Hyoga x Shun Short Stories

Bonus: Christmas

Oh, Christmas Tree!

December is here and Hyoga has an idea to make the holidays more exciting.

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December had just begun, and that meant Christmas was on its way. For the average Russian, the holidays began at the end of December, all the way 'til mid January. But for one who lived with a person that was just as festive as Father Christmas, the holidays began on December 1st... earlier, if possible.

Hyoga knew Shun's disproportionate passion towards Christmas festivities, and decided to take that experience to another level.

He recalled his bygone childhood, and how his parents took him to the woods to find and cut the perfect 'New Year' tree for their house.

Shun would certainly love that. He was always complaining about plastic Christmas trees and how they lack the gorgeous smell and spirit of the holidays.

What could be better than going into the dark woods, in a most likely illegal enterprise, to cut an enormous natural tree all by themselves?

"Going somewhere and buy one!" Shun complained, Hyoga's idea hadn't had the reaction he expected.

"C'mon, bunny! It will be an adventure!" the blond added, trying his best to convince his boyfriend.

"I'm no lumberjack! I don't know how to cut down a tree!! And neither do you."

Hyoga scorned. "Please! I used to do this with my parents every year!"

"Yeah! In the Soviet Union! It's probably illegal nowadays!"

Hyoga sighed, a bit offended by Andromeda's insinuation. "How old do you think I am?"

Shun snorted, rather upset, before Hyoga continued.

"It'll be fun! I promise. And it will be a great anecdote to tell Seiya and the rest on New Year's party."

Hyoga grabbed Shun by the arm and practically dragged him into the car.

"Whatever happened to the grumpy Hyoga that just wanted to lock himslef in the apartment and snort all day long?"

"It's for you, baby. To make you happy," the blond grinned, starting the car.

"Really?" Shun added, sarcastically. "How's that working?"

Before driving out of the city, the Saints stopped by a hardware store to buy everything Hyoga thought they would need, and then they were off.

They drove until they found themselves in the middle of nowhere. Surrounded by snow and a hella lot of trees.

"It's freezing out here!!!!!!" Shun grumbled, as he tried to keep up with his boyfriend's speed while walking through the snow.

Perhaps if Andromeda hadn't been too frozen, he could had enjoyed the fresh smell the trees offered.

"Pick one, my love!" Hyoga screamed, proudly, as he stood in the middle of the forest with his arms wide open.

Only then, when the Japanese stood among all the pines and festive breeze, he grinned softly, watching with awe all the pretty specimens.

"Hyo-chan!" He yelled, excited. "This is amazing!"

The mentioned one smiled even wider, there was nothing else in the world that filled him as Shun's happiness.

But that was not meant to last, when Shun finally picked a tree, he discovered his very little ability when it came to using axes and tools of the sort.

Hyoga proved to be just as useless, with the task becoming a complete nightmare.

"I thought you said you did this as a child!!!!" Shun roared, resembling more his brother's behavior than his own.

"Well... my father did..." Hyoga mumbled. "I just picked the tree and played with the snow!" He confessed, bracing himself for what was coming.

Shun hit the fan. He was furious, with Hyoga for dragging him to that stinky lonely forest; with the bloody weather that felt even colder than before; with the idea that they would probably end up in jail for cutting a tree with no permission whatsoever; with nature, for now his hands were filled with bruises and scratches; with himself, for not imposing on his boyfriend and make him buy a tree as normal people did. Such was the fury that grew inside the Japanese, that he began to feverishly hit the tree trunk repeatedly with the axe.

Cygnus was in shock, he had seen Ikki act like that before, but never imagined to watch his cute boyfriend in that position in a million years. No doubt, such temper was in the siblings genes. He wasn't sure if he should aid Shun with his endeavor, or run in case he was next.

Finally, the blessed tree fell, almost crushing Hyoga in its way down.

"Well done, Shunny..."

"Let's put it on the car and get the hell out of here." Shun stated, firmly and without making any eye contact.

Another problem. The tree was too big and heavy, even for them.

"Rise your goddamn Cosmo and LIFT THE BLOODY THING!!!!" Shun ordered, totally out of himself.

"We are not supposed to use it for trivial or selfish stuff, you know?"

"SEE IF I CARE!!!"

Once the tree was on and perfectly tied up, the pair went home. They arrived at the city by sunset, which only made Shun foamed even more.

Hyoga lose his temper once it was time to take the fluffy tree upstairs.

"Take it from the bottom and lift it at my signal, okay?" Hyoga explained, as he grabbed the top of the tree, scratching himself. "Ready? One, two, three... LIFT!"

The Russian pulled with all his strength, but that tree was massive and barely moved an inch.

"Push!" the blond yelled.

"I'm pushing!!!" Shun yelled back.

"Well, you are not doing it right!!! Are you even lifting?!"

After a lot of screaming, cursing and such, the couple managed to get the tree inside the apartment, it was too tall. Desperately, Hyoga grabbed some oversized scissors and chopped the top of the poor pine.

Both Saints went to bed, barely saying anything, or at least anything nice, to each other.

The next weekend, when Shun had forgiven the tree for all the misfortunes they had been through, the couple finally decorated it.

"It's gorgeous, Hyoga!" Shun said as his boyfriend light up the Christmas tree.

"Told you it would be worth it in the end..." he replied, resting his head on Andromeda's shoulder.

Shun chuckled. "But I'm not doing it again next year, you hear me?"

Andromeda and Cygnus went to the couch to admire their beautiful, yet a bit deformed, Christmas and New Year tree.

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* The term 'New Year' tree is used here. In the early years of the Soviet Union, Christmas (and Christmas trees) was forbidden for being a religious holiday. So around 1930 people started calling them 'New Year' trees. Since this holiday is bigger in Russia than actual Christmas, the term remained.