Chapter 3 - Part Three

Eventually everyone got they're stuff and they all went home...well...Kei did. A few minutes
after she got home Aerith walked into the living room. "Ahem..." She coughed, trying to
remove Kei's attention from the TV for five seconds.
Kei looked over to see Aerith holding a completely empty cookie plate.
"...ISWEARIDIDN'THAVEANYTHINGTODOWITHIT!" Kei said quickly.
"I didn't eat them ALL, I just helped Kei... uh... empty the plate!" Koji said looking up from
the TV.
Tori sighed. "You both ate the cookies together, don't deny the obvious."
"WE didn't eat them, the SQUIRRELS DID!" Kei declared.
Koji nodded. "Yeah! The squirrels did, nothing to do with us!"
Tori frowned, "Then how do you explain the cookie crumbs on your front?"
Aerith tapped her foot slightly, raising an eyebrow. "...Okay, fine! We ate them! But it
wasn't our fault! The DEVIL made us do it!" Kei declared.
Koji nodded nervously. "Yup, the devil!"
Tori sighed again and hit Koji upside the head. "Oh come on, there is no way he can
'make' you do that!"
Koji frowned and rubbed the back of her head. "Can you be any more serious, we are
just joking around!"
Kei was still going with the devil theory and Aerith obviously wasn't buying it. "You see,
the devil suddenly appeared and he pulled out MIND CONTROL devices and he chanted
'EAT THE COOKIES!' and me and Koji were like 'NOOO' so the devil pulls out this remote
control and he MADE US eat the cookies!" Kei cried, throwing around random hand motions.
Koji nodded again. Tori rolled her eyes and lifted her hand like she was going to hit Koji
again. Koji's eyes grew wide and she covered her head with her hands, "No more!"
Aerith shook her head as she walked back into the kitchen. "You better be good then."
"We will! As long as you don't call cloud we'll act good!" Koji said frantically.
Kei sighed in relief when Aerith finally left. "I don't need TWO big men with BIG swords
on me, thank you very much."
"Yeah, you already have enough trouble with Leon... speaking of Leon, where is he?"
Koji said turning back to the TV and is instantly glued to it.
Kei pulled a pillow over her head. "Hopefully, no where near here with that stupid candy
cane of his." She said.
Koji shrugged. "He doesn't have his candy cane anymore, he has his Gunblade!"
Kei's eyes widened. "Oh craaap..."
Koji shrugged again. "Don't worry, he won't kill you."
Kei gripped the pillow tighter and her eye twitched. Yuffie laughed from her spot beside
the Keybearer. "Aw, dun worry, like Koji said, Squall won't kill you. Don't worry yourself over
it. "
"Who's worried?" Kei asked in a squeaky voice as her eye twitched. "I'M not worried..."
Koji nodded, still glued to the TV. "He'll just beat you up real-"
"Koji! Your NOT helping!" Tori said hitting Koji upside the head again.
Koji looked over at Tori, "Stop hitting me!" she said moving away from Tori.
Kei whimpered and gripped the pillow so hard it looked about ready to pop.
Frowning, Koji looks at Tori and then turns back to the TV and is instantly hypnotized, a
half-dazed expression on her face.
Kei blinked and looked over at Koji. "What?" She asked.
Koji pointed at the TV, which was playing a commercial for the latest issue of "Teens"
magazine, "He is SO cute!" she said as a picture of a teenage boy flashes up on the screen.
Kei blinked. "I thought you liked Squall-san?"
"Of course I do!" Koji said taking a quick look around to room.
Kei grinned evilly. "Ohh, maybe I better go tell hiiim."
Koji grumbled. "Fine, but I would suddenly disappear for a few days."
Kei giggled. "I wouldn't really tell, that would be mean."
Koji sighed. "Maybe I should wrap myself up in a box..." she thought out loud.
Kei laughed. "Hey, that's MY idea!"
Koji blinked. "I know it is... I'm just thinking I may do what you suggested."
Kei shook her head. "Don't REALLY do it, I was just joking."
