Here is the long awaited Chapter 6! ^^ Well actually you've only been waiting for a week xD I love Saturdays to post stories now! It's so much easier for me ^^ Anyway... ENJOY!

Many thanks and cookies to Waterlillyx 2, Shadow fairy princess, SexyMariku, sorecess of the nile and YamiBakura1988. I love the reviews and I'm so happy that you are enjoying this story! =)

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Yugioh or A Christmas Carol

WARNING: Shonenai

Chapter 6

Bakura slept not long after he heard Ryou come in. He grunted his satisfaction and he soon drifted off to sleep…

Bakura woke up with a start; he stared at his clock, which read 12:58am. Bakura narrowed his eyes at the clock as though daring it to turn 1:00am.

'This is getting stupid. There won't be a ghost at 1am! Why did I believe that crap?' Bakura thought to himself annoyed. It was probably the only thing that was preventing him from sleeping and Bakura never liked to be woken up. It was something Ryou learnt the hard way not to do… Bakura glanced at the clock again. It was 12:59. Even though he wouldn't admit to anyone, not even himself, he was starting to feel a little anxious. He bites his lip, unknowingly and when finally the clock stroked once. Bakura laughed, the spirit was wrong! It seems he can finally go to sleep.

"Bakura!" Bakura groaned, but didn't open his eyes. What the fuck did Ryou want now? He told him not to disturb him when he slept; he tried to fall back into the bliss of sleep…

"Bakura…" The person growled. Okay, Ryou better have a good damn reason for waking him or he's spending his Christmas in the Shadow Realm! He opened his eyes,

"ARGH!" Bakura fell out of bed. He glanced at the clock, it was still 1am! He looked up and he saw a spirit, not much unlike his former self, only she looked brighter and more solid. When Bakura glanced closer, he realised it was his mother!

"Mother?" The spirit smiled warmly down at him.

"Akefia! How much you have grown!" Bakura scowled. Seems he inherited her looks, her hair was long and looked as white as snow and their eye colour was very much the same. The only difference was her Egyptian tan. Bakura no longer had he heritage thanks to Ryou he thought bitterly.

"Why are you here?" His mother smiled, which looked very much like Ryou's.

"To show you the error of your ways of hating Christmas and of those around you. I am the ghost of Christmas Past." Bakura snorted. He seriously doubted anyone would show him the error of his ways, not even Ryou could, and he was supposed to be the lighter half of his soul! Why was he thinking like this? There was nothing wrong with him! Bakura smirked.

"Long past?"

"Your past! Don't you be smart with me Akefia!"

Bakura folded his arms and glared at his spirit mother. She sighed.

"You haven't changed Akefia, you are so much like your father."

"Why would I want to come with you?" Bakura asked ignoring the last statement.

"It would be unwise not to. Walk with me." And his mother walked away. Bakura scowled at being told what to do. But he hadn't seen his mother in years, so he walked with her anyway. They walked towards a window and his spirit mother looked at Bakura, who looked back incredulously as he realised what she meant.

"You can't be serious. I am mortal now, unfortunately and I will fall." He said scornfully. But his spirit mother didn't waver.

"Touch my arm." Bakura eyed his mother suspiciously.

"Why would I do that?"

"It will prevent you from falling." Bakura sighed, and as soon as he touched the spirits arm, there was darkness, and then he felt he was falling through the floor and it stopped suddenly and Bakura could see a small village on a desert. Bakura's eyes widened as he recognised the village.

"Kul Elna…" Bakura whispered. His mother nodded his head solemnly. Bakura drank in the sight of his former village as he realised this was the last day he saw it in its full glory. He swallowed hard, as he watched the people in his village that had no idea of the horrors that was to come. He then saw the younger version of himself; he was with his mother, when she was alive, who was talking to a tanned, plump woman laughing and joking. He saw them say a quick goodbye and then the scene changed outside his home, as he looked in, he saw his family was having dinner together. Bakura's blood went cold, knowing that in a few seconds-

Then he heard the screams. He saw the soldiers come from nowhere and they were dragging out dead bodies from homes and were slaying people who were running or fighting back. He knew he wouldn't see himself, but he saw all his old friends and all the other villagers get slaughtered all over again. Bakura closed his eyes. But he still couldn't block out the screaming. He tried to close his ears from the horrors he's had to witness for the second time.

"Please stop!" He pleaded. Then there was silence.

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He opened his eyes and released his ears and was inside a strange house he doesn't ever remember entering before. He heard a contented sigh, startling Bakura. Ah, so this was Ryou when he was 5 years old. His father walked in and smiled warmly at Ryou, neither had noticed Bakura appear in the room unexpectedly.

"They'll be back soon." Ryou sighed again.

"I know, I just miss them." His father chuckled.

