I forgot to put the disclaimer in the first chapter, but I don't anything! It belongs to the person who created Yu-Gi-Oh! Can't think of who.
I also got the ice skating info from the internet. Sorry if the skating scene isn't too good.
Chapter 2- On the Second Day of Christmas
December 15
"Yugi, hurry up!" Heba called.
"Give me a minute." Yugi said. He rifled through his closest until he found his ice skates. "Here they are." Yugi said.
"Yugi, why do I have to go?" Yami asked, sitting on Yugi's bed.
"Oh, come on, Yami. we're all going ice skating. Even Seto's going. It's a miracle that he took the day off to go, so we all need to go." Yugi said.
"Aibou, you know that I know nothing about ice skating." Yami said.
"Yami, you promised me that you'd go, remember?" Yugi said.
Yami groaned. "I don't really know what I'm supposed to do. You always talk me into doing these things." Yami said.
Yugi smiled innocently. "Come on, Yami. Let's go." Yugi said.
Yami sighed as he grabbed his ice skates off the bed and followed Yugi out the door.
Yugi had bought the ice skates for Yami as a present, but Yami had never tried to use them. Yugi had convinced Yami to go ice skating with them, so he was taking the skates although he swore that he would not ice skate.
Atemu, Heba, Kyla, and Sayora were already downstairs, ready to go.
"It took you long enough." Heba said.
Yugi rolled his eyes. "I had to find my skates. Someone piled a lot of stuff in there." Yugi said, glaring at Heba.
Heba grinned and said, "Well, Atemu and I share a room, and we ran out of room. I had to put my stuff somewhere." Heba said.
"Yeah, and Atemu's stuff has been pile din my closet." Yami said.
"Okay. You can fuss about the lack of closet space later. We need to go. The others are probably already there waiting on us." Kyla said.
"Yeah. Come on." Sayora added.
"You kids have fun. Yuesei and I will meet you there after we help Grandpa." Leo said.
"Okay. Bye." the six said and left.
At the Domino Skating Rink, Tea and Tristan were already out on the ice skating.
Mokuba had just gotten his skates on and was about to step out onto the ice when Atemu, Heba, Yugi, Yami, Sayora, and Kyla arrived.
"Hey, guys!" Sayora said.
"Hey. Let's get out on the ice." Mokuba said enthusiastically.
Sayora nodded and quickly got on her skates, joining Mokuba as they both got out on the ice.
Kyla also out on her skates and started to skate, too.
Atemu, Heba, and Yugi sat down to out on their skates.
Yami joined Seto, Marik, and Bakura. "Are any of you skating?" Yami asked.
"Yeah, right. I'm not sating." Bakura siad.
"I'm from Egypt. I don't do ice." Marik added.
"Too easy to break your neck." Seto added.
"I'm not either." Yami said, sitting down.
"Oh, come on. You need to at least give it a try." Ryou protested from where he stood with Malik and Joey.
All three had on their ice skates and were ready to skate.
"Not a chance. I'm not going t break my neck, Ryou." Bakura said.
"We'd all make fools of ourselves." Yami added.
"Oh, come on. I'm giving it a try at least." Atemu said.
"Yeah. After I threatened you with the couch." Heba muttered.
Marik snickered. "Someone didn't want to just sleep at night." Marik said.
"Hmm. That could work." Malik said, smirking.
Marik paled. "You wouldn't." Marik said.
Malik's smirk widened. "I would." Malik promised.
Marik had his skates on a second later.
"I'd rather go without sex than break my neck." Bakura said.
"Me and you both." Seto added.
"At least I don't have someone to threaten me with that." Yami said.
Heba put his hand to Yugi and whispered in his hear.
"Heba, you know how I fell about doing that." Yugi said.
"It'll work. Besides, Yami can never say no to you." Heba said.
Yugi sighed.
Yami, Seto, and Bakura sat determined not to skate.
"Yami. Seto. Bakura." Yugi said.
All three turned to Yugi and immediately wished they hadn't.
Yugi had his 'puppy about to cry eye' which made his eyes seem wider than normal. "Please skate with us. We just want to do a group activity." Yugi said.
Yami gulped. "Yeah, b-but n-one of us r-really want to try." Yami said. His resolved was weakening.
"Please. We just want to spend some time together for the holidays." Yugi said, the look still on his face.
"Not chance." Bakura said.
"Please. Don't you like us anymore, Bakura. You know that it would make Ryou happy to have you do something with him." Yugi said.
"I-I don't want t-to ice skate." Bakura stammered. He was falling victim to Yugi's eyes.
"I'm not doing it." Seto stated firmly.
"Pppllleeaassssse, Seto. It would mean a lot to us all. I'm sure that Joey would do something nice for you later since you'll be doing something nice for him. Mokuba would be thrilled if you do something with us, too." Yugi said.
"I-I don't need to d-do anything to get their f-favor." Seto said. His resolve was also faltering.
Yugi widened his eyes even more if it was possible and his eyes began to tear up a little. "Please. It would mean a lot to us." Yugi said. He widened his eyes a little more.
