The Ga-Ru Chinou Method

When, due to his on-line profile showing him to be a childless middle-aged man with no family and a dedicated lone wolf, Tom Newton had been contacted by a research lab and asked to volunteer to tryout a new play on the Suzuki Method of improving the mind via learning to play a musical instrument he had laughed saying he was a bit over the six year old limit for that.
They however explained that what they were testing out was something called the Ga-Ru Chinou Method which was aimed at having the same results as the Suzuki Method, only applied to people 35 years and older. When Tom was also told they were going to give the people they tested The Method on a 500 dollar stipend, and let them keep the musical instrument they would be using in the tests he decided it sounded like a lot of fun and so signed up, that this involved sighing a lot of very long release forms “in case of unexpected results from the treatment” surprised Tom.

That in a random draw he ended being given a cello to learn to play was Tom’s next surprise, a bigger one came when he found out that the Ga-Ru Chinou Method seemed to mostly involve the injection of what he was told were were experimental nanobots fused with cloned and altered T-cells!

The surprises kept coming when Tom found himself taking to the cello and mastering it in less than a week.

There were however some unforeseen side-effects. As Tom's musical talent grew he started to grow younger, which he had no problems with at all, what he did have problems with was that as he grew younger he also found himself first turning into a woman, and then a woman who looked nothing like his former Anglo-Irish heritage at all, also with her new found musical talent Tom found him, well herself really, having thoughts he had never had before.

In the end Tom left the labs and returned home 500 dollars richer and a virtuoso in the cello, she also left it an apparently 23 year old Japanese woman.

Tom had also found out by that time, lessons in the Japanese language seemed were also part of the package, that Ga-Ru Chinon was Japanese for “Girl Brain”, and while at first she did not have one, the still very busy nanobots would soon see to it that Tom Newton, or as she would soon be calling herself Tomiko Nomura, was just a month or two away from that as well.

“You know,” thought Tom to herself after returning home “I'm starting to suspect those folks might have had a second agenda in all this... or am I just being 妄想? …. er I mean paranoid?”