and a description of some of the procedures that she went through during the transformation. She also met another boy-to-girl who was also being changed, and became friends with them.)

After Masaomi fell into the stream and got all wet, he is now sitting on the bank by the edge of the stream, trying to dry off in the sun. He is biding his time watching Kenji once again try and walk across the stream without falling in like she did last time. Both are silent, until Kenji shouts to Masaomi, stating that the both of them should go to Tokyo some time. She has a friend who lives in Tokyo, after all. She met them in the hospital as they were also being modified into a girl, just like me. Their name is Gorou. " Zat so?", exclaims Masaomi.

FLASHBACK---

TOKYO INTERNATIONAL GENERAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL

That was the sign on the front of the building that was part of a massive medical complex. This is where Kenji was transformed from boy to girl, and spent about a year of their life here. One day, Kenji met another person in the hallway, dressed like a mummy, all in bandages, and wearing a hospital gown. Kenji introduces herself as 'Kenji Ooki'. The other person introduces themselves as 'Gorou Fukuyama'. Both find out that they are the same age---13. Gorou is all bandaged up because they are undergoing a skin regeneration. Kenji says that places on her skin still have a red rash from the process, and have to be kept wrapped up. Next day, Kenji is completely naked, and immersed inside a clear walled tank filled with a skin hardening liquid. There is a breathing apparatus and umbilical cords attached to her. After her treatment, she is drying herself off and sitting on an exam table. The doctor is telling her that her skin regeneration is now 100% complete. She has worked hard to help achieve this. As Kenji begins to dress by putting on a clean white shirt, the doctor tells her that she should be able to go outside in about a month. Great!

A month later, with the sakura blossoms in full bloom, Kenji is on the roof of one of the buildings, looking outward. Another girl approaches from behind.

" Long time, no see! "

The other girl is Gorou, now herself completely healed from the skin operations. She looks older now, so mature and adult-like, with soft, creamy, clear skin, big, oval eyes and jet black hair down to below her shoulders and wing bones. She says that they have finally allowed her outside now. Kenji is shocked at how beautiful she is, but she has the voice of Gorou, so that is who it must be! How did she get such long, silky, sexy hair ? Gorou says that she has been letting her hair grow since she started elementary school. She knew by the first grade that she was going to be transformed from a boy to a girl. " WOW!", exclaims Kenji. Both girls retire from the roof to Kenji's hospital room. Kenji tries to play on a portable video game box, but her hands won't move well enough to make any progress in the game. After a while, both girls are laying prone on Kenji's bed, side by side. Kenji muses as to what is going to happen to them when they finish the treatments and are released from the hospital? Gorou replies that it is simple to figure out----we are going to become pregnant, give birth, and raise more girls. That is the whole purpose of the Balance Policy, after all. Both lay quietly for a long time. Finally, Kenji gently pokes Gorou, and asks, how about a little look? Kenji wants to see the scar left, if any, from when they put in the artificial uterus, plus whatever else they did to Gorou. Gorou agrees, but says that, " If I show you mine, you have to show me yours ! " This they do. Everything looked 'assembly line' identical.

END FLASHBACK

Masaomi is amazed at the story that Kenji is relating. True story, nonetheless. He seems to be a bit embarrassed by Kenji's experience, but does not say anything. Kenji wraps up the story of her friend by saying on the last day wherein Gorou was to leave the hospital, she found Kenji to tell her the good-by's. Gorou nonchalant says that she is off to find a suitable male partner, and then to have children. " Zat so?", utters Kenji. Gorou departs, telling Kenji that we can play together next time that you come to Tokyo. Kenji wonders out loud if she ever got her partner? Masaomi intones that it is kind of complicated, what with the change and all. Kenji is still out in the middle of the stream, as her stomach growls. She carefully steps on the stones back to the shore, stating that she is hungry, and the two of them go home to get something to eat.

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