So since this is a special, it won't exactly affect the plot of the story. Only difference is that it's not within the timeline and Kousei and Kaori are in Japan here (they'll be in America for Christmas in the actual plot)
Late note: just found out christmas in japan is mostly for couples lmao woops (I tried making this fluffy anyways so i'm half-accurate)
(SORRY THIS IS LATE: more info in the end)

Tiptoeing to meet her target, Kaori shivered as she buried her face deeper in Kousei's hoodie that she stole coming into his room. She walked to the end of his bed, seeing him asleep with at least two-if not, three-blankets covering his body. She flattened her features with inner jealousy at how warm he looked and gazed around the dark room before she climbed to stand on his bed and let herself fall down, happily squishing Kousei and wrapping her arms around his visible neck.

Kousei awoke with a start, startled and getting the air pushed out of his lungs from the girl who fell onto him. He calmed himself when he saw it was Kaori and tried to sit up but she wouldn't let him go, only hugging him tighter. He sighed and removed his arms from his blankets to hold Kaori's waist, her being curling into him more.

"What's up?" He coughed a little to get rid of the croaking and pulled Kaori back a little to look at her face.

"I came here to wake you up, but it's cold so holding you is making me warm." Kaori buried her face in his chest, or more like the blankets.

"Oh... Well then get in here." Kousei removed moved the blankets to the side and let Kaori enter his little cavern, which she happily did because it was freezing cold.

Kaori tucked herself and Kousei in the covers more and hugged his side, his arm going around her since he was the one laying on his back.

"Why's your room so cold?" Kaori looked at his face.

Kousei shrugged and closed his eyes, wanting to sleep a little more. "I don't have a heater in this house."

"But the rest of your house is fine!" Kaori quietly argued. "You need to get a heater someday, otherwise you'll freeze to death."

Kousei chuckled and turned around, wrapping his arms around her to tuck her in his arms. "But I have you to keep me warm."

"Well not for long, I have my own home to sleep at. I'm also not a personal heater."

"Do you have a heater?"

"Of course I do."

"Will you ever lend it over?"

Kaori shook her head and hugged Kousei tighter. "No, because my heater is already warming me up."

"And here I thought you weren't a personal heater." Kousei let out a small smile. He stayed silent and tried to fall asleep once Kaori didn't answer back, but then he just realized something.

"Wait." He moved back to look at her face. "How'd...you get in my house?"

"Hm?" Kaori peeked at him. "Ah. I just came in, it was unlocked. But now it's closed and secure with me here."

"Wait...not that I don't mind, but why are you here?"

Kaori gasped and looked shocked. "It's Christmas!"

Kousei visibly looked surprised, then he closed his eyes. "Guess time flies by fast."

Kaori groaned and shoved her face in his chest, her voice muffled. "Dum-dum!"

"What time is it?"

"Around 9."

Kousei pulled back completely and stared. "And you came walking from your house to here? It's dangerous! You can't be going out alone like that, especially in the morning at this time of climate. Did you even have a sweater?"

Kaori sighed from Kousei's lecture and questions, throwing the covers over their entire bodies and smiling at him in the darkness. "Yes, I have a sweater. And this sweater is yours. But before I came here, I didn't have one. And who said I was coming alone?"

"Huh? Mine?"

"Jä."

Kousei chuckled quietly. "You have an adorable German accent. But...how'd you get my hoodie?"

"It was lying around."

"Oh. Okay. Now, who were you with coming over here?"

"Our good ol' friends Watari and Tsubaki. And about that sweater issue, don't worry. Watari leant me his jacket along the way and Tsubaki gave me her scarf."

"But weren't they cold?"

"Yeah, but they said it was fine."

Kousei scoffed a little bit and brought her closer for warmth. "You're so spoiled."

"Yet, you're so cheap. Who doesn't have have a heater?"

"Me and some other people around the universe."

"Well, true."

Kousei smiled and softly kissed her head before enveloping her in his arms more comfortably. "Is your boyfriend able to sleep now?"

"Yes. I'll stay here with him, too."

"But what about Tsubaki and-"

Stopping his question from interruption, Kousei and the girl in his arms jumped when Kousei's bedroom door slammed open, Watari's stern voice breaking through the cold air.

"Alright, lovebirds! Stop having fun under those covers and come keep us company!"

Tsubaki spoke right after. "Yeah! I don't wanna stay alone with this boring idiot!"

Watari was about to act out again, but he broke his general act and stared at the brunette beside him, deflating back to his original self. "But I can be fun..."

