Monday Morning

1st Gift Day

1 hour before the bell

" did we have to come here this early in the morning Yug" Malik winded as they walked through the school gates.

" yes we did Mal because in the morning they just hang out at their lockers, so we can't do give them there presents then." Yugi answered Malik as they walked into the school

" at least the teacher was nice enough to let us use her key to open up their lockers." Ryou finished just as they got to their homeroom teacher's classroom.

Yugi knocked on the door and waited for her to answer the door. When she opened the door, she smiled down at the 3 of them and handed them the key to the lockers.

With a ' thank you ' from all 3 of them walked off to go to the Sennen brothers lockers first. Then after they done there they plan to go to the Ishikawa brothers lockers, and then finally the Eruvin brothers locker.

" so which one are you going to give them first Yugi?" asked Ryou as they stopped at Atem's locker first

" well am going to give him the lollipops and gum, and am going to give Yami the gum too." Yugi answered as he opened up Atem's locker. It looked like a normal locker nothing too special about it, or much in it only his books. Once he put his presents on the top shelve he closed it, then went down a few lockers down to Yami's and did the same thing before handing the keys to Ryou.

They had to walk down a few different wings to get to their locker, but they were easy to find. Bakura's locker had dents in it from venting out his anger on it, while Akefia's has sharpie all over it from Marik and Mariku drawing on it.

" so which one are you going to be giving them Ry?" Yugi asked, putting stress on the ' you ' because of his earlier question

Ryou smiled " well am giving Bakura the Cd, and Akefia the paint brushes." Ryou said as he put the said gifts nicely on the top shelf of their locker. After he was done and there lockers were closed, he handed the keys over to Malik.

They didn't have to walk very far to get to Marik's and Mariku's locker. They only had to go down one wing to get there.

" so what about you mal?" Yugi asked as they stopped at Marik's locker. Marik's locker was covered with holes from his knife and it was even a little black. Mariku's locker was right next to his, but his locker looked fine with nothing on it.

" I plan to give Marik the movies, and Mariku the poster and CD" Malik said as he unlocked Marik's locker, and what they saw made Malik drop their presents. Marik's locker was like a knife shop. It was covered with different types and styles of knives. It was pretty creepy, but Malik bent down and quickly put his present in before slamming his locker closed.

" lets forget that we saw that." Malik said as he went over Mariku's locker

" you don't have to tell be twice.' Yugi said as he leaned on Ryou

" same goes for me." Ryou said as he leaned his head down onto Yugi's head,

Malik rolled his eyes as he opened up Mariku's locker with extreme caution, when he found nothing out of the ordinary he opened it up fully and put his gifts in and closed it. He then turned around to look at his 2 friends " so what do you guys want to do? We have half an hour before people start coming."

Yugi yawned " I say we go back to homeroom and take a nap because I think we stayed up to late playing games last night." Yugi said with another yawn

Ryou yawned too " yeah I think Yugi has a pretty good idea there. Lets go and take a nap."

Malik nodded. They then took the long walk back down to the lower wing were there homeroom was, and once they returned the key to the teacher they laid there heads down on their desks and fell asleep.


15 minutes till the bell

Yami's group

Hanging around Yami's locker like normal

Yami pushed himself up off of his locker with wide eyes " hey guys I think we forgot to do something?"

Everyone looked over at him with questioning looks on their faces, but Joey spoke up first " what we forget Yam?"

Yami looks at everyone " we forgot to grab their presents."

The horrified realization slammed everyone head on, and it showed on their faces. Even Joey and Seth looks horrified.

" well can you see if the limo driver can drop them off later, and then maybe we can trick some people into giving it to them?" Akefia asked

Atem sighed as he walked over to his locker and started to put in the combo " I don't know, I think he has off the rest of the day…. Hey guys come and look at this."

The gave each other a weird look, but the walked over to Atem's open locker and what they saw made their eyes go wide and heart ached a little. There sitting there on the small shelf was a small box that was neatly wrapped in gold and black wrapping paper with a red bow on top. After looking over at everyone he reached up and grabbed the box and read out loud the card that was with it.

# Dear Atem Sennen,

I hope you like your gift. I can't wait to give you your other 2, but till then have a great day.

