Ok, there are some things I want to address:

1) I never really put a disclaimer on this story. It's been 10 (technically 11) chapters, so I would just like to say that Akame ga Kill is owned by Takahiro and Tetsuya Tashiro. Please support the original version.

2) A big thanks to The Third Narrator, for providing some idea to when Akame and Kurome's birthdays are!

3) There will be a Valentine's Dance next chapter, so look forward to it! However, since that will be too late for the 14th, take this chapter as a little Valentine's Day present fro the Wave X Kurome fans (yes, they are my OTP of the show). Also, I got the inspiration for this chapter by all of this snow I was getting in my area.

4) If you haven't read "The Guilty and The Insane" by ShadowKnight49 Productions... (puts on Shia Labeouf voice) READ IT! JUST... READ IT!

Despite being near the end of December, there had not been an inch of snowfall in the AP Academy. Tatsumi and Freddy tried out for the swimming team, and Bulat joined wrestling. Everyone else in Night Raid went about business as usual: the morning routine antics, homework, occasional breakdowns...

Tatsumi woke up the day before Christmas to find the ground covered in white. A huge smile broke onto his face as he rushed into the kitchen. Akame was cooking, Mine and Chelsea were fighting, Sam was watching Frozen... the day was completely as usual. That is, until Najenda threw a piece of paper onto the table. "Read it," was all she said.

The brown-haired boy looked at the sheet of paper and read aloud:

"Dear Night Raid,

As you all know, I've cancelled December's battle. Even I want to enjoy the holidays in peace. And since New Year's is technically considered part of the holidays, I'm cancelling January's battle as well. Yes, Najenda; I HAVE officially gone insane. Watch out.

Signed,

Esdeath."

"She must have something even bigger planned for February," Akame muttered. Just then, her cell phone rang from inside her pocket. She put it on speaker and answered "Hello?"

"Hey, Sis!" Kurome's voice greeted; everyone braced themselves as Akame tensed.

"What do you want?"

"Do you wanna build a snowman?" After Kurome sang this line, Akame hung up the phone without a word.

"Thanks," Sam said when her dorm member hung up. "She was horribly off-key." Meanwhile, Tatsumi was confused. He understood Akame and Kurome didn't have the best relationship, but wouldn't they at least want to play together? He decided not to ask any questions until Akame felt comfortable telling him herself.

"Well, screw you too!" Kurome shouted when she found out that her big sister hung up on her. She threw her phone onto the table as if to emphasize how pissed off she was.

I hope that wasn't expensive, Wave thought. As he gazed at Kurome, he felt bad for her. After all, it wasn't her fault that her big sister was ignoring her. The blue-haired boy sighed and rose from his seat. "Who needs her?!" he exclaimed, getting the attention of his friend. "We can build our own snowman after school!"

The girl's black eyes were widened with surprise, and her mouth formed a small "o." "R-really?" she asked after a moment

"Heck yeah! It'll be the best snowman in all of the Academy!" Wave smiled at Kurome, making her smile in return and blush. He then went around asking his dorm members if they would like to help. Of course, Elliot was busy with swim, Bols and Nate had wrestling, and the rest simply didn't give a crap.

Esdeath had a particularly cold yet logical defense for not wanting to. "A snowman is weak. It'll get knocked down by some jerk teenager, and if it doesn't, it will eventually melt. It doesn't have the right to survive. Only the strong can survive; the weak are weeded out by the environment."

"Gee, thanks Darwin," mumbled Wave in sarcasm.

"Anytime."

"Well, I won't let your pessimism and cold hard logic stop me! I'm going to make sure Kurome has a good time, and that's that!" The blue-haired boy nodded defiantly, slung his backpack over his shoulder, and left the dorm.

"Has everyone got their gifts for their Secret Santa?" Ms. FancyNancy asked her Driver's Ed class.

"Yes!" the students chorused. On their teacher's cue, everyone got up and started exchanging gifts. Leone gave Akame a gift card to Buffalo Wild Wings, and she received a thoughtful yet not-artistic-at-all painting of the beach from Lubbock. The green-haired boy, in return, got an issue of Sports Illustrated: Bikini Edition from Akame. "Be lucky you weren't caught carrying that thing in your bag for a month," Chelsea told her as she smirked and patted her head.

"Um... I thought you were a junior," Wave commented.

"You think that will stop me from seeing my kohai? My teacher doesn't care if I skip class anyway!"

After giving Run a book, Tatsumi received a whack on the head from behind. However, that was apparently not the only thing he was receiving. After rubbing his head, the teen looked down to see a pair of tickets to see a screening of his favorite movie, Avatar (the blue people one). He was pretty sure they were for him, seeing as a note reading "To Tatsumi". Once he saw Mine with a red-face and in a bad mood, he got the message.