Tsubaki smirked and cocked a hip. "Yeah right."

"I'll show you!" Watari turned to the couple who were silently under the covers. "Husband! Wife! Hurry up the baby making and get down to the living room quick!" The jock turned around and stomped downstairs to the living room, Tsubaki sighing and mumbling about how much Watari can be so annoyingly confident as she left the room and turned to follow her friend.

Kaori peeked her head out of the cover a little to see if they were gone, and when she confirmed they were she went back in the covers and giggled. "That was fun."

Kousei laughed a little bit. "They're so different from us but yet we still manage to be the best of friends."

Kaori grinned and hugged his waist in the warm blankets. "The only thing I have in common with them is the teasing."

"Well at least you're apart of this relationship with me so you don't do much teasing." Kousei smiled, tiredly kissing Kaori's forehead and moving down to use her as a pillow. "Goodnight."

"What? You're going back to sleep?"

Kousei hummed a yes and wrapped his arms around her waist under his unzipped hoodie she was wearing to make himself even more warm.

Kaori sighed and shook her head, running her fingers through his messy hair as he fell back to sleep like a baby. He's probably really tired or something... She smiled slightly and kissed his head before letting him go so that she can go down to Watari and Tsubaki, but Kousei just wouldn't let go of her.

"Stay," he pouted. He tightened his arms around her and made himself more comfortable.

The blonde sighed and took off the sweater to place it on her teenaged baby like a blanket pulled his arms off of her, missing the warmth she was given. "Sorry, Mr. Grizzly Bear-A.K.A sloth-but I have to go down to our friends. You really should too, but you seem tired so I'm gonna let you be."

Kousei groaned while Kaori kissed his head and he moved his body to sit up, the blanket exposing the two to the cold air. "Fine, I'm up."

Kaori shivered and grabbed the hoodie back, sitting up and slipping it back on. "It's cold as hell, never mind about giving your sweater back."

Kousei felt chills and used his blankets as coverage. "C-can we share my hoodie?"

"How?" Kaori put his hoodie over her head and blew hot air into her hands.

"I slip in there with you. It's not impossible with how small you are."

Kaori smacked Kousei with the flap of the sleeve and shook her head. "I'm not small."

"Well you're small enough to let me fit in there with you. Here, let's get up."

Kaori frowned softly and got off the bed, Kousei doing the same right after. He spoke up to add on. "And, if I'm in there with you it'll be even more warm. So..." Kousei smiled and took the sweater off of Kaori to wear it himself. He moved behind her and extended his arms, waiting for Kaori to slide her arms through the sweater holes.

Kaori leaned against him and slid her arms in the arm holes and felt the warmth of his arms and the inside of the sweater.

"Oh. You're right, it is warm." Kaori grinned up at Kousei behind her and he grinned.

"And I told you we'd fit. You're really small."

"You're sweater's just large, shush." She zipped up the sweater and hugged herself against him. "I don't know how we're going to walk so you're going to be carrying some of my weight. Don't make fun of my weight, please, my darling Kousei."

Kousei laughed and nodded and curled his arms around her, her arms doing the same action, and picked her up, walking forward.

"I'm going to laugh if you trip." Kaori chuckled and laid the back of her head on his shoulder.

"I'm going to laugh if you're the one who gets the most pain, then."

Kaori frowned and kicked Kousei's knee, making him stumble a little.

"O-ow! I'm kidding!' Kousei sighed and carefully walked down the stairs. "You know I'm kidding; I'd be worried, if anything. Of course you'd laugh though."

"Okay, truthfully I'd laugh but I'd also be worried for your sake." Kaori smiled and held his colds knuckles with her semi-warm hands.

"Well that's nice to hear."

"KOUSEI! KAORI! I HEAR YOU GUYS COMING DOWN!"

Kousei smiled a little at Watari's outburst and walked over to the living room. "Hi."

Watari turned around fast, almost making Tsubaki-whom was on his shoulders-fall to the ground. She thumped his head with her palm. "Careful."

Watari grinned at her and turned back to his other friends. "How did it go guys?"

Kaori stared at the human tower before her until she said with a grin, "It went great! I don't want to go into details, but overall, Kousei's really gentle in bed!"

Kousei turned red and let go of Kaori when choking out a scream, Tsubaki screaming and falling to the ground and then soon sulking in shock at the same time. Watari blushed a little bit and tripped to the ground on his bottom beside Tsubaki. "E-EH?! YOU GUYS ACTUALLY DID IT?!"

