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This is a sequel to 'A Christmas Bet'.
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It's been about a year since last Christmas, which means, it's Christmas time again! Amu still believes in Santa while Ikuto doesn't. It's another Amuto Christmas!
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It was a normal day, like any day before Christmas Eve would be, snow lightly fell from the gray sky above. Kids were playing in the snow, making snowmen, snow angels and throwing the occasional snowball. Even Hinamori Amu was out playing in the snow with her little sister Ami.

"Onee-chan, make it bigger! The snowman has to be big!" Ami exclaimed, throwing her small hands in the air.
"Right right." Amu replied with a half smile. Her sister always loved the snow, but she on the other hand, would rather look at it than play in it. But if it was for Ami, she just couldn't seem to say no.
"Making~ A snowman~, Making~ A big one~" Her sister sung as she rolled some snow together for the head.
"Is this big enough?" She asked after rolling the biggest snowball she could.
Ami bounced over to her and took a long look at it before announcing it was perfect.

They proceeded to put on the rest of the snow-parts, including small rocks for the eyes and mouth and a carrot for the nose. After it was complete Ami said it's name would be 'Yuki'.
"Yuki the snowman…" Amu said, holding back a smile. "Sounds good."
"Ami-chan! Ami-chan!" A little girl yelled as she ran over to them.
"Sakura-chan!" Ami squealed when she saw her friend.
"Ami-chan, come play snowballs with us! Me, Rei, Maka, Akio and Natsume wanna have a snowball fight, but we need one more person."
"I wanna play! I wanna play!" She replied, bouncing up and down.
"Ami, mama said we have to go back in after we finished our snowman." Amu reminded her.
"Aw, please, Onee-chan? I wanna play snowballs…" She pouted, giving her sister the cutest look she could muster.
"Yeah, please, Amu-san?" Ami's friend, Sakura, added.
After a minute of 'please's Amu finally gave in. "Just don't play too long."
"Yay!" They squealed as they ran off the play their game.
She sighed, it looks like she would have to stay out in the snow longer than she had intended.

After about 10 minutes she felt as if she was already frozen. The kids were still playing like it was summer time and had no intention of going inside soon.
"A-Ami, you've played long enough, time to go back inside!" She called.
"But Onee-cha-!" Ami was cut off when a wet snowball hit her neck and some of it's snow slipped down her shirt. "Cold!"
She quickly turned around and yelled, "Rei! That wasn't fair!"
Her friends giggled and continued to throw snowballs. Ami quickly forgot about her sister and did the same.
Amu rolled her eyes, some kids had too much fun.
"Take this!" She picked up a big snow ball and threw it as hard as she could at one of her friends. He quickly jumped out of the way and the snowball hit an innocent bystander.
"Ah, I-I'm sorry!" Ami said running over to the person she hit.
When Amu saw what happened she ran over to her sister, "See? This is why we should've gone inside. Who did you hit-? Ikuto!?"
Ikuto gave a small smirk as he wiped the snow off of his jacket. "Yo."
"Wh-What are you doing here?" She asked.
"I was just taking a walk, until I got attacked with a snowball."
"…Sorry…" Ami said, hiding behind her older sister. "I was trying to hit Rei…"
"It's ok, kid." He replied with a small smile.
"So, you were just randomly walking down my street?" Amu questioned, not believing that this was all a coincidence.
"This is your street?" He replied.
"Obviously! You should know, you've been here before."
"Hey!" Ami peeked out from behind her sister's coat. "You're the Onii-chan that was here before! Right?"
"Yeah." He said, looking down at her.
"I heard you in my sister's room!" She declared, coming out from behind Amu.
"Eh? He was in you sister's bedroom?" One of her friends asked as she walked over to them.
"Yeah! He comes to visit my Onee-chan a lot!" She replied, happy that she knew who he was.
"Ooh~ Your sister has a boyfriend!" Another friend replied.
"H-He's not my boyfriend!" Amu said, pointing her finger accusingly at Ikuto.
"Then why is he always in your room, Nee-chan?" Ami asked curiously.
"H-He's-!"
"Come on, Amu-chan," He said, pulling her close to him. "Tell them all about us."
