The sky was dark through Shino's glasses. The sky looked a tad bit gray washed in with orange, red and blue. He sighed and pushed his glasses up to his nose. Time for another boring day, followed by a boring bus ride to school where he was most likely going to be ignored or bugged about his glasses. Shino pushed himself off of his windowsill and grabbed a clean pair of clothes, leaving his glasses on his bed and went in the bathroom for a quick shower.

He stood in the shower for the last few minutes, letting the warm water flow over his body, not really paying attention to the little fountains of water dripping from his hair and into his hand. He sighed and turned the water off, not really sure of what he was thinking about, the thoughts came and went too fast for him to even grasp part of it. He grabbed a towel and quickly dried himself off, pulling his clothes on his body. He looked in the mirror and his brow furrowed. He forgot to grab his tie. Shino sighed and walked back into his room, grabbed his slightly worn out red tie and tied it loosely around his neck, putting it under his white shirt collar. He put on his studded belt, his converse in their rightful place, worn out book bag slung over his shoulder and his glasses slowly pushed on his nose.

Shino looked down as he declined the steps, watching out for books or extra shoes lying around. His father, Shibi, put a plate of breakfast for Shino on the table and continued making his own, giving his son a nod, a silent good morning greeting.

"Another busy day?" Shino asked, partly interested. Shibi let a gust of air flow from his nose.

"I'm really starting to get tired of these blind dates, son." He flipped his pancake in the pan. " I think I'm going to skip out on that tonight. Stay late at work, get paperwork done."

Shino nodded, eating his breakfast. It was mornings with his dad that he truly enjoyed, even though they only lasted for a few minutes. His dad was the only one that was close enough to almost understand everything about him, but he hid himself from Shibi so he thinks it's just a phase that Shino's going through, like all teenagers. Shino doubts it.

Shino scooted his chair back, putting his plate in the sink and washed it. "Will I see you tonight?" He gave Shibi a sideward glance out of his glasses.

"If I finish enough paperwork to put us ahead for a while, then I might be home around 7 or 8 tonight, if not it might be later." He looked apologetically at his son. Shino just nodded, grabbed his book bag and left without another word. Shibi sighed. They really needed to spend more time together.

Shino looked up at the sky. It was cloudier than it was when he woke up, it looked darker as well. Smelled like rain. He sighed, turned around and opened his house door, grabbing his black hoodie and walked back out.

Since rain was definitely on its way, Shino decided to take the bus to school instead of walk, so he was waiting at the bus stop for about 10 minutes before it came to a slow stop at the corner. Earbuds in and eyes shielded, he stepped on the bus that smelled of sweat, gum, and snotty know-it-all teens. He took his gaze off of the floor to his seat and slowed his walking as the bus started moving. His seat was not empty like it always is. Someone was sitting there, a male for sure. The person had a snow hat pulled over his eyes, clearly not wanting to be bothered, their feet propped up on the seat so no one could sit next to him, and his ears were also occupied by a pair of earbuds of his own, his music pouring out the sides.

Shino was irritated. He was used to sitting alone and that was his favorite seat on the bus and really wasn't in the mood to walk up and down the bus for an empty seat away from the obnoxious people. Luckily, the seat in front of the newcomer was empty, so he sighed to himself and took the seat. He gazed lazily out the window, watching as small water specks started making themselves known.

He hoped his seat would be abandoned in the afternoon.

sorry that it's so short! i wanted it to start with shino waking up for school and for it to end with someone in his bus seat. the other chapters will be longer than this, i promise.