Karin: Hey guys! Since it's Christmas time, I've decided to do something festive and created this! My first Maria-Holic chaptered story!
Title: A Very Mary Christmas
Rating: T for nosebleeds XD
Pairing(s): hints of Mariya/Kanako
Genre(s): Humor/General/Romance/Friendship/Family
Summary: It's December at Ame no Kisaki and Kanako is very excited for Christmas memories with beautiful bishoujos, but there's one problem: Ame no Kisaki does not celebrate Christmas! It's up to Kanako to make Christmas come to Ame no Kisaki… and watch her fail miserably… Mariya isn't helping either…
Disclaimer: Don't own Maria-Holic
A Very Mary Christmas
Chapter One:
All I Want for Christmas is Beautiful Girls!
December 17: Thursday
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Winter has arrived at Ame no Kisaki Missionary School for girls. Everywhere one looked, one could see each of the students adorning winter wear such as coats, scarves, hats or ear muffs, and mittens over their uniforms.
And as it was in the middle of December, the students of Ame no Kisaki were delighted to enjoy time between exam intervals. December was a time to relax. December was a time to rest…
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…December's a time for Miyamae Kanako to ogle females in their winter clothes.
Blood poured out of Kanako's nose like it was a never-ending fountain. Her eyes trained themselves on all the beautiful, sweet, innocent girls dressed up in winter attire looking very stylish and exquisite.
'Dear Mother in Heaven, Kanako is so happy! While summer allows more skin to show, winter allows bishoujos' faces to flush from the cold and seek warmth with one another! Ah, cuddling on a park bench… by the fire… by the tree with the pretty lights in the background… music playing faintly as we edge closer…' Kanako was off in her own little world, about to have another nosebleed, oblivious to her surroundings.
WHAM!
In fact, so absorbed in her yuri fantasies she was that she did not see a fast approaching basketball flying straight at her head. The ball hit its target causing Kanako to rear back from the impact and fall on the pavement ungracefully.
"Kanako-chan!" Momoi Sachi cried when she saw her tall friend collide with the basketball. She raced over along with her fellow classmates and friends Inamori Yuzuru and Nanami Kiri to see Kanako sprawled out all over the ground while slightly twitching—proving she was still alive.
"That must have been some hit. Maybe we should take her to the nurse?" Yuzuru suggested, kneeling down to the strangely convulsing Kanako.
"I read somewhere that you can get brain damage from a hit like that." Kiri informed with her usual passive expression. "Though I don't think Miyamae-san can suffer anymore brain damage than she already has…"
"Thank goodness!" Sachi exclaimed obviously not realizing that Kiri just called Kanako an idiot. "You're so smart, Nanami-chan!" At this statement, Kiri blushed bashfully at the praise.
"Anyone would know something like that…" Kiri mumbled out.
"Ah, Matsurika. It looks like you've hit someone after all." the voice of their kouhai and Kanako's roommate Shidou Mariya said. The trio turned to find the blonde haired first year in a blue over coat reaching just above her knees and purple ear muffs. Shinouji Matsurika—Mariya's classmate and maid—stood beside her wearing her usual maid outfit with the addition of a violet scarf and violet mittens. One has to wonder how in the world this woman can stand the cold and the heat just wearing that thing…
"My mistake." the blue haired maid said simply, though it didn't look as if she was sorry at all. "I thought Kanako-san was a fly so I threw my basketball at her." no one questioned the ridiculousness at that statement… nor did they even bother to hesitate in believing the first year maid.
"She still isn't getting up. Maybe she really does need to go to the nurse." Kiri stated as she gestured to the still incapacitated Kanako—who had stopped twitching and appeared to be unconscious now.
"Kanako-san is my roommate. I'll do it." Mariya volunteered. The blonde then approached Kanako and proceeded to move to pick her up. However, as Mariya's hand was an inch from her arm, Kanako sprang up from the ground screaming.
"Argh! I'm up! I'm up! Please don't punish me!" Kanako begged desperately with a comical expression of tears. Her outburst caused the five females to stare at her confused.
"Kanako-chan, were you having a nightmare?" Sachi asked worriedly. After all, her friend was a delicate person for she had nosebleeds constantly and fainted. She didn't want her mental state to be fragile too.