"Th-There's nothing to tell-!" She shot back as she tried to get away from him.
"What about last Christmas, that ki-?"
She quickly put her hand over his mouth and looked down at her sister's friends.
"'Ki'?" One of them asked.
"Ki…ki…" She quickly tried to think of as many words that started with 'ki' that she knew.
He carefully removed her hand from his mouth and replied, "Come on, Amu-chan, why don't we show them what happened?"
"Eh!?" She blushed as his hand touched her cheek lightly.
The kids squealed excitedly as they watched, their own faces heating up in the process.
"N-" She gathered all her strength and pushed him away. "No! Pervert!"
"Aww…" The kids pouted.
"Ami, we're going inside now." She grabbed her sister's hand and dragged her towards the house.
"Bye, Ikuto-nii-chan!" She waved.
"See ya later, kid." Ikuto waved back at the little girl.

After taking Ami inside Amu went straight to her room and locked the balcony doors. Ever since last Christmas things had always been a little more awkward than usual. They had almost kissed again several times, but never actually did. And each time this happened Amu would push him away yelling 'pervert!'. It's not that she didn't want to kiss him again, it's just that, she was still too embarrassed. She couldn't deny that she liked him, but she wasn't going to say it either. This seemed to be too complicated for a girl her age.
"Ugh! Ikuto is such a pervert!" She huffed as she fell onto her bed.
"What happened…?" Ran asked sleepily as she came out of her egg.
Her guardian characters had decided to sleep in instead of go out in the snow with their owner, and Ami.
"Ikuto is a pervert…" She replied, her voice muffled slightly by her pillow.
"What did he do this time?" Miki asked, also coming out of her egg.
"He…tried to k-kiss me infront of a bunch of Ami's friends!"
"Oh my~ ~desu" Suu exclaimed as she popped out of her egg, fully rested.
"Sounds like fun~" Miki said, a small blush on her face.
"No, not fun! I mean…I know we k-kissed before but…it's not like we should k-kiss every time we see each other!" She said, hiding her blush in her pillow.
"That's true…" Ran replied.
"I just don't know…life is confusing."
Suu nodded thoughtfully. "Do you want some hot chocolate? ~desu"
Amu pulled away from her pillow, her face still a soft pink. "I guess so…thanks."
"Me too! Me too!" Ran said, raising her hand in the air.
"Alright then," Suu smiled. "Miki, do you want some too? ~desu"
"Ok." Miki replied.
Suu quickly went off to make hot chocolate humming a Christmas song as she went.
"Amu-chan, have you made a list for Santa this year?" Ran asked.
"Ah! I forgot!" She quickly jumped off of her bed and sat to her desk. "I need to hurry! Tomorrow is Christmas Eve! How could I've forgotten to make my list!?"
"What are you going to wish for this year?" Miki asked, sitting on the desk , soon followed by Ran.
"Um…I have no idea…" She sighed.
"What did you wish for last year?" Ran asked.
"I wished for…" Her face began to heat up as she thought of her wish last year. "I-I can't wish for the same thing twice!"
Ran and Miki looked at each other questioningly.
She picked up her pencil and began to write the first part of her letter. "'Dear Santa,'…"
She paused, not knowing what else to write.
"What do you guys want for Christmas?" She asked, turning to her charas.
"Me? I want…some new pom poms! The kind with the glitter on them!" Ran smiled, waving her own pom poms.
"I want some new sketch books, and maybe some new pencils…" Miki replied, looking through her mostly full sketch books.
"Hot chocolate is done! ~desu" Suu announced, carrying in a tray with one big cup and three smaller ones.
"Yum!" Ran quickly took hers and drank it. "Hot hot hot!"
"It's freshly made, ~desu, don't drink it to fast." Suu warned as she handed Miki and Amu theirs.
"Hey, Suu." Amu asked after taking a small sip of her hot chocolate.
"Yes? ~desu"
"What do you want for Christmas?"
"Oh? I want the new clover shaped cookie cutters! ~desu"
"Hmm…" She set her cup down and picked up her pencil. "Pom poms, sketch books and clover cookie cutters."
"Amu-chan, why are you writing our wishes on your list?" Ran asked, still recovering from drinking too fast.
