Me: MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Nick: this was my idea.
Me: shaddap! And yes, it was. Chapter 36 is taking forever, so please enjoy a filler chapter of the aliens experiencing Christmas. For the disclaimer, Prancer, my favorite reindeer! *a humanized prancer walks in*
Prancer: my new friend here, Fangirlgonesupernova, owns nothing! NOW LETS SING!
Me: so in the following chapter, they do not know the cast or anything, they just came back and are experiencing some Christmas traditions. ROLL THE CLIPS!
Chapter 36:
Jingle bells, nick smells, mint layed an egg! The torch mobile lost a wheel and Mary sues got away!
The next chapter is made of various ideas given to me by various people. Christmas is the main theme.
Idea one: snow angels.
"What the heck… snow?" Taruto asks. He's standing outside of the café with pudding. It had been three months since they came back and started working at the café with the mews.
"Yeah Na no Da!" pudding says, "LETS MAKE SNOW ANGELS NA NO DA!"
"Uh… how do we do that?" Taruto asks.
"You lie down and move your arms and legs up and down, here I'll show you!" she says, grabbing his hand. She runs over to the snow and plops down, dragging tart with her. "Like this Na no Da!" she starts making a snow angel and Taruto starts doing it after a second. They stand up and jump back.
"It looks like the angels are holding hands Na no Da!" Pudding yells.
"Yeah… it do-"tart almost finished but got pegged in the head by a snowball, "WHAT THE HECK KISH?" he says, whirling around at his big brother.
"SNOWBALL FIGHT!" Kish yells, running behind a tree and making a fort out of snow. Tart runs over to a place on the hill, grabbing pudding's hand and dragging her.
"Come on! We're not going to let him win!" he yells, they drop to the ground across the way from Kish and start to make a fort. A snowball pegs Taruto in his face. A second later Kish gets hit in the face and pudding gets hit in the shoulder. Zakuro falls from the trees into the center of the clearing.
"Mind if I join?" she says, and then leaps to another side of the clearing where she already made a fort.
"IT'S ON!" Taruto says, tossing snowballs at her, pudding starts throwing snow balls at Kish. They keep throwing snowballs then Zakuro tosses one directly in front of her, someone yelps in pain and a thud is heard.
"ICHIGO! YOU ARE NOW A PART OF THIS! CHOOSE A SIDE!" Zakuro yells.
"Uh… what?" she says, sitting up. Kish teleports behind her, grabs her hand, and runs toward his fort.
"You'll be on my side koneko-chan!" Kish says, "They're our opponents!" they start flinging snowballs at the others. The fight raged on for hours, Pai joined up with Zakuro, Mint and Aokara made their own team, Lettuce played for a little while, broke her glasses and went inside, and when the fight ended and all had surrendered, Pai and Zakuro stood victorious. They all went inside for cocoa afterwards. And in the snow lay two angels, holding hands.
# 2: caroling.
"LET'S GO CAROLING!" pudding says, handing out black binders to everyone.
"What's that?" Pai asks, flipping the binder open to a page titled 'we wish you a merry Christmas'
"You walk around going door to door singing to people," Zakuro says, flipping through the binder, "Good choices pudding, but why do you want to go?"
"It sounds fun, Na no Da" Pudding says.
"Sounds interesting, let's do it!" Ichigo says.
"It sounds fun…" Lettuce says.
"Sure, why not?" Zakuro says.
"I have nothing to do, so I guess I can come," Mint says.
"What about you Taru-taru?" Pudding says
"S-sure I guess…" Taruto says, looking through the binder.
"Count me out," Pai says, setting the binder down on the table and going back to setting up for the day.
"What's your problem grumpy gut?" Zakuro says, poking Pai.
"I don't sing," He says, batting her hand away.
"Why not?" She asks.
"Because I don't, doesn't the café open in five minutes?" Pai says, setting up more. The mews run off to set up.
Two days later it's closing time at the café. The mews start closing up.
"IT'S ALMOST TIME TO GO CAROLING!" Pudding says.
"Yep, are you all ready to go?" Zakuro says, stepping out of the changing room in her normal clothes.
"Hey! Why didn't you help us close up?" Ichigo says.
"Because I didn't want to, get changed so we can go," Zakuro says, the mews and aliens go to get changed and come back in a few minutes later. Aokara teleports into the room a minute later
"Mint said that there was something going on and I had to come," He says calmly.
"Well, I'm leaving," Pai says, floating and about to teleport.
"NOT SO FAST!" Zakuro yells, tackling him, "You're coming too!"
"What? Why?" Pai says, Zakuro starts dragging him out the door by the hand.
"Because I said so, let's go!" Zakuro says, the mews follow her and Pai.
Three hours later the mews and aliens are walking around downtown.
"YOU GET AWAY FROM HER ALIEN!" Masaya yells, running to attack Kish. Ichigo tries to stop him, the others just stay back. Pai sighs and continues walking, grabbing the back of Ichigo and kisshu's shirts and dragging them all along.
"I was dragged along against my will and I will not put up with any fighting right now do you understand me?" Pai says turning around and looking down at them (Pai is really tall…) they nod. "Good, who wants to go get pizza or something?"
The next day at work, Aokara, Pai, and Keiichiro are the only ones at the café. (The others are grocery shopping.)
"I'll go to help Keiichiro start the cakes," Aokara says walking into the kitchen leaving Pai working on setting up. As he sweeps he starts to quietly sing Christmas songs.
