Rthylr of the Xthyvstw Galactic Empire stood tall on his lower appendages as he gave the orders, millions of miles from a tiny planet called Earth, ready to finally wipe out the last of his enemies, the Aieoau, who had the audacity to continue surviving in their asexual nonreproductive bodies far longer than anyone should have a right to. Now Rthylr would finally obtain the secret to their immortality, and wipe their abhorrent race from the face of the universe.

"Prepare the plasma injectors! I want all organic material on that ship destroyed, but don't harm a single piece of machinery! Fire!"

As the slow-moving projectile approached a crippled Aieoau ship containing the last remnants of their race, Ouio gave its final order, "Jettison the regenerators! All of them! The Xthyvstw will not have our technology to add to their destructive forces! Fire them from the projector cannon!"

The 2 ships battled ferociously in those last moments, firing weapons never imagined by human minds with destructive force beyond comprehension, and there were no survivors. None escaped, and a small packet fired in a direction that gravity would eventually alter to send it hurtling into Earth's atmosphere went unnoticed.

CHAPTER 1

Tenba Sanji sat beside the drainage ditch watching the water. He just got out of school after another day of being ridiculed and beaten up for being short. It didn't help that his family name, "Tenba" was so easy to make fun of. They called him O-Tenba, saying he was short because he was just a girl pretending to be a boy. Today they had stuck a box of tampons in his locker and laughed at his embarrassment. Some days it just didn't pay to go to school.

"Do I really look like a girl to them?" Sanji looked down at his reflection in the water, distorted image of pageboy-cut black hair, soft youthful features, the barest beginnings of stubble on his rounded jaw. His body displayed a slimness that added to his problems, he couldn't get big muscles no matter how much he worked out, which he did regularly to keep in shape. Had any of his tormentors come at him alone, there would be no problem, but they came in groups, and he could do nothing about it.

Just then Sanji's thoughts were interrupted by a whistling rush and he looked up just in time to see something hit him in the face, then blackness.

Organic material found, scanning... Damaged. Begin reconstruction.

Undefined genetic structure, 2 likely matches, reinitiating reconstruction one.

Sanji opened his eyes slowly, wondering why his head didn't hurt. after all, something that knocks you out should at least leave a headache, right? He did feel a little weird, but his head was his main concern, and it felt fine.

Standing up slowly, Sanji tried to find out what hit him, and turning around, saw the truth. Where he had been lying was a small crater filled with what looked to be gray matter and bone chips.

"Am I dead?" Sanji looked down and immediately noticed a few other things wrong. Two soft, round bulbous wrongs sitting squarely on his chest as if they belonged there.

The very girlish scream could be heard all throughout the prefecture. Once that was out of HER system, Sanji did the only thing she could think of; she ran straight home and lock herself in her bedroom. Then she freaked out, and stared at the ceiling for a while. Eventually, she settled down and worked on figuring out an explanation.

"What happened? Did I die and get reincarnated as a girl? Why? I liked being a boy... Well, no, come to think of it it kinda sucked. Still, being a girl's gonna be so much worse! But at least I'm alive. I guess it's a blessing..." Just then, the door downstairs closed with a thump that sounded like distilled terror. Her dad was home.

"Sanji, are you home? Come down and eat, I got takeout tonight. It'll get cold if you don't hurry!" Her dad's voice carried a hint of weariness after a hard day at the construction site. It was just the two of them in the small apartment, and people mostly left them alone. Sanji knew she would have to explain sometime, and that time might as well be now.

Somehow the thought of facing her dad, the very large, all-muscled construction worker, filled her with dread; after all, her father could break most people in half! Then again, he'd always been more of the gentle giant type, he'd never actually hurt anyone to Sanji's knowledge, and tended to be very understanding of things, if a bit odd sometimes.

"Hey dad... How was work? You'll never believe what happened to me today."

Mr. Tenba simply stared. There were a few obvious things he couldn't possibly miss, stretching his son's tee shirt.

"I know it sounds weird, but I died and came back as a girl."

Mr Tenba's eyes grew wider, and still he didn't move.

"It's hard to believe, but it's true. I can show you where it happened, even."

"You... You look exactly like your mother... Years ago before she got sick... Are you really my baby?" Tears filled the bigger man's eyes, a faraway look on his face.

"Dad... Dad, I'm sorry. I didn't realize... I didn't mean to bring back painful memories..." Sanji's dad reached out and enfolded her in a big hug, tears dripping from his cheeks.

"It's okay, Sanji... I don't know how it happened, but I think your mother is why you were brought back. The gods decided it wasn't fair to take you from me too, so they reincarnated you as a girl. Can I see where it happened? I mean, maybe your mother's spirit is there..."

'Whoa, I knew dad was spiritual, but wow!' Sanji just hugged back, glad her dad was accepting the change. They talked for a little while about what this would mean for the family, then she led her father to where she had been killed, and showed him the mess that remained from the meteorite strike.

"Looks like you got hit by something falling from the sky... Maybe from space... Talk about odds, this must be destiny! I'll change the family register tomorrow morning, and tonight we'll take you shopping for new clothes. After all, you can't go to school tomorrow in your boy uniform. To be honest, I always wanted a daughter too... Your mother and I were going to try for a little girl before she got sick... I can feel her spirit filling this place, she must be why you were reincarnated like this!" His eyes again misted over, and he hugged his new daughter.

