Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Silent Night... Holy Night... ❯ I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas... ( Chapter 3 )

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Bakura: *glumly* Hoo Raa Hoo Raa…

Authoress (a.k.a Psycho): -_- shut up

Bakura: ^_^ I like making you mad

Psycho: Yeah well you don't like making Ryou mad do you?!

Bakura: …………………………̷ 0;….. why?

Psycho: Because you do in this chapter!!! WAAAhahahaha!!!

Ryou: I never get mad at anyone though…

Psycho: Not even the excruciatingly annoying Bakura?

Bakura: *death glare*

Ryou: Well….. maybe SOMETIMES….

Psycho: ^___^ ON WITH THE FIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas…

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The following morning was Christmas Eve and Yugi woke up smiling. He couldn't wait to see all his friends. He had received Kaiba's invitation… but he promised that he would stay with his Grandpa on Christmas Eve. Maybe I could go over for just a little while? Yugi thought. With that, he threw on some clothes and went downstairs to ask his Grandpa.

"Well alright, Yugi. You can go for a little while, but remember to be back in time for dinner. I'm having a roast chicken with cranberry sauce!" Solomon said as he licked his lips and rubbed his hands together.

Yugi smiled and felt like leaping two feet in the air. "Thanks Grandpa! I'll be back later!" he shouted as he wrapped a scarf around his neck and tucked his Millennium Puzzle into his jacket.

I wonder if Jou and Kaiba have finished decorating the mansion yet. I bet it looks great! I'll call by and see Yami on the way to the Kaiba estate and see if they need any help. Yugi thought as he strolled down the snow-covered pavement. He started to walk briskly to Yami and Anzu's apartment; his breath turning frosty white.
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"This is going to hurt, puppy. I'm sorry." Seto said as he applied some iodine to Jou's naked back.

"Oowwww!!!!!" Jou shrieked.

"Hey it's not my fault that you went right up the top of an unstable ladder just to put up a stupid Christmas banner." Seto mumbled as he cleaned the bleeding gauge in Jou's back. Jou had fallen from about eight or nine feet onto one of Seto's Italian glass coffee tables from a ladder and had got a piece of glass stuck into his back. Being Jou, he ripped the piece of glass out and made his wound even worse.

"Is Jou gonna be okay?" Mokuba asked as he stood watching.

Seto examined the gash with a close eye. "Hmmm… call Dr. Campbell. Mokuba. This may need stitches."

"Okay, what about the table?"

"Call one of my employees to come and clean it up. And for heaven's sake Mokuba, put some shoes on! I don't want both of you ending up with stitches on Christmas Eve." Seto said, rolling his eyes.

Mokuba galloped off to his room and put some shoes on and returned with the phone, calling Kaiba's private doctor - Dr. Campbell.

Jou whined and cringed as more blood oozed out of his wound. What bad luck! He leant against his dragon, who was sitting behind him on a footstall. He nuzzled Seto's neck, trying not to get blood on his clothes.

"It's okay, puppy. We'll get you fixed up and I'll give you some pain killers and chocolate ice cream. Let me do all the planning for the party tonight." Seto said, rubbing his lover's arms, which were somewhat cold.

"But I want to help decorate! Please?"

"You know, you're starting to sound like Mokuba."

"Sorry…"

"It's okay. You took a big fall there, Jou. I want you to rest for a few hours, okay?"

At that same minute, Dr. Campbell walked in with his medical kit. He and Seto greeted each other in a handshake gesture and before Jou knew it, his stitches were in and he was feeling a little better.

"Will you snuggle with me, Seto?" Jou asked from underneath his blanket in the living room on the couch with the biggest bowl of chocolate ice cream you had ever seen, complete with cherries, wafers, cream and hot fudge sauce.

"Soon, puppy. Once I'm done with the preparations for tonight, I'll come and snuggle with you. How does that sound?" Kaiba asked as he sat on the edge of the couch with Jou, rubbing his forehead.

Jou nodded and smiled. Kaiba kissed his forehead and disappeared from the living room. He still had decorations to put up and he had to tell the kitchen staff what he wanted made to eat and for what times.
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"Incoming!" Marik yelled as he hiffed another snowball at the white-haired fiend outside in Ryou's back yard.

"Argh! Ra damned idiot…" Bakura growled as he gathered up a giant lot of snow in his arms and sneaked up on Marik. He dumped it all over his head and put some down the back of Marik's shirt. Marik shrieked in surprise and a sennen eye glowed on his forehead with fury. He hated the tomb robber when he got him good.

"You're gonna pay for that, tomb raider!"