"Yes, but I still don't know what to get him..." Koji sighed again.
Kei giggled. "I already got him something...maybe I should give it to him early so he won't
beat the crap outta me."
"What did you get him?" Koji said turning her full attention to Kei.
Kei grinned. "I got him a leather jacket, it has a demon wing and an angel wing sewn in
the back and it has the kanji for light and dark sewn on the arms."
Koji nods. "That'll fit him."
Kei giggled. "I figured, what would be a better gift for him then one his girlfriend thought
up? I think Koji should get him a necklace."
Koji raised and eyebrow. "... Necklace?"
Kei grinned and nodded. "Yeah! He'd love one of them big chained ones, ya know?"
"Oh Yeah, I know those... but he already has one," Koji said.
Kei grinned. "Then find him a new one."
Koji shrugged. "Yeah, I suppose."
"Get him one with a heart, Koji," Tori chuckled from behind her magazine.
Annoyed, Koji looked over at Tori. "Don't push it!"
Kei giggled, then looked out the window. "AW CRAP!" She cried, quickly creating a
fortress out of the couch pillows.
Koji grinned. "I don't think that will help you much, Kei."
Kei whimpered from inside her fort.
Tori laughed from behind her magazine. "Don't worry, he doesn't have his Gunblade
yet... Its up in his room."
Kei grabbed another cushion and added it to her fort. "Just in case...I better go find some
candy canes to bribe him with..."
Koji raised an eyebrow. "You're not going to find any underneath your fort... maybe you
should help Aerith with her cookies, She'll guard you."
Kei jumped out of her fort. "GOOD IDEA! MAYBE I CAN AVOID BEING MURDERED BY
CLOUD TOO!"
"You better go do it too, Koji... unless you want to be beat up by cloud." Tori said looking
up.
Koji jumped off the couch, "Yeah! Good idea!" she said and then ran into the kitchen.
Koji skidded to a stop beside Aerith. "Hey Aerith, mind if I help you make some cookies?!"
Kei bounced over. "Yeah, or just give us some cookies...or at least give me some so I
can prevent my demise at the hands of Squall-san?"
Koji nodded in agreement. "Or better yet, from the hands of Cloud!"
"I'm hooome!" Leon called as he walked in.
Kei's eyes widened. "CRRAAAAAAAPP!"
"Hi Leon!" Koji said cheerfully.
Kei grabbed several candy canes, quickly ran over. "Merry Christmas, don't kill me!" She
cried, throwing the candy canes into Leon's hands before charging to her room.
Leon blinked. "What was that about?"
Tori looked up from the couch. "She doesn't want to be killed from your experience in
the mall... remember?"
Leon blinked. ".... Oh yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaah..."
Tori grinned and went back to her magazine. "I thought you would."
Koji bounded out of the kitchen and ran up the stairs with a dozen cookies in a napkin.
"Kei! Let me in before Cloud comes over!"
Kei blinked from her spot on her bed at the door. "Eh? He's not really gonna kill you, he's
too much of a softie to actually hurt anyone, it's only when you make him mad." She
explained as she opened the door.
Koji shrugged and unwrapped the fresh, warm cookies from the napkin. "Yeah he is
soft... well eat up before Aerith comes up!"
Kei munched on a cookie and continued to watch the Zim Christmas special again
"These are even better when they're warm," Koji said through a mouthful of cookie.
Kei continued to munch and nodded.


Koji sat up in her bed and looked out the window at the snow drifting silently to the
ground. 'Ok, any minute now Kei is going to run down the stairs yelling something about the
day and then will run into the wall,' she thought to herself.
Kei bounded down the stairs. "IT BE THE TWENTY-FORTH, AND WE HAVE A
CHRISTMAS TREEE TO GET...OW!" And as usual, ran into the wall.
Tori looked up from the couch and looked over at a clock. "Kei, you're a few minutes
late."
"Yeah, I was...wrapping stuff..."Kei mumbled into the wall.
"Oh, well that explains it," Tori shrugged and went back to watching the weather channel.
"More snow..." She sighed.
