Kaien: Omygosh, I'm actually going to write another story! It's been awhile and for all my fans out there, I am so sorry.

Nuriko: He's been laying about eating ice cream for days. I keep telling him he's going to get as fat as Miaka.

Naruto: Miaka is nothing on Choji though. That boy…

Nuriko: By all rights, you two idiots should look just like him.

Kaien: Is that an insult?

Naruto: I'll take it as a compliment.

Nuriko: You shouldn't….

Kaien and Naruto: Huh? I don't get it.

"Secchan! Catch!" Setsuna glanced up just in time to see a large suitcase falling towards her face. She yelped and jumped aside, catching it by the handle just before it hit the ground. She looked at her friend, Asuna. The red haired girl was smiling and waving from the upstairs window.

"What the hell are you doing, dropping luggage on people?"

"That's a suitcase full of warm clothes that you can pick from for you and Konoka."

"Huh?" Asuna landed neatly beside her and popped the suitcase open.

"Warm clothes. Scarves, jackets, coats, hats, pants. You'll need them."

"For what?" Setsuna yelped again as Asuna pulled a thick fur hat over her eyes.

"Have you already forgotten that her birthday's coming up?"

The swordsman blushed slightly and pulled the cap up enough so that she could see. Asuna was busy pulling out more clothes and holding them up to see how they would look on Setsuna. "Of course I didn't. What does warm clothes have to do with that?"

"Negi and I were bored and we knew you hadn't gotten her anything yet, so we decided to help you out a bit. Put this on." Setsuna obliged and pulled the thick sweater on. "Maybe the red one instead."

"Do we have to do this in front of the dorms?"

"Yes, Konoka's in our room. We're giving her warm clothes for her birthday so she can where them when you go."

"Go where already?"

"The mountains." Setsuna simply gaped at her friend as Asuna pulled another sweater over her head. "Your gift is going to be awesome, Secchan."

"Why are you calling me that?"

"I was waiting to see when you would get mad because someone besides your dear Kono-chan was calling you that. Five minutes ain't bad." Setsuna flushed.

"Why are we going to the mountains?" Asuna finally stopped forcing clothes onto the now sweating swordsman and smiled.

"Well…"

Two days later…

"Setsuna, wake up!" The raven-haired girl opened her eyes and found herself face-to-face with Asuna.

"AGHHHH!" The poor swordsman fell out of her bed and spun around with her sword out and ready. Asuna scoffed and pushed the sword aside.
"Showtime girlie!" Then she promptly dragged Setsuna from the room ignoring all protests that she wasn't dressed yet. They walked into Asuna, Konoka, and Negi's room a minute later to find half of 3-A there already, some of them dancing, the rest terrorizing Negi. As Asuna moved away to save the child teacher from being stripped and placed inside a giant cake for Konoka, the healer wound her arm through Setsuna's.

"You came, Secchan! And in your pajamas." Setsuna blushed and glanced down at her Scooby-Doo boxers and red muscle shirt.

"I wouldn't have missed this for the world and the pajamas are uh…the product of an impatient friend." Konoka raised an eyebrow at her protector but the girl just shrugged and continued. "Why is the party so early in the day?"

"I don't know. Asuna said something about there being a big surprise later so we're partying now. And she told me to stay far away from the sweet sake Yuna brought in. Do you know what she's planning?" Setsuna shrugged trying to hide her smile. The healer narrowed her eyes and nodded, pulling Setsuna over to a group of their friends and thinking, "I wonder what she's hiding…"