Chapter 5- On the Fifth Day of Christmas
December 18
Yami was sleeping peacefully when something launched onto his bed on top of him and said, "Get up, Yami!"
Yami groaned and pulled the covers over his head. "I'm stills sleeping." Yami said defiantly.
"Yami, you have to get up! We still have a half day of school, and we both have exams so get up!" the voice said.
"No." Yami said stubbornly.
The covers were suddenly ripped off of him, causing Yami to shiver as the cold air hit him.
"Yami, get up! It's the last day of school, so you don't have to get up early tomorrow." the voice said.
Yami groaned as someone jumped on him. He opened one eyes blearily and looked up at Yugi's cheerful face.
"Yami, get up. It's the last day of school, and we both have exams, so get on up." Yugi said.
"I don't want to, aibou." Yami said rebelliously.
"Yami, if you don't get up, I'll get a pitcher of cold water to pour over you." Yugi said sweetly.
Yami looked up at Yugi, eyes wide. "you wouldn't." Yami challenged.
Yugi smiled innocently. He leaned down so that he was right at Yami's face and said, "Try me."
Yami, fearfully that his Hikari might go through with his threat, immediately jumped out of bed. "Fine. I'm up." Yami said.
Yugi smiled. "Good. Kyla and Sayora already have breakfast ready, so come on down to the kitchen after you're ready." Yugi said. He went to the door and stopped in the doorway. He turned back around and said, "And if you're not down in ten minutes, I'm coming back up with here with a pitcher of cold water." Yugi flashed Yami a sweet smile before bounding out of the room.
Yami groaned. He knew from experience that Yugi would follow through with his threat. The first time that Yami absolutely refused to get up, Yugi had poured cold water on him, and it was winter, so Yami needed up very cold and learned not to take Yugi lightly when he threatened to pour cold water on him.
Shaking his head to rid himself of the unpleasant, cold memory, Yami proceeded to pull on the blue school uniform on along with his shoes. Yami brushed his hair and then grabbed the books that he would need and went down stairs to the kitchen.
"Hey, Yami. Glad that you got up." Kyla said, handing him a plate of bacon, scrambled, eggs, toast, and grits along with a glass of orange juice.
"Yes. I would have hated to have to wash your wet bed sheets." Yuesei said with a smile.
Yami glared at them.
They had all heard Yugi's threat and knew that Yugi would follow through with the threat of cold water.
Yugi just smiled sweetly.
The group ate breakfast while having idle chitchat.
"It's time for all of you to go get to school." Grandpa said.
"Okay, Grandpa." the six said.
Yugi, Yami, Heba, Atemu, Kyla, and Sayora left the house and started to walk to school.
Sayora shivered and pulled her coat tighter around herself. "It's really cold today." Sayora said.
"Yeah, and I heard that the rest of the week is only supposed to get colder." Atemu said.
"I really don't like the cold weather that much." Sayora said.
"You'd love Egypt then. It's hot all of the time." Heba said.
"Yami, are you ready for that math exam?" Atemu asked.
Yami groaned. "I stayed up late studying, and I'm still worried. You know that math is my worst subject." Yami said.
"Well, I'm not in much better shape." Kyla said.
"What exams do you three have?" Atemu asked, looking at Yugi, Heba, and Sayora.
"Well, I've got science and drama." Sayora said.
"Heba and I have history and study hall, so we actually only have one exam." Yugi said.
"I'm glad I already had history. I'm not good at it." Kyla said.
"Well, Heba and I shouldn't have a problem with it. The exam's on ancient Egypt." Yugi said.
"You have got to be kidding." Yami said.
"Nope." Yugi and Heba said.
"So that's why you were asking me all those questions about ancient Egypt." Yami said, looking at Yugi.
"Well, I wasn't from ancient Egypt, so I had to get my information from someone who was. Besides, I was mostly making sure that I had everything right." Yugi said.
The group arrived at the school to find that the rest of their friends were already there.
"You guys ready to get this over with?" Joey asked.
"Yes. At least I can sleep late now." Yami said.
Everyone laughed.
