Day Ten: Cocoa--Toya
Title: Twelve Years of Christmas; Chapter Ten: Cocoa
Author: KHLostEmpress
Characters/Pairings: Syaoran/Sakura, Toya
Genre: Romance/Christmas
Brief summary: Well, exactly as the title mentions, twelve years of the Christmases of Sakura and Syaoran starting after the ending of the main story. 500ish word stories, starting today and ending Christmas Eve. Twelve Prompts of Christmas challenge
Toya sipped his cup of cocoa as he sat at the kitchen table watching the brat as he sat on the living room couch. He thought it was about time he set some things straight. So with Sakura preoccupied upstairs (finishing getting packed for her trip to Hong Kong-the kid had showed up yesterday to escort her and Toya had expected no less). But considering she had put it off until the last moment, he had at least ten or fifteen minutes of free interrogation time. He got up and picked out another empty mug, filling it up with some more cocoa (it wasn’t like he made some for the kid, he just happened to have extra). With a sense of purpose, Toya walked into the living room, inwardly extremely please that the brat seemed to watch him warily as he approached.
Setting the cup down on the table in front of the kid, he said briefly and emphatically, “I don’t like you.” Then he went and sat down on the corner of the couch farthest away from him.
“I know,” Li said with a single lifted eyebrow and almost in a confused tone, as if he was wondering why Toya was telling him this. He glanced at the mug of cocoa in front of him and then back up at Toya. Toya just shrugged at him, which wasn’t really an answer, but Li still picked up the mug and sipped at the warm drink. “Thank you,” he said once he had lowered the mug again (with probably the less amount of gratitude anyone could say those words with and still actually mean them).
Toya just shrugged at him again as he took a larger drink from his own glass. He continued as if the brat hadn’t spoken at all as he said, “But you make Sakura happy, so I guess you’re not a total loss.”
Li just looked at him with a puzzled expression and said nothing this time. Toya, however, was satisfied that he had gotten his point across. The two men just sat in silence for a few minutes, drinking their cocoa. Li set his cup down on the table, apparently finished. The only sound that could be heard was the ticking of the clock and Sakura’s movements upstairs as she packed.
After a few minutes later, once his cocoa was gone, Toya stood up and walked over to where the kid’s empty mug sat back on the table. “I’m going to marry her,” the cheeky brat had the gall to say to him defiantly.
“You better,” Toya bit back out at him in return as he grabbed his empty mug as the two of them continued to glared at each other.
It was at that very moment that Sakura could be heard bumping her suitcase down the stairs. A few seconds later, she appeared in the doorway with her wheeled suitcase in tow. She started to say, “I’m ready to go-Toya, have you been mean to Syaoran again?” she cut off in the middle to ask her brother as she crossed her arms in front of her chest.
Toya walked over to his sister with a smirk and rubbed the top of her head as he said, “Wouldn’t you like to know, monster?”
“I am not a monster!” Sakura yelled at him as Toya dodged her kick to his leg and walked up the stairs.
Author: KHLostEmpress
Characters/Pairings: Syaoran/Sakura, Toya
Genre: Romance/Christmas
Brief summary: Well, exactly as the title mentions, twelve years of the Christmases of Sakura and Syaoran starting after the ending of the main story. 500ish word stories, starting today and ending Christmas Eve. Twelve Prompts of Christmas challenge
Toya sipped his cup of cocoa as he sat at the kitchen table watching the brat as he sat on the living room couch. He thought it was about time he set some things straight. So with Sakura preoccupied upstairs (finishing getting packed for her trip to Hong Kong-the kid had showed up yesterday to escort her and Toya had expected no less). But considering she had put it off until the last moment, he had at least ten or fifteen minutes of free interrogation time. He got up and picked out another empty mug, filling it up with some more cocoa (it wasn’t like he made some for the kid, he just happened to have extra). With a sense of purpose, Toya walked into the living room, inwardly extremely please that the brat seemed to watch him warily as he approached.
Setting the cup down on the table in front of the kid, he said briefly and emphatically, “I don’t like you.” Then he went and sat down on the corner of the couch farthest away from him.
“I know,” Li said with a single lifted eyebrow and almost in a confused tone, as if he was wondering why Toya was telling him this. He glanced at the mug of cocoa in front of him and then back up at Toya. Toya just shrugged at him, which wasn’t really an answer, but Li still picked up the mug and sipped at the warm drink. “Thank you,” he said once he had lowered the mug again (with probably the less amount of gratitude anyone could say those words with and still actually mean them).
Toya just shrugged at him again as he took a larger drink from his own glass. He continued as if the brat hadn’t spoken at all as he said, “But you make Sakura happy, so I guess you’re not a total loss.”
Li just looked at him with a puzzled expression and said nothing this time. Toya, however, was satisfied that he had gotten his point across. The two men just sat in silence for a few minutes, drinking their cocoa. Li set his cup down on the table, apparently finished. The only sound that could be heard was the ticking of the clock and Sakura’s movements upstairs as she packed.
After a few minutes later, once his cocoa was gone, Toya stood up and walked over to where the kid’s empty mug sat back on the table. “I’m going to marry her,” the cheeky brat had the gall to say to him defiantly.
“You better,” Toya bit back out at him in return as he grabbed his empty mug as the two of them continued to glared at each other.
It was at that very moment that Sakura could be heard bumping her suitcase down the stairs. A few seconds later, she appeared in the doorway with her wheeled suitcase in tow. She started to say, “I’m ready to go-Toya, have you been mean to Syaoran again?” she cut off in the middle to ask her brother as she crossed her arms in front of her chest.
Toya walked over to his sister with a smirk and rubbed the top of her head as he said, “Wouldn’t you like to know, monster?”
“I am not a monster!” Sakura yelled at him as Toya dodged her kick to his leg and walked up the stairs.