Miscommunications: Part 1

Authors Note: Well, I've had this idea for awhile and I figured I'd just go for it and write it. A couple of things. One, the guys are about 16. Two, they all have cellphones now. Three, I'm aware that names would be in Japanese not English which means names starting with the same letter(s) might not look alike, but work with me here :) Other than that, this will be a two-shot. The next part should be out in a week or two. Please let me know what you think!


Yutaka was walking down the school hallway toward his classroom when he felt an arm wrap around his shoulders and pull his body to the right. He knew without looking that it was his best friend Shinji Mimura.

"Hey, Midget." Shinji greeted happily.

"Hey, Mim. What's up?" Yutaka asked as he looked up at his taller friend. He could tell that Shinji was in a particularly good mood.

"Oh, not much, just got this grade 'A' babe's number," Shinji then leaned down to whisper into Yutaka's ear. "And she's definitely a slut."

Yutaka laughed, knowing that as far as Shinji was concerned that was a good thing.

"Seriously, I thought she was gonna take off her clothes right there." Shinji told him.

"Where'd you meet her?" Yutaka asked.

"At that coffee place near my house. She looked my way and couldn't keep her eyes off me." Shinji said proudly.

"Does she go to our school?" Yutaka asked as they stopped at Shinji's locker so he could put his backpack away.

"Nah, goes to the private one on the other side of town. But damn she's hot. Her boobs could be a little bigger, but she's got an ass you could balance a coke can on." Shinji explained with a smile before the boys continued their walk to their classroom.

"Good for you, Mim." Yutaka congratulated, although he didn't really feel good about it. He just didn't get Shinji's views on women.

"Yeah, I figure I'll text her tonight-" Shinji began, but was interrupted when he heard Yutaka sigh.

"What? I can't text her?" Shinji asked raising a brow.

"No, you just made me remember that I'm grounded." Yutaka explained.

"Ah, what for this time, little man?" Shinji asked as they walked into their classroom.

"My parents found out my math grade." Yutaka admitted.

Shinji let out a low whistle.

"I don't even get why they're so mad. I'm only getting a 'D', I'm still passing." Yutaka argued as he sat down at his desk with Shinji sitting on top of it.

"Well, if it makes you feel any better I can help you study once you're ungrounded," Shinji suggested. "When is that, by the way?"

"Friday. I'm only grounded for a week, but mom said if I don't do well on the next math test then I can consider myself right back to grounded." Yutaka explained.

"Well, like I said, I can help you study." Shinji restated.

"I doubt I'll need it. Mom took everything from my cellphone to my game station away. Seriously, I woke up today and there was a math book where my TV used to be." Yutaka said in frustration.

"Sucks to be you, little man." Shinji said as he stood up ready to go to his seat.

"Yeah, just have fun with whatshername while I'm locked up." Yutaka said with a scowl.

"Her name's Yukari; total slut name." Shinji replied with a light smile before he walked over to his desk. Class was about to start.


The weekend went by quickly, along with the beginning of the week, but the moods of the boys only soured. By Thursday both Shinji and Yutaka were in bad moods.

"I can't believe this chick hasn't texted me back." Shinji complained to his friends at lunch.

Shuya, Hiroki, Yutaka, and Yoshitoki were all sitting at the table listening to Shinji complain about Yukari. Shinji had apparently texted her a few times, but she had yet to respond.

"Wow, Shinji, you're really hung up on this chick," Shuya pointed out with a grin. "You must really want to see her."

Shinji rolled his eyes. "I'm not hung up on her. I just can't believe I'm getting stood up by such a slut. She was throwing herself at me Friday morning."

"Maybe something happened to her phone." Hiroki offered as an explanation, but they all knew that was unlikely.

"Yeah, maybe," Shinji said, although it was obvious that he doubted that. "So what's up on the grounded front, Yutaka?"

