I know it's not exactly Christmas yet but whenever there's less than a month to it, it's pretty much Christmas to me! So here's a little X-mas fic and it's my present to all those who are reading this -smile-

Disclaimers: The wonderful Tenipuri characters belong to Konomi Takeshi sensei.

Current music: Happy x2 day!! (Tenipuri AOZU), Minna no Christmas (Wada Koji), 12gatsu no Love song (Gackt), Eternal Snow (FMwS)...

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Chapter 1: The Christmas Eve

"Look! Fuji, look, it's snowing!" Eiji said all excited while leaning his face and both hands against the classroom window. He glanced quickly at his friend to see if he had heard what he had just said and went back staring at the white snowflakes dancing outside.

"Kikumaru!" Eiji's eyes quickly shifted from the window to the not-so-pleased looking teacher standing before him. "I know it's almost Christmas but could you still try to concentrate?" Eiji nodded and mumbled an apology. He sighed in relief when the teacher headed back to the front of the class. Getting detention on Christmas Eve was most likely the worst thing that could ever happen.

Fuji chuckled silently when he saw Eiji's eyes fixate back to the white scene outside even though he was still facing the direction of their teacher. Eiji was just like a little child when it came to things like Christmas and snow. Then again, he wasn't the only one having trouble at focusing to school at the moment. Half of the class was more or less restless. Guess the teachers were kinda ignoring that – they didn't want to stay at the school any longer than the students and if they ordered someone in detention that meant some teachers also had to stay.

"Eiji", Fuji whispered and patted his friend on the soulder. Eiji quickly turned his face away from the window – it had somehow turned back there again.

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"Yay! It's all white everywhere!" Eiji yelled happily as pounced out of the school building. The snowing had just ceased but during the last couple hours there had come so much snow the ground was covered in a thick layer of the whiteness.

"Hey, Ochibi!" Ryoma turned his head to the direction of the voice and ducked the snowball flying at his direction just in time. It hit Momoshiro instead.

"Ack! Watch where you throw those, Kikumaru-sempai."

"Mengo, mengo(1), Momo", Eiji said waving his hand. "I was aiming at Ochibi."

The next ball came flying. Ryoma evaded it again and this time Momoshiro also had the time to jump aside.

"Kikumaru-sempai... Don't keep on throwing those if you can't hit. Here", Momoshiro said, grabbing a hold of Ryoma's elbows to keep the younger boy still. "Try now."

Ryoma gave an angry glare at the boy behind him and bent down, scooping his hands full of snow and emptied them behind his back, over the kneeled boy behind him. Momoshiro yelped and jumped up, trying to get rid off the snow that had found it's way inside his jacket. Ryoma smirked at the boy. "Serves you right, Momo-sempai."

"You brat..." Momoshiro growled and yanked Ryoma to the pile of snow next to them (the snow that had been cleared away from the school yard). It didn't take long for Eiji to join them in the snow fight. In an instant, Oishi was there too, trying to get them to stop. Kawamura was right behind him.

"Hhsss... Stupid..." Kaidoh hissed as he was about to walk past the five of them. A handfull of snow hit him straight to face when Ryoma pushed away Momoshiro's hand that – of course – happened to be full of snow that he was just about to show on Ryoma's face.

"You bastard!" Kaidoh growled and buried Momoshiro's face in the snow.

"What do you think you're doing, baka mamushi?" Momo shouted and in the next moment it was Kaidoh's face that was in the snow.

Fuji eyed the scene in front of him amused. But there seemed to be something missing... Fuji placed his tennis back on the ground and took out a racket. "Here, Taka-san", he said, throwing the racket to Kawamura.

"GREATOO! Come on! It's snow FIGHTOO!!"

"What's going on in here?" asked Inui who had suddenly appeared behind Tezuka and Fuji.

"Well, it seems to be a snow fight, or what do you think, Tezuka?" Fuji asked smiling. Someone had just pulled Oishi in the snowy mess too. Fuji didn't see who it was but probably Eiji. Either him or Kawamura on the burning mode.

