It was finally the end of the year, and the class decided to throw a Christmas party. I decided to partake in the ugly sweater contest, which was a green sweater with a stormtrooper helmet on it with Santa's hat on top, I found it funny. Still, we all had placed a tree in the room the previous day and each had to get someone something, even the substitute placed something under the tree.
"Dakota, you're spacing out again." Ibuki said, waving her hand in front of my face. "Come on, stop spacing out, I know you're excited about the presents under the tree and who got who what! Ibuki, wants to tell you what she got you, but I have to wait for you to open it! Ibuki also wants to know what she got, who got who what, maybe it was Akane, then again it could easily be someone else. Its hurting my brain trying to think of who got what for who!?" She yelled, pulling on her two headed version of Santa's Hat, where she placed her hair in to make them stick up. Her clothing was black with snowflakes surrounding a unicorn being ridden by Santa, who was holding a Candy Cane in his left hand.
"Oh, hush." Sonia said as she wagged her finger at said girl. Sonia was wearing a Santa hat, but her sweater was a classic Tree. "You remember the rules, don't you? each person drew a random name from the hat, and they had to get that person a gift, then they must find out who got it for them." She explained, with me nodding.
The person I got was Ibuki, and it was a shame because I wanted to get Chiaki something, which I did but didn't tell the others as it was a more...Personal gift. I also got one for Kuzuryu one as well, because he needed it after everything this past year.
"Isn't Mikan playing Santa?" I muttered to myself, looking around for said girl as she was missing, as were a few others. I shrugged, we would eventually see her.
"Sonia! There you are, how are you?" Kazuichi said, sliding next to me, grinning with a blush. He was wearing a Santa Sweater, but he was sitting on a thrown made of Candy Canes.
"I'm fine, just talking to Dakota and Ibuki." Sonia answered, nodding in our direction. She looked to appear to be holding her breath, a sign that she still didn't like the smell Kazuichi was giving off. It was hard to imagine that it would.
"Kazuichi?" I asked, gaining his attention. "Where's Mikan, Last I saw, she was with you?" I asked, with him thinking about it.
He nodded his head as he was the last person to see her. "She went to go change, I believe that's what she said?"
"Ok." I said, knowing that she would be back. She was here earlier, so she would eventually return.
"What are you four talking about? Something good I hope." Peko said as she and Kuzuryu walked over to us. Kuzuryu was in a red and green suit that spoke Christmas while Peko wore a red sweater that had a ninja Snowman on it. I couldn't help but giggle at her shirt, catching her attention. "What, is it something I said?" She asked, crossing her arms.
"No, its your shirt!" I said, pointing at it. "Ninja Snowman, I've never thought of it, its just too cute!" I said, with her looking down at her shirt.
"I didn't expect you to be one of humor." She said, looking back at me, with me nodding as it was hard to believe.
"See, I told you that was perfect for you." Kazuichi said, crossing his arms with a smirk, with said girl looking at him with a smile of her own.
"Wonder when they'll confess?" I said to Ibuki, with both of them glaring at me, with me covering my mouth. "Oh, I'm sorry, did I say that out loud? Real shame that the person or people I was talking about was standing right in front of me!" I said, with both of them looking away with blushes on their faces.
"Its not that we don't like each other, we just know each other very well is all!" Kuzuryu said, with Peko nodding.
"Sorry, we didn't mean to cause any problems in us speaking out of turn." Peko said, with me nodding.
"You two are forgiven." I said, with them nodding as the air was back to normal.
"Hey, we're here!?" Akane said from the door, followed by everyone else. Akane was in a green sweater that had a half eaten Ginger bread man on it with it saying merry X-mas and had X's or its eyes. Saionji was in a Red sweater that said Merry Christmas you Filthy Animal, and it wasn't surprising that she would get that one. Mahiru was in a black sweater that had Kylo Ren on it, with her staring dead at my shirt as it was too close for comfort for her. Tanaka was in a red sweater that had a deer with beer on it, and he still had his scarf around his neck. Mitarai's was of a Santa placing presents under the tree, but it appeared to show off his ass in the process, because he was wearing a thong. Hanamura was of a girl, and everyone saw it coming too. Finally, Nidai's was a Merry Fucking Christmas sweater.
"Where's Mikan and Chiaki?" Mitarai asked, with me raising an eyebrow as I didn't know.