"Man, I don't even know. I've been studying and everything, but my parents are treating me so weird. Like, my dad hasn't looked me in the eye since Monday, and I swear my mom is looking at me like she's going to burst into tears at any second. I don't know what I did. They can't really be this upset over math, right?" Yutaka asked the boys at the table.

"It doesn't sound like it's about math to me." Nobu said in a gentle tone.

"Is there something else going on?" Shuya asked.

"Not that I know of, but I'm kind of afraid to ask. They're really freaking me out." Yutaka admitted.

"I'm sure everything's fine." Hiroki assured him with a small smile.

"Yeah, hopefully." Yutaka agreed as Shinji gave him a pat on the back and his pudding cup.

Yutaka decided that when he got home he would simply ask his parents what was going on. It couldn't be that big of a deal.


When Yutaka got home that day he began studying. He figured if he was going to confront his parents when they got home from work, then he should at least be doing what he was supposed to be.

He felt nervous about confronting them, afraid that something really big was happening and that somehow it had managed to be his fault, but he knew he had to do it.

He studied quietly in his room until he heard the door to his house open and close. He knew it meant his mom was home from work; his dad wouldn't be home for another half hour or so. By the time his dad was home it would be time for dinner, and Yutaka figured he could talk to his parents then.

Yutaka spent the next half hour only half studying. He was looking in his math book and trying to concentrate, but he couldn't stop thinking about what his parents could be so upset about.

He felt relieved when he heard the front door open and close. He'd prefer anything to sitting around and thinking about all the things that could be wrong.

He closed his book and sat it down on his bed before he went to the bathroom to wash his hands before dinner. Once he finished he went to the kitchen and sat down in his seat at the table.

His mom had already set the table and was putting the food on it.

"Hey, Mom." Yutaka greeted nervously.

"Hi, Honey," she said looking at him sadly. "How was school?"

"Um, fine. How was work?" He asked trying to make conversation until his dad showed up.

"Oh, it was fine," she replied before she sat next to him at the table.

A second later Yutaka's dad came in and sat down at the table. The family began eating in silence.

The tension in the room was thick, just as it had been for days. Finally Yutaka couldn't take it anymore and he sat down his fork.

"What's going on?" Yutaka asked in a frustrated voice.

His parents both looked up from their food to stare at him.

"You guys have been acting weird ever since you grounded me. What's going on? Did I do something?" Yutaka asked, his tone going from frustrated to desperate.

His parents were quiet for a few seconds before his dad finally spoke up.

"I think this family needs to have a talk." His dad lifted his gaze, finally meeting Yutaka's eyes.

"About what?" Yutaka asked curiously.

"Not right now. Can Shinji come over tomorrow for dinner? We can talk then." His dad said, his eyes once again not meeting Yutaka's.

"Um, I guess, but what does Shinji have to do with anything?" Yutaka asked, but his dad was already standing up.

"We'll talk about it tomorrow, Yutaka," he said before he walked into his bedroom.

Yutaka looked to his mom, hoping she would offer him some sort of explanation, but she was already clearing the table while avoiding his gaze.

Yutaka sighed before walking to his room. He'd have to wait another day to figure out what was going on with his parents.

And what Shinji could possibly have to do with it.


The next day Yutaka met up with Shinji at the blonde boy's locker.

"Hey, Shinji." Yutaka greeted as he leaned up against the locker next to his.

"Hey, little man. You figure out what's up with your rents?" Shinji asked kindly. He was a little concerned for Yutaka. He didn't know what could be going on with his parents, but the way the smaller boy talked about it made him worry.

Yutaka's mom was overprotective and almost overbearing, while his dad was easy going, but always on his mom's side. It was strange to think that something had his laid back dad so worked up, while his mom wasn't immediately jumping down his throat about it.

Shinji was hoping things were settled, but in the event that something bad was happening he was more than ready to drag the other boy away from school and to the arcade to get his mind off of it.

"Not exactly," Yutaka started as Shinji closed his locker and turned to listen to him. "My dad said we needed to have a family discussion about it tonight."

"Well, when you find out what's going on you can call me. You are ungrounded today, right?" Shinji asked.

