A/N: So here's turn 2 for A holiday challenge. A quick word to all of my reviewers, about Atticus. I didn't include him in the last chapter and a few of you were upset about it. First let me say that this focuses on primarily Jaden and Alexis, and sometimes I forget to put other characters in.

That having been said, Atticus will return in this chapter along with the other guy from turn 1 (I won't blow the surprise). I am very sorry for not including Alexis' brother in the first turn, but it just happens. I have plans though to make him a bigger part of the story, and include a few "brotherly" interactions with Jaden.

Anyways I'm glad that a lot of you liked Turn 1 and thanks for the positive reviews. Keep em coming. I also need a vote, would you guys like to see a duel between Seto and Jaden at the end of this?

Also I hope you guys caught the A & J pairing with Alicia and Jason in the last chapter. (Alexis and Jaden are A& J as well!)

Disclaimer: I'm really getting tired of saying I don't own Yu-Gi-oh GX but I don't

TURN 2: CONFLICT! ATTICUS VS. UNCLE

Recap: Jaden is talking to Seto Kaiba about how he is related to Alexis

"I'd be more than happy to explain that" Kaiba answered again smirking.

"Then please do" Jaden said, sitting down in one of the very comfortable recliners around the room.

"Well as you probably know Jaden, my little brother Mokuba and I were orphaned when we were very young. Our parents died and we were sent to an orphanage to live the next 2 years of our lives."

"And then you were adopted by Gozaburo Kaiba, and spent the rest of your life with him until you were able to buy him out and take over his company." Jaden jumped in,

"You've done you're homework, Jaden." Kaiba smiled,

"It's very hard not to hear about Seto Kaiba, world renowned duelist, executive CEO and billionare of Kaiba Corps, cutting edge game designer…" Jaden counted off, "and of course, arrogant personality" Jaden smirked at that last one, then looked over at Alexis who was in shock Jaden had just said that about her Uncle.

A sneer formed on Seto's face, "Well I take that last part as a compliment, I am arrogant, and I can admit that. You've got an edge to you Jaden, I like that." His sneer went wider.

"Anyway back to my story so yes as you know we were adopted by Gozaburo Kaiba, and brought to live with him. Now here's a part of the story that seems to get left out. Not only did Gozaburo have us but he and his wife had another child, Alicia Kaiba, Alexis' mother. So in fact I am not Alexis' direct Uncle I am her step-uncle, but that's unimportant. She was almost 10 years older than both Mokuba and myself, so by time we were adopted she was already in college. I don't remember much about her in my younger years." Kaiba leaned back in his chair and glanced towards the fire place,

" Though, I'll never forget the first time I ever met her." Seto Sighed deeply and began to explain

Flashback (A/N: Let me know if I'm doing too many of these)

Little Seto Kaiba was resting in his room. It had been another hard day with Gozaburo's tutors overworking the poor boy.

"This is just too much I'm just a kid!" Seto shouted in his bed, he tried to shake off his headache that was giving him a lot of pain.

When it got to the point that he couldn't bear it anymore, Seto jumped out of bed in his PJ's (A/N: Are you picturing that? That is just too cute for you fangirls huh?) and began walking down the hall to get to the kitchen for a glass of water. As he wandered down the hall he noticed that the lights in the kitchen were on.

"Is the old man having a late night snack?" Seto asked himself, and pondered turning around and going back to bed.

Gozaburo would be very upset if he found his new stepson walking around after curfew. He began turning back, but then heard a light humming in the kitchen. He began walking back towards the kitchen to find out who was making that sound. Besides he really needed the glass of water, his head began hurting even more. He walked into the kitchen and to his utter shock he saw a lovely young lady (Just picture Alexis with black hair) standing near the fridge she was startled by Seto grasping her chest in shock.

"Well hello there" she smiled, "You scared me a little"

"I'm sorry…" Seto blushed, "I didn't mean to I just wanted…"

"it's ok, you don't have to be afraid of me" she said kneeling down to his level, "now what can I get you?" she asked in a very sweet tone

"Nothing I can get it myself" Seto said, "Who are you and what are you doing here anyway?"