Kaori couldn't stop laughing and Kousei just wouldn't stop hiding his red face behind Kaori, sweat dropping despite the low temperature. She spoke with giggles and said, "I-I'm kidding, oh my god!" She grinned and pulled Kousei's head down to peck his red cheek so he would stop cowering behind her. "Nothing happened, I swear."

Watari breathed out a groan and fell back to rest on Tsubaki's back. "You two are so innocent, I can't even imagine you two making out."

"U-um..." Kousei looked down at Kaori and she looked at him, the two blushing as they remember their previous makeouts.

Tsubaki turned around and pushed Watari off of her, noticing their red faces and hesitation. Her eyes widened a little. "Wait. You two have actually made o-"

"W-w-what I'm more concerned about is why you were on Watari's shoulders!" Kousei interrupted Tsubaki with a loud excuse to avoid the question and smiled awkwardly.

"You're avoiding the question, innocent Kousei." Watari stood up and helped up his short-haired friend. He smiled sadly and wiped away an imaginary tear. "You guys are growing up so fast."

"Uhm...t-thanks...?" Kousei looked down at Kaori momentarily before he wrapped his arms back around her, her connected arms following the action, and laid his chin on her shoulder. "So...why was Tsubaki on your shoulders?"

Watari brightened up and turned to Tsubaki with a grin before going back to the couple. "Oh! I set up a mistletoe!"

"More like I set it up," Tsubaki grumbled.

"Sh." Watari smiled and pointed his finger to the ceiling above him. "It's set up right there. So whoever walks under it, they shall kiss the person beside them."

Kaori slowly grew a big grin. "Well then, I'm waiting to see the example."

"Huh?" Tsubaki and Watari both stared at the blonde. Watari glanced at Tsubaki for her explanation on what Kaori had meant, but she merely shrugged.

Kousei caught on with what Kaori was saying and laughed, kissing her on the cheek briefly before he said, "I understand what you're saying, Kaori." He started talking to his two friends. "How come you two can't figure it out?" He grinned and gestured to the mistletoe over the two brunettes with his head.

Watari widened his eyes and looked up, Tsubaki drastically doing the same. Watari took his time to smirk and he teasingly wrapped his arm around Tsubaki's shoulders. "How 'bout it?" he suggested.

Tsubaki pushed him away and crossed her arms, her face contorted. "No!"

Watari laughed and turned to Kousei and Kaori. "She said no, so I won't kiss her."

"What's bad about kissing Watari though?" Kaori tilted her head and leaned against Kousei. When Tsubaki wasn't looking, Kaori had sent a wink to Watari before lying with, "I've kissed him before, he's a really nice kisser."

Tsubaki blushed and Watari caught her wink, playing along. He shrugged and turned to Tsubaki. "Guess I am."

Kousei widened his eyes and his arms tightened around Kaori, his voice dropping to to a harsh whisper right beside her ear. "You've kissed him before?! How come I was never aware of this?!"

Kaori giggled and turned her head to place her lips over the corner of Kousei's jabbering ones, pulling back only a little to whisper, "Don't hug me too tightly, you'll make me lose air."

Kousei noticed that he indeed was holding Kaori tighter than he usually does and loosed his arms, his jealously slowly coming down. "S-sorry..." He went back to a low voice. "You didn't answer my question."

Kaori kissed him again, but on the cheek, before going to his ear and saying, "We've never kissed, I'm just joking so that I can convince Tsubaki to go along with the mistletoe."

The prodigy let out a small sigh of relief despite himself and rested his chin on her head. "Geez..."

Kaori grinned and turned to her friends who were just chatting a little, Watari seemingly telling her to follow the tradition. "So...?"

Tsubaki was reluctant to spit out an answer, so all she did was half-nod and shake her head at the same time. "I-I don't know."

"How about this? Kaori and I can push your guys' heads together, and then you two can do the rest." Kousei smiled cheekily and picked Kaori up a little to walk over to their friends.

"I don't really wanna go through with this...but...tradition is tradition so I kinda do at the same time." Tsubaki sighed and walked up to Watari, staring up at him and stood before him a few feet away.

Kousei unzipped the sweater and had Kaori remove her arms and let them out in the cold open. He leaned toward her ear and whispered, "Are we actually gonna do this?"

Kaori shrugged and moved her mouth to his ear. "Should we do it? What if it makes them uncomfortable?"

