Nuisance No. 1 || PLATONIC Reader x Saiki Kusuo || i have a levels 🧍‍♀️

A girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saiki's P.O.V:

Oppu and I have been talking and practicing at her house for at least 3 hours now, and it's starting to get dark. I have no idea when her parents are supposed to be coming back, but I know mine will never let me hear the end of it if I stay much later at "a girl's house". It's bad enough they heard I'd made friends with her from Nendō a week ago, I had to play it off as someone I'd met twice at most, and I avoided mentioning her surname in case they'd seen it outside her house.

Still no progress so far, but I'm trying not to lose hope. We even tried using my psychometry to see if I could copy her ability to turn off the telekinesis — I tried it before with Toritsuka to see ghosts, and it worked — but I suppose because they're the same ability with varying levels of control, I shouldn't have expected much from that.

Either way — it's nice to be around her without having so much weighing on my mind. Now that we're "cool", as she put it, she's not too bad to be around.

'I should probably start to head back home.' We sit back down, and I pull my invisible gloves back on.
Oppu sighs. "I'm sorry nothing worked."

Oh. I didn't really expect much, but she seems honestly upset that she couldn't figure any of it out. Whether she feels incompetent, or whether she just feels bad for me, I don't know, but either way...
'Hey, it's fine. We'll try again some other time. But for now, my parents will start asking where I am, and I don't know how late yours get back, but I assume you haven't told them much about us being acquainted yet, and I'm sure they wouldn't want to come back to a stranger hanging out in their home. Especially a boy.' Shrugging, I stand back up.

'My point is I should probably go.'
I promised her I wouldn't start poking in her head again, so for now it'll remain a mystery as to why she seems so dejected after one day of practice not immediately going right. Guess I could try to reassure her again, though.

'And don't worry about nothing working today. I know I said it a second ago, but you still seem... I don't know, upset about it. You do realise you can't master something the first time you try it, right? Well, most of the time, anyway, and we're talking about psychic powers here. Try not to expect so much from yourself.'

Scoffing, she grins at me. "Wow, look at you being all supportive."
'That's the last time I do that, then.'
"Wait, sorry, just seemed weird coming from you." She laughs.
'Gee, thanks.' I deadpan, but she's right.

We say our goodbyes, and I walk back to my house, only to be met with my mother staring me down. "And just where have you been, Kuu? Do you have any idea what the time is?" She taps her foot, arms folded. Oh, boy.
'It's 6:37.'
"I cooked dinner almost 40 minutes ago! I've called you twice and sent you messages, why weren't you picking up?!"
Oh, whoops, forgot to check my phone. Oh well. I'll make something up. 'I went to Café Mami.'
The look on her face tells me she isn't buying it. "Kusuo, you should know by now I know when you're lying! And you left at midday, so there's no way you went out to a cafe for that long on your own! Don't you try and tell me you went with Nendō or Kaidou, they both came over while you were gone to ask if you were free. So tell me, who is it? Who were you with, and where?"

Damnit. It might be time to introduce our neighbour to my parents.

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A/N: Y'all should I try and make the plot of this start following the anime again? Like the Sports Festival, the fire drill, etc. n the other episodes

I can obv add other bits in between but idk if this should be a self-insert with the anime or something else

Obviously even if I go with the latter, I'll still end up adding in the other transfer students in order bc I LOVE THEM, but lmk!!!