'Wait! That really happened!? Ugh, I just had to be sick that day!' I whine to Kusuo-kun, who just told me about Magician-san's live performance and the nasty assistant Janet. I'm happy for him and Micheal-san, the old man who cleaned up, they're partners again!

'It was a pain.' Kusuo-kun responded, most likely grabbing his notebook from his desk. 'Good grief, another one showed up.'

'He most likely wants to be friends! I know you hate attention, but being friends with me hasn't caused you trouble has it?' I don't get a response, which made my mind wonder. Of course, I don't want the psychic to hear so I had set my "mind barrier" back to normal. 'Has our friendship actually cause trouble? God I'm thinking like back then again when I ignored him! Don't think like this (Y/n)! He wanted to be friends, even if he's inconvenienced he's the one who asked for it! Although....I hate to be that kind of person...'

I sighed to myself, my thoughts just running wild. 'I don't want to do anything that would be trouble to him, even though I do that anyways...But I can't help myself, he's my best friend.'

I ended up in a sad mood for the rest of school, everyone was able to tell so they let me be. When school ended I went to Kusuo-kun and told him I needed to be alone, since I hadn't lowered my mind barrier he only nodded and went home without me. I didn't walk home, I decided to head to the arcade. I didn't realize, but Nendou-kun had spotted me and followed me.

"(L/n)-chan!" I screamed when he greeted right next to me.

"Nendou-kun!? D-don't scare me like that!"

"Oh? Sorry about that! Hey wait a minute." He looked around beforeing asking, "where's our buddy?"

"Saiki-kun? Oh! He wanted to head home and I wanted to be here. So we split." I lied. I didn't want to be rude and tell him I wanted to be alone, and for me to tell him to buzz off.

"What!?" He exclaims, he seems to do that a lot. "But you two are practically inseparable!"

"Really? I doubt that, we just hang out a lot. It comes with being neighbors." I explained.

"Oh..." He stayed quiet, staring at me before he slapped my back. "Well if ya say so! Let's play some games!"

I ended up playing every game with Nendou-kun, he seemed pretty persistent on making sure I was having fun. Not to mention the giant stuff animal he ended up winning for me! It was really fun, but I couldn't help but think of Kusuo-kun at times. Eventually the sun was setting. So I said my goodbyes to Nendou-kun, carrying my giant bunny. As I walked home, I see someone from school sitting down tired.

"Hey, are you okay?" I asked, shifting the stuffy in my arms. His head jerked towards me and he immediately got up.

"I-I'm fine! Never better!" He exclaimed, his body language obviously showing his shyness.

"Are you sure? You seemed trouble."

"I'm looking for someone actually, I doubt you would've seen him." He responded, looking solemn. I asked who he was looking for, he then showed me a drawing of some kind of demon. "H-he's what I call a trickster."

When he explained what happened to make him want to find the "trickster", I instantly knew who he was talking about Kusuo-kun. "Ah, yeah. You're right, I've never seen someone like that before-" I felt a hand on my shoulder suddenly, me and the boy looked to see the exact person in the drawing! As soon as we see it, the trickster disappears.

"Wh-wha-" I was interrupted by the boy's scream of terror. "Hey calm down! He's gone."

"Huh? Ah yeah!" He calmed down and we eventually introduced ourselves. His name was Kaidou Shun, or Jet Black Wing? He muttered something like that. "Oh your the PK mother!"

Before I could respond he started talking about something that I assume had something to do with him having chuunibyou syndrome. It was easy to tell, from talking about an evil organization and him being a hero with suppressed powers. I wasn't rude and made fun of him for it, instead I played along as little as I could.

Eventually I had gotten home and placed the giant bunny on my bed, my parents did ask me about it but I just explained my friend gave it to me. After getting dressed for bed, I decided to lower my mind barrier.

'Finally, I was wondering when you were gonna let me talk to you.' Kusuo-kun's voice immediately flooded into my mind. I laid down on my bed, staring up at the ceiling.

'Sorry, had to just get my thoughts together. I'm better now.'

'I never got to answer your question.' My face changed into a confused one. 'I'm gonna be honest with you, our friendship had caused a little trouble.'

'Oh...' I felt bad then, I was about to apologized when he continued.

'At first.' I was confused again. 'After some time, I couldn't care less about you giving me unnecessary attention from others. I was just lucky it stopped after middle school.'

'Ahh, I see. Well I was worrying over nothing.' I then remembered Kaidou-kun. 'Oh! What was with that whole demon-looking face?'

'He saw me teleporting, that's what he believed he saw.' That explained it. 'Anyway, you should go to bed. Night (Y/n).'

'Night night Kusuo-kun!' I let my mind barrier naturally rise up and let myself lose consciousness.

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"Oh hey buddies!"

