CHRISTMAS ANGEL

Thanks for reading and reviewing, I'm glad people are actually reading my story and enjoying it. All my OC aren't meant to offend anyone in anyways shape or form, their sole purpose if for plot reasons. WELL accept Tenka, I threw him in there for fun.

WARNINGS: Crude humor (more like my kind of humor) Cursing and um all together holiday fun. SETO/JOU if you don't like yaoi please do not read!

It was the last day before school would end for Thanksgiving vacation. Jounouchi tapped his chin as he drank his chocolate milk at one of the lunch tables. Honda came up behind him and grabbed his shoulder, later regretting it when he found himself dripping wet with chocolate milk. "Honda, you dweeb!" Jou threw the carton at his best friend, not at all appreciating the fact that he had been startled.

"Jeez Jou, it was just a joke," Honda muttered running away from his enraged friend. As odd, as it may sound Kaiba broke up the quarrel by grabbing hold of Jou's collar. "Restrain yourself mutt, making a fuss at school could get you suspended." He had to hold the blonde at arms length to keep from being bitten.

"Thanks a lot Kaiba," Honda said practically idolizing the young CEO after saving him from the wrath of an angry Jounouchi.

"I didn't do it for you, the puppy works for me... if he makes a fool of himself than he makes a fool of me. Remember that!" he glared at the blonde and practically threw him to the ground. Kaiba walked away his suitcase tucked under one arm. "Help them once and they act like you're their God."

Jou blinked from his seat on the ground watching his retreating boss. Clenching his hands he was about to give chase but froze when Yami Yugi took hold of the collar of his shirt. 'What is with people and treating me like a dog...' he muttered tapping his hand on the ground as he landed on his back. Looking up at the rest of the Yugi-ikkou. He grinned sheepishly at the serious looks they wore on their faces.

"You work for Kaiba!" they all yelled in unison and Jou nearly blowing away at the sheer force of their outburst.

"I need the money, you know that."

"What are you his secretary or something?" Anzu asked a perverted-yaoi-fan-girl thought crossing her mind.

"NO! It's not like that at all!"

Honda cut him off and put the blonde into a playful headlock. "Alright so spill it how long have you been working for him?" Jou struggled and squirmed thrashing his arms as he attempted to get free.

"Two weeks, now will you let go of me..." he whined going limp hoping that the weight of his body would be too much of a burden for Honda. When he was released, he punched his friends arm and smirked at him. Before any more questions could be asked, and before Honda and Jou ended up brawling the bell rang. The blonde let out a sigh of relief and took up his briefcase waving to his friends and heading to class. 'They took that a lot better then I thought they would. Then again Kaiba ain't that bad,' he smiled to himself, hugging his suitcase to his body.

By the time school ended Jou had to drag himself to work. Tara smiled at him the moment he walked in, getting to her feet and placing a couple of baskets in his arms. "Those are from a couple of the employees for you... Seems like you're everyone's favorite this year?"

"Favorite what?"

"Mail boy," the receptionist said with a soft laugh patting his head. "I guess everyone's trying to keep on your good side that way you don't quit."

Jou laughed and rubbed the back of his head, "Well no need to worry about that, I like working here."

"Youko told us about your fight with Kaiba. We were all worried you'd quit just because he was being a creep... You're a hard worker kid," Tara smiled at him and picked up her phone busying herself with the various calls being made to the corporation. Jou smiled softly and made his way into the mailroom greeting a couple of the other mailroom workers, as well as his fellow employees. From the up-beat attitude the blonde seemed to radiate of it wasn't hard to believe he was so well liked. Even Seto Kaiba could not help but notice the great change that was beginning to occur.

The CEO stepped out of the elevator looking over at Youko who smiled brightly at him. "Mr. Kaiba..." she took up a few papers and held them out to him. "You have a board meeting at 5 o'clock and then you'll need to schedule everyone's leave for this Thanksgiving."

Kaiba snatched the papers looking down the hall where he found Jou passing out the paper work for each employee. Setting envelopes in neat stacks on each table and talking casually to a few of the secretaries. 'I guess that's why everyone seems to be so much more at ease now,' he glanced over his shoulder and looked ay his secretary. Normally the woman would be stuttering and quivering in fear whenever he approached. 'Animals... who would have thought.' He smirked at his inside joke and slipped into his office. A soft ring came from his trench-coat pocket. Pulling out his cell phone, he was greeted by his brother's voice.

