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› Oumeno Week. Prompt 1. ‹

"OooKay! Listen up Shit-Tards, " Miu cackled into the microphone connected to The large karaoke machine. "This time we're doinggg .. A DUET!"

It was a Friday night and everyone was gathered at Miu's house for a small party.  These small parties were just their one class together, drinking punch that was sometimes spiked by Miu and doing various fun things together. This time, they were doing Karaoke.

If Kokichi was completely honest,  he wants to be home by now. The stupid plastic disco ball Miu ordered online was blaring light everywhere and making him want to thrash his eyes out. The music was loud and was considerably trash, making his headache all the worse. Not to mention the fucking singing was horrible, too. Some of them were good, like Kaede and Rantaro. But others... Ehh .. not so much. Kiibo could sing in anyway he wanted, he was a robot after all. Korekiyo... Let's not talk about him. And Gonta's voice,  while not all that miserable, was cracking a little.

They decided to make this karaoke a bit more fun this time around. They'd draw from a hat to see how many people would sing, 1, 2, 3, or 4. 

Then, they'd draw from another hat to see who's singing with who.

Kokichi sighed, taking a long sip of the Panda he brought for himself. He never took any chances when it came to Miu, she's always got a trick somewhere up that... Brain of hers.

"Time to pick from the other hat!" Miu deviously smiled, making him wonder if she rigged this or something like she did with spin the bottle to get Maki and Kaito to kiss.

"First Person is..." She unwrapped a paper and smirked. "HIMIIIKOO!"

Himiko gasped and flushed bright red. "N-Nyeh?! Seriously!"

"Oh Yay! Himiko you're going to sing! I bet you'll sound great!" He heard Tenko squeal from across the room.

"Nyehh..! This is gonna be so embarrassing.. what a pain.." She groaned as her two friends, Tenko and Angie, pushed her up to the front where Miu is.

"Hehe, good luck No Tits," Miu said into the microphone, "As for our second singer.."

She buried her fist deep into the hat, taking a second or two before she pulled out a paper.
She unraveled it, a large, menacing smirk wiped across her face.

"Ahaha!" She laughed. "This is Interesting! Hey, Barney! You're up!" She pointed the microphone at Kokichi, making him jump in surprise.

"WHAT?!"

He screamed. Not only him, but Himiko too. Somewhere, Tenko was also heard in that mix, but Kokichi and Himiko's screams were much louder, which tells you something.

"W-WITH HIM!? ABSOLUTELY NOT, HIMIKO WILL NOT THAT DEGENERATE!" Tenko snapped.

Miu snickered and forced the microphone into my hands as the boy approached her.

"Seriously Miu? You did this on purpose, didn't you?" He frowned.

"Whatever, thank me later, Barney Boy." She laughed, going to sit down.

"Nyeh.. I can't believe this." Himiko muttered. "What do we sing?"

"I dunno." He shrugged his arms.

"Do you know Melanie Martinez?" She asked shyly.

"Yeah. Why?" He heard her once on the radio, and that was enough for him to know he didn't like the singer's song style. It wasn't that bad, but to the grape head it was just boring.

"Her song Playdate.. you wanna mabye sing that? It's a.. pretty good song, y'know?"

"Eh sure. I mean, I don't have any other ideas."
The boy picked up the microphones, handing one of them to the flustered girl who obviously felt uncomfortable singing in front of people.

"Hey.. don't be afraid. It's our class. I doubt they'll judge you." Himiko's already red face deepened in color. At the time, Ouma didn't realize what he said would stick with the girl forever.

"Okay.." her voice was a little shaky, the instrumental started, and already Kokichi knew he wanted this torture to be over.

The music had the same chords. The same loop. And he wanted it to end, so so badly.

The pre-chorus had started, and Himiko began to sing thanks to the blue letters matching the color at the bottom of the microphone.

Kokichi froze.

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'Her singing is so good.'

A mild blush came over his cheeks at the thought. 

The rest had started in surprise, a few gasps at the girls singing. She was squirming, she had never felt so embarrassed in her life.

Kokichi was in an absolute trance. Her voice was soft and calm, and she sang the notes beautifully. The chorus began, and it got even better from there.

He stared in awe, she looked so beautiful while she sang with that harmonic voice.
Her short, strawberry red hair fell over her shoulders and framed her face perfectly. Pink, soft lips moved to sing the words. Her pale skin was dusted with a light pink blush, and her dustwood eyes were absolutely dazzling in the lighting.

Kokichi snapped out of his seemingly long trance in order to sing his part of the song.

Kokichi never particularly thought he was a good singer. A mediocre one, at best. He stuffed a hand into his pocket, singing along to the song, that didn't seem all that bad anymore.

The time he had to sing felt like an eternity. He wanted his part to end so badly, he wanted to hear her voice again. Her voice was so sweet, but this part of the song was taking up too much time away from that.

But then.. she started to sing with him. It was the best sound to ever hit Kokichi's ears.

He couldn't hear anything else but that soft voice next to him, the rest of the song. Even as the last chorus finished with the two, he couldn't hear anything but her voice.
The song ended, and a barrage of claps and yelling overcame.

Tenko was crying her eyes out, Miu was smirking so hard at Kokichi, and everyone else just seemed super happy.

"Hey um.. good job there, Himiko. " Kokichi nudged her.

"T-Thank You, Ouma-Kun."

She smiled briefly, as they both put down their microphones and went to sit down.

Needless to say, Ouma spent the rest of his night (and week) not being able to forget that mage's beautiful voice.

› A/N: Wow. I'm uploading again. This feels really weird.  But I'm actually pretty excited. I've missed writing a bit, but I've been caught up in a lot of other things, and other fandoms. I'm learning guitar, I have school, and friends I'm starting to hang out with after being antisocial for pretty much my entire life, lol :'D.  An introvert crawling out of their cave. But anyways, here's Oumeno week prompt one. You may recognize it from an earlier oneshot I did, I thought it worked well with the prompt so here we are. A new version I gusse. That's really all I have to say so,

Have a good rest of your day/Night! -Lofi ♡ ‹

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