Hey everyone! Happy Christmas!

I am so so so super duper happy! Why, you ask? The other night, this fanfic hit over 10,000 views! You heard right, 10,000! I was hoping that it would, end all you lovely readers made my Christmas wish come true! Thanks so much!

As a present back to you, I decided to write a Christmas special. This is kinda what we do at Christmas, down in the south-west of England. Ahah ^.^ Except we hang out stockings on our door handles to our rooms, and wake up much earlier, and also we have piled of presents let near the first door in my living room, the kitchen door, the sofa and the coffee table. My presents are usually the ones by the coffee table. My mum's are left on her sofa, and my dad's behind the coffee table, closest to the tree. It's very complicated .

And the sentence at the end is a bit of playful banter I have with my dad. My mum saw this really sexist advert on tv, and I have been bringing it up as many times as I can, just to annoy him and get my mum rantin' n' ravin'. Good times.

Have a merry, merry, Christmas and a happy new year!

MeikoSakine/Catt/Fae

Christmas special!

Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house,

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

Stockings were hung by the fire with care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas would soon be there.

Haku rolled over on the futon that had been put out for him on Chihiro's floor. It was comfortable most nights, but now he could feel the hard coldness of the wooden floor of her room up against him. He spoke the first four lines of the poem he had heard Chihiro's Mother say again. Tomorrow was what the humans called Christmas. From what Chihiro had told him, It was very exciting. Chihiro had not shut up about it since she opened the first door on this little thing she called an advent calender, back on the first day of December. But it did sound fun.

Presents, friends and a big Christmas meal!

He was exited. Very exited. But he could not sleep. He sat up, and in the darkness he could just make out Chihiro's sleeping form. He could see her little body rise and fall with each time she breathed in and out. The sound of her breaths calmed Haku, and he closed his eyes again, trying to sleep. What was it she had told him? If you don't sleep, Santa won't come, and then no-one will get any presents. That sounded a little unfair. Only the person who wasn't sleeping should get no presents, shouldn't they? She had also told him that only good girls and boys got presents. The bad ones got lumps of coal, stuffed into the socks that the family had pinned onto the fireplace that they called Christmas stockings. He hoped he had been good.

"Haku?" He heard Chihiro whisper. "Haku, are you still awake?"

Haku nodded. He only realized when she didn't answer that she couldn't see him in the darkness.

"Yes. Did I wake you?"

"Mmmhuh." Chihiro said, yawning.

"Sorry."

"It's mmkay." she said again. She climbed out of her bed, and walked over to Haku's futon. She walked slowly, since it was dark. When she felt the soft edge of his duvet, she sat down next to him She was facing him, only inches away from his face. And he knew it. He could feel her breath on his face. It smelt of her strawberry toothpaste. Oh, how he longed to kiss her!

He mentally hit him self for thinking that. Even though Chihiro acted much older then she was, she was still only ten. Still only a little girl. Too young for romance.

"So, can you not sleep?" She said.

"No." He replied. "I am too exited for tomorrow."

"There!" She said with a smile "I told you so! I told you by Christmas you would have changed your mind!"

"Okay. I admit you were right." He said, returning Chihiro's smile. Much to his surprise, she snuggled into him. When he tried to move away, Chihiro frowned.

"Don't do that!" She said. "Sit still! I'm cold, and your warm!" She pulled him closer again. For once, Haku thanked the fact that he was a god. It made him nice and roasty-toasty warm.

"but Chihiro!" he said seriously. "If we don't sleep, Santa won't come!"

To Haku's surprise, Chihiro burst out laughing.

"Why are you laughing?" He asked. But his dumb-founded expression just made her laugh harder.

When she had calmed down finally, She spoke.

"It's just the way you said it!" She wiped tears from her eyes. "At the beginning of December you were all 'I hat Christmas!' But now you seem to love it! It's so funny!"

She laughed a little bit more before falling still against Haku. She suddenly felt sleepy. Maybe it was the calming scent of Haku's bubble bath Rin had bought that did it (It was Rosemary and eucalyptus) or maybe it was just the fact she was dog tired. She looked up at Haku, gazing into his Emerald eyes lovingly.

Haku could not bear it anymore. He could not hold back. He kissed her, gently and lovingly on the lips. It was not a French kiss, just a peck on the lips. But it satisfied him. Chihiro smiled.

"That was lovely." She said, closing her eyes and exhaling softly. She leaned her head towards him, and drifted off into a deep sleep. Haku followed her shortly after.

"Ah!" Haku cried, sitting up. He had just had the most wonderful dream. In his dream, Chihiro was with him, and they had kissed. It was so lovely. He wished it was real. Speaking of Chihiro, He looked over to where she was. She was still in her bed, sleeping soundly. Haku glanced at the clock.

6:23 am.

Why did today feel different? He had a funny feeling in his chest. It made him feel weightless. He rubbed his sleepy eyes, and suddenly it clicked.