Sanji had stopped dead in her tracks at the word "school." If it was bad before, how would it be now that she really WAS a girl? The boys would beat her to death! But her dad was so happy... She would figure something out, after all, what other choice did she have? It was fate.

"I know it's scary, but the gods would not have given you that body if you couldn't handle the challenges set before you, Sanji. And you're not getting out of school, I want my child to have the advantage of a good education."

After a meal and some hasty fixing in the family register, Mr. Tenba led a sullen Sanji to the nearby mall. One of the great things about their apartment was that they didn't need a car to get anywhere, everything was in walking distance. The family car stayed in storage, except on special occasions. Even the local train transit station was only a few blocks away.

"I know it's hard for you, Sanji, but look at it this way, it beats being dead, right? And you can still do anything you could before, you're not crippled."

"I know... But now I have to learn how to get by as a girl. I don't know the first thing about being a girl! The kids at school... I don't even want to think about them."

"I really do understand. I remember high school. But you just have to buck up and get through it. That's why I'm making you go back tomorrow, instead of taking time off. This isn't something to mourn, it's something to adapt and grow from."

Sanji silently tried to do as her father suggested, as they approached a store in the mall they had never been to, a trendy store for teenage girls and young women. At this point, Sanji's dad handed her a small plastic card.

"This is a prepaid credit card, buy what you need. I'm sure you don't want to take your old man shopping for clothes, after all. And don't go buying boys' clothes or underwear, you need things appropriate for a girl your age."

Sanji turned a deep shade of red as her dad left for the nearby electronics shop for some videos. Then she turned and entered the store, terrified at the prospect of everything she had to learn.

"Hello, welcome to Trends Inc., can I help you with anything?" A grinning store clerk appeared at Sanji's elbow moments after she entered the shop, surprising her.

"Umm, yeah, I uh, need a whole new wardrobe... Nothing fits right anymore..."

"Oh, you hit a growth spurt huh? Well, we'll start you out with some bras and panties, we have some really great stuff that's nice and soft, but will accent your body shape perfectly! You look like a... 34-26-36, maybe a c cup... We'll try a few things out on you and see how they work, okay?"

"How can you tell someone's sizes like that? Wow..."

"I get a lot of practice. Do you need a new school uniform?" The salesclerk, whose name tag proclaimed as 'Junko' glanced somewhat disdainfully at Sanji's boy uniform, but said nothing.

"Umm, yeah? It's for Furigama High School. I don't... um... remember the dress code rules for girls."

"That's okay, we have those in stock. Here, try this on and tell me how it fits." The clerk handed Sanji a bra, simple and white, marked 34c on the tag. It had a clasp in the front that looked somewhat simple to operate, for which Sanji was immensely grateful. She blushed and went to the dressing room to try it on, finding it slightly tight and pinching, but after fiddling with the straps around her shoulders it seemed to fit into place.

"It's a perfect fit." Sanji said over the dressing room door.

"Good, keep it on and I'll add the price tag into your merchandise. I noticed you weren't wearing one, and you are required to while trying on clothing here."

"Umm, sorry..."

"It's okay, I hate the damn things myself, but rules are rules. Anyway, try on this top, it's for Furigama, and here's the skirt."

In the end, Sanji ended up with what seemed to be a mountain of clothes in varied colors and styles, all perfectly fitted to her new shape. The credit card was nearly spent out, and Sanji was exhausted. Something about the whole trip had been fun however, perhaps being waited on and fawned over by the salesclerk the whole time. And she discovered she really did enjoy trying all the various clothes on, even the ones she chose not to buy. She discovered her dad sitting on a bench outside the store, and handed him the stack of boxes.

"Since you abandoned me in there to figure that out on my own, you can carry everything!" He didn't argue, and they walked home in amiable silence. After putting away her new acquisitions, Sanji sat down to work on her homework while her dad watched some TV. The work seemed somehow easier to understand than it had been before, like someone had turned on a light bulb in her brain, and she finished it quickly, sitting down with her father to watch TV.

"Dad, do you think of me any different now? Am I your daughter, or your son? I'm starting to think this might not be so bad, but still... I don't want our family to change."

"Sanji, you're my child, always have been, always will be. You're all I have left in this world. Do you think I would treat you different just because you're my daughter instead of my son? I don't know, maybe a little, but I will always love you, Sanji."

"I love you too, Dad..." With that, Sanji went to bed.

Later Sanji awoke from a strange dream to even stranger feelings. In the dream, she had been walking side by side with her past self, and then they turned two different directions, but were still walking side by side somehow. Soon other shapes appeared, a feminine silhouette beside the male Sanji, and a masculine one by her new form. Then they were in side-by-side beds, each with the matched partner, caressing, kissing, touching and more. Then the dream faded and Sanji awoke to a very odd feeling, her nipples were hard and very sensitive against the sheets, and down below she felt slick and somehow empty. During the dream her hands had crept to touch a breast and her vagina, and she decided she wasn't inclined to stop.

The feelings were intense and since Sanji was already aroused, she brought herself to orgasm quickly, almost instinctually, her fingers slipping into her void, thumb just barely caressing her clitoris as her other hand kneaded and pinched her breasts. The waves of ecstasy that crashed through her were like nothing she had ever experienced masturbating as a boy, and instead of leaving her tired, the experience left her energized and warm.

"I need to go clean up... And cool down before I'm going to get any more sleep..."

Sanji soon returned to her bed, and was almost asleep when a stray thought reached her mind...

"I was fantasizing about a boy??"