"Oh, but one last thing," Kyon said, pointing up. "Mistletoe..."

In one swift motion, Kyon swooped down and stole a kiss from Haruhi's trembling lips. She sent him the world's darkest look but before she could yell at him, Kyon grabbed his school bag and headed home. He wasn't sure why he had done it. Sure, her lips had been staring at him all day and it was something he had always fantasized about doing. But to actually go through with it, what the hell was he thinking. It must have been a mix of how vulnerable Haruhi looked and the tension in the air. Whatever it was, all he knew was he was going to pay for it the next day.

"Kyon, you're late." Haruhi screamed as Kyon stepped though the clubroom doors the next afternoon.

Bowing apologetically, Kyon took his seat across from Koizumi. Yuki still had on her Christmas hat, but Mikuru wasn't in the Rudolf costume. She was wearing a set of elf ears and a green hat, just like the ones Koizumi had on. Kyon picked up his own elf ears and pulled them on before Haruhi had a chance to yell at him again. The room had been decorated with Charismas lights and a tiny tree was on the table. Mikuru looked over at him, her eyes filled with appreciation, apparently she knew why she wasn't forced to wear the reindeer outfit. But before she could thank him, Koizumi caught his gaze.

"Sorry I wasn't here yesterday, I was feeling a little under the weather." Koizumi whispered to Kyon as he fumbled to put his hat on straight.

Kyon realized he had been lied to, but couldn't understand why. Haruhi had made a big deal about him not paying attention, but why? It didn't matter because Haruhi had just slammed a giant candy cane on the table, causing everyone to jump, well everyone except for Yuki.

"We're going out again!" Haruhi yelled out, waving the plastic cane around like a parade conductor.

As they marched out of the room in to the chilly afternoon air, Yuki pulled Kyon to the back of the pack.

"There was an information spike last night." She said in a low voice.

"What do you mean?" Kyon asked, trying not to look suspicious.

She quickly answered "When you kissed Suzumiya Haruhi last night in the club room there was an information spike. I cannot determine what had been changed with the world or even if anything had been changed. Just be cautious about her emotions, Christmas is an emotional time for Suzumiya Haruhi and any occurrence like last night might cause another information spike that might alter the universe."

"So in other words..." Kyon said, knowing the answer.

"Break her heart, break the world." A voice called out behind him, Koizumi's voice.

"I'm guessing you weren't really sick yesterday, right?" Kyon asked, slightly annoyed.

With a flamboyant wave, Koizumi answered, "Correct. I keep telling you that you'd make a good esper. Last night a large field of Closed Space surrounded the school. My colleagues and I were fighting three of those giant Celestials when they suddenly disappeared. If I am correct, they disappeared at the exact same time you kissed our little Haruhi last night. Am I right Nagato?"

Yuki nodded and Kyon's heart dropped. Just how many people knew he had kissed her last night? They slipped back to the front of the group where Haruhi was still trying to ride Mikuru. As they walked though the crisp air, Kyon wondered where they were going. They didn't have any presents like last time, in fact, all they had were their costumes and Haruhi's candy cane that she was now using like a sword to knock off Mikuru's hat. They reached a local park that had a nice blanket of snow carpeting the field giving off a real feeling of Christmas.

Today's outing didn't turn out to be another attempt of Haruhi's to get on Santa's good side, it turned out to be her idea of having a traditional Christmas adventure, which meant a snow ball fight. After a few long minutes of unintelligible rules shouted at them by Haruhi, they ended up splitting in to two groups and throwing snow balls at each other in utter chaos. Haruhi and Koizumi stood on one team, Kyon Yuki and Mikuru on the other. A few snow balls exchanged sides before Mikuru ended up on the ground crying, Yuki ended up off by a tree reading, Koizumi stood by the side watching, leaving only Kyon and Haruhi locked in mortal battle.

"Ha ha! Take this you yeti faced bastard," Haruhi screamed, throwing icy death at Kyon's face.

"Not so fast you ice queen," Kyon replied, dodging the snowball and throwing his own in retaliation.

Kyon's snowball hit Haruhi square in the chest, splashing cold wet snow down her shirt. Cursing darkly, she shook her shirt, exposing more skin than a girl her age should.

"I'll get you for that, pervert." She said, charging at him.

"Careful, don't run. The ground's icy!" Kyon warned a little too late.

With a dull thud, Haruhi slipped and fell hard on the ground. Kyon ran to her but stopped when he saw her holding her leg.

"I twisted it." She said dully.

"I told you to be careful, didn't I?" Kyon said like an over concerned mother.

"Just help me home." Haruhi said, pulling herself up and throwing an arm around Kyon's shoulder.

They said goodbye to the other club members and hobbled towards Haruhi's house. As he helped her though her front door, Kyon realized it was the first time he had been inside of her house. Apologizing to the wind for walking inside without taking off his shoes, he helped her to her room. He plopped her down on her bed and sat down next to her, catching his breath. If he didn't know who he was with, he would have thought he was in a normal high school girls room. There were posters of baseball players on the walls a desk cluttered with makeup bottles, even a stuffed teddy bear on her bed. A closer look revealed the Haruhi he knew, books about aliens were on her bookshelf and the room seemed to have hidden wonders like Egyptian amulets and Indian trinkets. If it weren't for Haruhi sitting next to him, he would have gotten up and explored a little more.

"Are you alright?" He asked, breaking the tension.

"Have I been a bad girl this year?" She asked in a tiny voice.

"Of course not," Kyon lied.

Through weak tears she asked, "Then why aren't I happy?"

"I don't know..." It hurt Kyon to see her like this, "What makes you happy?"

"I don't know, what makes anyone happy?" She said, lying back on her bed.

Kyon climbed on to her bed and lay down next to her. He wasn't sure if opening up to her was the right to do, but he didn't know what else to say. "Kissing you made me happy."

"But that was only because of the mistletoe." Her heart beat faster as she spoke.

"There wasn't any mistletoe..." Kyon said, gambling safety over happiness.

"I know..." Haruhi's voice replied, shattering the world around them.

In a strange dark world, Haruhi rolled over and placed her hands on Kyon's shoulders. Shutting her eyes she lowered her lips slowly, finally planting them on Kyon's in a soft wonderful kiss.

"Merry Christmas..." They breathed to each other, the world slowly reforming around them.

Author's notes

I'm surprised that I updated this, I might even add some more tomorrow, depends on where the story goes.