A very Mankin Christmas

Chapter 4:Happy Birthday Ryu and Merry Chritsmas too!

Me:I don't own SK,Christmas or anything else that sounds like I should own.But as always I own Minako,Mickey,and Cassandra and their spirits,too.

Chapter 4

December 24

Minako silently woke up before Ryu.She wanted to do something for the first of his birthday presents.
'He's going to love me after this and his birthday,' thought Minako.It was just a minute before Ryu usually got up to make breakfast or do anything else that Annatold him to do. Slowly she made her move.
"RYU-San!!"Cried Minako as she jumped on top of his futon with him in it. Ryu gave a little 'Oof!' as Minako jumped on top of the futon.
"Mina-Chan, what are you doing jumping on top of me?" Ryu asked calmly. Minako didn't say anything. She just kissed him.
"Just trying to do something different for your birthday. What do you want for breakfast, Ryu-san? I'll make whatever you want," said Minako smiling. Ryu didn't know what to say. He just stared at her blankly and blushing.
"Take your time," said Minako.He sighed.
"I'll just have some eggs and toast with marmalade," said Ryu.
"Okay! How do you want your eggs?" asked Minako.
"Scrambled," replied Ryu.
"Coming right up!!" exclaimed Minako.She got off the futon and ran down to the kitchen. Ryu just stared out into space for a minute. 'It's already my birthday? Man when does the time go? Better get up and see how Mina-chan doing,' he thought to himself. Quickly he folded the futons and went down stairs to see everyone surrounding the door of the kitchen.
"Eh...What are you guys looking at?" asked Ryu.
"Minako cooking. I didn't know she could cook," said Lyserg.
"It's super weird. Is it a sign of the end?" asked Manta.
"I hope it taste good. Maybe if we're lucky it won't taste like toxic," said Horo-Horo.
"I CAN HEAR YOU ALL!!" shouted Minako. "Besides this is all for Ryu-san for his birthday, none for you. NYAA!!" said Minako as she stuck her tongue out. They all just sweat-dropped.
"Well what are we suppose to eat then?!" asked a very annoyed Horo-Horo.
"That's my job today. I'm supposed to cook today because Minako asked me to," said Cassandra.
"Me too," said Mickey.
"Well at least it's better than Minako's cooking," said Horo-Horo under his breath. Just then a frying pan hit his head.
"I HEARD THAT!!"Shouted a very angry Minako.Then she cooled off and smiled. "Ryu-san, breakfast's ready."
Everyone gathered around Ryu to see if he would die of bad cooking or lived. Minako just prayed that Ryu loved her cooking and it was as good as his.
"10 to 1 that he gets food poisning,"whispered Chocolove to Horo-Horo.
"You're on!" whispered back Horo-Horo.Minako just glared at them evilly.
Finally, Ryu took a bite of his eggs and toast and everyone held their breath.
"It's great Mina-Chan! Really it is," said Ryu smiling. Minako blushed.
"I super glad that you love it! I was afraid that I didn't follow the recipe right. Do you want more?" asked Minako.
"Yes please!" said Ryu.
"Looks like you both lose," said Minako to Chocolove and Horo-Horo.
After Ryu had finished his second helping and Cassandra and Mickey served breakfast to the others, Anna gave her orders out.
"Ryu, you need to clean the onsen, the kitchen, and get the chicken for tonight for Christmas," said Anna.Ryu was about to grab the list in till Minako snatched it from Anna.
"I'll do them Anna-Chan. Consider this birthday gift #2,Ryu-san.Just relax today," said Minako. "Could I get the chicken tonight while Ryu-san and I are out for his birthday dinner? I want to take him out to dinner tonight," said Minako.
"Fine. All I want is these chores done and yes you can bring the chicken home after your date," said Anna.
"Thank you Anna-chan!!" exclaimed Minako.She grabbed all the cleaning supplies and started cleaning the onsen.
"This is the end. Minako's cleaning," remarked Ren.Suddenly a wet rag hit Ren's face.
"WOULD YOU PEOPLE QUIT MAKING SUCH A BIG DEAL OUTTA ME DOING STUFF I NEVER DO!? GEEZ!!" shouted Minako from the onsen.
"I think it's nice of Minako to do things she doesn't do normally," said Yoh.
"I think she's only doing it for Ryu's birthday. Tommorow she'll be back to normal," said Cassandra said sighing.
After cleaning the whole house (using some of her magic helped too.), Minako took a little nap on the counch. She also had a note on the couch that she put on herself. It said:

Do not wake me up in till 4:00 pm.
