Hello! My first Voltron fic :0
BACKGROUND INFO FOR THIS FANFIC: It's in present day America. The science fiction part of voltron doesn't exist in this world, it's just the normal world but with the characters living in it :) it's also my take on the characters… This is very close to being an OG story but it's not lol
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"Okay," says a muscular young adult with a heavy box under his arm, "We're here!" He smiles, looking behind at his younger brother, Keith. The black-haired teen looks up at the building, unimpressed. "Oh, come on! You were the one who insisted on living with me, besides it's not that bad." The man starts to walk away to greet the landowner of the apartment complex and get the key for his new place. "Whatever you say, Shiro." Keith rolls his eyes, slowing following behind, looking around at his city surroundings. He didn't exactly live in the country before, but it definitely wasn't this big of a city either. It's a little overwhelming but he can handle it, at least he gets to stay with Shiro.
His older brother had recently got a job offer to teach at a private school a few hours away from home. Keith has been close to Shiro since he was little, so when he learned this he begged and begged his parents to let him go with him. Lucky for Keith, the private school had a very persuasive scholarship for family members of any faculty.
"Okay, got the key! Let's go in." Shiro says, opening to the door, revealing the empty room. Keith puts on a disgusted look as he sees the stains on the wall, dust everywhere, and spider webs. However, Shiro is hopeful, "Well it's just a fixer-upper! We can do this…" Shiro looks down at Keith who still has the disgust on his face, but then sighs. "I guess it's okay… we should probably start unpacking." Keith turns around, going down the stairwell to go back to the car.
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"Hey Lance hey Lance hey Lance He-" a small little girl gets her mouth covered by her big brother, "What?! Why did you wake me up so early?" His younger sister, Milly, smiles and points towards the door, "I think we have new neighbors! Do you think we could go visit?!" She asks with cute stars in her eyes, Lance yawns, "I'll go with you but you should ask Ma first." The little girl excitedly runs to her mother's room. Lance smiles, "She might be cute but she sure can be annoying sometimes." He sits up on the couch he was previously napping on. "Got that right." Lance's other younger sister snarkily adds to his comment. "You're up, Nana?" Lance asks, pushing the blanket off himself and standing up. "Yup." The girl answers shoving some cereal in her mouth hole. "Ma said we have to go as a family!" Milly yells, coming down the hallway. "Great," Nana rolls her eyes, "Now I have to get dressed too." She starts walking towards the girls' bedroom.
They were a very big family, 7 kids and a single mother, Lance being the oldest sibling at 18. It's been pretty difficult financially but they make it by fine. "I'll go wake everyone up." Lance's Ma walks by the living room, heading to the boys room first. Lance figures he should probably get ready as well, and starts walking towards the bathroom.
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Shiro breathes out as he finally gets to relax on their couch. "That takes care of all the furniture! I'd say that calls for a break." He looks over at keith, watching him sort through a box of his stuff. Shiro laughs lightly, "So you enjoying it so far?" he asks, Keith turns around confused, "Enjoying what?" Shiro smiles, "We're living on our own! Away from Mom and Dad for the first time!" Keith grows a sarcastic look as he sits down next to shiro, "Well so far it's a lot of work."
*Knock Knock*
"Oh?" Shiro begins, "Looks like we got our first visitors." He stands up and walks towards the door, peeking through the peephole to see who it is. "Looks like a huge family, must be our new neighbors, come here." Keith gets up and walks towards Shiro as he opens the door. "Ah, Hello! We live in the apartment next door so we thought we would come and welcome you!" Shiro smiles, "Well that's really nice of you, thank you. I'm Shiro, this is my younger brother Keith." Keith casually waves at the family, not saying anything. "Oh, well I'm Mary, these are my kids, Milly, Gesto, Nana, Rose, Ronny, Julie, and Lance." The mother points at each kid as she introduces them. "You sure are a big family!" Mary laughs, "Yeah we get that a lot… anyway! If you need anything we are right next door for you!"
"Thank you! Actually, there is one thing, know any places we can get some food around here? We havent really eaten since yesterday." Shiro scratches the back of his head. Mary thinks for a second, but her thought is cut off by her daughter. "Hello!" Milly clings onto Keith's leg, surprising him, and causing him to mentally breakdown (He doesn't like kids). "They can come over to our place for food! I wanna play with them!" Milly exclaims, still clinging onto Keith. Mary smiles and looks back up at her new neighbor, "That's a great idea! That fine with you?" She asks Shiro, "Home cooking sounds fine to me! We'll be over at 12?" He asks, receiving a nod. "Great! See you later then!" The mother starts walking away, most of the family following.
