"12 Days of Christmas"
Disclaimer: Didn't make the manga, song, but I did make the fanfic.
December 9th
Chemistry & Cooking
"On the fifth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Five golden rings..."
The two girls slept on each other's shoulders in the hospital room with a couple of other boys and the two patients. In secret, these two girls were actually awake and were planning something. "Nonoko," the cook whispered to the chemist, "ready?"
"Yup!" she whispered back. They both took off the blankets and placed them on the chair quietly. The two girls tiptoed out of the room after grabbing their coats, exited the room and closed the door. "Time to make our own portable Christmas magic Anna!" Nonoko declared.
Both of them went to Anna's kitchen first and cooked up some sugar cookies using REAL ingredients this time. Anna wiped off the sweat from her forehead, "These cookies look ready! Time to make some frosting in your lab!" They let the cookies cool on a rack and discussed their secret project in whispers. 'So, what flavors of frosting are we going to make?" she asked.
Nonoko thought about it for a moment. "I think, we should have pink strawberry, red cherry, blue blueberry, green apple, purple grape, yellow mango and orange orange."
"We should also include white chocolate and black dark chocolate for a more ecletic taste!" Anna suggested.
The chemist was excited, 'Yeah yeah! That's a really good idea Anna! I think anymore than that would be too much huh?"
"Let me make the basis of all the frostings right now. While I'm making them, you can go and start preparing the extra ingredients Nonoko. The sooner we finish this project, the less suspicious we will seem. I bet the whole class will be excited when we show them!"
"Alright then, I'll get mixing then! When the jewelry person comes, make sure there are five rings," she told Anna carefully. Then she left to her lab and was mixing up a special ingredient for each type of frosting. In total, there were nine little pills that Nonoko had concocted and she ran back to Anna's kitchen to check on with the progress.
Anna jumped when someone opened the door on her, but it turned out to be Nonoko. "Welcome back! The jewelry person didn't arrive yet, but it seems like you finished the special touches?"
"Yep!" she replied. Nonoko took out a notepad and pen from her lab coat pocket and was prepared to write. She grabbed a pill and put it in the pink frosting, it dissolved in and Anna stirred it together with a special nonstick spoon. Then the chemist jotted some words into her notepad. "I'm going to make sure we know which ingredient we put it what frosting. In case we need the reference later on."
The cook wasn't very surprised by this organization, "That's a good idea as well,' she complimented. They did the same thing for the other eight frostings and when they finally finished mixing them up, a knock was heard. "I'll go see if it's the jewelry person." Anna went and opened the door slightly, she saw a boy holding out five golden rings. He dropped them into her hands and she put some money into his hands. "Thank you, these look beautiful,' she whispered. He gave a nod and left unsuspected. She closed the doors and turned happily towards Nonoko, "Look at them! They're so pretty and shiny and gold!" Nonoko nodded happily.
"Let's cook up another batch of sugar cookies, shall we?" Nonoko suggested.
Anna skipped to the counter, "That's the plan!" The duo dropped the five golden rings into the cookie dough and kneaded it in. Then they rolled it out, cut it into shapes and put in into the oven to cook. don't be surprised, these were large cookies, and it's size served a purpose, not yet known yet. Each cookie was about half a foot long, for maximum frosting. When the oven dinged, the cookies were ready. anna put on her mitts and carefully pulled out the hot bakery delights. "They smell good," she said in content. Nonoko helped out by taking a spatula and transferring the cookies to their cooling racks.
"Too bad we can't eat them," Nonoko said sadly. "But then again..." she started, "who are we going to give these too? We forgot to think of that."
Anna contemplated and then started counting the cookies they made. "We made a lot, considering the size of these cookies! There's about twenty of them. When do you want to initiate the plan?"
"Hum...how about this afternoon? I really can't wait any longer than that!"
"Me neither," the pink haired girl replied. "I'll go get them then, you can clean up some of the equipment."
"Alright, I'll organize the stuff and prep them too, hurry hurry Anna! I really can't wait to put this into action!"