"Actually, there's more." Yutaka told Shinji as they began to walk down the hallway.

"Okay, what else?" Shinji inquired as he looked at Yutaka with a raised brow.

"My dad said he wanted you to be there for the family discussion." Yutaka said while running a hand through his hair.

"I'm family now?" Shinji asked, almost letting out a laugh. "I didn't know your dad liked me so much."

"I have no idea what's going on. I tried to ask him why you needed to be there and he just told me to wait and we'd talk about it tonight," Yutaka said, his tone showing how confused he was. "You didn't, like, leave porn at my house last time you were over did you?"

"No, and it's not like they'd know it was mine even if I did. I don't exactly write my name on them." Shinji pointed out in a light chuckle.

"Well, it's not like anyone would sell me porn," Yutaka admitted, causing Shinji to laugh.

The boys were no strangers to porn, although Shinji was definitely the one providing access. Of course Shinji hardly ever bought porn once he discovered he could get it for free on the internet. Porn sites were one of the few things he'd shown Yutaka that the internet was capable of. Really, they looked at more porn together than was probably normal.

"Besides, I don't know why else you'd need to be there," Yutaka said sounding defeated. "Do you have any ideas?"

Shinji stayed quiet for a few seconds before he answered. "Maybe they just think you should have a friend there when they tell you whatever it is." Shinji felt bad saying it. He knew that having to have a friend there meant that it was something bad.

"I hope they just found porn." Yutaka attempted to joke, but neither boy laughed.


The day dragged on from there. Yutaka got antsier as the day went on, and Shinji was having a hard time keeping him calm. Yutaka was the kind of person who had an imagination that always took off running with possibilities.

By the time the school day was over Yutaka was convinced that his parents were either sending him to military school or that an alien invasion was coming and the only way to save earth was to sacrifice himself and Shinji.

Shinji really wished Yutaka's parents would stop letting him watch so many Sci-Fi movies. It was ridiculous how many of Yutaka's explanations for things involved aliens.

"Why would the aliens come to your parents in the first place? And what would they do with us? Start an alien basketball team? Midget racing?" Shinji asked as he attempted not to laugh at Yutaka's latest theory.

"I don't know, but somehow that seems better than being sent to military school," Yutaka explained. "Just let me have my fantasy before the world comes crashing down on me." Yutaka begged as they walked together out of the school.

"The world's not going to come crashing down on you. I'm gonna be right there, nothing bad is gonna happen." Shinji reassured him, although he was still laughing as he said it.

"You don't know that. You haven't seen how they've been acting." Yutaka argued.

Shinji sighed before he grabbed Yutaka's arm to stop him. He then turned the smaller boy to face him.

"Yutaka, it's gonna be fine. I promise. Whatever's going on I'll help you fix it. Okay?" Shinji asked as he looked down at Yutaka.

"Yeah, okay." Yutaka agreed, but he didn't sound convinced.

"I swear I've got your back on this one, Yutaka. It'll all be cool." Shinji said confidently before he wrapped his left arm around Yutaka's shoulders and began pulling the other teen toward his house.

Yutaka didn't say anything else on the way home, but he couldn't help but feel better having Shinji with him.


When the boys got to Yutaka's house they walked in and headed straight to Yutaka's room.

Yutaka's room was medium sized, with a bed, dresser, and stand for his TV. As Yutaka had mentioned earlier in the week, his TV was gone.

Shinji sat down on Yutaka's bed and the brown eyed boy plopped down beside him.

"Your parents get home in an hour or two, right?" Shinji asked as he sat his backpack on the floor.

"Yeah," Yutaka answered, realizing that it'd still be awhile before he figured anything out. "Tell me something to take my mind off them."

"Like what?" Shinji asked as he lay down on Yutaka's bed.

"I don't know," Yutaka began as he moved to lie beside Shinji. "Did you ever get a hold of that girl? The one with coke can balancing butt."

Shinji laughed. "Nope, she's still ignoring me. It's too bad, she's really missing out."