Fuji glanced at Tezuka and noticed that he had his I-will-make-you-run-50-laps look on his face. "Ne, you can't make them run. We don't have practise today." True enough, but the not having practise had never before stopped Tezuka from ordering the punishment.

"What if I make just you run the laps?"

"Me?" Fuji asked with fake innocense on his face. "What did I do?"

Tezuka glared at his suspiciously. "You're actually asking that?"

"It's not like I started it", Fuji defended himself.

Tezuka didn't even bother to answer that one. He stepped forward and took the tennis racket from Kawamura. Fuji sighed and helped Oishi out of the fight. Eventually they succeeded in getting the others to stop the snow fight. Or more precisely it was Inui who did this by mentioning the new juice he had just been finishing in the science lab.

Oishi was soon worrying aloud that the other boys would get sick from rolling around in the snow like that – he seemed to be totally clueless about the fact that he had been there also.

Eiji just shook his head. "Nya, Oishi. It's mostly just powder snow so it's not really wet. It doesn't go through the clothes. You can't even make good balls from it." Eiji demonstrated this to Oishi by showing him exactly how hard it was to make a decent snowball from it. Oishi just sighed and let it be.

"I'll see you all at seven then", Fuji said as the regulars started to make their leave. They were having a Christmas party at Fuji's that night.

"Ookay, Fujiko", Eiji pounced on his best friend. "Do we need no bring anything? Oishi and me are gonna do last minute Christmas shopping!"

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"Don't you think it might a health risk to ride a bike with this much snow around?" Ryoma asked from the back of Momoshiro's bicycle.

"How was I supposed to know it was going to snow?" Momo whined over his elbow.

"Don't you watch the weather reports?"

"No. Do you?"

"No..."

"See? So how am I supposed to know? And besides, if it's so dangerous to be riding a bike, why aren't you walking?"

Ryoma didn't answer that one.

"You're just being lazy, aren't you?"

"Am not!" Ryoma yelled and leaned forward, causing the bike's balance to shift.

"Hey, don't move or we're gonna..." Momo hit the brakes but the bike didn't stop. The icy road under the snow prevented all control over the bike. "Watch out!"

The bike crashed into a mailbox at the end of the street, sending both boys flying in the air. Ryoma mentally prepared himself to hitting against the hard wall but suddenly felt something wrap around himself. Then there was the crashing but Ryoma didn't hit the wall but something soft instead.

Ryoma blinked couple times. What just happened? Ryoma looked down. He wasn't sitting on the ground. He was sitting on... Momo-sempai's lap?! And Momoshiro's hands were wrapped around him too. Ryoma quickly yanked his head to look over his elbow.

"You okay?" Momoshiro asked. Ryoma blushed furiously as he felt the warm breath of his sempai hit his ear and neck. The freshman jumped quickly up.

"I'm fine..." he said, avoiding to look the other boy in the eyes. If he would have, he would have noticed that his sempai also had a shade of red on his cheeks. "Sorry..."

"It's not your fault. With this much ice I would have lost the control anyway..." Momoshiro tried to get up and winced. He probably had succeeded in bruising his back very nicely. Ryoma forced the blush away and offered his hand to his sempai, helping the other boy up. They hold each others hands a little longer than necessary and when they noticed this, they both quickly withdrew their hands. And both blushed again.

There was an awkward silence that Ryoma eventually broke. "We should probably walk the rest of the way..."

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"Can we go see the pets section?" Eiji asked with big eyes. "They're in the next floor."

"Oishi looked at his watch. It was almost six. They were supposed to be at Fuji's by seven and since they had come shopping straight from school they still needed to go by their homes to change clothes and drop off their things. But the look on Eiji's face was simply so adorable...

"Okay, but just a little while", Oishi said.

"Hoi, just a little!" Eiji stated happily and pounced up the stairs to the sixth floor. Oishi followed after him. He still couldn't help wondering were the redhead got all his energy from.

It seemed that in the sixth floor there was not only the pets section but also books and children's toys. Oishi didn't usually go to big department stores like this on with the huge amount of people doing their last minute Christmas shopping he didn't feel himself too comfortable.