"You and Amane are inseparable, what am I going to do with you two?" Ryou giggled, his young innocence that radiated from Ryou made Bakura want to smile, before he realised what he was about to do. He glared at his mother's spirit and was surprised she looked sad as she looked at Ryou.

"Ooh! Father! They're back!" Ryou sprinted out of the house and waited eagerly for the car to pull up. Bakura saw it as if it was in slow motion, there was a car coming down the opposite end of the road and it was out of control, and he watched as the cars collided, the one that was supposed to have his hikari's sister and mother in it flipped over seven times, and finally came to a standstill. He heard a scream as Ryou and his father sternly told Ryou to stay and went over to help his wife and daughter. Bakura was numb as he watched Ryou burst into tears.

"It was Christmas Day when that happened." His mother's voice said through him. Bakura looked at his mother.

"So why does he still celebrate Christmas and so happy about it?"

"Because he keeps the spirit of them alive by celebrating their favourite time of the year, he also visits them every evening on Christmas night. Haven't you always wondered why Ryou had that far away look on his eyes?" Bakura turned back to the scene where ambulances and police officers were starting to arrive.

"Come on. We have no more business here." Bakura nodded, glad to get away from the crying Ryou, whom he wanted to wrap round his arms and protect him from those images.

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The scene changed again. It was Ryou again, he looked older than the last scene and guessed he was about ten now, he was talking to a speaker phone and he looked like he was about to burst into tears.

"Father, I don't understand. Why aren't you coming home? It's Christmas!"

"Ryou! You know how things are, it's busy and there's an important dig coming up that I cannot afford to miss!"

"But I haven't seen you since Amane and mother's funeral! Please come home!"

"No Ryou!" A stern voice replied.

"Are you ever coming home?" Ryou's sad voice screamed through Bakura, making him want to protect his light. There was only silence from the phone, and Ryou's look of despair pained his features and Bakura only wanted to wipe the tears that were falling thick and fast from his hikari as his father had hung up without saying goodbye.

"Why? Why did he never come home?" Bakura asked his mother.

"I suggest you ask Ryou that." The crisp reply startled Bakura as he looked at her. She looked extremely angry about it.

"Let's go." Bakura nodded without a word, knowing his mother's anger very well.

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The scene changed. He saw a house, with lots of snow. Ah. He remembered now, this was his first Christmas after Ryou had not long got the ring. Ironically, he found out it was the last thing his hikari's father ever sent him. Ryou had to be around fourteen this time around. He saw Ryou bring the turkey out of the oven and smile as he was having his new friends over that day. This was also the first day that Ryou had got taken over by Bakura, when the dinner was done and the door knocked, it was the friends that he had just before he met Yugi and the others. He saw Ryou open the door and enjoy his dinner. After the dinner, he saw Ryou's ring flash and Bakura saw himself emerge from the ring. None of his so-called friends noticed the change and he saw himself smirk and look at his body and flex his muscles, he saw himself notice the company as an evil look crossed his features and challenged them to a game, still pretending to be Ryou, which they all enthusiastically accepted. He saw them play the villagers in his and Ryou's old RPG called Monster World and saw them get trapped into the game as they lost and had their souls trapped inside forever. He then watched as Ryou came back into control of his body and gasps with horror at the sight of his friends' unconscious, as he sat there and cried. Bakura felt a pang when he saw this in his stomach. His mother approached him.

"Time to go." Bakura didn't have much choice as his mother touched his arm. It was then he realised how much he disappointed her and how much he hurt Ryou.

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Then the scene changed. Ryou looked much older and was around 16. Bakura looked around and saw that it was Battle City. He saw Ryou in a lot of pain on the blimp and he was asking where he was and how the Pharaoh wanted to go and help, but he wasn't allowed to by the rules of the tournament. He saw himself behind Ryou, with Malik. They had plotted this to win the match, but for some reason some feeling like fierce protectiveness came over him when Malik told him that the Pharaoh might not show mercy on Ryou with the fate of the world at stake. He said that the Ryou's body was still important to him, but something told him it was much deeper than that, but he ignored it back then. He saw himself take the full force of the Egyptian God's fury and then Ryou's body collapse. He looked pitiful and peaceful when he was being carried away on a stretcher and looked almost at death.

"He was almost dead you know…You exhausted his body when you took on the Egyptian God. Bakura frowned. He didn't remember Ryou having to have almost died. It probably was because he went back in his soul room to recover. Bakura wondered what went through his hikari's mind to even think about always forgiving him and letting him back into his mind when all he'd done was torture him.

"Please, get me out of here, I can't watch this anymore." He closed his eyes and everything went into total darkness.

"Let this be a lesson that the past is the past; everything happens for a reason. It's all been forgiven…" That was the last thing before Bakura before it went into total silence.

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Did you like it? I hope so! ^^ I tried to keep it as realistic as possible... Review please? *chibi eyes* I accept flames, but not insults! Otherwise I will send Yami Marik to give you a hug! ^^