My Blood Red Rose mini story: Ai and Zero's Christmas
Summary~It is Christmas eve and Ai wants to give a small gift to Zero. A short One-Shot away from the original story.(Just for fun)
Snow fell upon the buildings of a seemingly quiet town as Zero Kiryuu had yet another nightmare, but this one had no Pure-Blood princess or childhood friend, no this nightmare was a far to real and gruesome one about him being alone with Ai Hayashi, which he dared not to recall, he woke up on the couch, covered in a cold sweat, but kept his light lavender eyes closed, as he pressed his finger tips against his neck and tried to regulate his short breath.
The sounds of light clicking, could be herd from behind the closed door of his small room.
"...Ai?" He sighed to himself, as he looked at the closed door in slight suspicion, it had been a week since Kaito Takamiya had come over with something she asked for from her house, after that he kept hearing clicking in his room. He never asked her about what she was up to, she had so much taken from her in such a short amount of time, the least he could give her was some privacy.
He sighed as he turned away from the closed door and lied completely still, it was some routine thing now that Ai Hayashi would check up on him, at about this time, he would never admit it, but he kind of liked it, the feeling of being cared for and wanted, even though she still kept her distance from him, out of pure misunderstanding and fear, she also figured out the hard way that sometimes he just wanted his space.
He closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, when he herd her small footsteps, as she crept across the cold wooden floor of his room. She cracked the door open a bit to look at him and when she felt it was safe, she sneaked over towards the couch, that Kaien Cross had left here a while back, along with other sets of multicolored furniture that he thought would, brighten up the room a bit, where the silver haired hunter now slept, he let her have his room when she had to stay with him, for extra protection.
Zero waited for Ai to retreat back into his room, but to his surprise, she put aside her fears and walked right over towards the couch, where Zero pretended to be in a deep sleep. Ai whispered "Marry Christmas Zero" to him before laying a neatly folded, handmade, light gray scarf that faded into a dark blue, on the arm of his couch, after that she left without another word, but Zero could sense a small smile, creeping on her face before she tripped over feet before reaching the door, causing Zero to let out a small giggle of amusement.
Marry Christmas everybody! :)