Chapter 3- On the Third Day of Christmas

December 16

Yami was sleeping peacefully when something suddenly launched onto the bed and said, "Yami, get up!" Yami groaned and pulled the covers over his head again. "I'm still sleeping." Yami said.

"Come on, Yami. You need to get up and see this." the same voice said, pulling the covers off of Yami's head. Yami opened one eyes, ready to send someone to the Shadow Realm only to find himself looking into Yugi's shining, amethyst eyes.

"Get up, Yami. You need to see this." Yugi said, hoping off of the bed.

"Yugi, it's too early." Yami complained.

"It's nine o'clock in the morning." Yugi countered.

"Exactly. I sleep until ten on weekends." Yami said, pulling the covers over his head again.

"Yami, come on. You need to get up and see this." Yugi said, pulling at the covers again.

"It can wait." Yami said.

"Please, Yami." Yugi pleased.

Yami mentally cursed. He hated it when Yugi used that pleading tone. It was just as effective against him as the 'puppy dog eyes'.

Yugi finally pulled the covers off of Yami and grabbed him by the arm, dragging Yami out of bed.

Yami was so startled that he fell and landed right on top of Yugi.

Yugi blushed since Yami was on top of him in a very suggestive way.

Yami got up and said, "What did you drag me out of bed for?"

Yugi stood up and grabbed Yami's hand, pulling him over to the window. Yugi threw opens the curtains to show that the ground was completely covered in snow.

Yami's jaw dropped at how beautiful the streets looked covered in pure white snow.

"It snowed all night, Yami! The entire city is covered in snow!" Yugi said excitedly.

"I can see that. I'll say that we had a storm last night." Yami said.

Heba and Atemu came into the room.

"Have you guys seen the snow?!" Heba asked, sounding just as excited as Yugi.

"We sure did! I can't believe it. It hasn't snowed here in two years." Yugi said.

Yugi and Heba both got at the window looking outside.

Yami walked over to where his own brother was standing. "Did Heba drag you out of bed to look at the snow?" Yami asked.

"Yes, he did. He's real excited about seeing snow." Atemu said.

"He hadn't seen it since he was a kid. He's lived in Egypt for six years." Yami said.

"So, Yugi drag you out of bed?" Atemu asked.

Yami nodded. "If he didn't look so cute doing, I'd be mad." Yami said.

"Yeah. It's odd how they can look so cute at the slightest thing." Atemu agreed.

"So this is where you all are." Leo said.

The four turned to see Leo in the doorway.

"Come on. Sayora and Kyla have gotten breakfast ready." Leo said.

Yami, Yugi, Atemu, and Heba followed Leo downstairs.

Sayora and Kyla had fixed a big breakfast of French toast, pancakes, bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, grits, toast, muffins, biscuits and orange juice.

"Morning, guys. Hope you're hungry." Kyla said.

"Why did you two fix so much food?" Atemu asked.

"Well, for one, we were in a cooking mood, and we made extra because all the others are coming over for breakfast, and since Joey is going to be here, we need a lot of food." Sayora said.

"That's a good reason to fix so much." Yugi said.

"Well, we should go ahead and start eating." Grandpa said.

"Yes. The others will need to get to everything, too." Yuesei agreed.

Yugi, Yami, Atemu, Heba, Grandpa, Yuesei, Leo, Kyla, and Sayora all filled their plates before going into the living room to eat.

"A moment later, the door slammed open, and Joey said, "Where's the food?"

"Joey! Have a little consideration!" Tea scolded.

"Everything's ready, and in the kitchen." Kyla called.

They heard a thump and then Seto said, "Puppy, the food's there, so just clam down."

The group in the kitchen shook their heads at Joey's antics.

Joey, Seto, Mokuba, Tea, Tristan, Duke, Ryou, Bakura, Marik, Malik, and Ishizu came into the living room with their plates.

Yami nearly choked and then said, "Joey, do you have enough food?"

Joey had a good bit of everything piled high on his plate. "I'm still growing." Joey said.

"No. You're just a pig." Bakura said.

"So I'm hungry." Joey retorted.

