Okay. This is probably sooner than any of you thought I could do this. Well, haha. I have officially not been extremely lazy in updating.
I don't know what time zones you all are in, but here, where I am, it's not midnight yet. So this came out on Christmas.
.:Scarlett's POV:.
After a few hours, I finally managed to find my way back home. I sighed, happy to have gotten out of those streets filled to the brim with people. It wasn't too bad in a couple of smaller streets, but it was absolutely horrible everywhere else. On the bright side, though, I had gotten all my Christmas shopping done.
With my arms full of wrapped (courtesy of an old lady who charged way too much) presents, I couldn't figure out a way to open the door. Admitting defeat, I turned and knocked on the door with my head.
A moment later, Kirito opened the door. "Hey, you found your way back," he said, stating the obvious.
I just looked at him for a minute, not bothering to honor that with a response. Finally, when the presents in my arms started to slip from their pile, I asked, "Can you take some of these?"
Kirito grabbed a couple of tiny presents and shook them curiously. "What are these?"
I pushed past him and into the house. "They're presents, idiot."
He rolled his eyes. "I know they're presents. What are the presents?"
I shrugged. "A bunch of random thingys I bought from people. A couple books, candy, maybe a dreamcatcher in there somewhere."
"A dreamcatcher? Who did you buy that for?"
"Crona, obviously. And, before you ask, none of this was bought with the money we got from the DWMA for food. I used my own stash of money," I said while dumping the armful of presents I had on the kitchen table.
"You mean you have one?" Kirito was very surprised.
"Of course I do. That's actually somewhat insulting, Kirito." I leaned down to pick up Midnight, who had been circling around my feet since I stepped into the room.
Kirito shrugged and chose not to respond.
Changing the subject, I asked, "Did you eat?"
"Nope. Do you want me to fix something?" he said.
I shook my head and handed him Midnight. "I'll get it. Go... do something," I told him. He gave me an 'are you sure about this' look before walking off.
Wow, I actually got him out of the kitchen... I don't think I've ever actually cooked in here before. How does he organize this place?
Well, as it turns out, Kirito doesn't organize the kitchen. It's a mess. It took about an hour for me to fix dinner, with most of the time being taken up finding ingredients.
"I don't understand how you find stuff in there. It's just... chaos," I complained after I had finished cleaning the dishes.
"I just remember where I shove things," Kirito answered.
"Okay, I'm going to organize that place the next time you go shopping."
"Wait, what? I never agreed to this!"
"You don't need to agree. You just need to accept the fact that absolutely nothing you say is going to change my mind," I returned.
He frowned, clearly not happy. "But Scar-"
I cut him off. "No. You shall not attempt to talk your way out of this. At some later point in time, I will organize the kitchen while you go shopping."
Kirito sighed and walked off to his room.
Apparently Kirito doesn't know how to wake up on Christmas, since it was 3 pm and he still wasn't awake.
"Kirito, will you get up already? I'd like to deliver presents today!" I yelled outside his door. Finally, from inside, I heard some form of life moving around. I moved back to stand against the wall as Kirito opened the door. "It's about time, princess," I muttered under my breath.
"Can't a person sleep in peace these days?" Kirito asked, still half-asleep.
"Kirito, you do know that over half of the day is over, right? It's three in the afternoon."
"What? It is?" Kirito sounded really confused.
I sighed. "Yes, it is. We have stuff to do today."
"Alright, alright. Give me a minute, will you?" Kirito shut the door.
About an hour later, Kirito and I showed up at the DWMA's Christmas party, gifts in tow. Since the only present I had bought that was specifically for someone was the dreamcatcher, that was the only present we brought that had a name tag. The rest of them could just be taken by whoever thought they wanted it. We managed to fit all the presents on an already overflowing pile of gifts.
After watching people we didn't know for a while, Kirito saw BlackStar and decided to run off to go antagonize him. "Traitor!" I shouted after him, getting a hand wave in response. And so I was left alone on Christmas. The end. Yeah, not really.
Since Kirito ran off and I didn't know where anyone else I knew was (he and BlackStar had mysteriously disappeared. Yeah, that's probably not good), random people decided to approach me. It was awkward.
Finally, Kirito came back and helped me escape.
"Thanks." I was going to say more, but Lord Death decided to give his speech. I tuned most of it out.
"Hey, hey, hey~! Blah, blah, blah, Christmas, blah. Blah blah, fun!" And with that, everybody rushed over to the present pile and started unwrapping random gifts. It was a horrible set-up, but I guess it worked.
Once all the presents were unwrapped, nobody lingered for very long. Most people just left as soon as they'd gathered their things.
After most of the crowd was gone, I poked Kirito and said, "Race you back~"
He grinned and took off running, me right behind him.
We got there at about the same time, Kirito slightly ahead of me. But hey, I took a wrong turn on the way back and ended up having to retrace my steps, so...
"Haha... I win!" Kirito said as well as he could with being so out of breath.
I rolled my eyes. "Whatever you say..."
I walked into the kitchen after I had gotten my breath back and pulled out one final present. "'It's dangerous to go alone. Take this!'" I decided to quote The Legend of Zelda.
Kirito disappeared for a minute before coming back with a present. "Here." He held it out to me.
"Seriously? That's not even a quote. That's the best you can come up with?"
Kirito sighed. "So do you want it or not?"
"I never said that I wouldn't take it," I told him before I swapped presents with each other. And, of course, we both tore open the wrapping paper like immediately afterwards.
I got Twizzlers and a book. Kirito got two new headphone sets.
When Kirito gave me a weird look, I shrugged. "It's because I broke your last set. Um, sorry about that." (There. There is my actual apology, Kirito, since I know I never bothered to tell you that.)
"Okay then. Anyway, it's really late. I'm going to go to bed," Kirito stated, turning towards his room.
"Night~" I called after him. Today was an... interesting day.
Yeah, okay, this isn't the best chapter cause I didn't feel like writing out a bunch of presents being given away. *shrugs*
Happy holidays! Consider this your present from us. ^u^
~Kirito and Scarlett