Sans yawned and stretched as he woke up from his nights rest. The sun shined through his window as he blinked once, then twice. After his little wake up call, he started to observe his room. Joke books, clothes, food, and even a sock pile, was all spread around his room. Then he realized he wore his plain school uniform the last day of school, almost forgetting he still has it on now. He decides to see what clothes he actually has, he gets out of bed and heads towards the closet.
He opens the closet door, a little shocked at what he saw. Some white t-shirts, and blue jacket, with some white, curly, fur attached to the hood. Sans rejoiced inside, but on the outside the only thing you could see was his grin rise. 'good seeing you again' Sans thought.
Sans slipped on the blue hoodie, and zipped it up half way, to show a bit of his uniform. "today's going to be a good day." Sans said to himself, grin a little wider. This hoodie felt just like the one at home, and that feeling made him feel a little warmer.
Sans now had one last thing to do. He searched around the house for the restroom, but the more he searched around his house, the worse the house actually looked. Books, socks, games, documents, everything that would typically go around the house, is found everywhere, just lying around. However, once he turned a corner, he finally found a bathroom.
He opened the door, and looked to his left… at the mirror.
"heh, why hello there, 'bonehead', your almost exactly how I imagined you." Sans said as he talked to himself.
Sans skin looked a little pale, but not too pale, as his skin didn't match the color of his appearance when he was a skeleton. His hair seemed to be white as well, Sans had to admit, he didn't expect his hair to be such color, every human he saw in the underground had brown hair, but the hair really did fit him in a way.
Sans nose and ears weren't too big, and his body was pretty skinny, pretty surprising for someone as lazy as Sans, but he was way taller than before, about 5'6 in height, just a little taller than Yuri. Considering he was 4'7 when he was a skeleton, it felt a little awkward, but it didn't hurt to be taller, right?
But the real kicker was his eyes, since he couldn't use his powers, he couldn't change his left eye blue and yellow. However, his right eye was yellow, and his left eye was blue.
'interesting eyes, wonder why no one brought em' up in a conversation yesterday.' Sans thought, and while those words were definitely worth thinking about, he needed to figure out some eye puns for when it's brought up. Yes, Sans is a very… Interesting character.
But Sans, even if he really wanted too, couldn't sit around in his house coming up with puns, he apparently had a school to go too. He already made a few friends, so not going wasn't an option anymore. So Sans lazily walked out of the bathroom, and finally opened the door.
His house was only a 5 minute walk to his school, which is pretty sad, considering he spent hours trying to find it last night. He mentally face palmed once he did find it, he passed his house multiple times. But there's no need to worry about that anymore, Sans locked his door, key in hoodie pocket, and started walking.
Sans day at school was full of introductions, and asking where his classes were. Since he was the 'new kid,' teachers were pretty kind too him, and didn't question him when he asked for classes, or tell him to take off his hoodie, which was a plus. He also has a class with Yuri, pretty convenient it was language arts class too.
Turns out the Sans before him arrived late yesterday, only attending one class, seems like something that he would do. He had to admit he kind of felt proud of himself… for being himself? Really weird thing to say, but Sans would take that way of thinking any way. But now the day's over, and it was time to go to the club.
Once he swings the door open to the club room, every one was already inside. He wasn't late, maybe just a little slow.
"Glad too see you didn't run on us too, Sans!" Monika says, greeting Sans.
Sans chuckles a bit, "nah, it's way too much work to do that." Sans winks as he says that, putting his hands back in his hoodie pocket.
Sans notices Natsuki and Yuri standing near each other and decides to join them. "miss me?" Sans said poking his head between the both of them .
"Sans can you settle a little debate?" Natsuki says, almost like she was waiting for him, just to ask this question.
"sure." Sans still grinning agrees with her request.
"Is manga literature?" She says quickly
"…what?" Sans is a little confused after the sudden outburst Natsuki had.
"Please excuse Natsuki, Monika teased her a few minutes ago about hiding her manga collection in the closet." Yuri tries to bring light on the situation.
"no, not that. what is manga?" Sans had to admit, he remembers Alphys talking about manga and anime before, but never really knew what it was, and he cared little to know about it.
Natsuki's face lit up a little bit after hearing what she heard. "Sans, follow me real quick, I'll show you."
