Chapter 2

Yuki POV

"So, Kyon, what kind of tree do you want?"

"Don't call me Kyon, dammit!"

"Oooh, touchy touchy. How about you, Yunyun?"

Yuki ignored Shigure, determined not to give him the slightest satisfaction in pissing Yuki off.

"Wow, you guys are just a bunch of Grinches. You need more Christmas spirit!"

"I'll tell you where you can put your Christmas spirit—"

But before Kyo could finish, loud singing filled the car. The singers were performing the loudest, most off-key Christmas songs Yuki had ever heard.

"Turn that music off!" bellowed Kyo, his hands over his ears. "Who the hell is performing this?!"

"Well, now that you mention it, it's actually…"

"Please don't tell me it's you, Hatori and Ayame," groaned Yuki, massaging his temples.

"Actually, it's not!" said Shigure brightly. "It's only me and Aaya. Haa-san, for some reason, didn't want to participate..."

"Gee, I wonder why."

"I…ah…it's, er, very good," said Tohru, who had her eyes shut tight against the noise. "You and Ayame-kun have very nice voices…"

"Why, thank you, Tohru-chan! I'm glad to see that someone has some Christmas spirit," said Shigure, winking at her. "As opposed to Chibi Cat over there."

"DON'T CALL ME CHIBI!"

"Please, Shigure," Yuki said, raising his voice to be heard over the music. "Turn that screeching off."

"Ah, well…if the Prince insists…" Shigure reached over to turn off the CD…

"KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD, YOU MORON!"

Screech!

WHAM!

The car swerved into the curb, denting the bumper and causing the air bag to blow up in Shigure's face. Tohru had gone quite pale and was gripping the handrests on her seat so hard that her knuckles were white. Yuki was thrown against Tohru's side, silently offering thanks that he had had enough sense to wear his seatbelt. Kyo, however, had not, and so was catapulted forward, smacking his head into the back of Shigure's chair. He slid down with a groan as the car rolled to a halt.

"Shigure, do you think you can possibly manage to make it to the main house without destroying something?" Yuki said, sitting back up and rubbing his head.

"Mmmph fmmph nnng," said Shigure's voice.

"Sorry, I didn't catch that. Was that an 'I am a total idiot and deserve to be removed from the gene pool before I reproduce?' 'Cause that's what I'm tempted to do right now," grunted Kyo.

Shigure wrestled his way from his entanglement with the air bag and grinned at Kyo, his hair standing on ends from the static. "Nope, Kyon…I was just commenting on the fact that a certain red-haired cat seemed to be incapable of putting on a seatbelt…"

"I don't need a seat belt! I can protect myself!" growled Kyo, who had a large lump rising on his forehead and a nosebleed.

"Er…right." Shigure pushed open the door of the car and got out to look at the damage. Tohru said anxiously, "Kyo-kun! Your face…ah…let me—"

"No," said Yuki, suppressing a grin and helping Tohru out of the car. "Let him go. He's just sulky because he can't defend himself against an inanimate object…"

"Today you die!" Kyo snarled, launching himself from the car at Yuki, who snorted and crossed his arms.

"N-no! Please, don't fight! It's okay, Kyo-kun, I'll find something for your nose—"

Kyo ignored her and tackled Yuki, who stepped aside just in time. Kyo landed, sprawled on the ground, and jumped up again, his knee bleeding.

"Wow," said Yuki, sighing exaggeratedly. "And here I thought this was actually going to be an exciting fight."

Kyo growled and flew at Yuki again, this time smacking him across the cheek and leaving a nasty bruise before being shoved to the ground again. Tohru watched this with frightened eyes.

"Let them go, Tohru," Shigure said, smirking. "We can leave them here and go find a tree ourselves."

"NO!" both boys bellowed. Kyo shoved Shigure aside and grabbed Tohru's hand. "No way in hell, you retarded pervert."

"Ah, well…another opportunity to avoid the squabbling duo missed, Tohru-chan."

Yuki fumed, but was determined not to show it in front of Kyo. "All right. Shigure, you find Hatori and tell him what you did to the car. Me, Tohru, and Red Neko over there will go find the tree."

"This looks to be fun," said a familiar voice suddenly.

Yuki whipped around.

Hatsuharu was standing there, smiling enigmatically. "I heard you were hunting for a Christmas tree…"

"SHIGURE!!" Kyo bellowed. "You texted him, you bastard!"

"If you hadn't been so busy fighting, I would have been able to ask you, but as it was, Kyon…"

Kyo's face was a thundercloud. Yuki could see that it was taking a major effort on Kyo's part not to hurl himself at Shigure and grind his cell phone into the concrete.

"Well, I'll leave you four to your merriment. I'm off to find Haa-kun…have fun!"

"Bye, Shigure-san!"

Haru looked at Tohru. "You don't mind if I join you, do you?"

"N-no, not at all! This is going to be very fun!"

"Good, because Momiji, Hiro, Kisa, and Ritsu are probably going to be joining us later too."

"Oh good!"

"Ritsu," groaned Yuki. "This should prove…interesting…"

"Oh yeah…Kagura will be coming too."

Kyo's eyes bugged out. "Are you serious?!"

"Yup," Hatsuharu said, smirking ever so slightly.

Kyo's face had gone from bright red to white as a sheet.

"Kyo-kun…" a singsong voice sang. "My Kyo-kun! This will be soooo much fun!"

"Nooooooo…"