p class="MsoNormal" Xiren hummed softly while she hung garland from the ceiling beams in the living room. Standing on the step ladder in heels probably wasn't the best idea in her life, but she did buy twenty five pairs of shoes for the month and she wanted to wear all of them. Besides her heeled boots matched the cute two piece female Santa suit she had been dying to wear. Just as she was ready to put the last bit of the string of garland on the beam when someone grabbed her from behind and pulled her into their arms./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Hmmm…that's quite an outfit." Ryu's voice practically purred in her ear as he pulled his lover to his chest./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Ryu! Damnit I was almost done with that strand." Xiren squirmed in his embrace as she watched the carefully hung garland fall to the floor./p
p class="MsoNormal" "It's your own fault for wearing such tempting clothes." Ryu pulled his lover to his bare chest and slid his hand up her leg and toyed with the fluffy black faux fur of the mini skirt./p
p class="MsoNormal" "R-Ryu! I'm trying to decorate for the holidays." Xiren finally wiggled her way out of her lover's grasp and sighed at the ruined work before her. Before she could start redoing her work, she heard a shattering crash from the staircase. Worried someone was hurt, she turned to the staircase and saw Naiki looking over the railing with an 'oops' shape to his lips. With a despairing sigh, she looked at the floor and saw a red glass ornament shattered on the ground./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Sorry Xiren. I was trying to take it off the bannister so I could use it for a jar to preserve my newest pair of eyes in." Naiki apologized as he looked down at the glass ball now shattered on the ground./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Naiki, please explain to me why my you were using my Christmas ornament to store your eyes." Xiren's voice was a little strained as the once gorgeous snowflake shaped glass ornament now lay in shiny fragments on the ground./p
p class="MsoNormal" "I thought the red and green eyes I acquired last night were festive enough to make an ornament from." Naiki smiled proudly and Xiren sighed. He thought he was doing a good thing so she couldn't really punish him. At least he was getting into the spirit as it were./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Just clean it up please. I spent hours placing those decorations." Xiren sighed as she saw more of her decorative work ruined. Niaki ran down the stairs and went to the kitchen to get the broom and sweep up the glass. Just as the young fox's tail disappeared into the kitchen, Kouta appeared form his room and elegantly descended the stairs./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Oh this is quite quaint. Very festive Miss Xiren." Kouta smiled seductively at his teacher as he caught sight of her outfit./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Thank you Kouta." Xiren smiled at her student and heard a growl come from behind her./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Quit flirting with my woman, Kouta." Ryu let go of his lover and stood facing his housemate. Kouta turned his seductive smile to the larger man to further irritate him. Before the two could go much further with their banter, Naiki returned with the broom and started sweeping up the mess. As the student cleaned up another figure made his way down the stairs./p
p class="MsoNormal" "This is really cute Miss Xiren. I love it, can I help decorate?" Atraiyuu excitedly made his way down the stairs and his eyes sparkled with happiness as he saw all of the festive decorations./p
p class="MsoNormal" "There's my sweetheart. Will you help me put this garland back up on the beams?" Xiren smiled at the relief of having someone to help him./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Go find something else to do angel boy. If anyone's helping my woman it's me." Ryu growled at Atraiyuu. The angelic wolf smiled at his housemate and happily picked up some ornaments from one of the boxes scattered on the floor. With a smile and a happily wagging tail he started hanging the glass ornaments in the window./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Atraiyuu you shouldn't hang those colors together." Kouta criticized the wolf's work and moved over to help him. Naiki took the glass shards to the trash and came back with a smile./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Can I put eyes in all of these ornaments? I have plenty of green and red ones." His tail wagged as he started rifling through various boxes of glass baubles./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Naiki that's a sweet offer, but no thank you." The fox pouted a little as Xiren refused his offer. With a sigh he watched what everyone was doing and started hanging some garland along the shelves. Things were going smoothly with the decorating until Kouta decided he didn't like the way Naiki was mixing red garland with silver garland. Kouta stood behind the young fox and removed all of the carefully placed silver garland./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Kouta! Get away from me!" He pushed the violet eyed man away from him and into Ryu. As the dog student knocked into the larger wolf student who was rehanging the garland for Xiren and the garland once again fell to the ground./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Stupid mutt." Ryu growled at Kouta as his hard work fell apart before his eyes./p
p class="MsoNormal" "My apologies Ryu. The ungrateful fox pushed me away from helping him." Kouta looked over at Naiki who was glaring at him./p