Kei pulled herself from the wall. "YAY!"
"What was that about a tree, Kei?" Koji said walking down the stairs.
Kei grinned. "We're gonna go get a Christmas tree, after I con Squall-san, Yuffie-chan, or
Aerith-chan into paying for it!"
Koji laughed. "Yeah, that would be nice if they did."
Leon rolled his eyes as he came down the stairs. "Well I'M not paying for it." He stated.
"Then we'll just ask Yuffie and Aerith to pay for it!" Koji grinned.
Yuffie laughed from her spot on the couch. "Uh, no."
Koji blinked. "Then I'll ask Aerith..."
Aerith shook her head from the kitchen. "I need the munny to buy food for the Christmas
party tomorrow."
Leon groaned. "DON'T remind me of that." He growled.
Kei giggled. "Just think Squall, in about Thirty-six hours EVERYONE from YOUR world
will be in THIS house!"
Koji smiled. "Yay! That is going to be fun! Right Leon?!" Koji said grinning in Leon's
direction.
Leon rolled his eyes. "...Suuuure.... so long as you didn't invite Tidus I'm fine."
Kei grinned. "She did!"
".... Nooooooo...it'll be like having THREE Hyper-active BLONDE'S in this house!
CLOUD'S BAD ENOUGH!"
Tori shrugged. "You can keep everyone in order with your Gunblade."
Kei whined. "Don't give him any ideas...I still have SCARS man!"
Yuffie giggled. "Don't forget, Auron's gonna be there too!"
"...AW MAN, THAT OLD GEEZER!?"
"Hey, He's really strong... don't underestimate him." Tori said looking at Kei, surprised.
Kei grumbled. "Yeah, but he's such A GROUCH!" She whined.
"You just gotta get used to him." Tori said turning back to the TV. "Darn, we're expecting
snow for the next week!" she said frowning
Kei grinned. "AWESOME!"
Koji looked over at the kitchen, "I'm getting breakfast... and then we can go get a tree!"
Kei's eyes widened. "BREAKFAST!?"
Leon sighed. "…I'd better get something before she eats it all..."
"Pop tarts!" Koji said running into the kitchen.
Kei grabbed a pop tart. "Yay!"
Koji dug through the pantry. "Darn, we're out of s'more pop tarts! Oh well, I guess I'll
have to settle with a cinnamon one." she said grabbing a pop tart and popped it in the toaster.
Kei munched on a pop tart. "CLOOOUD!" A voice suddenly cried, which was followed by
a disgruntled "UMPH!"
Koji blinked. "Is he here early?"
Kei walked out of the kitchen to be met with the sight of Aerith glomping a rather
muscular spiky blonde haired guy. Kei grinned. "HI CLOUD!"
Koji ran out of the kitchen with her pop tart at hand. "Hey Cloud!"
Cloud blinked slowly from his spot on the floor as many people ran into the room.
"...Uh...Hi."
"Long time, no see!" Koji smiled.
Aerith squealed in delight again and kissed Cloud. Kei blinked and whispered to Koji.
"Why are they trying to eat each other?"
Koji shrugged. "I guess they like each others taste?"
Tori raised an eyebrow. "There's an empty room upstairs," she said pointing to the
stairs.
Both blushed and pulled back and Aerith hopped off of Cloud, still red in the face, and
the chocobo haired warrior pushed himself up, also blushing. "Aerith and Clllloooud sitting in a
tree..." Yuffie began. Cloud glared. "...Uhhh.... and... Uh...oh look at the time, I have to go!"
Yuffie ran out of the room.
Tori rolled her eyes. Koji looked back and forth between the two lovebirds, blinking in
confusion.
Kei only giggled, not getting any of it but finding it amusing anyway. "Uh, Cloud, I don't
suppose you could come with us and help us get a Christmas tree, since Squall-san-"
"IT'S LEON!"
"...Ahem, Squall-san suddenly became busy *cough* he's a jerk and doesn't want to
come *cough* and we were wondering if you could come?"
Koji nodded in agreement, excitement sparkling in her emerald green eyes.