I'm very tired and I want to be refreshed for Ryu-san's dinner.
Thank-you!
Love, Minako

Everyone that either walked by the living room or into it saw and was shocked by it.
Ryu on the other hand was in his room thinking. 'So I got the ring for her, so when do I give it to her? Do I give it to her when we're on her date or when we get home? Crap! I don't know how to propose to her!' he thought. 'I'm taking a nap like Minako,' he thought.
Later…
Minako felt a cold shiver run through her body. She open her eyes to see Kitsune standing next to her touching her arm to wake her up.
"Lady Minako.It's 4 o'clock. Time to get ready for your date," said Kitsune nicely.
"Thanks Kitsune.I'm going to take a bath and get dressed," said Minako. "Where's Ryu?"
"I believe he's sleeping still. Should I wake him up too?" asked Kitsune.
"Nah.I think he's has his alarm set. If he doesn't than I'll wake him up when I'm done," said Minako.Then she walked off to the onsen and got ready for a soak.
Ryu woke up at the sound of the alarm clock and saw that it was early still so decided to take a bath before Minako woke up and get ready. 'Maybe a soak in the onsen will help me think up of something,' thought Ryu.He climbed down the stairs and walked into the onsen.
Minako had just finished her bath and was about to go up stairs to change into her clothes for her date. She walked out the onsen and was down the hall, while Ryu entered the onsen. 'Oh! I forgot my earrings,' thought Minako.She turned around and walked into the locker bin to retrieve her earrings. Unknown to her, Ryu was already undressing and was only in his boxers (answers the question, no?) then he heard the door opening and Minako bounded in. They both turned cherry red at the sight of each other.
"WHOA!!!" cried both the beet-red shamans
"WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING HERE MINA-CHAN!?" shouted Ryu as he put his pants back on.
"I-I already took a bath and forgot my earrings," stammered Minako.
"Oh.Here ya go," said Ryu as he gave her earrings.
"Thanks. Enjoy your bath," said Minako as she took her earrings and started to walk away from Ryu. "We're almost outta of shampoo, so you can use mine," she said and walked out of the onsen and shut the door behind her. Ryu started undressing again and looked for Minako's shampoo and took his bath.
Minako was still blushing still as she was changing into her clothes for her date. She picked out a cute top and a skirt and put on her tights and put on her make-up. Then she top her outfit with a Santa Claus hat. She stepped out of the room and walked down the stairs and talked to Anna about what's the name under the chicken so they could pick it up later.
"I don't know what name it's under. Yoh ordered it," replied Anna.
"Yoh, what name did you put it under?" asked Minako.
"Umm..I put it under Anna's name," said Yoh.
"Okay, got it," Minako said.
"Oh Minako, you look so cute tonight," said Ryu.He had just entered the room and hugged Minako.
"Thanks Ryu.Oh wow! You look good tonight too!" exclaimed Minako. Ryu dressed up little different tonight. Instead of his usually shirt and pants, he just had a turtleneck t-shirt and jeans on. But he did have hair the usually way, which was fine.
"Where do you want to eat tonight? You can eat anywhere in the city," said Minako.
"Anywhere? How about this sushi place I know?" asked Ryu.
"That's fine. Can we look at the decorations and do a little shopping too? Oh and can we take your bike too?" asked Minako.
"Yes, yes. We can Minako," said Ryu. "Are we ready to go now?"
"Yes.Oh no! I forgot something. I'll be right back," cried Minako.She raced to the tree and picked up a present.
"Here you are Ryu-san.This is one of your presents. This the only one you're getting in till we get home," said Minako. Ryu took the present and opened it slowly. In it was a pair of new leather gloves and a new scarf.
"I thought it would be nice, for the rest of the month and would be nice for the bike ride tonight," said Minako.
"They're really nice, Mina-chan.Thanks," Ryu replied.
"Okay, we can go now," said Minako.The couple grabbed their coats and scarves and walked out the door. Ryu started the bike and they were down the road in a few minutes.
"He didn't propose to her yet," said Cassandra.
"Maybe he'll do it on his date," replied Mickey.
"How romantic!!" exclaimed Jun.
"Okay. Enough chitchat. Minako said to get this place ready for Ryu's birthday party before they get back. So let's get to work!" shouted Anna.
"Right!" exclaimed the others.

Meanwhile….
Ryu parked the bike in front of a small shop. It jerked Minako a little when he parked but she was okay. She looked to see where she was and looked at the restaurant's name. It said 'Akito's Sushi Shop. The Best in Funbri.'
