Title: The Twelve Days of Christmas
By: Kibethan
Disclaimer: I have not in the past, do not in the present, and will not in the future, own Gravitation or the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas."
Summary: When Shuichi starts buying Yuki some weird presents, how will he react? Especially when he gets quite a few repeats of the same present...
The Second Day of Christmas
…On the second day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Two turtledoves
And a partridge in a pear tree…
Yesterday, when Yuki had gotten the partridge in a pear tree, he had been in shock. I mean, how often does one receive such a thing? He wasn't exactly sure how to take it. First, he was angry. He was so angry, that he managed to scare Shuichi into another room, and the partridge into shaking its wings angrily.
Yep, he was good at transferring his anger to other things like birds.
Next, he went into the denial stage. He was denying the fact that Shuichi had gotten him a bird in a tree. Unfortunately, that stage didn't last all that long. He would have preferred to be in denial than to accept that Shuichi was a complete freak for getting him a bird in a tree.
He did accept it though, rather reluctantly mind you, but he figured that the one person crazy enough to get him a bird sitting in a tree was Shuichi.
So that's where we meet him today, out shopping in a mall with Shuichi. The brat had said that he wanted to go shopping again today. Yuki didn't exactly trust him to not pull something like he did yesterday. Unfortunately, Yuki didn't really take kindly to crowds, so he mostly just stood outside the doors of the store that Shuichi was in, looking incredibly bored.
He looked around. There were about five other guys standing in the same area, with the same bored look on their faces. Apparently, they were out shopping with their significant others and waiting for them to come out of the store too.
Shuichi came bounding out of the store with his happiest grin on his face. Like always, Yuki demanded to see what was in the numerous amount of bags that Shuichi had carried out with him. He just wanted to make sure that there weren't any birds hidden amongst the packages.
Of course, it didn't make any sense why there would be any birds in the bags after Shuichi had come out of a clothing store, but Yuki was taking no chances. Shuichi was tricky, and Yuki was almost positive that Shuichi was up to something else. He didn't put it past Shuichi to walk into a clothing store and come out with a bird; if anyone could do it, Shuichi could.
So he searched…every single time…no matter how tedious it was.
"Yuki? Do you have to do that every single time? These clothes were perfectly folded for Hiro and Suguru…" Shuichi trailed off, knowing that whatever he said was falling of deaf ears.
Yuki let out a sigh of relief. No birds were hiding.
"Of course there weren't," Shuichi said, answering his thoughts. "You're so silly, Yuki!" Shuichi stood on his tiptoes and gave Yuki a quick peck on the lips.
All of the guys that were standing around them immediately looked around in embarrassment. A couple of them even sneered at them.
"Damn homophobes…" Yuki murmured quietly. In a show of defiance, Yuki grabbed Shuichi's hand and pulled him down the corridor, only pausing when Shuichi wanted to go into a store.
Yuki looked in front of the store that Shuichi had paused at.
It was a pet shop.
There was no way that Yuki was going to let Shuichi wander a pet store by himself. Too dangerous, too many things could happen! No. It was best if he just followed Shuichi in, which is exactly what he did.
As soon as he entered the store, he wrinkled his nose. It smelled like animals in there. He hoped that Shuichi wouldn't be spending too much time in there. His hopes, however, were to be quickly dashed as Shuichi stopped at each and every animal to ogle at and baby talk to.
"Who's a cute little kitty? Who's the cutest little kitty in the whole wide world! You are! Yes you are; you are so cute!"
If Shuichi continued talking like that, Yuki was going to be forced to take drastic measures. Fortunately, Shuichi stopped and moved on to the next animal.
"Who's the best puppy in the whole wide world?" Shuichi started. Yuki's vein in his forehead throbbed. He wanted to leave. Oh! He wanted to leave so bad! But, he couldn't leave Shuichi unguarded in a pet shop, so he stuck it out. He endured it to the end.
When they exited the store, Yuki gulped in a huge breath of fresh air. He looked at his watch. It had taken over an hour to go through the pet shop. But! At least they were finally out, and this time, he didn't have to search the bags! He had been at Shuichi's side the entire time. There was no time when Shuichi hadn't been by him.
"Can we go home yet, brat?" Yuki asked Shuichi impatiently, nudging him out the door.
"No way!" Shuichi said. "We haven't gone to all the stores that I want to go to yet."
"Then hurry it up!" Shuichi stuck his tongue out at Yuki, and ducked into the next store. It was another clothing store. Yuki just sat outside on the benches. Shuichi stayed in the store for thirty minutes…an hour…an hour and a half…what in the world was he doing?
