"The 12 Days of Christmas"
Disclaimer: I don't own the song or manga, only the fanfiction.
December 15th
Insect Pheromone, Air Control and Curse
"One the eighth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Eight maids a milking..."
"Oh come on Hayate, it's not that bad to fall in love like a hopeless romantic. It's your first girl as well, all those other times you've been going after beautiful boys, she does look like a boy too I admit!" Amane Rui said cheerfully to his depressed friend. This is the one and only from the infamous Dangerous Ability Class.
Matsudaira Hayate only sighed and then fought back, "She isn't just anyone! She's Cool Blue Sky!"
"How so?" Rui asked.
"That's because she has the looks. She's cool. She's blue? And she hovers around in the sky. Yeah."
"Well, good luck with that then," Rui was already tired of the conversation and lazed around in his chair. Spinning around and occasionally hitting the wall. When he resumed his chair spinning adventures he almost ran into a certain somebody.
He had a scary look on his face and threathened Rui, "You do that again, I'll send my insects after you and your face."
A horrid look was morphed into Rui's expression, "No! Not the face, please, just not the face!"
"It seems you refer to you face as a completely different entity," Hayate sang. Rui shot a quick glare towards Hayate. "Oooh, you're so scary! Hajime! Save me with your insects!" he played around.
Hajime was getting annoyed by the second, "I'll send my insects after both of you if you don't shut your trap. I'm leaving this school in one more year and if I have to, I'll just have to feed my friends here something before graduation..." He was signaling his bees for attack. Just waiting while they hover to the right hand side of him.
That was until Persona walked in. They all stood there surprised by his appearance. Ever since his encounter with Mikan, they thought that Persona had long died. In his stupidity Hayate asked a very insulting question, "Persona...you're alive?"
"Nooooooooo kidding!" Rui quickly anticipated. He ran over to Persona and examined him while asking him some other questions, "How did your curse go away? We haven't seen you in months." The bandaged man only kept walking on his way ignored the three boys in their antics. "Persona! Wait, where are you going?" he tried again.
"I will proceed to celebrate the holidays..." he replied in a low voice.
"No way..." Hayate in total awe. Suddenly he perked up and jumped up in excitement, "Does that mean we get to go to the Christmas Ball!? No missions!?" He waited eagerly for a response. He got a surprising thumbs up from Persona and Hayate's jubilation started again. "WOO HOO! NO MORE HANAHIME'S DEN!"
Hajime however, was very serious and his stern expression did not change. Instead of joining Wind Sickle in his joyous occasion, he insulted it. "You fool, I don't care if Persona had a change in heart or not, the fact of the matter, if students see us at the Christmas Ball, they'll probably look at us like we're terrorists. Even if we wear masks, if there's ever a slight chance that our identity is revealed, we'll be shunned out even more than we isolated ourselves. Then again, do whatever you like, not like it matters to you."
Hayate slumped again and Rui comforted him, somewhat. "Don't worry Hayate, you'll find some other boy to love one day."
"What? Don't put me on the same level as you. I'm not like you, at least, not anymore. She's a girl and I really admire her. I wanna meet her...and I never will if I stay in this basement thing. That would be the best Christmas present," he wished.
Bug boy finally gave in, "You know, I never said you couldn't go to the Christmas Ball, I was listing all the cons and none of the pros, you do want you want Wind Sickle."
"YES! I'm gonna to go to the great hall and help out! That way I can get my reputation up! Muahaha!" Hayate declared. Suddenly, he pointed towards bug boy, "I'll show you that even the Dangeroud Class can get along with all of the other students."
Rui on chuckled, "Didn't fire caster and ice queen do that already?"
"Time for the wind sickle to accomplish this task now! Ironic how they're all elements huh?"
"If you believe in that kind of stuff Hayate, if you believe in that stuff..." Rui sat back on his chair and crossed his legs. He then shooed Hayate away. Hayate ran like the wind, and he could, and out the Hanahimeden he went.
When he arrived in the great hall, no one noticed him at first and he stepped into the massive room. He used to see it when he was little, but after he got transferred to the dangerous class, he was shunned from his classmates. He was 16 and had the high school division uniform. Hayate scanned the room for 'Cool Blue Sky', but found no sign of her yet. Someone ran up to him instead, "Wind sickle? What are you doing here?"
