This is the Christmas chapter that all of you have been waiting for! Note that this chapter will have no continuation of the story that happened in the last chapter, it will kinda be like a bonus chapter or a OVA. I hope you will like this since it will be a 'long' chapter and I know that some of you love a long chapter! I know I do! :D
The dark clouds covered the True Cross Academy, the cold weather made everyone wanting go home for the rest of the holiday season.
"When will it ever snow?" Rin stared out the window in his classroom.
"They say that it will be a green Christmas this year, no snow." Konekomaru told him, Rin sighed and laid his face on his desk.
Akari stood in locker room, staring out the window.
"Akari?" She looked at Shiemi, Izumo and Paku that were changing into their school uniforms.
"What's got you thinking?"
"Oh, I was just looking at the weather." She held her shirt in her hands. "I hope it snows."
"Snows? They said that it won't this year." Izumo told her as she pulled up her knee socks.
"Akari?" Akari stared at her shirt in her hands and gave a small smile.
"I would like to see it snow this year, I always loved the white snowflakes falling down from the sky." She put her shirt over her head and pulled it down.
"Hey Rin, what are you going to do this Christmas?" Rin looked up at his friends.
"I don't know, decorated the dorm room with Yukio, open presents and eat cake." They looked at Rin.
"Oh, right! Your birthday and Yukio's is two days after Christmas!" Konekomaru told him as he hit his hand on his other hand.
"So what are you going to give Akari for Christmas?" Shima gave a look at him, Rin's eyes went wide.
"What?!" Rin stood up from his desk.
"You gotta give her a gift, it would be bad if you didn't and she gave you one." Rin's eyes lowered.
"You're right! I have to give her something that she will love!" He stood on his desk and raised his fist to the ceiling.
"Do you even know what to give her?" Rin's determination turned into depression.
"No. I don't, I never asked her."
"You should."
"What?" Akari looked at Izumo.
"You do know that Rin's birthday is two days after Christmas, you have to give him a gift for Christmas and his birthday. It would be rude if you didn't." Izumo told her as she crossed her arms across her chest.
Akari lowered her eyes as she walked in the hallway.
"Do you know what he wants for Christmas or his birthday?" Paku asked her.
"No, I don't really know what he wants. I haven't really asked him."
"Well you need to! Before he gives you a gift and you didn't!" Shiemi grabbed her hands and told her as she looked in her eyes.
Akari's eyes were wide but she closed her eyes and gave a nod.
"Okay, I'll give him a gift."
In Mephisto's office
"Lord Mephisto, I'm here what do you ne-" Luka walked in and was thrown a pair of pink underwear in her face.
Mephisto was opening drawers and packing his suitcase.
"Ah, Luka. You came, you should have say something before you came in." He was floating in the air as he made his hand make the clothes move.
Luka took the underwear off her face and made it float it his suitcase.
"Yes, well what did you call me for?" He looked at her.
"Oh yes, I'm going to Toyko for the holiday and I need you to make sure that Akari is taken care of this year."
"You are leaving Akari for the 9th time now, you need to bring her with you." The clothes were packed in his suitcase and was closed.
"I want her to be safe from me and everything that would hurt her." Luka's eyes lowered.
"But she will be all alone this year like she's always, she needs to go somewhere with someone."
"Well I don't have the money to take her anywhere and True Cross is the only place that's safe for her." Luka looked away from him.
"But I will." Mephisto and Luka looked at the door, Marie stood with her hands in front of her.
"Marie..."
"I have been wanting to plan a field trip with the students for quite some time now." She smiled at them.
"But Marie, you don't have the money to do that."
"I do, my family is rich and I can just borrow some of the money we have."
"But do you even know where you are going to take them?" Marie looked at Mephisto, he gave a grin.
"So you are going to take her there?" Luka gave a look at Marie when she know what he was talking about.
"No, you can't. That's the one place she does not want to go, it will make her sad." Marie gave a small smile.
