oO; Ralph is a very happy puppy, yes he is. And don't worry - this isn't the only story he's in! He'll be in future stories, I swear.
Disclaimer: I don't own Furuba. (Would you stop looking at me like that?)
Ralph - The Happy Puppy
"How are you feeling today, Akito?" Hatori asked, forcefully sticking a thermometer down Akito's throat, making him hurl. Hatori didn't seemed to mind, and grabbing the towel (that he came prepared with), he wiped his face and looked at the reading.
"I'm feeling okay today, Hatori!" Akito declared, wiping the corners of his mouth.
"Your temperature is normal." Hatori answered, ignoring Akito's last comment.
"In that case," Akito said, "I'm going to take Ralph for a walk!"
"Ralph?" Hatori asked, blinking.
"Yeah! Ralph!" Akito leaned over and pulled out a very squashed Party Cup with a dog face drawn on it (Akito was a talented drawer). "He's my new puppy!"
Hatori's left eye twitched. "Right. But you can't go out al-"
"Maybe Gure-san will come with me, and we can get ice-cream, and sing folk songs!"
In fact, Akito was so excited about taking a walk with Shigure, that he was throwing his arms everywhere and humming about party cups. (Ralph ended up in the far corner.)
In the end of it all, Hatori had ended up calling Shigure, and Shigure had replied with "Ooooo. Ralph? I've met him before! He's a cute little puppy!"
Of course, Shigure came, and the entire incident left Hatori feeling like he was either insane or he was dreaming.
Half an hour later
"I'm so glad you could come, Gure-san!" Akito declared, his hand attached to a string and the string attached to Ralph, who was getting very battered from being dragged along on the ground behind him.
"I wouldn't miss it for the world!"
"But, don't you have novels to write?"
"Oh… them. After our trip to the desert I wrote as many novels as I do in a year in about three days… but then I went to court."
"… It costed me a lot of money, Gure-san."
Shigure just laughed, and changed the subject. "Lets go to Ayame's shop!"
"Why?"
"To dress Ralph up of course!"
At Ayame's shop
"Gure-san, what's she doing?"
The pair had just entered on an unfortunate day – Modeling day, and Mine was the one modeling. Shigure took one look (anime styled blue lines formed on the left side of his head) and said, "You don't want to know."
"Gure-san, where's her clothes?"
"Just shut it, Akito."
"Why hello there, Gure-san!"
Ayame stated, fluttering out his hair behind him, and ignoring the scene with Mine completely.
"We came to dress up Ralph!" Akito declared, before turning around, "Ralph?"
Ralph had been caught in the door of the shop, and in Akito's ear he could hear him whine. Akito screamed, sank to the ground, and burst into tears until Shigure rescued Ralph.
"Ralph is hurt!" Akito wailed, rubbing the cup up and down the side of his face, seemingly trying to comfort it.
"Well we'll go to the vet then, Akito." Shigure said, trying to shut the wailing up. Even Mine was getting annoyed.
At the vet
Akito shoved Ralph into the face of the lady at the front desk, his face still wet from crying. The Lady at the front desk got a bit worried, considering Akito was nineteen, and stated, "What's this?"
"Ralph!" Akito stated, "And he's hurt! He got caught in the door!"
The lady looked like she was about to speak, but she met the pleading eyes of Shigure, who had just come in, and stated. "I'm… afraid we're to late."
Akito blinked, "Too… late?"
"He's to badly hurt, he has to be put to sleep. See this slit?" She picked up Ralph, and pointed to a little slit on the bottom of the cup, "It's going to make him bleed to death!"
Akito wailed again, and the woman went away with Ralph, and brought him back three minutes later in a box.
Akito cried the entire time, and because he was so upset, he felt like eating something. In the end Ralph's box went into the ground empty.
Look out for Ralph in future stories! Whoo! Ralph!