Author: Enonyymi and Punainenpuolukka.
Warnings: Contains male/male.
Disclaimer: We do not own Tsubasa. All the characters mentioned within are property of CLAMP.

"Good evening, Yuuko!"

"Good evening to you too, Mokona."

Everyone else was sleeping but Mokona had stayed up and sat on the livingroom table, speaking to Yuuko. In Japan, it seemed to be daytime and Mokona could see that behind Yuuko's back, there was Watanuki, who was running and fussing around the house, dressed in a big white apron and wore a red scarf on his head. Yuuko was smoking her pipe as always and laid on the floor comfortably.

"So, how have you children been doing there?" Yuuko asked with curiosity.

"Mokona and the others are doing fine! Twentythree days ago we landed in this country and it seems that everyone spends Christmas here," Mokona answered. Yuuko smiled gently and continued:

"Oh, is that so? How are you liking Christmas?" she said and blew a little wisp of smoke out of her mouth and gave a little laugh. "I guess that Kurogane isn't enjoying Christmas as much as the rest of you."

"At first Kurogane hated it but Mokona thinks that he's started to like it now!"

"Hmm, why's that so?" Yuuko questioned and took her pipe out of her mouth. This truly was something that she wanted to hear.

"Well, Kurogane likes Fay, Fay likes Christmas so Kurogane must like Christmas too!" Mokona pointed out.

"Ahahaha! Well, that's a good reason, isn't it, Watanuki?" Yuuko laughed and turned her head to look at Watanuki, who was busy cleaning the floor.

"Please, do not talk anything about... well, that kind of things," Watanuki muttered akwardly and was wiping the floor with unnecessary force. Yuuko glanced slyly at him but turned to Mokona to gossip.

"I have something fun to tell you, Mokona," she whispered in the way so that Watanuki could still hear it, "It seems that
our Watanuki got his first kiss yesterday! He and Doumeki-kun were being all lovey-dovey at Doumeki's house~!"

Watanuki flinched at those words and started to shriek: "Yuuko-san! That's none of you're business! Besides, it's like it was our first kiss or anything!"

"Oh, so you've kissed before?" Yuuko laughed and gave Watanuki a little wink. "You're such a naughty boy, Watanuki!"

"... I'm seriously going to die from humiliation in this house," he grumbled and left the room with a bright blush on his face, muttering something about leaving the oven on or something.

"Watanuki's so shy!" Mokona giggled. Yuuko laughed with the manju and put the pipe back in her mouth.

"So, what else have you been up to? Have you found Sakura's feather?"

Mokona shook it's little head. "No, Mokona and the others have not it yet, but Mokona can feel it. It's not very far from here... Anyway, we all have done very fun things here!"

"That's good to hear," Yuuko smiled, "tell me everything."

Mokona shifted it's position on the table. "Well, Fay brought us some candy canes and baked gingerbread's for us all – he works in a bakery with Kuro-rin – and one day we watched TV and it blowed up!"

"Ahahaha, that certainly sounds like something of your doing!"

"And one day Mokona drank glögg and turned all red! Kurogane was so mad then!" the manju giggled. "We went into the woods to get a Christmas tree and then Mokona and Fay sang some Christmas carols, which made Kurogane so angry! We also decorated the house and the Christmas tree, which was a lot of fun! We also went skating, but Sakura and Kurogane didn't know how to skate, so Syaoran and Fay taught them! Kuro-rin is a poor skater, he fell down on the ground all the time!"

"I can imagine that!" Yuuko wiped tears of laughter from her eyes. "Anything else?"

"One day, we made a biiiig Mokona from snow and Fay and Kurogane had a snow fight! Fay fell down on the ground and Kuro-rin won! Though, then Fay got sick and Kurogane to take of Fay-mommy like a good daddy should!"

"Oh, there's a protective side of Kurogane as well? That's so cute~!," Yuuko laughed and blew another wisp of smoke from her mouth, "their relationship must be doing well."

"At first it was, but then..." Mokona said sadly, "then Fay was chosen as this year's Lucia and people started to love him. There was even someone, who kissed Fay and Kuro-rin got so mad that he punched that man. Fay and Kurogane had a fight... but now everything's back to normal!"

"I'm glad to hear that."

