DIS: I knew I wasn't going to get this finished before Christmas. I just had a feeling that I wouldn't. Thanks to SilentMonkGirl, Whitebunny2005, litulanglluv92, DiMeraslover (those are all great ideas, but the truth is that I don't watch Days of Our Lives. Well, I used to watch it sometimes when I was sick. Could you give me some quotes from the show?), monkeyluv4646 (good to hear from you again,) Jessica Watsuki, Lady-Azura, DarkAngle4u, Angel, Eternal Eyes, SAI-sweet and innocent, sabriel singh, Atemu's lover (good to hear from you again!) Moon'sHope, AllmightyNano1, inuroku, and Melfor reviewing. I'm glad that you guys love this fic. I apologize for not finishing this before Christmas. I did intend to...Now to the next chapter!
(Go Kaiba/Anzu! Lol)
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Christmas with my enemies, Chapter Three"All right, we're here!" Mokuba announced. Everyone stopped what they were doing and rushed to a window to look out. The cabin was hardly what one would call a cabin. It was long and two stories. They assumed there was probably a basement, so technically three stories. The people in the bus started to murmur to each other (and to themselves for the matter.)
"Now, we're – SHUT UP!" Kaiba roared over them, standing. They turned to him and Jou bounded to his feet.
"Hey, listen, moneybags, ya don't need ta shout. After all, your dumb bus hit me and my head still hurts."
"Remind me why I care, Katsuya," Kaiba told him coldly, glaring. "Now, we're going to go inside and Mokuba has been kind enough to assign us rooms." Everyone groaned. He shot a dirty look at them and they shut up. "He'll show you to your rooms."
"What about you, Kaiba?" Anzu asked questionably. He glowered at her, moving his briefcase over his lap, covering his nads. "(-.-) Get over it, geez."
"What do you mean, what about me?" He demanded, ignoring her remark.
"I mean, weren't you assigned a room?"
"Yes."
"So...?"
"Does it really matter, Mazaki?"
"Well, if I have to sleep in the same room as you – "
"I see Mokuba told you who you're sharing a room with."
"(o.o) I actually was just...WHAT?"
"(-.-) I'm not pleased either. I'd rather shoot you in the head than share a room with you. You probably talk in your sleep, which just proves my statement from an earlier event: you never shut up."
"(OO) Y-you - You bastard! You're so rude, Kaiba. Just because you're rich you think that – "
"Yeah, yeah, whatever, Mazaki. I've heard this speech a hundred times over. I don't need to hear it again or I'll have the words memorized." Anzu gawked at him as he exited the bus. Marik cleared his throat and followed Kaiba, Malik on his heels.
That...self...absorbed...PRICK! Anzu shrieked in her mind, before storming after them outside, dragging her suitcase out with her. She almost yelped as cold air hit her face. She blinked, swallowing, before she looked around in wonder. The landscape was truly beautiful.
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Ryou handed Bakura the boxes that were his friend's presents. Bakura gave a mutter of protest, but took them anyway. "Just take those into the, er, cabin, will you Bakura?" Bakura gave a sickening sweet smile at him, batting his eyelashes.
"Oh, of course, abiou!" He saw Yami walking behind Yuugi and smirked, tossing a present at him. Yami jumped, staring at the present, then looked at Bakura who was grinning.
"Why, you got me something, Ryou?" Yami asked, coming up to him.
"Huh?" Ryou turned to him, blinking. "Oh, yeah. You can open it now if you want."
"How – " Yami shook the box, then put it to his ear. "(o.o) Huh?"
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick
"(OO) RYOU, HOW COULD YOU? Gyahh!" Yami threw the box to the ground and started to pound it into pieces, jumping on it. Ryou's eyes widened. "DIIEE!" Bakura snickered as Yami hesitantly pulled the wrapping away and picked the clock up. "Huh? Oh...Erm..."
"(;.;)...Well..." Ryou sighed, taking his and Bakura's suitcase, dragging it in the snow. "...I guess I can see why you would come to the conclusion that it's...a...bomb."
"I apologize, Ryou, I didn't...Well, what I mean to say – Um...I think Yuugi has a present for you, so er...Well, I must be going." The Pharaoh hurried off, following his abiou into the house. Ryou sighed.
"Let's go, Bakura," he mumbled, dragging the suitcase as Bakura wobbled after him, holding the presents, smirking to himself.
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"Ya know what?" Jou asked Honda and Otogi, who set their suitcases down momentarily. "I dunno why I came. After all, Kaiba is pretty unstable and everything. He's a loony and holds a grudge if he even loses at Go Fish!"
"(-.-) Uh, actually, Jou...You lost," Otogi pointed out to him. "The only reason that he punched you in the face was because you spit in his face when he won." Otogi remembered that day quite clearly...
