Fan Fiction ❯ Strange Day ❯ The Lobby ( Chapter 2 )

After the… encounter in the elevator, Shino was glad to be in the lobby.

`No one would dare try anything in here!' he thought to himself, fully assured.

But a flying luggage cart changed his mind.

*KLUNK*

The luggage cart smashed into his head, tossing him to the ground.

"Omigawd! I am soooo sorry!"

An American woman with the biggest… hair Shino had ever seen was standing over him when he opened his eyes.

She leaned over him, exposing her… Well, Shino knew.

"Are you awlright?" she asked the disoriented boy, holding out her hand.

Shino, disoriented, reached up to what he thought was her hand.

*THWACK*

Shino went flying into the wall as the American woman tossed her golden-brown hair over her shoulder, and stormed to the elevator, flustered, and muttering to herself under her breath.

"Ooh… My head…" Shino whined, rubbing his head.

He stood up and walked for the door.

Suddenly, from behind, someone grabbed the back of his shirt.

"Hey, get off me!" he said, turning around quickly.

Seeing a man, easily seven feet tall, with huge fingers and a large hammer in one hand, Shino tried his hardest to get away. Instead, all he accomplished was to rip his shirt.

"Kid," the huge man said in a deep, resounding voice, "You shouldn't grab ladies like that."

The big man patted his hammer.

Shino, with his shirt ripped off, looked at the hammer, then back to the man, then at the doors, then back to the hammer.

Feeling bold, Shino puffed his chest up.

"Piss off, y'old fool."

The "old fool" looked at the puny kid quizzically. He was enormous compared to this… this… kid. And the kid told him to piss off.

`Some kids need to be taught with violence' the big man thought.

Shino, seeing the man's look, took the opportunity and ran up the man's leg, jumping off his waist. The man was surprised that a kid like this could move like… that- and he was even more surprised when a roundhouse in the air sent him flying, and caused him to spit out two teeth.

"Dammit kid, you fuckin' dead now."

The huge man stood up, and picked up his huge hammer. He raised it above his head, skimming the ceiling, causing some tiles to fall. Shino easily avoided them, and smirked as the hammer came flying down at great speed. The boy leapt to the left, avoiding the hammer as it came crashing down into the floor, making a small crater. At that exact moment the hammer came crashing down, Shino hopped, as to not be affected by the tremor that escaped the floor. The man shook, and fell down, his hammer flying in the air, spinning, aimed right for the his head. A blur of colour and the hammer spun into the wall, away from the man. Shino, the boy, landed beside the man's head.

"There. Are ya all done attempting to kill me now?" he asked, smirking.

The man looked at the kid, then looked back to the hammer, then to the ceiling, then back to the kid, and fainted from disbelief.

"Ha! Old fool." Shino muttered as he left the lobby, and entered the real world.