Disclaimer: I do not own No. 6.
A/N: I know I already wrote a parallel parking chapter... but today someone gave me this idea, and I absolutely had to write it! This is probably the strangest idea Rikiga's ever had in this fanfiction... but it was really fun to write. Thank you so much to Eveyleinchen and Gabby for the extremely kind reviews!
Shion was going to practice parallel parking again, and Rikiga had what he considered a brilliant idea.
"Okay, so we should have some people stand there instead of the trash cans so they can shout a warning if the car's getting too close." Rikiga suggested.
"Isn't that a bit... dangerous?" Shion asked nervously. While he had been able to park between the trash cans without hitting anything several times, he still occasionally hit one accidentally.
"Don't you want to avoid running into the trash cans? This way if you get close someone can tell you to stop." Rikiga replied.
"Well, yes, but..." Shion began.
"That's not a good idea," stated Nezumi bluntly.
"Aww, come on! It's a great idea!" Rikiga insisted.
"Are you volunteering to be one of the people?"
Rikiga paled. "Well, y'know, I figured since I had the brilliant idea, other people should be the ones-"
"You're kidding me, right?" Inukashi demanded. "I am not going to risk my life like that! ... No offense, Shion."
"None taken," Shion assured her, actually looking relieved that she said that.
"What about you, Nezumi?" Rikiga continued, undeterred.
Nezumi just stared at him. "Of course not!"
"Well, I guess we could just ask random people-" Rikiga commented.
"How about we just forget about this crazy idea and use the trash cans?" Inukashi interrupted quickly.
"I agree." Nezumi said immediately. Shion nodded in agreement.
"But- hey, I bet they'd be willing to help!" Rikiga suddenly pointed to a group of unfortunate pedestrians.
"Help with what?" one of them asked.
"Just run while you can," suggested Inukashi helpfully.
"Inukashi! Why would you say that?" complained Rikiga. "You scared off the people that could have-"
"We're using trash cans again." Inukashi stated with an air of finality.