So, hello there, Princess Princess fanbase! I just want to take a moment to say that Princess Princess was my very first borderline-BL anime, and I'll forever love it for making me want to read my very first yaoi fanfiction (which was Yuujirou and Tooru, of course!). After oscillating for months and months and months about what sort of Yuujirou/Tooru fic I wanted to write, I just decided to hell with all of that and write a fanfic from the shared POVs of Mikoto and Akira, who I find incredibly adorable in every way. (Although I do want to write for Tomoe/Kiriya someday!) Anyway, excuse my rambling. I hope you enjoy the first chapter of this fanfic.~ Let me know what you think!

I am not gay.

There's nothing about me that could be interpreted to be homosexual even in the slightest.

I don't like men, guys, boys, penis, or whatever clever way used to beat around the bush… the burning bush whose smoke inhabits my lungs with each inhale and threatens to suffocate me if I'm not careful.

Those first three statements are only as true as everyone else believes, though. When it comes right down to it, when you're in my position, what other people think really does matter… Allow me to explain.

I'm Mikoto Yutaka, an ex-princess, and that one fact alone is enough to put me in court and convict me of being gay. No prosecutor and no jury, just a judge called my whole school.

There's simply no such thing as a straight princess. Not here, anyway. As far back as anyone can remember, the princess or princesses were always behind the curtain sucking someone off. Everyone, of course, knows former class president Arisada wasn't straight – there was just no way, and everyone who knew the lofty, eccentric graduate would agree. It was common knowledge, too, that the president slept around enough in his time as his curly-haired peer watched sadly from afar…

And then there was my generation of princesses. Seniors, we are now, and we're tutoring the newest princesses at the moment, but I'll get to that in a minute.

There's me, of course. I'm the obligatory pouty-faced cutie who'll struggle until you're in all the way. (Take that as you may.) Then comes Yuujirou Shihoudani, my arch-nemesis and best friend. The crafty bastard is the king of pushing my buttons, and he'll take any opportune moment to make me mad at him. There's a part of me that really… doesn't mind it, though. Maybe. But of course, I'd never admit that to him. Even if I was tied to a railroad track and held at gunpoint.

Tooru Kouno was the last to join our trio. He was a new transfer student, and Yuujirou immediately put an invisible wedding ring on his finger. He shared a room with Tooru, even, and lord only knows what happened in that room with them last year… I don't even want to think about it.

(Not to say I don't approve of their relationship… I just prefer to keep mental images of a disheveled Tooru calling out Yuujirou's name clear from my mind, thankyouverymuch.)

And even though those two kept their relationship a "secret" for almost a whole school year, nearly every guy at this school knew, and no one cared or said anything about it.

Tooru took the job as a princess as a financial support for attending this school, but he stayed because, well obviously. He was always the most positive of the three of us, even with a fake-ass smile plastered across my face. That was one of Tooru's quirks; it was the character he played in our roles as princesses.

Tooru was the positive, happy-go-lucky girl with a "do-your-best" attitude 24/7. Yuujirou was the catty, mischievous, naughty girl who would blindfold you while you were turned around and fondle you or some other weird shit like that, even if he looked innocent on the inside. And, like I said before, much to my dismay, I was the adorable one who they all knew secretly loved her job. Totally horrifying, I'm telling you.

Anyway, that's my story so far. So last year ended and we hung up our wigs. This year there are two new victims… Their names are Tomoe Izumi and Kiriya Matsuoka, and they're (like we were) an odd pair. One's from a rich family and the other is an poor, orphaned boy, rather bright. I feel sort of bad that he got roped into this, but like Tooru last year, he probably needs the money.

And because of all this princess crap, I'm just assumed to be gay by the rest of the freaking school. It's not like I could've said no! It's an obligation! Just because I have a pretty face does not make me gay.

But it doesn't matter what I think. It never, ever matters what poor little Mikoto thinks.

Everyone will still form opinions of their own and they'll just assume that since I wore frilly dresses and donned long curly hair for a year, that I suck cock and like to bake brownies while I watch What Not To Wear. That just isn't me, and nobody but me gets it.

I don't even bother to ask the republic of male students at my school. The lot of them'll just ask me for my princess smile and run off to the bathrooms to jerk off to it. Yuujirou and Tooru are always eyeing me like they don't believe I'm really straight. They treat me like I was lying about having a girlfriend last year.

Oh yeah, did I mention that? I dated a girl for a while last year, Manami. We broke up in the spring (and it's the end of summer now), but that's proof enough that I'm straight, isn't it?

I think there's only one person in the entire school that believes me, and that's Akira Sakamoto. He's sort of my best friend most of the time, for that reason and another; usually my other two friends are off somewhere on a cutesy romantic gate. Once they even asked me and Sakamoto-san to join them when they went out, but I'd said I was busy right away. I don't want anyone getting the wrong idea about Sakamoto-san and me. We're seriously just friends. Both straight.

Anyway, Sakamoto-san in the class president now, and practically everyone but me refers to him as the great "Sakamoto-sama". There's no way I would call him that. We're friends. I've known him ever since I got to this school. I don't think he minds.

But… come to think of it, I guess I've never asked Akira directly if he's straight… But isn't that one of those things you can just assume? That they're straight? I mean, people always say you shouldn't assume things about people. So maybe I should ask, to be a good friend. I'm positive that he likes girls anyway. There's no way he couldn't.

I mean… I'd be able to figure out if he were gay, which he definitely isn't. He'd be all floating around and really glittery, like that western singer guy, Adam Lambert. Well, I guess that Tooru and Yuujirou aren't really like that… but Sakamoto-san isn't anything like them, either.

But regardless of that, I guess that I can't deny we're all pretty good friends. Somehow, a couple summers ago, Tooru and Yuujirou started calling Sakamoto-san by his first name, so it's sort of like they're closer, but there's no way that's true. Sakamoto-san knows practically everything about me… there's only a few things he doesn't know.

Like, maybe… hmm, I can't really think of anything after all. Is is a little weird to share so many secrets with another guy? Well… maybe just a little. But I jut never had any close friends as a little kid. At least none I could tell my secrets to. Sakamoto-san's the closest friend I've ever had.

But maybe… Maybe that's what he doesn't know.

I've never told him how much he means to me.

I don't think so, at least.

I mean, I don't even call him by his first name, much less a fruity nickname like Aki-kun or something. Maybe I should try telling him how good a friend he is. Would he think that's gay, though? Guys don't really have close friends.

I guess I don't care much if it sounds kinda gay. No one else is hearing this, anyway. Sakamoto-san is my closest friend and he means a lot to me. But that's what he doesn't know.

Sorry if it seems a tad boring so far, but every fic has to start somewhere, right? I totally love writing from Mikoto's POV, though. He's so funny. Make sure you guys tell me what you think! I know the Princess Princess fanbase isn't huge, so I'm hoping that I get at least some readers. Later gators! The next chapter should be up within the next couple days!