Hi everyone and

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Oh, I'm sooooo happy. I love, no, I adore Christmas. It's the best time of the year and I love it. I hope you all have a wonderful day filled with love and presents.

The chapter for today is ready and I hope you like it. The story in this chapter is taking place a week or two before christmas. It's after the previous chapter, but because it is a special I will go back to the original story afterwards. The sotry is NOT influenced by this, though it might get referenced at some point.

Rin's eyes were glued to mine as he was obviously trying to get my praise. I bit my lip, unsure of what to say. My gaze fell to the side, only to cause me to sigh in exasperation and then back to Rin, only to avoid his intense staring and look again to the side. It was an endless cycle. Someone had to tell him, but I didn't feel like it at all.

As I Yukio was just a few meters away correcting the decorations, I decided he was the last hope I have.

"Yukio!" I yelled.

His head turned around in haste, and his eyes clouded in concern. "Yes, Ayame?"

"Could you please help me?"

He carefully placed the last bit of the paper decorations on the ground and then walked calmly to my side. His gaze followed mine and paused on the object I was so concerned about. Then he looked back at me with a questioning look in his eyes.

"What seems to be the problem?"

My mouth fell wide open at his response. "You mean you don't know?" I asked as I fell more surprised than ever. Surely, Yukio should have known. "You don't notice anything strange with this whole situation?"

"I'm afraid I will have to say I am not." He replied and gave his brother a quick glance full of worry.

I sighed irritated. "Let's make a sum up of the situation, shall we?" I leaned towards my wall.

"We agreed to decorate the house as Christmas is in two weeks. So far, so good."

Both boys nodded in unison.

"Yukio started with the various decorations that had to be in a certain fashion and Rin went to the kitchen to work on something."

They nodded again.

"And I thought he was putting on decorations on the kitchen. But when you came out of it, you had a cake – that I have no idea how you made since I don't buy sugar crafting materials and I don't own the materials needed-. In any case when you came out with this, I decided not you ask you how…"

I took a deep breath.

"…but why, did you bake a Christmas cake, with my name on top of it? It's not Christmas, it's not my birthday either; so, what's the deal."

"Christmas cake?" Rin asked tilting his head.

"I am afraid you are mistaken, Ayame." Yukio smiled. "That is a birthday cake. And I think Rin made it because you were so busy with your work before, that you didn't have time to enjoy your birthday."

We stayed in silence as I was trying to comprehend what they were saying. My mouth had fell open and I couldn't be bothered to close it. I didn't have anything to say to that statement and my mind had just gone blank. After, a few seconds passed I closed my moth and I quietly exited the living room and entered my kitchen. I opened a wooden drawer on top of the oven and after a small search I found the book I was looking for. I went back to the living room where the two brothers where waiting for me. I found the page I was looking for and gave them the book.

The looked at it and read the page. I stayed silent while the two boys realized what had happened. And when they finally took their eyes off the book I knew they had understood.

"You see?" I asked.

"Who knew…" Yukio said while scratching his head. "I guess people learn something knew every day." He continued.

Actually, you two brothers are the only ones that got wrong something so simple. I thought and smiled at them.

"So, you mean…" Rin asked; just realizing that his world had just changed. "…that a birthday cake and a Christmas cake are two different things?!"

"Right you are!" I agreed and eyed the three-floor cake with the sugar coat and miniature of Santa Clause.

Rin and Yukio had turned to one another as they finally realized that everything they thought about birthday cakes was a horrible lie. I knew why they had trouble telling one from the other. Both Yukio and Rin had their birthday on the 27th of December. So, Shiro had decided to combine the celebration of the Christmas day with the celebration of their birthday. As a result, Rin was taught to make a Christmas cake for their birthday.

"Okay, guys. I think you got it. Rin thank you, so much for your effort. I will be more than happy to taste the cake. But, from now on please don't confuse the two of them, all right?"

The boy smiled at me with a blush on his face, "Sure thing, Ayame."

"Good boy." I said as I patted his head.

"Did someone said something about a cake?" A familiar voice came from the corner and we all turned surprised to see none other than Mephisto coming out of a pink door on the back of the room.

"How is everyone?" He asked, with a smile on his face.

"Sir Pheles? What are you doing here?" Yukio asked shocked. I guess he didn't expect the principal of the most prestigious Academy in Japan to drop by. I one the other hand, wasn't that surprised. Visits like that were so common I could pretty much predict them by now.

"I simply came to see if I can help with the Christmas preparations!"

