Kanoi: Thanksgiving fic for Loveless! Thank you to my lovely beta reader FraisesPasteque!

Youji: Where's Natsuo?

Kanoi: Um… good question…

Natuso: -runs through in a turkey costume- This is better than Halloween!

Kanoi & Youji: … -sweatdrop-

Natsuo: Gobble gobble, gobblegobble gobble! GOBBLE!!!

Kanoi: Nani? What was THAT supposed to be?

Youji: The disclaimer…

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Ritsuka pulled his coat tighter to his body. It was freezing and he was in a bad mood. After all of Ritsuka's coaxing, Soubi had finally quit smoking, which should have made the young sacrifice happy. The problem was- it didn't. Ever since the painter had given up his cigarettes he always had a lollipop in his mouth. He was also beginning to gain some weight (not that Ritsuka was that superficial mind you). Ritsuka had started to dread seeing Soubi ever since the man had been nicotine free.

Since he had been clean, Soubi had been quite clingy. Ritsuka really didn't appreciate the invasion of his personal space. Kio also didn't appreciate how Soubi had been stealing all of his suckers, hence why the two had conspired together and come up with a plan to bring the old Soubi back. Ritsuka continued walking up the street until he saw Soubi leaning against the fence waiting for his sacrifice.

"Ritsuka!", the blonde man cried happily, sucker almost falling from his mouth.

"Soubi," Ritsuka greeted curtly.

The child then pulled out a package of some sort and pulled out a sort of stick. Soubi's eyes widened in surprise- his innocent sacrifice had pulled out a cigarette! The child placed the stick of nicotine between his lips and brought out a lighter. After he lit the detestable object, Soubi snapped back to reality. The man quickly grabbed the thing from his sacrifice.

"You don't need to be using these things, Ritsuka!" Soubi shouted.

"But I spent good money on them, what should I do? I mean… You don't smoke them anymore, so I guess I have too…" Ritsuka said, casting his eyes toward the ground.

"Give them to me," Soubi demanded.

"Demo…"

"I said give me the cigarettes, Ritsuka!"

The neko-boy reluctantly handed the almost full pack of cigarettes to Soubi. The blond pocketed the pack and stuck the still lit one in his mouth. Ritsuka looked at the blonde in horror.

"But you quit, you'll get addicted again!" ,cried out Ritsuka in worry.

"Anything to protect my dear Ritsuka," Soubi said before walking off, leading the way to his apartment.

While on the outside Ritsuka was crestfallen and worried, inside he was throwing a party like no one had ever seen.

"Boy am I thankful for addictions," he muttered before following after his fighter.

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Kanoi: OOC abounds, but common, it's crack so what more do you want?

Ritsuka: A cigarette, that thing was good!

Youji: Smooth, you got him addicted to nicotine now.

Kanoi: Oops…

Natsuo: WHERE WAS THE TURKEY!

Kanoi: Okay, not COMPLETELY a Thanksgiving fic, but hey, it kinda was with the thankfulness and all! Besides, it was an idea that's been lurking around in my brain for the past few days, and the holiday gave me a swift kick in the rear to write it.