Perfect Ending

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"Seto! Seto! Seto! Seto! SEETO!"

Mokuba bounced up and down on his brothers bed, shouting his older brother's name over and over again at the top of his lungs. Kaiba looked out from underneath his pillow and saw the time on the clock.

5:45 AM

Right on schedule... Kaiba thought as he pulled his legs toward him and sat up, looking at Mokuba, a grin on his face.

"Merry Christmas, Mokuba,"

"Merry Christmas, Seto! Guess what?"

"What, Mokuba?"

"Santa Claus came last night!"

"Really? Well...c'mon," Kaiba rolled off his bed and once again, his brother launched himself onto his back, a wide smile on his young face, "Let's go see what haul we got this year, shall we?" he asked as he carried his brother out of his room.

The two of them approached the tree and Mokuba released his deathgrip around his brother's neck and dove into the pile of gifts. Kaiba shook his head at the sight and joined his brother in the present pile, instead of the large armchair nearby.

As his little brother went for the bigger boxes, Kaiba leaned to the side and brought out a small, thin object wrapped in red and gold paper. He tapped Mokuba on the shoulder and held it out for him, "Merry Christmas, Mokie...," he said quietly.

Mokuba looked at the gift for a few seconds before taking it from his brother, "Thanks Seto...,". Kaiba watched as his little brother's eyes widened at the sight of the gift. It wasn't a toy...it wasn't a book...it wasn't even anything that he had expected.

It was a picture with a silver frame around it. In the picture, four people were posing around a Christmas tree, smiles plastered on their faces. The two youngest people were a pair of little boys, one with short brown hair and blue eyes, the other with long black hair and gray eyes. Beside them, a man with short black hair and a woman with long brown hair sat, embracing the two boys.

"It's...where did you find this?"

Kaiba pulled his little brother into a close hug and put his head on his, "I did some looking around in some of the boxes that were left with us when we were adopted, and I knew you really missed mom and dad during Christmas...so...I just thought you would like this. Do you?".

The answer came in the form of Mokuba turning around and hugging Kaiba tightly around the waist, face buried into his chest. Kaiba patted his brother on the back, "Merry Christmas, Mokuba,".

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"I hope Yugi and the others like the presents we got them," Mokuba said, glancing at the presents in the back seat of the Porsche. Kaiba glanced at the gifts in the rearview mirror For my sake, I hope being nice to the dorks to make Mokie happy will get me outta this...

Mokuba turned back around and looked at his brother, "Why didn't we take the limo? I thought you wanted to go in that,". Kaiba shrugged, "I gave the staff the holiday time off, so I thought I could drive us there,"

"You gave the staff the day off? With pay?"

"Yeah...what, you think I'm a Scrooge?"

"On some days...,"

Kaiba chuckled as he came to a stop light, "Careful, little brother...,".

Mokuba grinned and looked out the window, "Oh...wow! Seto, look!". Kaiba turned to look out the window and saw that across the street, in a vacant lot, numerous people, mainly less fortunate, were gathered, now dressed in very warm clothes and eating hot food that was being prepared by dozens of volunteers.

"Huh...looks like those people got a holiday miracle after all...,"

Mokuba nodded and pressed his face up against the window, "Every year, I see them in the streets, freezing themselves half to death and now someone...someone must've rigged this all up for them,".

Kaiba nodded, and noticed a pair of unfortunate souls wandering nearby. He unrolled the window and poked his head out, "Hey, you two!".

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At the sound of the door opening up, Yugi and Yami stopped wrestling and picked themselves up to see not only Kaiba and Mokuba standing there, but Rex Raptor and Weevil Underwood, rubbing their arms together.

"Uh...hey, you guys," Yugi greeted slowly, walking over to them, staring at Weevil and Rex, "If we had known you were dropping by, we would've gotten you something...,".

Rex sneezed, "Yeah, well...we didn't know we were coming today. We were freezing our asses off in the street and the next thing we know, Good King Kaiba here," he jerked his head to Seto, "Offered us a right, and a warm place to stay,".