"It might help me think of things I want, and anyway, I want to make sure you get what you want…" She said, not looking at them.
"Aw, Amu-chan, that's so nice!" Ran said, flying over to her and hugging her arm.
"I-I just…!" She didn't know what she was going to say, so she just said what she was thinking. "I just want us all to have a good Christmas…"
Miki and Suu giggled and soon joined Ran in the hug.

After what seemed like forever, Amu had been able to come up with a few things she wanted for Christmas and write them down. "Now I need to mail this to Santa."
"I'll go get a stamp! ~desu" Suu volunteered.
"Do you know where they are?" Amu asked.
"Oh! I do! I'll show her!" Ran said, taking Suu's hand and leading her downstairs.
"I like Christmas time." Miki said with a small smile.
"Me too." She replied.
Suddenly she heard a small tapping coming from her balcony. She turned around and saw Ikuto standing outside her glass doors. She was about to get up but then remembered that she was mad at him for this morning.
She crossed her arms and turned away from him.
"You're not letting him in?" Miki asked.
"No, I'm still mad at him!"
He continued to knock on her balcony when she didn't respond. "I'm not letting you in!" She said, turning back to him.
He put his hand up to his ear, he couldn't hear her through the glass. She sighed and got up from her chair to go to the balcony doors.
"I'm not letting you in!" She repeated.
"Why not?" He asked, his voice muffled by the glass between them.
"B-Because this morning you…acted like a pervert! I mean, more than usual…or…maybe not. I don't know! Either way, I'm not letting you in!" She crossed her arms and turned away from him.
"…re…still ma…bou…the…ss th…?"
"What?" She said, putting her ear closer to the door.
"I said, are you still mad about the kiss thing?" He repeated.
"O-Of course! I mean…! Who wouldn't be…k-kisses are supposed to be special, not done whenever you feel like it…" She started.
"So, you're saying it's ok if I kiss you when we're alone?" He smirked.
"Wha-? Where did you get that from!? I-I didn't say anything about wanting to…k-kiss you again…" She adverted her gaze, she knew her face was red.
"You know you want to." He said with a small smirk, but his eyes were serious.
She didn't reply but simply turned around and sat down at her desk. "I'm not letting you in."
"I found the stamps ~desu" Suu announced as she entered into Amu's room.
"With help from Ran!" Ran reminded her.
"Great, now I just have to mail this." She quickly folded up her letter into an envelope.
Suu held the stamp out for her. "Here, ~desu"
"C-Can't you lick the stamp instead, Suu? They taste terrible." Amu asked.
"Um…" Suu held the stamp up and stared at it. "It's…too big ~desu"
"Right, sorry, I'll do it." She carefully took the stamp and proceeded to wet it with her tongue. "Yuck…"
She firmly placed the stamp in the corner of the envelope and grabbed her cup of hot chocolate. There was still a little bit left in it, and even tough it wasn't very warm it did help in washing away the pasty taste of the stamp. "Let's go mail this list!"

She walked downstairs, grabbed her warm jacket and said, "I'm going out, mom, be back soon."
"Where are you going, Amu-chan?" Her mom asked, walking out of the kitchen with her apron on.
"To mail my…list to Santa…" She said, somehow it seemed childish to say that, but she didn't care, that much.
"Oh," Her mom replied with a smile. "Alright, hurry back, Ami-chan and I are making cookies."
"I will."
She slipped on her snow boots and opened the door. The air was as cold as it had been that morning, and the snow seemed just as plentiful. Amu pulled her jacket close around her body, clutching her letter tightly. She walked down the sidewalk and down to the mail box.
"Cold, isn't it?"
She turned around and saw Ikuto standing behind her. "I-Ikuto!"
"Did you forget I was outside?" He asked.
"N-…Well…"
"That was mean, Amu-chan, leaving me out in the cold."
"Y…You deserved it." She replied, trying not to feel guilty.
"Where're you going?"
"To…mail something." She replied, hesitant to answer.
"Let me guess…" He started with a small smirk.
"A list for Santa." They said in unison.
"Wh-What's wrong with that?" She asked defensively.
"Santa doesn't exist." He replied confidently.
"He does too!"
"Things like that don't exist."