p class="MsoNormal" "You were ruining my decorations!" Naiki fired back at the flirtatious man./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Kouta I'm sure this is your fault." Ryu glared at his housemate and growled as he dropped the garland in his hands and moved toward the offending dog./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Ah! Don't fight. Let's just clean this up and start decorating again." Atraiyuu stepped between the two men and tried to diffuse the situation./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Move angel boy." Ryu pushed Atraiyuu out of his way and as the sweet wolf stumbled backwards he knocked a box of glass ornaments on the ground. Before he could apologize for knocking the box over, Ryu tackled the offending flirtatious dog. The two tussled on the ground for a moment and knocked over another box of ornaments. Xiren watched in horror as more of her lovely ornaments were destroyed./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Enough! All of you out!" Xiren shouted at her students and they froze. With a sheepish look on their faces Ryu and Kouta stood up and faced Xiren. Kouta opened his mouth to apologize, but Xiren made a motion with her hand to cut him off. "Go do some Christmas shopping or something. Just get out!" Without argument the boys pulled their fur coats form the closet and filed out the door. When Xiren was mad their dinner was always in jeopardy so they used her as a mediator since none of them could cook./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Thanks a lot Kouta. Now we are out in the cold and Mix is busy with his brothers." Naiki pouted as he stood outside with his housemates./p
p class="MsoNormal" "You are welcome, but if you had let me fix your mistake Naiki we would be warm inside." Kouta smiled seductively at the fox student as he replied and moved closer to the young man./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Wah! Stay away from me." Naiki hid behind Ryu./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Shut it already you two! Atraiyuu what is this Christmas shopping we are supposed to do?" Ryu growled at Kouta and Naiki before turning to Atraiyuu./p
p class="MsoNormal" "It's traditional to buy gifts for your loved ones and give them to said loved ones on December twenty fifth." Atraiyuu happily explained with a bright smile./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Isn't that the Winter Solstice?" Kouta asked the angel./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Yes but the meaning changes depending on your religion."/p
p class="MsoNormal" "Whatever the day is, is irrelevant. We might as well get these gifts or Xiren won't cook for us." Ryu growled as he folded his arms. "Atraiyuu explain what we are supposed to do and let's get this over with."/p
p class="MsoNormal" "Alright, we'll need to split up so we can buy gifts for each other. We should also agree on what gifts we are getting for Xiren and each other. Don't want to get the same gifts." Atraiyuu instructed his housemates in gift shopping. The group conferred with each other for a moment to coordinate gifts for similar people and went their separate ways. /p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal" "Hmmm…that's quite an outfit." Ryu's voice practically purred in her ear as he pulled his lover to his chest./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Ryu! Damnit I was almost done with that strand." Xiren squirmed in his embrace as she watched the carefully hung garland fall to the floor./p
p class="MsoNormal" "It's your own fault for wearing such tempting clothes." Ryu pulled his lover to his bare chest and slid his hand up her leg and toyed with the fluffy black faux fur of the mini skirt./p
p class="MsoNormal" "R-Ryu! I'm trying to decorate for the holidays." Xiren finally wiggled her way out of her lover's grasp and sighed at the ruined work before her. Before she could start redoing her work, she heard a shattering crash from the staircase. Worried someone was hurt, she turned to the staircase and saw Naiki looking over the railing with an 'oops' shape to his lips. With a despairing sigh, she looked at the floor and saw a red glass ornament shattered on the ground./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Sorry Xiren. I was trying to take it off the bannister so I could use it for a jar to preserve my newest pair of eyes in." Naiki apologized as he looked down at the glass ball now shattered on the ground./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Naiki, please explain to me why my you were using my Christmas ornament to store your eyes." Xiren's voice was a little strained as the once gorgeous snowflake shaped glass ornament now lay in shiny fragments on the ground./p
p class="MsoNormal" "I thought the red and green eyes I acquired last night were festive enough to make an ornament from." Naiki smiled proudly and Xiren sighed. He thought he was doing a good thing so she couldn't really punish him. At least he was getting into the spirit as it were./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Just clean it up please. I spent hours placing those decorations." Xiren sighed as she saw more of her decorative work ruined. Niaki ran down the stairs and went to the kitchen to get the broom and sweep up the glass. Just as the young fox's tail disappeared into the kitchen, Kouta appeared form his room and elegantly descended the stairs./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Oh this is quite quaint. Very festive Miss Xiren." Kouta smiled seductively at his teacher as he caught sight of her outfit./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Thank you Kouta." Xiren smiled at her student and heard a growl come from behind her./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Quit flirting with my woman, Kouta." Ryu let go of his lover and stood facing his housemate. Kouta turned his seductive smile to the larger man to further irritate him. Before the two could go much further with their banter, Naiki returned with the broom and started sweeping up the mess. As the student cleaned up another figure made his way down the stairs./p
