Maybe this is a week or two early, but who cares: HAPPY (Nearly) CHRISTMAS, ONE AND ALL!

Before we begin, this story has a SLIGHTLY higher rating than normal. No intentions were had to offend anyone, it's just for a laugh. This story basically features a 'cute' moment between Miki and Godzilla, some of the Osaki/Miyuki and, well you'll see.

Godzilla is © Toho

MERRY CHRISTMAS

"Hold it still!" Takuya insisted as he shuffled under the Christmas tree, wrestling with the support that had come loose.

"You wanna try holding the tree up with your brain?" Miki grunted as she focused on telekinetically holding the tree up.

"Got it!" Takuya declared, pushing the support in place and allowing Miki to relax. "You want a hand with the lights, Kazama?"

"No, it's OK," Kazama answered from the middle of a tangle of wire and bulbs, trying to pull it every which way, "I think it's about to give up!"

Outside, Godzilla leaned down, sniffing curiously at the window in which Miki and the two other humans were behaving rather… well, strangely.

What really confused him, though, were the wires all around the outsides of the humans' little caves, all of which had little balls on them that seemed to start flashing at night-time. At first he had presumed these new things to be some kind of threat, but a hit on the snout from Miki had informed him that he wasn't supposed to bite them. They had these little light-balls inside their caves, but why had they now put them outside? Stranger yet, they appeared to have been putting a tree inside one of the caves, and then putting shiny things on it. Miki didn't seem to find anything unusual about it, but he'd definitely never seen the humans do these things before.

Miki stepped outside, a string of lights that Kazama had (somehow) untied in her hands, ready to set them up with the others.

"Hey, Goji," She smiled as her 'brother' leaned down, rumbling curiously and moving his head from the lights to Miki and back and letting her know of his curiosity and confusion through the link.

"They're Christmas decorations, big guy," Miki giggled as she put down the lights. To Godzilla, of course, without the link, any human speech was as just a babble of inane noises. "Hold on…"

Putting a hand on her head, Miki sent a little bit of knowledge and the emotions associated with the trees and the cables with the light-balls.

These were something humans called 'decorations', Godzilla listened and understood. The humans were celebrating something, like they did back on the anniversary of Miki's birth. Lots of humans did it on this day every year, celebrating… now this he didn't understand. Apparently, from what he'd discerned before, humans had the notion of some great being higher than themselves, which they called a 'God'. This celebration was apparently something to do with that being. At any rate, Godzilla had some idea what was going on now: It was a celebration of something very important that happened a very long time ago.

Then there was more for him to understand… apparently humans celebrated this event by coming together in their packs and exchanging gifts.

"See?" Miki smiled as she pulled out of the link.

Godzilla nodded affirmatively, turning his head to one side as he thought.

He was part of Miki's pack… so perhaps he could get her something. But when humans got things for each other, they did so by exchanging something for it, something called 'money'. So where would he get something? Besides, he wasn't supposed to go into the city.

Sensing Godzilla's thoughts, Miki chuckled slightly and gave him a soft pat on the snout.

"It's alright, Godzilla," She smiled affectionately as Godzilla looked down, confused. Shutting her eyes, Miki send another gentle push of emotion to Godzilla's mind, and in a second, Godzilla saw what this odd event truly meant to humans.

It was a time where they all showed their love for each other, whatever kind of love that may be. Godzilla and Miki were a pack, brother and sister, and they loved each other as such. That was a gift in itself, and said more than any object humans could explain. (A/N: The mushiness… kill me now…)

"Get it now?" Miki smiled.

Godzilla nodded, turning his snout upward.

"No…" Miki gulped, "Don't you dare…"

-SLURP!-

Miki cringed as, for the umpteenth time, a buick-sized puppy lick covered her head-to-toe.

"Godzilla…" She seethed in a mix of irritation and amusement, "I am going to break you of that habit if it kills me…"

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Muttering something under her breath, Miyuki tried again to shove the door aside despite the stack of presents in her arms, before something else suddenly pulled it open.

"Need a hand?" Osaki smiled.

