A Happy Holiday
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Hey! It's Lobsterblue22 here! First off, I just want to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone! Hope your holiday season is awesome! Since I was in the holiday spirit I decided to do a little something featured around the holidays. This story is mostly focused on Botan and Kurama, but the other characters will be in most of it. It's Christmas time and Botan only really wants one thing; Kurama. What she doesn't know is that Kurama is planning to tell her how he feels about her. See how it turns out in this story featuring romance, comedy and good holiday fun!
Okay, now I can babble about whatever! I diffidently need to talk about the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Omg! That movie has to be the BEST movie on earth! Just a warning: Bring Tissue! I was balling the last half- hour of the movie! It was just, I can't even find the words! If you haven't seen it yet, I strongly recommend that you go and see it! I was not disappointed at all during the movie! I laughed, I cried, both at the same time! Well, I feel that I have done my good deed for the day! Trust me, if you are into the LotR then you will LOVE this movie!
Oh, and if you are one of the people who have been reading my other story, 'Girls just wanna have fun', don't worry! I am not done with it! I will continue that! And if you haven't read it, please check it our sometime! I have heard from my faithful reviewers that it is very funny!
On to the story!! Enjoy! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Chapter 1 ~*~*~*~*~
(Botan's POV)
"Botan! Come and look at this!"
I glanced over a Keiko. She was staring in one of the many windows that lined the sidewalk. Her face was alight with joy. I walked over to her and looked inside too.
"Oh, wow. That's beautiful!" I exclaimed upon seeing the piece of jewelry Keiko was looking at.
It was a gold bracelet clustered with diamonds all the way around it. Each of the diamonds sparkled with a dazzling light. Displayed beside it were matching earrings and necklace.
"I wish that Yusuke would think to get me something like this. Last year he bought me movies and CDs." Keiko said, with a pout.
It was true that Yusuke didn't really think hard about nice things to get her. He had gotten her jewelry before, of course, but nothing like this. I might just have to have a little chat with him.
"He's just not really the romantic type." Yet, I added to myself.
"Well, anyway, what's on the list next?" Keiko looked away from the jewelry to me.
I pulled out the list I had written this morning. Keiko and I, along with Yukina, were planning a Christmas party at Keiko's house. So, we had to buy decorations, food and whatever else we would need. So far we had only managed to order a Christmas ice-cream cake. We kept getting distracted by all of the windows displaying wonderful gifts for sale.
"Next would be the table cloth, placemats, and centerpiece." I read from the list.
Keiko had planned a huge dinner for all of our friends. It was defidenly going to be weird sitting down to a nice meal at the same table as Hiei. And his new 'friend' as he put it. Lately we have been seeing him hanging around a girl with deep, blue eyes and long, blonde hair. For the longest time he never introduced her to us, saying she was just a friend. When we finally did meet her we found out her name was Kira. She seemed very nice and fond of Hiei. When Keiko invited her to the party Hiei actually blushed!
"How many place mats are we gonna need?" Keiko thought outloud.
"I'm still not sure if Shizuru is coming. Should I call her and ask?"
"Yeah, do you have your cell phone?"
I nodded while opening my purse. I pulled out my purple cell phone and turned it on. Instantly it beeped, telling me that I had a new message. Two new messages, actually.
"Just a sec, I have messages." Keiko nodded and turned back to the window to admire the jewelry.
The first one was from Yusuke.
'Hey Botan, it's me! I need you to, OW! Hey, get off me you dumbass! Sorry, stupid Kuwabara. Anyways, I need you to give me ideas for Keiko. I have no clue what to get her and I don't want to disappoint her again. Why are girls so hard to by for!? I only have three more days! Well, g'bye! Damn it! Kuwabara! I am gonna kill you! Yeah right Urameshi! Haha!'
I laughed at my friends when the message ended. They're goofballs. I have no doubt that Kuwabara was trying to piss Yusuke off on purpose.
The next message, to my surprise, was from Kurama.
'Hello Botan. I have a question concerning the party. When do you want us there by? I can come early if you girls need help getting ready. Oh, and Yukina wanted me to tell you that she remembered that you guys are going to need eggnog. That is all, sorry to bother you. Seeya later.'