Flashback"Go fish," Kaiba told Jou when he asked for an eight. While Kaiba had many pairs of numbers and faces on the table, Jou only had a pair of two's and a pair of five's. "Do you have a six?" Jou glanced down at his cards and blinked, covering his six. "Well, mutt? Do you or do you not have a six?"
"Um...No." Kaiba glared at him.
"You liar. Give me the six."
"I don't got a six, Kaiba, so lay off it!" Kaiba glowered at him and looked down at the thin deck, then back at his cards and the cards on the table.
Lying son of a bitch...Kaiba thought to himself, picking up a card from the deck. I'll get it eventually.
"Do ya got a...six?" Kaiba stared over at Jou.
"You know I have a six and you lied to me! Give me the six!"
"I don't have a six, Kaiba!"
"Then why did you ask for one?" The CEO growled at him.
"Umm...I was just pullin' your leg!" Jou hastily told him. Kaiba grabbed the card that was covered and slapped his six and the six Jou had claimed he hadn't had down on the table. Jou muttered darkly. "...do you got a nine...?"
"Go fish. Do you have a seven?" Jou flicked the seven over at him and Kaiba put them down. When the deck was through, they counted their cards and Kaiba smugly stated, "I won."
"You cheated! Take dis, Kaiba!" He spit in Kaiba's face and wiping it off, the CEO glared at him fiercely, before drawing his fist back and letting it collide with Jou's face multiple times. After finished beating him up, Kaiba stormed out of the room, evidently pissed. He had even rained his punches on Honda, who had been trying to stop him. Otogi had wisely stayed some feet away.
End Flashback
"Oh yeah..." Jou blinked, then continued, "Well, still. He's a psycho and a freak! Do ya see da way he's obsessed over Yuugi and Yami? I mean, we don't even know if he likes girls! Dat's another reason ya don't wanna be near da guy – he might make a move on you or something." Otogi raised his eyes and they went three times their size, seeing Kaiba hovering over Jou, staring down at him coldly, his eyes flashing. "And his clothes," Jou let out a bark of laughter, "it's like Halloween for him everyday!" He paused, looking disgusted. "Ugh, who knows what goes through his head? He probably goes around killin' people and putting their heads on his wall as trophies."
"Yes, Jounouchi, that's exactly what I do," Kaiba told him in a quiet, venomous voice.
"See, I told ya?" Jou nodded, looking satisfied. "And I bet he even – wait a minute..." Jou slowly turned around only to receive Kaiba's fist in his face. Jou stumbled back, holding his nose. "AW, GAWD! I DINK BY NOBE IS BWOGEN!"
"Good and let's hope your mouth is too." Kaiba glared at him. "I never knew you were so interested in my personal life, Katsuya. Next time, if you're going to gossip about me, then try not to spurt nonsense." Snorting, Kaiba turned and left into the main room, where the others were sitting. Bakura and Ryou entered last and glanced at Jou, Honda, and Otogi. Bakura burst into laughter.
"I think I have a good idea who did that to that idiot! Hahaha..." Bakura trailed off, snickering.
"(-.-)...Come on, Bakura..." Ryou grumbled, going into the main room.
As soon as everyone was in the room, Mokuba stood up on the chair and smiled at everyone. "Okay! So, here's who is gonna be with who." He bared his teeth at everyone in what looked like a malicious grin. They all glanced at each other nervously. Yes! The perfect opportunity to have my brother and Anzu get together! Preparation Get-My-Brother-A-Woman is now undergoing! "My brother will be with Anzu, Bakura and Yami will be together, Jou and Marik, Malik, Rishid, Isis, you're sharing a room with me...Umm...Mai and Shizuka, Yuugi and Ryou, and then Honda and Otogi." He beamed at their shocked faces. Jou slowly turned his head and Marik smirked at him, jerking his finger across his neck. The blonde's eyes bugged out and he swallowed, turning away hastily. I'm gonna dieeee, Jou thought to himself, feeling his eyes begin to water. "Okay, I'll everyone to your rooms!"
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Anzu stared at the bedroom...which had only one, queen-sized bed. Kaiba shoved her out of the way and went ahead without a word, expression or glance. Anzu followed him, going to the opposite side that he was heading. Her gaze flickered outside where the wind and the snow was picking up. Clearing her throat, she said conversationally, "Well, it looks like we're going to have a blizzard, doesn't it?" Kaiba paused in what he was doing and turned his head, frowning over at her.
"Let me get this straight, Mazaki," he said meaningfully, "I don't like you, you don't like me – so let's not even talk while this little 'vacation' is going on. I'm only putting up with you because you were invited by my brother – now. Am I anyway misunderstood or must I speak in a slower tone and use smaller words?" She blinked.
"(-.-) No, that's good." His gaze drifted to the window briefly.
"And yes, a blizzard is coming."
"(OO) What if we get snowed in?"
"Then I'll have someone come get us."
"What if the electricity is out?"
"Then we'll have to dig ourselves out, now won't we?"
"What if we die?"
