Disclaimer: These characters beloing to Clamp

Gifts and Curses

By Vicks111

Normally, Touya Kinomoto never thought of birthdays; At least, not his own, and not in a special way. Birthdays had been Mother's special days. She was the one that always made special celebrations and parties, even when his birthday was not marked down in the calendar. Father never tried to continue on her tradition, and Touya was glad he hadn't. He still managed to get a present made just for him, because that was Father's special way of 'celebrating-without-celebrating', even as weird as that sounds…but then again, Father was the weirdest one of them three. Sakura's gifts were always more practical than special, even if she did something by hand or magic; something useful, something that was always needed. For Touya, that had always been enough.

They never made a big deal out of birthdays. They would either bake something or buy a cake, for the three of them. It was the same for every birthday, every other year. The years that he did celebrate his birthday, though, they both practically demanded to make him some special celebration, with 'special cake' and 'even-more-special' presents, in Father's own words. They never did succeed on making him a real party, though, but they managed to get him out of the house to a fancy dinner, or an expensive show.

That all changed the first time Yukito celebrated his birthday…the real one, of course. He was turning the big 2-0, and according to him, it was a very important celebration. Touya had been, well, not pestered, but continually reminded about the fact that his birthday was coming up, and that he should have a party. His boyfriend kept going on and on, about the importance of birthdays, for days.

"It's just another day, there's no big deal"

"Of course there is! Whether you want to believe it or not, our own birthday affects us, even if we don't acknowledge it. It's a magical day, literally, and it should be celebrated with all the propriety given." He grinned, but Touya could see the cold calculations running in his head already.

"Really? Then how come we never celebrate your real birthday?" He wanted to turn the topic away from himself, but in a deeper level, he always wondered that.

"Because no one can know" Yukito said in a sing-song voice not even missing the beat of the conversation, but his sad eyes showed what he really felt. Touya stared at him seriously, and the other stopped his act altogether. "Please Toya"

It never occurred to Touya to mind that day, but it really did matter to Yukito. After all, there just oh so few birthdays they could really celebrate together. Eventually…

Touya nodded, agreeing to his boyfriend's request. There were only few things he could give to Yukito that could really make him happy, and he was glad this was one of them. Every year after that, Yukito made sure the Kinomotos had proper birthday celebrations, as they should be.

It doesn't really end here, you know? There's another bit left, that I haven't finished writing, but I wanted to post on To-ya day. I'll post the other bit as a second chapter later.

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