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.
