Lil' Washu: Feliz Navidad amigos! Here's my first Christmas fic. Yay!

Joey: Will there be eggnog?

Lil' Washu: (sigh) Yes, there will be eggnog, like I was saying...

Mai: (Looks at Joey) Will there be mistletoe?

Lil' Washu: Wouldn't be Christmas without it...Now as I was saying, it's mostly a

Kaiba bros Holiday fic.

Kaiba: Why me?

Lil' Washu: Because like every other fangirl, I love seeing the tough guys go soft!

The genre is humor/angst/action/adventure/supernatural/holiday/parody/fluff. Don't flame me too badly ok? Much appreciated.

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Pure white snow bathed the streets of Domino City, coating everything in at least two feet of sparkling white. Still, this didn't discourage the last minute holiday shoppers. Aside from shoppers, carolers, charity donation collectors, and happy children choked the roads. Through all of this sped a dark blue limo, nearly bowling over an old lady. Inside, a certain impatient CEO gruffly urged his chauffer on.

"Can't you drive any faster? I'm nearly late for an appointment already."

Seto Kaiba's frigid blue eyes gave his chauffer a hard glare and then glanced into the back seat where his little brother sat leaning against the limo door and watching the activity outside. Kaiba recalled the earlier events of the day.

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"But Seto!"

"No buts Mokuba, I can't stay home today. I have entirely too much to do at Kaiba Corp. Find somebody else to play with."

Mokuba looked pleadingly over the top of the desk of the Kaiba mansion office.

"Please? It won't take much time...we could just hang out for a few hours here, or go look at some of the stores or something..."

Kaiba did not bother look up from his laptop as he answered his brother.

"I told you Mokuba, I don't have time for this! The holiday season is one of Kaiba Corps' biggest. Remember, I have a company to run. I don't have time to waste on this nonsense."

Crestfallen, Mokuba let his eyes stray to the floor and mumbled, "I'm sorry Seto, I guess I forgot."

The telephone rang. The elder Kaiba picked up and snapped, "Kaiba. Make it quick."

The person on the other end of the line made a startled noise resembling that of a mouse's squeak. Kaiba was not amused.

"Whoever you are, you have five seconds before I hang up. Now what did you call me for?"

"...Hello, Kaiba? This is Yugi."

"Yugi?" Kaiba's blue eyes flashed with interest. "Let me guess, you've called to ask for a duel. Is that it?"

"Well, actually no. You see I'm having this Holiday Party at the game shop, and I was wondering if you and Mokuba might like to come."

"Listen Yugi, I don't know what you're playing at, but neither of us have any time for..."

It was then that Kaiba noticed his little brother standing sadly against the doorway of the office. Kaiba knew that those teary blue-gray eyes of his would prevent him from getting anything done if he didn't find something for Mokuba to do.

"On second thought, I have no time for your holiday idiocy, but Mokuba has nothing to do today. I'll drop him off in an hour."

"Sure, that sounds great Kaiba, I'll see you-hello?"

At the game shop, Yugi realized that he was speaking to a dial tone. Kaiba had already hung up.

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Mokuba watched the snowfall quietly. He wondered why he had even bothered to ask. He could remember how for every year his brother would work straight through the holiday season without a single break, leaving him all alone. Mokuba didn't know why he wasn't used to it by now. 'Probably because it wasn't always this way.' The boy told himself.

Kaiba was unaware of his brother's troubles. 'Dropping Mokuba off at the game shop will leave me free enough to test the new dueling system, and meet with the stockholders, and finally get some work done.' Kaiba mused. He looked back at his little brother again, noticing that he hadn't moved or spoken since the beginning of the car ride. Curious, he asked, "Mokuba, are you feeling alright?"

The youngster finally looked up from his solitary spot.

"Nothing's wrong Seto, I'm fine."

"Mokuba, you haven't talked at all since we left the mansion. If you're not feeling well, we could always go back home, although I would miss my appointments."

"I'm ok Seto, really! I guess I'm just tired, that's all."

Not bothering to press the matter any further, Kaiba turned away from his brother, pulled and pulled out his laptop.

Around the same time, Yugi was welcoming guests into the game shop.

"Hey Yug, who were you on da phone with before?" Asked a couch reclining Joey.