"Is this it? Because it looks like I've been here before for some reason," said Minako. Ryu took off his helmet.
"Yep this is it. Of course the restaurant just change it's name because the son took over it after the father went into retirement. It was Hama's Sushi before," explained Ryu.
"That's why it looks so familiar! I used to go here all the time when I lived here!" exclaimed Minako. "I hope it still the best like it used to be."
"It's better! The son makes better sushi then the father. Shall we go?" asked Ryu as he held out his hand to lead her in.
"Yes. Let's eat some sushi!!" exclaimed Minako.
Back at the onsen…
Cassandra and Mickey had finished baking Ryu's cake and were decorating it with Tammy and Pillika.Jun made sure that Ponchi and Conchi did not eat this cake.
"Well what do you know? I found my slips that control not only humans, but also spirts. Lucky you," said Jun while she had Ponchi and Conchi pinned to the wall with her slips.
"Tammy.Help us," cried the raccoon and fox sprits.
"Not a chance, you guys. You ruined the cake last time, you're not ruining it this time!!" exclaimed Tammy.
Ashil had come over with not one, but three bottles of juice and was helping out with the decorations with Horo-Horo and Ren.He had the pendant that Mickey made for his birthday on.
"The living room looks great guys! Hey I have a funny idea for the party. Wanna hear?" asked Ashil as soon as they were done in the living room. Horo-Horo and Ren leaned in as Ashil whispered his plan in their ears.
"WHAT?! No way baka! This house is not doing that!" exclaimed Ren beet red.
"Yeah, I don't know. Do you think the others would go for it?" asked Horo-Horo.
"They might. Let's ask them," said Ashil as they went to find the other boarders. They found them all sipping tea in the sitting room.
"Hey guess what Ashil wants to do for Ryu's party?" said Horo-Horo.He told all the boarders about Ashil's plan for Ryu's party.
"No way," said Anna plain and simple.
"Come on Anna. It would be fun. Just do it for one night please?" asked Yoh.
"Fine. I'm in. But I won't like it," said Anna with a huff.
"I'll do it too! I've never done it before!" said Cassandra.
"I'll do it too, if Cassandra's doing it," said Ren.
"This going to be fun!" cried Ashil.
"Let's get ready now. We're all done anyhow, with the decorations and the cake, so we're done. Come I got clothes," said Jun.
Back to eating sushi…
Ryu and Minako had just finished their big sushi dinner and were walking out of the restaurant.
"That was so yummy!" exclaimed Minako.
"It was, wasn't it? Do you want to go shopping now or pick up the chicken and go home?" asked Ryu.
"Let's go look a little and if I see something then I'll buy it. Then we can go home," replied Minako. Ryu started the bike and they drove to the main street where all the shops and decorations were. It was a beautiful clear night and the Christmas lights and other decorations twinkled beautifully. The department store windows were filled with window displays.
"Look at that cute one, Ryu-san! It's got Santa Claus and his reindeer in it!" said Minako as she scurried over to the window. Ryu followed after her and stood next to her. Besides Santa Claus and his reindeer, the window also had toys that the store carried and other products that were big in the store. Ryu noticed that Minako was staring at fluffy white teddy bear with a pink ribbon around its neck and with silver wings.
"Would you like that teddy bear? I could get it for you for Christmas with your other gift," said Ryu. Minako blinked and blushed a little.
"That would be super nice. I think that's all I want for tonight. I didn't see this when we went shopping for gifts or I would have asked for it already. Thank you. Thank you, Ryu-san," said Minako.They entered the store and bought the teddy bear. Then they got the chicken and drove back to the onsen. Ryu parked the car like normal and helped Minako with the chicken. When they enter the foyer it was all dark through out the house.
"HHHEEELLLLOOO!! Anybody home?" shouted Ryu. "Where is everyone, Mina-chan?"
"I don't know," said Minako playing dumb. It was all part of her birthday plan for Ryu. "Let's see if they're in the living room."Ryu and Minako walked into the living room and flipped on the lights. Then many people scared the crap outta of him.
"SUPPRISE!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RYU!!!"Shouted the boarders. They all popped confetti poppers and put them all over Ryu.
"Yeah! The chicken is here! Let's eat!!" cried Horo-Horo.He was dressed in a blue skirt and had a black tube top on and had his hair down. As Ryu and Minako looked at the others, they realized that most of them had cross-dress for some reason.