"But she will be with him, he will make her happy and smile with the season of snow. And she wants to see the snow too since we won't have any." Luka was going to say no but her words didn't come out.
"Luka, he will be with her. He will make her smile no matter what." Mephisto told her, Marie put her hand on her chest.
"I promise that she will be in good care and she will not get hurt on my watch. I cross my heart and hope to die." She made a x on her chest, Luka gave a small grin.
"I guess I could let you take her on a field trip with her classmates but you have to make sure that she will be okay and nothing will make her cry or get wounded."
"Luka, you do know that you are coming too right?" Her eyes went wide.
"What?"
"We're going on a field trip? For Christmas?" Everyone gave a shocked look at Yukio.
"Yes, I, Shura, Luka and Marie will be the chaperones on the trip and everyone must be together at all times."
"Aw right!" Shima said outloud, Rin looked at Akari behind him.
She was writing in a notebook, she looked up and saw Rin waving at her with a smile. She blushed and put her face in her notebook, Rin gave a grin at her.
Later on in the day
Akari was packing her things in her suitcase, she walked down the staircase and took some things.
She looked at the pictures on top of the fireplace, she walked to them and grabbed one. She stared at it and gave small smile.
"This is the 9th year that you didn't spent Christmas with me, but now I have someone to spent it with. Someone that might be that someone just for me." She touched the face of the woman with black hair. "Mom, I miss you. I hope that you are happy in heaven."
At Rin's and Yukio's dorm
Rin tried to close his suitcase but didn't, he tried to sit on it but didn't work.
"Hm." He walked away and ran to the suitcase, he jumped on it and made it close. "YES!"
A nod came at the door.
"Come in!" He said as he sat on the suitcase, Akari walked in with her suitcase. She looked at Rin and gave a chuckle.
"It seems that you done your packing." He looked down and gave a grin.
"Yeah, it was hard but now I got it and I am glad that I did!" He gave a thumbs up to her and a smile.
She walked to him and gave a kiss on his cheek, she looked at him and smiled.
"What was that for?" She looked at the dark clouds out the window.
"You make my heart beat faster than it should be so now I'm giving back the revenge." She stuck out her tongue to him, he gave a grin and took her lips with his into a kiss.
She had wide eyes but they closed, she put her hand on his cheek and he put his hand on her arm.
He pulled away from her but his face was close to hers, he looked up at her with a small smile. She looked down at him and smiled at him.
"You're pretty good at kissing now." She hit him in the arm, he gave a chuckle.
Akari eyes lowered, she touched her blue bag on her choker.
"Mommy, what is a kiss?" Akemi jumped and looked at Akari with a smile.
"Why do you ask?"
"Shi-Shi told me that adults kiss to show their love for each other and they do other things when alone." Akemi stabbed the cutting the board with the knife in her hand.
"That old man..."
"Mommy?" Akemi wiped her hands on her apron and bend down to her, she kissed her on the cheek.
"That's a kiss, it's when you tell someone that you love them as a hello or a goodbye. It's a powerful thing in the world that shows love." Akari touched her cheek, she leaned in to Akemi and kissed her cheek.
"Like that?" Akemi's eyes were wide but closed, she touched her cheek.
"Yes, just like that."
A honk was heard outside of the window, Rin looked and saw a bus with all of his friends on it.
"Let's go!" Bon yelled out the window of his seat, Rin grabbed his suitcase and walked to the door. He turned and looked at Akari.
"Akari? The bus is here." Her hand was shaking with anger, he touched her hand. "Hey, if you don't want to go you don't have to."
She shook her head.
"It's not that, it's-" The bus honked again. Rin gave a sigh and looked at Akari with a worried look. "I do want to go but I'm afraid I'm going to get lost on the way to the hotel."
He gave a grin to her and held her hand.