"Mikan went to go change, Chiaki we don't know." Kazuichi said, rubbing his head.
"Maybe they met us somewhere?" Peko asked as she looked at me, and I shrugged.
"Couldn't tell you. Knowing Mikan, she probably tripped and Chiaki found her on her way here and helped her." I said, with them nodding as it was a possibility.
"How about I go brew up some hot coco for everyone?" Hanamura asked as he walked away, with us nodding as hot coco sounded nice.
"I don't like your sweater." Mahiru said, still staring at my shirt.
"Be glad I didn't get the Kylo Ren one." I said, making her groan. "I saw the stormtrooper one and jut got it, I didn't care what I got." I said, crossing my arms as the door opened, with Chiaki helping Mikan in, who had a large fur coat on, with us cheering for them as they walked in.
"What did we miss?" Chiaki said, rubbing the shoulders of Mikan, who was shacking.
"Well, nothing really." I said, looking at her street fighter Christmas sweater, with me rolling my eyes as I knew she would wear something game related, but I kept a smile on my face.
"Yo, Chi, when are we opening presents?" Ibuki asked, waving at them.
"I guess after we all get some Hot Coco and Mikan warms up." Chiaki said, looking around the room. "Isn't the substitute coming?" She asked, with Kuzuryu shacking his head.
"I made sure she isn't coming." He said, with us looking at him. "What, I had a fake letter made to send her to her family's for Christmas." He said, with us talking to each other on how that sounded believable.
"Hot coco coming through!" Hanamura said, walking around with two trays in hand, with each of us picking one cup up and waiting till everyone had one.
"Everyone, I would like to make a toast." Nidai said, with everyone looking at him. "MERRY FUCKING CHRISTMIS!?" He yelled, with us repeating him as we all held our cups up, but Mikan as she was holding it close to her body for warmth. It was slow from here, with of us talking about everything that has happened over the past year and what we planned to do. It was the future, and there was no telling what was going to go down.
After our coco and Mikan getting warmed up, Mikan made her way to the tree, gaining every ones attention. She had her back to us, and she slowly slid the fur coat off, showing us that she was wearing a sexy Santa outfit. Everyone was blushing as she placed the fur coat against the podium. Slowly, she turned to us and smiled. "Ok, I would say that its time to open some presents!" She said, with me looking away and dead at Chiaki as even she was blushing at what she was seeing.
'She must either be embarrassed by sexual stuff, or she actually finds it hot...Who doesn't?' I thought, shacking my head.
"Ok, the first one is for...AH!? ME!?" She yelled, with us shocked that she grabbed hers first.
"Well, its better to get it over with than to do it in the middle of things." I said, shrugging as it was true. "Go ahead, open it!" I said, with her looking at the box in hand.
She shook it, but it didn't sound like anything was inside. So, she tore off the wrappings and tossed them aside, with me pulling a trash bag out of my bag as it was going to be needed and placing it next to the tree for use. Opening the box, she raised her eyebrow at wat was inside, with us curious on what she got. "Bath bombs?" She asked, flipping them upside down, showing that two were inside and fit perfectly inside the box.
"Two boxes inside a box...Who knew?" Peko said, looking at the others, who all shrugged. "Ok, so who do you think got it for you?" She asked, looking back at Mikan, who was looking around the room.
"Um...Saionji?" She guessed, with us looking at said girl, who was puffing her cheeks out.
"Stupid pig, you were suppose to get that wrong!?" Saionji yelled, her eye twitching and scaring Mikan. She then crossed her arms, and looked away. "You're welcome, Mikan." She said, using her name for the first time, with us actually noticing something different about Saionji.
"Holy shit, she's not as short as she was yesterday!?" We all yelled, with her flinching at our yell.
"OF COURCE I'M TALLER, ITS CALLED A GROWTH SPIRT!?" She yelled, with us looking at the other.
"Its legendary, she's finally our size!" Mahiru said, with us nodding as it was crazy.
"Ok...moving onto...Tanaka!" Mikan said, holding up a book shaped gift.
Seeing him walk up to her, he grabbed it and tore it open, where it was shown to be upside down. Tossing the trash away, he flipped it over. "Book of the Occult Volume six, how fitting." He said, smiling as he closed his eyes. "There is only one person in this room that knows that I needed this exact book." He said, looking at everyone and then pointed at Sonia dramatically. "It was you!?" He said, shocking her as she covered her mouth.