"and just leave yuri here?" Sans says, hopefully trying to bring Yuri along, dealing with Natsuki is one thing, but doing by yourself is a whole other story, and Sans wasn't up for that challenge.
"It's okay, Sans, I'm fine being alone for a while." Yuri stated, but she was fidgeting with her hair at the moment.
"ya' sure yuri, from what i've seen from you, you seem pretty introverted." Sans says, hoping to make her reconsider.
"Ah, well… I already know what manga is, so…" Yuri can't seem to put her thoughts into words right now, this random act of kindness doesn't happen to her every day.
"it's fine yuri, if you really don't want to come, you don't have too." Sans has to be a little patient with Yuri, considering she really tries to think before she speaks.
"Are we going or not?!" Natsuki takes a different approach to the situation.
Yuri's a little taken back by the way Natsuki said that, but is still able to respond to her approach. "Y-yeah sure, I'll come." Yuri says, still a little nervous.
"Well that settles it, let's go." Natsuki says as she storms off towards the closet. Yuri and Sans follow.
"y'know, yuri, you really didn't have to come, even if suki's a little aggressive… and impatient." That last part wasn't necessary, but he still managed to sneak it in.
"It's… fine, Sans, I made my own choice, not Natsuki." Yuri tried to sound a little confident, but failed, Sans saw right past that.
"alright." Sans said, ending the conversation. That was a lot of work just to get Yuri to walk with them to the closet. Once they reached the closet, it was already open, and Natsuki was waiting for them.
"This is manga!" Natsuki then takes out a book, and opens it, and starts flipping the pages. The figures are drawn like the anime figures Alphys watches, Sans is able to recognize them.
"oh, in that case, it's obviously literature, suki." Natsuki grinned
"Hah! Take that Monika!" Natsuki says out loud gaining Monika, Jacks, and Sayori's attention. "Manga is literature!" She then crosses her arms and puffs out her chest, while she has a confident smile on.
"I never said it wasn't, Natsuki." Monika replies back, shattering Natsuki's new found pride.
"Wh- Ah-!" She can't seem to find any of the correct words to retort back to her. So she gives up and storms to the other side of the room. Leaving Yuri and Sans near the closet.
Sans looks at Yuri, he's starting to notice how tall he is, considering he's right next to Yuri, and is actually taller than her. But then, something amazing happens, Yuri starts a conversation.
"So… What kind of books do you enjoy reading?" Yuri asks, with genuine curiosity in her expression, and her voice.
"well, i do enjoy reading informative books. i'm not really into books that tell a fairy tales or somethin', also, i don't know if you've picked up on this or not, but i'm really into joke books." Sans answers her question, as best as he can.
"Ah, I see… Well I guess I'm a pretty good judge of character. I brought you a book I thought you'd enjoy." She stops, then starts to fidget with her hair again. "I-It's not really a big deal or anything, though, just something I'd like to give, considering we're in the literature club, you don't have to have it if you don't want it."
Sans chuckles at her being accidentally cute, "lay it on me, yuri."
Yuri smiles they both walk back to the seat with Yuri's bag on it, and pulls out a book. Sans eyes widen a bit as he realized it was a joke book.
Sans grinned a little wider, as he took the book into his hands. "aw, thanks, yuri, make sure this goes to use." He suddenly winks at Yuri.
"Y-You're welcome, Sans." She then looks away, and starts fidgeting with her hair. Sans noticed her default state when nervous is fidgeting with her hair. "Also Sans, is it okay if we can talk openly about your… facial… features?" Yuri even more nervous, still asked.
"what do you mean?" Sans said with a confused grin.
"Well… You're always smiling all the time, and your eyes…" She stops at she looks at them, "The club didn't want to talk about because we thought it might offend you…" She's stopped looking at Sans now, blushing from nervousness.
Sans understands now, and chuckles a little bit. "well, at least you're trying to break the 'eyes'" Sans punned towards Yuri. 'i knew the eye puns would come in handy'
Yuri rolled her eyes, but had a little smile on her face, "Please… don't do that again…" She asked, politely.
Sans chuckled once again, while his grin rises, "but you're smiling."
"…I am…. and I really dislike that…" Yuri says, still with a smile.
Sans grin widens even more, he's about to speak but his train of thought cut off by Sayori shouting.
