Hey, I can't believe I'm over half way! ^^ Right, so this chapter isn't the best of the entire story, but I'm not just going to show Bakura's night as both characters are involved. What I have done, is shown what Ryou does and mostly his thoughts about Bakura. I hope you like this chapter, it's almost sweet in a way. Well that's up to you to decide ^^

Many thanks and cookies to Shadow fairy princess, Lioutenant Flame, sorecess of the nile and YamiBakura1988! I love your reviews and I should tell you that chapter 6 took me forever to write! I had to make sure I didn't leave the plot xD But I'm so happy you enjoyed it!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Yugioh or A Christmas Carol

WARNING: Shonenai

Chapter 7

Ryou hummed quietly to himself as he started to put his new Christmas decorations up. He knew he was going to have to deal with the wrath from Bakura tomorrow, but he didn't care. He was going to do it his way and if his yami doesn't like it then- he'll just have to deal with it. He started with the kitchen. He put up the lights around the ceiling, which took forever to do as the lights always fell down whenever he tried to pin the next bit to the ceiling. Ryou cursed as the last bit he pinned up came falling down; luckily the previous pins did not come down after it. Ryou jumped down from the chair that he used to stand on and moved it with him to put up the previous pin and chose a new spot so it wouldn't come out.

After half an hour of doing this and lots of cussing from Ryou, finally the lights were up. He put in the plug and flicked the switch on and smiled as the multi-coloured lights had an amazing effect to his warm kitchen. Ryou sighed, now he had to do the same for the living room, only this time it was 2 sets of lights!

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Ryou sat down after another hour of doing this for a break and a nice mug of hot chocolate with whipped cream on top. It was Ryou's guilty pleasure as he wasn't meant to have a lot of sugar. Today he felt he deserved it. He would have asked Yugi and Malik to come and help him with the decorations, but knew that if he did at this time, then the yamis will come over as well and Ryou didn't want Bakura to be woken up and Yami having a go at Bakura for being a Scrooge. Ryou sighed; he wished Bakura would get into it like Marik and Yami. But it was proving to be an impossible feat, just like Ryou trying to tell Bakura of his feelings for him. Ah well to hell with it! As long as it's Christmas, no one was going to ruin the holiday for him, not even Bakura! Ryou gulped down the rest of his hot chocolate and played his Christmas CD in a low volume as he got to work. He was thankful Bakura hadn't sent that to the Shadow Realm.

Finally, the kitchen was done and the living room was almost done. He just had the Christmas tree, which he had to buy an artificial one because Bakura sent the real one to the Shadow Realm and they were now out of stock in Domino, and the fireplace left to do. Ryou had tears come to his eyes at the thought of his first Christmas without Amane's star on top of the tree. He had tried to buy a replica of it, but to no luck. Ryou shook his head of the depressing thoughts. It was Christmas Eve night and he vowed to keep the Christmas spirit in him going for Amane and his mother. First he got the tree out, and then put it together. He then spread the artificial branches apart and went from the bottom to the top. He then placed the tree where he roughly wanted it and wrapped the multi-coloured Christmas lights all round the tree, which proved as usual a tricky job as they needed to be spread out evenly. He then got a large tray and placed all his baubles which consisted of round, icicles and snowflakes of all sizes and put the large ones at the bottom of the tree and the medium ones on the middle and the smallest ones on top of the tree. After half an hour of colour patterning the red and gold baubles so it didn't look all half red and all half gold, he started wrapping the tinsel round the tree which was easy one as it went even perfectly. Ryou now took a gold star, which was as close as he could get from Amane's star, went up the ladder and placed it on top of the tree. Ryou stepped down from the ladder and looked at the tree. True, it wasn't the original, but it was as close as he was going to get. Now it was time for the fireplace.

It was a simple enough job. He got out his new ornaments and placed them festively and hung a garland around the fireplace. Now all that was left to do was the stockings. Which he hung easily, it now looked mostly like it was supposed to.

Ryou looked around triumphantly and felt all Christmassy again! With a smile he went off and got the presents he bought for everyone quietly from his bedroom and once he got back to the living room, he sat down with crossed legs on the floor, placing everything he needed organised.

He first started with Yugi's present, it was easy enough. He wrapped it up and then placed it inside Christmas box, tied a bow round it and wrote on the card;

To Yugi,
Merry Christmas!
Love,
Ryou and Bakura.

There! That should do it, and he proceeded to do the rest for his friends. He knew that his friends would know it came from Ryou, but Bakura was his yami and he always put their names on every gift he bought for someone since he returned. Ryou frowned, he never really understood why the yamis returned, except that they... just did. Ryou sighed and turned to the last present. It was Bakura's, as he always saved his best present to wrap last. He knew Bakura would like it, but he never got much appreciation for the thought. Of course he never got a gift from Bakura as he didn't like the Christmas holiday, but he couldn't help but feel sad that everyone got a special gift from someone and he would never get one, even if he just knew he had someone special. It came with having a Christmas hating yami he supposed. Ryou handled the gift with care and wrapped it with more care than the others, even though it wouldn't be Christmas when he opened it. As Ryou finished, he thought about what to put on the tag. He couldn't just put 'Merry Christmas' as Bakura would go mad, he hummed absent-mindedly as he just wrote a short note and with a flourish, he had finally finished wrapping up the presents.

As Ryou sat down for a break, his thoughts wondered to Bakura again. His thoughts drifted from the reality Bakura to a Christmas loving Bakura, he realised it felt weird, Bakura wouldn't be Bakura if he liked Christmas like Ryou did, but he wished he would just join in, even if it was reluctant. He wondered what Bakura was dreaming about, it was probably something to do with killing something or sending it to the Shadow Realm he supposed.

But what Ryou didn't realise, was just how wrong he was.

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Did you like? ^^ I hope so, it's just to get you started into the Christmas spirit as Christmas is already 6 weeks and 1 day away! Review please! *chibi eyes* I accept flames but not insults otherwise Yami Marik will come and give you a hug! xD