Disclaimer: I don't own Hamtaro.
"Laura! Laura, wake up! It's time to get ready for school!" Mrs. Haruna bellowed from the kitchen downstairs. "Hurry so you can eat breakfast before Kana gets here!"
A lump in the sheets starts to move around. Laura moans and her eyes flicker.
"Just a few more minutes..."
"Lauraaaaa! Noooooow!!!"
"OK, ok! I'm awake, I'm awake! Barely..."
Laura goes to her drawers and gets out blue shorts, a white t-shirt, and a red zipper-up hoodie/vest. She puts her clothes on and sits at her desk to do her hair in yellow barrettes. She does her bed and looks at Hamtaro's cage. She decides that he was up late on his whiz-wheel and was still asleep. She goes down for breakfast.
"Hey, Laura, when you're finished bring this carrot up to Hamtaro. It would be good for him." Mrs. Haruna puts a small carrot piece on a napkin beside Laura.
"Sure thing, Mom." She gets up and puts her bowl into the sink, grabs the carrot and runs upstairs.
"Hamtaro still isn't awake! Hamtaro, wake up!" She shouts at his cage. "Hamtaro!"
She opens the cage door and opens his nesting box.
"HAMTARO!!!!! NOOOOO!!!!! NO, NO, NO!!!! IT CAN'T BE!!!! HAMTAROOOOO!!!!!!!!!! WHERE ARE YOU?????!!!!!!!!"
A cool breeze sweeps over the grass near the lake in the park. Cherry blossoms ride on the wind and hit the soft ground. A young boy is sleeping under a tree. He has longish scruffy hair, which is dark orange. The framing his face is white. A blossom lands upon his nose, which twitches in response.
"...sniff sniff...ahCHOO!"
The boy sneezes and sniffs in loudly. He tightens his hands into fists and rubs his face furiously.
"Kushi-kushi! Oh boy! I must have fallen asleep." He opens his eyes, revealing big saffier/royal blue blue orbs. "That's strange...why am I...OH NO!!! I'M AT THE LAKE!!! I gotta go!!!"
He stands up and runs through a mess of trees. He is heading towards a pathway in which two girls are walking.
"It's alright, lots of people find their lost pets! She'll turn up!"
"I'm not so sure...she is just a baby...something will probably hurt and tries to blink back tears"
"But-OH MY GOSH!!!!" She covers her mouth with her hands and blushes.
"Huh? What's wrong?" She looks over in the direction her friend is. "AHHHHH!!!!"
They see a tall boy standing up behind a fire hydrant and he looks straight at them.
"Huh? That's Kylie and June! They are looking this way! Can they see me?! I gotta go!!!!!!"
He takes off down the path and people just stare at him. The older people shake their heads, the girls blush and giggle, boys give him thumbs up and laugh their heads off, and small children have their mothers shield their eyes. A big man steps in front of him. He is wearing a dark-blue suit and matching hat. He has a very shiny button on his shirt.
"And just what on earth do you think you're doing, son!" the burly man speaks.
"Um...huh?"
"I'm gonna have ta bring you down-town!"
"That really sounds like fun but I really have to be getting home now, so-"
"Wait a minute there, lad! I'll have to call your parents! And put this blanket around you..."
He looks down. And pauses.
"I'm human! But how! I'm not a human! I'm a hamster! Where's Laura!!!"
"I will defiantly have to call your parents for running through the public park naked....and to tell 'em that their son's mind is a bit damaged.....hamster my buns...."
"So what's your name, kid?"
"Huh? Oh, uh, Hamtaro..."
The big man and all the other uniformed men laugh out cruelly.
"HAHA! Oh, kid! HAHA! No...really...what's your name? HAHA!"
"I told you...it's Hamtaro..."
"So you're not kidding, eh?"
Hamtaro shakes his head. "No, sir. Hamtaro is my name."
"Well no wonder you're so messed up! How old are you?"
He looks at the man. And moves his head to one side.
"Ok...how long have you been alive?"
"One year."
"One year? And that's why you have the stature of a 14 year-old boy?"
"We I guess so. If I look 14 or whatever that is as a human."
"Where do you live?"
"I don't know."
"Where are your parents?"
"I don't have parents, sir."
The man gets up from his chair, lays some clothes on the desk for Hamtaro, and goes into a different room. Hamtaro looks into nothingness as he sits on a squishy chair across the fat mans' desk.
What was he going to do? What's going to happen to Laura? And his friends? Neither Laura or his friends would recognize him....he looks up only to have the clothes in his view.
"I wonder...."
Feeling quite cold, he puts them on. Some old, rather tight, blue jeans with a hole in one knee, a red shirt that says 'Hug Me' on it, and also a bright yellow cap. He looks at himself in the mirror.
"Oooo....I look like a real kid now!"
He smiles happily, knowing that he did something right. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all. His stomach growls. He hadn't eaten anything since last night. He looks around and sees nothing edible.
"Is there any-HA!"
He sees that the window was left slightly open. This was his chance! He couldn't stay with this man. He had to find one of his friends.
"To the clubhouse!"
As soon as he jumps out of the first story window, he hears the screeching of tires and then a lot of noisy car horns blowing. He looks over at the intersection and sees two young girls caught in traffic....
I hope you liked this chapter. I've been having computer problems yet again. I'm very tired now so I bid you all, goodnight! Night!