(A/n: I don't own YGO....Ya......You get it.....On with the chapter....

Raven: Umm....Jamie....

Jamie: Ya......

Moonlight: /Thinks will they ever stop?/

Raven: This is....ya....

Jamie: I'm slow in the head readers so don't mind me...On with the chap for real....

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Chapter 12: Singing...Carols?

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The day had come. Christmas Eve and both Seto and Yugi were ready to ask the question during this party. Yugi got Raven a plain ring with just a small diamond and two really small diamonds in the band. Seto unfortunately had a harder time picking out a ring because, he wasn't sure if he really wanted to marry her (A/n: Even though deep down he did.), he had more variety, and he wasn't sure that she would be ready for marriage. In the end Seto got Lenne nothing big, but it did have two tiny emeralds on either side of the diamond.

"So..." started Yugi as he was helping Seto put up decorations "When are you asking?"

Seto looked at Yugi "I'm not sure yet..." Kaiba scratched his head as he climbed down a ladder in the party hall in his house. The decorating was done and now all Seto wanted to do was sleep until Lenne got home from her job as a waitress, which he didn't really like that much. Yugi picked up some extra streamers and threw them at Seto. Seto looked at Yugi and managed to crack a smile while he threw a set of streamers right back at him.

"See," Started Yugi "I knew you could smile Kaiba."

Seto stopped and turned around and laughed "You caught me Yugi, and you can call me Seto after all you are going to marry my sister."

Before Yugi could respond to Seto, he heard the over head say Joey, Mai, Tristan, Tea, and Duke were at the door. "Why are they always early?" Yugi asked himself aloud.

Seto walked to the door and opened it to see Tea in her new Christmas outfit which was very revealing. Seto heard Rena yelling at Mokuba about something that he couldn't really understand because it was coming from the recreation room.

"So Kaiba," Started Joey "What do ya got to drink?" Seto pointed to the party hall.

"In there," Seto started "There's a cooler and a fridge." Seto didn't have to say any more Tristan, Joey, and Duke ran into the room quickly. Tea and Mai looked at Seto blankly.

"You're hosting this year?" Started Tea "I thought Yugi was..."

"I had nothing to do with this....but I will be joining you due to the fact my girlfriend is going to be there." Seto fixed his collar.

"Gee Kaiba lighten up, have some drinks, and hang with us." Said Mai taking off her coat to show her always very revealing Christmas outfit.

"Did you go shopping for Tea?" asked Seto shutting the door.

"We went together." Said Tea as she ran towards the party hall. Mai soon followed.

Seto took a deep breath and walked up to his room. As soon as he got there he fell onto his bed and fell asleep quickly.

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/Dream/

"Lenne will you let me take your hand in marriage?" Asked Seto in a quite dark room.

"Seto....I...."

/Dream Over/

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Seto opened his eyes slowly and rolled onto his side. When his eyes were fully adjusted to the dim light in the room her saw Lenne's jacket beside him. As he sat up her could hear the shower running.

'I'm going to see who else is here.' Thought Seto as he walked out of his room. Seto could hear music coming from the party hall. As he got to the bottom of the stairs the doorbell rang. The over head didn't give any name. Seto answered the door to see Serenity, Marik, and Ryou.

"Hello." Said Seto looking at the three of them like they were going to kill him "The party hall is that way..."

"Thank you Kaiba." Said Serenity giving him a hug. Seto shrugged her off and watched the three run to the party room.

"Mr. Kaiba," started a sweet voice. "I've been looking for you." Seto turned around to see Lenne in a green tang top dress with red heals and a red ruffles on the straps. Her hair was up in an elegant bun with two spiral curls coming down in the front. Of course, Seto was wearing the usual, black dress pants, black dress shoes, and his black dress shirt.

"Well I've been waiting for you to get down here." Seto finally answered as Lenne approached him, smiling.

Lenne put her arms around his neck and smiled sweetly "You remember your promise?" Lenne asked as Seto's grasped her waist.

"Yes." he started as Lenne pulled away from him. "But, before we go in there I need to ask you something."

Lenne stopped and turned around and looked into Seto's ocean blue eyes "What is it Seto?" Seto was about to ask, but then Serenity, Raven, Mai, Rena, and Tea ran out to her and circled around her. They complemented her on her dress and hair and dragged her into the room as Seto followed slowly.