'What's the harm anyways?' he thinks 'Aokara can't hear me.' He keeps singing, not noticing when the door opens.
"So you don't like to sing huh?" a voice comes from behind him. He turns around blushing.
"Shut up Zakuro," he says. She just laughs.
#3: Christmas masquerade ball
"So… we're having a ball?" Taruto says.
"Yes," Ryou says, "Don't look at me; it was the mew's ideas. Zakuro had the idea of inviting our frequent customers, like those girls who always request Pai and come in twice a week."
"Why those girls, they always are asking me if I'm single and stuff," Pai says.
"It'll be a fundraiser ball, people can buy tickets and dance with the waiters and waitresses, a lot of the customers bought tickets today and reserved dances. Taruto has to dance with ten people so far, pudding has three, Kish has a whopping thirty-seven, Ichigo has eighteen-"
"I don't want those people dancing with my koneko-chan!" Kish says.
"Well she has to. It's for charity," Ryou says, looking back at the book, "Lettuce has fifteen, I have twenty-four, Keiichiro has three, mint has seventeen, Aokara has twenty one, Zakuro and Pai are tied for the highest with forty each."
"I am not dancing with thirty dudes; most of the guys who come in here and request me as their waitress are perverts!" Zakuro says.
"Well if they try anything slap them of kick them or something, I don't really care," Ryou says.
"Fine," Zakuro says, folding her arms and puffing out her cheeks.
The rest of the week continues as normal, the mews get new dresses and the boys get suits. Masks are designed and bought. New shoes and other things are bought in preparation. The day of the ball sneaks up on them and before they know it they're all dancing. Ichigo has finished dancing with all the boys who reserved a dance, and was standing there watching the others dance. 'Those stupid girls, flirting with ki- WHAT AM I THINKING? Well… I'm not with Masaya… so… okay! I'll go take a dance for myself!' She thinks to herself. She walks over to where Kish is dancing, and taps on his shoulder.
"May I steal him?" she sees the girl who is dancing with him- Moe.
"Oh… Ichigo… sure…" she goes to dance with someone else. Kish grabs Ichigo's hand and puts his arm around her waist.
"Now why would you do that kitty?" Kish asks, whirling with Ichigo across the floor. The skirt of Ichigo's pink dress with red frills swirls around her ankles and on the floor. Kish tightens his grip around her waist and looks her in the eyes. "Could it be you were jealous?" he says, smirking. Ichigo blushes, but keeps moving with Kish.
'How come I'm not making a single mistake while dancing with him?' Ichigo wonders to herself.
"You know, they say when you dance with your perfect partner, a person who can't dance to save their life can dance beautifully," Kish says, "Normally I fake my way through these dances, but with you, it feels natural." He rests his forehead against Ichigo's, making her blush deeper. "You seem like you have something to say. Say it, I'll listen, no matter what it is." He says, twirling her out and back in. she blushes more and looks like a tomato covered in blood.
"I-I… I've fallen in love," Ichigo says, Kisshu's face drops and looks disappointed. She bites her lower lip. "With…. With you…." Kish looks at her, surprised, and then he smiles and laughs.
"I should tell Zakuro her prediction was correct," Kish says.
"W-what?"
"She said that by the end of the year, you'd fall in love with me. She said it to pudding, but I heard her." Kish says, he bends down and gently kisses Ichigo.
'His lips are so soft…"
"I love you Kish," Ichigo says.
"And I love you, Koneko-Chan." Kish says, gently kissing her.
Across the floor Taruto watches them, and rolls his eyes. "So like him. I'll never fall in love with a human." He says, "And now I'm talking to myself…"
"Yep! Want to dance Na no Da?" Pudding says, standing in front of him with her hand extended. Her dress has poofy yellow shorts under a white skirt and yellow top.
"Whatever, why not?" Taruto says, taking her hand and walking to the dance floor. They start dancing, pudding dragging him along energetically. "Please slow down! I cant keep up with you!" Tart yells, being dragged all over the floor. Pudding sees Kisshu and Ichigo and giggles, slowing for a second.
"Looks like Kisshu-Chan and Ichigo-nee-Chan are dating now," Pudding says, twirling again.
"At least Kish won't be emo anymore," Taruto says, twirling pudding.
"I like dancing with you Na no Da! It's fun!" pudding says, putting her head next to taruto's. His blush rivals the tomato-red bow tie he's wearing.
"I-idiot…" he stutters. They continue dancing and, although six people didn't get their dances, no one interrupted them.
'Well… I guess… this human isn't so bad…' he thinks to himself as he dances with pudding.
Watching these actions is mint, over in the corner alone. She sighs. "Why did Ichigo get more people than me?" mint wonders aloud.
"Well would you like to dance with me Minto-Chan?" Aokara says. While she was watching Pudding and Taruto he snuck up next to her, and stood next to her with his chin resting on her shoulder. Her face turns red enough to rival Ichigo's hair.
"So yes?" He whispers into her ear.
"F-fine… I g-guess I can dance with you…" She says, blushing. 'Why do I always have to stutter…?'
"Thank you for letting me dance with you," He says, moving in front of her, taking her hand and leading her onto the dance floor. They dance for a few minutes in silence. Mint stares at her feet, but slowly she feels that Aokara is staring at her. She looks up into his crystal blue eyes.
"W-why are you staring at me?" Mint says. He smiles and pulls her closer to him, making their foreheads touch. He wraps his arm even more over her short blue and black dress, hugging her to him.
"What's wrong with staring at the girl I love?" Aokara says, twirling her out and back in, catching her and pulling her close again, "Besides, you're beautiful." This comment makes Mint blush deeply.
"W-what?"
"You heard me, you're beautiful." He says, looking her in the eyes, "And I love you. You know that Mint, right?" she blushes and nods.
"How could I forget? You tell me every day," She says, looking into his eyes.
'His eyes are filled with something… I wonder… what it is…"
"You look distracted… is something on your mind minto?" Aokara says, looking at her with concern.
"N-nothing… I was just wondering…" Mint trails off.
"Wondering what?" he twirls her and holds her closer. She bites her lip in a moment of hesitation, but decides to speak.
"Why do you love me?" She asks. He looks surprised for a second leaning back. "I mean… there are so many girls who flirt with you… why do you love me?" he looks at her, then smiles and starts laughing. "What are you laughing at?" Mint says, angry.
"You of course," Aokara says, "You really don't get it do you? I love you because you are you. I love everything about you, don't you see?"
"Well… specify for me… what exactly do you love about me?"
"Everything!" He says, laughing and twirling her, "How your eyes look like sapphires, how your hair is silky smooth, how for some reason you always smell like blueberries, how you smile, how, even though I was your enemy, you helped me when you realized I had been saved by the mew aqua. How cute you are when you blush, I love that you allow me to love you, how you're so nice, even though you don't show that you are. Everything, your good and bad traits, flaws and all."
'Love… that's it, in his eyes… its love... definitely. He loves me… and I…. I…' "I love you too Aokara," She tilts her head up, grabs the back of his head, and pulls him to her, kissing him. He kisses back; they stop and keep dancing, mint with her head on Aokara's chest, with his arms wrapped around her waist. 'I completely forgot, I was jealous of how many guys the others got. I wonder why… my true love is dancing with me, that's all I need. That's all I need'
Out on the balcony stands lettuce, looking out at the garden
"What are you doing out here Lettuce?" Ryou asks, she turns around to face her.
"Uh… I was getting some air! Yes, that's it! Just, getting air…" she trailed off when she saw Ryou's face.
"Who slapped you, and why?" He says, walking over to her and putting a finger under her chin, forcing him to look at him.
"Well… one of the boys I was dancing with tried to kiss me, so I moved. But he slapped me and told me not to, Zakuro came to my aid by kicking him from behind and telling him to 'Get out of here you sick pervert," and I ran away," She said. Ryou lets go of her chin and drops his hand. She stands for a minute, and her shoulders begin to shake from sobs.
"Le-"He's cut of by lettuce hugging him. "What the-"she cries hard, dropping the green mask she wore.
"I-I was s-scared... he was saying things… I-I…" She couldn't say anymore before she burst into tears.
"It's okay Lettuce. I won't let anyone hurt you," He says, holding her close to him.
Observing all these events quietly against a wall is a man with a black mask that has a purple ring along the outside, and a tuxedo without a tie on it.
"Hello Pai, I see you finished your required dances," Keiichiro says, walking next to Pai.
"Yes, I can't tell which one of these people is Zakuro…"
"Why do you want to know who is Zakuro?" Keiichiro asks, taking off his white mask. Pai looks away from his now-friend.
"No reason. Everyone showed me their masks for some reason," Pai says, "Except for Zakuro. Lettuces is green and sparkly, Ryou's is white with a black line which looks like a cat on one side, Ichigo's looks like strawberries, Kish's looks like two green hearts, Taruto's is brown, puddings looks like two circus balls, the kind she balances on, mints looks like two doves, and aokara's Is blue with black jewels. Yet I don't know what Zakuro's looks like…" he trails off and goes back to scanning the room for Zakuro.
"It's a black and purple butterfly. Her dress is purple with black ruffles, and a black ruffle stripe going from the upper-right corner of her dress to the lower left part of her top, then wrapping around her waist making a belt," Pai just stares at him. "She had me design and make it. Go find her." He says, giving Pai a shove onto the dance floor. He walks around the edge for a while and then sees Zakuro dancing with a dude who looks like he's drunk. Then Pai notices something that angers him.
'That pervert! He's looking down her shirt!' he thinks, he walks swiftly across the floor, ignoring girls attempts to get him to dance with them. He walks up to where she is and sees the man start to move his hand. He knocks his and away from Zakuro.
"I'm stealing her," He says simply, turning and taking zakuro's hand, dancing away from the man. He makes eye contact with the sleazebag, his eyes screaming with hatred 'come near her and I'll kill you'
"Thank you…" Zakuro says, intertwining her black gloved fingers with Pai's ungloved ones, "Why aren't you wearing a tie?" she asks, tilting her head to the side. Pai blushes and looks away.
"I-I couldn't figure out how to tie it," He says. Zakuro giggles and holds her hand to her mouth.
"Why didn't you ask someone how to?" she says, smiling at him, "Or we're you too embarrassed to tell anyone?" he looks away. "Ha! I guessed it!"
"S-so what… please don't tell my brothers, they'd never let me live it down…" Pai says, twirling Zakuro, they've moved over near the wall.
"I won't. But you have to let me help you with your tie after this dance" Zakuro says with a smile.
"And how do you plan on escaping this room full of girls and boys who want to dance with one of us?"
"Hmm… we'll move to the wall you we're standing against. There's shadows, I'll fix your tie and then we'll dance again." Zakuro says quietly so no one hears her.
"Fine…" he says. a girl taps on Pai's shoulder.
"Dance with me Pai-san! I can dance way better than grumpy over there!" The girl says. Zakuro looks angry, but walks away without a word. The song ends, and Pai goes to walk away.
"HEY! Where are you going? I'm prettier than that stupid waitress!" The girl says.
"No, not to me," Pai says. He walks to where Zakuro is, and sees the man from before pinning her against the wall.
"Hey! Leave her alone!" He says, walking over to her.
"Heh, as if, she's going to be my-"he says no more because Pai punched him.
"Stay away from her, you perverted creep." The guy gets up, wiping blood from his mouth. He goes to punch Pai, but Pai blocks it and kicks him through the open window. Pai turns to Zakuro. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine. Now, give me your tie," Zakuro says, holding out her hand. Pai reaches into his jacket pocket and hands her a black tie with purple pinstripes. Zakuro ties his tie like an expert.
"How do you know how to do at?"
"I was a maid of honor for one of my friends and none of the groomsmen could tie ties except for the groom. He taught me how to and I had to tie six of them," she tightens the tie around his neck. "There, perfect. Now, let's dance!" She grabs Pai's hand and drags him onto the dance floor, then starts to dance with him.
They dance across the floor, hand in hand.
"Thank you," Zakuro whispers, leaning her head on Pai's chest.
"Why are you thanking me, I didn't do anything…" Pai says, blushing.
"You saved me from that guy twice. Thank you," Zakuro says.
"Why didn't you just hurt him? You could have beaten him up," he says, she looks away for a second, "Were you… scared?" She nods.
"J-just a tiny bit…"
"Well don't be," He says, twirling her.
"Why?"
"Because I'll save you," He says, looking into her eyes. She blushes, then smiles.
"Okay," She rests her head on his chest, and they dance.
# 4: mistletoe
"So… during the Christmas season… people kiss under a plant?" Taruto says.
"That's what Ichigo told me!" Kish says, walking to the café with Pai and Taruto.
"Humans have weird traditions," Taruto says.
"Well I like it!" Kish says. He walks backwards, "Besides I bet you want to kiss that little-"a snowball to the back of the head interrupts his thoughts. He whirls around "WHO THREW THAT!" Zakuro stands in front of him in a purple marshmallow jacket.
"If you keep walking backwards you'll fall into a river," Zakuro says, tossing a snowball up and down in her hand.
"HEY! YOU CAN'T JUST GO AROUND HITTING PEOPLE IN THE HEAD!"
"I was sent to find you three. Come on, the Christmas party already started," she turns to walk away, "Well, are you coming?"
They walk into the café and see everyone is already there.
"AH! You found them!" Ryou says, "We can start the game now!"
Three hours later the party was over.
"Well I have to get home, see you later," Ichigo says, leaving.
"Wait up, I'll walk you home," Kish says, he catches up to her where there's mistletoe and steals a kiss. Pai and Taruto roll their eyes.
"I got to get home to my siblings Na no Da!" Pudding says, running out.
"Uh… I'm just going to go… make sure she doesn't get lost…" Taruto says, running after her.
"We're going home now Aokara," Mint says, standing up.
"Fine," Aokara says, he grabs mint's hand and teleports her home.
"You want to walk together Lettuce?" Zakuro asks, throwing her bag over her shoulder.
"Uh… I… n-no… my parents are out of town for the weekend and my brother is staying at a friend's house so I'm staying h-here…" Lettuce says, "I'M S-SORRY!"
"It's fine. I can walk alone," Zakuro says, "Have fun staying here." She chuckles, covering her mouth and leaves.
"Well, there's no reason for me to stay here. See you later," Pai says, leaving. "Oi! Zakuro!" He catches up with her. "Everyone else is walking with someone, I'll walk with you." Zakuro blushes and looks away.
"F-fine…" she replies, looking down, "So what do you think of Christmas so far?"
"So-so… Some traditions I'm fine with, like the trees, but then there are other things, like Santa" He says, looking up.
"What's so bad about Santa?" Zakuro asks.
"He's a creepy 5000-year-old man who knows when children are asleep, and sneaks into people's houses in the dead of the night and eats their food." He says, looking at Zakuro.
"Well when you put it like that it's scary!" She says, "What other traditions do you not like?"
"I have nothing against most other traditions, but mistletoe is kind of idiotic,"
"How so?"
"Well imagine you have to kiss someone you hate," He says.
"Well why would you be near someone you don't like?" She says looking at him, "Well what traditions do you like?" Zakuro asks. He thinks for a second.
"Eggnog," He says. They turn a corner onto the street where Zakuro's house is. She laughs and covers her mouth.
"Eggnog?"
"What? I like it," He says, "Is there something wrong with that?"
"No, it's just you don't seem to be the kind to like eggnog," She says, she types a code into the gate of her house and starts walking to her door.
"Well I like it," He says. They get up to her door and she opens it.
"I'll see you later Pai," Zakuro says, turning. Pai glances up, grabs Zakuro's cheek and kisses her. After a second he pulls back.
"I said it was stupid, I never say I wouldn't follow the tradition. Goodnight, Zakuro, I'll see you later," he says, changing from his human form into his normal form and teleporting away. Zakuro stands there blushing. 'I think mistletoe just became my favorite tradition…'
# 5: CHRISTMAS DAY! (And eve, but who cares about that? [Me, I get new PJs :3.])
"HELLO!" Zakuro says, opening her front door, Lettuce and Ryou are there, with duffle bags.
"So why did you say we all should spend Christmas Eve at your house?" Ryou asks.
"Because we're a team," She says, leading them into her living room that has two couches, a television and a tree in it. "Besides, it'll be fun!" the doorbell rings. "I got to get that, set your stuff down, there's cocoa in the kitchen." Ryou and Lettuce look at each other then Ryou shrugs.
"Might as well, this could be fun. Let's go get some cocoa," Ryou says, dropping his back, stuffed with gifts.
"I'll get the cocoa; can you please get the gifts under the tree?" Lettuce says. Ryou nods and starts placing things under the tree. Lettuce leaves to the kitchen.
"HELLO ZAKURO-NEE-CHAN NA NO DA!" Pudding yells, walking in with a pile of presents in front of her, "Uh… help! I'm about to drop them!" Zakuro takes the top half of the pile revealing the smaller mew.
"Maybe next time you should put them in a bag?" Zakuro asks, "So where are your siblings?"
"Yeah… oh! They're in China. I was going to go but I convinced my father to let me stay and spend Christmas with all of you Na no Da!" Pudding says, walking with Zakuro into her living room, where Ryou is putting things under the tree.
"Hey Ryou-kun, do you want hot cocoa or eggnog?" Lettuce says from the kitchen.
"Cocoa," Ryou says, "Why do you have eggnog?"
"I think the real question is why not," Zakuro says, "OH! I knew I forgot something! The presents are still in my closet, be right back!" She runs upstairs leaving Pudding, lettuce, and Ryou in the living room.
"I'm going to go get some hot cocoa Na no Da," Pudding says, running off. Ryou and lettuce sit in silence.
"So…" Ryou says.
"So…" Lettuce says, looking at the tree, "She has a really nice tree. There are so many different ornaments; I don't think there are two that are the same."
"That's because they aren't Na no Da!" Pudding says; "She gathered them over the years!" the doorbell rings. "I'LL GET IT!" she runs to the door and stands on her tippy-toes to see through the peephole. She flings the door open. "HI MINTO! HI DEEP BLUE-SAN!"
"Hello pudding. Where is Zakuro?" Mint says.
"She's getting something from her room, there's hot cocoa and eggnog in the kitchen Na no Da!" Pudding says, smiling at mint and Aokara.
"I'll go get some; do you want hot cocoa or eggnog Minto?" Aokara says.
"Cocoa, I hate eggnog," Mint says.
"Well that's not nice to eggnog everywhere," Ichigo says, walking in behind mint with a large duffel bag.
"Do you want some cocoa or eggnog Ichigo?" Aokara asks. Before he even finishes the question a death aura surrounds Mint.
"Cocoa please," Ichigo says. Aokara goes to get the cocoa and she looks over at mint. "What? Afraid I'll steal your boyfriend or something?"
"I wouldn't put it past you," Mint says.
"I already have a boyfriend Mint, I don't need yours," Ichigo says, closing the door, "So chill, I'm sure he was only being a gentleman." Mint calms down.
"Yeah, that must be it," She says, "Lets go to the living room…"
"FOLLOW ME NA NO DA!" Pudding says, taking their hands and dragging them into the living room. Mint and Ichigo sit on the couch and deep blue walks in with two mugs of cocoa and one glass of eggnog.
"Here you go Ichigo," Aokara says, handing Ichigo her cup, "And here you go minto." He says, sitting next to her. Someone knocks on the door again.
"I'll get it!" Ichigo says, going to get the door. Zakuro starts walking down the stairs with a pile of presents in her hands.
"I got almost all of them; I'll need to make two trips- AH!" She slips and falls, the presents fly into the air. She closes her eyes, ready to hit the floor.
"Maybe next time you shouldn't attempt to bring all of them down at once?" Pai asks, looking down at Zakuro, who he caught bridal style. Her face turns red automatically. "I'll help you with the rest." He sets her down on the ground and sets his bag on the pile of rapidly growing bags.
"We need a place to put those… follow me, they're up in my closet," Zakuro says, walking upstairs, Pai following her.
"That was weird, how did he catch her? No one can walk that quickly," Ichigo says.
"He either flew or teleported," Kish says, "Hey Kitty, look up!" She looks up and sees mistletoe. She blushes and is about to say something, but Kish cuts her off by dip-kissing her.
"EW!" Taruto says from the other side of the room.
"Want to go get some hot cocoa Na no Da?" pudding asks him, holding Taruto's arm.
"F-fine…" Taruto says, blushing, "I'll get Pai something while he helps Zakuro." They walk into the kitchen to get the cocoa.
"Do you think Pai-onii-Chan would like cocoa or eggnog?" Pudding asks, pouring a cup of cocoa.
"Eggnog," Taruto says, "For some reason he really likes eggnog."
"Okay Na no Da!" Pudding says, grabbing a glass and filling it with eggnog. Kisshu walks in with a stupid grin on his face.
"You look happy," Taruto says.
"Yup!" Kish says, grabbing a mug and pouring hot cocoa in it. He sees the glass of eggnog. "You're getting something for Pai too?"
"Yeah, that way we can get to Christmas movies!" Taruto says, grabbing the glasses. Kish raises an eyebrow, but goes into the living room.
