To my beautiful readers. This is a Christmas chapter dedicated to each and everyone of you. I cannot even begin to describe how honoured and grateful I am to have such wonderful readers. Happy Holidays to you and may you have a joyous time surrounded by love ones.

Once again, I cannot even begin to thank you enough for your ongoing support for Yui Sakamaki. So I did the best thing I know how...create a world for you to enjoy 3

The grandfather clock began to chime loudly as the doll marker placed the finishing touches on his latest doll.

"Sweetheart! Come down here for dinner!". The doll marker finished his work and quickly left the room to be with his family. Not a sound could be heard from his workshop until the grandfather clock once again chimed at the start of the new hour. The doll marker's newest creation suddenly opened her eyes. Her sherbet pink eyes studied the workshop around her and found nothing of great interest. Broken dolls littered the bench and several tools had been carelessly discarded throughout the room. The doll stood up and made her way to the small pool of moonlight that was shining through the skylight.

"Vanity," a voice called out. The doll looked over her shoulder and watched as a shadowy figure walked towards her.

"Vanity? Is that my name?" she asked the mysterious person.

"Yes. My name is Sloth. I am the oldest of the doll marker's doll," Sloth said. He wore a blue suit, had light blue eyes and messy blonde hair.

"There's more?" Vanity asked in wonder. Sloth nodded and held his hand out for her to take. Vanity placed her hand in his and let him lead her deeper into the workshop to another section of the doll marker's workshop that was still lit by the moonlight.

"Vanity. Good to see you're finally complete," a man with white hair, red eyes and a red suit said. Behind him was a circle of seven throne like chairs, each a different colour. Sloth released Vanity's hand and went over to the blue chair before he made himself comfortable...to comfortable in Vanity's opinion as it appeared he had fallen asleep. The white haired man followed suit and sat in the red chair. It was then she noticed that the green, orange, purple and yellow throne all had someone sitting in them. She looked at her pink clothes and made the connection with the empty pink throne.

"I don't see all the hype about her," a man wearing a green suit said as he watched Vanity take a seat on the pink throne. He had green eyes and messy reddish brown hair.

"Envy, keep your jealously under control," Sloth sighed in annoyance. Envy scoffed as he continued to study the newest edition to the dolls.

"Manners everyone," a man with red eyes, short dark purple hair and glasses said. He readjusted his yellow coloured suit, "I am Avarice".

A man with purple eyes and purple hair stopped eating the cake in front of him, "Gluttony". Gluttony went back to eating his cake and Vanity was honestly surprised that his purple suit wasn't covered in cake with how messy he was being.

"Lust," an almost exact copy of Envy said. The only difference being the orange fedora and orange suit he wore.

"Wrath," came from the white haired man that had briefly spoken to her earlier.

Envy rolled his eyes, "Still don't get the hype but yours truly is called Envy".

Sloth, who had been happily dozing off in his seat, opened one eye in annoyance, "You already know me Vanity".

"How did you know my name? I didn't even know it," Vanity was confused. How did these men seem to know her when she had no memory of them.

Envy groaned in annoyance, "You're the last doll that the doll marker needed to complete. All he went on about for weeks was he 'precious Vanity' being perfect".

Gluttony finished the last remaining piece of cake, "According to Teddy, we each represent a human emotion that is greatly frowned upon and often believed to be the ultimate sins of humanity".

"Teddy?" Vanity couldn't see a teddy bear at all.

Gluttony frowned, "It's hanging on the side of my chair you silly doll. Just like your mirror". Vanity studied his chair more closely and sure enough, there was a teddy bear hanging off the side...well, half a teddy bear hanging off the side.

"Hence why we all have a throne to ourselves. We all have the same importance. Though I think I influence more people," Lust smirked.

"Don't be ridiculous Lust. Wrath has influenced more people in the past then any of you and I will continue to do so in the future," Wrath growled in annoyance.

"Ignore those fools. The doll marker constructed all of us as a gift to his children. To act as a constant reminder as how not to act. Something some of us should think about," Avarice looked deliberately at Envy and Wrath. Both chose to ignore him.

"We are placing bets to see which emotion the children will fall prey to. Which will all know will obviously be me. For as long as humans have lived, man has always been jealous of what another man has," Envy bragged. Another fight broke out amongst the male dolls about which sin the children would fall prey. Vanity watched them in silence. She turned her head slightly and saw a mirror strapped to the side of her chair, just as Gluttony said. She removed the mirror from the leather strap holding it in place and brought it up in front of her. Vanity almost fell into a hypnotic trance as she stared at herself in the mirror.

"It will be me," her sudden statement caused the other dolls to stop arguing and look at her, "It will be vanity that they fall for". She continued to stare into the mirror and started adjusting her hair until she got it the way she wanted it.

Sloth opened his eyes, "The light is disappearing". The moon light started disappearing as snow started falling onto the skylight.

"The children will fall under one of our sins," an uncharacteristically evil smirk appeared on Sloth's face, "We wish them a Merry Christmas then".

"What a...unique story mum," Subaru said after Christa had finished. It was Christmas eve and the Sakamaki siblings were crowded round the fire place. Christa had taken it upon herself to entertain the children with her very own Christmas story as she warmed herself by the fire. Ayato, Laito and Kanato were relaxing on a pile of bean bags while Yui sat beside them wrapped up in a blanket drinking a hot chocolate. Shu was dozing on the ground, Reiji sitting on a throne style chair and Subaru was sitting besides his mother on the two seat sofa.

Christa smiled fondly as Yui stood up and sat down between her and Subaru, "I thought it was cute".

"Sloth. How appropriate," Reiji said as eyed the sleeping form of Shu.

The not so asleep Shu opened his eyes, "Pot calling the kettle black...avarice". Reiji just smirked. Who was he to deny his own greed?

"Vanity," Yui remarked as she hugged Christa, "I prefer pride or confidence".

Laito sighed dramatically as he looked at his sister, "See the monster we're created".

Ayato wrapped an arm around Laito and Kanato, "And we contributed to that".

"There was not enough sweeties in that story," Kanato complained, "And get your hand off me Ayato".

"It's surprising she's not gone crazy," Subaru smiled softly at his little sister before looking at his brothers, "With idiots like you".

"Be nice everyone," Christa broke up the impending argument, "Now let's enjoy the first snowfall". The Sakamaki family looked outside and watched in a comfortable silence as the first snow for Christmas started falling.

Sasori from Naruto is probably one of my favourite characters because he's a puppet...hence the doll marker inspiration. Did you agree with the deadly sins I assigned each brother? All of them I was like "this is SO them!".

Thank you for your support and I will see you in the next chapter!

Now, I'm off for more family drinking :D