Neko on the X'mas Tree
Part 3—Sweet Hugs and Kisses
by YYY

After putting Kazahaya on the bed and tucks the blanket in, he get back downstairs to get a cup Ramen off the shelf. It's in the middle of the night and having cup ramen feels like a better idea than go cook something. While walking to the cup ramen shelf, Rikuo sees kayahaya's kitty on the floor.

(Who gave the cat to Kazahaya anyway?) Rikuo asks himself while picking up the cat. He never realizes there is someone in Kazahaya's life other than himself. Rikuo always assumed he is the only significant other of Kazahaya since the two of them are always together. They work, live and go on missions together.

Rikuo somewhat assume that he is the most important person in Kazahaya's life, but now he realizes there is someone else. And that person is so important to Kazahaya, it makes Kazahaya yells at Rikuo. The more Rikuo thinks about it, the more frustrated Rikuo gets. "What am I doing? Why am I getting upset over someone that boy met? Am I really jealous?" Rikuo mutters.

"Oh well, jealous or not, I did ripped it." Rikuo says. Kazahaya loves the kitty and it must have really hurted Kazahaya to see the kitty got ripped. Rikuo takes the sawing kit and saw the kitty back together.

Kazahaya wakes up in the morning and looks around. "How did I get back to bed?" Kazahaya asks himself.

"Are you going to nap all day, you lazy cat?" Rikuo comes in and says.

"hmm…good morning." Kazahaya says.

"The customer will come soon, we have to start working." Rikuo says.

"Hmm…sorry I over sleep." Kazahaya says.

"Why are you suddenly being so nice?"

"I felt bad about last night. You were right, you saved my life and I yell at you."

"I'm sorry, too. I didn't mean to ruin your toy." Rikuo says as he throws the kitty back to Kazahaya. The boy catches it and beams, "you saw it back together!"

Kazahaya runs downstairs with the kitty. Rikuo follows Kazahaya downstairs and watches the small boy puts the toy kitty on the tree.

Kakei comes out form the backroom. "Good morning, did you fix your kitty for the boy?" Kakei asks Rikuo.

"MY kitty?" Rikuo asks.

"Yeah, you got that stuffed animal for Kazahaya when the two of you went on the mission at Asakusa, right?" Kakei asks.

"I did?" Rikuo asks. It is then he remembers the mission at Asakusa a couple of months ago. They were trying to get a cosmetic mirror from a girl.

--Flashback—

"Wow! I've never seen anything like this before!" Kazahama says as he gets into Hanayashiki Amusement Park.

"Don't squeal so loud, you're attracting attentions and jeopardizing our mission." Rikuo says.

"Hey! Come on over and try your luck! You can win a prize if you hit the balloons!" says a clown in a dart throwing game counter.

"Really? A prize? I want a prize!" Kazahaya dashes to the counter.

"You're just gonna waste your money." Rikuo says.

Kazahaya gives the clown some money and throws the darts. He comes really close but he can't make it. "It's hard!" Kazahaya says.

Rikuo sees their target girl and says, "we have to go."

"Aww, I was so close to the prize." Kazahaya mutters. Rikuo puts down some money on the counter, throws the darts and pops a balloon.

"We have a winner!" the clown shouts and gives Kazahaya a stuffed toy kitty. Rikuo pulls Kazahaya and goes after the girl.

--Flashback—

"I didn't even remember I got him that cat." Rikuo says.

That mission turned out to be a nightmare. When they got the mirror from the girl, they found that the mirror is, not to much of their surprises, cursed. The mirror trapped Kazahaya inside; Rikuo spent the whole night trying to get Kazahaya out of the mirror while running away from the girl who owned the mirror. The girl turned out to be a violent mercenary who wanted to use the mirror to bring her power. Rikuo almost lost Kazahaya and got killed that night.

With all the crazy thing happened that night, Rikuo completely forgot he even got the cat for Kazahaya. "So you're the one who gave him the cat. He must really value you to take such good care of the it." Saiga says to Rikuo.

Rikuo walks up to Kazahaya and asks, "is that the cat I got you at Hanayashiki?"

"Yeah! This was the first thing you ever got me. I thought you'll be happy to see me keeping it in such good condition and put it on top of X'mas tree. But you don't remember you gave it to me." Kazahaya says.

"Is that why you're so upset? That I forgot I got that cat for you? I thought you're mad at me cause I torn a cat from someone special to you."

"You're special to me!"

"Aww…I'm special to you?"

"Don't make fun of me! I'm serious! It's just…if you didn't save me that X'mas amd brought me here, there will be no more X'mas for me," says Kazahaya as he lowers his head, "so…hmm…thank you, for everything."

Rikuo smiles. He never imagine Kazahaya can makes him this jealous; and he never realizes he can be so happy to hear Kazahaya saying that he is special.

"Rikuo? Are you okay?" Kazahaya asks as he looks up to quiet Rikuo with big, bright eyes. The feminine boy looks as sweet as honey.

"If you keep acting so sexy, I will have to kiss you." Rikuo says.

"Stop teasing me!" Kazahaya shouts.

"You think I'm teasing?" asks Rikuo while he pulls Kazahaya and plants a kiss on the Kazahaya's lips.

The petite boy's heart start jumping like crazy, and his whole body feels like it's on fire. The delicate body loses all it's strength and collapsed into Rikuo's arms. When Rikuo breaks the kiss, Kazahaya starts hyperventilating.

"Young love, how sweet." Saiga says as he hugs Kakei.

Rikuo grins and asks Kazahaya, "did you catch your breath?"

"I think so…" Kazahaya says as he breath even out.

"Good." Rikuo kisses Kazahaya again, this time much, much more passionate.

Saiga smiles and kisses Kakei.

On top of the X'mas tree, the stuffed toy kitty looks down at the two kissing couple.

The End

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