"Just sit down and eat your breakfast." Leo told them.

The group got themselves comfortable and started to eat in silence.

After they finished, Tea, Yugi, Heba, and Leo helped to clean up the kitchen and give the girls a break.

Once the kitchen was clean, Ryou said, "Let's go outside and play in the snow."

"Yeah. That's a great idea." Heba agreed.

"We'd better go get warmly dressed then." Atemu said.

Yugi, Yami, Atemu, Heba, Kyla, Sayora, Leo, and Yuesei went upstairs to get more warmly dressed.

Yugi went into his closet and got on a pair of thick pants, a heavy sweater, a heavy winter coat, thick socks, and his know boots. Yugi pulled two scarves out of his closet, a black one and a crimson one. Yugi threw to black one on his bed and wrapped the crimson one around his neck. He also put on gloves and earmuffs.

Yami walked into the room dressed similarly minus a scarf and said, "Are you ready, Yugi?"

"Yeah, but aren't you going to wear a scarf?" Yugi asked.

"I don't have one." Yami replied.

"Here. Use mine then." Yugi said, handing the black scarf to Yami.

"Are you sure?" Yami asked.

"Yeah. I have two, and I'm already wearing one." Yugi replied.

"Okay. If you say so." Yami said, wrapping the scarf around his neck.

The two went downstairs and found everyone except for Leo and Yuesei downstairs.

"I think that we'd better go on without them." Kyla said.

"Why?" Joey asked.

There were sounds of giggling coming from upstairs.

"Let's go." Yami said quickly.

The entire group headed outside.

The group ran in different directions to do different things.

"Come on, Yugi. Let's build a snowman." Heba said.

"Good idea. You two want to help?" Yugi asked, looking at Yami and Atemu.

"I suppose that it can't hurt." Atemu agreed.

Heba and Atemu rolled up enough snow to make the bottom section of the snowman, and Yami and Yugi rolled up enough snow to make the middle section of the snowman. Heba and Yugi then rolled up a small one that they put on the middle section to make the snowman's head.

Atemu walked off and then returned with two sticks. "I thought that we could sue these for arms." Atemu said.

"That's a good idea." Yugi agreed.

The sticks were put into place to make the arms.

"I found these rocks that we could use for the eyes and the nose." Yami told them.

"That'll work." Heba said.

The three rocks were put on the head of the snowman to make the eyes and nose.

"I think that it looks pretty good." Atemu said.

"Hey, guys! Look at this!" Joey called.

They looked over to see that Joey and Seto had made snow versions of the Blue Eyes White Dragon and the Red Eyes Black Dragon.

"Wow! Those are great guys!" Yugi said.

"Thanks." Joey said.

"Why should they thank you? Seto, Sayora, and I did most of the work." Mokuba complained, peeking out from behind the Blue Eyes.

"Yeah. You didn't help that much." Sayora added, stepping out from behind the Red Eyes.

"Okay. I think he gets it." Seto said.

"Still, they look great." Yami said.

Tea and Kyla were busy making snow angels while Bakura, Marik, Duke, and Tristan were building a snow fort.

"Why are you building a fort?" Yami asked.

"Snow angels are too feminine for my tastes." Bakura said.

"What's wrong with them?" Ryou asked, shaking some snow from his already white hair.

"Nothing. I just don't like them." Bakura said.

"Yeah. You wont' catch me making one." Marik agreed.

The snow fort suddenly collapsed on top of Marik and Bakura.

"What was that about it being too girly?" Malik asked.

Bakura and Marik suddenly came out of the snow, still covered.

"Hey, look! It's the Abominable Snowman, only there's two of them!" Heba exclaimed, laughing the entire time.

"You'll pay for that." Bakura growled.

"We'd better got out of here before they attack." Atemu said.

Bakura and Marik started chasing them, causing everyone to scatter.

Duke kneeled down and rolled some snow into a ball in his hand and threw it, hitting Marik.

"What was that?!" Marik exclaimed.

"SNOWBALL FIGHT!" Duke shouted.

Everyone ducked behind areas of snow and started to throw snowballs.

Yugi, Heba, Atemu, and Yami were hiding in the same place.