It was a well-known fact that Yami loved to sleep late and hated it when he had to get up early.
"Just out of curiosity, what did it take to get him out of bed this morning?" Seto asked.
"Yugi had to threaten him with the cold water." Atemu said.
"Well, at least you get a few weeks without having to get up early, pal." Tristan said.
They heard the bell ring.
"See you guys later."
The group headed off to their own exams.
Joey, Kyla, Yami, and Atemu headed to their math exam.
Seto, Tristan, and Tea had their English exam.
Ryou and Malik had their science exam.
Sayora and Mokuba had her drama exam.
Yugi and Heba had their history exam.
After everyone had finished with their exams, they met under the Sakura tree.
"So, how do you all think you did?" Kyla asked.
"Oh, I'm sure that I aced mine." Heba said, smirking.
"I'm sure that I did, too." Yugi added, just not as smugly.
"Oh, shut up." Joey snapped.
"I take it that you didn't do so well." Seto said.
"I don't know. I don't think I failed." Joey said.
"Well, that's something at least." Tea said.
"How about the rest of you?" Atemu asked.
Everyone said that they thought they passed least.
"Well, one more exam to go." Yami said, stretching before laying down.
"We don't." Heba said.
"Stop gloating, Heba. Not all of us are as lucky as you two." Tristan growled.
"Actually, Malik and I were supposed to have a PE exam, but they don't give one in that class, so I suppose we're lucky, too." Ryou said.
"Yeah. It's fun to know that you all have exams, and we don't." Malik said, smirking.
"Malik, I would shut up before Marik winds up single." Joey said.
"Anyway, what are we doing when school's over?" Tea asked.
"How about we go out to celebrate the fact that school is over and done with?" Tristan asked.
"I was thinking that we could all go out to lunch since we'll be getting out around lunchtime." Seto said.
"That's a great idea, but where?" Kyla said.
"I was thinking about Michelangelo's.." Seto said.
"Seto, I think that you have forgotten the fact that not all of us are as rich as you are. You're the only one who could afford that." Atemu said.
Mokuba laughed. "Seto would be buying." Mokuba said.
"Mokuba's right. It's my treat. Consider it my way of saying thank goodness that we're out of school for a while." Seto said.
"I think that it's a good idea for us all to go there." Yugi said.
"Do you think that we could ask Marik and Bakura to meet us there?" Ryou asked.
"Sure. Ishizu could come if she wants, and Leo, Yuesei, and Grandpa can come, too." Seto said.
Kyla, Ryou, and Malik called on their cell phones to tell the others.
"Well, Yuesei, Leo, and Grandpa will meet us there." Kyla said.
"Marik and Ishizu will, too. I just hope that Ishizu doesn't kill Marik before they get to the restaurant." Malik said.
"Bakura will be there, too." Ryou said.
"Is that a good thing? They might try to cause a little bit of trouble, considering that it is a fancy restaurant." Yami said.
"Don't worry. They'll behave if they know what's good for them." Malik said.
The bell rang.
"Well, we'd better be going." Kyla said.
"Good luck, guys." Yugi said.
Yami, Atemu, Mokuba, Sayora, Seto, Joey, Tristan, Tea, and Kyla headed on to their class while Yugi, Heba, Ryou, and Malik stayed where they were.
"So, where should we go?" Heba asked.
"Let's just go into the library so that we can talk." Ryou said.
With that agreed on, the four headed into the school library and sat down at a table.
"So, today's December 18th." Malik said.
"Yeah. So what?" Heba asked.
"I wonder what your admirer will send you this time, Yugi." Malik said.
Yugi blushed lightly at the mention of the admirer. "I really don't know, Malik. I wish that I knew who it is that is sending me all of these gifts." Yugi said.
"Who ever it is obviously has the hots for you, or they wouldn't have started to send you all of these gifts." Ryou said.
"Like I said, I don't know who it is that has been sending me these things." Yugi said.
"You're going to run out of room at the rate that you are going." Heba said.
"I know." Yugi said.
