Author: Enonyymi and Punainenpuolukka.
Warnings: Contains male/male.
Disclaimer: We do not own Tsubasa. All the characters mentioned within are property of CLAMP.
After work while Fay was cleaning the house, Syaoran arrived home, looking rather sad and of course, the mage immediately became worried about him.
"What's the matter, Syaoran-kun, did something happen at work?"
"Not really. It's just that someone bought the archaeology book from the book store. I can't read it anymore on my breaks," the boy sighed.
"Oh, so that's how it is," Fay smiled soothingly. Earlier that day, he had snuck into the book store to buy the book for the boy as a Christmas present while Syaoran was on his lunch break with Sakura.
"You really liked that book, didn't you?" the mage asked, while thinking how he could cheer the boy in the meantime. Then he remembered the thing that he had seen on his way home. "Would you cheer up if we went ice skating? I saw an ice rink not far from here when I came home from work. Are you able to skate, Syaoran-kun?"
"Yes, but why would only the two of us go skating? What about the others?" the brunette puzzled.
"I meant them too. You know, I think that Sakura-chan and Kuro-daddy don't know how to skate. I'm not so sure about Mokona, though. Anyway, we could teach them, right?" Fay smiled to the boy. Syaoran furrowed slightly his forehead, while pondering Fay's idea.
"I think we could go skating when Sakura-hime, Mokona and Kurogane-san come home," he deciced.
When the rest of the family came home, Fay announced his and Syaoran's great plan. The princess and the manju got really excited, as usual, but the ninja strongly refused to do anything. Fay took Kurogane's hand and dragged the other man to the housekeeping room to persuade him to change his mind.
"Kuro-pan, don't be such a sour puss. If you act nice, I'll teach you to skate, nee?" the blonde encircled his arms around Kurogane's neck. He leaned closer to the other man and pressed a kiss on his cheek. Kurogane grunted, but agreed with his lover. Then he lowered his head to Fay's level and was leaning closer, their lips almost touching-
"Kurogane-san, Fay-san, are you coming soon?" Sakura yelled from the front door.
"Yes, we're coming, just a second!" the mage yelled back and pulled back from Kurogane.
Because they didn't have their own skates, they had to lend four pairs from the ice rink keeper. There was not a size small enough for Mokona, so it just had to skate with it's bare feet. Not that it mattered to it anyway. Fay had been right, neither did Sakura or Kurogane know how to skate. So, Syaoran taught his princess and Fay was tutoring his beloved ninja.
Sakura learned fairly easily to skate but Kurogane was more of a troublesome case. He fell down on the ice more than once and it was hard for Fay not to laugh at his pissed-off lover.
"Stop laughing, you asshole or I swear I'm gonna-!" the ninja growled.
"I'm sorry, Kuro-puu. We'll try once more, okay? If you fall again, then we can stop," the blonde smiled and helped Kurogane up.
Finally he could stand on his feet and didn't fall down anymore, but he was quite embarrassed because Fay kept holding his hand tightly, just in case. Eventually, Kurogane thought that maybe skating wasn't so bad after all; the mage was smiling, most likely a genuine smile and his cheeks were slightly blushed because of the cold. That blush made Fay even more appealing.
Soon, they all were a bit tired and hungry so they had to go home. Fay made pea soup with the help of the children and Mokona while Kurogane was shoveling snow outside.
Late at night when the children had gone sleeping a long time ago, the two adults were sitting in the bed in their room. Fay was hugging the ninja from behind while he was still slightly sulking about the day's activity.
"Kuro-chan, it wasn't really that bad, was it now?" the blonde whispered into his lover's ears.
"Hnn."
"You learned to skate, eventually."
"What's the use?" the black-haired man growled.
"It's fun," Fay answered, smiling. Kurogane didn't react to the blonde's words at all, so Fay deciced to continue:
"And since you were a good boy earlier, we could do something that you think is fun."
Kurogane turned around and surprisingly, had a wide smirk on his face.
"Something I think is fun, eh?"
A/N: Thanks for reading the eighth chapter of the Tsubasa Advent Calendar! The theme for today was 'Ice Skating'!
Enonyymi: The story for today was written by Punainenpuolukka! It was so good, I loved it even though I really don't like ice skating.
Punainenpuolukka: Well I do , even though I'm not good at it.
Enonyymi: When I go skating, my feet and back start to hurt after a short time. I just suck at it.
Punainenpuolukka: And a mention about the pea soup: It's quite common to eat pea soup in winter time after being out all day. It's also common to eat it on Thursdays.
Enonyymi: Is it? I didn't know that. Hahaha.
Punainenpuolukka: Well, please remember to read the next chapter. And please, if you review, please don't use the same sentence over and over again. Thanks for reading!