It wasn’t unusual for Nanaki to wake up not knowing where he’d ended up. It was, in fact, pretty par to the course. So when he woke up blinking blearily at a desk, it wasn’t as if it was unexpected. He yawned, stretching arms towards the ceiling and glancing around. An unfamiliar room… He glanced down at the desk, blinking sleepily. Oh yeah, that’s right. He’d been grading papers. He must have finished and wandered off though, because this was not his desk. A cup of coffee, presumably stale, as it was half finished and seemed to be cold. Books about anatomy and the human body. A briefcase that seemed vaguely familiar.
Nanaki reached up, and found glasses perched on his nose when he went to rub the sleep from his eyes, and his brows creased in confusion. Since when did he wear random peoples’ glasses? Apparently since some time last night. He moved, standing up, and was surprised to find that this desk was considerably shorter than his own. Hm, how odd…
Well, he had papers to grade, or at least classes to attend, if he had actually finished before he nodded off. Sometimes his memory got a little hazy when it came to that kind of thing. Gosh, everything in this room was considerably shorter than his own. He ought to have something done like this in his own office, as the top shelf of the bookshelf against the wall seemed to actually be within his reach. He’d draft a letter to the administrators, as soon as he found out whose office this was.
Feeling uncharacteristically energetic, Nanaki started towards the door, and caught a glimpse of someone moving in a window, and glanced over.
“Oh, good morning, Shuu.” That made him pause. The words were his, but the voice wasn’t. Then he creased his brows and stared into the window, the reflection of his fellow faculty member doing the same.
Wide violet eyes stared out under mussed brunette bangs, a red-framed pair of glasses perched on his nose. Somehow, he was in Shuu’s body. What a strange dream… Especially for him, who barely ever dreamed. He chuckled, and was hit by a strange sense of wrongness, for his laugh to be coming out of this mouth.
Well, if this was a dream indeed, if he went back to his room, and back to sleep, perhaps he could wake up in his own body again… The realization accompanied a slight sense of disappointment. So that meant that he furniture in that office was not shorter at all, he was merely taller…
He heard a crash as he opened his door, and peered around the corner to find himself staring down at a broken mirror, hand bleeding, an expression that looked very out of place on his face, and before the oddness of the situation sank in, chimed cheerfully in Shuu’s voice: