Disclaimer: …… I plead the fifth.
Title: Christmas Time
Rating: PG
Chapter 4: Drawing Straws and Rooms
"…So nothing really exciting happened during the last two years for me." Sorata said, finishing his short story of how the last to years had been for him. The others had all finished their stories as well, and several of the younger Dragons were yawning, as it was the first day of Christmas break from school, and they had a lot of sleep to catch up to. Arashi and Sorata were no exception.
"I think we should turn in..." Kakyou said, noticing the sleepy looks on the teens' faces.
"I second the thought." replied Aoki. Everyone else nodded their agreement and started to get up from their seats. They all walked toward the hall, where their respective bags were.
"Do we sleep in our old rooms?" Yuzuriha asked, while dragging up her luggage. Subaru reached over and took the load for her. She smiled.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you. Imonoyama-san said earlier today that the rooms had been freshly painted, so only seven rooms are available. I think two in six rooms and three in the last one should cut it." Satsuki said, while taking her suitcase out from under a pile of luggage.
"Okay then, So who's staying in which room?" Yuuto asked.
"I'm not sure... Oh wait, we left those cups back there. Sorata, Arashi, would you two be a dear and put those away for us?" Karen asked the two teens, who gave her a weird look, but complied.
As soon as the two left, Karen turned back to the questioning stares of the other Dragons and Kotori.
"Those two are going to share a room, and we're going to help them." She declared. "End of story."
"Um, but... How are we going to do that, Karen-san?" Nataku asked.
"Yeah, if we so much as TRY to do something like that, Arashi would be after our heads with the sword she carries so conveniently with her." Kamui said.
Everyone sweatdropped as they pictured an angry Arashi after them, trying to hack their heads off.
"That's why we are going to use the method that no one on this planet can go up against." Karen said, proud that she thought of this brilliant plan.
"And that is..." Everyone held their breath to hear what the ex-Soapland hostess had to say.
"...DRAWING STRAWS!!!" Everyone facefaulted at this. But to make matters worse...
"I'm in!" Yuzuriha cried out happily. The others looked at the two women with horrified expressions as the two began to use the ever-so-terrifying nag-and-beg attack on them.
Needless to say, everyone was forced to comply.
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Few Minutes Later...
"Kay, the mugs are in the dishwasher." Sorata said as he and Arashi headed back to where the others were.
"Oh good! Just in time! Here." Yuzuriha handed a baseball cap with little slips of paper in them to Sorata. "Draw."
"Eh?" Sorata looked at the cap, then back at Yuzuriha with a confused look on his face.
"No peeking." Subaru said, covering Sorata's eyes. The monk drew.
"Don't look at it yet." Subaru said, keeping his hand still over the Kansai boy's eyes. Yuzuriha moved over to Arashi.
"Your turn." Arashi drew, but not before Karen came up and covered her eyes as well. "You can't look at it right now."
While Karen was saying that, Yuzuriha quickly switched the caps with Satsuki so that other slips of paper (For those of you who haven't figured it out, the first one had the same number on every single one of them) were in the cap that she was now holding. Satsuki quickly hid the first headwear. Subaru and Karen both took their hands off Sorata and
Arashi's eyes.
"Now, Aoki-san, this time it's your turn to draw." And so this went on, until...
"All right, everyone open their slips of paper!" Karen commanded cheerfully.
Sorata opened his tag. "Room four." He read. Arashi opened hers.
"Room four. I have to share a room with HIM?!" She asked, horrified.
"Seems that way." Subaru said as he opened his paper up (God, only Subaru can do that while keeping a straight face). "Room 7."
"Same here." Seishirou said. Nataku nodded, saying he had room 7 as well.
In the end, the planning was something like this:
1)Room One- Kotori, Yuzuriha
2)Room Two- Kamui, Aoki
3)Room Three- Fuuma, Yuuto
4)Room Four- Sorata, Arashi
5)Room Five- Kakyou, Kusanagi
6)Room Six- Karen, Satsuki
7)Room Seven- Subaru, Nataku, Seishirou
Now, if it had been the old days, Sorata would have been jumping with joy right now, and Arashi smacking him. However, that was over a year ago. The two had matured (well, I guess as much as they possibly can, judging from their personalities....-.-...), so now, they merely shot curious looks at each other as the others (most of them giggling uncontrollably or suppressing snickers) and proceeded to climb the staircase to their assigned rooms.
The other people followed suit, each with a satisfied grin on his or her face.
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A/N: Only a few more to revise… *puff…puff…*