Chapter 2
Once outside her door they began to walk down the hall and once out of everyone's ear shot Ryou and Malik began to tell the answers that their Yami's had chosen.
"Well it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be" Ryou being honest, he thought he'd actually have to re-do the whole test
"Hah, for question 10 Marik wrote, It will be done as the moon covers up the ninth house of Ra and the ceremony that will be held in September" Malik putting a hand to his head
"Well he was a priest, mine put after the shadow is cast and the clouds hide the light of the moon, you'd have nine minutes to make the escape" Ryou
"Well, Yami didn't do all that bad, really" Yugi added as the others cast him glares
Still all of them gave a huge sigh and they headed to the gift exchange. They entered the old classroom and noticed the wonderful décor, for there was a large five foot tree in the corner and holly everywhere. There was a large buffet table and loads of food.
"Wow" Ryou
"Everyone is here:" Yugi smiling and feeling his Christmas joy returning to him.
"Well lets go find the others" Ryou smiling
"Yes let's go" Malik
The room was so crowded that they kept bumping into everyone. Still they reached the other side of the room and found everyone by the Christmas tree.
"Yugi" Anzu rushing up to him and giving him a hug
"…" Yugi and pushed her away "Happy Holidays"
Yugi said this, and then went over to Joey wanting to get away from Anzu. Yugi put his bag on a nearby chair then grabbed out his gifts. Yugi had spent all last week wondering what to get everyone. Joey had been a close friend and so he wanted his gift to him to be something worth while. So he got him a new rare card and a new deck holder for his deck. Tristan was also a close friend to him and since he wouldn't be able to be here for Christmas, since he will be leaving for a family trip, wanted his gift to be special too, so he got him a new ball cap of his favorite sports team. His best friends Ryou and Malik are friends he can relate to in ways he can't with the others, so his gifts to them he will give near Christmas, since he knew he would see them again soon, he will wait to give them his gifts. As for Anzu well he just got her holiday chocolate.
Yugi passed out his gifts and no one could wait till Christmas to open them, so they opened them on the spot.
"Ooohhh Yuugggi" Anzu blushing and looking at him with hearts in her eyes "This is my favorite chocolate, I just love it an…."
Yugi turned her off at this point and turned to the others
"Hey pal, thanks" Tristan putting on his hat and showing it off
The team on the hat is the most popular one in their school, so he had a few death threats if he didn't hand it over, which of course he didn't, but it didn't stop him from enjoying his gift.
"Wow hey Yugi thanks, this is one strong card" Joey
"I figured you'd like it" Yugi smiling the ghost form of Yami was smiling too then the looked over and were in shock "Kaiba"
"Yugi" Kaiba
"What are you doing here" Joey
"…" Kaiba turned to him "Down boy"
"What was that?" Joey getting all mad
"Look as much as I like messing with you I don't have much time" Kaiba
"So what are you doing here" Yugi
"Mokuba convinced me to go on a trip the day after Christmas and he would like you to come" Kaiba talking to Yugi
"Hey, I am there" Joey
"Bummer I will be leaving tomorrow" Tristan
"This is great, we can make snow man and sing near a campfire and talk about our accomplishments we made as friends and…" Anzu
"Like Hell" Kaiba
"….." Anzu not hearing and still going on
"Did she think we were going camping?" Kaiba
"I don't know" Yugi
"Ten to one, she wasn't thinking at all" Ryou all innocent like
"I give you twenty to one she wasn't even invited and invited herself" Malik
"She did" Yugi and Kaiba
"Anyway, I am renting a hotel and we will go there, the idiot guessed right, we are going up north so dress warm" Kaiba turning to leave "No cold will get you out of this one Yugi, I will pick you up at 9a, so get ready."
To this Kaiba left
"So does that mean we're invited?" Ryou
"I guess so" Malik smiling
"Yeah" Yugi "This will be great, I can spend Christmas with Grandpa and you guys then go on a Trip"
"You have no idea, this means I get to get out of cleaning the garage" Malik smiling "Sucks to be sis"
"Cleaning out the garage?" Ryou
"Yeah it was to be punishment for failing my last quiz, still she said she'd help me out, so she can do it" Malik laughing his head off "She'll help more than she knows"
"Idiot" Bakura in his ghost form
"Well he is right about that though" Marik
"…" Yami "So this is a Christmas party"
Since Kaiba left everyone else exchanged gifts. Yugi got a new dueling booster pack from Joey, and Tristan gave him a knew hip holder for his deck, Anzu gave him a new shirt with her initials on it and a love letter, and Malik and Ryou just gave him looks like, Sucks to be you.
