Disclaimer: I do not own No. 6.
"Okay, first put the car in reverse so you can back out of the driveway-"
"What's going on here?" Nezumi inwardly rolled his eyes as Inukashi popped out of nowhere.
"What's it look like? Shion's learning to drive."
"Oh, oh, can I watch?" Inukashi asked, not even waiting for an answer as she yanked open a door and hopped into the back seat.
"Okay!" Shion replied cheerfully. Nezumi could already tell this wasn't going to end well, but said nothing.
"Hey! Wait for me!" Nezumi resisted the urge to facepalm as Rikiga approached.
"Well, I guess we do need an adult with a license in the car," Nezumi muttered.
"Great!" Rikiga grinned as he sat down in the other back seat.
"Aren't you going to wear the seatbelt?" Inukashi spoke up a few seconds later.
"Nah." Rikiga replied.
"You have to. It's a law," Nezumi spoke up.
"So?"
"So if you don't, Shion could get in trouble."
"What are you talking about?"
"PUT ON THE SEATBELT!"
"Fine, fine. Calm down." Rikiga grumbled, reaching for the seatbelt. "Will he actually get in trouble if I don't?" he whispered to Inukashi once Nezumi had turned away. Inukashi shrugged.
Nezumi sighed. "Okay. Shion, take your foot off the brake and slowly turn the car out into the street-"
"WHAT'S THAT?" shouted Rikiga just as Shion did as instructed, causing him to jump, which in turn made the car swerve. After narrowly missing a tree, a car, and a fire hydrant, Shion finally managed to get control of the car and hit the brake again.
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?" Nezumi shouted at Rikiga once Shion had calmed down.
"I saw a billboard for a movie I want to watch." Rikiga explained.
"You're joking, right?" Nezumi deadpanned with his most unamused expression.
"Uh... sure. But, um, seriously, mind dropping me off at a movie theater?"
"Um... Nezumi? What do I do now?" Shion interrupted. Nezumi glanced out the front window and saw the car was more or less sandwiched between the tree and car that they had almost crashed into, though the car itself was miraculously unscathed.
"Hey, guys? You might want to hurry up... The people whose property we're on right now don't look happy..." Inukashi spoke up.
"Of course," sighed Nezumi. "Okay, slowly back up the car until you're in the street, then put the car in drive." Shion somehow managed to do so without any interruptions (though the fact Nezumi was glaring at Rikiga the entire time might have had something to do with that), and soon was driving down the street like nothing had happened.
Eventually they reached a fork in the road. "Take that one," Nezumi suggested.
"No! That one!" Rikiga all but shouted.
"Don't." Nezumi said. "That road leads to the freeway."
"Exactly! There's a movie theater in that direction!"
"Haven't you caused enough trouble over that movie?" Nezumi stated, irritated.
While they were busy arguing, neither noticed that Shion, confused, had taken the road leading to the freeway. When Nezumi finally realized, he shook his head. "Rikiga. You are so dead."
"What did I do now?" Rikiga asked.
"We're on the wrong road."
"YES! I get to see the movie!" Rikiga shouted, punching the air.
At the same time, Shion said, "Wait... we are?"
"Yes..." Nezumi sighed. "Okay, you're going to have to drive faster, otherwise all the cars behind you are going to-"
HONK. HONK. HONK.
Apparently, they had created a bit of a traffic jam. And the people behind them were not happy about it. Glancing at the clock in the car, Nezumi noticed it was about the time work ended for the day. "Ignore the other cars, just drive a little faster," Nezumi instructed. Shion, nervous from the angry people around him, hit the gas slightly too hard and the car shot forwards. With a frightened squeak, he hit the brake again, causing the people behind the car to shout furiously.
"LEARN TO DRIVE!" one yelled.
"I'M TRYING!" retorted Shion. Nezumi merely glared at the person, who immediately ceased complaining. Eventually, Shion started driving again, and soon afterwards they reached an exit.
"Now's your chance, get off the freeway," Nezumi pointed at the exit.
"No, the movie theater is at the next exit!" pleaded Rikiga.
Nezumi took one glance at Shion, who appeared to be silently freaking out. "Shut it, Rikiga."
"But-"
"Don't make me shove you out of this car while it's moving."
Rikiga laughed, thinking it was a joke. When no one else did, he gulped.
There were two restraunts around the exit. One was right next to the side of the road they were on, the other was on the other side of the road. "Enter the parking lot of that restraunt," Nezumi said, indicating the closer one.
"The other one's better," Inukashi commented.
"We aren't stopping there to eat!" Nezumi replied.
"Then why are we stopping there?" she asked.
"So I can yell at Rikiga."
"Can I go see the movie first?"
Nezumi took several deep breaths. "Rikiga. If you mention that movie one more time-"
"Oh! Is that the time? I need to get back to the hotel," Inukashi spoke up.
"Forget that, at the midnight screening they're giving away free T-shirts-" Rikiga commented, apparently having forgotten and/or ignored Nezumi's earlier warning.
"Then you can walk to your movie!" growled Nezumi.
"But it's so far away."
That's when they heard the siren. Nezumi had been beginning to think it couldn't get any worse, but he was about to be proven wrong. A police car was speeding towards them. "Hopefully, they're after a different car, but pull over just in case..." Of course, the police car indeed stopped right behind them. An officer came out of the police car and approached them. Nezumi sighed, "Lower the window."
The officer looked at the group and said, "We recieved a complaint from a family that this car ruined their property."
Nezumi blinked. They hadn't hit the tree or the car, he was sure about that. What was he talking about?
Inukashi finally asked what they all were thinking, "What got ruined?"
"The front lawn."
Oh. Nezumi inwardly sighed for what felt like the hundredth time that day. "Rikiga, it was your fault, you're paying for it."
"Can I see your license please?" the officer said to Shion.
"Um, I'm learning to drive..."
"The license of the adult in the car, then?" the officer replied.
"Rikiga, show him your license." Nezumi said.
"What license?"
"Your driver's license! What else would we be talking about?"
"I don't have one."
"That was the entire reason why we let you come! What do you mean you don't have a driver's license?!"
"Well..."
Nezumi was beginning to think they were all going to go to jail. The only thing that kept him from freaking out was the thought that Rikiga would miss the midnight screening of his movie if he was in jail.
"Relax, guys, I've got mine!" Inukashi spoke up, pulling out a driver's license and handing it to the officer.
"Alright then, everything seems to be in order. Be more careful when driving from now on," the officer stated. "And make sure someone compensates the family for their ruined lawn."
Nezumi sent a withering glare to Rikiga. "That would be you."
The officer returned to his police car and drove off. Once he was out of sight, Nezumi sighed (for once, in relief rather than irritation), "Okay, let's go back home."
"But-" Rikiga began.
"Seriously consider whether or not you want to finish that sentence." growled Nezumi.
Rikiga paled. "Nah, I'm good." After a half hour or so of driving in relative silence, with the only comments coming from Nezumi, pointing out what route Shion should take, Rikiga mustered up the courage to whisper to Inukashi, "You have a license?"
Inukashi laughed. "Of course not! But it looks pretty realistic, doesn't it?" Nezumi considered commenting on this, but since she'd basically saved them from going to jail, he decided to let it go.
After dropping off Inukashi at her hotel, and then Rikiga at his house (after listening to him complain the entire way there that he wouldn't be able to see the movie), it was a lot quieter. "Well, what did you think of your first driving lesson?" Nezumi asked as Shion parked the car in the driveway.
Shion sighed. "I think I'll take the bus."