One shot - Mana's Christmas Wish

Mana was still flying over new domino city in a lot of confusion, when Yusei and Akiza's runner disappeared she got completely lost and couldn't track where they were at all. She could still sense there emotions through the link to their signer marks and she could tell they had stopped travelling, however she couldn't tell where they were at all and didn't know they were at a holiday home outside the city. "Oh come on ive been flying over this city for over a day now and I can't find them at all! How can I oversee them if I can't find them" She said to herself. She felt she was letting the crimson dragon down because of this major setback. She looked around and spotted the domino tower, it was the highest location within neo Domino city, and it gave Mana an idea. "That tower oversees the entire city, maybe if I fly to the top of the tower I can sense where they are or at least something to lead me in the right direction." And with that she flew to the top of Domino Tower not knowing she was flying away from Yusei and Akiza's current location.

From the top of the tower she could see the entire City that had been her home for months, the air was fresh and view was amazing in the night time. The view was so amazing that she spend an hour just admiring the city. After a while she remembered the reason she went up there. "Ah what am I doing I should be searching for those two! No where could they be." She close her eyes and let her mind sense the whole city for there energy's, and the dragons bonding Yusei and Akiza held. All of a sudden she senced an energy she had not felt for years and her eyes shot open and she turned around quickly. "That energy! Why is it in new domino city? Sorry crimson I know I should be looking for them but I must know what that energy I sense is." And with that Mana flew off fast in the direction of that energy.

As she flew over the city that energy became stronger and stronger until she saw where it was coming from. "No it can't be! It's still here!" She looked down and saw a 'Game Shop', but it was no ordinary game shop it was the home of Yugi Moto the original King of games. The Shop was still in good shape and even looked updated. "Wow I can't believe this place is still here after all these years. Its been a long time my friend." She said to herself, seeing the Game Shop brought back some good memories, she looked up and notised that one of the windows was lit up. 'Someone is still up at this time of night' Mana thought to herself. She flew up to see what it was, and as she looked thought the window she gasped in surprise. It was Yugi's room with a lamp on, in front of it was a golden box, and posters of the King of Games still hung on the walls. She flew into the room as if travelling back in time. Nothing had changes at all. The room was empty of life so she could look around without any worries. She saw the Photo frame with the picture of Yugi and his friends from the days of his school life. No matter how much she tried her eyes couldn't stop turning to the golden box on the desk. Something was luring her attention to it. "Why is the Millennium Puzzle box still here and drawing me to it?" Mana Said to herself. She opened the box as if she couldn't control herself. She saw a duel monster card photo case (similar to the on Seto Kaiba had) with the millennium symbol on it. she took it out of the box and sighed, 'I bet this has Yugi and his wife in it.' but when she opened it a tear came into her eye. "Oh Yugi I can't believe you have this!" inside the case was a custom duel monsters card. It was a 'Dark Magician Girl' effect monster Card but with a custom image and Effect. The Picture was of her with Yugi at Christmas, before Yugi got into a relationship. "Yugi you treasured this photo more than you told me, you treasured it enough to have it put into a custom card which you also protected from the world." Mana was about to close the card case but then saw the custom text on the card, her eyes teared up and she fell to her knees. "Oh Yugi, Yugi! I can't belive you did this." I was a message he placed on the card for her, not a card effect but it was placed like a normal card description instead of an effect.

[Spellcaster / Effect]

[A magical Girl who was close to my heart, in my life but once a year. Granted a wish said out of loneliness and protected my spirit. I hope you one day see this and know how much you meant to me. You will always be in my heart even after I passover. Please watch over me forever as I love you.]

[ATK/2000 DEF 1700]

"Oh Yugi did you leave this here for me to find? You wanted me to remember you and how much I meant to you. Thankyou Yugi, I know life was hard for you after your friends left. I was the only one who you treasured enough to keep with you all the time and your bond with be was so strong you allowed me to pass through every year to spend a day with you. Even when you finally got into a relationship you openly told you wife about how you loved me but could only spend a day a year with me because of me being a duel spirit. She didn't object to it and understood that I meant a lot to you after Atem and your friends went their own ways in the world, she even encouraged you to put me first on spirit day knowing that one day wouldn't hurt your relationship since I couldn't exist in your world under normal circumstances. I was both your true love and guardian, and even though that was the case you and your wife had a good life together." While Mana was talking to herself she didn't realise that a young lady entered the room and could she her.