"True. Let's just...stop pushing them halfway and see if the two actually do anything."

Kaori nodded. She turned to her friends. "Get ready, you two."

They both placed their hands on the back of their friends' heads and slowly inched them closer. Kousei held Kaori's hands and stopped her from going all the way when the two were at least a few inches close, and when the two actually gave each other a little kiss Kaori had freaked a little and turned around to hug Kousei and hide her face in his neck, her arms going around him under the warm sweater.

"They actually did it," she quietly squeaked.

Kousei chuckled as he saw the two athletes blush and awkwardly smile at each other. He pulled Kaori's face from his neck and looked at her. "Now, our turn?"

She shook her head and blushed a little. "I'm not kissing you in front of our friends."

Kousei chuckled and picked her up, even though she was free from the sweater, and stood where Tsubaki and Watari once did until they moved for the couple.

"Now it's your guys' turn." Watari smirked at Kaori's red face and Tsubaki smiled, noticing it as well. She spoke. "And since you two are a couple, the kiss has to be longer."

Kaori whined and loosened her arms around Kousei. "Do we have to? I don't like kissing in front of people..."

"But you always kiss him in front of us," shot back Watari.

"Not on the lips, though!"

Kousei sighed and tried to back up Kaori. "How about a kiss on the cheek?"

It turned into a small argument between the two boys: "The neck."

"H-huh?! No!" Kousei turned red.

"Ear."

"No, Watari."

"Somewhere intimate."

"Watari, no!" Kousei groaned and just stopped talking and cupped the nape of Kaori's neck to push her head towards his, his lips meeting hers in a chaste kiss for only a short amount of time.

Once Kousei pulled back, Kaori hid her face and he looked to his two brown-haired companions. "There?"

Tsubaki shook her head. "It has to be longer. Watari and I are still not over our kiss so you two should feel flustered as well."

Watari nodded.

"But we're already flustered! Look at Kaori!"

"Don't look at me!"

Kousei laughed slightly and smiled at his friends. "We're done now."

Watari shook his head. "Nope. You don't seem fazed; makeout."

"N-no! We're not doing that in front of you guys, or anyone, period!"

"So they have made out, hm." Watari grinned at Tsubaki and turned back to the two. "Do what you do alone."

"We already kissed, Watari!" Kaori's face was still red when she looked at her friends. "A mistletoe is only about a kiss, not a whole makeout session..."

"Come on! We just need you both to be all fuzzy about a kiss like Tsubaki and I were."

Kaori groaned and this time she was the one who initiated the kiss, tangling her fingers in Kousei's hair to bring him close and kiss him deeply and passionately, their lips moving together.

"Oh." Watari blushed and covered Tsubaki's eyes, only him being able to see until Tsubaki clicked her tongue and hit Watari on the shoulder and turned him around, both of them not able to see what was going on under the mistletoe.

Kaori pulled back, leaving Kousei breathless and shocked. The two stared at each other whilst they took in air and she was flushed all over her face while Kousei was blushing profoundly. Kaori broke the gaze and looked at her friends, whom weren't even looking.

"We're done."

Tsubaki and Watari both turned back, a little tint of red on both of their cheeks. Watari rubbed the back of his neck. "Well...I may be all over girls and a lady's man...but...that is something I won't get used to for a while."

"You guys are too intense when it comes to makeouts, we should've let you guys go with just that first kiss but you two look embarrassed so Watari and I are satisfied." To further prove her last claim, Watari nodded.

"W-well..." Kousei looked down, feeling hot enough to probably not even need a sweater, "we told you guys we prefer being in private with these stuff."

Watari broke in. "Are you sure you guys haven't had sex yet?"

Kousei and Kaori turned even more red than before, the two blurting out at the same time. "WATARI!/SHUT UP!"

Watari enjoyed teasing his friends, it was so easy and fun. He laughed and Tsubaki sighed as she grabbed his wrist, pulling him over to the TV they had gotten Kousei a long time ago.

"We've teased them enough, let's let them be."

"Okay, okay." Watari smirked and leaned his elbow on Tsubaki's shoulder. "Told you guys I can be fun."

Kaori grumbled and walked off to sit on the couch, leaving Kousei to himself while she was in her own mood. "You and Tsubaki should've kissed longer."

Watari shook his head when Tsubaki looked alerting at him. "No thank you, I'm a clean kid as of now."

"H-huh?!" everyone exclaimed. Kousei walked over to his friend and stood in front of him, a look of disbelief on his face.