"Well my young friend, if you must know I live here when I'm not at school, and my name is Alicia, Alicia Kaiba" she kept her smile on her face

"You're who?" Seto asked, stunned at her answer, "Are you saying that you are related to Gozaburo?" Seto refused to refer to him as Dad,

"I'm his daughter. Now let me ask you who you are and what you are doing here." She was still smiling

"Well I'm…I guess I'm…. you're step brother, my name's Seto." Suddenly Seto grabbed his head, that already was giving him sharp shooting pains, this didn't help.

"Oh my goodness" Alicia said, losing her smile, "come with me" she said, grabbing Seto by the upper arm, "come on I'm not gonna hurt you" she said, walking him over to one of the chairs in the kitchen and sitting him down.

"Now you just sit there" she instructed as she filled up a glass from the big bottle of water in the corner of the kitchen. Alicia brought the glass over to Seto, who took it with both hands and sipped at it.

"There we go, now why don't you start from the beginning" she said, smiling once again, which caused Seto to smile as well.

"Ok" Seto said taking a deep breath and sipping some more water. His head still was hurting though the pain wasn't as sharp as before. "Well my brother Mokuba, and I lost both our biological parents about 2 years ago now. We were sent to live in an orphanage afterwards which was awful. I knew we couldn't live there forever, many parents even wanted to take me home with them, but not Mokuba, which I wouldn't stand for. It wasn't until a few months ago I met him. Gozaburo Kaiba, and I knew this was our chance to get out of that pit. I challenged Gozaburo to a chess match which if I won he had to adopt both of us. I won and the rest is history." Seto went back to his water

"Well that certainly was a detailed explanation" Alicia laughed, "so I guess we're family now huh?" she kept her smile on her face

"Yeah I guess so" Seto started to smile slightly, "So let me ask you, if you're related to Gozaburo why haven't I seen you around up till this evening?"

Alicia sighed deeply, and rubbed the top of Seto's head, "Well Seto it's kind of a long story" she sighed again, "Seto how old would you say I am?" she asked,

"About 16-18 years old I guess" Seto responded,

"I'm actually about 22 now, I don't live here anymore and I don't come around very often. In fact I'm only going to be here for the next month or so, Dad needed me home to take care of some things while he goes away on his business trip. I see now what his idea of some things are" she snickered sarcastically, "oh well I guess we have to make the best of this, so let me guess Dad has you running ragged with tutors morning noon and night, a few hours of sleep and a ton of homework right?" Alicia guessed

"I see nothing escapes you now does it" Seto responded,

"Well, I know exactly what you're going through Dad put me through the same regiment" Alicia explained

"Yeah well luckily I'll have a month off of all that stuff" Seto sipped his water again

"Don't think so" Alicia said, "you see even though Dad is going away for a month he's keeping all of those tutors on the payroll, so I'm assuming you'll still have you're daily lessons, but I'll make you a deal."

"I'm listening" Seto answered

"Even though Dad's going away I'm sure he'll be calling here every day, to check on your progress with your lessons. Now if you do well, I promise to give him a good report, and that will put you on his good side, but if you don't I'll have to tell him you're falling behind, and he'll get even more strict than he already is. Deal?" Alicia proposed

"Deal" Seto said, extending his small hand out to Alicia. Alicia smiled and took his hand,

"Alright squirt now you'd better get going to bed if Dad wakes up he's not gonna care if you're not feeling well he doesn't take that as an excuse, so go on back and I'll see you in the morning." She instructed,

"Thanks Alicia" Seto smiled grabbing his glass and running off to bed.

