The worst day of Makoto Yuki's life happened on 24 December 2009.

Okay, maybe it wasn't the worst day of his life, but it certainly ranked up pretty damn high in the list.

Damn it, Makoto cursed himself and the fate that was presented before him.

Why did I fall in love with ALL of those girls?!

*FLASHBACK! WOO!*

23 December 2009

Makoto was lounging around in the Iwatodai dormitory lobby. Mitsuru, Yukari, and Fuuka were in the room with him as well. He was insanely bored, and tired out from the training in Tartarus, the rewarding, yet tiresome bonds with his classmates and dorm-mates, and the decision about what to do with Ryoji weighing on his mind, he did not want to be bothered.

Except by, perhaps, a certain red-eyed Shiba Inu.

"Arf!" The ghost-white Koromaru barked at Makoto. Makoto had learned by this point in time that the bark was a cry for attention, a desperate cry for that something that he needed so badly in his pet-receiving, cat-chasing, Shadow-killing lifestyle.

A walk. Didn't expect that, did you?

"Arf!" Koromaru continued his bark. The panting face of that dog elated Makoto.

"Hey, little Koro-chan. Want to go on a walk?"

The Shiba Inu barked in agreement. Makoto sometimes felt he could understand Koromaru more than the others. A dog can better portray his feelings than his fellow SEES members. Even Junpei and his blunt perversion was not enough.

However, a much more interesting commotion was happening around Makoto.

Three young girls, startled and blushing, all stood up with lightning speed. One was a statley woman with beautiful red hair, one was a cheerful girl with a pink sweater and cute brown eyes, and another with short green hair and petite stature.

"I'll walk with you too, Koro-chan!"

Despite their wildfire blushes, Makoto was still in the impression that they just really wanted to walk with Koromaru.

"Well, how about we all go together?" Makoto responded to the commotion.

Well, they didn't expect that.

"Um, okay."

*LATER...DURING THE LONG-AWAITED WALKING OF THE KORO-CHAN*****

The three girls barely spoke to one another as Koromaru took the lead, with Makoto following closely behind. They didn't go along for the ride just for the bonding time with the wonder dog that was Koromaru. Mitsuru, Yukari, and Fuuka direly needed to discuss their plans for Christmas Eve with their shared boyfriend, Makoto.

Well, they didn't know that he was shared amongst themselves, and with a few others at school and even with a realm between mind and matter. Each of the three thought they had Makoto all to themselves. Makoto loved all of them, and spent as much time as possible with each of them, as well as Aigis, Yuko, Chihiro, and Elizabeth. He couldn't bear to abandon one of them, especially since they had such a strong bond and he had to face them every single day.

So it was a mix of love and fear of not being loved.

Woah, that was deep. Makoto's going to have to write that one down for his novel.

They had reached the shrine, and Koromaru had run off to fool around in the grass or whatever. Makoto couldn't focus with the raw amount of women that were sitting on the tiny bench with him. Somehow, Mitsuru, Yukari, and Fuuka had all squeezed onto the bench, after a wordless, punch-less fight about who got to sit directly next to Makoto. Apparently the winners were Mitsuru and Yukari. Fuuka, unfortunately was kind of forced to the edge of the bench. Fuuka, of course, still sought to move Mitsuru and Yukari.

Normally, all three girls were big believers in personal space and no PDA. However, when it came to Makoto Yuki, and when it was drawing close to the most important night for couples in Japan, the gloves were off.

They must have spent fifteen minutes just sitting there in complete silence, with occasional bouts of awkward, arbitrary small talk. Finally, Yukari and Fuuka both piped up.

"W-We'll go play with Koro-chan."

Mitsuru blushed, as Makoto smiled innocently, still not quite grasping the situation.

Mitsuru couldn't contain her emotion and anticipation anymore. Instead of actually saying any words, she just took Makoto and kissed him.

Surprised yet joyed, Makoto just sat back and took the kiss. However, one worry ran through his mind.

Oh, god, the others better not see this.

Makoto jinxed it.

He fucking jinxed it.