Happy Birthday To: Higashikata Masami, September 10th!

Word Count: 275

Rating: K

Genre: Friendship.

Warnings: Not beta'd. Shounen-ai only if you squint REALLY hard.

Notes: Written at one in the morning while insanely stressed and sleep deprived. So kthxbai, enjoy. And please review!!

It was funny, really, Higashikata Masami thought. All through middle school he and Minami had relied more on hand signals and secret codes to make them an excellent doubles pair – but they had never really been in synch. This year though... this year, it was like they were unstoppable. All of a sudden they had almost become one person.

No, scratch that, they had become one person. It was as if you couldn't have one without the other. Somehow, through these first few months of high school, they had gone from being Higashikata Masami and Minami Kentarou to Masami-and-Minami or Minami-and-Masami.

And it wasn't just them who thought that. It seemed that, more and more often, people were mixing them up. They'd tell a story about something Minami had done the day before and use his name, or they'd call to him in the hall using Minami's. Just the other day a student had come into his class to deliver a note to him from the office, and the name written on it had been Minami.

Strangely enough though... he didn't mind. He knew he probably should have, knew that people relating the two of them so extremely closely to eachother was probalby not a good thing but, for some strange reason, it didn't bother him.

Because he was starting to reply when people called him Minami.

He was starting to stop correcting people when they mixed the two of them up in conversation.

He was even starting to accidentally change the s in his first name to an n.

And so was Minami.

OWARI

Ending A/N: Right. Sorry if it was really bad. Since it wasn't very good, I probably don't deserve to be doing this. But still... eleven reviews until I'm at 250! So I'm review whoring. Please review! You'll absolutely make my day liek whoa. (And since high school has started and been full of pressure I haven't had very many made days so far.)

Next up: Mukahi Gakuto! When: September 12th! (Just a heads up, these next couple of months are really full! :D Especially October and November... we hit up all of the big characters: Atobe, Tezuka, Oshitari, Yagyuu, Akaya, Shinji, Eiji... just a lot of them. Heh.)