Christmas!

He jumped up, and ran to Chihiro. He grabbed her shoulders, and shook her awake.

"Wake up!" He said gleefully. "Wake up! It's Christmas!"

Chihiro's eyes flew open in a flash and she jumped up.

"Quick!" She said, her face ablaze with excitement "Lets go wake Rin and my parents so we can open presents!"

Haku went downstairs to where Rin was asleep while Chihiro went to wake her mother and father.

Haku could hear Rin's snores before he even reached the living room. Chihiro's parents had held a Christmas party the night before, and Rin being Rin had gotten carried away and drank way to much alcohol, getting herself stupidly drunk in the process. Haku sighed, and rolled his eyes. He reached out a hand, and shook her shoulder.

"Geroff me..." She mumbled in her sleep, and rolled over. Haku shook her again. This time she swatted at him with her hand. Haku tried a few more times, each time failing, but getting a different response from Rin. In the end, he went to the kitchen and made a cup of coffee. He came back, and wafter it under Rin's nose. In a matter of seconds, she was up and alert, sipping at the hot caffeine drink like it was the most precious drink on the earth's surface. Haku rolled his eyes.

The power of coffee.

In a matter of minutes the two were joined by Chihiro and her parents. They all sat down near the tree, which was laden with presents. Yuko picked one p, and read the label.

"this one's for Haku." she said, passing it to him, smiling. He read the label. 'From Mum XX' It read.

Rin.

He tore open the paper, and smiled at the gift. It was a big book on different dragon species. He laughed.

"Thanks, Mum." He said. The word sounded funny to him. Chihiro stifled a laugh.

"Okay," Yuko said, passing a present to Chihiro. "This ones from Serebi."

Chihiro tore open the video-game print paper, and gazed at what was inside. She pulled out a silky pink skirt, a boned bodice made out of the same fabric, a very poofy petticoat, a choker, two armbands and what looked like a garter made from the same material as the skirt and bodice, and a pair of cat ears and a tail. To finish off the present, there was a box labeled 'Mew Ichigo accessories' With a big pink bow with a bell on it to go on the tail, a pair of red gloves, one with a ribbon and what looked like a pendant around the wrist, a big, pink faux fur heart with a plastic bow and the same pendant on, and another pendant with a attaching pit to go on the choker. Chihiro sighed happily.

Serebi had got her a complete Mew Ichigo costume.

"You are so not wearing that out." Yuko said.

A few presents later, and Chihiro and Haku were very, very happy. Chihiro had received a video camera from her mum, a book on 'how to write novels for dummies' from her dad, a pair of socks from her Grandma Ogino, hand knitted of course, a big book of princess stickers from her Great-gran-gran on her mothers side, and a box of water colour paints and a water colour sketch-pad from Rin. Haku received a box of chocolates with an anime character on the side from Serebi (She had probably done this to be nice. Maybe Chihiro had bribed her), a pair of socks that were almost exactly the same of Chihiro's from her Grandma Ogino (Whom he had only met once. She seemed a nice enough lady.) And a load of new clothes from Akio and Yuko. Rin received a few gifts, and Yuko and Akio a few themselves, but they all seemed to be boring adult stuff, like perfume, makeup, expensive chocolates and wine.

At lunch time, they ate a grand meal Rin and Yuko had cooked up for them. For starters there was a little glass pot of prawns, smoked salmon and a sauce they had made from western mayonnaise and tomato puree. It was called a prawn cocktail. For the min, they had a big cooked turkey, with carrots, parsnips, little cabbage like things called brussel sprouts (which Chihiro gobbled down, but Haku took one bite and gagged on the taste of it), crispy potatoes, gravy and a sauce with little sour berries in it called cranberry sauce. For dessert they had a big pudding, which Akio set on fire using a kind of burning alcohol. This was apparently normal in the west, but freaked Haku out no end.

After the decidedly western Christmas meal, they wen tout for a walk. It wasn't very eventful, they just passed a load of buildings, buildings, and more buildings. It was a far cry from a walk in the country side, but Haku kept his mouth shut.

That evening, everyone was too full from lunch to eat a proper dinner, so they just had a bento-like dinner, with little bits of food set out. There was even a western cheese board, with strange cheeses such as Camembert, brie and white Stilton with apricots. Haku enjoyed these.

The last thing to top off Christmas was to sit down in front of the telly and watch a Christmas movie. Akio put on one called Deck the Halls; another western movie, with English language but Japanese subtitles. It was quite a funny movie.

Finally, it was time to go to bed. Haku was quite upset that the day was over, but was glad to have a rest. He got changed into a pair of pajamas Akio and Yuko had got him, and settled down in his futon. He closed his eyes, and fell almost immediately into a deep sleep, dreaming of what next Christmas would have to offer.

And all in all, Yuko was happy that all her family ate all her food, and she was left with all the washing up to do.