Mitsukou (Genderswap AU)

Oneshot!

AN: Genderswap time! I definitely love this au, but I can never decide if Mitsuba should be girly, because og Mitsuba is, or if she should be boyish, because opposite genders yk?

Note from author who is posting this almost year old fic on Wattpad: soo this was part of my (unfinished) mitsukou week 2025, uh yeah, promt was genderswap

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"Have you heard the legend of Hanako - San? The ghost who haunts the girls bathroom in the old building? They say she was a murderer but the guilt was too much and she took her own life. However that guilt continued into the land of spirits, and she was given the opportunity to serve the land of the living in penance. Now she gives wishes to anyone who can find her, but you have to pay an unnamed price in return..."

"Mitsubaaa!! You know I don't like scary stories!" Sataou complained to her classmate. The pink haired girl giggled, her short bob of pink hair blowing into her face. The group of friends was seated on the school roof, despite being berated by their teachers for it, and it was uncharacteristically windy for a spring day.

"Well, Kou, what do you think of my story?"

"Yeah, Minamoto, what do you think? Do ya think Mitsuba should stop scaring us? Because I do." Sataou said indignantly.

"It's not my fault I learn so many stories in the broadcasting club. Nanamine loves them and always broadcasts about them, so I have to hear him tell them all the time," Sousuke defended herself. "Besides, you always get scared, which makes it more fun."

"I don't mind, I think that they're interesting." The red-blonde girl spoke, looking up from her homemade bento to watch her friends bicker. The thought of Mystery number 7 worried her, especially since her sister tasked her with exorcising it, and after what happened with her Senpai...

Seeing that her best friend was on her side, Sousuke donned a smug look on her face, lightly tossing her hair.

Kou was ever the unlucky girl, losing her mother on top of having an unavailable father. Having an order to exorcize her friend. Her first crush used to be in love with her sister before... the incident. And now? Falling in love with her best friend.

She had met Sousuke in their first year at Kamome and they immediately became inseparable, the pink haired girl becoming her closest friend.

Then came the problem. At first it was just noticing little things, when she did her hair differently, the turquoise earring she tried to hide behind her hair, what foods made her smile. Then she started to feel nervous when they got close, when they spoke, when their hands touched, and the breaking point was the first day of this year.

They had been trying on their uniforms for the new year, and Sousuke's was too big. She had told Kou that it was because she wanted it to be extra long, so that "Perverts won't try and look under my skirt, and see my delicate legs," and to her credit, it was much longer. Combined with the tube socks she regularly wore there was only a sliver of skin right below her knees visible. But an unforeseen side effect was that the top would also be bigger, and it was a lot bigger, to the point where it was sliding off her shoulder.

Now, afterwards she would realize how strange it was that this was the trigger for her realization, after all, they'd seen each other in bathing suits, pajamas, yukata, even in silly costumes! But in the moment all she could think about was how cute Sousuke was, and how much she wanted to kiss her.

Ever since then she'd been head over heels in love, but she'd tried to hide it, to preserve the friendship. It was undoubtedly getting harder by the day.