"Shugo Charas exist!" She replied confidently. "So what makes Santa any different?"
By now they were both walking down the street together at a slow pace.
"That's…" He didn't know how to answer that.
"And if Santa didn't exist, how come I got what I wanted for Christmas last year?"
This seemed to gain his interest, "What did you wish for last Christmas?"
She stopped walking. "I…wished for stuff." She quickly started to walk again, trying to get ahead of Ikuto.
"What kind of stuff?" He asked, easily keeping up with her fast pace.
"Just…stuff!"
"Did you wish for me to kiss you?"
She stopped again, her face bright red. "Wh-Why would I wish for…that?"
"Did you wish for that again this year?" He smirked.
"N-No I didn't!"
"So you admit you wished for it last year?"
"No I-! That's not fair…"
He chuckled and stepped in front of her, causing her to run into him.
"M…Move, you're blocking the sidewalk." She said, looking up at him.
"Make me."
She opened her mouth to say something but closed it again. She stepped off the sidewalk and into the street, easily avoiding him. After she had passed him she hopped back onto the sidewalk.
"Walking in the street is dangerous for kids." Ikuto said, following not far behind her.
"I'm not a kid." She replied.
"Hmm~?"
"That's right. I'm not."

By now they had reached the mail box. Amu carefully opened the flap and dropped her letter inside.
"You should write a letter to Santa." She said suddenly.
"Why?" He asked.
"So you can get what you want for Christmas this year."
"I got what I wanted last year without Santa's help." He started to smirk as she started to blush.
"W-Well, I bet you won't get whatever you want this year. So you should write to Santa. But this year I'm sure you're on the naughty list!"
"I wasn't last year."
"That still surprises me."
"I can be nice when I really want to." He said simply.
There was a, somewhat, awkward silence between them. They were almost back at Amu's house and soon would part ways, especially if Amu kept her balcony door locked.
"Um…" Amu started, unsure of what to say.
"Hm?"
"Nothing…"
"Really?"
"Yeah…"
The awkward silence continued until they were back at her house.
"Well…I should-" She started.
"Amu." He grabbed her wrist as she had turned to leave.
"What?" She didn't want to look at him.
"Merry Christmas."
She turned to look back at him, she didn't know what she expected him to say, but that wasn't it.
"Oh, uh, Merry Christmas to you too."
"…"
"…"
They stayed like that for a few seconds before she said, "It's cold, I should go inside."
"Will you unlock your balcony?" He asked in return.
"If you apologize for what you did this morning." She looked him in the eyes.
"I'm sorry." He replied, returning her gaze. "But I still want to kiss you."
Her face heated up and she broke eye contact. "Perv…"
He smiled at this and slowly leaned closer to her. "Hey, you said kisses are supposed to be special, right?"
"Y-Yeah…"
"If I kissed you now would it be special to you?"
"I…don't know. I-I mean, it's cold outside and…the air is cold." She avoided eye contact.
"You don't like the cold?"
"No, it's too cold."
He turned her around to completely face him. "Let me warm you up." He pulled her into a hug. "Any warmer now?"
"…A bit…" She blushed.
"I can warm you up even more." He offered.
"Perv." She muttered.
"I know, but only to you." He leaned back slightly, looking into her eyes.
She wanted to look away, but her body wouldn't seem to listen. "F-Fine…"
"'Fine'?"
"J-Just this once…only because it's cold, ok?" She stuttered.
"What do you want me to do?" He smirked.
"I-I'm not saying it!"
"If you don't say it, how can I know what you're thinking?"
"Baka…K-Kiss me…"
He leaned down to her height and gently pressed his lips against hers. She returned the kiss and felt her body heat up, if only a little.
When they parted Amu noticed the snowman that she and Ami had made.
"It saw us…" She blushed.
"Hm?" Ikuto turned and looked at the snowman as well. "The snowman?"
"Yeah, he saw us k-kiss!" She hid her face in his jacket, clearly embarrassed by this.
"He's made of snow, he's not alive." He laughed.
"He still saw us…"
"Let him stare all he wants." He quickly pecked her on the cheek to prove that he didn't care.
"H-Hey!"
"Will you unlock your balcony door tonight?" He asked softly.
"…Ok."