Their stubbornness crumbled at the look.
Bakura, Seto, and Yami got on their skates and headed toward the ice.
Heba bust out laughing and said, "I knew that would do it."
"Thanks, Yugi. I owe you won." Joey said.
"Thanks a lot. I never thought Bakura would fall for that look." Ryou added as they headed for the ice.
"Heba, do not ever ask me to do that again." Yugi said, heading for the ice.
"Good work. At least they're willing to give skating a try." Atemu said.
Heba nodded. "Come on. Let's go." Heba said.
The two also headed for the ice.
Seto stepped onto the ice and immediately started to fall.
Joey reached and grabbed him. "Maybe I should give you a few lessons." Joey said.
Bakura took one step onto the ice and started to fall.
Ryou reached out to stop his fall, but couldn't hold Bakura's weight and ended up falling, too. "I think a couple of lessons are in order." Ryou added.
Yami stepped out on the ice and started to fall.
Yugi grabbed him by the waist, holding him up. "All three need lessons." Yugi said.
Marik was clumsy, but managed to stay on his feet.
"Yugi, you're the best ice skater here. You should teach them." Heba said.
"I'm not the best one here." Yugi said, blushing.
"Yugi, you were an ice skating champion when we were younger." Heba pointed out.
"I haven't competed in years." Yugi protested.
"You were a champion?" Yami asked.
Yugi nodded. "Yes. I won a state national championship when I was ten." Yugi answered.
"How come you never mentioned that?" Joey asked.
"Because he's too modest." Heba said.
Yugi sighed. "Fine. I'll teach them." Yugi said.
"Good. Bye." Joey said.
Joey, Ryou, Malik, and Marik skated off.
Seto fell without Joey's support. "I'll get that puppy for that." Seto muttered.
"I could use a little help." Yugi siad, looking at Atemu and Heba.
The two nodded and went to help Bakura and Seto.
"How can you do it so easy, Atemu?" Seto asked.
"Simple. Heba taught me a few weeks ago." Atemu said.
"What?! You said you were going to try it!" Bakura exclaimed.
"Yes, but I never said that I never been before." Atemu added.
"Okay. Just try to balance right now." Yugi said.
It took a little bit, but Yami, Seto and Bakura finally managed to balance themselves.
"Okay. Now, you need to lean on your weaker foot and move at a diagonal angle by pushing off with your stronger foot. Think of it like shoveling snow behind you and to the left." Yugi said.
The three nodded and started to do what he said. Pretty soon they were skating.
"Hey. This isn't so hard." Yami said.
"It's like anything else. You just have to know what to do and practice." Yugi said.
Ryou laughed. "Not so bad is it, Bakura?" Ryou asked.
"No, but you still owe me for this." Bakura said.
"I know. You've made that quite clear." Ryou said.
"This is better than the office, isn't it?" Joey asked.
"Maybe a little." Seto admitted.
"Glad you finally got the scaredy cats o the ice." Tristan said.
"Scaredy cats?!" Bakura, Seto, and Yami exclaimed.
"Yes. You three didn't want to get out on the ice." Tristan said and skated off.
"Come back here!"
The three took off after Tristan.
"Well, looks like we're alone in this." Heba said.
"This was a great idea, Heba. I think this outing is the newest thing we've done." Tea said.
Yugi shook his head. He didn't want to admit it, but he had missed ice skating and was glad to be back on the ice.
Bakura had lost his footing and went slipping and crashed right into Yami who fell into Seto. All three crashed into Tristan, and the four landed in a pike.
Yugi was skating backwards, not paying attention to what was behind him.
"Yugi! Behind you!" Kyla shouted.
Yugi whirled around to see the shout.
Yami, Seto, Bakura, and Tristan looked up and screamed at seeing Yugi heading right for them.
Expertly, Yugi jumped up and sailed right over them, landing on his feet and then skidding to a halt.
"Wow! That was incredible!" Sayora exclaimed.
"How did he do it?" Mokuba asked.
Yugi skated over to Yami and the other three and said, "Are you guys okay?"
"Yeah, but how did you do that?" Seto asked.
"Oh. I skated from the time I was five to when I was ten. I learned a lot of tricks. Long jumping over obstacles was something I learned." Yugi explained.
"You do tricks?" Tea asked.
Yugi nodded.
"Could you show us some?" Sayora asked.
"Um, well, I don't know." Yugi said, rubbing the back of his head embarrassedly.
"I'd like to see that." Leo said as he and Yuesei skated up to them.
"When did you two get here?" Kyla asked.
"Just in time to see Yugi's little trick. I was impressed with that, Yugi." Yuesei said.
"Thanks." Yugi said.
"Come on, Yugi. Show them some of the tricks that you learned." Heba said.
Yugi sighed. "All right. I'll show you a couple of the ones I learned." Yugi finally agreed.
The group moved back so that Yugi could skate.
Yugi started to skate forward and picked up speed before jumping up and twirling in the air several times before landing on the ice backwards.
"Wow." Joey said.
"What was that?" Tristan asked.
"A triple axel." Heba replied.
