Santa's Lap

Part Fourth

Announcement

… My dear reviewer Musa Rox asked me to do some Mokona one… and I shall follow her advice. I never really planned to do a fourth part but… Oh well. If I have to, I will. Thanks to Musa Rox for her little advice thing. Sorry about the off-character Kuro-nya at the end of the last part; I couldn't help myself.

I was going to write an XXXHOLiC special but I didn't know where it was going. – Sigh – Sorry about that.

Note: This one will be short only because I'm not in the writing mood and well… I don't know myself, really. I'll just make this a little 'before' New Year's thing. Yeah…

Disclaimer: Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE belongs to CLAMP, not me.

Summary: Two of them were Santa, the other two children that gave Santa their wish. Each one looks at Christmas differently and of course the person on their lap or person they're sitting on.

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A white bunny dressed in a fuzzy red coat and hat trimmed with white jumped about the floors of the mall, singing random carols that the fellow carolers sang a few moments ago. With a tall, dark woman behind him, he pranced away with a small plastic bag that had a picture of a poinsettia on it, with leaves of holly attached to the upper part of the bag.

"Fa la la la la…" he sang with a cheery look on his face.

There was some clattering and noise in the shop besides them and the bunny looked through the stained glass window to see what was going on. He saw Santa, one that wasn't too fat or skinny, and a blond up against the wall, doing something that the bunny immediately knew about.

"Yuuko, Yuuko!" the bunny cried, pointing at the image behind the glass. "Look what I see here!" Said woman knelt down beside him and pulled at the Santa hat she was wearing on her head. She peeked through the darkened glass. Yuuko gasped at what she saw, her shocked face only to be replaced by a wicked grin that graced her figure.

"Eh, Mokona-chan," she began, breathing against the glass window to see it fog up, "don't you think this is a bit… too private?" The bunny shook his head no and began jumping up and down.

"This should be on our New Year's card, Yuuko! We can send it to Watanuki and Doumeki and everyone else!" Yuuko gave the bunny an odd look, thinking over about the plan to see if it really was worth it. She peeked through the window again and saw Santa and the blond on the floor, doing what not.

The grin only grew wider.

She reached for the bag that slung over her shoulders and grabbed her digital camera, holding it in front of her face. Mokona jumped onto her shoulders to get a look-see through the lens and giggled. Yuuko frowned, however. How could the two get in there when the store was locked in the first place? She sighed in disappointment. Her plan to get into the store was foiled. She didn't even have her baseball bat with her.

"Take the picture, take the picture!" Mokona cried, tugging at her hair lightly and tapping the silver button on the camera. Yuuko grinned wickedly again.

And the moment the blond on top of Santa reached for the hat and beard that covered his face and pulled it off, Yuuko took the picture.

…

Syaoran and Sakura sat aghast, staring at the white bunny who had just explained the whole Christmas story to them downstairs in the mall where they planned to get something to eat. Yuuko simply nodded along, waving her hands in the air.

"And they were going at it like love sick puppies, I tell you," she muttered. "I don't think even Watanuki and Doumeki ever kissed each other once…" Mokona sighed at that, saying that the two really should have just started a relationship or something. The two children, one still clad in the oversized red outfit and the other dressed in normal clothes, stared at the other two in disbelief.

There were footsteps nearing their small table in the food court and as the four turned their heads to look, a giddy blond with a Santa hat on his head crookedly and a buff Santa, too tall for his own good came along. The Santa had a silly smirk on his face that he couldn't wipe off.

This, Yuuko thought, was the perfect time to annoy them.

"So guys," the woman spoke, pulling out the camera from her bag again, "do you think this would make a good Christmas and New Year card for our friends?"

With a bleep the camera was on and she went to the picture she took a few minutes ago. Showing it to the two children, she wiggled her eyebrows like the crazy fool she was. Sakura was the first to speak.

"I-Is that Kurogane-san and Fai-san… together?"

Fai's happy smile and Kurogane's lopsided grin immediately fell from their faces as they charged for the camera, yelling. Of course, Fai really didn't mind if someone caught Santa and him kissing, but if Yuuko sent it out to millions of people out there in the world…

"You! Where'd you get that picture from?" Kurogane snapped as he tried to snatch the silver camera away from the woman's hand. She merely smirked at the two trying to take the camera back and burn the picture away.

"Mokona and I were strolling through the mall trying to find you… But then we saw Santa and some blond making out on the floor of some vacated shop under mistletoe." Kurogane paled at the blatant statement she made, the way she just said it aloud with no sign of shame anywhere.

"Delete that picture now," he growled dangerously, glaring at the unfazed woman who sat in her chair with a comfortable look on her face. She simply shrugged in reply.

"Yuuko, give it back!" he yelled out childishly, trying his hardest to get the picture back. Yuuko laughed at the futile efforts the man made to get the camera back in his hands.

"Sorry; this is definitely going to be our New Year's card this year. So get over it."

…

Watanuki's jaw dropped when he saw the picture upload onto the computer from the camera's memory card. He began stuttering, pointing at the screen in disbelief.

"Yuuko-san! You caught those two kissing?"

She laughed.

"I know; it's a shocker, right? Don't worry. Everyone will get to see the two under mistletoe. That goes for Ame-chan, Zashiki-chan, Maru and Moro, Kohane-chan and maybe even Haruka if he comes by in a dream. Won't that be amazing, Watanuki-kun?" Yuuko asked as a happy look spread across her face, giggling rather girlishly. The teenager simply sighed and let the camera fall onto the desk without a care.

"Yeah but won't that be like… butting into their own private thing? I'm sure if you and Clow Reed had a relationship or something, you wouldn't like everyone to see the two of you under mistletoe…" Watanuki muttered, referring to the first time Yuuko mentioned the 'four-eyed freak' of the past. Yuuko became stiff momentarily before she laughed awkwardly, smacking Watanuki upside the head.

"Don't be silly, boy! Now go get me some sake; I'm bored."

"Ichihara Yuuko, give me back the pi-!"

Before Kurogane could finish his cry, Yuuko snapped her fingers and the open door leading to the room closed shut, stopping him from advancing any further.

"And about Clow Reed," Yuuko said, glaring at the employee, "I wouldn't date that four-eyed freak even if my life depended on it!"

With that she stood up with an aggravated look and marched out of the room, brushing past the raving black haired man that began shouting his head off.

Watanuki blinked. "I was only kidding…" He turned back to the computer, opened a new window and began typing up an e-mail to two people he knew.

"Dear… Doumeki and Himawari-chan…" Watanuki said aloud, typing in the words slowly, "Merry… Christmas… I'll send you a picture of… our 'New Year's' card so you… can get a look-see at what it's… about."

He paused, just to stare at the message and grunted.

"P…S… Doumeki, I'm not making you… bento for school next week…"

Then the teenager smiled, attaching a copy of the picture of the two on the floor doing their thing. Once it finished attaching to the mail, he typed in something else.

"I want you to make bento… for me instead. From, Kimihiro Watanuki."

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… Well, it was short and I finished it in a day. I was really lazy over the weekends and was over my cousins' house in Connecticut so… Sorry. I hope you enjoyed the little Watanuki input at the end. And I was wondering: would Yuuko and Clow look good together? – Thinks – Actually, I don't think they'll be too bad together. –Yuuko comes up to me with a silver bat and whacks me in the head with it – Ow.

Happy late Christmas everyone…

-Muffinizer. Happy Vacations!