"You came to help with one of the biggest events celebrating the birth of Christ?" I asked and raised an eyebrow "Are you high?". I saw the two brothers cringe at my words and they immediately excused themselves and hid in the kitchen as –they claimed- they needed to continue putting up some decorations on the walls.

"It is one of the biggest celebrations in the history of mankind, my dear!" The headmaster argued.

"Don't exaggerate…"

"That's not an exaggeration~" He continued and he raised a finger towards my direction. "Plus, I'm sure you know already but Christmas didn't originally celebrate the birth of Jesus… As in the beginning it was supposed to celebrate-"

"You came for the cake haven't you?" I sighed in irritation. "If I stuff some in your face will you shut it and leave?"

"You can be so cruel, dear Ayame~" He pouted and he came closer. His fingers gently caressed a piece of my hair as he tucked it neatly behind my left ear. My eyes followed his actions and I felt my heart race.

"By the way Mephisto, there was a question I wanted to ask you for a while now…" I said, as I started playing with his dotted tie, my eyes locking with his.

"Yes, my dear…?" He asked, coming closer.

I broke our eye contact to look behind him. "What is a huge pink door, with white and purple glitter that dirties my floor, doing in my room?"

Surprised, he looked behind him and I saw his eyes widen. "Oh, that… I forgot that was there." He snapped his fingers, causing the door along with the glitter that had spread on my floor to disappear. "Sorry for that."

I heard footsteps from behind me and I turned to see the Okumura brothers coming out of the kitchen. "I think we are done with the kitchen!" Yukio said swiping his hands on his shirt.

"Thank you for that guys!" I said turning towards them. "I'm actually thinking of decorating the tree now. I've already put the lights on and I just need gold and red coloured balls to go on."

Mephisto smirked and opened his mouth to say something. I reacted fast and covered it with my hand to prevent him from talking as I was afraid he was going to say something perverse.

"One word from you Mephisto-san and I'll kick you out."

The colourful principal raised his hands in surrender and I let my hand fall. "All right, all right~"

With a click of his fingers the tree was ready. It was impressive as the balls were perfectly placed and it looked wonderfully neat. Even I wouldn't have done it better.

"Great job, Mephisto." Looking at the top of the tree however, I saw that instead of a star he had placed a little angel.

"Um, why did you put an angel?"

Mephisto raised an eyebrow, "Is there something wrong with it?"

"No. Yes. Well, it just I prefer the star. I had it ready, too." I pointed at one of the boxes where a shiny, golden star was lying on top.

"I thought the angel would suit it much better. I've been around longer and I know a few things about decoration."

I felt a slight irritation at his remark. There he was, treating me like a child again. Not to mention, this was my Christmas tree and I could decorated it however I saw fit.

"No offence, Mephisto-san…" I said dryly. "But, it is customary for a star to be put on top of the tree. It symbolizes the same star that-"

"But, the angel is more festive!" He complained.

I chuckled. "Nothing more festive than an angel with a tree stuck in his ass…" I commented folding my arms in front me.

"The angel is a sacred symbol that-"

"Oh, so you like sacred symbols? That's quite unnatural." I said and leaned towards him.

"No, it's not!" He answered while putting his hands on his waist.

"Yes, it is! The star is better. I don't remember seeing an angel on top of a tree while in America."

"But, still the angel…"

"No, the star…"

"The angel!"

"The star!"

"The angel!"

"The star!"

"The angel!"

"The star!"

"The angel!"

"Guys!" Yukio interrupted. I had totally forgotten about him and Rin. I was caught up to the current debate and didn't pay much attention to my surroundings. "They are both really…"

Irritated Mephisto and I turned to Yukio and glared daggers at him. "No one asked you!"

"But, guys…" Yukio looked as if he was ready to cry.

I turned to Mephisto and breathed out. He was looking pretty intense too and I think almost a minute passed before we felt kind of better. When I finally spoke up, my voice had its normal, pleasant tone. "Would you like me to prepare some tea while I explain to you why the star is so much better?" I suggested.

He smiled pleasantly. "Certainly, my dear~"

We both headed for the kitchen while Yukio and Rin just stared at us, wide eyed and silent.

"Although, you will soon find out that I was right all along and that the angel is a much better choice~" Mephisto continued.

So? What did you think? Did you like it? Hate it? Don't forget to tell me in the comments. As I've said, I've never wrote a special before, so I am not completely sure if I did it correctly.

And yes, the cake idea is from a filler episode in the series. I tried to change it a bit though. It was a fun idea.

You guys are awesome and I hope you have a wonderful Christmas Day!