Seto x Joey

Seto smiled as he watched Mokuba unwrap his presents. The CEO was sure he hadn't been as carefree and childish as Mokuba at his age…but then the circumstances had been different for him. No, it was Christmas; it was not the time to dwell on the past.

"Seto? What's wrong?" Joey asked. He was leaning against Seto's shoulder, his lover's arm draped around him, stroking his hair. The brunette frowned, looking down at his puppy.

"Can you really read me so easily?" he asked. The thought worried him.

Joey grinned. "You're worrying about me noticing you worry now?"

"Apparently." Seto muttered. "Most people can't read me like that."

"I'm not most people." Joey reminded him, kissing him lightly on the cheek.

Mokuba opened another of his presents and squealed in open delight.

"Thanks big brother!" he yelled, running at Seto and hugging him.

"You're welcome." He smirked. "Now why don't you go and help Roland with the last of the decorations?"

Mokuba smiled sweetly. "I get it; you want to be left alone. I don't mind, I don't want to watch you snogging anyway."

He laughed at the look on his brother's face, then scooped up as many of his presents as he could carry.

"Don't open your presents from me yet!" Mokuba yelled as he ran up the stairs.

"Well," Seto purred, turning to Joey. "It seems we're alone."

He leant closer to Joey, his hand on the blonde's back, pulling his puppy closer. They kissed, gently at first, then harder, rougher. Seto's hand moved to Joey's hair, entwining itself in the blonde mop, while Joey's hands slid to the CEO's butt, making him smirk.

The lovers' lips moved around each other's, varying the pressure. Seto decided to have a little fun. He moved his free hand to Joey's groin, squeezing suddenly. Joey's eyes widened, his whole body tensing. Seto groped around a bit, paying especially close attention to places where Joey seemed more sensitive. He laughed when Joey let out a moan of pleasure.

"Quiet, puppy, there are people around." He sniggered. "You know we have presents to open" he added, having just remembered them himself.

"Don't care" Joey moaned, pushing his body closer to Seto's, if that was possible.

"Joey!" Seto insisted, pushing the blonde away from him. "As much as I'd love to spend Christmas like this, we really should open our presents."

Joey scowled, but shrugged in agreement. He went to the tree, and, finding his present from Seto, flopped onto the sofa.

He tugged at the wrapping paper, making the present jingle. Frowning, he wondered why his present was jingling. He raised an eyebrow at Seto, questioningly.

Seto smiled secretively, gesturing for the blonde to open it.

Joey did so, tearing the wrapping paper apart. Something fell out of it. Something red and made of leather…something covered in diamonds and rubies …something with a bell on it.

"Y-you got me a dog collar?" Joey asked, confused.

"A diamond and ruby studded dog collar." Seto corrected with a smirk.

"Umm…why?"

Seto tutted – Joey could be dumb sometimes.

"You're my puppy, are you not?"

"Yeah, but-"

"That makes me your master." Seto purred. "In more than one sense."

"So basically it means that you get to be on top?"

Seto laughed at his bluntness. "Pretty much"

"And it's studded with diamonds" Joey said in disbelief.

"And rubies" Seto reminded him, grinning.

"And rubies" Joey repeated, bewildered.

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Roland was balancing on a ladder outside, putting up Christmas lights for the party later. He'd offered to help out his boss, because very few people were willing to cater for a party on Christmas day. Besides, Mr Kaiba was paying him well for it, and he liked spending time with the Kaiba family.

Having just finished with the seventh set of lights, Roland started climbing down the ladder, only to almost fall off it when Mokuba called his name loudly.

"Hey Mokuba, you want to give me a hand with this?" The boy nodded, much to Roland's relief. Due his lack of staff, Mr Kaiba had given Roland more work to do than he felt was humanly possible in the time he had, and he greatly appreciated any help he could get.

"Good. Thanks. There's a box full of tinsel just inside the door, would you be able to wind that round the banisters? Whatever is left needs to go on all the picture frames."

"Sure, Roland." Mokuba agreed cheerfully. "Are you sure you're okay with those lights?"

Roland grimaced – Mr Kaiba was somewhat overprotective when it came to his little brother, and if Roland were to let Mokuba climb up a ladder that high, he'd probably lose his job!

"I'll be fine Mokuba, but I'd appreciate you sorting out the tinsel. I've got a lot to do before Mr Kaiba's guests arrive."