"Um.. Ryu, just to tell you, I didn't plan the cross-dressing. I just told them to make a cake and put up decorations and get juice. I really didn't plan on them cross-dressing," said Minako innocently and blushing.
"It wasn't our idea, Minako.Ashil had planned it," said Ren blushing. He had on the dress that Chocolove had put on him when they first met him. Yoh had on Anna's long dress on and Anna had his shirt and pants on, Cassandra borrowed some of Ren's stuff and looked a little like him, Mickey and Pillika borrowed some of Horo-Horo's clothes, Lyserg and Manta had some of Mickey's and Cassandra's clothes, Tammy had on some of Chocolove's clothes, Chocolove had his little match girl outfit, and Ashil had one of Jun's dresses on and a little bow in his hair.
"We're you guys drunk when agreed to this or what?" blurted out Ryu.
"We weren't drunk! We just thought we do something different for today. Besides this is funny," said Mickey.
"This weird stuff is making me lose my appetite. Let's eat that chicken and cake and open the presents we got for each other," blurted out Anna.
"Okay," agreed everyone else as was drying his or her eyes.
"I have a 2 toasts for tonight. Happy birthday to Ryu and Merry Christmas everyone!!!" shouted Ashil.
"Here Here!!" replied the boarders. They took their glasses of juice and gulped them down and started on the chicken. Minako and Ryu, who already had dinner, just sipped their juice and just sat next to each other.
"Okay. Now can I have my other presents, now?" asked Ryu.
"After everyone finish eating dinner, Ryu-san! I want everyone to see your presents!" Minako said.
"Okay then," said Ryu. In 30 mintues, everyone was done eating and couldn't eat another bite.
"Let's open our presents now!" cried Yoh.
"Yea!!" cried everyone else.
Everyone charged to the tree and started to grab their presents and started ripping them open one at a time.
"Wow! Thanks Anna! I love them!" said Yoh as he opened his present to see two new BobLove CDs and a new orange pullover.
"Thanks for the ring, clothes and toys, too," said Anna.
"Thanks Cassandra," said Ren as he opened up his new Kwan Doe.
"No thank you, Ren-kun!" exclaimed Cassandra as she opened her present form Ren.It was a new cooking apron and a new silver cat bell on a pink ribbon.
"Thank-you Miss Jun for the nun chucks," said Bailong.
"And thank-you and Ren for the new make-up and dresses!" exclaimed Jun.
"Cool! Thanks Pillika thanks Mickey!" said Horo-Horo as he saw his new snowboarding gear.
"Thanks onii-chan for the new toys,"said Pillika.
"And thanks for the new CD and squeaky toys," said Mickey as she began to chew on one.
"Thank you Eliza, dear for the new suits and lab coats," said Faust.
"Thank you dear for the pearls," said Eliza in returned for her new pearl necklace.
"Wow! Thank you for the gift cards, Tammy!" said Lyserg and Manta in unison.
"Yeah and thanks for the joke books! I'm gonna try them out right now," said Chocolove.A few seconds later a shriek was heard from across the room.
"Thanks for the new cookbooks and the cute new purse guys!" said Tammy.
"Oh Minako! The new Gwen solo CD! I've been looking everywhere for this! And snacks! Thanks for the snacks!" exclaimed Mickey as she started chewing on her dog treats.
"And thanks for the new cookbook! I couldn't find this anywhere and the cat toys are so cute!" said Cassandra as she flipped through her cookbook.
"One more thanks from me! I love these new fan comics about Ashil! They're so cute and great!" said Ashil.
"Thanks for are gifts Ashil-san!" cried Minako, Mickey and Cassandra as they opened their gifts. They each got perfume, purses and jewelry.
"Okay.Now it's Ryu-San's turn!" said Minako.
"Yeah!" cried Ryu.Minako gave the rest of the presents that she bought for Ryu and Ashil's present from the last time he visited. He opened Ashil's present first.
"Thanks Ashil! These are great shirts! They're vintage and they're really cool!" said Ryu as he held two 70's and 80's concert t-shirts.
"My gifts now Ryu-san!" cried Minako.
"All right.Calm down,Mina-chan,"replied Ryu.He slowly opened up his second gift from Mimako.It was a scrapbook entitle 'Ryu and Minako:Best Memories'.He flipped through it and saw all the old pictures from the past years of him and Minako that he hadn't seen in a long time.
"This is really nice Mina-chan.Did you make this?" asked Ryu.
"Yeah, I did. I bought a scarpbooking kit and added all the photos of us together hope that we can share these forever," said Minako sweetly. "You still have two more presents."He opened the other one a little bit faster and found two new cookbooks for him.
