Dlbn: Hey everyone. We've forgotten to update…again…

Nbld: Meanwhile, we've been working on a Nisei birthday fic for May 16th, and we did put out This Means War so we've been a little busy.

Dlbn: And hoping to have updates of some old favorites by Sunday night. Saturday is graduation for my second associate's degree, so that takes away one day of writing and posting, but we still have until Sunday. Also, Kamibana has released finished scanlations of chapters 118 and 119 on their livejournal and website, as well as new non-completed up until chapter 120 on their livejournal and omfg, I don't know who's read it and who hasn't, but so much suspense and what a plot twist. I was crying. Not a bad cry.

Nbld: You're pathetic. Now, let's get started so they can read and not have to deal with us rambling, and we can get back to work on other things. Like Careless, Heaven Knows, and other stories in other categories. Review Corner! Thank you to giselleavellaneda09, Fizzydrink101, Promocat, and Halbarath for reviewing! Candy and cookies for you all!

Giselleavellaneda09: For once, and probably the only time from what it looks like. I don't know about Ritsuka's canon family in the manga outside of his brother and parents, but if anyone else was around to care, I think someone would have taken Ritsuka from his mother or at least stopped by once during the series but I digress.

Fizzydrink101: He's just adorable isn't he? :3 I don't trust Seimei much either but Ritsuka doesn't yet know what he's going to become so he doesn't.

Promocat: I feel like maybe his parents set that kind of thing up to try and jog his memory and when it didn't work, they gave up and didn't bother anymore. But Seimei would be the one to step up to the plate and do all these nice things for Ritsuka. If for nothing else but to give him all good memories of him to use against him later.

Halbarath: I'd think he did it just to try and manipulate Ritsuka. Like 'look what good things I do for you. Love me, Ritsuka!' or something. Or his parents wanted him to do it to try and jog Ritsuka's memory, as I mentioned in another Review Corner answer up above. Hell, maybe even Seimei wanted to get some of his memory back with it. I feel like Seimei was trying to bind Ritsuka from him from the moment he was born. Not sure if he was aware of his powers or what he was at the time, or either of them were for that matter, but I feel like he's been using Ritsuka since he was born, really. Now that he can use spells (that's what it seems like anyway) and has Fighters that can do so, he's going to use that to his advantage. I don't know a single thing about what Seimei is planning, but from the new Scanlations I've downloaded and been reading, he doesn't seem to understand when things don't go his way so who knows what's going on with him. Maybe he's got some kind of dual personality thing going on like his mother? One is cold, cunning, and manipulative, and the other is sweet, loving, and doesn't really know what he's doing? I'm not sure.

Disclaimer: I own nothing. It all belongs to Yun Kouga. I only really own the personality and name of Ritsuka's father, extended Aoyagi family, and both of Osamu's parents. I make NO money off of this.

Dedication: This is dedicated to the fact that a, I'm graduating again so congrats class of 2016 woot, woot! And b, I just ordered a Loveless fan art clock with little Soubi on it and I'm excited. And c, I got some new Loveless ringtones. The first battle with Ai and Midori is my ring tone, and their character song is my bf's ringtone but he barely calls on his cell to save mins so I'll probably never hear it but oh well.

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His father wasn't home-surprise, surprise-and his mother was making a dinner that he was pretty certain was a trap. Seimei sat with Ritsuka in the living room, opening up small presents from their stockings that their mother had made them wait until last to open. Ritsuka got some candy, socks, a gift card, and school supplies. Seimei had gotten basically the same thing, but with a gift card to a game shop in the electronics district instead of a gift card to the local photography shop like Ritsuka had gotten. Osamu had given him a Christmas gift in school and he had opened it Christmas Eve when Seimei opened a gift he'd gotten from some friends. He seemed surprised his friends would get him anything at all. Seimei had gotten a popular video game from one friend and a gift card to a store he liked to shop for clothes in from another. Osamu's gift had been a scrapbooking kit complete with a scrapbook, paper, and stickers. After Osamu had taught him how to make one, Ritsuka had used his old one to the point where it was almost overflowing.

"Merry Christmas, Ritsuka." Seimei informed his little brother, pulling a small gift from behind the couch for him.

"Another gift?" Ritsuka wondered. "But Seimei…you didn't have to…I don't have another to give you…"

"I don't want anything in return." Seimei stated. "This is just a little thing I put together for you."

Ritsuka tore off the wrapping paper and found a photo album inside.

"A photo album?"

He had a lot of blank ones.

"Open it. It's special."

Ritsuka shrugged and did as he was told. The album wasn't blank with the others, but was already filled with photos he and Seimei had taken together since he lost his memory.

"It's full?"

"Since you don't have your old memories, I filled it with new memories." Seimei stated. "Everything that we've done together has been a first for you. We've celebrated with ice cream, and now it's time to look back on that year and remember all the new things you got to do."

"I still never got to go to the beach…" Ritsuka muttered sadly. "Thank you, Seimei. I love my present."

"You're welcome, Ritsuka. Anything for you."