That Stupid Bug!

Lance!

Shiro arrived at the lab Pidge and Hunk were working in, he was quite confused right after the exchange between him and Lance, he arrived at the lab the castle ship had to notice how Hunk and Pidge weren't alone anymore since Allura and Coran had joined them, looking at their progress and inspecting the bug curiously. "Uh... Pidge" Shiro knocked on the door frame of the lab "Ah! Shiro, you're back!" Pidge exclaimed "anything new?" she asked "Yeah actually, Lance was acting very weird during the interview" Shiro walked over to pidge and handed her the electronic notepad, Pidge read through it carefully but quickly, she frowned and handed back the notepad to Shiro. Pidge went back to the control panel "Where's Lance?" Pidge asked without looking up to Shiro. "Uh... I don't know? He left the lounge right after the last question..." Shiro said shrugging "Is it that bad?" he asked "Not really, but I don't know what the bug does with the venom or how long it lasts" Pidge said "I'll need to keep studying it, I should know by tomorrow how long this is going to last" she said. Pidge adjusted her glasses and went back to work, Shiro was still very confused, he didn't know what to do now, maybe he could also go train or just finally have some free time for himself, his train of thought was broken when Keith entered the laboratory running bayard still in his hand, he frantically clicked the pad right next to the door of the laboratory and closed it, locking it too. "Keith are you okay?" Shiro asked as he saw his little brother puffing and taking big gulps of air "I-It's Lance" Keith said, he was still pretty shaken up and breathing in and out in a frantic motion but from there he was fine. "What did he do?!" Shiro asked his question slightly tinted with anger "H-he just got really touchy Shiro" Keith stopped to breath "It's fine, I-I'm fine, just a little bit shaken up... ya know" Keith said shrugging, he didn't look up to Shiro though. "Keith" Shiro said "Let me see your face" He demanded, Keith became stiff at that moment "N-No" Keith replied, he crossed his arms and turned his face away from Shiro "Keith" Shiro called him in a serious tone "Let me see it, I'm not asking you" Shiro demanded once again "I-It's" Keith stopped mid-sentence "It's embarrassing" he said tightening the grip on his arms.

Keith obliged, it was too embarrassing to show and tell his big brother what had happened when Lance came to the training room. Shiro put both of his hands on Keith's shoulders noticing how stiff he had become at the motion "Keith, please" Shiro asked softly, "F-fine" the stubborn paladin surprisingly replied, he took a deep breath and turned to look at Shiro. The first thing Shiro saw was Keith's pale face a deep shade of red, then he noticed how Keith's lips were red and puffy, Pidge looked over but was immediately thrown into a fit of laughter when she saw Keith's face, she stood up from her table and ran over to Keith and Shiro, she couldn't contain her snickering and giggling, Keith frowned when he saw her quickly pulling out her phone "Wa-Wait!" Keith exclaimed when he realised what Pidge was doing but it was too late, the picture was taken and Pidge was laughing, even more, Keith scoffed and his face turned even redder than it was before "Pidge, please delete that" Shiro asked her softly, Pidge snickered alongside Hunk who had just seen the picture "Huh, yeah okay" she said still giggling "Shiroooo" Keith cried "she's not going to delete it!" the red paladin exclaimed in annoyance and anger. He once again struck his signature pose of crossing his arms and scoffing, suddenly a knock was heard at the door which completely scared Keith, he immediately ran away from the door and went searching for a hiding spot, "Keith, what on earth are you doing?" Shiro asked, "I can't fa-face him!" Keith exclaimed, his face going a deep shade of red "To-too embarrassing" the paladin hushly said still searching for a hiding spot, the door slid open and all of the crew of the castle ship could clearly see who it was. Keith yelped and ran over to his big brother, he hid behind him only poking a little bit of his head out so he could see, Shiro lifted up his arms a bit for Keith to have more space or to see better, whichever one the red paladin chose, he looked over his shoulder to see Keith looking over his torso and to the door, then their eyes met, Keith's eyes were filled with embarrassment and nervousness, Shiro looked at him with pity and then turned back to the door, there he was, Lance McClain, inspecting the room until his eyes laid on Shiro.

Once Lance noted his presence he frowned then turned his sight away from deciding to look somewhere else "Donde esta Keith?" he asked in his mother tongue, Hunk looked at Lance and shrugged, Pidge was dying from a fit of laughter, Allura and Coran were mesmerized at the thought of Lance knowing a foreign language and Shiro just tried his best to hide an embarrassed Keith behind his back. "Uh..." Shiro was the first to actually speak out or well manage to say something (not counting Pidge since she was almost crying due to holding back her laughter) Lance looked over to him and eyed him once again "Tú sabes dónde está?" Lance asked pointing a finger at Shiro "Uhm" Shiro replied and looked over his shoulder to see Keith "Uh..." he muttered, he really didn't want to give away that his little brother was behind him so Shiro tired his best to keep him hidden "Wh-what do you mean? I can't understand" Shiro said and shrugged, Lance huffed and rolled his eyes, "Where's Keith?" he asked once again but in English, now understandable to Shiro. Shiro stiffened, he thought he could actually keep Lance questioning him but he was wrong, there was only one thing left to at least try "ランス, キースは私の後ろにいる" Shiro sheepishly said in Japanese, Lance frowned when he couldn't understand Shiro said in his mother tongue "Are you speaking in Japanese?" Lance asked demandingly placing hands on his hips "はい" Shiro said shrugging. Lance's frowned deepened until he noticed some hands creeping behind Shiro's back "Keith?" the blue paladin questioned, a yelp was heard along with the quick retracting of the hands from Lance's field of view "Keith, vamos" Lance said looking behind Shiro but Keith had already moved away from his hiding spot and was now in front of Shiro. Shiro uncomfortably lifted his arms up to give the paladins more room but he definitely wanted to be pulled away from the situation then, the situation worsened, Keith and Lance started running around him in a circle like little children, Shiro sighed the only thought running through his mind being 'patience yields focus' as he frowned.

A/N: Long time no see wattpad! I'm back with a new chapter of a bug bit me and hope y'all like it, I'd help a lot if y'all could recommend me a way to make Shiro and Keith's dialogue seem more authentic and not use things such as google translate.

Translations:

"ランス, キースは私の後ろにいる" - Lance, Keith is behind me (Lance translates to "Reims" in japanese and idk why)

"はい" - Yes

"Keith, vamos" - Keith let's go