"I got it, thanks," Miyuki replied as she placed the presents she'd stashed away for the last week under the tree, before looking around at the decorations. "Well I'll be... Kazama managed not to break anything this year."

"He knows what he's doing sometimes," Osaki answered. "They did a good job, though."

"One second," Miyuki nodded, "I need to get the rest."

"The rest?" Osaki parroted. "You seemed to be having trouble with that first load."

"I'll manage."

"At least let me help with some of it."

"Well…" Miyuki thought, "On one condition: You're taking me to dinner. Tonight."

"Um…" Osaki turned bright red, "…Sure."

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Night had fallen over G-Force HQ, the stars shining above the twinkling Christmas lights. Kazama, Akane and Takuya had retired for the night, and Osaki and Miyuki were out, which left…

"Thanks for the help," Miki whispered as she pushed the gate open.

"No worries," Chinatsu smiled as she opened the box, "My mom never minds me sleeping round here. Be glad my brother's away, he's just really overprotective."

"Tell me about it," Miki shook her head.

"Huh?"

"Nothing." Miki answered quickly.

"Whatever. Can you gimme a boost?"

Nodding, Miki lifted her friend up as she quickly attached something to the railing on top of the gate.

"You done yet?" Miki asked after a few seconds, "Your chest's right in my face."

"Deal with it," Chinatsu poked her tongue out, "Besides, this was your idea."

"No, I asked you to come up with an idea. Now hurry up, you're heavy!"

"I am so gonna hurt you for that… OK, done!"

Miki dropped Chinatsu just as the sound of a car started down the path that led to the base.

"We left that way to late…" Miki lamented as they dashed inside, shutting the gate behind them and ducking behind a set of crates.

Osaki and Miyuki stepped out of the car as the two teens watched, the trap set… and the prey in place.

"Anyway, thanks for dinner," Miyuki smiled a little awkwardly.

"No problem," Osaki blushed as he punched in the code to open the gate, "I mean, well…"

"Um… was that there when we left?" Miyuki pointed upwards.

A large sprig of mistletoe was attached to the top of the gate.

Before Osaki could speak, move, or really do much of anything, Miyuki had closed the distance between them and given him a slow, soft kiss.

"…Wow," he finally gasped when they came apart.

With a brief wink, Miyuki turned and re-entered the base, with a still-stunned Osaki slowly turning to follow.

"We're geniuses," Chinatsu beamed proudly once they were out of earshot, heading out past the gate.

"I always said those two should get together," Miki chirped.

"Um…" Chinatsu suddenly pointed upwards, "You DO know what we're standing under, right?"

In their effort to sneak around, they'd ended up right next to the gate, and directly under the mistletoe.

"Well, yeah," Miki shrugged, "But it's not like it's the law or any…"

With Miki in mid-sentence, Chinatsu, utterly without warning, suddenly leaned forward and kissed her, Miki's eyes going as wide as dinner plates, remaining that way even after her friend stepped back.

"C'mon," Chinatsu smiled, "Let's see what's on TV." With that, she strode away on the path that Miki had shown her several times.

"…Sure," Miki blinked, her face a vivid scarlet.

And I'll BETCHA didn't see that coming! (Well I know two people who might have). Poor Miki, I just love being cruel to her. At least Chinatsu was just being silly… or WAS she? Heh heh… but seriously, half of me is STRONGLY tempted to pair those two up, for the following reasons: It's less predictable than Miki getting a boyfriend, I think their personalities would go really well together, I've got what I think is a great story for it featuring one of my favourite Kaiju, I've got a great relationship in mind that wouldn't really work with a guy, plus there's Akira's reaction, G-Force's reaction (especially Kazama and Akane), and of course Godzilla's reaction. But mainly, I just can't for the life of me seem to write good guy/girl relationships, but with two girls, I seem to be able to. No idea why. Ah well, who knows… any thoughts? In answering, please do try to keep an open mind. (NO, I'm not gay. For some reason I just want that on record.) So it's really up to you whether you construe this as a possible pairing or just some light humour.

Anyway, all reviews welcome. And lastly, once more: MERRY CHRISTMAS!