"It means my boobs are getting bigger again!" Sayori yells.
"D-Don't say that out loud!" Jack says fairly quick, trying to avert the attention away from them.
It works, as Sans turns his attention back to Yuri. "huh, sounds like they're having a good time."
"Yeah, they're such good friends, they've been since they were children. Sayori always says nice things about Jack, even when he wasn't in the club." Yuri says looking down a bit, with a genuine smile on her face.
A few seconds passed before Monika called up the club to share poems.
"Okay everyone!" Monika yells out. "Why don't we all share the poems we made now!"
"Yay! Jack, Sans, I can't wait to read your poems!" Sayori calls them out, Sans looked to the side a little, grin drooping a bit.
"Yeah, same…" Jack fails to sound enthusiastic about it, but Sans doesn't reply back to Sayori.
"By the way, did two you remember to write a poem last night?" Monika questions the two new members.
"Y-Yeah…" Jack replies, then everyone looks at Sans, who's currently having flashbacks of times where he didn't do his 'homework', and waited for his demise from the teacher.
"…maybe?" Sans replies, stuffing his hands more into his jacket pocket, with some sweat flowing down his face, visibly nervous.
Sayori and Yuri look a little disappointed, while Natsuki looks a little angry, Monika and Jack still remained neutral though.
"Are you serious, Sans!" Natsuki raised her voice as she while she was saying that.
"well, to be fair, i did remember, i just didn't do it." Sans replied, a little less nervous.
"So what? Did you just not care?!" Natsuki's voice started to raise even louder.
"nah, just feel asleep as soon as i got home." Sans knew the true reason why he fell asleep so fast, but they didn't need to know that. He also didn't seem to be affected by her yelling, either, but her words kind of stuck to Sans, he admittedly still needed to train himself to care about things.
"don't worry, i'll do it first thing when i get home, promise." Sans winked at Natsuki, who's anger started to settle down, as well as Yuri's and Sayori's disappointment on their faces. Sans hated promises, but promising is the only way Sans could really get out of this situation, he did deserve that punishment though. So he accepted it.
"You better." Natsuki, now calmer, said. Sans now at comfort removed his drooping grin from his face, as it was replaced with his old and normal grin.
"Good job Sans, you may seem lazy, but you are a quick thinker!" Monika congratulated him on gaining back the clubs trust so fast.
"yeah… i guess so." Sans wasn't really expecting something like that to come out from Monika at this moment, but he'd take it anyway.
"Still, Sans, can't wait too see your poem tomorrow!" Sayori jumps in, followed by Yuri.
"Yeah..." Yuri, not so enthusiastically, agree's.
Monika soon grabs her composition notebook from her things and starts turning pages. "Well, Sans can still look at our poems, we just can't read any of his ones yet, so feel free to show Sans your poems, club!" With that the club nodded, and started to get their poems ready to share.
The first pair was Jack, and Sayori, not really surprising Sans, considering they are childhood friends. The next pair was Yuri and Monika, an interesting setup between two of the smartest people in the club. So then that leaves just Sans to review Natsuki's poem, which he didn't really feel to up to doing at the moment.
When Sans and Natsuki walked up to each other, Natsuki decided to bring up what happened earlier.
"Sans…" Natsuki looked up at Sans, right into his multi-colored eyes.
"gonna give me your poem, suki?" Sans would love to sit around and chat with Natsuki, but looking at Natsuki reminded him of what she said to him earlier, about him not caring, but Sans could still manage.
"Yes, just wanted to apologize about what I said earlier. I know I was a little aggressive, but I was just mad because you didn't do something that would like… y'know… increase our bond as a club or something. We really shouldn't leave any club member behind, even if they want to be left behind."
Sans grin turned into a genuine smile, it's been a while since he's had one of those. "right, i understand, suki, trust me. i don't like putting work into things, but i guess i'll give this club the special treatment." Sans winked at her.
Natsuki blushed a little bit at Sans's smile, then crossed her arms and tried to hide it. "Good! Now can you please stop calling me 'suki'!" Natsuki demanded Sans.
"sure thing, pinky." Sans teased Natsuki, as he winked once again.
"Stop calling me by those names!" Natsuki demanded Sans once again.