Something caught Oishi's eye on the shelves full of stuffed animal toys. He looked if Eiji was watching – the redhead seemed to be busy talking to a white baby bunny behind a glass wall – and took the item from the shelf. He went to pay it and had it giftwrapped. Just as he was thanking the woman behind the cash register Eiji appeared behind him, peeking over his shoulder.

"Hoi, what did you buy?" the redhead asked. "Why didn't you show me first?"

Oishi smiled. "I can't show because it's a present for you."

"Nya?" Eiji blinked. "But we already exchanged presents."

"And you probably opened yours already", Oishi laughed and Eiji blushed. Oishi was sure that Eiji most likely rummaged through his whole house before every Christmas to find his presents. "This is another present. But I won't let you open this one until we're at Fuji's."

"...I don't have another present for you..." Eiji pouted.

"You don't have to give me another present. I still haven't opened the first one, remember? And you shouldn't get someone a present just because you feel you have to. It's just something I saw and thought you might like..."

"Hoi, is it a good present?" Eiji asked, eyes shining.

"I hope it is..." Oishi said quietly. Maybe it had been silly from him to buy that...

"Of course it's a good present!" Eiji said, jumping to hug Oishi. "Of course it is, because it's from Oishi."

Oishi blushed. He blushed even more when he saw the three girls standing near the manga shelves start to giggle and whisper to each other while watching at their direction. One of the girls had a manga on her hand and on the cover there were two ridiculously cute guys making out – yaoi fangirls! Did they think Eiji and him were a couple? Well, with Eiji hugging him like that they probably looked like they were...

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"Syusuke, do you need help with the decorations?" Yumiko asked his brother.

"No, it's fine, neesan", Fuji said, climbing down from the chair he had used in order to reach the ceiling so that he could attach mistletoes to it. "I'm almost done. You should go to see your boyfriend already."

Yumiko smiled. "Okay then. You should ask some of your friends to stay over so that you won't be alone in here. Mom and dad called that they won't be back until at noon tomorrow and I'm not sure how long I'm gone..."

"Is Yuuta going somewhere too, then?"

"I'm not sure..." Yumiko said while putting on her jacket. "He just came from shower and is changing now so I just presumed he'd be going."

Fuji's smile widened a little.

Yumiko checked the large paper bag to see that all the presents for her friends were there. "Well then, see you tomorrow, Syusuke. Have fun."

"You too, neesan."

"...What the hell have you done to this place?" Fuji heard Yuuta's voice from upstairs after Yumiko had left.

"Hmn? You mean the mistletoes? Aren't they pretty?"

"You've covered the whole ceiling with them!" Yuuta complained while coming down. "What the heck are you planning this time?"

"Nothing", Fuji said, giving his brother his best innocent look. "I just think they're pretty. And I haven't covered the whole ceiling with them. By the way, are you staying home tonight?"

"No change I'm staying at this crazy house", Yuuta shrugged while searching his jacket from the closet. "Some of the tennis team members are having a party at the dorms so I'll be going there..."

"Oh, is Mizuki going to be there?"

"Yeah..." Yuuta answered, eyeing his brother suspiciously. "Why are you asking that?"

"No reason, really..." Fuji said and opened his blue eyes. "That just explains why you'd rather be there..."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

Fuji was as if he didn't hear the question. "Would you like to take some mistletoes with you? They might be useful..."

"Absolutely not!" Yuuta shouted and shut the closet door with a huge bang.

"Yeah, you're right. Mizuki probably knows what to do even without..." Fuji catched a glimpse of his brother's furiously blushed face just as he stormed out from the front door. Yuuta was just so cute...

Fuji glanced his watch. The others would be coming in about thirty minutes. In the meantime, what should he do with rest of the mistletoes..?

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TBC...

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Will the mistletoes prove useful and what exactly will happen in the evening..? -smile-

I'll be posting the next chapter before actual Christmas Eve, promise. In the meantime... Please review.

Eiji: "Hoi! Reviews make great Christmas presenst!"

-hugs Eiji- Sankyuu Eiji! And happy birthday!! (It's Eiji's birthday today – November 28th)

(1) mengo is Kikumaru's way of saying gomen (means sorry)