Aki Karasu

It's been a week since we got here on the island and we've basically participated in nearly every activity we could ever dream of. Now we were all getting prepared for Christmas. Rena bought us a Christmas Tree and we already hung up ornaments and other decorations around the Airbnb.

"I can't believe it's already that time. The days seem to have flown by so quickly." Momoko smiled as she admired the tree.

"I agree. I actually can not wait to spend this year's Christmas with you all again..~" Sayaki smiled.

"I can't wait to rip open my gifts and eat delicious food and spend the day enjoying my gift!" Suki said excitedly.

I smiled as I listened to them. I looked at Aki and noticed her standing on her tippy toes to flip the switch on the the star that was on the top of the tree. I walked behind her and gently rose her off the ground and she squeaked a bit. I chuckled and watched as she finally flipped the switch of the star on the top of the tree. I set her down and Orime plugged in the tree and the lights came on.

Rena smiled and sat down on the couch then sighed softly. "We got all of our presents wrapped up. Christmas is tomorrow and tonight Mitsuki will be making a very special dinner with yours truly~"

We all sat down and smiled at one another.

"How about we all play a game of Uno?" I suggested.

"Sure why not, you're just gonna lose again." Suki smirked.

"Yeah right, you talk like I've been losing every time." I scoffed.

"Well you certainly don't win sooooo..." Suki retorted to my statement.

"Neither do you, Pastel Girl." I said.

"Come on! You promised to stop calling me that!" Suki whined.

Everyone laughed at me and Suki then Rena pulled out a pack of Uno cards and smirked.

"Let us start the Shadow Game..." Rena said.

"The Shadow Game?" I asked.

"You don't know the Shadow Game?" Momoko asked with a bit of shakiness in her voice.

"No. I've been here for how many months and we've never once played this." I said.

Rena chuckled and looked at me. "The Shadow Game is a game where we play with custom cards and it has nothing but dares on them...~ You must complete the dare or you have to draw TEN CARDS! The dares aren't baby dares either, they are the most extreme dares that only the strongest can play.."

I adjusted my ring that Aki bought me last week and smirked. "Oh I think I understand now."

"Since there's an even number of players on the field, we can play the Duo Shadow Game. The Winners will be free from the curse and the loser will have to do whatever the Winners say until Christmas. We play this game every year...and the cards only become more and more dangerous." Rena explained.

"How can this be played as a team?" I asked.

"Well both of you will have to get out and there are some strategies you can play as well. Let's say you have to draw two, your partner can opt to draw that two but at a price...your turn gets skipped. Or let's say you get skipped, if your partner has a skip card of their own...they can nullify the skip but at a price...they have to draw a card. Now onto the real strategy...card swapping. You can swap cards with your partner but only on your turn. Your partner can also jump in for some deadly combos against your opponent. The Shadow Game is all about strategy.." Rena answered.

"There's a lot that goes into this huh." I said.

"We must not lose this." Aki said and looked at me.

I nodded. "We'll win, and then I can rub it in Suki's face."

"I'm sitting right here!" Suki yelled.

Rena smiled and shuffled the cards then dealt each of us seven cards. She set the rest of the deck on the table and the game began with Aki and I going first.

"Oh yeah and only one of you can play a card per turn but both of you must win." Rena said.

Aki leaned over to my ear and whispered in my ear. I nodded and we began to swap cards to where I had an attacking hand and she had the support hand. Rena looked at us and wondered what type of strategy we went with. Aki made the first move and got the game started with a blue seven.

We went a few rounds without conflict until Rena had to pull her card then smirked. We looked at her and she set down the card.

"This is where the Shadow Game begins.." Rena said and looked at me and Aki.

I looked at the card and my cheeks heated up massively. "What the hell..?"

Aki looked at the card and blushed a bit. "I'll do the dare."

"What Aki-"

"If we don't we draw ten cards and I don't mind doing this if it's you.." Aki said and took a deep breath. "When I was little I peed the bed and poured water and dish detergent on the bed to try and cover it up!"

Yeah the card said, "tell your most embarrassing moment of your life or draw ten". From that moment I knew this game would be brutal. The game continued as normal and Aki and I was in the lead since our plan really worked out for the best until Momoko put down a card and blushed.

I read the card and choked on my words. "Were these dares written by only Rena?!"

"Mhm~" Rena smiled. "Either tell your secret fantasy or draw that ten~"

I looked at Aki and counted my losses. We were so close to winning and drawing ten would literally only keep us from winning. "Uhm. My deepest fantasy would be...to have-"

Aki covered my mouth and blushed a lot. "Just draw the stupid ten!"

I felt a sense of relief that Aki stopped me. I couldn't tell everyone about how badly I wanted to have sex with Aki and she couldn't bare to hear me tell everyone about how badly we wanted to do it with each other. I drew the ten and we went on with the game.

