"The 12 Days of Christmas"

Disclaimer: Don't own the song or the manga, only the fanfiction!

December 5th
Cat Dog Constitution

"On the third day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Three French hens..."

"I need to pummel that guy one day, better yet, right now," the green haired girl complains. She landed on her bed with a plop and contemplated, "I need to talk to my brother about something." She hopped off her bed and headed towards the middle school division, she searched until she found her brother's homeroom class. "Brother!" she cried out.

He looked over and saw his sister, "Sumire? What are you doing here?"

She pulled him over to the side, away from his other conversation. "I need to talk."

"Oh no, not that talk about the birds and bees, dad was supposed to give you that speech before you left."

"What are you talking about? Isn't that talk for boys, like you? Anyways, I'm not talking about that!"

"Then what do you want to ask me about? You need advice from your more experienced brother?"

"Shut up and let me talk already," she finally said. "What are you going to do during the Christmas Ball?" she asked curiously.

He thought about it, "Hang out with my friends I guess."

She scoffed, "Don't you have a girlfriend or something?"

"Nope," he said almost proudly, "my heart belongs to Imai-san, and only her." His eyes were flashing hearts.

"You are the saddest brother I will only ever had..." She sighed for a moment, disappointed at his lack of experience.

He watched his sister's expression. "So, what did you want to talk about?"

"Nevermind," she said in disdain, "Bye brother." Then she left him and went on to her own business. Sumire's head was in jumbles. Koko had messed up her perfectly fresh new month and stained it already with 'cocoa'. Kitsuneme helped along with the horror as well, now, all she could think about was cocoa, or was it Koko? What's even worse is that she had finally reached teenagerdom, but she completely forgot about a date for the Christmas dance.

Great timing, Koko and Kitsu bumped into her while running in the hallways. "Oh, Sumire, sorry, we gotta go before we die!"

Sumire clenched her fists, "You better slow down then because I need to kill you two as well!" She stopped when she was soon by passed by Natsume raging mad, actually chasing after them. "Natsume-kun?" She didn't know what else to say but, "GO GET 'EM NATSUME! I'M WITH YOU ALL THE WAY!" she shouted. Then she continued on her way and found Mikan on the ground caressing her hair. "What are you doing?" she had to ask.

Mikan turned her heads towards Sumire slowly, "I-Natsume burned my hair!" she wailed loudly. "Tsubasa-senpai! I need you! Where are you? I'm in anguish!" she shouted into the hallways. Miss Cat Dog stared at Mikan stupidly and decided that it was best if she just walked away. Very far away from the nullification girl.

"Oh boy, I can't wait to graduate now, maybe I'll get away from that girl, or maybe we'll end up in the same class for another three years!" Sumire said to herself. She slumped, worst year ever. So many things involving the principal, Mikan, Natsume and you know, THAT group. No sooner had she left Mikan in her despair, did she bump into one of her teachers. She rubbed her head and looked up, "Naru..." Then she kept walking.

"Woah, hey, wait a minute. Sumire, hold on," he grabbed her shoulder before she could move any farther. "What's the matter, you look a little down in the dumps. You can talk to me," Narumi smiled.

She stared at him with a funny face, "Aren't you reserved for Mikan? No thanks anyways, I don't want your help." Sumire continued on her way, to somewhere, she didn't really know where.

Narumi examined his student for a minute, "Don't make me bring out Kokoroyomi on you."

Sumire stopped. She's had enough of Koko for one or two days, even her whole life. She figured that she might as well comply with the teacher, "What do you want?"

"I want you to confide in me, as your teacher!" he said in his girlish tone. Holding up a peace sign next to his face, oh yeah, that helped a lot. Permy told him a lot of things, how she felt, what she wanted and her problems in life. Narumi found it quite interesting. "What happened to you fan-club? You know, the one you made for Natsume and Ruka?"

She sighed, "It's over, I don't care about it that much anymore. It's stupid to make a club for a person, I mean, that person will leave our lives at one point. It makes me sound like I have no life. Nothing is very exciting and it's not like people ever rely on me or anything."

"Seems like you've got something to prove now, don't you?" Narumi said boldly.

"Huh? What do you mean?" This perked Sumire's interest in her teacher's idea, might be the only time.

