Kurogane was asleep, or trying to sleep, anyway. He was trying to pretend to be asleep, at least, or pretending as best one can whilst one's very cute blonde roommate is crawling in to your bed Christmas morning. The rush of cold air was not welcome, but Fai's warm skin against his own certainly was. He tried to ignore it, though. The nuns told him it wasn't right, and had even tried to get him a new roommate until he had convinced them it was just a phase and he was well over it now. The nuns didn't even think they should get gifts on Christmas, but the orphanage's supervisor made sure there was something in their stockings every year.

Fai had never seemed to care much what the nuns thought about anything. He challenged them daily and was locked in the basement even more often than Kurogane was for fighting and always came back up shaking and scared. Fai hated the dark. On cloudy nights when the moon's light couldn't shine through their window, Kurogane could hear him crying out for his twin brother, Yuui. He was sometimes tempted to ask, but he never did.

Fai's cool breath against his ear brought him out of his thoughts: "Merry Christmas, Kuro-candy."

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~ What's this? ANOTHER update on time? Who are you and what have you done with LullabyDust? Hmm… well, all I can tell you is that I wrote most of this on the way to Virginia to visit my relatives. Plus, these are all really short chappies. I'm terribly sorry for that, but most of my energy has to go towards writing my silly, probably-never-going-to-be-published novel. Yeah, I know how much you guys hate that thing because it distracts me from my fanfiction. I'm sorry T.T

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