"Ah, and here I thought that I got away with it!" She said, smiling at him. "Merry Christmas Tanaka, oh, and there is a special gift in the first page for your dark minions!" She said, with Tanaka opening it and seeing sun flower seeds. The hamsters crawled out of his sleeve and each grabbed one before going back into his shirt.
"They thank you for your kindness, as do I." Tanaka said, where I looked at Kazuichi, who looked depressed.
'Well, it wasn't going to be him that she fell for.' I thought, sweat dropping.
"Next will be...Saionji?" Mikan said, holding up a thin gift, where said girl walked up to her.
Taking it from her, she opened it, tossing the trash on the floor for Mikan to pick up. She took the top off, where she held up a fan that she opened. "A traditional Fan, this makes a pair." She said, looking at everyone. "I guess...Mahiru!" She said, with said girl making an X with her arms, indicating that she was wrong.
"Sorry little...Well, I cant call you little girl anymore, but that was me!" Nidai said, gaining her attention, not expecting it. "I saw that you only had one fan when a traditional dancer uses two, it seemed like the best gift!" He said, with her nodding.
"Thank you giant, its very generous of you!" She said, snapping the fan close with a smile, making her way back to us.
'Next will be...Peko!" She said, picking it up. "Sais be carful opening." She read before handing it to Peko as she walked up to get it.
"I'll be fine." She said, opening the present without tearing the wrapper like a pro. "Oh, no wonder it sais be carful." She said, pulling out a glass container that had knifes of all kinds in it. "Each is a kitchen utensil, shaped in the form of a sword." She said, looking around the room. "Hanamura." She said, with said guy combing his hair. "If it was a normal knife set I would of had a hard time, but a Kitchen Knife set is different." She said, with him nodding.
"So true, now don't go chopping people up with that now!" Hanamura said, with Peko smiling at his joke.
"Don't worry, the person I'll use this on is you...If you try taking my clothes again." She said, narrowing her eyes, shocking the guys.
"Ya, he's always trying that with us." Most of the girls said, with me smacking him upside the head, with him rubbing it.
"Idiot." All the guys said, glaring at him.
"Next to go is...Mitarai!" She said, with said guy walking to the front.
Opening his gift, he nodded as he pulled out an art kit. "This just might be a challenge." He said, looking at everyone. "The person I'm guessing is...Dakota." He said, with me making an X, showing he was wrong.
"Sorry, but good guess." Chiaki said, with him looking at me. "I had Dakota go shopping with me a few weeks ago, said I needed a new hobby and chose Art as the point of interest, so he gave me some Ideas on what to get." She said, with me looking at her.
"I knew what you were doing from the start, so don't try saying that you tricked me." I said, with her puffing out her cheeks. "But, nice try anyways." I said, smiling at her as Mitarai walked over to us.
"Next will be...Kuzuryu." Mikan said, with said person walking up to her.
Once at the front, he picked up the small item from her, confused on what it could be. Opening it, he stopped and stared at it. "A picture frame...That sais family." He said, looking at us. "Peko, don't try to hide the fact that this is your doing." He said, with us looking at her, seeing her nodding.
"You're correct." She said, looking over to me, with me nodding. "But its a two part gift." She said, confusing him. "Dakota came to me with some excellent news, something that you would love to hear." She said, closing her eyes as I walked up to him, confusing him.
"A few years ago, I went to a secret place that not even I can say at this moment and received training." I said, holding a letter out to him, with him looking at it. As he took it, he opened it and it looked like he nearly had a heart attack at what he saw.
"You...HOW!?" He yelled, looking up at me with wide eyes, shaking. "THIS BETTER NOT BE A JOKE, BECAUSE I'LL-"
"Its real." I said, with him looking back at the picture of Natsumi, training. "As for why she's there, she got mixed up with something so dark, so powerful that nothing here could protect her, and I'm sorry to say this, but not even your family could protect her after what she learned." I said, closing my eyes. "I faked her death to protect her, I sent her there to protect her, and she has been receiving training to become the Ultimate Spy." I said, expecting to get hit.
