Heyooooooooo it's time for some Kinabra. I'm soooo sorry this is so late at night guys! I was out shopping with my sister all evening and by the time I got back and got out of the shower it was already like 9. Ugh. I also apologize for it being so short. I, unfortunately, did have school thismorning, meaning it was a 6 a.m. wake up call, meaning I am exhausted beyond words. I could barely keep my eyes open while writing this, so I had to cut it off pretty soon. I'm sorry! ALSO, you may notice that Kinana is a lil OOC. That's because I have a headcannon that even though she's super sweet and nice all the time, since Cobra likes her so much, he'll pretty much do anything that she says, so she has a habit of using that power over him to the fullest. AND ONE MORE APOLOGY; there are likely typos or sections that just literally don't make any sense. Once again, I am barely awake right now and am struggling to focus. Sorry 'bout that. Maybe I'll come back and edit it tomorrow.

ALRIGHT. Now that all the apologies are out of the way... tomorrow is LYREDY! Eeee! Look forward to it!

"No."

"Oh, come on, Erik."

"I'm not helping."

"Pretty please? You don't have anything else to do."

"That's presumptuous of you, Kinana."

"You don't, do you?"

"...No."

At the bar of the Fairy Tail guild, two mages could be found amidst a verbal battle. Well, battle was a relative term. It was more of a one-sided massacre, led by the violet haired girl. She was certainly giving the man a run for his money.

She stood behind the counter, rolls upon rolls of wrapping paper, tape, and a plethora of scissors sitting before her. He sat on the opposite side, a defiant glare in his eyes.

"Erik, you're going to help me wrap these presents," Reiterated Kinana, holding his gaze with an authoritative one of her own. "There's no way around it."

He scoffed in response. "And what makes you so sure of that? I don't have time to waste on frilly, little girly things like that."

Kinana cocked an eyebrow at him. "Since when is Christmas a frilly little girly thing? And since when is this a matter of your masculinity? Just help me wrap the stupid presents and we'll get on with our lives."

Cobra stuck his nose in the air at her words. "I'd like to see you try and make me."

*15 MINUTES LATER*

"Who is this one for?" Cobra asked gruffly, pen in hand as he prepared to scrawl the names onto the tag on the presents. Damn that Kinana. She was just too convincing.

"...Mirajane," she muttered, fully immersed in the wrapping of the current present she was working on. She didn't trust him to actually put the gifts in the paper; she knew that he would find a way to screw that up somehow. He was left with the simple, idiot-proof task of filling out the to and from labels.

He scribbled down the words on the label before pushing it aside, pulling the next one in front of him and repeating the process.

"Laki."

Write. Push away. Repeat.

"Cana."

Write. Push away. Repeat.

"Gray."

Write. Push- wait.

"Gray?" He asked incredulously, looking at her with disgust evident on his face. "Why in the hell are you buying presents for that perverse idiot?"

"He's my guild mate, too," Kinana retorted, just as much fire in her voice as her male counterpart. "I'm allowed to buy him a present."

He halted in his assembly line. Here we go again. "Yeah, you're allowed to, but that doesn't mean you have to. What, do you have a crush on that nasty stripper?"

"That 'nasty stripper' is my friend, Erik," snapped Kinana, also freezing in her gift wrapping process, "and just because I have a male friend doesn't mean that I'm in love with him, alright?"

"You said it, not me."

ZWIP!

The next thing Cobra knew, he had a piece of tape stretched all the way across his lips, rendering him unable to speak.

"Say one more bad thing about my friends and you're out of here," threatened Kinana, resuming her previous activity of gift wrapping.

Cobra rolled his eyes, but offered no reaction aside from that.

Kinana found that he was quite a bit easier to keep under control with his lips sealed shut. The only difference that she could find was that instead of asking who each gift was for, he was able only to let out an irritated grunt which Kinana was left to interpret for herself. Not that she truly wanted to know what he was saying in his annoyed state.

Unfortunately, the ease didn't last long, and pretty soon, he had torn the tape from his lips. "This is boring as hell."

"Yes, well, you had nothing else to do," noted Kinana as she cut off yet another bit of wrapping paper. "I don't think it'll kill you to write down a few names, now, will it, Erik?"

He grumbled his disapproval, but continued on with his assigned task. "I don't see why you need me to do this. I'm not even wrapping presents."

"Be my guest if you'd like to try," replied Kinana, caving in and beginning to realize that it was a job a bit too big for her to tackle by herself. Normally she would ask Mirajane or Laki for assistance, but Mira was covering for her at the bar, and Laki was… well, God only knew where Laki was.

"So… I just put the box in the paper and tape the paper around it, right?" Cobra said, attempting (and failing) to clarify. "Sounds easy enough, I don't know why you need my help with it."

Kinana laughed to herself, watching as Cobra attempted to measure out what he thought to be a good amount of wrapping paper. "If you think it's like that, then we're in for quite the show."

It didn't take very long at all for Cobra to lose his temper and make a mess of everything. The paper was loose around the middle, he didn't have the faintest clue of how to tape up the ends, and he had managed to get a big bow stuck to one of his fingers in the process. How? He didn't quite know. But he knew that he was 700% done with wrapping presents.

Kinana, on the other hand, as predicted, was enjoying the show. She had tears forming in the corners of her emerald eyes at the scene that was Cobra attempting to prepare a gift for giving.

"It's not funny!" He hissed, waving one hand frantically around in an attempt to free it from the tape. His attempt was unsuccesful, though, resulting only in him further entangling himself within the sticky substance, and Kinana laughing even harder at him.

"It's really quite fu-"

She was unable to finish her sentence because she found that Cobra had smacked a big silver bow over her lips. Smirking, she wordlessly accepted his challenge.

Before they knew it, they were a mess of paper, bows, tape, and just about anything else within a five mile radius of them. Kinana was laughing out loud at the top of her lungs, and Cobra was watching her with a warm smile that he was trying oh-so-desperately to keep off of his face.

If there was one thing that the two mages had in common, it was their knack for destruction.

Alright yoooooo sorry again that that was just some straight up bullshit. I'll try harder tomorrow. Once again, thanks for all your reviews and love that you're giving to Shipmas! Keep it up! It's what gives me the motivation to write! See y'all tomorrow with Lyredy!