Merry Christmas! this is my present to you readers!
"speaking"
"Thinking"
On with the story
on a special day in the final month of the year. snow greeted Totsuki; a school for young chefs that only has very few graduates. the place is hell for those who are unprepared to be real chefs in the real world. but today is a special day as it's Christmas and everyone is in the holiday spirit.
we turn our attention to the infamous Polar Star Dorm where the sounds of bells ringing were present within.
"Merry Christmas!" the sounds of cheers is heard within the dorm as the occupants followed with some friends who were having a Christmas dinner night together.
"yay! another year of another happy Merry Christmas with our family!" said Yoshino Yuki with a happy smile while holding a cup of Ryoko's rice wine juice.
"Merry Christmas!" shouted Shoji and Daigo while shaking Marui around.
"It feels so nice to relax after a hard study of the semester last week," said Ryoko as Shun nodded in agreement.
"come now, everyone! it's Christmas and the biggest moment of our youth!" exclaimed Isshiki as he came out of the kitchen with Fumio, the 7th seat of Totsuki's Elite Ten wearing his fundoshi that didn't truly cover himself fully. he and Fumio walked to the dorm mates as they brought in a big Christmas turkey, salad, and drinks.
"wow! that's a big turkey!" said Megumi in seeing the nearly two football size Turkey.
"Ikumi-kun was nice enough to send us one of her company's newly added Mega Turkey from Minessota," said Fumio with a smile. "you have no idea just how much of stuffing we can pack in this big fella!"
"and we got some eggnog from an old friend of mine in Britain" added Ishikki while holding the big jug filled with Eggnog. "you can even taste Britain with it!"
"taste Britain with it?" said Ryoko as she with Yuki sweatdrops.
"must be a phrase for his youth and all" stated Yuki.
"anyway!" said Isshiki while raising a beer mug that is filled with eggnog rather than beer. "to our youth and special day of the year!"
"MERRY CHRISTMAS!" everyone raised their cups, glasses, and mugs filled with their drinks high in the air as they cheered for their special Christmas day.
meanwhile on a limo that is driving within the big busy streets of Tokyo on Christmas night. the car just drives upon the street that has many people walking by the sidelines as it is carrying the Nakiri Family' princesses and their aids.
inside are Alice, Ryo, Hisako, and Erina, the four seems to be on holiday vacation for Christmas and after finishing their first-year final semester.
the four occupants wore their black, white, purple, and violet winter coats with additions of different coloured mufflers and gloves, but the group had different moods than another. Alice watches the outside by the window as she hummed a Christmas song with a happy smile, Ryo looks to be reading a magazine filled with special Christmas seafood dishes, Erina looks annoyingly annoyed, and Hisako is sitting quietly and calmly.
"wah~! Tokyo on Christmas night is so cool! literally!" said Alice with a happy smile and sparkling eyes as she watched the amazing events that are happening in the big city. "oh~! I saw Santa over there!"
"you do know Santa is fake, right?" said Erina with a grumble.
"as if! he came to give us presents those many years ago, didn't he? he's real! Santa is real!" said Alice while huffing at her cousin.
'in reality...' thought Hisako with an awkward look as she remembered during her childhood with the two Nakiri Princesses. on one Christmas night, she was invited to that Nakiri Mansion from Christmas when 'Santa' or Nakiri Senzaemon who dressed up as Santa came in with a big sack filled with many presents. 'Alice-sama is like a child who won't stop believing, huh?'
"Santa is absolutely real! tell her, Ryo!" said Alice to Ryo who just hummed and nodded while contently reading his magazine.
"whatever, Alice" said Erina while grumbling again.
"don't just grumble every time you talk, Erina." said Alice while huffing at Erina's attitude "come on! where's your holiday spirit!?"
"my holiday spirit went down the drain when you dragged me to Tokyo" said Erina still grumbling. 'i wanted to stay with Soma at his hometown to celebrate Christmas...'
"ah! we are here!" said Alice in cheering squeals as she saw a giant dome coming into view from the window. "TOKYO'S NUMBER ONE SKATING DOME, ICE PLAZA~!"
"I don't see the big point of going to Tokyo for ice skating in the first place" said Erina while huffing. "the lake near the Polar Star Dorm could've been an ice skating ring this time of the year"
"yes, but it would be kinda dangerous, Erina-sama" said Hisako with an awkward smile and chuckle.
"driver! let's go!" said Alice in cheer as the limo went straight for the dome.
the occupants of the Limo left the transportation and are now within the dome, directly at a large ice skating ring where the people are only them; four people.
"Alice...why is this place nearly empty of people?" said Erina to her cousin as the other people are just walking around the ice skating ring while not going in to have fun.
"oh, that's because I reserved this place, just for us!" replied Alice with a big smile while holding onto Ryo's waist, the white hair vixen's legs shaking unstable while on the ice ring. "isn't it just exhilarating to have a big place like this for ourselves!?"
"you've just wasted money" said Erina while facepalming and sighs. "a lot of money"
"well, at least we won't bump into strangers accidentally and repetitively," said Hisako, pointing out on the bright side of Alice's endeavor.