Yuki was going to go in, find Shuichi, and demand what was going on. He was saved the trouble, though, when Shuichi came out. When Shuichi came out of the store, he was looking extremely proud of himself.
Yuki became immediately suspicious.
There was just something about the way Shuichi was smiling that made him nervous. He immediately demanded to see the packages that Shuichi carried out.
"But these are for you, Yuki!" Shuichi cried, "You can't look at them!"
"Then let me feel them!" Yuki countered. "I want to make sure that you aren't hiding anything!" He was surprised when Shuichi opened up the bag to let him feel. He immediately started to look in.
"Hey! No looking!" Shuichi reprimanded him, quickly closing off the bag. Yuki groaned and closed his eyes. Shuichi reopened the bag, and stuck his hands in. His hands were met with some kind of soft fabric. His hands fished around and when they didn't find anything that felt like feathers, they retreated from the bag. "There! Are you happy?" Shuichi asked him.
Yuki nodded somewhat reluctantly. Shuichi was hiding something, but he now knew that he wasn't going to find out what it was by searching all the bags that Shuichi had brought out of various stores.
And quite a lot of them there were. After the first half of the stores that Shuichi had gone into, Shuichi had recruited Yuki to help carry the bags. Yuki was going to say "No" but had taken one look at Shuichi's small form practically falling over from all the bags he was carrying and had taken some of the bags from him.
Shuichi had been very grateful and had given him another peck on the lips, must to the disgust of the other guys that were hanging around that particular store. There were guys hanging around every store.
"Now can we go home, brat?" Shuichi nodded, much to Yuki's delight.
As Yuki was driving home, he noticed that the closer they got Shuichi looked more excited and more nervous at the same time. It worried him somewhat.
He pulled into a parking spot and walked up to the front door. After he had unlocked the door, he opened it slowly; afraid that something big and hairy might pop out.
Of course, nothing like that happened. He did hear fluttering of wings. He figured that it was because of the partridge that he had gotten yesterday. But when he heard a louder, more foreign pair of fluttering wings, he dropped all the things that he had been holding and raced into the kitchen.
Sure enough, on the kitchen table, there were birds. Not bird, but birds…with an "s". As in, there were a multiple amount of birds, three to be exact.
Yuki immediately looked at Shuichi with accusing eyes. Shuichi met his eyes with a gigantic smile.
"Happy Second Day of Christmas, Yuki!"
Yuki just glared at him.
"What…exactly are those? Pigeons?" Yuki asked. Shuichi giggled.
"No! They're turtledoves." On cue, the two turtledoves started cooing.
"Then…what is that? Is that another bloody partridge in a pear tree?" Yuki asked. Shuichi nodded vigorously. "Where is the other one?" Shuichi pointed across the room, and sure enough, there was the other partridge in a pear tree. He now had two of them.
"How? How did you get all this stuff in here? I was with you all day!"
"That's for me to know, and for you to find out!" Shuichi looked extremely pleased with himself. Yuki just looked pissed. He now had four live birds living in his house, and he didn't know what to expect.
He did expect, however, that this would not be the end of his unexpected gifts. He only wondered what he would get tomorrow.
He only hoped that it wasn't more birds.
End "The Second Day of Christmas"
Muwahahahahaha! I got a second chapter out! Now...let's see when this story actually pops up on It'll be posted by 9:45 a.m. for sure. Which is the same time I postedyesterday, and it didn't show up on the site for hours!
Anyway, a review of reviews:
Sliefoxx: Wow! You like it! Yay! Congrats on being my first reviewer!, Weeble Wobble Chic: I'm glad that you like it!, goku-the-saru: :drools:...GACKT!!!, um...thanks for the review!, ro buddi: Thank you for the review! I'm so glad it's ro- approved!, Queen of the Paperclips: YAY!!! I'm glad that you like it!, DarkMetalAngel of Destruction: I'm so glad that you like it!, DarkGatoman: I'm glad you're looking forward to it! Try to ignore any mistakes, this one is just for fun!, God-Damned: I'm glad you like it!, tangerine-asuka: I'm gonna try my hardest to update every day...it's my plan anyway!
End the review of reviews!
Oh! Before I forget! Yesterday, I wrote a line, and put a (1) after it. It was supposed to be a quiz. Since I forgot yesterday, I'll do it today.
Where is the line "A fair question and one that in recent weeks has been my on my his mind" from?
Please review and tell me if you still like it. As I said before, it'll probably be a little bit unrealistic, but bear with me.
Thank you so much, and, until tomorrow!
Ki-chan