Christmas Wonders

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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