Oh, blah. A little Xmas quickie, with 6 chapters in all. Here's chapter one!

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It's strange how no matter how well you know someone, you never know what kind of present to buy for them. Now, Kai wasn't usually the type to buy presents, but it just seemed necessary for Rei to receive a present. But... Did that mean he had to buy a present for everyone?

Nah, they probably wouldn't care.

Rei already seemed so happy during holidays. No one was sure why, but he would spend hours just sitting in front of the fireplace, looking to be deep in thought, smiling contently during the holidays. He was able to just bask in the holiday feeling. None of the others seemed capable of doing so. Max and Takao were especially nice and just seemed to glow with even more happiness than usual, but Kai suspected it was because they knew that they'd be getting presents from everyone. Except for Kai. Kai didn't like getting them presents, he usually just let them have a few days off or something.

The short one, Kyouju, he seemed to like the holidays, as he would work harder--which showed when he would fall asleep on the couch from working too late--and he would try to talk to everyone more. He seemed to try harder to please everyone, dong all the extra work he could manage.

Not many people noticed, but Kyouju never really said anything other times. He wasn't in many conversations, and even so, for all the talking he did, he never really said anything.

Although it did--even Kai had to admit--make a very cute holiday scene when he fell asleep on the couch...

The Hikaru girl, she was pretty obvious. She just wanted the presents. That was really her only opinion on holidays. She said "If you have to act nice on holidays, then obviously you're doing something wrong. There shouldn't be any change in how you treat people just because of the day."

Which was somewhat contradictory, as she wasn't very nice except on holidays.

But Rei didn't treat anyone better. His tone was just more cheerful, and he seemed generally happier. Maybe it was that he got cards from his old friends. Rai, who Kai only remembered the name of due to it's similarity to 'Rei' and the rest of that team (he really didn't care who all was on it) would send Rei cards.

No present, it wasn't even celebrated where they lived, but they would each send a separate card, sometimes Rai and... That one obsessive girl... Those two sometimes had one card. Kai vaguely remembered Rei saying they were brother and sister...

Rei walked into the kitchen, carrying a small pile of letters, then dumped them on the table.

"Apparently fangirls think Christmas is the perfect timing for letters." He said, then laughed and handed Kai a neatly stacked pile of letters, most pink and all sealed with different variations of heart stickers.

Rei went through and sorted out some letters that weren't from fangirls, then began looking through those. He opened one and laughed.

"Look, Kai! Mao drew her pet kitten napping! He exclaimed, waving the letter in Kai's face, seeming oblivious to the fact that Kai couldn't see it properly when he did that. Rei laughed, a twinge of nervousness and embarrassment in it, and stopped waving it. "Sorry..." Rei laughed once again.

Kai looked at the picture and smiled--just barely-- then handed it back. Rei smiled happily and went through the rest of the letters, showing Kai the certain parts whatever chance he got.

A lot of people showed off to make people jealous. Rei showed off to make people less jealous. Hard to explain, but he would tell people about things he had more because having them made him happy than because the other person didn't have them.

Though, Kai still didn't have any idea what to get him for Christmas... It wasn't as though he knew what kind of thing Rei would like... I mean, even if he knew Rei well... Okay, really well... It was still near impossible to find a good present.

Kai was considering giving up, just going back home. It didn't really matter. Rei wasn't expecting a present. It was disappointing for Kai, yes, but he just couldn't find anything.

Rei wasn't really one who needed presents to know you cared, and it wasn't like Kai ever came right out an said "I love you" or "I like you" when they were together. Because Rei knew. Rei knew he cared and didn't need the words.

Rei seemed to be good at sensing his emotions. Which was very peculiar, since he really wasn't open with them. Really wasn't open with them.

But Rei knew.

Kai glanced to one of the display windows, the one right next to the exit and paused. He gave a satisfactory smirk and went to buy the perfect present for Rei.

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