I realized today that I called Miho a gamine like, four times in the last chapter. I think. Well, she is one, by my standards. Uhm... I got a bunch of reviews, nothing I could really respond to, so I'll just start now.
Miho frowned. Having P.E. first period was bad enough, but did Tea have to stare at her as if she had three heads? "Tea... Wake up!"
"Huh?" Tea blinked, confused.
"Is there something you need to tell me?" Miho asked. Tea looked at her, utterly confused. "You were staring at me," Miho explained.
Tea turned beet red. "Oh--! No, I, I mean, I was just staring off into space..."
Miho smiled. "Were you thinking about Yami?"
Tea glared at her. "No, I was not thinking about Yami!"
"Aw, just 'cause he's on a vacation in Egypt with Yugi and them, doesn't mean that you have to act like you don't miss him." Miho pulled her t-shirt off of her, placing on her gym uniform instead. It was gray. Their gym shorts were... bright green. Miho shook her head. As if it wasn't bad enough that they had to run track in the morning, they had to have their butts bright green! It was like a target: "HEY! LOOK AT ME! I'M A RUNNING BOOGER!"
Miho told Tea so as they exited the locker room. They laughed, then ran laps. It generally sucked, except for the moment when Miho's rival, Kaoruko, tripped and fell face-first into the dirt. She arose shrieking about a worm crawling up her nose, or something preposterous like that. Miho and Tea both chortled as they passed her by, lapping her.
Suddenly, Miho tripped, flying at least five feet before hitting the ground. "Owch!" she lamented. Kaoruko snickered as she daintily jogged past Miho. The blue-haired girl was too confused to throw a snooty look in her rival's direction, as she tried to figure out why she had tripped. Tea pointed out the obvious.
"Your shoelace is untied."
"Oh. Thanks." Miho got on one knee and quickly tied her shoe. "Okay, let's go!"
A lap later, Miho tripped in the very same spot. "What the?" she exclaimed, looking down at her sneakers immediately this time. The shoelace had come untied again.
"Doubleknot it," Tea suggested. Miho did. Another lap later, she tripped again in the same spot, her shoelace untied again.
From behind the bleachers, Bakura laughed quietly. He was always scrupulous about not being seen, and this time was no exception. Besides, magic was invisible, and the Millennium Ring was able to manipulate her shoelaces from quite a distance.
"Bakura!" Coach Karita shouted. "Get your hiney over here and JOG!"
Bakura turned, his eyes flashing angrily, but they quickly died down to a wise glimmer. "All righty then," he said, running back over to the football field that they were forced to job around tediously. It sucked. Running sucked. But making other people trip as you passed by them did not suck. And that was why Bakura enjoyed P.E. so much.