"I'm hurrying!" Anna ran out the door and rushed to the hospital room, Sumire and Ruka were allowed to return to their daily duties, even though Sumire went on crutches. "You guys, you guys! Nonoko and I have something really cool for you guys to do! We thought you might want something delicious to snack on after all of the Christmas spirit decayed."
Mikan looked up, "Really? That sounds fun! Let's go you guys!" A large crowd of people followed Anna to the kitchen. On the way, they met Narumi and Misaki, they decided to tag along. The group also met up with a few middle schoolers; Nobara, Misaki and Tsubasa. Natsume happened to be holding Youichi and a few other teachers came along as well. By the time they reached the kitchen, it was a pretty bustling room.
Nonoko's eyes widened, "Wow, that's a lot of people you invited Anna! Almost all of the usuals are here!"
"Yeah, I know," Anna smiled nervously. 'Let's see who's here..." As she said their names she counted her fingers, "Natsume-kun, Mikan-chan, Ruka-pyon, Hotaru-chan, Inchou, Youichi, Kokoroyomi-kun, Mochu, Shouda-san, Narumi-sensei, Misaki-sensei, Ibaragi-senpai, Tsubasa-senpai, Misaki-senpai, Kitsuneme, Jinno-sensei, Serina-sensei and Fukutan-sensei. Phew, that's a lot!" She was panting by the time she finished counting all the people.
Both of them were a little worried now, with so many people here, it would be hard to keep track of who made what. "Wait," Nonoko started, "you counted eighteen people. That means, there's just enough for us to have a cookie too!" The chemist and cook cheered in their own little circle and stopped when they heard a loud coughing noise, they turned to it.
"So why are we here?" asked Natsume impatiently.
"To make cookies!" Anna and Nonoko exclaimed in unison.
Anna had to lay down the rules and pounded the table in front of her. It hurt a lot so she rubbed it while telling them the conditions, "You guys have to do it in an orderly fashion. We'll make three groups with six people in each group. You guys can grab any ONE sugar cookies and decorate it with up to two colors! Any more than two will get your sugar cookie a super special ingredient from ME." She raised up a batch of brown frosting in a piping bag to show everyone. "And, by the way, you DON'T want to know what's in this frosting...for sure, it's definitely not chocolate."
Nonoko showed them the frosting that was laid out orderly on the counters. "There are nine flavors you can choose from, you can put in only one type of frosting if you want, but don't used them all up because others may want to use it too. We strictly forbid you guys to share cookies as well!" she announced.
"How come?" asked Sumire warily, there was something fishy going on with this cookie business. She elbowed Koko and whispered into his ears, "Read their minds, find out what they're up to." Koko nodded, but he couldn't seem to get in their minds for some reason.
"I can't," he whispered back.
"Why not?" she asked angrily.
"They have some sort of alice blocker, anyways, I just can't read their minds. Sorry!" he apologized.
Anna and Nonoko exchanged looks. "Uhh...that's because during this season, people can get sick really easy, we don't want anyone to get sick! It would spread through this entire room, thus be dangerous!" they faked. Everyone else nodded, it made sense. The duo sighed in relief, apparently their bluff worked on this bunch. "So, let's make the groups!"
Nonoko looked around and randomly made groups, "Group one is...Natsume-kun, Mikan-chan, Youichi, Tsubasa-senpai, Kitsuneme and Fukutan-sensei. (If you forgot who he is, he's the substitute with the hair alice.)"
Natsume was happy with being with Youichi, but having Tsubasa and Mikan in the same group is going to be extremely annoying. All six of them stood around one table and the others waited patiently for their groups.
"Group two is...Hotaru-chan, Inchou, Mochu, Shouda-san, Narumi-sensei and Ibaragi-senpai!" Nonoko shouted nervously.
It was one of the most random groups ever made. 'Nough said.
Anna butted in, "That means, group three consists of Ruka-pyon, Kokoroyomi, the two Misaki's, Serina-sensei and Jin ji- I mean Jinno-sensei."
Half of this group were teachers it might also be one of the scariest groups, but we'll find that out later.