Bakura huffed a laugh as he retreated behind his wall of snow and dodged a fleet of snowballs coming his way.

Ryou smiled out the kitchen window at the yamis snow-fighting in his back yard as he stirred some vegetable soup on his stove. Malik was waiting patiently for his serving. He loved Ryou's vegetable soup. They were having their usual `hikari talk', as they did quite frequently when either of them came over to visit with their yamis.

Ryou finished stirring the simmering broth and dished it up into a couple of bowls for Malik and himself. Bakura and Marik would exhaust themselves outside and come in and have their soup later and more than likely fall asleep afterwards.

"Are you going to Kaiba's party tonight?" Malik asked Ryou.

"Yeah, Bakura and I might head over for a little while. It should be splendid."

"Marik and I are going over at about seven thirty."

Ryou sighed a little. "I hope they don't ruin anything. This is their first real Christmas. Kaiba must have put a lot of work into this party. Let's just hope they don't make pigs of themselves or anything."

"Yes. I told Marik to behave. And for all the help from Ra and sweet Isis I hope he doesn't try to trash Kaiba's Christmas tree. He absolutely detests the Christmas tree at home. He wanted me to decorate a palm tree for Christmas…" Malik said, rolling his eyes and taking another spoonful of his soup.

Ryou chuckled and started his soup. Suddenly Bakura and Marik burst in through the door; Bakura brushing the snow out of his hair. Marik pounced on him sending them both flying into the crease of the couch with a thump. The hikaris laughed at their animal yamis. Bakura wriggled out from under Marik and chucked him across the room playfully… until…

"Marik! Watch out for the-!" Ryou cried.

"Tree." Malik said glumly as he watched his yami fly into it, sending it tumbling to the ground in a heap.

Ryou's eyes watered with tears. He spent so long putting that tree together with Bakura! It wasn't Marik's fault that he tipped it over, it was Bakura's - he threw him into it, after all.

"Ryou, I am so sorry." Malik said, apologizing for his klutzy darker half.

"It's a-alright, M-Malik… we can f-fix it…" Ryou said, trying his best not to break out in a childish spasm of tears.

Marik and Bakura were laughing hysterically as Bakura helped Marik up off the ground. They didn't seem to notice that their lighter halves were clearly upset at what had just happened.

"Come on you two stop being fools! You just ruined Ryou's beautiful Christmas tree! It's Christmas eve for Ra's sake!" Malik said, finishing off his soup and smacking Marik upside the head.

Bakura glanced over at his sniffling hikari. "Oh no… Ryou I'm sorry. Come here, I'll help you fix the Christmas tree…" Bakura cuddled his hikari and then gave Malik and Marik a helping hand to put the tree back upright and fix all the tangled Christmas lights and tinsel which had fallen to the ground.
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"BURRRRP!!!"

"Oh you are so disgusting, Tristan." Serenity said as she took Tristan's plate from beside the couch.

"Well would you rather me burp or fart?" Tristan laughed as he stretched out, putting his hands behind his head.

Serenity rolled her eyes and went to the kitchen and rinsed off his plate. She eyed her boyfriend sharply and wondered why on earth his hair had to imitate that of a dolphin's dorsal-fin. He was a nice enough guy, of course. It was just the hair that got on her nerves.

"What time is Duke due over?" Serenity asked.

"Don't ask me. He said he'd be over this afternoon with his new girlfriend."

"Oooh I wonder who she is." Serenity said, perking up with interest. She was one of the biggest gossip queens at school.

Tristan laughed. "Well, you're not going to believe who it is."

Serenity narrowed her eyes at him. "It's not…"

Tristan laughed harder. "Yup! It's Miho!" he bellowed with laughter.

Serenity clenched her teeth and fists and cursed under her breath. She couldn't stand Miho - the perfect little blue-haired rich girl, daddy's princess, perfect in every way. "That prissy little bitch is not coming to my house!" she shrieked.

"Come on Seren, its Christmas Eve. The least you could do is cut Duke a little slack. At least he isn't after you anymore."

"Yeah I guess." Serenity mumbled.

"Just try and be nice. They won't be staying for long, and they weren't invited to Kaiba's gathering tonight so don't stress about it."

"Alright then. I'm going to our room to put my hair into ringlets." Serenity said, pushing her bangs aside.

"What if they arrive before you're ready?"

Serenity smirked. "Well, that's just too bad."
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"Alright… I want the turkey and the legs of ham and lamb to be cooked and ready by seven forty-five, complete with gravy, cranberry sauce, plum sauce, white sauce, cheese sauce, mint sauce, apple sauce and side dishes of pineapple, roast vegetables, green salads, pasta salads, potato salad and garlic bread. If it isn't on the table by seven forty-five on the dot… you're all fired!" Seto instructed, raising his voice slightly at the end of his statement. The kitchen hands and chefs gulped slightly and got to work straight away.