Always the gentleman, I thought, smiling. He was the kindest person I have ever met.
"Hey, Keiko. Yukina wants us to buy eggnog too."
"I'm surprised we didn't think of that before."
"I'm gonna call Shizuru now." I pressed the '3' on my phone, I have all of my friends on speed dial. The phone started to ring.
"Who was the other message from Botan?" Keiko asked.
"Um, Oh hold on, someone picked up!" I sighed mentally.
'Hello?'
"Hi Shizuru! How are you?"
'Awake now, thanks to you.'
"Oh! You were sleeping? Sorry, I just have a quick question."
'Yeah, what is it?' she yawned.
"Will you be coming to the party?"
'I didn't tell you yet? Oh, yeah, I forgot! Me and a friend are going on road trip. So, no, I'm not gonna be able to go. We're leaving tomorrow.'
"Oh that's ok! Hope you have fun! Seeya when you get back!"
There was a click, then silence.
"She can't go. She's going on a road trip."
"Aww. I was really hoping she could be there with us!" Keiko said.
"Yeah, so we're only gonna need, eight place mats?"
"That sounds about right. Shall we?" Keiko asked, holding her arm out to me. I smiled and hooked mine in hers.
We headed towards the mall in search of place mats. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"And why am I here again?" a very annoyed Hiei complained.
"Because you need to get out more. You need to experience the joy of Christmas shopping." Kurama answered simply.
"I get out enough for my liking. And this whole crazed Christmas shopping thing doesn't make sense."
"Why not?" Kurama stopped outside a café, debating whether or not they should get something to eat.
"I don't see why people act like lunatics while they're shopping. In the last store we were in, an old lady knocked some guy out with her cane just to get a toy."
Kurama laughed. He pulled open the café door.
"I just hope you don't start acting like a maniac someday." Hiei said, walking through the door.
"Why do you think I would?" Kurama asked, puzzled by his friend's statement.
"You've been around these humans too long. You're starting to act, weird."
They seated themselves at a table next to the window. There were only a few people in the café. An elderly couple drinking tea and talking about what to get their grandchildren, a mother with her two twin daughters, and a man in a business suit, probably on his break.
"How so, Hiei?"
"You get all hyped up around these 'holidays'. Buying people things and acting all nice to people you don't know."
"It's the holiday spirit, Hiei. And don't forget that you have to buy presents too. One for whoever's name you pulled out of the hat, and you should buy one for Kira. By the way, how is she?" Kurama asked with a smile.
"Shut up Fox."
A waitress came and asked what they wanted to drink.
"We'll both have hot chocolate please." Kurama answered politely.
"That secret santa thing is stupid." Hiei mumbled.
"Why? Who did you get?"
A sour look came onto Hiei's face.
"I got the moron." He said with a scowl.
Kurama started laughing. The fact that Hiei was just unlucky enough to get the orange haired human and the look on his face was too much for the fox.
"It's not that funny. It's not funny at all." Hiei said.
"Right. Sorry. So, what are you going to get him?" Kurama asked still smiling.
"A good ass-kicking."
"Hiei."
"I don't know what that moron likes!"
"Why don't you ask Yusuke? I'm sure he could give you some ideas."
"I don't want to buy him anything. He doesn't deserve anything. Accept for that ass-kicking."
Their hot chocolate was served and Kurama ordered a bowl of chicken and rice soup. Hiei ordered the special, which was a BLT with a side of cole slaw.
"Hiei, just go and buy him a shirt or something. We can only spend $25 on our person anyways."
"What are you getting your person?"
Kurama had chosen Botan's name out of the hat. He was happy with that, but didn't know what to get her. He didn't want to get her something dumb, he wanted to give her something she would like, something special.
"I honestly don't know."
"Hn. This after you have been bugging me for the past 10 minutes."
"I have Botan."
With that simple sentence, Hiei realized why Kurama was having a hard time with her gift. He knew of the fox's feelings towards the blue haired girl. He knew that Kurama had liked her for the longest time.
"Get her some frilly, pink, girly thing and she'll be happy."