Keith looks down at the little girl, Milly he thinks, still being too terrified to rip her off. "Oh-" Lance reaches down and picks up his little sister, sitting her around his neck, "Sorry about her, she can be a little on the annoying side." He says to keith, fully acknowledging his existence for the first time. "Hey… how old are you? We look like we could be the same age." Lance asks Keith, looking him up and down, Milly playing with his hair. "I'm 18." Lance smiles, "Me too- Oh, oh! My family's leaving me I better go, anyway nice to meet you!" He rushes away without looking back.
Shiro closes the door walking back over to the couch, "Well they seemed nice, and hey you already made a friend!" Keith smirks,"Wow, didn't know it was that easy to win me over, save me from a grabbling little child and I'll befriend anyone apparently." He lifts the box of stuff he was looking through earlier. "You know you could die down on your sarcasm a little." Keith smirks again and starts walking to his room, "Well, I'm gonna finish my room, you should do yours." Shiro sighs, getting up and going to his room as well.
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"Hey Lance," Nana elbows her brother, "That guy was pretty hot, huh?~" Lances lightly laughs at his sister's attempt at teasing him, "Not as hot as me though, but then again no one is." Lance flexes his muscles, his pear-white teeth giving a little sparkle. After giving her brother an eye-roll, Nana leaves him to go help their Ma with the cooking. "She's just jealous of my beauty~" Lance tells himself as he walks away.
He decides to set himself on the couch and get out his phone. Looks like his friends have been arguing over some meme thing.
Pidge: IT'S PRONOUNCED DOJE NOT DOG'E'
Hunk: IDC WHAT YOU SAY I'M NOT CHANGING MY MIND
Pidge: WHY ARE WE EVEN ARGUING OVER AN OLD MEME
Hunk: IDK
Lance: Uh hello
Pidge: How do you pronounce Doge
Lance: Doje
Pidge: Haha
Hunk: Just because he says that doesn't mean you're right
Pidge: But consider this: I'm always right
Lance: She's right
Hunk: Oh whatever
Lance: Anyway I got new neighbors, guys~
Pidge: Neat
Hunk: Oh rly? Have you met them yet?
Lance: Yeah, some guy and his younger brother
Lance: Actually the younger brother is my age
Pidge: Neat
Hunk: Well that's cool! Maybe we could befriend him
Lance: I mean if we get along
Pidge: Neat
"Lance!" Mary yells for him from the kitchen, he turns off his phone, abandoning the conversation to go to his mother. "Yes?" He asks, but then is suddenly handed a huge stack of plates. "Set the table please." He turns around to the dining room.
*knock Knock*
"Oh! That must be them," Mary begins, "Lance can you go get that?" Lance puts down the last plate, walking to the door. He opens to see the new neighbors, Shiro a smile on his face and Keith with a more meh expression. "Welcome! Food's not quite done yet so you can just sit anywhere." Lance walks away to continue setting the table, the two new neighbors walk into the apartment. "Thanks for having us!" Shiro says in a general direction, not knowing where Mary is. "Oh!" Mary sticks her head out from the kitchen, "It's fine! We're almost done in here, hope you like Cuban food!" Shiro smiles, deciding to sit on the couch, Keith deciding to stay standing.
Milly runs over to Shiro and throws herself at him. Keith automatically steps back a bit to get away from the little vulture. "I wanna play with him!" She yells at Julie, one of her older sisters, who was just playing with her. "I'm so sorry mister-" She starts to apologise but Shiro stops her. "No, it's fine, I'll play with her! Besides," He lifts Milly up into the air, "I love kids!" Milly giggles, Julie sighs happily, turning back to the kitchen.
"What's this?" Milly points to Shiro's right arm. "Ah- that's my robot arm!" He laughs, making Milly laugh. "Is that a prosthetic arm? It looks pretty advanced." Lance walks over to the couch to sit next to Shiro, having finished his job. "Yeah," Shiro pulls up his sleeve on the prosthetic, "Lost my arm in the Navy, got discharged not soon after. Lucky for me, I happen to have some friends in prosthetics, they agreed to give me a major discount if I would be their test dummy for this high tech stuff." Shiro moves his fingers on the arm, showing it off to Lance, and Milly of course. "Your so cool!" Milly exclaimes, making shiro laugh. "Foods done!" Mary yells from the other room, getting everyone's attention.
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"This food is great!" Shiro compliments Mary, then carrying on a conversation with her. Keith starts to just zone out and eat the food, which is actually really good. "So you like the food?" Lance asks him, sitting right next to him. Keith shakes his head yes, taking another bite. "So you're still in school, right?" Lance asks Keith in an attempt to start small talk. "Yeah, still have to finish senior year-" Shiro hears their conversation and decides to intervene, "Keith's going to start going to Voltron Private Academy, where I'll be teaching!" Mary lights up as Lance looks at him with surprise, "That's where I go." Lance says, looking over at his Ma, "This is great! Coming to a new school can be scary so it's nice that you'll have someone you already know there!" She smiles towards Keith, he gives a small forced smile in return.
