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When; Friday, August 22nd
Rating; PG?
Characters; Uruki/Rimudo

un_fated and Ty Lee

auraoftheday
Summary; Ty Lee discovers that her roommate is not as female as she first thought.
Log;

When Uruki woke up, she didn't realize that anything was amiss. Not in particular. Not entirely a morning person, she rolled out of bed with the usual half-hearted grumble, leaving the bed the usual untidy mass of blankets and sheets. In a half-daze, she moved towards the kitchen with the intent of grabbing some breakfast, still neglecting to notice that anything was unusual about that particular morning.

Such as that she was no longer a "she," but a he.

Unfortunately, it wasn't the first time.

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Ty Lee had been up early- much earlier than she normally would have been. Something was wrong with the City; the aura, so strong and diseased and twisted, had been affecting her, and she just couldn't sleep.

So when Uruki came out into the hall, Ty Lee was in the living room, curled up on the couch with a cup of tea held between both her hands. The television- such a wonderful piece of technology -was switched on to a talk show. Since coming to the City, Ty Lee had discovered that she really liked talk shows.

"Good morning!" she called absently over her shoulder, and then giggled at a bad joke one of the hosts made.

"Morning," Standard greeting, that -- nearly a grunt. He wafted towards the kitchen without much more than that, hardly giving more than a cursory glance to the talk show on TV. (This too was standard.) One of those talk things again. She seemed to like those. Though he was secretly a little fascinated by them, he claimed them as annoying and would only watch when he thought no one else was looking, making mental notes throughout on how pointless they were. No one would know his interest if he could help it -- not even himself.

Meanwhile, he was so used to hearing himself both ways, he didn't even consider the fact that a male's voice came from his mouth.

Stifling a yawn, heading into the kitchen, "Do we still have the cereal, or did you finish it off?"

Yes, the show was interesting and all- the hosts were still in the middle of bantering back and forth with each other on a variety of topics, including the best way to tell a boyfriend (or husband) that you hated his clothes- but not quite interesting enough to hold her attention.

She didn't recognize the voice from the kitchen. It wasn't Mai, obviously, because, while Mai did have a deeper voice, it wasn't that deep. And it didn't belong to Gino, either. She'd been living with him long enough to pick his voice out of a crowd. Tasuki had stayed at his house in the woods, so it wasn't him...

And it couldn't be Uruki...

Leaning forward, she set her mug down on the coffee table and hit the 'mute' button on the remote. The television went silent, and she twisted around to face the kitchen, both eyebrows raised.

Who on earth--?

"Umm...I think there's some left?"

"Good." The cupboards banged; cereal clattered into a bowl. There was the sound of the refrigerator opening and closing. "How old's the milk, anyway?" A sniff. "Smells okay, I guess."

A little more banging and clattering, and he emerged to lean in the doorway, mouth half-full, cereal bowl balanced in one hand. She was staring in his direction. "What? Don't have to stop on my account -- even though they're a waste of time."

Ty Lee knew she was gawking, but she couldn't help it. She blinked a few times, rapidly, trying to process what she saw. (Of course, it didn't help that she was running on less than four hours of sleep. She needed at least seven to function properly.)

...Not Uruki, but this man bore a striking resemblance to her- even shared her dislike of talk shows. Maybe they were related? Siblings? But Uruki never mentioned a brother. Still, it was the obvious conclusion to reach- the only one that made sense.

"Sorry, I don't think we've been introduced yet. I'm Ty Lee! Are you Uruki's brother?"

"What?" He paused mid-crunch to stare at her as though she'd gone insane . . . then glanced down at himself.

". . . Crap."

Well, he'd been meaning to tell her anyway . . . it would seem this would solve the problem of how, whether he liked it or not.

Something was definitely going on here. Uruki's brother- if that was his real identity; she was starting to doubt it a little- had a very strange expression on his face, not to mention he was acting like they knew each other already.

Ty Lee raised her eyebrows.

"So you aren't...Uruki's brother?"

Sure, he could say he was, and that might relieve the stress at the moment, but appealing as though that might be, it would certainly make life far more complicated. And again, it wasn't as though he hadn't *meant* to tell her . . . he just rather expected to do it on his own time. Inconvenient.

With a mutter he shifted his eyes away -- more from annoyance than embarrassment. "I'm Uruki. Rimudo, actually."

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