Hey Fictioners!

So, I was going to post up the chronologically-next drabble, but everyone requested Kishigo... So here it is!

I hope I pulled them off okay. Not the biggest Kishigo fan -nervous laugh-

"What are you doing?"

"What does it look like I'm doing?"

She was edgy today; impatient. He hovered, cross-legged, beside the ladder she stood on, hanging chains of red and pink paper along the skirting board that lined the roof.

She tossed her red fringe out of her face, frustrated. Her arms hurt from reaching up to try and stick the chains in place, her ankles hurt from the pressure of balancing on the dangerously wobbly ladder (trust Shirogane to have something faulty for her to work with! Sometimes she swore he was deliberately trying to help her kill herself), and she was craving Akasaka-san's exquisite strawberry cheesecake.

"No. Not until you're finished decorating the café," her blonde, self-centred jerk of a boss had snapped, stalking off to his special laboratory to do Creepy Mysterious Scientist Stuff while she slaved her life away making his café look pretty enough for Valentine's Day.

Ichigo sighed deeply.

"You seem troubled, Koneko-chan," Kish mused, tilting his elfish head to one side as he watched her.

"Yeah, well, I am troubled!" she snapped irritably, in no mood for his childish games. "And stop calling me that!"

He 'hmm'd for a moment, considering her request.

"Nah. It suits you," he decided with an impish grin. Ichigo huffed under her breath, struggling with one particularly difficult link in the paper chain.

"Am I annoying you?" Kish asked, amused.

"Yes," Ichigo growled.

"Do you want me to go away?"

"Yes."

"Would you rather me go away, or bring you a piece of cheesecake?" he asked, his voice teasing. Ichigo paused where she reached. The absence of the irritating alien would be a God given gift right now, but if he couldsneak her a piece of that cake...

Alone with no cake... or cake with the addition of Kish's presence?

Hmm...

"Okay, you're allowed to bring me cake," Ichigo decided finally.

"Alright!" Kish beamed like an excited child, before zooming off to the kitchen. He didn't even stop to consider his teleportation abilities.

With a sigh of mixed emotions – relief for the momentary peace, enthusiasm for the sweet, sugary cake that was heading her way, and reluctance at having to endure more Kish Time – Ichigo stepped up one more rung of the ladder, determined to stick up the last link in the chain before taking her well-deserved (in her opinion, anyway) break.

Why was this one link being so damned difficult?! If it would just stay in place, her life would be so much easier! She glared at the chain in her hand.

"You think you'll get the best of me?" she growled. "You think you can just be the one naughty link and get away with it? You think I'll let this room go unfinished? I don't think so, buster! Nuh-uh, not on my wa-AAAAAAH!"

Kish, who was floating back in, his eyes fixed happily on the enormous cake he was carefully carrying in his hands – of course, he would find it necessary to bring the entire cake, rather than just one piece – looked up at the startled cry, his golden eyes widening in horror at the sight before him.

The ladder wobbled once – frighteningly – and tipped, the legs sliding out from underneath it. With a huge RRRRRIP! the ladder, Ichigo, and the red and pink paper chain in her hands tumbled towards the floor.

"Koneko-chan!" Kish cried, jumping forward to break her fall.

The result?

The ladder crashed to the floor.

The chain ripped cleanly in the middle.

Ichigo landed on Kish.

And the cake landed on them both.

Ichigo opened her eyes, wiping cream and frosting from her face. She stared down at Kish with wide, chocolate brown eyes, oblivious to the fact that she was using his chest as a cushion. Kish pushed himself up and propped himself on his elbows, blinking at her.

He reached up with one finger, wiped the big dollop of frosting from her nose, and stuck it in his mouth. A wide, cheeky grin broke out on his face.

"Yummm."

"MOMOMIYA!" Shirogane's voice roared.

Ichigo sighed tiredly, extracting herself from the mess.

Damn that stupid paper chain!

So, not as direct as Mish lol... But still... kawaii, ne?

Keep your eyes open for tomorrow's post!

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Cherrie-Sakura

xxox