Cloud blinked slowly as he looked down at the pleaded Kei and to the bouncing Koji,
raising an eyebrow.
"Just go with them, for heavens sake," Tori said flopping back down on the couch and
opening a magazine.
Kei blinked. "You're not going?"
"I hate the cold, you know that," she said looking up from her magazine.
Cloud sighed. "Oh Yeah. Okay fine, I'll go."
"YES!" Kei cried happily.
Koji grinned up at Cloud. "Oh, and can you pay for it?!"
Cloud sighed, pulling out his wallet. "Fine..."
Kei grinned, grabbing his wrist. "Okay, lets go!" She cried, dragging him out the door.
"WAIT! PUT A COAT ON OR YOU'LL CATCH PNEUMONIA!" Aerith roared.
Kei ran right back and pulled her coat on. "There, happy!?"
"Yes…"
"Okay, SEE YA!"
Koji bounced over to the door, grabbed her coat, and pulled it on. "Let's get one of the
REALLY big ones, eh Kei," She said winking.
Kei grinned. "Yeah!" Cloud sighed as he was pulled along. "I'm going to regret this..." He
grumbled.
"Come on let's run! We gotta get there today!" Koji said pushing on Clouds back.
Kei laughed. "We dun need to run, it's not that far." She said. Cloud only blinked slowly at
the two girls as he was pulled and pushed along.
From about fifty feet away from the entrance to the tree farm Koji pointed at the tallest
tree she saw. "That one!"
Kei pointed to another tree. "NO THAT ONE!"
Koji grinned pointing to another enormous tree. "That one!"
Kei pointed to yet another one. "That one! That one!"
"No, that one!" she said pointing to a tree and dragging Cloud in its direction.
Kei grabbed Cloud's other arm and began dragging him towards yet another tree in the
opposite direction.
Koji's grin grew wider as she pulled Cloud harder towards another huge tree.
Cloud's eye twitched. "Please girls, I'm sure ANY tree is fine." He said through clenched
teeth.
"No! We HAVE to get the perfect tree!" Koji said scraping her feet across the ground as
she tried pulling cloud towards a tree.
Cloud twitched as Kei began pulling her in the opposite direction. "Can't you two just
AGREE on a tree!?"
Koji shook her head and pulled harder, her boots digging into the ground.
Cloud again twitched as Kei pulled him another way.
"This way Kei!" Koji said turning around and digging her heels into the ground, trying to
gain some distance.
Kei looked at the tree Koji was pulling Cloud towards. "It's perfect!" She cried, letting go
of Cloud and running to the tree.
Koji's eyes grew wide as she was suddenly falling backwards, grabbing onto Cloud
tighter so she wouldn't fall but ended up brining him down with her into the icy cold snow.
"GET OFF ME CLOUD!! YOUR SQUISHING ME!!" Koji said from somewhere under Clouds
body.
Cloud blinked, jumping up. "Are you okay?" Kei poked Koji.
Koji twitched and squeaked out what sounded like a "Yeah."
Kei glared at Cloud. "You Brokeded her!"
Cloud sighed, holding a hand out to Koji. "Sorry." He apologized.
Koji looked up at Cloud and suddenly grinned, grabbing for his arm she pulled herself up.
"Come on!! We're wasting precious time!" she said running towards 'her' tree.
Kei ran over as well. "IT'S PERFECT!"
Cloud sighed and held up his Buster Sword. "Then stand back!"
Koji grinned and jumped backwards away from the tree.
Kei on the other hand, jumped in front of the tree. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" She
cried.
Cloud blinked and raised an eyebrow. "I'm gonna chop it down."
"Oh no you don't!" Kei cried. "Not this tree!"
Koji blinked. "What's wrong with it?!"
Cloud blinked as well. "Yeah, what's wrong with it?"
"You're killing an innocent tree!"
Koji sighed. "But it's going to be THE tree! The best one ever!"
Kei shook her head. "It's Christmas, nothing should die during this time of Year," She
insisted.
Cloud sighed. "Fine, what do YOU suggest then?"

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