"Are you okay?" Kousei briefly touched Watari's forehead.

Watari shook him off and grinned, nodding his head while moving around Kousei to sit beside Kaori. He spoke with a chuckle. "I'm currently single so why not just keep it that way for a while?"

"Please," muttered Tsubaki.

Kousei smiled and walked to sit on Kaori's other side. He grabbed her hand and messed with her calloused fingertips. "That's good Watari."

"So what should we do now?" Kaori let Kousei do whatever he wanted and leaned on him. "Play games or something?"

"Oh!" Watari shot up from the couch and made a move to turn on the TV. "We saved up enough yen to get Kousei a flat-screen a long while ago, so you have a good enough quality for a fireplace."

"...What?" Kaori tilted her head adorably and looked at where Watari was standing, the TV finally hitting her. "Huh?!" She turned her head to Kousei."You've had a TV the entire time?"

Kousei grabbed her hand that he was messing with in his own and shrugged, not sure how to respond. "Yeah, for about 3 months."

"Every time I come to your house we're always in your room!" Kaori whimpered quietly and drooped her head on Kousei's shoulder. "We could've come down here at times."

Watari cackled, his back turned to them while he went to Netflix. "I wonder what you guys do up there in his room."

Tsubaki groaned and smacked his shoulder, emitting a laugh from him while the couple on the couch behind the athletes blushed. "Stop making them uncomfortable now."

He laughed. "Okay, sorry, sorry."

"So...why are you on Netflix?" Kousei brushed away the redness from his face and warmed up Kaori's hand with his own.

"We're finding a fireplace." Watari found the "movie" and clicked on it, a high definition indoor fireplace coming on screen. Watari grinned and turned to his friends.

Tsubaki just stared at the TV, her mind going many places, and Kaori just furrowed her brow, a sarcastic response coming along. "Wow. I feel so warm now."

Kousei laughed and Tsubaki frowned. She spoke up. "I need someone to physically warm me up like Kousei is doing with Kaori."

Kaori spoke up. "Watari, do your job."

Watari blushed a little and shook his head. "If she's not wanting it, I won't do it."

"Wow, such a gentleman you are." Kousei grinned.

Watari smirked. "How much of a gentleman are you to Kaori?"

Before Kousei could respond, Kaori did it for him. "He goes beyond."

"That's good." The two athletes spoke at the same time and smiled at each other upon realization. Tsubaki walked over to the couch and sat beside Kaori. She turned to her childhood friend. "Don't stop being a 'gentleman', as she says."

Kousei grinned and kissed Kaori's hand. "That's a life job."

Watari sighed loudly and fell on the couch beside Kousei, staring at the TV. "Merry Christmas everyone."

Everyone spoke up. "Merry Christmas."

~0000~

To keep the spirit alive, Kaori rounded everyone up in the kitchen to make some crappy gingerbread houses. The one looking the most messed up is Kousei's, since Kaori didn't bother to help him while she went to go help the other two. She's not the best baker like her parents but she can pick up up a thing or two on how to build a gingerbread house.

Kousei sighed sadly and sat in his chair while staring at his sloppy house. "This is so sad to look at."

Kaori heard Kousei's quiet talking and turned from Tsubaki, walking over to the boy who seems to be distressed over his gingerbread house. Kaori laughed once she made it over and leaned on the table her hands supporting her chin. She smiled and looked at the teen who was the owner of the house. "How'd it go, master pianist?"

Kousei sighed and stood up from his chair. Kaori sat down in his seat instead when he stood up, Kaori probing at the makeshift house. Kousei smiled and placed his hands on her shoulders as he stood behind her and shook her a little to stop her from touching his "work of art". He spoke. "Oh, it went great. I so feel like van Gogh."

Kaori giggled at Kousei's sarcastic remark and grabbed his hand, kissing his knuckles. "Okay, 'van Gogh', want me to give you an honest opinion?"

Kousei nodded and let his chin rest on her head, letting her play with his hand.

Kaori smiled and leaned back on the chair, thumping Kousei's chest with the back of her head before admitting, "It's really horrible."

Kousei feigned hurt. He stepped back a couple of feet from Kaori and stared at her back, until she turned around. He placed a hand on his chest. "That...really hurt."

Kaori laughed and stood up. She wrapped her arms around his waist and squished him in a hug. She rubbed her cheek on his chest. "It's really adorable though!" She smiled and looked up into his eyes. "It's the thought that counts."