End Flashback

"So we went on to spend that whole month together" He began to chuckle,

"Something funny Seto?" Jaden asked,

"Just interesting. That month where Gozaburo was gone I probably got more work done than at any time when he was home." Seto smirked even wider, and continued his explanation "Anyways, during that month Alicia got very close to Mokuba and myself, and we began to form a very strong bond together. I learned that Gozaburo had sent Alicia away to a fancy business school to learn how to become a CEO so that when the time came she'd be ready to take over the company. However, she told me that she really didn't want to do that. She wanted to be involved in a technological department and design the products for the company. She didn't want to deal with all the paperwork, but she wanted to be directly involved with the companies development. So when I bought out Gozaburo, as you know I turned the company in a different direction, from war products to gaming software. Alicia was a driving force behind the ideas for my original dueling arena's but found that we could gain more revenue from the original duel disks. She kept improving the design until well… you know the duel disks you have today?" Seto asked both Jaden and Alexis, they nodded,

"All her idea" Seto explained proudly, "with the money we made off of those she was able to retire about a month ago, which was a sad day for Kaiba Corps, since without her, our company would never have flourished like it did." Seto smiled,

"Wow, I had no idea Lexs' mom was so vital to the success of KC" Jaden said impressed

"That's just my mom for ya" Alexis was blushing lightly from Seto's story. After all it wasn't every day Seto Kaiba gave out compliments to one of his employees

"Now I've got a question for you Jaden?" Seto began,

"Fire away" Jaden responded

"Well I see you're wearing a red jacket, that puts you obviously in Slifer Red, the lowest branch at my academy. And I see my niece is in a blue outfit, not that I wasn't expecting that, so how did you come to even associate with her? More to the point how did you 2 end up together, after all you're on completely different sides of the spectrum. I saw you're score on the written test Jaden and I'll tell you, I was less than impressed. So how is it now that you're with my niece? I don't mean to be rude but it sounds like a fascinating story."

"I can answer that Uncle Seto" Alexis, who'd been pretty quite throughout the whole conversation spoke up.

"You see Jaden here is a very talented individual the color of his jacket really doesn't reflect his skill level. He pushed our best student, Zane Truesdale to his limits twice in his first year at the Academy…." Alexis began to explain, but Seto cut in

"Well forgive me, for being blunt but I'm not sure if I'm comfortable with my niece running around with a Slifer. In all respects Jaden." Seto turned to Jaden

"No offense taken Mr. K…. I mean Seto" Jaden responded,

"I don't doubt the stories of you're heroics Jaden, but I'd like to see first hand how good you are" Seto explained

"Are you saying you want to throw down?" Jaden asked, smirking a bit. Seto gave a smirk as well,

"If that means a duel, then yes, I'd like too "throw down" as you so elegantly put" Seto answered,

"Then get your game on!" Jaden challenged, with that he drew out his deck from his hip, and a Duel Disk from his Jacket,

"Hey Lex, would you let you're uncle use your disk?" Jaden asked, Alexis gave Jaden a quizzical look. I hope he knows what he's doing She thought to herself

"Not necessary" Seto answered, with that he produced a brand new duel disk. It was a baby blue color, the field part of the disk (where the cards are placed) was shaped like a wing, and the mouth of the card holder (The Deck holder), was the mouth of a Blue Eyes white Dragon (A/N: Big surprise there huh guys? What'd you expect it is Kaiba!).

"Wow sweet disk Seto" Jaden said in responsed to the disk, "but I'll take mine any day over those fancy ones" With that Jaden drew out his disk and loaded his deck into it.

"are you ready?" Seto asked arrogantly

"Yep" Jaden responded, "let's do thi…" he was about to start the duel, but suddenly a voice interrupted (A/N: I hope you all know who this is. If not that's pretty sad)

"Hey sis!" Atticus (A/N: I told you I'd get him involved) said entering the TV room, causing Jaden to stop rather abruptly.

"So when did you get ho…" His glance caught Seto, "What are you doing here?" Atticus asked his voice now turned rather serious.

"Gee nice to see you too Nephew!" Seto responded with the same sarcasm in his voice

"I know what's it been… Oh that's right only FOURTEEN YEARS SINCE WE LAST SAW YOU!" Atticus responded to Seto's quip, with a rather annoyed tone. "So tell me Uncle how's business, still trying to beat Yugi?" he said in a mocking tone

"Business is fine, how about you. You still singing off-key hoping that one day someone will pity you enough to give you a contract?" Seto responded with just as much mock in his voice

"Yeah well at least I want to see my family more than once every fourteen years. You can have all that money you want Se-To, I'll take the love and care of my family over that!" Atticus shot back

Seto walked up to Atticus his eyes narrowed on him, "You listen to me you moron, I have a very large business to run it's not that I don't want to see you, but I don't have time too! Get that through your thick skull! Another thing, we may have our differences but I am still your uncle, and you will respect that do you hear me? I don't care how long I've been away, or how many years it's been between visits I will not tolerate you're insolence or superstar attitude, you are to refer to me as Uncle, I am your flesh and blood is that clear?"

