The next morning Yumi woke up to be suddenly push her face into the blanket that was on the couch. "Merry Christmas Yumi!" Ulrich whispered into Yumi's ear. "Ulrich it's early!" Yumi said as she buried her face in a pillow trying to hide her eyes from the bright lights that where on all over the house. Ulrich smiled, he thought it was cute when she resisted anything, he started to shake her back and forth, "Yumi come on people are opening presents." Yumi eyes opened wide at the mention of presents. Ulrich laughed, "Figured that would get you up." Yumi smiled as she walked past Ulrich into the kitchen to find her mother opening a gift. "Hello dear, go ahead and get your gifts." Yumi hurriedly went into the living room and grabbed both hers and Ulrich gifts out from under the tree. As she walked into the kitchen where Ulrich was waiting for her, Yumi noticed Ulrich's eyes widened, "Are those all for you?" Yumi looked down at her arms full of gifts, "I wish, half of these are for you." Ulrich held out his hands to get his gifts from Yumi, "O that would explain it." As Yumi made her way upstairs Ulrich slowly followed her. When she got to her room Yumi turned to look at Ulrich, "You know Ulrich it's a Japanese tradition that you don't open the gifts that people gave you in front of them." Ulrich looked up and laughed, "Well that explains why no one is by the tree." Yumi laughed as she closed the door behind her. Ulrich turned and went downstairs to look for a place to open his gifts. In the back of his mind he wondered where all of them came from, he never got things from his dad and he didn't tell Yumi's family what he wanted for Christmas. Once Ulrich found a place to sit and open his gifts in the laundry room he hurriedly looked through his pile to find that Yumi didn't have a gift for him in his pile. Maybe she forgot Ulrich thought to himself as he opened a gift from Yumi's mother. Ulrich laughed as he pulled out a hand knitted sweater that had a U on the front. I'm guessing everyone gets one at one point Ulrich thought to himself. The next gift was from Hiroki, inside the little box that was wrapped obviously too well for a ten year was a copy of Dungeon Masters 4. Typical Hiroki. Next Ulrich was surprised to see a present from Mr.Ishiyama. Ulrich slowly opened the box that was wrapped with dark purple wrapping paper. Hoping in the back of his mind that it wasn't poison, Ulrich took of the lid of the box. Inside were two tickets to the Subsonics concert that was in two weeks. Ulrich laughed, Has to be from Mrs.Ishiyama with his name on the tag. Ulrich as surprised to find gifts from Odd, Jeremy, and Aelita in the small pile as well. Odd had gotten Ulrich a pack of pencils with erasers on both ends, Typical Odd. Jeremy had gotten Ulrich the new Subsonics cd. Finally Aelita had gotten Ulrich a coffee mug from the hotel that Jeremy and her were staying at. While upstairs Yumi could care less about what she had gotten from her family. The second that the door had closed behind her Yumi had started to rip wrapping paper off gifts left and right. Yumi reviewed back over what she had gotten, her mother had gotten her a new shirt that Yumi had already rolled up into a ball, her dad had gotten her a little crystal angel, her brother had gotten her a new book, Odd had gotten her a cat hat, Jeremy had gotten her a pair of sunglasses, and Aelita had gotten her a black bracelet that matched the necklace she had given her for her birthday. When Ulrich was finished picking up the wrapping paper the littered the laundry room floor he slowly made his way into the kitchen to throw all the paper away. Ulrich wasn't paying attention to where he was going and ran right into Yumi, dropping all the wrapping paper on the ground Yumi gasped as she hurried tried to pick up all the paper, "O my god, I'm so sorry Ulrich." Ulrich kneeled down and laughed, "It's ok." As they both tried to pick up all the paper their hands met on the last piece of paper. Yumi blushed. Ulrich blushed and looked down at their hands and hurriedly pulled his away, "O sorry." Yumi grabbed his hand back into hers, "Don't be, come on follow me." Ulrich smiled as Yumi practically dragged him up the stairs yet again. Once they got to her room Yumi quickly closed the door behind them. Ulrich sat on the bed and crossed his legs, "So what did you need me for." Yumi walked over to him and smiled, "Close your eyes, no peeking." Ulrich laughed and closed his eyes, "Ok their closed." Yumi went over to her closet and pulled out a long wrapped box and placed it in front of Ulrich, "Ok open your eyes now." Ulrich opened his eyes and looked down. Ulrich smiled up at Yumi, "Thought there was one thing missing." Yumi laughed, "Go ahead and open it." Ulrich looked up at Yumi, "Thought it was tradition that you weren't aloud to open presents in front of the person that gave them to you." Yumi smiled, "To hell with tradition. Ulrich laughed as he quickly pulled of the wrapping paper from the box. Ulrich laughed as he pulled the twin blade swords from the box. "No way, too cool." Yumi smiled as she leaned over to hug Ulrich, "Knew you would like it." Ulrich carefully put the swords back in their box and turned so he was facing Yumi, "You know I still have one more gift for you." Yumi smiled and looked up at Ulrich, "What?" Before Yumi had time to tell Ulrich had already pulled her face to his and started to kiss her passionately. Outside snow started to delicately fall from the sky, making it a true winter wonderland outside.
Hey people I know it's finally over, I'm not sure if it was good or not, I mean the reviews were great in my opinion since this was my very first fanfic but I think I did good, I would like to thank all the people who stuck through with me to the end including pinkpelt, PeaceToThePeople, Melcho, Funkismything, and Alexandria J, and coutless others. Make sure you check out my next story Winter Wonderland: 2. It's the sequel to Winter Wonderland so people should enjoy it. Don't worry it's a lot better then the first few paragraphs lead on. Thanks everyone!
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