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Disclaimer; don't own beyblade/ Yugioh/DBZ or A Christmas Carol. If I did I'd be rich... and really old sweatdrops

Warnings; slight hints of Yaoi

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Chapter 1; People forget too easily.

On the outskirts of Domino, in the deepest of the mountains, was a quaint little house with a domed extension. Birds were singing, wild pigs grunting in the forest, a stream trickled nearby. All was rather peaceful.

BOOM!

"Vegeta!"

Heh, maybe I was wrong?

A teenage brunette turned over and opened an eye to see smoke billowing out of the window.

"Doesn't he ever quit?" she sighed with a shake of her head, raising from her bed and settling herself on the dressing table stool.

In the mirror she could see that her ponytail had come out during her sleep, it had grown a lot longer since she had moved into the Son house. But what caught her attention was the burn covering the right side of her face. Even though she had it for so long, it still felt strange to her, but she had been wearing a special mask to cover it for years.

It was only that fateful night that a white haired man with a lust for blood tore it in his act.She yawned, looking at the lock of white hair tied by a black ribbon on the side of her mirror. She smiled at the revenge.

Brushing the tangles out of her hair, she looked at the pictures on her wall. All the friends she had made that night.

The night in question was back in the summer, she had to organise a talent school for her theatrics grade. The most unlikely of people had signed up. The night was a total hit, she got herself an amazing bunch of friends, one even kind enough to settle her debts and replace her mask, and even a boyfriend, the nicer version of the white haired man. She hadn't seen him for the last month.

"I'll see you tonight, Ryou." she said, blowing a kiss to the picture of him on the wall. Her door opened behind her...

Grabbing the hunting knife she had received as a gift, she drew it and threw it at the door.

"I guess I should've knocked." came a nervous laugh. She looked up.

"Goten? Oh gods I'm really sorry. Come on in."

"It's ok. I'm the sorry one Nicole." the black-haired teen replied, closing the door and pulling out the knife. "I should've knocked..." he inspected the knife from a number of angles before handing it back to Nicole to sheathe. "Gohan gave you a good quality knife. Good to see you've been taking care of it."

"When I'm not putting holes into doors with it." she laughed. "So what brings you to my humble room?"

"Oh yeah, what time's the party tonight?"

"Starts seven thirty, Goten it's written in big letters on the calendar. 'After show/Xmas Party'."

"Oh yeah." Goten laughed, doing the famous son grin that never ceased to make Nicole laugh. "So, what you wearing tonight?"

"Well since I made it a costume party I thought I'd go as an elf." Nicole shrugged, putting her mask with practiced ease. "What about you?"

"Same, Trunks too." Goten shrugged.

"Breakfast's ready!" called a voice downstairs.

"Great. Please try and save me something Goten."

"I'll do my best, but with Vegeta here as well..." he shrugged. Nicole waved him out and proceeded to dress.

At the Granger Dojo...

"Tyson, close your mouth will you!" cried a voice, as Hiro set aside his breakfast plate, too disgusted with his little brother's table manners to continue.

"You're fighting a losing battle there Hiro." sweat dropped Max, smoothing down some feathers on a pair of costume wings. "I'm so stoked for tonight's party!"

"Yeah, me too! It was nice enough for Nicole to invite everyone on the front row too. I wonder what Tala and Bryan are gonna go as." Tyson replied, forgetting his food.

"That's if they go." Hiro added. "Where are Ray and Kai? Their breakfast will be in Tyson if they don't hurry up."

"OW! Watch where you're putting that needle Ray!" came a cry. Everyone in the dining room went to investigate the training room.

Kai was standing on a small stool dressed in a robe of burgundy crushed velvet. Ray was standing behind him, sewing something in the back.

"Sorry Kai." said the raven haired teen to his love. "But you want me to get this done by tonight."

"Kai's actually wearing a costume?" snorted Tyson.

"Under protest." Kai grumbled. "I'm going as one of the three spirits of Christmas from A Christmas Carol."

"And it's not Christmas Future." Ray grinned. "I'm fed up of seeing that Grim Reaper hood."

"Hn!" sulked Kai.

"Kai, you'll be the best looking Ghost of Christmas Present there. Stop complaining." said Hiro.

"What are you lot going as?"

"Bob Cratchett." said Hiro. "You aint the only one who reads Dicken's."

"An angel." shrugged Max.

