Hey! Here's the lovely chapter 5 ^^ This is all about what happens to Ryou. I have a confession to make, as just yesterday I made the decision to scrap one chapter, which was chapter 9, so chapter 11 will be in it's place and will turn into chapter 9 and there will now be 12 CHAPTERS and there will only be one update on Christmas Eve now. But I promise, the reason is that the original chapter 9 was pointless and irrelevant to the story xD Anyways enjoy this chapter! :D

Many thanks and cookies to sorecess of the nile, PuppyProngs, Shadow fairy princess and Lioutenant Flame for the reviews ^^ I love reading them and they are my inspiration to continue publishing these chapters =)

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Yugioh or A Christmas Carol

WARNING: Shonenai and I don't think there's any swearing in here o.O

Chapter 5

Ryou was stood outside crying, how could Bakura do such a cruel thing to him? But even at this moment when he took the one thing that was precious to him, he still loved Bakura, even if Bakura didn't love him back. Ryou sighed as he wiped his tears away. Maybe he should do some food shopping while he was out and he supposed get some more decorations. He was going to do it a bit later on, so then it wouldn't be busy, but hell, why not? Bakura wasn't going to stop him from celebrating Christmas! It was Christmas Eve and he had a lot to do. He started walking towards his supermarket, his feet was still wet and cold from the earlier shopping trip to the town centre for presents. Ryou supposed that didn't matter anymore, he was glad he kept on his coat and wallet, as that would have been embarrassing to go back in to grab his coat and wallet and watch Bakura's smug face watch him. Oh Bakura likes to make him angry! As he walked through the snow, and watched with a small smile on his face as a group of little kids were buried in snow-made trenches and were throwing snowballs at each other. He shook his head smiling, walking on and as he reached a corner he saw the supermarket, and boy was it busy!

Inside the shop, Ryou struggled to get around; there were some food items he had to compensate like chocolates and get some sweets instead, he managed to get some caster sugar though for his cake, which pleased Ryou as usually caster sugar was normally gone. Although he's noticed most of the processed foods have gone quicker than the self-making items. He managed to get the icing sugar also, but the sausages and sausage rolls were completely sold out, so he bought some sausage meat and more flour and butter than he wanted because he decided to make the sausage rolls himself and he'll see if Yugi had any spare sausages, which he'll probably will, Ryou thought with a smile.

Ryou looked at his list. So far he had managed to roughly get everything he needed, including the turkey! This was unusual, since they were usually were sold out at this time. Ryou thought he left it too late! But then again, which the economic climate, money was scarce and turkeys cost a fortune now. He just needed some sugar, which should be..., right around... here, somewhere… Ah! Ryou smiled as he found the sugar, recently they had changed the store around and he always forgot where the sugar was. He picked up the sugar triumphantly and made his way to the checkout. As he got to the checkout, he saw rows of long queues! Ryou gulped, this was going to kill his legs! His thoughts wondered to Bakura and wondered what he'd do in this situation. He chuckled to himself as he knew Bakura would send them all to the Shadow Realm. Although knowing Bakura; he'd steal all this stuff anyway being a former Thief King and all. Suddenly he remembered why he was in the store whilst it was busy and that he was mad at Bakura and why he had to buy more Christmas decorations! Slowly Ryou managed to get closer and closer towards the checkout. Once he got to the checkout a cashier smiled at him, he smiled back as he piled his items on the conveyor belt and made his way to the end of the checkout getting the bags ready... This was going to cost him a fortune.

Once he packed and paid for his items, he started to make his way home.

"Ryou!" Ryou whipped round when his name was called. He searched for the person who called him, and then spotted Yami, Yugi, Joey, Seto and even Malik and Marik. Ryou smiled in welcome.

"What are you doing here?" He asked surprised.

"I should ask you the same thing!" Yugi laughed.

"Well you know, getting ready for the party that I'm cooking for." Ryou teased. Yugi poked his tongue out at Ryou.

"Well at least it made you happy." Yugi began and stopped only because he was almost knocked off his feet from the gigantic hug Ryou just gave him.

"Eek! You're squashing me Ryou!" Yugi gasped. Ryou let go and looked sheepish.

"Sorry." He looked shyly at Yami, who just shrugged. Yami had been getting better it seemed then. Every one of the hikaris had a problem with their Yamis. Yugi's was that Yami was too protective, anyone who had gotten closer than 4 inches away, got thrown back 20 feet and mind crushed, Malik had a problem with Marik coming home every night covered in blood and Shadow Magic surrounding him. Ryou's problem with Bakura is that he became more cruel and selfish. He was sadist like Marik, only not as much. He did like hearing screams of pain, but his is different than the other Yamis as he didn't know or care of how he was to everyone, even to his own hikari. It took Malik to leave Marik once, it took that before Marik learned his lesson and try to calm down. Even though Marik is still insane, he goes about it in a childish way now. Yami has learnt to control himself and gave Yugi some space and because of that, he has become a better person and Yugi and Yami are happy together as they became a couple, even Malik and Marik have become a couple and unsurprisingly Joey and Seto had become a couple and then it was just Ryou. Bakura never hung out with them as a group. He only ever spoke to him, Malik and Marik. Marik and Bakura have become partners in crime as Malik and Ryou called it and they often laughed about it when Malik came round because he was feeling lonely when their Yamis went off to cause trouble. But Ryou did feel lonely, whether Bakura was around or not as he never seemed to care.

"Ryou? You there?" Yugi's hand waved in front of his face.

"Oh. Yeah sorry was day-dreaming for a moment." Ryou said, putting a smile that he didn't feel on his face. Yugi and Malik looked at one another, concerned.

"We were on about hanging out at mine for a while and play some games before we call it a night. Want to come?" Ryou considered it, and glanced at his watch. He yelped. 10:30pm?

"I'm sorry guys, I would love to, but I got to go! I have a lot to prepare for! I'll see you tomorrow at the party! Merry Christmas!" he turned and walked as fast as he could, he had a long walk home, it was 15 minutes away!

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He managed to get home, panting, cold and wet through, he walked through the door and Bakura wasn't there, which didn't surprise Ryou. He sighed and went into the kitchen where his presents were still there from earlier and started packing away his things. Halfway through the packing, Ryou saw a glass that was empty. He frowned; he didn't remember having a drink when he got home earlier. Ryou supposed it must have been Bakura, who had a drink and didn't bother with cleaning up after himself, was it so hard to put a glass into the sink? It probably was for Bakura. Ryou sighed again in a matter of ten minutes. He resumed putting the food away and left the turkey on the side and went into the living room, took off his coat and sat down and finally took his soaking wet shoes and socks off. Ryou sighed with relief. This was going to be a peaceful night for someone who has a lot of work to do.

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I hope you liked it! ^^ Review please! *Chibi-watery eyes* I accept flames but not insults! Otherwise I will get Yami Marik to give you a hug! xD