Title: The Twelve Days of Christmas
By: Kibethan, also known as, Ki-chan
Disclaimer: :singing: On the fourth day of Christmas, no one gave to meeee, the first through fourth gravitation DVDeeeeeeee.... In other words...I don't own Gravitation.
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 Fourth Day of Christmas
…On the fourth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Four calling birds
Three French hens
Two turtledoves
And a partridge in a pear tree…
It was the morning of December 17th, and did Shuichi know where his Yuki was? Of course not! Shuichi was soundly sleeping in his bedroom. He didn't know that Yuki was downstairs working on a terrible deed.
Yes. It was a very terrible deed. He was trying to…cook one of the birds. So it wasn't exactly chicken, who cares? Yuki didn't as long as it would ease some of the fluttering that was going on.
He was in the kitchen, trying to catch one of the French hens; although, he didn't know which one. It fluttered around, clucking, trying to get away. Yuki lunged at it. It dodged out of the way.
Yuki had already preheated the oven. He didn't need a recipe; he could wing it. No, it wasn't the cooking of the bird that was difficult; it was the catching of the bird.
The bird was always a step ahead of Yuki, and it pissed Yuki off. He was way smarter than some stupid bird! But…why was the bird outsmarting him? Yuki growled and lunged at the bird yet again. This time, though, the bird didn't move out of the way fast enough and he caught it. He held the bird by its feet upside down.
Yuki let out of primitive yell. Hunting food really brought out the best in him. Unfortunately, it was that primitive yell that woke up Shuichi. Hearing something so strange out of his lover, Shuichi raced into the kitchen.
Shuichi quickly took in his surroundings and deduced quite fast what Yuki was attempting to do. He marched right over to Yuki and smacked him on the head, making him drop the French hen. It landed on the ground rather unceremoniously.
"What were you doing to Hachitori?" Shuichi asked Yuki rather accusatorily.
"I was going to barbecue the beast. Besides, it's not like we don't have enough of them; judging by how many birds I've gotten in the last three days, I'm thinking that I can spare one. Besides…aren't they my birds?"
"They are your birds. But you're not allowed to cook them!" Shuichi yelled at him. Yuki didn't want to give up, but he didn't really want to continue the argument either. So, instead, he just left it hanging. He walked out of the room and into the rest of the house.
There were feathers absolutely everywhere. A day ago, it had driven him insane. Not anymore, he was now completely used to it. (He was a bit disturbed though, when he found feathers in his bed under the covers.)
Yuki wasn't sure what he wanted to do next. Shuichi was up now, so he had to be on the lookout for more presents. He had already taken a shower. He could always write, but he was still reluctant to touch the keyboard. It may have been cleaned, but that didn't ease his fears any.
He finally decided to just sit down on the couch in the living room. Yuki had been sitting for about five minutes, when he started to fall asleep. Rather than fight it, he just lay down on the couch and slept. Perhaps in his dreams his life would be normal again.
Yeah right.
Birds. There were birds everywhere! He turned his head to the right; he saw birds. He turned his head to the left; he saw more birds. There were so many in his house. The feathers were absolutely everywhere! Everywhere he turned he saw birds and feathers. They were surrounding him, trying to get him. They were going to eat him!
Yuki screamed. The leader of the birds was Nitori. Hachitori was right by his side, ready to get revenge for what had almost happened to him earlier in the kitchen.
Wait a minute…since when did birds know how to get revenge? And since when did birds think? Weren't they bird brained? Either way, the birds in Yuki's dreams were intelligent, and they were going to do bad things to him.
All of the birds let out a battle cry and charged towards him, pecking at him. The battle cry was still heard loudly the entire time.
Yuki awoke with a start. He could still hear the cry and he could still feel the pecking. He looked to the side and sure enough there was a bird, either Shitori or Gotori, pecking at him.
Yuki quickly flapped his hands down, trying to get it to stop. The birds obviously did not like him. Why then, did Shuichi continue on getting them for him? He was going to figure out eventually why such a phenomena was happening.
But now, it was bird-killing time. He could still hear the battle cry, which meant that some bird was making that annoying noise. He was going to find it and he was going to put it out of its misery. It would end his misery as well.