/Seto? /

"Yes Mokuba..." he said taking a seat in his chair. Turning around so he could face the window. The outside seemed to be made of only black and white in his eyes, this particular tinting emphasizing the darkness of the world. In a since his office was very much like him.

/What time are you coming home? We were supposed to make cookies and stuff for your party. REMEMEBER?! /

Seto sighed and rubbed his scalp just now remembering his board meeting. "Listen Mokuba I've got a meeting today, maybe we can make them tomorrow morning or some other time."

/Alright, big brother, love you.../

"Love you too Mokie..."Kaiba heard a soft click and hung up his own phone. Upon turning around, he found Jounouchi standing on the other side of his desk. "Can I help you?

"That's kind of harsh don't you think Kaiba?" the blonde set some paper work on the CEO's desk.

"My family business is none of 'your' business."

"You're my employer Kaiba your actions affect my reputation along with the others on your staff... Messing one meeting won't affect the business too badly will it?" he tilted his head and looked at Kaiba's face. His gaze trailing over his jaw line and studying the stern expression carefully. When their eyes met, he had to look past him in hopes of not being turned into a pile of mush by the steely gaze.

"You don't know anything, mutt..." after a couple of minutes of silence Seto pulled out a stack of envelopes. "Hand these out they are the leave papers for each of the workers. I gave them the days before and the day after Thanksgiving along with the weekend following off... Is that lenient enough for you?" he got to his feet and collected his briefcase along with the paper work he could do at home. Though he would not admit it, he knew Jou was right. A meeting could be rescheduled but time with his brother was more important.

"Yes thank you Mr. Kaiba..." Jou bowed slightly and made his way out of the room smiling softly. Seto Kaiba had actually taken his advice. For some reason he felt a deep satisfaction with it and practically ran over to Youko's desk. "He gave us five days off!" he said happily.

Youko looked at him absolutely stunned at the word coming from the blonde's mouth. Never had she seen Jou so happy. "Planning on spending some time with your sister?" she asked taking her envelope.

"Well actually I'm spending Thanksgiving by myself... Shizuka is staying with our mother for the time being. So I'm probably going to spend some time with my friends. I haven't really been spending as much time with them as I used too." He pondered for moment and continued on his way. Handing out the envelopes had not been so bad especially since he still was not over the fact that Kaiba had actually listened to his advice. As he talked to Youko about her plans for the holidays, he looked over at Kaiba's office door. The CEO stepped out and walked past the blonde stopping at the elevator. By the tension in the air, it was obvious that Kaiba had something to say.

"Mutt, Mokuba wants you to come over for Thanksgiving." Kaiba stated as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "I'm throwing a party for a few of my business associates and he wants you to come." He glanced at the blonde with calm eyes.

Youko smiled at him noticing a bit of nervousness in Kaiba. Never in her experience had she ever seen Seto Kaiba hesitate like he just had. Leaning over she whispered into the puppy's ear, "Go on, it's not like you had any real plans..." she eased away from him and shoved his shoulder playfully.

"Uh... alright Mr. Kaiba," he said struggling with the 'Mr.' part of his sentence. He physically winced when Kaiba took his hand and shoved a piece of paper into his hand. After one last glance, the CEO stepped into the elevator and left without another word. Youko squealed and practically pounced on Jou. She took hold of the letter and looked it over with a smile.

"You have no idea how lucky you are, do you?" she said pointing at the letter repeatedly. "SETO KAIBA just invited you to one of his parties! At his house!"

Jounouchi remained on the floor smiling like a complete fool. Jumping up he took hold of the letter, "I've got to tell Tenka that I can't go to the employee party." He forgot all about the elevator and ran the entire way downstairs to the second floor. Throwing open the mailroom door as he ran over to Tenka. "Tenka, guess what?"

