I sit up in the bed with the blanket covering my body.

  The me

  seems to be still meditating. Or is sleeping?

  I reach my hand from under the blanket to tap the me.

  Nothing happens.

  This time, I grab the shoulders and start shaking him. "H–hey!"

  A high-pitched voice came out. Whoa, I sound completely different.

  Nevertheless, I put it aside, for I have a bigger problem at hand,

  "Are you gonna wake up?" Nothing happens.

  There's no way that

  much of a deep sleeper.

  After I've deemed it hopeless, I stopped

  shaking the real me. It looks like my mind was transferred to this

  body now. Well, there's nothing I can do about it now. Although I

  know the truth, I decide to check for my down

  there. 'This felt too

  weird.'

  Suddenly, my real body starts stretching his arms. 'Wait, what?!' Why

  is my real body moving? How is it thinking by itself?

  The real

  me stood up after stretching his arms to turn around, and we both

  stared at each other. "Ah! Why are you naked?!"

  The real me said, immediately turning around. "W-what the hell!

  How are you awake?!" I say. "What the hell do you mean?!

  Who even are you?! I gave you a blanket, so why are you naked?"

  "I'm Ryuujiro! Who are you?!" I yelled out. "Are you

  being dumb? I'm Ryuujiro! And you're a girl. How would you have a

  guy's name?" Says the real me. "Dumb ass! I was just in my

  real body. What are you, a parasite who takes people's bodies?"

  I don't even know what I'm saying at this point, I feel threatened

  that I can't control the real me. "You get out of that body now!

  Give it back to me!" I tell him.

  "Look, I don't know who you are"—he says while looking

  upwards to avoid his vision on my body—"but there's only one

  of me, so you better start telling me what you came here for or what

  you want from me." He says with a serious voice.

  "I'm serious. I'm Ryuujiro!

  "Then if you're the real me, then you would know something only

  I would know." He says after letting go and turning around. I

  suddenly realize I don't have any secrets I've had hidden from

  anyone. How am I supposed to think of one right now?

  I try to muster up anything I could think of, "I know your

  account password is 'KingdomOfDoom888'!" I say with confidence.

  "Oh? So you hacked me? That isn't convincing enough. You need to

  try harder than that." He says. 'This dumb ass doesn't believe

  me!'

  "I know that you like classical music." This is sure to get

  his attention, I've always enjoyed listening to classical music and

  never really told anyone about it.

  "Huh? So you've been looking at my music app? Anyone can just

  open someone's apps and see their history."

  'What

  strategy can I use to convince the other me, that also

  me? Wait I'm confused now." Oh wait that's right!

  I grew impatient. "Look,

  moron! I know you are–no, I am a fanatical war strategist!"

  This is no way he could get around this one since there is inherently

  no easy way for anyone to get access to that information.

  Dating all the way back from my Junior year of high school, I was

  always fascinated with war. I would go to the local library and read

  any books I saw that related to historical wars throughout history

  and analyze the strategy parts of those books, which made me like I

  could become a military leader one day. I would just write any

  important information into a little notepad I had and later move on

  to another book the next day without checking out the book, so no

  records were written.

  "I'm seriously the real Ryuujiro Kurio! I don't know how, but my

  mind switched from my real body to this girl's, and somehow, you

  gained consciousness all by yourself! So, can you understand the

  situation for once?"

  He slowly turned himself around

  and sat down on the floor with his palm on his face. "Oh shit,

  you're serious!" He says with a dumbfounded look on his face.

  You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.

  "So my ability is this? How

  do you go back?" He says worryingly.

  "I have no clue. I just remember meditating next to the girl and

  waking up as her." I explained, "Also, can I get some

  clothes?"I say after suddenly realizing the temperature in the

  room is cold, especially since I'm naked.

  "Uh, sure, I'll turn around." So he does.

  I get up from the bed and open the closet to

  get some casual clothes I would wear in public, gray jeans, a black

  T-shirt with an old classic car model on it, and also put on my older

  shoes that were getting too small for me, but they fit just fine

  on body.

  "Hey, let's try to control this... power," I tell him.

  "You mean is

  my power?"

  "It has to be. If not, then what else is

  your power? I'm the one experiencing it!" I tell him. I thought

  it would have been easier for us to understand each other since we

  are the same person, however, the confusion between us is creating a

  whole flood of uncertainties

  "Fine then, what do you have in mind." He says after

  sliding his hands in his pockets.

