It's Christmas! Well, it's the night of Christmas Day. The former L'Cie spend their day together over at Serah and Snow's house and celebrated Christmas. Everything went almost fine, they ate dinner together, laughed and exchanged gifts. A few tears were shad as Serah gave Lightning a self drawn picture of their mother. And Hope got a black eye as Vanille accidentally hit him with his new boomerang he got from Lightning. But they all found it amusing in the end.
It was dark when they all parted and they all went to their own homes.

"Hey, Light?" Fang muttered, leaning with her shoulder at the door frame of the bedroom she shared with Lightning.

"Mh?" The soldier was currently searching for new pajamas, since she put the others in the laundry. She turned her head to Fang. "What is it?"

"I, er, I have another present for you." Her words were mumbled. "I … didn't want to give it to you when the others where here."

She turned around and had a fairly big box in her hand, beautiful wrapped with colorful ribbons.

What's the matter with her? "You must say I'm a bit surprised." Lightning chuckled. "Now I feel a bit stupid for not having anything for you right now."

Lightning approached her, took the gift in her hands and gave a small kiss on her cheek. Fang smirked slightly.
"Thank you."

The box itself felt somewhat light and didn't make any noises while carrying.

"It's … kind of personal, and I feel better giving it to you now." Fang spoke again as Lightning sat down on the bed and began unwrapping it.

"Something kinky?"
They were open about this … sexual stuff when they were alone. It took them a while to actually speak about it, but after a relationship lasting more than two years it was now a comfortable topic.

"What? No, I -"

"Just messing with you. It's okay." Lightning chuckled and continued unwrapping.

"I mean, if you want something, you know you just have to say-"

"Fang, hey. Let me just unwrap this and then let's see."

The brunette scratched her neck nervously. "Alright, alright."

The last layer of the wrapping paper was undone and only the gray cardboard box was lying in Lightning's lap. She opened the cover and was welcomed by … crimson silk?

"Fang. What..."

Her fingers slid through the soft material, discarded the box and took a closer look on the contents. Apparently there were two parts of the red silk, decorated with tribal ornaments at the edges, a brownish top and pants, alongside with necklaces and black gauntlets. Wait … that was familiar. Wasn't
this...?

"Is this … a sari? Like yours?" Lightning's eyes never left the clothing. She was too mesmerized.

"Yes! It is the same, only different colors." Fang sat down beside her girlfriend and took a hand of her in hers. "There's this old Yun tradition that says that the partner of three years of a Yun get their own sari from the village eldest if they have proven themselves as equal and will be accepted as Yun." She waved with the other hand and chuckled. "There aren't any Yun left, so I would be the oldest Yun and you have proven enough times that you're equal to me. Although we aren't officially three years together right now, but … I thought the timing wouldn't be better."

Lightning still couldn't believe it.

"It's … beautiful. Really." She laid her head on Fang's shoulder and brushed over the silk again. "You never told me that tradition."

"Well … I didn't want to spoil the surprise." Fang kissed the temple of her lover and slid her fingers through the pink locks. Lightning looked up and gave her a proper kiss on the lips.

"How about … I try it on. I bet you want to see it, too."

"You betcha."

Lightning watched Fang enough times undressing her sari and putting it on again. But dressing herself in a sari? Now that is another story.
She stood in front of the mirror in their bedroom and fidgeted with the clothing. It wasn't that easy to get everything in the right place, so that it would fit perfectly, well, except for the top and pants. Those were easy.

Fang snickered behind her and put a hand on her shoulder.

"Here, let me help you."

Lightning tried to memorize the steps. How Fang folded the first part of the sari, tied it around around her waist and plugged one edge of it in the clothing, so it would held on its own. She folded the second part of the sari on one edge and plugged it in the clothing around the waist, too. Then she put the rest of it over her shoulder and let it fall behind her back, only to wrap it up with a belt. Unlike Fang's sari, the belt didn't have any fur, instead it got loops for Lightning's gunblade holster.
When Fang was finished with dressing up Lightning, both looked in the mirror.

"Beautiful … absolutely beautiful." Fang slid her arms around Lightning's waist from behind and pulled her in a hug.

"So … Why exactly red and not blue like yours? Is there any meaning behind that?"

"Well, blue is … was the color of hunters who used mostly close combat. Red however was the color of hunters with ranged attacks. Since you have a gun and are more fond of magic than me I thought red would fit you better." She placed an open mouth kiss on Lightning's bare shoulder. "Besides, we won't mix up our saris with that."

There was a silence between the two. Both of them just admired the worn red sari. It fit her perfectly, it wasn't too tight and too long, the belt had the right length and the silk was soft and hugged her closely.
Lightning placed her hands over Fang's which still lingered around her waist.

"So... I'm a Yun now, hu."

"Technically … yes. But I guess your culture won't accept that. You Cocoonians are too different." She chuckled and swung Lightning around to face her. "Lightning Farron-Yun … Yun-Farron? Or … Bodhum Yun-Farron Lightning … Okay the last one doesn't sound good."

"Silly you ..." Lightning placed her head on Fang's shoulder and hugged her tightly. "I'm a Yun in Pulsian terms now, right? Then … let me be a Yun in Cocoonian terms."

It took Fang a few seconds to process what her girlfriend just said.

"So wait ..."

Lightning looked up again and smiled. One of those rare smiles only Fang had the right to see.

"You know that you just proposed to me, right?"

"Yes! … I mean … if you want-"

"Yes. Yes I want to marry you. Now come here."

She grabbed the back of Fang's neck and pulled her into a deep kiss.
After they parted with ragged breath, they just stood in the middle of their bedroom and hugged each other.

"So... when are we gonna tell the others? I bet Vanille and Serah want to organize everything ..."

"Mh." Lightning nuzzled Fang's neck. "How about we say nothing and send them a card one week before the wedding."

Fang just laughed.

"Sounds perfect."

A.N.
Alright, here is my Christmas contribution xD Longer that I thought.
I got the idea from here: keichama . deviantart art/ Hunters-of-Gran-Pulse-322803416
I hope you had a nice Christmas and see you next year!