ImmediatelyWriting's One Shots

#6. Banana Fish - AshEiji) How Cultures Collide

Summary: Christmas at Ash and Eiji's place is like a warzone; Eiji wants romantic cuddles on the couch, Ash wants to celebrate the excentric American way.

Fandom: Banana Fish
Ship: Ash/Eiji
Genre: Fluff, Christmas special

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Hey There!

Who doesn't love Ash and Eiji? And Fix-it fics for that terrible ending? AND Christmas fanfictions?
Well, I have it for you; all in one place!

~ Noa

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Who could've guessed it, that Christmas wouldn't be a day of peace at all... not at Ash and Eiji's house at least; their first festive Christmas together feels more a warzone.

It all began three days before Christmas, when there was still no Christmas tree to be seen. Ash had demanded there'd be a huge Christmas tree with thousands of balls and shiny decorations and other festive things like big presents and lots of food. He wanted the nostalgia of when he was younger, he wanted to celebrate it like they did in America.

Yet, Eiji never had known this way of celebrating Christmas.

He wanted to just buy something small for Ash and spend the evening with the two of them alone. No one would have to fly all the way to Japan just to celebrate that one, pretty unimportant, holiday that neither Eiji nor anyone he knew really cared about.

There didn't have to be a tree with lights, just decorating the shelves in the living room should be festive enough. After making it look all cozy, Eiji just wanted to lay down on the couch with Ash and cuddle while watching a movie and eating snacks like any other couple would do on Christmas Eve.

Maybe, if Ash really wanted to do something big on first or second Christmas day, they could go to a carnival nearby or take a nice long walk; he didn't get why it should be any bigger than that.

Their ideas of Christmas immediately proofed themselves totally different.

With a knot in his stomach Eiji wakes up on the morning before Christmas. Annoyed trying to calm his upset stomach, Eiji wonders why he's so nervous about today; he made it very clear that they will keep it small this evening and probably spend their days as normal on the real Christmas days.

He looks over at Ash, who's sleeping in the ugliest Christmas sweater Eiji has ever seen.

Even though Christmas hasn't even officially started, Ash has been wearing the scratchy, woolen sweaters for a week. He says their nice and warm, but Eiji put one on once and he immediately had rash all over his arms, chest and even his back.

Apparently, in countries where they celebrate Christmas big you can just walk around in such foolish sweater and still be taken seriously by, for example, the mafia group you're the boss of.

Eiji chuckles and shakes his head; there's no way someone like him could understand the joy of celebrating Christmas like it's the same as the end of a war that lasted for years and years.

Ash looks tired, Eiji eventually notices when he looks past the crappy clothing and messy hair. There are bags under his eyes and when he looks closer he can even see that Ash hasn't washed himself before crawling under the blankets; there's gold and red glitter all over Ash's cheeks.

Though confused, Eiji isn't surprised by this because for some reason Ash wanted to stay up late last night while Eiji already went to bed to read at nine in the evening. He heard all sorts of sounds from the living room and, now that he sees how Ash's looks so tired, he's almost sure Ash threw himself an early Christmas party while Eiji tried to sleep. Nothing strange when you consider Ash stays awake all night about fifty percent of the time; that is what a past in the mafia can do with a person after all.