Christmas~ P.1

// Lucy's POV //

It's Christmas tomorrow, yay?

I mean... sure Christmas is great and all but... "I'M SO BOOOOOOOORED!"

I'm laying in bed, head in my pillow and kicking my feet as my greatest enemy grabs my neck with evil intentions. Boredom is the worst feeling in the world. 

~sigh~

I hear a sigh from across my room, most likely from the same person who's been doing it for the last few days, ichichi.

"Why are you sighing Ichichi?"

She gives me a blank stare as if asking 'Are you dumb?'

"oh my god, you've been saying that for the last 6 days! It's driving me crazy. Christmas is tomorrow! Are you not excited? Oh, and stop with that nickname!" Okay maybe she I really am getting on her nerves?

"What's so good about Christmas? I mean sure presents? But I could buy those things all by myself you know?" Christmas is the most over rated holiday of all time. School is out for the time being for goodness sake! Why are you people happy!?

"And school is out! I mean how does this not make you happy?"

"School is the only reason I'm here! If i could go home for the holidays then maybe I would be happy cos I could go skiing or something you know? But with no school means no competition and worst of all... boredom." How is she not seeing this???

"You are the most confusing human being ever Lucy..." Back to the sighs and flat stares she goes.

"You know what I need?"

She looks at me blankly instead of responding.

"A pc! Come on Ichichi, let's go shopping!"

"What? Now? And isn't that oc gunna cost you like.. a tonne!?"

"Silly Ichichi, I HAVE A TONNE!"

I quickly put my shoes on and run out the door so she can't stop me. MWAHAHHAHAA!

"Stop being so irresponsible and put a coat on, it's cold outside. AND I TOLD YOU TO STOP WITH THAT NICKNAME!"

// a few minutes later, Ichinose's POV //

"~doo doo doo doo doo~"

Walking around with this girl is like walking around with a child, skipping around instead of walking and 'humming' the song that's playing through the mall's speakers. She's going up to all the tech stores and barraging the cashiers who know nothing a bunch of questions. poor guys just trying to work...

In the end she settled on one that costed roughly around 140,000 points...

Anyway she wanted to buy other stuff like a headset too, and a controller... and a microphone... and a camera... and 2 monitors... and 2 keyboards... and 2 mouse... and speakers...

This girl isn't good with money at all...

Oh well, I tried to stop her. Also she took me out for food which was yummy, we got ramen and sweet cream buns as a treat! Apparently cream buns are very cheap and very good so a win win. 

As we walk back to the dorms i spot a clip in the window and my heart went weak, legs feeling like jelly. It's the same one... It's the one I stole when I was younger.

I couldn't take my eyes off of it, captivating my whole existence. After I don't know how long, Lucy jumped into my view and pulled my arm toward the exit of the mall. In my heart i'm so thankful that Lucy pulled me away, she may not know it but she just broke me out of remembering a tough time in my life.

// Lucy's POV //

Back at the mall I saw her, Miyu. We made eye contact for a few seconds before she broke it off and walked away with some of her class D friends, ignoring me and didn't even bother to talk to me...

I wonder what that's about?

Oh well, I saw Ichichi looking at a cool clip in the store. Maybe I should buy it for her? Would make a great small present I guess. She was looking at it for quite a while... Maybe a popular trend or something?

// Next morning, Karuizawa's POV //

It's six in the morning... SIX IN THE MORNING! ugh... 

No human should ever be awake at this time, I need my beauty sleep thank you very much!

Anyway I'm out here because Kushida called me out here at such a time. I wonder what it's about...

"Karuizawa! Hey over here!"

Hm? She's a bit earlier than the meeting time which is 10 past 6. Whatever, I just want to get this over and done with. Maybe I shouldn't have bothered Kyotaka though...

"What do you want Kushida? Do you know how early it is?"

Kushida just laughed playfully at my annoyance, ugh. 