"Ah… yes… sorta." Kanako said calming down. Nonetheless, one could swear her eyes flickered to Mariya and Matsurika—more so Mariya—for a moment before focusing on Sachi again. "I just blacked out for a minute I think, and all of a sudden I got this burst of adrenaline like I was running from the devil." Again, her eyes flickered to Mariya, but one couldn't be too sure.
Speaking of the blonde, she decided to chime in at that moment.
"Kanako-san," Mariya said sweetly. "Why don't we go back to the dorm together? I wouldn't feel alright if I left you alone after that nasty fall." her moe-filled expression almost made Kanako have another nosebleed, but the tall girl held it in.
"Erm… That's okay. I'll just go back on my own later." Kanako replied uneasily.
"But Kanako-san," Mariya pressed with concern in her crimson eyes. "As roommates, we should be looking out for each other and that's what I want to do for you. Won't you let yourself depend on me? Just this once?" she pleaded.
The cuteness was too much for Kanako to listen to the warning bells sounding off in her head. A smile came to her features—and a trickle of blood flowed from her nose.
"Oh, okay then. Let's go back." Kanako said happily. Mariya smiled a kind smile and the three—including Matsurika—bid the other girls goodbye and went to the dorm.
"Tch. It was just my luck that you didn't die from that hit to the head." Mariya said in his real tone of voice and not the one he uses around the school. Now in the safety of their dorm room, he was free to let out his true colors.
"What? You make it sound like you're trying to kill me! What the heck did I do that deserved not one hit to the head with a basketball, but two?!" Kanako complained referring to the other time a few months back when Matsurika had clogged her with a basketball.
"I was only trying to make sure you didn't reach the point of no return." Matsurika said in her usual monotone. "It's not wise to stand around in your own little world. Someone might hit you with something."
"You hit me with something!" Kanako hissed at her angrily. She then turned away from them and plopped on her bed. The additional dividing wall extending halfway to the middle of her bed for changing purposes concealing her upper body from view. "Oh forget it! I have better things to do than argue with you two." the raven, short-lock haired teen told them.
'Like thinking about my beautiful bishoujo filled Christmas!' Kanako giggled excitedly in her head.
Funny story how Kanako landed herself into this mess with these two. It started the day before Kanako would start her actual schooling in Ame no Kisaki. Due to bullying and jokes about her height ever since she was a little girl, Kanako has developed a fear of men. In fact, her phobia got so horrible that whenever a male touches her, she breaks out into hives.
Because of her fear of men, Kanako is determined to find a female romantic partner whom she can spend the rest of her days with in her happy yuri love. Since Ame no Kisaki was an all-girls school, she immediately applied for it. It's ironic that this was the school where her mother—a student—and her father—a teacher—had met and fell in love. She was accepted so easily for this reason due to the fact that she's Miyamae-sensei's daughter.
Nevertheless, when she got to the school, Kanako had become lost. It was through this dilemma that she had encountered Matsurika—who called her a sow when she saw her, she might add annoyed—and unfortunately Mariya.
Well, it wasn't unfortunate at first. In fact, Kanako was quite taken. Not a day in Ame no Kisaki and she had found the perfect candidate for her romantic partner. She was very excited and her heart went doki doki all the while. It was even better when the beautiful blonde angel scheduled a tour around the school with her. The kiss on the cheek was the cosmic bonus. Virgin Mary was smiling done on Kanako.
And it wasn't even an hour when it all came crashing down for Kanako. The beautiful angel whom she had set her sights on turned out to be an evil, sadistic, egotistical BOY! Mariya was actually a boy!
It was completely on accident that Kanako made this discovery for she had walked in on the boy getting dolled up with Matsurika tying his corset very tightly and him complaining. That was all it took for her happiness to shatter and for Kanako to see that the Virgin Mary was indeed frowning on her that day.
Long story short, she was now stuck under that cross-dressing demon's supervision—this is the reason he's rooming with her, not to mention he had kicked out her old roommate the lovely Ishima Ryuuken-sama to do so—fun right? No! He made every waking moment of her life a living hell! He was an evil demon! Kanako figured she must have done something terrible in a past life for she did not think she deserved this twisted black mark in her pure white fairy tale otherwise.
