The SxS Awards community theme was "lingerie"--that had left me running in circles. I couldn't come up with something better!
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Note: not beta-ed.

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Christmas Shopping

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"What is that?"

"Nothing of your concern."

"What are you--…no, don't tell me that—"

"I tell you nothing. Mind your own business, Wheeler."

"I dare you, Kaiba! You will not going to give that to my sister!"

"Says who?"

"I say that!"

"I don't take orders from a mutt."

Mokuba watched the scene in front of him.

Christmas shopping.

Not anything Kaiba liked. Yet, something everyone had to do. Something Serenity liked to do. But to Seto's misfortune she had brought her brother Joey and his fiancée along and after two hours of "pleading behind closed doors" Seto had finally agreed to behave.

So did Joey after Mai had smacked his head with her brand new Prada purse.

The girls had taken off to the second floor early, leaving the guys on their own. Immediately Kaiba had disappeared through the crowds. Then Joey smelled something and followed his nose's guidelines. Mokuba had aimlessly strolled off in the direction of the CD store.

Nonetheless, here they were now—to no one's surprise—the three of them had found each other back in the lingerie store.

"What do you have there?" Mokuba tried to risk a glance over Joey's shoulder and immediately smirked like a pervert. "Oooohhh, hot!"

"Hot? HOT? It's cheap!" Joey barked.

"If you consider 99 Dollars to be cheap, Wheeler." Seto snorted lifting the set of underwear. "It's a special offer."

"Wow…" Mokuba drooled. "I think it's just hot. Hot, hot, hot. H. O. T."

"I think we've got it." Kaiba sent his brother a sideways glance.

"You'll get nothing," Joey growled, turning the meaning completely. "Not for my sister!"

"Why not, Wheeler? WHY NOT?" Kaiba glared the best he could do, as he wasn't allowed to hurt Joey.

"It's for prostitutes!" Joey yelled.

"Don't worry, I won't pay Serenity for wearing it." Kaiba smirked.

Both of them glared until they snapped out of their demeanor, hearing familiar voices call out for them.

"Eh, what are you looking at?" In certain strides Mai went into their direction.

"Were you arguing again?" Serenity asked joining, of course not oblivious of where they stood.

"No!" Kaiba and Joey said glaring at each other as they stood with their back to the counter.

"Seto?"

"We weren't." He tried to look as innocent as Kaiba was able to and hid the lingerie behind his back.

"Damn, yeah, we were!" Joey suddenly had an outburst and snatched the mentioned set of undergarment from out of Kaiba's hand. "Look at this, Seren! The bastard wanted to buy you this for Christmas!"

Kaiba would have shot Joey if he had a gun right now. Bang! Just like that. But he had promised to behave and, unfortunately, couldn't even break the guy one finger, or two. Instead, he glared.

Serenity looked blankly at the nice black set of underwear, framed with red lace. No big deal to calculate why her brother was freaking she got it and directed her gaze at Kaiba.

"How could you?"

Seto almost choked, not able to form words. Since when did she have a problem with things like that?

"See, moneybags? Now, you'll get an earful." Joey smirked, satisfied that he had destroyed Kaiba's perverted plan of a surprise. "I knew my sister wouldn't wear something like this, you… pervert!"

"Yes, pervert!" Serenity nodded in agreement.

Like a fish on land Kaiba caught for breath, blinking with his eyes several times.

"Would you please leave the two of us alone?" Pleading Serenity turned to Joey and Mai, then at Mokuba. "Don't wait for us."

The younger Kaiba almost flinched at her words, wondering what she would do with his big brother. He certainly would get some punishment. But, as Mokuba had learnt in the past, punishment wasn't necessarily something bad. Shrugging he left.

"Of course." Mai nodded and pulled the still hatefully smirking Joey along until they were out of sight.

With crossed arms and narrowed eyes Serenity shifted her gaze to Kaiba.

"You've been a bad, bad boy, Seto."

A glint appeared within his eyes. "Was I?"

"Yes, you were," she replied and grabbed him by his coat. "Your punishment will be to follow me to the dressing room. And bring these dirty little pieces of lingerie with you! I'll need to try it on, won't I?"

She tugged at his coat until he followed her to the cubicles.

"What kind of punishment is that, please?" He asked, smirking. After all he would be overjoyed to see her within the mentioned underwear.

"You'll see when you're going to be in the cubicle with me."

A grin spread on his face as he imagined her intention, muttering: "Who's the pervert here?"

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The end.

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