Christmas Classics

Nutcracker

It was a frosty Christmas Eve Eve night and all through the house was silent. No that didn't rhyme who cares? No one knew it was supposed to. Anyways, this story begins with a four year old boy by the name of Krad. Who honestly didn't like Christmas very much, other than the fact, of course, that he received presents.

Yes, what a greedy child he was, he loved present, but then again, who didn't? For a four year old, he had a wide range of vocabulary that surpassed one of a normal child's, his vocab also involved a lot of swearing, but that's not important.

Hikari Krad couldn't wait to get all the presents he could at his parents' Christmas party thing. And in amidst of the present receiving and then suddenly, the door opened, and standing there, was Hiwatari Kei, Krad's ever so strange godfather with his eyes and narrowed as ever, he always looked pissed because of it, the kids loved him anyways. For the presents he gave out of course.

With his winter boots on clomping as he walked, and a large potato sack slung over his shoulder, all the children gathered around him and one by one, he pulled out presents from the bag and handed them out. All the little kids as afraid as they were, happily grabbed the presents and ran back to their parents to show off their new gift. And when Krad walked over, the bag was empty, Kei frowned in a not so apologetic way, "I'm sorry Krad, it appears that I'm one present short. To be more specific, your present short."

Golden eyes narrowed, fists clenched, "You assh-!"

His parents smiled ruefully as they covered their child's mouth who then, after they let go, stormed upstairs to his bedroom. And so, afterwards, on Christmas Eve, Kei returned this time with a nutcracker for Krad. "I return with a nutcracker for you Krad."

Krad fell over laughing at the word 'nutcracker', but he took his gift anyways, because first of all, it was rude not to accept gifts, second of all, it was a gift, and third of all nutcrackers amused the boy to no end. He grabbed the nutcracker and ran around the house in his little laughing fit.

Unfortunately, his little brother, Satoshi, who was one at the time, didn't like that his brother got something as amusing as a nutcracker while he was stuck with a ballerina, so, he ran over, grabbed it from Krad and swung it against the wall several times before throwing it out the window. The violent little child, he really was quite strong for a boy who's only lived for a year.

Krad's eyes widened, "You little bast-!"

Their parents covered his mouth once more, "Satoshi, that was very bad of you. Apologize to your brother."

Satoshi raised a brow, before pronouncing very clearly as though his parents were stupid, maybe it was because he was so smart for his age, "No. You can't make it. He deserved that. He's a retard."

His brother broke free of his parents' grip for a second, "You little ba-!"

In a somewhat strict voice, they pointed to the stairs, it was almost as though they didn't hear him speaking badly of his brother, they continued to speak to him as they would to a normal child, which he was not. "Satoshi, you've been a bad boy, go to your room."

He shrugged and headed upstairs, Kei sighed and picked up the nutcracker, "Don't worry, I can fix it."

"You better." Krad hissed through narrowed eyes before heading upstairs, possibly to murder his brother.

His parents to just smiled and made that face they'd make to a child that did something incredibly cute which would make them go all, "Awww…wasn't that cute?" Why they found murderous children 'cute' no one will ever know.

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That night, Krad couldn't sleep, suspicion has it that he had several cups of coffee before he went to sleep. But since he couldn't sleep, he headed downstairs towards the tree, as he reached there, he gathered his presents around him, with the nutcracker in his arms, he fell asleep surrounded by gifts.

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The clock struck midnight.

It was really loud.

Krad woke up, "Damnit you bas-!" He was cut off by the little hands of mice covering his mouth, he opened his eyes and tried to swear but couldn't. Bloody hell! He was being kidnapped by mice! Suddenly the mice stopped, golden eyes looked over at the nutcracker standing there with soldiers behind him.

Now he had seen everything. Well not really, he never saw a bird tap dance or a turtle walking on its hind legs or a whale bouncing on a pogo stick with a crayon balanced on its head. So technically, he really didn't see all that much. The mice let go of him and scurried away, he blinked as the toys moved in front of him in a defensive stance.

Then the Mouse King appeared and began a fight with the nutcracker who had surprisingly flexible arms. The last time Krad checked, it was made out of wood, "Holy sh-!" He was cut off as the nutcracker placed a hand over his mouth and in the process, got stabbed by the big fat mouse. Krad looked up angrily at the Mouse King angrily, "You bastar-!" The nutcracker used the last of its strength to but the blonde off once more.

