The Snake Incident
A/N: WOW! What a great number of reviews! Thank you so much for your dimes, candy, and compliments! This will be an on-going list of Shigure's embarrassing moments, but the last chapter was more embarrassing to Hatori. Oh well!
Shigure Sohma looked mournfully up at the formidable building that was to be his prison for the next six years. He, Ayame, and Hatori were about to start their first day of Kindergarten. That morning had been a confused rush of item checking, hair combing, pictures, kisses, worries, and tears. (All on the part of Shigure's mother.) Shigure yawned. It had been enough to wear anyone out, and he still had the whole day to go through.
"Hurry up. We're going to be late." Hatori said.
Hatori seemed his usual serious self that day. As serious as a five-year-old can be, anyway. Ayame seemed a bit down. He had been given a long and threatening speech about the consequences of crashing into girls and letting out the secret. The thought of people finding out had been no where near as terrifying to him as the potential punishment. He would be grounded indefinitely, and not see Hatori and Shigure for a very long, long time. Ayame had pointed out that he didn't care about hugging silly girls when Shigure and Hatori were much nicer, but this seemed to only make his parents more strained.
The trio entered the classroom, surveying the bright colors and friendly atmosphere. The teacher was busy trying to console a hysterically crying girl who acted as though her life was over. Noticing that she was extremely cute, Shigure's attention was distracted from his cousins.
Hatori found the desk with his nametag next to Ayame's and behind Shigure's. At least I'll be able to keep my eye on those two, he thought as he began to get his things in order.
Ayame, upon seeing the hearts dancing above Shigure's head and Hatori ignoring everything else, cast his gaze about the room, searching for anything amusing. The rows of desks faced the teacher's desk and the blackboard at the front of the room. There were several plants in the back, along with a cage of hamsters and a fish tank. Ayame poked a stick at a brown and white hamster who squealed 'Hamha!' before dashing under it's overturned food dish.
The fish tank was less interesting. There were two or three goldfish and betas floating on the top, dead. The only living creature in the water seemed to be a sucker fish that was stuck to a side and seemed oblivious to everything, including the poo it was nestled in.
But beyond the hamster and the fish was a large glass tank that appeared to house nothing more than a few sticks. In spite of this, Ayame somehow felt drawn to the glass case.
Ayame let out a small squeal of pleasure. Halfway hidden amongst the sticks was a snake. It was a non-poisonous black rat snake, but it was still over three feet long and sleeping peacefully.
"Gure! Gure! Come over here and look at this!" Ayame called over his shoulder. The black-haired boy moved reluctantly away from staring at the pretty girl.
"What is it, Aya?" Shigure peered through the glass, "Oh! What a huge snake!"
The snake opened it's beady little eyes at stared intensely at Ayame.
"Oh! The poor little snake!" Ayame whispered, his golden eyes filling with tears, "He wants to be free."
"Huh?"
"He hates being trapped in this small glass cage. He hates not being able to roam the wilds," Ayame began to sniff and cry full-fledged, "He misses his friends!"
"Oh, Aya, don't cry," Shigure said putting his arm around the slightly shorter boy and wiping the tears off his face with his free hand, "I'll help you set the snake free if you want to."
Ayame's eyes grew large and shiny, "Really, Gure?" Bubbles randomly appeared everywhere. Ayame grasped Shigure's hand, "You would do that? For me?"
Shigure grasped Ayame's hands back, "Aya, I would do anything to help you!"
"Yes!" The two boys grinned and gave the thumbs-up sign.
Hatori rolled his eyes.
"Okay Aya, here's the plan..." Shigure began to whisper in Ayame's ear.
Later that day...
The teacher had finally managed to quiet all the children down and they were now taking their afternoon nap. She had just began to read her book (Harry Potter) when a horrible scream echoed throughout the entire classroom.
"AHHHHHH!" It was Shigure who began writhing on the floor in pain, "I'VE BEEN STUNG! I'VE BEEN STUNG BY A SCORPION! OH, THE PAIN!"
Maybe half of the students knew what a scorpion was, and none of them realized that scorpions were not native to Japan. The half that knew began to spaz out and run around, shrieking in terror, scaring the other half into doing the same. Several girls and one boy began to cry on the spot. Hatori sat up on his mat and glared stoically at Shigure, who hadn't stopped rolling around or screaming.
The teacher started to run towards Shigure, but tripped over a desk. By the time she got up, Shigure had begun to whimper slightly as he trembled in the fetal position. All the students were staring at him in wide-eyed terror from the safety of their desks.
The teacher put her hand on Shigure's back. He had stopped moving entirely.
"Shigure! Shigure, say something!" She said in panic.
"Huh?" Shigure carefully rubbed his eyes and sat up, "Is naptime over already? I was having such an interesting dream that I was walking through the desert and I saw so many neat animals..."
"Wha...?" His teacher asked. She didn't seem to notice that Ayame was no longer in the classroom.
At that very moment, the bell rang signaling the end of the day. Shigure slipped to the locker room to change his shoes, followed closely by a very angry Hatori.
"Shigure, do you have any idea how stupid that was of you?" Hatori asked through clenched teeth, "What were you two doing, anyway?"
"Two?" Shigure asked in an innocent tone, "I don't understand what you mean..."
"Oh it doesn't matter Gure! You may as well tell him!" Ayame appeared from the hallway, "Maybe he can help us look for it!"
"It? What did you two do, exactly?" Hatori glared.
Shigure blinked in confusion, "Look for it? What happened, Aya?"
Ayame sighed in a very depressed manner, "That poor snake was so excited to be free it slithered away from me before I could get outside. I haven't found it yet."
"You stole the snake from the classroom!" Hatori was shocked. And I really shouldn't be...
"So Aya," Shigure glanced around nervously, "Were did you say you lost that snake again?"
"Oh, somewhere near the girl's locker room."
At that moment, a chorus of piercing female shrieks cut through the air.
"Oops," Ayame said with a cheerful grin.
"Funny how these things happen," Shigure said, draping his arm across Ayame's shoulder.
Hatori smacked his hand against his forehead, "You idiots."
A/N: Will update once inspiration hits. dodges bricks Hey! Bricks aren't inspirational!