They then went downstairs to the Christmas festival. Joey and Tristan got into a few fights over hotdogs, and Anzu, Ryou, Malik, and Yugi went to check out the game booths.
They passed a stuffed animal booth and decided to stop.
"A WINNER"
Ryou won a bear
"So who are you going to give that too?" Malik
"…" Ryou just stared at it
Malik then decided to go next and he too knocked out six balloons using the six darts.
"A WINNER"
Malik won a monkey
"It suits your winning personality" Bakura
Bakura then began to laugh
"Well to be honest, it looks more like you" Marik
"Is that so" Bakura
"Shut up both of you" Yami
"…" Bakura and Marik
Yugi then stepped up and he won a unicorn, then Anzu ran right up to him and blushed.
"So what are you going to do with that?" Anzu
"…" Yami (Not give it to her)
"Yeah, I am going to give it to Joey" Yugi
"WHAT!!!" Everyone
"Well I forgot to get his sister a gift, so I figured she'd like this. So he can give it to her for me." Yugi (This way Anzu will get off my back and leave me alone)
"Good idea" Ryou and Malik looking at their prizes
So they found Joey and Tristan having an eating contest and naturally Joey won.
"Hey guys thanks Serenity will love them" Joey "Hey Tristan on our way home lets stop at the arcade"
"Yeah sure thing" Tristan "Well guys I got to run. I promised to have my things packed by 5p"
To this they said bye and Anzu took off after them saying how she wanted to help. So it was just the three of them and their Yamis.
"I thought she'd never leave" Marik
"Same here" Yugi
They turned around and began to head to the game shop.
By the time they got there the sun was just beginning to set. Yugi turned around and looked at the setting sun. Next to him was Yami in his ghost form. The sun setting made it look like there was a golden outline around them and this is when Ryou and Malik saw that Yugi was as tall as Yami now. This got them wondering, when did that happen?
"Well anyway let's go in, there's a lot of work to do" Yugi all smiles
"Work?" Bakura
"Yeah we agreed to help Yugi decorate for Christmas" Ryou
"When?" Marik
"When he asked us if we decorated yet, since we did and he didn't, we took it among ourselves to help him" Malik
"Yep" Ryou
"I missed that conversation somehow" Bakura
"It didn't completely take place" Marik
They went inside and closed up shop, then everyone helped get the boxes down from the attic and suddenly the yamis went missing. Not worrying about that figuring they just didn't want to help out they began to decorate. Once they got started they were glad their Yamis weren't around as they would just get in the way.
Grandpa came out form the kitchen and couldn't believe what he saw.
Malik was decorating everything in holly.
"Lets see holly here, trimmings there, oh and more holly over here or it would be uneven" Malik running here and there
Malik had gold, silver, blue, and green shinny Christmas trimmings all over him running here, and there with the long trimmings running after him.
Marik had come out to see what was going on and nearly tripped after he passed. Finding out it was dangerous; he went back in the rod.
Then you had Ryou who was running in and out of the kitchen checking on his Christmas cookies he was baking in between helping Yugi with the tree.
"Here Yugi you need a red on there, and a silver one over there….No No, to the right…There we go" Ryou "Has five minutes passed by yet Grandpa?"
And he ran back into the Kitchen without the answer from Grandpa
"Well now the…..(Holly over here and this over there-Malik in the background) Tree looks really nice there Yugi" Grandpa
"Thanks the place is looking really nice too, huh Grandpa" Yugi getting off of the stool and looking the place over
Thanks to Malik everything had trimmings, even the TV was decorated in red and green holly. There were even trimmings on the staircase banister. It really was, decorated all out than usual.
Grandpa and Yugi went into the game shop and saw that Ryou in between his holiday baking had decorated the windows in lights and Malik had holly and trimmings on the shelves.
"It looks like Santa's toyshop" Yugi wide eyed
"Yes it does" Grandpa couldn't believe it
(The cards….whats happened to them) Yami looking at the shelves
(Were decorating right now, what have you been doing?) Yugi
(Finishing up my decorations) Yami
(Your decorating your room, great) Yugi
(No the decorations for you) Yami
"…" Yugi
"Up on the house top the reindeer pause, out jumps good ol Santa Claus…" Ryou throwing tinsel everywhere "My cookies" running back inside
Ryou ran out in such a hurry he didn't realize that he through tinsel on Yugi and Grandpa.
