Tauntshipping (Pegasus x Marik x Yami no Yugi x Kaiba)

(I think I may take a Christmas theme for the next three or so chapters, since we're coming up quickly on the holiday.)

He knew who it was long before they got to the door of his office. Only Pegasus J. Crawford could hum Jingles Bells with such an obnoxious tone.

With a growl, Kaiba stood up from his desk and stalked over to the door, peering out. Just as he had expected, Pegasus was coming around the corner of the cubicles, by this time having switched to humming We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

"Pegasus," Kaiba said as the American man drew nearer. "What are you doing up here? I thought I told my staff that they weren't supposed to let you up."

"Dear Kaiba-boy, don't blame them. I can be very persuasive," Pegasus said with a bow.

As if to prove his point, he winked at one of the lady workers in the cubicle next to him, and she giggled girlishly. Kaiba scowled and made a note to dock a couple people's pay.

"What are you even doing here, Pegasus?"

"Ah, I was on vacation, ran into a couple friends, and thought I'd come say hello, Kaiba-boy," Pegasus said cheerily. "Dear me, what are you doing working so close to Christmas? Shouldn't you give your poor workers a break?"

"I don't have time to take vacations, Pegasus, and neither do you," Kaiba snapped. "Your company is even closer to going under than mine."

"I have a leave of absence due to...work-related injury," Pegasus said, tapping the bangs over his hidden eye meaningfully.

Kaiba shuddered in spite of himself. Before he could say anything else, though, the elevator opened again and Yugi appeared with someone else next to him. It took Kaiba a minute, to realize that it was the Egyptian boy who had been a finalist in Battle City. Malik, or something like that?

"Yo, Kaiba," Yugi said, and by the confident bearing Kaiba guessed that it was the "back" Yugi.

"And what are you doing here?" Kaiba said.

His employees weren't really working anymore, he could tell. He could still hear the normal idle chatter, but the normal click of keyboards and ringing phones had ceased.

"Never mind, I don't want to know," Kaiba said. "Just...get in here before you distract my employees any more than you already have."

"Oh," Pegasus said with an unnecessary flourish that made a couple of girls start whispering

Kaiba groaned mentally as he realized he was going to have to deal with rumors that he was homosexual for the next three weeks. Maybe he would close down for the Christmas week so he wouldn't have to deal with it.

Once they were all inside his office and the door was firmly shut, Kaiba turned on all of them.

"So what on God's green earth are you all doing here in the middle of a workday?" he said.

"I'm just here to make sure you're not overworking yourself, Kaiba-boy," Pegasus said. "After all, Christmas is coming."

"I just thought I'd stop by to say Merry Christmas, since you're likely to forget," Yugi said, shrugging. "And I ran into Marik on the way, so he tagged along."

"Hey," Marik said.

Kaiba closed his eyes, trying to calm himself down.

"You're interrupting my valuable work time, for one thing," he said. "And for another, I don't even celebrate Christmas. It's stupid – only three percent of Japan is actually Christian, so what is the point of celebrating it?"

"It's fun?" Yugi said.

"I've never celebrated it before. I think it's interesting," Marik said. "Even though I'm certainly not Christian."

"Poor Kaiba," Pegasus said. "Did you even buy a gift for your poor little brother? I'll bet that you told him Santa doesn't exist when he was five. You are certainly a Scrooge, aren't you? "

"I don't have any idea what you're talking about," Kaiba snapped. "And I'd thank you all to leave me alone so I can get some things done!"

A pause grew between them. Then a mischievous smile spread across Pegasus' face, as the American man reached back to grab one of the loose wheelie chairs and sit down in it.

"Pegasus..." Kaiba said warningly.

"I'm sorry, Kaiba-boy, but you won't get me out of here until I get a promise from you to attend a Christmas party tonight," he said, folding his fingers together. "Come on, Kaiba-boy. Yugi-boy and Marik-boy and all their friends are coming."

"I am?" said Marik.

Yugi shrugged helplessly.

"No," Kaiba said. "Get out."

"I'm not leaving," Pegasus said in a sing-song voice.

"Um...Pegasus, maybe we should just go," Marik said.

"I'm calling security," Kaiba said.

Pegasus just started humming Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, even as Kaiba hand hovered over his phone. Yugi glanced over at Kaiba, looking vaguely amused by the whole scene.

Kaiba felt a blood vessel pounding in his head. If only this season would be over already – Christmas just made people crazy.

A/N: Let us continue to torment Kaiba with loud and obnoxious Christmas songs! :D I love Pegasus so much. Coming next is Tasselshipping (Kaiba x Espa Roba).