A/N: The POV will switch between characters randomly. Pay attention there may be a pattern.
2: December 15th 10:30 A.M. 177th Branch Office Judgment.
The morning milk, one of my favorite things of the day, it certainly takes the sting out of the workload.
"Ok, I have a little bit before they get here. Anything interesting I could do."
When you're technically clairvoyant like me anything can be interesting, but luckily we've not seen any major case activity or civil service in the area, so that did allow me to catch up on class work.
"Now where did you leave off Mii?"
The workload on all fronts was nuts but I'm really talented when it comes to balance. 20 minutes later while knee deep in calculus the alarm at the front door went off.
"Crud"
The security camera did have an intercom so I could at least see who it was.
"Oh, it's Sharai and Misaka."
That's what I needed to do today, the gifts. The intercom was easy enough to find.
"Hold on guys I'll…"
Sharai however still continues to surprise just as she has from the beginning.
"…Let you guys in."
Without so much as a turn to the door she teleported themselves right next to me spooking whatever good luck I had so far right out of me.
"Sharai are you sure you're not Level 5 yet, because somehow you never could do that stealth mode before."
"Sadly not yet."
With that out of the way, the two of us reviewed some recent incident reports from the last month while I saw Misaka in the background looking around at a tablet I had on the couch.
"Hey Konori, you doing some fantasy sports thing or what?"
"Hey give that back."
I rushed for her and luckily grabbed it right before she threw it to Sharai, and knowing previous tosses would have ended up in disaster.
"That's a little bit private, do I ask about your Gekota obsession like Sharai does on a daily basis."
Without me realizing I set her off Sharai jumped to my spot and teleported me outside street level before I could hear her calming Misaka down. I know she's the Railgun of Tokiwadai but she could have a better sense of humor about things. After what seemed like a good 3 minutes freezing outside, I came back in and went over exactly what our plans were.
"Ok, so how many stores are we stopping at?" they asked in unison.
"3 Total," My response came while I grabbed my tablet with a shopping list saved on the front of it. "Browsing at the mall and I have to get some packaging to send stuff out. I know you guys have to get to class by 1:30 so this hopefully won't take more than an hour."
As Sharai shut down equipment I motioned for Misaka to follow me outside. By the time we were street level I pulled out the tablet to show her just the item in question.
"This was what you were looking at earlier. The fantasy sports page was a ruse."
"Konori, this looks like your red jacket."
"It's a replica, custom designed just like mine, the work Sharai and Uiharu do with me could never be repaid in full. Especially when I finally graduate school and leave the city. It's an easy way to show that were a team."
"So, how are you going to get this without Kuroko finding out?"
"That's where you come in."
The face on Misaka went sour as I told her of the plan. A few minutes later Sharai joined us and we began our walk to the mall. For winter Academy City does have an elegance the holiday decorations could not better emphasize. Almost everywhere you could see lights, and good cheerful moods, it's as if all the bad stuff that we deal with at the 177th Branch suddenly took a holiday. Sharai I could tell was wanting to hurry along so she could get her gift for either Uiharu or Misaka
"Is there such a thing as too much?" Misaka asked while reaching for some snow on the street. "Commercialism is bad enough at Christmas, now why does it have to spread to Academy City."
"It's not all about the goods Sissy. The Holidays remind everyone of who or what means the most to them in the world. Me for example, my 3 best friends and Konori. You on the other hand have me, Kamijo, Uiharu, Saten, and a certain frog on your…"
"Kuroko!" As I saw Misaka give chase and Sharai run off in the cold in luckily the direction of the mall. It did give me some time to reflect on what Sharai mentioned. Minus my partners, and occasionally Misaka and Saten, who else meant the most to me in this life?
Another 15 minutes passes and we finally reach the mall. As I saw Sharai went for the nearest tacky clothing shop Misaka followed me into an electronics depot.
"Konori what about the jackets?"
"That's why I brought the tablet with. The store in the mall that does the jackets has a pick up today option, so I can do the jackets and finish my shopping by the time they're done."
As the two of us carefully designed the jacket and got it ordered, I could tell Misaka's attention was turned elsewhere.
"They have Gekota Tablets!"
Sharai was right about one thing, her and that frog. The three of us ended up on our own for the next hour and a half browsing, and buying, it was almost 1:20 when I got the notification about the jackets on my phone. I wondered how to get away when luckily their forgetfulness came into play.
"Oh Crap. Kuroko it's almost 1:30 we got to get back."
Misaka grabbed Sharai away from a massage table and I followed them out the door.
"Guys what about your stuff?"
"Send mine back to the dorm." Misaka yelled. "Kuroko wants you to hold on to hers, she'll be by to get it later."
Before even saying bye and thanking them they teleported away. The downside to now carrying three loads of goods is that you can't really get far.
"At least they keep it small."
While at the shop waiting in line for the jackets I call a cab. The mess was bad enough to get in, but my streak of good luck continued when the driver refused my tip and offered to carry the stuff all the way up to the office. It was nice knowing I was his good deed for the day. I held the jackets aloft as I placed them into the boxes they will be wrapped up in. The sheen or the red jackets matched every single detail of mine down to the last bit.
"Not bad Mii, not bad."
So far this Holiday season was turning out to be an excellent one.