Merry Christmas @runecel! I was your Secret Santa for the @dcmksecretsanta! I’m sorry I ended up being laid up for most of December and slacked on the mini-gifts and chat. I hope you have a wonderful day though and here’s your gift to hopefully brighten it up! I hope your okay with a little Kaiao ^^;; There’s a few ML easter eggs too from catching up on it while I was laid up. It was a pleasure being your Secret Santa!
“Did you guys just invite me over to do all your work for you?”
“I thought it would be fun, Bakaito! Just take a cookie already!”
Kaito rolled his eyes at Aoko. Of course she had taken charge of the Christmas activities this year, though decorating gingerbread men was a new one. He’d never done it before, though he was confident he’d be good at it– piping frosting and doing magic both required a steady hand.
“What are we supposed to decorate them like?” Inspector Nakamori– well, perhaps now he was just Ginzo– asked, happy to let Aoko take charge. “Isn’t it just a face and a scarf or something?”
“That’s boring, dad,” Aoko scolded, tapping her chin. “I know! Why don’t we make ourselves?” She was already picking out icing bags to match the stripes on her shirt.
“Isn’t that a little creepy? These are going to get eaten.”
“Don’t be such a grinch! Besides, they’re not voo-doo dolls!”
Kaito shuddered. It’s a good thing Akako’s not here, or she’d be getting ideas from this.
Ginzo simply sighed, more than used to the pair’s bickering over the years, and knowing this was only the beginning. He debated in his head on how messy he was willing to let the kitchen get when the two inevitably started throwing candy at each other. (The usual rules, he figured. If they made a mess, theycleaned it up.) All that mattered was that Kaito had come over at all for the holidays– it wasn’t the same without him, whether anyone wanted to admit it or not.
Merry Christmas Eve @yes-hei-i-am-fine! I’m your secret santa! :D It was nice to meet you, I hope you like your present! Added a little bit of writing to better fit with the themes you gave me, eheh. Come to think of it I’m not sure how much the drawing counts as fluff. XD
Also, I got such a lovely response to my 10-year anniversary post, thank you so much! Someonen suggested extra mini chapters which I would love but I’m drowning in work atm so if anything I could doodle-like sketches of scenes that weren’t in the story but you’d like to see? Like, stuff that happened off-screen or something? I’d also love to do a stream next Thursday but as I’ve said, work-load is really unpredictable atm.