"Hello Dark magician Girl" she said surprising Mana. "OH MY GOD!" she shouted in shock. She didn't expect anyone to see her while she was there. "It's ok Dark Magician Girl im not here so scare you. I've sence you were her for the last hour. I see you found my Dads memento to you. He wanted you to come back after he died to see that and remember him." The lady said to her. "Wait this belongs to you dad? Then why is the puzzle box her and the lamp on." Mana asked confused. The lady sat on Yugi's bed and explained "It was in his will, He wanted the Game shop to be preserved and this room to be kept as it was. That way if you ever came back you could stay here surrounded by memories. He wanted that card to be protected in that box and for the light to always be kept on at night on a timer just like how you would visit him. We were raised to respect duel spirits by my dad and do this in respect for him." The lady pulled out a deck from her pocket which was in a protective air tight box. "He even told up to give this to you if you ever came back. He wanted to ask you to place this deck in to the puzzle box if when you did, but until then we will use this deck once a year and keep it in the safe until this day and once you do this deck is never to be used again except by you on spirit day." She reached over to Mana and handed the deck over. When Mana opened the box she gasped "This is Yugi's deck from Years ago with my card on the top." Mana said in shock. "That's right, we were told that your card must always be on the top out of respect you and dad's feelings. Anyway feel free to stay here as long as you like. This room if kept this way for you to stay in anyway." The lady said as she stood up to leave there room. "Hold on you say you dad Yugi but who are you if you don't mind me asking." Mana asked. The lady opened the door before turning around to her, "Mum out of respect to my dad, allowed my dad to pick my name. My name is Mana Moto." she said as she left the room and closed the door. Mana's mouth dropped at this development. "Yugi you named you daughter after me? And you wife was fine about it as well? You really wanted to keep a connection with me when we were apart didn't you." She said to herself. Mana spent 10 minutes looking at Yugi's cards that his daughter had given her, the cards were in almost mint condition for being used once a year for over 100 years. "Yugi you really treasured me and this deck didn't you. Well I better do what I was asked to do, she said Yugi wanted me to place this deck in the millennium box when I returned." Mana placed the cards back into the protective box and sealed it again, then she placed the deck into the millennium box before looking at the custom card again. "Thankyou Yugi for this surprise and I will always remember you. When I go home I'm going to ask creator of like to find you spirit then we can be together again in my world." Mana closed the case and placed it back in the box knowing this was the best place to leave it, since she couldn't take it with her. As she placed the lid back on the puzzle box she started to feel tired. And decided to accept Mana Moto's invitation to say for a while, layed down on Yugi's bed. Even though he was not their she could sence his presents from the bed and so it relaxed her and she fell asleep, and began to dream about that card in the case and its hidden meaning.

Dream world (5 years after GX)

It was early afternoon and Yugi was running the Game Shop on his own, he was still sad since his grandpa passed away a year ago and he was struggling to cope with this. He had matured well and was able to take care of himself but with the loss of his grandpa and his friends not being in the area any more, he was finding it a little lonely. He was missing being able to go out and duel with local duelists and there wasn't any tournaments happening in domino at the time. Him and Seto Kaiba had started getting along better as friends, and since Yugi's game shop was starting to sell duel disks from they arranged to do a special exabition duel once a month to keep their old rivalry alive for local duelists. While Yugi tend to beat Kaiba often they didn't count those duels to there relationship because of how they were done. Kaiba would bring a case of brand new decks for a contest they did and the crowd would pick 2 of them for Yugi and Seto to use each time so they never knew which deck they would use which made it exciting. In adition to this relationship change Mokuba Kaiba would visit Yugi once a week to help him with the accounts as his grandpa never taught him how to do it, Mokuba was still vice-CEO of his brothers company but with the new relationship with the game shop Mokuba used those time to hang out with Yugi like he wanted to do as a kid though he did this unofficially from Seto. The game shop wasn't very busy at the moment as card sales fell slightly the week before Christmas. So Yugi used the time to Sort out Christmas cards presents for the people his grandpa use to send to, this was his way of keeping his memory alive with in the shop. Above the cards for sale Yugi now had a picture of his Grandpa with his Blue-Eyes White Dragon next to it in a frame. The card was still town up but it still had sentimental value to him so he didn't get the card repaired after he passed away.

