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Seventh
Heaven was a nice place to live. That is what Kadaj
figured after living there for some time. And although
half of the things happening there were completely knew
for him, he had his Nii-san who seemed to have no
problem explaining it all to him. Except when it came to
things like what humans did to each other, like that
time when he figured out the TeaWe. Cloud had just
stared at him, and when he switched back to the channel
with the woman and man who seemed to have gotten quite
much further into whatever-they-were-doing (which
disgusted Kadaj greatly) and asked what they were
actually doing, Cloud’s face had just turned quite red
before he had excused himself for needing something to
drink, and gone he was.
But it
didn’t bother Kadaj, not at all. He would actually like
to call himself rather smart by now, knowing all these
things humans did. And although some of it seemed rather
weird, it wasn’t so weird that Kadaj wouldn’t accept it.
That
was what he thought until this one morning.
He had
just woken up; taken a shower and put on these way too
big clothes he had, seeing as Cloud still hadn’t
bothered to buy own clothes for him. Yawning as he
walked down the stairs, hearing Cloud coming stumbling
into the house.
As
always, that sound caused Kadaj to hurry down the rest
of the stairs to great his favourite Nii-san with a big
hug.
Except
for today.
Because
today, he was greeted with a sight he thought he’d never
see. And it made him stop up and stare in confusion.
Tilting his head after a while to tell Cloud what he
thought any human should know.
“…Nii-san, I don’t think that’s supposed to be inside
the house” he stated, pointing at the tree Cloud was
dragging inside. Causing the man to stop up and look at
him for a second, before returning back to his work at
getting the tree in.
“It is”
Cloud just said, cause Cloud never bothered to use many
words. Kadaj had learned that by now. But he wouldn’t
let this be, because, what was this? Had Nii-san gotten
drunk or something? This early in the morning? No.
Because when Cloud was drunk, he DID bother to use many
words. Kadaj knew that as well. Laughing unsurely, Kadaj
tried once again.
“Naw,
Nii-san, I think a tree’s supposed to be outside”
Finally
letting go of the tree, Cloud sighed as he stood up,
brushing off the snow that had gathered on him while
he’d been outside. Looking up at Kadaj who gave him a
completely clueless look; a look Cloud saw quite often.
Although today, Kadaj seemed completely lost.
Sighing, Cloud decided to explain this as well as he
could.
“It’s a
Christmas tree, Kadaj. I told you about Christmas,
right? Well, Tifa insisted that we’d get a Christmas
tree so the kids could have fun decorating it. You could
probably help decorating it too, I guess.”
Kadaj
stared. First at Cloud, then the ‘Christmas tree’, then
at Cloud again, before his gaze returned to the tree as
he looked closely.
“…no,
Nii-san, that’s a normal tree” he said, cause he knew
he’d seen that tree outside many times, and then it
hadn’t been a Christmas tree. But Cloud just shook his
head, trying to explain once again.
“It’s a
Christmas tree. At least when we’ve decorated it, it
will be a Christmas tree. Because that is the kind of
tree we use as Christmas tree”
Silence.
“…decorate it?”
Cloud
nodded.
Kadaj
raised an eyebrow, stared at Cloud, and the back and
forth once again.
“Why
don’t you just wait and see when the kids get back, hm?”
Cloud asked, and so they did.
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-15
hours later-
Oh,
right. So that’s how you decorated a Christmas tree.
Putting lights and glitter on it, then hang this weird
colourful balls on it which caused the stupid tree to
stick Kadaj’s hand a thousand times. Even cause him to
almost bleed once. Kadaj swore that tree had something
against him, and he had something against the tree as
well.
In the
middle of the night, he sneaked out of his room and
walked downstairs, glaring at the tree for a couple of
seconds before he kicked it, hard. And the whole tree
went down.
There.
Now the kids could have fun decorating the tree tomorrow
also.
~Fin~
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