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This is a sequel to 'A Christmas Bet'.
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It's been about a year since last Christmas, which means, it's Christmas time again! Amu still believes in Santa while Ikuto doesn't. It's another Amuto Christmas!
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It was a normal day, like any day before Christmas Eve would be, snow lightly fell from the gray sky above. Kids were playing in the snow, making snowmen, snow angels and throwing the occasional snowball. Even Hinamori Amu was out playing in the snow with her little sister Ami.

"Onee-chan, make it bigger! The snowman has to be big!" Ami exclaimed, throwing her small hands in the air.
"Right right." Amu replied with a half smile. Her sister always loved the snow, but she on the other hand, would rather look at it than play in it. But if it was for Ami, she just couldn't seem to say no.
"Making~ A snowman~, Making~ A big one~" Her sister sung as she rolled some snow together for the head.
"Is this big enough?" She asked after rolling the biggest snowball she could.
Ami bounced over to her and took a long look at it before announcing it was perfect.

They proceeded to put on the rest of the snow-parts, including small rocks for the eyes and mouth and a carrot for the nose. After it was complete Ami said it's name would be 'Yuki'.
"Yuki the snowman…" Amu said, holding back a smile. "Sounds good."
"Ami-chan! Ami-chan!" A little girl yelled as she ran over to them.
"Sakura-chan!" Ami squealed when she saw her friend.
"Ami-chan, come play snowballs with us! Me, Rei, Maka, Akio and Natsume wanna have a snowball fight, but we need one more person."
"I wanna play! I wanna play!" She replied, bouncing up and down.
"Ami, mama said we have to go back in after we finished our snowman." Amu reminded her.
"Aw, please, Onee-chan? I wanna play snowballs…" She pouted, giving her sister the cutest look she could muster.
"Yeah, please, Amu-san?" Ami's friend, Sakura, added.
After a minute of 'please's Amu finally gave in. "Just don't play too long."
"Yay!" They squealed as they ran off the play their game.
She sighed, it looks like she would have to stay out in the snow longer than she had intended.

After about 10 minutes she felt as if she was already frozen. The kids were still playing like it was summer time and had no intention of going inside soon.
"A-Ami, you've played long enough, time to go back inside!" She called.
"But Onee-cha-!" Ami was cut off when a wet snowball hit her neck and some of it's snow slipped down her shirt. "Cold!"
She quickly turned around and yelled, "Rei! That wasn't fair!"
Her friends giggled and continued to throw snowballs. Ami quickly forgot about her sister and did the same.
Amu rolled her eyes, some kids had too much fun.
"Take this!" She picked up a big snow ball and threw it as hard as she could at one of her friends. He quickly jumped out of the way and the snowball hit an innocent bystander.
"Ah, I-I'm sorry!" Ami said running over to the person she hit.
When Amu saw what happened she ran over to her sister, "See? This is why we should've gone inside. Who did you hit-? Ikuto!?"
Ikuto gave a small smirk as he wiped the snow off of his jacket. "Yo."
"Wh-What are you doing here?" She asked.
"I was just taking a walk, until I got attacked with a snowball."
"…Sorry…" Ami said, hiding behind her older sister. "I was trying to hit Rei…"
"It's ok, kid." He replied with a small smile.
"So, you were just randomly walking down my street?" Amu questioned, not believing that this was all a coincidence.
"This is your street?" He replied.
"Obviously! You should know, you've been here before."
"Hey!" Ami peeked out from behind her sister's coat. "You're the Onii-chan that was here before! Right?"
"Yeah." He said, looking down at her.
"I heard you in my sister's room!" She declared, coming out from behind Amu.
"Eh? He was in you sister's bedroom?" One of her friends asked as she walked over to them.
"Yeah! He comes to visit my Onee-chan a lot!" She replied, happy that she knew who he was.
"Ooh~ Your sister has a boyfriend!" Another friend replied.
"H-He's not my boyfriend!" Amu said, pointing her finger accusingly at Ikuto.
"Then why is he always in your room, Nee-chan?" Ami asked curiously.
"H-He's-!"
"Come on, Amu-chan," He said, pulling her close to him. "Tell them all about us."