"I won't let you get lost, I'll make sure that you will be by my side no matter what!" He smiled at her, she forced herself a small smile. "Let's go, they are waiting for us."
The both of them walked out of the dorm and walked outside.
"You guys are slow, were you doing anything naughty?" Shima gave a look, Luka hit him on the head. "Ow! I'm sorry!" He whined as he rubbed his head.
"Come on guys, we have to leave soon before we run out of gas." Everyone sat on the bus, Akari got on and sat in a seat closes to her.
Rin was going to sit with her but Shima grabbed his arm and pulled him away from her.
"Come on, I'll show you my collection of pokemon cards." Rin looked at Akari, she leaned against the window and looked out the window.
Few mintues later
The whole bus was on the road and they hit a bump, causing the students to jump from their seats.
Rin looked at Akari, she fell asleep with her head against the window. Luka looked at her and walked to her, she put a small blanket over her.
"She fell asleep fast, and she's a deep sleeper if she didn't wake up from that bump." Shima said to himself.
"She's always like that, she always fall asleep while transporting." Luka told him, Rin stared at the sleeping Akari.
She looks so peaceful but also lonely.
The bus stopped, the students got off the bus but Rin looked at Akari and walked to her.
"Akari? It's time to go." He poked her on the cheek, she opened her eyes and looked at Rin.
She moaned and sat up, she rubbed her eyes and stood up to grab her bag. They walked off the bus and stood where the group was.
"Alright! Let's go!" Rin walked away from everyone.
"Rin, the hotel is the other way." He looked at them and gave a smile to them.
"Ha, um. Let's go!" Akari looked at him and walked behind him. "By the way, where are we?"
"Akinabara, Tokyo." Rin's eyes widen.
"AKINABARA?"
"I can't, do this anymore. Just let me die!" Shima fell to the sidewalk.
"You are a idiot you know that? We only walked for 5 mintues and you are tired?" Luka told him with her hands on her hips, a little girl looked at the group with a confused look.
"Hey, I got some pocky!" Rin ran to them and held a box of candy in his hand. He took out a piece and gave it to Akari.
Akari stared at it and looked at Rin, he gave a smile to her.
"How come she gets a piece!? What about us?" The group yelled at them, the little girl saw Akari and gave a shy look.
"Because!"
"Because you love Akari?" Shima gave a perverted look.
"I thought you were dead." The little girl gave a happy look and ran to the group, they heard footsteps and saw a flash.
"Ari!" The little girl jumped to Akari, giving a bear hug. Everyone gave a look to the both of them.
"Sakura?" The little girl looked up at her and gave a smile, Akari's eyes went wide. "Sakura!"
She hugged the little girl tight in her arms, everyone gave a confused look.
"Um..." Rin was going to say something but...
"Sakura! How many times have I told you to not hug-" A woman walked to them, Akari dropped Sakura to the sidewalk and saw the woman.
The woman had wide eyes to her.
"A-Akari? Is that you?" The woman walked to her and touched her cheek and hugged her. "My god it is."
"Mother Mary?" Everyone looked at each other.
"WHAT IS GOING ON?!" Rin yelled outloud.
"Everyone, this is Mother Mary and Sakura. I used to know them when I was little." Akari told them, Mother Mary and Sakura bowed to them.
"Thank you for taking care of Akari, I thank you for everything." Luka waved her hands in front of her.
"No, no, no, no. You don't have to do that, please."
"But I have to, you took care of Akari since the day that the whole world cried with their tears falling down from the heavens." The students looked at each other.
"What does that mean?" Marie walked to Sakura and bowed to her.
"Marie!" Yukio said to her.
"Thank you for making Akari smile today." Sakura looked at Akari, she smiled down at her.
"I made Akari smile?" She looked at Marie and smiled. "I made Akari smile!"
Mother Mary smiled down at Sakura and looked at Luka.
"Are you visting for the holiday season?" She asked them, they nodded.
"Yes we are."
