Disclaimer: I do not own No. 6.
A/N: I'm finally able to update again! Thank you so much to Eveyleinchen for the very kind review!
After the hail storm, they thought they'd seen everything. Then they ended up in a blizzard. It was extremely sudden, one second there wasn't a snowflake in sight and the next they were surrounded by them.
Unlike during the earlier incident, however, Shion seemed rather calm for someone in the middle of a blizzard. This was probably because he had stopped the car as soon as he realized what was going on, so at least he didn't have to worry about getting lost or running into anything.
Since Nezumi and Shion were unfazed, Inukashi figured there was no reason to panic. Rikiga, however, started freaking out until Inukashi and Nezumi glared at him. Then the four sat there in silence waiting for the blizzard to end. After about a half hour, Rikiga was bored. For lack of anything else to do, he began telling jokes, and when no one answered him, he just said the punch lines anyway.
When it became clear everyone was ignoring him, Rikiga decided upon another way to relieve his boredom - annoying Nezumi. "Hey, Nezumi, wanna hear the speech I'm gonna give next week?"
"Not really," Nezumi replied. Whenever Rikiga had to give a speech at work he spent several days beforehand reading it to anyone who would listen. And the speeches were generally at least twelve pages long.
"Aw, come on, it's not like there's anything else happening!" Rikiga retorted. "Besides, this one's really good! I spent days writing it!"
"Translation: it's even longer than usual," Inukashi added. She was also bored, and her plan was to annoy Rikiga.
"That has nothing to do with the conversation." stated Rikiga, with a glare towards Inukashi.
"On the contrary, it has everything to do with the conversation," said Inukashi.
Rikiga blinked in confusion, "Wait, what?"
Inukashi laughed at his expression, earning another glare. "You should see your face right now!" she told him between laughs.
"Fine then," Rikiga grumbled, before he came up with another idea to irritate Nezumi, and visibly cheered up. "Well, if you don't want to hear my speech, I'll tell you a story about this one time, when one of my coworkers pulled the most hilarious practical joke on my boss."
Nezumi merely rolled his eyes and wondered when the blizzard was going to clear up.
Inukashi, who was actually curious now, spoke up, "Okay, what happened?"
Before Rikiga could continue, something crashed into the car. "What was that?" Rikiga asked once he recovered from the shock.
"I know I stopped the car," Shion commented, trying in vain to see anything through the several tons of snow swirling around the car.
They heard a muffled shout from somewhere behind them, and Inukashi sighed. "Looks like someone else was driving in the blizzard and ran into us."
Then they heard the sound of a car driving away quickly, and immeniately came to the conclusion that whoever had crashed into them had fled the scene while they had a chance and couldn't be identified.
"You've got to be kidding me," muttered Nezumi.