In the end, Suki and Sayaki lost first but then Aki and I lost after them because of Rena and Momoko's deadly strategy of countering literally everything I tried to throw at them. They don't call Rena and Momoko the Shadow Queens for nothing. They mastered the art of the Shadow Game and were undefeated.

"Imagine being the first one out." I teased and laughed.

"Fuck you!" Suki retorted. "I'm gonna go read my manga!"

Suki got up and left the area to go upstairs.

I snickered and sat back on the couch. I stared at the ceiling. "Y'know. It's been a pretty good year. November was pretty mid not gonna lie."

"November was hella mid." Rena said.

"Not our best month to be honest." Aki giggled. "But still good enough to be considered.."

"It also sucked that we had to wait until December to come here!" Orime said.

"Well after what happened in Kuchisaki, the school decided to start Christmas Break earlier than ever...probably to sweep everything under the rug. A death of a student is pretty big." Rena said.

We were silent down then Aki stood up and made me stand up.

"Where are you going?" Rena asked.

"Going to our room, where else?" Aki said.

"Oh alright..~" Rena smirked.

Aki rolled her eyes and dragged me upstairs with her. "Good night!"

"Whoa! Hold on! I can walk by myself!" I shouted.

Aki and I entered our room and she closed the locked the door. I looked at Aki and noticed her bashful look. She looked at me and walked to me then placed her hands on my chest.

"So uhm...it is a tradition to open one present early before Christmas Day and I have a present I want you to open tonight. I feel like I'm ready to let you have it.." Aki whispered and glided her hands down.

"What's the present?" I asked.

She began to unbuckle my belt slowly and looked into my eyes. "Me...Let's...let's have sex as an early present...I want you and I feel ready to truly feel you inside of me.."

I stared back into her eyes and let her undo my pants then let them drop on the ground. She unbuttoned her pants then slid them down with her panties. I pulled my boxers off and watched her sink down to her knees slowly. She held my shaft and slowly stroked it. She brought her face closer and placed my member into her mouth, still holding my cock in her hands. She slowly began to hold my legs and moved her head back and forth, giving me a blowjob. She swirled her tongue around my member as she sucked and looked up at me to see if I was enjoying it.

I was not only enjoying it, but was trying to keep quiet as well. She was keeping quiet too so no one could hear us. She stopped sucking my dick and slowly stood up then got on the bed. I crawled on the bed as well and pulled her closer to me. We both were panting softly from the excitement our bodies felt. I slowly rubbed the head of my shaft along her slit and found the opening then slowly inserted myself into her. Her pussy was pretty tight and wet, I felt my dick twitch just from sticking it into her.

I held her cheeks and placed my forehead against her. I kissed her and she kissed back. I began to thrust slowly into the kiss and she did her best to not moan so we could keep a low profile. We kissed for a few more seconds before I pulled back and focused on fucking Aki. Aki closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around my nape. We both silently panted as we had sex. The hardest part of this was keeping quiet even though we both wanted to moan in pleasure. I kissed her again, feeling that she was going to let out a moan. She kissed back and began holding my arms.

"Does it...feel good?" I whispered and silently panted as I kept thrusting.

Aki arched her back and her face was entirely red. She gripped the covers and panted, trying to stop herself from moaning. "It...feels so a-amazing...M-Mmph...D-Don't stop.." She whispered back nearly moaning.

I kept thrusting and soon quickened my pace just a bit and slightly strengthened my thrusts. I felt her insides contracting and squeeze me. She began panting heavier and tears formed into her eyes. She placed her fingers in her mouth and laid down on the bed. I held her breast and closed my eyes tightly.

"Fhhaa..~ A-Archer..~ Keep...haah...going..~" She softly moaned as she couldn't help it anymore.

I rubbed her clit and she grunted softly as she began to grow closer to an orgasm. I slowly felt myself growing closer. We haven't done this enough to increase our sexual stamina. Both of us were still inexperienced.

"A-Aki..." I stammered and gripped the covers, losing the rhythm of my thrusts.

"Don't stop..!~ Nngh!!" She squeaked and pleaded. She gripped my shirt tightly and felt me thrusting harder and faster. She panted harshly and her legs began shaking. A moan slipped from her mouth and she bit down on my shirt.

I had an iron grip on the covers then my thrusts came to a sudden stop and I felt my cock twitch inside of her, releasing hot semen inside of her pussy. We both panted heavily and stood still. I wanted our time to go on for longer but as it stood, we couldn't last longer than two minutes. I didn't feel as bad since both of us were weaklings in bed.

"Fuck...that felt so good yet lasted such a short time.." Aki whispered in between her panting.

"We gotta work on our sex game.." I said and pulled out of Aki then laid beside her and stared at the ceiling.

