This chapter is Pairshipping (Rei Saotome/Blair Flannigan x Tyranno Kenzan/Tyranno Kenzan)!
Rei squealed with laughter, ducking under a snowball as she made a run for the dorm.
"I'll be right back! Gah! Stop throwing snowballs, I'm already retreating! Back off, already!"
Sho pelted her with another three snowballs anyway, and then took a faceful of snow from Manjoume and started chasing the black-clad boy around in circles with a giant block of snow in his short arms. Rei giggled and pushed into the Ra Yellow dorm, headed for the common room. The dorm supervisor kind of mumbled at her to take her boots off, but she didn't hear him, tracking snow all over the floor.
"Kenzan! Kenzan-kun!" she shouted, pushing into the common room. "Come on, where have you been? We're having a snowball..."
She hesitated, staring at the pile of blankets in front of the dorm fireplace that shifted only slightly.
"Kenzan?"
"Unnnf. Close the door. You're letting the cold in."
Rei clapped a gloved hand over her numb face, trying to smother her giggles.
"Oh my gosh...Kenzan? Is that actually you under there?"
Kenzan's eyes barely poked up over the pile of no less than five blankets.
"What do you want?" he asked, sounding rather drowsy. "It's too cold to think."
"Are you kidding me? It's practically boiling in here!"
Her face was already starting to burn as it readjusted to the heat. She wanted to unbutton her jacket but was planning on heading back out in a second, so she left it. She could only imagine what it felt like underneath all of Kenzan's blankets, plus the fire blazing in front of him and the evidence of him having drank at least three mugs of hot cocoa.
"Come on, lazybones! We have a day off because of the snow and everyone wants to have a snowball fight! You love competition and stuff! Judai's even playing!"
"No way...too cooooold..." Kenzan moaned, ducking back under the blankets.
"Come oooon!" Rei said.
She stomped over and started to pull some of the blankets off of him.
"You'll feel much warmer after running around!" she said.
"Noooo," Kenzan groaned. "It's cold and there's snow...my dinosaur DNA can't handle it..."
"Oh, don't be such a baby; you're not that much dinosaur!"
She managed to pull all the blankets off of him, but he just curled up into a tiny ball and covered his head with his hands.
"Geez, and you're even wearing like two sweaters...are you really that cold?"
"Yes," Kenzan mumbled.
He flinched slightly as some snow in Rei's hair dropped onto his arm. Rei put her hands on her hips and pouted for a minute.
"Fine then, party pooper," she said. "We'll just have fun without you!"
She turned on her heel and marched away, hoping that Kenzan would show off some of his usual fire at being called a party pooper. But apparently the cold affected him much more than she had expected, because when she paused at the door and snuck a glance over her shoulder, he was just groggily pulling the blankets back over himself.
She sighed. She glanced longingly out through the window where everyone was having fun throwing piles of snow at each other. She looked back at the pile of blankets that was Kenzan.
"Oh, you," she grumbled.
With a bit more force that was necessary, she ripped off her gloves, hat, and coat, and threw them onto the couch. She wiggled out of her boots. Kenzan jumped a little when she plopped down next to him.
"Give me some of those blankets," she said.
She pulled them up and over her shoulders so that she could snuggle in close to him, leaning her head on his shoulder and then drawing the blanket around them both.
"You'll get warmer faster if someone hot-blooded shares some heat with you," she teased.
Kenzan blushed.
"Rei..."
"Shush," Rei said, snuggling deeper. "I'm just letting you know - we're only staying here until you're so warm that you'll want to jump in a snowbank to cool off. And then we're going to play in the snow. Understood?"
Kenzan grinned. He slipped his hand around her small shoulders.
"Yes ma'am," he said.
They leaned into each other, and stared into the warm, flickering depths of the fire.