Out of anger, he chucked one of his brother's present at the Mouse King and in the process, squished it. He smirked in triumph, as the mouse died and as they loud crack was heard emitting from his brother's present, then he looked down at the now dead nutcracker, he pouted, "Aw crap…it broke again."

He continued pouting and began to shake the nutcracker in attempts on 'reviving' it, instead, he ended up poking his eye with its no longer flexible hand, he stopped himself from swearing and waking his parents up. But since it did hurt like hell, he couldn't stop his tear, yes, there was only one, from falling onto the nutcracker as he held his eye and silently swore in as many languages as he knew.

The nutcracker came back to life! And he, obviously surprised that he was still alive, looked up and accidentally ended up doing some lip contact with the boy who in turn flinched away, "Ew! I just kissed a nutcracker! That's gross!"

When Krad looked up again, the nutcracker had turned into a prince figure, a very handsome one at that. And he was standing right in the middle of the room smiling at him. This is where normal fans would start swooning. The prince had wild violet hair and mischievous amethyst eyes, he held out his hand to the blonde, "Shall we dance?"

He looked down in surprise to find that he had a teenager's body, then he recovered, "No way in hell you perverted ass-!"

The prince had his hand over his mouth smiling nervously, "Okay, okay! No dancing! No need to swear, the name's Dark Mousy. Prince Dark Mousy."

Krad removed the hand from his mouth and frowned, "Do I look like I care?"

"No but you look hot." The prince held out his hand to the blonde once more and grinned, "Come on, I'm going to whisk you away to an enchanted forest."

Krad blinked, "…are you retarded?"

"No."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

"Look, just because you're hot, it doesn't mean I'm going to believe you just like that."

Dark grinned, "You think I'm hot too?"

"No."

"You lie!"

Krad frowned, "Shut up!"

Then Dark grabbed him by snaking an arm around his waist, "And we're off! Whisked away!"

The blonde struggled powerlessly, "Let go of me you pervert!"

The prince smirked, "No."

A moment later, "Move your hand back up you pervert!"

"…"

And then they were whisked off to an enchanted forest.

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"Where are we?"

"The last time I checked, we were whisked off to an enchanted forest. So I'm guessing we're in the enchanted forest."

Krad rolled his eyes, "Oh that's just lovely."

"Ain't it?"

Then it started snowing, actually, it wasn't just snowing, it was blizzard-ing like hell just froze over, which it probably did since Krad didn't swear. "Bloody hell…now it's perfect isn't it? Just perfect…what's that music?"

Dark blinked and cupped his ear to listen, "That'd be the background music."

The blonde raised a brow, "For…"

"Oh, that…it's supposed to be light and airy like snowflakes which we're supposed to dance to."

Krad just stood there and crossed his arms, "I'm not dancing."

"I didn't think you would."

"Good, because I'm not going to."

"It's not like I'm going to ask you."

"Good."

Dark paused, "…so you gonna dance?"

"No."

The prince shrugged, "Alright then, it's settled. Let's skip this part and go to the palace."

"What palace and please don't grope me again."

"It's the palace of sweets and you have no proof."

Krad made a face, "I hate sweets."

It was Dark's turn to make a face, he gasped in mock surprise, "How can anyone not like sweets?"

"Well I don't."

By this time the snow was beginning to pile up around them and the background music was going crazy since the song was actually over and they were all left to improvise their own parts, "Not chocolate?"

"Nope."

"Not coffee?"

The blonde turned around with interest, "Coffee isn't a sweet! It's caffeine! It's addictive! I love it! It's not sweet unless you put an unhealthy amount of sugar and cream in!"

The prince shrugged, "Well it's a type of sweet here..."

It was Krad's turn to shrug, "Alright then, let's go."

Dark grinned and pointed to a palace that appeared out of nowhere, "Onwards we go!"

"We're walking?"

"Sure why not, I mean you don't want to be whisked there or to dance there."

Krad nodded understandingly, for once, "Yea, let's walk."

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After what seemed a lifetime, they reached the palace, and the crowd had fallen asleep waiting for them. Dark frowned, "I'm here!"