Atticus shot him a glare "Oh what are you gonna do huh SE-TO? Duel me? Come on what chance would you have against me? You couldn't beat Yugi when he was just an amateur, word is the dueling days have passed you by" Atticus stated defiantly.

That really pushed Seto over the edge. He could take people insulting his company, his products or his attitude, but there were 2 things you never discussed around Seto Kaiba. One was you never bad mouth his brother in front of him, or even behind his back cause he'd hear about it anyways, and two was under no circumstances were you ever ever to question his dueling ability or bring up his losses to Yugi Mouto. Seto's gave such a nasty glare to Atticus' that even the Shadow realm would've been afraid of it. He raised his right hand ready to strike Atticus' face. But one look at Alexis' eyes, that showed an uncanny amount of terror, he restrained himself and spoke.

"You know I thought that after fourteen years, we'd be passed this. I though you'd be a little more mature. But I guess that was wishful thinking because it's clear that only one of my nephews decided to take that route, and that was Alexis. It's a shame too, you have a rather great gift but you're too foolish to use it." Seto responded, "Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go see what you're mother is doing. Alexis, Jaden." Seto nodded politely and then left the room.

"When did he get here?" Atticus turned to both Jaden and Alexis

"I really don't know Atti" Alexis responded,

"Jeez he thinks he can show up after fourteen years and pretend he's our Uncle? What's with him?" Atticus growled

"Two things Atticus, one whether or not you like him he's still our Uncle so he's right you need to respect him. Two you didn't exactly help things with your attitude, I know you and him have a few differences of opinion but that doesn't give you the right to act like a five year old because you don't want him over." Alexis shot back

"I can't believe you'd say that Alexis! You're taking someone's side we haven't seen in fourteen years over your big brothers!" Atticus retaliated

"Atti it's not like that…" Alexis started but was cut off by him

"Yeah whatever Lexi, I'm gonna go see what dad's up to." Atticus interrupted,

"Atticus wait" Alexis called out but he just ignored her and left the room,

"UGGH!" Alexis let out a sigh of frustration, "This is gonna be a long Christmas" she muttered to herself. She touched her fingers to her forehead massaging it slowly and sat down. Well actually more slumped down on one of the couches

(A/N: Remember she was standing watching the duel, or lack thereof)

"Lex?" Jaden who'd been quite up to this point asked, "Hey you ok?"

"Hmmm?" Alexis glanced up to him, "Oh yeah Jay I'm fine."

Jaden walked over to Alexis smiling. He sat down on the couch as well and lightly kissed her cheek, he brushed her hair back, and whispered in her ear.

"I can tell when you're lying to me Lex, you can't hide that from me. So come on, I'm here to help, and I want you to trust me. You can tell me anything and I can help you but you have to trust me. So what's up, what's bothering you?" Jaden explained

Alexis stroked his face and forehead lightly and smiled back, "I'm sorry Jay. You're right I shouldn't lie to you, if we're going to be together we need to trust each other. Maybe you can help. So here goes" Alexis began her explanation

"Alright so as you've probably figured out my Brother and Uncle have never gotten along…" Alexis said

"Yeah and why is that?" Jaden questioned

"Well it's kind of a long story" Alexis responded.

End Chapter 2.

A/N: I wanted to end it there leave you guys hanging a bit. I promise it won't take as long to put up Turn 3 as it did for Turn 2.

So as we've established, Atticus has a rift with Seto and it causes a lot of tension. This is our Holiday challenge ladies and gentlemen, to get these two to acclimate, if you have any suggestions on how to do it, I'll take them into consideration.


Another thing, I've decided that part of this Holiday challenge will be a duel between Jaden and Seto at the end of the break, if you would like to see it vote yes. If not vote no, it would be greatly appreciated!

Read and Review! Thanks a lot!