Kousei chuckled and wrapped his arms around her shoulders, bringing her into another hug and brought her to his chest so that his cheek was placed atop her head. "I guess."

Tsubaki and Watari stared at the lovey dovey couple from the other side of the table and both knew that the two musicians really were in love.

Watari sighed and spoke to Tsubaki. "I doubt any relationship of mine will be like that."

Tsubaki agreed and poked Watari's arm with her finger. "Just stop going from girl-to-girl and stick with the true one."

Watari sighed and dropped his head on the table, staring at Tsubaki the entire time. "Wanna give it a try?"

"Give what a try?"

Watari sat up straight and made his voice his voice a whisper. "Going out."

"WHAT?!"

Kousei and Kaori jumped and turned to look at Tsubaki, who was red all over. Kousei broke the hug between Kaori and him and stared at his friends. "What happened?"

Watari shook his head. "Nothing. Tsubaki just thought I said something else."

Kaori looked confused and gazed over over to Tsubaki, who just nodded in agreement with Watari.

"We're going to the living room. Don't get too crazy in here." Watari grinned and walked off, dragging Tsubaki with him to the he living room past the couple. After that, Kousei and Kaori went back to themselves.

"They're so random."

Kaori nodded. "Mm-hm."

"So...I can see your house looks great." Kousei walked over to where Kaori made her house and looked at it. "Guess you're not just good at the violin and being a great girlfriend."

Kaori blushed at what Kousei said in the end and just walked over to sit on the table, sitting beside Kousei's ginger house and not facing him. "I guess."

Silence fell upon them, but it wasn't awkward or anything of the sort. But when Kousei went back to look at Kaori, she was eating his gingerbread person. He looked horrified and asked questions. "What are you doing? Why?!"

Kaori laughed and kept eating the Kousei he had made for himself. "You taste good, that's why."

Kousei frowned and grabbed gingerbread Kaori, walking up to her and biting her arms off in front of her face.

Kaori pouted and wrapped her legs around his waist to bring him closer and once he was close enough to feel his breathing she ripped off gingerbread Kousei's leg and fed it off to the actual Kousei.

Kousei sighed as he chewed but smiled nonetheless. "Mmmm."

Kaori smiled. "I know right?"

Kousei laughed and placed down the treat in his hand to wipe away crumbs that were scattered around Kaori's mouth. "You're so childish."

Kaori placed her hand over his to move it away from her mouth so that she can peck his lips. "But you're so nerdy, so it's fine."

"Nerdy?" He tilted his head and Kaori nodded with a wide smile. "Mm-hm!" she hummed.

Kousei laughed and hugged her small body, his face buried into her neck. "Ah...okay then."

Kaori giggled and wrapped her legs around Kousei more to bring him closer and hugged him tightly around the shoulders. "But you're also really mean at times."

"Mean? How?" He pulled back a little.

"You always say wrong stuff at times."

Kousei tried to protest, but couldn't when he knew Kaori was partially right. "S-sorry. Haha, you're the only girl I've been like this with. I can't really treat girls the way you think since I've been growing up with Tsubaki and she's less of a girly girl than you." He gave Kaori a crooked smile. "Sorry."

Kaori smiled sweetly and grabbed his head to kiss his forehead. "And that's also why you are one of the most gentlemanly guys I've ever known."

"Thanks...?" He chuckled and tried to move from from her but she clung to him like a sloth. "Shouldn't we be over there with Tsubaki and Watari?"

Kaori nodded, but she didn't remove her arms from his neck or legs from his waist.

"U-uh...do you want me to carry you over there?"

Kaori nodded again, but Kousei decided to come just stay with Kaori in the kitchen. "In this position and considering Watari will be present, I'd rather stay here."

"Okay then."

Unexpectedly, Watari came walking into the kitchen but froze when he barely stepped in and saw the couple. "Um..." Watari was about to walk out. "Did I interrupt something?"

Kaori and Kousei shook their head, a little red. Kaori spoke up. "Not at all. We're just talking."

"Uh-huh." Watari wasn't convinced, but he walked further into the kitchen and brought out a mug and milk and prepared to make hot chocolate.

"What're you doing?" Kousei asked. To keep herself busy, Kaori ran her fingers through Kousei's hair and played with it.

"Making hot chocolate for miss bossy over there in the living room."

Kaori giggled and asked, "Want me to help?"

Watari shook his head and smiled, getting things done. "I'm good. I want this to be special."

Kousei scoffed playfully and hid his face from Watari in Kaori's hair. "'Special'."