"Just Kaiba Joey, I invited him and Mokuba to the party."

"You what?" Shouted Joey in shock, causing him to spit a mouthful of eggnog on the person sitting next to him, who just happened to be Mai.

"Sorry 'bout that Mai...please don't hurt me...thanks. Now as I was saying, what the heck did you invite Kaiba for?"

"Well Joey, I figured that we couldn't keep Kaiba as our enemy forever, so I tried to make friends."

"Yugi," replied Joey, "That's a real nice gesture and all, but are we talkin' about the same rich, snotty, stuck-up, insensitive Kaiba?"

"Forget about it Joey, only Mokuba's coming anyway, Kaiba couldn't make it."

Outside of the Game shop, a very flustered Ryou Bakura tried to balance an armful of gifts and knock on the game shop door at the same time.

"Hello?" He asked urgently? "Let me in before I drop these!"

"HELLO BAKURA!"

Solomon Motou opened the door, decked out in a Santa suit complete with a beard and stocking cap, and a rather larger than average grin. Bakura could only stare.

"Um, hi Mr. Motou...Nice outfit..."

"Isn't it? I'm just getting in the spirit like all of you young fellers! I volunteered to be the department store Santa Claus this year. So what do you think, am I jolly enough for ya?"

Bakura ignored the large sweat drop meandering its way down the back of his head and nodded.

"HI BAKURA!" Yelled Joey and Tristan in unison as they tackled Bakura.

"What'd ya get me? What'd ya get me? What'd ya get me?" Asked Joey excitedly.

"Honestly, you two are such toddlers on Christmas Eve." said Tea. "Now get off of Bakura before you flatten him like you did at the last party. It took us forever to scrape him off the floor, remember? We had to use a spatula..."

"Glad you could come Bakura," said Yugi, "Oh yeah, and Yami wants to know if you've bought him those new leather socks for Christmas."

"Leather socks?"

After everyone had grabbed his or her respected gift, Bakura pulled a wad of crumpled sheet music out of his jacket pocket.

"Here's an idea, why don't we go caroling with this music I brought?"

"That's a great idea Bakura, though I was kinda planning to do karaoke on Yugi's new machine." Said Joey.

"You do karaoke?" Mai asked skeptically.

"Of course Mai, I can sing like a canary!"

"Well let's see how well you sing outside where there's less glass to shatter."

Afraid of losing any windows, the would-be carolers assembled outside in the already foot-deep snow.

"Here's an easy one," suggested Bakura while dishing out music.

"Oh yeah, I remember how that one goes. Jingle balls, Jingle balls, Jingle all the WAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!"

"Joey stop! Please!" Pleaded Tea, "First of all, it's Jingle Bells, not Jingle Balls! And you're way off key."

"Well excuse me Ms. Mary Poppins! I just made a mistake!"

"You changed it on purpose, didn't ya Joey."

"Shut up Tristan."

"Um, how about we all sing it this time?" Suggested Yugi quickly.

"Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the -"

Unfortunately everyone was stopped in mid-song when Kaiba's navy-blue limo swerved up to the curb, showering the entire crew in dirty, cold, slush. One of the doors opened and Mokuba Kaiba hopped out into the snow. Without so much as a goodbye, the limo hurried off towards Kaiba Corp.

"Hello Yugi, thank you very much for inviting me." Said Mokuba mechanically. "...And sorry about the slush."

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Lil' Washu: Well there's the first chapter, so what do you guys think?

Yugi: I liked it!

Y. Bakura: When am I appearing?

Joey: When do we eat?

Tristan: (Looks around) Will Serenity show up?

Kaiba: Where is my lawyer?

Lil' Washu: Ok, so maybe the first chapter was a little slow, and short. but in the next chapter things will really pick up, I'm promising magic, angst, blah, blah blah...You'll find out why our residential blue-eyed Scrooge doesn't like the holidays so much...

Kaiba: Bah humbug.

Lil' Washu: ...and there's more of Cratchet, I mean, Yugi being all cute and friendly of course.

Yugi: ^___^

Lil' Washu: Oh yeah, they're be more of these bozos too...

Y. Bakura: I feel the need to mutilate something...Is that a good thing?

Joey: FEED ME!

Tristan: Would it be considered tacky to buy Serenity underwear?