"It's not that easy Hiei. I want it to be something that she'll love."
"She's not even gonna know that it's from you, so why does it matter?"
"Good question, why does it matter? Kuwabara's not gonna know it's from you so just get him something."
"Here ya go, boys!" The waitress set their food in front of them.
"Thank you. Uh, miss?" Kurama asked.
"Yes?"
"Do you have a minute? I would like to ask you a question."
"Sure, hun. What is it?"
"Well, me and my friends are doing a secret santa thing and the person that I got is someone really special to me. A girl. We can only spend $25 on them and I was wondering if you knew of anything around that price that she would love."
"Hmm. That is kinda tough. I would say find something unique, something that fits that person. A little trinket that would mean something to them. Sorry if that's not the kind of answer you were looking for."
"No, that's great. Thank you for your opinion and you time."
"No problem." She said with a smile.
"Was that helpful?" Hiei asked, his mouth full of his BLT.
"Yes, I believe it was." ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"How 'bout this Keiko?" I asked.
I held up a centerpiece with Christmas little Christmas trees all around it. Inside there was room to put a small pot.
"We could probably put a poinsettia inside, don't you think?"
"That's a great idea Botan! Do you think we will be able to find matching table cloth?"
"I'm sure we could find something."
I placed the centerpiece in the cart.
"What isle are the table cloths in?" Keiko asked, circling around to find an employee to help them.
"Read the isle signs, it's a crafty type store. There has to be a table cloth isle."
"Do you ladies need help finding anything?" the voice from behind us startled us, causing us to jump.
"Sorry, didn't here you sneaking up on us." I said, sarcastically.
"My apologies. Were you looking for something in particular?"
"Yeah, table cloths. Do you have them here?" Keiko asked the man.
"Yes, I believe they are in isle 7. Anything else?"
"Nope! Thanks anyways!" I grabbed Keiko's arm and pulled her away while pushing the cart.
"Man! That guy was creepy!" I said.
"No kidding! I hate when people do that!"
"Now where is isle 7?"
I squinted around the store until I saw a the isle 7 marker hanging from the ceiling, all the way on the other side of the large store. I sighed.
"It's way over there Keiko, and if we're gonna make it there by nightfall, we better get going now!" I joked.
"Ok, just let me pack an over night bag!"
I started laughing. Keiko was so much fun to shop with. ~*~
"What color should we go with?" Keiko asked.
"Well, there's gold, red and green in the cneterpiece, so I guess either of those." I said.
"I didn't know there coul be so many table cloths in one store."
"Yeah, really. Oh! Here look at this! It's almost perfect!"
Keiko came over and looked at the table cloth. It had all three of the colors as on our centerpiece.
"No it is perfect! Good eye, Botan!" Keiko said.
"Here, I'll get it out of here, then we need place mats, and we're out of this hell hole!" I exclaimed.
I grabbed the table cloth, but it wouldn't budge. I pulled again and realized that it was stuck under about 15 million other table cloths. I pulled as hard as I could and it came free.
"Yes!"
Then the worst happened. One table cloth fell at my feet, then another. More kept falling from the shelves, all in their little plastic packages.
"Botan!? What did you do!?" Keiko asked.
I looked around dumbfounded as half of the table cloths on the shelves fell at and on my feet. When they finally stopped falling, there was a pile up to my shin of table cloths.
"We better get out of here!" I said. I stepped out of the pile and dropped our table cloth into the cart.
"We still need place mats!" Keiko pointed out.
Aw, crap! Come on!"
We turned down an isle and lucky us, it was place mats.
"Get gold. There's more green and red in the centerpice and table cloth." I said, pointing to a package of gold palcemats.
We grabbed two packages because they came in packs of four.
"Will that be all?" the cashier asked when we got to the counter.
"Yes." Keiko answered.
I glanced behind us to see if anyone was looking at us. No one was so I flet pretty lucky. Keiko paid the cashier and we got out of there as fast as we could.
Another fun memory. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Well, there ya go! Hope it was good!
Please review and tell me if you like it or not! I am only going to continue this story if enough people tell me they like it, b/c if they don't then there is no point to continue!