p class="MsoNormal" "This is really cute Miss Xiren. I love it, can I help decorate?" Atraiyuu excitedly made his way down the stairs and his eyes sparkled with happiness as he saw all of the festive decorations./p
p class="MsoNormal" "There's my sweetheart. Will you help me put this garland back up on the beams?" Xiren smiled at the relief of having someone to help him./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Go find something else to do angel boy. If anyone's helping my woman it's me." Ryu growled at Atraiyuu. The angelic wolf smiled at his housemate and happily picked up some ornaments from one of the boxes scattered on the floor. With a smile and a happily wagging tail he started hanging the glass ornaments in the window./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Atraiyuu you shouldn't hang those colors together." Kouta criticized the wolf's work and moved over to help him. Naiki took the glass shards to the trash and came back with a smile./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Can I put eyes in all of these ornaments? I have plenty of green and red ones." His tail wagged as he started rifling through various boxes of glass baubles./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Naiki that's a sweet offer, but no thank you." The fox pouted a little as Xiren refused his offer. With a sigh he watched what everyone was doing and started hanging some garland along the shelves. Things were going smoothly with the decorating until Kouta decided he didn't like the way Naiki was mixing red garland with silver garland. Kouta stood behind the young fox and removed all of the carefully placed silver garland./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Kouta! Get away from me!" He pushed the violet eyed man away from him and into Ryu. As the dog student knocked into the larger wolf student who was rehanging the garland for Xiren and the garland once again fell to the ground./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Stupid mutt." Ryu growled at Kouta as his hard work fell apart before his eyes./p
p class="MsoNormal" "My apologies Ryu. The ungrateful fox pushed me away from helping him." Kouta looked over at Naiki who was glaring at him./p
p class="MsoNormal" "You were ruining my decorations!" Naiki fired back at the flirtatious man./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Kouta I'm sure this is your fault." Ryu glared at his housemate and growled as he dropped the garland in his hands and moved toward the offending dog./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Ah! Don't fight. Let's just clean this up and start decorating again." Atraiyuu stepped between the two men and tried to diffuse the situation./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Move angel boy." Ryu pushed Atraiyuu out of his way and as the sweet wolf stumbled backwards he knocked a box of glass ornaments on the ground. Before he could apologize for knocking the box over, Ryu tackled the offending flirtatious dog. The two tussled on the ground for a moment and knocked over another box of ornaments. Xiren watched in horror as more of her lovely ornaments were destroyed./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Enough! All of you out!" Xiren shouted at her students and they froze. With a sheepish look on their faces Ryu and Kouta stood up and faced Xiren. Kouta opened his mouth to apologize, but Xiren made a motion with her hand to cut him off. "Go do some Christmas shopping or something. Just get out!" Without argument the boys pulled their fur coats form the closet and filed out the door. When Xiren was mad their dinner was always in jeopardy so they used her as a mediator since none of them could cook./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Thanks a lot Kouta. Now we are out in the cold and Mix is busy with his brothers." Naiki pouted as he stood outside with his housemates./p
p class="MsoNormal" "You are welcome, but if you had let me fix your mistake Naiki we would be warm inside." Kouta smiled seductively at the fox student as he replied and moved closer to the young man./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Wah! Stay away from me." Naiki hid behind Ryu./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Shut it already you two! Atraiyuu what is this Christmas shopping we are supposed to do?" Ryu growled at Kouta and Naiki before turning to Atraiyuu./p
p class="MsoNormal" "It's traditional to buy gifts for your loved ones and give them to said loved ones on December twenty fifth." Atraiyuu happily explained with a bright smile./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Isn't that the Winter Solstice?" Kouta asked the angel./p
p class="MsoNormal" "Yes but the meaning changes depending on your religion."/p
p class="MsoNormal" "Whatever the day is, is irrelevant. We might as well get these gifts or Xiren won't cook for us." Ryu growled as he folded his arms. "Atraiyuu explain what we are supposed to do and let's get this over with."/p
p class="MsoNormal" "Alright, we'll need to split up so we can buy gifts for each other. We should also agree on what gifts we are getting for Xiren and each other. Don't want to get the same gifts." Atraiyuu instructed his housemates in gift shopping. The group conferred with each other for a moment to coordinate gifts for similar people and went their separate ways. /p
p class="MsoNormal" /p