"I can't wait for Christmas! Only eight days 'til Christmas! Bishoujos making cookies! Bishoujos decorating the tree! Bishoujos writing letters to Santa! Bishoujos singing Christmas carols with the occasional Christmas cosplay! Bishoujo girls everywhere enjoying the Christmas spirit!" Kanako shouted in ecstasy while rolling side to side on her bed. Her face was flushed red alerting that there was an oncoming nosebleed soon if she kept her fantasies up.
"Huh? What are you rambling about now?" Mariya asked as he turned in his chair to the direction of her bed. "We don't do any of that here."
Like a driver slamming their foot on their break, Kanako's daydreams came to a sudden halt. Her body stiffened up before springing up into a sitting position on her bed and her blue eyes locked with his crimson ones in shock and confusion.
"Eh? What do you mean?" she asked him. Mariya only glared at her for her stupidity.
"Idiot, Ame no Kisaki doesn't do any of that celebratory stuff. We only have the religious mass on Christmas. The other things such as presents, cookies, trees, etcetera isn't done. It's says so in the handbook." he explained with a critical look clearly reprimanding her for not reading the handbook in the first place because she was too busy daydreaming about women.
"B-but why?!" Kanako stuttered out as her fabulous and yuri-filled dreams were broken into a million pieces.
"So as to not make the students become more absorbed with the superficial elements that go around these days when it comes to Christmas and allow them to see the more important things that have to do with Christmas such as the Virgin Mary and the birth of her child, Christ." Mariya said. Kanako's only answer was a cry of something gibberish and sobs of despair.
So much for Christmas memories filled with bishoujos…
"It's true. The school doesn't really do anything besides mass." Yuzuru replied to Kanako's question later on in the day at the archery club. The tall girl watched the brunette fire an arrow perfectly before turning back to the ravenette. "It's says so in the handbook." the archer plainly added, but Kanako felt a strange sense of paranoia that Yuzuru also knew she never read the handbook, though not her reasons.
"I see…" Kanako said with her head downcast and a gloom cloud over her. So Mariya was certainly right after all. Kanako had left the dorm to confirm with a trustworthy person before she completely believed Mariya. Too bad her hope was once again crushed.
Yuzuru gave the tall, sorrow-filled girl a gentle smile.
"Well, fifty five percent of Ame no Kisaki's student commute from home and others go home for the holidays so that's another reason why Ame no Kisaki doesn't bother with decorations or any of the holiday stuff one would see at Christmas."
This only served to make Kanako's expression become teary.
'Dear Mother in Heaven, Kanako's been submerged in misery…'
With that, Kanako departed from the archery clubhouse and started to head back to the dorms where no doubt Mariya would know where she went and why without her saying a word. It was like he and Matsurika were psychic when it came to her.
(Matsurika: No, that's only because you're so predictable.)
The ravenette let out a sigh and raised a hand to run through her short tresses. This would be the first Christmas not only with no celebratory customs, but also without her family. Hell, she even misses her Nee-chan who, while was pushy for ninety percent of the time, loved her dearly too.
It made her feel lonely.
"No!" she suddenly shouted and slammed her foot on the ground. Her fists clenched at her sides. "I will not let something like this get me down! If Ame no Kisaki doesn't have a Christmas, then I'll simply have to make one on my own! I will not give up until I get my bishoujo Christmas!" she yelled to the sky determined. Fire burned in her eyes.
Mariya and Matsurika were sitting in the dorm room enjoying peace and quiet without Kanako around. They knew she would be back with a miserable expression on her face. She was incredibly predictable. It was almost sundown so she should be coming in the door in five… four… three… two…
BAM!
Mariya and Matsurika blinked when they caught sight of Kanako who slammed the door behind her with a fired up expression on her face.
"Oi, yuri-girl, back so soon? Looks like you figured out that I was actually telling the truth." Mariya greeted with a bored expression.
"That may be true, but I've come up with a counterattack!" Kanako pointed at him with a glare. "I plan to bring the Christmas spirit to this Grinch of a school known as Ame no Kisaki!" she proclaimed dramatically.
It was silent for a few moments with Mariya and Matsurika staring at Kanako and vice-versa. This action continued before the silence was broken.
"Idiot." the two told her bluntly.
Karin: There you have it! Hope you enjoyed it so far. Next chapter Kanako's plan begins. What's she going to do? Find out next chapter! Reviews are highly appreciated. Thank you very much!
See ya Next time!