"Sure is lonely here without the gang here. Business is steady and I have time to work on my own games, but it sure is quite now a days." Yugi said to himself worried. He took his deck out with dark magician girl on top, he still had his old duel disk on the counter so he places dark magician girl on it to summon her just for a little company. He still wishes she would interact with him when he summoned her but at least he felt more at ease with her out. Looking at the time he realised it was time to close shop for Christmas now, and he would not be opening again for a few days. Yugi got up and went to lock up when Mokuba arrived. "Yugi your not closed yet are you?" he asked in a rush. "No Mokuba I was about to close up but we are still open right now." Yugi replied to his relief. "Thank goodness, I came to give you something, Here it's from me and my brother." Mokuba said and handed him a box. "Ah you shouldn't have Mokuba but thanks you and Kaiba have been a big help this last year" "Ah don't sweat it Yugi after all we both run our own companies to a point now. And don't forget … Oh you still summon her out I see." Mokuba said noticing Dark magician Girl's hologram active. "Ah yes, Its been getting lonely in the game shop since grandpa passed away so I use my old duel disk to summon her for company, I just wish she could interact with me when I'm on my own though" he admitted. Mokuba was surprised about that, he didn't realise how lonely Yugi had been even though he came to the shop once a week to help. "Hold on Yugi if you have been like that for ages why didn't you say anything. A whole year with no regular company is not healthy you know. Guess Seto was right with the choice of present then." Mokuba said to Yugi's confusion. "Whats that mean Mokuba?" "Well it's an upgraded version of the new Duel disk we just developed. Seto told me he installed a special function into it, all I know is its interactive and the program learns from you. Maybe he noticed what you told me and developed that with you in mind. Oh but it can only support one monster only within that function so if you use it you should pick wisely."

Yugi was amazed and wanted to try it out. "Thanks Mokuba I think I know who I would use it with, After all dark magician was Atem's partner so I think Dark magician Girl would be my choise." He said blushing. "Hay Yugi don't be stupid and making her a naughty girl ok. you do want a girlfriend one day remember." Mokuba Teased. Yugi went red in the face hearing that, he did have crush on Dark magician Girl the First time he saw that card, "Mokuba that's not funny at all. Don't worry I would use that function in that way, I would want Mana to be herself anyway, Pure, kind and innocent. That's how I would want her to be, not a dirty minded girl." Yugi said back defencely. "Yugi I was kidding with you. The function has limits on it so it would allow it to do anything like that. But your reaction tells me you have a card crush though so don't worry about it, I won't tell Seto. Just have fun and enjoy it. Oh if it helps the duel disk has new real solid vision technology installed so in theory she could help around the shop as well like an assistant. Its still experimental right now so don't worry too much if it doesn't work all the time ok." Mokuba said back to clear the misunderstanding. "So you saying Dark Magician Girl could help around the shop with enough time then? That amazing, tell Kaiba thanks from me" Yugi said happily. "No problem, Oh Seto wanted to know if the New years Eve Duel is still fine before I left. He wants to have an official duel so you would use you normal deck this time." Mocuba asked. "Tell him I'll be ready to duel that day so don't worry." Yugi confermed as Mokuba nedded and left to head home. Yugi then locked up and changed the sign to close before picking up his duel disk and going to his room.

That evening Yugi was reading the instructions of the new duel disk, while he felt guilty for opening it early he wanted to try that new function out enjoy it. the chance to talk with Dark Magician Girl more often was too exciting. He plugged in the duel disk and installed his personal settings from his computer. At the same time he had placed the Dark Magician Girl card on the Duel disk to allow the disk to download the basic personality data from the network. He was about to start the function up for the first time when an error showed up. The settings were taking longer to install than the instructions said and would take another 8 hours to finish. This depressed Yugi to new level. "8 hours to talk to someone! Mokuba made out it would be simple, Kaiba you double crossing idiot!" Yugi went to bed still upset that his evening was wasted. And slowly he cried himself to sleep wishing for Christmas with a close friend.

Mana arrived from the spirit world just after midnight wanting to wish Yugi a merry Christmas but when she arrived her heart sank when she saw that Yugi had been crying, she wished she could be in his arms to comfort him for Christmas since he was all alone now. Suddenly she started to feel funny and looked towards Yugi's computer, she saw the new duel disk was still installing data, but was emitting a strange energy. "I wish I could help Yugi but I can't even touch you like this …" Mana said as she touched the duel disk but she physically did. "Hold on how did I touch it?" suddenly she started to see her reflection though the window and mirrors in the too, which should have been impossible in her current form. She realised the duel disk was emitting a wave similar to that in the spirit world that gave her physical form. "This duel disk is from Kaiba Corp! How did he discover the Crystal Waves of my world? Right now I don't care it not duel monster spirit day but im in the real world with Yugi! I'm going to make the most of this and spend the day with him."