Yugi then skated forward, doing the exact same thing that he had done before only he took off and jumped up and landed on the same side, doing several of them before coming to a stop.
"And that was?" Atemu asked.
A triple axel followed by a triple loop jump." Leo said.
"Yeah. He's good." Heba said.
"Yugi, that was incredible. I never knew that you could do something like that." Teas aid.
"Well, I had a great instructor. She was an Olympic gold medalist once." Yugi said.
"Really?" Joey asked.
Yugi nodded.
"That was great. Yugi, if you practice, you could compete again." Heba said.
"Heba, don't even think about it." Yugi said.
"Think about what?" Heba asked innocently.
"They still hold that competition on Christmas Eve. Don't even think about talking me into competing." Yugi said.
"Why not? You love to skate, and you've missed it, so why not?" Heba asked.
"Come on. It's not like you are skating for anything." Joey said.
"Actually, first prize if five thousand dollars and a week long vacation in Hawaii, plane and hotel included." Heba said.
"Whoa! That's a big prize." Tristan said.
"Which is why I would rather not." Yugi said.
"Come on. You know that you are only doing it for fun." Kyla said.
"You should. You are good enough." Yami said.
Yugi glared at Heba and said, "Why do I get the feeling that this was a complete setup?"
Heba smirked, a trait he had picked up from Atemu. "Because it was." Heba said.
"Were you in on this, Atemu?" Yugi asked.
"No. I didn't know about this." Atemu said.
"He didn't, but I know you want to compete again, so why don't you?" Heba asked.
"The Christmas Party the group planned is Christmas Eve, remember?" Yugi asked.
"Actually, we could move the party to Christmas Day and have the party that night." Seto said.
"Yeah. Go ahead and compete. We'd all come and watch." Yuesei said.
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Yugi sighed. "Fine. I'll compete." Yugi said.
"Great. You can sign up today." Heba said.
"Oh, and Atemu." Yugi said.
"Yes." Atemu replied.
"You might want to look into dating again because you're going to be single in a minute." Yugi said, glaring at his brother.
Heba took off across the ring with Yugi on his tail.
"I think that this will be interesting." Leo said.
"What? Yugi killing Heba?" Mokuba asked.
"No. Seeing Yugi compete." Yuesei replied.
"What's going on?" Duke asked, skating over.
"Duke, you made it!" Kyla exclaimed.
"Yeah. Sorry I was late. Work went a little longer than I thought." Duke said.
Kyla told Duke about Yugi competing.
"Sounds like it would be fun to watch." Duke said.
"Yami, could you help me save my boyfriend from your Hikari?" Atemu asked.
"Sure." Yami replied.
The two skated off to keep Yugi from killing Heba.
After they finished skating, everyone returned to the Moto house to find Ishizu sitting in the living room with Grandpa, both drinking coffee.
"Sister, what are you doing here?" Malik asked.
"We found some documents from a tomb in Egypt, and I asked Dr. Moto if he would help me translate them." Ishizu answered.
"Did you all have fun?" Grandpa asked.
"Sure did." Tea said.
"Oh. Grandpa, you're going to be down to one grandson by tomorrow morning." Yugi said.
Grandpa blinked. "What did you do, Heba?" Grandpa asked.
"I might have tricked Yugi into signing up for the Christmas Eve Ice Skating Competition at the Domino Skating Rink." Heba answered.
"Coerced is more like it." Yugi said.
"Well, I'm glad that you're getting back into skating. You always loved it." Grandpa said.
"Everyone is against me in this." Yugi said.
"I think that it's great that you can ice skate. I would come and watch as well." Ishizu said.
"I'm doomed." Yugi moaned.
"Oh, Yugi. This can for you." Grandpa said, handing him a box.
Yugi took the brown box and opened it. Inside were two silver ankhs. He took out the piece of paper and read:
These ankhs symbolize that you are my life
And nothing will make my stop loving you
My love for you is eternal.
Love,
Your Eternal Lover
At the bottom, it said:
On the second day of Christmas, I gave my true love, two silver ankhs
And a cartouche with his name on it.
Yugi was stunned.
"Wow. Whoever this is really has the hots for you, Yug." Joey said.
"Yeah. I guess so." Yugi agreed.
"What are these?" Mokuba asked, looking at the ankhs.
"They're called ankhs. In ancient Egypt, they were symbols of life and immortality." Atemu explained.
"Hmm. He explained what it meant." Tristan said.
"Yeah. You've got a sweetheart for an admirer." Kyla said.
"Yeah, but I don't have a clue who it is." Yugi said.
"Maybe they'll show themselves soon." Atemu said.
Yugi nodded.
//Something troubling you, aibou.// Yami asked via the mind link.
/I guess I'm wondering why someone would go to all this trouble./ Yugi answered.
//I'm sure that the person will reveal themselves soon.// Yami said.
/Okay./ Yugi agreed, deciding to accept it as it was.
That's the second day of Christmas.
The third will be next. I'll still take suggestions on what Yugi should recieve. It can be from ancient Egypt or the present day.
R&R.