"Th-There's nothing to tell-!" She shot back as she tried to get away from him.
"What about last Christmas, that ki-?"
She quickly put her hand over his mouth and looked down at her sister's friends.
"'Ki'?" One of them asked.
"Ki…ki…" She quickly tried to think of as many words that started with 'ki' that she knew.
He carefully removed her hand from his mouth and replied, "Come on, Amu-chan, why don't we show them what happened?"
"Eh!?" She blushed as his hand touched her cheek lightly.
The kids squealed excitedly as they watched, their own faces heating up in the process.
"N-" She gathered all her strength and pushed him away. "No! Pervert!"
"Aww…" The kids pouted.
"Ami, we're going inside now." She grabbed her sister's hand and dragged her towards the house.
"Bye, Ikuto-nii-chan!" She waved.
"See ya later, kid." Ikuto waved back at the little girl.

After taking Ami inside Amu went straight to her room and locked the balcony doors. Ever since last Christmas things had always been a little more awkward than usual. They had almost kissed again several times, but never actually did. And each time this happened Amu would push him away yelling 'pervert!'. It's not that she didn't want to kiss him again, it's just that, she was still too embarrassed. She couldn't deny that she liked him, but she wasn't going to say it either. This seemed to be too complicated for a girl her age.
"Ugh! Ikuto is such a pervert!" She huffed as she fell onto her bed.
"What happened…?" Ran asked sleepily as she came out of her egg.
Her guardian characters had decided to sleep in instead of go out in the snow with their owner, and Ami.
"Ikuto is a pervert…" She replied, her voice muffled slightly by her pillow.
"What did he do this time?" Miki asked, also coming out of her egg.
"He…tried to k-kiss me infront of a bunch of Ami's friends!"
"Oh my~ ~desu" Suu exclaimed as she popped out of her egg, fully rested.
"Sounds like fun~" Miki said, a small blush on her face.
"No, not fun! I mean…I know we k-kissed before but…it's not like we should k-kiss every time we see each other!" She said, hiding her blush in her pillow.
"That's true…" Ran replied.
"I just don't know…life is confusing."
Suu nodded thoughtfully. "Do you want some hot chocolate? ~desu"
Amu pulled away from her pillow, her face still a soft pink. "I guess so…thanks."
"Me too! Me too!" Ran said, raising her hand in the air.
"Alright then," Suu smiled. "Miki, do you want some too? ~desu"
"Ok." Miki replied.
Suu quickly went off to make hot chocolate humming a Christmas song as she went.
"Amu-chan, have you made a list for Santa this year?" Ran asked.
"Ah! I forgot!" She quickly jumped off of her bed and sat to her desk. "I need to hurry! Tomorrow is Christmas Eve! How could I've forgotten to make my list!?"
"What are you going to wish for this year?" Miki asked, sitting on the desk , soon followed by Ran.
"Um…I have no idea…" She sighed.
"What did you wish for last year?" Ran asked.
"I wished for…" Her face began to heat up as she thought of her wish last year. "I-I can't wish for the same thing twice!"
Ran and Miki looked at each other questioningly.
She picked up her pencil and began to write the first part of her letter. "'Dear Santa,'…"
She paused, not knowing what else to write.
"What do you guys want for Christmas?" She asked, turning to her charas.
"Me? I want…some new pom poms! The kind with the glitter on them!" Ran smiled, waving her own pom poms.
"I want some new sketch books, and maybe some new pencils…" Miki replied, looking through her mostly full sketch books.
"Hot chocolate is done! ~desu" Suu announced, carrying in a tray with one big cup and three smaller ones.
"Yum!" Ran quickly took hers and drank it. "Hot hot hot!"
"It's freshly made, ~desu, don't drink it to fast." Suu warned as she handed Miki and Amu theirs.
"Hey, Suu." Amu asked after taking a small sip of her hot chocolate.
"Yes? ~desu"
"What do you want for Christmas?"
"Oh? I want the new clover shaped cookie cutters! ~desu"
"Hmm…" She set her cup down and picked up her pencil. "Pom poms, sketch books and clover cookie cutters."
"Amu-chan, why are you writing our wishes on your list?" Ran asked, still recovering from drinking too fast.