He sat up from the couch and followed his ears to the source of the sound. He ended up in a room that he didn't often go into. He turned on the light and saw a type of bird that he hadn't seen yet.
He looked at the offending bird. Actually, it was offending birds (there were four of them). They kept right on making a loud racket.
Shuichi came running in.
"Yuki! You found the four calling birds! Good for you! Now see if you can find all the other new ones!" Shuichi yelled.
"You…hid the birds?" Yuki asked rather incredulously.
"Well…yeah. I wanted to see if you could find them! It's like hide-and-go-seek. Only, it's more of hide-and-go-search. Now go find the other ones!"
Yuki was sucked in. He couldn't not go find them. Who knows what they were doing to his house? He carefully walked from room to room, looking for some more birds.
Of course, whenever he spotted one, he wasn't sure whether it was an old one or new, so he had to ask Shuichi.
"That's Kyutori, Yuki. Don't you know your own birds by now?"
Yuki gave Shuichi a look that clearly said, "Shut up," and Shuichi obeyed. Yuki continued going from room to room looking for the new birds. They got to a room and Shuichi gasped.
"Uh-oh." Yuki did not like that sound.
"What?"
"The rest of the birds were supposed to be in here…" he said trailing off.
"WHAT?! Where are they?!"
"Um…"
Yuki grabbed Shuichi and dragged him out of the room, looking around for the other birds. They lived in a relatively large house, and the birds could be anywhere. For the next hour, they searched frantically for some clue as to where they were.
Finally, finally, Yuki spotted the birds hiding underneath the bed in the guest bedroom. A cat was terrorizing them. Yuki found that a little bit strange because they didn't even own a cat.
"Shuichi…where did that cat come from?" Yuki asked as he looked over at Shuichi. He got a bit worried, though, when he saw that Shuichi's expression was just as baffled as his own.
"I have no idea." Shuichi quickly picked up the cat –it was a bit scruffy looking as though it was a stray- and started to carry it outside. When he got to the door though, he heard what he thought was a lot of meowing coming from the other side.
Yuki heard it to, and together they ran to see what it was. Sure enough, right outside their front door, there were about 5 cats. They were all meowing trying to get in. Apparently, the scent of all the birds (especially delicious, plump ones) had attracted them all.
Shuichi had quite the time trying to get the door open without letting any of the cats in. Yuki ended up having to help him, much to his dismay. He wanted to make Shuichi do it all by himself, but if that had happened then more cats would've ended up in his house.
"See what all these birds have done? They're just causing up trouble!" he yelled at Shuichi.
"I'm sorry…" Shuichi said quietly. "I didn't mean for anything bad to happen."
"Yeah, well, you weren't thinking!" Yuki continued to shout at him. Shuichi looked down and walked back into the house.
"Happy Fourth Day of Christmas, Yuki," he said sadly.
End "The Fourth Day of Christmas"
My mouth hurts! Fire! Fire! Fire! So spicy!!!! Um...anyway. I realize that this chapter is coming out five hours later than usual. I can explain. It's because last night as I was writing it, I caught a rather nasty bug known as "writer's block". It stayed with me all night till this morning. Sorry.
But I still got it out today!
Onto a review of reviews:
Kitty in the Box: More birds! More birds! They're everywhere!, goku-the-saru: Because I can...明日はあなたの家に来ます。うれしいです, Sliefoxx: Lots of stuff...and I can hardly wait to write it!..., ice-of-spades: I'm glad that you like it!, SilverHaze2: Yes, he is!, Queen of the Paperclips: Definitely! A zoo! A zoo!...and...that bad?, Elements: I love your reviews! 大好き! Um...that was "love" in case you're wondering..., DarkMetalAngel of Destruction: And lose it he will!, Notta Writer: The people! Oh Gods...the people!, Syaoran is kawaii: Yes he is! He is very kawaii! (Syaoran that is), DarkGatomon: Continue with your logic if you must, but some of this won't be very logical...like the money..., Tricksters Girl: I read your review and it seriously made my day!, Shirubaa Kitsune: Yep, yep!
That's it...I think...
As yesterday, if I forgot someone, ごめんなさい。
That's it for the day!There will be another chapter tomorrow! (and it involves rings!)
Review please!
Ki-chan (きーちゃん）