Mokuba shrugged. "Okay, whatever, if you're sure."

He turned and went back into the house, a slight spring in his step. Roland smiled at the child's Christmas spirit, then picked another set off lights out of the box. He sighed, wishing he'd stayed home for Christmas.

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Joey thrust a badly wrapped present at Seto, grinning with anticipation. The box was square, roughly two feet in both length and width, but not very deep.

Seto quickly tore off the wrapping paper. He lifted the lid of the box to reveal a mass of black fabric. Raising one eyebrow, he took the present out of its box. It was a coat, long enough to reach his heels, and sleeveless like the one he'd worn in battle city.

"Try it on" Joey suggested, still grinning.

Seto did so, slipping it on over his pyjamas. He admired his reflection in the window, surprised to see how well it suited him.

"Not bad, mutt. I didn't think you had any fashion sense."

"Err…well, Mokie helped me choose it. I wanted the red one but he said black suited you better. Looks like he was right. You like it?"

"Actually, I love it." He smiled, genuinely pleased by his present. "Thanks, puppy"

Seto leaned in to kiss him, but before he could do so the door flew open.

"Seto! Joey! It's SNOWING!!!" Mokuba cried excitedly.

Roland followed him into the room, shaking show flakes out of his hair.

"Unless the snow stops, I don't think the last set of lights is going to get put up Mr Kaiba. It's pretty heavy out there."

"No matter, I think we probably have enough lights for an entire town already."

"Hey, Seto, come look at the snow!" Joey called from the front door, where he and Mokuba had gone to get a better view of the falling snow.

He sighed, joining them in the entrance hall.

"It's only snow." The CEO pointed out. But he had to admit it was pretty, and it was settling fast, covering the large grounds in a blanket of thick white fluff.

"C'mon, Seto!" Mokuba cried, "Let's go outside!"

"Mokuba," Seto said, pulling his brother back inside, "None of us are even dressed yet."

"Awh, Seto, don't be a spoil sport. Let's go outside for a bit." Joey pleaded.

Seto frowned, knowing he was going to lose this argument. "Fine then, but you have to wear your coat, Mokuba." He said, giving in.

"Okay, bro" Mokuba agreed, donning his winter jacket and gloves and running out the front door. Joey and Seto soon followed, both wearing coats and scarves over their pyjamas.

"Coming, Roland?" Seto asked.

"Actually I'd better be getting home Mr Kaiba. I wouldn't want to intrude…"

Seto smiled warmly, somewhat startling his employee. "You wouldn't be intruding. Please, I insist. It's Christmas."

Roland hesitated, but Seto's uncharacteristically warm smile seemed hard to refuse, and he had no family at home anyway. It might be nice to spend a bit of time with the Kaiba family.

"Yes, Mr Kaiba."

"Call me Seto, please…but perhaps only for today." Seto said, holding open the door.

"Thank you, Mr Kai-…Seto"

The two men joined Mokuba and Joey outside, who had started a snowball fight. A lump of snow hit Seto in the face, making Joey and Mokuba end their battle.

"Wasn't me" Joey declared, backing away with his hands held up in surrender.

"Me either!" Mokuba insisted, running to hide behind Joey.

Seto wiped the snow from his face, then turned to face the two cowering males. He looked at them coldly, furiously.

"Seto, I-"

"Big brother-"

Both sentences were cut off as they were each hit in the face with a snowball.

They looked around, spluttering, to see where the snow had come from. Their eyes fell on Seto and Roland, who were both smiling innocently, snow still on their gloves.

"This. Means. War." Joey declared, scooping up a handful of snow from the ground and throwing it at Seto, who ducked, sending the snowball straight at Roland's face. The man grinned, making his own snow ball to retaliate with, but was hit in the face with another before he could throw it.

"Who-?" he wondered out loud. He saw Seto grin mischievously at him, only to be hit in the side of the head by Mokuba's snowball.

Soon, an all out snow war had started out between the four of them, with snowballs flying in every direction. It was more than any of them had expected, especially those sharing a house with Seto Kaiba, the Scrooge himself, but it had turned out to be one of the best Christmases any of them had ever had.

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AN: Cheesy endings FTW ^_^

Hope you liked that, it ended up being a lot more about Roland than I had intended…but I liked writing it :) I finally feel Christmassy :D

The final chapter with either be up tomorrow or Boxing Day :)

Merry Christmas everyone! :D