When Lenne was finally all the way in the room Marik saw her and walked over and smiled at her.

"Miss Lenne." Said Marik while kissing her on her hand.

"Hi Marik," Lenne started "Haven't seen you since battle city. How have you been?"

"Well..." Seto decided not to listen to the rest of their conversation and went off and grabbed a bottle of Coolers Light and noticed Joey, Duke, and Tristan spinning around in a circle together. Yugi was standing by Raven. Yugi didn't have a beer, but of course you could tell that Raven had a few already and it wasn't even 9:00 PM. Seto saw Serenity having a coke and Tea was only going to have a few throughout the night, but everyone knew that Mai would be trashed before the night was over. Lenne walked over to Seto while smiling.

"Seto," Lenne started looking into his eyes.

"Lenne I need to ask you something..." Seto froze for a minute "Outside, in the kitchen....some where." Lenne looked at Seto's pleading eyes and put out her hand.

"Lead the way." Lenne smiled as Seto gently tugged her into the kitchen.

"So....what is it?" Lenne asked as Seto placed her on the counter.

Seto looked down at towards the floor while fiddling with his fingers trying to find the right words to say before the question was asked. "Lenne," Seto started looking at the floor. He felt Lenne's gentle grip pull his chin up so they were looking directly at each other. Seto's lower lip trembled "You know I love you...a lot?" Lenne nodded her head in response "Well what if I told you that Mokuba and You were the only things worth living for?"

Lenne smiled "You're living for more than that Seto." Lenne put her hands on his shoulders "You're living for Rena and Raven."

Seto put his index finger on her lips gently. He took the small box out of his pocket slowly as his hands shook, because of his nervousness. "Lenne," He started as he opened the tiny box slowly as Lenne's eyes widened at the sight of a trembling Seto and the tiny box. "Will you marry me?"

Lenne put her hand over her mouth and almost screamed. She looked at the tiny ring with the small diamond in the middle of two tiny emeralds on a platinum band.

Lenne gave Seto a hug and then kissed him on the cheek "Yes." She whispered into Seto's ear as he slipped the ring onto her ring finger. Seto picked Lenne up in a cradle like hold and walked into the hall way. "Seto," Lenne started before they entered the party hall.

"Yes." Seto looked into Lenne's emerald eyes and kissed her passionately on the lips. "Are you better now?"

Lenne smiled "Yes let's go."

When Seto and Lenne were about to enter the room they heard Serenity, Mokuba, and Rena screaming, Joey, Duke, and Tristan were singing some song, and Marik, Yugi, Raven, Mai, and Tea laughing.

"What the hell is going on!?" Yelled Seto as he entered with Lenne still in his arms. Everyone stared at Seto and Lenne. Duke was still spinning around in a circle and Raven screamed. Seto put Lenne down and scanned everyone in the room. "Lenne and I are getting married." Seto stopped breathing as Duke Devilin walked over to him.

"Have a drink there old Kaiba!" Duke handed him a Coolers Light and smiled. Joey and Tristan hugged each other and the started singing.

I Saw mommy kissing Santa Clause

Underneath the mistletoe last night....etc...etc....

Everyone just ignored Joey and Tristan and got back to having fun.

"Raven?" Yugi asked quietly. "Can I, erm, talk to you for a second?"

Raven swayed back and forth a bit. "Hunmhuh?" she said really intelligently. She had had a few too many drinks this evening so far.

"Raven? I think you need a break from all that alcohol." Yugi grabbed her arm to help her walk a little better.

When they reached the living room, Raven looked at him. "Maybe..." she said before finally flopping on the couch, fast asleep.

'Great,' thought Yugi. 'Just as I was going to ask her to marry me, she falls asleep. Oh well, at least she isn't having anything more to drink,' Yugi thought, before lying down beside her (a/n: It's a really wide and long couch) and falling asleep.

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As the party began to die down, Lenne started taking everyone's keys as Seto was leading everyone to a separate guest room (A/n: a lot of those I might add) so nothing bad would happen.

"Lenne..." stuttered Joey "Can you drive me home?"

Lenne looked at Joey "NO, you're staying here tonight." Joey got dragged out of the room by Tea and Mokuba. Everyone was out of the room except Raven, Yugi, Seto, and Lenne. Lenne started walking out of the room.

"Lenne," started Seto as he spun her around "Why are they all staying here tonight?"