"A snowman!" cried Tyson. Everyone laughed at him. "What?"

"Sounds about right Tyson. I wonder what Yugi and the others are wearing. I've only seen Tristan around because he's been teaching me how to ride the unicycle. By the way, what are you going as Ray?"

"One of the three Kings from the nativity." he bit through the thread attached to Kai's robe. "There you go Kai. All done. You can spray those plastic fruits yourself."

"I'll do it!" said Max, "I'm bored, can you blame me?"

"Fine. Everything's outside." Max ran off, Tyson went with him. Hiro, sensing a potential disaster, left too.

"Thanks Ray." Kai hopped down and spun around a few times to try it out. Finding himself satisfied. He went up to hug his kitty-cat, a name that Nicole herself had given him.

"What's brought this on?" Ray grinned.

"The fact I love you. Why else?" Kai smiled, a smile he reserved only for Ray, his Ray. Then he kissed his raven beauty.

Ray let himself melt under Kai's mouth, running his hands over Kai's velvet covered arms. The need for air soon became too great.

"Though something's been bugging me, where did you get this fabric from?" Kai asked Ray, Ray grinned.

"Why do you think I've been going out to Tristan's with Max lately? I meet up with Joey and go shopping."

Speaking of Joey, at the Kaiba mansion.

"SETO!" called Joey from the vast ball room.

"Coming, what's up?" the brunette CEO asked his puppy.

"Nothing, I was just feeling a little lonely." Joey said sheepishly.

"Remind me to get you a pet." Kaiba chuckled, hugging the blonde.

"Very funny. Is everything sorted?"

"Caterers are coming in a couple of hours, stage is set up, rooms are cleaned out ready for guests, Christmas decorations are up... I'd say Nicole thought of everything."

"What about our costumes? You... did remember the costumes Seto?" asked Joey, seeing Kaiba's face suddenly blank. He sighed. "I'm so glad I had a back up plan." Joey pulled out a cell phone. "Hey Mokuba, how's the costumes coming?"

"Great, nearly done, I'm gonna drop in at Yugi's for a while then I'll be home." came the reply.

"Ok, just make sure Yugi didn't go for that sugarplum fairy costume. I don't think I could even look at him without laughing."

"I'll do that." Mokuba replied. "See ya Joey."

"Bye Moki." and hung up.

"You seemed fine when you saw a copy of Mokuba in a dress in my virtual reality game."

"Yeah, Virtual Reality. You've spent too much time around computers."

At Yugi's

"Yugi? Abiou? Where are you?" called Yami.

"In the kitchen... How do I look?"

Yami walked into the kitchen to see Yugi wearing a green Tunic, red tights and a Santa hat place at an angle on his head because of his hair, he was even wearing black shoes with the toe curled up to a point.

"You look so cute it's not elfy." Yami pondered amusedly.

"That was such a bad elf joke." laughed a voice as Tristan, propping a present on the doorframe.

"Why you laughing then?" Yami taunted.

"Ok Yami, you got me."

"Who's the present for Tristan?" asked Yugi.

"Max. Do you remember when Nicole came round with that hat full of names? Oh what did she call it, she said she did it every year back in England."

"Oh that Secret Santa thing?" asked a voice.

"That's it! Huh? Where did you spring from?" Tristan demanded, seeing a dark haired teen behind him.

"Hi Mokuba."

"Hi Yugi, and you left the door open genius. Anyways, has everyone got their secret Santa presents?"

"Yeah. It was only when Ray came over I remembered to get mine." laughed Yugi, he had drawn the neko-jin's name and bought him a bunch of hair care products.

"Oh... Ra, I'm in trouble." Yami paled, he hadn't got his.

"Who did you get?" asked Mokuba.

"I got Nicole."

"So the Pharaoh's luck finally turned sour. I'm joking Yami." Ryou had entered the room. "Loving the costume Yugi."

"Heh heh."

"That doesn't help my predicament." grumbled Yami, he had his costume organised since Nicole emailed them all, but he kept putting the present buying off.

"Yami, you know your little project. What about that?" suggested Yugi. "You even said it would be something she would be proud of."

"It's not finished." replied Yami, knowing the project Yugi was on about, he had kept it top secret, even from Yugi.

"Well get busy then." Yugi told him, pushing his darker half towards the stairs.

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I've concluded it's gonna be more of a chaptered fic, I write too much.

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