"May I ask, are you a nun? You have 'Mother' in your name." Shima asked her, Luka hit him in the head. "OW! What was that for? I was just asking her a question."
"You had that look in your eyes. I don't want you to have 'unholy' thoughts." Mother Mary gave a giggle.
"Yes I am, I'm the Lead Nun in my church. I came from Rome and was send to Japan to take care of orphans." She looked at Sakura and gave a smile.
"Orphans? You take care of orphans?"
"The ones that are left on the street or our doorstep, we are kind people that will take care of the little childern." Rin looked at Akari.
Is that how she knows them?
A few mintues later at the hotel
The group walked to the hotel and stood outside.
"You guys stay here while I get our rooms ready." Luka and Marie walked inside the hotel while everyone else was standing outside.
"So, Sakura. How do you know Akari?" Sakura looked up at Shima, she gave a smile.
"Ari was my babysitter when I was a baby, she took care of me when her mommy was out. She was the best babysitter I ever had!" She hugged Akari and smiled at her, Akari looked at the doors of the hotel.
"Well, I guess that was a fail for someone." Luka sighed.
"What's wrong?" Luka and Marie looked at each other.
"Someone took our suite and we no where to stay." Akari lowered her eyes, Sakura looked up at her.
"Well what about the temple? We have some rooms that you all can stay." Mother Mary told them, they all gave a look at her.
"Really? We don't want to make a mess-"
"Please, you have no where to sleep or stay for the holiday. It's our thanks for you taking care of Akari." She bowed to them, Luka looked at Marie.
"That would be very grateful of you, we will stay at the temple." She bowed to her, Mother Mary smiled at her.
"Come, the temple is this way." She pointed north where a hill stood with a temple on the side.
"Are we going to walk there?" Shima said with a groan.
"No, we are going to take a shortcut there." They walked to a alley and Mother Mary stood in front of it.
"What's going on?" Rin asked Yukio.
"Just wait, Mother is going to do her trick." Sakura told him.
"Trick?" They all stared at her, she looked at Sakura.
"Sakura can you use your little bee?" Sakura nodded and took out a bobby pin from her hair, she poked it with her finger and a small drip of blood came out.
"I call on thee kin of the King of Space, Samael and King of Insects, Beelzebub. Come at my command and bring foward a demon." She said as she made a magic circle on her fingernail, the circle glowed and a small bee came out.
The bee opened it wings and flew to her ear, it flapped it wings causing waves to come out and hit the people walking by. The people stopped walking and was frozen.
"Whoa, what just happened?" Yukio looked at Sakura with a look, the bee stopped flapping it wings and flew to her finger.
She smiled at the little bee and gave a smile to Mother Mary, Mother Mary cut her hand with a nail and causing the blood to fall onto the ground. The blood turned into a shape of a magic circle.
"By the name of Samael, I call onto a portal onto the time and space to a distance onto the hills of light." The magic circle glowed and created a bright pink portal that opened, Mother Mary looked at everyone.
"Come on Ari!" Sakura grabbed Akari's hand and jumped into the portal, Rin and Shima ran to the portal.
"They jumped! Sakura! Akari! Come back!" They yelled down at the portal.
"They are okay, it leads to the temple so they aren't stuck in time." She told them, Luka walked to them and kicked them in the butt causing them to fall into the portal.
"It seems that they are going to be okay now." Luka said to herself with her hands on her hips.
"I haven't finished saying that to them." Mother Mary told her.
"Oh, well they will be fine." Luka strugged.
"AHHH!" They both screamed into the portal, they both fell onto something hard. "Ow."
They both looked at each other, they touched their butts and felt something licking their necks.
"AH!" They both turned around and saw a cow licking their faces. "WHERE ARE WE?!"
Few mintues later while walking up the path
"WHY DID YOU PUSH US INTO THE PORTAL WITHOUT LETTING MOTHER MARY FINISH?" Shima and Rin both yelled at Luka while walking.