"Well it does look nice" Yugi taking the tinsel off
"Practicing to be a Christmas tree" Malik asked as he put more holly around the cash register
"No, Ryou was just in a hurry" Yugi taking the Holly away from him "Why don't you help me finish off the tree
Everyone dimmed the lights to the shop and went inside. Grandpa locked the shop up so no one else could go in it and decorate it even more.
"Well you boys don't stay up too late" Grandpa then went upstairs
"Looks like were staying over" Ryou with cookies in his hands and Hot cocoa
"Great I have this video in my bag we can watch" Malik
"…" Yugi
(There staying over?) Yami
(Well it looks like it) Yugi smiling "What do you have there"
Yami took out his decorations, and together he and Yugi began to finish off the tree.
Of course the decorations Yami had were of real jewels and gold, and well this just happened to get the attention of the sleeping Bakura.
The jewels on the stringed pyramid, and cat like décor clattered together and-
"Jewels" Bakura jumped out of the ring "Where? I heard them clatter, SILVER AND GOLD, SILVER AND GOLD, MEANS SO MUCH MORE THEN SILVER AND GOLD!"
Bakura then stopped there when he saw exactly the item he wanted on his Christmas list. A tree that grew SILVER AND GOLD.
And there it was the jeweled Christmas tree of jeweled ornaments and gold trimmings with holly and tinsel; it looked like his fantasy Christmas tree he had always been looking for.
(Never before had I seen so many jewels in one place) Bakura to himself then clasping his hands together (Except in the Pharaohs tomb) smirking to himself.
"Step one foot closer and you'll know pain beyond death" Yami who turned around on his stool and glared at him one jeweled ornament in his left hand.
"Nice" Malik "So who gets put on top?"
"I'm in the second one" Yugi
"I will be on the side one" Ryou heading back into the kitchen
"???" Malik "There is only one top" –Meaning the top of the tree, yet everyone thought he meant who gets what chair by the TV-
"Idiot" Yami finishing his last ornament then stopped off the stool to look at the tree
It was the most magnificent thing he had ever seen, since he laid his eyes on the dark magician card for the first time.
"Now that is a tree" Bakura (All for me, all for me)
Ryou came out of the kitchen with more cocoa and cookies since Malik polished the last batch off.
"So what are we going to watch?" Ryou
"A holiday tape" Malik
"And you just happened to have them in your bag?" Ryou
"Well I picked them up during break; I figured it'd be fun to watch" Malik
"What would be fun to watch is to see how Bakura will steal the jewels off that tree" Marik "Where's the popcorn?"
"You talk like I have no self control" Bakura rounding on him
"Don't worry we know you don't" Marik saying this as he was waving his right hand in a nonchalant way
"Enough! Anyone step one foot near this tree and it is a one way trip for you" Yami
"Does that include your Hikari" Bakura pointing behind him as Yugi had stepped up to the tree to add the angel on the top
"Yugi be careful" Yami holding the stool steady for him
"So that is who gets put on top, nice" Malik finally getting his answer
Yugi put the plug in the socket and the whole tree lit up. The lights from the lights glowed brighter as the colors were reflected off of the gold ornaments. Everyone had to admit it was quite a site to behold.
"So that is a Christmas tree" Yami
"Yep" Yugi all glowing "Thanks for the ornaments Yami"
"Your welcome, I am glad they were of some use" Yami smiling at his Hikari
"Where did you get them?" Yugi
"Here and there" Yami saying as he closed his eyes
"Can we finally watch the movie now" Marik "I need more popcorn"
"Oh all right" Malik shoving his bowl his way
"Well if they didn't take so long I wouldn't have finished it already" Marik (I just have a craving for popcorn)
Everyone sat down and began to watch the movie but they were also watching Bakura as he kept on glancing over to the tree.