"It might help me think of things I want, and anyway, I want to make sure you get what you want…" She said, not looking at them.
"Aw, Amu-chan, that's so nice!" Ran said, flying over to her and hugging her arm.
"I-I just…!" She didn't know what she was going to say, so she just said what she was thinking. "I just want us all to have a good Christmas…"
Miki and Suu giggled and soon joined Ran in the hug.

After what seemed like forever, Amu had been able to come up with a few things she wanted for Christmas and write them down. "Now I need to mail this to Santa."
"I'll go get a stamp! ~desu" Suu volunteered.
"Do you know where they are?" Amu asked.
"Oh! I do! I'll show her!" Ran said, taking Suu's hand and leading her downstairs.
"I like Christmas time." Miki said with a small smile.
"Me too." She replied.
Suddenly she heard a small tapping coming from her balcony. She turned around and saw Ikuto standing outside her glass doors. She was about to get up but then remembered that she was mad at him for this morning.
She crossed her arms and turned away from him.
"You're not letting him in?" Miki asked.
"No, I'm still mad at him!"
He continued to knock on her balcony when she didn't respond. "I'm not letting you in!" She said, turning back to him.
He put his hand up to his ear, he couldn't hear her through the glass. She sighed and got up from her chair to go to the balcony doors.
"I'm not letting you in!" She repeated.
"Why not?" He asked, his voice muffled by the glass between them.
"B-Because this morning you…acted like a pervert! I mean, more than usual…or…maybe not. I don't know! Either way, I'm not letting you in!" She crossed her arms and turned away from him.
"…re…still ma…bou…the…ss th…?"
"What?" She said, putting her ear closer to the door.
"I said, are you still mad about the kiss thing?" He repeated.
"O-Of course! I mean…! Who wouldn't be…k-kisses are supposed to be special, not done whenever you feel like it…" She started.
"So, you're saying it's ok if I kiss you when we're alone?" He smirked.
"Wha-? Where did you get that from!? I-I didn't say anything about wanting to…k-kiss you again…" She adverted her gaze, she knew her face was red.
"You know you want to." He said with a small smirk, but his eyes were serious.
She didn't reply but simply turned around and sat down at her desk. "I'm not letting you in."
"I found the stamps ~desu" Suu announced as she entered into Amu's room.
"With help from Ran!" Ran reminded her.
"Great, now I just have to mail this." She quickly folded up her letter into an envelope.
Suu held the stamp out for her. "Here, ~desu"
"C-Can't you lick the stamp instead, Suu? They taste terrible." Amu asked.
"Um…" Suu held the stamp up and stared at it. "It's…too big ~desu"
"Right, sorry, I'll do it." She carefully took the stamp and proceeded to wet it with her tongue. "Yuck…"
She firmly placed the stamp in the corner of the envelope and grabbed her cup of hot chocolate. There was still a little bit left in it, and even tough it wasn't very warm it did help in washing away the pasty taste of the stamp. "Let's go mail this list!"

She walked downstairs, grabbed her warm jacket and said, "I'm going out, mom, be back soon."
"Where are you going, Amu-chan?" Her mom asked, walking out of the kitchen with her apron on.
"To mail my…list to Santa…" She said, somehow it seemed childish to say that, but she didn't care, that much.
"Oh," Her mom replied with a smile. "Alright, hurry back, Ami-chan and I are making cookies."
"I will."
She slipped on her snow boots and opened the door. The air was as cold as it had been that morning, and the snow seemed just as plentiful. Amu pulled her jacket close around her body, clutching her letter tightly. She walked down the sidewalk and down to the mail box.
"Cold, isn't it?"
She turned around and saw Ikuto standing behind her. "I-Ikuto!"
"Did you forget I was outside?" He asked.
"N-…Well…"
"That was mean, Amu-chan, leaving me out in the cold."
"Y…You deserved it." She replied, trying not to feel guilty.
"Where're you going?"
"To…mail something." She replied, hesitant to answer.
"Let me guess…" He started with a small smirk.
"A list for Santa." They said in unison.
"Wh-What's wrong with that?" She asked defensively.
"Santa doesn't exist." He replied confidently.
"He does too!"
"Things like that don't exist."
