Rules were:

-a kiss (romantic or not)

-a kick (lol lol alliteration)

Again, have fun. There's more Luki abuse too~

Miriam had to double-take as she passed the stretch of land in front of the shrine. It was the New Years festival, so everyone was in a merry mood, but they were also cautious. That awkward precaution was clearly because of the Blue-light District. Through some order of events that no one understood, a group of high school boys had gotten every single piece of land in front of the shrine that was use able for the festival. Of course, that meant everyone had to go through the Blue-light District to make their New Year's wish.

Miriam knew she couldn't let this stop her though. No amount of boys and freak stands would stop her from making her wish. She clutched the piece of paper with he wish written on it tightly before starting her walk into the area that only be described as another planet. Everything was either really weird, or really normal. There were normal things like Kaito with a snow cone machine -- although he wasn't really serving as much as he was eating -- and Mikuo with his goldfish game. Then there was the weird. Gakupo happened to be running a pick-up line booth and a fortune telling service all at the same table. Meito was giving pole dancing lessons, but that was all inside a tent for the safety of the children and any fan-girls who happen to go by. Len was running a chocolate banana stand. Leon was selling string. Why? Who knows. Maybe it was because they were all boys.

Then Miriam noticed one empty table. Well, almost empty. Luki was sitting at it, looking so bored that he might just go get lessons from Meito so he would be entertained. And as hot as that was, Miriam tried not to imagine it. She kept walking, just trying to get to the shrine without getting sucked in by the odd commodities that surrounded her. She glanced back at Luki's table, looked forward, glanced to the table, faced forward again, and then gave up. She was far too curious to keep going to the shrine. Just one little stop couldn't hurt though, right?

She pulled out the chair across from Luki at the plain, blank table. There wasn't even a sign. He looked up at her, his expression still bored but a scheming glint in his eyes. Neither of them moved.

"So," she started, not liking the awkward silence, "What sort of stand do you run?"

"It's going to cost you ten cents," he smirked.

Normally, she would have walked away after sensing the obvious danger, but she was far to curious for that. Miriam reached into her pocket, pulled out a dime, and placed it on the table. How she had American money in Japan was unknown, and stranger yet was that Luki knew about it.

He took the dime and she just stared, waiting for something to happen. Luki seemed to be taking as much time as he wanted as he slowly put the dime in his pocket and then made eye contact with Miriam, using some trick to make time go twice as slow as usual. Then, things went all too quickly. Before she knew it, Miriam was in a heated-

She meant, in a wonderful-

No, she meant, in a blissful-

... Screw it. She and Luki were in an intense lip-lock, okay?

That was quickly brought to an end though when Miriam shot her leg up and kicked him beneath the table. He hissed in pain and she quickly left the table, her face so flushed that the paper lanterns looked pink rather than red. What was that?! Alright, she knew it was kiss, but why?! Okay, that was stupid too. It was obviously because Luki was running a kissing booth, but for ten cents? She didn't think he could be so... cheap. It was like, Miriam could never look at a dime the same way again without thinking about Luki being a possible ten-cent wh*re.

But still! The kiss! And the spit! And the ick! Miriam shut her eyes tightly for a second while still moving quickly towards the shrine. She just needed to put in her wish and then it would all be okay.

Focusing back to reality, she saw that she was in fact at the shrine already. Most of the people had moved on to get a good spot for the fireworks display, so maybe that was why she got there so quickly. That aside, she pulled the folded wish out of her back pocket, muttered a small prayer, and then put it into the box. Speaking of, that small piece of paper happen to say, "I wish for a happy New Year." It was simple, but she couldn't really think of anything she started walk back through the Blue-light District, just wanting to get out and go home. To do that, though, she had to pass Luki's table.

It wasn't long before she found herself nervously coming close to it. Miriam glanced out of the corner of her eye at him, if only on impulse. He had set out a sign by now that read, "Kissing Booth. Ten-cents each." He smirked when he caught her looking. Miriam blushed, but kept going. There was nothing he could do to make her stop.

He flipped the sign and it then said, "Free for Miriam."

... Alright, maybe she could go back. After all, who could possibly pass up a deal like that?