Mark: I am here with a little Christmas Special. Now, my last holiday story was a big flop, even for me… But that was Halloween, so it was horror/humor and horror really isn't my special- Y'know what I need to stay on subject, here's the story.

Summary: Christmas is a time of caring, love, and goodwill towards men, and spirits… But every now and then, someone lacks one to love, but will this Christmas be different?

Disclaimer: Mark doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh! Or any characters from it. But you already knew that didn't you?

CHAPTER 1 Joy to the World!

December 17, 2004

Malik stood in 7th hour chorus class. Ever since the Ishtars had moved to Domino he had gotten along surprisingly well with the Yuugi-Tasshi, actually becoming a part of it, go figure. They where busy singing Joy to the World, a song he hated. You see, Malik was actually a nice guy. A little rough around the edges, but a real good guy once you got to know him. You know, like one of those candies, hard shell on the outside, chewy center on the inside. But back to the point I was making, Malik, HATES Christmas music. I mean he bloody HATES it with a PASSION! Nobody quite knew why, but it had become a game among the rest of the Yuugi-Tasshi to try and guess why.

Then the bell rang, and Malik left class and went to his locker. There he met Katsuya and Yuugi.

"Hey guys. How was Algebra?"

"It was allright, except for da fact dat it was GAY!"

Malik and Yuugi chuckled.

"It was alright, so Malik what are you doing for your Christmas break?" It was the last day of school before Christmas break, and the whole town was abuzz with excitement.

"Oh I dunno, same thing I do every Christmas I guess."

Yuugi and Katsuya just looked at each other and then back at Malik, "How bout ya come ta Yuugi's Christmas Party Malik?"

"What Party?" the Egyptian queried.

"I'm holding a party at the Kame Game Shop on the 23! I'd be happy for you to come if you can Malik! In fact I'd like to invite Isis and Rishid too!"

"Thanks Yuugi, I think I will take you up on that offer, thought I can't speak for my siblings. Well I have to get home, Isis will freak if I don't get the chores done. See you later!"

"Bye!" The two duelist replied.

Meanwhile, somewhere else in Domino…

Anzu bounced along the sidewalk, sure she had her drivers license, but her car was in the shop, and besides she enjoyed walking in the snow. In fact it was all she could do to not go play in it like the little children. She was glowing, beaming in fact. Because it was Christmas! A time for all men, women, and children to get together and celebrate all the good in the world. And for a girl like Anzu, that was right up her ally. Plus there was the added fact that there was all the time off of school! And she would get to hang out with her friends, and one friend in particular. She giggled as she thought of that motley little scamp she fell in love with. She opened the door to her house, "Hello Mom and Dad! I'm home from school!"

She looked around confusedly, not seeing them in their usual spots in the kitchen or dining room, which were present at the front door.

"Hello honey, we're in the den!"

Anzu wondered what they were doing in the den so early. She dismissed it as them merely cuddling up by the fire watching the snow fall outside. Anzu didn't come by all that cheerfulness out of nowhere, her whole family was like that. But if you think about it, that's not a bad thing. She removed her snow cap, winter coat, leggings, and boots, then went upstairs to change out of her school uniform into a sweater and pants. Then she went down to the den to greet her parents. But she was shocked to see what she saw! There, on the couch, conversing with her parents, was the very same, motley little scamp she fell in love with, Bakura.

"B-Bakura?! What are you doing here?"

"Well Anzu, Bakura thought he would come over and say hello to us." Her father said.

"I have to say dear this is a very fine young man." Her mother commented.

Anzu stood there dumbfounded, she looked at Bakura then back to her parents then back to Bakura, then back to her parents again.

"Well aren't you going to talk to me Anzu?"

"Oh, I'm so sorry Bakura!" Anzu said and sat down by her boyfriend. She leaned over and whisper in his ear, "So how did Ryou get you over here?"

Bakura looked over to the girl beside him and whispered back, "Ryou didn't tell me to come over here, I decided to come by myself. I thought if I got in good with our parents then they would trust me and let me take you over to my house some time and, you know." He said with a wink.

At the Jounouchi house…

Katsuya walked through the door, "Merry Christmas Shizaku!"

The young girl got up and ran over to her big brother, "Hi Katsuya!" she chirped happily. Then their mother came into the washroom, that was located by the front door. "Welcome home Katsuya."

"Merry Christmas Mah." Katsuya gave his mother a hug.

"SO? What are we havin fah dinna?"

"Oh Big brother, you always think with your stomach!"

"Yes, he certainly does!" came a voice from the living room. Katsuya's eyes widened and stared. Shizaku and her mother smiled.

"Dat can't be who I dink it is, can it?" the blonde asked dazedly.

"Why, only if you were thinking about me, hun." Mai Kujaku said stepping into the small washing room.

"MAI!" Katsuya ran over to the tall blonde girl and embraced her, lifting her into the air and carrying her back into the living room and plopped her down on the couch placing a firm kiss on her lips.

Mai's cheeks flushed, "Well, that was quite a greeting hun!"

Shizaku beemed, "Mai decided to visit for the Holidays!"

Somewhere in the Domino Mall…

"Oh, what to buy, what to buy, what to buy? So many friends, so many gifts, so little idea what they want!" said a skinny young man with soft white hair that went to the middle of his back. "I can't decide if Anzu would like this or this more? I better go with this because if I went with this then Bakura would kill me and he's been doing so good with that lately. I wouldn't want to end his good streak. Um, Honda, food… Katsuya? Food… Yuugi, that's easy, Duel Monsters Cards. Hmmm, I wonder if I should get Atemu a present since he can project his own body now? Oh wait, I wonder if I should get the Ishtars a present!" The British accented boy pondered to himself. "Oh of course I should!" Ryou said plopping more presents into the overflowing shopping cart.

At the Ishtar residence…

Malik drove up and parked his tan Sunfire and get out of the car. He walked on into the house, "Hello?" Malik asked as he took off his jacket and set it down with his backpack.

"Isis? Rishid? Anybody home?" He inquired.

"Oh, hello brother."

Malik turned around to see his sister Isis, "Your home early today."

"Indeed." Rishid said entering the room.

"Well, I wanted to see my family." Malik said drawing the two into his embrace.

Author's Notes:

Mark: Hey! Hope you liked the first chapter. There will be more. Anyway please R&R I would love to see some output from this story. And I might make some intimate connections if enough people ask for a certain couple. Though the one couple that won't change is Anzu/Bakura. Review!