...And he hadn't asked either. He was even more loathe to dig into anyone else's private business than she was... for the most part. He certainly resisted and resented anyone digging into his. Not that he had known or had asked how the last "date" went, and if if it was going to go anywhere beyond a set up at Akihiko's oblivious insistence. It wasn't his business, when it came down to it. And he wasn't going to assume anything. But part of him didn't want her to spend the day alone. Christmas and Christmas Eve had never meant much to him—but for her, it probably meant something.

But beyond that, it's not Miki and Minato he's really worried about.

"No. I just remembered I left an idiot at home with nothin' to do."