Title: The Twelve Days of Christmas
By: Kibethan
Disclaimer: If I owned Gravitation (or the song the "Twelve Days of Christmas") I would be a rich woman. I can assure you, I'm not a woman (just a female), and am far from being rich.
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 Third Day of Christmas
...On the third day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Three French hens
Two Turtledoves
And a partridge in a pear tree...
Yuki was sitting in his study, typing. Typing. Typing. He was on a roll. The words for his next story were coming out and for the first time (in a long time), he was able to write without feeling any worries about anything.
Shuichi couldn't do anything unexpected when he was tied up in bed, could he? Of course not! Which is exactly why Yuki had done it. Needless to say, Shuichi had had quite a lot to say, as a matter of fact, he was still complaining. However, Yuki had learned to long ago to ignore Shuichi; you needed that skill in order to survive living with him.
All of a sudden, one of the turtledoves walked into the room. Yuki turned to stare at it, willing it to go away. That didn't happen. Very slowly, as if mocking Yuki, the turtledove walked towards the desk that Yuki was sitting at and flew onto it. It then proceeded to stare Yuki in the eye for a good while.
Yuki, never to back down to a challenge, stared at it. The bird looked away and Yuki mentally cheered. Take that! Slowly the bird walked towards the keyboard that Yuki was typing on. Yuki, seeing that it was getting closer, tried to scare it away. Of course, that didn't work. While Yuki was flapping his hands around, the bird walked onto the now free keyboard. Yuki watched in awe as it just plopped down. A whole bunch of the keys were being pressed when the bird sat on it, so letters started flying across the screen of his laptop.
Yuki glared at the bird and tried to push it off the keyboard. As soon as his hands got close, however, the bird started pecking at them. He tried again and again, but each time he got the same reaction.
Finally, he decided that his hands were useless as long as he didn't have the keyboard and he just grabbed at the bird. It still pecked at him, but Yuki didn't care. The turtledove was going to get off of the keyboard if it killed him.
Of course, as soon as Yuki lifted the turtledove off of the keyboard, it decided to leave him a little present. The present happened to land right on the "H" key and managed to spread to the "J" key while also sinking into the base of the keyboard.
Yuki would've sworn that the bird was laughing at him as it started cooing. Completely disgusted, he threw the bird to the floor.
Shuichi came running into the room, shouting, "Nitori!" Said bird looked at him and cooed.
Yuki was shocked and angered in so many ways. First, the bird had left him the present, which he was going to have to clean up, or pay someone else to clean up. Neither idea seemed very appetizing. Second, Shuichi had managed to escape his bonds! How in the world he managed to do that, Yuki couldn't figure out and was going to have to ask him. And third, lastly, and seemingly most worst of all, Shuichi had named the bird!
Shuichi had named the bloody bird! Yuki decided to confront Shuichi on this matter.
"Oi! Brat! What did you just call the bird?"
"Nitori! His name, Yuki!"
"You named it?"
"Of course! I named them all. The first partridge I gave you is Ichitori. The first turtledove is Nitori, the second turtledove is Santori, and the second partridge is Shitori!" Yuki's jaw dropped. Shuichi hadn't just named one of them; he had named them all!
"Can you tell them apart?"
"You mean you can't? Ichitori is different from Shitori because Ichitori always flaps his wings…" Shuichi went on to explain why each bird was different.
"Couldn't you have named one of them Toriniku?" Yuki asked innocently. Shuichi just glared at him, and stuck out his tongue.
"No!"
Yuki's attention was brought away from his current conversation, when he smelled something awful. It smelled a lot like the pet shop that he had been in the day before.
Oh yeah. The computer.
"Brat, clean up the computer. It was your damn bird that made the mess."
"Yuki! How many times do I have to tell you? I got those birds for you!"
"Whatever…just clean it up!"
"I won't! It's your own fault that you let the bird on your keyboard in the first place." With that final thought, Shuichi started walking towards the door to go out.
"Where are you going?" Yuki called out to him, somewhat fearful.
"Christmas shopping!"
"We did that yesterday! Who's left to buy for?"
"Ryuichi…K…Sakano…Tohma…Tatsuha…" Shuichi started.
"Alright, alright, get out of here. Don't buy anything for me, though! Got it?"
"Sure, sure," Shuichi said, walking out the door.
Yuki turned his attention back to the task at hand. His thought process had been completely disrupted when the bird, excuse me, Nitori, had walked into the room. He could no longer remember what had been in his mind, and where his story had been going. Of course, even ifhe could remember, it's not like it would've done him any good.
His poor keyboard…well…it had lived a good life. As much as paying to get it cleaned seemed unappealing, cleaning it himself seemed even worse. Picking up the laptop from the monitor (something you should never do), Yuki carried it into the other room. He didn't dare close it, what if some of it came squirting out the sides?
Yuki got on the phone with the local computer company. After telling them the story and having them laugh hysterically at him, they agreed that they would clean it for a small fee. All that he would have to do is bring it down. They made an appointment for him and told him that if he cancelled it, he would have to pay more money.
All Yuki had to do was get down there; it was a feat that seemed a lot easier than it actually was.
Shuichi had taken his car. Did Yuki know this when he had called the computer store? Of course not! Shuichi never takes his car. It's like, an unspoken rule in the household. Unfortunately, it was an unspoken rule that had just been broken. Man, was Shuichi going to get a talking-to when he got home.
Yuki would've just called to cancel, but as they'd said before, if you cancelled, you pay. He growled. He was going to just have to take a taxi…or a bus. Judging by the fact that he was going to have to pay for the fix, he opted for the bus. It was cheaper.