The crowd began to snore, Krad frowned, "Why won't these stupid ass- wake up?"

Dark covered half of the other boy's mouth and grinned, "Wake up!"

"Bloody hell! They're all stupid or something!"

The prince frowned and slammed the door shut, almost immediately, the people began to dance to welcome them back, Dark scowled, "Idiots…all of them…"

Random people cheered, "Prince Dark! You're back!"

"Yes yes. Let's bring the chocolate in!"

A couple dozen dancers came frolicking into the palace, Krad raised a brow, why was everyone dancing? Was it like a trend or something in the kingdom? A very lame one at that, he thought. He frowned and crossed his arms, looking at the prince, "Dark…I don't like chocolate."

"Yes ma'am, chocolate, leave, bring the coffee in."

Krad smiled in satisfaction, surprisingly, to Dark and those around him, Dark smiled back, they watched people run in and dance the coffee dance. "This is somewhat better…I think."

But after the coffee dancers left, the tea people came in, the blonde looked over at the prince, "What's the point in all this? Why are they all dancing?"

"I…have no idea, they just amuse me."

"What interesting toys you have…how come I don't get a group of dancers?"

"Maybe your parents are too cheap."

Krad blinked then shrugged, "They probably are."

After several songs and dances of random things, and the kicking out of the clowns and flowers due to Krad's dislike for them, a fat lady came waltzing in. "Look at her go…how does she stay balanced?"

The blonde looked at the prince, "Who's that? Your mom? The lady who got you the dancers?"

"No, she's the sugar plum fairy."

"Is that why she's so fat? She had too many sugar plums didn't she?"

Dark shrugged as they continued watching the lady dance, "Probably."

"Why isn't she purple like normal plums?"

"She's the sugar plum fairy, not a plum."

Golden eyes darted over and glared at the prince, "I know that, but why isn't she purple?"

The prince grinned, "You want to go and make her purple?"

Krad returned the grin, "Yes."

There was a pause between then, "Is something wrong Krad?"

"Yes."

Dark stood in front of him, "What is it?"

"I was just wondering how long she could dance for."

The prince shook his head and rested his arm on the blonde's shoulder, "You don't want to guess, the last time she came, she danced for hours nonstop, the only way to make her stop is to trip her, interrupt her or distract her."

"Oh…"

"Yea, let's go get some paint."

The boys grinned and ran up the stairs to a storage room, a minute later, returned with a bucket of paint in each hand, and as the fairy twirled, they splashed the paint on the lady, unfortunately, they didn't count on the twirling fairy on whirling the paint back at them. "Look out!"

Before they knew it, the fairy stopped twirling and stormed out in anger and the two of them stood there with splotches of purple on them, "Well…that certainly was interesting…"

Krad began to laugh as he looked at Dark's face, "You look like a dog!"

Dark raised a brow and smeared some of the paint on the blonde's face, "Fine then, you're a cat. Let's hug."

The blonde was laughing too hard to object, so they ended up with identical splotches, a moment later golden eyes glared at the prince, "Hands back up pervert!"

"If I promise to keep my hands up then would you dance with me?"

Krad frowned, "Are you stupid?"

"Not as far as I'm concerned. Think what you want but I don't think I'm stupid."

"Why do you have a dancing fetish?"

"I don't, shush and let's just dance."

"Only one dance though."

After five steps Krad broke away, Dark blinked, "Wha?"

"That was dance enough, let's go."

The prince frowned, "What do you mean? That wasn't even a real dance!"

"What are you talking about? That's the most I've ever danced!"

Dark looked over at the big clock that ticked and pointed to not numbers but words, 'plenty of time' 'some time' 'only a bit left' 'you better hurry' and 'time's up'. It was currently pointing at the 'you better hurry'. "Alright, but before I whisk you away to the ship which goes back to your world, promise me I'll be the first person you'll truly dance with."

Krad crossed his arms, "And why would I make a promise like that?"

"Because I want you to!"

The two momentarily glared at one another before the blonde huffed, "Fine, be that way." The prince smiled and took him by the arm to whisk him away, "Stop touching me!"

"It's not my fault!"

"Yes it is! Argh! You pervert!"

They ended up on a dock, "We're here."