But it didn't come the way I expected it. He tackled me, pushing me back at bit, but his arms were wrapped around my waist, hugging me. "I should kill you for this...I should, but if what you say is true...I thank you." He said, with me nodding and patting him on the back. "Tell me, what was it that I couldn't protect her from?" He asked, backing up, with me shacking my head.
"She doesn't want me informing you what it is, because she never told me what it was, just that they had more power than the government." I said, shocking him. "She has been given permission to send letters home now, but the ones in charge don't want you knowing her location so have given you permission to use me as a direct connection when needed." I said, with him nodding as he broke the hug. "Don't spread word that she's alive, because then they, whoever they are, might come after you." I said, with him nodding.
"Wow, who knew Dakota had the power to fake a death?" Mahiru said, with us walking back over to the others.
"He prepares for the worst, and this just shows his skills to the max." Peko said, smiling.
"Next up is...Ibuki." Mikan said, still staring at me in aw.
"Hell ya, lets see what this badass chick got!" She yelled, running to the front and grabbed her container like present. Tearing it off, she was met with a gas container, confusing everyone. "Hell ya, more flame oil for my guitar, I ran out a month ago!" She said, looking at everyone. "I want to say Dakota, but I'm saying Tanaka!" She said, with Tanaka and I laughing.
"Oh man, how wrong you are." I said, shocking her.
"Indeed, I had no partake in this." Tanaka said, smirking.
"You would of gotten it too if you would of said me." I said, with said girl deflating.
"Dame it, I was so close!" She said, holding the container up. "I'll use you later!" She said rushing back over to us.
"Ok, the next one is...Sonia." Mikan said, picking up another book shaped gift.
Said girl walked up and opened it just like Peko did, but with grace in ever movement she did. "Oh, Book of the Occult Volume one, Tanaka, you shouldn't have!" She said, looking at said person.
"It was a surprise to me too when I learned that you got me a gift." Tanaka said, smirking. "The dark lord truly had brought us round and round." He said, with both Tanaka and Sonia laughing.
"Anyone else find this creepy...No, just me?" Kazuichi said, looking at everyone, but got no reply as Sonia walked back over to us.
"The next one will be...Chiaki!" Mikan said, with said girl walking over to the front and picking up what looked like a game case.
As she opened it, she saw that it was a game case, but it was blank. "I don't get it?" She asked, looking around the room.
"Its me, go ahead and open it." Mahiru said, with Chiaki opening it, seeing that there wasn't a game inside, but another picture frame. She was surprised, and looked at me.
I shook my head as I looked over at Mahiru. "I had Mahiru clear something up for me." I said, looking back at Chiaki. Walking over to her, I held out a picture of Hinata in front of Hope's Peak, and she started crying, looking up at me. "I still haven't found him, and I'm not sure what happened to him, but I promise you, I will find him." I said, with her hugging me, crying her eyes out at the bad news. "I promise you, we'll see Hinata again." I said, hugging her back as I also felt like crying, but kept myself from doing so as to be strong for us.
"Is it possible that the ones after my sister got to him?" Kuzuryu asked as we walked back over, with me looking him in the eyes and giving him a nod, because not only was it possible, it had already happened. I didn't want to say anything, because that would put fear in Chiaki and I didn't want to do that.
"Next up...Hanamura." Mikan said, breaking the ice as said person walked up.
"Oh ya, I wonder which of you lovely ladies gave me!" He said, not realizing that Mikan was the only girl, other than the sub, who hadn't given anyone anything yet. He was handed a box and once he opened it, his heart fell. "A Knife set?" He asked, looking at us. "Kuzuryu?" He asked, with said guy shacking his head.
"Sorry, but I saw that your knives were getting dull." Mitarai said, gaining our attention. "So I figured, why not get you a new set?" He said, with Hanamura nodding as he rejoined us.
"Mahiru, you're up!" Mikan said as she picked up the next gift.
"Well, its obvious who got this for me now." Mahiru said, seeing how fast Mikan had noticed who it was for. Opening it, she found a new camera lens inside. "Mikan, you shouldn't have." She said, hugging the Santa girl. "I'll be sure to take our picture with this later." She said, with her nodding as she made her way back over to us.
"Next one is...Akane!" She said, with said girl rushing forward and taking the bag from her, ripped it open and started eating it, confusing everyone at the bag of chips.
"What, I could smell it!" She said, gulping. "It was the sub, she shares her chips with me some times!" She said, with no one claiming it. "Hell ya!" She said, walking back over to us.
