Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Lonely This Christmas ❯ Chapter 1

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or any of the characters (unless otherwise stated) Kazuki Takahashi does, nor do I make any money from these stories.

Nor do I own `Lonely this Christmas' by Mud (Well I do, but only the seven inch single I bought back in 1975) man I'm old…

 

I wasn't going too but I heard this song on the radio and I could resist…it's one of my favourites.

 

It'll Be Lonely This Christmas.

 

Yugi sighed it was going to be the loneliest Christmas he'd ever had.

 

 

Let me explain…

 

 

Firstly his friends; Seto had taken Joey and Mokuba to America so they could spend Christmas at Disney world, Tristan was spending it with Serenity and her mother (Everyone was still trying to figure out how he'd managed to get Joey to let him date his little sister) and Ryou had taken Bakura to England to meet his family, `boy are they in for a shock' Yugi chuckled to himself. As for Tea, well she was still mad at him for winning the ceremonial duel and sending `her' Atemu away, that was over a year ago and she still would not speak to him but he didn't mind, besides it wouldn't have done her any good if he had stayed, Atemu didn't like her that way.

 

 

Now as I said in the previous paragraph Atemu had gone back to the afterlife the year before and grandpa and his friends bless them all, (Tea being the exception) had rallied round and tried to make Christmas as much fun as they could for him, he smiled that had meant so much to him, it really had. Joey had wanted him to spend this Christmas with him, Seto and Mokuba, but he'd politely declined saying he did not want to intrude on his and Seto's first Christmas as a couple and not to worry about him he was fine.

 

 

As for grandpa…well he'd passed away earlier in the year, the only thing Yugi was grateful for was that he'd died peacefully in his sleep and had felt no pain.

Now Yugi, knowing that his grandpa would want him to carry on as normal bought all the usual Christmassy things, (except in smaller quantities of course) and he'd decorated the tree, and the whole house sparkled with the garlands he'd hung round the walls.

 

 

Yugi sat curled up on one of the chairs in front of the fire with a mug of hot chocolate warming his hands and listening to the radio, when his favourite Christmas song came on, heh, he knew the song was older than he was, but when he'd first heard it he fell in love with it, somehow it fitted him, he sang along to it…

 

Try to imagine, a house that's not a home

Try to imagine a Christmas all-alone

That's where I'll be since you left me

My tears could melt the snow

What can I do, without you I've got no place no place to go

 

It'll be lonely this Christmas without you to hold

It'll be lonely this Christmas lonely and cold

It'll be cold so cold without you to hold

This Christmas

 

Each time I remember the day you went away

How I would listen to the things that you had to say

I just break down as I look around and the only things I see

Are emptiness and loneliness and an unlit Christmas tree

 

 

It'll be lonely this Christmas without you to hold

It'll be lonely this Christmas lonely and cold

It'll be cold so cold without you to hold

This Christmas

 

(Spoken)

Remember last year when you and I were here

We never thought there would be an end

And I remember looking at you then

And I remember thinking that Christmas must have been made for us

`Cause darlin' this is the time of year that you really need, you really need love

When it means so very, very much

So if you're lonely this Christmas

Without me to hold

It'll be so very lonely, lonely and cold

 

It'll be lonely this Christmas without you to hold

It'll be lonely this Christmas lonely and cold

It'll be cold so cold without you to hold

This Christmas

 

Merry Christmas Atemu wherever you are

 

Yugi didn't realize as he spoke the last line tears were sliding down his face nor had he realized he'd said Atemu's name instead of the word `darlin' in the last line of the song.

 

 

“Merry Christmas to you too aibou”

 

 

Yugi turned sharply “Atemu?” he whispered the tears still flowing “What…what are you doing here? I…I mean how are you here?”

Chuckling Atemu walked to where Yugi was sitting and knelt in front of him. Atemu lifted his hand and wiped away Yugi's tears “The gods heard your song and have allowed me to return to you”

“For how long?” Yugi whispered, “I've missed you so much”

Atemu smiled “For as long as you want me aibou, I've missed you too”

Wiping his eyes again Yugi looked at him “And if I want you to stay forever?”

Atemu leaned forward and gently held Yugi's chin and pulled him forward slightly “Then forever it will be” he softly brushed his lips against Yugi's

 

 

“Happy Christmas habibi aay'i”

 

 

Habibi aay'i = beautiful beloved (Arabic)

(If I'm wrong please tell me and I'll correct it)