"Oh yeah, it's not every day a girl finds a guy who wants to sleep with her." Yutaka joked, only to receive a light shove from Shinji.

"It's not every day a girl finds a guy as good in the sack as me who wants to sleep with her." Shinji argued.

"Oh, yeah, you're a real stud Shinji. All manly and stuff." Yutaka joked.

"That's right. And if you're lucky someday you'll be as manly and stuff as me." Shinji joked back, grinning like a shark.

"I'll plenty manly! You're the one who can't get a girl to text you back." Yutaka meant it good naturedly, but the look on Shinji's face didn't seem amused.

"I didn't-" Yutaka started only to get cut off by Shinji.

"It's a shame I'm going to have to hurt you." Shinji informed him with a smirk before he grabbed Yutaka by the arm.

Within seconds the two were wrestling on the bed, with Shinji of course having the upper hand in the end.

"You shouldn't have said that, midget." Shinji told Yutaka as he pinned him to the bed.

"I didn't mean it!" Yutaka yelled from his spot under Shinji.

"I don't know; you sounded like you did." Shinji argued, humor very apparent in his tone.

"Then I take it back!" Yutaka hissed as he tried to get away from Shinji.

"Hmm, now where did you say you were ticklish again?" Shinji questioned evilly.

"Ah, Shinji, no. Come on!" Yutaka begged.

"Now, I'm thinking it may have been right around the rib area." Shinji tormented as he held Yutaka's arms with one hand and lifted Yutaka's shirt up with the other.

"No! Come on, I'm sorry!" Yutaka begged.

"I don't think sorry is really good enough. You might need to add more to that." Shinji told him as he rubbed his hand lightly along Yutaka's ribs.

"You are so manly. Like, girls should fight over you, but more than they already do because you're just that awesome." Yutaka told him, racking his mind for anything to convince the blonde boy.

"Hmm, is that all?" Shinji asked in an almost bored tone as he lightly ghosted his hand over Yutaka's ribs again.

"No!" Yutaka cried, as he once again tried to jerk away from his best friend. "You're also so good at basketball, like the best. You could win a basketball game by yourself, while having sex with the cheerleading squad."

"Hmm." Shinji hummed, an evil look in his eyes.

"And you totally pull off the basketball shorts." Yutaka added, his voice low and desperate.

It was at that moment that Yutaka's mom walked into his room.

She looked mortified, with her big brown eyes becoming twice their size. She froze for a minute, making no movement as she looked at the two teens in front of her.

Shinji moved to let go of Yutaka's arms and took his hand off of Yutaka's chest. One of his eyebrows was raised in question. It was like she'd never seen two guys wrestle before.

Before either of the boys could say anything, Yutaka's mom collected herself.

"Your father and I left work early. He brought food home, so please go wash up," she spoke quickly before turned around and shut the door behind her.

Shinji and Yutaka looked at one another.

"Man, what's up with her?" Shinji asked confused.

"I guess we're about to find out." Yutaka answered before he nudged Shinji, telling him to get up.

Shinji got off of Yutaka and then pulled the smaller boy to his feet before they went to wash their hands in the bathroom. Once they'd both washed their hands they walked into the kitchen only to see both of Yutaka's parents sitting at the table not saying a word.

The couple looked worried, and Yutaka's dad looked especially tired. He also looked like he'd been trying to rip his hair out with the way it was flying about his head.

The two teens shot one anther a look before they went to sit down at the table. Once they were sitting Yutaka's dad spoke.

"Do you want to eat first, or just get right to it?" He asked, his eyes meeting Yutaka's just barely.

"I just want to know what's going on." Yutaka replied worriedly.

"I think you know what's going on." Yutaka's mom told him in a sharp tone.

"Calm down, Asako." Yutaka's dad said as he rubbed his wife's arm.

"How can I? He's been keeping this a secret from us for how long?" Asako was near tears she was so upset.

"Mom, I really don't know what you're talking about." Yutaka said as he looked to his dad for an explanation.