"If you glance at that tree one more time…" Ryou
"I didn't touch it" Bakura
"You have no Christmas Spirit, do you know that" Ryou "All you can think of are the jewels on that tree"
"The pharaoh brought them out" Bakura sulking and in his defense
"For Yugi's Christmas tree, not for you to steal" Ryou
"Should I put them away?" Yugi getting all sad
"No need, just banish him to the shadow realm" Marik in all smiles and shoving popcorn in his mouth, like this is a much better show now he had the solutions to any problem
"What do you mean I have no Christmas spirit, it is about SILVER AND GOLD in fact if that wasn't what it is about, why did they make that song…Huh? and besides if that is the case then I know what Christmas is all about." Bakura then went into the ring singing SILVER AND GOLD all the way there
"Oh pulease" Ryou
"Well he was half right" Yugi admitting that
"Which half" Ryou
Yugi finished a Christmas cookie then looked at him
"If Christmas was about Silver and Gold he would be king" Yugi smiling
"…" Yami looking at him
"No offense" Yugi
"Non-taken" Yami forgiving his Hikari
Then there was a song on the show that caught his attention.
-We three kings of Orient are… -Show
"Three Kings" (I prefer to be the only one thanks) Yami (Still baring gifts and traveling afar, isn't that the truth)
"Yes Pharaoh three kings lets see You, Me, and the King of thieves ha ha-ha ha" Marik in his Maniacal laugh
"…" Yami
Yami had tried to be good on an account of his Hikari, and the season, but he was really pushing him, then to top it all off.
"SILVER AND GOLD SILVER AND GOLD MEANS SO MUCH MORE THEN SILVER AND GOLD" Bakura dancing around, throwing tinsel everywhere and everyone, he was drenched in silver and gold jewels "Love it don't yah"
"Yes, especially since half of that belongs to me" Yami glaring at Bakura
It finally dawned on him what he did, and the fact that he gave himself away. When all he wanted was to prove a point to his Hikari.
"Hand them over now!" Yami
"I need more popcorn…This is great" Marik in smiles and watching the show, well not the actual show. "We need to do this more often, you know have parties"
"The bastard" Ryou
"These belong to me" Bakura to Yami
"You know where you get every little jewel, and you know these were given to me from…" Yami
"What's wrong, are you starting to forget things in your old age?" Bakura
"Yami what is it?" Yugi
-Thus we need to give in order to receive on this festive occasion as the little…-show
"Well Bakura, being as how I barely even knew they were missing, you can have one of the two items of mine you have there in your décor" Yami
"…Really….You wont take that back now right" Bakura couldn't believe it
Marik had dropped his popcorn from shock, spilling it all over the couch and he was still in a daze.
"Marik are you okay" Malik waving his hand in front of him "He's in shock" he said to Ryou
"I choose the jeweled necklace of Ahmand Ra" Bakura handing the other item to Yami "My thanks to you Pharaoh and many blessing to you on this festive occasion"
"Well don't mention it, and since it is a festive occasion, I shall give this to you Marik, Merry Christmas" Yami handing over the jewels armband to Marik
"Thanks great Pharaoh, this is a treasure" Marik looking at his gift
"That was mine, I figured if you still had it then I could steal it from you again" Bakura
"Well I did, for awhile, but I gave it as a gift to Marik, you two MERRY CHRISTMAS" Yami and to this he went into his Pyramid
"Damn Pharaoh" Bakura getting mad
"Well that was nice of him" Marik still looking at his expensive gift and smiling
"He did that just so we will fight each other as to who gets the whole set of Ahmand Ra." Bakura "Which of course I will get the set"
Bakura glaring his evil glare at Marik
"The Pharaoh gave this to me" Marik getting up and glaring his evil glare
At this the Hikari's were getting mad
"IN YOUR CHAMBERS NOW!" Hikari's
To this they went into their chambers and the Hikari's were able to finish watching the movie and clean up. They took their Showers and after setting the air beds up in Yugi's room they went to lie down.
"Hey Yugi" Ryou
"Yeah" Yugi from his bed
"What should we do when we're up north?" Ryou
"I want to go skiing" Malik
"I was thinking on building a large snow man and drink hot cocoa, and maybe even go hiking" Yugi smiling and thinking about their present from Kaiba after Christmas "Still Kaiba will probably want a Christmas duel since he invited me up"
"True, I was thinking on going snow boarding" Ryou
"Well that's till after Christmas we still have a three days till then" Malik
"Yeah" Yugi "Three days"
Next thing he will do tomorrow is give them their gifts from him.
To be continued……….Merry Christmas! And Happy Holidays...
A note to the readers
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I will be posting the next chapter real soon so you don't want to miss it…
On a further note to the readers I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter
Disclaimer-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------I do not own Yugioh, this story is made up for pure enjoyment as well as entertainment. -----------So check back later for chapter 3...Laters…..QOD