  "I don't know, let's try what I did

  before, try to use your so

  I can be the real me again."

  "be

  the real So

  then, what happens to me?" He points out a good question. If my

  consciousness got duplicated, and we both feel like we're the real

  ones? Who the

  real one? Who would be gone? Wait, would they even go away?

  "Maybe then you will become the girl?" I point out an idea.

  "Are

  you dumb? Why would I want that? Hell, I haven't even experienced

  this new All I

  know is I woke up from a nap and saw that the naked lady who was

  sleeping suddenly woke up and claimed she was me."

  "Well, do you not want to learn more of this power or not?

  Everyone else will be getting stronger. If we don't do this now, will

  it ever happen?" I explain my perspective.

  "Hey

  Yuuji? Are you okay? You've been there for a while, is everything

  alright? Your big brother and I just got the hang of our new powers.

  Kazu is in the backyard trying to get stronger." Mom spoke from

  behind the door.

  'They already got used to their

  powers? That fast? And I haven't even discovered how to use it yet!'

  I suddenly feel left behind.

  "Ya Mom, I'm alright, I'm just getting used to my new power

  right now, I'll show it to you later." Says the real me.

  "Alright, hun. Tell me when

  you're out!" She says before walking away.

  He looks back at me, "Alright, fine, let's do this. Uh... how do

  we do this?"

  "Maybe try what you did last time."

  "Last time didn't work. It happened when I was asleep."

  "Just try it again."

  "Fine." He says, proceeding to put his arm on my shoulder,

  wrinkling his face and grunting like a mad dog trying to suppress his

  bark.

  "It’s"—he takes a breath—"not working." He

  says after a couple of seconds.

  "You know you don't have to hold your breath, right?"

  "Hey, let me try it. Maybe it will work because I was the one

  receiving the power." I tell him before removing his hand from

  my shoulder and putting mine on his, realizing the height difference

  between us is higher than I originally expected.

  "Alright, try it." He says.

  Preparing myself, I start, "Here I go."

  Without warning, my head starts hurting, as if I'm learning

  everything you can read from a dictionary.

  "Ahh! What the fuck!!!" I scream as I open my eyes and

  notice I'm looking at the girl. My brain feels like it went through a

  washing machine, and soon it settled back to normal.

  "Holy shit! I'm back to my normal body!" I say as if I

  mastered my newfound ability. "How is it?" I ask the other

  me.

  Instead, the girl was just looking at me, emotionless. "Is it

  how?" She says with a monotone voice.

  "Are you joking around or did something wrong happen?" I

  say, realizing it isn't the time to joke around.

  "Are did happen?" She says as if she's asking the question.

  "Shit. I'm guessing something wrong did happen this time. Well,

  I guess I don't have to call you another me this time since you seem

  different." I say to her, expecting another bad answer.

  "Shit" she responds.

  "Me and you the same. Can you walk? I'm too tired to keep

  testing this shitty power, I might get stuck in the girl body and the

  other me is a douche bag." I say while grabbing her hand and

  slowly walking her to the door.

  "Keep same walk." She says after taking an awkward step as

  if it's her first time walking.

  She doesn't seem to be a person with her own mind. I wonder if the

  reason she woke up was because I was in her body and she learned from

  it. That could explain why she wasn't doing anything when I first saw

  her. She was only an empty vessel. Does that mean she can learn?

  "Well I gotta give you a name since I can't keep calling you

  'the other me,' so I, Ryuujiro Kurio will give you a new name,"

  I say without having any name ideas in mind.

  "Rookoryo eia mi" She tries to imitate my words. Which

  suddenly gave me an idea for a new name.

  "How about... Ryuuka! That's it, Ryuuka."

  I unlock the door and walk Ryuuka out with me... I just realized...

  how will I explain this to them?

  After a couple of seconds, as I was walking Ryuuka out, she slowed

  down gradually and stopped. Her eyes close down and she's no longer

  holding herself up.

  I try to pick her up as I say, "Hey, what's wrong? Get up."

  She's now sleeping just like she was before.

  Mom spotted us from the living room and looked at me with a worried

  face. "Ryuuji who is she?"

  "She... is part of my

  power... Can you help me put her on the couch for now?" I ask.