A/n: yeah this is really late...sorry for not updating anything or even reading any fan fic lately. I'm just really busy at the moment. I hope to be back for a while by the end of the month but there's a lot of stuff going on right now and my brain is totally fried. Well please enjoy!


I Love You More Than Winter


Mai sighed as she looked herself over in the mirror.

' I'm not sure if this dress will do.'

She jumped as she head Jonouchi from the doorway.

She could have sworn he had read her mind.

"That dress looks really good on you."

Mai frowned for a moment before turning to him.

"I'm still not sure if I want to go."

Jonouchi walked up to her and wrapped his arms around her tightly.

"You don't think you'll have fun?"

She shook her head.

"It's not that...it's just so cold outside and I hate winter."

He smiled and pulled her over to her couch.

Pulling her down onto his lap he kissed her forehead.

In the four years that she had know him Jonouchi had matured quite a bit.

He still had his quirks but he just wouldn't be the Jonouchi that she knew if he didn't.

They had a quiet relationship.

Both knew they were officially a couple, but there's was a slow romance and they barely ever told each other their feelings.

But every now and then He would just get in these moods that could only be cured by snuggling.

As she laid her head on his shoulder and draped her arms around him loosely she guessed he was in one of these moods.

He smiled warmly at her, a soft loving glow to his eyes and gently caressed a few ringlets of hair between his fingers.

He spoke softly and she closed her eyes.

"I love the winter. It reminds me of good times...and a particular person."

Violet eyes snapped open in question.

"Who?"

He chuckled slightly.

"You."

He smiled even more at her perplexed look and brushed his thumb over her bottom lip.

"Do you want to know why winter reminds me of you?"

She nodded, unwilling to speak.

"Well..."

He paused and kissed her lips softly.

"I had a rose garden once. It never once bloomed for a whole year. Then in the middle of winter I met you on a ship. I was struck by you completely the first time I saw you. And..."

He paused and kissed her with a little more passion.

"When I got back home I thought I would never see you again but, on one rose bush, one single rose the exact color of your lips, was in full bloom amid the white snow. Snowflakes lay on its tips but as soon as I plucked it, they melted into sparkling dewdrops and I knew that I would find you again."

He brushed a sudden tear from her cheek and kissed her eyes gently as she closed them again.

" Your hair reminds me of the dawn that I watched outside of my lonely window. Your skin reminds me of the snowflakes on the rose. And your lips remind me of the promise that I kept to myself for too long. The promise to love you eternally."

She blinked away her tears, staring at him in amazement.

"Jonouchi...I don't know what to say."

He smiled and kissed her ear before whispering to her.

"Than don't. All I need to know is that you love me...and your tears are enough to prove that."

She looked into his deep, loving eyes.

"Jonouchi..."

He nodded.

"I love you."

He smiled.

"I love winter."

She looked confused for a second until he continued.

"You are my winter of hope. I love you like the rose."

She kissed him softly.

"I love you more than winter."

He pulled her closer.

"We'll love each other until the thirteenth of forever."


A/n: yeah, sap, sap, sap. Pancakes anyone?