"I cheered Kurogane up and we tried to find some of the presents that Fay bought. But we didn't find anything! Fay-mommy and Kuro-daddy also had a romantic kiss under the mistletoe! Kurogane got very embarrased when Mokona and the others saw it. Mokona kissed Kurogane many times too!"

"I'm sure that he didn't enjoy that very much," Yuuko giggled.

"And yesterday, we went to a concert and the people sang beautiful songs there!"

"Well, it seems that you've a lot of things to do there."

Mokona smiled at Yuuko and then it started to talk a bit seriously. "And you know what, Yuuko?"

"What is it, Mokona?"

"Well, Mokona feels that we all are a family. A little different than a normal family, but still... Mokona can feel when the others are lonely... And in here, nobody has been lonely at all! So that's why Mokona is happy!"

"... You're truly a good child, Mokona."

"And that's why Mokona's going to get a lot of presents!" the white thing laughed. Yuuko took her pipe out of her mouth and said:

"Well, it was nice talking to you, but I can already smell Watanuki's cooking so I must go now. Have a merry Christmas!"

"Merry Christmas to you too, Yuuko!"

A/N: Thanks for reading the twenty-third chapter of the Tsubasa Advent Calendar! Today's theme was 'Family'!

Enonyymi: Today's a very special day, not only because it's the Eve of Christmas Eve, but because it's our Question & Answer-time! We're answering a few interesting questions that I've picked out.

QUESTION:
SilverKleptoFox:
Aw.. that was sweet. I like learning about your country too, it's interesting. Perhaps we shall see a fruitcake theme? I doubt any of the group would know what it is. Heck, even I don't know what fruitcake is supposed to do!(actually I do, but that would ruin the joke)

-SKF

ANSWER:
Enonyymi: Thanks for the comment! About that fruitcake theme, we're sorry, but there's not going be one. Since in Finland, fruitcake isn't all that popular or traditional, so we're not going to do it. Sorry. The idea was nice though. I looked up what a fruitcake means and... well, I laughed a lot!

Punainenpuolukka: We have a word that means approximately the same.

Enonyymi: Yeah. Our word fruittari comes from the English word fruitcake, but the meaning is slightly different. Fruittari means a young, 12-18 year old man, who dresses only in designer clothes and values his appearance more than the usual Finnish bloke.

QUESTION:
faichan5:
Can't wait until the next chapter. So sad and cute and made me A.D.D. I was laughing at Mokona and his whole popular thing. I hope they get together officially by Christmas Eve. Will there be a story for Christmas Day? Sorry. I'm just excited.

ANSWER:
Enonyymi: Thank you for your many comments! You asked if there was going to be a story for Christmas Day. Well, we don't know if you remember, but in the INFO-part, I said something like this: "And starting from the 1st of December, we're going to publish one story per day until Christmas Eve for you all to enjoy!" So, there's probably not going to be a story for Christmas Day. Unless we pull a CLAMP-move and do a story for that day! Hahahahaa! You can never know what we're up to... Muahaha.

QUESTION:
werepire:
These stories are seriously cute, save for the fact that Kurogane's a right perv. Though I have to admit, it's one of the reasons why I love it. I also love your A/N, it's really interesting learning about your traditions. I cannot believe you guys dont have mistletoe. How can you accidentally kiss people? lol x

ANSWER:
Punainenpuolukka: Finnish people don't kiss anyone by accident. Kisses are only reserved to those, who are close to you, like boy-/girlfriends, parents, siblings, other relatives...

Enonyymi: And close friends! Hahaha. But it's not very common to kiss strangers, and I think that for Finns, it would be really embarrassing. It's just not the way we behave here.

Punainenpuolukka: Thank the Lord for that.

Enonyymi: Yeah, we Finns are not the sexiest or the most beautiful folk, so kissing a stranger would not always be that enjoyable.

Punainenpuolukka: I was actually thinking about only the kissing-part. Most Finns avoid even speaking to strangers if possible.

Enonyymi: Sometimes if you walk alone and someone walks past you, it's not uncommon not to look at that person. This sounds like we're not very hospitable or social people, but that's not entirely true.

Punainenpuolukka: Well, I don't like if a stranger comes to speak to me when I'm walking on the street. I'd just keep going and ignore that person.

Enonyymi: But, don't be scared, some Finns are really kind and social. Hahaha!

For now, have a merry Eve of Christmas Eve! We'll see you again tomorrow for the final chapter!