"Shut up, mister pianist."

Kousei laughed and watched as Watari walked out of the kitchen to go hand Tsubaki her hot chocolate. He looked at Kaori. "It probably won't go well."

"Give him a little hope." Kaori smiled.

From the living room, the two could hear the conversation between Tsubaki and Watari.

Watari: "Here you go, Tsubaki! A nice cup of hot chocolate!"

Tsubaki seemingly took a sip and responded right after. "It's cold."

"A nice cup of chocolate."

"It's horrible."

"Cup of chocolate."

"I'm not even sure if it's drinkable."

Watari lost his courage. "...Cup."

Kousei and Kaori felt bad for Watari, but they still laughed despite that feeling. The two musicians decided to just walk out of the kitchen and hang out with their friends.

~0000~

A few hours had passed, and during the few Hiroko had come over to drop off a few presents from her and her daughter for Kousei and his friends before leaving again since she was actually a little busy on this holiday.

Watari sighed and looked at the presents that were cuddled up in the corner of Kousei's living room. "When can we open the presents?"

Kousei gazed over to the presents and eyed them before finalizing the thoughts in his head with, "Whenever you guys want, I guess." He turned his head to look at Kaori before asking what she thinks, but she just shrugged while saying, "I dunno, now would be fine... Unless we do it at midnight."

Kousei half agreed by shrugging but also nodding his head. He turned over to Tsubaki, staring and waiting for an answer she knows the question to.

Tsubaki shrugged. "Now, I guess. Is anyone else coming over?"

Kousei shook his head. "Doubt it." He turned once more. "Watari?"

"Now would be fine, I suppose."

Kousei declared to open the gifts now and stood up right before he handed everyone their gifts, which were mostly from Hiroko.

"These are mostly all from Hiroko," pointed out Tsubaki.

"I didn't bring any of you guys anything since I'm broke at the moment," confessed Kaori.

Watari nodded and had agreed with blonde while Kousei and Tsubaki agreed right after.

"Guess we only get presents from Hiroko and her daughter." Kousei laughed and sat back on the couch, feeling Kaori snuggled into his side. "Who's gonna start?"

"I will." Watari grinned, and once he finished opening his presents he had gotten a brand new soccer ball from the good brand a some good cleats that were the Messi kind. Watari was extremely grateful for his gifts, considering they were really expensive and had told Kousei to give "his onee-sama" a big thanks when he has the chance.

When Tsubaki opened her present, she had gotten new cleats as well-they were the expensive ones, making her extremely grateful-and was then given a really good bat that she's been wanting for a long while but didn't have the money for. The two athletes were really happy to had gotten what they were given.

Now, the two musicians. Kaori had shockingly, in her own thought, been given a chin rest for her violin. If anything, she is really grateful for this. She never complains about any problems when she plays her violin since she didn't care at all and was fine with how it was, but the chin rest will give her a more comfortable experience when playing.

Kousei though, his present was not at all related to his passion, but it did relate to him. Once he got the wrapping paper off, he was greeted with a bear. But it was a stuffed bear with a little blotch of black hair on top of the head with the ears sticking out and glasses on it's face, a shirt and jeans on the bear's body.

"U-uh..." Kousei licked his lips in surprise and glanced at his friends, not missing Kaori who was staring at the bear with a big smile. "I-It's a bear but..." Kousei gazed into the box and squinted his eyes to read what was written down there by Hiroko, "it's supposed to be me."

"Oh my god!" Kaori laughed and scooted closer to Kousei to grab the bear, hugging it tightly. "It's so cute!"

"True/Honestly, it is." Tsubaki and Watari both had spoken at the same time, but they both blushed when they realized they had spoken out loud.

"Um...t-thanks?" Kousei laughed half-heartedly and tried to grab the bear back from Kaori, but she held the bear closer to her chest.

"I'm gonna keep it."

Kousei laughed but he still tried to get the bear back. "Kaori, it's a mini me, I should keep it."

"Exactly, it's a mini you which means I should keep him so I don't miss you every night."

Kousei frowned and he paused his movements. "But I prefer it if you miss me every night, because that means you can call me every night and I get to hear your lovely voice and that's what makes me happy each night."

Watari made a face and threw a balled up wrapper at the couple. "Please lower your voice and don't gross us out with your lovey dovey crap."

Kousei laughed and Kaori giggled. Kousei smiled and tossed the wrapper back at him. "Okay okay. Just know that when you and Tsubaki get together, I expect nothing but hand holding around Kaori and I."

