Hey!
I thought of this late today(Happy 2011 EST!) and wrote it later so here goes.
Rated for:language (in this chapter)
FirstPOV: Kurogane 2nd and3rd: (OC) Izzy
Love, W.F.
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"OPENITOPENITOPENIT!"
"Why'd you even get me anything? I hate this damned holiday." Isabel was leaning over me, brown hair in her creepily sparkling eyes. She wore a grey coat covered in zippers and buttons and a crimson red, hand-knit scarf.
"But Christmas is my favorite holiday! Besides, I know you love what I gave you!"
"oh really-"
"YEAH REALLY. OPEN YOUR GODDAMN PRESENT." Sparkles were gone. She had handed me a small, badly wrapped cube that looked like someone had stepped on it a few times. Most likely that idiot mage. He's off with the kid and princess getting snacks for some fat man that's supposed to break into this house tonight.
"WELL?" She asked impatiently waiting for me to open this... thing. I easily ripped off the thin decorated paper to find a small coiled cylinder.
"What is this?" I asked, holding it up to the light. The spring fell and hit me in the face, only to bounce up and hit me again.
Isabel was laughing hysterically. "Talk about adding insult to injury! Kurogane, It's a slinky!"
"A what?"
"Here, let me show you." She grabbed it from my hands and put an end in each of her hands. She moved her hands in a back-and-forth up and down movement. A pulse of energy moved through the coil strangely. "Here."
She tried handing it back. "What a stupid gift!" I yelled at her. She frowned for a second then grinned.
"Well, fine then. If it's such a stupid gift, I'll leave it here then." She placed it on the side table next to the stupid platter for 'Santa,' then stormed out. Jeez.
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"Hey, guys wait!" I whispered to Fai, Syaoran and Sakura as they were about to walk into the living room.
"Huh?" Fai said loudly.
"Shush! Kurogane's in there. C'mere." I beckoned them over to the kitchen.
"What did something happen?" Syaoran asked, worried.
"Oh, no. We're both fine. I just wanna make one request of you guys." They all looked to me expectantly, Mokona peeking out of Fai's shirt, intent on following my orders. "Remember how I got Kurogane a slinky? (Everyone nods.) Well, I think he like it if he tries it, so if you see it, don't touch it. Pretend it's not there. I know his curiosity will get the best of him."
"Hyuu~"
"Okay!"
"Alright."
"O~kay!"
And my plan was in motion.
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Over the next week, the slinky slowly migrated around the entire house. No one confessed to moving it and no one witnessed anyone else moving it... Except for moi.
I had woken up Saturday night because the blankets on my bed magically appeared on the floor. As I was about to go back to be I heard an odd noise. A muted but rapid metallic clicking that had rhythm to it. SLINKY. I stealthily climbed the stairs to the roof where I saw him. The way he was using the slinky, it almost looked like a dance. It spun, it flipped, it made slinky noises, it fell down stairs, it jumped and it stopped. Quite suddenly, actually.
Because Kurogane had seen that I saw him.