Meanwhile, in Mrs. Muso's class, the freshman had a Secret Santa as well. Sam gave her friend Joji a turquoise writing journal, and she herself received a journal as well from Billy. A blue-haired boy named Susanoo, the only freshman who took up cooking as an elective, was given a coupon for Swiffer by Joji. Susanoo seemed very thankful for the gift, and this was a boy who barely showed emotion except for when he was angry at his classmates for not putting textbooks away properly.

"I think he likes you," Sam stated to her friend.

"Hm?" was Joji's reply, due to the fact that she had already put headphones on and started to write.

"Um...nothing. I'll tell you later." She also proceeded to start writing in her new journal.

A boy named James, for some reason, got Mrs. Muso for his Secret Santa. So he gave her her most favorite thing in the world: chocolate. Because she was so grateful, the English teacher decided not to give James a scan-tron quiz (It was a well-known fact that James hated scan-trons). Jamie baked some of her famous chocolate chip cookies for Seryu. "Thanks, Jamie!" she exclaimed as she munched on her treat. "I've died and gone to heaven!"

"I wish you'd have died and gone to hell," Elliot and Sam, who sat next to each other in class, muttered under their breaths. Although he was a Jaeger, Elliot was a decent human being who regretted the pain he caused Sam and Freddy by not stopping Seryu from beating up a member of Night Raid.

Seryu decided to let Kurome try one of her cookies, which turned out to be a horrible decision. The black-eyed girl turned on her dorm member when she was only allowed to have one and even threatened to kill her. The other freshmen were amused as Kurome chased the orange-haired girl out of class. "Thank you, Kurome... for once," Sam muttered.

"What do you mean, 'for once'?" asked Elliot. He wasn't the biggest fan of his dorm right now, but no one talked trash about his friends.

"Well, instead of Akame, she's tormenting someone who deserves it."

"She's not tormenting her sister! She just wants her to stop shutting her out and avoiding her!"

"Am I going to have to have the Elsa talk with Akame, then?"

"Yes, you are." Upon realizing what he said to defend Kurome, Elliot began to understand and admire why Wave wanted to help her build that snowman so much. He wanted to make sure she had fun... for once. "She's not a bad person, you know," the blonde went on. "Once you get to know her, she's not bad, she's just hurt. And... and that's why I'm skipping swim to help her build a snowman after school!"

Sam smiled and even blushed. Having never seen this from his classmate, Elliot also blushed slightly and was a little embarrassed. "What's that look for?!" he exclaimed.

"It's nothing," replied Sam. "I just... wanted to say the same thing about Akame, to you. She's not into snowmen, but if she was, I would skip my club to help her build one, too."

Apparently, Elliot wasn't the only one who had this change of heart. Bols also skipped his wrestling meet because he thought building a snowman would be more fun. Run also decided that being in the snow would be more beautiful and fun than simply reading a book about it (he was reading the book Tatsumi got him, which was Hans Christian Anderson's The Snow Queen). Even Seryu decided to pitch in, as she and Nate started rolling the bottom of the snowman.

Although Esdeath still stood by what she said earlier about there being no purpose in building a weak structure, she still decided to make hot cocoa for her friends out in the cold. She liked the cold, but she certainly didn't see anything fun in rolling around in the snow like a dog, as (appropriately) Koro was doing. Stylish was the only one other than the dorm leader to stay inside, insisting that his homework was much too important.

Esdeath watched from the window as Wave helped Kurome stack a medium-sized ball of snow on top of the huge one. Bols was molding a smaller ball, which would become the head, as Run stabbed stick arms into the middle portion. As Bols put on the head, Seryu inserted a carrot nose, Nate inserted two eyes for rocks, and Kurome gave the snowman her hat and scarf for the finishing touch.

Wave noticed the black-eyed girl would most likely get sick, hat-less and scarf-less. He gave her his own hat and red bandanna to keep her warm. "Wave, I'm okay..." Kurome insisted, blushing.

"No, you're not," was all the blue-haired boy said as he tied the bandanna around her neck.

"But this bandanna is all you have left of your dad. Are you going to trust me with it?"

"Yes, I am. Your needs are more important than mine. Besides, my dad is in my heart."

Kurome gazed at him in confusion. 'Your needs are more important than mine'? she thought. The scene from Frozen, which painfully reminded her of her own life, played inside her head: "Love is putting someone else's needs before yours."

Was Wave, the boy standing and grinning in front of her, someone who loved her?