He stared off into the falling snow, "Show them that they need you. Remember the incident with Otonashi's graduation? You needed them, so now it's your turn to make them need you. Find a way and maybe something interesting will happen." Narumi looked down at his watch. "I have to go now, I'm running late, but good luck Sumire!" He waved farewell and hurried on his way.

She thought to herself, "What's there to prove?" It was getting colder, she put on her jacket and scarf and went out. By accident, Sumire wandered around the lower classes of the elementary school division. She spotted some kids and Ruka trying to do something. "I wonder what they're doing?" Cat Dog girl ran over and examined the situation, but still couldn't quite understand what was going on. "Uhh...Ruka-kun? What's going on?" she asked. Curiosity killed the cat.

"Oh, Shouda-san, this boy lost his balloon and it got stuck in the tree. Apparently there was something important in the balloon, but with my alice, I can't seem to find any animals who can or are willing to help out," Ruka explained.

Sumire shrugged as she looked at the little boy below her. "Might as well..." It took her a bit of courage, but she finally decided to use her alice, cat ears and whiskers popped out and she licked the back of her hand before proceeding. "Purr...I'll get your balloon, so no worrries," she reassured. Ruka watched her as she jumped onto the tree, like a cat. He held Usagi close, it was snowing after all. She easily reached the top of the tree and took the balloon and tied it around her wrist. "Clear the area down there, I need to land!" she shouted.

They made a 30 feet clearance and she jumped. Sumire miscalculated it and rolled into a ball on the ground. "Shouda-san! Are you okay?" Ruka asked with concern. The other kids who were there huddled around her as well. Sumire was holding her left ankle in pain.

Instead of crying out in pain, she weakly hand the balloon to it's owner. With the rest of her strength she could say a few words, "This is yours, r-right?" And then Sumire gasped in pain, she sprained her ankle badly. Her alice withdrew and the stinging, as well as the coldness got to her. She passed out in front of the crowd.

Ruka panicked, "Shouda-san! Go get help you two and I'll stay here with her. Hurry!" The two kids nodded and rushed out crying for help. He sat with her in the snow, shivering, but stayed the whole time. Within minutes, a teacher arrived and carried Sumire to the nurse's office. Ruka followed the teacher. When they entered the nurse's office, Sumire was laid on one of the beds. Narumi had heard of the news and rushed over as well.

"Ruka..." Narumi said when he saw the worried boy. He petted the animal lover's head and incidentally felt Ruka's forehead. It was hot. "You have a fever!" Before he could answer, the teacher lifted his student and put him and the bed next to Sumire. "Ruka, you were out there for a long time and you got sick from the cold." He sat in the middle of both children and prayed that they would get better.

A group of classmates who had heard the news dashed over to the hospital room, that Sumire and Ruka were soon transferred to, and saw the two in bad condition. They consisted of: Mikan (for both), Natsume (for Ruka), Koko (who knows?), Kitsuneme (followed Koko) and Hotaru (for Ruka.) "Oh no, Permy, Ruka-pyon..." Mikan started to cry as Hotaru went over to comfort her.

"How dreadful for something like this to happen to my best seller," Hotaru said in her usual monotonous voice. She took out her camera and started taking photos of Ruka in the hospital bed. "Even so, I can still sell these..." she said to herself deviously.

Natsume took a seat next to Ruka on the opposite side of Narumi. He held his best friend's hand and stayed silent. They were caught of guard when three hens flew by pecking on the window, as if worried about Ruka's condition. "French hens..." Natsume recognized, Ruka told him about them one day.

Koko and Kitsuneme asked Narumi what had happen, and eventually everyone heard the news. When Kokoroyomi tried to reach Curly's mind, it didn't work, her mind was blacked out. The whole class was in shambles because of this. Suddenly, Sumire eyes opened slightly and she managed a couple of words, "I-I want Koko..."

Kokoroyomi was surprised, but he was continuously trying to read Sumire's mind, so no one else heard it. He turned to face the green haired girl, but her eyes immediately shut. He kneeled by her bed and whispered in her ears, "Don't you mean, cocoa?"

My brother is naive, but he is who he is. The person I adore is kind and caring. The person I need, is always, always there.

"...two turtledoves
and a partridge in a pear tree."

Typer's Note-
SORRY FOR A CLOSE CALL UPDATE! -Phew-
Almost forgot there ;D About 29 minutes before the next day. Sheesh.
I personally don't think there's any more to say than, Sumire is so nice huh? Haha
So hope you liked it and stuff...err...share with others.
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