Kamisama Hajimemashita's: The Night Before Christmas
AUTHOR: Angelhart
GENRE: poetry/humor
STORY: one shot
STATUS: complete
RATING: T
DISCLAIMER: Kamisama Hajimemashita (Kamisama Kiss) ©2008 Julietta Suzuki/Hakusensha – Viz Media – TMS Entertainment
All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author. No money is being made from this work. No copyright infringement is intended.
This poem was written for the tumblr event KamiHajiWinterWeekend. Prompt: 'It was the Night before Christmas'
Happy reading and happy holidays everyone!
It was the night before Christmas in a shrine in Japan;
All were asleep, kitsune, snake, god, spirits and human;
The peaceful environment made such a beautiful scene;
The place like a fairytale, or one you would see in a dream;
All inhabitants were soundly asleep;
Unaware of the person who on the rooftop did creep;
Then the kitsune awoke at the sound of loud clatter;
His ears pointing forward; what was the matter?
Away was the vision of the lovely girl in his head;
He woke up alone in his single sized bed;
Annoyed by the loss of the dream of fair maid;
He woke up most irritated…
'Of course I was, for I was about to get la-'
(…Ahum…)
He encountered the shinshi who stood in the hall;
In excitement Mizuku shouted: 'It's Santa y'all!'
The kitsune was already annoyed as it is;
The last thing he needed was the other familiar disturbing his slumbering bliss;
'Of course it's not Santa, you idiot snake'
'You're a complete moron and you should have drowned in that lake'
The god awoke at the scuff on the roof above his head;
In an instant, he had jumped out of bed;
Only to notice the quarrel in the hall;
Snake and fox were in the middle of a brawl;
With a loud voice he shouted 'Stop it, this is enough!'
And just in time, for things were about to get rough;
'What's going on?' a female voice spoke, disturbed in her sleep;
It was Nanami who stood emerged from her bedroom in a pajama with sheep;
'It is Santa with presents for all', Mizuki told her with a smile on his face;
'Isn't it amazing that he even visits this place?'
'Don't listen to this serpent, for he's a liar'
'I don't know who's on that roof, but I will set his ass on fire'
The kitsune said as he opened his hand;
And with a smirk on his face he added:
'I will give our visitor a nice fox fire brand'
'Now wait a minute,' the god spoke, 'we don't know who's there,'
'Perhaps someone with good intentions who you're about to scare'
'Relax, Tomoe, don't be so rash'
But it was already too late, for the kitsune was gone in a flash;
On the rooftop Tomoe encountered a man;
Someone rather familiar, for it was Kurama from the tengu clan;
'What the hell are you doing in the middle of the night?'
'You're giving everyone here quite the fright'
Kurama spoke and said: 'I know you all to be a shabby lot'
'And right after my concert I came up with an ingenious plot'
'To bring you all gifts for Christmas Eve'
Well,' Tomoe said, 'with you sneaking up on us, we thought you were a thief'
The tengu apologized for such an early rise;
and clarified that it was all meant to be a surprise;
'I wanted to slide the presents down the chimney with some grace'
'But I guess I made a mistake, because it seems there is no fire place'
'Are you drunk?' Tomoe asked, 'You reek of wine'
'Of course there's no chimney, this place is a shrine'
The tengu explained: 'that's not the matter'
'I got startled by something and dropped this and the bottle did shatter'
On the roof top were broken pieces of glass;
The expensive liquid had indeed not survived the crash;
The kitsune sighed, since there was nothing amiss;
Just an idiot tengu with a soft spot for Christmas;
'You better come inside, for everyone is in wait'
'And if you want to do something like this again, don't do so this late'
Everyone was relieved to see a friendly face and no enemy;
And with their presents in hand they sat around the Christmas tree;
Mizuki pointed out to Tomoe that he had been right;
For it had been a secret Santa who had come to visit them in the middle of the night;
But the kitsune was not amused by the comment being said;
And as he stared at the snake he secretly wished Mizuki was dead;
They sat down for hours, talked and laughed and had fun;
Not even noticing the rising of the sun;
Then suddenly the god took a stand and looked upon the crowd;
'Merry Christmas everyone,' he then said aloud.
A/N: I had a lot of fun writing this, but it was really hard to create. Of course the poem is inspired by the famous Christmas poem by Clement Clark Moore. The bonus challenge I had set for this prompt of the KamihHjiWinterWeekend event was to create a Christmas/Winter poem like fic. It would be bad sport, of course, if I wouldn't take on this challenge myself, right? ;) Hence, this poem came to life.
Too bad FFNet doesn't allow images in stories. In the original post of this poem, which you can find on my blog on tumblr, I have posted a very fun image of Tomoe right above the (...ahum...) part. This post is, however, easy to find if you type: 'the night before Christmas' in the search bar of my blog.
The image makes the poem a little bit more funnier ^^