Lenne looked at Seto and then giggled slightly "Silly, they're all drunk. Well except for Tea and Serenity." Lenne Kissed Seto on the cheek "You shouldn't be so anti-social."

Seto took Lenne's hand as they were walking up the stairs towards their room. Seto looked down into Lenne's eyes and then picked her up.

"Seto what's this for?" Lenne asked sleepily.

"I'm going to be really busy at work for the next couple of months." Seto paused. "Are you willing to wait for me?"

Lenne yawned "I love you, so you know I'm willing to wait."

When they got up into their room Seto placed her gently on the bed and watched Lenne breathe lightly as he took of her high healed shoes and then crashed down next to her. Lenne moved into Seto and wrapped her arms around him as he did the same to her. They fell asleep quickly.

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Raven woke up. "Oh, God, what happened last night?" she said rubbing her head. She looked around and saw the wreck left from the party. "Ouch... must've drunk too much. Damn hangover..."

Yugi stirred. "Raven?" he said sleepily.

"Hmm? Yugi? Did you get drunk too?"

Yugi smiled. "Not exactly. I was going to ask you something last night, but it didn't quite work."

"Hang on Yug. Lemme go get some Tylonel or something and then I'll be all ears."

"Go ahead, then." Raven smiled and left the room. Yugi sighed and sunk into the couch. 'Well, now or never...'

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Lenne woke up to find Seto's arms wrapped around her shoulder. When she looked over towards the clock it was about 9:30 AM and Rena and Mokuba were already up in the recreation room playing the new game that Seto and she had gotten for them. It was called Dance, Dance Revolution Ultra Mix. Rena was yelling something about her winning the 7th game in a row and Mokuba was yelling about the next time they play he'll bet her.

Seto stirred a bit and then opened his slightly to see sparkling emerald eyes gazing upon him "I see Rena and Mokuba already found their new game."

Lenne giggled "Yeah," Lenne pushed Seto off of her and ran into her closet in their room.

"What are you doing?" asked Seto sitting up slightly on the bed.

When Lenne came out of the closet she had a small box, which Seto took to be a bracelet box. Seto reached out for it when Lenne sat down, but she moved her hands away from his still gripping the box. In a result Seto's head fell into her lap and she looked down into his eyes and smiled happily. Lenne opened the box and Seto's eyes widened at the sight of a gold bracelet with a really tiny charm that said "I love you" and Seto looked up at Lenne as he put on the bracelet.

"Thank you." Said Seto as he leaned up to kiss Lenne. Before his lips reached her's she stopped him. Seto looked puzzled, but then she surprised him bye kissing him passionately.

Seto smiled. "Seto you smiled." Giggled Lenne as Seto tickled her stomach.

"Don't rub it in." Seto laughed slightly as Lenne managed to get up off the bed and run out the door.

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/2 hours Later/

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Raven came back. "Ahh, that's better!"

Yugi looked up. "It takes you TWO HOURS to get a Tylonel???"

"No. It takes two hours for it to work. I knew you wanted to talk to me, and I wanted to be able to pay attention."

Yugi smiled and got up. "You know," he said, getting the box out but hiding it being his back, "Normally a guy would get down on one knee to ask this, but I already only come up just past your waist."

Raven backed up. "Does that mean..." she trailed off quietly.

Yugi grinned and took the box out from behind his back. He opened it revealing the ring, and said, "Raven, will you marry me?"

Raven looked at him, then at the ring, then back at him again. "I... I don't know what to say..."

"A simple 'yes' would be nice."

"Alright, then yes, Yugi Muto, I will marry you," Raven said, sliding on the ring.

Raven suddenly started laughing.

"What is it, Raven?" asked Yugi scratching his head.

"Well... I just realized... YOU AND SETO ARE GOING TO BE BROTHERS-IN-LAW!!!" Raven looked at the floor quickly.

Yugi laughed "Well I would have been anyway, because me being Lenne's step brother (A/n: Because his mom/grandfather/whoever adopted her so that kinda makes the brother and sister I guess. On with the fic)."

Raven stood silent "So are you saying that Lenne and Seto are getting married?"

"Yes I am saying that."

Raven started screaming with laughter "Seto turned soft! He turned SOFT!!!! YES!! I WIN! ROCK, ROCK, ON!!!!!!!!!!"

Yugi looked at Raven and sighed "He loves her..."