Lobsterblue22
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Hey! It's Lobsterblue22 here! First off, I just want to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone! Hope your holiday season is awesome! Since I was in the holiday spirit I decided to do a little something featured around the holidays. This story is mostly focused on Botan and Kurama, but the other characters will be in most of it. It's Christmas time and Botan only really wants one thing; Kurama. What she doesn't know is that Kurama is planning to tell her how he feels about her. See how it turns out in this story featuring romance, comedy and good holiday fun!
Okay, now I can babble about whatever! I diffidently need to talk about the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Omg! That movie has to be the BEST movie on earth! Just a warning: Bring Tissue! I was balling the last half- hour of the movie! It was just, I can't even find the words! If you haven't seen it yet, I strongly recommend that you go and see it! I was not disappointed at all during the movie! I laughed, I cried, both at the same time! Well, I feel that I have done my good deed for the day! Trust me, if you are into the LotR then you will LOVE this movie!
Oh, and if you are one of the people who have been reading my other story, 'Girls just wanna have fun', don't worry! I am not done with it! I will continue that! And if you haven't read it, please check it our sometime! I have heard from my faithful reviewers that it is very funny!
On to the story!! Enjoy! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Chapter 1 ~*~*~*~*~
(Botan's POV)
"Botan! Come and look at this!"
I glanced over a Keiko. She was staring in one of the many windows that lined the sidewalk. Her face was alight with joy. I walked over to her and looked inside too.
"Oh, wow. That's beautiful!" I exclaimed upon seeing the piece of jewelry Keiko was looking at.
It was a gold bracelet clustered with diamonds all the way around it. Each of the diamonds sparkled with a dazzling light. Displayed beside it were matching earrings and necklace.
"I wish that Yusuke would think to get me something like this. Last year he bought me movies and CDs." Keiko said, with a pout.
It was true that Yusuke didn't really think hard about nice things to get her. He had gotten her jewelry before, of course, but nothing like this. I might just have to have a little chat with him.
"He's just not really the romantic type." Yet, I added to myself.
"Well, anyway, what's on the list next?" Keiko looked away from the jewelry to me.
I pulled out the list I had written this morning. Keiko and I, along with Yukina, were planning a Christmas party at Keiko's house. So, we had to buy decorations, food and whatever else we would need. So far we had only managed to order a Christmas ice-cream cake. We kept getting distracted by all of the windows displaying wonderful gifts for sale.
"Next would be the table cloth, placemats, and centerpiece." I read from the list.
Keiko had planned a huge dinner for all of our friends. It was defidenly going to be weird sitting down to a nice meal at the same table as Hiei. And his new 'friend' as he put it. Lately we have been seeing him hanging around a girl with deep, blue eyes and long, blonde hair. For the longest time he never introduced her to us, saying she was just a friend. When we finally did meet her we found out her name was Kira. She seemed very nice and fond of Hiei. When Keiko invited her to the party Hiei actually blushed!
"How many place mats are we gonna need?" Keiko thought outloud.
"I'm still not sure if Shizuru is coming. Should I call her and ask?"
"Yeah, do you have your cell phone?"
I nodded while opening my purse. I pulled out my purple cell phone and turned it on. Instantly it beeped, telling me that I had a new message. Two new messages, actually.
"Just a sec, I have messages." Keiko nodded and turned back to the window to admire the jewelry.
The first one was from Yusuke.
'Hey Botan, it's me! I need you to, OW! Hey, get off me you dumbass! Sorry, stupid Kuwabara. Anyways, I need you to give me ideas for Keiko. I have no clue what to get her and I don't want to disappoint her again. Why are girls so hard to by for!? I only have three more days! Well, g'bye! Damn it! Kuwabara! I am gonna kill you! Yeah right Urameshi! Haha!'
I laughed at my friends when the message ended. They're goofballs. I have no doubt that Kuwabara was trying to piss Yusuke off on purpose.
The next message, to my surprise, was from Kurama.
'Hello Botan. I have a question concerning the party. When do you want us there by? I can come early if you girls need help getting ready. Oh, and Yukina wanted me to tell you that she remembered that you guys are going to need eggnog. That is all, sorry to bother you. Seeya later.'