It was Nobara. A bit surprised by her appearance he answered, "Hey Nobara, can I ask a favor out of you? Don't call me wind sickle, call me Hayate. Also, do you know where Cool Blue Sky is?"
She had agreed to the first part, but she was confused about the second. "Who's Cool Blue Sky?"
"Sorry, I mean...okay, maybe I don't know her real name," he finally admitted. Nobara laughed at his innocence. "Which reminds me, when's the last time you laughed like this?" Most of the time he would see her on missions and the like, but she always had a personality change.
"Oh, I don't really know myself. Are you going to help?" she insisted.
"Haha, are you kidding me?" Nobara was a little downcast. "That's pretty much why I'm here!" Her face changed for the better. "What can I do?"
Nobara looked around the hall to see if anyone needed help. "Hmm...maybe you could be useful on the...de-no, co-no." She argued with herself for a little while and finally came to decision. "Hayate-san, which team would you like to be on? The decorating team or cooking team?"
"I think I'll go with the decorating team," he resolved at last. Nobara approved of his decision and pointed him over to where the majority of the decorating crew was. He walked over to that general direction and picked a random person to ask a question. "Hey, umm...I'm on the decorating crew, what can I do to help out?"
The random person happened to be Tobita, the nicest person you could ask. "Oh, what's your alice...? What is your name by the way?"
"Air control alice, the name's Hayate," air boy answered.
"You can help put up the decorations that are higher up in this building! Go ask the people over there what they need help with and they will tell you what to do. For now, I'm a busy person, so I'm sorry if I seem like I'm rushing you!" Inchou ran off to attend to the needs of other students who needed him.
Hayate waved farewell to the fleeting class prez. Once he got to where Tobita pointed out, he asked another person a question. "Uhh...the blonde kid with glasses told me to come here and help. I've got an air alice so...I'm willing to help!" He pointed at himself multiple times while saying this.
With Hayate still pointing at himself insistently. The girl turned around to face him. "Alright then," she pointed at the box of Christmas lights, "go hang these," and then she pointed towards the top of the wall, "up there." It was Misaki.
Air boy had a big fat grin on his face, "Easy." He commanded the air and grabbed the box of lights and hung them up one by one. The nails were still up there so it was fairly simple once he got up to height. In about thirty minutes, he finished putting up the box of lights and came down slowly. Hayate jumped down from his invisible forklift and wiped off his hands. "Done," he said simply, but proudly.
Misaki examined his work, "Nicely done. Wow! All of a sudden this reminds me, have we met before?"
Hayate suddenly remembered what Hajime had said earlier, '...if students see us at the Christmas Ball, they'll probably look at us like we're terrorists. Even if we wear masks, if there's ever a slight chance that our identity is revealed, we'll be shunned out even more than we isolated ourselves.' He snapped out of itand answered the doppelganger, "I don't think so. I'm in the high school division so..."
"Oh, that would make sense. I'm in the middle school division still, so I'll see you next year?"
"Yeah, sure, maybe. It's still a pretty big school, so I kind of doubt it and everyone is so weird in the high school division, I don't know what to say really."
"So I've heard. Anyways, that was pretty much the only thing we needed to do, put up those lights. Thanks a lot! I'm glad you joined the decorating team! With that said, do you need anything?" the doppelganger asked.
There was only one thing Hayate really wanted to know. What is Cool Blue Sky's true identity and where she was. "I know this sounds funny, but do you know Cool Blue Sky? If you do, do you know anyone who looks like that person?"
"I honestly don't know anyone called Cool Blue Sky. Sorry," she apologized.
"Don't worry," he sighed, "I've been getting the same response the whole day. Wait, I don't think I've asked that many times today."
All of a sudden, Rui had bursted into the room panting hard. "Rui!" Hayate exclaimed.
"I know you! You're the person who put a curse on Tsubasa!" Misaki recognized.
Rui was trying to catch his breath and looked up to see the petrified girl. "And you are?"
"Harada Misaki, his best friend," she declared.
