Scarf

'Shaka, get up, it's noon already.' The lavender-haired boy entreated, moved left and right, trying to pull his friend out of the blanket.

'Don't want to.' The boy called Shaka grumbled. He pulled his beloved blanket over his head and held onto it tightly, resolutely refused to leave his kingdom.

'But it's snowing out there, we can play.' The other boy still had not given up. He now climbed onto the bed and used all his strength to draw the poor blanket out. But when he was pulling really hard, his blond friend suddenly let go of the quilt, causing him to abruptly fall backward. The Virgo boy then stole the opportunity and jumped onto his astonished friend. He used his weight to prevent the other boy from moving, then quickly grabbed the quilt and covered them with it.

'See, it's much better this way.' Shaka said while tightly hugging Mu. He rubbed his head against the Aries's neck, intentionally using him as a comfortable cushion to help him sleep again.

'Shaka, let go.' Mu whined softly as he patted Shaka on the back, implied that he was lacking of oxygen.

Shaka moved away a bit but did not completely let go of his friend. Still held Mu tightly, he rolled to his right side and lazily opened his eyes.

'Why do we have to get up and go outside in such cold morning? Winter is made so that we can enjoy our sleep.' He said, hopping to successfully convince his friend to stay with him.

'But if we go out, we can play with the snow.' Mu insisted.

'That's why I don't want to go outside, Mu.' Shaka grunted. He rolled to the other side, having his back facing Mu. 'I hate snow.'

'It'll be fun. I promise.'

'Go alone then.'

After that, Shaka did not hear anything from Mu, nor did he feel Mu's touch. Turning around to check on his friend, he saw there Mu pouting at him with a look of absolute sulking.

'Shaka promised me!' And there, his trump card.

The blond boy hesitated for while, trying to find a valid argument which he already knew was impossible to happen. Then,

'Alright...' He gave up.

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Shaka could never understand Mu's morning energy, never. If it was a warm sunny day then he could see the reason, but for such a frozen, snowy day like this, he could not see why Mu was so excited about it. As soon as they reach the garden, the Aries boy immediately ran towards the snow field, leaving Shaka behind.

'So,' Shaka said, struggling to walk on the thick snow layer to approach Mu. 'What are we going to do, then?'

'Hmmm, let me see.' Mu held himself on his chin, thinking. 'Shaka doesn't like snowfight, right?'

'Absolutely not.'

'How about making snow angels?'

'Boring.'

'Skating then?'

'Too exhausting.'

'Hide and seek?'

'Ultimately silly.'

'Alright then, building snowmen, it is.' Mu stated cheerfully and grabbed Shaka's hand, dragged him along, not letting the blond give out any other refusals.

As Mu happily and busily built his snowmen, Shaka sat beside him and piled up a formless lump of snow in extreme boredom. He cursed inwardly and actually felt regret refusing skating, that would be more interesting than this, at least.

'Done!' Mu cried joyfully after several minutes. His voice actually snapped Shaka out of his drowsiness.

'These are snow Mu and snow Shaka.' The Aries moved away and introduced his masterpiece to his blond friend in an utmost proud expression.

'Alright...' Shaka frowned, did not know what to say as he looked at two identical snowmen, which were each built from two snow balls and two sticks for arms. Nothing was added for eyes or noses, the only way to tell them apart was that one of them was wearing Mu's scarf.

'I guess I like snow Mu...' The blond said awkwardly and pointed at the scarf-wearing snowman, tried not to hurt his friend's feelings.

'No, it's snow Shaka, snow Mu is over there.' Mu corrected and pointed at the no-scarf snowman.

'What? Aren't you the one with the scarf?'

'Yes, but snow Mu gave his scarf to snow Shaka. So now snow Shaka is the one with the scarf.'

'Huh?' Shaka blinked, did not understand Mu's statement.

'It's a winter gift, apparently, because Shaka doesn't have any scarves.' Mu smiled sweetly then turned back to begin building another piece. What he might not see, was that Shaka stared dumbfoundedly at him for several moments after that.

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The two boys did not go back until their hands were all frozen. Mu did not stay long, he had to go back because of his master's summoning, but he did leave his scarf purposefully for Shaka.

'Warm...' Shaka murmured as he put on the scarf, telling himself that probably snow playing was not that bad.

Perhaps tomorrow he would join Mu building snowmen too, or actually trying other games. Maybe next winter also, he thought, since it was not bad, not bad at all.

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...It was the last day Shaka saw his Aries friend. There was a catastrophe occurred that night, hundreds of warriors along with Shura were mobilised to run after someone that he heard to be a traitor. They only came back the morning after and the Capricorn's Cloth was covered in blood. Aiolos was missing, however they were ordered not to bring up the event ever again. And most to Shaka's displeasure, Mu was also no where to be found.


[Four days left]