"You came inside of me...Not that I mind, but I was expecting you to pull out...since you're more responsible than I am." Aki said and smiled.

"Even if I wanted to pull out, I wouldn't have made it in time.." I said.

"That's okay...I wasn't gonna let you either way..~" Aki giggled softly. She rolled onto her side and cuddled up against me. She closed her eyes and smiled as I held her. "Maybe we can do this more..~"

"Definitely..~" I smiled.

With that said, Aki ended up catching z's first and soon after I followed.

The next day...

I heard the sounds of excited thumping and opened my eyes. I looked over and noticed Aki still sleeping.

"It's Christmas! A White Christmas!!~ It's snowing!!~" Mitsuki said excitedly.

Aki woke up from the commotion and sat up slowly. "What the hell..?"

I looked at Aki and sat up then looked out the window and noticed it was snowing. Mitsuki wasn't lying...it was actually snowing. I got out of bed and walked over to the window and peeked outside. This was the first time in forever I've seen snow. Aki looked at me then her eyes widened as she noticed the snow. She quickly put on her clothes.

"It's a White Christmas..!!" Aki said with excitement. "Babe let's go downstairs!"

I just stared out the window and covered my face.

"Babe?" Aki asked and hurried over to me. She noticed I was crying.

"I've always wished to see the snow every Christmas and now it's here...The Special Christmas I always wished for.." I said with tears rolling down my face.

Aki smiled at me and hugged me from behind. "Well the snow is always better to be in than to look at. Put your clothes on so we can open gifts then head outside~"

I nodded a d wiped my eyes. I put my boxers and pants back on. We headed out the room to go downstairs and open gifts with the others. We sat on the couch and Rena handed out the presents. We each opened our gifts and Suki was the first to gasp and squeal with excitement.

"I've been looking for these all over! How did you get this collector's set?! This manga series of Queen's Retribution has been sold out everywhere!" Suki said.

"Well I've just looked online and I spent my entire savings on it." Sayaki smiled. "I had to go through hell to get it from some chick."

"Thank you!" Suki said happily.

Rena smiled at the miniature statue of her family then looked at Momoko. "Only you would get a custom statue like this made for me.."

"Well I know how much you miss your family so I thought it would be nice to have something to remember them by." Momoko smiled.

"Okay who bought me the Death Note notebook?" Orime asked.

Mitsuki giggled mischievously.

"You red headed runt. I may be gothic but not that damn gothic!" Orime exclaimed.

Mitsuki laughed and covered her mouth. "That's payback for getting me a knock off Cooking Mama set last Christmas!"

Orime smiled and shook her head. "That was long ago, you still remembered that?"

"Of course I did." Mitsuki smiled.

I looked at the custom necklace that had my gemstone and Zodiac Sign engraved into the ring. It also had an ornate design on it.

"I hope you like it..~ I wanted to save that for today. It's a Promise Necklace..~" Aki smiled.

"A promise necklace..~ Well I'll be sure to cherish it forever until I die, but I think your gift will be the best one of all." I smiled and handed her a second gift.

Aki took the gift and unwrapped it. She opened the box and gasped then covered her mouth. Rena and the others looked at her. Aki was moved to tears and her hand was shaking.

I slowly took the box and got down on one knee. "I've made up my mind 100%. Aki Karasu...You are the only woman that I love and I have a request for you. Aki...will you marry me?"

Aki looked at me and nodded quickly. She couldn't speak because she was so excited and happy. I smiled at her and got back on the couch then hugged her. She hugged back and sniffled.

Rena and the others cheered and Rena laughed.

"He couldn't wait to ask you since the day I helped him pick the ring out. He said that this Christmas was going to be the best one yet and he made sure of it." Rena smiled.

Aki nodded and wiped her eyes. "It truly is the best Christmas, it's snowing and now I'm engaged to the man I love..~"

"This calls for a Celebration! Last one outside is a rotten egg!" Momoko said and quickly got up then headed outside quickly.

"I'm no rotten egg!!" Suki yelled and set her collection down then hurried after Momoko.

The others got up and went outside.

I stood up and helped Aki up. "Shall we?~"

"Yes...my love..~" Aki smiled.

We both headed outside together and spent the majority of our Christmas with everyone. Today was the most special day, it snowed, all of my true friends and fiance was with me, and most of all I was truly happy. Aki and I were truly happy and in the end, we vowed to spend the rest of our lives together.

Aki and I took a stroll along the sidewalk, holding hands. Aki smiled and looked at the ring on her finger. I stopped walking and stared into the distance. I took out my phone then snapped a picture with Aki.

"This picture...will be the start of our new lives." I said and smiled.

"Yeah..~" Aki nodded.

I sent the picture to my parents then we continued to walk down the sidewalk together.

~𝒜𝓀𝒾 𝒮𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓎: 𝐸𝓃𝒹~