"Oh, you're Tsubasa's girlfriend, I remember you. You were always hanging out with him," Rui finally noted. Hayate kicked him in the shin and resumed with the emergency topic. "Anyways, Hayate, there's someone at the front gate who wants you. It's a middle aged women, do you want to see her? She keeps calling out your name like a lunatic! Although the guards are holding her down. If you don't come quick the teachers will subdue her."
Air boy was curious of course to see who this person was and immediately agreed, "You had me with your first sentence, let's go!" Ignoring Misaki, the two of them ran to the gate. Hayate used his air alice to make him faster and when they arrived, they were amazed at what they heard. They saw Hajime about to use his bug alice on her, but he paused and waited for her to finish whatever she was talking about, more like screaming.
"Give me back my son! I've waited too long for him and I need to see him now! You took him away from me, you bastards, I want him back! I've already waited since you took him away from me thirteen years ago, I can't wait for another Christmas. So give Hayate back me!" she begged and begged again. Even when she couldn't yell anymore, she was an emotional wreck. Tears overflowing from her face and her hands red from the frost and holding the metal bars so tightly. She sobbed on the ground as the guards were about to arrest her for disturbing the peace.
Hajime gave one last look to Hayate, whom he already noticed from the start. Just as if telling him, 'What are you going to do about this?'
"Hayate...are you going to give you mother one glance of you or let her suffer for about another 4 years?" Rui asked solemnly.
Hayate was so unsure. He had forgotten about relatives in his past thirteen years and never gave them another thought after the first couple of years in Alice Academy. He looked down at the ground and saw them taking his mother away. In an instinct Hayate dashed off in a burst of wind andlanded hard into the old snow. The guards and her were temporarily distracted and stared at him. "Mom, it's me, Hayate," he grinned. There was a new bruise of his face and his clothes were all wet, but he managed to still smile.
The guard loosened their grips for a split seconds and she freed herself of them. Immediately, the mother came close to bars and held them tighter. "Hayate...Hayate!" she shouted louder. Her old tears were dried up and tears of joy began pouring down her face.
He came up to his mother and held her cold hands. "Can you wait another four years?"
His mother brushed her hand over his cheek. Still amazed by how much her son had grown over the last thirteen years. "I d-don't know, but I'll keep on living until that day, I'll try very hard," she reassured.
"Alright, I'll believe you..."
Within moments, the two were separated from each other and gave one another their last farewells for a while. The women was escorted back home. Hayate, slightly disappointed by the turn of events walked back to the great hall alongside Rui.
Hayate sighed and rubbed his hands together, "I had so many things I wanted to ask her."
"I bet she wanted to ask you loads of questions as well," Hajime joined. He walked alongside the air boy and curse guy.
Randomly, a swan scooter zoomed by them with a blonde boy chasing futilelessly after ther dark short haired girl. "This is not funny Imai-san!"
"Ha ha. Then why am I laughing?" Hotaru remarked wittingly.
Hayate's CBS (Cool Blue Sky) senses were activating. "It's her!" he pointed out, breaking the mournful silence. "Cool Blue Sky!" he shouted while chasing her alongside Ruka.
"Who are you?" she asked harshly seeing that there's another boy joining the chase. But there was no time for answers as she almost crashed into several girls in the cooking team. The girls shrieked and headed for cover on the ground.
Rui was clearly unimpressed, "Girls in maid outfits in the winter? Not sexy at all..."
Hajime picked up the spilt bottles of milk. "All that hard work for some milk slushies. That's really too bad." A small group of flies went to inspect the damage, but decided it was best to stay away from the frozen milk.
Ruka had been blockaded by the girls, but Hayate used his air alice instead and kept chasing after Hotaru. "Do you like sushi!?" he shouted randomly, trying to ask the question again from last time. It was a long chase before they gave up…
Buzz. (Zap.) Aww…
With some hard work and determination, I think people will be able to breathe me in as well one day.
Honestly, I should've been in this chapter more!
"…seven swans a swimming,
Six geese a laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtledoves,
And a partridge in a pear tree."
Typer's Note -
It's raining! Good thing and bad thing.
Bad thing, I can't do the things I need to do before Winter Break.
Good thing, yay for plants and Mother Earth for natural water!
Ah well...Hope you enjoyed the chapter, thanks for reading it this far.
And of course, REVIEW. It's a must. That'll be my Christmas/Birthday present thanks you very much.