Slime

A month after Kino was expelled (much to the vast majority's pleasure), the school was a lot better. Everyone was much happier without Kino around.

Kisshu had just turned seven, and he was getting bored at school. As he sat in class, he thought up a new prank idea, and smirked.

The next day, he teleported six buckets of homemade slime to the teachers' lounge, and started dripping it everywhere. When he was done, he still had one bucket left, and he balanced it on top of the door. Then he teleported the rest of the buckets back to the closet he had found them in (which happened to be the school janitor's closet).

Finished, he went to class, arriving right on time for once. "What's the occasion?" his teacher asked dryly.

"Did you want me to be late?" Kisshu asked.

"No, go take a seat," the teacher sighed. Kisshu went over to his desk and sat down.

The morning was pretty boring, but finally it was lunchtime, and Kisshu headed off to eat.

Halfway through lunch, the whole cafeteria heard a loud, piercing scream. Actually, the whole school heard it, and kids started running out to the hallway as the principal and the second-grade teacher came storming down the hall- covered in green slime. Everyone ran for it, some of the littler kids yelling, "Slime monsters! RUN!"

The others didn't need to be told twice, and soon all the students were hiding outside.

Standing with Pai and some of the older boys, Kisshu heard the principal yell, "IKISATASHI KISSHU, GET YOUR BUTT OUT HERE NOW!"

Pai looked at Kisshu, and asked, "What did you do NOW?"

"Um… I may have possibly brought six buckets of slime to school and 'redecorated' the teacher's lounge before class…." Kisshu said.

"That's gross," Pai said dryly. "WHY would you do something like that?"

"I was bored," Kisshu said.

"Kisshu, I think you're going to top the charts for pranks," one of the older boys said. Kisshu grinned proudly.

Pai sighed and asked, "Are you going to face the music?"

"I think I'll make Dinosaur Lady catch me first," Kisshu said. He stepped out of his hiding place, and the principal spotted him.

"Kisshu, you are in major trouble," she shouted. "Get over here!"

"You're going to have to catch me first, Dinosaur Lady!" Kisshu said gleefully, and ran off.

The principal teleported in front of him, and Kisshu teleported behind her, then kept running. The principal teleported in front of him again, and Kisshu skidded to a stop this time. The principal grabbed his arm and dragged him off. "Can you let go of me? You're slimy," Kisshu said.

"And whose fault is that?" the principal growled.

"Akio-sensei's; he's more boring than Jinko-sensei, and if he hadn't bored me half to death, I wouldn't have had to come up with some entertainment," Kisshu said.

"He's not the one who covered the teachers' lounge in slime," the principal commented. "Let's go, your mother is waiting in the office."

Kisshu sighed as the principal then teleported to the office. Sure enough, Anzu was waiting, and she sighed when she saw Kisshu. "Kisshu, why do you do this?" she asked wearily.

"I get bored with Akio-sensei droning on like a robot, and the other teachers are evil, so I decided that their lives will never be the same," Kisshu said. "Besides, I'm very playful; it's just my nature."

"Your punishment is to clean up the teachers' lounge," the principal said.

"Fine, but then I'm going to make it nicer," Kisshu said. "It's BORING."

"What does 'nicer' entail?" the principal asked warily.

"The walls need repainting, and the whole set-up is boring too," Kisshu said. "I'll go start that." He teleported out, and the principal and Anzu sighed.

"I'm sorry," Anzu said after a minute. "Higashi and I just can't seem to get through to him."

"Well, as long as he doesn't hurt anyone, I won't consider serious punishments," the principal said.

"Thank you," Anzu said, and teleported out.

Meanwhile, Kisshu was cleaning up the teacher's lounge. It took him about two hours, and then he got to work on redecorating.

When he was done, he looked around, and went to find the principal. She was in her office, and she looked up to see Kisshu grinning at her. "Dinosaur Lady, I finished cleaning and redecorating the teachers' lounge," he said proudly. "Come see!"

The principal warily followed him back to the teachers' lounge, and went in. Her jaw dropped as she took in what Kisshu had done.

All the walls were painted spring green, with white trim. The kitchen area was clean, and the furniture had been rearranged. The sofa and arm chairs were clustered around a low table, and the dining table had been pushed against the wall, and had a tablecloth on it. Arranged on the table were the books, magazines, and various other odds and ends, all neatly placed in piles. "Kisshu, this is incredible," the principal said. "You did all of this?"

"My pet Chimera Anima helped," Kisshu said. "He went off to explore the school, but he said he'd go home after he was done exploring."

"I didn't know you had a pet," the principal said.

"His name is Chomp," Kisshu said. "'Cause that's what happens when people irritate me- he chomps them. Didn't you wonder why Kino always had bruises?"

"Uh…." the principal said. "This isn't an imaginary friend, right?"

Kisshu smirked and snapped his fingers. A blue rabbit appeared, and grinned at the principal, showing off large fangs. The principal screamed and teleported off. Kisshu snickered, and let the illusion disappear. Then he teleported back home.

He found his parents waiting, and asked, "What's up?"

"Your principal claims you have a pet Chimera," Higashi said.

"Oh, that?" Kisshu asked. "It was an illusion I created to scare her. I thought it was funny."

"She didn't, though, so I'll take you to apologize," Higashi said sternly. He took Kisshu's hand and teleported back to the office.

"Did you find it?" the principal asked upon seeing them.

"According to Kisshu, that was just an illusion he created to scare you," Higashi said. He looked at Kisshu and said, "Kisshu, what do you say?"

"I'm sorry for using my newfound abilities to terrorize you," Kisshu said. "But don't you think it was kind of cute?"

"With foot-long fangs? NO, I do not," the principal said.

"So if my fangs grow out a bit more, you'll be scared of me too?" Kisshu asked hopefully.

"Alright, time to go home," Higashi said. "I'm sure your mom has dinner ready."

"Have a nice evening," the principal said.

"Thanks," Higashi said, and teleported off with Kisshu.

Another chapter. The slime was requested by Charlie'Rocker, so thanks! Please review, minna!