"Well, whoever it is must know about your love of ancient Egypt, or they wouldn't have sent you all the things based off of ancient Egypt." Ryou said.
"Well, I've never made it a secret that I have a lot of interest in ancient Egypt." Yugi said.
"He makes a point." Malik said.
"Well, we'll figure it out at some point. Who knows? Maybe the guy will actually tell you who it is when he gives you one of the other gifts." Ryou said.
After the exams were finished, everyone met outside of the school building.
"Yes! School is through for two weeks!" Joey shouted.
"Excited much?" Heba muttered.
"You know how Joey is, Heba." Atemu reminded him.
"Yeah. I know." Heba said.
"It is great that we are going to be out of school for two weeks." Yugi said.
"I'm glad that Christmas is only seven days away." Sayora said.
"No kidding. It is great that we don't have that that long until Christmas." Tea agreed.
"I can't wait fro Christmas Eve." Heba said.
"Why? Think that Santa Claus is going to bring you something?" Seto asked.
"No. I'm actually looking forward to seeing Yugi in a figure skating contest." Heba said.
Yugi glared at Heba.
"I thought that it was ice skating." Joey said.
"They're pretty much the same thing. Ice skating described just skating on the ice. Figure skating is used to describe the type of ice skating that is for competition." Yugi explained.
"Oh. Didn't realize that there was a difference." Kyla said.
"Yeah. There's a small difference, not much though." Heba said.
"Let's get to the restaurant." Seto said.
Once the group arrived at the restaurant, they found that Leo, Yuesei, Grandpa, Ishizu, Marik, and Bakura were waiting on them.
"It took you long enough." Bakura barked.
"Calm down, Bakura. We're here now." Ryou said.
"Let's go on in." Seto said.
"Do you think that we'll be able to get a place?" Grandpa asked.
"Yes. I called and reserved one of their private rooms for us all." Seto answered.
"That's what I call planning ahead." Atemu said.
"I wanted to make sure that we would have a place here." Seto said.
The group entered the restaurant and Seto told the greeter that they had reservations for Kaiba, and the group was quickly led back to the private room.
"You sure do go all out, Seto." Tea said.
Seto shrugged. "Doesn't really hurt me at all." Seto said.
The group sat down and started to talk while they looked at the menus.
After they had eaten, the group head headed back to the Moto house where they found another brown box on the front steps.
"And there's number five." Marik said.
Yugi picked up the box, and the group headed into the house.
"Open it, Yugi." Tea said.
Yugi set the box on the table in the living room and opened the box. There was a velvet case in the box. Yugi took the velvet box and opened it. His eyes widened at what he saw.
In the box was a gold chain and there were five pendants in the box: a pair of ice skates, a card, a heart, a pyramid, and a star.
"Wow. Those are incredible." Kyla said.
"Yes, they are." Seto agreed.
"This person is really going all out." Leo agreed.
"I get all of them except for the star." Joey said.
"is there a note, Yugi?" Heba asked.
Yugi reached into the box and pulled out a piece of paper.
It read:
These pendants symbolize something about you
The star represents the fact that you brighten up
My life like the star light up the night sky.
Love,
Your Eternal Lover
At the bottom, it read:
On the fifth day of Christmas I gave my true love, five golden pendants
Four Duel Monsters plushies
Three amethyst bracelets
Two silver ankhs
And a cartouche with his name on it.
"That's so sweet." Sayora said.
"I get the star now." Joey said.
"This guys is a real sap." Bakura said.
"I think that he's a romantic." Ryou said.
Yugi looked at the pendants.
//What do you think this time, aibou?// Yami asked.
/I think that they're gorgeous, and that this person is spending a lot of money on me./ Yugi said.
//Your admirer must think that you're worth it.// Yami said.
/Yeah. I just wish that I knew who it was so that I could them./ Yugi said.
//You'll have the chance. Just wait and see.// Yami said.
Yugi nodded, although he still was unsure of whether or no he would ever be able to meet his mystery admirer.
That was the fifth day of Christmas. I had to do one where they got out of school.
The next chapter will the sixth gift.
R&R.