Meanwhile, in the living room
"So what's with you and Kish?" Mint says, now sitting on the floor next to Ichigo.
"W-we're dating now…" Ichigo says.
"OOOH!" Mint says, Ichigo punches her arm and she laughs.
"That's great Ichigo-Chan!" Lettuce says.
"Y-yeah… it is…" Ichigo says, Kish walks in and sits next to her.
Meanwhile upstairs
"Here we are, let me get the gifts out of my closet," Zakuro says. Pai takes a second while she gets them out and looks around her bedroom. Its average sized with a black canopy bed that has purple blankets with a pattern of black vines and purple and black pillows with a teddy bear sitting on it. There is a black dresser and vanity, a balcony is covered by purple curtains, and the roof looks like stars. The floor is wooden with purple carpets put on it and beanbags in a corner. It takes him about ten seconds to take all this in.
"Here, can you carry all of these?" She says, arms full of presents.
"Sure," Pai says, taking the presents from her arms, "This is pretty light. I can probably hold more." Zakuro turns, and places some more presents on the pile. She takes the rest.
"Lets go back downstairs," Zakuro says.
"okay," Pai says, they walk downstairs to see mint pinned on the floor with her arm being pulled back by Ichigo and Ichigo's foot on her back, Aokara and Taruto fighting, pudding and lettuce are tied up, and ryou and kish are wrestling and punching each other. Pai stops for a second, then moves down and sets the presents next to the large pile under the tree, Zakuro follows suit. Ryou and Kish roll into the tree, making it start to fall.
"THE TREE!" someone (probably lettuce) yells. The tree is about to hit someone, when Pai sticks out his hand and catches it. He moves it upright and turns to everyone.
"Stop fighting, and sit down on the couches," Pai says, pointing to the couches, everyone scrambles to sit down, "now, what happened?"
"Well it started out when pudding and Taruto got back from the kitchen," Ichigo starts.
Flashback time! :
"Hey, so Pai and Zakuro are still upstairs?" Taruto asks.
"Yes they are midget," Ichigo says.
"I AM NOT A MIDGET OLD HAG!" Taruto says.
"I AM NOT OLD!" Ichigo says, jumping up.
"Calm down you two," Kish says.
"Fine," Ichigo says.
"Whatever," Taruto says, "She's still old."
"Oh that's it midget boy!" Ichigo says, starting to fight with Taruto, they bump into lettuce, making her drop her cocoa.
"My cocoa…" Lettuce says, "YOU LITTLE TWERP! YOU MADE ME SPILL MY COCOA!" She starts to chase Taruto. Pudding tosses rope she somehow got around lettuce. She lets go of it and somehow gets tied up, they fall back to back on the ground.
"Uh… I don't know how this happened Na no Da," Pudding says, moving her arms up and down, trying to get out.
"Your girlfriend is insane," Kish says.
"Your girlfriend is too!" Ryou says they begin to fight.
"You're all immature and need to calm down," Mint says. Ichigo pins her on the ground and pulls her arm back.
"What was that Minto?" Ichigo asks.
"Hey! Let her go," Aokara says, standing up, Taruto, who was still running, unaware no one is chasing him, knocks Aokara's glass of eggnog out of his hand.
"MY EGGNOG! YOU ARE SO DEAD!" he and Taruto start fighting.
"And from that point you know what happened," Taruto says. Pai started drinking his eggnog halfway through.
"This is a really good knot," Zakuro says, she unties the knot setting lettuce and pudding free. "No more fighting in my house, okay?" they nod. "Okay!" she looks at the clock, "it's time for dinner… anyone hungry?"
"Me," Taruto says.
"I am Na no Da!"
"Yep," Kish says.
"I think it's safe to assume everyone is hungry," Pai says, leaning against the wall.
"Your right," Zakuro says, "Who wants to order pizza?"
"ME!" everyone says.
Five hours later.
"And yet another happy ending," Pai says, "So far, a reindeer was accepted by his peers, a green man became kind and sang with weird little people, and a human who was raised by elves saved Christmas and winded up married with a child. These Christmas movies are strange." (Okay, who can guess what three movies they've watched, it's sort of obvious.)
"Yep," Pudding says, "that's what's good about Christmas movies Na no Da!"
"Well in reality, the reindeer would have still been shunned, the Grinch would be rejected, and the elf would be deemed insane and sent to a mental institution," He says. Pudding frowns.
"You're so negative Pai!" Zakuro says, taking the next Christmas movie off the stack, "This one is a little bit dark. So you might like it."
"Fine," Pai says, drinking his eggnog. Zakuro pops the movie in and sits next to him, sipping hot cocoa.
One 'nightmare before Christmas' later
"The oogie-boogie man always terrifies me," Ichigo says.
"You were right, I did like that movie," Pai says.
"See?" Zakuro says.
"I will never sleep again," Taruto says.
"Me either," Pudding says.
"Well you have to or Santa won't come!" Lettuce says.
"Then by all means, let's watch another scary movie," Pai says.
"Why?" Mint asks.
"Because Santa is a weird old man who for some reason knows when children sleep and sneaks into peoples houses," Pai says, looking a mint with a dead serious expression. Everyone looks at him weird except for Zakuro, who already knew his opinion.
"Ignore him, besides, it's time for new PJs!" Zakuro says, jumping up.
"What?" Everyone asks. Zakuro rolls her eyes.