"at least...that is" said Erina before sighing.
the four soon went around the ice skating ring as they just had the place to themselves.
"look at me! I'm a professional!" said Alice as she moves around the ice with her front leaned forward and holding Ryo who is the one doing the whole moving around part.
"for someone who lived their childhood in a cold snow always filled country, you would think that she can skate perfectly," said Erina with a sweatdrop in seeing how Alice is skating.
"Alice-sama might have been busy doing gastronomy at Denmark, perhaps?" added Hisako with an awkward look.
they went on their time on the ice skating ring as Hisako with Ryo are the ones who look to be masters in doing ice skating while Alice is pathetically an amateur in skating, Erina, however, is like a near amateur/ pro as she moves slowly.
'This is kinda fun once you get used to it' thought Erina with a small smile as she skates around the ring even faster than her slow pace.
Erina moves around the ring even faster as she zooms past Ryo with Hisako who were taking their time skating and took notice of how fast the God Tongue is moving around the ice rink.
"Erina-sama! please do remember to slow your speed or you might risk hitting the wall!" said Hisako in warning to Erina who went even faster as her skating drew attention to nearby people that formed a crowd around the ice ring's walls.
"What?!" said Erina as she keeps on skating even faster to the point that she realized just how fast she was going. "h-how do I put on the brakes!?"
"she's going faster," said Ryo in a monotone voice, the man with Hisako, and Alice is standing in the middle of the ring while Erina is zooming around so fast.
"Erina-sama! your hands! spreads your hands open! it will help you decrease your speed momentum!" shouted Hisako to Erina.
"l-like this!" said Erina as she spreads her hands and true enough her speed slowly decreases. "it's working!"
"Erina-sama! front! look at your front!" exclaimed Hisako as Erina looks to the front and sees that she's heading straight to the ice ring's wall. "waaah!"
before she could crash to the wall, a hand reached out and grabs hers then pulls her around in a spinning twirl and was soon in someone's embrace.
Erina placed a hand to her dizzy head before she shakes it and looks to whoever saved her from crashing to the wall, to her surprise it was Soma who smiled to her.
"S-Soma?!" said Erina in surprise to see her boyfriend.
"yo" greeted Soma to her as the man helps his beautiful girlfriend stand straight on the skating ring. "looks like you had some fun"
"wait, i thought...you were holding Christmas at.." said Erina as she looks utterly confused on why Soma is in the ice skating ring with her and the others.
"well, turns out my Christmas got sent to Tokyo when the old man decided to just drag me here because he got an appointment dinner with a friend of his" said Soma as Erina can imagine Joichiro talking and laughing with the friend.
"wait, so you're really here?" said Erina to Soma who nodded.
"what? you don't want me here?" replied Soma with a cheeky grin.
"n-not really," said Erina with a blush before Soma chuckles and gave her forehead a peck.
"come on" said Soma as he holds Erina's hand and waist close, "I'll be your partner in this lonely skating ring"
"what?" said Erina before Soma pulls her into skating the ice ring as the man holds her close.
the two skates around the ring as they skated in a beautiful form that got the attention of the crowds who are starting to record on their phones and cameras.
"how can you skate this good?" asked Erina to Soma while the man is spinning them around in a circle before they went for a dive zoom around the ring together.
"Remember when I told you I went to Finland with the old man during Christmas when we were kids?" said Soma to Erina who nodded. "the old man's friend there is a cook and a famous ice skater, so he taught me some cooking tips and some ice skating"
Soma lifted Erina up by her waist as the two skates in a slow spin before they stopped in the center and got some applauds from their created 'crowd fans'.
"looks like we got fans in school and out of school," said Soma with a grin while Erina blushes with a happy smile on her face.
moments later, Erina and Alice are in a shower room that is of service with the ice ring as this is the place where the two can get warm showers.
"to think that there are shower rooms in a plaza area like this one," said Erina while enjoying her body warming shower. "this place isn't so bad"
"I told you, you won't hate the place," said Alice in a know it all voice while showering.
"I and Soma might come back here next Christmas," said Erina as she sighs with a happy smile while enjoying the warm shower.
"oh i know you will and you won't forget your experience on this one" muttered Alice with a cheeky smirk
after the shower, Alice came out all warm and dressed up first as she smiles happily while humming a happy tune.
"here, Ojou" said Ryo while handing Alice a cup of warm chocolate cocoa.
"ah! coco! I love coco!" said Alice in a happy voice as she drinks her cup of cocoa with a happy hum.
"she seems awfully happy" stated Hisako in seeing Alice's cheery mode.
"in five seconds, Erina will scream from the shower," said Soma while looking at his watch and counting down.
"what?" said Hisako in hearing his statement before everyone heard a loud angry scream from inside the shower.
"I guess i was wrong, only four seconds before Erina screams," said Soma while tapping his watch. Hisako quickly went inside the shower to check on why Erina was screaming and she got her answer when the God Tongue came out of the shower room while dressed in a revealing Santa dress that exposes too much of her bare skin.
