Bleach: A Merry Christmas
Chapter 1: Get in the festive spirit
"Mitch, Mitch wake up don't you know what day it is today?" Tom's voice echoed in the shinigami's ears as he groggily opened one eye staring up at his friend standing at the foot of his bed with Ania both wearing a Santa hat as he cocked up one eyebrow "Ermm it's a Saturday so sleep in day?" "No silly it's Christmas" "Oh right" with that he turned over in his bed and closed his eyes "Wake me up in another 2 hours" he grumbled before Ania leapt at him landing on top of him "WAKE UP NOW AND GET INTO THE FESTIVE SPIRIT" she yelled as he groaned "Bah fine you two win happy?"
Slowly standing up he saw a neatly wrapped gift in each of their hands "Err what the hell are those?" "Why your presents of course" Tom said pushing his forward "Merry Christmas" grabbing both of them Ania and Tom stood there waiting as Mitch realised they expected a gift back "You did get us a gift right?" Ania said cocking an eyebrow as Mitch nervously laughed "What haha of course like I'd forget you two they're just stashed away somewhere so wait outside while I get them". As they shut the door he looked around the room "Alright I need to find something inside here that will pass off as a gift" he dreaded to think of Ania's reaction if she knew he didn't get them anything because he forgot". "Think, think there has to be something" he glanced to the floor to find dirty clothes "Nope" his zanpukto Ashura hanging against the wall "Hmmm perhaps" "Don't even think about it" his spirits voice bluntly said as a fiery wolf materialised into the room "Hey I wasn't going to pawn you off for a gift I mean come on you're my zanpukto".
"What the hell do you think is doing in there?" Tom said as both Ania and himself stood outside his front door waiting for him to finish getting dressed. "Personally I could think of many different things he could be doing but I'm hoping none of them are true" Ania said as Tom stared at her confused "What else is there besides getting dressed... you don't think he forgot to get us a gift" "If he did I'll cause him a world of pain". "Like I'd ever forget you guys" Mitch's voice came as the door was opened and he stepped out holding two objects encased in a strange kido like spell "That's a unique way of wrapping presents" "Well in Soul Society it's kind of a thing to use kido to wrap gifts it's a tradition" "Ohhhh fascinating" Tom said staring at the yellow sphere encasing his present "I'll have to remember that for next year when I give out gifts".
"Well, well open your gifts" Ania said as Mitch tore off the red wrapping paper around the gift with a card saying to Mitch from Ania. Pulling the remaining piece off he held up a pair of black sunglasses "Hey cool sunnies I haven't worn them since I was back in the real world" "I figured since you always wore them back there you might have missed them". In response Mitch had already put them despite the fact it was an over cast day and was snowing as Ania shook her head "I regret this idea already".
Next was Tom's gift as he noticed it was shaped like a bottle and could only guess what it was as he tore the wrapping paper free and found himself staring at a bottle of vodka "IT'S ALCOHOL FROM BACK IN THE REAL WORLD" Tom was grinning widely as Mitch sighed "I could only expect nothing less from you" "Now maybe you can get drunk with me for once!"
"Now let's open Mitch's gift!" Tom said smashing the kido barrier around his present as a bottle of sake appeared falling into his hands. "Alcohol how did you guess that's what I wanted!" "Lucky guess" Ania peered over "Hey why does it have your name on the bottle is this yours?" "Oh heh well that's just a personal message to Tom so he knows who it is from" "Well wasn't that considerate". "Phew he fell for that" Mitch thought to himself as he recalled glancing around the room frantically before his eyes rested on the bottle of sake he was preparing to drink later and sighed "The things I do for friends".
"Alright Ania open yours now" Tom said watching as Ania shattered the kido spell as a set of sharpened throwing knives came toppling out. "Figured you could use them during fighting or something" raising an eyebrow Ania pulled one out staring at it "Hmmm they are rather useful and I can always hurl them at you instead of kido spells if you annoy me" "Yeah I so totally thought of that as well... (Damn what did I get myself into)". Mitch remembered after finding Tom's gift he spotted a set of throwing knives he used at the academy and sighed "There's nothing really else she'd appreciate and besides I can buy some more".