"Hello and welcome! I'm back. Miss me?" I taunted to the camera, smiling.
"No one would, Hiro. No one cares," Amber carried a bunch of presents and placed it under the tree.
"Aren't I your illusion? No! Hiroto! Don't go!" I did an impression of Amber grabbing onto my dead body just for her to look away.
Hehehe
"Shut up... that was a one-time thing. That's never happening again... I know you're laughing in your mind and I can't stand it!" She threw a small present at me.
Barely dodging, my Santa Claus hat almost fell off.
"Well, I can't die twice now can I? So you're saying you'll never cry for anyone else?" I smirked.
"Don't. Test. My. Patience. Hiroto." Amber changed her tone to one implying that she wouldn't hesitate to murder me...
"O-Of course... whatever you say! Please don't kill me"
"That's a good boy," She patted my head I was some sort of puppy... I don't know how I should feel about this...
So... I'm gonna go with the default. I hate you...
"Now I know what you're saying. What a coincidence! I hate you too!" Amber replied with childish enthusiasm.
"I miss volume 7 and 8 Amber already, can we bring her back please?" I whined
"Look... it's not like I choose to sound guilty. I just am okay? And you left me... when I... I..." Amber's face looked like she was gonna cry.
"Hey, it's ok I'm here now alright? Not an illusion this time," I tried to bring her spirits up.
"I... I... I... can't believe you believed that! Hah!" Amber rolled on the floor laughing.
I can't believe I believed that... I'll never trust again... you're pure evil!
"I'm a demon, I do what is expected of me," Amber smirked, not being able to get up from the laughter.
"Merry Christmas everyon- what is going on there?" Fay opened the door and peeked inside wearing a reindeer headband and a short red cloak with fluffy white edges.
Now that's dedication... I only wore a Santa Claus hat and a black outfit.
"See? You should've dressed up," Amber nagged me from the floor only wearing a green elf hat and fake elf ears.
"Hypocrite, you dressed up as much as me," I looked down on her, figuratively and literally.
"Hey! I got a red shirt! More than you do!" She instantly bounced up.
"Stop bickering like small children," Rex walked in with Kai and Alfie, dressed in casual clothes.
"You 3 didn't even try!" Both me and Amber shouted at the same time.
"Are you guys not enemies? Are you not the one that killed Hiroto?" Fay tilted her head, pointing at Kai.
"My bad for that one Hiroto. Like I said, that wasn't personal." He laughed a little with his hand behind his head, "Also there's really nothing to fight about in this universe... though watching us fight in the other one is both entertaining and dangerous." Kai glared at Alfie.
"Alfie almost killed Kai when he killed Hiroto in the other reality" Rex whispered to me and Amber.
"Don't you ever touch my children!" Alfie grabbed me, Amber and Fay, and gave the rest of them the death stare.
The others should be arriving right about now...
"Are we late?!" Damon's voice came in before he did with 2 footsteps racing in.
"We're here!" Shin declared with Misa and pushed each other to see who would enter the room first.
"Sorry about the late arrival" Mia waited from behind the door for them to settle it out.
"Hello!" Amber pulled both of them inside, making them lose balance and fall face-first onto the floor; leaving their race to a tie.
"Ouch..."
"I know I might be an angry brat in the other universe, but did you really have to do that?!" Shin sat up rubbing his face.
"Fine... so we're cool?" Amber extended her hand to help both of them up.
"Yeah, dude, if I knew that you had to go through all of that crap I wouldn't be such a brat, trust me." Shin took it and pulled himself up.
"And you? Ms. 2 personalities?" Amber asked Misa
"Yeah yeah, I can get up myself,"
I looked at the squish box of the present that was thrown at me earlier and opened it. Hope it's not broken...
A camera?
"I assume it is not proper etiquette to open a gift that isn't yours." Fay appeared behind me.
"I thought that it might've been broken so I needed to check," I replied turning the camera on. Luckily, it works...
"Oy! Hiroto's got a camera!" Kyle noticed the present.
How the hell did he get into the room?! I didn't even notice...
"Let's take a photo," Alfie took the camera away from my hand.
Rex looked reluctant to take the photo and quietly spoke up, "I don't kno-" stopping out of the blue as he sees Alfie's stare.
"We're. Taking. A. Photo," I hate how similar Alfie and Amber is... you know somedays I'm glad the other me isn't alive to witness this duel...
"I'll take it then. I'm not alive canonically anyways," I said as everyone gathered together and posed.
"3"
Isn't this...
"2"
A fun get together
"1"
Grail entered the room to photobomb with Amber noticing. When I realised he was there I had already taken the photo.
Looking at the picture, everyone did a normal pose except Amber who was running to punch Grail.
"Sure hope the canon Christmas is nice, see ya," I raised up my hand to black out the fourth wall break camera.