Yami and Yugi turned and stared at Kaiba who was trying his best to avoid the staring, "Kaiba?" they asked in unison. Weevil nodded as he wiped his glasses clean, "At first we thought it was some kind of sick joke, but he wouldn't let up. We didn't have anywhere else to go, so we figured what the hell,".

"Hey rich-boy! Time to...," Joey stopped mid-sentence as he walked down the rest of the stairs, looking at Rex and Weevil, "...duel...,". Kaiba walked past Joey and handed him a small package and patted him on the shoulder, "Dinner and gifts first, Wheeler, then we can duel,".

Joey's eyes never left Kaiba's back as he watched the two Kaiba's climb the stairs to the party on the next floor. He looked at Weevil and Rex, then Yugi and Yami, "Who was that just now?" he asked slowly.

The other four just shrugged in silence.

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There...no fried tree this time! Kaiba thought with a smirk as he made some quick adjustments to the Christmas tree while Solomon talked to Yugi's mother. He made his way around the room, handing out the Geek Squad's gifts while they went about their business.

"Merry Christmas, Kaiba,"

He turned to Tea and saw the same old Eragon book in her hand, "Oh wow...thank you, Tea. You know, I've heard this book is good, and I've been meaning to get a copy, but this is great. Thank you. I'll start reading it later tonight,".

And as if it was those words that made Tea stare at him in surprise, it was the hug that she recieved from him. Her blue eyes were the size of saucers as the usually cold-hearted duelist hugged her close, "Uh...,".

He let go and handed her gift, "Merry Christmas...hope you like it,". Tea looked down and unwrapped the gift. Her eyes bugged out at the sight. In her hand, was a diamond bracelet, the lights of the Christmas tree twinkling brightly.

Kaiba left Tea to her stunned silence as he made his way to Yugi's mother and Solomon. For Yugi's mother, he gave to her a set of fine diamond earrings, earning a surprised gasp from her, just as Tea did. To Solomon, he gave to him a large, ivory statuette of a Blue Eyes White Dragon, sapphires for it's eyes.

"I'm sorry that I ripped up your Blue Eyes card, Mr Motou. I wasn't in my right mind, and I hope you can forgive me,". Solomon chuckled as he placed the statuette on the mantle, "Kaiba my boy, all is forgiven. The boys told me what the cause of your actions were at the time, so I forgive you for doing so,".

Ryou's and Bakura's gift were a complete set of Table Role Playing Game books and kits; Duke's gift was a new, red leather vest; Tristan's present from Kaiba was a set of martial arts movies with some of the biggest names in the movie business; Serenity's gift was a pair of beautiful barrettes that had a pair of fairies on top.

Needless to say, everyone was surprised by not only Kaiba's generosity, but by his kindness he had exhibited since he had arrived. Dinner was served, and luckily, they had plenty to go around, so Rex and Weevil had a chance to eat all they could for the meal.

"Mokuba, did you get what you wanted for Christmas?" Tea asked. Mokuba nodded rapidly, "Oh yeah! More than ya know!".

Kaiba chuckled as he took a sip of soda, "Joey, did you open your gift yet?" he asked. The blonde duelist nodded, "Yeah...I did...thanks...," he said slowly, still staring at the rare cards in his hand. Took me awhile to find those cards, so hopefully, that helps my case... Kaiba thought as Joey showed off his Sakuretsu Armor and Gilford the Legend cards.

Finally, after dinner, and after winning the duel Joey had challenged him to, Kaiba approached Yugi and Yami, two boxes in his hands. He held them out for them to have, "Merry Christmas, you guys," he said quietly.

Both yami and hikari opened their gifts to find that they were given solid gold figurines of most of their Duel Monster cards in their deck. From the Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl, to the Black Luster Soldier and Big Shield Gardna.

"Kaiba...you shouldn't have!" Yugi breathed, running his hand along the figurines. Yami nodded in agreement, "You didn't have to give us these...or anything for that matter,".

Oh yeah, I did...

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"Now that was an awesome Christmas!"

Mokuba hopped into bed, dressed in some new pajamas, ready for his older brother to say goodnight to him. Kaiba sat down on his bed and smiled, "I'm glad you had a great Christmas, Mokuba. Was it everything you hoped for?".