"That was a little punishment from me and plus you both walked yourself into it."
"I was making sure Akari was okay!" Rin yelled outloud to her.
"I was making sure that Loli Sakura was okay!" Shima yelled outloud to her.
"Well now they are both okay." Mother Mary looked up and saw the temple.
"Here we are, the Temple of Light andHarmony." The temple looked brand new, snow was on the roof.
Everyone walked in and was shocked on how the inside of the temple was bigger than it was outside.
"How long have you had this temple?" Mother Mary gave a smile.
"Over forty years now, it looks new cause we always clean it and make sure that nothing bad happens to it." A nun said to them, she bowed to them. "Welcome to the temple, I'm Sister Tohru and I'm going to show you your rooms
Shima gave a perverted look at the Sister, Luka and Izumo hit him in the head with their shoes.
"OW!"
Few mintues later
"These are your rooms, the temple has no more rooms so the two of you girls must stay in this room." Sister Tohru opened a door, Shiemi and Izumo walked into the room.
"You three boys stay in this room," She walked away from the girl's room to open another door, Bon, Shima and Konekomaru walked in.
"And this is your room." She opened a door to Rin and Yukio, they walked in and looked around.
"It's bigger than I thought." Sister Tohru smiled at Yukio.
"Where are we going to sleep?" Marie and Luka looked at Sister.
"Mother Mary said that there was one room that was left but it might be small." She walked to the last door in the hall and opened it.
The whole room was big but with two beds at the walls.
"A american bed? I never seen one." Everyone looked inside the room.
Rin looked around for Akari but didn't find her.
"Hey Rin! We're going to look around the city are you coming too?" Rin looked at them with a smile and was going to walk to them.
"Stay, don't go with them."
Rin lowered his eyes for a moment but he looked at them with a small smile.
"I'm just going to stay, I'm tired from walking." He took a step back with his hands behind his back.
"Alright that's your choice." They all left, leaving Rin alone in the hall. He walked away and saw Mother Mary in the kitchen.
"Mother?" She looked behind her and gave him a smile, he saw her washing dishes.
"Rin, why aren't you with your friends?"
I shouldn't tell her about Akemi's voice in my head, telling me not to go.
"Oh, they went out. I didn't want to go." He lied to her, he sat in a chair at the table.
"So I see."
"Where's Akari?"
"She went out also not that long ago."
"Oh." There was silence for a moment in the kitchen, Rin was going to say something but...
"How long have you and Akari been going out?" Rin blushed a little, he looked up at the ceiling.
"About 4 months now." Mother Mary gave a grin.
"Have you two kiss?" He looked away.
"Um...W-We...have." Mother Mary giggled.
"You seemed shy when I asked you that, I guess it wasn't that long along when you kiss was it?" He looked at her for a moment but lowered his eyes. "Say, how much do you know her?"
He put his hand on his neck and scratched the back of his neck.
"I know that she's always sleepy when she's traveling, she listens to heartbeats when nervous. I also know that she can't remember me when she knows that I'm a half demon." Mother Mary put the dish down. "But I don't care if she's sometimes lost at things or Mephisto is her godfather, I will always be with her no matter what."
"Rin, have you been to this city during the holiday season?" He looked at her.
"No I haven't, I have been at the church with old man or at the academy." Mother Mary looked at him in the corner of her eye and turned to him.
"During the season, that's always the one time that makes Akari happy." Akari walked through the streets with her hands in her pockets and head down.
"You see, when Akari was little and her mother was alive. They always had the most fun, they went to ice skate and drink hot cocoa. But the one thing that Akari loved the most in the world, was to listen to her mother's Christmas songs that she made every year."
Akari walked past people and looked up, she saw a woman that was on the tv, she was singing with snow around her, everyone was smiling at the tv but Akari.
