"Kuro-puppy! Kuro-chan, wake up!"
"Ugh," Kurogane grunted intelligently, rolling over and shoving a pillow over his head to block all sound and light. A moment later he was struck by a wave of icy air as the covers were dragged off him. "Fai!"
"Merry Christmas!" sang Fai as he skipped away, laughing. Kurogane groaned. Of all the kids in this orphanage, why did he have to get stuck with this idiot as a roommate? He crawled out of bed and scrounged around for the covers only to discover that the blonde had managed to dump them on some hidden part of the floor he could not find in his half-asleep stupor. He gave up and pulled on a pair of pants that may or may not have been his and a blue shirt that definitely was not his. It wasn't necessarily Fai's, either- at the orphanage, ownership ceased to hold any meaning and everything was shared between friends, enemies, and complete strangers.
"Come on, Kuro-chu!" called Fai as soon as Kurogane stepped foot in the hall, bouncing ahead of him.
"My name's Kurogane," he mumbled threateningly, or tried to mumble threateningly, at least as threateningly as one can mumble, which was not very threatening at all and made Fai giggle.
There wasn't nearly enough room on the mantle to hang all the kids' stockings and so they were mostly just laid out on the table. Kurogane didn't know why the blonde was so excited; it was the same every year. One dollar for each year of age and a chocolate bar. But this year Kurogane found fourteen dollars, not twelve, and an extra chocolate bar.
He wasn't too surprised, though. It was common for the girls to wake up early and sneak their chocolate into the stocking of the boy they liked.
He didn't notice, either, that Fai had only nine dollars that year, not eleven, and got no chocolate at all.
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~ So, I hope you guys liked my Christmas fic! This is a chaptered fic that I'm almost done with and so will actually be updated on a SCHEDULE, hooray! I only have two more chapters to go. Right now Kurogane is twelve and Fai is eleven, and this will go until Kurogane is eighteen. So subscribe to hear the rest of the story! Each chapter is the next Christmas with no stories in between.
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