Hi y'all! I'm making an attempt at a Christmas story now! I've borrowed (if by "borrowed" one means stolen without permission…) Chibi-Tenken's characters Harusame and Sonomi to help Aoiroten Gesshoku, Sojiro and Kamatari explore the Western holiday of Christmas. Insanity, of course, will ensue! I *hope* this will be funny…
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"Where are we going again?"
"To see Harusame!"
"Why?"
"Because it's almost CHRISTMAS!"
Kamatari regarded the girl before him. Gesshoku was practically dancing with anticipation, her short brown hair bouncing around her face. Her square glasses slid down her nose and she paused to push them back up for a millionth time, causing the lenses to fog at her touch. Decked out entirely in shades of purple from head to foot, Gessho was a bundle of excitement. She flipped the ends of her scarf back over her shoulder, dusting snow from the front of her gi.
"I don't understand this 'Christmas' thing." Kamatari scratched his head, following behind the girl as she tramped through the snow.
"It's a Western holiday, Silly. I've told you this before. Western religions say that the son of God was born on Christmas so they go around giving each other presents to celebrate. And they eat a lot and give stuff to poor people and Harusame invited us to celebrate Christmas!"
"I don't know about this…Last time we went to Harusame's house, I got in a heap of trouble." The cross-dresser frowned at the memory of all the problems with the last encounter with Harusame's ragtag group.
"But it's gonna be fun! And Sojiro is gonna be there! You wanna see Sou, right?" Gessho whined, a pouty expression on her face.
"Of course I want to see Sou-kun. But bad things seem to happen to me when I'm around those three."
"We're going anyway." She folded her arms, her expression changing to a death glare.
Kamatari sighed. Sometimes it was tough being such a nice guy. "Fine, we'll go."
"YAY!" She tackled him in a hug, knocking him to the ground, where they landed in a mound of snow. "I *LOVE* you!"
"You won't have anything to love if you don't stop doing that." A sardonic smile crossed the man's face, "You're going to kill me one of these days."
"I would *never* kill you. I'm just having fun…" She pouted some more.
"Well, it's not fun for me. You're always jumping on me, poking me, clinging to me…it's really painful, Gessho-chan."
"Gomen." The girl reddened, "I know you're not interested, but you're so huggable." She stood up, causing a flurry of snow to fall from her clothing and onto Kamatari, who was flat on his back in the snow.
A blush crept across the man's face. He was well aware of Gesshoku's fascination with him, but, well, she was just so overbearing sometimes. "It's not that I'm not flattered by it…I think it's really cute, Honey. But, well, you know…"
"I know." She offered him a hand, "Now let's go!" She charged on ahead, singing lustily, if not rather off-key. "Over the river and through the wood, To Harusame's house we go; I know the way, the object of my affection is gay, and we get to see Sojiro, oh! Over the river and through the wood…"
Kamatari buried his head in his hands. He was fairly certain that was not how that song went, but there was no point in arguing with Gessho. She was stubborn and somewhat pushy and he didn't want to start anything. She was so excited about this odd holiday and he didn't want to ruin it for her, but something was telling him it would be a very, VERY odd experience…
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So…How many people hate me for desecrating a Thanksgiving song (yeah, I know it's a Thanksgiving song, but it sounded okay, ne?)? I hope no one was offended by that, but the rhyme was *perfect*
Pending the approval of Chibi-Tenken, this fic will continue and hopefully be finished over the next 20 days.