Grabbing the computer, still holding it by the monitor, he walked out his front door. Thankfully, the bus stop was right down the road, and the bus came every fifteen minutes.
When it came, Yuki hopped on. A whole bunch of people gave him a weird look when they saw him carrying a computer as he was. Someone offered him some useful advice.
"Ya know…if you hold it like that, it's gonna break…" Yuki grinded his teeth together and resisted breaking the man's neck. He was thankful that he was going to be able to get off the bus soon. He saw his stop coming. He pulled that cord that made the dingy noise and waited for the bus to stop.
It didn't.
It came to the bus stop and it just kept right on driving. It didn't stop all the way to the next stop, four blocks down. Instead of blowing up, like Yuki should have, he instead just shrugged. His day was already going absolutely horribly. One more thing wasn't going to affect him.
He just got off the bus at the stop it stopped at and walked back towards where he was supposed to have gotten off. Unfortunately for him, that little detour made him late.
"I'm sorry, Yuki-san, but you're going to have to be an extra fee for being late." Yuki looked at the clock on the wall. He was two minutes late. If he had gotten off at the right stop, then none of this would've happened. He tried to explain that, but the receptionist (yes, this computer store had a receptionist) just pointed at a sign that read "No exceptions!"
Yuki swore loudly and a mother with her kids nearby covered her kid's ears.
"Can I least go in?"
"I'm sorry again, Yuki-san, but because you were late your time slot was given up. We're very busy people," the receptionist informed him. "You're going to have to wait until he's done." Yuki looked around. The only other people in there were the mother with her kids.
"Are you waiting?" Yuki asked them.
"Our husband is in there right now. We're waiting for him to come out."
"Oh…okay." Yuki sat down on one of the available seats. Thirty minutes later, when the husband of the lady finally came out, he just headed on inside, not waiting for an okay from the receptionist.
He walked in holding his laptop as he had been holding it the entire time. The person who was supposed to look at his computer took one look at the way Yuki was holding it and almost had a heart attack.
"Yuki…san…don't treat your laptop with such disrespect. They're people too!"
"Um…no, they're not."
"Well…I like to pretend that they are. Don't you name your laptops?" the computer guy asked creepily. Yuki gave the computer technician a very weird look.
"No," Yuki said, "lately I've had a bad time with things being named."
"Well, whatever, I can have this fixed in a jiffy."Quick as a whip, the computer guy took it into the back room.
He came back out with it five minutes later.
"Here you go, Yuki-san, clean as a whistle!" Yuki took the computer and examined it. Sure enough, it was all clean.
"Thank you."
"Here's your bill. If you'll just take it to the receptionist, she's the one you'll pay."
"Okay." Yuki grabbed the bill and headed out into the main lobby. He handed the receipt to the receptionist, not even bothering to look at it.
"Your total is $50.00."
Yuki coughed.
"Excuse me?" he asked, "he was in there for a total of five minutes! It couldn't have been that much!"
"It was $10 for the manual labor, and $40 for the late fees."
"Late fees! I was 2 minutes late!"
"I'm sorry to report sir, that it actually looks like you were 35 minutes late."
"That's because you kept me out here!"
"Sir. If you don't pay the fine, I'm going to be forced to take your computer."
"Like hell! Here!" Yuki handed her his credit card. As much as he wanted to just take the computer and run, he couldn't. The receptionist handed him back his credit card. Yuki took it and walked out of the store. That had cost so much that he wasn't even going to pay for the bus ride home.
It was all Shuichi's fault too! He took the car and he was the one who had gotten the bird in the first place! Yes, no matter how you looked at it, it was all Shuichi's fault. Yuki turned down the street and started walking home.
By the time that he actually got home it was dark, really dark. It had taken him a long time to get home. He passed his car on his way up to his home, which told him that Shuichi was there.
He opened the door all prepared to give Shuichi a giant speech. Instead, like last night, he was met with more fluttering. He almost threw his hands into the air and walking into the kitchen.
"Happy Third Day of Christmas!" Shuichi shouted. "These are for you!"
Yuki looked on the kitchen table. There were six birds, six new birds. Not one…not two…not even five…six!
"Shuichi? What the hell?"
"Three French hens, two turtledoves, and a partridge in a pear tree!"
"I thought I told you not to buy anything for me today!"
"You did, but I had my fingers crossed! I named them all, want to hear?"
"No!"
"Come on…please?"
"No!"
"How many birds do I have now?" Yuki asked Shuichi. Shuichi counted on his hands.
"Ten!"
"Terrific…just terrific!"
End "The Third Day of Christmas"
A/N: As some of you might have caught onto, I'm taking what the song said literally, meaning that each day, Yuki is gonna get what I he got the day before too. Just thought I'd let ya'll know that.
Um...another day, another chapter. And, as always, another review of reviews:
goku-the-saru: hehehe...thanks again for the idea. As you can see, it practically made the chapter!, Kitty in the Box: Worry! AHAHAHAHA!!!, Kanasua-angst-angst-angst: I like how your name involves "angst" three times, yet you're reading a humor fic! Awesome!, DarkMetalAngel of Destruction: I'm planning on updating this once a day!, emerald-jade: Updates everyday, AND, I'll try to keep the characterization the same. Try...anyway..., T.C.: No, no, you're right. I just wanted to give people any early christmas present, rather than a later one..., Elements: Hurray! A review of Elements! I always look forward to them..., DarkGatomon: I guess it was a little bit awkward, but thank you for taking my advice! Remember! This one is just...for...fun..., rhynny-chan: as a matter of fact, yes, yes it does mean that there are also going to be eight cows...
That's it! If I missed anyone...well...ごめんなさい...
That's it for today, I'll write another chapter tonight, and post it tomorrow!
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Ki-chan!