"Oh, and by the way, what flavoured pies do we have for dessert?" Seto asked his head chef.

"Uh… we have apple, cherry, chocolate and apricot flavoured pies, Master Kaiba."

Kaiba nodded in approval. "Good. Dessert is to be out by nine." And he exited the kitchen, making his way through to the living room to check up on his puppy, when he was interrupted by Don Juan, his butler.

"Master Kaiba, please excuse me, but I was sent to ask you from the kitchen about what type of wines and snacks you would like to have out on the table for when the guests arrive."

Seto heaved a sigh. "Champagne, chips `n' dip, cheese on crackers and fresh fruit will do for snacks." He replied.

"Very well sir, thank you for your time." Don Juan bowed before Seto and left.

Kaiba snorted and went through to find Jou asleep with chocolate fudge sauce all around his mouth - and Cody was licking it off. [authoress giggles] Seto grabbed the kitten and put it on the floor; Jou stirred. Seto smiled down at him.

"Afternoon, pups."

Jou rubbed an eye and sat up against the armrest of the couch. "What time is it?" he said groggily.

"It's four o'clock in the afternoon. How are you feeling?"

"A lot better… how long was I sleeping for?"

"Practically all day. You might want to get cleaned up; that little furry imbecile was licking the chocolate sauce from around your face." Kaiba giggled. Jou cracked a grin.

Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Don Juan answered it and came in to announce who had arrived.

"Who is it?" Kaiba asked.

"He goes by the name of Yugi Motou. Shall I let him proceed?"

"Yugi's here?!" Jou cried, sitting up frantically.

Seto's eyes widened and they both said in unison - "CODY!"

"We gotta hide him, Seto!" Jou cried.

"Aright, err…. I'll go and lock Cody in Mokuba's room. Let Yugi come in and talk to Jou." Seto said to Don Juan.

"Very well sir." He disappeared back into the foyer and took Yugi's coat and scarf and put it on the cloak rack.

Seto picked up Cody by the scruff of the neck and disappeared upstairs to Mokuba's room. Jou relaxed and wilted back onto his pillows. Yugi suddenly appeared in the doorway.

"Heya Jou! What are you doing lazing around on the couch on such a beautiful day?" Yugi asked as he entered the living room.

"Well ah, I kinda, err; fell from a ladder and onto a glass table. Nothin' to worry about though. Just got a few stitches in my back. I'm okay though, really."

A look of worry washed over Yugi's face. "Are you sure? That must have been some drop!"

"Yeah it was, but I'm okay… doesn't the Christmas tree look great?" Jou said, deciding to change the subject so as to not upset Yugi.

"Hey yeah! Wow! It's amazing, Jou! Who decorated it?"

Jou shrugged. "I don't know; I think Seto hired some decorators to do it professionally. Although Mokuba helped a bit too."

"Wow… they did a great job!"

"Yeh… you comin' tonight?"

"Yeah! Grandpa said that I could stay for a little while! But I have to be home around eight thirty-ish… grandpa's making his famous roast chicken with cranberry sauce."

"That's great Yug. You had better come tomorrow though - that's when we're exchanging all our gifts!" Jou said, excitedly.

"Yeah I'm allowed to come tomorrow! I can't wait!"

"Awesome!" Jou said, giving the thumbs up.

"Well, I just thought I'd come over to see if you guys need any help. Looks like all the decorating is already done though." Yugi said, looking around at all the bells and holly around the massive fireplace. Kaiba soon returned downstairs.

"Thanks Yug, but everything's pretty much finished. What time are you coming around tonight?"

"Uh, probably about seven thirty. That's what time Yami and Anzu are coming."

"Cool well, I'd better get ready." Jou said, leaping up off the couch. "I'll see you tonight, Yug."

Yugi nodded. "Alright, Jou, Kaiba. I can't wait! Bye guys!"

Seto sighed and kissed his puppy tenderly. Jou whimpered into him and fingered his Seto's chestnut tresses at the base of his neck.

"Come on let's get ready, dragon. Tonight is going to be on hell of a party." Jou said, taking Seto by the hand and going to the master bedroom.

(A/N: I don't know ANYTHING about Miho, but I figured that she would be a better pick than Mai to put with Duke Devlin soooooo I just put her in. Don't flame me if you like her!! They will only be used to roast Anzu in my other fic!!! ^_~)