"Hi Nendou-kun!" I greeted my friend, with Kusuo-kun next to looking annoyed. I then realized he was wearing a baseball uniform. "Eh? You gonna play a game of baseball?"

"What how'd you know? Are you a psychic?" I laughed, thinking he was joking. Kusuo-kun was just getting more annoyed. "Anyway, the team insisted on me playing for them and I couldn't resist!"

"I get it."

"I'm sorry I can't hang out today!" Nendou-kun apologized. "You'll have to hang out as two today!"

"It's fine Nendou-kun! Good luck on the game!" I cheered, waving goodbye. Truth is I wanted to stay and cheer him on, but Kusuo-kun wouldn't have it. As I still had to pay him in the sweets I promised him.

"I don't need luck! I'm gonna win this!" He then started to run towards the sandlot.

"Man Kusuo-kun! I wanted to cheer him on!" I whined, not hearing a baseball being hit. Before I could blink, I see a ball heading towards my face. The next millisecond, the ball isn't there. I knew Kusuo-kun used his psychokinesis to save me, but that doesn't mean I can't be in shock! "Whoa! Geez, talk about a foul ball!"

'Yeah...what would've happened if it had hit a normal passerb-' He stopped, causing me to look in the same direction as him. It was Nendou-kun passed out, clearly hit by the ball. 'Oh boy.'

"Nendou-kun!" I ran over to the big guy, tapping him to wake him up. "Wake up buddy! Come on!" This continued on for a few minutes before Kusuo-kun stopped me.

'Give it up, he's out cold.'

"What are we gonna do!? Nendou-kun has that game!" I started to freak out. "He said he couldn't afford to lose!"

'What a pain.' I grabbed Nendou-kun and dragged him to the nearest bathroom. 'It's technically my fault, I'll help.'

Soon Nend-I mean!-Kusuo-kun walked out. "Astral projection huh? Good job Kusuo-kun!"

'I've never been so grossed out before...' He sulked, slumping his shoulders.

"Come on Kusuo-kun! You're doing this to help your friend!" I patted his back, pushing him towards the sandlot. "Now get out there and win!"

We get there and I sit on the hills near the field, ready to cheer on my best friend! "You got this Sai- I-I mean! Nendou-kun!"

Saiki's POV

What a pain. There's a reason why I don't play competitive sports, it's too easy for me. To compare, it's like riding a motorcycle in a foot race, or being a gorilla in a martial arts tournament. It's completely unfair.

Take this ordinary pitch that was thrown as an example, it seems almost impossible to see right? Well for me, it seems to be going in slow motion.

What!? It curved? I didn't expect that. No matter, I'll just quickly move my bat. See what I'm talking about? Home run, and that was me holding back a lot. It's hard to control my strength in another's body. Guess I gotta be more careful.

(L/n)'s POV

Kusuo-kun seems to be letting them win too easily, I know he can't control his powers but. I suddenly feel something pull on my hair. "Ow!" I look around to see no one around me. 'Kusuo-kun! Don't just wander around in spirit form and pull my hair!'

'Not my fault your powers make you susceptible to spiritual things. It's kind of funny actually, you anti-psychic powers make you more vulnerable to spirits and other soul related things.' I could practically hear his smirk.

"Just get back in Nendou-kun's body ya jerk." I growl, feeling another playful tug at my hair before I see Nendou-kun's body move again. "I'm never gonna understand this guy, always saying I'm childish. Yet he does stuff that's even more childish, like he's teasing me! I'll beat him up one of these days!"

In a matter of time it's the ninth ending, the last pitch. I feel a hand on my shoulder and see Kusuo-kun's face. "Oh Nendou-kun woke up?" He started to pull me. "Eh? But I wanna see the end of it!"

'I've helped enough, come on. You owe me remember.' I sighed, standing up and following him to our usual hang out spot. I then hear a ball being hit, looking to see that Nendou-kun hit a home run!

"Whoa! Way to go Nendou-kun!" I cheered as Kusuo-kun was in shock. "Okay, now let's go!"

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"Wow, in about a week or so we'll be second years! Aren't you excited Kusuo-kun?" I asked as I look through his Shonen Jump.

'I don't really care, I honestly just want to get over with it.' I frowned, puffing my cheeks out.

"Seriously!? This is high school, a time of our youth! I know you're a psychic and all but you have to be excited for one thing that aren't sweets!"

'You should know me by now, (Y/n).'

My frown deepened, glaring at the back of my best friend. "Well! I'll just have to say what I'm excited for!"

'Please don-'

"I'm hoping to be in the same class as you, Kusuo-kun! That way we can hang out more during school!" I see him turn towards me, a surprised look on his face. "What's that look for? What was that you said earlier? "You should know me by now"!"

He doesn't respond and just turned back to whatever he was doing.

"I'm also hopeful of getting a super hot boyfrie-"

'Just read the damn manga, what a pain.'