"New pajamas, it's a tradition in my family and it's fun, here, I color-coded it so I wouldn't have to look at tags," Zakuro says, moving over to the tree, "Ryou, Pai, Taruto, Aokara, Lettuce, Mint, Ichigo, Pudding, and Kish." She pulls out ten boxes, each a different color, white, black, red, dark blue, green, light blue, pink, yellow, brown, and purple. "Keiichiro made them and wrapped them. Too bad he isn't here."
"Yeah, but he's spending Christmas with his 'lady friend'," Ryou says in a mocking tone.
"Yes, but so are you," Zakuro retorts, "Lettuce is right there isn't she?" she points to lettuce, who is sitting with her head leaning on ryou. Ryou blushes.
"S-shut up…" Ryou says.
"Waaah! CUTE!" Ichigo yells, holding up pink PJs with black kittens doing random things on them.
"EEK!" Mint says, hugging light blue PJS with birds on it to her chest, "CUTE!"
"Well this is… strange," Taruto says, holding up dark red PJS with bright green plants on it.
"I like your PJS, what do you think of mine Na no Da?" Pudding says, spinning around in her new yellow PJs with monkeys, "Oh, and I noticed something. My name is on the pocket Na no Da!" She points to her pocket, which has her name on it in gold stitching.
"They suit you," Taruto says, "I'm going to go put mine on." He says, going upstairs to the bathroom to change.
"Why am I not surprised?" Pai asks, his Pjs are black with purple stripes randomly on it.
"I like them!" Zakuro says, standing next to him, now in her new lavender pajamas with wolves on it. "I think he stitched everyone's name into their pajamas." She says, looking down at the pocket of her shirt, where her name has been stitched in black. Taruto walks back in with his pajamas on.
"My name is on these in silver… why silver?"
"It stands out against red," Zakuro says, "Pai, go change into your PJS."
"Why?" He asks.
"Because I said so, now go!" She says, shoving him up the stairs.
"Fine, I'm going, I'm going," He says.
"So… why did you just force Pai to go change?" Ichigo asks, now in her PJS via girl magic.
"Because he probably not go to change unless I forced him. What do the rest of your pajamas look like?" Zakuro asks, sitting down where she and Pai were sitting.
"Mine is dark blue with a light blue lining it," Aokara says.
"Mine are white with green polka dots on the bottoms and the top is white with green lining," Ryou says, the bottoms are on and he's buttoning up the shirt, "I can't seem to get this stupid button!"
"Here, let me help you with that," Lettuce says, reaching over and buttoning the top button of his shirt.
"Mine are brown with green lines and strawberries on the pockets!" Kish says. Pai walks downstairs again.
"How did everyone get changed?" He asks.
"Years of practice!" Zakuro says.
"I did the art of substitution," pudding answers. (I will do this in normal style for the answers)
Ryou: no one was paying attention to me.
Lettuce: I used Zakuro's room.
Mint: same.
Ichigo; me too
Aokara; changed behind the couch.
Kish: teleported to our house.
"I see, what's next?" Pai says, sitting down next to Zakuro.
"We have to make cookies for Santa!" Zakuro says, grabbing Pai's hand and dragging him into the kitchen. The others follow.
"He has no idea she likes him does he?" Ichigo whispers to Kish.
"I don't think he even realizes he likes her," Kish says. they walk into the kitchen and the rest of the night goes uneventfully. When everyone goes to sleep lettuce is using Ryou's stomach as a pillow, mint is sleeping next to Aokara, kish and Ichigo are sleeping next to each other, pudding and Taruto wound up in a recliner with their legs dangling over the side and Pai and Zakuro are sleeping next to the tree and fireplace, heads near each other. At midnight dust falls from the chimney and a noise is heard. Taruto half-opens one of his eyes to see two girls, one with brown hair, and one with blue hair, both in santa costumes, fall down the chimney.
"Okay!" The blue haired one whispers up the chimney, "Send the bag down!"
"Okay!" a girl's voice says. a red bag is tossed down the chimney, hitting the brown haired girl in the face.
"DUTCH!" the blue haired one whisper-yells up the chimney.
"SORRY MOON!" Dutch yells.
"Be quiet!" Moon says, sitting up and grabbing the bag, "Let's go torch Claus."
"Okay," torch Claus says, stepping over Pai and moving to the table where they put the cookies and milk. "You take the milk, I don't like milk. Why does no one ever put cocoa just to mix it up a little?"
"Be quiet and stop ranting or we'll wake someone up!" moon says, drinking the milk.
"Fine…" Torch replies, taking a bite of a cookie," yummy… chocolate chip!" she eats three of the cookies and starts putting the presents under the tree. moon joins her after she finishes some cookies. Someone tugs on the back of their shirts after a second. They turn around, torch still eating a cookie.
"Santa?" Taruto asks, looking at the two.
"Yep!" torch says, finishing her cookie and brushing crumbs off of her hands, "We're part of the Santa crews around the world.
"You mean there's more than one?" Taruto says.
"Yep, there's about… well over five hundred. We all do an area, some take more than one if their areas are small, and we are in charge of Japan," torch says, "We freeze time, sure, but in recent years Christmas spirit has become so low that we can only slow time to a fourth of normal time, luckily that gives us all time to do our jobs and we have time for five breaks. Now, I need you to tell everyone congratulations, your eldest brother and ryou almost made it to the naughty list. And merry Christmas, go to sleep." She messes his hair, turns, grabs the bag, and steps over Zakuro to get to the fireplace. "Merry Christmas, Taruto." With that they fly up the chimney.
