Author's Note: For the Christmas Season. I forgot to do this this morning like I planned, and I will try to post on the days mirrored in the story in the morning, but I am extremely busy with the end of the semester,and have only written three full chapters. I am done with school on the 15th, so I should be able to write the entire story and post it over Christmas break, so hopefully by Christmas Eve and at the latest, by January 17, when I come back to school, I will be done with this story. It isn't meant to be long, but it is turning into a little bit longer than I wanted it to be I think.
Disclaimer:
Hello, My name is Adelaide MacGregor. Thank you for choosing this story. I do not own Rurouni Kenshin, any of it's characters, ideas, story, or anything else! I got my own twisted little idea.
On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me: A partridge in a pear tree
December 2, 2005
"Karou! Karou, Wake up! It's snowing!" Misao exclaimed excitedly looking out their third floor dorm window.
"Would you be quiet? I'd like to sleep a little longer Misao." Karou responded, burying herself deeper under her quilt.
"It's the first snow of the season though! Oh it looks absolutely perfect!" The dark hair little girl said jumping around the floor of the suite they shared with Megumi, Riza and Ryo.
"Misao. I had an 8 o'clock class this morning and I didn't get to bed until 3 because of my paper due in this next class. I'd like to get some sleep now, so I don't sleep then. Dr. Saito hates it when kids sleep in his class, and I'd rather not have his fury on me. Make sure I'm up by 11:30." Karou said from underneath her covers.
"Fine. It'll be a deep snow by then."
"Then I'll see it then."
"Karou...Karou, it's 11:30, you told me to wake you up for Saito's class. Come on, wake up." Misao said a few inches from where she though Karou's head was. The girl was completely covered by her quilt, and the other girl had no idea how she breathed like that.
"I'm up, I'm up." Came a respond from deep under the quilt, blankets and sheets.
"Come on, out of bed. Aoshi's here and I told him we could leave for lunch as soon as I made sure you were up. " Misao said. Karou uncovered herself and sat up in bed, rubbing her eyes.
"Karou, you might want to look out your window as well. The snow is beautiful." Aoshi said from where he was standing next to Misao's desk at the window.
"I'm sure it is. I'll be walking half way across campus in it too, I don't have a need to look out the window." Karou responded, getting up and starting to gather her things for her class.
"It looks especially beautiful from here though." Was Aoshi's quiet response.
"Oh! Karou, Kenshin called while you were asleep. He would like to meet you for lunch after your 12 o'clock class. He said 1 o'clock at the park bench. He must be bringing you a picnic. How romantic is that?"
"Thank you Misao. Well, I'm off. I'll catch up with guys at dinner most likely."
"Why must he drone on about that stuff, good gracious if Saito doesn't become a better teacher soon I'm he's gonna cause me to fail out." Karou muttered to herself as she adjusted the strap to her book bag. She was walking through the park to the spot where she was to meet Kenshin. It was a pretty park, the ground was at the point where you could no longer see the grass, but not too deep you couldn't walk through it without difficulty. The snow was still falling, but not as heavily as it was an hour ago when Karou had been walking to class. At that time she had had to pull her hat down and walk with her face down the snow was swirling around so much with the heavy snow and wind. The trees branches where heavy with the snow. The sun was bright overhead and made everything sparkle like diamonds.
"You have said that every semester, and it still hasn't happened. I doubt if it will now."
"Ken- Kenshin! You scared me!" Karou said turning around to face her red-headed boyfriend.
"Sorry Karou-dono." Kenshin said with an impish look on his face and with a little bow.
"Oh will you stop that! Now, why did you want to meet me? No, I will not give you the notes for Tokio's class."
"I didn't want the notes. I'll get those later probably. I wanted to show you something." Kenshin said grabbing Karou's hand and leading her to the edge of the tree line, to where a blanket was sitting with a picnic basket on it.
"Kenshin, what is that?"
"A picnic." He said matter- of- factly, sitting her down, and taking the spot next to her. "It's just that we haven't had much time alone lately. With your schedule and mine, and then usually one of our many friends is always in your suite or our apartment, and I thought this would be a nice little plan to get us away from everyone else." Kenshin said as he started pulling out a thermos and the packages of food.
"Kenshin?" Karou said looking up to the sky through the trees that partly covered their little area, "What is that in the tree?"
"What?" Kenshin asked. "Oh that, it's a partridge bird."
"They aren't usually around here... Kenshin what have you done?" Karou said looking from the small primarily brown bird to her sincere looking boyfriend.
"I haven't done anything."
"Then what is a bird doing here that isn't usually here?"
"I asked the biology department and they let me borrow her for this afternoon. He name is Pear. Fitting isn't it?" Kenshin said, finally looking away from the bird to his girlfriends astounded face.
"Fitting? How! That bird is probably dying out here in the cold!"
"Oh no, she's fine, she's only been a few minutes longer than you."
"Hm. What are you up to?"
"You haven't figured it out yet?" Kenshin said. Karou gave him a blank stare, thinking.
"Obviously I haven't." Karou said.
"On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree." Kenshin sang.
Karou just looked at him for a second, and then gave him the smile that he always enjoyed bringing out, and that hadn't been out as often lately. Now that he had started this, he knew he wouldn't be able to finish it. Oh how he would enjoy bringing her smile out in the following days.