"This is her Christmas song that she made 12 years ago. It's still popular even through it's old." Akari lowered her eyes.
"Ah ah ah." Akemi sang with her hand on her chest. "La, la, la, la."
She felt someone watching her, she looked at the doorway.
"Aya. I know you are hiding behind the door." Little Akari peeked her head in the room, she had a shy look.
Akemi walked to her and bend down her knees to her her.
"Were you watching me sing?" Akemi gave a small smile, Akari had her eyes lowered. She blushed and nodded.
"I guess you can see a sneak peek at mommy's practice. But you can't make me laugh, I have to be serious." She raised up one finger to her while she smiled at her shy daughter.
Akari gave a smile to her mother and watched her mother sing to her.
"And when her mother died, it brought the whole world to cry. I said that earlier with your friends, it made everyone cry because her mother was a idol."
"I can't believe it's been 9 years since she died."
"Yeah, it's such a shame. She died of drugs, I can't see her doing that." Akari had tears falling down her cheeks.
"Her mom was a singer?" Rin said to her, she nodded at him.
"Yes and when she died, they had to lie and say that she died of a drug overdose." Rin lowerered his eyes.
The phone rang in the living room, Mother Mary walked to it and picked it up.
"Hello?" There was a moment of silence. "What? I'm coming."
Rin looked at her and stood up, she walked fast to her coat and shoes.
"Rin, I need you to come with me, Tohru! Take care of the children while I'm gone!"
"Why, what's wrong?" He put on his shoes quick and his coat while staring at her, she opened the door.
"It's Akari. She's out of control." She said to him with a serious look.
Rin and Mother Mary walked out of the portal, Rin looked around the city.
"Where is she?" Mother Mary walked away from him and to somewhere that she knew where she was going.
"You'll know." Rin looked around the crowds and saw a giant tv on a building broken with a cracked screen.
"You monster!" A man yelled in a crowd. "You are a monster! You tried to kill me!"
"Lies! Lies!" Rin knew that voice and ran into the crowd, he pushed everyone aside and was in front of the fight.
A man was cut up by the glass of the giant tv, he was standing and yelling at Akari who was yelling at him too. She had her hands holding her arms, she had tears in her eyes.
"My mother was not a drug addict!" Her eyes turned pink, Rin saw her eyes and ran to her. He wrapped his arms around her before she could hurt the man again.
"Akari! Calm down!" He yelled outloud to her, she tried to break away from his grip but couldn't.
She screamed outloud, the glass from the tv's and stores broke, the cars crashed into each other. Everyone stared at Akari with either a scared look or a angry look.
She fell to the ground and put her hands over her ears, her eyes shut closed with tears.
"You are a monster and you know it, you are a killer and you should rot in hell." The man told her with a angry look.
Rin stared at him with a angry look too, he put his arm over her shoulder and looked at her.
"Akari." She put herself in his arms and cried, he looked down at her and put his arms around her.
"I'm sorry for all that sir." Mother Mary told the man, she was begging for his forgivness. Rin looked at her and lowered his eyes.
"Please, don't let go of me. I need these arms around me." She said with a hiccup, he stared at her and put his chin on the top of her head.
"I won't, I won't let these arms go away." Mephisto stared at her in the air, he gave a frown and closed his eyes.
"A demon! She's a demon!" A woman said outloud as she pointed at little Akari, Akari stood in center of the room with blood on her cheek and her dress.
"She almost killed my child! She should be burn like a witch she is!" Mephisto stared at her and walked to her, he bend down to her.
"I didn't mean it, I didn't." She said in a quiet voice, he stared at her with a sad look.
"Akari, it's okay." He wrapped his arms around her small body, her eyes began to water.
"Waaahh!" She cried outloud that reached to the orange sky.
Akari, it's been a while since you last cried in someone's arms because of the mess that she made.
Part 2 coming up next! The next one will have Christmas in it and Rin's and Yukio's birthday! :D