"That's nice…you can let go now."

"No."

"Why?"

"Because I've grown to like you."

Krad blinked, "That's nice…"

"I don't even know your name."

"Hikari Krad. Please let go?"

Dark let go, "I have something for you."

Golden eyes blinked once more, "What?" Then something was tied onto his neck, it was a choker, "What's this? Why? What does it say on it?"

"It's a choker, so I can find you again. It says brat prince."

"How suiting…" He took off his own necklace slowly and handed it to Dark, "It's not like I can wear two things on my neck anyways, you can keep it…for now, only until I see you again."

The prince smiled, "Thanks, it's about time you leave…"

"Okay. I'll see you when I see you then."

Dark nodded as Krad got onto the ship, "Remember! You promised to dance with me!"

"Yea whatever you perverted retarded brat prince who has a dance-fetish!"

The prince merely grinned and waved.

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Golden eyes opened, he rubbed his eyes and looked at the nutcracker in his hands, "What a dream…" He scanned the nutcracker once more, it wasn't broken or anything, it was in perfect condition, he stretched and yawned and reached up to his neck to fix his necklace which usually ended up a little tangled after he slept.

He blinked when it wasn't his necklace on his neck, suddenly a slight pang of sadness hit him as he realized that the chances of him seeing the prince again were slim to none. It was fun being around Dark, Christmas wasn't going to be as merry knowing that. Then a voice sounded out from the stairway, "Krad? Honey? What are you doing up so early?"

Krad looked up to see his parents coming down the stairs with Satoshi in their arms, he glared at his sleeping brother, "I couldn't sleep so I came down here to sleep."

Then his mother gasped, "Krad! Why do you have purple paint all over you? We don't even have any purple paint around the house!" He shrugged stupidly, his mother went on, "Oh well, it doesn't matter, go get changed, we invited people over to open their gifts with us. I heard they have a brat prince too."

"Brat prince?" Krad blinked and headed up to change.

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When he got back down, rather disgruntally since the paint didn't wash off like he had hoped it would, the doorbell rang, "They must be here!"

His mother opened the door to reveal a man towing a rather large wagon filled with presents, "It took longer than we thought, loading all these presents into the car."

"Oh no problem, look Kraddy, their son has just as much presents as you!"

Krad blinked and watched the doorway as the father walked through the door with the presents and his mother walked in with a sleeping baby in her arms, then a boy covered in purple paint walked in. "It's you again!"

The boy looked up, "Hi…"

The blonde ran towards him and pointed rudely in his face, "So you weren't a dream!"

The boy gaped and pointed back, equally rude, "And neither were you! I thought I gave my choker away to some person I wouldn't see again!"

Then the atmosphere changed as Krad frowned, "You still have my necklace you retard!"

Dark frowned back, "You gave it to me!"

"I traded! It's different!"

"No it's not!"

The parents smiled as the boys bickered, "Awww…how cute, the brat princes are reunited from some strange dream they had."

The two glared at their parents, "Merry Christmas to you too." Then they glared at each other, "I bet I have more presents than you!"

"No you don't!"

Then Dark made an unexpected move, he hugged Krad and smiled, "It is you!"

"No crap…"

"I missed you!"

Krad blinked, "Really?"

"Yea!"

Krad gave a small smile and gave an awkward hug back, "Well then…I guess I missed you too…just a bit though."

Dark just continued smiling as he looked at Krad, "You're cute."

The blonde blushed, "Stop being so random!"

"I love you, marry me?"

The parents gawked, "Dark…honey…maybe you should wait a bit, I mean you're only four…"

"Why wait? I want him! He's the only person I'll marry! I decided already!"

Krad blinked, "…do you mean it?"

Dark frowned in determination, "Yes!"

And of course, the brat prince always got what he wanted.

Krad shrugged, "Well alright, let's get married then."

And it was a Merry Christmas after all. For Dark and Krad anyways.

Owari

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Nya

I finished before midnight! But I doubt I'll be able to upload it before midnight :( oh well...instead of merry Christmas eve eve as it is right now, I'll say merry Christmas! XD Umm...what else...I can't think right now...yes they got engaged at the age of 4 :P and Krad has a bad habit :O Anyways! Merry Christmas! Eve! And Eve Eve! XD