"I'm done." Keith says, starting to grab his plate and stand up to put it away. "Oh- Let me get that." Lance takes it from him with his own plate as well and heads into the kitchen. Keith decides to follow him, "So, everyone wants us to be friends, huh?" Lance says, putting the dishes into the sink. "Apparently." Keith responds, walking behind Lance as he heads to the living room. "They make it sound like it's easy." He laughs lightly, "Oh? You saying it'll be hard to be my friend? I see how it is." Lance looks back at him surprised, "Ah! No! I didn't mean it like that!" Keith smirks at him, "I'm messing with you doofus, I know what you meant." Lance gets an offended expression on his face as Keith starts walking back into the dining room.
"Hey Shiro, can I go back to our apartment? I still have some things I want to unpack." Keith asks his older brother, standing behind his chair. "Uh- sure, I'm gonna stay here a little while longer though." At that Keith starts to walk away, "Lance," Mary begins, "You should go with him and help." Lance looks over at Keith to see how he feels. He shrugs, giving him the go ahead. "K, I'll be back soon Ma." He follows Keith out the door.
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"Cool room." Lance comments while looking up at all the band posters and whatnot. "Well if I don't decorate my room to be validated by other people that I'm cool, then I wouldn't do it, now would I?" He throws a smirk in Lances direction, making him feel kind of offended again. "Whatever, I'll fix the bed, you go ahead with the clothes." Lance says, opening the new sheets Keith had laying on the bed. "Are you sure you don't want to look at my cool clothes so that I can feel validated about that too?" He smirks, Lance looks at him annoyed, "You trying to piss me off?" Keith laughs, "That's what I do."
"So you got any hobbies?" Keith askes Lance, surprising him a little that he's interested. "Well I'm a total theater kid, love music and hanging with my friends I guess. What about you?" Keith puts on a sarcastic expression, "I like long walks on the beach, picnics on a sunny da-"
"Yeah, no, be serious." Lance interrupts him, Keith laughs, "Okay well I'm into music as well and some anime. Oh, and drawing. " Lance's curiosity peaks, "Oh? Drawing, huh? Can I see any of your art?" He looks over at Keith, who just points at the wall, "I have some on the wall over there." Lance turns around and walks up to the wall. "So you do realistic drawings? Wow, these are so detailed… do you look at a picture when drawing?" Keith answers while continuing to put clothes away, "Well kinda, I mostly use pictures to reference for shapes, especially for the human body, but other than that, no." Lance glances at Keith, turning back to the drawings, "Huh… hey, wait, why put all the decorations up first instead of your clothes? Isn't that like moving 101?" Keith shrugs in response.
"Done." Keith says, hanging up his last shirt in the closet. He walks over to the bed and sits next to Lance. "So what you wanna do know?" Lance asks, laying back on the bed. "I don't know." Keith says, lifting the last unopened box of his stuff. Seems to be mostly pictures to put on the shelf. Lance silently watches him clean out his last of his stuff, that is until he sees a familiar rainbow flag. We springs up, surprising Keith. "Is that…" Keith looks at him confused until he realizes what he means, "Oh this? Yeah, Gay pride flag." He says casually while trying to figure out where to hang it up on his wall. Lance looks at him shocked, "Wait, really!?" Keith turns his head, "Got a problem?" He says, going on the defensive. "No-No-no! I mean, I, uh, well I'm actually Bi…" Lance and Keith stare at each other for a few seconds. "Guess we're both special little snowflakes, aren't we?" Keith breaks the awkward silence with a snarky comment. Lance awkwardly laughs.
"Hello?" Shiro calls out into the apartment, receiving a response from Keith in his room. Shiro walks over to his door, "You boys have fun?" He asks, Keith rolls his eyes and smirks, "Yeah we had the best play date ever, can't wait to plan another." Shiro laughs, "Stop treating you like a baby, got it. Oh, Lance, your mother told you to go back. Tell her I said thanks again." Lance jumps off the bed, "Got it," He looks back at Keith, "Well I had fun, see you at school tomorrow morning." He waves goodbye as he walks out. Keith and Shiro listen to the door shut behind him, "So, did you guys get along well?" Shiro asks, keith taking a moment to think, "Yeah… I think we could probably be friends." Shiro smiles at Keith's response, "That great!"
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And that's it for chapter one :0 I feel like it might not be that exciting but IDK I like it
ANYWAY, I love reading reveiws so pls leave some for me to read ;3;