"These are super rare! I've been searching for this sushi one for two years and this I've been searching for months! How did you know that I wanted these?" asked Ryu.
"Lucky guesses I guess," said Minako.Finally he opened the last one. It was a big picture of Ryu's group of friends and Minako ere still in high school. The picture was taken the last time Minako was there for his birthday. It was beautifully framed and was ready to go on a wall.
"Thank-you Mina-Chan! I love everything you gave me! I 'm so glad that you're here this year!" cried Ryu as he hugged her tightly.
"Glad you like them all, Ryu-san. Can I have my other present? You said that you had another gift for me. Can I have it now?" asked Minako.
"Wellllll…Yeah I guess you can now. Here it is "said Ryu.He left go of her and took out Minako's ring and got down on one knee
"Mina-Chan, I knew you for a long time and love you too. Will you marry me and be my happy place?" asked Ryu. Minako didn't know what to say. At first she blushed.
"Yes. Yes I will!!" shouted Minako. Ryu placed the small diamond ring on her finger. Then Minako started crying tears of joys as she hugged Ryu.
"How did you know this is what I wanted for Christmas? This is one of the best presents I ever got!!" she said between sobs. The other boarders were so happy for them that Mickey and Cassandra started to cry tears of joys for their friend and sister. Horo-Horo looked at them blankly, then he heard a sniff coming from Ren's direction.
"Ren are you freakin' crying?!" shouted Horo-Horo.
"OF COURSE NOT YOU BAKA!!I just have something in my eye," replied Ren.
"Aww.It's okay Ren-kun!!! We can cry together!" shouted Cassandra as she hugged him.
"I don't cry people!" shouted Ren.
"Hey let's have that cake now," said Manta.Everyone agreed to that and dried their eyes.
Cassandra and Mickey brought out the cake and placed it on the table in front of Ryu.Minako lighted the candles on it and then the boarders sang 'Happy Birthday' to him. Minako snuggled closer to him as the song was almost done. Then Ryu blew out his candles as he made a wish.
"Well, I'll do the third toast," said Yoh.He raised up his glass of juice. "To the newly engaged couple, Ryu and Minako! May they find happiness and even more love than ever before!" said Yoh with a smile.
"Yeah!" cried the other boarders with raised glasses.
"And may we never got sucked into Ashil's plans again!" shouted Horo-Horo.
"I second that!" said Ren.
"Ditto!" cried Anna.
"Us three!" shouted Chocolove, Manta, and Lyserg.
"It was you naïve kids fault that you got dressed up for this," said Jun.
"What? You helped us get dressed, Jun-san!" cried Mickey.
"Yeah!" seconded Cassandra.
"Only because I like dressing people up for stuff have a great fashion sense," said Jun a little snobbish.
"Whatever, Sis.Just eat your cake before Boro-Boro does," said Ren.
"Don't call me Boro-Boro!" said Horo-Horo.He almost started to fight with Ren but Mickey and Cassandra grabbed them both.
"Don't fight! At least not today!" cried Mickey and Cassandra.
"Fine!" said Horo-Horo and Ren blushing from Mickey and Cassandra.
Everyone had two slices and was full of cake.
"I'm sleepy," said Cassandra.
"Yawn..What time is it?' asked Mickey.Pillika looked at the clock.
"Wow..It's super late! It's almost 11:00!
"Wow.That is late.Maybe that's why Yoh fell alseep on my arm," said Anna pointing to Yoh drooling on her arm.
"Let's just put the dishes in the sink and do it in the morning," said Tammy.
"Can I stay for the night since it's so late? I can sleep on the couch," said Ashil.
"Fine.Just get Yoh off my arm!" said Anna.He was drooling buckets now.
The other boarders went into their rooms and shut their doors and fell fast asleep.
"Did you have a good birthday, Ryu-san?" asked Minako as she slipped into bed.
"Yes it was a very good birthday loved my gifts from you. They were the best hoped that you loved my gifts," said Ryu laying down in the bed.
"Didn't I tell you? This is one the best gifts I ever I got!I love my teddy bear that you got me," Minako said as she squeezed her teddy bear.
"Well good night, Minako," Ryu said as he kissed her and pulled her closer to him.
"Good night, Ryu," said Minako as she hugged him and fell into a deep sleep.
'We took another step in our relationship,' thought Minako. 'I hope I feel this much love everyday from now on.'The snow fell gracefully on that Christmas Eve night as friends and love ones sleep peacefully within that onsen inn.
The End