The next day Yugi woke up still upset, today was just going to a day of nothing but siting around or walking outside alone so he wasn't looking forward to Christmas day. He was about to get up when he smelt something strange. "That's strange what's that spell? It smells like bacon and eggs but I haven't cooked anything yet today." Suddenly the door opened and out came a maid with a wooden tray with a fried breckfast for two, coffee and fresh OJ. He staired at her in confusion, she looked familiar but couldn't remember where from. "Good morning young master, Merry Christmas, I hope you slept well." Mana said softly to hide her identity for now. Mana placed the tray on to Yugi's lap and could only giggle at Yugi's confused face. "Whats this for? I didn't order a breakfast in bed…. Hold on there is two much here for me to eat eat." Yugi said before watching the maid cut some of the breackfast and prepare it for Yugi to eat. "Ok master open up!" Mana said and without thinking Yugi closed his eyes and just did it. Mana placed the food in his mouth but as Yugi closed his out and took the food off the fork Mana Kissed him on the lips to Yugi's surprise. 'What the she kissed me!' Yugi though as she pulled away and he chewed the food. "How's that for breakfast in bed my pharaoh?" Mana said spilling the beans. Yugi then trigged who it was it wasn't a mystery maid, it was dark magician girl.

"Mana is that really you?" Yugi asked in surprise. "Sure is master!" Mana said as she changed back into her normal outfit with her magic. "Mana How did you get here? Duel monsters spirit day was months ago." Yugi asked puzzled. "I came to spend the day with you in spirit but when I arrived you had been crying but then I noticed that duel disk over there, it was giving off the same waves similar to my world so im able to take physical form here but the waves are fading slowly so I only have one day here with you Yugi. I even as a little treat for you made you your breakfast in bed and have even been cooking you a special Christmas lunch as well. Oh and by the way that breakfast was for us both to share as a couple!" Mana said with a red face. Yugi saw this and could tell Mana really meant every word of that. "Mana I don't know if I should ask you this really but… since you went through all this trouble for me could we pretend to be a married couple maybe for the day? It would give me some nice memories and I would feel alone today." Yugi asked very shyly while looking down since it was wasn't a regular thing a guy should ask, but with how lonely he had been he didn't care; he just wanted to be happy for one day at least. He looked up slowly and to his surprise Mana was crying tears of happiness the thought of being married to Yugi for one day sounded good to her. "Yugi I would love to be your wife, even if it only for a day. I've cared for you ever since you made friends with me in the pharaoh's memory world and wished I could live in the human world with you. That's why I look forward to duel monsters spirit day every year so I can be with you on my own and be with the person I love with all my heart. But if we do I would want you to seal this with a kiss though." Mana said with a tease at the end but in that moment Yugi kissed Mana on the lips with our hesitation. "Ok that's sealed now how about you join me in bed dear and we can enjoy this breakfast you made with love." Yugi said. Mana nodded and with a dose of her magic she suddenly was wearing a light blue night dress and got into bed and the two of them started to feed each other like a married couple could do.

As the day went on the two of them had so much fun pretending to be married that Yugi forgot how lonely he had been the last year. Mana even found time to help Yugi program her substitute in the duel disk for him to talk to while he was in the shop working and it became so life like to the real Dark Magician girl that Mana started teasing Yugi saying who would he pick out of the two of them. But every time he picked her even though he knew the hologram personality was programmed to act like her. Mana would talk to the hologram so it would replicate her voice as closely as possible. It even managed to replicate her cheeky personality which made the hologram almost a perfect replica. Even Mana started to get jealous of her new hologram image since she realised how she was and thought it was funny. They even found a way for the Dark Magician Girl hologram to magically change clothes to add another layer of fun but without it looking unsafe when kids were in the shop.

The day slowly drew to an end and Yugi's spirit was completely restored to how it used to be, he was happy again and wanted to enjoy the evening with he to the fullest. Mana even used her magic to change the houses bathroom into a magical place with its own massive bath that the two of them could bath together and it was as if they had been a couple for years. The bathed and showered each other, washed each other's backs and even managed to make out underwater. The moment had been perfect. But they both craved something that they didn't even know if they could have, each other! They wanted to make love with each other but this felt out of reach to each other with so little time left until Mana built up some courage knowing she wanted to make him hers. "Yugi I know this is a funny place to ask but would we be able to make love right here right now." Mana asked with a red face. Yugi looked at Mana in surprise, since he was thinking the same thing but didn't feel right asking. "I would love to Mana, but do we have enough time." Yugi asked. They looked at the time a noticed they only had 6 hours left of the whole day. Mana looked at Yugi and nodded yes and so the two of them made sweet love together for the first and maybe only time. She pleasured him, he pleasured her, he went from in front, then behind. She went on top of him and went like crazy. He pumped at her under water filling her with pleasure and with a passion he has never felt before. Time felt like it slowed down while they did this and felt like they were in heaven together. When they were don't they realised they had been in the bath for 3 hours altogether. They got themselves dried with each other's help, even though they both felt energy drained there was one thing Yugi felt he needed to do to remember this day forever.