"Sorry sorry, I know it's a bad time but I had something reaaaaaaly important to ask you!"

"what do you want Kushida? Hurry up, I have places to be you know." This was really unnerving and I wanted to leave as fast as I can.

All of a sudden Kushida's face went from sweet and charming to cold and full of disgust, "apparently you have been seen with Ayanokoji a lot lately. Are you two hooking up or something?"

What? S-seen? Seen by who?! "I-i don't know what your talking about!"

She stepped closer to me and look straight up into my eyes, "So it's true then? You let Hirata go and went for a boring guy with no friends?" She smirked at me.

"That's not true! Me and Hirata are in love!" This is not good. If this information becomes public then my whole life is over.

"Sure, but you'll be happy to know that I'm not going to tell anyone... yet~"

"What do you mean yet?" I need to Ayanokoji.

"You'll know soon enough." Her smirk become something more akin to a smile, a smile you pull when thinking back on a good memory. Her hands were also clutching at a small chain sitting around her neck.

She started walking away, "Where are you going?!"

Nothing... She said nothing and kept walking away...

What am I going to do?

// Ichinose's POV //

I woke up with a start, looking at the clock I saw it was almost time for me to meet up with Lucy: 8:15. Were supposed to meet in her room in 15 minutes for presents and breakfast.

I quickly get dressed, brush my hair and clean my teeth before running up to the next floor to Lucy's room and scanning my card to let me in her room.

What I see when I enter is not what I thought I would see However, Lucy sat at her desk in nothing but a hoodie and some panties. She had a headset on and was facing her monitor so she clearly didn't realize that I came in, she started talking to people saying how useless they were. I think this game is Valorant...? That's the game she said she was downloading last night so I assume that's what it is.

As she pressed a key on her keyboard I see some sort of score system? Well highlighted at the top said, 

Reincarnation_Transcendence: 32/8/4

 ...

Now I'm assuming it's her as it's highlighted in gold, well she was clearly doing better than everyone else as the next best player was on the other team with 12 kills.

~Sigh~

typical, crushing people and putting them down lower with her words, why am I not surprised? I see a blue barrier go down and she quickly turns a corner before clicking her mouse 4 times in quick succession, Lucy killed 3 of them and missed one of the head shots before she was killed with one shit by a sniper rifle. 

Her team managed to kill the last two with only one of them surviving with 76 HP... how is there such a skill gap? Oh well, she's celebrating her win by eating cookies that were on her other small desk next to her. 

I guess it's time! 

I snuck up behind her and grabbed her shoulders while saying "BOO!"

What happened in the next three seconds I will never comprehend...

// Lucy's POV //

"FUCK!" I feel something touch my shoulders and a loud noise in my ear, I quickly grab one of the hands and pull it as far forward as I can while swiveling my chair so as to avoid damaging any of my tech as the person is swung over my shoulder. I don't finish there however as I lock my legs around the arm and put pressure on it as by leaning backward, threatening to break it.

"WAIT WAIT WAIT! IT'S ME!"

"EH!? ICHICHI? What are you doing there?" I see Ichinose down by my feet trying her hardest not to move to accidentally break her arm, when I realize what was happening and that she tried to scare me I quickly let go of her arm and sat back down on my comfy gaming chair.

"You tried to break my arm!?" She seems so shocked, I mean... she's the one that snuck up on me...

"Well duh, you scared me." It's obvious isn't it????

"~@:/.}~~@>@:>@:>:>@@:" (AN: the words spoken in this dialogue may never been shown due to the extensive profanity :3)

After a long... talking to by Ichichi I finally had enough and pushed a small box into her hands, "Huh? What's this?"

"hehe~ Open it and find out~ Then you'll see hwo much of a great girlfriend I am!"

It was the clip she had been looking at yesterday at the mall, When Ichichi went to make us dinner last night I ordered it to my room for the fastest delivery they had and paid the driver extra to deliver it even faster so I could give it to her now.