From,

Your Secret Santa #

After Atem had read it, they just stood there and stared at the box like it was going to come alive any minute now and kill them, but after a few more minutes of silence Atem decided to speak. " since I got mine, why don't all of you go to your lockers and see if you got one too. Then we can open them all up at lunch." Atem said as he carefully places the box back into his locker for the next 6 periods till they have lunch.

Everyone nodded and went their separate ways to their locker, but since Yami's isn't that far from Atem's they could still talk.

" I feel kind of bad now Atem. It seems that they went through so much trouble to give us our presents and we completely forgot about there's." Yami said as he put the combo into his locker.

Atem sighed as he closed his locker and went over to stand by Yami and his locker " I know, I do too."

When Yami opened up his locker there was a neatly placed small box there up on the top shelf just like Atem's was, but instead of being gold and black wrapping paper it was purple and black with a orange bow on top. Yami slowly reached up to grab the box, and he just held it in in his hands until the warning bell rang telling the students that they should head to homeroom. Sighing Yami put the box back where it was, and grabbed his books out of his locker. Once he had everything he closed his locker, and with a smile to Atem they walked to homeroom. As they walked down the hallway they ran back into the other 3 groups of their friends, and they walked to homeroom together.

When they got there they saw everyone smiling and talking about the gifts they got. Well, all except 3 boys who seemed to be talking about random stuff.

The big group walked to their respective desks, and sat down just as the late bell rang and the announcements started not long after.


Lunch

Yami's group

Cool table

" hey why don't you guys opened up your presents now." Seth said as he sat down at the table, followed by Joey

Atem nodded " yeah it kind of his been bothering me not knowing what I got."

Yami nodded " same, lets go around the table. Akefia you go first."

Akefia nodded, but he could tell that he wanted to know why he was going first. His present was wrapped in pouring white wrapping paper with a black bow on top. Akefia slowly unwrapped it to reveal a plain brown box. With a nod to everyone he opened up the box, and what he saw made him smile.

" so wat ya get?" asked Joey trying to lean over the table to get a good look, but he was unsuccessful in doing so.

" they got me different sized paint brushes." Akefia said as he pulled the said gifts out, and at the same time a small note fell out. Since Seth was right next to him, he bent down and picked it up.

" this also came with it." Seth said as he started to read the note out loud.

# Dear Akefia,

I hope you like your present. If not, then am sorry, but don't worry, you'll be getting a better one on Wednesday.

From,

Your Secret Santa #

Bakura made a noise at the sappy note, but with a look from Atem made him stop.

" I think it was very nice, fluffy." Marik said

Bakura's face went red with anger. He always hated it when Marik used that nickname for him, and the little basterd knew it. That's why he did it.

" Marik be nice, and Bakura just opens up your gift" Atem said as he pinched the bridge of his nose.

" fine " Bakura gambled as he pulled out a small square wrapped present. The gift was wrapped in all black wrapping paper with a silver bow on top. Bakura made a noise of annoyment as he ripped the bow off ,and tour the wrapping paper off. When he did his eyes went wide. It was the new Metallica CD. It was supposed to be sold out everywhere, not even he could get it, but they did.

As Bakura tried to open up the impossible-to-open-Cd- packaging, Marik decides to open up his gift. The box was wrapped in a gold and purple wrapping paper with a copper colored bow on top. He didn't even bother trying to be nice, he just tore open the present like a kid on Christmas day. Once the paper was off, he used one of his knife to open up the box, and when he looked in side he cheered with joy.

" so what did your person get you?" Seth asked as he took a bite of his sandwich

" LOOK! LOOK! " Marik practically yelled like a little kid. He reached in and pulled out the complete set of The Grudge movies, and to make it better they were uncut and were full of deleted since that you could only see on the DVD.

" nice" Yami said as he red the packaging. He then looked over at Mariku " so what did you get?"

Mariku pulled the box out. It was wrapped in a silver and black wrapping paper with a gold bow on top. Mariku slowly and carefully unwrapped the gift and open up the box. He didn't say anything, he just stared wide eyed at the contents of the box.

Making a sound of annoyment Bakura reached over and dumped the contents of the box out onto the table. There on the table was the Nightwish Imaginaerum movie poster along with the album and movie.

