Warnings: Very mild hints of Siblingshipping.

Singing Christmas carols: Mokuba


This was just perfect! Nii-sama and Jou-Nii were both out, as they had went to a small date together, and most of the servants were already on their Christmas vacations. The ones that still were around, he had told to go clean the attic. Although they'd been confused about why they needed to clean the attic where no one usually went now, Mokuba had almost as much authority in the house as his older brother, so they did as told anyway. He was finally by himself.

A few weeks ago, the video game Mokuba had been dying for had come out, and he'd bought it with the money he'd saved. However, the problem had been that his big brother didn't especially like him playing 'those violent and ridiculous games', so Mokuba had needed to wait until the elder was out of the house before he could play it.

Jou had nothing against his video games – they had actually played some together until Seto had found out about that – but he usually listened to Seto's opinions first in when it came raising Mokuba, and unfortunately was a pretty good at when it came busting and telling things.

And so the preteen had needed to wait until both of the older boys were out of the house before he could play, and those cases were rare. When they were at school, Mokuba was also at school, and Jou was usually around most of the afternoon even when Seto was at work. Mokuba really liked the fact the blonde was living with them, and he loved him as a second brother, but he had to admit getting enough privacy was a lot harder when you have two big brothers than when you have just one.

So now, after checking one last time that he was alone, he went up to his room, put the game in is Play Station 3, and put it on.

He'd however only played for about few minutes, when someone rang the doorbell. He put the game at freeze, and went to see who it was, hoping it wasn't Jou already who had forgot his keys.

What he saw behind the door when he opened it however wasn't the blonde, but something else. A group of three young teens dressed in thick winter clothing and who had some notes in their hands.

"Mind if we sing for you?" A brunette girl with long hair and standing in the middle of the group, asked.

Oh. So it was just one of those groups that go from door to door and sing carols to bring joy to people.

"Sure." Mokuba replied.

The group sang a few traditional songs, such as "We wish you a merry Christmas", "White Christmas" and "Rudolf the rednose reindeer", before they thanked him for listening and left. Mokuba went back inside, shut the front the door behind himself and went back to play.

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About a half an hour later, the doorbell rang again, and Mokuba went to see who it was. Another choir. He allowed them so sing to him again. However, this was a charity singing group, so he had to pay to them afterwards. He had nothing against charities, but it wasn't like he had asked them to sing to him.

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Okay. This was starting to really piss him off.

After the charity group, there had been at least five others, and most of them couldn't even sing that well! If this would keep up, he wouldn't even get to the next level in the game before his brothers came back home! It wasn't too long now until that, either…

A moment ago, the doorbell had rang again, and Mokuba was on his way to open the door once more. 'This time I'll tell them off. I'll say that I don't want them to sing to me. I want some privacy, here!'

And so, he practically slammed the door open, and as he was quite annoyed, he also ended up yelling: "Get lost, I don't need your singing here!"

"Uh…Mokuba-kun?" Came a soft and sweet voice of a girl, and only now did the black-haired boy realise to look who really was at the door. He recognised her as Shizuka, Jou's younger sister who lived out of the town with their mother. She was dressed in a long turquoise and elegant winter coat with white scarf around her neck and matching hat covering her head. In her hands she carried a full sports back.

"I-I'm sorry, Shizuka! I thought you were a choir! They've been bothering me all morning!" Mokuba hurried to explain, blushing in embarrassment for yelling at her.

But the girl just smiled, making Mokuba's heart jump into his throat for some reason. "It's okay. Onii-chan forgot to tell you I was coming today, didn't he? We agreed with him, Kaiba-san and my mom that I could spend this Christmas here with you guys."

At the back of his mind, Mokuba remembered Jou indeed telling him about something like that. "Oh, he did mention it, but I had forgotten. He's not here right now though, but come on inside. He and Nii-sama should come along soon."

The preteen moved from the doorway, allowing the girl to step inside. She set her sports bag next to the wall and began taking off her winter clothing. After she was done, there was an awkward silence.

Scratching his cheek with his finger in slight embarrassment, Mokuba spoke up: "Do you like games, Shizuka?"

"Yeah." The red-head replied shyly.

"Want to play something then until our brothers come back? I have some games up in my room."

"That's fine by me."

And so, Mokuba led his future sister-in-law up the stairs and into his room. But right when he stepped inside the room, he panicked. 'Ack! I forgot the video game was still on!' What if Shizuka would tell Jou, who would in turn tell Seto!? He'd probably be grounded for the rest of the holiday season!

"Hm? What's this?" Shizuka questioned, her eyes on the TV screen. "Is this that new video game? The Mermaid Saga(1)?"

"Y-yeah."

"That's so cool! My mother never lets me play any games like that back home! Can we play it?"

Mokuba mentally sighed in relief, before smiling up to the girl. "Of course!"

(1)I don't know any video games, so I just used the name of one Rumiko Takahashi's mangas. This is not a real video game, at least I don't think it is. The Mermaid Saga was a horror manga, so I thought it was fitting for this.

THANK GOD for shorter chapters. This was pretty impossible to make any longer than this without it being extremely boring, so I hope no one minds ^^;.

Next is the extra chapter, which is the Amun Christmas Party, where knives fly, secrets are revealed, wishes come true and everyone kiss (maybe)! ^^.