"You found out you're madly in love with me and are going to let me ravish you in the office..." he smirked and leaned on the table a smug smirk on his face. Jounouchi turned bright red but shook his not caring about the very specific pass the other had made at him. "You want to have sex in the janitor's closet?" again, Jounouchi shook his head becoming even redder. Tenka pondered a bit longer and was about to come up with another dirty answer but, was cut off when he had the invitation pushed into his face. Distastefully he glared at the invitation and just tossed it in Jou's general direction.

Jou struggled to catch the letter and looked over at his senior manager with a raised brow. "You're not mad at me are you?"

"How can I be mad at you? It's Kaiba I want to slaughter..." he grumbled and slouched into his chair. Jounouchi just shrugged and took up his jacket, "Where are you going?"

"My shift is over for today, nothing is going on after all and my hours clearly state that I'm only to stay if I'm needed." He adjusted his jacket. The real reason Jou wanted to leave was to buy something to wear for Kaiba party. A part of him also wanting to keep as far away from a flirtatious Tenka as possible. Smiling at the ruby-eyed man he quickly left the mailroom and made his way out of the Kaiba Corp. building. He thought to himself and walked happily along the sidewalks glancing at various stores. He and Shizuka had more then enough money to live off of, but he was not sure if he had enough to by anything nice.

Looking at a few of the stores, he sighed and rubbed the back of his neck. He at least wanted to look nice for Kaiba especially since this sounded like such a special occasion. Entering a store, he looked over a mannequin his eyes studying the outfit curiously. A saleswoman appeared next to him, her presence causing him to jump. "Can I help you?" she asked in stuck-up tone, making him feel as if he did not belong in the store at all.

"Nah, I'm just looking around... I've got a party coming up and I'm trying to empress some people."

"I see..." she said wanting more then anything to throw the boy out of her store. "Well we obviously don't have anything for you," she cut in front of him to keep him from looking at anything else. "Please get out," she said sternly staring him down.

Jou flinched some at her words and stared at her for minute. He understood instantly what was wrong and turned to leave, running his fingers through his hair the moment he got outside. "We obviously have nothing for you," he imitated and stormed off. Shoving his hands in his pockets until he returned to his apartment, opening the door and slipping inside. Without his sister, everything felt so quite and empty. "She'll be back before Christmas." He muttered attempting to comfort himself.

He sighed and plopped onto the couch looking at the puzzle Shizuka had been working on. On the box there were two Labrador retriever puppies cuddling together in a group of sunflowers. With a sigh he continued where she had left off, cursing when a particular piece would not fit. Letting out a cry of frustration he threw the piece down and covered his face with his hands.

"How am I going to impress Kaiba now!" he fell sideways and buried his face in a pillow. "Stupid saleswomen! Stupid Party!" he pushed himself to his feet and walked toward the bathroom. As soon as he walked past the door, he heard a slight knock. Whipping the tears that had collected at the corner of his eyes, he pulled it open. Mokuba stood in front of him causing him to jump in surprise the moment he looked down. "Mokuba what are you doing here?"

"To give you some of the cookie me and Seto made." He held out the delicate plate. "Where's Shizuka?" he asked noticing how quite the house was.

"Oh she's at mom's house, she'll be back before Christmas," he said with a soft smile. Mokuba looked at the honey colored eyes and tilted his head noticing that the whites of his eyes were red.

"Is that why you were crying?"

"What? No, it wasn't that... ya see I was going to by something to wear for your brother's party, but the stupid saleswoman wouldn't let me buy anything. I just got so upset that maybe I'd end up looking out of place at the party..." he trailed off and rubbed his arm nervously. Taking the plate into his hand, he gesture Mokuba in and went into the kitchen, setting the plate down gently. He picked up a cookie, took a bite, and smiled at Mokuba, "Seto helped you make these?"

"Yup! I forgot to thank you. Seto told me that it was because of you that he decided to come home."

"You mean that he actually told you that I gave him advice?"

"Well Yah! He invited you to the party didn't he?"

"But I thought you're the one that told him to invite me."

"I didn't even know I was aloud to invite anyone. I thought his party was just going to be a bunch of mean old men and their bratty kids." Mokuba made a sound of distaste. "How about I take you shopping, no salesperson will dare turn you away if you have Mokuba Kaiba with you."