Yugi returned to his room and got into his old dueling gear and equipped his new duel disk to his left arm. When mana entered the room in only a towel she was a little confused why Yugi got dressed. "Yugi is everything ok, I though we were going to go to bed and just enjoy out company for the last few hours I have left." Mana said worried. "Yes Mana would you be able to get dressed there is somewhere I would like to go with you." He replied. "Oh ok but what would you want me to wear for you." Mana asked confused. "That's easy can create and wear something similar to your normal outfit but red with a Christmas feel to it?" Yugi said to Mana's surprise. "Oh that's easy Yugi." And with a wave of her wand the towel dropped giving Yugi a flash of her perfectly fine body before being covered by a Christmas style outfit. "How's this?" Mana asked since she never did that style before. Yugi walked up to Mana and gave her a warm embrace and simply said "Perfect" before kissing her on the lips.

They walked to domino town square which had a massive Christmas tree in the centre. Mana had never seen this before and her eyes opened wide with amazement. On top of that it started to snow. "Oh Yugi this place is amazing. Thanks for bring me here." Mana said lovingly with a kiss. "Mana let's take a photo together in front of the tree as a special memory for us to remember forever. I want to remember this day whenever I'm felling sad at least until we see each other again next year." Yugi explained, now everything made sense why Yugi wanted to come here. "Sure Yugi." Mana said before took out a camera on a stand from his bag and set it up. "Ok Mana get ready! I'm setting it on a timer to take 10 photos so we have a nice set." Yugi said while setting the timer. "Yugi do you have an idea what photos you want before it starts?" Mana asked in concern for time as they only had 15 min left now. "I do Mana. put that duel disk on I gave you earlier. I want you remove it after the 3rd picture though I'll tell you what to do after each flash. Im setting the timer for a 15 seconds delay between photos, so we don't have long after each shot." Yugi said as he finished setting up. "Ok Mana put yourself in a position for if you were about to duel without activating the duel disk." Yugi said before flipping the switch.

After the photos were taken they looked at them on the camera and were happy with all 10 shots. But with time running out Mana remembers on list photo they could take. "Yugi quickly set the camera up to take a final picture but don't set a timer this time. Set it to take a group of photos." Mana said quickly knowing she didn't have long left, Yugi though she must have a reason so did so. Then the two of them stood back at the tree and looked at each other. "What's the Plan?" Yugi asked. "Simple when I start felling this body fades I'll start it taking photos, then you can see my fading in your arms as we kiss on the lips." Mana said. "This will be you kissing your duel spirit and I'll always be in your heart forever. This way you will remember that even though I'm a duel spirit I'll always be by your side." "Get ready I'm about to start then Mana." Yugi said before moving in to kiss Mana. As her time ran out Mana used her magic to start the camera, and as they kissed they said together "I love you." and Mana faded away as the bells sounded 12 midnight.

Real world!

As the dream ended Mana woke up with the feeling of being loved in a heart again. When she was startled and wan to the millennium box and took out the custom card and looked at it again. It was the Photo of Yugi Kissing Mana as she faded away; she remembered why she treasured that photo selection. "Yugi I promise to live with your love in my heart, and once I finish my mission here I I'll come to where your spirit is and be with you again. Hold on for me honey!" Mana said as she placed the card case back in the box and put the lid on it once again. At that moment she could sense Yusei and Akiza again. "Guess this trip down memory lane help me focus my powers again. Time to get back to work. Wait for me Yugi I'm coming home to you soon" She said as she flew though the closed window and flew at top speed to finish her mission.

However from above the Game shop a wondering spirit was watching and smiled. "Mana you finally found your path again. When you're finished come to me here, and I'll be waiting to see you again. After all I love you Mana the Dark Magician Girl" Said the spirit of Yugi Moto in his Prime form. "Yugi you and Mana make a good couple and I hope you too will live happily together in the palace of duel monsters." said a second spirit. "Thanks Atem I protect Mana while you protect your people in the spirit world. After all Mana is my world after all." Yugi replied. As Atem nodded he faded into light and returned to his world. "Don't be long Mana, I'll be waiting" he said before drifting into his old room to wait.