Always the gentleman, I thought, smiling. He was the kindest person I have ever met.
"Hey, Keiko. Yukina wants us to buy eggnog too."
"I'm surprised we didn't think of that before."
"I'm gonna call Shizuru now." I pressed the '3' on my phone, I have all of my friends on speed dial. The phone started to ring.
"Who was the other message from Botan?" Keiko asked.
"Um, Oh hold on, someone picked up!" I sighed mentally.
'Hello?'
"Hi Shizuru! How are you?"
'Awake now, thanks to you.'
"Oh! You were sleeping? Sorry, I just have a quick question."
'Yeah, what is it?' she yawned.
"Will you be coming to the party?"
'I didn't tell you yet? Oh, yeah, I forgot! Me and a friend are going on road trip. So, no, I'm not gonna be able to go. We're leaving tomorrow.'
"Oh that's ok! Hope you have fun! Seeya when you get back!"
There was a click, then silence.
"She can't go. She's going on a road trip."
"Aww. I was really hoping she could be there with us!" Keiko said.
"Yeah, so we're only gonna need, eight place mats?"
"That sounds about right. Shall we?" Keiko asked, holding her arm out to me. I smiled and hooked mine in hers.
We headed towards the mall in search of place mats. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"And why am I here again?" a very annoyed Hiei complained.
"Because you need to get out more. You need to experience the joy of Christmas shopping." Kurama answered simply.
"I get out enough for my liking. And this whole crazed Christmas shopping thing doesn't make sense."
"Why not?" Kurama stopped outside a café, debating whether or not they should get something to eat.
"I don't see why people act like lunatics while they're shopping. In the last store we were in, an old lady knocked some guy out with her cane just to get a toy."
Kurama laughed. He pulled open the café door.
"I just hope you don't start acting like a maniac someday." Hiei said, walking through the door.
"Why do you think I would?" Kurama asked, puzzled by his friend's statement.
"You've been around these humans too long. You're starting to act, weird."
They seated themselves at a table next to the window. There were only a few people in the café. An elderly couple drinking tea and talking about what to get their grandchildren, a mother with her two twin daughters, and a man in a business suit, probably on his break.
"How so, Hiei?"
"You get all hyped up around these 'holidays'. Buying people things and acting all nice to people you don't know."
"It's the holiday spirit, Hiei. And don't forget that you have to buy presents too. One for whoever's name you pulled out of the hat, and you should buy one for Kira. By the way, how is she?" Kurama asked with a smile.
"Shut up Fox."
A waitress came and asked what they wanted to drink.
"We'll both have hot chocolate please." Kurama answered politely.
"That secret santa thing is stupid." Hiei mumbled.
"Why? Who did you get?"
A sour look came onto Hiei's face.
"I got the moron." He said with a scowl.
Kurama started laughing. The fact that Hiei was just unlucky enough to get the orange haired human and the look on his face was too much for the fox.
"It's not that funny. It's not funny at all." Hiei said.
"Right. Sorry. So, what are you going to get him?" Kurama asked still smiling.
"A good ass-kicking."
"Hiei."
"I don't know what that moron likes!"
"Why don't you ask Yusuke? I'm sure he could give you some ideas."
"I don't want to buy him anything. He doesn't deserve anything. Accept for that ass-kicking."
Their hot chocolate was served and Kurama ordered a bowl of chicken and rice soup. Hiei ordered the special, which was a BLT with a side of cole slaw.
"Hiei, just go and buy him a shirt or something. We can only spend $25 on our person anyways."
"What are you getting your person?"
Kurama had chosen Botan's name out of the hat. He was happy with that, but didn't know what to get her. He didn't want to get her something dumb, he wanted to give her something she would like, something special.
"I honestly don't know."
"Hn. This after you have been bugging me for the past 10 minutes."
"I have Botan."
With that simple sentence, Hiei realized why Kurama was having a hard time with her gift. He knew of the fox's feelings towards the blue haired girl. He knew that Kurama had liked her for the longest time.
"Get her some frilly, pink, girly thing and she'll be happy."
