Notes about this chapter: Seto and Jou are engaged and Jou is living with him and Mokuba.

Warnings: Puppyshipping

Rigging up the lights: Seto


Okay, this was starting to get irritating.

You see, while his sweet Katsuya was out doing his Christmas shopping and Mokuba was hanging out with his friends, Seto had decided he'd surprise the two of them by rigging up the colourful Christmas lights to the Kaiba mansion. Well, the lowest floor of it at least. The servants were doing the rest, since the mansion was so big. But Seto's father – meaning his real father, not Gouzaburou by any means possible – had once told him that rigging up the Christmas lights brought good luck, so Seto had decided he'd do at least a part of it on his own.

Just one problem: it wasn't exactly being very easy.

He had managed to get them up just fine, but when he'd lit them, he had noticed a few of the light bulbs weren't working.

So, he'd looked for some spare ones. He'd found them too, without any particular sorts of trouble.

But when he'd switched the light bulbs, that's when the problems had started. He'd changed the not-lighting bulbs to the spare ones, making sure the colours were in the right places in the row. He was a well-organised person after all. But when he'd lit the light again, they had all only been in full light for a while. A moment later, all the other lights but the ones he'd just changed went out.

And so, he had needed to take the lights down in order to change the rest of the bulbs. Thankfully, for some strange reason, they had enough colourful light bulbs to change all that had went out.

But for one reason or another, Seto had apparently been so occupied with changing the lights that he'd somehow got messed into the electric cable, and was tangled up so badly in it that he couldn't get it off of himself anymore. He had thought about yelling for help from the servants, but he had decided against it. This was a very humiliating position for him to be in, and he didn't want his employees to see him like this.

So, the only choice left for him was to wait for Katsuya or Mokuba to come home. He really hoped Mokuba would be the first one to come, since this was a really humiliating position for him to be seen even by Katsuya, but really, he knew better than that. Mokuba would be out for hours, but Jou was an impatient shopper and would most likely be home any minute now.

Like on a cue, just that moment Seto heard the front door open and close, and his betrothed's voice ringing through, calling cheerfully: "I'm home, Seto!"

"Welcome back, Katsuya." Seto called back to his lover. "Could you come over here for a second?"

"Sure. Where are you?"

"In the living room."

He heard steps, and soon saw the blonde he loved at the living room door. Jou blinked once. Then twice. And stared at him. His lips slowly spread into a grin. And Seto already knew what to expect before his fiancé broke into fits of laughter.

"S-Seto, w-why are you w-wrapped up in Christmas l-lights?" Katsuya managed to speak in between of his chuckles.

Seto felt his cheeks grow just a bit hotter and he looked away from the blonde in slight embarrassment. "I was changing the light bulbs since they went out and I somehow just…ended up like this. Now mind giving me a hand?" He asked a bit sharply.

"Oh, sure." Jou walked closer and slowly managed to untangle Seto from the cable.

"Thanks." Seto mumbled, still a bit embarrassed about the whole deal.

"You're welcome." Katsuya smiled. "But why were you rigging up the lights all by yourself? We could've done it together, or you could've asked the servants." Seto realised Katsuya understood why he hadn't asked for help from anyone else when he'd been tangled up, and couldn't help but smile just a bit at how well the blonde knew him.

But then he replied to the other: "The servants are rigging them up on the other floors. I just wanted to do this one on my own…my father always used to say it brought good luck to rig up the Christmas lights, because 'they are like small rays of hope and wishes'. That's what he said, anyway. Besides, I wanted to surprise you and Mokuba with this."

Jou's brown eyes softened and he smiled. "That's so nice of you." He said as he leaned to wrap his arms around Seto's neck. Seto held him back, burying his right hand into the blonde locks and placing the left one on the smaller man's shoulder blade.

They cuddled there for a while, until Jou pulled back. "So…how about we try putting up those lights together, huh? Maybe this time we'll succeed a bit better." He suggested with a wide grin.

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A while later, the whole downstairs was filled with the colourful lights and looked much more Christmas-y than just a while ago.

"We did a good job, huh?" Jou spoke, taking a glance to the ceiling and at their work.

"I suppose so." Seto agreed. At least none of the lights had went out this time. And rigging them up had been much more easy when there were two pairs of hands doing it.

Suddenly, Katsuya blinked at something at the ceiling. "Seto, look." He pointed upwards.

Seto looked at where he was pointing, and saw a certain plant with green stem and red berries that came with a little custom.

The mistletoe.

Seto half-smirked. "Mokuba must've put it up there." He said as he went closer to the blonde man and wrapped his arms around the other's slim waist. "How about we act on the custom it brings, hm…?"

Jou blushed just a bit, but had nothing to argue against that suggestion and allowed Seto to passionately kiss him.

As he kept kissing the blonde with everything he had, Seto found himself not being irritated at the Christmas lights anymore at all.

Aww…right? This could've really been anyone, but Seto just came in my mind first due to a music video from which I learned about this song in the first place XD.

The next is hangovers, which will be a bit longer.