'Kaiba actually invited me himself?' Jou laughed softly and followed the younger Kaiba. Locking the door, he shuffled his feet as they approached a limousine. When Mokuba opened the door, he found himself repeatedly praying that Kaiba was not inside. Once he got inside, he let out a sigh of relief when he found the back empty of everyone but Mokuba. "So where exactly are we going to go shopping?"

"A store my brother always goes too, I forgot what it's called," the younger Kaiba admitted.

"Mokuba I can't afford anything that Kaiba can!"

"Relax! I'm paying," Mokuba grinned mischievously and tapped his fingers on the widow. Once the car stopped, Mokuba stepped out and stretched, bouncing in excitement as he took Jou's hand and drug him inside. The store wasn't very packed and everything seemed even more expensive then anything from the other store. The store was decorated extremely well, the few people that actually occupied the store seeming to be businessmen and very important executives. 'Figures that everywhere Kaiba goes it involved business of some sort...' Jou thought bitterly wondering if the CEO had any personal life at all.

"Marco!" Mokuba took the hand of one of the sales men. The man looked at the blonde and eyed him curiously, obviously wondering what he was doing with the younger Kaiba. Jou gulped and wondered if he was going to get kicked out of this store too. "This is a close friend of me and Seto. Give him anything he wants and put it on the Kaiba account."

"As you wish young master Kaiba..." the man took a rough hold of Jou's arm and pulled him down the isle between the racks. "What is it you're looking for?"

"Something conservative, for a Thanksgiving party... Can you stop dragging me?" the blonde said following the man blindly. He did not know his way around and pulling away would probably seem rude. When he was let go he was surprised to find himself in a particular section of the store where everything seemed to be for a party. The clothes were still rather dressy though they had a sort of casualness to them. Reaching out to peek at some of the clothes, he winced when his hand was hit by the salesman.

"I know exactly what would suit you..." the man said looking the blonde over one last time and disappearing behind a rack digging around. "You're a size 16/33 in shirts and a 30 in pants..."

"How did you know that!" the blonde said hugging himself as if to protect his body from wandering eyes.

"I'm a tailor it's my job," the man said with a smile and returned with a few sweaters and dress shirts in hand, three pairs of pants slung over his shoulder. Handing them to the blonde, he shoved the youth into a stall. Jou looked over the clothes carefully studying each top and pair of pants. Once he finally got to trying them on, he would look himself over gasping in surprise when he was grabbed by his arm and pulled out. Mokuba grinned at him still holding onto the sleeve. "Wow, good job Marco," Mokuba said grinning over at the tailor.

Jou flushed and ducked his head sneaking back into the stall and trying the rest of the clothes. Each time he changed, he would step out and get Mokuba's approval. By the time they were through Mokuba had insisted that Jou purchase everything that had been suggested for him. Not wanting to refuse he nodded his head sheepishly hugging the clothes to his chest.

It was already 11 o'clock when Jou had gotten home. The apartment frigid from the lack of heat and activity. With a smile, he nuzzled his face into the clothes that Mokuba had bought for him, silently wondering if Kaiba would really like him in them. After he put them away, he made himself some dinner knowing that the next day would be boring without Shizuka around. "Figures that when I finally get some time off Shizuka leaves," he muttered to himself and curled up on his bed. The comforter and sheets were ice cold against his skin. His teeth shattering softly until he finally felt heat rise from the material covering him.

Kaiba looked over at his brother once he returned from the mutt's house. Mokuba seemed unusually pleased with himself, the youth humming happily. For a minute Kaiba thought, he heard the wedding march and actually felt worried. 'Is the puppy getting married or something?' he thought and stepped out of his office clearing his throat to get his brother's attention. "Mokuba, what happened? You were only suppose to drop of the cookies not spend the rest of the day with him."

"Come on big brother, Thanksgiving is only two days away."

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"You'll see big brother don't worry," the younger Kaiba patter his brother's shoulder and grinned up at him. Instantly Kaiba knew that something had to have been up. Too bad, he would have to wait until Thanksgiving to find out what.

Fortunately, you don't have to wait until Thanksgiving to find out what happens. Thanks once again for reading.