"Ok, the next one is...Nidai!" Mikan said, with said man nodding and walking over to her as she had to drag out something heavy.
"Don't strain yourself!" He said, picking up the dumbbells with one hand. "Alright, so this was clearly the sub-"
"WRONG, IT WAS I!?" Kazuichi yelled, pointing at him with a grin. "And that's no ordinary dumbbell either, because its the special Nidai weight dumbbell mad my yours truly!" He said, pointing at his self.
"Oh ya, well sorry to disappoint you, but this is light to me!?" Nidai yelled as he started doing some reps.
"See, when you add your own electricity to it, it gets heavier!" Kazuichi said, with Nidai looking at it, then charging it up to the point that it pulled him down to the ground, shocking us as such a ting existed.
"HELL YA, NOW I CAN GO BEYOND MY MAX!?" Nidai yelled as he started lifting it slowly. "So, how do you make it lighter?" He asked, with Kazuichi smirking.
"On the side has an outlet, just plug your phone or something in it and you should be good." He said, impressing us at his skills.
"I'm impressed, I'll have to drain it for a while till I get to the point that I can take this back to my room!" Nidai said, rolling it into the corner and walking over to us.
"We're down to our final two everyone, lets see whos next!" Mikan said, picking up the next box. "Kazuichi!" She said, with said guy rushing forward.
"Hell ya, lets see what I got!" He said, opening it, only to stop once he did. "BODY WASH, DO I REALLY STINK THAT BODLY!?" He questioned, looking shocked as we all wore gas masks now, shocking him even more at how quickly we pulled them out. "DAME IT KUZURYU, I KNOW THIS WAS YOU!?" He yelled, with said guy giving him a thumbs up.
"Trust me, the oil smell is over powering." Kuzuryu said, crossing his arms as his voice was muffled. "I talked to my boys and they said that this particular body wash was the best to over power it." He said, with us all taking the masks off. "Now people wont run from you when you're next to them." He said, with Sonia giving a sigh or relief.
"Oh thank the dark lord, I couldn't hold my breath as long as I could anymore!" She said, with Kazuichi looking defeated as he slowly walked back over to us.
"Looks like I'm next." I said, walking forward as Mikan picked up the last gift, with it being a small box. 'Strange, why a small box?' I thought as I took it from her. 'Well, its from the Akane, so it cant be anything bad.' I thought as I opened it, only to raise an eyebrow as I saw a plant with red berries, bells and a red Ribbon on the end. "A plant." I said, holding it up for everyone to see, with everyone gasping and looking at Akane, who was grinning.
"IBUKI, GO FOR IT!?" She yelled, with Ibuki's eyes gleaming red as she charged forward.
"SOMEONE STOP HER!?" Kuzuryu yelled, with Nidai grabbing onto said girl, stopping her.
"NO, I WAS SO CLOSE!?" Ibuki yelled, with Chiaki jumping onto Nidai and over him, with everyone gasping as they saw her dive after me, and I was completely confused at what was going on.
Seeing Peko slid in front of her, she did a complete 360 around her and now stood dead in front of me, and I was still confused. "Mine." She said, putting my arm up above my head, so that I was holding the plant above my head, with Chiaki pulling me down, kissing me, with me blushing up a storm and people cheering but also crying in the background, Ibuki and Akane.
As she broke the kiss, I couldn't think so I looked at the plant then back at her. "What dose this mean?" I asked, not sure what it was.
"Its a mistletoe, and when two people are under one, they have to kiss." Peko said, with me looking at her. "I didn't want the kiss to happen like this, but it seems I failed." She said, looking over at Akane. "Cheep move, and sending Ibuki after him?" She asked, crossing her arms.
"What, Ibuki has a HUGE crush on him!" Akane said, with Ibuki looking hurt. "He just made a very good impression on her." She said, with me looking at Chiaki.
"Would you mind...If I did the thing with her, to cheer her up?" I asked, with Chiaki shacking her head.
"Go for it, but I expect another one." She said, making me blush as I walked past her.
Approaching Ibuki, I rubbed her head. "You know what, because you are an amazing person, I'll grant you one kiss only." I said, holding the mistletoe over her head, getting gasps from the entire class, where she jumped forward, wrapped her arms around my neck and kissed me.