Sans chuckled, as he thought of anther name, "will do, shorty." Sans, admittedly, hated calling her that, considering he knew how it felt to be called short, but he grew out of it, and started to accept what his height was. But it's a little different know…
"Ugh! Just read my poem!" She swung her poem at Sans with her right hand, almost hitting him, but he managed to step back a little, avoiding the little accidental swing, just barely. 'still got the moves, huh?' Sans thought to himself, after he dodged the swing out of instinct. Natsuki didn't seem to take notice that he dodged it, however.
"thanks, suki." Sans said, Natsuki seemed to give up at trying to get Sans to stop calling her that name. Sans took notice, and started read the poem;
Eagles can climb
Crickets can leap
Horses can race
Owls can seek
Cheetahs can run
Eagles can fly
People can try
But that's about it;
Is what Sans read in his head.
'this poem is obliviously about people around you doing great things, and you not really being able to catch, up. really deep, considering suki's writing style is very simple.' Sans caught on to the poem almost instantly, considering he is very smart, he just doesn't show it much. Since it is always being overshadowed by his laziness.
Sans looks up from the paper and see's Natsuki patiently waiting for his review of the poem. Sans, admittedly, was expecting her to boast about her peom. But Sans decides to give her just what she wanted anyway.
"well, i love your writing style first and foremost, this seems like something not many people would think of when they imagine a poem. and trust me, i love things that stand out, this definitely is one of my favorite things i've read in while, sides' my joke books of course."
Natsuki's entire body fills up with excitement, "Exactly! Writing doesn't have to be all sophisticated and stuff, the point of writing should be to express yourself!"
"well said, suki, couldn't say it better myself." Natsuki smiled at what Sans said, "and as to the point of this poem, it's about how people around you do great things, and how disheartening it can get from time to time. i can relate to that one, laziness does that too ya'." Sans informed Natsuki.
"Really? How do you relate to it?" Natsuki asked with curiosity filling her voice.
"well…" Sans debated if he should tell a truth or a lie, or maybe a little bit of both. "when i was growing up, i had a friend, who i don't really talk to anymore. he was very athletic, and was a really good person, everyone loved his little quirks, and the way he cheered people up, he was truly the best." Sans said as he remembered Papyrus, "my father was also very intelligent, being a well-known scientist from where i grew up, he did great things." Natsuki thought he was done now, but he still had more to say.
"i also knew this lady, who loved my jokes, and would always come to me for a laugh. she was a very caring person, and would probably make a very good mother one day." Sans remembered Toriel, "also, there was someone else very much like you, loved anime and manga, you guys would get along well, she was almost as smart as my dad too, being the top in her classes, me and her were partners on a project once." Sans told a little half lie there,
"and there i was, being the guy that would always tell jokes and get a laugh out of every one, but still was considered lazy one who sleeps all day." Natsuki looked up at Sans with a few tears in her eyes but blinked them out.
"I'm sorry, Sans." Was the only thing Natsuki managed to say after all that.
Sans chuckled, "nah, nothin' to be sorry for, suki, i've always managed to get by, even with my laziness, it's no big deal." Sans winked at Natsuki, once again.
"Wow, I really can't wait to see your poem now." Natsuki said, she wouldn't admit it but she felt sorry for Sans, he must've felt terrible when people would come, and do things better right in front of him, and he couldn't do anything about it. Sans knew she felt a little bit of sympathy for him too, just by reading her facial expression, that was one of his talents, after all.
Sans handed the poem back to Natsuki, "looks like the others are done too, maybe we should start switching now, loved your poem, suki." Sans waved as he started to walk to another club member, all Natsuki could do was stare at him while he walked away, but that wouldn't last forever, as another little hyperactive girl snuck up from behind her.
"Gotcha!"Sayori yelled as she surprised hugged Natsuki from behind.
"Hey!" She yelled, trying to get Sayori off of her.
OH MY GOD IT'S DONE! I LOVE THIS CHAPTER SO MUCH!
I swear, all the support from my first chapter is overwhelming, even if it doesn't seem like it's a lot. It's the most support I've ever received... ever! I literally think I just found a new hobby in my life, writing! I love you guys, and trust me I'll try to upload frequently! Cya.
(updated this chapter to fix some spelling mistakes, and also added some more words and details.)