"But you guys can hug and cuddle and everything around us!" Watari said, completely ignoring what Kousei said about him and Tsubaki, and frowned as he crossed his arms like a little toddler. "Not fair."

"Hey, be lucky we don't kiss." Kaori smiled and Tsubaki threw the wrapper at Kaori, the one Kousei had thrown back at Watari but all Kaori did was laugh.

"You make it seem like you guys screw around when you kiss." Tsubaki sighed and tried to hide the blush she had.

"Well, for one: we don't 'screw around', and two: even if we did screw around, we wouldn't have been embarrassed about kissing in front of you two." Kousei stopped trying to grab his bear and let Kaori play with it, leaning back onto the couch. Kaori spoke either way as she let the bear Kousei lay on her lap. "Well, honestly it's only me embarrassed to kiss in front of you all, it's Kousei here who doesn't seem to mind."

"Um...it depends on my mood, really." Kousei smiled and kissed her head, making her turn a little red in front of her friends. She frowned and hugged the little Kousei in her arms tighter.

"Yeah...I think I'll stay single for a while," Tsubaki commented. Watari turned to her and smiled with a little nod before turning to the couple. "Agreed."

"Wow wow wow, Watari...so you're finally deciding to go solo, huh?" Kousei smiled and Watari didn't stop the grin that made way to his face. "Sure, why not?" he said.

"Good luck," everyone said.

~0000~

Nighttime had hit, and to keep everyone from going out in the cold air back to their own homes they all decided to have a sleepover at Kousei's humble abode. He had agreed, of course, since he's not all that cruel.

Watari and Tsubaki were both forced to sleep in the same futon but had found a way to keep distance-a lot-in between one another, of course, considering Kousei only had one futon lying around. Kaori had teased them, but stopped when she had her fun. Of course, Kousei and Kaori were the ones comfortable sleeping together on the same bed, not really any space between the two at all. Watari and Tsubaki were the ones who teased, making both of the teens go red at times.

Watari decided to let out one more tease before he decided to fall asleep. "Don't be too loud while Tsubaki and I are here, we're still children."

"Shut up, Watari!" Kousei half-yelled. He groaned tiredly and draped his arm over Kaori's waist, bringing her back closer to his chest.

"Now we know who's the big spoon," muttered Tsubaki before she turned away from them and closed her eyes as she tried to sleep.

"Well, I like it to be me...but Kousei usually begs for him to be the big spoon, so at times I let him have his way." Kaori smiled and closed her eyes, hugging bear Kousei in her arms.

Kousei grunted and lightly kneed the back of Kaori's thigh with his own before closing his eyes and burying his bare face in Kaori's hair. He spoke quietly, letting the athletes on the floor drift off. "Off topic, but how will you see tomorrow? You took off your contacts and you don't have your glasses..."

Kaori tiredly sighed and patted the hand that was around her waist. "I'll borrow yours if I have to, even though we have different prescription."

"It's not healthy to use my glasses," Kousei chuckled and placed his mouth on the top of her head, "I'll make you blind."

"Then I'll just find my way, if there's blind people who can do it-" Kaori grabbed Kousei's hand and brought her lips to the back of it-"so can I. Sleep now."

Kousei laughed lightly and used the hand that was in Kaori's to twine their fingers together and laid them right beside Kaori's head. "Okay. I love you...a lot."

Kaori kissed his hand once more and her voice came out as quiet. "And I love you lots as well, Mr. Grizzly Bear..."

"Good night."

"Night, Friend A."

Kousei smiled as he drifted off to sleep.

SO THIS IS LATE I'M SORRY (THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE RELEASED ON CHRISTMAS BUT WELL I GOT EXTREMELY BUSY). Not only was I busy with schoolwork on break, I've been trying to keep my health in check. My body hasn't been functioning correctly lately...so I've been kinda resting myself. And I'm working more to get in shape.

So...I probably won't be updating as fast since school is up this Monday and I'm going to be stuck with Algebra exams (which will get me stressed asf since it's for high school and I rlly wanna get into the one I have for my first choice). This is sucky for a special and a long awaited chapter, I'm sorry. I'm going to try harder to get the next chapter out. But try doesn't really go well with me, but I'll still actually try. And just a little heads up if you've read this: everything that happens in this story may seem like a filler or something, but they mostly add up to the ending if you pay attention :)

Till next time :) (BTW THANKS FOR 1K VOTES ??? THAT'S CRAZY LMAO)