"Um... Kenshin, it's freezing out, you don't have to do that today," Kaoru said, smiling. Kenshin turned around, hands red from being in the cold water, and smiled.
"Okay. Good morning Miss Kaoru," he said.
"And you don't have to call me Miss. It makes me sound old," she replied. Kenshin blinked. "Another thing, do you... celebrate Christmas?" Kaoru asked, rubbing her arms with her hands. Kenshin put the rest of the laundry in a basket and picked it up. He smiled.
"I never really knew my family well enough to celebrate it with, so I don't know what it is," he said. Kaoru almost fell over.
"You don't know what Christmas is? Okay, one version is the celebration of Jesus being born, which is the original. But there are some greedy people out there, so they decided that since Jesus got gifts on his birthday, then we should give eachother presents," Kaoru said, smiling. Kenshin was a little confused, not knowing who this Jesus was, but he went along with it.
"And what would you like for Christmas?" Kenshin asked Kaoru, who was surprised that he asked that.
"Uh... well, anything will be fine I guess. What about you?" She asked.
"Same thing as you," he replied. He shivered. "Let's get inside, it's freezing," he said, walking in a room on the left side of the dojo.
"He is so clueless," Kaoru sighed. Yahiko and Sano came up to her.
"What are you doing out in the cold?" Sano asked, smiling. Yahiko seemed to be in a good mood as well.
"Well, I had just finished explaining what Christmas was to Kenshin. He never celebrated it before since he didn't have a family for very long, plus he lived during the war..." Kaoru said, sadly.
"That's sad, even I know what Christmas is. And I have the perfect thing for Megumi," Sano said, smiling.
"What is it?" Yahiko asked, nudging him.
"Oh... you'll just have to wait," Sano replied, pushing him aside. Kaoru ran inside and rummaged around a few boxes. Sano and Yahiko looked at eachother, confused. Kaoru gave out a cry of success and came out, carrying a red fuzzy hat with a white ball of fuzz on top. It also had a ring of white around the bottom of it. "Isn't that a Santa hat?" Yahiko asked. Kaoru laughed.
"Yes. I think I'll go put it on Kenshin," she replied, laughing evily. Yahiko and Sano shivered, since they hated seeing Kaoru laugh like that. Something bad always happened after she did.
Kenshin was in the kitchen preparing lunch when Kaoru snuck up behind him, quietly. She put the hat on his head and he jumped. He turned around to see Kaoru laughing.
"Kaoru... what is this?" Kenshin was holding a knife in his hands and looked up towards the hat. Kaoru backed up, seeing the knife but sighed.
"It's a Santa hat. Kids believe he is the one who puts presents in their homes every Christmas eve. But it's really their parents who do it," Kaoru said, smiling. Kenshin laughed a little.
"I wonder if Yahiko still believes in him," he said. Kaoru laughed.
Yahiko sneezed as him and Sano went inside to eat.