"What's wrong?" Her eyes had little tears escape them as they stared at the clip in fondness...? Maybe regret? I don't know? "You don't like it...?"

That seemed to snap her mind into focus as she looked up at me and quickly closed the box, "No, I love it Lucy~ Thank you so much!"

"umph!" Was all that escaped my mouth as Ichinose bear hugged me against my chair. I may be strong but there is absolutely no way to escape this girls bear hugs, I swear to the gods! All there is to do is sit here and hug back for a little while...

// 5 minutes later //

I AM FREE! She finally let go after countless eons...

"Now for your present!" Ichinose went under my bed and pulled out another box... When did she out that box there... And how did I not know???

"When did you put that there...? I checked under my bed last night! I saw no box there!" WHAT THE HELL?

"Mwehehehe don't you worry about that! Now who cares? Open the damn box!" first of all: I CARE! WHAT THE HELL!????

And second off... she seems really keen on me opening this right now.

So without further words I rip into the wrapping paper and see something that made me almost drop it... "Ichi... What are these?"

"CAT EARS! HAHA I saw you looking into that cosplay shop the other week and you blushed a little so I thought maybeeee that the cute little Lucy wanted them but was too embarrassed to buy them~" 

// Ichinose's POV //

She stopped looking at me and stared at the ground so I grabbed a white pair of ears and placed them atop her black hoodie, "You look so cuuuuuuuute! Let me take a picture!" 

Before I'm able to take the pic Lucy had pulled the drawstrings on her hood to hide her face and put her hidden face into her hands to further hide herself. She's is so adorable! OMGGGGGGG!

I did notice that she didn't take the ears off though~ 

hehehehe~

"Who's the best Lucy?" I say gloatingly as a joke.

"Y-you are..."

I can feel my eyes widening and mouth go agape as I bear hug my cute little kitty cat again.

// an hour later, Kayaki mall //

Those weren't the only presents we bought for each other but those will be opened later at the end of the day we decided as Lucy was going through a little dizzy spell. Right now my little kitty cat has no ears on... sad to be honest. But were in public so I can forgive it~

Any way, Lucy walks next to me holding my hand. She changed out of her black hoodie to a clean white one and has a black and white checkered skirt and white shoes, of course miss match black and white thigh highs as well as I think it makes her look even cuter~. The highlight of her appearance though is her freshly died hair, Instead of the usually died blonde streaks she has some light pink steaks to match my own strawberry blonde hair. 

I myself am wearing a puffy white fur coat and blue jeans which match my white and blue shoes.

It's cold lately but Lucy still refuses to wear a coat like a responsible person so I snuggle her to my body while we sit in the library. This is phase one of my Christmas day out with Lucy! Today the library is giving out coffee and hot chocolate with cream and any extra topping you want such as marsh mellows and powdered chocolate to anyone with a library card which we both happen to have as reading is a shared interest to us.

Despite the deal going on there is only three people in the library, us two and some other girl I recognize from class C, I don't know her name though... Oh well, it's not the time for that. Today is just about us two!

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This is going to be a 2 part chapter as some unexpected things came up so I don't have the time to write a 5k long chapter oopsies.

(2 days after this was written... im sorry...)

ALSO!!!!!!!! (side note)

I WROTE THIS CHAPTER LIKE 2 DAYS AGO AND ISTG I SCHEDUALED IT TO COME OUT BY ITSELF YESTERDAY EARLY MORNING TIME!!!!!! BUT WHEN I CHECKED TO SEE THE STATS ON IT TODAY I SAW IT JUST... DIDNT????? IDFK WHY AND IM SO SORRY FOR THE DELAY BUT HERE IS PART ONE OF CHRISTMAS!!!!!

(also side note 2)

yes im pretty sure the mixed training camp exam is before christmas in the main timeline but... I need to reread that part soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo HERES CHRISTMAS! 

(the mixed training camp exam will be out soon i promise... just gotta refresh my memory yk... ehe)