The first group to decorate was of course, group one. Nonoko examined what colors they picked out when they were done decorating their cookies. She wrote them down immediately. Anna told them they could eat their cookies when they were done. She also helped some people choose what frosting to choose when they were stuck with a dilemma. We're going to just say that everyone was soooo focused on their frosting that none of them talked, or had an interesting conversation. Even though, everyone is sure, that they did. That will come later as a bonus chapter on Christmas, be sure to read it then though.
Anna came close to Nonoko and asked her something, "Did you get all the information down?"
"Yup," Nonoko said proudly. "Here's my data." The purple haired girl showed the cook her notepad and the writing.
Nonoko's Organized List of Data!!!
Group One:
Hyuuga Natsume blue&green
Sakura Mikan orange&pink
Hijiri Youichi black
Andou Tsubasa blue
Kitsuneme purple
Fukutan purple&white
Group Two:
Imai Hotaru white&red
Tobita Yuu green&orange
Mochiage blue&black
Shouda Sumire yellow&white
Narumi white
Ibaragi Nobara green
Group Three:
Nogi Ruka pink&black
Kokoroyomi green
Misaki pink&red
Harada Misaki yellow
Jin Jin blue&white
Serina yellow
Anna's eyes were glued onto the colors. "Woaaah! This is going to become very interesting...I better lock the doors before the side effects start to show!" Nonoko urged her on and when Anna came back, they ate their sugar cookies.
Mikan came over to join them, while enjoying her own cookie with orange and pink frosting on it. "How come you two don't have frosting?" she asked innocently.
"Err..uhh..well...that's because.." Nonoko stuttered to find any possible reason that would make sense.
That's when Anna went in and said, "We kind of got sick of taste testing the frosting, so all we want to eat is the cookie now. You really can get too much of a good thing you know, Mikan-chan?"
"Oh! That makes complete sense!" Mikan exclaimed, "I guess you can get too much of a good thing. Speaking of which, these cookies are really yummy! Can I have the recipe?" she asked with her puppy dog eyes.
The two of them sweated a bit, "Sure...for the cookie right?"
"And the frosting, I love the taste of orange and strawberry together!"
"The frosting is a trade secret," Anna replied quickly, "Sorry Mikan-chan, but we can't give it out..." Obviously she was bluffing again, but it was Mikan, she couldn't tell the difference most of the time.
Something weird happened though, Mikan didn't respond the way that she probably should have responded. "But I want to knooooow! I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna know! Tell me tell me tell me!!! Or I'll scream!" she complained.
"Huh?" the whole room stared at her confusingly.
Nonoko sighed, "Oh right...orange. Mikan-chan, calm down please?"
"NEVER!" she screamed. Then Mikan started running around the room like a little kid and made random noises and sounds. As soon as she came by Natsume's presence, she stopped and stared at him. "Natsuchi?" she said sweetly.
Natsume gave her the look, "What the hell did you just cal-?" He paused and looked into her eyes. "What is it Mikan honey chan?" he asked politely with a pure smile on his face. Everyone in the room was in complete shock.
"Can I hug you Natsu-pyon because I love you sooo much?"
"No problem!"
Tsubasa came close to the two, he wanted to find out whether or not these two were sick or something. "Hey, uhh...Natsume? You okay?"
"I'm perfectly fine, why do you ask?"
"Tsubasa-senpaichi, I love you too! Hug me please!" the brunette demanded.
His eyes changed from concerned to bright and kind eyes. "Well, I can't say no now, can I?" He opened his arms so Mikan can jump in and give him a big old embrace, but Natsume just stepped in front of Tsubasa and gave her the hug instead.
"Forgive me Andou-san, but I can't let you hug her, she's mine," the fire-caster declared.
Kitsuneme broke into the conversation, "Why do you want that girl? I am so obviously, clearly better than that...that...childish monstrosity!"
The hair alice substitute teacher, Fukutan, also joined in, "No, I am greatest!" Then his voice softened, "I'm better than you..." but he said it so low that no one could hear him.
"You guys should behave yourself," a familiar voice rang out, "So childish all of a sudden, learn to mature. Maybe you'll get a deeper understanding of having good characteristics." Everyone turned to the voice, it was Youichi in his fourteen year old form.