Raven sighed back "Ya I know...I was just messin' with ya."

Yugi and Raven walked out of the Party Hall and looked around to see Joey on a small arm chair near the entrance and to find Duke and Tristan on top of each other right next to Joey.

Raven heard Lenne screaming with joy and Seto actually laughing as he tried to catch Lenne as they ran down the stairs. When Lenne reached Raven and Yugi and saw her ring she squealed as Seto tickled her sides. As soon as Seto stopped Raven and Lenne complemented each others rings as Seto and Yugi walked off with Yugi laughing at the sight of Tristan and Duke on top of each other.

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/One Month Later/

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It was January 25th, the one day Lenne hated out of the whole entire year. She had just woken up from a nightmare that she refused to remember even though it continuously haunted her memories. The cold sweat on her forehead trickled down as she walked into the bathroom to wash off her face. For three nights she had the nightmare and each time she woke up it was 4:30 AM; the exact time both her mother and father got killed by a drunk driver.

"Seto," Lenne thought aloud "Where are you when I need you to comfort me?" Lenne wiped off her face with a black face cloth and went downstairs to the kitchen. She opened the fridge and looked for her bottle of Sprite. She heard the door to the kitchen open slightly. She heard the lights click and when her eyes adjusted to the light She saw Yugi walking over to her.

"Lenne what's wrong?" asked Yugi as he grabbed a paper towel and wiped the sweat off of Lenne's forehead.

Lenne sighed and then pointed to the calendar near the door to exit the kitchen "It's the 25th of January."

"Oh..." Said Yugi as Lenne sat down and he sat down next to her "I'm sorry." Yugi leaned over and tried to give Lenne a brotherly hug but she pulled away.

"Don't be sorry." Lenne sniffled as tears started falling down her cheeks "You didn't do anything!" Lenne wrapped her hands around her head "That stupid drunk driver did!" As Lenne continued to cry Seto walked into the kitchen just coming home from work to see Yugi trying to comfort a sobbing Lenne.

"Lenne," Started Seto as he put his hand on her right shoulder.

"She..." Yugi stopped and whispered something in Lenne's ear and Lenne nodded as she wiped her tears away. Yugi walked out of the kitchen and then Lenne looked at Set before crying again.

/Flash Back/

"Mommy can I go with you?" Asked a 10 year old Lenne smiling while crying.

"No sweetie...I have to go get your dad. You and Auntie Nazomi need to watch Rena." Said a sweet, motherly voice.

"Okay." Smiled Lenne "Bye mommy!"

That was the last time Lenne saw her mom alive and smiling.

/End Flashback/

Seto pulled Lenne's chin up and then embraced her "Lenne," he started as Lenne's body wracked with sobs "I know what it feels like to feel the way you do right now." A lone tear managed to slip down Seto's cheek. "I don't like seeing you like this."

Lenne looked up at Seto "Come home earlier please." She wiped her tears off on Seto's blue shirt.

"I will," He started "I promise." Seto picked Lenne up and carried her back up to their room and gently placed her on the bed and then crawl onto the bed gently so Lenne would calm down a bit.

"I just remember something." Lenne suddenly said quietly "He was the one who killed my parents. He told me while he was whipping me with his belt 10 years ago on this very same day at the same time he killed them." Lenne's breathing steadied.

"Lenne who? Who killed them?" Then Seto realized that she had fallen asleep. He made a mental note to what Lenne said and from that moment on he was determined to find out who this "HE" was that killed her parents and why such a delicate girl could have been beaten by a man.

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Jamie: Well that's the chapter...I think it is kind of a cliffy... Maybe not, but who cares! Sorry for the long wait for an update.

Raven: /Cough/ Um....forgetting something?

Jamie: Oh ya! I thank Raven for helping me on part of this chapter! It's the parts that Yugi get engaged to Raven!

Moonlight: Woopie....

Jamie: /sigh/ Well R&R readers! Oh ya! And read Raven's Story called Angel Eyes. Though we have the same characters because she is using one of mine and I am using one of her's the two stories are really different! Trust me! I know!

Raven: HEY!

Jamie: AHH! /Runs from Raven who has a chainsaw/ PLEASE READ HER STORY AND REVIEW IT TO! AND REVIEW MINE SO I CAN LIVE AND WRITE MORE! PLEASE!!!! AHH!!!!!!!