MoTaS: Merry Christmas to you all!!!

Kenshin: What's Christmas, Master?

MoTaS: O__O Bite your tongue, FOOL! It's only the greatest of all Holidays!!!

Kenshin: Really?

MoTaS: I said SHUT UP FOOL!! (kenshin; O__O eep!) It's where you exchange gifts with you those you care about. Many times, gifts that end up being exchanged with the store afterwards, but that's beside the point.

Kenshin: ….

MoTaS: you may speak now.

Kenshin:….  Does this mean I will receive a gift too?

MoTaS: YOU? RECEIVE A GIFT?! HAHAHAHAHAHA…….  Of course you will, provided you do the same for me?

Kenshin: All right.

MoTaS: So for all of you out there that had nothing better to do than read a fanfic about how some fictional people spend their holiday season, here is a rather funny and entertaining story about just that. Enjoy!!

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It was about one week before Christmas in Tokyo. Of course it was during 11th year of the Meiji era and many were embracing the new Christian religion tradition of celebrating Christmas. And the Kamiya Dojo was no doubt one of them.

Kaoru: Kenshin!!

Kenshin: ~Looking out from the kitchen~ Yes, Miss Kaoru?

Kaoru: Where are those decorations I bought from the market?

Kenshin: Uh… they're in the training room I believe (I don't know what they call it; it's where Kenshin and Saito fought their battle)

Kaoru: Thanks!

Like always, Kaoru was going to great lengths to embrace the western holiday. On a very grand scale. She had even gone so far as to invite Hiko, Misao, and Aoshi to the dojo to celebrate. Kenshin was not to thrilled at the thought of his drunken master staying for the holidays, but still decided to put up with it anyways.

Sano: Oi! Kenshin! Why are we put up all these decorations and stuff, huh? Last time I knew we were in Tokyo and NOT 21th century America.

Kenshin: Well, after we had christmas with Ian and them, Miss Kaoru has very much wanted to celebrate christmas back here in the Dojo.

Sano: Whatever, I just hope I get lots of gifts. ^_^

Yahiko: Yah right, rooster-head. With your attitude, it'll be a miracle you even get one at all.

Sano: Stuff it, brat. A guy can hope, can't he?

Yahiko: Yah, whatever you say; I'll be hoping too.

Sano and Yahiko: *thinking all the crap they want for gifts*  ^__^

Kenshin: Unless you two get to work, we won't be able to celebrate, and no celebrating means no gifts, right?

Yahiko: I think he's right.

Sano: Yah, lets get to work. Woah! Never thought I'd ever say those words.

Kenshin: *Goes back to making lunch*

While all this was going on, the skies over Tokyo clouded over. Within a few minutes, the gray sheet opened up and released a gentle dusting of white. Everyone who could see outside or was soon saw the falling snow, and cheerfully welcomed it. Except for maybe one particular cop, who was walking his route for the day. And of course, it turned out to our ever notorious , former Shinsengumi leader Saito.

Saito: Hmmph. Snow. What do these people see in this frozen precipitation that is so wonderful. All I see is more work for me in not to long.

As usual, Saito did not understand the simple joy of snow and such things. But anyways, our ever popular friends seemed to share the common thought that snow in Japan was a beautiful thing.

Yahiko: Aw! Kenshin look! Snow!!

Kenshin: *steps outside to see* Wow. Miss Kaoru! Come see!

Kaoru: *comes running* What is it- Oh my! Snow! I guess it'll be a white Christmas, won't it Kenshin?

Kenshin: Yes, I suppose it will.  *Snowball flies through air, connecting w/ Kenshin's head* ORORORORO….

Yahiko: Haha! Gotcha Kenshin! Shouldn't have let your guard eh?

Kaoru: Come here you little good for nothing – *begins chasing Yahiko*

Yahiko: *running from Kaoru* Can't catch me, BUSU!!

Sano: Heh, just like with our friends in what's-that-year, right Kenshin?

Kenshin: *recovered from snowball* Yes, I believe it is… with the exception of Ian, his sister, her friend, and their family not being here, yes.

Sano: Yah, spending that year with them was kinda nice; got to see ol' Katsu; I NEVER saw him as a teacher. Still, gotta wonder; what would Christmas be like if they were here…

Kenshin: That would be something, that it would… I still can't believe that shishou was also a victim of Akuma's time-traveling power… much less that Ian and Akuma look one and the same…

Sano: Yah, that was just too weird.

Kenshin: Well, we should get to work with the decorations, shouldn't we?

Sano: What about Jou-chan and Brat?

Kenshin: They do this everyday, as you know, so I think they'll be fine.

Meanwhile, within earshot of the two friends, a dark and mysterious person watched and listened. Slowly, a plot was forming within his intelligent mind… a plot of great randomness and…… well, randomness. Maybe a little bit of comedic pain. Silently smirking, he walked off and decided it was an excellent holiday treat for his friends. Akuma had had his fun with them before, and so he shall again.

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MoTaS: OOOOOh… old pal, Akuma Ookami is back and has a plan of great holiday proportions.

Kenshin: I wonder what he has in store this time?

MoTaS: -__- Geee, numb-nutz, I wonder too… Well, it should be a wonderful thing, as it is I who shall regail you with the story. If wasn't would I really bother to tell it at all?

Kenshin: I don't know, shishou, would you?

MoTaS: -____- I really don't know for sure, baka-girly-guy, I really don't. Well, this chapter was short, but I needed a starter and to see if it would go over well with my normal crowd. Hope you enjoy it. Just remember my Golden Rule: Read. Review. Or be killed. BYE!! ^__^