His mom looked like she was going to say something, but his dad spoke first.

"We saw the texts Yutaka," he said in a sad voice.

Yutaka's brows furrowed. "What texts? You took my phone Friday, remember?"

"Yes, and when it kept going off we looked to see what the texts said to see if they were important." His dad explained.

"And? What did they say?" Yutaka asked not understanding.

"They were from Shinji." Yutaka's dad said looking at Shinji for the first time. Shinji figured that if looks could kill he'd be dead on the spot.

Both boys looked confused before they turned to look at one another.

"What did you text me? I told you Friday I was grounded." Yutaka said looking at Shinji.

"I didn't text you anything." Shinji assured him.

"Stop lying! We have the phone right here!" Yutaka's mom yelled as she slammed it down on the table. "Why were you keeping this from us Yutaka? Did you think we wouldn't still love you if we knew? Did you think we wouldn't help you? Do you even know how dangerous this is? And you two are just texting about it as though it's perfectly okay!" Yutaka's mom only stopped yelling because she was starting to cry.

"How long has this been going on, Yutaka?" His father asked.

"How long has what been going on? I don't know what you're talking about. Why's mom crying?" Yutaka was speaking desperately now. He didn't understand what had happened.

"How long has this been going on, Yutaka," Asako asked as she pointed at both Shinji and Yutaka. "When did you decide it was okay to throw your innocence away?"

Yutaka was shocked and confused by what his mother was saying, and to make it worse he couldn't even come up with a response.

Meanwhile Shinji had decided to pull out his own phone and see if he could figure out what all the fuss was about. His expression started as a look of complete surprise and then transformed into a grin, until he was smiling so hard that he began uncontrollably laughing.

"What do you think is so funny Mimura?" Yutaka's dad asked as he stood up at the table, a look in his eye that said he would hit Shinji.

"Oh-Oh-God. It's not what you think!" Shinji managed to get out before he began laughing again.

"What's going on? What did you text me?" Yutaka yelled, hoping Mim would shut up and answer him.

"I- That girl. The one with the nice ass?" Shinji asked Yutaka, as though he would forget.

"What about her?" Yutaka's tone was exasperated.

"She hasn't been texting me back because I've been texting you by mistake." Shinji explained, a giant grin still on his face as he handed Yutaka his phone to look at.

Yutaka quickly read through one of his texts before he looked up at his parents with a shocked expression.

"You thought he was sending these to me on purpose?" Yutaka yelped, a look of horror on his face.

"What were we supposed to think; this is your phone." Yutaka's dad yelled as he picked up Yutaka's phone.

"So those weren't for him?" Yutaka's mom asked looking at Shinji.

"Of course not! I met this girl at the coffee shop and I thought I was texting her. I must've hit Yutaka's name by mistake and just kept texting it since the other messages came up. I didn't even look to make sure I was texting the right person." Shinji explained, still having to hold back from laughing.

"Why do you think this is funny?" Yutaka asked. "My parents thought that-that-"

Shinji grabbed his phone back from Yutaka before he spoke. "That I couldn't 'wait to see those pretty lips around-"

"Shut up!" Yutaka yelled, his face turning a bright shade of red as Shinji laughed at his expense.

"I am just so relieved that those messages weren't for you, baby." Yutaka's mom said as she came over and hugged her son tightly. His dad fell into his chair letting out a sigh of relief.

"I can't believe you thought they were! You seriously thought that Shinji and I were like that? Together?" Yutaka was embarrassed that his parents would ever think something like that.

"It doesn't matter what we thought. We're just so thankful that this was all just one big misunderstanding." Yutaka's mom said before she kissed her son's head.

"Um, it kind of matters to me!" Yutaka yelled, but his parents only ignored him as his mom sat down happily and his dad began handing out food.

"Ah, don't be upset, baby, I think we're supposed to be celebrating." Shinji joked as he wrapped an arm around Yutaka.

Yutaka responded by hitting his head off the table.