"It's not that easy Hiei. I want it to be something that she'll love."
"She's not even gonna know that it's from you, so why does it matter?"
"Good question, why does it matter? Kuwabara's not gonna know it's from you so just get him something."
"Here ya go, boys!" The waitress set their food in front of them.
"Thank you. Uh, miss?" Kurama asked.
"Yes?"
"Do you have a minute? I would like to ask you a question."
"Sure, hun. What is it?"
"Well, me and my friends are doing a secret santa thing and the person that I got is someone really special to me. A girl. We can only spend $25 on them and I was wondering if you knew of anything around that price that she would love."
"Hmm. That is kinda tough. I would say find something unique, something that fits that person. A little trinket that would mean something to them. Sorry if that's not the kind of answer you were looking for."
"No, that's great. Thank you for your opinion and you time."
"No problem." She said with a smile.
"Was that helpful?" Hiei asked, his mouth full of his BLT.
"Yes, I believe it was." ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"How 'bout this Keiko?" I asked.
I held up a centerpiece with Christmas little Christmas trees all around it. Inside there was room to put a small pot.
"We could probably put a poinsettia inside, don't you think?"
"That's a great idea Botan! Do you think we will be able to find matching table cloth?"
"I'm sure we could find something."
I placed the centerpiece in the cart.
"What isle are the table cloths in?" Keiko asked, circling around to find an employee to help them.
"Read the isle signs, it's a crafty type store. There has to be a table cloth isle."
"Do you ladies need help finding anything?" the voice from behind us startled us, causing us to jump.
"Sorry, didn't here you sneaking up on us." I said, sarcastically.
"My apologies. Were you looking for something in particular?"
"Yeah, table cloths. Do you have them here?" Keiko asked the man.
"Yes, I believe they are in isle 7. Anything else?"
"Nope! Thanks anyways!" I grabbed Keiko's arm and pulled her away while pushing the cart.
"Man! That guy was creepy!" I said.
"No kidding! I hate when people do that!"
"Now where is isle 7?"
I squinted around the store until I saw a the isle 7 marker hanging from the ceiling, all the way on the other side of the large store. I sighed.
"It's way over there Keiko, and if we're gonna make it there by nightfall, we better get going now!" I joked.
"Ok, just let me pack an over night bag!"
I started laughing. Keiko was so much fun to shop with. ~*~
"What color should we go with?" Keiko asked.
"Well, there's gold, red and green in the cneterpiece, so I guess either of those." I said.
"I didn't know there coul be so many table cloths in one store."
"Yeah, really. Oh! Here look at this! It's almost perfect!"
Keiko came over and looked at the table cloth. It had all three of the colors as on our centerpiece.
"No it is perfect! Good eye, Botan!" Keiko said.
"Here, I'll get it out of here, then we need place mats, and we're out of this hell hole!" I exclaimed.
I grabbed the table cloth, but it wouldn't budge. I pulled again and realized that it was stuck under about 15 million other table cloths. I pulled as hard as I could and it came free.
"Yes!"
Then the worst happened. One table cloth fell at my feet, then another. More kept falling from the shelves, all in their little plastic packages.
"Botan!? What did you do!?" Keiko asked.
I looked around dumbfounded as half of the table cloths on the shelves fell at and on my feet. When they finally stopped falling, there was a pile up to my shin of table cloths.
"We better get out of here!" I said. I stepped out of the pile and dropped our table cloth into the cart.
"We still need place mats!" Keiko pointed out.
Aw, crap! Come on!"
We turned down an isle and lucky us, it was place mats.
"Get gold. There's more green and red in the centerpice and table cloth." I said, pointing to a package of gold palcemats.
We grabbed two packages because they came in packs of four.
"Will that be all?" the cashier asked when we got to the counter.
"Yes." Keiko answered.
I glanced behind us to see if anyone was looking at us. No one was so I flet pretty lucky. Keiko paid the cashier and we got out of there as fast as we could.
Another fun memory. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Well, there ya go! Hope it was good!
Please review and tell me if you like it or not! I am only going to continue this story if enough people tell me they like it, b/c if they don't then there is no point to continue!
Lobsterblue22