His baby brother nodded, "You being real nice to Yugi and the others, especially Rex and Weevil, giving the staff the day off, and those people getting helped out by volunteers...it's like Santa granted me a perfect Christmas wish,"

Oh someone granted you a wish alright...Kaiba thought irritably as he pulled the blanket over his brother, "Well...I'm glad you had fun Mokuba...now get some sleep, ok?".

"Ok, Seto,".

Kaiba kissed his brother on the head, and switched off the lights, "Merry Christmas, Mokie,".

"Merry Christmas, Seto,"

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Kaiba closed the door to his room and looked at the clock. It was well past midnight, very late for Mokuba to be in bed just now. He grabbed the rip-away calendar from his table and walked outside to his window balcony.

"Please...I made Mokuba happy...please...," he whispered, slowly pulling away the December 25 page. After what seemed like hours, the page fluttered away in the cold night air and Kaiba stared at the next page.

December 26, 2006

OH THANK YOU GOD! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! Kaiba mentally screamed as he punched the air, glad no one was around to see him act like an ass. He took a deep breath and looked out at the bright lights of Domino City in the distance.

"MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOODNIGHT!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. He listened to his voice echo through the night air before retreating back to his room. However, he came back outside a few seconds later, "WHEN I WAKE UP TOMORROW MORNING, I'M GETTING A CAT SCAN!"

Now, as Kaiba retreated to the warm confines of his room, a blonde girl in black sat on the roof, having heard the declaration, smiling from ear to ear.

"Seto Kaiba...I hope you will realize this soon, but it wasn't just Mokuba's happiness on Christmas that was needed to set this straight. You went out on a limb and showed humanity to those who didn't have such luck during this time of the year. You helped out the less fortunate, the down trodden and shown goodwill to your rivals. That is what Christmas is about. To care for others...Merry Christmas, Seto Kaiba

Kairi rose to her feet as a wind began to pick up. The roof was engulfed in a flurry of snowflakes as the wind whirled around it. As it died down, no evidence of the girl was left...she was gone.

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Kaiba took a sip of his morning coffee as Yugi and his friends came by the Mansion to hang out with him and Mokuba. He was never, ever going to tell them, about the Christmas Everyday Incident, as he so dubbed it.

The news stations had recieved rumors about who had orchestrated the aid for the homeless people, but Kaiba didn't worry. No one would really believe it if they said it was him. He looked out at the white blanket of snow for awhile longer as Yugi's gang made a loud racket behind him, clearly enjoying their gifts and playing with Mokuba's.

He walked back into the mansion and immediately, he was taken to the side by Joey, a small grin on his face.

"What do you want, Wheeler?"

"Aw, don't be like dat, Kaiba...I liked the good you, so don't go and ruin it by being yourself,"

"Shouldn't you be chewing on a bone right now?"

Joey didn't even glare..he was in too good of a mood, "Funny. Speaking of funny things, you won't believe what Serenity made me do last night when we left Yugi's party,".

"What she do, make you learn to go on the newspaper?" Kaiba cracked before taking a sip of his coffee.

The blonde laughed and shook his head, "Nah...she dared me to make a wish on Christmas, so I did,"

The CEO stopped in mid-sip and glanced at Joey, "What...kind of wish?" he asked slowly. Joey snickered, "Get this...she dared me to wish that it was Christmas everyday!".

"OH GOD NO!" Kaiba dropped his mug, and wrapped his hands around Joey's neck and began to shake him violently. Everyone stopped what they were doing and watched in shocked silence for a few minutes before Tristan, Yami and Tea tried to pull Kaiba away from Joey. "DON'T YOU EVER WISH FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT EVER!!" Kaiba screeched as Mokuba shook his head slowly.

"Well...at least he was a good guy for one day," he muttered.

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Kilnorc: well that's that. The final chapter to my Christmas fic. I'm sorry if it didn't go as well as some of you had hoped, but I'm proud of it nonethe less. Before I go, I only wish to say this message.

Merry Christmas, Reviewers!

Yami K: Hark, the herald angel sings, Glory To, the newborn King. Peace on-

Kilnorc: Dude...you're ripping off Charlie Brown...

Yami K: hey, it's Christmas, lighten up!