The Strange Life Of Mikoto Ishida (Yutaro Kindaichi)

Mother

Wizzy: Is it bad that I keep forgetting that Miko is actually a girl pretending to be a boy? Anyway, just want to point out that at this point, only Kindaichi is aware that Miko's a girl. Even his mother thinks that Miko's a boy. Anyway, sorry it's been so long since the last update!  

"I hate you Oikawa..."

"No matter how you look at it, it's your own fault," Kindaichi said in a bored tone. "You chose to skip morning practice and then you made both of us late ."

I lifted my head off my desk just a bit to glare at him. "It wasn't my fault that I overslept! I might have skipped the last half of it, but it's not like I missed the whole thing on purpose!"

My entire body hurt like hell. In fact, I was barely even able to walk by the time Oikawa was done with me. I didn't even make it to 100 either. By the time I hit 73, I pretty much collapsed on the gym floor. Oikawa finally stopped simply because I couldn't even stand up anymore.

"Getting in his face all the time isn't going to help," he pointed out. No sympathy from him, huh? He didn't even go easy on me when Oikawa had him do some serves for me. No one held back even a bit, actually. None of them even compared to the power of Oikawa's though. "You stay on his bad side and you're just begging for trouble."

"Why can't you just be the cool friend who takes my side for once?"

As far as I knew, Kindaichi hadn't said a word about yesterday to anyone. I was grateful for that; it meant that I could trust him. Right now, having even just one person that I knew I could trust made a huge difference.

"Miko!" several voices called me, interrupting our conversation. A group of girls was now surrounding us. If I had to guess, they were probably members of my newly formed fan club.

"Is it true?"

"What you told Sasaki?"

The girls kept asking the same basic thing over and over, but it was hard to understand exactly what it was when they were all talking at once. "Huh?" Sasaki? I didn't know anyone by that name...

"You know!" a curly-haired girl said, speaking after all the others had quieted down. "About you liking guys!"

"Don't tell me you forgot about that already?" Kindaichi said, laughing a little. Wait, was Sasaki that shy girl's name? That would explain a lot.

"Wait, you heard me?" I looked at my spiky-haired teammate in shock. I seriously didn't think he'd heard me, considering he hadn't said anything about it. "I guess that means the rest of the team knows now too..."

"No way!" The girls' faces lit up at my words. Why are they even happy about that? Girls and their stupid yaoi fantasies... "It's really true?"

"You girls seem way too happy about this..."

"I really don't understand how you get so much attention from girls..." Kindaichi sighs, scribbling down some answers to our homework. While studying may have been only an excuse yesterday, we decided that we'd better actually do it or else our teammates might get a little suspicious. Besides, it's not like studying could hurt us, you know? "You're not even trying and they're all over you... even after telling them that you're gay..."

"I never said I was gay." Being called such a word made me feel a bit offended. "I simply said that I was into guys. It's only normal since I'm a girl, you know." A grin made its way onto my face as a thought came to mind. "Since when do you care anyway? You jealous, Kindaichi?"

My spiky-haired friend appeared offended by the mere thought of being jealous of anyone. "Like hell I'd be jealous of you! You suck at everything, especially volleyball."

"Take that back."

"No."

When he refused, I tackled him to the floor, sitting on his waist with my hands on his shoulders. This could be a very awkward position to be seen in if someone were to walk in right now. I glared down at him. While I might not be as good as most of the team, I was quite offended by being told so. "I said take it back."

"Yutaro, I-" His mother immediately stopped saying whatever it was that she had been saying when she saw the two of us. In fact, it wasn't only her words that froze... it was her whole body. Thump.

Kindaichi shoved me off of him and rushed over. Shortly after, I joined him, doing anything I could to help out.

"It's not funny Miko," Kindaichi growled at me. Not that I really cared; I was too busy laughing my ass off.

A wide grin covered my face as he scolded me for laughing at last night's events. "You're right, it's hilarious."

"No, it's not."

"It definitely is."

One of our classmates grew curious about our little argument. "What is?"

"I totally made Kindaichi's mom faint..." I laughed, grinning at my spiky-haired companion.

Of course, that didn't really mean much to him, but there was a little more to it. "So what?"

"...within fifteen seconds of meeting her."