"Yo Aoba." Mizuki's voice rang from the living room entrance.

I looked up from my spot on the couch where I was doing a maintenance check on Ren who laid in my lap. Mizuki walked in from the kitchen, and I moved my feet back as he plopped down on the couch. I moved my feet back and stretched them onto his lap, and moved my focus back to the screen as his ermine, Yuki, slid off his neck and moved over to look at my coil. "Hey, Mizuki. I didn't think you'd come over today." I replied back. Mizuki had told me last night that he probably wouldn't be over today since someone had hired his bar to host a bachelor party so he would have to stay and pass out the drinks, obviously.

"Well, they actually cancelled about an hour ago." Mizuki replied. "Apparently, they decided to host the party at friend's house so all I had to do was deliver the alcohol they requested, and decided to pop in and see you." Mizuki leaned back on the couch, turning his body slightly towards me. "Doing a check-up on Ren huh?"

"Yeah, I wanted to make sure he doesn't have a virus or anything." I replied back as I finished the maintenance check and closed my coil up, and started Ren back up. "Good job, Ren." I bring Ren up, and touch foreheads with him.

"Aoba." Ren responded before looking at Yuki. "Hello Yuki."

"Hello Ren." Yuki's sweet voice replied, it wasn't high like a girl's, but it wasn't deep like a male's. Yuki's voice was quiet, and gentle; he sounded thoughtful, and it fit him because he was an observant AllMate who didn't talk much when in a large group. "How did the check-up go?"

"Everything feels normal." Ren replied, and I gave a nod to that as I sat him back down on my lap. Ren and Yuki went off into their own conversation on my lap, and I focused my attention back to Mizuki who stared at me.

"So Aoba, since everything's ok wanna head somewhere?" Mizuki asked me as he leaned forward. I leaned in automatically as well and he smiled.

"Where?" I asked him suspiciously. Mizuki always managed to find strange places, and we usually always ended up in some form of trouble.

"It's a little ways out of town, but it's super pretty." Mizuki responded and gave me a quick kiss. "But I think you'll find it well worth it." I hummed as he kissed me again. Damn it, you really want me to say yes don't you?

"I suppose so, I don't have anything else to do." I pulled back and stared at him.

"I would suggest bundling up. Its cold out." he kissed me once more and I stood up to grab my coat before leaving a note for Granny and headed out into the cold with Mizuki.

We took about an hour to get there, and had to walk through the woods. Mizuki kept a tight grip on my hand as we walked into a clearing. I blinked against the sudden brightness, and felt my breath leave me as I stared at the scene in front of me. The clearing was covered in snow from the past few days like a white blanket, and even covered the branches of the trees around it.

"A friend told me about this place." Mizuki said as we walked into the clearing. "I've wanted to take you here for a while now, but neither of our work schedules allowed it." I looked around the area, it was beautiful, I'm sad we had to wait so long to see it, but in a way it was worth it. It had snowed last night, but since we lived in the city the snow never stuck, nor did it look this clean, but here it was completely clean and there were no tracks to be seen, not even from animals that lived in the forest. "What do you think?" Mizuki squeezed my hand, and I smiled at him.

"I love it!" I responded enthusiastically. "It's so beautiful." I returned my attention back to the scene and stepped forward as he let go of my hand. I sat Ren out and immediately he and Yuki set about exploring the area. As I watched them look around the edge of the clearing, suddenly I felt something cold hit me on my back and I spun around. Mizuki stared at me with a wide grin, he had a large snowball in his hand.

"What's wrong Aoba?" he smirked. "Cold?"

"You!" I laughed and ran off scooping some snow into my hand and formed it into a ball. I twisted around and dodged another snowball from Mizuki and returned my own, hitting him in the chest.

"Hey, I'll get you for that." he said as he took off after me. I laughed and dodged him as he tried to grab me. I scooped up more snow and shoved it down his coat. He gave a yelp and turned around and managed to hook his arm around my waist lifting me off the ground against him. I gave a small scream and grabbed onto his arm and laughed. I gave another small scream as we suddenly fell. I landed on him and he gave a laugh as he wrapped his arms around me. "Apparently I managed to slip on ice." I gave a laugh and rolled off him and onto the snow next to him. I moved my arms and legs out and made a snow angel next to him with a quiet laugh and looked over at him.

"Heh, I always wanted to make one." I gave a small laugh, and something flashed in Mizuki's eyes and suddenly he was on top of me, his hands on both sides of head. "Mizuki?" I said in a surprised voice.

"You really don't mean to do you?" Mizuki whispered as he leaned his face towards mine.

"Do what?" I asked hesitantly. I know this look, but what flipped his switch?

"You're such a temptation." He moved his lips to my neck and I flinched slightly, they were warm against my cold skin. "And yet you never realize it." He moved his head back and his eyes focused on mine. That was something he always said to me, and I can't say I didn't know what he was talking about, but sometimes he would surprise me.

My eyes widen in surprise as he brought his lips to mine. He pressed them roughly against mine and my eyes closed as I arched up into the kiss bringing my arms around his neck. He gave a quiet moan and pressed harder, pushing me into the snow.

"Mizuki." I panted as I tried to move my head away but he didn't allow it turned my face back to him and pressed his lips against mine again, he licked my lips and I parted my lips and he tilted his head as he slid his tongue over mine. "Mmmm!" Do we really have to do this here? I mean, I'm not against it, but it's cold. Before I could gather my thoughts to at least convince him to wait till we were inside his place, since Granny is probably back by now but before I could we were interrupted by a voice.

"Doing this in the snow will probably lead to a cold in the morning, and if left untreated could turn into hypothermia." Yuki's voice came beside my ear. Mizuki quickly pulled away from me and looked at his AllMate, his face a bright red.

"Y-Yuki!" Mizuki stuttered.

"Aoba, I would suggest heading to a warm house." Ren said, and I quickly shushed him.

"Ugh!" Mizuki said and buried his face in the crook of my neck. "This is embarrassing." He looked back up and gave me a gentle smile. I leaned up and gave him a quick kiss.

"You just have to make it to your place." I whispered in his ear. He jolted slightly and looked at me with wide eyes before he jumped off me and pulled me up. He grabbed Yuki and I laughed as I grabbed Ren and put him in bag as Mizuki practically pulled me along with him.

Thank you Mizuki, thank you for choosing to live.

Merry Christmas.

Me: Chapter 3 is up! Wow I really cut it close this time around! What did you think? Did anyone guess I would do Mizuki x Aoba? I really love this pairing. I want to do a short story just for these two but I haven't got around to doing it yet! I hope everyone is enjoying this story so far!

;P Later