"Yugi. Heba. You two make the snowballs, and Yami and I'll throw them." Atemu said.

Yugi and Heba nodded and kneeled on the snow started to make snowballs and pile them in between Yami and Atemu.

Yami picked up one and aimed for Seto, but Seto managed to duck.

Joey threw one at Marik and missed.

Bakura threw one at Tea and hit her in the face.

Ryou threw one and missed Kyla.

Atemu threw one and hit Duke.

Marik threw one and hit Tristan.

Malik threw one and hit Ryou.

Duke threw one and hit Bakura.

Seto threw one and hit Atemu.

Kyla threw one and missed Joey.

Tea threw one and hit Malik.

Tristan threw one and missed Sayora.

Leo and Yuesei chose that moment to walk out, and Yuesei got hit right in the face. Realizing what was going on, Leo dragged Yuesei into hiding and said, "Snowball fight." Immediately, the two joined.

Leo threw a snowball and hit Yami.

Yugi and Heba chose that moment to join the fight and started throwing snowballs as well.

Yugi threw one and got Bakura right in the face.

Yuesei threw one and hit Heba.

Leo threw another one and hit Yugi.

Sayora threw one and hit Marik in the face.

Mokuba threw one and hit Leo.

Seto threw one and hit Mokuba.

Atemu threw one and hit Joey.

Heba threw one and hit Sayora.

Tristan threw one and missed Yuesei.

Yuesei threw one and hit Seto.

Tea threw one and hit Kyla.

The snowball fight continued for an hour before the group finally stopped.

"Leo. Yuesei. You two walked right into a war zone." Atemu said, laughing.

"That wasn't funny." Leo said.

"But it was fun." Yuesei said, smiling.

"Let's go in." Mokuba said.

The group trekked inside where they found hat Ishizu and Grandpa had fixed enough coffee and hot chocolate for everyone.

Yami, don't even think of touching that coffee!" Yugi shouted as Yami reach for the coffee.

"Why not?" Yami asked.

"Yami, the last time you had coffee, you were so hyper that it took an hour to calm you down, and it ended with a broken window, two broken lamps, an entire set of broken dishes, and a near fire. You are NEVER touching coffee again." Atemu told him.

"Fine." Yami said, getting hot chocolate.

The group went into the living room where the fireplace was going so that they could warm up.

"Oh, Yugi. I think that your secret admirer as struck again." Grandpa said, handing him a brown box.

"Geez. This person doesn't miss a beat." Joey said.

Yugi opened the box and gasped.

"Yugi, what is it?' Leo asked, worried.

Yugi pulled out three bracelets, all lined with amethyst stones.

"Oh my god!" Tea gasped.

"Thos are gorgeous." Kyla said, taking one and looking at it.

Yuesei looked at the one Kyla was holding and said, "These stones are real."

"These must have cost a fortune." Yugi said.

"is there a note again?" Ishizu asked.

Yugi found the piece of appear and opened it, reading.

It said:

Although these stones will never match the

Beauty of your eye, know that I adore those

Eyes that are more like gems.

Love,

Your Eternal Lover

At the bottom, it read:

On the third day of Christmas I gave my true love, three amethyst bracelets

Two silver ankhs

And a cartouche with his name on it.

"Aw. That was so sweet." Sayora said.

"Wow. The guy really is poetic." Ryou said.

"All this mushy stuff is making me sick." Bakura said.

"Why did he say that my eyes are like gems?" Yugi asked.

"Because your eyes look like amethyst gems." Atemu said.

"He's right. They are." Seto agreed.

//What do you think of this one, aibou?// Yami asked.

/The bracelets are beautiful, but I don't know why this person spent so much./ Yugi said.

//Your admirer must love you a lot.// Yami said.

/Maybe. I hope that this person doesn't grow broke because of this.// Yugi said.

The day continued with the group having fun together.

Hope you liked it. Thanks to YamiYugi4Ever, PuzzleFreak, BlackCatTrain, and yugixyamiyaoilover. All of your ideas helped me to get the gift this time.

Hope you liked the snowball fight.

The fourth day is up next.

R&R.