Nonoko and Anna huddled around a corner, "Ahh! What do we do Nonoko?" the pink haired girl asked franticly.
Miss chemist thought about it hard, "Well, all of group one has gotten the side effects, how about the others?" The two of them looked behind them.
Hotaru was yelling at people, but withdrawing and sucking her thumb at the same time. Tobita was getting jealous over Mikan's attachment to Natsume and Tsubasa. He started pouting and throwing fits, just like Mikan at times. Mochiage tried to calm everyone down and gave encouraging words to the two pouting children. Sumire was waving her crutches around, but whenever Hotaru yelled at her, she put it down and looked nervously at people. Narumi on the other hand was just hanging around the corner, flinching everytime someone called his name or touched him. Nobara would get incredibly jealous when Natsume touched Mikan. Not only did she not like his fire alice, she dragged Mikan away from the group of boys.
Group three on the other hand, had only started their symptoms. Ruka would confess his love to every animal he has ever met and whenever he saw Natsume or Mikan, he would give them a giant confession of deep admiration and love. Whenever he said it, it had this tone which made it sound real and his voice deepened with a soothing sound that made him sound older. Koko would get mad because everyone had fun and his didn't. He wanted to join in, but no one would let him. Misaki-sensei tried to hit on Narumi, but Narumi would just meep and find another location. Then he would try to hit on Serina, but she would just jump around and scream random nonsense. Because they all ignored Misaki-sensei, he threw random fits of rage, that weren't so random. Along with Serina-sensei, Misaki H. would play patty cake with her and then play ring around the rosie, alice modified. Jinno-sensei would just tell Mikan, that he actually enjoyed her being in her class and that he was just to shy to admit it after his mistake.
Anna and Nonoko bonked their heads on the table, these people were driving them crazy. That was until, Natsume, Mikan, Tsubasa, Misaki H. and Sumire came up to them to ask them a question. "What's this?" they asked in unison, surprisingly. All five of them held up a gold ring for themselves.
The cook nudged Nonoko, "You tell them, I'm too tired..."
Nonoko sighed, "Those are gold rings, you can have them. Each ring has a color. In art, every color has a complimentary color. Depending on your color jewel ring, your complimentary color will be the person you are destined to fall in love with. Green and red are complimentary. Blue and orange are complimentary. Lastly, purple and yellow are complimentary."
Misaki H. fidgeted with her ring, "Ooh, but there are only five? How come, how come?" she asked rapidly.
Anna decided to pitch in, "The person who doesn't have a complimentary for now, will be guaranteed a destined partner. The complimentary color will be a hint, like a characteristic will be something of that color. It's confusing, but don't make us repeat it..."
Natsume and Mikan looked at their rings, Natsume's was blue and Mikan's was orange. They smiled at each other and Mikan forced him to give her a kiss on the lips. Since he was so kind apparently, he complied.
Tsubasa and Misaki H. glanced at their ring colors too, Tsubasa's was green and Misaki's was red. Misaki hopped around and gave him a big hug. He received it happily.
Permy looked at her ring by herself, it was purple. She sighed, "I wonder who my partner is? WHO IS IT? Sorry, I mean, who is it?" Her voice was timid at times, but then it changed to loud hyperness.
The chemist poked at the cook, "It's going to be a long day..."
"No really?" she replied wearily.
I like experimenting and seeing how people react to another because that's what I like to call, chemistry!
The best part is when you cook up something really good and the results show quickly.
"...four calling birds,
three French hens,
two turtledoves,
and a partridge in a pear tree."
Typer's Note-
Anonymous Fish, angeldo6695 and animerules14 this is the chapter you guys waited for, kind of...
Hope it was satisfactory, even though even before you reviewed I already finished this one.
So sorry, the main characters are almost last D;
Hopeth youeth likethed ithe? -- Hope you liked it?
SO thank you for reviewing and please continue to do so because you have no choice in the matter.
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December 22nd Note -
Haha, I totally forgot to thank some other people who were an important part of this fanfiction!
Thank you Thomas. Mimi and Austin for helping me choose the frosting colors xP !
Wootzers, sorry for that haha.