"What is with the idiotic questions?" He demanded sharply. She shrunk back and tapped her index fingers together.
"It's just...if I die...It'll be all your fault for bringing us out here!" He stared over at her, before he glared at her.
"You accepted the invitation, you stupid bubble-head!" Her jaw dropped.
"Excuse me? My head is not fat!"
"You obviously misinterpreted what I said," he pointed out and a heard a scream from the hall. "Hm."
"(O.O) What was that?"
"(-.-) It sounded like the dog," Kaiba said, boredom evident in his voice.
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What had happened...
"Hey, um, ya wouldn't mind sleeping on the floor, would ya?" Jou asked Marik uncertainly. The latter arched a brow and a slow, devious smile curled his lips.
"Oh, no, of course I wouldn't," Marik replied sarcastically. "Idiot. What do you take me for? You are lower in the food chain than I am, so you can sleep on the floor."
"B-but it's cold..."
"Oh, yes and there's the matter of the...Well, I'm sure you know."
"The what? T-the what?" Jou insisted, eyes widening.
"Oh, you know...The Bed Monster."
"(OO) H-huh?"
"He lives underneath your bed – or between the mattress and the frame. It it's dark enough and it's winter and you get out of bed – or if you're sleeping on the floor – he crawls from his hiding place and..."
"AND?"
"CHOMP! He bites your head and legs off."
"Y-YAAHHHH!"
Presently...
"YAAAAHHHHH!" Jou was still screaming, running around the room in circles. Marik was laughing his ass off on the floor when Yami, Yuugi, Honda, and Otogi came running in. Marik paused in his laughing to look at them, before snickering and rolling on his stomach, propping his head up with his hand.
"Finished unpacking already?" He inquired with a smirk.
"What did you do, Marik?" Yami demanded of him.
"Yeah, what did you do?" Yuugi repeated. Ignoring Yami completely, Marik turned to Yuugi.
"I was just having a little fun. He apparently hasn't heard of the story of the Bed Monster. You know, little Yuugi...The monster underneath your bed that your parents say exist?" Marik chuckled, standing up and watching as Honda and Otogi clapped him on the back while he shook with fear. "Hehehe...What an imbecile."
"Uh...You pissed your pants, man." Jou blinked and looked down.
"Erm...Excuse me." He hurried to the bathroom, taking his suitcase with him.
"It's all about Yuugi..." Yami whispered to himself. "AND JUST HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I SAVED THE WORLD FROM DESTRUCTION?" The three sent him a bizarre look, then cleared their throats as they left the room when he began to rant and rave about how he was Pharaoh and how he had defeated Pegasus, how he defeated Marik, ect, ect, ect...
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When everyone was downstairs talking, Anzu and a few others were sitting by the fireplace (unfortunately, Kaiba was included, much to their dismay.) Anzu's mind began to wander about a cute kid her class, but he was a jerk, too...What she didn't know was that she was talking out loud. "What a jerk...a cute jerk...a really cute jerk...hehehe, a really, really cute jerk..."
"(oO) Uh, Anzu, we can hear you," Honda told her.
"(o.o'') Um...I was talking about...uh, uh, uh...Kaiba! Yeah, I was talking about Kaiba."
(O.O')
Kaiba flinched, an anime vein in his forehead, breaking the cookie he had been eating in half. "Keep your fantasies down low, will you Mazaki?" He growled at her. Anzu laughed nervously and turned from him, sweat dropping.
Why couldn't I have said someone else...?
In the other corner, we find that Bakura is carving 'Death to mankind' on the wall. Jou, who just doesn't know when to shut up, pauses and reads it. "You wanna know someding?" Bakura turned to him, glowering. "You are a frickin' albino sadist from Transylvania, dat's what you are! I don't care if people say dat you're from Egypt, yer from Transylvania, yup, yup..." Slowly, Bakura put his knife away and –
SOCK!
PUNCH!
WHAP!
"GAHH!" Jou held his swollen jaw. "Geez, dat was a compliment!" In response, Bakura kicked him in the ribs. "Ugh...What a jerk."
One of these days...Bakura vowed to himself, glaring over his shoulder at Jou, who was sitting under a table, nursing his jaw. Shizuka saw him and let out an exclamation, bending down and hugging him. Bakura rolled his eyes to the ceiling, doubting that it hurt as much as he was letting on. He barely touched the blonde. Sometimes that moron reminds me of the two surfer boys from hell, he thought, glancing at Malik and Marik. Apparently neither positive nor negative reinforcement works for them.
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DIS: (sweat drops) I know, it wasn't that good...I apologize, again, that this wasn't finished earlier! I just had a chaotic week before Christmas and everything and I was feeling depressed after Christmas for Buddha-knows-why. (shrug) Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the chapter, nonetheless. The 'romance' (wink, wink) between Kaiba and Anzu should be next chapter, hehehe. Please review on your way out, ciao!