"ALICE~!" growled Erina in an angry voice as Alice hummed happily while drinking her cup of cocoa with an innocent-looking face.
"where did you put her clothes?" asked Soma.
"I have no idea what you are talking about" replied Alice with an innocent voice before pointing at herself with an accused face. "are you applying that I took her clothes and replace them with the revealing Santa dress that she is wearing right now? I'd never felt so accused~!"
"yeah, you are being accused of it," said Soma with a sweatdrop.
"Alice, if you don't return my clothes, right this instant! I swear that I will make your life back at school a living hell!" said Erina with an angry red face as she stomps her way to Alice, but Soma stopped her. "move!"
"alright, if you want to get more attention from the crowd's perverts that is" said Soma while pointing out to the blushing male crowds around the area that made Erina blush her red face redder before she quickly runs back to the shower room in embarrassment.
moments later, the group is walking around the plaza as Erina is covering her revealing Santa dress with Soma's coat.
"when I get my hands on you, Alice! you are dead!" growled Erina angrily at her cousin who whistles while looking around the plaza.
"Alright, let's just get you some change of clothes," said Soma as they are heading to a nearby clothing store to get Erina changed, but when they got to the clothing department, all stores were closed.
"What time is it?" asked Hisako with a sweatdrop.
"nearly 11 and almost midnight" replied Ryo with his monotone voice.
"ALICE!" screamed Erina as she and Alice run in a circle around the group.
"it wasn't me! i didn't know that the shops closed this early on christmas~! ohohohoho!" said Alice with a Cheshire cat smile.
"my god" said Hisako with a sigh.
a few minutes later, a taxi is off on the street on Christmas night as it had Soma and Erina in it.
"that Alice. I'll kill here.." grumbles Erina with an annoyed face as she keeps on grumbling about kicking Alice into a freezing sea or frying her in a large frying pan and lots more.
"now come on, no need to be so grumpy on Christmas" said Soma with a chuckle as Erina just grumbles even more in annoyance.
the two are off on their own as Erina is too angry at Alice that she might kill her in the Limo, so the best choice was to separate the two cousins from each other. right now, Soma is taking Erina to his hotel where he is staying with his father, both having different rooms from each other but are across from one another.
"here we are," said Soma as they arrived at the Ueno Hotel.
"you stayed here for Christmas?" said Erina in seeing the hotel not being so fancy as the ones she and the others had rented upon arriving in Tokyo.
"beats the fancy hotel, this one cheap," said Soma before looking annoyed from mentioning his father. "just like my old man"
the two got off the taxicab after paying the driver as they head into the hotel for a good night's sleep after such a tiring day, for Erina that is.
On the hotel's 7th floor, Soma brought Erina to his room which has the number 777 as he slides the security key on the slot before it beeps and the door locks are opened.
"come on in," said Soma as he opened the door and got in first while holding the door for Erina to come in.
Soma closes the door and turns on the light to show the well-furnished hotel room that seems a bit fancy even though the place is cheap.
"you can take another bath or whatever you want while I get you some of my clothes," said Soma as he went to get his luggage to get some spare clothes for Erina. seeming how her clothes are now gone thanks to Alice's little prank.
Erina takes off Soma's coat and places it on a table as she looks around the room. she sat on the bed and felt it being so springy and comfy. Erina patted the bed before she looks at the table lamp and sees a box of chocolates that are half-eaten.
licking her lips, Erina took one to taste without realizing that the box had the title of 'Whiskey Bon Bon' on it's cover.
"these should do till Alice gives your clothes back" said Soma while taking a loose shirt of his and a pair of boxers for Erina, when the woman suddenly lunged at him and pushed him to the floor. "ow! what gives, Erina?!"
"you are the 'what gives!', you little naughty red haired elf man!" slurred Erina in a drunk like voice while hiccuping a few times.
Soma looks at Erina and sees her face; red and drunk. he blinked twice in seeing her state before he took notice of the nearly empty chocolate box on the side of his bed's lamp table.
'i should've remembered to put those away or placed its cover back on' thought Soma with a sweatdrop.
"you have been a naughty little Elf, you!" said Erina while hiccuping as she pokes Soma with her right hand's index finger a few times. "I'm going to teach you what Santa does to naughty Elves like you!"
and upon the jolly day of Christmas, comes the magical night where the cheers are all night long.
upon the next morning, Erina groans on the bed as she sat up and placed a hand on her forehead.
"ugh...my head.." muttered Erina as her head feels like it got shaken up in a juicer.
"ugggghh" a groan is heard from beside her as Erina sees Soma sleeping on the bed with her, the man having kiss and hickey marks on his face and neck while having his chest exposed.
Erina's face started sweating up and slowly turning red as she realized that she slept with Soma who is half-naked while she is naked to the day she is born in the world.
"eh?" said Erina as her face became even redder while her sweat endlessly slides down her face.
on that day, it was a very special Christmas for the two.
"IT'S NOT!" screamed Erina in pure hysteria.
that's a wrap!
bye bye