" nice man. I know you have been wanting this for a long time, but never got around to getting them." Marik said as he looked away from his movies to look at his.

' I hope ours are as good as there's.' Atem thought silently to himself as he started to unwrap his present, but when he did you could see the disappointment on his face at what he got. Inside the box was a bag of 100 different flavored lollipops and a pack of mint gum. Atem sighed " well I guess I got the cheap one."

" wait Atem there's a note." Yami said as he grabbed the note out of the box " and its to the both of us."

# Dear Atem and Yami,

Please don't be mad about your first gift. I was told that it was a good idea to give the simple gift first, so I did. Don't worry, I got you 2 better gifts, but you're going to have to wait.

From, Your Secret Santa #

" I kind of like the idea. " Yami said as he started to unwrap his present. " look I got a pack of gum. I actually ran out last period, so it's a good thing." Yami said, holding up the pack of 3 different flavored gum.

Marik snickered " that's a nice way of looking on the bright side you 2."

Seth slapped Marik on the back of his head " don't be like that because it would be funny if your person is doing it the opposite way."

The comment caused Marik's eyes to go wide " wait.. why would they do that…?" at that moment to bell decided to ring signaling the end of lunch

" well you may never know Marik." Atem said as he walked away to threw his garbage away.

" but…but.." Marik stuttered

" ohh enough Marik. Nobody cares" Bakura said as he walked past him, making Marik mad and yell after them.

Aft they threw their stuff away they went to their next class


Lunch

Same time as Yami's group

" can you see them? What are they doing? Who open up there's first?" Malik kept bombing Yugi with questions as the boy watched them.

Because of where they sit and his height different Yugi can see the cool table, so he had been watching them to see if they liked their presents.

" I don't know Mal…wait Seth just sat down. Now akaife is taking out his gift." Yugi said as he took a bit of his sandwich

At hearing that his presents are about to get opened Ryou perked up " can you see his face?"

Yugi slowly shook his head as he sat back down more comfortably. " no I can't see their faces, but there is something that's bothering me though."

" what?" Malik asked as he took a sip of his milkshake.

" didn't you see? We were the only ones in the whole class who didn't get their presents yet, but if you saw when people started to come in they were talking about what they got. " Yugi said matter of factly

Ryou made a confused face " what are you trying to say?"

Sigh " what am trying to say is that I think the same people we got are our Secret Santa's." Yugi said

" why would you think that Yug?" Malik asked

Ryou nodded his head " I actually do see your point. Since everyone was talking about what they got, you could use process of eliminating to figure out that it has to be 1 of the 3 groups, but there's no way of knowing that the same people that we have also have us." Ryou said as he rub his chin

Yugi nodded his head " look I know it's a big accusation, but there's a high possibility that am right." Yugi paused to take a sip of his iced tea, then continued " and if you think about it, I have a 1 in 3 chance of being right which is a 33.3% chance that am right. Its not that high, but its something"

" wow, I still can't believe that you can do that much math in your head." Malik said as he stared at his friend in shock.

Ryou nodded " yeah, I can't get over that either."

Yugi blushed sheepishly and rub the back of his head " sorry guys." he then looked back over at the table " hey Malik, Marik's opening up your present…wait he already did and he is freaking out over there."

Malik jumped up from his seat and ran to stand behind Yugi " wow, he must really like that movie. Hey look now Mariku is opening up his. I can't wait to see his face." Malik practically squealed like a high school girl in Yugi's ear.

As Yugi tried to get the ringing out of his ears, Malik watched Mariku's face as he opened up the present. Malik smirked after he saw Mariku's face " it seems that they thing mine are the best." he said proudly as he sat back down In his seat.

" oh please Malik, Yami and Atem are just going to love the idea that grandpa gave me this morning." Yugi said

Ryou looked over at him curiously " what was that…and when?"

Yugi smiled " it was when you 2 were fighting over the bathroom, and he said to give them them least important or least amazing gift first and work my way up to the best gift. Which is Friday." Yugi finished with a shrug. Just then the bell rang, signaling the end of lunch, so they grabbed all their stuff and stood up to throw their garbage away. After they said their goodbyes they went their separate ways to their last 2 classes of the day.