A few hours later the sun arose, and Pai was woken up by Taruto shaking him.
"PAI! IT'S MORNING! WAKE UP! ZAKURO SAYS WE CAN'T OPEN PRESENTS WITHOUT YOU!" Taruto says, Pai shoves his face away.
"I'm awake," he says, sitting up. The mews are shaking presents and stuff.
"Okay! Rock paper scissors to decide who gets to open the first one!" Zakuro says. They play three rounds and Pai and Zakuro are locked in a death match.
"ROCK PAPER SCISSORS!" they yell. Pai wins.
"Aw!" Zakuro says, plopping on the ground, she reaches over and grabs a gift, "This one says 'from Santa to the tallest person in the room' I'm going to go out on a limb and say this one is for you Pai." She hands a package with a snowflake-patterned wrapping paper. He unwraps it, revealing a laptop.
"A laptop?" He says.
"COOL! I WANT TO GO NEXT!" Taruto says, jumping up.
"Wait, Pai gets to choose," Mint says.
"Zakuro, you can go next," Pai says, sitting down and placing his laptop next to him on the ground. She chooses a small one and unwraps it. Inside is a necklace with 'Zakuro' on it. "Pretty," she says, trying to put it on. "I can't get it on, can someone help me?"
"I'll do it," Pai says, "turn around." She turns around and he puts it on.
"Thanks!" Zakuro says. The rest of the day is happy and full of fun. Everyone has a good time. No one believes Taruto when he says he saw Santa Claus. And these five scenes, different in nature, all relative to the season, were watched over by nine reindeer girls, three Santa clauses, seven elves, and one torch Claus. They smile to themselves from the North Pole, watching the mews and aliens.
"The fight ahead of us is tough. Are you sure we can take a vacation, and not be on the offense?" a reindeer says.
"Yes, you can't have an inter-dimensional war on Christmas! The sues know that," the Torch Claus says, "Now, lets go to the net."
"And that," a woman with long brown hair pulled into a ponytail with blue tips says, closing a book, "Is the story, of the Christmas the year the Battle began. Now, girls, it's time for you two to go off to sleep."
"AW! But Auntie! We want another story!" A small child with red hair says.
"Please Auntie! Please?" A young girl with white hair says.
"Now, if I continued with the story, what would I tell you tomorrow?" The woman says, she takes their hands and leads them to a room with two beds, "It's time to sleep."
"AW!" they say.
"Now, children, if you don't go to sleep, you won't get French toast tomorrow for breakfast," the children hurry into bed.
"Will you sing us a song Auntie?" The girl with red hair asks.
"Yes, I will," she sits next to them on the ground. The white haired girl gets out of bed and crawls into bed with the red haired girl.
"Auntie, would you mind staying with us for the night?" The white haired girl asks.
"Of course," the girl says, she crawls into bed next to the young girls and strokes their backs while singing a song, "Come stop your crying it'll be alright, just take my hand, hold it tight, I will protect you from all around you, I will be here don't you cry. For one so small, you seem so strong, my arms will hold you keep you safe and warm. This bond between us, cannot be broken, I will be here don't you cry, cause you'll be in my heart, Yes, you'll be in my heart, from this day on, now and forevermore. You'll be in my heart, no matter what they say, you'll be here in my heart, always. Why can't they understand the way we feel? They just don't trust, what they can't explain. I know we're different but, deep inside us; we're not that different at all. And you'll be in my heart; yes you'll be in my heart, from this day on, now and forever more. Don't listen to them, cause what do they know? We need each other to have to hold. They'll see in time, I know. When destiny calls you, you must be strong, I may not be with you, but you got to hold on, they'll see in time, I know, we'll show them together. Cause you'll be in my heart, believe me you'll be in my heart, I'll be there, from this day on, now and forevermore. You'll be in my heart, no matter what they say. I'll be with you you'll be in my heart, I'll be there, always. Always, I'll be with you, I'll be there for you always, always and always, just look over your shoulder, just look over your shoulder, just look over your shoulder, I'll be there, always…" her voice trails off as the two children next to her breath deeply, clearly asleep.
"Good night Angel, Tsuki," The woman says, "I hope you'll be up for the challenge when the time comes." 'You'll be in my heart… I could never forget… my amazing hostesses. Wherever you are,' she thinks. She reaches over to the dresser and pulls out a picture. 'You're all are safe now. I made sure of that.'
Me: I'M SO SORRY I TOOK TOO LONG!
Nick: you should be!
Me: anyways, it's pretty obvious who the person in the last scene is, if you don't get who it is, you will eventually. SEE YOU ALL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. on Christmas I will have been writing this story for six months. Hostesses!
Everyone: MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Nilla: see you later kittens!
Dutch: I'll kill you ryou!
Livvykitty: CRISTMAS IS SO SO SO SO SO TOTALLY BEAST!
Jay: I AM SUPERIOR SISTER!
Zing: where's my food?
Sven: *quiet*
Angel: I need to get them together and fast!
Chips: can anyone hear me?
Banira: *laughs*
Moon: the sues are going down!
Nick: *cringes*
Invadergir; LET THE SHIPPING BEGIN!
Peach: I love it here!
Hostesses other than the others: WHO ARE YOU!
Me: see you later my insane hostesses, I hope you all have fun!