"Shugo Charas exist!" She replied confidently. "So what makes Santa any different?"
By now they were both walking down the street together at a slow pace.
"That's…" He didn't know how to answer that.
"And if Santa didn't exist, how come I got what I wanted for Christmas last year?"
This seemed to gain his interest, "What did you wish for last Christmas?"
She stopped walking. "I…wished for stuff." She quickly started to walk again, trying to get ahead of Ikuto.
"What kind of stuff?" He asked, easily keeping up with her fast pace.
"Just…stuff!"
"Did you wish for me to kiss you?"
She stopped again, her face bright red. "Wh-Why would I wish for…that?"
"Did you wish for that again this year?" He smirked.
"N-No I didn't!"
"So you admit you wished for it last year?"
"No I-! That's not fair…"
He chuckled and stepped in front of her, causing her to run into him.
"M…Move, you're blocking the sidewalk." She said, looking up at him.
"Make me."
She opened her mouth to say something but closed it again. She stepped off the sidewalk and into the street, easily avoiding him. After she had passed him she hopped back onto the sidewalk.
"Walking in the street is dangerous for kids." Ikuto said, following not far behind her.
"I'm not a kid." She replied.
"Hmm~?"
"That's right. I'm not."

By now they had reached the mail box. Amu carefully opened the flap and dropped her letter inside.
"You should write a letter to Santa." She said suddenly.
"Why?" He asked.
"So you can get what you want for Christmas this year."
"I got what I wanted last year without Santa's help." He started to smirk as she started to blush.
"W-Well, I bet you won't get whatever you want this year. So you should write to Santa. But this year I'm sure you're on the naughty list!"
"I wasn't last year."
"That still surprises me."
"I can be nice when I really want to." He said simply.
There was a, somewhat, awkward silence between them. They were almost back at Amu's house and soon would part ways, especially if Amu kept her balcony door locked.
"Um…" Amu started, unsure of what to say.
"Hm?"
"Nothing…"
"Really?"
"Yeah…"
The awkward silence continued until they were back at her house.
"Well…I should-" She started.
"Amu." He grabbed her wrist as she had turned to leave.
"What?" She didn't want to look at him.
"Merry Christmas."
She turned to look back at him, she didn't know what she expected him to say, but that wasn't it.
"Oh, uh, Merry Christmas to you too."
"…"
"…"
They stayed like that for a few seconds before she said, "It's cold, I should go inside."
"Will you unlock your balcony?" He asked in return.
"If you apologize for what you did this morning." She looked him in the eyes.
"I'm sorry." He replied, returning her gaze. "But I still want to kiss you."
Her face heated up and she broke eye contact. "Perv…"
He smiled at this and slowly leaned closer to her. "Hey, you said kisses are supposed to be special, right?"
"Y-Yeah…"
"If I kissed you now would it be special to you?"
"I…don't know. I-I mean, it's cold outside and…the air is cold." She avoided eye contact.
"You don't like the cold?"
"No, it's too cold."
He turned her around to completely face him. "Let me warm you up." He pulled her into a hug. "Any warmer now?"
"…A bit…" She blushed.
"I can warm you up even more." He offered.
"Perv." She muttered.
"I know, but only to you." He leaned back slightly, looking into her eyes.
She wanted to look away, but her body wouldn't seem to listen. "F-Fine…"
"'Fine'?"
"J-Just this once…only because it's cold, ok?" She stuttered.
"What do you want me to do?" He smirked.
"I-I'm not saying it!"
"If you don't say it, how can I know what you're thinking?"
"Baka…K-Kiss me…"
He leaned down to her height and gently pressed his lips against hers. She returned the kiss and felt her body heat up, if only a little.
When they parted Amu noticed the snowman that she and Ami had made.
"It saw us…" She blushed.
"Hm?" Ikuto turned and looked at the snowman as well. "The snowman?"
"Yeah, he saw us k-kiss!" She hid her face in his jacket, clearly embarrassed by this.
"He's made of snow, he's not alive." He laughed.
"He still saw us…"
"Let him stare all he wants." He quickly pecked her on the cheek to prove that he didn't care.
"H-Hey!"
"Will you unlock your balcony door tonight?" He asked softly.
"…Ok."
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